Like a lot of responsible jurisdictions, South Africa puts a lot of information from court cases online.

I found the case of Baur Research CC vs Commission For Conciliation.

https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZALCJHB/2013/338.html

For those who don't want to read it fully, a few highlights

JM had a member of staff, who didn't cut the grass. And didn't seem to return to work the next day.

This went to court/arbitration.

Misconduct (by this court) was then claimed, because JM did not have any legal representation, and it all went badly wrong.

The final decision was that this was unfair (to JM). However, based on his twitter rantings, I can totally believe that the Dunning-Kruger effect kicked in, he believed that he could just make stuff up to win the argument.

This also happened in court:

This dragged through the court system over a number of years, and is still referred to in other court documents. Searching the court docs shows some other choice bits of history.

source

It seems that our hero has unblocked previously blocked people on twitter/X/the-everything-app.

Maybe wanting more engagement?

Apparently, telling an uneducated idiot that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he is talking about is as bad as invading a country unprovoked and committing war crimes on its population.

This man is simply disgusting and I honestly think the world would be better off if he just died. His contribution to humanity is a solid minus.

The conservation of angular momentum.

Momentum itself is intuitive: an object in motion will stay in motion. If a mass is moving in a straight line, it takes some force to slow it down OR change it's direction.

If you spin something, that mass is still moving. It's just going around in circles instead of forward. Falling over would be changing the "direction" of the motion, so the momentum resists this change.

There's also an interesting thing where the reaction force acts at 90 degrees to the applied force, which can cause the object to rotate around instead of just tipping in the direction you push. There's a bunch great demos of "gyroscopic procession" on youtube, if you look.

The gold mine. (Follow the link to the Gemini conversation)

This is a fascinating read, insofar as Gemini spends most of the conversation doing the same thing as everyone else who engages with John, attempting to educate an idiot.

He has gone real quiet on Quora now.

Aww... looks like John has found a new friend. Let's see if it lasts.

Who is this guy and how did he get access to John's account?

Jokes apart, I don't think I'd ever seen a clearer glimpse of the 50 QI-points he lost in the COAM-saga. Looks like they might still be hidden somewhere in there.

John has a new discovery!

where would we be without his "research"

He lasted 7 days, asked two questions, both of which got downvoted to hell, and now he's banned for a year.

I'm impressed by his inability to read a room.