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Originally Posted by freebeard
College textbooks hand crafted?
Some Ends --- Ends as goals or completion? The Republican party ends? Low carbon [nuclear] energy ends? Russian power -- political or hydrocarbons?
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I started [junior] college right when textbooks could be purchased online, and used bookbyte.com for used books at a steep discount compared to the school bookstore. Seemed insane to me that every student had to buy a book for a class, when those books should just stay with the class like they had in elementary school.
Anyhow, my money would have been on Bookbyte over Amazon. Luckily I didn't have any money back then, so I didn't lose any.
Regarding 'ends', I haven't completed the lecture yet. The arrows are the topics he's going to discuss though, so we might not hear the theory on the end of the Republican party. He said Biden would win POTUS and it wouldn't be close, so...
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That would fix the problem in the Senate but mean 54 new members in the House. Make Greenland a State and Canada a Territory?
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Territory would be fine. I'd rather let the Canadians run their own whacky experiments on their dime, not ours. They're aspects of their culture that are appealing, but then those aspects manifest by having a much smaller population that is more homogenous, not from having better institutions.
EDIT: Toward the end of the lecture, Peter says Trump will win 12 states, tops. He didn't explain the end of the Republican party, but his prediction that was off by 3x on the number of states won by Trump doesn't speak well to his US political forecasting ability.
It seems his prediction on the stagnation of EVs and renewable electricity revolves around mineral scarcity, citing that these technologies require an outsized amount of rare earth (among other) minerals that are largely mined in Russia and China.
His pessimism on technology and AI stems from chip shortages as the Chinese demographics implode their economy, and the lag time to build out that infrastructure elsewhere.
Large container ships reduce in number as the US increasingly trades in the Americas (nearshoring), where things are trucked and not shipped.
...and I was hoping I'd see a new Panama canal created in Nicaragua.