Comments by "Piccalilli Pit" (@piccalillipit9211) on "Patrick Boyle" channel.

  1. YES they over played the money grabbing
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  2. ITS NOT ABOUT PREVENTING FRAUD or over billing by companies - its about being nasty to poor people...!!!
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  3. PATRIC BOYLE IS PROOF that nothing is boring if you have the right teacher...!!
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  4. The greatest irony of this is, you can have your clothes and leather goods made bespoke for less than you pay for an off the rack designer item. I know - I tailor bespoke historical men's suits entirely by hand, they cost about $5000 and they should easily last you 30 years of regular wear.
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  5. THANKS - you saved me watching it. The biggest problem I see in the US [IM an author on the collapse of civilisations not an economist] is that the US now has effectively two economies. 1) for the top 25% - which is doing astonishingly well 2) for the other 75% that is getting worse and worse - bordering on dire. The issue is economy No1 is so massive in $$$ terms it is distorting the overall numbers of the US economy.
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  6. THATS Am3ric4 for you
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  7.  @TheSushiandme  The thing is, its really not good quality. Its OK. But for $500 you can get a fabric artist or weaver to make you a unique piece that will last you a lifetime. But it wont say I PAID $500 FOR THIS and that's is what you are really buying with designer names.
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  8.  @leandro6234  NO its not, sorry. Your economic growth is roughly your increase in national debt and the fact housing is stratospheric in cost mean new house sales/renovations and rent make up about 18% of your national GDP. So in REAL terms, your GDP is shrinking and this is because your balance of trade is getting worse. Like so many things with Trump, there is a grain of truth in his beliefs, your banalce of trade is the problem - $1 Trillion per year leaves the US never to return!!! The Chinese have used it to buy up the entirety of Africa locking you out forever. Biden has done an utterly astonishing job of turning a collapse into a decline - but all people see is the decline. The West is collapsing and the US badly - the UK is in total freefall.
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  9. IM A BESPOKE TAILOR of historical mens suits 1890 - 1940 and I can confirm - all handbags are the same, with ONE exception - HERMES which you should NEVER buy...!!! Never give your money to a company that deliberately rejects sales and vets YOU the customer to see if YOU have bought enough of their other stuff to deserve their product.
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  10. CAN WE AL TAKE A MOMENT to laugh at Britain and its decision to go it alone in a global marketplace just as that global marketplace stops being global and becomes protectionist
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  11. I live in Bulgaria - the "poorest" country in the EU. The wait at the hospital ER is ZERO. And our hospitals are super local so you can usually walk to them, I think there are 27 in my city of Burgas, 4 of which are brand new. When I moved here 15 years ago the quality of care was pretty ropy but now its as good as any Western country.
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  12. Thats so sad.
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  13.  @somethinglikethat2176  I grew up in the north of Thatchers Briain, going to school in a black trash bag too poor to afford a coat. By 2014 I was worth €6 million [this is not a boast as you will see]. The biggest breakpoint on that journey is when you have ENOUGH money to cover almost any normal emergency without having to take on short-term debt. when you car get stolen and its insured 3rd party only and you have the €5k in the bank to just go buy one to get you to work. When a large electricity bill does not send you into expensive overdraft. When you are not using the credit card to pay the grocery shopping cos you ran out of money. IF yo ucan get to that point where all normal purchases are made wiht cash YOU OWN - suddenly you start to accumulate money, buy things when they are on special offer, but the car your mate is desperate to sell. suddenly the cost of life drops about 35%. It is incredibly expensive to be poor...!!! Late 2014 I suffered brain damage in a mugging and lost everything, but when i get myself back together I had learned my lesson and lived on next to nothing to save up that €5000. I now live a very tiny minimalist but stress-free life cos I HAVE that money in a safe on the wall, I can cover an emergency and NOT be plunged into debt and poverty. In America the covid payment - I think they lifted like 25 million kids out of poverty cos the family could save for the first time ever...
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  14. this was my comment: UNIRONICALLY - ADDING A MINIATURE RAILWAY OT THE LAS VEGAS LOOP would make it many orders of magnitude better, faster and have much greater capacity
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  15. I KNOW - I thought that the other day. Everyone called them out. I used to work with them and could not see them being as wrong as people said - just because of their culture. Im kinda happy to see they have been proven right
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  16.  @TheSushiandme  if you want to see luxury - that jacket Patrick is wearing is bespoke and hand crafted from a style around 1910. No one else on the planet has that jacket, or even one very similar to it.
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  17. which is exactly what they will do. In 10 years you guys will be paying $100k for a small car running on 25 year old tech whilst the global south will be driving super high tech Chinese cars that cost $10k
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  18.  @NoName-to5xl  MY LANDLORD JUST BOUGHT a very low mileage 30 year old VW Golf Deisel My landlord is a very clever guy. But it is genuinely easier for a wealthy man to drive a €2000 car than a poor man. Because the wealthy man does not have the entire pressure of the capitalist system pressing down on him telling him he is a failure. When I was poor I bought cars I could not afford. Now I live quite comfortably I get the bus [we have an excellent bus service here] Its not fair to tell a person they are what they own, their worth as a human beings if what they drive and what they consume, and then criticise them for not buying a $2k car. Strangely where I now live, people buy a car and run it until it falls apart, it is entirely normal for wealthy people to have a 30 year old Mercedes they have had since new, but this is not America. You would be a total loser in America for this behavior.
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  19. WHEN DID ECONOMICS become hysterically funny...??? Patrick could do stand-up economics at the Edingborough Festival and sell out...
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  20.  @yeetyeet7070  BANGLADESH just dropped the $USD for trade with India and China - making it the 70th country to drop the $USD as an intermediary currency so PsyOp or not - it is a thing that is happening
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  21. You represent about 5% of the population at the most. A person who looks up a thing they dont know. If it were just 30% who did that the world would not be in the sh!t its in now./
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  22.  @jonb5493  - Its almost certainly linen or a linen silk blend, if you look at the curves that catch the light it has a slight sheen to it. Its also bespoke, look at the shoulder seam, the stripes match and form >>>> no way on gods earth you would get such a perfect match on off-the-rack jackets. [I handcraft bespoke historical men's suits]
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  23. Almost ALL rich people are sketchy. In about 2010 my company went viral and I was suddenly very wealthy, my new "rich" friends were basically s(um when you got to know them. They assume you got rich by being sketchy and tell you stories of the stuff they have been up to, like evicting new mothers, selling fake prescription drugs in their pharmacies, and they expect YOU to approve cos they assume YOU must be doing the same. And in some ways they were right - I was selling face creams and perfumes. Face creams dont make you look younger of reduce wrinkles - thats what you ate 3 months ago and how much water you drink and expensive perfumes dont smell better than chap ones you just think they do cos you paid more.
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  24. He could do "standup economics comedy"
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  25. In the EU you have to have a "beneficial owner" its the person who owns the greatest % of the company - THEY go to prison if the company commits a crime, this was to counter the issue you make here. This was ALSO one of the big [real] reasons behind Brexit. The rich in the UK wanted to avoid this law.
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  26. I'm an author - this counts as "research"
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  27.  @mikoi7472  Well because I don't care. I dont live in the West. I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations so its just my job to record what is happening. I have zero vested interest one way or the other. If the US does amazing I will just write a book on how the US was the first Empire in 2000 years to buck the trend. The US has a trade deficit of $1 Trillion per year - thats $1 trillion that leaves the country never to return. Thats ~3.5% of GDP that vanishes every year, it used to come back os investment and bond purchases but that ended about 6 years ago. In 1985 the G7 was 75% of global GDP its now ~28% so how do YOU think its going...???
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  28. IT CANT GET ANY WORSE....!!! they say just wait and see - it can ALWAYS get worse. The people of the USSR said "it cant get any worse" in 1990 - by 1995 people in St Petersburg were selling their children to buy food. "It cant get any worse" said the people of Britain before Brexit - they now live in a total collapsing sh!t hole of poverty and misery. 1st rule of life - IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE
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  29.  @Thunderstyle7  "Nothing ever happens here". thats kinda why I live in Buglaria LOL. But it is modernising very quickly. I liked the old Bulgaria with dirt roads and horses and carts. That said - they are managing to modernise but not Westernise and thats good.
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  30.  @awolffromamongus875  He has me laughing out lout every video - thats pretty amazing for economics video's
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  31. Yeah I liked that bit
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  32.  @Thunderstyle7  Hello Estonia - is Estonia as beautiful as the online pictures make it out to be...??? Two places that look AMAZING are Estonia and Slovenia. But they kinda look photoshopped in the pictures LOL
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  33. 12,300 schools need replacing - past the end of their structurally safe life. And that number is about 1 year out of date. 55% of courtrooms are on a day to day inspection before use schedule. The UK needs to spend £4 Trillion over 10 years to fix everything and we are arguing about pennies for grandmothers heating. Its like these people who are tens of thousands in credit card debt and they switch to supermarket home brand food and think it will solve the problem.
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  34.  @hezekiawhite8207  - He donated his skin to save a life - thats not very materialistic.
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  35. OH its 95% for me
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  36.  @jimpaddy79  EXACTLY - As Xi Jinping said recently to the billionaires in China "You are NOT self made. You did well and yes you deserve praise for your success, but your mother looked after you, birthed you in a hospital paid for by society, society schooled you, you drive on roads maintained by society and you fly your jet safely because of the air traffic control provided by the state, your business is done over the internet provided by society, you rose to the top of society but yo are from society and part of society. If you don't start giving back to that society in appropriate levels we will take all your money off you" I paraphrase.
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  37. AND you need a large number of competing companies. You think the US car companies are going to innovate and make great new models at a lower cost or just keep selling out-of-date cr4p for $100k...???
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  38. It puts greed into perspective
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  39.  @shaky2522  He is very funny
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  40. WOW - NICE JACKET I make bespoke mens historical suits and that is exquisite
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  41.  @Dave5843-d9m  BTW - Im deeply sorry your countries education system failed you so badly.
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  42. He could do "standup economics comedy"
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  43.  @Thunderstyle7  Its nice and hot with long summers and great beaches...!!! Take care.
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  44. thats good
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  45.  @TurboXray  COPE harder buddy - its over. AI is open source from now on and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
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  46. That implies you were a Credit Suisse shareholder - which is one of the most idiotic things I could imagine anyone being. Im not into trading shares but CS has been the flashing warning light of the banking industry for years. It was the go to example of bad banking
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  47.  @vylbird8014  I only bought S Class Mercedes, so not exactly shopping on price. The pinnacle was the W140 1994 and its been downhill since then. I was my neighbours S650 Maybach before Christmas - it was sh!t, chromed plastic airvents, fake leather on the dash, "mood lighting" make it look like a Twitch streaming Gamers bedroom. Electronics and gadgets have replaced build quality and people know it. I never bought the cars new - I used to buy them about 4 years old - but thats out of warranty and nothing lasts and nothing works.
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  48. After 25 years of driving increasingly electronic and increasingly poor build quality S - Class Mercedes. I genuinely want a car with fabric seats, not leather, wind up windows, a heater, AC, forwards, backwards, go and stop and THATS IT. Im sick of horrifically expensive electronic repairs on 7 year old cars. My last S Class coupe used to flatten the battery in less than 3 weeks if I didn't use it and THEN it had to go to Mercedes to have all the electronics re-programmed so it knew what it was. the seats would not work etc. €300 every time you let the battery go flat...!!!
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  49. Thats why there is a misty look to the video...
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  50. IT CANT GET ANY WORSE....!!! they say just wait and see - it can ALWAYS get worse. The people of the USSR said "it cant get any worse" in 1990 - by 1995 people in St Petersburg were selling their children to buy food. "It cant get any worse" said the people of Britain before Brexit - they now live in a total collapsing sh!t hole of poverty and misery. 1st rule of life - IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE
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  51. this was my comment: BECAUSE EUROPEAN CARS ARE NOW PLASTIC SH!T I literally gave away my 2012 S500 Mercedes I was that sick of the problems... 85,000 miles and I gave it away for free to get shut - THAT IS HOW BAD THEY ARE NOW.
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  52. SHOE SHINE BOYS were the finance YouTubers of the 1920s Brilliant...
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  53. MY RENT IS €150 a month on a beachfront apartment and I have a 10-year agreement on this property - I think I will stay here, working 2 hours a day and reading philosophy. THANK YOU
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  54. ​ @nicholaswoollhead6830  - OH thank you
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  55. This is the best monkey story ever
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  56.  @patrickmcardle4771  Here in Bulgaria "Epipen" [well the locally produced equivalent] is €12 for a pack of 10. In the US its $600 for a pack of 2...
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  57. You dont even need a coupe of million - you can replicate DS learning for tiny amounts as they have released the details. One guy replicated it on one subject for $30
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  58. The biggest problem I see in the US [IM an author on the collapse of civilisations not an economist] is that the US now has effectively two economies. 1) for the top 25% - which is doing astonishingly well 2) for the other 75% that is getting worse and worse - bordering on dire. The issue is economy No1 is so massive in $$$ terms it is distorting the overall numbers of the US economy. And 100% of the politicians and the pundits live in the No 1 economy.
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  59. Spacex has received and spent $3 billion to land a NASA crew on the moon - they recovered a booster, which is good. But April 2024 they should ahve landed NASA bods on the moon for the now spent $3 billion...
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  60. WHAT I TAKE AWAY FROM THIS is the Chinese model of running an economy is significantly better than the Western model...
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  61.  @Daijyobanai  You refer to the AM3ric4 - 82% of Chinese report in independent 3rd party surveys that the government is responsive to their needs, I believe its 16% in the US. When you have 1 party and 1.4 billion people - you have to be careful, you cant blame the other party for the state of the country...!!!
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  62. THANK GOD WE ARE LESS GULLIBLE TODAY Imagine if someone pulled off this kind of deception today and received billions and billions of tax $$ and we put the entire future of space travel in thier hands - it does not bear thinking about.
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  63. I USED TO PAY £15O a year in the 1980's for LP's - that's about £450 today - so that would buy me 2 Swiftie concerts - I don't think that's bad
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  64. My astonishingly working-class sister in the Uk is a millionaire cos she bought a house with 4 acres of land in 1992 for £85k. They sold the land off for building and pocketed about £500k over the last 15 years and the house is still worth about £700k. she would be the first to admit its total insanity
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  65. Was it Felon Tusk???
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  66. 18:45 HOW DID THAT WORK OUT FOR AMERICA...?
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  67.  @dancahill9585  - YES - "foreign investment" is seen as axiomatically a good thing. Ask the people of Briton how foreign investment in their water companies has worked out, or here in Bulgaria with Aemrica food companies buying out the local companies and turning healthy products into sugar-filled MSG hyper-processed sh!t. Foreign investment is rarely in the countries long-term interests.
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  68. WHAT CAUSED THE GREAT DEPRESSION the same as causes every economic catastrophe - greedy Am3ric4n bankers
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  69.  @silv3rArrow  - I absolutely could not agree MORE. But 50% of the USA's GDP is people “keeping up with the joneses”. I was the world's worst victim of this as I grew up very poor and genuinely deprived, I wasted hundreds of thousands of £ and € mostly on cars.
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  70.  @fredforsythe8310  HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHHAH and HA Poland passed the UK for the average standard of living in Dec 2022. Romania and Bulgaria will pass the UK in the next 5 years.
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  71. YEAH it was about 100 X more interesting than I ever expected.
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  72. IF YOU ARE A TECH STARTUP WITN ONE BANK ACCOUNT sorry - you dont deserve to BE in business, you are just too sh!t I had a $6 million T/O [very small] Amazon selling business and I had 3 accounts at different banks not connected to each other, and on occasion I needed them.
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  73. NOTHING SHOULD BE OWNED BY PRIVATE EQUITY
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  74. THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA is very very different in the Europen telling of the story...
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  75. NVIDIA MARKET CAP TO REVENUE IS 29 X TESLAS MARKET CAP TO REVENUE IS 13.4 X And Sun Microsystems was hysterically over valued at 10 X according to its CEO
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  76. IT CANT GET ANY WORSE....!!! just wait and see - it can ALWAYS get worse. The people of the USSR said "it cant get any worse" in 1990 - by 1995 people in St Petersburg were selling their children to buy food. "It cant get any worse" said the people of Britain before Brexit - they now live in a total collapsing sh!t hole of poverty and misery. 1st rule of life - IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE
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  77. MY LANDLORD JUST BOUGHT a very low mileage 30 year old VW Golf Deisel My landlord is a very clever guy.
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  78. HUAWEIMAKE THE WORDS BEST INFERENCE CHIPS...!!! Not NVIDIA HUAWEI bet that the future would be inference optimised chips NOT GPU's for training - this has probably paid off for them
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  79. That was very funny
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  80. UNIRONICALLY - ADDING A MINIATURE RAILWAY OT THE LAS VEGAS LOOP would make it many orders of magnitude better, faster and have much greater capacity
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  81. MOONSHOT KIMI IS AN AMAZING ALTERNATIVE TO GOOGLE It will give you truly global results and searches and offer the most relevant websites at the side and NOT the ones who paid to be there. Its like a much better version of Google when google was good
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  82.  @paulhawkins6415  - I h4t3 it with a burning passion. Im very selective with my clients, Im ill I cant do much work so I need people who will understand as well as people who appreciate my ethos and style. But what I DONT do is charge €10,000 and make them buy lots of s**t first to prove they are worthy to weed out the less "deserving" I charge €3k to €5k and say sorry to the people I dont feel I can work with and explain I am super limited in what I can make.
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  83.  @ronald3836  Rolex certainly do
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  84.  @Anneke_Kusumodiardjo  - Im pretty sure it was Ferrari. I bought a Rolex in 1992 when I was 22 and insecure and it cost me £1,850. About 2 months' wages, maybe 3 for that 22-year-old telesales person. The retail price on that today is £25,600 and you cant have one...!!! AND in 1992 it was almost entirely hand-built and now its almost entirely machine-made and just given a polish by humans. so what 22 year old earns £12,800 a month...???
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  85.  @Anneke_Kusumodiardjo  They are not entirely machine-made, but a significant percentage is. Like 80%
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  86. Im genuinely pleased for you.
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  87. THIS IS NOT THE UNILATERAL DECISION you are making it out to be...!!! In 2020 Xi announced that China was moving away from supplying the West to supplying its internal market of 800 million "middle-class" consumers.
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  88. LATEST RESEARCH DOOMS AI AGi [general] which is what the tech Bros are absolutely desperate for - its 9 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE further away in processing power than thought And almost certainly will have to be Quantum computers. Consciousness is not at the neuron level in the brain but at the microtubule level, there are ~1 Billion microtubules in every neuron. You would literally need a Dyson sphere to power it
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  89. THIS IS NOT THE UNILATERAL DECISION Patrick making it out to be...!!! In 2020 Xi announced that China was moving away from supplying the West to supplying its internal market of 800 million "middle-class" consumers. Im always shocked by the fact that people in the West simply don't BOTHER to read anything put out by the Chinese government on policy and then make videos or go on CNN and talk rubbish. [not meaning Patrick there]
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  90. English guy in Bulgaria here - WE have [for now] "sub 25k €, EV that are brilliant build quality - they are Chinese. Im guessing they will soon be removed from the market.
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  91. THE FURTHER WEST YOU WENT to get land the more generally BAD you had to be as a person - the natives were getting more desperate and the land worse... So California was settled by the absolute worst of humanity - then they interbred - and that's California today
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  92. I TAILOR BESPOKE men's historical suits 1890-1930 entirely by hand - I feel deeply sorry for people who are defining their value as a person by the designer label on their clothes. They are being lied to in SO many ways 1) its not that good quality 2) it says nothing good about you as a person 3) you are NOT part of the elite 4) you would have been way better investing the money in a mutual fund 5) buying this sh!t is making you miserable cos ever 1 item you have there are 20 you don't 6) buying this sh!t is keeping you poor.
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  93. NB. CHINA NO LONGER INVESTS ITS $USD BACK INTO AM3RIC4...!!! China has $1,5 trillion $USD cash on hand and is setting up a parallel $USD global economy bypassing the SWIFT system.
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  94.  @albundy3929  Only peasants follow trends. Its partly what keeps them peasants. When you grow up and if you are successful enough to have your clothes made bespoke you will care more about it fitting your son after you die than you will it being trendy. FYI - It wont be trendy, no bespoke tailor will agree to make anything "trendy"
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  95.  @David-ud9ju  ""poor" people don't commit crime out of necessity," what kind of insane fantasy world do you live in...????
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  96. DESIGNER GOODS MAKE TERRIBLE INVESTMENTS they are nearly always made of natural perishable materials that require very VERY specific storage conditions E.G. I have a pair of John Lobb Shell cordovan double monk strap shoes I bought in 2008, I really wear them, in the bag in the box - got them out, the coating on the leather has stuck to the fabric of that bag and ruined them.
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  97. I FOR ONE am extremely glad that Am3riuc4n have learned the lessons of the Great Depression and will never repeat it... [hahhahah]
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  98. HE WAS ELECTED FOR THE SAME REASON AS TRUMP this is why Obama was the worst president of the USA ever. He promised everything and delivered nothing. Well not true - he delivered Trump...!!! But thats kinda my point - no pathetic letdown of the trust of the American people by Obama - no Trump. Politicians globally have delivered POVERTY to the masses and riches to the few
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  99.  @michaelriecher5632  I don't understand the reference - Where I live the PM is an internationally respected professor of chemistry. If you are refering to Britain as I think you might be??? My iotehr comment covers that nicely: IT CANT GET ANY WORSE....!!! just wait and see - it can ALWAYS get worse. The people of the USSR said "it cant get any worse" in 1990 - by 1995 people in St Petersburg were selling their children to buy food. "It cant get any worse" said the people of Britain before Brexit - they now live in a total collapsing sh!t hole of poverty and misery 1st rule of life - IT CAN ALWAYS GET WORSE
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  100.  @okgroomer1966  YES I am craping on capitalism and YES there are plenty free lunches in this world as long as you already have a few million in the bank the world is FULL of free lunches. Only the poor don't get a free lunch. How do you suppose we generate wealth without it?" I propose you DONT GENERATE WEALTH - I propose yo live in a world with universal basic services of a high quality and you live a life that is sustainable and supportable on a planet with 8 billion people and you STOP chasing wealth cos you CAN NOT HANE 8 billion people all chasing wealth. Have you not noticed - its killing the planet...??? Money is limited - for you to be wealthy other people have to be poor. Your goal in life is to make as many people destitute as possible so you can be rich. Every excess $100k yo have in your bank is kids going to school in worn-out second-hand clothes, people pulling their own teeth out too poor to afford a dentist. Capitalism is the lie that infinite growth on a finite planet was possible - its NOT and we have reached [sadly] crunch time when that lie starts to collapse. BTW - I can go all day on this - Im an author now, I write books on psychology and the collapse of civilisations.
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  101. quickest way to go bankrupt offer an all you can eat deal in AM3RIC4
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  102.  @fredforsythe8310  - that sounds very much like lightly coded racism TBH. I live in Bulgaria and YES it is keeping its culture but its not because it does not have immigrants or minorities. Of the 6 million people there are 700k Muslims. There are 750k Roma. 200k other immigrants. And currently 100K Ukranian refugees. So that's 1.75 million out of 6 million = 30%. In Britain its 18%. Bulgaria keeps its culture because it does NOT allow modernization to be Aemricanisation, it does not allow it to be globalization. It does not do things because they are cheap or efficient, it does them because thats the way Bulgaria does them. Places dont lose their culture and nationality because of immigrants, they lose them because of globalisation and cost-cutting. It was cheaper to pull out the red phone boxes in the UK cos the stainless and glass ones were cheaper to maintain - THAT is a loss of culture. There are no longer "Bobbies on the beat" in helmets cos its cheaper to have CCTV. The riots in Paris are largely a function of 2 things. 1) migration for the middle east and Africa as a result of American wars over there and 2) the French authorities closed down the police stations in the areas with immigrants to save money. The riots were not caused by the immigrants. They are the end result of 20 years of very bad decisions by Western powers. I totally agee that the west is losing all identity - but its not cos of a few brown people in boats. Only 8% of Britain is developed - 40% of Britain belongs to private estates and you dont even know it cos the roads dont go through them, but the people that own these estates are the ones demanding tax cuts and "efficiency savings" that means you have lost the bobbies on the beat, the police stations, the red phone boxes, the NHS, the character of Britain - and they own the newspapers and media and they tell its because of immigrants... Im an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations and I can tell you "immigrants" is never the reason for a collapse, its always "wealth inequality".
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  103. Here in Bulgaria we have universal healthcare and the income tax is 10% flat rate...!!!
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  104. And as a past owner of 4 Rolex watches, they are just NOT as good as people think. They get away with it cos younger wanabbies [like me at the time] had never seen a propper luxury watch like a grand Seiko ot A. Lange & Söhne Yes they are mass produced.
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  105. DO NOT CONFUSE THE COST OF ELECTRIC IN THE UK and the building of power stations i the UK with any fundamental issue - this is ALL as a result of the horrifically corrupt Conservative government over the last 14 years and in the 80's. The electricity companies are allowed to rip consumers off and the Govt didnt want to build infrastructure so tied it up in red tape.
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  106. AMERICAN CITIES ARE AT A MASSIVE DISADVANTAGE when it comes to the "Livability Index" as on the whole American cities have a LOT of Americans in them And that is always going to count heavily against them.
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  107. THE AI HISTORY WIL BE SPLIT INTO 2 PARTS BDS AND ADS before DeepSeek and After DeepSeek And for those in MAXIMUM COPE mode, DeepSeek is irrelevant, its the fact its open source and millions are already modifying and developing it - its like Tim Burnes-Lee gifting the world the World Wide Web open source instead of keeping it private and charging you for every website you visit. You probably don't even know his name, but you are watching this video because HE let you.
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  108. YEAH that would not have happened in the 80's
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  109. WAIT UNTIL THE AI BUBBLE BURSTS...!
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  110. NOT TRUE PATRICK you could define a "cryptocurrency" as a "massive scam" a "Ponzi scheme" a "fantasy computer money" - many things besides a security or a bank account
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  111.  @dangr3957  " I think you are too paranoid." I think you dont realise the implications of this surveillance - if Trump wins in Nov, a LOT of people will suddenly realise the implications. QUOTE - Michelin Tyres website - "RFID used in tires is a passive technology that doesn't require a battery · Tyre tag can be read even when the tire is moving or rolling" Especially in the US they already know where you are from your tires...!!! The RFID tag is linked to your licence plate.
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  112. WHEN DID ECONOMICS become hysterically funny...??? Patrick could do stand-up economics at the Edingborough Festival and sell out...
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  113.  @jlpowell51  You should learn to do English language comprehension. Your life must genuinely be difficult
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  114. £3 BILLION thats 1/12th of a track and trace app for covid... Tory corruption - costing the British taxpayer billions for over 100 years
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  115. The biggest problem I see in the US [IM an author on the collapse of civilisations not an economist] is that the US now has effectively two economies. 1) for the top 25% - which is doing astonishingly well 2) for the other 75% that is getting worse and worse - bordering on dire. The issue is economy No1 is so massive in $$$ terms it is distorting the overall numbers of the US economy.
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  116.  @rafalklepinski7372  Mee too LOL
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  117. I took a screen shot and sent it to my sister in the UK. He has a terrace house in Yorkshire this is inexplicably worth nearly £1 million. she paid £85k for it in 1992
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  118. English guy in Bulgaria here - WE have [for now] "sub 25k €, city-capable (parking) EV that are brilliant build quality" - they are Chinese. Im guessing they will soon be removed from the market.
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  119. And the MAGAts cheered him... Maybe the US should not have cut education spending in the 80's and 90's
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  120. [bad gramar] + [wrapped cars] = fraud
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  121.  @Anthony-dj4nd  It in now compressed to 128Gb for the 760b parameter model - you can carry it in a dongle in your pocket
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  122.  @Dave5843-d9m  "Dongfang Electric Corporation's 26-MW Turbine: This turbine can generate 100 GWh of electricity annually, which is enough to power approximately 55,000 homes"
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  123. What you mean America...??? I didnt think he did?
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  124.  @user-kpkxgtj  - It "hacks" the human brain - we are programmed by evolution to value what is scarce. To search harder for food when there is none, to search harder for flint [to make tools] where we cant find any. We don't NEED so search for sandstone or basalt cos there is lots of it even though its incredibly useful. Its a cynical trick - a Ferarri 250 GTO is legitimately worth a LOT of money cos it IS rare, there are no more being produced. A Ferrari you deliberately limit to 200 units is NOT legitimately worth a LOT of money cos you can make another 2,000. THAN making people buy your other crap to prove it is like the walking miles and miles to find the flint. Hermes can make an effectively unlimited number of bags, they choose to sell a €2k bag for €20k or €40k by manipulation AND they get €10k or other sales out of you as well.
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  125. THE CHARLES PONZI VIDEO IS AMAZING a brilliant video on a really fascinating person... Honestly - go watch it.
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  126. ​ @Daijyobanai  YEP - and it pretty much ensures each party gets 50% of the time in power, cos people dont vote FOR a party they get fed up with the one in power. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAST 100 YEARS - the Dems have been in power 51% of the time. So it DOES NOT matter to the Dems that Trump wone, the salary is the same win or lose for these guys and they will be in power in 4 years. They dont HAVE to learn any lessons, they dont HAVE to do better, they just have to wait until its their turn. A 2 party system is the worst of ALL possible options IMO
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  127. The biggest problem I see in the US [IM an author on the collapse of civilisations not an economist] is that the US now has effectively two economies. 1) for the top 25% - which is doing astonishingly well 2) for the other 75% that is getting worse and worse - bordering on dire. The issue is economy No1 is so massive in $$$ terms it is distorting the overall numbers of the US economy.
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  128. Its illegal in my country THANK GOD. You have to have an annual psychological exam to be licenced to carry the public in a vehicle in exchange for cash. This country [Bulgaria] is a weird little place that THINKS about things that can go wrong and then makes laws to stop it. In 1983 they introduced laws to govern AI cos they knew it was coming. Sadly they were lost with the end of communism.
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  129. Blitzscaling IMO can never be successful - in 2010 I had a company that went viral - the sales doubled every 6 months. I was very quickly worth €6 million. It ended because I suffered brain damage in a mugging - BUT IT WOULD HAVE ENDED ANYWAY - it may have ended at $10 million or $10 billion but it would have ended. You simply can NOT scale real-world infrastructure and resources as quickly as you can grow an online company. We NEVER had a proper stock control system, by the time we implemented one the company had outgrown its capacity. So you research and speck another - that's 3 or 4 months - the speck had DOUBLED in that time so you times by 4 your projected capacity but THEN you realise the growth rate so you times by 12 the capacity to allow for growth and then you get it costed and to costs 5X what you can afford TODAY with TODAY's revenue. so you scale it back to 6 X. Then you go to find the system - 3 months Then you implement the system - that takes 3 months. And then just as everyone is familiar with it, its too small to cope with your new level of business complexity. This is just one oversimplified example of the problems you face, you CAN NOT sustain exponential growth in a linear world.
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  130. AND OH BOT does this week prove that...
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  131. And that is going to end very soon because DeepSeek has sparked a row in India - "why didnt WE make DeepSeek" and the answer is "Cos WE let Am3ric4 steel all our engineers..!!! And China does NOT" So the debate has started - if you are trained in India at Indian tax payer cost you have to work 10 or 15 years IN India before you are allowed to leave. SO Elon might have a problem wiht his H1B's very soon.
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  132.  @samsonsoturian6013  Yeah but you are NOT operating at 120% of GDP - thats just national debt. When you take excess corporate debt and excess personal debt and excess mortgage debt [over and above normal times] you are operating at about 420% of GDP. The USA has a massive debt problem that it needs to inflation away, the problem is the USA no longer has the productivity or personal disposable income to cope with inflation The USA buys almost everything from china - you cant just devalue your currency like you could in the past. The US national debt is not the problem - its the OTHER debt above that is the problem.
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  133.  @samsonsoturian6013  - OK - you seem to be labouring under the illusion that all is well with America and China is f-uked. This belief is so far from the reality of the situation that any conversation with you is impossible. So Ill just wish you a happy collapse.
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  134.  @samsonsoturian6013  - THIS is exactly why I said a conversation with you was impossible cos you are running on pure bigotry and propaganda and zero knowledge or logic. I'm an author on psychology and the collapse of civilisations. America is collapsing China will be global soverign. There is nothing you can do - the USA has reached a point called "Interconnected Cascading Systems Failure" - or - "everything is broken and everything you need to fix it is also broken" Its what ends 100% of civilisations - the way you get there is different in every case, but the inability to fix the problems cos the fix is itself broken - its what causes the collapse. Putting it very simply this is THE END Enjoy your collapse you tragic pile of insecurity.
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  135. BANGLADESH just dropped the $USD for trade with India and China - making it the 70th country to drop the $USD as an intermediary currency
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  136. @LookingGlass AMERICANS ARE INSANELY PROUD that the $USD is the global reserve currency - but this is a function of having the largest trade deficit in the world MOST commodities are bought in $USD because the USA BUYS most of the world's excess production because the USA has the world's largest national debt / corporate debt / personal debt. Also, the USA has an absolute right to ownership of private property so foreigners can own bits of America. Americans would be wise to think about the implications of this. No one "loves the dollar" its not a fetish, why do you Americans jerk off over anything and everything that makes you feel big or special? The $USD is a convenience.
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  137. MANY OF HIS MISTAKES MAY SEEM OBVIOUS TODAY not to Crypto Bro's
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  138.  @ayde92829  Prof Richard Wolff says that if labour starts were collected / analysed as they were in 1975 the US would have 11% unemployment I cant say if this is correct or not - Im just passing on the information
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  139. YEP
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  140. Try Moonshot Kimi - amazing alternative to google. Its what Google WOULD be if they concentrated on making the best search engine NOT the most profit. I ahve not used google in 4 days. It answers your question directly then gives you the best websites about that and if its a product the local places to buy it
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  141. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU but its for your own good...
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  142. China just started to issue Govt bonds in $USD cos the OPEC countries don't trust the US with their $$$ cos Trump is extorting Mexico and Canada so the US just lost control of the reserve currency...!!! China has $1.5 Trillion USD cash on hand - no country has to use the SWIFT system to trade in USD any more...
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  143. I GENUINELY THOUGHT I was the least musical human on earth - apparently I was wrong...
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  144.  @PriHL  Being philosophical about it, can we really blame people when western capitalist society teaches people their worth as human being is defined by how much money they spend...?? At 22 when I got my first really well-paying job I bought a Rolex Submariner. 22 years after that I finally realised I had not bought it coe it was a good watch, not bought it cos I liked it. I bought it cos I came from a poor family and I wanted to prove I was someone. The even sadder thing it, it impressed so many people and it did prove I was SOMEONE. Way more than me being a good and honest person ever did LOL
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  145.  @PriHL  I agree 100% with every word of that. Yes we are reaching the end of the capitalist experiment. There are hard and strange times ahead. Some form of UBI will be needed as we cant have 30% of people unemployed as AI takes over. And we need to solve the climate crisis. I genuinely have no idea what the world will look like in 25 years.
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  146.  @protennis365  Let them. All the fraud carried out by all the poor people in Am3ric4 wont come to 1/1000th the cost of the banking crisis in 2008.
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  147.  @protennis365  Cry me a river
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  148.  @David-ud9ju  "There are people who grow up in council housing on benefits in families where their parents have never worked; you think these people are going to be upstanding members of society and work hard?" THAT IS EXACTLY HOW I GREW UP and I can tell you for a fact I am a better person than you...!!!
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  149.  @David-ud9ju  What a vile excuse for a human being you are.
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  150. CNN DID 40 FEATURES IN 30 YEARS on industrial automation taking American jobs. They did 220 features on AI taking white-collar jobs in the 3 months after Chat GPT was launched I wonder why the massive disparity...???
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  151.  @disalazarg  In Argentina, military forces overthrew the democratically elected President Isabel Perón in the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, backed by the USA China gave Sri Lanka a total of $11.7 billion in project infrastructure loans between 2000 and 2020 and Sri Lankas recent troubles are largely due to being in a "debt trap" Im sorry - your comment is so far adrift of anything even remotely credible I am almost speechless. these countries would all be MUCH MUCH better position were it nor for foreign interventions. Please use Google before you make any further comments.
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  152. AM3RIC4 - THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION "WHAT IF WE MAKE MONEY OUR GOD...?"
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  153.  @robt3407  - Funny - I watched this cos of the thumbnail - I make historical men's suits 1900 to 1930. The one he is wearing in the thumbnail is a Neapolitan made suit. No shoulder pad and a rouched sleeve top
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  154. IM AN AUTHOR ON PSYCHOLOGY and the collapse of civilisations. And I have been coned a few times. ALL cons pay on a very few things 1) Your personal greed overtakes your common sense 2) Your generosity and charity 3) Your lack of technical knowledge / cognitive ability / deference to authority
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  155. Do it in Texas
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  156.  @michaelriecher5632  - F-UK ME YOU ARE TH!CK. Does the UK have " an internationally respected professor of chemistry" as PM...??? NO - so NO I DONT live in the UK. I 100% guarantee you I know MORE about American politics than you do. I also guarantee I know more about American history than you do!!! I bet you are one of those thickies who think the American Declaration of Independence was signed on the 4th of July - and I know you are about to Google that LOL.
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  157.  @stapleman007  COPE harder buddy - its over. AI is open source from now on and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
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  158. this is ALL as a result of the horrifically corrupt Conservative government over the last 14 years and in the 80's. The electricity companies are allowed to rip consumers off and the Govt didnt want to build infrastructure so tied it up in red tape. It has NOTHING to do with " know-all/arse-covering bureaucrats" they were entirely POLITICAL decisions.
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  159. This was my comment: THE AI HISTORY WIL BE SPLIT INTO 2 PARTS BDS AND ADS before DeepSeek and After DeepSeek And for those in MAXIMUM COPE mode, DeepSeek is irrelevant, its the fact its open source and millions are already modifying and developing it - its like Tim Burnes-Lee gifting the world the World Wide Web open source instead of keeping it private and charging you for every website you visit. You probably don't even know his name, but you are watching this video because HE let you.
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  160. No China virus didn't hurt anyone except bigots and racists. Covid hurt most people. "America won't do that if they get the preffered chemistry". Well you will have to ask China nicely as they control all that.
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  161. BECAUSE EUROPEAN CARS ARE NOW PLASTIC SH!T I literally gave away my 2012 S500 Mercedes I was that sick of the problems... 85,000 miles and I gave it away for free to get shut - THAT IS HOW BAD THEY ARE NOW.
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  162. The AI bubble is utterly doomed: LATEST RESEARCH DOOMS AI AGi [general] which is what the tech Bros are absolutely desperate for - its 9 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE further away in processing power than thought And almost certainly will have to be Quantum computers. Consciousness is not at the neuron level in the brain but at the microtubule level, there are ~1 Billion microtubules in every neuron. You would literally need a Dyson sphere to power it
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  163. AMERICANS ARE INSANELY PROUD that the $USD is the global reserve currency - but this is a function of having the largest trade deficit in the world MOST commodities are bought in $USD because the USA BUYS most of the world's excess production because the USA has the world's largest national debt / corporate debt / personal debt. Also, the USA has an absolute right to ownership of private property so foreigners can own bits of America. Americans would be wise to think about the implications of this.
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  164. I now live in Bulgaria - the POOREST country in the EU - the average working-class person here has 2 kids on 1 wage in their mid 20's and can afford to buy or rent a house/apartment. So just exactly HOW poor is this country??? What its lacks is the hyper-rich to distort the statistics. My rent on a beach side apartment in the city of Burgas is 300 leva a month. The average salary in this city is 2000 leva. The minimum wage is about ~1000 leva. So an 18 year old working in a supermarket could afford this apartment.
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  165.  @timeflex  This has a MASSIVE amount to do with it. The country does not have debt obligations it made to pensioners 40 years ago that need to be fulfilled in a society that cant afford it, it does not have massive national debt ~20-25% of GDP. Income tax is a flat rate 10% here for everyone. Old people were given their houses because ev!l communism - so they dont see them as this life time investments - so they dont vote for the party who will increase the asset value - they see houses as a place to live. And the OTHER strange thing that make a gigantic difference is its the grandchildren who inherit here - not the children. My landlord is about 23 years old, he inherited his grandfather's apartment when he was 18. This makes a GIGANTIC difference to the young generation. It spreads the wealth and opportunities out much more evenly. If there are 5 grandchildren at least they inherit a deposit each...
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  166. In the UK the big one is the £38 BILLION on track and trace - you CAN NOT spend £38 billion on any one project in one year - its simply NOT possible. £38 billion will buy 5 Ford Class nuclear aircraft carriers - but it will take 10 years to build them. OR you can buy 2 of the 3 Georges Dam projects, that will take you 20 years. £38 billion is an UN SPENDABLE amount of money. The average cost globally for tracking apps was about £50 million The total covid corruption by the govt in the UK will exceed £100 billion - I promise you.
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  167. This was my comment: THIS IS NOT THE UNILATERAL DECISION you are making it out to be...!!! In 2020 Xi announced that China was moving away from supplying the West to supplying its internal market of 800 million "middle-class" consumers. ~~~~~~ "Many of those goods are actually by Chinese manufacturers who have set up transshipment outposts there". this is probably why - im guessing its still more profitable to sell to Americans than the internal Chinese market for now...??? Especially if you make Western intended products that might not have such a good market in China, like XXXL hoddies.
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  168.  @ryanandrew9233  On the other hand the USA is hated by almost every country on earth, not trusted by any country on earth, renowned for deliberately targeting and destroying economies and ideologies that compete with it and is very clearly collapsing, all of which ARE motivating factors in countries wanting to move away form the USD as the reserve currency. So its swings and roundabouts. Or at least it's swings and roundabouts until the CIA plans are coup with the slides and sand pit to overthrow the democratically elected swings and roundabouts...
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  169. YEP - this is why Obama was the worst president of the USA ever. He promised everything and delivered nothing. Well not true - he delivered Trump...!!! But thats kinda my point - no pathetic let down of the trust of the American people by Obama - no Trump.
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  170. WHERE IS THAT MONEY NOW...??? in the bank accounts of the super rich...!!! and that is why you have inflation - because they never took the money back by taxation of the rich.
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  171. suck that crypto d!ck bro "Maybe coinbros are buying smart watches with their impressive crypto gains?" You know that for every $1 a "coinbro" makes another coinbro loses $1 right...???
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