• sbeak@sopuli.xyz
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      At this point you can’t really tell whether something is satire or a quote from the orange president.

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      He was talking about electromagnets at sea ships… Because the sea-water would short them.

      But then, it’s almost as stupid as the short version.

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        This is retarded as well. I once repaired an undersea $10,000 cable for like $600.

        Like bitch (orange menace), pay people what they’re fucking worth, I was worth 3 times that much, if not more…

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      Per 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

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          Many people are just as stupid as him.

          Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

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            Many don’t really get to hear him unfiltered. Around T1 I was watching Fox and they at best had a text snippet of something he said. Never extra text around the snippet and certainly not the audio. Still many do go and see him live.

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            Many are, but many Trump supporters started out smarter than him but they’ve dumbed themselves down to his level in order to continue their support, I guess.

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              Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don’t think it’s always even a conscious choice.

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          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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            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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              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…

            • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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              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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                  Because mean means average. I wouldn’t consider the median or the mode to be an average. Not sure what that commenter means by different “types of average”.

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                Considering intelligence/stupidity isn’t defined, it’s a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.

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

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

        Don’t know why they didn’t use John Deere though.

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          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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            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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              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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      When ever you think something sounds too stupid even for trump. No you didn’t.

      His stupidity is his defining characteristic among his voters. For the wealthy and powerful, he’s an easily manipulable rube. For the poor saps he says the same stupid things they think and say. He’s just like them, so relatable!

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        And just in case anyone thinks that’s AI, ABC News vetted it as being true here (in the body, not the video).

        I know why voting records can’t be public, but I simultaneously wish they had to be too. As an appropriately-colored scarlet letter.

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      It sounds shocking until you remember Americans are dumb as shit. I have to keep reminding myself of this to make any sense of the absolute dystopian nightmare that somehow they support.

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    Smart people will always admit when they aren’t sure about something.

    Idiots always know everything

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      Ironically, you’ve left your mistaken comment sit up here for 7 hours now. #Hypocrisy

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      At best you’re preaching to the chior. At worst you’re wrong and it’s not A.I., and you just look foolish. Your comment is a waste of bandwith either way. I’m tired of literally every thread having someone yelling “slop” in it.