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Igel

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15. Very like what teachers at my school started saying a decade back.

Reply to Ping Tung (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 23, 2025, 05:32 PM

Jun 23

We have smart phones but dumb students.

Oddly, guided missiles have yet to come close to the death tolls of the wars before guided missiles (except in the sense that a "rock" or "bullet" is a missile).

And even those wars have let to come to the level of ideological governments' mass murder of their populations, whether the "People's Republic of China," Nazi Germany,'s 13 million, or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic under Stalin with its 21 million. Even the "agrarian reformer" (to borrow a phrase) Pol Pot was pretty impressive for a small little country (but not like WWII, for sure).

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