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On 2025-02-04 13:15, Marion wrote:

At first I wondered how incredible it was that these Apple trolls know nothing about anything - for example - Alan Baker knows nothing about BMWs nor about racing nor about Usenet headers - and yet - he thinks he does.
*Why are apologists like Alan Baker so fantastically ignorant?*

For the record, here is my racing record (at least, as much as DriverDB
has captured):

<https://legacy.driverdb.com/drivers/alan-baker/>

Or there's this:

<https://speedhive.mylaps.com/profile/MYLAPS-GA-71c2a7ce5b7b4c0a8205cc0b26bf6013>

Or how about this:

SCCBC Race Drivers Committee

Race Drivers Committee Chairman: Alan Baker

'Membership on the Race Drivers Committee is by invitation only. The
committee is comprised of some of the best racers in British Columbia.
Most committee members have won championships in their class while
others have done consistently well over the years and have proven
themselves capable of excelling in all race conditions.'

<https://web.archive.org/web/20230812160632/https://www.sccbc.net/about-sccbc/race-drivers/>


That last is from my term as chairman of the Race Drivers Committee of
the Sports Car Club of British Columbia, where I started racing in 2013 (winning Rookie of the Year), and where after only 4 seasons of racing I
was invited to join the RDC.

Now none of that means I'm the very best racing driver out there...

...but it does pretty clearly show that I do now something about racing.

Think on that when you consider what else Marion/Andrew/Arlen/...

...might be lying about.l

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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 11:38:09 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :

Speaking of countering lies, I long ago continually confronted both
Alan Baker & Snit about their brazen fabrications, where even I had
to give up as people like Alan Baker have only one purpose on Usenet,
as you stated.

Alan Baker is only on Usenet entirely for his own sadistic amusement.

Snit got filtered out a decade ago so I have completely forgotten about
him. Alan though is so diabolical that he thinks everyone is like him
and lie to others in plain view. He accused me not once, but twice of
lying about how the iOS Calculator behaves, despite me providing visual
proof to him. He could have very easily checked the behavior himself
but chose to parrot what Apple said and show his evil intentions once
again. I no longer give him the time of day.

Hi badgolferman,

Ah, Snit. I was so young in those days when I thought Michael Glasser could
be reasoned with, where I learned 1st hand how incredibly stupid Snit is.

Remember when he proved all these Apple trolls, including nospam and Jolly Roger and Alan Baker don't know the difference between a Bell & a Watt?

Since I study the Apple trolls, I wondered why they're soooooo different.
From experience, it came to me why they're the strange people they are.
a. None of them have any education
b. Yet, all of them think they're geniuses
c. Where, due to survival instincts, they're herd animals to the core

Take Alan Browne, who swears the walled garden he logs into doesn't exist
even though he invisibly logs into it every single day of his mortal life.

Take Chris, who we agree is smarter than most, but even he swears he has a medical-based PhD & yet ridiculed basic immunology terms such as 'vehicle'.

Take Jolly Roger who swore for years that Apple completely & fully patches older releases when Apple simply never has done so in its entire history.

Take Hemidactylus who brazenly refutes D-K effects & yet he never read the seminal papers so he has no idea he's left of the first quartile doing so.

Take Joerg Lorenz who, laughably, claims he knows more than everyone else,
and yet there isn't a single person that he could possibly know more than.

Take Your Name who, just as with Joerg, claims everything is worthless, and yet, nothing he ever says isn't worthless - which is his own projection.

We could take Jolly Roger who was similar to Lewis, Savageduck, Wade
Garrett, Wolffan, Chris Schram, et al., where they were all herd animals
who couldn't stand a word being said askance about their God-like Apple.

Of all those herd animals, I enjoy Jolly Roger's posts the most because he
is, in my humble opinion, the perfect canonical archetypical Apple owner.

However, if we take nospam, who was an Apple troll to the core, we finally
for the first time find someone who actually knew something about Apple products - so much - in fact - that I joke his contract to defend Apple to
the death no matter what simply had expired after two decades of that ilk.

Yes, nospam was different - but even he had a lower-than-average IQ since
all his arguments were the sophomoric type that a fifth-grade bully employs e.g., anything Apple couldn't do was, to him, "not needed" & "not wanted".

Another way I knew nospam's IQ was low (albeit his was higher than the rest
of the Apple trolls) was that he too didn't understand what a decibel was.

At first I wondered how incredible it was that these Apple trolls know
nothing about anything - for example - Alan Baker knows nothing about BMWs
nor about racing nor about Usenet headers - and yet - he thinks he does.
*Why are apologists like Alan Baker so fantastically ignorant?*
<https://groups.google.com/g/misc.phone.mobile.iphone/c/EiNl6hyMBDo/>

Alan Baker owns a fourth trait that only some of these Apple trolls have,
which is that his entire purpose on Usenet is his own sadistic amusement.

Just one article from you or from me contains more value than those five hundred posts from Alan Baker - who invests about five seconds per each.

Even though it's work for me to add someone to my killfile (as I have to
edit scripts using regular expressions), I've added the following because
not only do they add no value when they post - but they subtract value.
- snit
- alan baker (aka bodger)
- joerg lorenz
- rod speed (aka %, %%, etc.)

In decades of being on Usenet, which you know I've been on from, oh, even
the old a.h.r days when Steve and you and I bantered about fixing things,
I've only had to plonk a single-digit handful of worthless posters.

One of whom is our Apple troll Alan Baker whose posts lack redeeming value.

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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 23:16:23 -0000 (UTC), badgolferman wrote :

Ah, Snit. I was so young in those days when I thought Michael Glasser
could be reasoned with, where I learned 1st hand how incredibly
stupid Snit is.

Are you saying Michael Glasser was Snit? I've now learned something
else from you.

That's my understanding, but let's be clear I haven't thought of Snit
since, oh, since the days he made this ridiculously stupid video about me!

<https://youtu.be/7QaABa6DFIo> iKooks can't even see the fatal flaw!
From: Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> === Michael Glasser

Note that the video, which was applauded by the Apple trolls, shows
something completely different than what he *thinks* it shows.

That's how incredibly stupid these common Apple trolls are, badgolferman.

Note that I wouldn't bring up their ignorance unless it was important,
where the common trait of *all* the Apple trolls is immense ignorance.

I've studied *why* they're Apple trolls, & one of the traits they *all*
have is an uncommon ignorance - which in & of itself - is nothing special -
but - when you realize their whole lives they've had to be herd animals
just to survive - then it begins to dawn on us why they are what they are.

Take Chris, who we agree is smarter than most, but even he swears he
has a medical-based PhD & yet ridiculed basic immunology terms such
as 'vehicle'.

I don't remember that conversation, but admittedly I don't read every
single post on this newsgroup.

I do read (almost) every post in this newsgroup, and it wouldn't matter
that Chris said that if Chris didn't *also* claim to own a PhD level
biological sciences education.

Remember, I strive to understand why these Apple trolls are what they are,
and one common trait (other than ignorance) is they're all posers.

Chris claimed to have a very high level of education in biological
sciences, which is fine, but then, after claiming a lofty level of
knowledge, he ridicules both the size of the SARS-COV-2 genome being large
for an RNA virus, and he makes fun of the use of the term "vehicle" in immunology.

Nobody with that level of education would make those sophomoric mistakes.

When you think about *why* these Apple trolls lie so much, you realize they
are like 5th-grade bullies who think everyone is as stupid as they are.

Take Alan Baker, for example, who will participate in a discussion on a
topic and then a month or two later he'll claim to know nothing about it.

After even having responded to the facts in the prior discussion, he'll
claim he doesn't know anything about it and YOU have to PROVE it to him.

I tried that. Again. And Again. And Again. And Again. And Again. And Again.
And Again. And Again. And Again. And Again. And Again. And Again. And...

Until I realized... Alan Baker is doing it out of his own sadistic needs.
His standard approach, much like that of nospam, is to deny forever.

The sad but poignant result is the fact that anything Alan Baker posts is
not only worthless, but of negative value - which is why I've plonked him.

And I must say, it's not easy for me to plonk someone as I have to figure
out all their nyms (of which Alan has many as you know) & regexp them all.

From my interactions with Chris he
doesn't seem like an Apple apologist since even he questions some of
the outlandish claims made by the usual suspects.

Yes. I agree. Of all the Apple trolls, Chris is the least outlandish.
Chris actually found an error in my calculations once.

And I thanked him profusely for that, since I love when I'm wrong.
When I'm wrong I *learn* something.

My ego isn't tied into being a poser like those Apple trolls are.
But back to Chris - he's NOT like the rest of them.

If only he'd stop trying to claim a degree he clearly doesn't have, I'd
stop telling him that he tried to ridicule the wrong things in front of me.

Take Jolly Roger who swore for years that Apple completely & fully
patches older releases when Apple simply never has done so in its
entire history.

He's got bigger problems than being an Apple apologist.

Yes. Jolly Roger is your classic fifth-grade bully who IMMEDIATELY
escalates any conversation about Apple facts into a fight to the death.

Jolly Roger's gut reaction to anything he doesn't like said about Apple is
to viscerally and viciously *ATTACK* the messenger of the Apple facts.

He's a herd animal to the core, so his vicious *ATTACKS* are literally the means by which Jolly Roger psychologically copes with non-herd humans.

Take Joerg Lorenz who, laughably, claims he knows more than everyone
else, and yet there isn't a single person that he could possibly know
more than.

I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt since English is not his
native language, but he's proven my patience to be misguided.

Jeorg Lorenz is clearly a strange one, I admit. Just like Your Name is.
It's harder to characterize either of them accurately, actually.

They ridicule everything as worthless, for example, and yet, they can't
back up their claims. Never once has either one of them backed it up.

Hence, I put Joerg into my killfile, but I haven't yet done so for Your
Name (simply because Your Name doesn't post all that often).

Take Your Name who, just as with Joerg, claims everything is
worthless, and yet, nothing he ever says isn't worthless - which is
his own projection.

Everything is idiotic and moronic to him. I picture him as the old man
in the corner shaking his finger at everyone.

I agree. Your Name is no different than Joerg Lorenz as far as I can tell.

If Your Name did post often, he'd be in killfile also, where I have to
repeat it's *work* for me to add someone to my regexp plonk scripts.

So I don't plonk people unless they're especially prolifically egregious.

However, if we take nospam, who was an Apple troll to the core, we
finally for the first time find someone who actually knew something
about Apple products - so much - in fact - that I joke his contract
to defend Apple to the death no matter what simply had expired after
two decades of that ilk.

Yes, nospam was different - but even he had a lower-than-average IQ
since all his arguments were the sophomoric type that a fifth-grade
bully employs e.g., anything Apple couldn't do was, to him, "not
needed" & "not wanted".

nospam was occassionaly helpful to me and his incredibly dry demeanor
was amusing. I'm sad to see him gone.

I have mixed feelings about nospam for the same reason that you said, which
is that occasional nospam knew more about Apple than the rest of us did.

But nospam was an Apple troll to the core so he had no compunction
whatsoever about brazen lies which David Empson had to set him straight on.

I miss nospam's knowledge.
But I don't miss him as he was also purposefully sadistic with his lies.

He'd send innocents astray without even batting an eyelash about how much effort it takes them to end up finding out that nospam knowingly lied.

Plus, nospam's IQ, while higher than most of the Apple trolls, was, to me, clearly substandard as nospam couldn't fathom simple math, such as Apple
having a single-digit percentage higher RAM efficiency can't overcome
Android's triple-digit RAM advantage - as just one example.

After hundreds of such "mistakes" from nospam, I strongly concluded:
a. Either he is of abnormally low IQ, or,
b. He's just a (sadistic) liar

Which, characteristically, is common to *all* the Apple apologists.

It's why I joke his contract expired because he acted as if his sole job
was to dispute everything truthful about Apple which he didn't want known.

In decades of being on Usenet, which you know I've been on from, oh,
even the old a.h.r days when Steve and you and I bantered about
fixing things, I've only had to plonk a single-digit handful of
worthless posters.

My days on Usenet actually predate alt.home.repair when I discovered alt.autos.toyota and learned to repair my car from those fellows.

Ah. Interesting. I was on Usenet since the SunOS days of rn & tin, but I
was on company-sponsored newsgroups where I answered customers questions.

sms was on that group too.

Yup! At some point, when I moved to the mountains, I needed an immense
amount of knowledge of pools & well pumps & WISP & generators, etc, &
that's when I found a.h.r (where I also met Steve, who turned me on to the "Pool Guys" in Saratoga - where I still go today to get my HASA Chlorine).

BTW, did you ever wonder *why* Steve hated T-mobile to the point that he'd actually fake his coverage graphs by not noting that they didn't accurately cover the 5G network that T-Mobile had at the time (but Verizon did not)?

I never understood *why* Steve was so hateful to the point of his brazen
lies about Verizon versus T-Mobile (and not so much about AT&T).

As for me, I don't care which carrier I use as long as I get a good deal.
But Steve was outright against T-Mobile at all costs for some strange
reason.

On the positive side, Steve is gung-ho on finding discounts of every kind, which is a credit to him as it's complicated for him to find them all.

I once asked how to disable DRLs and that
thread went absolutely bonkers with people getting more nasty than
Jolly Roger and Lewis combined. It must have measured into the 1000s
before it finally died.

Daytime running lights?

Of course the group eventually died too when
politics became pervasive. A.H.R. is headed that way too.

Yup. For a while I tried to clean out a.h.r but I eventually gave up.

By doing that successfully for a while, that's why Rod Speed asked for
people to kill me (which I reported to the FBI as it was around the time of
the Capitol riots where anything was possible).

The FBI told me to have nothing to do with Rod Speed (and all his % nyms). Which I've done (although it's often hell to plonk symbols in regexp!)

Rod Speed was another sadist, much like Alan Baker is.
All their amusement is in getting someone's hackles up.

Amazingly
this group is still fairly clean despite the crossposted political
messages slipping in. No one other than Alan bites on those, but
that's because he's bored.

Yes. Agree fully. You've characterized the situation well.

With Apple trolls like Jolly Roger & Your Name & Joerg Lorenz, et al., everything they do is an involuntary but natural reaction for them that
makes them appear to look knowledgeable & smarter & more intimidating to others.

With Alan Browne, he was always trying to appear to be in an elite club.

But with the likes of Alan Baker... he's just a psychological sadist who
tries to torment people by making them prove what he already knows (or
doesn't want to know) and his manner is to tease and provoke because he's a malcontent miserabilist to the core.

Alan Baker always posts with a degree of malice involved as his main intent
is to cause distress because he enjoys seeing others react to his sadism.

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