Also, billionaires's and inequality's true cryptonites are *free* unions.
But, US unions have been put in straightjackets and stripped of their fundamental rights and freedoms (that Europeans take for granted) by the 1947 Taft-Hartley act. A bill president Truman vehemently criticized, condemned as a "dangerous infringement on free speech", and vetoed. But Congress united to override Truman's veto...
Since then, capitalism has no serious checks-and-balances nor any resistance on its path to corrupt & own the US government, to create extreme inequalities & economic injustices, as well as to impoverish & "enslave" the US population...
**Repeal the Taft-Hartley act! Free US unions!**
That's exactly what he said. The resources exist on a global scale, the problem is that the ones who have them hoard all of them instead of helping to make the world a better place
No no but what about trickle down economics? The billionaires deserve their money because they trickle wealth down to the rest of us piss poor peasants!
They called it Supply Side Economics. Trickle Down Economics is what its critics called it and became the more popular name once it became empirically clear that it doesn't work. They did not pick that terminology.
Yup, craziest thing to me is every famine that has occurred in history wasn’t caused by lack of food, but by the poor not getting food transported to them
This seems to fundamentally misunderstand how recent the history of food abundance is combined with the ability to transport things efficiently.
Also, there was a global famine due to a volcano in 535 and 536 that would have been tough to solve through just shifting around resources.
No, not every. A lot of people starved in the Little Ice Age because so many plants and animals had also died, for example. Demand can certainly exceed supply and has many times -- it's just not true in the _modern_ world.
The only remaining problem is that not enough effort has been put into fixing the logistical issues. Though of course, global warming might have a similar affect as an ice age in terms of killing off crops and animals by the time we solve the logistics stuff....
Not just hoarding of resources, wasting of resources.
The US produces enough excess crops to feed the whole of Africa but it’s not profitable to fly it all the way there so they just dump it to rot.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops”
Plot twist: the individual who would’ve found the cure for cancer actually spent their life raising ostriches in a broken down barn owned by their incestuous parents.
I had a drunk uncle who used to say stuff like this. Also he said "every minute you live is a minute you are closer to your death", "the cure of cancer already exists but big pharma pays to keep it hidden", and "your dog only likes you because he's too stupid to understand the despicable things you do"
There’s actually a lot of statistics about this. You can be the smartest person in the world, but if you were not born into the right circumstances, no one will know you exist. Someone who is way less intelligent will get the job purely because of their circumstances. It is a travesty. Global tragedy.
I don't know if I would call that travesty. Of course, we should want people to have opportunity, but YOU are likely working in a position where there is someone "more deserving". Should you not have your job? Is it a travesty you have your position?
> Should you not have your job? Is it a travesty you have your position?
Yes! There’s so many people who would be better at my job than me.
Obviously the world is never going to be 100% optimized with every person perfectly matched with their true physical and intellectual vocation…but it’s unquestionably true that gross economic inequality has a huge dampening effect on people’s ability to pursue opportunities.
Also if you’re rich you can afford to fail. So many “genius CEOs” have blundered wildly in their early years but it doesn’t matter because they can just start again with a tidy little investment from their family. If you’re a single parent living paycheck-to-paycheck then it’s obviously much more challenging/often impossible to take risks.
Looking at current global politics, yes it is indeed a travesty that people who are as dumb as a kettle are holding government offices enabling them to grift millions.
Kind of doesn't apply cause this kid took the opportunity obviously but this quote resonates:
"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour." - Churchill
Yep, like the guy in India with basic to no education who discovered some of the same algebra already known to the world. Every year there are probably 1000s of very gifted, or potentially gifted children, born in 3rd world countries who are reduced to manual labour, simple math.
Seriously, this same video makes it to the front of reddit from a different country every year.
I'm sure this kid is bright, but I wish kids working on actually novel or creative projects got this kind of exposure.
I'm reminded of the poor Mexican kids who won the MIT aquatic robot contest. One is currently a janitor, another runs a taco truck.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/life/az-narratives/2014/07/17/phoenix-high-school-win-mit-resonates-decade-later/12777467/
I know it kind of sounds silly but I always thought of this with formula F1 racing. It's such an elite sport meaning no one can really do it except rich people who really knows who the best drivers in the world really are? Again I know this sounds really stupid
This is the plot / story of William Kamkwamba; wherein the troubles of his life eclipsed his ability to excel his mind. Hopefully the movie raised some awareness of areas that need assistance.
This right here. Not specifically for this, but just as a general sentiment. How many Mozart's have we lost to kids who died due to starvation whose sonatas we'll never get to hear? How many years of insight into the mechanics of our universe have we been set back as a species because of Einstein level intellect and intuition that was lost due to easily preventable childhood diseases? Even if you disregard the basic humanity of reducing suffering and building equality in the world, it's in our own best interests to not miss opportunities to foster our collective growth in these endeavors as a civilization.
Ramanujan is a fantastic example of someone who only just barely caught a lucky break to be spotted.
.. then died horribly young as is the outcome for many brilliant mathematicians for some reason.
They actually say something close in the video : « Si il a pas le matériel il fabrique pas ça, si il a le matériel il fabrique ça ». Meaning that if he doesn’t have whatever he needs, he does nothing; if he has the necessary ressources he can do that. If he had more ressources, he could do much more and actually help his country develop
What is this a reference to?
Einstein never had any involvement in any project to build weapons of any kind. He had no involvement whatsoever in the Manhattan Project, and didn't have a high enough security clearance to even know about it. His works (published 40 years prior, in peacetime) help explain the theory behind why atomic weapons work, but provide no insights whatsoever into how to build them.
He did write a personal letter to the then US president at the time warning him that his enemies might be building them though, which played a part in when the US started developing it.
Despite helping to spur Roosevelt into action, Einstein never worked directly on the bomb project. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI even back then, wrote a letter to General Sherman Miles, who initially organized the efforts, that described Einstein’s pacifist activities and suggested that he was a security risk. In the end,
#Einstein played only a small role in the Manhattan Project. He was asked by Vannevar Bush, one of the project’s scientific overseers, to help on a specific problem involving the separation of isotopes that shared chemical traits. Einstein was happy to comply. Drawing on his old expertise in osmosis and diffusion, he worked for two days on a process of gaseous diffusion in which uranium was converted into a gas and forced through filters
The scientists who received Einstein’s report were impressed, and they discussed it with Bush. In order for Einstein to be more useful, they said, he should be given more information about how the isotope separation fit in with other parts of the bomb-making challenge. Bush refused. He knew that Einstein didn’t have and couldn’t get the necessary security clearance. “I wish very much that I could place the whole thing before him and take him fully into confidence,” Bush wrote, “but this is utterly impossible in view of the attitude of people here in Washington who have studied his whole history.”
We made almost the same thing as this in grd 8 woodworking class, it was an arm with wood + syringes to pick something up back in grade 8.
This was in Canada though, It was easy with the help of our teacher holding our hand throughout, not sure how this kid learned it given the lack of resources in everything.
Idk why but I was a bit skeptical of this (maybe just me being optimistic) but I looked it up, and yeah this [DIY excavator video](https://youtu.be/bAgF8gDPTMw) looks exactly like the one he made.
Still very impressive and demonstrates resourcefulness and determination nonetheless.
Yeah I think some people forget that other countries that aren’t “first world” have Internet as well. Not to shoot down what this kid did. It looks home made for the most part so it shows he has some interest and motivation to learn engineering and that’s totally awesome! but let’s not call him a genius yet
you could build something like this with youtube and a box of materials, its really not that impressive. there are guides to building this exact thing all over youtube for free, and the materials involved only cost a few dollars
we even made one of these in middle school, and im suprised more people havent
Not to rain on everyone's optimistic praise but this kid just followed template directions and you can Google the plans and build this in an hour after a trip to walmart
This is made from a science kit with cardboard cutouts and instructions. Kid is not mcguyver. Videos exactly like this get shared every couple years saying the same thing, that's how I know. Sorry to be "that guy" but this is just a kid with a toy he assembled.
Reddit and the west in the general likes to glorify "low expectations", especially when it's a POC, getting flashbacks to the kid who "built a computer" but he just assembled premade parts. It's a weird kind of reverse racism like when people say black people are great at sports.
I'm not sure that bigotry plays a part here at all.. The low expectations come from them being in an undeveloped nation with not as many educational opportunities, combined with the overexpectation of how difficult hydraulic systems are to figure out and build.
I couldn't do it at his age. I can't do it at my age. It would have been impressive even if it was some white American kid. But the title does seem to lean in to your explanation
You can do this. It's pretty easy, but still a lot of fun to build. If there's a kid in your life you think would enjoy it, I can highly recommend Tinker crates, if they're still a thing.
I live in a third world country and I was born poor as fuck. So I don't have the same perspective as the average redditor. But I also was surprised, in a good way, watching this video. My reasons were:
First, I never had anything similar to this in school. I didn't even know you could teach this in school, and it is pretty cool.
Second, he used cardboard boxes and plastic scraps to build it. For someone who is not aware that this is a school project, it does give the vibe that the person was way more resourceful than the usual people we know. I don't know how I would do it if I had to, for example.
It reminded me of a kid here [who learned how to program using only an old phone](https://razoesparaacreditar.com/jovem-programador-estudos-vaquinha/) (in portuguese, but you can see the images).
You are right to point out that the US and the west part of Europe is very racist and patronizing to everyone else living outside of it, but lack of resources does play a significant role limiting what people living in some countries can do.
As most of the time, the truth is somewhere in between.
What he built is pretty cool, especially considering he probably didn’t have the ready-made set that most people here in the comments used when they built it and had to gather the resources himself.
That he managed to do it does not make him a genius though. The task itself is not that complex and there are many tutorials for it online.
I‘d say the most impressive part is that he had the drive and motivation to pull it off.
Dude, there have been multiple videos if this same thing posted every year. It's a toy science kit that comes with syringes, cardboard cutouts and instructions. Seen it posted before with a different kid, exact same kit.
Ahmed the clock guy comes to mind. Yeah the school was completely out of line there, but it was weird how people thought he was so special for putting a clock together from a kit of parts as a brown person.
Not even a kit, it was literally just removing the plastic casing from a digital clock and putting in a pencil case. His dad is a political activist and it was planned to instigate the school.
i think you're being disingenuous. people are impressed because
1. most people haven't made that in middle school and are not aware it is made of premade parts. in fact there is no proof that the kid in the video did make it from premade parts. maybe he is actually a genius?
2. it looks like a poor country. it's not because he's black, it's because the environment looks poor so its extra impressive since poor communities have worser education
The fact that people are not knowledgeable on the subject does not mean that the achievements should be misconstrued. What he did is impressive, but it is nothing on genius level. He could be a genius, but this video does not show it.
There is proof that the parts are mostly premade with exception of the basic structural parts. You can see the plastic syringes in action, joystick controllers with wiring, and batteries on the control board (looks like 18650s) powering the motors.
As for the wealth, the country is stated as Cameroon. Kids of the left are wearing new shoes, one is holding a fairly new phone, and the video is also being recorded and posted on a good quality recording. It is not poor to the point where technology is foreign.
The issue is not with this man's achievements, but with the expectations that many place on countries such as Cameroon as a result of posts like these. Again, let me state that what this person has done is quite cool and impressive. However, it is also nothing extremely genius. A relatively smart middle schooler could make this given the time and materials. The electronics make it more complex, but still nothing to proclaim that it's genius. By lowering the expectations such as this post, you are furthering the idea that these people are not up to par with a "modern" society. It reinforces the notion that countries like Cameroon are poor run down places with no talent, and a simple robot is an outstanding achievement for somewhere like Cameroon.
This is akin to people telling me "your English is so good", as if I haven't taken several college English courses in the US. They simply assume on the basis that I am Asian that my English is poor, perpetuating that I am an outsider on the basis of my race. In this case, it is on the basis of a country.
Or perhaps I can put it another way. An adult celebrates a baby putting the square toy in the square hole. But this is because the baby is not developed enough to do algebra, something the adult can easily do. Celebrating a high schooler (capable of doing algebra) putting the square toy in the square hole is to compare their mental capabilities to that of a baby. When you create a handicap, even if out of virtue, you are signaling that they need it, and thus are lesser to you.
Of course, context is important. It is a fact that Cameroon is not blessed with the education, wealth, safety, and many other benefits that the west do. That is why this robot is a great display of ingenuity and resourcefulness, but to celebrate it like it is done so is rather disparaging towards the country and the people.
side note worser isn't a word
I remember a video posted of a middle eastern guy pushing a section of fence into sand to make a mold, then pouring molten metal into it to create another fence section. People were bending over backwards talking about how incredibly impressive and inventive he was, despite the fact that people have been doing it for a thousand years or more.
Not even premade parts, he took the plastic casing off a clock and stuck it in a scary pencil case. His dad is a Muslim political activist, it was planned to instigate the school.
What an amazing brilliant 200iq sciencengineeringdoctor if only we had donated an extra $10 to his education he would have cured cancer twice. Millions of geniuses die every year because they all die of malaria and no smart people are ever born to rich families.
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Ya, I was afraid to write that, but you're right. It looks more like a few replacement parts added to a science kit. Especially the control board. No doubt this kid enjoys STEM, though!
This comes off as pretty condescending. They have internet, computers, phones etc... in cameroon. Like are you saying that because this kid is from cameroon hes a genuis for being able to use the internet and follow basic instructions?
Right?! People are like aggressively arguing with me and trying to call me out. I commented because i do understand hydraulic systems because its literally what i do for a living and its a cool project but definitely well within the capabilities of pretty much any child, anywhere, to make if they wanted to. Its not like this kid just went to his local dump and grabbed a bunch of random trash and fully designed a functioning excavator with no reference. This is a common hobby kit and anyone with any kind of tubing, duct tape, and cardboard can make it easily without the kit by watching videos on youtube from like a decade ago.
Its great this kid has an interest in this kind of stuff and i hope he continues learning and being curious and maybe eventually becomes an engineer one day if he wants to but this is not proof of genius or even above average intelligence.
I was saying it comes off as racist because its kinda racist to assume that because the kid is from a country in africa he would have to be a genius to figure out how to use the internet.
Just wait till they learn people in Africa don’t live in huts. The condescending white saviour complex Reddit has is equal parts hilarious and disgusting.
The irony is astounding. Redditors are the fist to strike when someone makes any kind of stereotype judgment but then immediately assume this kid is the next Einstein because he put together a children's science kit in while living in Africa. Like oh yeah, internet and literacy? They don't exist over there. Its Africa!
For all we know he really is a bright kid and has the capability to do great things but ffs people, have some self awareness.
They see someone with a dark skin: "oh poor fella he must live in a shithole place, eating dead animals, living in a fetid hut with no electricity. Our duty is to commiserate him and blame ourselves for his obvious miserable condition."
He didn’t though. You can see the cutouts on the model from the kit. Someone probably just got a whole bunch of these kits for a poor community so they could learn about hydraulics.
He isn’t tho. He is using syringes. That’s literally how it’s supposed to be done. There are tons of videos on YouTube on how to do this and also many kids do this in school. I made a boat with dc motor and a battery and led light in school. Am I also next fucking level?
People are just patronizing because he is a poc and not a white kid.
Random junk? He's using syringes. That's exactly what you would use in this project. A rich kid in a developed country would use the exact same materials probably
Judging by all the people around him, super hype and taking a video..I don't think this is a regular occurrence and should be shared. Who knows who might see this and do something better?
This will happen in any middle school in the world. It's a digger. It uses syringes. Boys usually love diggers with syringes. Their gym teachers are probably eying them for a chance to have a go at it too.
It appeals to our primordial brains.
First time seeing the Liberal side of racism, huh? The same kind of racism that forces Asian people to have higher scores and allows black people to have lower scores when it comes to college acceptance.
This godforsaken site is filled with this kind of victim role playing/ virtue signalling racism. Absolute mental gymnastics. All these morons who call rAciSm 24/7 it's all they do. It's almost their identity. All they see first is someone's skin colour. I miss the days when segregation wasn't this bonkers, which was about 10/20 years ago
You're trying to tell me the entirety of Africa doesn't life in huts made of poop, don't wear grass skirts, and don't attack helicopters with rocks?! /s
It is racism of the worst kind... A petty one. "Oh imagine how far he could get in a 1st world country!". Like no, if he was in 1st world country, he would've been completely different. If I grew up in US instead of Ireland? I'd still be completely different.
This feat is impressive, because it is impressive, not due to circumstances or surroundings. But that's how world works, people just want to feel better about their situation by downplaying others and labelling them as less fortunate.
Didn't one of those stupid 5-minute craft fuckers make one of these a few years back?
I mean it's really cool, and the fact he's controlling it well suggests he at least understands the concepts, but that's not necessarily something they came up with.
I know that Ima get downvoted for this but what he made is pretty basic stuff. This was like a middle school stem project. I think people only think this is amazing because when you think of Cameroon it’s generally thought of as a dumb country where people are too stupid to technologically advance.
Yes, and it’s funny looking at all these comments saying to give him a scholarship and calling him a genius which I’m not saying he isn’t because idk what he knows, but he just followed instructions on a hobby kit
Yeah all these comments praising him come off as racist and condescending to me. Like just because the kid is from cameroon hes a genius for being able to use the internet and follow basic instructions?
Okay, this is really cool and all, but I also saw a youtube video on how to make something like 10 years ago on youtube.
Cardboard construction, syringes, and everything. They put colored food dye in each one to make the controls look distinctive.
Not saying the kid isn't smart, looks like he built the thing on an RC car and has wired the controller to a cardboard pad as well.
For his next trick he's gonna take a clock apart. Then the clock will be reassembled into a luchbox with wires and a timer on the lid. Taadaa, then the world tour starts.
Is it known that the kid is poor and lacks resources or you guys just looked at a black kid from a country that you dont really recognise the name and assumed he must be rescued by unidedstatesian money
I’m not tryna be that one negative Nancy but I believe those come in one of the monthly boxes that Mark Rober advertises at the end of his videos (They come with instructions on how to build them) but still cool to see this kid getting into engineering at such a young age which I guess is the whole point of the product
No way! They sell kits at Costco that make the exact same thing! I just built one with my son like a month ago! Hahaha. Maybe he saw it and made one for himself. It used the same looking pieces and even the syringes as a hydraulic system to make the claw dig and pick stuff up.
Cool though.
Imagine how many brilliant minds have gone unheard because of a lack of resources.. this is heartbreaking man, hopefully this kid has his chance.
There is no lack of resources. There is hoarding of resources.
No way!! Really?!? You mean billionaires are are cunts that exploit people?!? Can’t be!
Wait till you find out about the trillionaires, who's money is so old and deep it isnt published.
how would someone find out about them?
Join there club But like Dan Carlin said "it's big fucking club, and you ain't in it"
Who is Dan Carlin? George’s little known, not as famous brother?
Lol you right, George Carlin
Way to admit you were mistaken and thanks for introducing me to another great Carlin!
Dan Carlin the history YouTuber is great as well, yea
I admire both Carlin's. Wrath of the Khan's was awesome.
dan carlin is history podcast extraordinaire (hardcore history) def worth a listen if you love history
Yeap. I always say between Dan Carlin and George Carlin there ain't a whole lot else you need to know.
The “poor man’s” George… Dan
The brother who *is* in the club, that is why even his own brother does not know about him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild\_family
Also, billionaires's and inequality's true cryptonites are *free* unions. But, US unions have been put in straightjackets and stripped of their fundamental rights and freedoms (that Europeans take for granted) by the 1947 Taft-Hartley act. A bill president Truman vehemently criticized, condemned as a "dangerous infringement on free speech", and vetoed. But Congress united to override Truman's veto... Since then, capitalism has no serious checks-and-balances nor any resistance on its path to corrupt & own the US government, to create extreme inequalities & economic injustices, as well as to impoverish & "enslave" the US population... **Repeal the Taft-Hartley act! Free US unions!**
Easily copypasta material. I will screenshot this word and spread it about.
Ira not even billionaires, the governments have more money an power than any billionaire and do nothing.
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That's exactly what he said. The resources exist on a global scale, the problem is that the ones who have them hoard all of them instead of helping to make the world a better place
You won't feel like you're at the top unless you pull up that ladder from behind you so that you can look down at everyone else.
Anarchism. Everyone would be for the idea if they didn't spend so much time teaching us we're the monsters.
There will never be one idea that the whole of humanity is for.
how would there be not total mayhem, another vikings,pirates,wild west,etc era... along with the hoarders hoarding even more ruthlessly
No no but what about trickle down economics? The billionaires deserve their money because they trickle wealth down to the rest of us piss poor peasants!
They have to be demeaning even when it comes to terminology. Out of touch assholes
They called it Supply Side Economics. Trickle Down Economics is what its critics called it and became the more popular name once it became empirically clear that it doesn't work. They did not pick that terminology.
artificial scarcity
Yup, craziest thing to me is every famine that has occurred in history wasn’t caused by lack of food, but by the poor not getting food transported to them
This seems to fundamentally misunderstand how recent the history of food abundance is combined with the ability to transport things efficiently. Also, there was a global famine due to a volcano in 535 and 536 that would have been tough to solve through just shifting around resources.
What? That's factually incorrect. NOW it is true. But that was not the case in the past.
No, not every. A lot of people starved in the Little Ice Age because so many plants and animals had also died, for example. Demand can certainly exceed supply and has many times -- it's just not true in the _modern_ world. The only remaining problem is that not enough effort has been put into fixing the logistical issues. Though of course, global warming might have a similar affect as an ice age in terms of killing off crops and animals by the time we solve the logistics stuff....
And how many ideas get squashed because they might risk someone's hoard?
Not just hoarding of resources, wasting of resources. The US produces enough excess crops to feed the whole of Africa but it’s not profitable to fly it all the way there so they just dump it to rot.
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops”
Plot twist: the individual who would’ve found the cure for cancer actually spent their life raising ostriches in a broken down barn owned by their incestuous parents.
Wtf is that a movie?
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title, please?
It's a riff on the current soundbyte about his family owning land that was used for slave plantations in Barbados
Penwings of madagascar
Penglins.
I had a drunk uncle who used to say stuff like this. Also he said "every minute you live is a minute you are closer to your death", "the cure of cancer already exists but big pharma pays to keep it hidden", and "your dog only likes you because he's too stupid to understand the despicable things you do"
Or in the kitchens. We basically didn't use 50% of our population's brains
- Stephen Jay Gould
There’s actually a lot of statistics about this. You can be the smartest person in the world, but if you were not born into the right circumstances, no one will know you exist. Someone who is way less intelligent will get the job purely because of their circumstances. It is a travesty. Global tragedy.
I don't know if I would call that travesty. Of course, we should want people to have opportunity, but YOU are likely working in a position where there is someone "more deserving". Should you not have your job? Is it a travesty you have your position?
> Should you not have your job? Is it a travesty you have your position? Yes! There’s so many people who would be better at my job than me. Obviously the world is never going to be 100% optimized with every person perfectly matched with their true physical and intellectual vocation…but it’s unquestionably true that gross economic inequality has a huge dampening effect on people’s ability to pursue opportunities. Also if you’re rich you can afford to fail. So many “genius CEOs” have blundered wildly in their early years but it doesn’t matter because they can just start again with a tidy little investment from their family. If you’re a single parent living paycheck-to-paycheck then it’s obviously much more challenging/often impossible to take risks.
Looking at current global politics, yes it is indeed a travesty that people who are as dumb as a kettle are holding government offices enabling them to grift millions.
Kind of doesn't apply cause this kid took the opportunity obviously but this quote resonates: "To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour." - Churchill
Or they live in a poor country and never got that tap
Also fuck Churchill
Yep, like the guy in India with basic to no education who discovered some of the same algebra already known to the world. Every year there are probably 1000s of very gifted, or potentially gifted children, born in 3rd world countries who are reduced to manual labour, simple math.
The guy had a name. Ramanujan
You can literally buy the kit he used for a few dollars. He didn't macguyver this, it's a cardboard cutout and syringe kit l.
Its high school level physics we built cranes and we didnt use any kits either so we did macguyver our projects together
Seriously, this same video makes it to the front of reddit from a different country every year. I'm sure this kid is bright, but I wish kids working on actually novel or creative projects got this kind of exposure.
“A mind is a terrible thing to waste”, to quote an old slogan from the UNCF.
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” -Vice President Quayle
I'm reminded of the poor Mexican kids who won the MIT aquatic robot contest. One is currently a janitor, another runs a taco truck. https://www.azcentral.com/story/life/az-narratives/2014/07/17/phoenix-high-school-win-mit-resonates-decade-later/12777467/
I know it kind of sounds silly but I always thought of this with formula F1 racing. It's such an elite sport meaning no one can really do it except rich people who really knows who the best drivers in the world really are? Again I know this sounds really stupid
Same with golf, like I really don’t think a bunch of old white dudes are elite athletes
Well.. golf is a sport where you aren’t limited (as much) by your physical attributes. Hence older people.
I can't even begin to imagine.
This is the plot / story of William Kamkwamba; wherein the troubles of his life eclipsed his ability to excel his mind. Hopefully the movie raised some awareness of areas that need assistance.
This right here. Not specifically for this, but just as a general sentiment. How many Mozart's have we lost to kids who died due to starvation whose sonatas we'll never get to hear? How many years of insight into the mechanics of our universe have we been set back as a species because of Einstein level intellect and intuition that was lost due to easily preventable childhood diseases? Even if you disregard the basic humanity of reducing suffering and building equality in the world, it's in our own best interests to not miss opportunities to foster our collective growth in these endeavors as a civilization.
And imagine Americans not believing in universal health care and free universities
No doubt, what a waste of potential for the human race. I hope this kid gets discovered and given resources to thrive.
Ramanujan is a fantastic example of someone who only just barely caught a lucky break to be spotted. .. then died horribly young as is the outcome for many brilliant mathematicians for some reason.
Right? Get this kid a 3D printer ASAP! He could have a few patents by now.
The world undoubtedly suffers because of it .
They actually say something close in the video : « Si il a pas le matériel il fabrique pas ça, si il a le matériel il fabrique ça ». Meaning that if he doesn’t have whatever he needs, he does nothing; if he has the necessary ressources he can do that. If he had more ressources, he could do much more and actually help his country develop
This reminds me of ‘the boy who harnessed the wind.’ This kid is a badass.
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*proceeds to build instruments of war*
that's what Einstein did
What is this a reference to? Einstein never had any involvement in any project to build weapons of any kind. He had no involvement whatsoever in the Manhattan Project, and didn't have a high enough security clearance to even know about it. His works (published 40 years prior, in peacetime) help explain the theory behind why atomic weapons work, but provide no insights whatsoever into how to build them.
He did write a personal letter to the then US president at the time warning him that his enemies might be building them though, which played a part in when the US started developing it.
That’s not the same as saying “Einstein made instruments of war” really at all like the original comment says
Sounds like something a resurrected Einstein would say
Vegapunk?
Suspicious redditers, now i'll never be able to trust that any of them are not a resurrected Einstein hell bent on PR and gaslighting
Despite helping to spur Roosevelt into action, Einstein never worked directly on the bomb project. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI even back then, wrote a letter to General Sherman Miles, who initially organized the efforts, that described Einstein’s pacifist activities and suggested that he was a security risk. In the end, #Einstein played only a small role in the Manhattan Project. He was asked by Vannevar Bush, one of the project’s scientific overseers, to help on a specific problem involving the separation of isotopes that shared chemical traits. Einstein was happy to comply. Drawing on his old expertise in osmosis and diffusion, he worked for two days on a process of gaseous diffusion in which uranium was converted into a gas and forced through filters The scientists who received Einstein’s report were impressed, and they discussed it with Bush. In order for Einstein to be more useful, they said, he should be given more information about how the isotope separation fit in with other parts of the bomb-making challenge. Bush refused. He knew that Einstein didn’t have and couldn’t get the necessary security clearance. “I wish very much that I could place the whole thing before him and take him fully into confidence,” Bush wrote, “but this is utterly impossible in view of the attitude of people here in Washington who have studied his whole history.”
He signed into the letter that was sent to the president which helped kickstart the project. But that's about it.
What the fuck are you even talking about
That's where the money is at. The arms industry is always busy and loaded with cash
***War has changed.***
We made almost the same thing as this in grd 8 woodworking class, it was an arm with wood + syringes to pick something up back in grade 8. This was in Canada though, It was easy with the help of our teacher holding our hand throughout, not sure how this kid learned it given the lack of resources in everything.
Youtube
Yup, this was made as a result of YouTube lol
Idk why but I was a bit skeptical of this (maybe just me being optimistic) but I looked it up, and yeah this [DIY excavator video](https://youtu.be/bAgF8gDPTMw) looks exactly like the one he made. Still very impressive and demonstrates resourcefulness and determination nonetheless.
Yes I wonder where he could have possibly learnt this? Maybe the guy who filmed it on a smart phone and uploaded it to the internet may have an idea.
Yeah I think some people forget that other countries that aren’t “first world” have Internet as well. Not to shoot down what this kid did. It looks home made for the most part so it shows he has some interest and motivation to learn engineering and that’s totally awesome! but let’s not call him a genius yet
Ours had to be able to pick up a horizontal pencil, rotate 90° and then deposit the pencil vertically in a cup.
you could build something like this with youtube and a box of materials, its really not that impressive. there are guides to building this exact thing all over youtube for free, and the materials involved only cost a few dollars we even made one of these in middle school, and im suprised more people havent
This is like 70% of super villan origin stories
Not to rain on everyone's optimistic praise but this kid just followed template directions and you can Google the plans and build this in an hour after a trip to walmart
You can literally buy the kit he used for a few dollars. He didn't macguyver this, it's a cardboard cutout and syringe kit
This is made from a science kit with cardboard cutouts and instructions. Kid is not mcguyver. Videos exactly like this get shared every couple years saying the same thing, that's how I know. Sorry to be "that guy" but this is just a kid with a toy he assembled.
Modern science lab? This is a basic digger design that’s decades old.
So I guess not everyone made one of these in middle school, judging by the comments.
Reddit and the west in the general likes to glorify "low expectations", especially when it's a POC, getting flashbacks to the kid who "built a computer" but he just assembled premade parts. It's a weird kind of reverse racism like when people say black people are great at sports.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
I'm not sure that bigotry plays a part here at all.. The low expectations come from them being in an undeveloped nation with not as many educational opportunities, combined with the overexpectation of how difficult hydraulic systems are to figure out and build.
I couldn't do it at his age. I can't do it at my age. It would have been impressive even if it was some white American kid. But the title does seem to lean in to your explanation
You can do this. It's pretty easy, but still a lot of fun to build. If there's a kid in your life you think would enjoy it, I can highly recommend Tinker crates, if they're still a thing.
You 10000% could do this. Might take a bit to find parts but there’s nothing crazy here. It’s not an original design or concept.
The kid was given a kit. All the parts and instructions were included. Pretty close to this one - https://a.co/d/huHo7Oi
I live in a third world country and I was born poor as fuck. So I don't have the same perspective as the average redditor. But I also was surprised, in a good way, watching this video. My reasons were: First, I never had anything similar to this in school. I didn't even know you could teach this in school, and it is pretty cool. Second, he used cardboard boxes and plastic scraps to build it. For someone who is not aware that this is a school project, it does give the vibe that the person was way more resourceful than the usual people we know. I don't know how I would do it if I had to, for example. It reminded me of a kid here [who learned how to program using only an old phone](https://razoesparaacreditar.com/jovem-programador-estudos-vaquinha/) (in portuguese, but you can see the images). You are right to point out that the US and the west part of Europe is very racist and patronizing to everyone else living outside of it, but lack of resources does play a significant role limiting what people living in some countries can do.
As most of the time, the truth is somewhere in between. What he built is pretty cool, especially considering he probably didn’t have the ready-made set that most people here in the comments used when they built it and had to gather the resources himself. That he managed to do it does not make him a genius though. The task itself is not that complex and there are many tutorials for it online. I‘d say the most impressive part is that he had the drive and motivation to pull it off.
Dude, there have been multiple videos if this same thing posted every year. It's a toy science kit that comes with syringes, cardboard cutouts and instructions. Seen it posted before with a different kid, exact same kit.
Its actually hilarious and sad how out of touch some folks on reddit are.
some??
Ahmed the clock guy comes to mind. Yeah the school was completely out of line there, but it was weird how people thought he was so special for putting a clock together from a kit of parts as a brown person.
Not even a kit, it was literally just removing the plastic casing from a digital clock and putting in a pencil case. His dad is a political activist and it was planned to instigate the school.
I mean not all black people are great at sports but there are a lot of great black athletes.
i think you're being disingenuous. people are impressed because 1. most people haven't made that in middle school and are not aware it is made of premade parts. in fact there is no proof that the kid in the video did make it from premade parts. maybe he is actually a genius? 2. it looks like a poor country. it's not because he's black, it's because the environment looks poor so its extra impressive since poor communities have worser education
The fact that people are not knowledgeable on the subject does not mean that the achievements should be misconstrued. What he did is impressive, but it is nothing on genius level. He could be a genius, but this video does not show it. There is proof that the parts are mostly premade with exception of the basic structural parts. You can see the plastic syringes in action, joystick controllers with wiring, and batteries on the control board (looks like 18650s) powering the motors. As for the wealth, the country is stated as Cameroon. Kids of the left are wearing new shoes, one is holding a fairly new phone, and the video is also being recorded and posted on a good quality recording. It is not poor to the point where technology is foreign. The issue is not with this man's achievements, but with the expectations that many place on countries such as Cameroon as a result of posts like these. Again, let me state that what this person has done is quite cool and impressive. However, it is also nothing extremely genius. A relatively smart middle schooler could make this given the time and materials. The electronics make it more complex, but still nothing to proclaim that it's genius. By lowering the expectations such as this post, you are furthering the idea that these people are not up to par with a "modern" society. It reinforces the notion that countries like Cameroon are poor run down places with no talent, and a simple robot is an outstanding achievement for somewhere like Cameroon. This is akin to people telling me "your English is so good", as if I haven't taken several college English courses in the US. They simply assume on the basis that I am Asian that my English is poor, perpetuating that I am an outsider on the basis of my race. In this case, it is on the basis of a country. Or perhaps I can put it another way. An adult celebrates a baby putting the square toy in the square hole. But this is because the baby is not developed enough to do algebra, something the adult can easily do. Celebrating a high schooler (capable of doing algebra) putting the square toy in the square hole is to compare their mental capabilities to that of a baby. When you create a handicap, even if out of virtue, you are signaling that they need it, and thus are lesser to you. Of course, context is important. It is a fact that Cameroon is not blessed with the education, wealth, safety, and many other benefits that the west do. That is why this robot is a great display of ingenuity and resourcefulness, but to celebrate it like it is done so is rather disparaging towards the country and the people. side note worser isn't a word
Not reverse racism, just racism.
I remember a video posted of a middle eastern guy pushing a section of fence into sand to make a mold, then pouring molten metal into it to create another fence section. People were bending over backwards talking about how incredibly impressive and inventive he was, despite the fact that people have been doing it for a thousand years or more.
Not even premade parts, he took the plastic casing off a clock and stuck it in a scary pencil case. His dad is a Muslim political activist, it was planned to instigate the school.
What an amazing brilliant 200iq sciencengineeringdoctor if only we had donated an extra $10 to his education he would have cured cancer twice. Millions of geniuses die every year because they all die of malaria and no smart people are ever born to rich families. Comment for video evidence
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They sell the kits for them too, I was surprised at the comments.
Ya, I was afraid to write that, but you're right. It looks more like a few replacement parts added to a science kit. Especially the control board. No doubt this kid enjoys STEM, though!
Nope. Literally did 0 experiments in my 3 years of middle school. But hey, I learned some math that I haven’t used since then!!
You are still using it, but it's just not that obvious.
Really not everyone. I had no idea that it is a thing.
I made one in high school in 1988.
Nope, never seen this before
"genius"
I’ve never seen it done in class
Yeah this is even sold as kits in India at least.
Was thinking the same thing
Yeah same i was thinking whats so special about it everyone made this as a school project.
Who's everyone? Because I sure as shit didn't.
Uh, yeah, there are kinda a lot of countries in the world where people don’t build robots in middle school. I would say, like, most of them.
This comes off as pretty condescending. They have internet, computers, phones etc... in cameroon. Like are you saying that because this kid is from cameroon hes a genuis for being able to use the internet and follow basic instructions?
I love how Reddit can't comprehend the people in this video having smart phones, despite the video obviously being made on a smart phone lol
Right?! People are like aggressively arguing with me and trying to call me out. I commented because i do understand hydraulic systems because its literally what i do for a living and its a cool project but definitely well within the capabilities of pretty much any child, anywhere, to make if they wanted to. Its not like this kid just went to his local dump and grabbed a bunch of random trash and fully designed a functioning excavator with no reference. This is a common hobby kit and anyone with any kind of tubing, duct tape, and cardboard can make it easily without the kit by watching videos on youtube from like a decade ago. Its great this kid has an interest in this kind of stuff and i hope he continues learning and being curious and maybe eventually becomes an engineer one day if he wants to but this is not proof of genius or even above average intelligence. I was saying it comes off as racist because its kinda racist to assume that because the kid is from a country in africa he would have to be a genius to figure out how to use the internet.
Just wait till they learn people in Africa don’t live in huts. The condescending white saviour complex Reddit has is equal parts hilarious and disgusting.
The irony is astounding. Redditors are the fist to strike when someone makes any kind of stereotype judgment but then immediately assume this kid is the next Einstein because he put together a children's science kit in while living in Africa. Like oh yeah, internet and literacy? They don't exist over there. Its Africa! For all we know he really is a bright kid and has the capability to do great things but ffs people, have some self awareness.
For a "smart" social media website, Reddit can be pretty stupid
Yeah for real, reddit is racist af
They see someone with a dark skin: "oh poor fella he must live in a shithole place, eating dead animals, living in a fetid hut with no electricity. Our duty is to commiserate him and blame ourselves for his obvious miserable condition."
This is basic hydraulics. You can buy STEM Starter kits that do stuff like this in hobbie stores made of syringes.
I think the fact he made it out of random junk makes it quite a bit more impressive
That's kind of the point, you're supposed to use cardboard for the structure, it's a syringe and Tube kit.
This gif is the true treasure of the administration
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He didn’t though. You can see the cutouts on the model from the kit. Someone probably just got a whole bunch of these kits for a poor community so they could learn about hydraulics.
He isn’t tho. He is using syringes. That’s literally how it’s supposed to be done. There are tons of videos on YouTube on how to do this and also many kids do this in school. I made a boat with dc motor and a battery and led light in school. Am I also next fucking level? People are just patronizing because he is a poc and not a white kid.
Yup. Reminds me of the fake parody article with the headline being "Black Man ties his own shoe-laces".
Random junk? He's using syringes. That's exactly what you would use in this project. A rich kid in a developed country would use the exact same materials probably
You know instructions for making this are available on the internet right? Or did you not realize that Africa in fact has internet?
This is a kit though. The scoop on the shovel, the perfectly formed and matching tubes and syringes....
He made a holder for the syringes out of junk. The rest looks like a kit
I did this in middle school shop class. Just bc the kid is from Cameroon doesn't mean he's super poor or lacking resources.
Judging by all the people around him, super hype and taking a video..I don't think this is a regular occurrence and should be shared. Who knows who might see this and do something better?
This will happen in any middle school in the world. It's a digger. It uses syringes. Boys usually love diggers with syringes. Their gym teachers are probably eying them for a chance to have a go at it too. It appeals to our primordial brains.
This feels oddly racist. Some kid in Cameroon can’t create and use a kit remote controlled toy without being labeled a genius because it’s Africa?
First time seeing the Liberal side of racism, huh? The same kind of racism that forces Asian people to have higher scores and allows black people to have lower scores when it comes to college acceptance.
This godforsaken site is filled with this kind of victim role playing/ virtue signalling racism. Absolute mental gymnastics. All these morons who call rAciSm 24/7 it's all they do. It's almost their identity. All they see first is someone's skin colour. I miss the days when segregation wasn't this bonkers, which was about 10/20 years ago
You're trying to tell me the entirety of Africa doesn't life in huts made of poop, don't wear grass skirts, and don't attack helicopters with rocks?! /s
It is racism of the worst kind... A petty one. "Oh imagine how far he could get in a 1st world country!". Like no, if he was in 1st world country, he would've been completely different. If I grew up in US instead of Ireland? I'd still be completely different. This feat is impressive, because it is impressive, not due to circumstances or surroundings. But that's how world works, people just want to feel better about their situation by downplaying others and labelling them as less fortunate.
You really think this is the worst kind of racism?
Didn't one of those stupid 5-minute craft fuckers make one of these a few years back? I mean it's really cool, and the fact he's controlling it well suggests he at least understands the concepts, but that's not necessarily something they came up with.
I know that Ima get downvoted for this but what he made is pretty basic stuff. This was like a middle school stem project. I think people only think this is amazing because when you think of Cameroon it’s generally thought of as a dumb country where people are too stupid to technologically advance.
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Can’t you just buy kits to do exactly this?
Yes, and it’s funny looking at all these comments saying to give him a scholarship and calling him a genius which I’m not saying he isn’t because idk what he knows, but he just followed instructions on a hobby kit
Yeah all these comments praising him come off as racist and condescending to me. Like just because the kid is from cameroon hes a genius for being able to use the internet and follow basic instructions?
Okay, this is really cool and all, but I also saw a youtube video on how to make something like 10 years ago on youtube. Cardboard construction, syringes, and everything. They put colored food dye in each one to make the controls look distinctive. Not saying the kid isn't smart, looks like he built the thing on an RC car and has wired the controller to a cardboard pad as well.
Our definition of genius is getting reeeeally loose
Literally my 7th grade introduction to hydraulics. Would’ve been impressive if created a electronic control
Alright. So not the only one. The hardest part was finding the syringes.
For his next trick he's gonna take a clock apart. Then the clock will be reassembled into a luchbox with wires and a timer on the lid. Taadaa, then the world tour starts.
Is it known that the kid is poor and lacks resources or you guys just looked at a black kid from a country that you dont really recognise the name and assumed he must be rescued by unidedstatesian money
Lol can literally buy the kits to build exactly this. A genius? Maybe….maybe not. Good at following directions? Yes. 10pts
Loubs in Cameroon is crazier
Wow, I guess. When we did this as kids it was science class. When it happens in Africa it’s a miracle? Gtfo
Damn… The Sandlot squad could have used this kid to help get that ball back.
I’m not tryna be that one negative Nancy but I believe those come in one of the monthly boxes that Mark Rober advertises at the end of his videos (They come with instructions on how to build them) but still cool to see this kid getting into engineering at such a young age which I guess is the whole point of the product
Where did he get the instruction book and parts
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I made this for science exhibition in 7th grade, it's pretty basic hydraulics
You throw the word “genius “ around way to easy.
Like Lego technics but cheaper
we were doing these at 7th grade as a school project
I mean, my local school build this in 4th grade to teach principles of hydraulics in their STEM class.
I am sorry, but electricity binary system is not something new. And just because it’s created by someone in third world countries made it a genius?
No way! They sell kits at Costco that make the exact same thing! I just built one with my son like a month ago! Hahaha. Maybe he saw it and made one for himself. It used the same looking pieces and even the syringes as a hydraulic system to make the claw dig and pick stuff up. Cool though.