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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. WSJ, please do not call Eastern Ukraine "Russian territory," as you did at 2:15. It is Russian-occupied territory.
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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. ​ @char4980  "Envy is concealed admiration"—Soren Kierkegaard.
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  9. Detroit will soon have a sister city.
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  10. Hey! Scrap copper recycling! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before? Bravo, young man, bravo! 👏👏👏👏
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  11.  @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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  12.  @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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  13. "Answers all found long ago. Just buy print edition."  — Confucius
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. Show us how it's done. And please tidy up your living quarters before your departure.
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  17.  @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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  18.  @GenghisKhan311  Old? No, he's middle-aged, my dear boy, middle-aged. Middle-middle-aged to be precise.
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  19.  @Cachi-7  At some point we all do. I don't like to break it to you, but..
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  20.  @martinnolan4332  👎 So what? Also gone are millions of companies that did not build such communities.
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  21.  @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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  22.  @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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  23. 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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  24. Tell that to Detroit, one of the world's most thriving cities in the postwar years. Then, you know.
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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28.  @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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  29.  @_Chicagosfinest  Fair point. I let my grief carry me away.
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  30. Comparisons of Afghanistan to any other place are idle.
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  31.  @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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  32.  @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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  33.  @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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  34.  @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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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. ​ @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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  39.  @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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  40.  @vinny7114  He or she sounds first class to me. You sound like 'it's always other people's fault.'
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  41.  @-.TS.-  You're confusing the whole situation with facts. That's not what this is about! 😂
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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. Dude has been married twice. Ooooooh, imagine being married twice!!
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  45. 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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  46. You don't know that. Stop pretending you know things.
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50.  @MarxStevens  Shouldn't you be in dim light inspecting elderly ammunition and rifle barrels for fitness yourself?
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