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Hudson Bay company dissolved last year. Company started in 1670. Remember their coats. Company history is wild
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MetalMario
formerly m4riol
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Tommy Chong (of Cheech n Chong) is Canadian and early in his music career opened a venue which provided Ike & Tina Turner their first set in Vancouver. He formed a soul group with offensive names. Here's a link to his wiki. read the first paragraph of Music career. Report back 
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I was expecting far worse.
He's in his 20s, half chinese from Canada in the 60s
He's in his 20s, half chinese from Canada in the 60s
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MetalMario
formerly m4riol
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some of these... wtf
6 Rings G.O.A.T.
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G.O.A.T.some of these... wtf
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Legit had me like
MetalMario
formerly m4riol
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Green Bay is the only publicly owned team in the nfl
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Catch me if you can 
bonafide101
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Is this true?
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not that I've ever heard
Working time - Wikipedia
"The traditional American business hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday, representing a workweek of five eight-hour days comprising 40 hours in total. These are the origin of the phrase 9-to-5, used to describe a conventional and possibly tedious job. Negatively used, it connotes a tedious or unremarkable occupation."
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why taiwan is so important TLDR version:
-60% of all semiconductors are made in taiwan. 90% of all advance chips are all made in taiwan
-Advance countries like the US cant make their own because:
1. knowledge is missing. you cant just go an buy the recipe. making chips is something done on the atomic level.
2. shortage of engineers
3.ecosystem isnt there. If a critical machine goes down in a Taiwanese facility, the specialized chemical supplier, the parts manufacturer, and the repair technicians are all within a 30-minute drive. the localized supply chain doesnt exist anywhere else.
4. running a chip facility requires 24/7 365 labor. labor laws in the US and other countries make that difficult to execute.
5. cost. very few companies (and governments) have the stomach to sustain those massive, continuous capital risks, especially when competing against a company like TSMC that already has economies of scale. to open up even one facility cost around 30 billion. thats just the capital expense so it doesnt include the operational cost.
-60% of all semiconductors are made in taiwan. 90% of all advance chips are all made in taiwan
-Advance countries like the US cant make their own because:
1. knowledge is missing. you cant just go an buy the recipe. making chips is something done on the atomic level.
2. shortage of engineers
3.ecosystem isnt there. If a critical machine goes down in a Taiwanese facility, the specialized chemical supplier, the parts manufacturer, and the repair technicians are all within a 30-minute drive. the localized supply chain doesnt exist anywhere else.
4. running a chip facility requires 24/7 365 labor. labor laws in the US and other countries make that difficult to execute.
5. cost. very few companies (and governments) have the stomach to sustain those massive, continuous capital risks, especially when competing against a company like TSMC that already has economies of scale. to open up even one facility cost around 30 billion. thats just the capital expense so it doesnt include the operational cost.
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Its funny, I thought about this this morning, Millennials might be the first generation to be able to stop dumb kid trends at the gate. If we didn’t already know what something meant because it was actually based on something from our generation, we can find out what it means(and how to flip) before they do because we were taught how to research stuff with AND without google.
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I did not know Howie Mandel was this much of an a-hole
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cubanref
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Catch me if you can
His whole story is a lie. One of the biggest frauds out there
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He’s a criminal
He committed fraud his entire criminal career. Anybody who knows him or of him and trusts him are asking for it.
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