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Subject: Re: CO2 Funny
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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.

Why do you post to SED if you don't like electronics?