Trump deflected hard questions about the economy with tales of magnets.
    • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
      56·
      24 天前

      Those headlines you’re thinking of don’t start “Trump, 79”. They start, “President Donald John Trump, 79.”

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        24 天前

        Unf, stop. It makes me feel things as I read that out in my head, then let down and blocked like the cat just jumped on the bed and threw up right near the end.

        • LOGIC💣@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          23 天前

          “I think for the past decade, we can all agree that I’ve been one of the biggest critics of President Trump. There have been times when he’s done things that I thought were worthy of praise, for example, when he negotiated the release of the remaining Israeli hostages in their conflict with Palestine. But nothing he’s done in his entire political career is as praiseworthy as what he did earlier today. He demonstrated today that he could put the needs of the American people first, and for that, I think we should all thank him.”

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    84·
    24 天前

    What everyone glosses over and completely never see.

    Is that this idiot represents the entire country.

    If you have an idiot for a leader.

    Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      24 天前

      Logic says, your country is full of idiots.

      Yeah, we went through this already, George Bush the Second made you guys look very stupid

    • IronBird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      23 天前

      tbf, he really is the perfect representation of a large subsection of the US population, rich, middle/working class, poor…

      he’s dumb as shit and acquired everything because of his name (wasting most of that fortune/legacy to boot).

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      23 天前

      Exactly right…

      You know those old cartoons that were totally not politically correct showing a bad stereotype of a Mexican, with a sombrero and a poncho, sleeping off a tequila bender under the shade of a cactus?

      Well, the orange pedophile is EXACTLY the American version of that: confidently ignorant, morbidly obese, with undeserved resources, zero education, zero manners, zero culture.

      We all know those stereotypes are supposed to be rude jokes barely based on any reality… I mean, there are cacti in Mexico and I am sure more than one Mexican has had a Tequila bender, but there is never the expectation you’ll go to Mexico and actually see that.

      And now, Muricans proved theirs not only exists, it is what they look up to apparently.

      That is like France choosing this guy as their next President

  • F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    84·
    24 天前

    I mean, in the same way that no one knows for certain what matter really is.

    But that really doesn’t matter. Release the Epstein files, provide healthcare for the US, and stop imprisoning my friends and neighbors

    • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      24 天前

      In 2020 I began my studies at Uni. Our music business lecturer always had nice ppts prepared for the class and most of the time he either had couple of fidget spinner memes or “fucking magnets, how do they work” memes. Brings back memories.

  • ApeNo1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    24 天前

    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.

  • mustbe3to20signs@feddit.orgEnglish
    49·
    24 天前

    What is this guys obsession with magnets?
    “Magnets don’t work when wet” “Nobody knows what magnets are”
    Does this obsession stem from the fact that he repels every decent person?

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    45·
    24 天前

    To be fair: "A magnet works because negatively charged electrons repel each other. "

    "Why do negatively charged electrons repel each other? "

    “… Well … Ok, so hear me out. You’re going to need to understand quantum mechanics and then the fermion principal. Then you’ll know that the electrons aren’t allowed to occupy the same space, and the easiest way to avoid being in the same space is to not touch each other. The electrons know they aren’t allowed to touch because they’ve studied fermions.”

    • jdr@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      23 天前

      None of that is correct though.

      Permanent magnets attract/repel because of aligned current loops in the material. It’s an electrodynamic effect that’s not related to Pauli Exclusion.

      • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        23 天前

        “down” is “just” a name for the direction everything falls.

        Why do things fall? What happened to “a body at rest stays at rest”?

        • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          23 天前

          What happened to “a body at rest stays at rest”?

          If no net forces are applied to that body. That’s what.

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            1·
            23 天前

            I think you may have taken me too seriously, but if so that’s a very dismissive response. I think your reply would be improved by describing at least one (nigh-universal, so it applies to “things” in general) force and saying why it exists.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        24 天前

        Yep. And for the most part the answer you’ll get is just that "these are universal forces. Excepted as observably true, but the why is seemingly unknown beyond “it’s a universal force.”

        We can mostly know what magnets are doing, but answering why it’s a universal force that just is, is a different matter. We just know electrons really don’t wanna touch each other, and I’m assuming if they did, matter wouldn’t exist.

    • zerofk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      23 天前

      There’s a wonderful video fragment where a journalist asks Richard Feynman, the Great Explainer, why magnets attract or repel each other. It goes on a tangent about how a minimum baseline of knowledge is required for any answer to the question “why”, to basically end with “it’s electromagnetism”.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      23 天前

      “The stuff that stuff is made of has sticky lines around it, that’s sort of how they stick together. We can line up the stuff that stuff is made of in a way that makes those lines stretch out and stick to things further away. Everything is magnets.”

    • Maiq@piefed.socialEnglish
      21·
      24 天前

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

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
      13·
      24 天前

      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.

      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        24 天前

        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.

        • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
          12·
          24 天前

          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.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      24 天前

      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”.

    • FuyuhikoDate@feddit.orgEnglish
      25·
      24 天前

      Fucking magnets, how do they work? And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist Y’all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed.

      • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        24 天前

        A magnet works because all the atoms inside the metal(Iron, nickel, cobalt) are lined up facing the same way so their tiny magnetic forces all work together.

        • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          24 天前

          I know that, but that’s a very unsatisfactory explanation!

          Still, I do appreciate the response.

          • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            24 天前

            Here’s a funny thing. You are right that it’s unsatisfactory because there is not going to be a satisfactory answer. The most simple explanation is it’s “sticky lines in space” but that’s probably even less satisfying. We can study electromagnetic waves and how they propagate, how they interact with anything, we have complex and highly accurate models for how these fundamental forces interact to make things like magnetic lines grow and stretch and interact with other things, and this skill in predicting and manipulating them is how you’re reading this right now.

            But it’s very possible we may never know “what” they are. You cannot (as far as we know) split open a magnetic “line” and find a bunch of little guys linking arms. Or any kind of structure or new “stuff” that they can be made of.

            We can work out deeper layers to reality where the waves are made of disturbances in a “field” of “something” that permeates the universe… but even that is going to hit a bedrock of our capability to understand. At a certain point when we’re talking about fundamentals of the universe, there is a point we reach when asking “why” something is the way it is, where it just becomes “that’s just the way it is.”

            A great physicist said it better than me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8

          • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            23 天前

            Every electron acts like a tiny magnet due to a property called spin(A science word, not actually spinning), and also because it moves around the atom’s nucleus. In most materials, all those little magnetic moments point in random directions, so they cancel each other out.

            In metals like iron, cobalt, and nickel, the situation’s different. The electrons interact through what’s called the exchange interaction, which basically makes it more stable for neighbouring spins to line up the same way. When enough of these spins align, they form regions called magnetic domains. Each domain is like a tiny magnet.

            In an unmagnetized piece of metal, those domains point every which way, so the fields cancel. When you magnetise it, the domains start lining up, and their combined fields create one strong magnetic field that extends outside the metal.

            Sorry, but “theres a lot of tiny magnets inside” is pretty much it. Every charged particle in motion creates a magnetic field. Moving electric charge = magnetic field. So if something contains moving electrons, and every atom does, then at the microscopic level, there’s always some magnetic field being created.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      24 天前

      I just watched the Magic School Bus (Rides Again) episode that explains magnets this past weekend.

      Worth it, by the way. That series still has a way of making some things seems so simple.

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    24 天前

    I read another comment that makes sense. When he says nobody knows he truly believes if he doesn’t know it then no one does.