r/BeAmazed • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • Nov 15 '25

Technology Hypersonic railgun round goes through metal plates like they are made of paper.

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u/Snarkosaurus99 Nov 15 '25

nobody knows what a magnet is. If you don't have a magnet, you don't make a car. You don't make a computer. You don't make televisions and radios and all the other things — you don't make anything

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u/addamee Nov 15 '25

I’ve quoted this line from a piece George Will wrote about Trump so many times but it hasn’t yet been inapplicable:

 the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.

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u/ryhaltswhiskey Nov 16 '25

His narcissism doesn't allow him to admit that he doesn't know something. So his brain just invents things and tells him that he is right. Hard to imagine a worse quality in a leader. Except for being a pedophile. Except for... Well it's a big list and Trump has all of them.