Some Covid-19 thoughts
POSTED BY: captaincrunch
UPDATED: Monday, September 29, 2025 18:59
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I think people don't manage their population for the same reasons they pollute the planet for the same reasons they strip-mine every resource for the same reasons the vast majority live in poverty while less than 1% lives in unimaginable wealth for the same reasons COVID-19 is running across the planet.
People have severe evolutionary divots in their thinking and instinctive responses: 1) they believe what they're told even at the cost of trusting their own senses; and 2) their basic instincts are as group dwellers in deadly competition with other human groups, 3) they react hierarchically to concentrated (easily controlled) resources, like Jane Goodall's chimps.
That's not to say people can't change. After all, there are the peaceable baboons of Kenya, and the courtly bottlenose dolphins of Australia. Surely we're smarter than the average baboon. Right?
They questions are, why haven't we changed even as we see the cliff we're jumping off of; and what would it take?
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
That's not to say people can't change. After all, there are the peaceable baboons of Kenya, and the courtly bottlenose dolphins of Australia. Surely we're smarter than the average baboon. Right?
They questions are, why haven't we changed even as we see the cliff we're jumping off of; and what would it take?
Ask your friend on Nextdoor who let somebody crash their house the other night what happens when you "change".*
The problem isn't just that there are too many "bad" people and that there is never any foolproof way to know this ahead of time. The real problem is that every single one of us is capable of doing very bad things given the right circumstances.
Combined with this problem is the fact that outside of some things that are so abhorrent that the can be universally agreed on as unquestionably bad, the definition of "bad" can usually vary greatly from person to person. Hell, I'd guess that if you did a study where you asked 100 people what is "bad" on a list of 100 things once every decade throughout the course of their lifetime that you'd find their own answers vary greatly the longer that study went on.
*As an aside, after your Nextdoor post I went into some detail about the last time I had picked up a hitchhiker and recommended that nobody ever let strangers sleep in their house or get a ride in their car. This was the second of two bad incidents that made me stop picking up hitchhikers. The first one saw me convincing cops that I wasn't the getaway car for a guy who had knocked over a liquor store earlier that night...
What I didn't mention though is that I'd given rides to strangers many times in the years leading up to that and met some interesting people and had some interesting stories to tell because of it. But the window has closed on that opportunity in the future because it's just not worth losing your life over.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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Oh. Ahem. It was a joke about a snowman - round personage, wearing only a scarf, nose like a carrot, eyes black like coal, arms like sticks ... and the puddle left on the floor from the warmth of the fireplace.
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lol.... Whoops. My bad.
Sometimes I forget there are still jokes in 2020.
But yeah... Don't let strangers crash in your house.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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Deaths
341,801___+3,511
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Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island,' dies of Covid-19 complications at 82
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/30/entertainment/dawn-wells-obit/index.htm
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Dipshit had events wearing no mask. Republicans are fucking idiots. All of them. There are no exceptions.
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Dawn Wells, Mary Ann on 'Gilligan's Island,' dies of Covid-19 complications
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Nah. She died of 82 years old.
Beat the average life expectancy in the US by 3.5 years.
Good for you, Dawn.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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I hadn't seen that ugly mug forever.
I thought Maddow was cancelled or something. Guess not. Good for her.
What have you done today to earn your place in this crowded world? :)
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