XPost: alt.folklore.computers
From: tnp@invalid.invalid

On 15/12/2025 20:59, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:34:39 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 12/12/2025 19:26, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 11:54:38 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>> That will change in 4 tears time.
>>>
>>> Was that a typo or a subtle statement of the conditions?
>>
>> Freudian slip.
>>
>> IN my 75 years I have never seen political leaders more incompetent and
>> yet with greater power to do harm, than now.
>>
>> And that is in almost every country.
>>
>> The times have changed. But the politics have not. Yet.
>
> Perhaps it was youthful naivete but I remember the JFK years with the
> 'best and the brightest' with some fondness. Then the music died. I
> recovered some hope with Reagan but it's been downhill from there.
> Downhill, hell, more like off a cliff.
>
I definitely thought Reagan was good in that he listened to smart people.
Was never a JFK raver., All seemed too good to be true. like Obama...

--
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen

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