Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

On 29/10/2024 20:43, D wrote:

The people predicting crashes and famines have been wrong every time

Indeed. That's why the Mayan Empire, the Aztec Empire, The Roman Empire, the Mongol Empire, and the Islamic caliphate, along with the Ming dynasty are still with us  and the Bronze Age collapse simply never happened.
Those that fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain