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Old 05-20-2025, 04:27 PM   #991 (permalink)
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Old 05-20-2025, 04:46 PM   #992 (permalink)
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I was fortunate in that I was flat on my back for 4 days in 2020-01 with some undiagnosed malady (it came in through the lacrimals).

So I watched the whole thing unfold with a sense of detachment. It came from Ft. Dettrick, MD; and now the population of China is 400-800 million; doesn't that sound like someone was successful?
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Old 05-20-2025, 05:52 PM   #993 (permalink)
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We don't know how many Chinese there are because regional authoritarians are disincentivized from delivering dismaying census figures to the CCP. I wouldn't be surprised if 800M is closer to the real number.

... and just like that, we're already halfway to the next census. The Covid years seemed to both crawl along at a snails pace, and simultaneously feel like a blip in time.

It was ~2020 that SA episodes felt like groundhog day, with endless WuFlu discussion. I still long for 2019.
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I still long for 1956.

Population numbers proxy: Human salt consumption.
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The Covid years seemed to both crawl along at a snails pace, and simultaneously feel like a blip in time.
It's all like that. According to the country song -- 'the years are short, and the nights are long'.

I watched, and the "bumpty-bum-bum" sounded painful. But then it smoothed out.

His robot jumping on the trash story is falsified. Optimus will learn directly from Youtube videos. Like CrazyRussianHacker showing how to take of a T-shirt.

I like that his audience can answer a question before he asks it, within 2%.

People don't come up with their own opinions?

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Putin's cards are already on the table. He does not want Zelensky in Moscow.

China's space station has germs!

Overall, he's sounding like an underinformed doomer.
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Overall, he's sounding like an underinformed doomer.
I miss his optimistic "golden-age" talk. It's still coming, but like Moses, he's sadly not going to see it. He led us there but cannot enter into it. I was hoping he'd get to see people land on Mars, and humanity begin to to utilize nuclear energy more, among many other things.
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Many of you don’t realize that Scott Adams intellectualized/legitimized Trumpism, he helped turn Trump 2016 from a novelty candidacy to a serious one. GENIUS MAGA spokesperson, like Vance. We would not have won either election without Scott. Put some respect on the man’s name. He is a MAGA wizard.
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Free doughnuts? That's your price?

Good to know.
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I said that's a tell, not a price.

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