Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "What's Going on With Shipping?" channel.

  1. Securely?
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  2. 80% or more of the products I buy are hecho en Mexico. That might be due to the increased trade with Mexico, but really it’s probably due to my having moved to Mexico. 🤭 But some facts about trade between Mexico and the U.S.: Our economy is already deeply entwined with Mexico’s economy, especially in sectors like the automotive industry, plastics, and aerospace. NAFTA has allowed suppliers (to the car manufacturers) to pass subcomponents to be passed across the border multiple times. A sub-sub component is built in one country, shipped to the other, assembled with another sub sub component sourced in that country to create a sub component, shipped back, and assembled into a component that then gets assembled into a car. The back and forth is quite intricate in some cases. The efficiency here has a lot to do with labor costs, and this impacts the where different class of vehicles are finally assembled. Mexico builds a lot of economy cars (mostly for its domestic markets), while the high end is dominated by U.S. manufacturing, with a mix in the mid priced cars. (Have any of you seen the Toyota Tsuri? It’s a popular economy car down here. Every taxi seems to be a Tsuri, because it’s low cost but reliable. But the point is, when you buy an American made car, a substantial number of its parts where manufactured in Mexico. The converse holds true for cars built in Mexico. They all use parts manufactured in the U.S. Mexico has developed a vocational education system that we should be emulating, a post-secondary that combines college with specialized vocational training. The basis is the credential, the Licencia degree awarded after three years of post-secondary education. (The next level is Maestría, roughly equivalent to getting a Master’s degree.) The Licencia education combines basic college level instruction (such as STEM if you were going into manufacturing) and instruction on practical applications. So a student wanting to go into plastics would learn basic chemistry, organic chem, physics, advanced organic chem focused on polymers, and then they would learn how the basic science is used in the manufacturing process. This provides manufacturers with workers capable of not just supervising assembly lines, but of understanding the line and the line’s purpose. Frankly, we should be sending our young people to Mexico for training if we can’t get our educational shit together. Anyway, that’s one of the bees in my bonnet. 1) Our economies are deeply linked and both countries benefit. 2) College education and vocational training in the U.S. is screwed up and 2A) we would benefit from learning how Mexico is rapidly training a competent workforce if only we could get over false pride.
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  3.  @eddieyeoh4098  Please be specific. What percentage of Mexican manufacturing is Chinese and what is your source for the information?
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  4. It also means work starts immediately instead of when the liability knots are untangled. Yes, it’s facilitating. You’re correct. But how? The answer is it’s guaranteeing the salvage companies that they’ll get paid.
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  5. I’m sorry you’re being inconvenienced.
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  6. You can relieve those symptoms with a good hemorrhoid cream, but you have to move your head out of the way first.
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  7. The reason you have two pilots under normal circumstances is to change lightbulbs. One pilot holds the lightbulb, the other pilot turns the ship. 😅
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  8. GenX here. Cruise ships aren’t my cup of tea, but I see the appeal.
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  9. Rejected operation code names: Operation Rich Uncle.
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  10. He’s not entirely wrong about either the bridge (it’s not a house-on-fire emergency, but still important) or the Jones Act (which needs reform and updating). But that’s the flaw with Peter. He’s often partially right because he has partial knowledge.
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  11.  @AlphaAurora  and a Pepsi.
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  12. Are you under colonization? Who is currently colonizing you?
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  13.  @ThatOpalGuy  Drink!
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  14.  @Bubba-wx7lp  don’t mess with his ghoulish fantasies.
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  15. Like you, I am looking forward to many congressional hearings and a ton of grandstanding about this. Hopefully MTG will head up the committee because that would be hilarious.
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  16. I’m sympathetic but no. There was very little in the debate that is indirectly within the purview of this channel, and nothing directly related.
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  17. Is there a top luxury cruise ship that is ahead (more luxurious) than its competitors?
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  18. “big-boy-and-girl-pants”. The extra time it took to type that is appreciated. 😂 I know I’m laughing, but it’s little efforts at inclusiveness like this, carried out by many people, that make a difference.
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  19. Sal, do a reaction to the Frank Zappa song Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, please.
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  20.  @JBHRN That’s the thing, though. The number of vessels in this class is tiny. The vessel in question, the Titan, was unique. There are no safety standards established (yet). I’m not saying this is right or a desirable state of affairs. I’m just saying that it’s how it is. Many people in these comments seem to think that regulation is just a matter of ordering that something be regulated. There are a lot of different steps that go into creating a regulation regime, and we are at the very beginning. There is nothing to be done at this point while the mishap is being investigated, other than putting an immediate freeze on all crewed deep sea activities. In addition, given the tiny amount of people involved in the mishap, I don’t think that there is any reason to give regulation of deep water submersibles any priority over other much needed regulatory reform that affects millions of people.
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  21. I think you hit the nail on the head with regard to disagreeing with some of Sal’s points. Sal is offering a point of view that is worth considering, a POV you won’t get anywhere else. He has considerations that you (as a student of history and geopolitics) might not have been aware of or on which you might not place as great importance as he does. What a time to be alive, when we have access to a professor like Sal, or to an anonymous defense analyst in Australia, or many others willing to share their expertise with us. (Yeah, that was a shout out to Perun, whose ppt videos you probably already watch. If you don’t, you should.)
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  22. I’m sure they’re protecting all Egyptian flagged ships from the Houthis. What more do you expect from them?
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  23. Greetings, Armchair General. We noticed you’re trying to politicize a humanitarian effort by the U.S. Army like a dirty hippy. It doesn’t matter if you support the politicians. Support the troops, you pinko. That goes for the rest of you Trump suckups. I agree with Tom Riley. This an important lesson under urgent need but not total emergency circumstances (such as if we were resupplying our soldiers under siege).
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  24.  @elhueso4330  Tell us something new.
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  25.  @achimsteffens5357  For what it’s worth, you’re not late to the party. Not very late to it, at least. Europe now seems fully awake to the threats from China and Russia.
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  26. Let’s hope they’re reactive now, and do something. There are too many congresspeople in the House of Representatives that will try to block these efforts.
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  27. Tariffs will pay for subsidies, not the tax payer. Didn’t you know that Trump tariffs are magical and don’t cause inflation because the price increases are never passed on to the consumer? Trump tariffs will pay for everything. It’s like free money. lol, just kidding. Obviously the above claims are pure nonsense. That said, subsidies in the form of tax breaks that create NEW economic activity are less of a tax burden than you might think. Federal and state governments are foregoing tax revenue that didn’t exist previously. So over the long term they aren’t really costing anything (hopefully), they might create eventual revenue (best case), or they might have a smaller cost but have other benefits that make the cost worthwhile. Put another way, it’s not a loss of revenue if that revenue wasn’t there to begin with. Granted, a lot depends on how the tax break is structured. I’m sure we can imagine scenarios were it all goes wrong and instead of growth, there is merely a shift of activity from existing ports. I haven’t read the legislation that was just passed. I guess Sal hasn’t had a chance to analyze it either because it got pushed through the House of Representatives so quickly.
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  28. You want names? Start with Mike Johnson. He could get this fully funded tomorrow morning.
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  29.  @SpruceWood-NEG  Thanks, enormous penis, for pasting this dumbass spam on various comments.
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  30. The House of Representatives is a shipshow, haven’t you noticed? They’re unable to govern because of a handful of obstructionist extremists who came to Washington to be on TV.
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  31. I hear the Red Sea mentioned, I reach for my shot glass and bottle of mezcal.
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  32. Very good interview! I hope it brings many more subscribers. Thanks for sharing it here because I doubt Scripps News would surface on my recommendations feed.
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  33. How old is Ally Sheedy?
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  34. What does IRS hiring have to do with CBP operations?
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  35. lol, the Data Hyperlups.
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  36.  @billpugh58  I generally agree with that sentiment. But there is a different principle here regarding YouTube’s business practices with regard to creators working on commission. YouTube’s business practices are still governed by laws defining unfair business practices. Here are some facts I have observed as a viewer. • I am still shown advertisements on demonetized videos. • Many of the ads depict violence much more graphic than in the videos themselves. • YouTube is arbitrarily applying standards to video creators while giving advertisers a pass. YouTube’s practices contradict its justifications for those practices. When the ads themselves contain graphic violence, the argument that YouTube will lose advertisers is very weak. When the audience is shown “objectionable” violent imagery in the ads, YouTube doesn’t have an argument that they’re protecting the audience from objectionable violent content. YouTube pattern of behavior strongly suggests that their policies and arbitrary practices are cheating creators of commission revenue for the sake of YouTube’s own profits. YouTube cannot claim a loss of profits because advertisers avoid violent content. Clearly there are plenty of advertisers who do not find violent content objectionable. They cannot argue that they are protecting the public from violent imagery when they are clearly not protecting the public from advertisers’ violent imagery.
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  37. ⁠ @nic12344  I see no dearth of ads that contain graphic depictions of violence that far exceed the standard that YouTube imposes on creators, so this argument doesn’t hold water. I saw three advertisements for video games over the course of this video that contained much more violent imagery than did the video itself. YouTube also shows ads on demonetized videos. The claim that advertisers avoid violent content is unsupportable.
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  38.  @SpringIsBACK  You need to define what you think the mission should be, how it should be accomplished, and you need to enumerate the repercussions and why they are acceptable. That might demonstrate that you have an understanding of the strategic situation. Otherwise, you’re just another crank, yelling “Fix it!” at the air.
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  39.  @thefinalkayakboss  acorns. 🌰
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  40.  @Heterogeneity  well to be fair, passing the funding requires making deals with the Satan worshiping pedophillic antifa party trying to destroy America. /s
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  41.  @fortresseuropa Well, that’s the rub. This vessel was unique and deep water submersibles as a category are rare. There are no established safety protocols specific to this class of vessel and it’s not covered under the SOLAS convention. It’s only AFTER tragedies that protocols are created or adapted, and until you have a protocol, you don’t really have a basis for a checklist. Whine all you want about capitalism and putting the almighty dollar ahead of safety, but safety standards are even worse in communist countries. I’ll take 5 deaths from experimental technology and an overall better workplace safety record, thank you. If there were shenanigans such as misleading passengers, I mean, paying crew members, that will come out in the investigation and subsequent law suits—but keep in mind that the person who is ultimately responsible was himself on the Titan and is now beyond earthly justice. It’s also going to be hard to determine if the deceased paying crew members were fully cognizant of the risks or not, because they’re not around to tell us what they knew before signing release forms and boarding the vessel. A full inquiry will answer some of these questions, but probably not all questions with 100% certainty. And once the inquiry/investigation is complete and a report issued, there will be a better basis for setting up a safety framework for these types of vessels, so they can be registered, certified, and inspected.
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  42. ⁠ @misarthim6538 I heard it was millions of victims, perhaps billions. You’re counting sperm, right? If we are talking about all forms of tubes, such as condoms, there are probably quadrillions of innocent victims. Even inside a natural tube used for reproductive purposes, only a single lucky one survives. The rest of the cohort that gets deposited in the tube (usually around 100-200 million sperm) perish. Now as far as these rare and exotic deep sea submersibles, there is no certification agency for this class of vessel. Criticizing the company for using an uncertified vessel makes you look ignorant. I think the most one can argue is that much more unmanned testing should have been done.
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  43.  @asbestosfiber The only counter to that is, what if the company was concealing or minimizing safety issues? On this point I can only speculate, so it’s better to wait for an investigation or inquiry to be completed and a report issued before reaching any conclusions.
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  44.  @lcmattern So the CEO, the guy who should face any consequences, has fled beyond human reach. No earthly court can impose a sentence on him or compel him to pay a penalty. Maybe he’ll face those consequences in an afterlife. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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  45.  @ropeburnsrussell  Lend-Lease!
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  46. Hello, three month old YouTube account.
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  47. lol, not that big. Do all Idahoans exaggerate as much as you do?
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  48. You should tell Ward, “Thank you very mooch.”
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  49. Why would you SULLY your reputation with all those Tom Hanks movie references?
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  50. Fragile, but robust. The internet is designed in a way that you could call self-healing. If a node goes down, the traffic reroutes automatically around that node. If direct traffic between Europe and Asia was cut, the traffic would be rerouted across North America. It’s a detour. It could lead to “traffic congestion”. But I doubt it would be catastrophic on its own.
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