It's that joke about how Nixon won reelection based on "the third derivative", successfully arguing "inflation is still happening, and it's happening at an accelerating rate, but the acceleration itself is no longer accelerating"
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Replying to @Cybren @arthur_affect
I came here to make that joke you bastard!

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Can someone plz explain this joke?
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Ty
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The derivative of Position is Velocity whose derivative is Acceleration whose derivative is Jerk whose derivative is Snap whose derivative is Crackle whose derivative is Pop and yes engineers made a cereal joke.
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Jerk is most reconizable as that brief feeling of being heavier/lighter on an elevator
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Also when you’re trying to pull something that is stuck and all of a sudden it pops loose (hence why it’s called what it is)
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Jerk, specifically, is what you're trained to avoid while driving in order to provide a smooth experience for passengers
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It's high amounts of jerk (and snap and crackle and pop) that characterize bad teenage drivers, and explains how it feels like they can always be driving too fast and yet not actually get there in any less time
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When you’re playing tug of war and the other guy let’s go jerk is what makes you fly forward It’s a change in force (because Force is just acceleration times mass sorry yoda we aren’t luminous)
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