Chinese people on REDNote have discovered that Americans will sell plasma to get by and they're abhorred. They keep bringing up the book Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, because to them, selling your blood is reminiscent of extreme poverty and famine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_a_Blood_Merchant
Chinese people on REDNote have discovered that Americans will sell plasma to get by and they're abhorred. They keep bringing up the book Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, because to them, selling your blood is reminiscent of extreme poverty and famine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicle_of_a_Blood_Merchant
Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. Since January 2022, the SC has received a total of 47 complaints and enquiries on illegal investment schemes promoted through Telegram. These fraudulent schemes offer non-existent investment opportunities, promising very attractive and risk-free returns within a short span of time. They commonly offer unrealistic returns of as high as 1,000% within 24 hours or even within a few hours. For Oleksandra Tsekhanovska, head of the Hybrid Warfare Analytical Group at the Kyiv-based Ukraine Crisis Media Center, the effects are both near- and far-reaching. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. Crude oil prices edged higher after tumbling on Thursday, when U.S. West Texas intermediate slid back below $110 per barrel after topping as much as $130 a barrel in recent sessions. Still, gas prices at the pump rose to fresh highs.
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