Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47

• drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?

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  • SW42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just look how stupid the average person is. Half of the people are more stupid. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

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    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The last few years have taught me that the difference between stupid and not stupid is oceans wider than I thought.

      I turns out stupid people are closer to what I thought the intelligence of an animal was.

      These people literally don’t think. They basically pattern match and that’s it. There’s no deeper reasoning. There’s no capacity for nuance, no understanding or extension of empathy. They can barely read. If you string the gibberish from an AI they’ll blindly trust that it’s correct above all evidence.

      Meanwhile we’re seeing all these nuanced multi step problem solving behaviours from birds and all animals and even bumblebees…

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      • Ack@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I read something from someone on the internet who claimed to work with bear-proof garbage cans and apparently it’s harder than one might expect. There’s some overlap between the smartest bears and the dumbest people.

        I’m sure the bears are more motivated, but still…

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think you mean then median person. 🤓

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      • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Can’t speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.

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      • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.

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  • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He’s 80 and spent 6 of then as president. I don’t think you’d fare much better. Why blame a senile man rather than those who put him in place?l

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    • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because even before he was a senile old man, he was already a child raping con artist?

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    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can without a shadow of a doubt say I would be a better president.

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      • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        When he finally does die they’re going to Weekend at Bernie’s him for as long as they can. But we’re all immediately going to be able to tell, because the level of stupid comments will drop significantly.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My grandfather was 104 when he died and until he was about 95 and had a stroke he was still perfectly capable of tinkering around with his car and it still worked at the end of it. “Old” isn’t an excuse, anyway we have documented evidence that he has been been a gormless idiot his whole life.

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    • DaleGribble88@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Por que no los dos?

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.

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  • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ignorance is often glorified here.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What the tractor people? Are they particular experts in magnetism?

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• marius@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta

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  • assa123@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    or 6 after ads

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• nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  behold, the shining beacon of freedom and democracy

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• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Incoherent rambling to us fucking poetry to the demented led paint chip eating maga voters

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• jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  He said he would drop the glass on the magnets, not put them underwater. You can demagnetize a permanent magnet by violently striking in the absence of a background field.

  I’m not saying he’s good, but I don’t think he’s entirely wrong.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The magnitude of physical stress waves a magnet has to undergo to be demagnetized is huge. Most magnetic materials will shatter instead unless the force is applied precisely.

    I think he vaguely remembered something about electromagnetism and that water on electronics is a no-no.

    The main takeaway is that he should appoint an engineer to advise him on technical topics (and Surgeon General on medical matters, etc.), otherwise any sufficiently sly corporate sponsor or media can easily steer his policy by pretending to be experts. I guess the only fields he does not need to delegate are being a douchebag on TV and lying about real estate.

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    • jdr@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Citation needed! I’ve done it with a cheap iron magnet and a hammer.

      Anyway I think he implied that these magnet was just below Curie temperature.

      He might just be a stable genius.

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      • anyhow2503@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Have you done it with a glass of water?

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Iron magnets are crap, but I imagine he does not know better having gone to school in the 50s-60s. But yes, those are magnetically weak enough and physically strong enough for a hammer to work.

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