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SparkPlasma 27 points ago +27 / -0

Between this and the YouTube dislike count removal it's fascinating how people jump through mental hoops to justify how less information is good. Like I can see how less information would be good if that information were cluttering up a UI or if it wasn't worth the effort to add to the UI - eg. it would be mostly useless and frustrating to have information about whether the people living in the area preferred cats or dogs wasting space in the UI, or I could understand the site not wanting to implement it as it is a waste of time for them, but the argument that information is bad point-blank is absurd.

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SparkPlasma 7 points ago +7 / -0

It's funny how the people (let's be honest, women) who LOVE Harry Potter and HATE Umbridge are the EXACT people who shit-talk guns constantly. Government official nosily invading your space to tell you that you aren't allowed to practice defensive/offensive spells under the pretense of not needing them, while transparently wanting to disarm your people? OMG so evil! Switch to guns: OMG YAAAAAASSSSSSSS.

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SparkPlasma 1 point ago +1 / -0

This is an interesting lack of contextual awareness, you seem to have not even processed my critique. This is reminiscent of when I spoke with Smarterchild on MSN when I was younger - the responses seem related to the prompts but you don't seem to really interpret my messages, merely reply things which, in your case with enough rhetoric and verbiage, seem to be words written by a human but seem to be lacking something.

A brief Turing test: A dog chases cats. A cat chases rats. Do rats chase dogs? If not, what do they? How do humans take advantage of this to catch rats? (not looking for a complicated answer, this is not a trick question, just want to see if you're capable of processing things outside of climate science arguments)

Edit: You edited your comment after I wrote my reply. Interesting, you seem to acknowledge the radio-frequency/radiative-forcing discrepancy but (a) you wrote that with a format which is very unlikely to be spellchecked ((R)adio (F)requency etc.) and (b) trying to search for radiative forcing energy kinetic potential doesn't turn up any hits either. Still very suspicious of you being a bot or troll at this point.

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SparkPlasma 0 points ago +1 / -1

I don't actually give a shit if you cannot understand the meaning of RFeK

Okay. I'm going to make up a measurement called CCF (Climate Controlling Factor). It is 10 billion for CO2 and 1 for H2O. Therefore, CO2 controls the climate.

RFeK doesn't exist! I can look up acronyms from my field, electrical engineering, such as AGC or PSRR and get wikipedia articles or other sources describing what they are (Automatic Gain Control and Power Supply Rejection Ratio respectively) and how they relate to the field. When googling "radio frequency energy kinetic potential IPCC" the top hits don't contain "RFeK" or "radio frequency" or anything!

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-chapter2-1.pdf https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/TAR-06.pdf https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/ipcc_far_wg_I_full_report.pdf https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-ts-1.pdf https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/TAR-04.pdf

Nothing! Similar results for NASA and NOAA too. Nothing on google scholar either! You might as well be quoting numbers out of a Harry Potter book!

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SparkPlasma 1 point ago +1 / -0

RF gain is the forcing effect translated into potential kinetic energy units.

What? I don't see what potential or kinetic (or the combination thereof, whatever that means) energy "units" has to do with temperature. Forcing effects are usually described in terms of W/m^2 from what I've seen.

Now the zeroth and first laws of thermodynamics governs the earth's baseline ambient temperature (as it does for all climates of all inner planets).

No, the laws of thermodynamics govern literally everything, not just "inner planets".

From Jupiter and beyond, climate us actually dominated by internal heat shedding

Another term that I'm unable to find an actual definition of. Presumably you might mean heat from the planet's core, which seems plausible.

a process that only accounts for about 0.8°K % of our climate.

Kelvin or percentage? Make up your mind on units, you seem to just slap letters down everywhere.

Now the RFeK is just a mathematical symbol. It could be ♡, ♤, or just k1, k2, k3 etc.

Yes but the useful thing about mathematical symbols is that we can agree upon what they mean and relate them to eachother. When I write J for the units of a number it is not "just a mathematical symbol", it means Joules which you can look up the definition of and find values of for various energy quantities or whatever. I can not find RFeK anywhere, even using your expanded definition of the acronym.

R(adio)F(requency)e(nergy) K(inetic) potential

This sounds retarded. I assumed the RF in RFeK stood for radiative forcing because that seems most relevant to the topic. This reads like a slapping together of a bunch of fancy sounding science words.

black body measurements from space

I don't see how black body (radiation) measurements from space could differentiate between "ambient" temperature and temperature caused by greenhouse gases.

That is heat (eK) transferred from you directly into A.

Is eK a convenient unit for determining the warming effects of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, analogous to W/m^2, or is it a measurement of heat which would typically be Joules? Again your definitions seem wishy-washy.

The rest of your post just comes across as trying to create an appeal to authority (yourself and "science" and institutions), defining numbers and using Math to show the result you want. For all of your referencing of NOAA, NASA, and IPCC you've neglected to actually give a link to where they state these numbers. I tend to give the benefit of the doubt at least for a first reading of most casual forum comments because citing a bunch of sources is cumbersome to normal conversation, but because you've made several mistakes on fairly basic things like units, constantly reference things which don't even seem to exist (RFeK, other terms), and your tone comes across largely as trying to appeal to authority I tend not to take you on your word.

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SparkPlasma 2 points ago +2 / -0

I tried googling RFeK, along with some other keywords, and seem to only come up with this Facebook post which presumably is written by you given you give nearly identical arguments and numbers and both claim to be LEED-credentialed engineers and/or scientists. So RFeK seems kind of ill-defined to me.

16.3°K/288.8°K x 200/25800 = 0.00044°K

This equation seems odd. You've taken a ratio of temperatures (unitless) and multiplied it by a ratio of RFeK (unitless) and gotten a result with units of Kelvin. You've either neglected to include some sort of constant that you're multiplying by (I saw 103/410 in your previous comment, but what exactly is this? Does it have units of K? Where does it come from? Why does it seem like you haven't actually used it given I just typed your numbers from the equation above into a calculator and it does equal 0.00044?) or this is wrong.

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SparkPlasma 4 points ago +4 / -0

Why is 0.350 the middle point for this measure? Things like this are usually on a scale of 0.000 to 1.000, so does 0.500 mean "ambivalent/don't care" and if so does that mean that even the worst country viewed blacks slightly favourably? What do the numbers mean?

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SparkPlasma 5 points ago +5 / -0

Obviously this all occurs within the “post-scarcity” (i.e. “space communism”) setting of the shows

I've heard this "post-scarcity" thing thrown out a few times now, did the shows really present a post-scarcity society? Granted, I've largely only watched TOS, but there were numerous times where there was definitely scarcity. IIRC Mudd's Women involved Mudd trapping the Enterprise in orbit of a planet by removing their fuel cells. I saw one episode of Voyager where Captain Janeway was impersonated in a trade deal in which they stiffed some miners and gave the Federation a bad name. If it was post-scarcity would it not be simple to generate the materials that they needed to fuel their ship, or to satisfy the stiffed miners? Lots of TOS revolves around war and acting as frontiersman where they are fighting over planets, trying to survive while exploring, etc. I never got the sense that they were post-scarcity.

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SparkPlasma 9 points ago +9 / -0

Yeah. High school student edits the yearbook with an edgy comment? 20 years ago this would be called a prank.

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SparkPlasma 3 points ago +3 / -0

The right to force parents to give their children hormones

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SparkPlasma 4 points ago +4 / -0

Capitalism is when people simp for e-thots and the more people simp the more capitalist it is.

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SparkPlasma 1 point ago +1 / -0

I've honestly given up on modern entertainment. There's a lot in the old times to appreciate. No need to give money to diversicrats or even to watch their propaganda.

Same. I started watching Star Trek TOS recently and it's fantastic. Pure unadulterated sci-fi, thought provoking plotlines and conflicts, strong male characters, not afraid to show attractive women and authentic romance, characters of different races but not in-your-face. It seems like every time I watch a modern show it either has excessive race-baiting or overt feminist themes, I can't stand watching it.

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SparkPlasma 4 points ago +4 / -0

Women's history month? Like we don't hear about that shit enough already. Do women even play Rocket League? lmao

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SparkPlasma 2 points ago +2 / -0

Helena Duke, 18, thought it was odd when her mom shut off her location on a phone-tracking app that they share earlier this week.

One sentence in and I'm already thinking "what the fuck".

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SparkPlasma 10 points ago +10 / -0

although they'll probably extend the lockdoan again

That's how it's been in BC. Late-November "2 week" restrictions are put in place, mid-December extended by one month, then a few days ago they're extended by a month again.

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SparkPlasma 13 points ago +13 / -0

All I wanted was to sneedpost on /tv/ in peace.

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SparkPlasma 32 points ago +32 / -0

https://twitter.com/PoorWanderer1/status/1343946270306549761

Is this a troll? The guy literally uses a Wendy's 2 for $5 burger ad as an argument that 2+2 can equal 5. This level of brain worms is almost too high to believe.

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SparkPlasma 1 point ago +1 / -0

Maybe. I wonder if it's just the result of declining testosterone levels resulting in men "feeling like women", and women feeling like they don't have real men in their life so they have to become men. Same with feminism, despite all their critiques feminists seem to love the masculine few, and generally their psyche seems riddled with a desire for strong men.

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SparkPlasma 2 points ago +2 / -0

people who menstruate

Wouldn't want to upset the troids now would we?

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SparkPlasma 4 points ago +5 / -1

Classic woman, can't protest without also trying to show off her tits.

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