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They're saying it's the best and longest deal ever signed! You know England signed a lease on Hong Kong for only ninety nine years, I'm told the king wanted longer but the CHInese they run a hard deal and the king couldn't do it, he couldn't get a hundred years. Very sad, his advisors were running around saying sir the CHInese they don't want a hundred, they want ninety nine, and the king was very angry. We got a hundred years, a hundred year lease. The greatest lease in the history of real estate, I'm hearing.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Signing an oil lease for "100 years" really suggests that there were no oil guys involved in the deal at all. This is very likely just more Trump art of the deal Deals (TM) whose only purpose is the headline. Venezuela has also shown the ability to treat C-suite oil guys with the correct level of respect and why wouldn't they return to that in the future? They swapped a mid leader out for another one, they didn't kill the communes.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Whoah whoah whoah, are you suggesting people might need to know something about Venezuela before making sweeping doomer declarations? Fuck that, being a leftist is about vibes and being smarter than those third worlders

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    I got food poisoning and ended up going to the ER last night because I lost control of my upper body. Apparently hyperventilation (while puking my guts out) can reduce the amount of CO2 in your blood stream, making your blood mildly acidic. Before I went to the hospital I was laid out on the ground, unable to control my arms which were partially bent with my hands balled into tight painful fists. Thought I was dying.

    So, pro tip, if you're ever hyperventilating and your upper body gets tingly and starts to cramp up, try your hardest to regulate your breath.

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