• ApeNo1@lemmy.world
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    From the article

    The “polarizing” president was in conversation with Fox News about the economy when he veered off track…

    Dad reporter confirmed. He even snuck in an “off track” before talking about trains.

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      This video was the first thing that popped into my head after reading the headline. I wonder if he saw it once and just internalised “nobody understands it”.

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      Holy shit something just clicked for me!

      “Ice is slippery, because water expands when it freezes” -->so when compressed it…

      Granted it’s not really something I thought of on that level being from the equator.

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        Compression of any kind creates heat. In the case of ice, if the surface temperature is warm enough, the heat caused by compression is enough to melt it. Not all of it, but a thin layer at the top so you slip and fall on your ass.

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          While that may contribute to the slipperiness of ice in certain circumstances, we know that ice is still slippery even when the compressive force is unable to melt the ice, even a thin layer. For example, we’ve studied ice at temperatures and pressures where liquid water doesn’t form.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20zyW0qoSTE

          I don’t remember the details exactly, but in the (most common) crystalline arrangements of H20, at the surface/edge of ice the individual molecules don’t have all their crystalline “partners”, so they can still shift around to varying degrees, which makes ice slippery even when none of it can / does melt–all of the molecules are part of at least one crystal.

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      Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that. You can’t explain why the tide goes in.

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    If you’re gonna post paywalls, at least quote the good parts. Y’all think we can afford to pay for news in this economy?!

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    I tried dipping my electromagnet in water and Trump was right! It lost it’s magnetism!

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    It kinda just sounded like he was saying most people don’t know all the actual things magnets are used for.

    Poorly worded, sure. That’s my takeaway

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      Just commented, China’s curtailing or completely blocking rare earth exports. Somebody told Trump how vital those minerals are to industry. Trump thinks American can spin our own rare earth mining (?) in 2-years, but acknowledges Xi is holding the cards so he’s begging and threatening him over exports.

      All Trump can really parse is, “Magnets vital, China screwing us.” He’s trying to spit out his understanding of the importance of magnets. Of course he’s the smartest guy in the room, “Nobody knows what magnets are (how vital they are across industries).”

      It’s a dementia addled clusterfuck, but at least this time I can see where he’s going and why. Also explains his otherwise nonsensical rant to the Navy on replacing aircraft and ordnance lifters with steam power. I was wrong on his reasoning, now I see it. But fuck me, no one should have to take weeks to decode his dementia.

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      The water and magnets comment was about electromagnets, too. He was completely wrong about the reliability of elevators on aircraft carriers, but he wasn’t saying permanent magnets can’t get wet.

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      “President Xi was willing to do the railroad things—that’s magnets,” he said. “Now, nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don’t have a magnet, you don’t have a car. You don’t make a computer, you don’t make, er, televisions and radios and all the other things—you don’t make anything."

      That’s exactly what it is. Could’ve been stated a little more clearly but this is a completely coherent statement. The man does a dozen deplorable things a day, are we really that starved for headlines that this is what we’re reporting on?

      Almost convinced that his administration is paying for these articles so people will look at them and complaints about the Epstein files as equally valid.

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          Is there a specific reason why, or just… Trump bad?

          Again, don’t get me wrong, Trump bad, but we gotta have standards.

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            Because it has to be deciphered like a secret code to be understood.

            We’ve gotten normalized to how he rambles and meanders around subjects but his speech is far from coherent, imo.

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              It does not have to be “deciphered”. C’mon, now. It might seem kinda strange when it’s written out, but this is a completely normal sentence to say. The only way I can see this being misconstrued in good faith is maybe if English wasn’t someone’s first language, but if literally anyone besides Trump said this it wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow, let alone be headline worthy.

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    Ignorant and racist.

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of voters vote in someone so much like themselves.

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    Magnets are a really useful thing, particularly in compasses, which allow you to find your way to Epstien Island.

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    Most of Trump’s sentences resemble the Monte Carlo generated texts of oldie times. Remember the ones where it seemed like someone having an aneurysm is talking? Those ones.