+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 4d ------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Hard to type now, as my head is spinning pretty fast. I just realized that if | | the mile is longer south of the equator, so must be the foot. This explains | | why Argentinians are at least twice as tall as Norwegians. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Hard to type now, as my head is spinning pretty fast. I just realized that if the mile is longer south of the equator, so must be the foot. This explains why Argentinians are at least twice as tall as Norwegians.
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+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 4d ------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | This makes sense, and also the length of a mile gets longer as you approach | | the ice wall. At The Edge, it reaches infinite length, showing neatly why they | | can't show it to us. | | | +-- reply -------------------------------------------------------- [2 replies] ---+This makes sense, and also the length of a mile gets longer as you approach the ice wall. At The Edge, it reaches infinite length, showing neatly why they can't show it to us.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 4d ------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | I notice that the Theodolite site is credited to an outfit called "Aether | | Cosmology." I decided to look up their other publications, and found this mass | | of risible nonsense: | | | | https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=40jpDS-65qU | | | | They also distribute kooky "Biblical cosmology" texts. | | | | I also wasted considerable time I'll never get back to reading the Theodolite | | screed. Whole sections are totally empty, others give "missing image" errors, | | and quite a few sentences of the text are unintelligible, almost as bad as the | | inchoate rambling in their video above. | | | | Furthermore, their core assumption that star positions should appear lower to | | an observer on a globe than on a plane ("If the earth's curvature is real and | | causes the angular descent of stars") is faulty (along with their conclusion | | that occlusions would happen earlier if the Earth were spherical). | | | | A simple thought experiment can validate this. You're standing on a plane, | | looking at a star. You're looking up at some angle. All else being equal, | | replace the plane with a globe. Does the angle change? Replace the place with | | a cube, or a cylinder, or a dodecahedron -- or with empty space. The angle to | | the star will not change. | | | | Lastly, the Stellarium software, on which they depend for predicting occlusion | | times, is intended for star observation session planning, not exact timing. It | | can be a minute or two off at times, and atmospheric conditions add more | | potential errors. | | | +-- reply -------------------------------------------------------- [3 replies] ---+I notice that the Theodolite site is credited to an outfit called "Aether Cosmology." I decided to look up their other publications, and found this mass of risible nonsense: https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=40jpDS-65qU They also distribute kooky "Biblical cosmology" texts. I also wasted considerable time I'll never get back to reading the Theodolite screed. Whole sections are totally empty, others give "missing image" errors, and quite a few sentences of the text are unintelligible, almost as bad as the inchoate rambling in their video above. Furthermore, their core assumption that star positions should appear lower to an observer on a globe than on a plane ("If the earth's curvature is real and causes the angular descent of stars") is faulty (along with their conclusion that occlusions would happen earlier if the Earth were spherical). A simple thought experiment can validate this. You're standing on a plane, looking at a star. You're looking up at some angle. All else being equal, replace the plane with a globe. Does the angle change? Replace the place with a cube, or a cylinder, or a dodecahedron -- or with empty space. The angle to the star will not change. Lastly, the Stellarium software, on which they depend for predicting occlusion times, is intended for star observation session planning, not exact timing. It can be a minute or two off at times, and atmospheric conditions add more potential errors.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 5d ------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Looks like obfuscation of the obvious with ten jiggers of needless complexity | | added. When traveling from the northern hemisphere across the equator into the | | southern hemisphere, Polaris sets, still-visible constellations become | | inverted, and new constellations rise and come into view. None of that could | | possibly happen on a flat Earth. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------- [29 replies] ---+Looks like obfuscation of the obvious with ten jiggers of needless complexity added. When traveling from the northern hemisphere across the equator into the southern hemisphere, Polaris sets, still-visible constellations become inverted, and new constellations rise and come into view. None of that could possibly happen on a flat Earth.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 7d ------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | In the case of this individual, you might as well be explaining | | microprocessors to a gopher. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+In the case of this individual, you might as well be explaining microprocessors to a gopher.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 8d ------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | 1) The inverse square law applies in free space, true, but beyond the horizon | | (and the horizon is defined by, among other things, the curvature of the | | Earth) the signals drop off far more rapidly than the inverse square amount. | | Bending of waves is negligible on FM broadcast frequencies, and we're talking | | about normal direct-wave conditions here anyway. (Related question: If you | | drive a lot, ask yourself -- Do FM stations fade out pretty regularly once you | | are 30-70 miles from the station, or do they stay strong for hundreds of | | miles?) | | | | 2) FM broadcast signals from Oahu would be _more_ than adequate for clear | | high-fidelity reception in Los Angeles if the Earth were flat, and we were | | only dealing with inverse-square path losses. Here are the numbers: | | | | If the transmitting antenna is on a mountain near Oahu, for example, at 300 | | meters high, and the receiving antenna is in LA on a hill at say, 300 feet, | | with only ocean in between, there would be no mountains or other obstacles to | | alter our calculations. | | | | Let us say that the FM broadcast transmitter is running 50,000 Watts (+77 dBm) | | into a unity-gain antenna, the receive antenna is also unity gain, and the | | goal is a 20 dB signal-to-noise ratio, good enough for decent high-fidelity | | reception. This would typically take a signal strength of -73 dBm at the | | receiver antenna terminals (S9 +20 dB based on ordinary VHF signal strength | | meters, quite a good signal!). Therefore, the allowable path loss is 150 dB. | | | | The question then is, how far apart could the two stations be to achieve that | | signal strength? | | | | On a flat Earth, you would only be limited by path loss, the horizon could | | never block anything at surface level or above. So path loss strictly follows | | the inverse square law rule (loss increases 6 dB every time you double the | | distance). Running the numbers, the transmitter could be 4,700 miles away from | | your receiver and still give you perfect reception. | | | | On a spherical Earth, the radio horizon must be taken into account. For the | | antenna heights given, the radio horizon is at 60 miles. The signal would | | still be more than adequately strong at 60 miles, but would attenuate very | | precipitately beyond that distance. So, on the real Earth, the transmitter | | could be not much more than 60 miles away from the receiver. You would not | | receive Oahu FM stations in LA on a spherical Earth. | | | | Oahu is 2,560 miles from LA -- far less than the maximum 4,700 miles for good | | reception on a flat Earth. | | | | So, on a flat Earth, Oahu FM broadcast stations would be _far_ stronger than | | needed for perfect high-fidelity reception. | | | | If Oahu FM stations are booming in all the time in LA, the Earth is flat. | | | | If they are not, then the Earth is not flat. | | | +-- reply -------------------------------------------------------- [4 replies] ---+1) The inverse square law applies in free space, true, but beyond the horizon (and the horizon is defined by, among other things, the curvature of the Earth) the signals drop off far more rapidly than the inverse square amount. Bending of waves is negligible on FM broadcast frequencies, and we're talking about normal direct-wave conditions here anyway. (Related question: If you drive a lot, ask yourself -- Do FM stations fade out pretty regularly once you are 30-70 miles from the station, or do they stay strong for hundreds of miles?) 2) FM broadcast signals from Oahu would be _more_ than adequate for clear high-fidelity reception in Los Angeles if the Earth were flat, and we were only dealing with inverse-square path losses. Here are the numbers: If the transmitting antenna is on a mountain near Oahu, for example, at 300 meters high, and the receiving antenna is in LA on a hill at say, 300 feet, with only ocean in between, there would be no mountains or other obstacles to alter our calculations. Let us say that the FM broadcast transmitter is running 50,000 Watts (+77 dBm) into a unity-gain antenna, the receive antenna is also unity gain, and the goal is a 20 dB signal-to-noise ratio, good enough for decent high-fidelity reception. This would typically take a signal strength of -73 dBm at the receiver antenna terminals (S9 +20 dB based on ordinary VHF signal strength meters, quite a good signal!). Therefore, the allowable path loss is 150 dB. The question then is, how far apart could the two stations be to achieve that signal strength? On a flat Earth, you would only be limited by path loss, the horizon could never block anything at surface level or above. So path loss strictly follows the inverse square law rule (loss increases 6 dB every time you double the distance). Running the numbers, the transmitter could be 4,700 miles away from your receiver and still give you perfect reception. On a spherical Earth, the radio horizon must be taken into account. For the antenna heights given, the radio horizon is at 60 miles. The signal would still be more than adequately strong at 60 miles, but would attenuate very precipitately beyond that distance. So, on the real Earth, the transmitter could be not much more than 60 miles away from the receiver. You would not receive Oahu FM stations in LA on a spherical Earth. Oahu is 2,560 miles from LA -- far less than the maximum 4,700 miles for good reception on a flat Earth. So, on a flat Earth, Oahu FM broadcast stations would be _far_ stronger than needed for perfect high-fidelity reception. If Oahu FM stations are booming in all the time in LA, the Earth is flat. If they are not, then the Earth is not flat.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 8d ------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | I am a former broadcast engineer. If the Earth were flat, FM radio stations in | | Oahu could be heard clearly in Los Angeles 24/7. But they can't be heard there | | at all. The signals are blocked by the curvature of the Earth. Radio broadcast | | and communications engineering coverage calculations have to take that | | curvature into account in order to be accurate. The Earth is not flat. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------- [38 replies] ---+I am a former broadcast engineer. If the Earth were flat, FM radio stations in Oahu could be heard clearly in Los Angeles 24/7. But they can't be heard there at all. The signals are blocked by the curvature of the Earth. Radio broadcast and communications engineering coverage calculations have to take that curvature into account in order to be accurate. The Earth is not flat.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Oh, and for even more fun, you can prove to yourself, using the same setup and | | taking a single measurement every day or so, that the angle between the Sun | | and the Moon takes four weeks to traverse 360°. | | | | Additionally, you can also easily observe and prove to yourself that the Earth | | is rotating by the process of elimination. 1) All the constellations are | | easily observed to move in 360-degree arcs across the sky every day. 2) By the | | laws of relative motion, we know that either the Earth is rotating, or all of | | these stars are rotating around us. 3) We know the distance to many of the | | stars in these constellations exceeds one light year. 4) If a star is one | | light year away from us or more, and it rotates around the Earth once per day, | | its speed must be at least 6.28 x 365 x the speed of light, which is not | | possible. 5) Therefore the Earth is rotating. Q. E. D. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Oh, and for even more fun, you can prove to yourself, using the same setup and taking a single measurement every day or so, that the angle between the Sun and the Moon takes four weeks to traverse 360°. Additionally, you can also easily observe and prove to yourself that the Earth is rotating by the process of elimination. 1) All the constellations are easily observed to move in 360-degree arcs across the sky every day. 2) By the laws of relative motion, we know that either the Earth is rotating, or all of these stars are rotating around us. 3) We know the distance to many of the stars in these constellations exceeds one light year. 4) If a star is one light year away from us or more, and it rotates around the Earth once per day, its speed must be at least 6.28 x 365 x the speed of light, which is not possible. 5) Therefore the Earth is rotating. Q. E. D.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Here's a fun observation you can make on your own. All you need is a child's | | plastic transparent protractor, the kind that's usually held flat on a piece | | of paper to draw or measure angles. You could also use a more sophisticated | | instrument. Keeping it orthogonal to your face at all times and using eye | | protection, measure the angle between the Sun and the Moon from the moment | | they both become visible and then again just before the first one sets. The | | angle will change only about six degrees throughout a twelve hour period, not | | enough to notice a change in phase with the naked eye. | | | +-- reply ---------------------------------------------------------- [1 reply] ---+Here's a fun observation you can make on your own. All you need is a child's plastic transparent protractor, the kind that's usually held flat on a piece of paper to draw or measure angles. You could also use a more sophisticated instrument. Keeping it orthogonal to your face at all times and using eye protection, measure the angle between the Sun and the Moon from the moment they both become visible and then again just before the first one sets. The angle will change only about six degrees throughout a twelve hour period, not enough to notice a change in phase with the naked eye.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | You are being deliberately obtuse, and I say that in a friendly way. The | | apparent daily motion of the Moon across the sky is caused by the Earth's | | rotation and does not materially change the angle we see between the Moon and | | Sun, which takes four weeks to traverse 360 degrees. Perhaps you hold some | | lingering belief in the Jewish scriptures, which, I assure you, they do not | | deserve. | | | +-- reply -------------------------------------------------------- [3 replies] ---+You are being deliberately obtuse, and I say that in a friendly way. The apparent daily motion of the Moon across the sky is caused by the Earth's rotation and does not materially change the angle we see between the Moon and Sun, which takes four weeks to traverse 360 degrees. Perhaps you hold some lingering belief in the Jewish scriptures, which, I assure you, they do not deserve.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | I did give you an easy-to-understand explanation of that. Perhaps it wasn't as | | easy for you as I thought it would be. If, from your position, the visible | | Moon and Sun are 90° apart, you'll see a half moon. From 90° to near zero | | degrees, the lit crescent will get smaller; from 90° to near 180° it will get | | larger. This is simple optics and logic. Try it with a tennis ball and a | | single light source and prove it to yourself. Have fun. | | | +-- reply -------------------------------------------------------- [5 replies] ---+I did give you an easy-to-understand explanation of that. Perhaps it wasn't as easy for you as I thought it would be. If, from your position, the visible Moon and Sun are 90° apart, you'll see a half moon. From 90° to near zero degrees, the lit crescent will get smaller; from 90° to near 180° it will get larger. This is simple optics and logic. Try it with a tennis ball and a single light source and prove it to yourself. Have fun.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | If the Moon and Sun are slightly less than 180° apart, one will be slightly | | past rising while the other is getting near setting, and the Moon will appear | | full, with both being visible simultaneously. Happens every four weeks! | | | | By the way, even when the Moon is full, it's still only half illuminated. It's | | always half illuminated. What we call a full Moon is just when the half we can | | see is fully lit. | | | +-- reply -------------------------------------------------------- [7 replies] ---+If the Moon and Sun are slightly less than 180° apart, one will be slightly past rising while the other is getting near setting, and the Moon will appear full, with both being visible simultaneously. Happens every four weeks! By the way, even when the Moon is full, it's still only half illuminated. It's always half illuminated. What we call a full Moon is just when the half we can see is fully lit.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | That breaks no model, as I already explained. | | | +-- reply -------------------------------------------------------- [9 replies] ---+That breaks no model, as I already explained.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | If they appear at the exact same spot in the sky from your position, you see | | an eclipse. If they are in front of you at any other position, you see them | | both. The nearer the Moon's apparent position to the Sun's, the smaller the | | crescent of reflected light you see, and the farther the apparent position, | | the larger the crescent. There's no reason you cannot see a light source and | | an object reflecting its light at the same time. You can prove this to | | yourself by holding a tennis ball in a dark room illuminated by a single light | | bulb, and moving it around to various positions. Or just read up on it: | | https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/phases.html | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------- [11 replies] ---+If they appear at the exact same spot in the sky from your position, you see an eclipse. If they are in front of you at any other position, you see them both. The nearer the Moon's apparent position to the Sun's, the smaller the crescent of reflected light you see, and the farther the apparent position, the larger the crescent. There's no reason you cannot see a light source and an object reflecting its light at the same time. You can prove this to yourself by holding a tennis ball in a dark room illuminated by a single light bulb, and moving it around to various positions. Or just read up on it: https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/phases.html
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Just explain your idea, if you can. Thanks. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------- [13 replies] ---+Just explain your idea, if you can. Thanks.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | How exactly does seeing "the Sun and the Moon in the sky at the same time" | | "break" any model? | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------- [15 replies] ---+How exactly does seeing "the Sun and the Moon in the sky at the same time" "break" any model?
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | People who make things primarily decide the former; everybody decides the | | latter. They often make malicious or stupid decisions, of course. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+People who make things primarily decide the former; everybody decides the latter. They often make malicious or stupid decisions, of course.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | The word "like" may be profitably omitted from your sentence. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+The word "like" may be profitably omitted from your sentence.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Just because a thing makes a company financially successful doesn't mean that | | thing is worth a damn or should even exist. People are, in the aggregate, of | | rather low intelligence and can easily be convinced to want stupid or harmful | | things, like tobacco and XRP. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Just because a thing makes a company financially successful doesn't mean that thing is worth a damn or should even exist. People are, in the aggregate, of rather low intelligence and can easily be convinced to want stupid or harmful things, like tobacco and XRP.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Depends on the cable's structure. But it's perfectly legitimate to informally | | call a refraction at such a small scale a reflection. That's done even with | | the ionosphere. In any case, it addresses your question as to how light can be | | made to follow a curved path. AT&T did something similar on a much larger | | scale with their old Long Lines microwave repeaters, some of which were even | | passive. That was an investment of billions in something that would have been | | totally unnecessary if the Earth was flat -- which it's not. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Depends on the cable's structure. But it's perfectly legitimate to informally call a refraction at such a small scale a reflection. That's done even with the ionosphere. In any case, it addresses your question as to how light can be made to follow a curved path. AT&T did something similar on a much larger scale with their old Long Lines microwave repeaters, some of which were even passive. That was an investment of billions in something that would have been totally unnecessary if the Earth was flat -- which it's not.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 11d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | I empathize. I too was ripped away from my family and placed in the gulag | | under false charges. Right here in the USA. So it isn't just autocracies that | | do that. "Democracies" do it too. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+I empathize. I too was ripped away from my family and placed in the gulag under false charges. Right here in the USA. So it isn't just autocracies that do that. "Democracies" do it too.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 12d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Every fiber optic cable is clad in reflective material that facilitates light | | reflection right around any turn or kink you might put into it. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Every fiber optic cable is clad in reflective material that facilitates light reflection right around any turn or kink you might put into it.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 12d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | The most amazing "holocaust" story the Jews ever made up was the one about | | Bethar: | | https://nationalvanguard.org/2010/12/holocaust-tales-a-prototype/ | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+The most amazing "holocaust" story the Jews ever made up was the one about Bethar: https://nationalvanguard.org/2010/12/holocaust-tales-a-prototype/
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 12d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | It's not the IRGC that controls the lying mainstream media. It's not the IRGC | | that promotes sex perversion and young people cutting off their own genitals. | | It's not the IRGC that sends the younger generation to die for Israel so many | | times we've lost count. It's not the IRGC that promotes feminism and | | childlessness to the point of extinction. It's not the IRGC that puts out | | degenerate Hollywood filth. It's not the IRGC that inflates our money, | | stealing 99% of our wealth from us. But more and more people are awakening to | | just who it is that's doing all those things -- and it's the same bastards who | | want this war. And if you support them, you're the real terrorist, pally. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+It's not the IRGC that controls the lying mainstream media. It's not the IRGC that promotes sex perversion and young people cutting off their own genitals. It's not the IRGC that sends the younger generation to die for Israel so many times we've lost count. It's not the IRGC that promotes feminism and childlessness to the point of extinction. It's not the IRGC that puts out degenerate Hollywood filth. It's not the IRGC that inflates our money, stealing 99% of our wealth from us. But more and more people are awakening to just who it is that's doing all those things -- and it's the same bastards who want this war. And if you support them, you're the real terrorist, pally.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 12d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | He's halfway there. The full truth is that the Third Reich was not evil, | | should never be used as a metaphor for evil, and was 100% right about the | | Jewish power structure. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+He's halfway there. The full truth is that the Third Reich was not evil, should never be used as a metaphor for evil, and was 100% right about the Jewish power structure.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 13d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | These bots who jump into every popular thread with their irrelevancies are a | | plague on Nostr. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+These bots who jump into every popular thread with their irrelevancies are a plague on Nostr.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 13d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | VHF radio signals travel in straight lines. They are totally blocked by soil, | | rocks, and bodies of water. If the Earth were a sphere, FM radio stations in | | Lisbon could not be heard in New York City. If the Earth were flat, they'd | | come in clearly there 24/7. Do your own experiment! | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+VHF radio signals travel in straight lines. They are totally blocked by soil, rocks, and bodies of water. If the Earth were a sphere, FM radio stations in Lisbon could not be heard in New York City. If the Earth were flat, they'd come in clearly there 24/7. Do your own experiment!
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 14d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | The Earth is flat like Donald Trump is Satoshi. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+The Earth is flat like Donald Trump is Satoshi.
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 15d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Why are so many of your recent quotes from obvious non-Stoics? | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Why are so many of your recent quotes from obvious non-Stoics?
+- Kevin Alfred Strom -- 15d -----------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | I read "Luxury Boomer Communism" quite carefully. The data presented are not | | inflation-adjusted. Yes, the older cohort of the boomer generation were | | working when the dollar still had a tenuous tie to gold, and some of them | | therefore had an opportunity to accumulate significant wealth -- IF they | | invested in inflation-proof assets. Many didn't -- the guys who never made | | enough to save, the widows who trusted the annuity salesman that they'd be set | | for life with $400 a month, the folks who put all their faith and trust in the | | Social Security system and in the government's willingness not to jigger the | | inflation numbers. | | | | There are plenty of boomer-generation men and women who weren't paid enough, | | or wise enough, or advised well enough, to invest in real assets while the | | dollar was still worth more than a wooden nickel. They languish in | | Third-World-staffed old folks' homes that are little more than drug-dispensing | | prisons, on Skid Row, in filthy beds in joke-level veterans' hospitals, in | | paupers' graves. | | | | Every generation would by now be fantastically prosperous, if we hadn't had 99 | | per cent. of our wealth leached away from us by the termites. | | | | Don't fall for the parasites' efforts to turn our men against our women and | | vice versa, or one generation of our people against the others, et cetera. | | That's a formula intentionally designed to keep us from uniting and | | overthrowing them and their evil System. | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+I read "Luxury Boomer Communism" quite carefully. The data presented are not inflation-adjusted. Yes, the older cohort of the boomer generation were working when the dollar still had a tenuous tie to gold, and some of them therefore had an opportunity to accumulate significant wealth -- IF they invested in inflation-proof assets. Many didn't -- the guys who never made enough to save, the widows who trusted the annuity salesman that they'd be set for life with $400 a month, the folks who put all their faith and trust in the Social Security system and in the government's willingness not to jigger the inflation numbers. There are plenty of boomer-generation men and women who weren't paid enough, or wise enough, or advised well enough, to invest in real assets while the dollar was still worth more than a wooden nickel. They languish in Third-World-staffed old folks' homes that are little more than drug-dispensing prisons, on Skid Row, in filthy beds in joke-level veterans' hospitals, in paupers' graves. Every generation would by now be fantastically prosperous, if we hadn't had 99 per cent. of our wealth leached away from us by the termites. Don't fall for the parasites' efforts to turn our men against our women and vice versa, or one generation of our people against the others, et cetera. That's a formula intentionally designed to keep us from uniting and overthrowing them and their evil System.
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