cheryljosie.bsky.social
Engineer who plots inconvenient data
I installed some panels for the first grid-connected solar photovoltaic neighborhood in the world
cheryl_josie is my ASCII 88 (Heil Hitler) X profile that I call Mean because Twitter is mean now that Elon owns it
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Here in America we are used to the sanewashing of police procedurals. There's so much empathy, wisdom, wit, charm, effectiveness...until you have to deal with the real thing and find out it's all idiocy and thuggery until you're dealing with the FBI or something and then it's psychopathic sadism? 🤔
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Here's the track back to the prior thread:
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I'm of two minds on it myself. Not looking forward to the consequences of a brain drain. That would leave people like me to do all the heavy lifting and you know how good I am at that! 😂 PS Condolences on what you shared today. 😿 Wish things went better for you all around including...you know. 😳
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Oh look, you can still buy them for your back-country driving where there's no cellular signal and your GPS application is useless. Saves having to guess with your cell phone's built-in compass that won't be accurate inside your car. www.amazon.com/Lizipai-Dash...
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Learning to drive included an inherent course in navigation with or without maps before one became competent. Younger and older drivers were also more accident-prone because they got directions confused easily.
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Dashboard compass—
First adjustment: using exterior compass, align car north and turn n/s screw until interior compass points north.
Second adjustment: align car east and turn e/w screw until interior compass points east.
That’s how we knew which way we were going in an older car. Am I old or what??
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Navigating by the sun helps a lot. Even if you aren’t familiar with the route, as long as you have a sense of direction, you do okay. Cars used to have built-in overhead compasses too because glue-on dashboard compasses don’t work well inside a metal shell, even with calibration adjustment screws.
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Development was a lot slower back then. Maps didn’t go out of date before they hit the shelves. We discovered how to extract a lot more oil after ‘peak oil’ than we did before it. Now there’s a newly re-routed interchange serving fresh McMansions every 20 miles.
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Maybe we can start from the perspective of selfish capitalism as analog for genetic biology, conceptualize humans as biological fires igniting underground fossil reserves, and extrapolate through end times to the collapse of industrial civilization. How is socialism supposed to stop that? It can’t.
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Domestic students are seeking degrees and taking employment outside the US. They don’t want their careers and possibly their lives terminated by Nazis. How exactly will scientists stem the exodus except to disinvest from genocidal corporations and take a stand against ICE?
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Foreign students are cancelling their plans to study and take employment in the US because they don’t want to end up in an El Salvadoran concentration camp. What exactly do you expect will incentivize them to come here aside from a thorough government delousing?
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It’s capitulation to the narcissistic gaslit demands of fascism.
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This statement is egotistical drivel from a megalomaniac. Don’t celebrate Hitler’s 40’ long cannon on a rail. It was always a penis symbol. Treat it as such. Mock the tiny hands that crafted it and don’t ease up until big business is running for the exits as public support for genocide wanes.
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In other words, our plan is to kowtow to narcissistic partisans and accept blame for the rancor they caused. Sorry, no deal. They own this chaos and won’t be swayed by attempts to reconcile because conflict is their objective. The only way to win is through ridicule and ostracism. Shame them.
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You might want to consider another platform that is less susceptible to attack. Google is spiraling the drain ever since they sold AI tech to Israel for the Palestinian Genocide.
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The black stain on the ceiling was similarly unappealing.
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My roommate once pyrolyzed a pizza when he passed out on the sofa. That was uneconomical and also had no market.
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Watershed infill and development guarantees that excess storm runoff from global warming intensification gets diverted into the sea instead of absorbed into collapsing aquifers. California desertification accelerated because of such flood control channels benefiting building developers.
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And then there’s this prestigious promotional book tour lecture where the YouTube comments are censored for calling out bullshit:
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Global warming is about to teach everyone a lesson in economic humility. Half of us will go from building no generational wealth to fleeing extreme weather as climate refugees. Unsurvivable wet bulb temperatures, floods, fires, gale-force winds, and crop failures are unforgiving economic factors.
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Half of Americans are building no generational wealth. Instead they are having social services stripped away as the bottom falls out of the economy. The UK is also on the decline with billionaire-promoted Brexit and underfunded NHS plus ‘Cass Review’ woo. Things aren’t what they used to be.
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I’m willing to bet that climate scientists tend to favor the Pentagon utilizing their science to preserve global trade, even though global trade is wasteful and exploitative. Saving everyone is a relativistic goal that depends upon destructive extractive technology. Such is the irony of modern life.
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Science is always exploited by the highest bidder for selfish ends. Even the Pentagon relies upon climate science to inform its role as the world’s policeman maximizing global extractive trade.
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The fact is that we are already on the all-of-the-above course we prefer. Elon Musk the fascist is profiting off the electric car technology that scientists want to save us. In the process he’s convincing Donald Trump to buy Greenland and annex Canada to access their rare earth metals for batteries.
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I’ve explored xAI’s Grok, and even the right wing platform can’t escape the socialistic science blinders any more than Open AI’s ChatGPT could. There’s zero pattern recognition of the more scientific and robust interpretation that an invasive species only stops growing in response to boundaries.
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In fact, there is zero scientific evidence for either extreme that I just posited as *the* valid path forward. We have already experimentally determined that the path we collectively prefer is maximal extraction through all-of-the-above everything, including both fossil and alternative energy.
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Promoting false solutions is disingenuous. It may be less harmful in the long run to maximize fossil extraction and accelerate the mass human die-off. The faster that civilization collapses, the more untapped resources we leave for progeny.
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It’s fine to disagree on whether or not humans can self-regulate in an environment of abundance after evolving in an environment of scarcity. However, it’s a perversion of science to twist it with the politicized aim of saving everyone. There’s no precedent and no proof that self-regulation works.
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My doctor only regarded the urinary tract infection as severe enough to warrant antibiotics. If I had gotten treatment a year ago, I could have avoided a full year of crushing fatigue and potentially avoided a worsening of my hemorrhoid while prepping my house for sale and moving
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All of these symptoms resolved when my doctor finally treated the urinary tract infection with Cipro. Even the ballooned-out hemorroid shrank and sealed within a week. Covid damages the immune system and leaves us prone to chronic sickness that our bodies would normally fight off