sauce direct re: suicidal Amazon warehouse employees:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/9-11-flooded-calls-about-suicidal-amazon-warehouse-employees
Snowden stopped in HK first with safe passive…
HH 88 > "bye bye" in Mandarin and the ':'-colon is now missing
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"In addition, 88 is also used to mean "bye bye (拜拜)" in Chinese-language chats, text messages, SMSs and IMs. 88 can be seen as shorthand for 8181, which when pronounced in standard Mandarin is identical to "bye bye"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_Chinese_culture