[ExI] Strange existence threat

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 7:30 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> It needs urgent study. Given the current political environment is that
> possible? The oil companies make a lot of money off plastics so they
> would oppose research. Maybe it could be sold as a long-term way to
> reduce the number of trans people caused by chemicals.  Any other
> ideas?
>

I think you are ambivalent about "trans" so I read this as purely a way to
game the zeitgeist into allocating funds for research that should be done
regardless of agenda

The way words work, and the attention spans growing ever shorter... makes
me wince at the snip "reduce the number of trans people" - so if you do
mention this again outside this group, be mindful how people will remember
what they think you said instead of what you meant.

(Or not, perhaps this is my problem more than others)

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