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

  1.  @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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  2.  @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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  3.  @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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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10.  @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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  11. I heard Chicago will be renamed New Detroit.
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  12.  @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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  13.  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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  14.  @isa-kw4lw  You lost me at "superior ISR coverage." (Of "areas.")
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  15. 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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  16.  @Tpb247  No probs, sir!
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  17. 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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  18.  @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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. Who can say what he knows?
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  23.  @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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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30.  @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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  31. Usage note in passing: I like that Trump says "different from." I bet anything the VP says "different than."
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  32. 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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  33.  @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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  34. I lost dozens of neurons just from reading this.
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37.  @lanaistheneworange  That sounds made-up. Certainly the part about "mines" (plural) is.
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  38.  @ivicamajmunskikreten9714  I realize that and I feel the same. You mistook me for some reason. 😃
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  39.  @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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  40. 2x Normal Speed helps, but here we could use an 8x option.
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  41.  @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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  42. 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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  43. You forgot to put quotation marks around that Xi Jinping quotation.
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  44.  @ThePencilPusher  So anyone who says "Perhaps you're being a busybody here" is himself a busybody. Got it.
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  45.  @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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  46.  @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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  47. Thanks for the Great Leap Forward point of view.
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  48. "JD Vonce" 🤣
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  49. 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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  50.  @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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