Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:25:18 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 68 Message-ID: References: <044o4j5st4od6fca3lj3pgs9diccmrenjn@4ax.com> <2lep4j1lvsiathlf5mu1sov52fkppten50@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 08:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="abbb1d61bc7a458fab2fce94dc49ec6b"; logging-data="1119588"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/xx75ywCcWA9eD3/RkvX3vbDQLnq2hng=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Src6d6TVjOkaHQE6O9DWUwKvAP8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3992 On 22/05/2024 3:26 am, john larkin wrote: > On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:16:28 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard > wrote: > >> On Tue, 21 May 2024 08:50:23 -0700, john larkin wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 14:23:04 +0100, chrisq wrote: >>> >>>> On 5/21/24 04:15, john larkin wrote: >>>>> This is wonderful: >>>>> >>>>> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2024/05/20/joe-biden-democrats-green-transition-evs-energy-costs/ >>>>> >>>>> "Contrast Biden voter certainty with their knowledge about carbon >>>>> dioxide. Nearly one in five Biden voters think there should be no >>>>> carbon dioxide at all because it’s a poison..." >>>>> >>>>> "Forty four per cent of Trump voters and 26 per cent of Biden voters >>>>> were able to correctly identify the approximate concentration of >>>>> carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; nearly three quarters of Biden >>>>> voters were wrong by a factor of between 100 and 1000." >>>> >>>> Are we surprised ?. More like mass psychosis and death wish at the >>>> highest levels of western governments. So infused with dogma and >>>> dodgy science, they will bring down the whole house, rather than >>>> admit they are wrong. >>> >>> Yes. What social media has done is magnified the already tribal >>> behavior of believing what everyone else apparently believes. Only the >>> tribes are now billions of people worldwide. That's an unstable >>> dynamic that results in all sorts of random delusions. >>> >>> The other thing we're seeing is fear, depression, and despair, over >>> Climate Change and other things. Lots of fear. >>> >>>> >>>> Still, control the cost and access to energy worldwide, and they >>>> will control the world. Fascism, same shit, different wrapper... >>>> >>> >>> There is some of that, using climate as a power-mongering tool, but it >>> wouldn't work if not powered by so much public fear and hysteria. >>> >>> I wonder if such fear and innumeracy are hereditary. I suspect they >>> are. If the lunatic greenies don't want to breed, and they mostly >>> don't, the sane people will slowly pull ahead. >>> >>> So as a long-term investment, buy Exxon stock. >>> >>> (I have a mild variant on the Sallen-Key lowpass filter. Is anyone >>> interested?) >> No. > > Of course not. Electronics design would hurt your head. A mild variant of the Sallen and Key's active filter isn't electronic design - it's just twiddling. If you could tell us why you needed it, and how your twiddle was some kind of unique solution to your perceived problem, you might be able to ague that your getting there was an example of you doing electronic design, but you won't. What ever hurt your head seems to have cost you that capacity. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney