Path: local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:46:47 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 09:46:47 -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: 111 X-Trace: sv3-F33GS6XezD0FGwEsdKFIE9Clb4bP0OobC6dTO5ddYKNoGWB0lKeokIg5JdiTzrzALrCYAROono2TitG!xw2EzD3kIn7o6gLJ+xU4WzoGgkRfccOwyfa7Rdobk3vYFFLhQuqOC4pJUi8JwtWxIBkc4irOCnmS!ybxw+w== 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: 6176 On Wed, 22 May 2024 09:39:00 -0700, john larkin wrote: >On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:58:59 -0700, john larkin wrote: > >>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. > > >There is "technician syndrome", which is when support people, like >techs and PCB layout and such, hate engineers because they think that >we somehow do magic that they can't understand. Always males, in my >experience. > >In Silicon Valley, there is a whole tech culture, guys who dress like >cowboys and drive pickups and go to lunch at strip clubs and such. >They think engineers are effeminate wusses; they also resent that the >engineers seem to get the best women. > >Some people with EE degrees have this same feeling. > >One of the the hardest things to do in life is to get comfortable with >what your are. Few female engineers ever post here. It would be interesting to get their perspective on this.