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Per Newsweek article
Incoherent rambling like usual
What the tractor people? Are they particular experts in magnetism?
How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?
Many people are just as stupid as him.
Our society prioritizes trash like nft startups instead of education
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.
Covfefe
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.
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.
Some people will do anything to continue to fit in with their group. I don't think it's always even a conscious choice.
His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.
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.
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…
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…
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.
Thanks!
I think you mean then median person. ☝️🤓
Can't speak for anyone else, but I was taught that mean, median, and mode are three different types of average.
Oh crap. Translating average to my language yields the same word as mean. But you're right.
Not a native English speaker here. Today I learned, too. Thank you.
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”.
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'
Under a normal distribution/bell curve mean and median are the same.
Considering intelligence/stupidity isn't defined, it's a lot to assume that its distribution can be approximated by a Gaussian.
I don’t totally disagree, I’ve never seen an actual distribution of random iq scores
And there's plenty of criticism of IQ tests as a proxy for intelligence, even if we did have the data.
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".
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
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.
Because even before he was a senile old man, he was already a child raping con artist?
Porque no los dos?
I can without a shadow of a doubt say I would be a better president.
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.
Ignorance is often glorified here.
Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta
or 6 after ads
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.
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.
behold, the shining beacon of freedom and democracy
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 (roughly) what he is going to say before he says it. :)
Incoherent rambling to us fucking poetry to the demented lead paint chip eating maga crowd
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.
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.
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.
Have you done it with a glass of water?
Now we're talking science!
I'll write the funding proposal at once.
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.