To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (151136 ) 10/10/2019 9:42:05 PM From: TobagoJack Respond to of 217547 is what I thought, even as I was told that the casino ai has allowed the odds to be shaved razor-thin I still prefer to wager on yield-free gold speculations of various sorts, albeit slowly slowly no hurry to play Russian roulette w/ an automatic pistol for sure-fire bang :0) in the mean time, the class warfare is also a generation warfare scmp.com <<Nearly a third of Hong Kong protesters arrested over past four months of unrest aged under 18, city’s No 2 official reveals, calling trend ‘heartbreaking’ >> I am not surprised by the tally, in that the youth have a legitimate beef, that their English is poor, Mandarin is awful, and most did not study STEM and near-STEM (i.e. architecture, commercial design, etc etc), is therefore use-less in HK and useless everywhere else. We discussed "who to blame" - I do not believe that conclusion would matter. Blame the elders, firstly, and blame the youth secondly. I feel I am watching a trailer of the world premier, and makes sense, as HK sits at the gate of globalisation and would naturally tend to lead, even when compared to California. HK is dealing w/ it all as HK at the end of any day has the resources given accumulated surplus etc etc, but other places may fare worse The boyz were generally balanced, I felt, seeing Trump neither as anything good nor bad; just Trump, a reflection of social temperature. All found AOC, Bernie, etc etc somewhat wanting, that that 2024 would be latest date for bad karma as the left take over team USA, assuming Trump wins 2020. All interesting. One of the takeaways last night from the boyz at the shared meal was that to a man, all said they would not decamp HK as this is the most exciting times, and so far, HK has been quite exemplary, even as there are rioters amongst demonstrators and bad cops amongst the officialdom.