"Well, at least we didn't do the worst version of The Lord of the Rings!"

*Yeah, I know Rankin is dead. His shade sighed in relief...

Probably not. I bet Slashdot has probably had at least one back-to-back dupe...

There's a 99.9% chance this story is complete bunk just like all the other media hoaxes of the last five years.

See Charles Murray's Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 , pages 150-152. In those two studies, there was a reduction in a desire to work and the number of hours worked, and an increase in the time recipients stayed on unemployment.

And the effect was more pronounced in the longer study.

We know they were conducting gain in function experiments on coronaviruses.

And as for Ebola, we know China illegally acquired samples of that from a Candian lab as well. So it makes sense to assume that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was probably working on that as well.

All evidence points toward and accidental lab release. There's no reason to believe it was a finished bioweapon rather than an in-progress work.

There's a good chance that the Wuhan Cornavirus originated in a lab. But how on earth would you think any international agency would dare mention that when they can't even bring themselves to condemn documented genocide?

Given Hunter Biden's documented financial ties to China, I wouldn't expect the Biden Administration to do any more either.

And did you hear that Biden's pick to be CIA head ran a think tank that was filthy with Chinese cash?

I don't think it will work.

Silver is fundamentally different than stock in GameStop, and I don't feel they have anything like a good grasp on the dynamics of that market.

(More detailed version here.)

1. Some big hedge funds shorted more GameStop stock than actual shares outstanding. This is called a "naked short" and is illegal.
2. Some redditors noticed this, and bought the stock.
3. The stock soared as more and more investors bought.
4. To close out their short positions, those hedge funds must purchase shares of GameStop, even if it means suffering a huge loss. This is what's know as a "short squeeze."
5. Rather than sucking it up and taking their losses, many hedge funds not only doubled down on shorts, they went crying to the Biden Administration and their friends in the media that it was unfair they had been beaten at their own game.
6. Result: Ameritrade, Robinhood and others halt retail accounts from buying the stock, ostensibly due to "volatility," but actually to bail out the hedge funds.

...was that it benefited a Republican candidate.

If it helped a Democrat, the media never would have expressed the slightest interest in it...

1. "The manufacturers of the equipment only make 2-3 a year at a billion dollars each, and we're using EUV methods, so the light source is weak and costs a billion dollars itself." False. The very most expensive machines are ASML steppers, at over $100 million each. Most other semiconductor equipment is nowhere near that expensive. PVD, CVD, Etch, ion implanters, etc., are all considerably less.
2. ASML sold nine EUV steppers in F21Q1 alone.
3. Fabs are very expensive not because of a few super-expensive machines, but because of dozens of merely expensive machines.
2. Cutting edge fabs are $10-20 billion, not "hundreds of billions."

Plenty of U.S. chip companies still fab their own chips, include TI, Micron and (German-owned) NXP, to name just a few.

Unless by "major" you mean "designs x64 chips."

The record of American institutions (tech, political, business, education, etc) climbing in bed to do the bidding of the Communist Chinese government is quite long.

...like using the wrong pronouns, or refusing to support the latest SJW talking points?

Did you not see the (D) after his name?

That automatically absolves him of all sins.

ALL. SINS.