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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:35:18 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> <20240915a@crcomp.net> <20240916a@crcomp.net> <92767bb42bc741f813f2a5a131e0ce5e@www.novabbs.com> <8b0e72a9-cf0c-dd8f-0b07-cdd1136854f3@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:35:18 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e25b4b249de6c87cd5b873f3bc9323db"; logging-data="260406"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19bDd0JotWnrRwpqZTBbB3n" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qy0rYzcgRZ6ChCBcHHpY4EY4glA= In-Reply-To: <8b0e72a9-cf0c-dd8f-0b07-cdd1136854f3@example.net> Bytes: 4573 D wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote: > >> On 9/17/2024 6:11 PM, quadibloc wrote: >>> On Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:29:18 +0000, Don wrote: >>> >>>> Francis Bacon revealed his dream in _New Atlantis_. He sought to move >>>> beyond corporations to supranational scientism. So sciencey specters >>>> such as global warming and covid can be controlled by a scientific >>>> autocracy along the lines of these guys: >>>> >>>>     >>>> >>>> Oprah's a disciple of scientism: >>>> >>>>     "And it was miraculous to me that before you can practically >>>>     finish the requests, the answer has come back to you," >>>> >>>>     ... >>>> >>>>     "I think we should be disciplined and we should honor it and >>>>     have a reverence for what is to come and respect, because I >>>>     think it's going to change in ways that are unimaginable for >>>>     the good." >>>> >>>> Far sighted Bacon knew it would take centuries for his vision to come >>>> true. Should Trump singlehandedly reverse centuries of sociological >>>> ratcheting it'd be enough to make Bacon "sing the blues" as they say. >>>> Only the blues didn't exist back in Bacon's day - ergo "Flow My Tears." >>> >>> Global warming is not an imaginary spectre. The science involved is >>> really basic stuff. >>> >>> And we've seen the consequences of Trump's anti-science mentality in >>> all the unnecessary deaths from COVID-19 he caused. >>> >>> I just saw an article giving more detail on those polls that say >>> Kamala Harris is ahead. >>> >>> 45% of voters favor Trump, 49% of voters favor Harris, a 4% lead. >>> >>> But if you split things up, and just look at typical Americans, >>> you instead get >>> >>> 55% of voters support Trump; 41% of voters support Harris. >>> >>> This is disastrous. It means the mainstream regular American >>> people, those with the best educational opportunities, aren't >>> competent to manage their own affairs any more. If Trump isn't >>> elected, it will only be because they had help... >>> >>> from Americans who can easily be prevented from getting to the >>> polls. And several states are trying to do just that. >>> >>> We don't know yet if the guys in the white hoods will make >>> their presence felt on Election Day to help with that. >>> >>> John Savard >> >> Any Global Warming is not caused by humans so your basic thesis is >> wrong. Climates change all the time.  Just about all of it is due to >> that big fusion reactor in the sky that is so incredibly inefficient >> (1.8%) but works so well with it's 10+ billion years of fuel. >> >> Lynn >> > > This is the truth! It can be proven easily. Go out during the day, and > measure the temperature. Then go out again, when the sun is not shining, > and measure the temperature. It will be lower. > > Reading the modern press, you easily get the idea that the sun does not > affect the climate at all, but this is actually wrong, and has been > proven by science. > Rarely has so short a posting contained so much ignorance. William Hyde