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Strategies & Market Trends : ajtj's Post-Lobotomy Market Charts and Thoughts
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To: Tweets Boar Hog who wrote (97343)12/8/2025 3:27:01 PM
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I was visiting a factory in Taiwan in the 90's one morning in the aftermath of a huge earthquake, which was great for traveling, because nobody from the US or the EU wanted to go there at that time. It was quiet and easy to get around.

Anyway, in a meeting around 9:00AM after I was told I slept through a 6.4 aftershock on something like the 59th floor of my hotel, the cantilevered showroom we were in just off the factory started shaking. The owner said, "Oh, aftershock." When stuff really started shaking and everything started falling off the walls he said, "oh, this is a strong one."

That was a 6.2 aftershock. After the 30-seconds of shaking, we just went on with the meeting. How that showroom remained above ground is still a mystery to me. It wasn't some seismic-engineered place. It was just a small factory on the outskirts of town that was built on what was formerly farmland. It had all the seismic qualities of a typical pole barn.

That was just one of hundreds of strong aftershocks after the main earthquake. They had gotten so routine that people barely noticed.
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