• garretble@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I keep having this feeling like all these GOP idiots think musk is really super duper smart because he can at a really basic level speak in some technical terms they just don’t understand. So as a result they think he’s just sooo smart.

    This is a party full of ancient people. “A series of tubes” party. So anyone who has a little bit of technical knowledge will sound like a wizard to them with the bonus that they might be able to grift off of it all.

    Or musk is just a rich asshole and they all want to be rich assholes so they cozy up to him.

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      I know this is damning to admit here, but back when I was willing to watch Joe Rogan I distinctly remember during Elon’s episode (the one where he hit a joint and tanked Tesla stock, not the latest one), the topic went to electric airplanes. Elon was talking technical about it and Joe was sitting there wide-eyed like he was revealing the secrets of the weave of the universe, sure that aerospace was going to be revolutionized by this man.

      Maybe I’m the stupid one here, but I’m pretty sure he was just talking about how airfoils generate lift. You know, the stuff the Wright brothers figured out in the 19-aughts. Its in high school physics textbooks.

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        Most technology is magic to the average person. It doesn’t take much to sound like an expert.

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          For a number of years now, work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a transmission that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such an instrument is the turbo encabulator.

          Now basically the only new principle involved is that instead of power being generated by the relative motion of conductors and fluxes, it is produced by the modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive diractance.

          The original machine had a base plate of pre-famulated amulite surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the panametric fan. The latter consisted simply of six hydrocoptic marzlevanes, so fitted to the ambifacient lunar waneshaft that side fumbling was effectively prevented.

          The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots of the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a non-reversible tremie pipe to the differential girdle spring on the “up” end of the grammeters.

          The turbo-encabulator has now reached a high level of development, and it’s being successfully used in the operation of novertrunnions. Moreover, whenever a forescent skor motion is required, it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation dingle arm, to reduce sinusoidal repleneration.

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          I have literally baffled people with my knowledge of Neolithic technology, the fact people stuggle with modern technology isnt exactly surprising.

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          Not everyone, only the rich ones.

          I remember Neil deGrasse Tyson, and it was a completely different attitude than anyone rich, no matter how technical or dumb they are.

          Joe is a motherfucking asshole, nobody should listen to anything he says, or anyone else willing to go talk to him.

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        Angela Collier just released a video about how billionaires really want to be seen as physicists, whilst most of them dropped out of college. “I could’ve become”, “I considered to” and so on.

        They really want to be perceived as smart. I don’t get any brownie points for saying “I thought about getting a PhD”, why should they?
        Especially when they can hire several professors to teach them personally with their billions of dollars.

        It’s a long video, but well worth the watch.

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      I think it’s just secular prosperity gospel. He’s rich, therefore he must be smart. Right?

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      I was just thinking about listening to an unedited conversation between these two. Musk with his stammering incomplete sentences and Trump with his stream of run on nonsensical sentences. I don’t think I can handle it.

      The only way I can listen to Musk is on Common Sense Skeptic’s YouTube channel where he destammers Musk talking.

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    First of all, where is Rand Paul’s neighbor now that we need him?

    Secondly, Elmo would be no more successful than Johnson. Which is to say not successful at all.