Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 14:58:59 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 07:58:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: <044o4j5st4od6fca3lj3pgs9diccmrenjn@4ax.com> <2lep4j1lvsiathlf5mu1sov52fkppten50@4ax.com> <54np4j5eq0gga4u24i69i6sechie1ohcjd@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 88 X-Trace: sv3-8RP7JIRURju6Ahag8EWr8hhzMsneJZFHtXLH07cXnIamx+EuACXWKnLJ0lXMGHvds1XNrxLF4DXgMRx!DkI1xtkxQog4ushxHWysPgSQOmdB1AiKXRLqPFKUE2TKa12yK07BVZ3Qf68XO5pHgs9PkXysNs9M!d32+3w== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 5025 On Wed, 22 May 2024 16:32:26 +0200, Jeroen Belleman wrote: >On 5/22/24 15:36, Pomegranate Bastard wrote: >> On Tue, 21 May 2024 10:53:16 -0700, john larkin wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:40:51 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 10:26:43 -0700, 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. >>>> >>>> Is that what happened to you? >>> >>> I love designing electronics. It doesn't hurt a bit. >> >> So do I, and have done since 1972. >>> >>> Why do you post to SED if you don't like electronics? >> >> Who says I don't? Unlike you, an odious little narcissist, I don't >> feel the need to show everyone here how clever I am. > >Please *do* show us how clever you are. We're always willing >to learn. > >Jeroen Belleman This IS an electronic design discussion group. It seems counter-productive to discourage posting about circuits. I note that the chronic insulters never post new circuits, or make intelligent comments about the few that are posted. Actual electronic design seems to annoy them; one wonders why.