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  1. olofscience
    When you pull the yoke of an aircraft, nothing happens on the (front) wing. If I were to use your words - no release of mechanization happens. Lift coefficient would still increase though.
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    Modern airliners like the A350 or 787 actually have more curvature on the bottom surface than the top surface of the wing, and they work pretty well for low speeds too. I've always wondered how a parachute with a supercritical aerofoil section would behave like.
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    Brent only understands the street meaning of "low confidence", not its scientific context. He doesn't have a clue about probability and statistics (basic arithmetic is already stretching it). Kind of like when the Covid-19 vaccine had 90+% effectiveness, and all the conspiracy theorists were screaming why it wasn't 100%?
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    Brent will reply to this with his usual list of useless "predictions" which nobody really disputes (CO2 will increase, fossil fuel use will increase, that polar bear stuff). He's predictable like that.
  5. olofscience
    Of course now, I'm going to have to modify my prediction for 2025 - because Brent has now been stung by acting as I predicted, he will then try to disrupt the trend by being far more conscious of when he starts his usual hurricane thread. (either posting around the same time, or leaving it a bit later, but not too late). Or maybe even go earlier, if he reads this particular post and wants a "gotcha" next year - times are pretty hard for climate change deniers these days.
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    Wow, you're really desperate to make shit up that I didn't say, huh only chance you'll win this argument is by making the other side's arguments up yourself So, why are you posting this before we're halfway through June? Last year it was around end of July. It's almost like there's a TREND (that I predicted, by the way)
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    The problem is that my observation is you're doing this more than a month earlier than last year: How did that season end, again?
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    "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell Love your confidence, Brent
  9. olofscience
    How would you know, you could barely add two numbers together Why would I cry if there are fewer destructive hurricanes causing property damage? I'm not you, I'd be happy about that.
  10. olofscience
    Last year, how it started - Brent posted on July 23rd about how quiet it was in the Atlantic. How it ended - by August 30th the Atlantic was VERY active, and Brent was nowhere to be found. And I said: My prediction has mostly panned out! We're only a few days past May and Brent has already made his hurricane post
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    Didn't you post the same thing last year? How did that work out for you? (spoiler: badly)
  12. olofscience
    You're setting up strawmen again. Nobody said the US dollar wasn't the world's reserve currency. But that's different from it being the world's currency - it's not, and Biden didn't cause the global increase in inflation rates. COVID-19 (and Russia's invasion of Ukraine) did that. Again, nobody can print dollars except for the US Federal Reserve. Countries can dig up and sell oil only in US dollars, but they can't print any dollars. Your strawmen arguments are getting sillier and sillier that you've been caught out.
  13. olofscience
    Yeah and Trump wanted to dictate both. There's this thing that happened called COVID, and it screwed up supply chains a lot causing shortages, and with all the money in the system, inflation rates started shooting up. Remember the global chip shortage? No, of course not, you have selective memory. Did Biden cause that?
  14. olofscience
    Here's a 2018 news article about Trump criticising the Federal Reserve about raising interest rates. In case it wasn't covered by your MBA - raising interest rates reduces the money supply (lowering inflation), lowering it increases the money supply (akin to "printing money", increasing inflation). Trump wanted to keep printing money in 2018, which meant when the pandemic hit and money had to be printed to keep people getting salaries, there was already too much money in the economy, making the inflation shock that came afterwards worse.
  15. olofscience
    Last time I checked, money here had the Queen's face on it. They're now printing new ones with the King's face on it, but they're not dollars. And they didn't print any dollars here during the pandemic either, but our inflation rate is higher than in the US. There's a gaping hole in your logic here...did you say you got an MBA?
  16. olofscience
    More Republicans voted against it than for it.
  17. olofscience
    Yeah, like that "red wave" he was gloating over, turned out well didn't it?
  18. olofscience
    Nope, the standard calculation for lithium battery lifetime is charge cycles up to when it reaches around 80% of original capacity. As usual you're not posting the source link so you can be free to "misread" things to make complete lies.
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    Funny how you celebrate a 0.9% uptick in cereal production when you call a 1.5 C increase in global temperatures "hundredths of a degree" For perspective, that 3.8 million tons is actually less than what Ukraine exports in a month, and they'll actually drop by around 5 million this year compared to the past 5-year average because other crops like oilseed are more profitable for them. People aren't starving because the world not growing enough grain, they're starving because they can't afford it. And farmers don't want prices to go too low otherwise they'll make a loss.
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    Coreece posted a very cringey post a while ago about the Netflix film "Don't Look Up" where he was comparing himself to Timothée Chalamet "getting" Jennifer Lawrence, because Timothée's character in the movie was that of an evangelical (he also completely missed the entire point of the movie, but that's another topic). Hence I deduced his gender as a "he", among other telltale signs.
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    You said "specifically" but do you realise that nothing in this statement was specific? You didn't specify anything, instead just saying "all the antisemitic protests" which kinda looks like you're painting all the protests with a broad brush. See, this is why I don't think you're arguing honestly at all...
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    He posted it as a joke, then said "climate change is good because it forced these sex workers to change careers, because sex is bad". But he wasn't committed enough to his anti-sex position so he had to slither around, drop some implied accusations with a broad brush, then deny he did that, then try to get some "gotchas" instead of actually arguing for his position. Which he'll continue to do, because that's easier than actually facing the gaping inconsistencies at the heart of his religion.
  23. olofscience
    1) that's not what research is, 2) you should provide hyperlinks And you STILL don't say what point you were making. Because you don't really have any or you're not really discussing in good faith. Again you're proving my point with the gotchas. Not sure what this is about though, given you don't really have a point. What point? You *AGAIN* fail to say what your point even is. So whatever billvon's point is, it's a lot more than whatever you've "contributed" to this discussion, which is just slithering around people's arguments saying "gotcha" and "that's not my point".
  24. olofscience
    Oh, but he didn't say exactly that - maybe he needs to clarify the "framing of his rhetorical question" later (not now - that would defeat the purpose of his trolling) but he'll throw a few subtle digs for you to argue against, then he'll deny that he said exactly that, then start the loop again. What is it with conservatives that they just talk in short, predictable loops? It's stupider than talking with ChatGPT...
  25. olofscience
    All you're doing here - for the past several posts already - is saying "that's not what I was saying". Then you're just trying to get "gotchas" - but you never really clarify what you mean. This is really just trolling. Either you're just too cowardly to actually say what you stand for and argue for it, or you don't really stand for anything.