“The energy needed to refute BS is of an order of magnitude greater than the effort needed to produce the BS in the first place. ”
Brandolini’s law
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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
On the North River 
The big question is: who is on the business end?
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The 1%
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We can only hope; my concern is that pushback should have happened long ago. I worry that we no longer have the people with the stones to stand up. “We” (not me, but ‘we’) have allowed the overlords to ‘re-set’ the way we live; what’s to stop them from owning the guillotines?
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You know we are in big trouble when FEMA has a code for death by guillotine. FEMA’s Billing Code for Death by Guillotine is ICD9-E978.
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The question is will this appear before vast armies rage and slay and rivers of blood pour out upon the land, or in place of that?
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