Comments by "TheThirdMan" (@thethirdman225) on "More Perfect Union" channel.

  1. And what was Trump’s response? Send in an unelected plutocrat to gut the place. JANUARY 20 - Trump fires the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, the department in charge of flight safety JANUARY 21 - Trump freezes hiring for Air Traffic Controllers JANUARY 22 - Trump disbands the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee JANUARY 28 - Trump sends out a buyout/retirement demand to existing employees, removing experienced safety staff And on the 29th January, 2024, as we all know, a Sikorsky Blackhawk military helicopter and an American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 collided in Washington with the loss of 67 lives. Trump’s response? Blame DEI hires.
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  2. There’s the presumption that they know what’s best for everyone.
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  3.  @jayandrusiak  This would make me wish it was incompetence. This is just plain crooked.
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  4. By the way, if anyone is looking for the motive behind Musk’s raid on government offices in the last few days, this is it. The tech bros vision for the future is couched in terms of how humanity benefits and could not be further from the truth. There was personal information he needed for this which will be part of the AI management of your life. They will basically own you. This is what will run digital feudalism. So Musk and his troop of spotty faced hackers went to get it from highly secure SCIF which basically nobody is allowed into because of what is stored there. This went a fair way towards completing the circle. This is also what is behind the cosy relationship they are trying to build with government because they want people to believe that they and only they can be trusted with it. In other words, they want no competition and they’re spinning it to show that it requires billions of dollars in funds to make it work. Trust us. As long as we are in charge, nothing will go wrong. This is straight from Peter Thiel’s monopoly model. So when DeepSeek was dropped, along with two or three other apps last week, it made them look pretty stupid. But that didn’t stop them negotiating billions more in government funding to recover from their embarrassment. It’s not just a competing system but it’s open source and you can run it at home. On a Raspberry Pi with a decent size graphics card (doesn’t even have to be NVidia). So when the tech bros talk about furthering humanity, it’s code for benefiting them. When they talk of a digital God, it’s a digital god they control. I’m not totally convinced they are all signed on. But Sam Altman, Elon Musk and the more secretive Peter Thiel are all controlling it. Personally, I can think of a better future than one run by a bunch of geeky, amoral, noodle-armed billionaires, who have to talk in manufactured gravelly voices because their balls have barely dropped, owning my life and everything in it. But since the US government scrapped a lot of the carefully negotiated regulations in the last couple of weeks, that will be what it is unless we reject it.
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  5. Lying about your financial position, as he did to Daimler, would get you into serious trouble in my country. Doing it again would probably earn you prison time.
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  6. Which they are still trying to sell.
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  7. @ I’m agreeing with you, clownpants.
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  8.  @emanym  We haven’t always been a consumer society.
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  9.  @supernova82  Or… behind every great fortune is a great crime.
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  10. Solipsism? Anyhow, they've all got it.
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  11. We have Fiji water in Australia FFS!
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  12. Good report. Well done everyone.
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  13. When we run out of food we can eat the rich.
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  14. Eat the rich.
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  15. What I don’t get is why the fossil fuel industry didn’t at least try to pivot from oil production to the solar panels they were already developing. The possibility of EVs becoming mainstream was in the wind in the 1990s. But rather than evolving their business, they chose to double down with denial, semantics and motherhood statements. Now the situation is different. The rise of China as a manufacturer of both solar panels and EVs has become a global threat to the oil industry. The rise hasn’t been driven as much by governments as by consumer choices. We are at the point now where such things make economic sense. In a few years time, even storage batteries will be financially viable. They’re almost there now. The uptake of these things will be so fast I think it’s going to be hard for the industry to survive at a global level. What this left out was the known health effects of burning fossil fuels. People who live within 200 metres of a major road - basically almost anyone in a city - are twice as likely to have a heart attack or contract cancer as people who live in rural areas. The effects of things like diesel pollutants on water systems is also widely known. It’s entirely possible for consumers to get off the oil industry’s corporate welfare program. It’s been shown to work. But oil industry propaganda - which started with their framing climate change as a ‘debate’ when the science they helped establish was already in - has now shifted to EVs. Don’t believe the nonsense about battery fires, Chinese spyware, poor quality manufacturing, lack of support infrastructure or range anxiety. The change has already started and is increasing rapidly. And the faster the uptake. The greater the efforts of shills to disrupt it. Some, like those who simply refuse to change, are the oil industry’s useful idiots. They’ll happily keep paying money and call it freedom.
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  16. @ I don’t know how you figure than refining oil is cheaper and easier. Not to mention the fact that you still have to move it around and that’s much harder. A truck full of oil products is a lot harder to move than a truck full of solar panels. These days they’re using bio plastics which are a lot less polluting than oil based plastics. But in any case, there was a market opportunity there and they ignored it. This is one of the reasons why China pulled ahead. The oil industry is one of the wealthiest industries in the world. If any industry was well placed to reinvent itself it was big oil. But they never even tried.
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  17.  @youtubesucks1499  If you want to win then get off petroleum use. Get off the grid. Put solar panels on your roof and trade your current car for electric. Want to keep an oil baron on his private island? Stay on the oil dependency scheme. Go electric and you’ll never be beholden to fuel prices again.
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  18.  @youtubesucks1499  Get an electric van.
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  19. @ The petrochemical industry has made sure of that.
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  20. I’ll bet they didn’t pay for the Oroville Dam repairs.
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  21. ‘Of the people, by the people, for the people’… it’s the ‘for the people’ I’m worried about here. Why does this have to be in private hands? Wouldn’t it make more sense for this to be managed by local government? That way there’s more transparency. People have been angry with governments for decades but at least you can change them. You can do nothing about predatory private equity firms. Now people are finally waking up and realising that private industry controlling such things is a much bigger problem. This is end stage capitalism.
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  22. Whoa! I have some of my pension in Vanguard. That’s actually about to change though because o was already in the process of switching my fund.
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