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Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

I can tell you what happened to Montreal: For centuries it was the leading city of Canada, then in the 70s separatism and associated violence arose. Corporate headquarters started moving to Toronto; long-term decline began. It lost investment, many skilled people, and most of its international prestige. Montreal formerly had a larger population; now it's 4.3 million, Toronto's is nearing 7m. Older people vividly remember a glittering and booming Montreal. Now Toronto is markedly more prosperous.
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Anyone looking at the fortifications and thinking that upcoming battles will be fought by antiquated means is misguided. Ukraine's counteroffensive will decisively make this the first great drone war. Yes, it already is — up to a point. But we will see new devices on both sides, used in new ways, and deployed at scale. Possibly not just in the air and on the water but also on the ground. Things are about to become different.
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Why do you worry about them anyway? I don't get it. They went through great effort to get a job there and they haven't left. Do you really think they need anyone wringing their hands on their behalf? If they want to go all-out with effort, who are you to tell them they shouldn't? Aren't you busy enough steering your own life? I don't know, maybe you're just chattering pointlessly to kill time. If so, I withdraw my comment. Your business.
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WSJ, please do not call Eastern Ukraine "Russian territory," as you did at 2:15. It is Russian-occupied territory.
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@floxy20 No it doesn't. Chicago has around twice as many (over 150 m tall), and they're taller besides. Also, your grasp of the word 'irony' is highly questionable.
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Through its ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) a great many of Tesla's employees have become wealthy, rather than through their salaries. It's been around corporate America (and other countries) for a long time and worked at making many companies and their workers hugely successful. The whole company, when a lot of things including ESOP are done right, becomes super-motivated. But I don't know what percentage of Tesla's staff are eligible for the ESOP.
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The neglected part of everybody's explanation and analysis is these misty, vague, enigmatic "supply chain problems." They let on that it all has to do with container ships and trucking. I think it goes far deeper than that, since transportation is only a small part of the supply chain. It actually means everything going back to ores and oil deep in the ground, and crops in the soil, through processing, manufacturing, warehousing, wholesaling, and all the way to retailing. To me it seems not just the cart but the whole apparatus has been tipped over and we're not being told anywhere near enough about the seriousness of it all. I expect that in time we'll finally be told that "supply chain problems" is just a euphemism for "living standards are taking a permanent drop because there's not enough of most things to go around." The world economy is like a juggler with thousands of plates in the air and all kinds of them are crashing down by the day. Another analogy might be a sick patient on a table whose organs are beginning to shut down.
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 @char4980 "Envy is concealed admiration"—Soren Kierkegaard.
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Detroit will soon have a sister city.
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Hey! Scrap copper recycling! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before? Bravo, young man, bravo! 👏👏👏👏
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@HegelsOwl Where did you get the cringingly stupid idea that taking territory isn't at the very least an essential part of the objective? Pretty much to be expected from someone whose screen name tries to borrow the dignity of a goddess of wisdom.🙄
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@Theactualstoic Good idea. Worldwide, according to the Council on Tall Buildings, the four cities rank like this: NYC 3rd, Chicago 10th, Toronto 20th, Boston 63rd. (Toronto 3rd in North America; CN Tower excluded in their ranking system.) Calgary is the next Canadian city, 73rd in the world.
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"Answers all found long ago. Just buy print edition." — Confucius
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I live thousands of miles away yet I've never felt more inspired by a political leader. I can't find the words except to say with heartfelt approval that This guy is different.
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Detailed? There was no coverage of what's going on in China. The supply chain isn't just logistics (meaning transportation and warehousing). Logistics is just the last broad category.
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Show us how it's done. And please tidy up your living quarters before your departure.
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@Kingzombiemyanmar Google has offices in countless cities around the world. Having one in Chicago says little about the city's desirability or future.
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@GenghisKhan311 Old? No, he's middle-aged, my dear boy, middle-aged. Middle-middle-aged to be precise.
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@Cachi-7 At some point we all do. I don't like to break it to you, but..
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@martinnolan4332 👎 So what? Also gone are millions of companies that did not build such communities.
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@TheRealBillBob Trying to judge the future by either side's success or failure in Bakhmut is a mug's game. Both sides dared and baited the other to commit more resources and neither did all it could, so it wouldn't be wise to even try and judge who's won there, as it was only very dubiously a lopsided decision. In any case the outcome of the war will turn on events elsewhere and in ways no one can yet foresee, even in the high command in either country. I expect it's a handful of people in Washington and Beijing who have the closest idea, and can really decide things.
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@an67481 Imagine those in the English-speaking world. We listen daily and hourly to people who learnt English as adults and butcher it with horror after horror. Journalists included. And then there's the writing on social media, seemingly half of it by foreign posters; here in the YT comments, for example, it's perpetual carnage. Sorry, I have no sympathy. You are much to be envied, not pitied.
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Why is that amazing? The risks are the greatest ones to humanity ever imagined. Look into what Stephen Hawking said about AGI.
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Tell that to Detroit, one of the world's most thriving cities in the postwar years. Then, you know.
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In fact it skips everything but logistics (i.e. transportation and warehousing), which is only the last aspect of the supply chain. The supply chain goes right back to raw materials on or beneath the land.
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7:42 Notice the slimy way the WSJ names Taiwan improperly in the voice-over. It's not just the American government getting ready to sell out friends and supporters, it's corporate America too. This really makes me mad.
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Knowing what you're all about and why is so important. 👏👏 Great that it's working for you. So many of us are lost, or used to be.
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@blancosanmartin You misconstrue how the sentence is built, probably by misconstruing the punctuation. You appear to think it means Emma's Spanish is grammatical. And from a vocabulary perspective it is very good. But no, it means Emma's Spanish is, in its aspects of grammar and vocabulary, very good. So the writer did indeed use grammatically as an adverb; that is to say, correctly.
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@_Chicagosfinest Fair point. I let my grief carry me away.
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Comparisons of Afghanistan to any other place are idle.
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@adsfadsfasdasdfasf2439 The boy's mother inflicted parental alienation on him. Fancy term for teaching him that Daddy was a Bad Man and you shouldn't love him.
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@Tpb247 Everyone knows that big companies have many people doing a lot of work. That isn't news. But being the CEO position means colossal responsibility for making decisions. That entails listening, reading, researching, asking questions, thinking, weighing options. It takes enormous energy, dedication and talent to do it well.
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@sword111119 Your future diet will consist of carrots, beets and potatoes. Also, a life and a society in accordance with Chinese tastes. Get used to it...il Zanni.
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@raylopez99 Laurie Anderson, an admirer of Pynchon's, approached him asking permission to adapt GR into an opera. He said yes, provided the sole accompaniment to voice was the banjo. It never happened. (But cf. her track Gravity's Angel, 1984. Nothing in it about missiles though.)
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@coolbeans3390 Those things sound, to put it mildly, hard to verify. But supposing you were correct, it still doesn't mean every advance in hardware, software and technique has been disclosed to the enemy. And this applies to both sides. A countervailing factor could be unwillingness on the part of Ukraine's allies to disclose their as-yet-unknown capabilities and tactics. The problem is that lurking in the background and paying close attention is China. They would likely receive bits or entire captured examples of many if not all enemy drones.
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Plastic pipes (PVC plastic) are made from natural gas, not oil. So is most plastic. The idea that oil is the major feedstock for plastics is a common misconception.
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So you're taking a stand against shortages in the world. Also against reporting on or predicting them. What a brave, interesting, helpful, mature and intelligent position. To judge by this, by your disdain for the shift key and the period, and by your fondness for base-10 orders of magnitude to describe anything, I'm guessing you were born in the 90s.
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@frankfahrenheit9537 Beware such economic comparisons. GDP at market exchange rates is good for judging an economy in some ways (its international financial heft, for instance, or the nature of its trade relationships) but is a distortion in all other ways. When judged by the purchasing power of the rouble domestically, Russia's economy is far larger. In 2021, viewed on this basis, it was about 5% smaller than Germany's, meaning close to $5trn, not $1.7trn. Neither GDP at market exchange rates (also called nominal GDP) nor GDP at PPP (purchasing power parity) tells the whole story. Looking at both is absolutely necessary. For a valid overall judgement you'd be a lot better off averaging the two than looking at only one. So my point is that, say what you will about Russia's economic weaknesses, it does indeed have a larger economy than Canada, Italy or Spain, three countries often invoked for comparison. Closer to Germany or Britain. It seems headed downwards in the near future, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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@kentas-sd Correct. And even then they achieved their objectives in Vietnam and Afghanistan. (They didn't in Iraq, but there they had nonsense goals in the first place.)
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@vinny7114 He or she sounds first class to me. You sound like 'it's always other people's fault.'
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@-.TS.- You're confusing the whole situation with facts. That's not what this is about! 😂
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Your 2022 revenue chart at the 15-sec. mark is titled "2022 Market Capitalization."😂 Are there any adults in charge at the WSJ, or is it just know-nothing kids in pajamas and funny eyeglass frames?
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How does the word "young" apply to someone turning 60 years old in a matter of weeks? Is this a Democratic Party ad? 🤨
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Dude has been married twice. Ooooooh, imagine being married twice!!
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A poor effort here. No industry analysts, no professors, just a young tweezer-deprived staffer pontificating. And a callow voiceover amateur who says "doitch-bank."🙄 Then a quote from Elon Musk totally out of context: the reduction isn't in overall copper usage, just in the 12-volt wiring system. That made me pretty mad. Why did you even bother?
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You don't know that. Stop pretending you know things.
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Thanks for your interesting comment. (Btw, did that extra hard-return before your last paragraph appear on its own? Happens to me sometimes and seems to be some kind of cryptic warning that the subject matter is controversial.)
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Musk is not building dorms. Your comment is a cheap shot. Musk will have roads built in this community, too. So I suppose you'd say: "Aha! Just like in China! China has roads everywhere!"
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@AlanSmith88888 Another cheap shot. No one needs to see China's "mega manufacturing 'cities' and dorms" in person to know this will be nothing of the sort. Do you say anything that's not a cheap shot? Hey, were you in on the making of this hit piece itself?
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@MarxStevens Shouldn't you be in dim light inspecting elderly ammunition and rifle barrels for fitness yourself?
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@devasish204 I understood perfectly in the first place. I have (1) expert-level English comprehension and (2) detailed knowledge of global copper markets, production and recycling.
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@polishtheday Your point is well taken, yet the years between the opening of the Seaway and the close of the '76 Summer Olympics, apart from the separatist troubles, were some of the most glorious in Montreal's history, a flowering in many ways. The Expo was a smash, McGill's profile grew, aerospace and pharma burgeoned, finance thrived. The world took serious notice of it for the first time. Yes, today Montreal retains good quality of life and other notable strengths, but if it weren't for the political rife that went on for several years and the low-key demoralization and money evaporation that followed, it would vie with Toronto for leading-city status today. At the same time I don't mean to let on that my assertions stretch out any further than this, that they extrapolate to an overall portrait of decay and misery. No, not that; just something of a stunting of potential. (And in the present context I'm suggesting that some of Chicago's potential may well be scooped up by places like Austin and Miami.) Thanks for your interesting reply.
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@blancosanmartin I didn't say "a" sentence. I said that sentence. Dude, you just can't read. Take the L and move on.
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That's like saying that Five Guys has done a poor job of appealing to vegans. They don't really want them coming in the front door!
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@pjacobsen1000 <--"There will" etc. Yes, but telling this person that will have the same effect as telling an 11-mo.-old that the thunderstorms are going away and it'll soon be nice out. Too young.
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Ha. You seem to be saying Chicago is above doing what it takes to attract employers. Not so much. More like it just can't. William Blake called what you're doing 'Making a virtue of incapacity.'
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More like an American model—of well-run American companies, that is. Remember, he brought his model to China, not the other way around.
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I love how you throw the term sociopath around like you know what it means. A key component of sociopathy is that the sociopath doesn't work hard, and Musk is an absolute workhorse.
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@MagDrag123 He gets more done before finishing his first coffee in the morning than you do between New Year's and Labour Day.
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@Samng271 He made a slight writing error: he meant "come to a stop," i.e., drop what it's doing to pause and watch the event happen.
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I heard Chicago will be renamed New Detroit.
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@hamsterman32 Toe-to-toe? No. If that were true there'd be no need to assert it. It would be the only topic of discussion in the world. Also you should not omit to mention that Asian countries figure into it.
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OsamaBinLadensSecondGirlfriend Anybody speaking in a serious tone who announces "Remember, this isn't a game" loses a thick slice of credibility. Cringetown City.
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@isa-kw4lw You lost me at "superior ISR coverage." (Of "areas.")
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Look, things are so bad that we can't afford to push aside oddballs who are actually helping, just because they're oddballs.
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@Tpb247 No probs, sir!
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Who hasn't known about that concept since reaching the age of maybe 12? It's a thing, but not that many shoppers would be repeat shoppers if it truly applied there, as people hate being lied to. My North Face sneakers for $55 and Columbia winter boots for $80 (both pairs would go for 2x that much at most places) argue that it doesn't. Reliably cheap prices.
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@panemetcircenses6003 The customers who can't stand others' differing views are going to get lost. As they should. People of more developed character who can handle disagreement without their head exploding will flock to the site. Musk will find ways to make it a fire hydrant of cash. One should be careful when implying that someone far smarter than oneself is not thinking things through.
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Omg, do not say that TSMC and Samsung are "returning their chip manufacturing to the US." They are Asian chipmakers, so they are expanding into the US. The lack of brains in millennials is just staggering.
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No. He's been highly critical of him overall, despite partly approving of his job performance. He clearly is not going to get behind his bid for a third nomination.
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So the average person loses 7¢/year to rounding up. On a multi-item purchase with tax, rounding up and rounding down occur almost precisely equally often. What causes the 7¢ is single-item purchases with no tax, as with grocery items. They often end in 9 (as in $0.79 or $2.99), which of course is always rounded up. How trivial can we get here?
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Who can say what he knows?
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@rossb3454 In the Toronto area (GTA) perhaps 35% of the population have both parents born in Canada. So the chances of it keeping the things which made it what it is are obviously zero. But future socialism I'm not so sure about, although you might be right. In any case I very much do realize that "even Rome fell" and that cities and civilizations rise and fall. Way ahead of you. Cheers friend
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@mnntropy5615 That's true. PVC, made from natural gas, is still the main choice for drain pipes, but is not used for the drinking water supply. And overall most plastic is made from natural gas, but polyethylene is a type of plastic which is indeed made from petroleum. So what I said initially, while entirely true, was beside the point as far as substitution for copper piping is concerned. Thanks for your reply.
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Of all the commentary in this video, the very last remarks are the most cogent and reliable. Oil demand isn't going anywhere but up for a few more decades. Increased energy production from renewable sources will do nothing more than restrain that growth.
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Salaried workers can get overtime. Can. They can also get bonuses instead, or stock compensation. I'm not saying Tesla compensation is fair (maybe it is, maybe not), I'm just contradicting the letter of what you said. Cheers
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@biddyboy1570 Yes I think that's very true, although there are surely multiple factors behind the delay. I think one is that the US wanted to get a year closer to production of PrSM (the ATACMS replacement). That in itself is a show of strength, demonstrating resistance to being rushed into risks. But as you say, draining Russia's capacity to make war — before expelling it from Ukraine — is a central aim.
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A lot of people are single, young and in robust health, and love working hard. You don't have to be one of them, but don't pretend they don't exist in numbers, and don't resent them either. If they disappeared from the workforce overnight, or suddenly started doing the minimum, the world's standard of living would soon fall substantially. If you're working 37.5 hours a week, they're actually doing you some good. (Btw, it's a sad and eternal fact that many people in families hate each other anyway, but are stuck being together, so if work is a refuge for any of them, or spares the others their unpleasant presence, so much the better for all concerned. How I wish that the parent I couldn't stand had hardly been home, and I wasn't the only one who felt that way. We would've been far happier.) As Frederick the Great said, "Let every man be saved after his own fashion."
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@FoxInTheBasement I love the number of people saying Twitter is a disaster, or that Musk is a failure at business. (Soren Kierkegaard: "Envy is concealed admiration.")
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@ghffrsfygdhfjkjiysdz No discount of any kind then? No sweating long nights to get shares cheaper or anything? Nothing? Edit: If so, I never had that either. Ok, so it's options I have in mind. Those work like crazy. Even a receptionist will become a geyser of energy with those.
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Usage note in passing: I like that Trump says "different from." I bet anything the VP says "different than."
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Reminds me of the origins of the opioid epidemic. Formerly opioids were hard to get and rarely prescribed. Doctors knew how dangerous they are. Then the MSM stuck its nose in, campaigning intensely for years to let the opioids flow. They called doctors cruel, said they didn't care about people's pain, lambasted governments for heeding doctors who warned of an explosion of addictions. And you know what happened. They won. Now they blame the government, the doctors and the opioid producers for the problem they themselves created. They accuse them of being cruel, not caring… I'm not sure the whole universe is big enough to fit all their shamelessness inside it. The media are actually the leading power in the country, not governments, not voters—and they're driving the society, the civilization, into the ground.
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@krac3x438 Are you 11 years old? Because you think like an 11-year-old. Go back to your mama and demand that she finish bringing you up. It's her job, not mine. Have a nice day.
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I lost dozens of neurons just from reading this.
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It's tough to handle getting the news of the world from someone with that much of a Drew Barrymore accent.
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I see from the posts here that influencing the opinions on lithium of English-language social media users is highly important to the CCP regime. Many social media commenting jobs are created and sustained.😂 Good use of AI makes it easy to sound like a native English speaker. Just add a name like "aidanjones2758" and YouTube is your oyster. Presto, billions of posts....
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@lanaistheneworange That sounds made-up. Certainly the part about "mines" (plural) is.
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@ivicamajmunskikreten9714 I realize that and I feel the same. You mistook me for some reason. 😃
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@lanaistheneworange There's just nothing that jewellery-wearing Western white women don't know, is there? The most enlightened human beings there have ever been and ever can be, even knowing in detail what went on half a world away, half a century ago! How lovely for Zambians to have them on their side...to sanctimoniously campaign against their livelihoods and move their jobs to other parts of the world. [very slow clapping]
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2x Normal Speed helps, but here we could use an 8x option.
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@fritzdeuces Yeah, but for a while and in some ways it's gonna be Software Engineer (and Coder) Wonderland. Sure it's not space, but it'd be very wrong to say there's nothing there to interest people who know about how to do that stuff. Lots of tearing down and rebuilding and lots of chances to make your mark on a super-high-profile platform with Musk making final calls. Who wouldn't love to brag that he picked your idea or that you changed his mind on something? And let's face it, Twitter is actually a far more important company than SpaceX in most ways, with far more impact on the world in most ways. Tesla is certainly just as important as Twitter, though. All depends who you are and what floats your boat.
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Greater suffering doesn't mean lesser suffering is nothing. The fact that some person had their leg amputated doesn't make it ok that your ankle was broken. Nice try tee-roll.
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You forgot to put quotation marks around that Xi Jinping quotation.
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@ThePencilPusher So anyone who says "Perhaps you're being a busybody here" is himself a busybody. Got it.
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@travelerforever8849 Something's wrong with that assertion. Either Musk doesn't "work the workers to death" or people like being worked to death, because Tesla receives applications from 3 million people a year, and a lot of them have their pick of employers. It's the same sort of thing at SpaceX, which is full of top achievers. I'm assuming that most people commenting here are trying to self-validate for their own laid-back approach to work. Fine for you. But why not just leave people who are into working hard alone? And I'm skeptical that you know what hard times are. In hard times, unemployment is triple what it is now.
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@manchuratt8900 No, Starlink is becoming a geyser of cash. It has been cashflow positive since 2022. Revenue is expected to be $10bn in 2024. An IPO is planned for the next two or three years. You're spouting pure misinformation. No, wait: pure disinformation.
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Thanks for the Great Leap Forward point of view.
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"JD Vonce" 🤣
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I don't think you understand either country, nor leadership itself. Also, any country where the govt. throws dissidents in jail — not via miscarriage of justice but systematically and strategically — is palpably its own worst enemy. One which re-nominates a president who succeeded in his 1st term is not.
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@shawn-lq4nr "theyre friends and trump has said he admires him." Trump was in the real estate and casino businesses in NY and NJ. For decades he had to deal with mobsters, it was just a fact of his life. He knows that "making friends" with them and expressing "admiration" is the way to handle them. Watch what he does, not what he says.
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@roguetrader33 Do you have any idea how 17-years-old that makes you sound? How could a rational mature adult even come up with that?
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 @maxnator Someone who calls an individual person "they" is not worth my care and I will not answer their questions.
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You sound like Ilhan Omar.
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Fantasy corrupt journalism.
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Your point as expressed seems to be: If two things are at all similar, let's go ahead and call them quite similar. I find that dubious.
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Please don't take this the wrong way, but whenever I hear the word 'nuance' I release the safety on my Browning.😄 This allusion is a googlable thing & just for laughs
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Fascinating.
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@_Chicagosfinest Sorry for that, btw. It wasn't nice in so many ways.
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You're condescending to your customers and you haven't even started your business yet. Nice person.
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It's touching how so many random people suddenly care what a bunch of random strangers make. Never seen anything remotely resembling it in my life. (Actual story: it has nothing to do with caring, or anything except hatred, envy and resentment of Elon Musk. Especially unacknowledged envy. But especially hatred. And I bet most of them go around all the time saying how bad hatred is.)
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Everyone knows it, and yet in the US more and more people say Left Authoritarianism is absolutely vital for preserving democracy. It's enough to make you wonder if there's some kind of chemical in the air, food and water that's dissolving neurons.
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As a member of a family who lost members in the Holocaust, your flippant and baseless comparison disgusts me. Shamelessly offensive and bad.
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What on earth is the deal with middle-aged American men who began saying "YOO-krane" about 14 months ago, when for all time beforehand everyone in the English-speaking world always said "yoo-KRANE"? I seriously want to know what's up with this bizarre incomprehensible weirdness.
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It was indeed an excellent question, but the even far larger matter is control of his stakes.
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Thanks for taking time out from picking daisies and petting kittens to share your wisdom.
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"Currency is dropping" Against what, by how much? Not by much against most things. But most things are dropping against gold. Your point is so murky, I don't think it's there.
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@lppoqql "The world's confidence in the USD is dropping." YT posters are saying that. No one knows who tf they are. I think I have some idea. And the dollar isn't moving.
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@phoenix5054 Thank you. Caw meants are a swamp.
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What's with the Drew Barrymore in 1995 accent?
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Hard to say. Possible, but the only safe assumption is it's somehow good for the Party.
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Don't blame ordinary Chinese. They live under perpetual threat of severe punishment. Only people over 75 have any memory at all of pre-communist days. Everyone else has been indoctrinated since infancy and can't be blamed. It's very sad and I'm not happy about it but all I can do to help them is not buy Chinese goods. I almost totally stopped three years ago. Sorry, Chinese people, I can no longer do things which strengthen the Party. It wouldn't be right to do that to you, to my own countrymen and -women, or the world. :(
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Any apron which is now there to use for jet fighters, if there was no such apron there before, is an upgrade to that air base. It sounds like you're talking about an array of berms. Anyway it's definitely an upgrade even if it offers no protection. It means more fighter craft can gather there during battle, for one thing.
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@saschawagner5167 Be considerate and use spell check.
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I can relate to that. I once had a neighbor who behaved really terribly, and who thankfully moved out. Now a new neighbor has moved in. If my old neighbour was doing those behaviors, I can only imagine how much worse it’ll get if my new neighbor normalizes them. See my concern and how logical it is?
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Ok, AKmed.
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Wow, what a coincidence how closely worded that is to the comment three comments above from "Choose Wisely": "Really puts the cry babies in North America who are upset about having to get a vaccination and put on a mask in perspective." Right down to making 'crybabies' two separate words. Hmm. Now what are the odds of that? Congratulations, "Jason": 2 x 50 cents = 1 whole dollar.
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@MirzaAhmed89 Thanks for pointing that out. Ya know, this whole comments section is filled with people who take it fairly easy in their working lives and deep down feel a bit bad about it, so they cope with that by saying how bad it is to work hard. But in fact, again deep down, they admire Musk and his hard-working teams, so they cope with that by viciously criticizing him and flaunting resentment of him. I hope they sort themselves out. "Envy is concealed admiration"—Soren Kierkegaard.
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Yeah, they're not that good. That's why SpaceX sends up most of the world's tonnage to orbit. It's because they're not very good.
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@jarvisb.6013 If "India is a neutral country like Switzerland" what is it doing in a formal military alliance with the US, Japan and Australia? Neutral countries don't join formal military alliances. (Also, the word is bloc, not block.)
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@@awesomeguy2689 Where've you been? India is "cooperating big time" in a formal military alliance with the US, Japan and Australia. Search 'Quad Alliance'.
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@@awesomeguy2689 I'm confused. "India is cooperating with Russia", then "Against China not against Russia"? But cooperating with Russia against Russia would be a logical impossibility anyway. Moreover, Russia cooperating with India against China would instantly sour Sino-Russian relations. So am I missing something here?
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One for you: don't watch videos that don't interest you. One more: discover the proper usage of capital letters and the period.
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Depressing but brilliant and accurate.
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@zensvlognotapro Of course. And assembling that team is a highly impressive achievement in its own right. Inspired hiring is a core competency for a good manager of any sort, let alone a CEO. It all goes without saying in every way. If you've built the world's 7th-most-valuable company out of nowhere, you're obviously doing most things really, really well.
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@teekay_1 I had no idea I had it so good. By refusing to pay more than $12.50 for those 4 items, I never do. I shop carefully for the best prices, meaning I can rarely get all 4 in the same week, but my fridge and freezer make it work smoothly. The bread is a very correct French baguette baked that morning. Mid-range cereal at good markdowns about every 4 mo., milk every 2 wks., 4.5-lb. trays of hamburger every 2 mo. Seriously, $12.50 at middle-class people's stores. It must be where I live. (I won't say where but it's a metropolis that has a media reputation for being expensive.) Just curious, how far below $25 could you get if you put your mind to it (for stuff of mid-range or slightly premium quality)?
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Our narrator sounds like she's about 19. I for one do not relish getting my news of the world from a youngster.
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In your dullness you fail to consider the actual (terrible and hopeless) alternatives in such remote locations, instead comparing company stores to arrangements in paradise. Very, very dull dullness.
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@MarinaJBoyd Your comment's unrelated to the rest of the thread. It belongs elsewhere. Also really bad English. Just run it through a Russian-English translator for better results.
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@lukedowneslukedownes5900 What? Wrong. He indeed did address US AI v. China AI. He said the US has a distinct lead of about a year.
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It seems like ab or tion is a red herring as a federal election issue. As the laws are now written state by state, it's a state election issue, surely? Can a presidential nominee actually promise anything on this apart from Supreme Court appointments and maybe marginal influence via funding?
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@AlFredE0258 Yes. In a way he's in the place Emmanuel Goldstein held in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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@panemetcircenses6003 Now and then, here and there, we find a person or people in charge who cares more about something else, or a few other things, than the maximization of riches. They're easier to spot if one merely accepts that they exist. Of course they may be dangerous lunatics of one type or other. So it's lunacy that's the problem, not sheer devotion to money, which is only one lunacy among many, and in my view not the worst of them.
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See how a big fat joint keeps a Dutch pilot's nerves steady? :)
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Oh Crimea river. India showed up on the gold purchases chart.
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No it doesn't make sense, the way the Party tells it. I would imagine that Covid spread and illness are nowhere near as great as they say. This is probably more about smothering the economy to stop a different kind of contagion sweeping the world: inflation. Something, anything, just not what that horrible government claims.
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@coops1964 ...yes, and when Prime Minster Peter Pan gets colossally shellacked in the same year, as he shall. (But see my other reply of just now, if you like.)
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The CCP just start getting incredibly anxious if they don't starve masses of people for a while, making them desperately nostalgic for the 1950s (the Great Leap Forward: 50 million dead of deliberate government starvation).
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In a pitched battle between a gorilla and a lion, either might win—but I'm going with the lion. Decide for yourself who is the gorilla.
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Hey man, can I get a hit off that?
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The Marxism you're spouting was the root cause of 50 million Chinese being deliberately starved to death in the Great Leap Forward. It's the cause of the hunger and suffering shown in the video. Yet you attack the West. How hilarious that you can utter the words "truly insane" and think you know what they mean.
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@Cardioid2035 Legitimately nearly everything you say has something seriously wrong with it, including using the word 'legitimately' to splash around generic emphasis. The exception is your assertion that China is heavily polluted. It is. (But to blame Covid-19 on Chinese pollution is to heap too much responsibility on the powers of your imagination. Save some for blank canvasses and pots of paint.) And it would evidently (legitimately?literally?) shock you to learn just how little one needs to spend on Chinese goods. I put my mind to it beginning four years ago—I was mad at China and still am—and succeeded wildly. Ever tried?
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Ok, Raj. Is that why it's a metropolis of 9 million people?
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Most shocking of all, this rich high-consumption city generates just one pound of solid waste per person per day.🤯 US 4.9, Canada 4.1, Germany 3.8 😮 (Are vastly different measuring protocols used?🤔)
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@Raj-gr6dy Don't whitewash every instance of sub-standard usage by invoking "evolution." In any era, any innovation may be beneficial, neutral, or represent degradation. The idea that all change to language is evolution, is improvement to it analogous to generations of the cheetah getting faster and faster, is false.
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That's so kooky. He's been almost the exact same type of 70s/80s/90s mainstream liberal forever. But like many liberals over 35 he's so alienated by outlandish and illiberal liberalism trends that he's sheltering in the center-right (which itself has moved left). Most liberals despise radicalism and are tolerating it at present in the fear that it's the only bulwark against right-wing authoritarianism. It's not. There's no bulwark needed beyond reliable centrist liberalism. They're deluded.
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I wonder how Party members are eating. Quite well, no doubt.
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@merovingian688 Same reply as always from Party loyalists: "Other government just as bad! West bad too! Taiwan bad too!" (No, they aren't. The CCP has been the champ for 70+ years now.)
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Yes, in a way there is one: the United States Department of Defense. But it's not time yet. Not sure what can be done today, besides the CCP releasing the immense China food reserves.
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@MarxStevens And are you posting from the front lines yourself, azzol?😂
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@billmeeker774 I agree with around half of that, but the problem there and then was radicalism, violent radicalism, not liberalism. The separatists at that time especially were shot through with real communist pieties. They would rob banks and put bombs in mailboxes and then take off for Cuba. The prime minister at the time (Pierre Trudeau) was a thoroughgoing Robert Kennedy or JFK-type liberal (like the Kennedys, inspired by Harold Laski at firsthand) but his response was sensibly enough to arrest the lot of them (some 400) and order patrols of heavily-armed soldiers in carefully-chosen areas. He was required to pass a martial law provision in Parliament, which a large minority of people, especially well-off liberals, opposed. Trudeau could probably be impressed by gentleman communism if he were to witness it, but he had no use for low-class rebels. His dad was a Montrealer of pretty humble roots who married above his station on the way up, made a total mint in gas stations, and afterwards lavished all there was to lavish on his son's very classy upbringing. I think all that made his son's response to the October Crisis quite predictable (not to mention decently solid).
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@billymacktexasdetective5827 Oxford Dictionaries notates 'penny' as "North American," not British. "A one-cent coin equal to one hundredth of a dollar." Surprised me slightly, but no one seems to disagree that they're the leading lexicographers of our language.
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@billymacktexasdetective5827 If you're in Texas, maybe that's the explanation, because there are 49 other states. The penny loafer came from Maine, btw.
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'Right' is what the Party says is right. And if you want to support and strengthen the Party right from your own neighbourhood, just drive to the mall and pick up some China-made merchandise. It's been working fantastically well for a good 35 years now.
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Reserves ≠ Unlocking the reserves to feed the hungry (I can't believe that didn't cross your mind. I literally don't believe it.)
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You are watching inept, very silly and very corrupt journalism, that's the point.
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@JNF-SATX Yes SpaceX and Twitter can have ESOPs.
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@lavellelee5734 I suggest you look into that carefully yourself if you want to know. Carefully. The amount of Musk misinfo and slander going on these days is just immense. (I think the pay compared to market rate depends a lot on the position, but yeah, check for yourself.)
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Imagine if you had any neurons.
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It has been widely reported that the man seated next to Putin on Victory Day is not a WWII veteran. (Rumour has it that he is a distant relative who was only 9 when the war ended, and that for 20 years he has been employed taking Putin's dirty clothes to the launderers in the basement and cleaning his shoes twice a day. Could be a false rumour I suppose.)
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I prefer newer style news production where you don't see or hear the reporter very much. I don't want to see her posing and pouting, nodding, squinting and all the rest. Too many reaction shots. I don't want to see her interviewing subjects and seeming to assert she's just as important as they are. She should also get rid of that slight Drew Barrymore from 1992 accent. Serious material shouldn't be covered with that chirpy delivery. I'm outta here and it's not halfway through.
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Versions of those are going to be on helicopters and the larger loitering drones pretty soon, I would imagine
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@PhilipEason Note that I said "versions." Did you miss where the narrator said "this mini-laser" while showing a compact model? And by "larger loitering drones" I meant big things the size of Predators.
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The first person onscreen in this video (name: Hardy Green) calls such provision of housing "Big-Brother-like control." That's kooky and I can't let him get away with it. Big-Brother-like control would entail such things as denial of human rights, mind control, ubiquitous and constant surveillance, thoroughgoing dishonesty, and a host of other immoral and criminal behaviours. Elon Musk and SpaceX have never done anything like that. Has this rear-end of a man ever read 1984 ?🤨
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@Funglutton I find you're all over the place, very uncertain about what to do about viewpoints far from the centre. So is Musk, but one thing he knows for certain is that—while some things will always need to be censored, as a glance at the laws will confirm—the world's premier English-language discussion platform mustn't block viewpoints from far out in one direction and not the other.
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@paper plane Incorrect. In the US, inflation took off in the spring of 2021. There's no room for interpretation there. It's simply a fact which you cannot refute no matter how hard you try. Sorry. You're wrong on oil, too. Many factors influence oil prices and Western importers "moving to fewer suppliers" was a very minor one after a quick adjustment period. Vastly more important is global supply-demand, and it's been rather stable.
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@vittoriosecreto6346 👍You're correct. GDP based on market exchange rates grossly underestimates Russia's economic heft. Anyone with even a basic understanding of the subject—including people who (like me) feel a burning enmity for the Russian state—will unhesitatingly agree with you. The fact that 101 people upvoted a reply to you labelling you a Russian propagandist reflects only their total unfamiliarity with the facts.
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@Crashed131963 Please see my reply (to another person in this thread) just above and prior to yours.
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@cable30 HFS man, what a disorganized shambles of expression. I don't have half an hour to sort it out.
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@SoCalFreelance China's holdings of US debt are peanuts compared to its exports to the US. It does not buy treasurys to enable the US consumer. You read or heard that somewhere, but it's the idea of someone who just doesn't know. The mindlessness of the US consumer needs no encouragement from abroad anyway.
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Yes he has. I'm alarmed to see the exotropia, though. I hope it's nothing neurological, but just strain that should pass. According to Wikipedia, "intermittent exotropia is a fairly common condition." Oddly, it seems to me to often be a mark of high intelligence. JFK had it. It doesn't seem to affect dull people very often.
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People care where they live. You didn't know that?
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@dasikakn How is it not working out well for them?
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