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From: Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject: Re: CO2 Funny
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 16:32:26 +0200
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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