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This is an interesting difference between China and Europe, restaurant-wise. Nowadays, only the most upscale restaurants in Europe (Michelin-starred or the like) tend to offer a farm-to-table experience with their own personal veggie/fruit garden. And even then, it's really rare. To have this type of experience, you often need...

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Arnaud Bertrand

282,066 views • 1 year ago

NEW: Joe Lonsdale on Squawk Box blasts AI safetyism, calls for one national standard. "You have states trying to ban AI in healthcare that are going to prevent us from making health care cheaper... That safetyism is what Europe does. If you want to be a poor civilization...then you should move to Europe. But America needs to stay free." Joe Lonsdale: This has been an issue we're working on all year, obviously close friends with David Sacks and Director Michael Kratsios running this in the administration. And listen, we are on the verge of something amazing for our civilization. We have tens of thousands of builders in our country. They're going to bring down the cost of health care. They're going to make houses cheaper. Permits should only take hours instead of months. Just like education is going to be better for all of our kids and personalized. They're going to fix our civilization. And yet on both the far left and the far right, you have a lot of populists who for, for really nefarious reasons, are opposing this. There are reasonable people, by the way, who have some concerns, and there's ways to compromise... But you have a lot of crazy populists. You have a patchwork of just really intense stuff they're doing that would break all of this, and we can't let that happen. Andrew Ross Sorkin: And to you, the thing that you can't break is this idea of states taking this into their own hands? Joe: I'm a federalist, Andrew, on most issues. I have teams in 23 states with Cicero Institute... I think it's reasonable for states to do a lot of things as laboratories of democracy... What's unreasonable is you had Biden NGOs, but pushed by the last administration. You have European-like rules, and you have populists trying to put in crazy new regulatory authorities that demonize the builders to demonize the tech. And if you force us to hop through regulatory agencies in every state, China is going to win and the builders are going to lose. ...there's always an argument in our country between safety and liberty. And I think people, especially if they're not in the details, are right to be concerned and want to be safe. But if you're going to use safety to have arbitrary fines or arbitrary penalties where every state, including the radical blue states like New York, are going to be able to break our builders, that's not okay. And listen, you have states trying to ban the use of AI in health care right now in ways that are going to prevent us from making health care cheaper. You have New York State already banning it in education. This is insane. Public schools in New York are not allowing AI. They're not even in any kind of school in New York. You have to call yourself a homeschool to use AI right now in New York, which means we can't personalize it and lift up the lives of the kids who are not doing well in inner cities. This is crazy stuff, Andrew. That safetyism is what Europe does. If you want to be a poor civilization...then you should move to Europe. But America needs to stay free. ...a random legislator in New York state is not going to stop at the AI apocalypse. They're only going to harass and slow us down and make us lose to China.
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NEW: Joe Lonsdale on Squawk Box blasts AI safetyism, calls for one national standard. "You have states trying to ban AI in healthcare that are going to prevent us from making health care cheaper... That safetyism is what Europe does. If you want to be a poor civilization...then you should move to Europe. But America needs to stay free." Joe Lonsdale: This has been an issue we're working on all year, obviously close friends with David Sacks and Director Michael Kratsios running this in the administration. And listen, we are on the verge of something amazing for our civilization. We have tens of thousands of builders in our country. They're going to bring down the cost of health care. They're going to make houses cheaper. Permits should only take hours instead of months. Just like education is going to be better for all of our kids and personalized. They're going to fix our civilization. And yet on both the far left and the far right, you have a lot of populists who for, for really nefarious reasons, are opposing this. There are reasonable people, by the way, who have some concerns, and there's ways to compromise... But you have a lot of crazy populists. You have a patchwork of just really intense stuff they're doing that would break all of this, and we can't let that happen. Andrew Ross Sorkin: And to you, the thing that you can't break is this idea of states taking this into their own hands? Joe: I'm a federalist, Andrew, on most issues. I have teams in 23 states with Cicero Institute... I think it's reasonable for states to do a lot of things as laboratories of democracy... What's unreasonable is you had Biden NGOs, but pushed by the last administration. You have European-like rules, and you have populists trying to put in crazy new regulatory authorities that demonize the builders to demonize the tech. And if you force us to hop through regulatory agencies in every state, China is going to win and the builders are going to lose. ...there's always an argument in our country between safety and liberty. And I think people, especially if they're not in the details, are right to be concerned and want to be safe. But if you're going to use safety to have arbitrary fines or arbitrary penalties where every state, including the radical blue states like New York, are going to be able to break our builders, that's not okay. And listen, you have states trying to ban the use of AI in health care right now in ways that are going to prevent us from making health care cheaper. You have New York State already banning it in education. This is insane. Public schools in New York are not allowing AI. They're not even in any kind of school in New York. You have to call yourself a homeschool to use AI right now in New York, which means we can't personalize it and lift up the lives of the kids who are not doing well in inner cities. This is crazy stuff, Andrew. That safetyism is what Europe does. If you want to be a poor civilization...then you should move to Europe. But America needs to stay free. ...a random legislator in New York state is not going to stop at the AI apocalypse. They're only going to harass and slow us down and make us lose to China.

American Optimist

27,939 views • 8 months ago

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Sec. Marco Rubio just RIPPED spoiled NATO allies, saying the US will have to reexamine our membership once the war is over NATO screwed up! "We are going to have to reexamine whether or not this alliance that has served this country well for a while is still serving that purpose — or is it now become a ONE WAY STREET, where America is simply in a position to defend EUROPE, but when we need the help of our allies, they're going to deny us basing rights and they're going to deny us overflight?!" "If now we have reached a point where the NATO alliance means that we can't use those bases, that, in fact, that we can no longer use those bases to defend America's interests, then NATO is a one-way street!" "Then NATO is simply about us having troops in Europe to defend Europe, but when we need their help—not their help, we're not asking them to conduct airstrikes. When we need them to allow us to use their military bases, their answer is no, then why are we in NATO? You have to ask that question!" "Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars, and all these American forces stationed in the region?" "If we can only use—we can—in our time of need, we're not going to be allowed to use those bases. So I think there's no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going to have to reexamine that relationship." "We're going to have to reexamine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country." "Ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make, and he'll have to make it."
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🚨 HOLY CRAP. Sec. Marco Rubio just RIPPED spoiled NATO allies, saying the US will have to reexamine our membership once the war is over NATO screwed up! "We are going to have to reexamine whether or not this alliance that has served this country well for a while is still serving that purpose — or is it now become a ONE WAY STREET, where America is simply in a position to defend EUROPE, but when we need the help of our allies, they're going to deny us basing rights and they're going to deny us overflight?!" "If now we have reached a point where the NATO alliance means that we can't use those bases, that, in fact, that we can no longer use those bases to defend America's interests, then NATO is a one-way street!" "Then NATO is simply about us having troops in Europe to defend Europe, but when we need their help—not their help, we're not asking them to conduct airstrikes. When we need them to allow us to use their military bases, their answer is no, then why are we in NATO? You have to ask that question!" "Why do we have billions and billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars over the years, trillions of dollars, and all these American forces stationed in the region?" "If we can only use—we can—in our time of need, we're not going to be allowed to use those bases. So I think there's no doubt, unfortunately, after this conflict is concluded, we are going to have to reexamine that relationship." "We're going to have to reexamine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country." "Ultimately, that's a decision for the president to make, and he'll have to make it."

Eric Daugherty

140,383 views • 4 months ago

This is really cool. You may think that giant pandas are the most protected animals in China but there is even rarer: this specific type of salamander 👇 that lives only in a few river streams on the border between China and Kazakhstan. It's called the Xinjiang Northern Salamander, and it's a 350 million years old species that was only discovered in 1989. They're so precious that their natural habitat has been completely sealed off: it's called the "Wenquan County National Nature Reserve" and no-one is authorized to enter. You can however see some of them in a local research center on the species - where we now are - in Wenquan (温泉) town.
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This is really cool. You may think that giant pandas are the most protected animals in China but there is even rarer: this specific type of salamander 👇 that lives only in a few river streams on the border between China and Kazakhstan. It's called the Xinjiang Northern Salamander, and it's a 350 million years old species that was only discovered in 1989. They're so precious that their natural habitat has been completely sealed off: it's called the "Wenquan County National Nature Reserve" and no-one is authorized to enter. You can however see some of them in a local research center on the species - where we now are - in Wenquan (温泉) town.

Arnaud Bertrand

42,152 views • 1 month ago

This is the first stage. We are now in a situation where it's 10 and 10 plus 20 for fentanyl, so 30% tariffs in the US of China goods coming in, and they can get rid of 20% of it if they solve the fentanyl problem. That they will do with certainty. But we’re not finished there and neither are millions of small entrepreneurs in America that I represent. We need IP law to be finally put into place so that our products and services are protected in their markets the way we protect theirs and ours. So, reciprocal playing field is where we need to go. This is a great first step but it's only the beginning. I want to sell to the Chinese people. I have no problem with them. I have a big problem with their government. They don't abide by the rules. We've known that for a long time and no admin has dealt with China, even after they came into the World Trade Organization in 2000. They've breached every covenant of that agreement so it's important for us to set the tone in terms of how we're going to go forward with China.
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This is the first stage. We are now in a situation where it's 10 and 10 plus 20 for fentanyl, so 30% tariffs in the US of China goods coming in, and they can get rid of 20% of it if they solve the fentanyl problem. That they will do with certainty. But we’re not finished there and neither are millions of small entrepreneurs in America that I represent. We need IP law to be finally put into place so that our products and services are protected in their markets the way we protect theirs and ours. So, reciprocal playing field is where we need to go. This is a great first step but it's only the beginning. I want to sell to the Chinese people. I have no problem with them. I have a big problem with their government. They don't abide by the rules. We've known that for a long time and no admin has dealt with China, even after they came into the World Trade Organization in 2000. They've breached every covenant of that agreement so it's important for us to set the tone in terms of how we're going to go forward with China.

Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful

50,199 views • 1 year ago