Maybe the result of US education system
tremendous
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
django@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Link to the book please, I can’t believe this.
Gloomy@mander.xyz 7 months ago
I second this, it seams a bit one the nose to be real.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Fourth grade textbook published by Bob Jones University, and highlighted in a ScienceBlogs post by PZ Myers
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I have a high degree of confidence this is real. Looks like the hard work of Bob Jones University Press.
I won’t disable my ad blocker to view the site, but there may be a discussion about it here:
Sternout@feddit.de 7 months ago
This Artikel about it is really funny
Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
People have most certainly felt electricity.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Mistaking it for being touched by the hand of god, instead of being a toaster with a short circuit.
Malgas@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Also thunder and lightning really ought to count as seeing and hearing electricity.
Hell, seeing anything at all may technically count, because electromagnetic waves.
kromem@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People can also say where it’s from.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Is that really from a book that used to teach children? Holy fuckin hell. No wonder America got shittier every day.
psud@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I wonder whether the kids being taught by that book ever zapped each other with static
Resonosity@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As an electrical engineer, JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Don’t forget holy water in your toolbox.
UFODivebomb@programming.dev 7 months ago
I didn’t know you can’t work when the sun is down. Are electricians vampires?!?
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Christians are as fucking stupid as djt it seems
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
BRING IT FORTH
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
What a loser. Everyone who has watched the Pokemon TV show knows what electricity looks like.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I threw up a little in my mouth…
kaboom36@ani.social 7 months ago
I’ve been shocked a couple of times, I think I have an okay idea of what electricity feels like
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you really want to feel it you can, very easily. I have its quite the sensation
kaffiene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s something I don’t get about the world when someone like Trump isn’t a universal laughing stock.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sadly, that idiotic oaf is still probably smarter than 25% of the country.
shneancy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
he is starting to sounds more and more like mashing the autocorrect prediction button. Which has always reminded me of how my great grandma spoke before she went non-verbal due to her dementia
psud@aussie.zone 7 months ago
That doesn’t explain why the middle of the bell curve like him
Thorry84@feddit.nl 7 months ago
capt_wolf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
God, I can’t make it through the whole thing. Listening to him blathering on and on causes me actual physical discomfort.
I sincerely don’t get how anyone listens to his rambling tripe and is like, “This guy totally gets it!”
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I know this is hard to fathom but its because those people are more stupid than he is.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 7 months ago
Windmills have automatic shut-offs based entirely on their Bald Eagle kill counts.
phax.
Malgas@beehaw.org 7 months ago
“Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own national bird at the windmills until they reached their limit and shut down.”
kromem@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But you see, as he says, he knows more about windmills than anybody.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
Donald would probably try to fight a windmill thinking it was a giant.
accideath@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don(ald) Quixote?
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
worldpopulationreview.com/…/evolution-teaching-st…
In which states are the most Trump voters? Ignorance is the capital of the right wing policy.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
As said, it’s logical that he love the poor educated. They are the only which vote him, Billonairs apart.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months ago
How does a mind that has no thread at all still spew words?
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Jellyfishes also can live an moving without brain
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Just open your smartphone keyboard and keep pressing the recommended word in the middle.
TexNox@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Truly a modern Don Quixote for our age.
magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 months ago
‘You know we have a world, right?’ is what got me. I could barely finish reading past that point.
thebartermyth@hexbear.net 7 months ago
iirc Trump hates windmills because there was a windfarm created near his golf course.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
And 40 something% of the population will vote for him.
glimse@lemmy.world 7 months ago
23% of the country voted for him in 2020, not 40%
elbucho@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, I mean - that’s a pretty misleading figure, tbh. It’s true that around that percentage of Americans as a whole voted for him, but “Americans as a whole” includes a whole bunch of people who are not eligible to vote. Like, people under 18. Or people who have felonies and cannot exercise their voting rights. The eligible voting population in 2020 (according to the US census bureau) was 231.6 million. As Trump received 74,223,975 votes in 2020, that represents about 32% of the population. Of course, 231.6 million people didn’t vote in 2020. Only about 168.3 million were registered to vote, and only about 154.6 million actually voted. So if you look at the percentage of people who were willing to vote who preferred Donald Trump, that’s a staggering 48%. What’s depressing is that if you tally up the people who didn’t vote (either because they weren’t registered to vote, or they were registered and decided not to), you get about 77 million voters - more people than actually voted for Trump, or about 33% of the total eligible voting population.
So what’s probably most accurate is to say that America is roughly divided into thirds: those who think Donald Trump is swell, those who don’t, and those who couldn’t give a shit either way.
Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I don’t know if he has really said that or not. It saus long about the man.
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Not exactly, there’s missing context between each sentence. I hate him as much as the next person but the quote is inaccurate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9P3C1OXqE
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think someone told him once that if he ever stopped yapping he would implode
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
This seems even less hinged than usual, is it real?
TurtleJoe@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Media isn’t reporting his obvious dementia. They call the nonsense he spouts “rambling speeches.”
Some other recent examples:
“We can’t have an election in the middle of a political season. We just had Super Tuesday. And we had a Tuesday after Tuesday already.”
Gang boong. This is me. I hear bing.”
I could tell you about aircraft carriers, where they use electric catapults. They couldn’t go to the steam, which works better for about 1/100th the price, you know? The electric catapult, you know that story? I could tell you about the elevators on a tremendous carrier, the Gerald Ford, and they decided not to use hydraulic like the John Deere tractor, they decided to use magnets, ‘we’re gonna use magnets!’ to lift up the elevators with seven planes.”
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I probably shouldn’t be amused at a fellow person deteriorating like this, but I can’t bring myself to feel bad about it. ☺
alehc@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Lmao that’s hilarious. Do you have the video of him saying the I hear bing one?
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think that every time that man opens his mouth tbh.
xkforce@lemmy.world 7 months ago
xionzui@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
That was significantly more hinged than the meme. He probably set a record for the pace of lies or misleading statements, but he had a coherent message: windmills not made in US, manufacturing them releases fumes, they kill birds, having them nearby decreases home values, etc
Infamousblt@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Imagine how bad you’d have to be to lose to this braniac
Graymouzer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If one doesn’t understand something, there has never been a time when there were more readily available resources to explain it. If you don’t have time or want to put the effort in to understand it, it is perfectly reasonable to just accept the consensus opinion of people who are experts in that subject. We all have to do that to some extent. The world is too complex to understand everything. Still, this is just incoherent. Not even wrong.
conquer4@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dementia Donald
Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 7 months ago
Shamelessly stealing this.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup, he definitely belongs in a stable.
Or is “strong and stable”?
shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 7 months ago
He’s so thoughtful swoon
Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 7 months ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I can’t understand how stupid someone needs to be to listen to this drivel and think “Wow, this guy is a leader! Not just any leader either, the only leader for me!”.
AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The crazy thing is that you don’t need to cherry pick quotes or take them out of context to make him look like an idiot.
Listen to pretty much any interview or speech and he says something that is clearly idiotic, evil, or a blatant lie. Most likely all three… Repeatedly.
I get that Fox News is a hell of a drug, but just hearing this dipshit speak should shatter the illusion. The unwavering support is mind boggling.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everything about him is like that. They claim he’s strong and full of vitality too. All you have to do is watch him walking, or drinking water, and you can clearly see that he’s a weakling.
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Sanctus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Its not him directly. Most of them have only seen him through multiple filters. They are worshipping their golden calf at this point.
“And if I were to die now, they would say it was so my spirit could lead them.”
-Paul Atreides
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 7 months ago
At least the hardcore Christians seem to see him more as a vessel or tool. God’s tool doesn’t have to be perfect and in typical Bible reverse 4D backwards logic, being imperfect even shows how much of a chosen one he is. I forgot the name, but there’s actually a precedent in the Bible itself.
So they acknowledge that he is the antithesis to anything they claim to believe in, but they also think that he somehow will bring God’s will or something.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He fits every description of the antichrist given in the Bible. They’ve warned about the antichrist for 2000 years, and then when he finally shows up they worship him. It’s wack, yo!
exocrinous@startrek.website 7 months ago
Is this like the fact that there being no evidence for the lord proves she’s real, and were we to discover a babel fish she would vanish in a puff of logic?
someguy3@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
You see, leaders don’t like need to know the specific how to. The like need to know the business, you know. Art of the deal!
henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 months ago
FIL tells me they are obviously fake if they’re stupid.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I mean, he probably watches them in real time… Aagh! The disconnect. It burns!
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I’m sorry is this real?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Is what real? The quote? Absolutely.