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From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
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Subject: Re: CO2 Funny
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 10:26:43 -0700
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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.