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If anyone’s curious, modern “virtual” pinballs, which are just a computer under a large screen inside a pinball frame, replicate this by using an accelerometer (like the one in our phones).

The pinball emulation software is fed tilt metrics, and usually that software decides when to call it fault.

And if anyone is really curious you can read in detail here: http://mjrnet.org/pinscape/BuildGuideV2/BuildGuide.php?sid=tilt

Is there any live animal soup?

That’s because back then we had less poligons to go around.

I thought he only goes to high school proms.

Yeah, I eventually realized that most family physicians take about 15 minutes per patient, so yeah I guess probably not 35 but still…

Is he having avocado toast though?

How that works economically for him? That’s like making 35 bucks an hour before taxes…

Maybe he can meet multiple patients in an hour, but there would still be fluctuations.

Be careful when asking for financial advice on the internet. A lot of people treat investing like it’s a casino.

Wouldn’t we then confuse it with Pluto’s moon? Imagine a family of poor future Solar system travellers realizing they got the tickets for the moon, not the planet.

All of this to be able to fire the cashiers.

SO UN FAIR!

That ship sailed, sank, and James Cameron filmed a soapy movie about it.

It depends if you can fit in with a gamepad inside that puppy.

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There’s a high percentage of Chinese workers that invested their savings in real estate instead of having a pension. And there’s no welfare*, which means a lot of people who will be left on the street when they are too old to work.

*After a complain, I did some research so I can provide enough clarity on my statement:

• A new pensions system was built on top of the previous communist system (1986~1990s), then in 2004 the gov added enterprise annuities and finally, an IRA system was launched.
  This last part was launched in 2022, which finally covered about 1.05 billion people.
• There is though a difference in which plan can someone join, depending on their residence permit (either rural or urban).
  The residence permit doesn’t have a link to where you live, so a rural hukou won’t become an urban hukou just for moving to the city.
• Why does this matter? Well, an urban hukou will get about $461 US dollaridoos, while the Old-Age Insurance for Urban and Rural Residents plan (entirely used for rural residence permit holders and unsalaried urbant residents), it’s about $25 US dollars and a smile.

The why enterprise annuities didn’t work (0.25% of companies enrolled) is a very complex one but let’s say is mostly due to the abnormally high statutory pension contribution rate.

So up until 2022, a little more than 500 million people had few options for extra savings beyond those $25 dollars/person, and that was real estate (you know, the thing that always goes up).

With IRAs now, and a possible conversion from the two main basic pension plans into a centralized one, it’s possible newer generations will have a foothold for a safer savings method, however there are several challenges on the horizon:

• All the economic turmoil of COVID-19, foreign firms moving out, pandemic lockdowns, etc… is making it harder to strengthen the pension system.
• Demographic issues and high youth unemployment.
• Runs on small banks.
• Recent cuts on local health care benefits.
• The statutory pension contribution rate was lowered, but is still about 16% Iirc. This means though the pension bags are getting 4% less full every year.

Altogether this could very well be a ticking time bomb.

Quit his job? Well he could try becoming a conscientious objector but the process for getting there might not be that different from being set on fire.

Mountain Dew Verification Can when?

You wouldn’t dare! Nobody’s that evil…

Dunk!

The Zuck does like grilled meats though.