<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good article to have on hand; thanks Glen.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You guys know this organism, right?</div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum</a></div><div class="">Have I posted it to the list before? Look through the lifecycle, and particularly the video. The sort of extravagant, flamboyant cruelty to invent something like this is what makes it stand out to me. More lurid than Glen\u2019s pictures of hands with holes, for what bothers me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When I try to get the right mental metaphor for the parasite class, who will work to make the country worse and less-capable of doing _anything_ functional and needed, this is the model that most nearly comes to mind for me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Once the snails are infected, having the sun come up to remind them to hide doesn\u2019t do anything, because they can\u2019t see any more. That\u2019s what we somehow have to figure out how to deal with.</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 21, 2020, at 1:00 AM, u\u01ddl\u0183 \u2623 <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" class="">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Covid-19 Speculation Goes From Margin to Center<br class=""><a href="https://fair.org/home/covid-19-speculation-goes-from-margin-to-center/" class="">https://fair.org/home/covid-19-speculation-goes-from-margin-to-center/</a><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">\u2623 u\u01ddl\u0183<br class=""><br class="">.-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ...<br class="">FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br class="">Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<br class="">unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com<br class="">archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/<br class="">FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ <br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>