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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: blame electronics
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:38:31 +1000
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On 29/04/2024 5:03 am, John Larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:22:57 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/27/2024 9:56 AM, John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/opinions/opinion-the-cause-of-campus-chaos-zakaria/index.html
>>>
>>> TV, and now cell phones.
>>>
>>
>> Hilarious how the WSJ-shithead claims that when thousands of students
>> are willing to be beaten and arrested en masse it implies they're "less
>> resilient and disengaged." Did Tienanmen Square need TikTok to happen?
>>
>> The super-rich will say any nonsense to protect their interests and the
>> dividends of their gruesome wars. Fareed Zakaria, Douglas Belkin, the
>> WSJ and NYT just work for 'em.
>>
>> One of the more amusing indie games in recent history, where you play
>> the editor of the NYT and have to keep the paper running while ensuring
>> the super-rich, the police, and the state of Israel are always satisfied
>> with the content:
>>
>> <https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator>
> 
> One thing it's worth asking yourself, if more people were like me,
> would the world be a better place?

It isn't. There's no way that you can can generate an objectively 
reliable estimate on your own effect on the world as a whole.

Anybody silly enough to ask the question has to live with the fact that 
if you are that silly your effect on the world is bound to be negative.

In John Larkin's case, his enthusiasm for climate change denial 
propaganda guarantees that his net effect on the world as a whole is 
going to be negative.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney