Indeed. I suppose Trump is just too much of an attention seeker who wants to be on the front page every day, to do it in a more measured way where it might have gotten him the results he wanted.
But I think that ship has sailed now.
One more sinister version is letting his friends/loyals know ahead of time when he will make some public statement that will trigger large movements in the stock markets, so they can effectively siphon money off from the millions of people who are not in the loop.
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I don’t think it blames its huge debt to having trade deficits, however having government debt is like the government subsidizing households, so the government is more or less subsidizing US households to buy Chinese products. Without trade deficit, the situation would be more acceptable.
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In case anyone is curious about an upcoming step in the process
But perhaps the Vatican is missing a trick by being unimaginatively monotone. Why stop at a mere two-colour signalling system? The lurid rainbow smokes used in aerial displays like those of the Red Arrows are simply tinted with bright pigments and dyes such as indigo and rhodamine. Couldn’t we have beige smoke to denote a coffee break, amber to signal an impending decision, and burgundy to show that they’re celebrating it afterwards?
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I watched Conclave and I found it really funny how everyone seems to miss the point and cry “wokeness” when the point of it was not at all (valid still, but not at all).
Also very good movie overall.
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I also watched and enjoyed Conclave. Not as thrilling as a regular action movie but the plot was quite interesting.
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Coffeezilla does an interview with him here
It sounded like he was doing whatever he could with the name to make money and pay off restitution, though in that video he was denying it was dead. Maybe he’s still trying to make as much money off it from lying whenever possible to get some sales.
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How much did we pay for this? 
I got second-hand embarassment just by watching it. Very funny.
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Edit: the bit I found most fascinating is
“In Farsi, the words for “vegetative” and “scanning” differ by only a single dot.”
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Reminds of how some genes got renamed because scientists got fed of of Excel being annoying converting their names to dates rather than leaving verbatim.
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Fuck me, not another one.
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The Indian threat was a major deterrent to China invading Taiwan or Australia. If they get too deeply wrapped up with Pakistan… gulp
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Are Australians really concerned about getting invaded by China? That wasn’t on my bingo card haha
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Feels more like a when than an if. China already owns a large part of our key industry. We can’t stop them ourselves really so it depends a lot on how much USA protects us. Especially if China take Taiwan, I would be quite concerned that we could be next.
Edit: Videos about riots in China (Business Basics) and the collapse of manufacturing (China Observer) were blocked by Google, but you can find them on YouTube, unless they have taken them down, too.
This will have to do for now:
