Comments by "VisibilityFoggy" (@VisibilityFoggy) on "Sideprojects" channel.

The writer of this one is quite arrogant and judgmental about supposed "inaction" by the rest of the world. Is he willing to sacrifice his child in a European deployment to a civil war in the DR Congo?
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@jeffdroog I'd actually love to watch a show on South African crime and the whole disaster going on there. But it wouldn't fit the political narrative of the people who run TV networks.
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Well, Greece is arming up with Rafales and F-35s...
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Doesn't the king occasionally fly a commercial jet for KLM in order to keep up his pilot's license, or something like that?
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Cadillac actually did somewhat bring back the Cimarron concept. In the 1990s they rebadged an Opel Omega as the Cadillac Catera. That did not work out too well.
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@butwhataboutdragons7768 Huh? The C63 AMG is sold in the civilian market. Not with gold plating, granted, but it competes with the BMW M3 and M4. You can sometimes miss the AMGs on the roads because the aesthetic upgrades are more subdued than those on the competitors.
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@kellylyons1038 As a westerner, I can represent that most of my family, friends and neighbors have no interest in seeing us being involved in the non-western world at all. Keep the open sewers, theocratic lunatics and centuries-old ethnic conflicts out of our house.
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Yup, and he lives on a farm outside of the capital. Have not thought about him in a long time, so I'm not sure if he's still around (he was pretty old) but I've been told he's even cool with meeting people who just want to come and chat. I was only in Uruguay once, for a short trip, but I would've loved to talk to him. Really interesting guy from what I understand with very unique political views that take some points from both sides.
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I believe this has changed somewhat and midazolam is now incorporated into the process.
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Ha, in the US, the 2CV is famous for being the car Billy Joel crashed into a lady's house on the way home from having too many drinks at a bar.
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@BLACKAAROW First thing – I've been in enough traffic jams in Europe where I don't think any of this is going away any time soon. But overall, it has less to do with government and more to do with population density. Europeans tend to live in cities and large towns where EVs (plus walking and public transportation) are more practical. The United States is a physically massive place to begin with, it has an excellent network of interstate highways, and it is far less popular to live in major cities with metro systems than it is to live in sprawling suburban areas where vehicles are required (the train station is six miles away from me, for example, and I'm not walking 12 miles per day). European elections actually show a more conservative/libertarian bent becoming more mainstream lately.
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Yeah, he was referring to consumer-grade point-and-shoot cameras. DSLR and mirrorless cameras with interchangeable lenses aren't going anywhere for the simple fact that lenses require a camera body due to their size and level of customization in demand necessitates a link between the two, and digital zoom is still absolutely awful, even on the top-of-the-line mobile phones. We do a lot of news video at my company and while I personally have used phones for some professional story packages, it has to be either required due to time/breaking news constraints and generally will need stabilization using very expensive software. Optical zoom still has no real competitor in digital zoom, even with AI making an "educated guess" to clean up zoomed-in photos/video.
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Not sure why there is a question regarding whether dolphin programs existed or not. The U.S. Navy has very openly discussed its marine mammal program in recent years. There were multiple news features done on dolphins deployed to Iraq in 2003 that were trained to "sniff out" mines. They were most notably used in a southern port where the Royal Marines secured the surrounding city, then held it until the U.S. Navy dolphins could sweep the waterways before USN/RN vessels could access it.
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So you're saying he should hire a staff of writers, buy professional camera equipment, build a set and hire editors to put these videos together just for the fun of it? Of course he has to generate revenue from these videos. What world do you live in?
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@christinebenson518 Why is one "better" than the other simply because it costs more? Mercedes and Land Rover make different types of vehicles at different price points. I wouldn't argue one is better than the other. They're different.
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Unfortunately this attitude can end in tragedy, as with the former Japanese PM.
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Could we stop with the "they/them?" I couldn't tell if it was a man or woman, which was important for the story. It's 2025. You don't have to be woke anymore.
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Ehh, I had my old Land Rover for over 10 years and about 200,000 miles. Never gave me any issues worse than any other car I've had. And it was a beast through sand, floods, and snow when I lived in an area that was colder. I took it out on trails and on the beach, etc. It wasn't babied at all, and held up really well.
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In all seriousness, people in a modern European country or the US and Canada pay arguably more of their earnings to the government than these peasants paid to their lords. Instead of paying taxes to work, we pay immense fuel taxes to simply GET to work. And until recently, military conscription was still a thing. Has much really changed?
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The contraction of the Aral Sea has absolutely zero to do with climate change. It was caused by a Soviet dam project. C'mon folks.
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Only in British service lol.
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AC-130 would like to have a word. ;)
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And just think... a few decades later, the U.S. government would be working hand-in-hand with huge corporations to censor our own citizens here at home...
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I'm pretty sure they've done a whole video dedicated to The Beast.
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@davidgardiner4720 The research for his channels isn't conducted by him personally, but people in the relevant fields who are recognized and often credited by Simon himself. Some videos like this are a little click-baity, but this is more of a fun video making some predictions, not one of the deep dives like on other channels, which generally are very accurate and well packaged for a 20-30 minute format, plus free from a lot of the political biases we see elsewhere. Everyone is human and makes a mistake from time, but overall, the channels Simon presents are well-done and sufficient for a crash course in the subject at hand.
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Correction: Muammar Gaddafi never made it to the rank of a general. He died a colonel.
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Detroit also has that tiny little problem of being more dangerous than most active war zones.
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