John Martin

According to the magic of AI, I am only 3% Troll

@BaxterWilliams_ @_ChristIsLord Atheism is more that a deity is not necessary for the creation or operation of the universe or relevant as a source of moral authority. On that basis, I chose Theist. Also God that dies isn't an unmoved mover so probably doesn't qualify as big G god.

@_ChristIsLord I think that's a fair case for using "atheism". Thanks for participating in the thought experiment.

If someone believes in a God that ended Their own existence to create the universe, and we are just the leftover consciousness clinging to the remaining energy as it fades to nothing, is that person a theist b/c God once existed, or atheist b/c God no longer exists?

@bcg1976 @dudeimreading @Leo_Puglisi6 Get a thesaurus.

@dudeimreading @Leo_Puglisi6 Get a life.

I’m a current Year 10 student in Australia and can confirm - they’re currently holding me in Pronoun Prison where we must pledge allegiance to the LGBT flag 200 times a day, please save us! (serious note though, when has this ever happened here lmao)

And while I hate the idea of trying to do support on Xwitter, there's no other obvious / appropriate feedback mechanism.

@Google did you know that the manage your current domains link and manage domain button on domains.google is broken ? Clicking on either simply takes me back to the domains.google page. I know you're transitioning, but I should be able to manage what have.

@Ember421 Has anyone recently questioned the environmental damage and social disruption caused by building new hydroelectric dams, or the safety record of the ones that have been around for the last century ?

And here is an example of the "renewables" Motte and Bailey. "Hydro" is what is cheap in Canada. But extending that property to an umbrella "Renewables" doesn't necessarily make the other members of that category cheap. So go ahead and build lots of hydro!

@Aegtema @StellarGrips @gm_skeptic Democracy isn’t built on consensus (though it’s a nice aim), but rather on equal input into a rules based decision making process by the enfranchised. What arises out of that is negotiation and compromise, but rarely consensus.

Some commenters are telling me they’re unsubscribing because I’ve fallen into “trans ideology” when they thought I was “against ideologies” because I’m a skeptic channel… How does one even respond to that? Where do I even start?

@trevorandersen @Jac5Connor @fermatslibrary During a flood, absolutely

@Jac5Connor @fermatslibrary How so? It's only 6.5% of the density of water. Do boulders roll around like tumbleweeds underwater on Earth?

This is the last photo taken from the surface of Venus, 40 years ago. The Venera-14 lander reached the surface in 1982, lasting 52 minutes in Venus' temperature of 450°C (847°F).

@Mjdrift @DiogenesFake @Konstan46039631 @Osinttechnical Australia enters the chat ….

1 Ruble is now worth exactly $0.01 on the open market

@DaveIrving99 People say witches are real, and they have an alliance with the dark powers of evil. If she is poisoning children is it possible that she is one of them ? Why is the media totally silent on this ? Have they been compromised by back magic ? #justasking

Look, I'm just asking questions, but if Marjorie Taylor Green has been giving poisoned candy to children, surely she should be investigated? Because that's what I'm hearing. People say, there's this woman poisoning children, but nobody is talking about it. #justaskingquestions

@politicosdaily @DavidCo11014507 @sdc_core1 @wartranslated 8th in 2022 unless you have more recent data data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.G… IMF had Russian GDP growth in 2023 at 0.3% so it seems unlikely they’ve made significant progress since then.

@DavidCo11014507 @sdc_core1 @wartranslated Well I am only quoting what the world bank published recently, If toy got other intel… well good for you

Russian mobilised soldiers in Kherson Oblast are so battered and mistreated that they're left with no choice but to record a video appeal. Instead of standing at the deeper lines, they've been sent to defend against the relentless advances of the Ukrainian Defence Forces in the first line of defence without any training or logistics.

@Ron4California @ScottC20012 @sjpunome @ActualCosmos @GenMhayden the “declassified by making them part of his personal effects” seems weak, even Barr said so, outside of that the obstruction charges seem pretty solid. Still innocent till proven guilty, that’s why we have courts and juries to determine this stuff.

@ScottC20012 @sjpunome @ActualCosmos @JohnMartinIT @GenMhayden These anonbots are insufferable

@ScottC20012 @Ron4California @sjpunome @GenMhayden The grand jury was sufficiently convinced that the case was strong that he is is being tried for those crimes. Until the trial is done, he is innocent, after the trial he may be found guilty and go to jail for a long time. Seems simple .. no ?

@ScottC20012 @Ron4California @sjpunome @GenMhayden Yea, but he isn’t the president any more, and the case is that 1.) he didn’t declassify the material before he took it. 2.) he didn’t return the stuff he was asked to but said that he did (ie he lied to the police) 3. He tried to hide evidence (illegal without any other reason)

@QuixoticQuant In what way is hydro a non-variable renewable? Likewise are there any biomass generators in Oz ? Feels like an excuse to keep at least 10% gas generation.

Because on page 52, they descibe their 'Business As Usual' scenario. I.e. all the costs that EXCLUDED from the integration costs of those renewables. Guess what, it's packed full of storage, transmission, and firming to support renewables. Let's unpack. 2/

This graph from @CSIRO's latest GenCost is probably the most important graph for 🇦🇺's energy transition. It underpins the belief that wind and solar are cheap, even accounting for storage, firming, transmission etc. And it's completely bogus. 🧵1/

@SethLargo That’s because they’re still not sure about Schrödingers ethics of making cats hungry just because he was uncertain if they’d salivate to a bell

Working on a book. There's a character, a half-educated blabbermouth. I want him to mention "Pavlov's hierarchy of needs" in a conversation, but I don't think anyone will get it.

@__bbak @rigtigfedmis @OskaArcher @duhonedd @Greenpeace This is the scale of the problem … batteries aren’t going to fix this in time. ourworldindata.org/grapher/global…

@__bbak @rigtigfedmis @OskaArcher @duhonedd @Greenpeace And that’s just the current grid portion, if you throw in the rest (eg industrial heat) of our primary energy requirements you’ll need to push that up by about a factor of five depending on how efficiently you’re able to convert energy from one form to another

.@Greenpeace: James Hansen, the climate scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect 35 years ago Also James Hansen:

@OldCavalry @myth_pilot Now … let’s talk about cheese

@myth_pilot For similar reasons, the US couldn't manufacture quality swords until 1860. The metallurgical knowledge and craftsmanship were never imported, and just enlarging a knife or pressing them out like machine parts wasn't good enough.

When Toyota first started building cars in the US, they came out all wrong, with myriad quality problems. Toyota Japan blamed American manufacturers and said they weren’t following the plans correctly … (cont)

@wharrrgarrbl Everyone’s gangsta until ….

@JohnMartinIT The coward blocked me. 🤣

These people are fucking idiots.