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Interesting thread, and I'm glad to have read it.
My take is exactly the opposite: I have ALWAYS expected a pandemic. I have ALWAYS expected a nuclear war.
Maybe bc I'm pretty far out on "the spectrum", but to understand a thing is to appreciate its historic inevitability https://twitter.com/JeffLadish/status/1308163740219523073
Interesting thread, and I'm glad to have read it.
My take is exactly the opposite: I have ALWAYS expected a pandemic. I have ALWAYS expected a nuclear war.
Maybe bc I'm pretty far out on "the spectrum", but to understand a thing is to appreciate its historic inevitability https://twitter.com/JeffLadish/status/1308163740219523073
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As a teen I saw that the runways of LaGuardia, etc were near the highway, and marveled at how easy to would be to put a mortar in a minivan and blow up full loaded planes on the ground.
I drove through the Lincoln tunnel and imagined a Ryder truck full of explosives.
As a teen I saw that the runways of LaGuardia, etc were near the highway, and marveled at how easy to would be to put a mortar in a minivan and blow up full loaded planes on the ground.
I drove through the Lincoln tunnel and imagined a Ryder truck full of explosives.
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9/11 didn't surprise me at all - I'd thought of exactly that scenario and was - if anything - surprised it hadn't happened much earlier.
I'd always expected another Black Death, and The Coming Plague (1996) gave me all the details. https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913
9/11 didn't surprise me at all - I'd thought of exactly that scenario and was - if anything - surprised it hadn't happened much earlier.
I'd always expected another Black Death, and The Coming Plague (1996) gave me all the details. https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Plague-Emerging-Diseases-Balance/dp/0140250913
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The "unthinkable" is not just thinkable. It's inevitable.
There will be plagues far worse than this one.
There will be nuclear war.
The US will end, likely in civil war.
A million monkeys on a million typewriters eventually write every book in Borges' library.
The "unthinkable" is not just thinkable. It's inevitable.
There will be plagues far worse than this one.
There will be nuclear war.
The US will end, likely in civil war.
A million monkeys on a million typewriters eventually write every book in Borges' library.
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yeah, ok, maybe ask @TheAgeofShoddy about that https://twitter.com/HesperadoBlue/status/1308176551410712577
yeah, ok, maybe ask @TheAgeofShoddy about that https://twitter.com/HesperadoBlue/status/1308176551410712577
