Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:31:09 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 78 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <20240915a@crcomp.net> <20240916a@crcomp.net> <92767bb42bc741f813f2a5a131e0ce5e@www.novabbs.com> <99a497497d4e2eba83d253bb6d6c1967@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:31:12 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0e7d4ebdd9c9f10550800744df20585f"; logging-data="1333962"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18KgEuv2QtfRQ2AiOdtbmjOA7gJL/jpoH8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:HnSfDF77rc8NFYGEfYu5oj0dNOI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4991 On 9/20/2024 12:21 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > On 9/19/24 14:10, Lynn McGuire wrote: >> On 9/19/2024 2:34 PM, quadibloc wrote: >>> On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 17:12:55 +0000, Cryptoengineer wrote: >>> >>>> I have no idea what you mean here when you say 'typical Americans', >>>> as opposed those polled. >>> >>> I reveal what I meant when I noted that the other ones could easily be >>> prevented from voting by the guys with the white hoods. >>> >>> I quoted the figures from an Angus Reid poll which split out the voting >>> preferences of _white_ Americans. >>> >>> Although this is because Trump has strong rural support, and rural areas >>> are overwhelmingly white, I expect better from white America. >>> >>> John Savard >> >> You are Canadian, we ignore your expectations here in the USA.  Just >> like every other country in the world. >> >> Lynn >> > >     Indeed as a white American I too am disappointed to learn > of how many of us are dumb as door-nails. But I blame it all on > former President Rutherford B.Hayes, who in order to claim the > presidency pulled the Union Occupation forces out of the South. > This of course led to the end of the Era of Reconstruction and > the rise of the Black Codes which made it necessary for black > people to be employed by white men or be condemned to manual > labor for the county. Enforced by the Patrollers which amounted > to every white layabout. > >     I was also disappointed to learn that the great Republic > of Texas was founded with a stipulation in the Constitution that > only black slaves would be allowed in this new nation. Knowing > that though it is remarkable how many great free black people > have emerged from Texas. I will only cite Willie Brown who was > the leader in the State of California Legislature for many years > and the Mayor of San Francisco. This sort of racist thought > led to the foundation of Oregon and maybe a few other states. > >     It is no wonder that Mr.McGuire is resistant to the idea > that burning the millions of years of stored carbon is the cause > of global warming.  Carbon dioxide is not poisonous per se unless > you are at the bottom of an enclosed space and the Carbon Dioxide > is displacing, due to the weight of the compound, the Oxygen that > you need to survive.  It is however as mentioned endless times > a greenhouse gas and is contributing to Global Warming and to > of course the resultant weird and dangerous weather. > >     Carbon monoxide is the deadly gas which combines with > the hemoglobin in your bloodstream to smother you as it excludes > the amount of oxygen from your bloodstream that you need to live. > I would worry more about the CO coming out of a stack than the > COO, of course that is contributing to the warming. And the > heated gases might just melt your face. > >     I don't know if the world will continue to support complex > life in the future when the temperature is enough to boil brains. > Maybe though the most horrid conditions will be confined to only > most of the world and there may be oasis-es where complex life > can continue until relief after the next Ice Age. > >     bliss If you have CO coming out of your stack then you have a problem. CO is a sign of incomplete combustion, a dangerous and potentially explosive condition. Somebody here came up with a paper calculating the excess heat of the earth caused by humans for the next three centuries using the powers law. Now that might happen. Lynn