• Ignotum@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    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

      • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
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        2 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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        7 hours 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”.

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        18 hours ago

        Many people are just as stupid as him.

        Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education

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          8 hours ago

          When I read the comment sections of my local news most of the comments are incoherent rambling like Trump but with more spelling mistakes. Its sad.

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          17 hours ago

          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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          15 hours ago

          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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            15 hours ago

            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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        18 hours 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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          16 hours 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
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            16 hours 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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              The quote “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” is usually attributed to a Yosemite National Park Ranger taking about the issue with designing bear proof trash cans.

          • TheRedSpade@lemmy.world
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            17 hours 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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                13 hours ago

                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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                  What they mean is that all three are different kinds of averaging. This is correct, but I don’t think people in general think ‘median’ when they hear ‘average’

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              15 hours ago

              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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      7 hours 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.

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        4 hours ago

        Maybe it’s to do with what a literal dogwhistle is. I can’t really make heads or tails of this, but that’s maybe just because my brain is on a completely different wavelength. Like dogs can hear specific frequencies humans can’t. Maybe trumpists hear certain things in between this word soup that actually makes sense on some level.

        Or maybe he’s just a senile old man and his followers are incapable of critical thought when it comes to him.

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      17 hours ago

      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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        16 hours 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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          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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              4 hours ago

              Now we’re talking science!

              I’ll write the funding proposal at once.

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            16 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.