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is that... did he... did he really say that?
At this point you can't really tell whether something is satire or a quote from the orange president.
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.
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..
Per Newsweek article
Incoherent rambling like usual
Dude sounds like chatgpt 0.1 beta
How. How is he THIS fucking stupid? How did someone THIS fucking stupid become president twice?
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".
His brain is soup. Probably a combination of hard drugs and venereal diseases.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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”.
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.
Ignorance is often glorified here.
behold, the shining beacon of freedom and democracy
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.
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.
Have you done it with a glass of water?
Now we're talking science!
I'll write the funding proposal at once.
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!
Unfortunately he did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJufrrsaIks
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.
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.
had to look it up. aparently yes, 2 years ago