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MKJCP wrote: Gosh, I never knew so many of my friends were morons and losers. Thanks for clueing me in.
This appears to be a very appropriate time to remind you of that well known axiom of behavior:
"Birds of a feather flock together"
You are encouraged to "read into that" !
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I understand it feels good to demean. There has been so much of it lately.
As Gandhi said, anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. Good luck with your path.
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My path is not that of Gandhi - that was HIS path.
Mine is to try, however hard, to see the humor in our existence rather than descend into it's pathos.
Let me give you another philosopher's thoughts - not quite the same flavor yet real it encompasses Gandhi and Nietzsche, Vonnegut and Lennon:
"I'm the one that has to die when it's my time to die" - Jimi Hendrix
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Exactly. My point was that your path is NOT that of Gandhi. That's OK. Everyone chooses for themselves.
I share your point of view on humor in our existence.
So did George Carlin. I wish he was around to provide some commentary on our current world. Some of his thoughts were timeless though.
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." - GC
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Talking of birds and flocks ...
May I recommend Charlotte Hemelrijk: The collective motion of flocks of birds[^] - a 30 minute 'Science & Cocktails' talk about the stepwise development of a simulation model of the movements of a flock of starlings. If I were teaching simulation to Comp.Sci students, I would certainly refer the students to this presentation, as an excellent example of how to model a physical phenomenon!
The Science & Cocktails presentations are great!
(The family name of the speaker seems appropriate when she talks about flocks of starlings  )
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trønderen wrote: I would certainly refer the students to this presentation, as an excellent example of how to model a physical phenomenon!
Yipes. Another trip to my youth earlier days in real life.
I modeled surface chemistry, in particular nearest neighbor interactions of adsorbates, on transition metal surfaces. Monte-Carlo simulation. As it turned out, it explained phenomena oft seen but not yet explained (per one of the referees of the publication). Actually, a big enough deal of an idea, that, had I know in graduate school that I'd have such an idea I would have tried to get an academic position. As an aside: the model was proven experimentally.
Practical Application: Induced Surface Ensembles on Transition Metal Surfaces. Applied to catalytic process (like petroleum chemistry) it would greatly improve efficiency of the reactions. US Gov't, my employer at the time, patented it.
Oh my ! What could have been!
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Now that's not nice. The democrats just want a better world. 
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� Forogar � wrote: millions of idiots
One man's idiot is another man's genius. 
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So let's just remove warning labels off all products and let nature run its course.
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And ban driver airbags & seat belts - and fit a large sharp spike to the middle of the steering wheel.
The casualties in the first months will be horrific, but the accident rate will plummet after that.
And the average IQ will rise dramatically. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Of course that also assumes we muzzle lawyers.
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Their cars get even bigger spikes, hi-ex on all four corners and the brakes disabled ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Covid not working fast enough for you?
(if you were to believe the conspiracy theorists...)
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Isn't there a Peanuts strip where Snoopy sits on top of his doghouse waiting for his dogfood, reading Survival of the fattest?
In the Norwegian version, he is reading "Sult" by "Knut Hamshund". You won't get that without being familiar with Norwegian culture.
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I was only in Norway for a day. I saw Rammstein. I loved it all
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I am going to answer to the parts of your post that points to things I said and you comment about it.
DRHuff wrote: Aahhh! The joy you feel when wishing death upon millions of people.
Correction...
I am not whishing the death of anyone.
I only expect them to get what they search for.
I know real people that shouted "it is all a hoax" really loud, wore no mask, didn't reduced contacts, etc... then they got the virus (some of them even spreaded it into family and friends that not necessarily share their convictions). Then they had the damn luck to get to the hospital a bit before they got full. They were / are now occuping beds that were / are being denied to people that has been trying to comply and to be careful, reducing contacts and so on, but still got infected, two of them (elder people friends of my family) died.
Sorry but... in that case, they are the ones that deserve to get through the illnes solo at home and not puting more people in risk just because their idiocy.
If they survive... I will be happy about it and hope they learnt the lesson.
If they don't... I won't be happy, but I won't be sad either.
DRHuff wrote: Everyone responding is so sure that when you chlorinate the gene pool they will of course not be affected by that chlorine.
Correction again: If it affects me, I will accept it.
As the world is going, it wouldn't surprise me if we trigger something that drastically decimates our population. And seeing how the world is going... if it really happens, we will deserve it. I only hope the following generations have a chance to survive and they learn about our errors.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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"Survival of the Fittest" does not mean survival of those {you | we | they} consider fittest. It means that those who survive are, by definition, considered the fittest.
There is no evidence, as yet, that intelligence has a long-term survival benefit. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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some would argue that "intelligence" is what got us here in the first place. 
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Do you mean: Stupidity got us into this mess; why can't it get us out?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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For humans, as a group, only intelligence allowed the group to survive.
We lack fangs. We lack claws. We cannot run very fast. Basically, an easy meal and the carnivore's don't even get much hair stuck in their teeth.
Until the clever one figured out how to pick up a stick and sharpen the ends . . .
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All you say is true, as far as it goes. My fear is that intelligence has become for us what the peacock's display has become for it - contra-survival, but the females of the species expect it to be displayed...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I am guilty of that allusion.
Evolution takes it's time because it gets and ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing laugh out of watching us scramble, trying to cope.
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Darwin wrote another book, which the popular discussions on Darwinism pretty much always ignore. In this book, he talks about how there is another factor on which genes get passed on - sexual attraction. Male birds have big, bright feathers, which make them easier targets for predators, but females like them, so they get passed on.
In civilized society, sexual attraction is the number one driver of gene selection. If football player physiques are fashionable, then that's what the other sex wants. So, that's what increases in the gene pool.
And don't forget, evolution, in most cases, can take 10's of thousands of years to make significant changes in the ratios of genes. Of course horrific events, like the holocaust or a volcanic eruption, can speed up the process.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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