🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@swiley What is it with you and your false equivelance fallacies. I never once stated Biden is doing a good job or that you shouldnt be outraged at his choices... yet that is continually asserted in your bad-faith defenses.

You say shit that is completely a lie, then argue about it, and then complain that the data other people use to disprove you isnt good enough, meanwhile you have no data of any kind to suggest what you said is true.

Its lazy and makes you look very bad. Any intention to actually discredit Biden or his choices are overshadowed by the fact that you just discredit yourself in the very process. As someone who against Biden myself I certainly dont appreciate you hindering efforts and making people who are against Biden look bad, and thus weaking out own more valid arguments against him.

@swiley

@swiley Feel free to show us that chart of 2021 pm2.5 that you seem to think raised then... ill wait.

@swiley No one in the history of the US has done the specific type of QE, or the quantity of QE Trump has done. In fact only one other president engaged in QE before, that was Obama, and it was of an entierly different nature and not really comparable (though arguably not great)..

So no, others would not have done what Trump did in regards to QE.

Funny though how your whole argument is basically "other people suck too" not much of an argument.

Secondly your argument about emissions is completely false. Attached is the chart of pm2.5 (fossil fuel metric)emissions normalized for the day Trump was elected... Does that look like emissions went down during his election to you?

In fact even if we try to find the few metrics that might cherry-pick its way for you seeming right you will find that while emissions may have decreased in some special cases the rate of decrease significantly slowed or even leveled off compared to the rate it was falling before he took office.

@swiley as for other reasons to hate trump well there are the obvious surface reasons:

He demonstrated the intelligence of a small toddler

He was rude and even cruel to people without cause

His ego was very delicate and would have tantrums if anyone talked bad about him

etc.

But then there are more concerete reasons:

He engaged in masive QE which caused the highest inflation on record and, as QE does, we continue to see this massive inflation playing out today.

He rolled back tons of enviromental protections in a world that is barely scrapping by when it comes to keeping nature alive

and quite a few other things we could get into there as well.

There are more than enough reasons to rule out Trump as being even remotely competent.

@swiley The sexual fetish comment? No thats not a personal insult, no one in their right mind would think I **actually** thought you had a personal fetish. you said "fuck joe biden" since fuck means "to have sex with" it was a joke and play on words, not the same as a personal insult.

@swiley Wow you mean to tell me you literally thing Trump, in and of himself, was a good president? I mean there are plenty of other things than being an asshole to disabled people, but if your going to defend that like it is barely an issue then, well we said, that would make you an idiot. (reminder you were the one who though it appropriate to use personal insults in this conversation, which says a lot about you)

@josemanuel no i meant where I remember a time they were friends... go back before 9/11 and democrats and republicans got along rather well.

@swiley Of course they picked the wrong guy. I just said Biden was the wrong guy... Trump was just as bad.. again you didnt have the choice of one or the other.

@swiley Luckily you never had one choice or the other thats like saying "Sure he is a murderer, but id take that over vov who is a murderer and a rapist"... like ok, but you dont have to choose one evil person because you prefer he sort of evil over another evil person. There are **lots** of people to choose from.

If you cant see why your argument is absurd then you are an idiot.

@Bradley_JF

Yea it was very similar in the sense that no physicists really took it seriously other than a few fringe ideas and speculation. But it was enough to start a rumor and a bit of fear.

@lucifargundam @mian @Science

@swiley No, he was too busy making fun of people with disabilities to the nation. If you think either of these people deserved to be anywhere in the government at all you've already failed to solve the problem.

@swiley He had dinner at my family home, as has Trump. Couldn't stand either of them honestly.

@swiley I've met the man. Meeting him is a huge turn off.

@lucifargundam

There were rumors it might cause a chain reaction and blowup the whole earth. Scientists, at least the better ones, knew this wasnt true. But still it was a speculation at the time.

@mian @Science

@swiley This sexual fetish with you and joe Biden is beginning to concern me. Have you tried buying him dinner?

@lucifargundam all politicians are friends, except bernie and AOC, no one likes those two :)

This is a picture of the first moments of a nuclear explosion taken in 1952. The blast radius at this moment is less than 20 meters wide.

There are so many extraordinary things about this photo. First off the fact that they had a camera in the 1950's capable of such insanely high speed frame rates (they created a movie from this) that it was capable of 1,000,000 frames per second. In many ways that is more impressive than the nuclear bomb itself.

Second the fact that you can see, in real time, a nuclear explosion as it happens. Those spikes at the bottom are called the "rope trick effect" which is caused by the support cables inside or holding up the bomb. The light radiation is so intense it vaporizes anything nearby causing things to explode just from the intensity of the light itself (before radiation has any effect at all). So those spikes are literally just the support cables exploding in the extraordinarily bright light from the bomb.

#Science #STEM #Physics #History @Science

I am so old I remember a time when Republicans and Democrats were friends...