[ExI] geezer guard

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 15:09:10 UTC 2021


Rafal-  a hunter friend of mine says that the best meat he ever ate was
elk.    bill w

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 8:44 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
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> >… ###...Since my father was a doctor and very popular with his patients,
> including the butcher, I did get to eat meat often. …And I still do! This
> week so far I had beef, bison and incredibly delicious BBQ ribs. There is
> some foie gras and an ostrich in the freezer.
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> Life is good.
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> Our friends grew up in Ukraine.  They were physics students in Kiev when
> the accident happened at Chernobyl, which caused a lot of them to develop
> an attitude: they were expected to go out for the May Day parade when the
> physics students knew the radiation levels.
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> They are connected to the Ukrainian expatriate community so I get access
> to some information I wouldn’t otherwise have.
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> At a party one of the Ukrainians was telling of the way it was in the late
> 80s when western consumer goods were starting to become available.  Not
> enough, but some.  This caused new problems.  Information became currency:
> they found out a truck was coming with such and such amount of candy to so
> and so location.  His mother parked him in line.  He was age 10 at that
> time.  From his position he estimated a tossup whether he would go home
> with a bag of candy or empty-handed.
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> After he had been there nearly two hours, two full-grown men in line just
> ahead of him got into a fight, not just a tussle but a serious fisticuffs
> match.  It occurred to him that here he was, investing 2 hours of his youth
> and facing the risk of having an unconscious man fall on him or the other
> children in line, all for a 50% chance at scoring… a bag of candy.
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> He decided to hell with it.  Left without the candy but with a new and
> cynical attitude: why is it that western countries made all these wonderful
> things that we are reduced to fighting over?  Why can’t we just set up a
> candy factory here in Ukraine and make our own?
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> He decided to leave Ukraine at his first opportunity.  He landed here.
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> The Silicon Valley is a place with many expatriates from all over the
> world.  Here is a good place to find first-hand experienced blood-spitting
> anti-communism.
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> spike
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