Nice

Imagine every time you flip a coin there’s a 10% chance you get free ice cream.

I’d call that one in ten chances.

It beats the mines.

I’m not sure we’re going to make it y’all.

Honestly, any institution/profession with any altruism America sort of takes personally.

I’m not in single family detached home.

I rent, so you don’t get a chance to pass out candy anymore, but it was a bright spot in my childhood. I’m sad that we’ve abandoned that.

Plus, you got to peak into all your neighbors doors and see a bit of their life and it was a positive experience for all involved.

Equal opportunity sexual harassment?

I don’t know that those small family farms are really a thing anymore. I think those pretty much went away in the 80s.

Super intelligent suckers seems like a wonderful goal.

A magazine subscription?

Honestly, I knew it all along.

I liked Beyonce’s version better

Or the ai search just rips off Wikipedia.

It’s the Party’s time, not party time.

Lol, that’s odd. I guess he’s probably had some surgery or something?

Yeah, I don’t understand either (not that I should). It’s almost like their corruption moves the opposite way from ours. I’m used to US companies asking for presents and considerations and government supplying. I think it may work differently in China?

Maybe it’s just what growth/expansion phase of capitalism looks like and why it was so exciting for so many.

I also imagine we’re not seeing the whole picture. As we are only allowed government approved messaging.

Honestly, I can see the benefits of training and integrating the technology of Internet into their culture, before exposing the population to new ideas. Not that I think that’s the design, but it may end up being an unintentional consequence.

Edit:

I guess it’s sort of what happened when the US started building up the old bones of the internet, out companies had a defacto leg up.

If China keeps their Internet bubble, with it’s social structure and deep deep economic ties, then if you want access to the Chinese market, you’ll have to use their Internet and be subject to the government, probably utilizing their people to negotiate.

They’re not selling pickaxes to golf diggers, they already own the mine.

/Basically conjecture

I’ve informed several people that their healthcare is provided by Obamacare.

It just slips right between the synapses

I doubt the numbers reflect that, but I’m sure it’s the messaging.

I remember running around twenty years ago asking people (generally educated successful people) how they define capitalism.

Most people are not 100% sure, so they usually guess some form of market and blend it with consumerism.

My guess is that most of this came from Mikhail Gorbachev advertising for Pizza Hut.