Path: local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:46:47 +0000
From: john larkin <jl@650pot.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: CO2 Funny
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 09:46:47 -0700
Message-ID: <u88s4j1u1579bmo4khmk0t61gbprjm8rm2@4ax.com>
References: <044o4j5st4od6fca3lj3pgs9diccmrenjn@4ax.com> <v2i77o$juul$1@dont-email.me> <2lep4j1lvsiathlf5mu1sov52fkppten50@4ax.com> <umlp4j9524l9e78g7meedtvkjccnt5kki3@4ax.com> <t8mp4jh04424mgcgkhc5akgkb5fji707lu@4ax.com> <54np4j5eq0gga4u24i69i6sechie1ohcjd@4ax.com> <ionp4jpskmjj3t5ge13jtvbmg6n3g0m738@4ax.com> <mssr4jh13hf2p7deu8phdkkda50roask0p@4ax.com> <v2kvi1$17euj$1@dont-email.me> <hq1s4jhv546tvlo968bsn84s7pejelh0gh@4ax.com> <or7s4jtsg7bnon78qur0vsievgag9d9mh8@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: 111
X-Trace: sv3-F33GS6XezD0FGwEsdKFIE9Clb4bP0OobC6dTO5ddYKNoGWB0lKeokIg5JdiTzrzALrCYAROono2TitG!xw2EzD3kIn7o6gLJ+xU4WzoGgkRfccOwyfa7Rdobk3vYFFLhQuqOC4pJUi8JwtWxIBkc4irOCnmS!ybxw+w==
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: 6176

On Wed, 22 May 2024 09:39:00 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 22 May 2024 07:58:59 -0700, john larkin <jl@650pot.com> wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>
>There is "technician syndrome", which is when support people, like
>techs and PCB layout and such, hate engineers because they think that
>we somehow do magic that they can't understand. Always males, in my
>experience.
>
>In Silicon Valley, there is a whole tech culture, guys who dress like
>cowboys and drive pickups and go to lunch at strip clubs and such.
>They think engineers are effeminate wusses; they also resent that the
>engineers seem to get the best women.
>
>Some people with EE degrees have this same feeling.
>
>One of the the hardest things to do in life is to get comfortable with
>what your are.

Few female engineers ever post here. It would be interesting to get
their perspective on this.