[ExI] Is the ExI email list slowly dying out? And if so, what can be done to reverse such an outcome?

[William Flynn Wallace]

 spike - I am having another (after the botched first one) heart stress
test.  My attitude is neither positive nor negative - I will deal with
whatever it says.  I have no basis for optimism or pessimism.  They cancel
- if I am optimistic and get a bad result, it's a downer; if I am
pessimistic and get a good result, it's an upper.    Since I don't like to
be down before the test - (Alfred E Neuman - why worry?) I vote for neutral.

Tiny nit to pick:  'general consensus' is redundant. I got corrected on
this by a student - only time ever I was wrong in class!  About words,
anyhow.  bill w

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:38 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Is the ExI email list slowly dying out? And if so,
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> Please grumpy bears among us, do explain how you can justify your attitude?
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> >…I have a grumpy side.  News brings it out, so I never watch TV news…
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> Well ja.  Since news went online, the agencies have realtime feedback on
> what sells their ads.  They discovered that writing negative news that
> enflames anger sells best.  So… they do.  They are businesses.
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> >…I wonder how many younger people take advantage of all the knowledge
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> Hard to say.  If they don’t, I don’t see why.
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> >…Some of us (hello John!) are like the poor guy in Dogpatch (who
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> Sure, Joe Btfsplik.  Lil Abner was from the days when we were allowed to
> laugh at fun politically-incorrect stuff, such as the glaring shortcomings
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> I am Joe’s real-world counterpart:
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> >…Pessimistic?  Nah. Realistic.
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> The pessimist complains about the wind.  The optimist assures us it will
> change soon.  The realist trims her sails.  (date unknown, some famous guy
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> BillW, trim your sails, me lad!  Be an optimistic realist.  Life is gooood.
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