I don’t think his logic was flawed beyond his over estimating the affect a jet would have on the women. If the Chinese developed sufficient status in enough areas I believe Chinese men would start looking more attractive to women in general.
I have two such stories.
One. In my senior year of college, a friend/classmate and I were pulling an all nighter. studying for a final as I remember. We got hungry and decided to go out to eat, but we couldn’t decide on where. So I produced a coin from my pocket, and said that if it landed on heads we would go to my restaurant.
It came up heads, and that was that. But she started complaining about how it wasn’t a fair game because she never had a chance to flip the coin. I tried to explain that it didn’t matter who flipped the coin; the coin didn’t care who flipped it, it was unbiased. She didn’t buy it. So then I wrote a python script that simulated two users flipping coins 1,000,000 times, and of course the split was virtually 50/50. But still no dice. Eventually I conceded to best 2 out of 3, and I ended up winning again.
Two. Later that year, during a career fair, I found myself standing in line to give my resume to some company, and behind me was an EE also in his senior year. We got to talking about our senior projects (which would begin in earnest the next semester), and he told me all about his idea for an electric scooter.
He wanted to create an electric scooter which used inductive breaking to charge its battery, so that if you lived downhill from your workplace you could drive on battery power to get to work. On the way back you could use the inductive breaks to charge the battery back to full, so you it wouldn’t need to worry about changing the battery when you got home. I asked how the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics felt about his idea, but he just said I didn’t understand how inductive breaking worked. The conversation went in circles for a while, but in the end I gave up and congratulated him on the perpetual motion machine.
“Of course, Inductive breaking! I see it now. How has no one thought of that? You better patent that quick before someone steals it.”
Reported
One time a friend of mine were hungry so we flipped a coin to decide where to eat. My friend felt that the flipper influenced the flip (they can and do, I’ve done it a trillion times - but I didn’t this time.) I explained probability and she didn’t buy it so I took the time to write a program to simulate 100,000 coin flips in order to prove just how correct I was.
Meanwhile we sat there starving and annoyed with the other’s implacability until my point had been pointlessly proven.
I also didn’t get laid that night.
Well of course inductive breaking doesn’t work. Deductive breaking doesn’t work. I fail to see how breaking anything makes it work better.
Now as far as braking goes, I don’t know inductive from conductive, deductive or reductive but it seems to me he just explained it backward.
Downhill to build charge and uphill to use charge.
When I was in high school my physics class participated in a “Physics Olympics” competition against many other high schools in the region. One of the events was to design a catapult to launch a golf ball as far as possible. My class came up with a unique design an entered it. One of our competitors students was very insistent that we would be disqualified because our design used stored energy. An integral component of every catapult design I’ve ever been aware of.
Dumbass neighbor “if my car is front wheel drive, why do I need rear brakes?”
I’ve also heard people say “Hillary is a lesbian that’s had many abortions!”
Speaking of which, some people think that abortion can make a person homosexual, as there are more gay people since abortion was made legal.
In university, I heard a guy explaining that cow meat is indigestible because otherwise cows would be digesting themselves constantly, ending up as piles of goo.
A woman I know has also explained to me that a stock is more likely to go up in price after a stock split. For instance, if a stock’s price is $50 that might be as high as it can go, but if it splits to $25 then it has $25 more room to grow before reaching its maximum price of $50.
Our city has a “city engineer” who is paid a salary to make engineering decisions about the city, make and hold guidelines, etc. Mostly his work is related to roads and stormwater.
The city engineer put out a statement that said the roads are in terrible shape, it will cost $X to fix them and also $Y to properly maintain them.
When a ballot issue went up to collect money to fix the roads, and the city engineer’s statements were cited as the reason the city needed to pass the ballot issue, one of the first angry-ass responses I heard was that the engineer should not be the one telling the city how much money it should collect to fix the roads because the engineer is the one who does the work and profits from the city having the roads fixed.
I think I followed her logic, that “the engineer” is someone you go out and hire to bid on your road job and then bring in his … engineering crew? … to come fix your roads. But she was clearly misguided to the actual practice (the city engineer is a city employee, and the city will go get bids from outside companies to do road work).
Not a big deal but still in such a small city that needs so many of its 8000 registered voters to vote yes, it’s alarming to think that this sort of logic is what one or more of them is using in their decision to vote “no.”
Do you actually consider what someone’s country has done when assessing your attractiveness to them? I can’t imagine doing so.
“Yes, Cheskka, you are a beautiful Filipino woman. But Olga over here is Russian and they have a working space program!”
Well, honestly, you do want your booster to achieve orbit, don’t you?
Religious coworker: “I can prove you’re not an atheist. If you’re an atheist, who do you pray to?”
I could not convince her that there are people who don’t pray.
As Unabashed Fascist clearly stated:
If you live downhill from your workplace, said workplace is uphill from home. You got it backwards, not him.
When I was in the military, a spouse told me all about how she could figure out military time by subtracting 14 and then adding two. So 1400 would be 14-14=0 and 0+2=2 o’clock! Turns out her husband told her this as a prank.
I’m always puzzled by people who turn the thermostat up to 80 so that the house will get warm more quickly. And you can’t talk them out of it, either.
would that be a whiskey quickens, or a whiskey thickens?
The only interesting logic I ever seem to run into is the conspiracy theory variety, things like, the only reason car engines break is because “Big Oil” *mumble mumble mumble *ENGINEERED MATERIALS ENTROPY!
Or the 200 mpg carburettor. Big Oil is holding onto it, so people have to buy more gas. But they have it, so they don’t have to spend as much on gas themselves. That’s why they’re so rich!
The “bought up the miracle patent” stuff was bad enough years ago, but it’s even stupider now.
Patents are public information*. If it was true, what is the patent number? The USPTO has them all online. You can search for “200mph carburetor” or “car that runs on water”.
Also, these rumors have been around for decades. Patents expire. Anybody could make and sell one now.
- Excepted for ones declared secret by the feds. So there might be a 5 pound H-bomb that’s patented.
I was at a car show with a friend of mine, who was showing his (then unusual) Honda Insight.
A guy came over to us, and said, with a perfectly straight face, that we would never run out of oil. I said “oh?,” and he replied “of course not - look at all the gas stations we have all over the country.”
Back in the '70s I was at Sears with my dad. I was looking at some electronic device, and a salesman was talking to a woman. He was talking about the optional ‘battery eliminator’ (AC adapter). The woman says, ‘It takes batteries? I thought it ran on electricity!’
That’s the usual configuration for an electric dryer - one circuit serves the motor and the other serves the heater. If the heater circuit blows, the drum will still spin.
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I remember when my elderly mother got her first tv remote. She turned on the tv and got the right channel (jabbing with her index finger), then carefully placed the remote on the table, pointing directly at the tv. She thought the remote emitted a continuous signal, and the tv would go off if the connection were broken.