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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • I once was taking a nice old man to the hospital, when he stopped breathing. I gave him a second and tried to rouse him, and he was pretty stubborn about it, but he still had a weak pulse. I called to my partner.

    “Hey, how close are we to the hospital?”

    “About 5 minutes, why?”

    “Well, he’s not breathing. So if you hit any traffic, hit the lights, will you?”

    I bagged him for about 3-4 minutes. Traffic was light, and we were making pretty good time, so we decided not to freak anybody out. The guy came to, and looked confused.

    “What happened,” he asked.

    “You stopped breathing, so I was breathing for you.”

    “Oh. Thank you.”

    “You are very welcome.”

    He’s still the only person who ever said thank you when I tried to save their life.

















  • Imagine China as a company. There is a board of directors, and Xi is the head of that board. The board runs a lot of lower ranking boards that control all the aspects of government operation.

    Have a problem with your plumbing? Go to your local province or city board. A whole region experiencing drought? The regional board has an action plan that they impose on the local boards to implement with government regional help. Xi is responsible for steering the overarching policy of China moving forward as a country. His role is to say “make China control the South China Sea and receive deference from those countries” to the military, and then it’s their problem to figure out how to harass shipping.

    You get promoted to higher boards for good work, and the board votes for its leader. Read Xi’s promotion history. I would die after that many years of office politics, myself.