Comments by "Peter" (@peter65zzfdfh) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

That a large in Australia is a regular or small is in the US, with no free refills, probably has more to do with it.
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@davidty2006 there’s not a bridge design in the world that would withstand this. It’s why they now build artificial islands to ground the ships before they hit the pylons or use tunnels instead these days. Ships weren’t this big when this bridge was built.
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Australia is more diverse than Washington, we’re just safer because there’s less Americans. No seriously 75% of Australians have at least 1 parent born overseas and more than 30% are themselves immigrants. Only 14% of people in Washington DC are foreign born. Which all checks out because in both countries migrants are less likely by far than native born citizens to commit crimes.
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Once it starts tumbling it's as aerodynamic as a brick, and an interceptor will impart a velocity change of it. Also a ballistic missile will be almost vertical in the final part of the trajectory.
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@apex107lrp the battery in a pager is 0.71 Wh. If it releases all that energy at once you probably won’t feel the pager even getting warm. They don’t even use lithium ion batteries, imaging exploding batteries defying the laws of physics isn’t a horse it’s a unicorn.
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@Tjalve70 it’s only the people that didn’t die of Covid that we have to still listen to their misinformed views about the vaccines on. The people that died begging for the vaccine too late for it to be effective aren’t around anymore to tell people how wrong they are. The ultimate in survivorship bias.
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@UltimateGaming-ih the most dangerous risks are less dangerous statistically than driving to get the vaccine. If driving was a vaccine no one would do it, it’s thousands of times more dangerous than any vaccines in use.
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I hope it’s a bad deal. Any situation when I can conclusively say lucky we bought those subs is a dark universe. I don’t want to ‘get value’ from my health insurance either.
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Like the Hamburger isn’t American there’s always a local spin on it. I don’t think most Europeans would recognize a sausage on bread sold at bunnings as ‘their thing’.
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And a sales program for US made weapons system, and the 'spending' is going to US companies with US employees who then spend the money in other US businesses. And much of it was rotting away in inventory about to expire and unlikely to ever be used, except in a war against Russia.....
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@rotwang2000 and pagers all use the older Nickel Cadmium batteries because they don’t need the density of Lithium Ion like EVs do. The tiny tiny capacity batteries make it last a month between charges. It’s also so unreliable, who makes a device like this that would only work if fully charged with several hundred times more energy than a pager needs when they could just use explosives and rely on the fact that they don’t work intentionally, most of the people with them are too poor/on too many watch lists to fly international to a country where their suspicious pager wouldn’t work anyway.
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@no1DdC pagers use very low energy density Nickel Cadmium batteries, if you replaced one battery with lithium ion you could more than easily offset the loss in capacity from the other. Also even with the low capacity batteries the battery life is a month. There’s a decent chance people who haven’t used them before will not notice they’re only getting 15 days.
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30.7% were born overseas as at June 30, 2023. But 75% have at least one parent born in another country.
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As an Australian, the US not the most dangerous country I’ve been to, but it’s way more dangerous than Australia. Probably top 2 or 3 most dangerous I’ve been to though. Like anywhere some of it depends on where and when, there are more/less safe pockets in many countries.
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What? Poorer people on watch lists don’t take their pagers that only work on the Lebanese network on international air travel holidays with them like a giant ‘I’m suspicious’ sign?
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@cgmason7568 lol. Not in the first world.
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@bicker31 Most other countries can hold an entire election in less time than the US's shutdowns can be. Also supply bills are just funding things that don't have spending locked in, that is, the majority of things are funded by other legislation. If you can't pass something to rescind that spending, or the legislation didn't have an end date for the program, the spending keeps happening. You don't need the 'monarchy head-of-state', most countries which technically have one don't actually have any input from the monarchy, and the role of their local representative is basically ceremonial, and for the most part it's the mere threat of dismissal that does the heavy lifting. The other countries also put the paying for things in the bill that passes, so unless there's an end date to the program, or it's not had supporting legislation passed, funding continues. That means for most things (police, army, public service), funding will go on indefinitely, it's only new programs that don't yet have legislation or legislation that has a fixed expiry that needs supply passed. Other countries also only need 50.01% (in both houses) to pass legislation though, so cancelling programs is easier, but 4 people can't hold a country to ransom without risking their jobs for it.
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@Dogmeat1950 Other countries the budget is set by the bill that passes the program, so if the program is set to last 2 years, without a replacement bill the budget ends then. But lots of things are ongoing, eg, funding police, parks, the armed services etc. Also, most other countries can hold an entire election in less time than the US's shutdowns can be. It's dysfunctional to agree to the spending but then to withhold approval to pay for it, that means everyone will add a $$$ to the amount they're planning to contract to deal with the contingency they don't get paid, on time or ever. If people want to cut spending they should pass a bill to cut the spending, not just continually ransom the entire government because of one issue only a handful of people care about.
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@bicker31 People are using their ability to blow things up as a campaign strategy. See how quickly the composition of congress changes if you can only 'do' anything by being willing to negotiate.
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@ShenandoahShelty The problem with concepts like 'freedom' is that while there are fairly obvious examples of 'not free' there's no great examples of free. Most people's freedom comes at the expense of others freedom, so it's a balancing game to try and impinge on people's freedom the least, overall. Because of the mechanics of the US government you're stuck fighting a 2 sided war between 'my freedom to do this is greater than your freedom to do that'. One of the major causes of that is the 1st past the post voting system used in most elections, as well as voluntary voting. Places with compulsory voting tend to have more moderate politics because politicians don't have to out extreme each other to get people to show up, and places with ranked choice voting encourage people to select candidates that can represent all sides 'well enough' instead of one 30% group who can agree at the expense of the 70% who can't agree.
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@charliefoxtrot5001 That's because people seeking asylum, if genuinely in need of it. Are legal, not illegal. Canada has been tightening their border over the last year or so, making people that used to quickly assimilate into Canada linger around the northern US for longer. The incentive for people seeking asylum is to not live in a place where they stand a fairly high chance of being killed or starving, short of making your country treat them less humanely than a third world country, it's a tough ask to remove that incentive. Australia gave it a good shot.
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Australia still has crazy people, we just don’t let them have guns if we can at all avoid it. There’s a limit to how much damage you can do if you don’t have an assault rifle.
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@Randy778 the battery in a pager only contains 0.7 Wh of power, if you discharged it instantly you might notice the pager is warm. They are very very low power devices, a tiny fraction of a cell phone. A battery is also unreliable, the battery lasts 30 days, what if it was triggered on day 15? Day 30? If they relied on the battery to do anything but trigger something else extremely explosive most probably wouldn’t have gone off.
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@MattAtHazmat pagers don’t even use lithium ion, they’re so low energy usage they use nickel cadmium batteries that last a whole month. A much bigger and more energetic smart phone battery still couldn’t do this. Serious burns sure, but this, no.
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An IRIS-T would be the width of a hair at that distance. And the building in the picture the splash was up to the 16th story (each grouping is 2 stories). If there was more air resistance than expected it's even LESS likely to be an IRIS-T. So you're arguing against yourself with that one.
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Willing to bet if the problem was just as bad but the previous president was in charge it’d be absent from the news. There’s an active effort to make the border worse to help with the presidential election, even though nothing has changed in the last 8 years.
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It looks like a lack of logic, but it's not. The way the US political system rewards playing to a vocal minority and publicly wrecking things for clout makes it a logical move. Evil yes, but not illogical. It may not reward them forever, but these are people that failed at everything else until they found politics.
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There’s no shrimp in Australia, just prawns (a similar but technically different animal).
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More realistic, but mumbled. Part of what they're going for in TV/Movies (Nolan excepted) is clarity of dialogue above realism. Though I'm sure a voice artist could get the best of both.
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