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33. --- reminds me of a PBS documentary about 40 years ago. Chairman Mao came into power.

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 12:45 PM

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A problem came to his attention. Fucking birds were eating seeds and produce. The problem was, they stopped fucking and were just eating - --everything.

Mao's solution: A bounty of about .5 yen, dinero, shackles or whatever on dead birds. The documentary showed peasants, chasing birds to the point that they would tire, drop to the ground and get killed for the bounty. It worked. Millions of birds were killed.

Next year or so, the worst locust plague in centuries,

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