On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM '[email protected]' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
*> Team progressive hasn't ameliorated the world's problems.* > *Bullshit. Thanks to the spread of the enlightenment movement, which started in Europe in the late 17th century, even though there are more people alive today than ever before, they are also healthier, longer lived, better educated and far far richer than ever before. And per capita the last 80 years have been the most peaceful 80 years in human history. But Donald Trump and his team of anti-enlightenment nitwits are determined to put a stop to all of that, you need to look no further than their astoundingly idiotic trade policy. * *John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>* t66 > > *> JC, at the end of the day, we have spent decades on basic research and > it takes God's own time to get anything really good out of it. Do I need to > tell you of this, via, cancer,* > > > *So out of the millions of different extraordinary complex chemicals that > the human body uses and produces you think the decision about which one > deserves deeper investigation and is more likely to lead to a cancer cure > should not be made by Nobel prize winning organic chemists but by Robert > Brainworm Kennedy, Donald Trump and his clown car cabinet. I humbly > disagree. A strong analogy can be made between the present situation in > America and the way that Trofim Lysenko destroyed medical research in the > USSR. * > > * Lysenkoism* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism> > > *> your duly, noted, pessimism hasn't served us all that well* > > > *I'm not pessimistic, the situation is still not hopeless. I think the > human race has about a 30% chance of existing 10 years from now; before > Trump got reelected I would've said there was a 50% chance of surviving the > Singularity. * > > * > What's to lose? * > > > *Well for one thing, experimental cancer treatments that were terminated > halfway through their planned trial run so, thanks to Trump, they are now > scientifically useless. Hey but at least we've got the Gulf Of America!* > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1eFmqCwq9OKbV6TQfZeYX0kDhyi1nKzhHfDfNf8rdqVw%40mail.gmail.com.
