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The dotcom bubble destroyed a lot of retirement accounts people had no ability to choose the companies invested in as they were often generic, broad, investment portfolios. It also killed a lot of lower end white collar jobs, and damaged a lot of local government investments, leading to steep declines in those services. There are numerous other ways non-tech people were affected, but I don’t feel like writing a bunch.

I am interested to know how old you were when that dotcom bubble popped, though.

I drink a couple times a year. I generally get in the mood for it a handful of times a year, but beyond that I just have no desire.

On the chance this isn’t a joke, no it isn’t, Linus has said so himself

Yeah, with a few exceptions, if you are in Europe you can likely look at our news media and be like “Ha, well, at least I am not there”

They dissolved MAREZ, and while they still operate their community help centers, they no longer govern the area. While the whole list of reasons for this is unknown to anyone but the Counsels of Good Government, the greater issues they spoke about was a combination of the government bodies of Mexico applying more pressure, at the same time Cartel territory has expanded into their area, and the violence, and threats to the counsel that came from this.

So the Zapatistas are not in a good way at the moment.