Insanity

This Is Stupid

The left is claiming that so much ground water has been pumped out of the Earth, that it is causing the planet’s rotational axis to tilt and is contributing to global warming/climate change. This is absurd, for multiple reasons.

First, the amount of water humans have pumped out is claimed to be 2.15×10^12 tons. The entire planet has a mass of 5.97×10^21 tons. The mass pumped is equal to 0.00000000036% of the mass of the planet, or 3 parts in 10 billion.

However, that mass didn’t simply disappear- the water is still here. In fact, with the exception of a couple of thousand gallons that went into space on spacecraft, man hasn’t removed any water from the planet. That isn’t what the idiots interviewed for CNN had to say:

In 2016, another team of researchers found that drift in Earth’s rotational axis between 2003 and 2015 could be linked to changes in the mass of glaciers and ice sheets, as well as the planet’s reserves of terrestrial liquid water.

In fact, any mass change on Earth, including atmospheric pressure, can affect its axis of rotation, Seo told CNN in an email.

The water that has been pumped out of the ground, the ice sheets, the glaciers, all of that mass is still here. It didn’t disappear.

The redistribution of groundwater tilted Earth’s rotational axis east by more than 31 inches (78.7 centimeters) in just under two decades, according to the models. The most notable driver of long-term variations in the rotational axis was already known to be mantle flow — the movement of molten rock in the layer between Earth’s crust and outer core. The new modeling reveals that groundwater extraction is the second most significant factor, Seo said.

31 inches in 20 years. That works out to 1.55 inches per year, with the circumference around the poles of about 15,800 miles, or just over 1 million billion inches. This means that the “shift” in the rotational axis is one part in a million billion. They use the position of Quasars to measure the position of Earth’s rotational axis. (this paragraph was edited to correct the error you see as a strikethrough)

The current gold standard for measurements of Earth’s rotation vector comes from very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), which involves radio receivers around the world. The receivers use the slight differences in the times at which they detect sudden changes in the microwave emissions from very distant quasars to precisely determine their own positions. This information allows them to monitor small changes in Earth’s orientation with respect to these far-away objects. But it can take days to translate VLBI observations into the final, useful results. A rotation sensor at a single location could provide an independent measurement and could allow the data to be available continuously.

It’s a pretty precise measurement. They claim that they can use that to determine shifts in the rotational axis going back to the 1800’s.

Future models can use observations on Earth’s rotation to illuminate the past, Seo added. “The data is available since the late 19th century,” he said. With that information, scientists can peer back in time and trace changes in planetary systems as the climate warmed over the last 100 years.

Since quasars weren’t discovered until 1960, the means of measuring the rotational axis were limited until that time, and precise measurements of the Earth’s rotational axis were impossible to within 1 part per million, which is the precision needed to detect a 1 inch per year shift. In fact, the first measurement of the change of the rotational axis of the planet wasn’t made until 2011.

This is junk science.

By Divemedic, ago

Can’t Legislate Math

As the left continues to crow that we need to switch to electric vehicles to save the planet, they are overlooking the fact that the nation just doesn’t have the electrical generating capacity to do that. As I post this, two thirds of the nation is facing the possibility of blackouts due to insufficient power generation capacity to handle the power demands of air conditioning that deals with the summer heat. Why? Because the nation’s electrical generating companies have been closing coal and oil fired power plants rather than pay for expensive repairs and upgrades caused by the government’s efforts to deal with “climate change.”

By 2035, automakers will have turned away from the internal combustion engine. The electric grid doesn’t have the capacity to charge all of those new cars, trucks and buses. This will cause an increase in electric demand that would require 50% more electricity than we generate now. There isn’t enough land area to rely on wind and solar for our current needs, much less adding that much more.

For example, Florida is second in the nation in electric vehicles with over 100,000 of them, but ranks 42nd in the infrastructure needed to charge them with 24 cars in the state for each charging station.

By Divemedic, ago

Mass Psychosis

The fads of the last few decades:

  • The 50’s: Duck’s Ass Haircut
  • The 60’s: Gogo boots, Hippies, birth control means screwing anything that walks
  • The 70’s: the Disco craze, Leisure suits
  • The 80’s: Big hair, parachute pants
  • The 90’s: The information superhighway
  • The 00’s: sucking dicks
  • The 10’s: cutting off your dick, having your tits removed.
  • The 20’s: teaching kids to play with your dick

Note that the new fad is claim to be a faggot. According to recent surveys, 1 in 5 young people claim to be transgender.

By Divemedic, ago

Tale of Two Speech Laws

So news this morning says that Florida can’t tell tranny bars that it is illegal to have drag shows in front of kids because it is a limit on free speech. (As a side note, when I posted “Then how is it illegal for me to bring an 8 year old to Rachel’s?” (a local strip bar) that comment was deleted as “violating community standards”)

At the same time, people on social media who post online that they want to have a meetup at the beach are notified that they will be billed for costs of providing extra police in the area. How is that also not a limit on free speech? If I post “Hey, let’s have a meetup of preppers/gun owners/or whatever at New Smyrna Beach this weekend” and the police decide that they will hire extra cops on overtime to handle the excess crowds, they can bill me for the cost? And that isn’t considered a restriction on free speech?

If it isn’t, then why not simply do the same for tranny bars? Just say “We have declared that tranny bar drag shows are a “special event,” fines in this area will be doubled, and any violating vehicles will be impounded. In addition, the bar organizing the show will be held liable for costs and fees associated with enforcing the special-event zone. Since we estimate that 100 cops on overtime will be needed, that cost will equal eleventy thousand dollars per show.

By Divemedic, ago

Weaponizing Free Speech

A Federal judge in Massachusetts rules that a shirt that reads “there are only two genders” is not protected speech and “invades the rights of others” by targeting a “protected class.” (pdf alert) What this ruling contends is that some people have more rights than others, that trannies and other deviant individuals have more rights than others. There would be no action taken against a student wearing a shirt that reads “there is no god,” or one that says “I support trans rights because I am not an idiot.”

I agree with the line of thought that a school should prohibit any activity or speech that interferes with the main mission of the school: education. The maintenance of effective control over the classroom is necessary for the learning environment that is needed for students to learn. Anyone who has tried to teach anyone (child or adult) knows that the classroom needs to be conducive to learning. Distractions like political discussions interfere with that and need to be controlled.

The problem with the situation that we read about here is that action is only being taken against one disruption while the school actively supports other disruptions by having gay pride parties and discussions. The shirt that I pictured above would be allowed because it supports the tranny/leftist agenda. It’s not the dress code itself that Morrison spoke out against, but the illegitimate, arbitrary, and unequal way school personnel enforced it against him for his disfavored political views. The same school that prohibits a shirt reading “there are only two genders” freely hung pride flags and diversity posters throughout the school, so they aren’t opposed to the disruption, they are just trying to make sure that all disruptions are of one end of the political spectrum. The school even takes a day off for the holidays of Juneteenth, Indigenous People’s Day, and MLK day, and spends the month of June celebrating pride month, but no holiday for President’s day. It’s clear that the school district is run by hard core leftists.

That is how they are grooming the children of their town- by repeatedly exposing them to leftist messaging while denying those students from seeing an opposing viewpoint. That is the definition of restricting free speech and this decision will hopefully be appealed and struck down.

Should there be no recourse in the legislature or the courts, people may well begin to take action on their own.

By Divemedic, ago

Allergic To WiFi

To continue yesterday’s discussion of technological luddites, today we will talk about Wifi allergies. People are allergic to WiFi, or so they claim. They say that exposure to electromagnetic fields is making them sick, and many of them literally resort to wearing tin foil hats. There are many cases on the Internet of people who claim to be sensitive to electromagnetic fields.

They are full of crap. Let me explain why. When I was in the Navy, one of my jobs was to minimize the ship’s magnetic field in order to avoid magnetically triggered mines and torpedoes. We did this with a system of magnetic coils and a computer that analyzed the ship’s location on the planet, and ran electricity through coils that opposed the natural magnetic field of the ship as it passed through the earth’s magnetic field.

Magnetic fields are subject to the inverse square law. The farther away you are from the object generating a magnetic field, the weaker that field. One unit of measure for magnetic fields generated by electrical currents is microwatts per cubic centimeter, and the safe level is determined by the frequency of the field being generated. Safe limits for EMF in the frequency band that WiFi operates in is about 1,000 microwatts per square centimeter. The safe level of EMF at the frequency of household current (60 hz) is 100,000 microwatts per cubic centimeter.

A WiFi router has a field density of about 50.5 uW/cm^2 at the device, but that quickly drops with distance. Six feet away, that field has dropped by 99.6% to only 0.2 uW/cm^2.

Refer back to the woman who claimed that her husband’s smartwatch was making her ill. At three feet, a smartwatch is putting out a field of 0.11 uW/cm^2. Then there are the people who are allergic to cell phone towers. When I am 1,000 feet from my closest tower, I measure that field at 0.001 uW/cm^2. In other words, nearly nothing. But good enough for 5 bars!

Every one of the people who claim to be allergic to EMF are self diagnosed. Multiple studies of this phenomenon have been performed, and in each case they react when told that the WiFi is on, but don’t react when it is turned on without their knowledge. In short, it’s a mental health issue and not a real problem.

Similar to what we are seeing with transgenderism. People are just dealing with mental health issues, and the Internet is giving them a voice.

By Divemedic, ago

Ad Hominems

I recently got into a discussion online. I know, but I can’t help myself. Another person said that transgenderism is being pushed in the schools because they are trying to groom kids into following their peers into the tranny fad.

Once a child is coerced into saying “I think I’m trans” in an attempt to fit in with the cool kids and get an eject button out of being a loser, anxiety prone teen, doctors, therapists, and counselors can only offer gender-affirming care. That means immediate hormone replacement therapy and brochures on where to obtain gender reassignment surgery. Lying to children that you can just “try on” genders by tucking your dick or binding your chest is grooming them into a cult. The staggering increase in the rate of desistence and de-transitioning shows us how flawed this ideological movement is.

A leftie responded with “Can we have just one source of any kid saying they want to be cool and trans?”

I responded with:

Kids entering puberty are in the middle of changing from following a parent role model to a peer role model. When you confront them with “all the cool kids are doing it” they will do stupid things. That’s where fads come from. Adolescents learn new social skills and behavioral tendencies by observing peers. They look at their peers’ behaviors and the positive or negative consequences these peers encounter. When certain behavior of peers has positive consequences, the adolescent imitates that behavior.

So the lefty says: “So no source? Just a spew of stupidity and hypotheticals like always?”

He doesn’t know me enough to know that I always have facts.

  • let’s start with “modeling in children” from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:
  • Then we can move on to Busching, R., & Krahé, B. (2020). With a little help from their peers: the impact of classmates on adolescents’ development of prosocial behavior. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
  • Boor-Klip HJ, Segers E, Hendrickx MMHG, Cillessen AHN. Development and psychometric properties of the Classroom Peer Context Questionnaire. Social Development. 2016
  • Dishion TJ, Spracklen KM, Andrews DW, Patterson GR. Deviancy training in male adolescent friendships. Behavior Therapy. 1996
  • Bandura A. Social learning theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; 1978

His reply? “Wish we could get you to do something productive with all your free time”

Then he progressed to “one of your sources is from 1978, that’s like 45 years ago.”

Then on to “It’s about scientific research in psychology. Homosexuality was considered a mental illness at that time. It was also illegal. You know that Nazis burnt books from trans clinic right? That a term is different than research? It’s not a coincidence that your timeline is full of bigots”

Arguing with idiots online is a waste of time, but I can’t help myself. It takes me 15 minutes to support my position, and he gets a pass with a one liner, then calls me a Nazi and a racist. You know you’re over the target when you start getting flak.

By Divemedic, ago