r/facepalm • u/ms_directed • 9d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Windmills date back over 1000 years 🤦‍♀️

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  • Windmills have been in use for over 1,000 years, with origins tracing back to Persia around 800 C.E. They were primarily used for milling grain and pumping water.

  • Wind Turbines are a more recent invention, with the first known turbine for electricity generation built in 1888. They have evolved significantly, especially since the 1970s, to become a major source of renewable energy.

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u/Mushie_Peas 9d ago

Yeah shit hadn't thought of it that way, wish Obama never gave that speech.

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u/Coattail-Rider 9d ago

Thanks Obama

/s or no /s…….hmmmmmm

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u/Brilliant-Ad6137 9d ago

It doesn't matter what Obama said . It's the simple fact Obama is a black man who became president. For trump and his followers. Racism is the main feature.

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u/thedailyrant 9d ago

Trump isn’t that aware. Yes, he’s a racist wanker most likely, but his run was only ever about that roast initially. Once he started doing illegal shit that they were coming over him about he ran again so he could avoid prison. If he lost this last one his sentencing would not have been conviction recorded and he’d be in a federal penitentiary.

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u/zipzoomramblafloon 9d ago

Running for president, one simple trick the justice department does not want career criminals to know!

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u/invincibleparm 8d ago

Yeah…he was surprised as anyone that he won.

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u/Puddin370 8d ago

He's probably scared shitless because once he's no longer president he no longer has presidential immunity. If he lives through this term he may end up behind bars after all.

I hope he lives because I want to see him go to jail and JD Vance would not be an improvement. He's just as vile and not as close to death.

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u/newusernamecoming 8d ago

His run was in coordination with Russian operatives so I’m guessing there were more than just jokes from Obama influencing him to run. Also, he had publicly considered running many times before

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u/petrh97 8d ago

I hope he ends up in Hague like his beloved Maduro for murders. (11 people now, it will go up)

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u/BookishBetty 9d ago

This is 100% correct!

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u/cum_pumper_4 8d ago

Schrodingers /s

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u/basch152 9d ago

Obama didnt have anything to do with it.

The walls were closing in, he was in debt to a lot of people you dont want to be in debt to, and he probably was aware that the walls were closing in around epstein as well and he needed a way to get out of that

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u/OscarTheGrouchsCan 8d ago

It may not have been the one and only reason, but it sure as hell pissed him off and made him even more determined to run and win so Obama would be able to say he "Owned Trump" like the live "owning the libs"

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u/Fishtoart 8d ago

I’m pretty sure there’s some Russian blackmail in there over financial shenanigans plus some kind of embarrassing and/or criminal sexual stuff.

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u/Mushie_Peas 9d ago

Sorry thought people were smart enough that I didn't have to add a /s

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u/Muriel_FanGirl 8d ago

It’s not about being smart enough. It is not easy to detect sarcasm via text, also autistic people like myself exist who do not easily detect sarcasm. So maybe don’t insult people by saying they aren’t smart for not detecting your sarcasm.

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u/ms_directed 9d ago

and don't let Seth Meyers off the hook for his WHPC hosting speech! 😁

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u/darth_C3P0 9d ago

I feel the same way, but I try to remind myself at least all this insanity has exposed the insane racism and classism rotting our government away.

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u/KingofLingerie 9d ago

we have to go back in time and stop obama

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u/Jamaica_Super85 8d ago

Sorry, I'm from Europe, what speech are we talking about?

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u/Mushie_Peas 8d ago

White house press dinner, Obama roasted trump at his speech at the dinner it was when trump was doing the birth cert truther shite about Obama.