• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    As an electrical engineer, the very thought of attempting to explain physics to these people makes me want to take a shower.

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    Old man story time. Thirty-ish years ago someone from my grandfather’s church tried getting him in on the free energy crap. I was very much a computer nerd and a science nerd in general. It had some sort of perpetual motion thing going on.

    He handed the literature to me to look over because he wasn’t a learned man, but he did respect people who were. I did and laughed. He said “That’s what I was afraid of. They’re always looking at some scam or other.”

    It still blows my mind that 30 years later they’re peddling the same kind of shit in a new wrapper and people are still falling for it. These people used to be looked at as the morons falling for get rich quick schemes.

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      Common sense starts to become a lot less common when education systems start to fail.

      IMO schools should have a subject like “media” which informs about how desinformation, conformation bias and social media algorithms work in creating filter bubbles and “alternate” facts.

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        Interestingly, when I was in high school some 15 years ago, we did have one week where we went over determining the reliability of a source and media literacy. (No social media algorithms though.)

        Of course a bunch of the other kids in my class complained about it the whole time and said they would never need it. Judging from what I know of them now, they indeed never used those skills.

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    once you start researching copper in history,and religion,and see for yourself the power it welds

    I’ve never tried welding with copper, but now I feel like I’m missing out.

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      I wonder why nobody’s welding with copper, imagine all the free energy we could be harvesting! Not like it’s an absolute pain to weld with compared to steel or anything…

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      No dummy, not Boron. May I recommend the excellent documentary The Fifth Element (1997) if you’d like to know more?

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      I always knew there was a grand conspiracy against boron. We must fight back for this amazing element! #SaveTheBoron

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      No, no. They took the REAL fith element out of the periodic table and gave us boron as a cover. You can see it right there in the name, as it’s a portmanteau of “boring” and “moron”. #wakeupsheeple.

      /s just in case.

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    These people are so fucking dumb I can’t even finish reading. They should be locked in a room and forced to read books for 5 years.

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    I remember being 12 and thinking I could invent infinite energy because I just learned how gears work. I was devastated to learn about torque.

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    Genuinely true: Knew a guy in our expat group who had a really unique conspiracy theory: Those electric windmills you see on the landscape? He though you’d need constantly gale force winds to move the blades an inch, so he was pushing this theory that they’re not there to generate electricity, but to secretly to consume excess electricity, basically burning it off to help keep energy/oil costs high.

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      If you missed the “there is no bottom to the crazy here” in the headline, yes. Otherwise, no. You missed nothing.

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        I just wish they would include some whys sometimes. People with insane trails of reasoning are the best. I need the backstory of old timey robber barons stealing love.

        Maybe they’re mixing up their shit and Soros stole Milla? She’s a Jewish/Ukrainian joint op to weaken American men by having a woman that consistently destroys monsters bare handed over like 35 fucking years. Milla Soyovich was her real name.

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      He didn’t like Leon The Professional either, really put him off. Couldn’t get into Fifth Element with that baggage. So. Yeah, discontinued education entirely.

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        I was put off by Leon once I saw the director’s cut.

        I preferred to live with my censored for Americans version tyvm

        All the violence, none of the pedophilia

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      I don’t know, but it sure is odd that a motorcycle manual is attempting, and apparently failing, to give a physics lesson, so I’m going to suggest that it’s the motorcycle manual the demons that whisper into their ears at night use when they ride their motorcycles over to their bedroom.

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        I never learned this in my studies, I’m sad this motorcycle manual wasn’t required reading. I should probably just burn my degree.

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    The comment in the 2nd screenshot, talking about the “new electric transfer station in Freetown Ma” along with the accompanying image looks it comes straight from a SCP appendix.