Donald Trump says that “no one knows what magnets are” during a strange Oval Office press conference. During the swearing in of a new ambassador to India on Monday (10 November), the President launched into a rant about China, whilst discussing their recent agreement to start easing rare earth export rules. “China was going to hit us with rare-earth. Now, everybody says, ‘Oh, what does that mean?’ Magnets. If China refused to give magnets, because they have a monopoly on magnets… there wouldn’t be a car made in the entire world.” He then claimed that “nobody knows what magnets are”, before going on to praise the “great deal” the two nations made in October. Whilst the talks did not end in a formal agreement, Mr Trump agreed to reduce tariffs on some Chinese goods entering the US, whilst Beijing agreed to suspend export control measures it had placed on rare earths.
Here’s the smarter way of saying it:
Feynman: Magnets (and Why?)
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.
ICP have a meme-famous lyric that goes thusly:
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?
Isaac Asimov said this almost fifty years ago. It still doesn’t answer the “why” but it shows how long (at least) this has been going on.