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That’s what need. Lots of machines cleaning up the landscape. That’s nature at work!

No

What better choices? They all gave conflicting diagnoses

Unfortunately we still haven’t beat that disease. despite all the focus on it sadly up to half the population still suffers from viewing the world with MG.

But she wasn’t hired. Clearly she is the dentist that owns the practice. Clearly she is selling herself as a poster child of what her patients could look like if they pay for her services. Also, you’re assuming he’s assuming. Sounds like he’s just stating a fact. If you dont get that then obviously you’re not a golfer.

The kalahari bushman had a trick to stay cool on a hot day: dig a sand pit in the shade, put in the fibrous bits of inedible plant material, pee on them, lay down in the pit and cover up with sand and wait until the evening cooled things down.

And the story this was inspired by in particular is called “Cookies”:

Toad makes very good cookies and he and frog can’t stop eating them. “We need willpower!” they say.

So they put the cookies in a box. But they realize they can just open it, so they tie it with string and put it on a high shelf. But they realize they can get it down so Frog goes outside and scatters the cookie and birds eat them all.

There says Frog “now we have lots and lots of willpower!”

Toad is upset. “You can keep your willpower Frog. I am going home to bake a cake!”

But are they wrong though?

Sahlin and Lee are quoted in the article. Looks like there were murders but many came from two blood feuds that got out of hand and also overlapped with resettlement and pressure and enslavement by the white and bantus, so its hard to say. Regular violence was rare and denigrated but those poison arrows...

Grifters don’t usually spend their entire lives devoted to preparing for something that doesn’t yet exist, giving up whatever else they like doing to work on that problem, and spending years trying to plan out how to make things go well for everyone when that thing materializes.

Grifters are opportunistic short-termists. Whatever you can say about these rationalists, they aren’t that.