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Everyone wants to talk tough, but when it comes time to pay then everyone gets quiet.
I would think the next likely destination would be Vietnam, but I'd prefer it here of course.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/go...-establish-us-manufacturing-operations-former
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/go...-establish-us-manufacturing-operations-former
I would think the next likely destination would be Vietnam, but I'd prefer it here of course.
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/go...-establish-us-manufacturing-operations-former
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/go...-establish-us-manufacturing-operations-former
Im just telling you that you are exhibiting signs of CDS, an analog of TDS.
I will give the scientists a little slack in general, because virus learning, mutation, and propagation isn’t a static thing and requires course correction with new information of legit significance.
But this whole thing has been more of a masterfook of communications. From its Trump origins until Biden in the now, there’s too much deliberation about optics and trying to manipulate human behavior as opposed to speaking to facts.
Examples abound. No to masks because we don’t want people to hoard. No to masks because we think mask mandates will discourage faith in people getting vaccinated. This is the deal with the devil that’s been made, and it’s been an utter disaster. Elites communicating with the public like they're stupid four-year-olds in the candy aisle.
I’ve changed a few thoughts such as when Delta has arisen, etc. But I’ve more often been steady myself, so it’s dumbfounding to find policy bending and swaying while I’ve stuck with my constants. Masks work as we learned ago with SARS-Cov-1. Vaccines are designed for symptoms and not infections. These have held true despite people bending them to their will in a vain attempt to control how others behave.
I still gotta mock the hypocrisy groaning though. Hypocrites may have made Dante’s eighth plane of Hell, but calling out hypocrisy is the most hypocritical act in itself. People who are the first to gripe about hypocrisy are like the bathroom-stall-toe-tapping congressmen who go on anti-gay rampages while blowing teenagers at rest stop bathrooms. You kind of lose your credibility card if that’s your opening line. What have you got to offer beyond finger pointing and asking for pogroms?
True on both counts. The disaster in Afghanistan wasn’t made in just August. It’s been going on for 20+ years and then some. That then some including the US training and weaponizing a bunch of Islamic radicals who took up arms against the Soviets, only to turn their attention to blowing up American cities. Self-inflicted idiocy and yet still no culpability. Not one person was imprisoned or fired for funding the training and arming of people who helped blow up American buildings.
I have no interest in going back to China, let alone living there. Easily one of my least favorite counties in Asia. But they’re the only nation I’ve seen with any balls to define the role of a state in an evolving technocratic world of extra governmental tech giants. Europe, the Americas, they’ve all pussied out and offered nothing in response.
China has taken down Jack Ma and Alibaba more than a few notches, disrupted Ant, and demanded that their tech industry offer deeper tech advances for society for greater good and not just mindless apps for rich people. Crickets from the west. Rome is burning the house down with Big Tech abuses, and nobody changes the status quo. Nobody wants to do more than look like a tough guy against Zuckerberg and Bezos on TV soundbytes, all the while patting their backs after the public show and asking how they can buy more shares.
The social credit score is creepy and all. But that’s a Western mindset that doesn’t comprehend collective good over the individual good. Is the Western individualistic way better for its people overall for the challenges the world is throwing at us? Some people might sympathetically feel better about their freedom, but I can tell you the Chinese know that the West is dying like an old grandpa going senile and irrelevant. And much of the West is bitter, clueless, and too busy being angry and eating itself.
There’s a long way to go. But you tell me who seems to have the right strategic play for the future right now given what we’re witnessing. The West is not doing itself any favors.
I will give the scientists a little slack in general, because virus learning, mutation, and propagation isn’t a static thing and requires course correction with new information of legit significance.
But this whole thing has been more of a masterfook of communications. From its Trump origins until Biden in the now, there’s too much deliberation about optics and trying to manipulate human behavior as opposed to speaking to facts.
Examples abound. No to masks because we don’t want people to hoard. No to masks because we think mask mandates will discourage faith in people getting vaccinated. This is the deal with the devil that’s been made, and it’s been an utter disaster. Elites communicating with the public like they're stupid four-year-olds in the candy aisle.
I’ve changed a few thoughts such as when Delta has arisen, etc. But I’ve more often been steady myself, so it’s dumbfounding to find policy bending and swaying while I’ve stuck with my constants. Masks work as we learned ago with SARS-Cov-1. Vaccines are designed for symptoms and not infections. These have held true despite people bending them to their will in a vain attempt to control how others behave.
I still gotta mock the hypocrisy groaning though. Hypocrites may have made Dante’s eighth plane of Hell, but calling out hypocrisy is the most hypocritical act in itself. People who are the first to gripe about hypocrisy are like the bathroom-stall-toe-tapping congressmen who go on anti-gay rampages while blowing teenagers at rest stop bathrooms. You kind of lose your credibility card if that’s your opening line. What have you got to offer beyond finger pointing and asking for pogroms?
True on both counts. The disaster in Afghanistan wasn’t made in just August. It’s been going on for 20+ years and then some. That then some including the US training and weaponizing a bunch of Islamic radicals who took up arms against the Soviets, only to turn their attention to blowing up American cities. Self-inflicted idiocy and yet still no culpability. Not one person was imprisoned or fired for funding the training and arming of people who helped blow up American buildings.
I have no interest in going back to China, let alone living there. Easily one of my least favorite counties in Asia. But they’re the only nation I’ve seen with any balls to define the role of a state in an evolving technocratic world of extra governmental tech giants. Europe, the Americas, they’ve all pussied out and offered nothing in response.
China has taken down Jack Ma and Alibaba more than a few notches, disrupted Ant, and demanded that their tech industry offer deeper tech advances for society for greater good and not just mindless apps for rich people. Crickets from the west. Rome is burning the house down with Big Tech abuses, and nobody changes the status quo. Nobody wants to do more than look like a tough guy against Zuckerberg and Bezos on TV soundbytes, all the while patting their backs after the public show and asking how they can buy more shares.
The social credit score is creepy and all. But that’s a Western mindset that doesn’t comprehend collective good over the individual good. Is the Western individualistic way better for its people overall for the challenges the world is throwing at us? Some people might sympathetically feel better about their freedom, but I can tell you the Chinese know that the West is dying like an old grandpa going senile and irrelevant. And much of the West is bitter, clueless, and too busy being angry and eating itself.
There’s a long way to go. But you tell me who seems to have the right strategic play for the future right now given what we’re witnessing. The West is not doing itself any favors.
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I’ve been saying this for SO LONG. Move manufacturing to CA and SA and keep it on this side of the globe
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I guess that’s what I was projecting
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I guess that’s what I was projecting
when people ask me about covid vaccine stuff, especially here in Utah, I tell them to talk to their doctor
I’m not the guy people need to be getting their medical advice from, if people trust someone enough to go see them when they’re sick or their kids get sick, why not trust that person to answer questions about vaccinations?
plus, I have certain political leanings as does everyone but it’s pretty easy to take that out of the equation when it comes to personal health and safety
So anyways, here are two maps comparing positivity rate and vaccination rate in different neighborhoods.
Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue their slow decline. Hopefully things continute at this pace so that once the winter holidays come around, the spike shouldn't be too big. The current main hot spots mostly correlate with lower vaccination rates, which shouldn't really be a surprise at this point.
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Congratulations!! It's all coming together now.
Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continue their slow decline. Hopefully things continute at this pace so that once the winter holidays come around, the spike shouldn't be too big. The current main hot spots mostly correlate with lower vaccination rates, which shouldn't really be a surprise at this point.
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I got offered a job in the UK
Everyone said it was impossible (even I thought so) but it happened somehow.
Now the visa process
Everyone said it was impossible (even I thought so) but it happened somehow.
Now the visa process