<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Most people don’t look at them. I think they exist to allow people a feeling of control via the illusion of being “well informed”.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 4, 2020, at 10:23 AM, Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">When a government program retains massive funding and universal support despite it being literally impossible for it to fulfill its stated objectives, assume that the stated objectives are a lie and that it is fulfilling its /actual/ objectives perfectly.<div><br></div><div>The actual objective of those state COVID dashboards is /not/ to empower a vast army of amateur citizen epidemiologists. That would be absurd and counterproductive. The state already has all the epidemiology expertise it needs on tap.</div><div><br></div><div>The /actual/ objective of thos COVID dashboards is to make us afraid.</div><div><br></div><div>And they are working perfectly for the overwhelming majority of the population.</div><div><br></div><div>No problems here. Move along, citizen.. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:52 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 9:15 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>Everything is not political.</i></blockquote><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4">Very true, everything is not political, however if I w<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ere</span> to systematically debate your points one by one<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> as is my usual habit<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">, in the current atmosphere</span> there's not a doubt in my mind that I <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">would</span> be accused of being political and booted off the list.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> Therefore your arguments must remain unchallenged.</span></font></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>
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