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The Atlantic is my favorite magazine. Can you tell? The piece below (in this pillar of high quality journalism) targets the idiot obsessions of guys with too much money blowing it on rocket ships to Mars. Yes, what SpaceX is doing in terms of making satellite launches and trips to the Space station or the moon economical and reliable is a great service to our country and the world. Going to Mars, not so much. In what must be one of the most moronic statements ever uttered by a clueless out of touch plutocrat, Jeff Bezos actually said that he couldn’t think of how else he could possibly spend all his billions except space travel. Gosh Jeff, can you give it a bit more thought? Perhaps someone with fewer than eleven houses could make a suggestion? Or someone who doesn’t have a servant to manage his servants?
Fun Fact:
The Atlantic, by Shannon Stirone
February 26, 2021
This article in the Atlantic reviews the now commonly accepted idea that every human being has their own “style” of learning. Some absorb information and ideas better from reading, some from hearing, some from visual presentations (some from daydreaming, some from hip hop, some from vaping, etc.). Well… it sounded good. But apparently there is little or no evidence that a person who is taught in the way they prefer, the way that is most comfortable to them — actually leads to better outcomes. As the always relevant Emily Latella would say, “Nevermind!”
Reminds me when the entire US government swung into action to indoctrinate every American with the idea that carbohydrates were making us fat. Thus leading to all of us to become really really fat.
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