When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus.

>Also wondering if in the future people will gravitate more towards plays and other love performances to get away from AI.

I think the "cool kids" will be hanging around in bookstores/live events etc. The question is will that be profitable for the venues? I've been putting on a few concerts over in Vietnam (pics on request) still hugely popular. I just think for "real" experiences the bar has been raised, everything needs to be extra special.

Breakdancing, 1 hours training

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKPp2Nlo4k

"Confidence in CS's investment bank is widely considered to be shot, optimism about the three-year turnround is fragile, deposit bleed has yet to be stanched, and the wealth management division is losing money, which is the finance equivalent of jumping off a boat and missing the water.


https://www.ft.com/content/5a99e2c3-6e40-4c58-896a-2c573048099e

>warm, dry and with people you enjoy

Check, check and check.

Merry Christmas everybody!

The queen reigned for 30% of US history.

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/

>work out well over 25 years

Nothing lasts 25 years anymore, covid may be a possible exception.

"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/

Tickled me.

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

Hanoi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CzxfuPSuWE

October.

It's a mans world btw, the Fatherland 

FB link but worth a glance, video of modern day Sai Gon

https://www.facebook.com/binhdinhlove/videos/4096184547133105

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.