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Well, over here we had some 'pots & pans music' during prime minister Rutte's speech about the lockdown measures from his tower office in the Binnenhof, he did not let that disturb him though 
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"Medley: I'll be Home for Christmas / Katie, Bar The Door"
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Just Discovered: Reactions.
Countered the thumbs down with a thumbs up. And then some.
The only thing I can think of as non-positive is that isn't this behavior by UK'ers (and Parisians, at one point, too) a Leslie of sorts?
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As I said to my son earlier today, these are the same idiots who behave idiotically in normal times. I had hoped that Covid would maybe act as a cull of this species, but the governments does not seem to want to let it.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I had hoped that Covid would maybe act as a cull of this species, but the governments does not seem to want to let it.
The reason the government is not letting it happen (at least in some states) is that the cull would not be limited to the participants but will be further distributed into the others.
Your idea would work if we could gather all of them into a single location (like, for example, Alabama) and not let them out to spread it after giving it to one another. However - if we could isolate them in a single location like that the problem wouldn't be a problem and innumerable other problems would dissipate, as well.
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My comment was strictly tongue ibn cheek. But I do recall a science fiction film years ago where aliens gave some people some gizmos which had "the power of life and death". Ultimately some clever scientist discovered that they could selectively destroy all the evil people on earth. Would that it were true.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: The reason the government is not letting it happen (at least in some states) is that the cull would not be limited to the participants but will be further distributed into the others.
No, the real problem is that, with the exception of parts of the United States, Western governments have disarmed most law-abiding people. In the not-so-distant past, most law-abiding farmers also had shotguns, and you can be sure that they would be warning off any suspected plague-carriers from the cities.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: Your idea would work if we could gather all of them into a single location (like, for example, Alabama) and not let them out to spread it after giving it to one another.
Something similar was the master move in a book. If I recall correctly it was (translated back from spanish) "The mercenary" but I can't find it...
first I thought it was Heinlein's, but no...
Then I checked Pohl... no.
Pity... you would like it for sure.
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Heinlein had a somewhat similar idea as "Coventry" in his future history, where people who cold not fit into society and who would not accept mental alteration were sent.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I don't think it was it.
In the one I mean, the scene takes place in a football stadium. All those "insurgents" are taken there by the central char (supposedly a rebel too) and, when everybody is inside, the doors get closed and everyone inside gets killed.
The descriptions are pretty graphical and the "speech" of the "betrayor" after that is...  but on the same time it kind of makes sense in a macabre way. Short after the book ends.
Nevermind...
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Yeah, let's concentrate all the stupid people with the wrong opinions into one place.
Really can't see how that can go wrong.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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That's a way of looking at it - a bit dark and sinister.
On the other hand, maybe - just maybe - they'll all be in a state of delight that everyone around them agrees with them ! And when they do dangerous and stupid things that endanger both themselves and others, well, no one will complain. It's their right!
And if they kill each other off - by accident or design - is that such an ethical tragedy?
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: but the governments does not seem to want to let it.
If Covid kills idiots, then of course the politicians will try to stop it. 
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Yeah, charity begins at home. 
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: isn't this behavior by UK'ers (and Parisians, at one point, too) a Leslie of sorts?
It certainly is. Great Plague of London - Exodus from the city
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We have here a couple of cities / towns where the crematories are overfilled although they are making double shifts each day. Even the bureaucrats have to work and do extra hours during Christmas break because without the deceasal certificate, the crematories can't do their job.
Last year one binder was enough for 3 or 4 months... in dezember the binder was full by the 18th. And rate is increasing...
Pity is... the dumbs and the nuts usually have more luck than they deserve
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With the cute hat, if you'd just make him blue for the holidays I sure I fix Bob up with Smurf babes[^] who take mistletoe "very seriously".
(and someone for many of the rest of us)[^]
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Message flagged for pimping.
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Ooops! My bad!
I forgot that those of you in the frigid far northern climates are used to seeking scantily clad women take on that Smurf-Blue look.
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Baby It’s Cold Outside!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Why does Bob have to be blue? Is Smurfette racist?
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Well, it's a little know secret, but Smurfs, as a group, are rather, um, uh, very "selective" about with whom they associate.
On the other hand, if Bob goes around dressed as he is in a real winter climate (He's in Canada, aye?) then he'll be turning blue soon enough.
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Hi All,
Putting up the decorations today, I spent lock down working on some Adrino code for several set of WS2811 leds and various festive other things. Thanks to the black hole I tend to store stuff in (aka a 1 TB external drive) I can't find it! . So I spent most of the morning coding and soldering to get to where I should be (people can't come in this year so probably for the best a chance to prototype!). Probably because I wrote the code in the first place I knew pretty much what needed to go where. Now the lights are on the floor as I have to hunt the garage for the Christmas tree feet (last year we had only three!, timber). Yesterday I saw people stocking up on bread, milk & pasta to a manic extent (no toilet rolls,still got some from earlier?), it's closed for 48 hours. You have enough supplys to see out the sige of Stalingrad. Maddness. 
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glennPattonContracting2 wrote: Yesterday I saw people stocking up on bread, milk & pasta to a manic extent (no toilet rolls,still got some from earlier?), it's closed for 48 hours. You have enough supplys to see out the sige of Stalingrad. Maddness.
It's a neurological disease that's been spreading northward for some years, now. It respects no borders.
It started, as best as I can remember, in Florida - stores suddenly being wiped out before hurricanes (which were invariably hyped as the worst (or one of the worst), yet). This spread northward and the connection to the brain became all to clear with the hoarding of toilet paper (medical proof[^]).
In case it comes to mind, there's no hope of a vaccine for this: there's no cure for stupid.
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