Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. Lex knows tonnes of stuff about spying. Way more than most people. I was surprised he brought up the subject of Yuri Bezmenov. The interview with "Tomas Schuman" regarding Soviet subversion of the West was published in 1984 and is only available on cassette tape. FFS who listens to cassette tapes today? Who even has a cassette player? In addition, Lex is such a fawning sycophant when he interviews the elites and establishment. Come clean Lex. Admit you're CIA. Only just noticed, but the accusation by Blake McKean below is clearly a false flag to put people off Lex's trail!!
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  2. Q: Why does String Theory (misnamed) get a free pass? A: Could it be because armies of physicists built their career on speculation but cannot accept that their hours of speculation aren't "science". Or maybe because - rather than be skeptics -most people would rather believe in any old crap such as inflation, dark energy and dark matter? - making "inflation" a flaw of human social psychological interactions? "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!" - Wolfgang Pauli
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  3. Keen is idiotic on climate change, and fanatical too - like many other leftwing climate mongers. The climate threats we face all relate to bad things which can happen if average climates get colder - which is likely - because we're in a relatively warm phase right now. So we need to guard against cooling - NO climate engineering can stop cooling. Keen is just another globalists leftwing scaremonger. Keen lierally said the climate in the past 10000 years has oscillated between +0.5C to -0.5C - which is a lie. An irresponsible lie. The oscillations are much greater than that. The sun is ultimately responsible for such climate cycles. We are NOT destroying a stable climate. No such climate has ever existed. Most of the climate of the last half million years has been bitter Ice Age. The doom-mongering warming predicted by climate mongers such as Keen is impossible. He reels of lie after lie. Conceited irresponsible doommongers such as keen disgust me. People such as him gave us the COVID disaster. It began with the Chinese Communist Party. Everyone copied their idiotic lockdown - on the advice of "academic experts" such as Keen.
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  4. Brian Keating talks too fast, and spends too little time reflecting on and trying to falsify what he just said. I'd like to ask Brian a question: "What would it mean for you to talk to another person for 5 minutes without speculating?"
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  5. "Eric", discussed here, seems to be Eric Weinstein : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Weinstein - worth listening to some of his interviews.
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  6. They are way too kind to Stalin. "After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin was able to take control of the government, and began to form the gulag system. On June 27, 1929, the Politburo created a system of self-supporting camps that would eventually replace the existing prisons around the country. These prisons were meant to receive inmates that received a prison sentence that exceeded three years. Prisoners that had a shorter prison sentence than three years were to remain in the prison system that was still under the purview of the NKVD. The purpose of these new camps was to colonise the remote and inhospitable environments throughout the Soviet Union. These changes took place around the same time that Stalin started to institute collectivisation and rapid industrial development. Collectivisation resulted in a large scale purge of peasants and so-called Kulaks. The Kulaks were supposedly wealthy (comparatively to other Soviet peasants) and were considered to be capitalists by the state, and by extension enemies of socialism. The term would also become associated with anyone who opposed or even seemed unsatisfied with the Soviet government. By late 1929 Stalin began a program known as dekulakization. Stalin demanded that the kulak class be completely wiped out, resulting in the imprisonment and execution of Soviet peasants. In a mere four months, 60,000 people were sent to the camps and another 154,000 exiled. This was only the beginning of the dekulakisation process, however. In 1931 alone 1,803,392 people were exiled." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#Formation_and_expansion_under_Stalin
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  7. Can we also assay the "standard" greenhouse gas model which the self-styled "Scientific Consensus" tell us predicts the "climate crisis", which we can't see in the data? I think assaying this GHG model is more important as "stopping the climate crisis", which isn't happening, is costing us trillions of dollars.
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  8. "Universalism - I'm not a believer in" - Ben Shapiro But univeralism is, almost, constitutive of Christianity. How did Ben forget that, and why can't Lex call Ben out on it?
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