<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;background-color:transparent">On Sat, Nov 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">On 07/11/2026 18:25, spike wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span style="background-color:transparent">><span class="gmail_default" style="">></span> A recent hospital stay I shared a room with a homeless guy who was coming</span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent">off of heroin.  He owned nothing.  They treated him.  Then sent him off to</span><span class="gmail_default" style="background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent">be a guest of the Sacramento County sheriff for six months.</span></i></font></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Good example of the kind of thing I mean.<br>
In order to get health care for free, you have to be a stone from which blood can't be extracted. Any stone that has any blood at all will be forced to give it all up.</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Damn, I wish I'd said that<span class="gmail_default" style="">. Excellent! </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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