Not to buy 100 shares of Apple stock when it was $15 a share.

It may be that the next targets will be words in the American language.

Right on. The way the way population is right now, every time a chunk of mountain or glacier falls down, or a river floods, tens of thousands die or are displaced.

In 1960 there were 2-3 billion people on the planet. Now it’s 3x as many cars, mouths to feed, homes to heat/cool.

In Bangladesh there are over 1 million Rohingan refugees who’ve been there for TEN YEARS. They can’t work there, have no country to move to, have to live on $6-12 a month for food.

Just the other day I was listening to this song by the Grateful Dead:

"Sometimes the light’s all shining on me …

Sometimes I can barely see …

And lately it appears to me

What a long strange trip it’s been. "

The German Nazis stored people data on Hollerith punch cards supplied by US company IBM.
https://ahrp.org/30999-2/

This research was in Australia, you’ll have to ask there.

Ha ha! These are ‘human neurons’ … the end result probably resembles what we’ve already got. Get 'em fooled about what reality is, and profit.

In 1738 the Pope forbid all Catholics from joining a Masonic lodge (open to men of any religion, and secretive, no doubt to avoid Inquisition), and called them ‘depraved and perverted’ (unlike the Church, of course). No doubt the faithful kept the rumor-mills turning.