Mr.Chan

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@neilcybart Nah. Mobile don’t use enough memory or flash anymore. It’s not 10 years ago.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump: I'm doing a great job on the Reflecting Lake. I got so into it. I've upgraded it like you wouldn't believe... It's going to be beautiful. It's going to be waterproof. It's going to be reflecting again.

[Euan MacDonald @Euan_MacDonald]

French President Emmanuel Macron pulls off what could be the greatest diplomatic troll of all time by getting Trump to sign the "$300 Billion US Surrender to Iran" deal in... Versailles. The ignoramus Trump will have been clueless as to the historical significance of the location

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@xumouren_yt 一切都是爲了中期選舉。拖時間

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Yes, he posted it.
Yes, it’s real.

Yes, He honestly thinks this is a flex.

We are ruled by the dumbest fucking people in America.

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

You are seeing in real time why Trump companies went bankrupt so many times. Set aside your politics. This guy is incapable of making a deal or meaningful decision and it follows the same cycle. Big flashy announcement (Epic Fury). Adversity hits (Hormuz closed). Defraud stakeholders (promise two week solution). Freeze up (endless two week cycle loop). Compound the problem (resource depletion). Final chance to save face rejected (what you’re seeing now). Bankruptcy strikes and blame others during chaos. Rinse repeat.

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@Unclestocknotes @JackChen949837 YMTC 是做3D NAND. 而且最出名的是它的x-stacking 堆疊法。現在4.0了

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@JackChen949837 @Unclestocknotes 那不是2D NAND

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@WayWLeung CPU 現在很熱銷因爲AI Agent. 自己產能做CPU 都不夠。沒時間去做代工了。

[barney @barneyxbt]

let me make sure i’m understanding this correctly

the supreme court is refunding all tariff money back to corporations.

the same corporations that didn’t pay a single cent of those tariffs to begin with.

they passed every dollar directly to you through higher prices on everything you buy

you went to the store and paid more for groceries. you paid more for clothes. for car parts. for literally everything.

that money came out of YOUR pocket not theirs

and now the refund goes to THEM?

the corporations who used the tariffs as an excuse to raise prices even higher than the tariff itself and pocket the difference

the american people funded the tariffs.

the corporations profited off the tariffs.

and now the corporations get a refund on money they never spent in the first place
and nobody in washington thinks the people who actually paid should get the money back.

not a single person has even suggested it

guess we are never getting our DOGE checks either

this country does not work for you.

it works for them. it’s a joke

and they’re not even pretending anymore

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

What was meant to be a show of force has spiraled into a full-blown agricultural disaster. T.r.u.m.p’s latest potash tariffs were designed to pressure Canada, but instead they detonated inside America’s own farming heartland. In an emergency meeting at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a senior Trump adviser reportedly admitted the unthinkable: the policy had backfired so badly that American farmers may not survive the growing season.
Canada wasted no time. As the world’s largest potash supplier, Ottawa redirected exports to Asia and Europe within days, locking in billion-dollar contracts and tightening its grip on the global fertilizer market. One Canadian official mocked the situation bluntly, saying that if the U.S. doesn’t want Canadian potash, the rest of the world gladly will.
On the ground in Iowa, the consequences turned personal. A U.S. farmer broke down during a live interview, explaining that without Canadian potash, crops simply cannot be grown at scale. The result is stark: Canada posts record profits and cements its status as the undisputed “fertilizer king,” while the United States loses control of a critical supply chain at the worst possible moment of the planting season. Analysts are already calling this the worst trade failure of Trump’s year — a pressure tactic that ended up crushing the very people it claimed to defend.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Charles Barkley on CBS tonight:

“The way some of these immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace. What we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants is really unfortunate and really sad.”

Charles Barkley is not a politician. Not an activist. Not a Democrat. He is one of the most beloved sports figures in American history saying this on national television.

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@lidangzzz 中國人最不喜歡花錢養別人小孩。

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@chenreason SuperMicro 是像一個台灣私人公司管理方式在美國上市了的結果。

[Tim Culpan @tculpan]

One of the best ways to track AI demand isn’t Nvidia.

It’s watching Taiwan’s contract manufacturers.

When companies like Foxconn, Wistron, and Quanta start posting billions in additional revenue, you know the AI build-out is accelerating.

More here:
https://t.co/KUpxDMf2Wg

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@jimmy_su 看起來生產力，創新力更重要。還要一大堆3D列印機。

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

It appears there's a Kirkland F-15E currently above the Gulf of California on its way to Puerto Vallarta 👀

[Mr.Chan @jsc7902]

@Alex8282019 不會到讀不懂喔。英語高中都會教Canterbury Tales. 差不多同樣時期像朱元章。

[The ₿itcoin Therapist @TheBTCTherapist]

If you don’t laugh at this you’re not human