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NoMoSno 08-07-2021 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1985433)
IMO the whole country got overcrowded after about 175 Million people.
Last week you said 225 million????

jimjamuser 08-07-2021 02:42 PM
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Originally Posted by John41 (Post 1985346)
How many African Americans are in Japan? There’s your incarceration answer.
An over-simplification and an example of one tribe blaming the "OTHER" tribe for problems that could have been solved 75 years ago.

jimjamuser 08-07-2021 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan (Post 1985360)
One idea I entertained 'when I was younger was, we "own" a BUNCH of islands. We have this HUGE Navy with not much to do between wars. Let's combine the two. Give people 3 strikes and your gone option. Be convicted of 3 felonies and you are dropped on an island and left there to fend for yourself with all the other felons. The Navy would patrol the area to make sure no one tried to leave on a raft or whatever. The idea was basically, if you don't want to live here and obey the rules (laws) then we will kick you out. I moderated it to allow a 3 month period in jail for you to appeal to some country to allow you to be deported there. If you couldn't find any, then off to the island you go.

I have since decided it is not practical, and probably not moral or ethical.
Tough times call for tough solutions.........that is just 1/2 serious.......just to be thought-provoking.

GrumpyOldMan 08-07-2021 02:52 PM
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IMO the whole country got overcrowded after about 175 Million people.
Most people are not aware of this, it kind of looks like the exponential growth of a virus. Maybe Agent Smith was right!

momchaves 08-07-2021 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by michael g. (Post 1984801)
sooo what city in the new england states can you guess where this rude person is from......lol
boston?

jimjamuser 08-07-2021 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by NoMoSno (Post 1985435)
Last week you said 225 million????
Then some may remember my main reason why.........A.I. and Robotics will create excess unemployment. I could be satisfied with even 250 Million. But, what really needs to be done is a sophisticated computer calculation of what the IDEAL population would be in the US - taking into consideration space and natural resources. Anyone can read articles today about Scientific doubt as to whether the US can feed itself in the future? MY guess is that it would fall between 175 and 250 Million people. That way there would be fewer rude people due to less crowding pressure and other pressures that we have been talking about.

GrumpyOldMan 08-07-2021 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1985454)
Then some may remember my main reason why.........A.I. and Robotics will create excess unemployment. I could be satisfied with even 250 Million. But, what really needs to be done is a sophisticated computer calculation of what the IDEAL population would be in the US - taking into consideration space and natural resources. Anyone can read articles today about Scientific doubt as to whether the US can feed itself in the future? MY guess is that it would fall between 175 and 250 Million people. That way there would be fewer rude people due to less crowding pressure and other pressures that we have been talking about.
I expect that in our kid's lifetime (assuming no major reset happens) there will be no more "jobs". All work will be done by "robots".

How we deal with an economy with no scarcity is yet to be understood. ALL our current economic models are based on the assumption of continuous growth.

I expect at least part of the transition will be to implement an "automation" tax, to pay for a Universal Basic Income, for people displaced by automation.

John41 08-07-2021 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 1985433)
IMO the whole country got overcrowded after about 175 Million people.
I agree. In 1956 the US population hit 175 million. Those were great years: Elvis appears on Ed Sullivan, NY Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series, tail fins on cars.

Lots of studies have shown overcrowding breeds aggression.

Velvet 08-07-2021 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Pginbr (Post 1985202)
Or, what allows us to feel we must post it here. I don’t see where there is any mention of having knowledge or details of what occurred between 2 people in TV. Did the worker run over her dog? Did he confront her first? Was it a family member? We don’t know anything. Peeking out from a garage after hearing a squabble, but not having any details of what happened, constitutes dropping a post on a site that is for information about TV?
Because… we try to help each other. OP is welcome to express her opinion, as are you.

Laker14 08-07-2021 06:53 PM
According to Wikipedia, as of 2018 there are 19,495 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States. 14,768 of these have populations below 5,000. Only ten have populations above 1 million and none are above 10 million. 310 cities are considered at least medium cities with populations of 100,000 or more.
I'll bet every one of them has at least two rude people. Some of them have more.

Spalumbos62 08-07-2021 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 1985529)
According to Wikipedia, as of 2018 there are 19,495 incorporated cities, towns and villages in the United States. 14,768 of these have populations below 5,000. Only ten have populations above 1 million and none are above 10 million. 310 cities are considered at least medium cities with populations of 100,000 or more.
I'll bet every one of them has at least two rude people. Some of them have more.


Lol...lol..wow this post went wild with many snarky detours. I laugh because it's so ironic that the root of the post was about an upset old lady loosing her cheerios at a street worker.
Go back, reread it....I think you will all see the humor....honestly

Velvet 08-07-2021 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Spalumbos62 (Post 1985537)
Lol...lol..wow this post went wild with many snarky detours. I laugh because it's so ironic that the root of the post was about an upset old lady loosing her cheerios at a street worker.
Go back, reread it....I think you will all see the humor....honestly
Yep! The funniest thing to me is someone trying to justify rudeness, by being rude themselves.

Pginbr 08-07-2021 08:36 PM
Tos

JMintzer 08-07-2021 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by GrumpyOldMan (Post 1985252)
Hmm, I thought those were all part of the US, did that change?
One can only hope... :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:


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