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Re: Who Knew ?

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc, alt.politics
Subject Re: Who Knew ?
Date 2021-11-07 12:15 +0000
Organization A little, after lunch
Message-ID <sm8g17$9do$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 06/11/2021 19:07, Rich wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2021-11-02, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/11/2021 05:04, 1p166 wrote:
>>>
>>>> People are SMART everywhere. It's the ability to make good USE
>>>> of that that tends to be the problem.
>>>
>>> I disagree, people are stupid everywhere, because inserting a penis
>>> in a vagina doesn't take any great intelligence. Nor does groaning
>>> and pushing the baby out or slapping it against a nipple.
>>>
>>> Even rats can do all that.
>>>
>>> Society needs one or two 'bright' individuals on occasion when
>>> circumstances need a different approach.
>>> But in general smart people are disliked and reviled and ignored
>>> by the masses.
>>
>>     Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man.
>>     Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded - here and there,
>>     now and then - are the work of an extremely small minority,
>>     frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed
>>     by all right-thinking people.  Whenever this tiny minority is
>>     kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out
>>     of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
>>     This is known as ?bad luck.?
>>       -- Robert A. Heinlein: The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
> 
> A great many years ago now, an Econ professor for a college Econ class
> related it like so (paraphrashing from memory):
> 
>      Poverty is the default, anything greater than poverty requires the
>      input of work.
> 
There is a strange fact, argued over by archaeologists and 
anthropologists, that hunter gatherers seem to have kept population 
numbers well below mass starvation levels. Only once people started 
eating cultivated starches did population levels, and famines, seem to 
arise.

Did they strangle surplus babies?


-- 
The New Left are the people they warned you about.

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Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-10-21 00:06 -0400
  Re: Who Knew ? Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-10-21 08:27 +0100
    Re: Who Knew ? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-10-21 08:04 -0700
      Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-10-28 02:08 -0400
        Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-28 09:41 +0100
          Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-10-29 16:39 +0000
            Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-30 07:39 +0100
      Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-10-29 01:14 -0400
        Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-10-29 16:52 +0000
          Re: Who Knew ? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-10-29 13:08 -0700
            Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-10-29 22:43 +0000
              Re: Who Knew ? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-10-30 04:32 -0400
            Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-30 08:21 +0100
              Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-01 18:50 +0000
            Re: Who Knew ? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2021-10-30 13:45 +0000
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                Re: Who Knew ? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2021-10-30 21:47 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-30 23:14 +0100
                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-31 01:25 +0000
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                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-31 13:35 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-10-31 15:47 -0400
                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-11-01 04:44 +0000
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                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-02 06:17 +0000
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                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-03 17:18 +0000
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                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-03 21:34 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-11-04 11:05 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-04 17:19 +0000
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                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-05 17:40 +0000
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                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-11-04 11:08 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-03 17:18 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2021-10-31 01:52 -0400
                Re: Who Knew ? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2021-10-31 10:26 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-10-31 22:52 -0400
                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-01 18:50 +0000
          Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-30 08:00 +0100
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            Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-05 17:40 +0000
    Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-10-28 01:11 -0400
      Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-28 09:39 +0100
      Re: Who Knew ? Pancho <Pancho.Dontmaileme@outlook.com> - 2021-10-28 14:25 +0100
        Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-28 14:49 +0100
        Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-10-29 01:07 -0400
          Re: Who Knew ? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-10-29 08:13 -0700
            Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-10-31 00:28 -0400
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      Re: Who Knew ? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-10-28 08:15 -0700
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          Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-29 09:59 +0100
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                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-30 07:59 +0100
              Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-10-30 07:53 +0100
                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-01 18:50 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-11-02 01:04 -0400
                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-11-02 08:34 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-02 19:09 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-11-02 23:58 -0400
                Re: Who Knew ? Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2021-11-02 21:39 -0700
                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-11-03 08:36 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? 1p166 <z24ba6.net> - 2021-11-03 11:23 -0400
                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-11-03 08:31 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-03 17:18 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-11-06 19:07 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2021-11-07 12:15 +0000
                Re: Who Knew ? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2021-11-07 13:55 +0000
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