Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. 1. How many rooms to your home? Are people sleeping in the same room? 2. What are your home walls made of? 3. Are the roads you drive on paved or unpaved? Are there just local roads or are there intercity highways nearby? Car quality is of no importance here, it just has to move safely.
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  2. Savings accounts have always sucked donkey nuts. CDs and LCIFs are far better.
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  3. Inflation of wealth = inflation of costs.
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  4. Followed by “How Britain lost the world”
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  5.  @tanvirapu885  There were quite a few of them, which one are you referring to? Calcutta?
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  6.  @IgorS.  Russia has bases in Cuba and Venezuela. China has a base in Panama and the Spratly islands. Keep in mind that prior to 1962 the USA did not have the global military presence it does now; it was limited to the conquered nations of WW2 and the domestic USA. After 1962, bases started to be leased out from other nations with the simple logic of “if they are doing it we have to as well”.
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  7. Rohan Dick Yes if you compare to the current China-India debacle. But Chinas south see claims have no historical counterpart. They are full of crap.
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  8.  @TheGrandDurian  Wait, Spain is a natural gas player too? Cool!
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  9.  @KingLarbear  Let loose the moose, because the elephant can’t…(bad haiku)
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  10. “What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” - Dan Quayle, former vice president of the USA.
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  11. julian blanco Genghis Khan would strongly disagree with you.
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  12. julian blanco Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdullāh and Alexander the Great look at you puzzled...
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  13. julian blanco Please explain the difference between empire building and imperialism.
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  14. Notice how they keep making reference to "breakthrough technologies"? Why does it have to be another country behind it? Remember when Trump got elected how he mentioned that Obama told him about a "major problem" that has been hidden from the public. Why do you think the 6th branch of the military was created?
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  15. Funny, you know that when an American travels to Hawaii they think it is Japan because of all the Japanese tourists there.
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  16.  @bodigames  If you buy a BMW, you are a fool and you will get what you deserve for wasting money on expensive and unnecessary toys. Expensive cars are bullsh*t that keep people poor. You are talking about buying a product that loses a quarter of its value the moment you drive it off the lot and continues to lose value year after year. The first rule of wealth accretion is "don't be a jackass."
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  17. Back at that time the rule was grow or die. Genghis Kahn and Alexander the Great taught this lesson very effectively.
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  18. Trump has been trying to get rid of PR. Nobody wants it so far, and they don’t want independence because they know what that means. Exhibit A: Haiti.
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  19. Length and volume in metric is actually already used commonly in the USA, it’s not a big deal. Celsius however, is a problem for Americans because of the lack of temperature differentiation possible in it. 15C to 35C is the equivalent of 59F to 95F, which is insane when you consider the vast differences in physical experience not just between the two temperatures but those in the middle as well. This problem applies to speed as well, telling someone 100km/hr implies high speed when in fact it’s just 60mph. The frame of reference for Americans is wildly off target and would take generations to change.
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  20. He is so obsessed with bashing the USA that he cannot see what you just mentioned.
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  21. You are correct, but bear in mind that the US has some social and cultural issues going on that are unique to them. Eastern Europe is a homogeneous paradise by comparison to the USA and Western Europe, so you have full land utilization available to you. You do not have to know before you do or any of the nonsense that happens elsewhere, which is a blessing. You have it very good.
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  22. Let me guess...everyone has their own car too. Am I right? No car sharing? No one helping each other to pay down a car loan fast?
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  23.  @scratchsoft2347  Both the Americans and Soviets made a special effort to confiscate all scientific data from the Germans and Japanese, including data derived from human medical experiments. In particular, the high altitude experiments performed on Jews at Dachau were especially valuable for the Americans due to the lack of information on how the body behaves in low oxygen pressure environments. Indirectly you might be able to say that we owe the jet age to some of the victims of the camps.
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  24.  @eugenesukhoi7025  Not really. It had more to do with Khruschevs ego and Castros paranoia than anything else.
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  25.  @timbehrens9678  The US had those missiles (Jupiter-C IIRC) in Turkey well before the Cuban crisis and the Soviets did not complain previously. Placing IRBMs in Cuba had zero to do with Turkey and their removal was nothing but an afterthought for Khruschev because the US had IRBMs in Italy and Germany which put them well in range of Moscow. The Soviets actually got a very bad deal in the solution to the crisis in that they would not have any offensive capability against the mainland US again until the early to mid 1970s, while the US got to keep a projection capability. This was one of the many reasons for Khruschevs removal in 1964.
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  26. Johnny forgot that wealth is tough to build but easy to lose.
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  27. Poverty industry is what it is called. They prey on the poor because they know that the poor are too stupid to figure out the scam they have trapped themselves in, and take full advantage of it. Proper financial education in the schools could help to combat this, but money smarts has to start at home, and most parents just don't take the time to educate their kids about it. Hence, the student loan and university scam.
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  28. As an EU member, you are paying for the public benefits of Calabrians and Sicilians who collect and then go gambling with it. Do not gloat, for your continent is reliant on other nations to pay your bills. If the US were to take back the money they spend on NATO every year and use it to assist poor Americans, their lot would be improved vastly. Europe would have to make up for that money from their own member state budgets, which would be entertaining from the outside to watch.
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  29. Story teller. That’s the problem.
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  30. Philippines has been independent since 1946.
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  31. Facts for him? C’mon.
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  32. Marsel • Trump tried to trade PR last year. It may be a nice place, but Trumps optics are through the Bronx lens.
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  33. The problem with celsius is mainly from 15-35C. Only 20C of difference numerically, but in the real world massive difference in between the two that celsius just doesn’t give the same mental clues to that fahrenheit does. It’s even worse for those who do live in places prone to extreme temperature swings, such as the USA. Europeans generally do not experience this climate difference and hence are hostile to adherents of fahrenheit.
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  34.  @oyuyuy  Cool story. Compare 75 to 85 in celsius then get back to me.
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  35. That land you speak of is the area from the 1763 proclamation line (which was a farce from the beginning as there were already settlers west of it well beforehand) to the Mississippi River. It was not originally British though. Prior to that it was French, and prior to that it belonged to nobody because while there were native inhabitants, there was no unified government amongst the tribes and no standing military to defend it. Nomadic tribes at constant war with each other and hatching deals with outsiders is a recipe for failure.
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  36.  @MikeBNumba6  They lobbied because it was their original choice when picking where to live. When they said, "I don't want any mass transit near where I am going to live", they meant it. Trying to force people to accept what they don't want is a waste of time.
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