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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: CO2 Funny
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 21:48:42 +1000
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On 23/05/2024 12:58 am, john larkin 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.

John Larkin doesn't pay much attention to electronic circuits he didn't 
post. He does find it irritating that his contributions don't get the 
admiration he feels they deserve.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney