Gerard Timothy Simpson (Astronut7)

Global warming is almost always called climate change now. I couldn't figure out why some spots on Earth are colder than they used to be on some days, and then I realized: the ice continent of Antarctica is freaking melting 🇦🇶🧊🫠to keep the planet cool.🌎🌍🌏

Well, that sounds terrible. Now, this is coming from someone who has never lived through needing a regime change, but how does minority representation help dealing with neighbours that use drugs and smoke/vape it all over the place? Or make loud noises and death threats? I refer to the argument over bloc voting. I mean, I seem to be in a minority where I think smoking and vaping is bad for health, so there's that. As for the rest, I had to look up the theory of class warfare. Communism again, eh?

Labour accuse us of being divisive. I find this hypocritical coming from the party which actually believes, and practises, the theory of class warfare, the block vote, and the closed shop, and whose road to power lies in turning one section of the people against another.

I'm stressed out and worried being on here. X and other social media is not good for my health. It'd be nice if my body and mind could weather "the storm" but there's no end to it and I'm already weathered from storms.

@MrsMThatcher Margaret, that sounds good on paper, but I'm an idiot. Have you got any way to improve attention spans, and memory retention, and aptitude, and speed so that I may make considered rational judgements of all the decisions in cabinet? Oh, did you say drugs? Eh...side effects?

The idea that men must govern themselves not by the arbitrary commands of a ruler but by their own considered judgement is the means whereby chaos is replaced by order, violence by the peaceful resolution of differences, and tyranny by freedom.

@alexboge Dry wit and sarcasm here. I'm not sure if it helps, but I'm glad you're the one going through the data and not me. If I was growing up these days, I'd be suckered into believing all kinds of rubbish.

Footage from inside a moon landing denier indoctrination center: “Repeat after me…” • “Why are there no stars?” • “It’s clearly filmed in a studio.” • “Van Allen belts would’ve killed them.” • “The flag is waving.” • “Kubrick directed it.” Good. Again. No, don’t think about it. Just say it. Don’t ask why laser reflectors are still being used today. Don’t ask how fake moon rocks got independently verified worldwide. Don’t ask why every space agency around the globe agrees. Follow your programming. Stick to the script. Memorization is easy. Understanding is hard.

@haruspis @Halo So, here's a small idea. How about making a realistic Earth defense platform game, (Cairo Station) where Cortana is a nice AI and doesn't dream of world domination and eternal peace? I mean, we have watched the 1951 Day the Earth Stood Still, and in Halo Contact Harvest the AI had already taken over, and nobody cared, right? AI taking over in some parts of the world can be considered a good thing? Just a thought. And some constructive ctriticism.

You know, I'm spending nights where I'm convinced I haven't slept at all. The antarctic theory I have posted is clearly wrong, but I don't know what to do about it, because it makes sense to me, kind of like the Solar System model of the atom makes sense whereas quantum makes headaches.

@PeterDClack Good morning. At the risk of sounding naive, could you show me the datapoints for when the Amazon rainforest was cut down, and reforestation efforts didn't occur? You've made a classic correlation/causation blunder. Regreening is unrelated to CO2 comcentrations.

The satellites don't lie. The planet is greener today than it was 20 years ago. This was confirmed by the latest satellite studies of shifts in vegetation by NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). The greening trend is continuing and widening, and 70% is attributed to higher CO2. We're seeing new greening hotspots in India, China and even the Arctic as growing seasons lengthen. If CO2 is 'pollution' why is Earth's total leaf area expanding? The new green abundance is planet wide. Earth's natural systems are managing the planet far better than by any UN bureaucracy. Atmospheric CO2 is not the 'climate control knob they claim. It's a trace gas at only 0.042% of the air. The gradual increase in CO2 over many decades has increased global greening. It's time to recognise that CO2 is plant food, not a toxic byproduct.

I just want to point out, that the reason why Halo Combat Evolved 25th Anniversary Remake exists is because the forum moderators banned all constructructive criticism on the forums, and deleted the Halo Waypoint since 2021. No new ideas in a vacuum. @haruspis @Halo Sequels, please. To wit, I was banned from Steam because I defended my ideas. I notice that now you've banned me, you have zero ideas except to go back to the beginning, and do a prequel set of missions with Sergeant Johnson, which the community has been telling you to do since 2010. Critcism is always "How can we make this better" even if it hurts to read. Criticism generates ideas. Blind praise does not. Your moderators killed your franchise.

This kind of romance? Between aliens and humans? Hmm. Look, the only romance I remember outside of Human x Human is from Halo Legends. Elite x Elite. A story about a marine pretending to fall in love with a Jackal so they can snag some of the pirate treasure though? Maybe. They are snipers. I only predict tragedy.

I get it, you guys want more romance. I'll keep that in mind, thanks.

In before the AI generated images claims. Exactly how is anyone supposed to prove anything when it can all be claimed to be fake, even at the cost of millions and billions of dollars to do it for real? Hmm? With fists? With democracy? With hard-headed, stiff-necked behaviour?

Whoo hoo! Best news I've had all year thus far. The amount of flannel I've had to wade through saying that the Soviets supported the Americans because of some conspiracy. I had to give up. This Moon landing denying craze started in what, 2005? With a published book? It didn't help that in my class, it was a Russian that was spitting it out--mostly because nobody was interested in Sputnik and Laika.

Dear Moon landing deniers, Here are high-resolution images taken by India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) during the Chandrayaan-2 mission. They show the descent stages left behind on the Moon at the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites - exactly where NASA said they would be. Independent confirmation, from another nation, half a century later. Reality doesn’t care who’s upset by it. Update: In my earlier post I accidentally used the wrong image. It was labeled correctly in search results and looked similar, but I didn’t verify it closely enough. That’s on me. This post uses the correct image. Sorry about that. Note to self: don’t post between Super Bowl commercials 🙄

@SuspectedP @jheg77 @PeterDClack But what with? If I'm using my own lungs, it's impossible. I'm up against the wind. If I'm using a politician's worth of hot air, it may be feasible. It's an overlooked detail, and it's a classic case of "use a better simile."

@Astronut7 @jheg77 @PeterDClack Read it again, champ. There is only one interpretation of the way he wrote it and you have it wrong. “like trying to steer an ocean liner by blowing on its sails”

The oceans hold roughly 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Through Henry’s Law, the atmosphere and the ocean are constantly seeking equilibrium. When the oceans warm, even slightly, they release CO₂ via outgassing. When they cool, they absorb it. Because the ocean is so vast, even a tiny shift in its temperature or circulation can move more CO₂ than all human activity combined. The current climate narrative focuses entirely on the thin film of the atmosphere, treating it as a closed system that humans have broken. But the ocean is the ghost that governs the system. The CO₂ we track in the atmosphere is not a permanent shadow, its part of a massive, ongoing exchange with the deep sea - a process that ignores political deadlines and follows the irresistible laws of thermodynamics. The climate crisis narrative rests on this thin film fallacy. If the ocean holds 90% of the energy, then 90% of the climate story is happening where we have the least amount of historical data and the least amount of control. To claim we can control the climate by micro-managing the human fraction of atmospheric CO₂ is like trying to steer an ocean liner by blowing on its sails. We are obsessing over the 2% while ignoring the 98% that dictates long-term equilibrium.

@pnattmbtc_ @PeterDClack My point was: use a better simile. No offense, mate, but this reminds me I got graded top marks for reading comprehension. Other people got graded better for writing, but not reading. Another way to look at it is: hey, this is cool. Ocean liners can in fact, be moved by sail.

@Astronut7 @PeterDClack Yes, which is why I responded as I did. That you didn’t get the point is shown by your response of being able to make the large ship move by putting on sails.

@pnattmbtc_ @PeterDClack x.com/i/status/20202… Ooh. Does this link work? Lots of points here. All about protecting Earth, too.

@pnattmbtc_ @PeterDClack Oh, I got the point. Did you get mine?

@jheg77 @PeterDClack It did not say that I have to personally blow on it with my own lung capacity. The wind blowing on the sails is perfectly valid English, and a perfectly valid interpretation. 🤡 If you're a teacher, you're unqualified to judge English reading comprehension.

@Astronut7 @PeterDClack reading/comprehension is not your strong point but being an annoying liberal you're the champ🤡

@alexboge @DavidWolfe The information about Phizer I had compared to AstraZeneca suggested that it was experimental and out to make money. I read the abstract of the company report. Also having to get vaccinated multiple times was sketchy.

@Astronut7 @DavidWolfe It was not experimental, it was tested before release.

The strangest thing about the pro vaxxers is that they believe vaccines protect them against everything except the unvaccinated.

@ryankatzrosene Ah good. xAI has been showing me quite a few posts from people convinced that the climate change is not our fault. With me it's simple: our factories produce heat. This warms the planet. Carbon dioxide is not required for this. They cannot convince me that it is not our fault.