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Originally Posted by Anteater
Not really. The only reason Yang has any chance at all is because Trump became President. He's been a good shakeup to the status quo, especially after two prior elections where China attempted to interfere and nobody seemed to care.
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^ That's a relief - I though for a minute I'd lost the one person who is willing to respond to my political rants!
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Working 70 hours a week in a sweltering kitchen isn’t any better than Ivan Denisovich had it.
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^ 70 hours a week is brutal, though I think I'd rather be in a hot kitchen than in Siberia. If I remember right, a typical workbreak for Ivan D was a mug of boiling water which he drank while squatting on a bit of permafrost that the authorities had designated as a building site. I may not've worked construction in Siberia, but I have waited, in mid-winter, at windswept London bus-stops for over half-an-hour at a time, so I can imagine how Ivan D must've felt.
