Hmmm I was almost hoodwinked into the stuff myself, but in the end, I guess common sense won out
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Folks were laughing at me when I tried telling them bitcoin/crypto was CIA....
One of my coworkers "invested" half his life savings into NFT thinking it was just about to blow up and that it would be "generational wealth" to pass on to his grandkids.... I told him that money is just a claim on energy and with diminishing EROEI he wasnt going to be able to pass on jack squat... dude didnt listen to me...
He should have waited for the release of Xi-bucks
plawolf
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Crypto is basically emblematic of modern American ‘innovations’. Zero value added, max hype wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich.
Former Chinese Preisdent Jiang Zemin passed away in Shanghai today, age 96.
Nah, those guys were in Toronto, and they got the classic Toronto welcome; pretty much no one in the city liked them. Also, they tried to organize... keyword being "tried".
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A lot of things went messy under President Jiang, but it was he who put us in the WTO, crushed the cultists before they spread and created a FDI environment that allowed the rise of the nation's modern technology firms such as Tencent, Alibaba and BYD.
No leader is perfect, but his accomplishments are to be appreciated.