Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:26:43 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 10:26:43 -0700 Message-ID: References: <044o4j5st4od6fca3lj3pgs9diccmrenjn@4ax.com> <2lep4j1lvsiathlf5mu1sov52fkppten50@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: 54 X-Trace: sv3-Ls1bFQ9U20cMPLpwEuab2wiYYEhzgtb4YEBT5qJ2+uDV7x49uDfdRzjw8idBSVBi4fdBArm32FsF3YV!RoI4bpnsLIsGqy+1jb07F31AFXxQum74qC9jd0zRcY/BHQKff1wm8q8QOExDBW3kF8xkL7JvM7ye!ISudoQ== 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: 3385 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.