One of my jobs I was working next to an older man who didn’t believe in climate change because “they told us dinosaurs had scales and now they’re saying they have feathers!” He also once told me to fix an electrical component by “spraying WD40 on it” as if the electrons just needed some lubrication before they’d start moving again.
Both of those incidents helped me to realize who not to go to for help with that job and shortly afterwards he was let go after having an entire week with no work completed.
Sooooo WD stands for Water Displacer. It isn’t a lubricant, it’s more of a cleaning agent. It was originally developed to keep Atlas rockets from rusting. WD-40 might fix an electrical component by floating off any water-based electrolyte that might be shorting something out.
Fair enough, that being said the problem in question was with a solenoid where the coil has broken insulation allowing a short to ground. He was instructing me to shoot a bunch of WD-40 into the solenoid housing with the core and spring where there were no electronics.
Okay yeah that’s a little dumb. I could maybe see using WD-40 to free up a solenoid that was mechanically stuck but broken insulation says to me replace the part.
Yeah that’s exactly the reason I was so baffled by his instructions. I just stared at him and said “but this isn’t a mechanical issue, it’s an electrical issue” “oh well that’s what I do most of the time and usually it works”
Seeing first hand how he couldn’t diagnose a basic issue like that and how he just trusted some catch all solution to fix his problems (for that particular part) really connected the dots to why exactly he seemingly didn’t trust scientists or the scientific process at all.
Reminds me of the advice you see in classic Macintosh circles; they’ll tell you to stick the motherboard in the dishwasher to wash off leaky capacitor sauce.
Trickle down economics.
You don’t get it though! If you just let the absolute greediest people in the world keep all their profit then they’ll definitely share with you!
I actually had a coworker say a few months ago that he’s a Regan Republican because he believed in trickle down economics… I literally said “really man? And how many more decades of being wrong do you need before you realize it still doesn’t work, is five decades enough?” To which he didn’t have a reply…
The war on drugs.
There are more, list them lemmy.
Nixons war on drugs was a distraction from nixons international disasters, especially with the vietnam war and his watergate scandal.
We won’t tax the rich more, coz they are gonna leave if we do.
If they don’t pay taxes, why would them leaving be an issue?
Seattle just passed a millionaires tax. Howard Schultz, the old Starbucks CEO, made a big stink of it and moved away.
Thing is, Howard Schultz is universally reviled in Seattle. Even corporate shills agree that he fucking sucks.
The rich are job creators! /s
😂
The efficient market hypothesis.
The market will regulate that…
“Salt is making a comeback.”
—Mother in law, after a quadruple bypass.
I don’t think I can pick the absolute dumbest. I’m sure to forget something. One of the dumbest things I heard recently was in an argument about abortion. A guy was arguing that abortion should be illegal. When asked what he suggests should be the penalty for abortion, he said it wouldn’t happen because it would be illegal
At the zoo, by the meerkat enclosure, I heard a woman ask an employee “what kind of cats are those?”
Meerly kats, ma’am. Just meer kats.
Porcupines are called “quill pigs” in Dutch. I heard “Those aren’t pigs!” more than once when I worked at the zoo.
They’re not wrong.
“Monkeys are brown because they eat bananas. You know how flamingos turn pink because they eat shrimp? Well monkeys eat bananas and bananas turn brown” -two dead ass serious girls I met
“People didn’t use crossbows when trying to siege a castle because the bolts fly in a straight line, so they fly over castle walls” -college history professor, about to be surprised gravity existed in the middle ages
When I read the news for the past 17 months or so, I swear it gets dumber every day.
Once in Kindergarten I overheard two adults talking. They were concerned about kids drinking from the same cup because of … AIDS. That day I learned that even adults could be ignorant. I definitely knew that AIDS could only be transmitted through blood and specifically not through spit.
I didn’t know about the other way but after hearing about AIDS in the news my (I think) brother assured me that it couldn’t be transmitted through spit.
This is how everyone gets mono.
united states is a democracy
I knew a girl that was convinced that ~90% of planes crash…
I had to ask her “do you really think they’d keep making them if almost all of them killed people?”
Who did she grow up to vote for?
Almost certainly Trump. I’ve lost contact with her and her husband, but the brief interaction I had with him a few years ago he mentioned communist Democrats so I have to guess they’re magoos.
I was certain that i was asking a rhetorical question — but not at all surprised to be literally correct…
“I don’t accept any mistakes on a forklift. And I expect them even less when you’re working forced overtime, because the longer you’re operating the forklift at a time the deeper your focus should be”
the vile shitbag warehouse manager who paid a lot of money to repaint all our forklifts just so she could scream at us about the tiniest scuffs.
fuck you Jean, but also thank you for radicalizing me
I’m amazed by some of the shit that falls out of my own mouth sometimes.
Why do we need satellites? when we have eyes to see it ourselves.
