• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    That line was actually Trump being his narcissistic self. In context he’s saying, “Nobody knows how important magnets are but me.” And then he mumble fucks around about magnets being in everything.

    Somebody whispered in his ear that China halting rare earth exports is going to fuck up a broad range of industries. His dementia locked onto, “Magnets good. China has magnets. China no give magnets.” He then goes to mumbling how he’s threatening and begging Xi.

    That also explains his idiot rant to our Navy in Japan week before last. He’s explaining that we need to get away from magnetic aircraft and ordnance lifting systems and go back to steam.

    He’s trying to explain all this without admitting that he poked the tiger and the tiger poked back.

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      1 month ago

      I like how the guy who was elected because he says what he thinks always has to have his comments put into context. He didn’t literally mean that nobody knows what a magnet is (despite literally saying “nobody knows what a magnet is”), he meant something totally different!

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          How well did you do on those reading comprehension tests in school?

          Probably better than you, considering you read a whole ton of shit that I didn’t write. When did I say you were condoning him??? I just said that it’s funny that the guy that conservatives say “speaks his mind” has to have every statement interpeteted nonliterally

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    From what I’ve seen Feyman was more than a little pedantic and he liked to emphasize that science doesn’t answer “why” it answers “how”. So if ICP asked that question Feyman would say “take an undergrad physics course because its not easy to explain in a soundbite”

  • Kindness is Punk@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Magnets work by pulling all the God from our brains to create the God rays so that life can be sustained on earth.

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    1 month ago

    I tried a game that came free with my GOG account years ago, MagRunner.

    Overpopulation, huge zaibatsu that is into digitizing people and they develop an incredible new technology in space: MagTech! Magnetic technology!

    I guess the devs were being tongue-in-cheek at the time, but now it’s not funny anymore.

    Terrible Portal wanna-be, by the way.

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    1 month ago

    Feynman. Invents modern plastic. Contributes to the atom bomb. Thanks Feynman

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    1 month ago

    I never really thought about it, but isn’t the question actually “why do opposite charges attract?” Doesn’t it come down to stability? The universe likes equilibrium and combining opposite charges is an attempt to equalize.