Yup. Sounds like a Ponzi scheme.

I am not an expert on the topic, but I have learned about this when I was in college. My understanding is that the medical community admit they were wrong about overemphasising cleanliness decades ago and it backfired. Not exposing children to dirt at a healthy dose caused the immune system to overreact leading to allergy and other immune disorder. As someone who was sheltered growing up, that may explain my eczema. I also get hay fever as an adult even though when I wasn’t before, when I was younger.

As a late millenial, my guess for the cause of high prevalence of peanut allergy among younger people was because of being less exposed to dirt and being subjected to over-cleanliness when we were growing up. Iirc, the news and medical community overemphasised cleanliness in the 1990s. So, parents overdid it and the children’s immune system has become less attuned and familiar to different foreign objects in the body. The immune system then overreacts to non-threatening objects in the body resulting in allergy.

Oh I’m not trying to defend or exalt China. I’m saying that we should be like China when it comes to dealing with billionaires. Or even better, be like Vietnam, when the court ordered a billionaire who defrauded thousands to pay in time or be executed.

Hasn’t the leader of The Proud Boys dildoed himself on live TV to “own the libs?”

UBI when?

Quiet quitting is such a bizarre phrase for me as Irish. As long as we do our jobs right, we can do whatever we want. At the end of the day, a job is meant to put food on the table, not be your life. Even some of the worst companies I have worked have a laidback attitude compared to workplaces abroad.

At least China is right about not bailing out their companies when their own property bubble collapsed.

I do. You are talking about how communism is so great, that I am vindicating you how Westerners were desperately risking their lives to get to communist countries.

I mean, sure, those who clawed their way out of the Berlin Wall, vault poled over electric fences in the DMZ, defected with a top secret Soviet plane as insurance to be allowed to stay in the West, and swam the Caribbean to desperately leave communist countries surely love communism.

BrainInAWesternerBox larping as BrainInAnEasternerBox.

“I like to say I love communism without under duress.”

“I love communism not because I am a card-carrying party member.”

“The fact that more people fled from communist countries than coming in means those people are crazy.”

The Troubles was so long ago for me that the character quirk went over my head.

We should end these and start class war. Class divide is the root cause of it all.

The metrics probably doesn’t include those who were in gulags and died of famines.

The rise in communist party membership you speak of maybe increased by 100%, when two new members joined an already two member communist party.

Wake me up when communist slogans are getting viral on Tiktok and Instagram, and if communists are getting elected in huge numbers on national level across the world.

People love getting high on nostalgia when things aren’t looking up well in the present moment. Even many of those who were under fascism are nostalgic of it. That’s the point of nostalgia: only remembering the good parts of the past while pretending the bad never happened.

Thanks for the info. Silly me didn’t realise Nvidia doesn’t manufacture semiconductors. I thought Nvidia also does because they are one of the leaders in GPU. Speaking of GPUs, at the very least they command the GPU market.

I also invested in TSMC.

ASML is way too expensive for my taste. I’ve been hoping they will do split stock so I could get in.

Nvidia has near monopoly on semiconductors. Even if Nvidia stocks crash, they will recover. I just trimmed my own shares on Nvidia to cushion the blow.