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Comment by aebtebeten

12 days ago

Optimists practise speaking Cantonese, pessimists— speaking Russian, realists— stripping and reassembling rifles?

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dagenleg  12 days ago

Why Cantonese?

  • aebtebeten  12 days ago

    Optimists believe the new economic order will be mostly like the old, only perhaps involving a bit more trade[0] with cities like Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen, and a bit less trade with cities like Houston, LA, and NYC.

    (for Singapore, Mandarin would be better, but there English works, lah. Shanghai would need Mandarin, but we have our own financial centres)

    [0] if the Don were serious about hemispheres, this might work. In practice[1], I believe there could potentially be issues running trade through chokepoints owned by USEUCOM (Gibraltar), USCENTCOM (Suez, Aden), and USINDOPACOM (Malacca). https://www.war.gov/About/Combatant-Commands/

    Anyone know of any good minesweeping technologies?

    [1] did "The Empire Strikes Back" not teach us that Sith always reserve the right to alter the deal?

    Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpE_xMRiCLE