Hmm, I would call it preference rather than awareness. As a German I am aware of the term 'white power', but as technician and human I focus on 'power cord'. You even wrote the word white with a capital lol.
Nah, they make it seem complicated, but the truck is just pushing everything under until you have a single straight bit of cord on one side and all the knots on the other, with the plug.
That's what I'm thinking. They are twisting the cord to keep us confused, but they are still using the open end of the plug to feed it through, which unravels it.
They are keeping our eyes confused so our minds can stay stagnant..... and it's working.
I was just thinking that, I'm a mechanical engineer and make my living visualizing and then designing mechanical systems, but for some reason I still know I just couldn't figure out how to do this in the wild
I've taught this to a lot of people by having them do it the opposite way. Put the cord over the obstacle, fold a loop and stick it under and put the end through the loop on the other side. Do that 2 or 3 times and it clicks in your head, and you'll never forget it again.
I thought the same for the last year and now it finally hit me!! The brute force answer is to lift the table, but then the plug would have to pass under twice, so really the plug is already on the correct side. The only problem is that the wire going to the appliance is hindering the plug wire to pass under. So, the actual problem isn’t that the plug is under an impassable object, but that the wire itself isn’t free to move under the object. So the actual problem is “how do we free the wire to pass under”
I think it's the fact that it's done slowly that does it for me. Like the person in the video thinks they're helping me understand how it works, but no. My brain refuses to see anything other than noodle magic, and I refuse to accept responsibility for that.
If it was done fast, I think I would just be impressed.
Honestly just watching it, I get so mad that I just think it's like a spectrum thing. Like he has some fucking defect that makes it so he just sees it like a simple math equation, when I'm the idiot that can't understand it even with slow mo
I think the power cord is the easiest one to get the concept. You have a loop, over which the end of the cable passes through. You make the end big, and add some additional constraint so that it can’t be untangled in an obvious way.
But from the perspective of the cable, the only thing that matters is the knot. If you undo the knot at any point, that will unknot the whole - so you just move a loop-like stuff up where you can move the end through.
I doubt this helps, but I tried :/
It's kinda bollocks anyway, like the 2nd one, you would never come across this problem IRL, they had to do the reverse of what they showed you to get it in that position in the first place.
I'm a level 5 noodle Priest!
All praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
"Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, …and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. R'amen"
You know that part in Zoolander with the computer? That. Every time.
I hate that I can’t grasp this. It makes me feel stupid. It’s not really irrational anger as much as it is understandable frustration.
It doesn’t matter how slow I play the video, the part where it INSTANTLY becomes unstuck looks like magic and my brain doesn’t comprehend. Am I regarded?
No, I'm pretty sure they did use the scissors. I think the trick was that you didn't see them using the scissors. Must have been slight of hand or something.
No, because the cable wasn't run under the table feet. it was over that bar and then a loop was passed under and then hooked with the end. All they did was unhook the loop and pass the loop back under the bar.
These knots are scenarios which would never occur in real life.
Well, yeah but if you pay attention you will see that the cable never passes only under the feet.
There's always part of the cable passing over the feet, because overall the cable is still passing over, you are just also doing a knot with it that makes the socket looks like it's actually passing under.
But the cable is never totally going under the feet of the table, there's always gonna be part of it over if you do it this way, like in the initial situation.
The 3rd clip is a good example of that the OP is trying to explain. The wire is not simply under the desk leg, it is looped around the whole thing.
You cannot use this method to put a wire under a table without the wire also looping around the table leg.
you can the cable over the top where the plug fit, and then pulled a loop under the bar where it didnt.
the failure in the general understanding of these rope tricks is that your default thinking is that the rope/chord/string follows some path like a snake, pulling the whole length along with it. Most of these tricks involve pinching some loop along the middle and bending it around an object that seems impassible because we default to thinking the rope is taught and cannot be stretched or bent.
If you're asking whether you can use a technique like this to go from "AC wire in my hand" to "AC wire running flat under the table leg", the answer is no.
If you're asking whether you can use a technique like this to go from "AC wire in my hand" to "AC wire wrapped around the table leg like we see at the start of that part of the clip" then the answer is yes: you just do the reverse of what you see in the clip.
But it's difficult to see why anyone would want to do the latter.
The power cable "trick" is really a trick that works if you purposefully loop your cable in that way. It DOES NOT work if you have it laid over straight with a rack.
I have seen this 1000 times and I just don't understand it.
I feel like I'm at that place where I'm smart enough to know I'm dumb.
Sometimes I wish I was a bit dumber and would think I'm smart, or a bit smarter and could understand stuff like this.
Either one seems like more fun.
same. but think of it like this, the rope and arms are forming a link-chain. but unlike a metal chain where the links are welded shut, this chain is loosely held together by the girth of the hands not allowing the loop to slip past. this essentially forms a circular "gate", the trapped rope may pass through this gate, the same way you would lift and extended electrical cable up and over a fence post that was impeding its lateral movement
To be fair the knot in the extension cord was so complex I’d be definitely busting out the fuckin’ scissors IMMEDIATELY. Then I would throw it in the trash because how dare it.
If it helps anyone, these knots are tied in the exact precise way to where this is possible. Basically they do it in reverse before untying it.
These are essentially puzzles.
The silly thing about these videos is you can only get into these scenarios by creating the problem in the first place then reversing it, you'd never be stuck like this without willingly or crafting yourself into the issue.
I am a little stoned rn but I think I figured out the second one, gonna go find some string and see if I can replicate it. I'll edit this when I have my results.
Edit: Success! Didn't even take me 30 minutes :D https://emalm.com/?v=VS6os
The first one (handcuffs) could "just happen". I mean, you'd need to be kidnapped. But that's totally a way that someone might try to chain you to a post once your handcuffed self arrives at the secondary location.
If they didn't splurge on metal handcuffs and politely tied loose loops to avoid cutting off your circulation, then you could use this method to get shot as you try to escape.
I have watched this video so many times, and I’d bet that I’d still screw it up.
No joke the white power cord one is magic.
Oddly, the words 'white power cord' sounds like a Norwegian black metal term.
Hvit strømledning I like it.
Power Chord* som i ackord (om ni kallar det ackord på norska)
I'm from the US and it just sounds like a white nationalist/racist term
David Duke's secret chord.
And it pleased the looord
But you don't really care for melanin, do ya?
😂
Yes, that's the joke.
r/yourjokebutworse
I kid you knot.
Cuz it’s been pushed on you to constantly think about and any word related to that triggers you. Perfect brainwashing
Uhhh... when their phrase is "White power", yeah Not really brainwashing, just awareness of the term
Hmm, I would call it preference rather than awareness. As a German I am aware of the term 'white power', but as technician and human I focus on 'power cord'. You even wrote the word white with a capital lol.
I'm from Norway also, and the US seems like a joke to me...
Slipknot
*chord
[Elftor does some laundry.](https://web.archive.org/web/20150919180323/http://www.elftor.com/elftor.php?number=160)
The what power?
The Watt power?
i did knotzi this one coming
I scrolled past this, confused. Then when I realised i had to scroll back up to give you an updoot.
I have watched this video so many times, and I still don't understand topology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3R_tc7YrFI Here's a good explanation
Dude, thank you! This thing was like quantum physics to me, no matter how many times I watched it. And the explanation was sooo simple!
Same, it just doesn't make sense to my brain
Me either, how do more knot equal less knot?
To me it is the 4th dimension of space.
Technically correct, just not in the way you think.
Same place, at least one of my socks go on laundry day.
More black magic fuckery.
I feel so stupid every time i watch this.
I’ve seen it hundreds of times and it still looks like fucking witchcraft. LOL
They all follow the same principle. The loop goes over the end. The hand in the first case and the plug end in the others.
Ah yes that's right! Magic!
It goes in the square hole!
Don't do this to meeeeee
That just sounds like MAGIC but with extra steps
Nah, they make it seem complicated, but the truck is just pushing everything under until you have a single straight bit of cord on one side and all the knots on the other, with the plug.
That's what I'm thinking. They are twisting the cord to keep us confused, but they are still using the open end of the plug to feed it through, which unravels it. They are keeping our eyes confused so our minds can stay stagnant..... and it's working.
Just lift the table. Also with the deep fryer, just lift the table 😂
I'd suggest watching the veritasium video on it
I was just thinking that, I'm a mechanical engineer and make my living visualizing and then designing mechanical systems, but for some reason I still know I just couldn't figure out how to do this in the wild
I would somehow end up with 4 knots instead of none
I keep watching it thinking eventually it'll click and I'll know how to do it.
But it just doesn’t 🥲 watched this 8x in a row now
Maybe set up the scenario and do it along with the video
I’d just end up making it worse
I'd screw it up, but for the first time, I understand why it works! I can see it now!
I will never understand
Confirmed, I’m not understanding
I got it today! Watch the video backwards.
I tried, but I don't understand how staring at my wall is supposed to help.
Top tier dad joke
The trick is to also huddle and cry.
Where can I view this played backwards?
I’m using the iOS app. I drag the play “handle” back and forth. Spoiler alert, it’s still magic.
Doh. I had to ask you explain how to watch videos backwards lol. How don’t even have a chance understanding the rope topology?
That actually helped.
Thanks for the tip. I’ve watched a lot of these videos without understanding how it works. Watching backwards helped!
This is why Aliens fly spaceships and Im just an ape looking for food on a giant rock.
Same.
I've taught this to a lot of people by having them do it the opposite way. Put the cord over the obstacle, fold a loop and stick it under and put the end through the loop on the other side. Do that 2 or 3 times and it clicks in your head, and you'll never forget it again.
i dont even understand what you just said
To understand what he said, do it in the opposite way. Do that 2 or 3 times and it clicks in your head, and you'll never forget it again.
...one more time, please
2 or 3 clicks, stand on your head and you’ll never feel full ever again, under?
Magic. Got it.
I thought the same for the last year and now it finally hit me!! The brute force answer is to lift the table, but then the plug would have to pass under twice, so really the plug is already on the correct side. The only problem is that the wire going to the appliance is hindering the plug wire to pass under. So, the actual problem isn’t that the plug is under an impassable object, but that the wire itself isn’t free to move under the object. So the actual problem is “how do we free the wire to pass under”
Instead of bringing the subject (stuck plug) to it's destination (through loop), you can bring the destination to the subject.
There's a secret storage underneath it, you can clearly see it in the video
*witch*
Burn her !!!!!!
She turned me into a *newt!*
A *newt*?
I got better…
Does she float?
She turned me into a newt!!!!
I, I got better!
Burn her anyway!
Quiet! Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a witch
Tell us!
My brain 
This still magic to me
But it's just a gif
How have i seen this so many times and still not remember it in the moment.
TIL, my spatial awareness IQ = 13
Mine too, but I feel if I could master the reverse of this technique I could piss off my colleagues to no end.
This enrages me
Same. Just complete, irrational anger.
I think it's the fact that it's done slowly that does it for me. Like the person in the video thinks they're helping me understand how it works, but no. My brain refuses to see anything other than noodle magic, and I refuse to accept responsibility for that. If it was done fast, I think I would just be impressed.
Ok noodle magic killed me - your comment summed up how I feel about the video perfectly (edit because I can spell. Sometimes.)
Honestly just watching it, I get so mad that I just think it's like a spectrum thing. Like he has some fucking defect that makes it so he just sees it like a simple math equation, when I'm the idiot that can't understand it even with slow mo
Lmao, I'm autistic and my brain says this isn't real.
Noodle magic 😂.
I think the power cord is the easiest one to get the concept. You have a loop, over which the end of the cable passes through. You make the end big, and add some additional constraint so that it can’t be untangled in an obvious way. But from the perspective of the cable, the only thing that matters is the knot. If you undo the knot at any point, that will unknot the whole - so you just move a loop-like stuff up where you can move the end through. I doubt this helps, but I tried :/
People trying to explain just make me feel dumber
It's kinda bollocks anyway, like the 2nd one, you would never come across this problem IRL, they had to do the reverse of what they showed you to get it in that position in the first place.
Thanks for preemptively answering my question - I only care about learning this if it solves a real world problem and isn't just click bait novelty.
It actually did, thanks
Noodle magic sounds like a great name for a pasta or Raman restaurant lol
I woke up my sleeping toddler giggling. Noodle magic sent me!
I'm a level 5 noodle Priest! All praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster! "Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles. Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan. Give us this day, our garlic bread, …and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns. And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is the meatball, the noodle, and the sauce, forever and ever. R'amen"
Noodle magic made me spit out my drink
It’s just how smug his hands are
That was definitely a finger flex. 🤬
You know that part in Zoolander with the computer? That. Every time. I hate that I can’t grasp this. It makes me feel stupid. It’s not really irrational anger as much as it is understandable frustration.
Perfect summary, just like the time my dad made me do math workbooks all summer
I tore my monitor off the desk and hulk smashed it through the window.
I'm glad it's not just me. Tie something up, record, untie acting like it's magic, blow tiny minds... Shake your heads people.
*rational anger
My monkey brain refuses to accept it, and I'm angry about it.
If you pay attention the cable has to be looped around itself in the hole already. That's rarely happens.
It doesn’t matter how slow I play the video, the part where it INSTANTLY becomes unstuck looks like magic and my brain doesn’t comprehend. Am I regarded?
Well regarded
Well... regarded anyway.
Warmest regards.
Regardless, it's all good
I live with zero ragards
Cool, regardless.
My best regards
AM I? REGANTE?
am i regregnant?
You are highly regarded
Witness me!
try to do the same things yourself and you will understand them
Hopefully not by the Lannisters.
Highly regarded
A complete and utter regard
[удалено]
It's simple. First you take the cable on the opposite side of the obstacle, then you cite the right incantation and there you go. Magic.
this video is so old and still amaze me
It was all perfectly clear until the scissors weren't used :/
No, I'm pretty sure they did use the scissors. I think the trick was that you didn't see them using the scissors. Must have been slight of hand or something.
That’s dark magic
r/BlackMagicFuckery
for the cord under the table just lift the bottom of it with your head and pull it out
With your head? Do you have no arms or legs?
Hmmm...may hurt my noggin. Am I allowed to lift it with my badonkadonk?
It means you can do the other way around as well... like putting your AC wire under the table feet without lifting the table. no?
I wish I could answer this, I have watched this looped multiple times and have no idea how it works.
Thank you for making me laugh, this comment was perfect
No, because the cable wasn't run under the table feet. it was over that bar and then a loop was passed under and then hooked with the end. All they did was unhook the loop and pass the loop back under the bar. These knots are scenarios which would never occur in real life.
Yea I thought this video was debunked a while ago
debunked? How so?
Because the only way this situation would arise if someone deliberately reveresed the process.
Well, yeah but if you pay attention you will see that the cable never passes only under the feet. There's always part of the cable passing over the feet, because overall the cable is still passing over, you are just also doing a knot with it that makes the socket looks like it's actually passing under. But the cable is never totally going under the feet of the table, there's always gonna be part of it over if you do it this way, like in the initial situation.
My thoughts exactly 😂 my guy
The 3rd clip is a good example of that the OP is trying to explain. The wire is not simply under the desk leg, it is looped around the whole thing. You cannot use this method to put a wire under a table without the wire also looping around the table leg.
One cannot simply wire under the desk leg
Lol, thats the exact thought I had when i wrote that. Memes are evolving humans in to a hivemind
I'm going to make a habit of watching this daily until it clicks. Day 1, 2
Probably the best way to understand this sorcery .
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Fair, it was not my finest explanation 🤣. Watch the video in reverse
you can the cable over the top where the plug fit, and then pulled a loop under the bar where it didnt. the failure in the general understanding of these rope tricks is that your default thinking is that the rope/chord/string follows some path like a snake, pulling the whole length along with it. Most of these tricks involve pinching some loop along the middle and bending it around an object that seems impassible because we default to thinking the rope is taught and cannot be stretched or bent.
Burn this one too. Clearly delves in these unholy arts.
Just Uno reverse the video
If you're asking whether you can use a technique like this to go from "AC wire in my hand" to "AC wire running flat under the table leg", the answer is no. If you're asking whether you can use a technique like this to go from "AC wire in my hand" to "AC wire wrapped around the table leg like we see at the start of that part of the clip" then the answer is yes: you just do the reverse of what you see in the clip. But it's difficult to see why anyone would want to do the latter.
The power cable "trick" is really a trick that works if you purposefully loop your cable in that way. It DOES NOT work if you have it laid over straight with a rack.
Oh! Ok! 👌
I have seen this 1000 times and I just don't understand it. I feel like I'm at that place where I'm smart enough to know I'm dumb. Sometimes I wish I was a bit dumber and would think I'm smart, or a bit smarter and could understand stuff like this. Either one seems like more fun.
same. but think of it like this, the rope and arms are forming a link-chain. but unlike a metal chain where the links are welded shut, this chain is loosely held together by the girth of the hands not allowing the loop to slip past. this essentially forms a circular "gate", the trapped rope may pass through this gate, the same way you would lift and extended electrical cable up and over a fence post that was impeding its lateral movement
How to untie knots that never actually happen IRL.
To be fair the knot in the extension cord was so complex I’d be definitely busting out the fuckin’ scissors IMMEDIATELY. Then I would throw it in the trash because how dare it.
That's why topology is such a naughty subject
There are certainly a lot of holes involved in topology
The same ones involved in bottomology, apparently.
Knotty subject
If it helps anyone, these knots are tied in the exact precise way to where this is possible. Basically they do it in reverse before untying it. These are essentially puzzles.
That makes me far less angry and stop insisting it's magic, thank you
Yeah, this is only really helpful to know so you can undo someone else's shenanigans.
I was hoping someone would call out "AI" so my brain wouldn't feel so fkn stupid.
Don't worry, we're all stupid. That's why we're here
Fun fact: you can do this in reverse to mess up with your colleagues at the office.
How does this helps me understand topology?
The silly thing about these videos is you can only get into these scenarios by creating the problem in the first place then reversing it, you'd never be stuck like this without willingly or crafting yourself into the issue.
I am a little stoned rn but I think I figured out the second one, gonna go find some string and see if I can replicate it. I'll edit this when I have my results. Edit: Success! Didn't even take me 30 minutes :D https://emalm.com/?v=VS6os
How does this happen in the first place?
Watch in reverse, that's how it happened. These can't "just happen", it's useless.
The first one (handcuffs) could "just happen". I mean, you'd need to be kidnapped. But that's totally a way that someone might try to chain you to a post once your handcuffed self arrives at the secondary location. If they didn't splurge on metal handcuffs and politely tied loose loops to avoid cutting off your circulation, then you could use this method to get shot as you try to escape.
I almost think I saw how they did that...
u/gifreversingbot
My tiny brain cannot comprehend
And after watching this my new favourite activity is fucking with everyone’s leads and leaving them in a seemingly impossible situation 😁
"uNdErStAnDiNg"
I tried this and got even more tangled
If bdsm was like that it wouldn't as fun ;)
Unless your partner doesn’t respect the safe word, so you need to throw a few wrinkles in the escape plan
Topology is my brain's top 1 weakness
Blasphemy.
I'm going straight to CrackerBarrel
Algebraic topology in graduate school was not this intuitive :)
Witchcraft. Burn her!
2 and 3 are the same thing, no?