Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. It's like I've heard from expert attorney and professor James Duane: if you're guilty, don't talk to the police, but if you're innocent, DEFINITELY never talk to the police. The point being you WILL talk yourself into a crime, maybe something you don't even realize. It's why he reframes the 5th Amendment as asserting your RIGHT TO REMAIN INNOCENT by never answering questions, it can only hurt you.
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  2. If Escobar taught us anything, you buy $600/ft2 real estate to launder cocaine brick money lol. He had hundreds of houses purchased just to store cash in, and supposedly at one point he was spending over $2500USD/month just in rubber bands to roll up counted cash.
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  3. Same here, but it's the more I appreciate (despite the remoteness and somewhat social isolation) my 100 acres in Missouri. When I had Covid almost exactly a year ago, I had to isolate here, which was like "Oh no, whatever will I do stuck at home OH WAIT, let's shoot guns, do woodworking, race four wheelers, clear brush, and get paid by work for 10 days lol". If I'd had to do the lockdown/stay at home thing in a NYC apartment, I'd be a statistic. I had a 1200 square ft apartment when I lived in St Louis for university and that was cramped, yet not all that bad. That would be enormous in a place like NYC. I really enjoy visiting cities, I like seeing that there are lots of other people out doing lots of living things...but it's also nice to f-off away from all that and go to my 'compound' where my closest neighbor is beyond visible range .
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  4. Well that's the thing, if it's not paid off, YOU DON'T OWN IT, whoever finances it owns it, which is why they can REmove it from your POSSESSion.
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  5. Yes, everyone wants felons, child abusers, wife beaters, and crackheads working for them, it's the best way to improve your company! And of COURSE they get paid exactly the same as you who've led a clean life, right?
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  6.  @marcellkovacs5452  because most people expect that to be handled in-house. It's pretty cool though that all an adversary has to do to cripple our nation and compromise national security is take out a vulnerable civilian contractor. It's like having this huge, super secure facility full of vaults and loot and guards and guns, state of the art security, and depending on normal utility mains power with no on-site generation or backup, so some movie-plot heist crew just cuts your power and all security becomes useless. It's like people who get into prepping but don't think it through, they buy a ton of guns, gear, food, then when a disaster actually strikes they're found later in a giant cache of supplies, dead the first week from dehydration or waterborne illness because they forgot to prep for their most basic physical need, clean water.
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  7.  @adamek9750  "People engrossed in fake/ai and parasocial relationships will be stuck in that loop and end up being unfulfilled and lonely" So nothing changes. Fake relationship or not, that problem will still be there, even with real relationships.
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  8. And this is why you always pay cash and never finance.
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  9. NYC officials: "NO, no no no, see, that's a green initiative! Those buildings are full, everyone is just doing their part by working in the dark, like Earth Day! You have to believe me, here, take a free I heart NYC tshirt!"
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  10. It's true. I'm a farmer and the only JD gear I have is a lawnmower and a Gator, and yeah, they require proprietary oil and filters and such, and only dealer carried. Luckily my dealer has free farm delivery so it kind of makes up for it, but damn. None of my Yamaha, Honda, or Stihl equipment needs special anything.
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  11. Here's the problem: it's an arms race. If your employer does such and such to you, and another doesn't, they might have happier employees, but they'll lose out competing to your company, and before long their employees have all the free time they want, and they'll be wanting to come take YOUR job.
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  12. 3:18 "Tell me HOW you're thinking about that..." but asking in such a CONDESCENDING way.
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  13. The image I have in my head of NYC is Crocodile Dundee, those scenes where the sidewalks are just giant seas of shoulder to shoulder people. This scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoNuz1gjQo
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  14. That's the point. The idea is to get rid of you having the car to start with. See, no car in the junkyard, no environmental impact, because there's no car. They want to ban all cars.
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  15. And irony, when I got my first Galaxy S, I was like "oh wow, this is so thin...and slippery, and hard to hold, and fragile"...10 minutes later I'm out of Best buy with an otterbox that doubles the phones size and now it seems more usable lulz.
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  16. "the average consumer should not be expected to, and usually does not, have the technical capability to open up their devices and perform repairs or upgrades without risking (possibly further) damage to the device." That's the point...they SHOULD People need to be more technical in their knowledge. Like Lou said, he does what he does and he's just a guy who had to cheat chemistry to graduate high school and failed out of college.
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  17. You can be against something and still allow it. For example, I think abortion is reprehensible, it's murder, and I oppose it, personally. I ALSO feel if a woman decides she wants to make that reprehensible, murderous choice, that's her business. I also don't use any illicit drugs, and I discourage others from doing so, but if someone else wants to mind their own business on heroin, that's their business. You can be opposed to and against something without imposing that choice on others. I'm a covid survivor, I had the pre-delta December 2020 real covid. Very mild. I've had no vaccinations for covid. Last and only time I even had a flu shot was 2009 H1N1 swine flu nasal mist, and that made me feel like I was going to die, sickest I've ever been for a day.
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  18. Just ask Parler, oh wait, you can't because AWS blacklisted and memory-holed them out of digital existence. Because we've always been at war with Eastasia, er I mean Oceania...2+2 is however many 2s you want me to say!
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  19. Unfortunately, the "NEW NORMAL" they keep touting sucks EVEN MORE.
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  20.  @p.s.shnabel3409  At Least Bezos and Zuckerberg, Musk and even Gates, the wealthiest people on Earth, came from middle class obscurity. None of them were born into wealth. Hell, Bezos was the child of a divorced single mother who worked several jobs to raise him. Elon immigrated to the US and is now the wealthiest African-American in the world, but he grew up with divorced middle-class parents and spent young adulthood broke working odd jobs. I'm not blowing these guys, mind you, I'm making the point that this is still a nation of opportunity, and four men at least doing what they've done shows a pattern. Contrast those names with the names of some kids you've never heard of who were born to generational wealth of billionaire parents, THOSE are the people you'll never have anything in common with.
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  21. So you'd rather disserve yourself by living penniless? Hey, that's your choice, I hear homelessness does have it's benefits. That whole losing your entire life's effort and work part seems kind of rough though.
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  22.  @GeorgeVCohea-dw7ou  A ledger is great....but it's anonymous, so, best of luck. If the IRS and feds 'adore' bitcoin, maybe they could the fuck stop trying to rape-kill it?
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  23. Teslas have AT LEAST 8 cameras, probably more, watching 360 degrees outside, most of the inside, and have a range of quite a bit. It's the absolute surveillance car, and insanely popular.
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  24.  @alphastratus6623  you are entitled to nothing, and I hope you get all of it, queen. Slay.
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  25. It's almost like he wants you to get to the conclusion of "Fine, I'll stop pirating your content Linus, and just stop watching you entirely, and advocate everyone should too. That way you have no one 'stealing' your content...of course if that means NO ONE is watching your content, that's YOUR problem, and you asked for it."
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  26. And it already is. These systems have been factory features since at least 2010, because my 2010 has all of this.
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  27. Wait wait wait...there are still grown adults who think privacy in any way still exists on the internet? HAHAHAHA, oh wait you're serious, let me laugh harder HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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  28. If net neutrality had actual net neutrality, no politician would be pushing it. It's like the George Carlin bit about voting: if it actually made a difference, they wouldn't let us do it. NN is a topic that unfortunately takes HOURS of discussion to illustrate why it's a terrible scheme. You can't make something freer by regulating it. You can only do that by unregulating it.
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  29. Would you rather be talking to the repo guy in your driveway holding a handgun, bristling because you're the 5th DEADBEAT he's had to tow this morning, and of course the 5th broke loser who has to come scream at him about it. Utterly terrifying is the idea of being so irresponsible and making bad choices myself that cause me to have my vehicle repossessed. Easier to just borrow responsibly, have backup plans, and be responsible
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  30. Here's my takeaway from this: If the battery is apparently easily changeable, and that battery pack is only $16k...why are we plugging these bitches in to charge them at all? Just modify the design to make the change in/out quicker, sell extra packs as an upgrade, and make 'refueling', the biggest drawback at the moment, only take minutes? If they did that, the electric car could one day be feasible as an actual replacement for a real motor vehicle. The biggest limitation at the moment is having to stop overnight every few hundred miles. This whole fiasco revealed a giant opportunity.
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  31.  @sivasankar2784  if we had TRUE cloud computing, your data would never be stored for long on any one system or with one provider. It would be distributed, mirrored, redundant. I think we need to rethink the paradigms of storage, move to a more biological type base. DNA is a prime example: theoretically, you could take a single cell from anywhere in my body, my 'cloud' as it were, and recreate my body entirely from it, even after the original was destroyed. The data of my genetic makeup is distributed, backed up, in every part of the data itself. It gets even crazier when you think of identical twins. If I was a twin, and I took my twins DNA, identical to my own in every way, and cloned them...is that a clone of them, or of me? The data is the same either way, so does the difference even matter? It's like having 2 hard drives, identical down to the bit, and you copy one onto a 3rd, is it a copy of that drive, a copy of the other identical drive, both? Is there even any way to tell a difference as far as the information is concerned? Am I still writing this?
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  32. "But for me it was all about seeing how far i can take it before it stops me" Oh, so just regular old dating, then.
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  33. Lou: "I'm not that much of a gamer..." Also Lou: "I was pretty good at DOTA for a while..."
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  34. If your vaccinated rate is 990 out of 1000, your maximum infection rate SHOULD be 1%, or those 10 persons. A true vaccine that WORKS, actually WORKS. It's why we have zero smallpox, not some smallpox, not breakthrough cases of smallpox, zero. It's not a vaccine, it's more like a pre-treatment. You take it ahead of getting Inevitably sick, so you get less sick. The evidence is indicating that conclusion.
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  35. If it's a metal fitting into a plastic housing IT WILL CRACK AND BREAK IT. First rule of plumbing and piping, plastic screws into metal, metal does NOT screw into plastic. You have two materials of differing strengths, and the plastic WILL yield to that metal fitting, boom, coolant jacket cracked, battery on fire, people will die and it'll be totally metal. Another example: When you change the transfer case fluid on a 2007+ Ford Expedition or F150, if you aren't careful when you put the drain and fill plugs back in, to the proper torque and no more, the steel tapered thread drain plug WILL split the aluminum transfer case wide open and now you're out thousands. That's metal to metal. Even high pressure plastics like Schedule 80 threaded fittings will crack like an egg if you screw a brass fitting into it even a in/lb too much.
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  36. Meanwhile, JD currently has a $8 BILLION dollar sales backlog, and growing.
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  37. I work in a water plant, my daily uniform costs far more than any suit I've owned. Good boots, $250 Good pants, $75/pair Custom graphic pocket t shirts, $150/5. Good socks, $15/pair x 5 pairs. Under armor undershirts, $25 each. Pocket knife, $150. Of course, my employer allowances me $400/year for clothes, and $160/year for boots...isn't the taxpayer funded public sector great.
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  38. BUT, if we worked people less and paid them more, that would increase the costs of their work, increasing the cost of the goods/services they produce, meaning everyone can now afford less. Would you rather work 40 hours a week over 5 days, or work 40 hours a week in 10 hour days? I do that. TECHNICALLLY, I make more money that way with the same salary. I have 3 day weekends at a 5 workday rate. This means my hourly goes up 20% even though I make the same.
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  39. Everyone rags on hostile design, until it's keeping YOU and YOUR home safe. I'm sure no one griping has any uncomfortable bushes below their ground floor windows to deter entry ⛔...
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  40. This is a non-solution for a HUGE amount of employees and employers: PUBLIC WORKERS. Your local municipal government can't just change pay rates without funding, meaning higher taxes for all residents. As a highly skilled public employee, for my pay to go up by any major margin would require taxing our customers, the taxpayers, more, and that usually doesn't fly. They're already heavily taxed. Our hourly pay is set by ordinance, so that rate can only be changed by a city council vote. It's either that or we walk out and suddenly there's no water, fire dept, or police.
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  41. Hey, look at it like my job, drinking water treatment: even if I had a PhD, the state still requires FIVE YEARS of on the job experience to even take the test to get a Class A treatment certification and actually be a plant operator. That's a requirement by state law. It's an extremely high bar to entry.
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  42. The maid discussion reminded me of that crazy scene from the movie Don Jon where his girlfriend got all upset he cleaned his apartment and made him hire a maid, because him cleaning wasn't sexy and he needed to spend that time giving HER attention. I've seen women say that in the past about guys in great gym shape, that they waste all that time in the gym when that's time they should be using giving them attention, that exercise for men is selfish. #nologic
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  43.  @jdizzle6324  "Landlords should be outlawed"...thus creating tens of millions of NEW homeless people as suddenly no one can rent anymore, and those renters can't afford a home. What you're saying is basically mandatory home ownership, which means mandatory bank debt for everyone, yay!
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  44. What you do not yet own cannot be stolen from you.
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  45. I thought it was the name of the AI at first. Off to create and sell the Coita AI coitus app...
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  46.  @jacobleeson4763  YA KNOW, we could solve all of these problems FAR easier by just adulting up and treating phones like any other consumer electronic device and keeping it the F away from water. With water sealing no longer a concern, you can have all kinds of design freedom that's otherwise lost, so you don't have to hamstring and neuter devices. The sole reason I've ever used the 'waterproofing' features of my S8+ is to be lazy cleaning it. I can just wash it with warm water in the sink, but I don't NEED to do that. No previous phone I had ever had water issues. I had a Palm Pre get left in a backpack and submerged on a float trip back in the day, and it was fine by that monday when it dried out. I miss slide out physical keyboards on phones.
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  47. Problem is a large part of them WAY overvalue themselves. At some point many people look at the increasing price of services and say nope, that's not worth it to me. We might end up with higher paid employees, but more businesses going under, resulting in higher pay for a smaller number of jobs, and less choice/variety for consumers. It's like the reverse of the Walmart effect on small businesses. Instead of Walmart moving into an area, charging lower prices and driving locals out of business, the locals will have to raise their prices to pay high wages, driving customers away to lower cost alternatives and driving the locals under. Remember, most people already don't own businesses because the cost is too high, and that's only going to get worse.
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  48. "There's always money in the b̶a̶n̶a̶n̶a̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶n̶d̶!̶ ̶ Gift Shop!" NO TOUCHING!
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  49. Imagine a car that ACTIVLY calls home all the time, that even the carmaker can at any time without your consent make massive changes to the car, including disabling ALL cars of that make on the road at any time, the ability to cripple your speed or even set your range to zero and make the car permanently useless... THATS A TESLA , those are all FEATURES presented as good things, and they're selling out, people LOVE the idea of the automaker being 100% at all times connected, including lots of interior and exterior always on cameras. That is not only accepted but in VERY high demand, so it's not a nightmare, for many it's an ASPIRATION.
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  50. Back when you could get DVDs from Netflix, at one point I was turning over 3 dvds every other day, all week long. I could get them in the morning, ripped and back in the mail by afternoon, and in some cases have 3 new dvds a day later, repeat.
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