Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 17:53:16 +0000 From: john larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: CO2 Funny Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 10:53:16 -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: 65 X-Trace: sv3-rhtgpKaU2KVwzHRk2jGrm8DdyDWXel5QCRjEbenergXtfjk2d+ISRrQYQTU75t5ZrB5M3Mr530vDBl6!Tt4TRcXPw4B7S56WYFowQZW6qK4vyndBJ2/BaxSMZeM0U25YRUaWFJYIM7CDJv4BYcrrRtCFI9oV!KJEp6w== 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: 3889 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. Why do you post to SED if you don't like electronics?