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Herds of american and european debt slaves enjoy the privilege of issuing DEBT to buy stuff made by their fellow work slaves across the Planet! (work slaves in China escaping the  closed-loop production ) The FUN highlighted! " Quanta is Apple's top Macbook factory and has conducted closed-loop production at the factory for the last month to keep workers from getting infected. Bloomberg noted that the discontent was resolved Friday morning, and the factory returned to normal operations. In its latest earnings report, Apple  warned  that supply constraints would cost the company $4 billion to $8 billion in the current quarter.  Shanghai has enforced a zero-COVID strategy ( supported by China's Politburo ) across Shanghai, locking down nearly 25 million people for more than a month.  Reuters  reports the city's epidemic prevention and control situation is "improving.". Some companies opted for closed-loop production to keep factories open. This helped resta...

We Must Find a Way to Prevent Bill Gates from Preventing the Next Pandemic A book review. eugyppius For days now, I’ve been fighting my way through Bill Gates’s disturbing new book on  How to Prevent the Next Pandemic ,  and I’ve found myself wondering about one question above all: How are we to explain Gates, exactly? I know that for many of you he is a calculating conspiratorial goon. Pretend for a moment that he’s not, though. Imagine, for the sake of argument, that he’s every inch the obtuse, naive and self-important former software developer that he seems to be. How did he get this way, what does he even think he is doing, and what can it mean? Remember that this man has  billions of dollars . A whole world of unusual vices stands open to him: He could hire a mercenary army to invade some country and proclaim himself god-emperor for life. He could retire to a tropical island with his favourite mind-altering substances and a harem of nubile young women. He could do bo...