The Republican party truly is the Insane Clown Posse.

Magnets, how do they work -Republicans.

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    There was a British comedian I remember from a while back… Matt something… that talked about meeting a Texan couple on a plane once and the wife expressed her amazement at the marvel of flight, which is fair because flight is pretty amazing. But instead of just being amazed, she then said something like, “we’ll never know how it all works”. Like a collective we, like everyone. Like she thinks that aerospace engineers are just guessing, trying out throwing shapes into the sky until something doesn’t drop to the ground. “Nope. Sphere didnt do it. Probably shouldn’t have filled that one with people, either. Let’s try the cube next!”

    Some people are so stupid they don’t realize that they are stupid and that plenty of people, MOST people, in fact, are smarter than them and understand a lot of stuff they don’t. Like it’s not even Dunning-Kreuger because they dont know the first thing about the subject at all, and they will even admit that often times. Just unadulterated hubris to assume their ignorance is universal.

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      Isn’t there some question about the specifics of the mechanism of lift itself? Not like “this shouldn’t be possible!” but more “it’s easier to explain than it is to understand”

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        No, the science and engineering is well understood and can be calculated entirely in models that use this knowledge to precisely predict thinks like lift and drag. There is no guess work or mystery about it.

        However the common “facts” that we are often taught as explanation to children and the layperson for lift are wrong and/or incomplete. The Equal Transit Theory, i.e. the idea that when a wing splits the air, the air above and below must meet at the same time on the back of the wing causing the air on top to have to move faster due to the greater distance to travel, is just not true.

        However that lower pressure above the wing that doesnt actually result from the Equal Transit Theory, that part is true. It is caused by the deflection of air on the underside of the wing causing the higher pressure underneath and lower pressure over the top. Lower pressure over the wing does in fact cause a component of lift due to Bernoulli’s Principle. But it is also not the entirety of the source of lift. Other components include the Coanda Effect from the curvature of the wing redirecting air downward, as well as the just simple propulsion caused by the propeller(s)or jet(s) and downward deflection of air hitting the underside of the wing, which is basic Newtonian motion (3rd law).

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    Everyone says…

    No one knows…

    He really believes his thoughts are the totality of human knowledge.

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      This is common with these sociopaths. Our middle-aged techbro overlords too are hugely ignorant, yet convinced that the only knowledge worth having is what they already know, and the only jobs worth doing are the ones they can do.

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    Insane Clown Posse as president and vice president would be an upgrade. Actually, America needs a third party anyway. Next election, someone run under the Insane Clown Party banner. Might as well let an actual carnival take over.

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    Whenever he tries to repeat the patient, over-simplified explanations that have been given to him and screws it up because he still didn’t understand what they were talking about, I picture the scenes that must be occurring on a regular basis:

    People standing around him, some drawing pictures, others arranging things on the table, “Say this coffee mug is the nuclear enrichment facility, and this pen is the Tomahawk missile. It goes woooooooooooooooooo through the sky…”

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    There’s a clip from months ago of Trump seeming to claim that pouring water over magnets would “break” them like you’d expect it to break electronic devices… Frankly, I’m surprised that it wasn’t talked about more.

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        It was actually both. So either nobody corrected him, or they did and he was like ummm, I’m the smartest person in the universe, so I’m pretty sure I know more about magnets than anybody, so I’m gonna keep speaking truth about magnets. Or he forgot because his brain is dissolving. Like the magnets do in water, according to president stroke.

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      Why are there so many comments on that vid about insane clown posse? Weird seeing as how this post also mentions them. I’m sure there’s a reference I’m missing but icp sucks and I’m not tryna care enough to listen to garbage.

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        ICP have a meme-famous lyric that goes thusly:

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

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          Why is this notion that science is some great scam so prominent in American culture? Where does it come from? Is it just that people don’t understand it and want to feel better about their ignorance?

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            Yeah, you pretty much get it. Although it’s not about feeling better about their ignorance exactly. It’s that scientists keep telling them to stop doing things that they want to do, and they don’t like being told what to do. Stop beating your kids, stop burning so much gas, stop depleting the biome in your farm soil, stop torturing animals because they have feelings, stop treating women like they are intellectually stunted, etc.

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    Percentages, when you go OVER 100% everything make sense.

    Magnets, we can make them here because the earth is not so rare here.