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On Wed, 22 May 2024 16:32:26 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
<jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

>On 5/22/24 15:36, Pomegranate Bastard wrote:
>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 10:53:16 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:40:51 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>> <pommyB@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 10:26:43 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 18:16:28 +0100, Pomegranate Bastard
>>>>> <pommyB@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 08:50:23 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, 21 May 2024 14:23:04 +0100, chrisq <devzero@nospam.com> 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.