Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Cryptoengineer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:06:46 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 70 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <20240915a@crcomp.net> <20240916a@crcomp.net> <92767bb42bc741f813f2a5a131e0ce5e@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="89977648aeb0f21fa13e49fa63a2423b"; logging-data="153886"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZPZn/Ovc0bQZC+GKzfV1DjAEB4aJXL5g=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:sYMRqfMK9wtXOrf/RsfLoH5J77w= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 4033 On 9/17/2024 8:04 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > On 9/17/2024 6:11 PM, quadibloc wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:18 +0000, Don wrote: >> >>> Francis Bacon revealed his dream in _New Atlantis_. He sought to move >>> beyond corporations to supranational scientism. So sciencey specters >>> such as global warming and covid can be controlled by a scientific >>> autocracy along the lines of these guys: >>> >>>     >>> >>> Oprah's a disciple of scientism: >>> >>>     "And it was miraculous to me that before you can practically >>>     finish the requests, the answer has come back to you," >>> >>>     ... >>> >>>     "I think we should be disciplined and we should honor it and >>>     have a reverence for what is to come and respect, because I >>>     think it's going to change in ways that are unimaginable for >>>     the good." >>> >>> Far sighted Bacon knew it would take centuries for his vision to come >>> true. Should Trump singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological >>> ratcheting it'd be enough to make Bacon "sing the blues" as they say. >>> Only the blues didn't exist back in Bacon's day - ergo "Flow My Tears." >> >> Global warming is not an imaginary spectre. The science involved is >> really basic stuff. >> >> And we've seen the consequences of Trump's anti-science mentality in >> all the unnecessary deaths from COVID-19 he caused. >> >> I just saw an article giving more detail on those polls that say >> Kamala Harris is ahead. >> >> 45% of voters favor Trump, 49% of voters favor Harris, a 4% lead. >> >> But if you split things up, and just look at typical Americans, >> you instead get >> >> 55% of voters support Trump; 41% of voters support Harris. >> >> This is disastrous. It means the mainstream regular American >> people, those with the best educational opportunities, aren't >> competent to manage their own affairs any more. If Trump isn't >> elected, it will only be because they had help... >> >> from Americans who can easily be prevented from getting to the >> polls. And several states are trying to do just that. >> >> We don't know yet if the guys in the white hoods will make >> their presence felt on Election Day to help with that. >> >> John Savard > > Any Global Warming is not caused by humans so your basic thesis is > wrong.  Climates change all the time.  Just about all of it is due to > that big fusion reactor in the sky that is so incredibly inefficient > (1.8%) but works so well with it's 10+ billion years of fuel. > > Lynn > "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair. pt