This is only relevant for this group because we deal with science, or at least I assume the study and practice of electronics is scientific.
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A friend suggested this book and I just finished it....I'll avoid any rants about how the left needs to get a clue.
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Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
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Read it and cringe.....
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To me a pound is a pound, a kilogram a kilogram, numerals go from 1 to as high as you want to count, social repression has nothing to do with any of the proceeding.
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Note, I don't especially like the metric system but I accept it is real and valid.
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It is worth noting the book was written in 1994, well before the current social conflict over woke, social justice, DEI, et al.
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To me a business exists to make money, Proctor and Gamble's Gillette's "We Believe" ad campaign credited with causing a $5 billion dollar loss.
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I'd be a little upset if I were a stockholder...
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[For those who require proof, do a net search or
"A major development was reported between late July and early August, when it was announced that Gillette had lost $5 billion in quarterly sales, resulting in P&G giving Gillette an $8 billion non-cash writedown in terms of valuation."
Or look into Bud Lite....and what a debacle.]
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"Go woke, go broke." [I believe John Ringo, SF author, came up with that witicism.]
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A society that turns it's back on science or uses social criteria to decide scientific truths is in deep trouble.?I'm reminded of the Indiana Pi Bill, look it up on wiki and laugh, then look at the current social situation.
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I bet it'd pass today.
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I actually heard an English professor in college complain that "Pi should be rational, it just isn't right....makes no sense."?
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I kept my mouth shut because as an EE major I was alread on thin ice for studying something real. <you had to be there>
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Hum, reality isn't right or wrong, but it is real. [and yea Quantum Mechanics gives me a stomach ache, but it's real...for various versions of real.]
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If you can't remember 3.1415, maybe you shouldn't teach or vote.
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[If you only have a 4 banger calculator, a very close approximation to Pi can be found with 355/113. Give it a try...]
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[A friend used Pi to 25 places, backwards, as her master password to the Big Iron in college. Yea I know some odd people.]
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We have the most advanced civilization in the history of the planet, people in third world nations enjoy cell phones, computers and instant communication. One might expect this to lead to an appreciation of science.
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[When I see the ISIS or Starlink satellites I'm filled with wonder that we've come so far so fast. I remember John Glenn atop that rocket...poor BW TV in school.]
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I wonder how long before they start burning us at stake for being heretics in the current social structure because we believe 1 and 1 are 2, not the result of some inherent racial paradigm.
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[My wife read this, "Oh don't be silly, they won't burn you at the stake, they'll simply send you to a special camp to be reeducated.]
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I just heard a rant on the radio about the inherent racism in math which lead me to write this....I wanted to call in and as "so which numeral is an oppressed minority?"
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But decided against it as trying to convert a rock to life by lecturing it. Or get our cat to not twine between my legs as I try not to trip over her. Both tasks are futile.
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