Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:32:27 +0000 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <2ItTO.338744$v8v2.95701@fx18.iad> <837c86d9-9d25-e7f2-bbd1-b2e885776fbc@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:32:27 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f512c0d648b57475ad3d1332958c4c68"; logging-data="2294770"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18wVLt27X+pPLS6gtD8q8MdCXYi1/0fAjA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:LU6bCLAs501B3+FkwmJuaD8S4ZU= In-Reply-To: <837c86d9-9d25-e7f2-bbd1-b2e885776fbc@example.net> Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 3127 On 30/10/2024 11:44, D wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Oct 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > >> On 29/10/2024 22:22, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >>> On 2024-10-29, rbowman wrote: >>> >>>> The cornucopians think there will always be a technological fix. >>>> Someday >>>> they will reach into the hat to pull out the next rabbit and find out >>>> there ain't no more rabbits. >>> >>> "Cornucopians" - love it.  That's a keeper. >>> >> It's a well known term for a clearly defined set of people who - >> lacking any STEM knowledge themselves - confidently predict that >> technology will save them, resources will never run out and the only >> limit is human imagination. >> >> They are similar to the Greens in their adherence to faith based >> arguments based on no facts whatsoever. >> >> They tend to be American, because the USA is probably the richest >> nation in terms of natural resources per capita.  And because it has >> no history at all, is inclined to disbelieve its lessons >> >> Here in Europe we have lived through many a resource limited collapse. > > Yet here we are, having it better than we ever had historically. > No. Frankly we are not. Life in the 1960s was a lot more fun. > On the other hand, the eternal negative can take refuge in the fact that > the universe will die the heat death, so from that point of view, why > bother with anything at all? ;) > Indeed. Because its fun basically, Enjoy surfing that entropy wave., It wont last forever -- "First, find out who are the people you can not criticise. They are your oppressors." - George Orwell