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Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47
ignotum@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoPer Newsweek article
“Think of it, magnets,” Trump said. “Now all I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets. Why didn’t they use John Deere? Why didn’t they bring in the John Deere people? Do you like John Deere? I like John Deere.”
Incoherent rambling like usual
nialv7@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
marius@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta
assa123@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
or 6 after ads
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
What the tractor people? Are they particular experts in magnetism?
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Incoherent rambling to us fucking poetry to the demented led paint chip eating maga voters
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
i wonder if his dimwitted supporters actually understand or trying to decipher what hes saying or they just like hearing him talk as background noise to affirm thier beliefs.
1984@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
If you actually look at the pattern, you will see it used everywhere. He is using the same words all the time.
It’s a kind of rambling that people recognize now, and you could have a stranger guess that it was Donald Trump who said this just from the semantics of the words.
At this point I know what he is going to say before he says it. :)
jdr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.
jdr@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.
anyhow2503@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Have you done it with a glass of water?
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?
SW42@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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…
Ack@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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…
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I think you mean then median person. 🤓
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.
FatVegan@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
“He’s one of us”
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ignorance is often glorified here.
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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
rmuk@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Because even before he was a senile old man, he was already a child raping con artist?
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
That makes him immoral, not stupid. I swear people on here will call anyone they don’t like stupid.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I can without a shadow of a doubt say I would be a better president.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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.
DaleGribble88@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Por que no los dos?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
when you have a propaganda apparatus on tv, online helping its not hard. plus general mysgoyny and racism goes hand in handle. rather than actual “action plan”.