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I have the feeling that the whole trade war starts from a pile of nonsense.
technix:
--- Quote from: windsmurf on May 25, 2019, 05:29:16 am ---Yes I've contributed to Ro Khanna, and I watch TYT fairly frequently ;D
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I actually stopped watching TYT contents - while it is factually sound it is a bit too biased towards the left. While I am a left-winger I want to try understand why right-winger do certain things.
windsmurf:
--- Quote from: technix on May 25, 2019, 05:55:28 am ---I actually stopped watching TYT contents - while it is factually sound it is a bit too biased towards the left. While I am a left-winger I want to try understand why right-winger do certain things.
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Yeah they sometimes go on a tirade which I dislike, especially Ana.
One show I watch religiously is Rachel Maddow. Lots of factual info and usually good interviews.
I do read Reason.com and wsj.com for some balance.
technix:
--- Quote from: rstofer on May 25, 2019, 03:12:54 am ---I don't think that solves the problems of productivity and wages. One of the reasons that the US is at something of a disadvantage in the world market is our standard of living. The other is wages although that is related. The median electronics engineer in Silicon Valley earns $125k and the median in Shanghai is $20k. We need to be 6 times as productive to complete if the playing field is completely level. That's tough to do! Not impossible, but tough!
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Now why is Americans so wasteful though? Life in Shanghai has just as high a standard as in New York, yet I can get away with a lower wage, a higher cost of living and still build up some savings, meanwhile an average American have to live almost always in debt.
--- Quote from: windsmurf on May 25, 2019, 06:21:18 am ---Yeah they sometimes go on a tirade which I dislike, especially Ana.
One show I watch religiously is Rachel Maddow. Lots of factual info and usually good interviews.
I do read Reason.com and wsj.com for some balance.
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Too bad there is less and less right-wing news media that is still factually uptight. Even the major one Fox is becoming more and more like a propaganda machine than a news media.
maginnovision:
--- Quote from: windsmurf on May 25, 2019, 06:21:18 am ---
--- Quote from: technix on May 25, 2019, 05:55:28 am ---I actually stopped watching TYT contents - while it is factually sound it is a bit too biased towards the left. While I am a left-winger I want to try understand why right-winger do certain things.
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Yeah they sometimes go on a tirade which I dislike, especially Ana.
One show I watch religiously is Rachel Maddow. Lots of factual info and usually good interviews.
I do read Reason.com and wsj.com for some balance.
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Is she still telling you about Russia? It's good that someone still watches her though. TYT are horribly biased and backtrack anytime they catch any flak(not apologize, don't admit wrong-doing, just backtrack or pretend it never happened). As for Justice Democrats... Saikat Chakrabarti is literally the guy he's supposed to not be.
--- Quote from: rstofer on May 25, 2019, 03:44:07 am ---I love the commercial fireworks displays. Many times the best place to see the display is on the water, either in the Delta (a long way east of San Francisco) or in the Alameda estuary (just across SF Bay from San Francisco). Another choice spot was the top of any building near Marriot's Great America (theme park) in Santa Clara. Disneyland has a show every night during the summer and on weekends during the winter. This is a really big show!
My first encounters were at the beaches of San Diego. They would always have a huge program. Lots of Navy retirees around San Diego.
I don't like the residential stuff and I have considered getting a prescription for a sedative for my dogs. Fireworks are really hard on them.
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I've always gone to my grandpa house for the 4th. He lives on a hill across from the Rose Bowl and they have a pretty good show every year. Since I've had kids I hate fireworks though, at least once I get home. They don't seem to stop for weeks.
technix:
--- Quote from: maginnovision on May 25, 2019, 07:31:15 am ---Is she still telling you about Russia? It's good that someone still watches her though. TYT are horribly biased and backtrack anytime they catch any flak(not apologize, don't admit wrong-doing, just backtrack or pretend it never happened).
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To be honest I wish the US would get to the bottom of the Russian interference problem. There are Russian interference in both 2016 US presidential elections and Brexit referendum, who knows what Putin can do with the less-than-transparent internal selection process of China and DAMN we neighbor Russia.
--- Quote from: maginnovision on May 25, 2019, 07:31:15 am ---As for Justice Democrats... Saikat Chakrabarti is literally the guy he's supposed to not be.
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Every organization have one black sheep or two. I am referring to folks like AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and maybe Ro Khanna here though.
--- Quote from: maginnovision on May 25, 2019, 07:31:15 am ---I've always gone to my grandpa house for the 4th. He lives on a hill across from the Rose Bowl and they have a pretty good show every year. Since I've had kids I hate fireworks though, at least once I get home. They don't seem to stop for weeks.
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Ooh since 2016 or so Shanghai has a city-wide fireworks ban in effect - no fireworks allowed inside the ring road S20 and discouraged outside the ring road.
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