The Core

>warm, dry and with people you enjoy

Check, check and check.

Merry Christmas everybody!

Cyprus gives the numbers each day, usually between 70-80% unvaccinated in hospital.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2022/01/19/coronavirus-2226-new-infections-no-deaths/

"It’s not that they’re religious, it’s that they’re assholes"

https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/featured/the-amherst-baptist-camp-meeting-covid-outbreak-its-not-that-theyre-religious-its-that-theyre-assholes/

One month later: These maps show how quickly Covid engulfed the US again

More than 98% of US residents now live in an area where there is a "high" or "substantial" risk of Covid-19 community transmission, up from 19% of residents only a month ago.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/11/health/one-month-later-these-maps-show-how-quickly-covid-engulfed-the-us-again/index.html

October.

It's a mans world btw, the Fatherland 

Rapidly increasing middle class, lots more cars, lots more hi-rise buildings.

More visible in Ho Chi Minh, skyscrapers tend to be in the centre, in Hanoi more spread with the city moving westward at a pace.

It's still Vietnam though.

I think in almost any major city in the world you are a few turns from the modern centre into the "real" world. Maybe the Asian cities require less turns, Hong Kong, Seoul and even Tokyo included.

I think this is a decent overview https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/vietnam/overview of what is really quite remarkable progress since Đổi Mới in 1986.

It's white hot at the moment.

I find it a little arrogant that these aggregators think they can find and develop products better than the highly motivated business people they are buying. On the other hand having an exit must be attractive to many of the marketplace sellers.

And as analogies go this is one of the dumbest I have ever seen;

"Nobody looked at [Simon Property Group] as a competitor to Foot Locker — they’re not. They’re renting Foot Locker space for a store in the mall.”