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mircea_popescu: which of the two is more likely to be influencing energetic balance ?
mircea_popescu: fine. take the other end. radative power from the sun ? 1.38 kW per sqyare meter. human energy consumption ? 0.033 W per square meter (all uses)
mircea_popescu: that objection aside, even accwepting a 150 year term, blind to the fact that people in 1850 had such bad instrumentation most ofg their other measurements in chemistry are significantly off etc, you're still barely up to a second and a half rather than half a second.
mircea_popescu: statistics is often used to lie, especially because correct sampling is so rarely understood by the common people.
mircea_popescu: TomServo im not throwing it out. i am merely observing you can't, from a scientific perspective, put too much weight on it.
mircea_popescu: fucking intellectually lazy slobs, thinking in terms of social proof and soundbytes. "carbon". herp.
mircea_popescu: dude get out. even saying "carbon" is about as illiterate as it gets.
mircea_popescu: not on me to demonstrate some shapeless item is not a fish.
mircea_popescu: dub note that the onus is on you to prove your putative fish is a fish,
mircea_popescu: at issue is the period during which systemtatic measurements were taken, which roughly starts with ww2 and the interest in aviation it spurred.
mircea_popescu: at issue is not the period where any trace whatsoever of some sort of measurement can be found.
mircea_popescu: and i shall be turned into a pillar of salt for doubting the word of "science"
mircea_popescu: we will have hurricanes, floods and obvioujsly, it will rain frogs.
mircea_popescu: at which point it morphed back into the nonspecific "bad things" the religious mind enjoys.
mircea_popescu: pankkake it was global warming up until it became obvious a global cooling is morel ikely on the short (ie, centuries) term
mircea_popescu: fortunately i have access to actual scientists, as opposed to us govt stoogies.
mircea_popescu: you have to be one of the redditards who earnestly believe the world started with roosevelt to actually imagine this can be "science" in some manner.
mircea_popescu: earth is 4.5 bn years old. the average house exists for 45 years. making predictions of future earth temperatures based on 50 years sample is not unlike making prediction of house temperatures based on a number of measurements taken during the span of a half second.
mircea_popescu: you have conspiracy and fraud proven among the proponents, you have clear motive, you know its scientifically unsound, what's left really ? leftism ?
mircea_popescu: it's kind of shocking to me someone can sit there and posture as if "science", on the basis of fifty years worth of geological measurements thart were extrapolated backwards to create a dataset that's then extrapolated forwards in time.
mircea_popescu: that's EXACTLY what's going in. who the fuck asked the coffee gofer.
mircea_popescu: hey, one day you get to work and discover the "entire dub workplace community" has decided dub now has to put condoms on ethernet cables.
mircea_popescu: dub dead serious. global warming is basically a bunch of politicos consipiring to attack legitimate scientists
mircea_popescu: global warming ain't real for the same reason black reparations ain't real.
mircea_popescu: we need bitcoin death squads, for when these types idiots start showing up here.
mircea_popescu: herp. i knew i was gonna run into that. refusal to submit to an attempt to create a larger market for the mafia interest through liberal application of bad science should be disclosed as a liability!!1
mircea_popescu: quite equal with requiring jews to disclose to the camp guards the health risk of living in the camp.
mircea_popescu: companies should asses in advance random arbitrary burden the socialist governments of the world might impose on them, because why not.
mircea_popescu: reading that pdf from earlier... basically environment concern trolling.
mircea_popescu: also that 1973 thing TRIEd to be a trend and a standard at least three times and failed every time.
mircea_popescu: they'd better fix the fucking ocr rather than expect me to undertake the slightest inconvenience.
mircea_popescu: here's an idea : if they can make cameras capable of reading passing car plates at night without failing,
mircea_popescu: jurov because these are largely contrary requirements i imagine/
mircea_popescu: pankkake it's an old idea. borne principally by the observation that *it would have made sense* for it to be thus optimised.
mircea_popescu: fiat is this outmoded government-captive currency surogate.
mircea_popescu: pankkake sorta like the monthly reports mpex has been mandating since i dunno, 2011 ?
mircea_popescu: how do you call the special large glass bottles you move must in ?
mircea_popescu: well since we're doing this entire "let's teach mp vintnery terms in english as if the english speaking world even makes wine",
mircea_popescu: to which currently spoken romanian is pretty much the best extant reflection.
mircea_popescu: "life sucks, how do we kill ourselves". and it does include both considerations.
mircea_popescu: ahah! so my lawyer went and picked his vinyard, and so he sent me 20 liters of however you call the pre-wine juice thing.
mircea_popescu: paracetamol is a quite feasible if unpleasant way to do yourself in.
mircea_popescu: but it doesn't get better than "kids" because we don't actually have a clue wtf causes it.
mircea_popescu: random_cat reye's syndrome, kids under 12ish aren't prescribed aspiring if they ahve a fever because of it.
mircea_popescu: aspirin documentedly gives you ulcer, and there are some rare liver failure modes.