Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeroen Belleman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:32:26 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: <044o4j5st4od6fca3lj3pgs9diccmrenjn@4ax.com> <2lep4j1lvsiathlf5mu1sov52fkppten50@4ax.com> <54np4j5eq0gga4u24i69i6sechie1ohcjd@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 16:30:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="aa8587905f91514d1c8acf0b6b0e5219"; logging-data="1293267"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BaQZ0mpgsPcQSbGSBe8vj" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:mI5W+9dmBcON2XIQMdJLJ1xtht8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 4596 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