No Homework Turned In?
I see I mystified most of you last week with that series of technical articles showing how easy it is to generate The Science. Very few comments. Maybe this is a good sign. Maybe it’s that the material was so easy that you all assimilated it without difficulty. What a nice thought.
Last week was only a fraction of the ways Science goes wrong, while simultaneously assuring itself it is going right. (See the global warming banner post.) This is crucial stuff, my friends. We need to understand. Like in Newsom’s California, England is also set to ban gas and diesel cars by 2030, because “climate change”. They say.
Well, we’ll certainly be coming back to bad science and Experts insisting they must control all our lives. The only way to reach Utopia, you know. Meanwhile, here’s what I did on my summer vacation…
High Culture
The Cultural Event of the Year took place this past weekend, and Yours Truly was there to cover the festivities.
I speak, as you already know, of The 48th Boyne Falls Polish Festival!
Got there early. There were fewer indoor tables this year because they expanded, wisely, the dance floor. Whoever was in charge of the sound system turned the volume to 11. I could not have failed to memorize the lyrics to E-I-E-I-E-I-O at that setting. Later, thankfully, somebody turned it down.
There were plenty of perogies, kielbasa, sauerkraut and, yes, beer. I remembered to take some pictures early on. But recall the American Photographical Society rated, officially, my pictorial abilities as “criminal”.
The guy in the t-shirt is the patriarch of an enormous clan that shows up every year. Most of them wear red, as you see in the picture. While you’re watching them, the feet of the kids don’t seem to touch the floor.
Mass in the beer tent? Yes.
Mass was packed. I only captured a portion. The Communion hymn was, yes, on an accordion.
What’s nice about polka, for those of us who are mathematically challenged, and can’t use their feet to tap out a beat, is you have no need of counting higher than three. Even as far gone as we are now, most can still do this. Even Yours Truly.
I only knocked over one old lady this year. So I’m improving.
SDR
I blew two straight days playing with software-defined radio, or SDR. Simple to do: hook an antenna to a device which converts radio waves to bloops and bleeps, which are fed into a computer that displays the results.
The antenna can be as trivial as a hunk of wire, the device as cheap as an RTL-SDR (plugs into USB), and the software opensource. My exhaustive, creative-language-displaying experimentation revealed SDRPlusPlus > CubicSDR > GQRX. I hear good reports of SDR#; alas, I don’t have a Windows machine, and most agree that trying to run it through Wine on Linux is futile.
I run Kubuntu: I like the command line. I also have a Mac, which is even worse for SDR; though I recommend SDR Angel for it. It’s little wonder why Mac people don’t do SDR. You can’t picture Mac users soldering wires together.
The RTL-SDR is rather nice for the price. Works well at 30 MHz and above (you can pull in FM radio easily, or use it like an old-fashioned scanner; you can hear the FBI as they come for you). Its performance on HF (where the hams reside, and where shortwave broadcasters used to be) is meh. And it stinks on MW (the AM broadcast band), even with a decent antenna. I saw no signals on LW (where beacons used to be, and radio still is in parts foreign). But it wasn’t really designed for signals below the belt, so it’s not a substantial criticism.
Point is, for about fifty bucks, with spare wire rigged as an antenna, you can have a nifty radio that would cost a lot more. The coolest thing is the frequency plot. In days or yore, one had to spin the dial and hunt for signals. Here they’re displayed in vibrant blue glow. This is especially helpful looking for other hams.
Behold! A screenshot. I’m listening to two old guys chatting (reasonable signal, but much better on an old IC-R75).
I should do another for you when one of my neighbors is charging her Tesla. Looks like a dystopian Christmas tree all across the dial.
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No, the reason that we did not comment, is that you spent a week analysing how to polish a turd.
There is no fighting Climate Hysteria [or any other hysteria, Covid et al] by accepting the lies on which they base the argument.
Until you have valid data no matter what is done, it is nonsense.
GIGO Rules OK!
As the other side will not acknowledge that their data is nonsense, there is nothing to argue over or discuss.
Read a headline that NASA says that 94% of the temperature records in NY were wrong (overstated). [Good luck finding that on Google]
"What should be evident from the studies on the backfire effect is you can never win an argument online. When you start to pull out facts and figures, hyperlinks and quotes, you are actually making the opponent feel as though they are even more sure of their position than before you started the debate. As they match your fervour, the same thing happens in your skull. The backfire effect pushes both of you deeper into your original beliefs."
Global Research
"Presenting the patient with truth and facts is a threat to their identity eliciting anger and resentment" -- Sigmund Freud
So the only people that can be 'sermonised' are the choir.
I am torn between "This is too much science" and "Without attacking their fake science, we'll never beat the bastards."
But I lean heavily toward the former.
Thirty years or so ago (as the Republican Party was raising the white flag,) good science might well have nipped in the bud the Climate Change Hoax. But now it's way too late to defeat the Hoax by trying, article by article, book by book, true believer by true believer, to correct the Hoax's bad science. Bad Climate Hoax science is institutionally and generationally ingrained across America, and too much money (tens of trillions) and too much power (every elected office) depend on sustaining that bad science.
Fighting bad science with good science, now, requires scientifically educating the public (an enormous, decades long, slow, near-impossible task) and methodically dissecting bad science (a painstaking job with a million unconnected parts.) We must marshall enough forces educated with enough science to work their way through myriad hostile institutions and then persuade tens of millions of brainwashed people who are decisionmakers on the Climate Hoax. Then we must convince the brainwashed not to believe their lying eyes, their school teachers, their politicians, their news media, their churches, or their parents, friends, neighbors and kin.
It's an impossibly massive project of psychological, political, educational, economic, military, social and cultural counter-revolution. Where is Lenin? Mao? when we need someone to overturn our upended society and set it right again?