OT: Musk Neuralink
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Yes, but with a bunch of non-related BS thrown in. White Bus had a point.
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I suppose I shouldn’t be upset at the mention of eating baby sheep. If someone eats them, then I can’t be accused of pedophilic beastiality.
Yeah, but now we’re talking about sex with baby animals. 🙂
Props are legit bruh.
You chewed WB up and spit him out in that thread.
You going to the hoops game tonight?
No, the US education system was not built at all on Prussian ideas. The US Army was.
Well we consider you a treasure. In fact, next year in the Yellow Lot, we're gonna dig a hole and bury you.
I can list a dozen conspiracies right now that you fell for. But I don’t want to embarrass you even further - you do a good enough job at it yourself G.
I don’t believe in conspiracies though.
I come to conclusions based on extensive research from various sources.
My track record is flawless
I'm not sure treasure is the word I would use to describe Musk but it's true that we need guys like him to push ideas ahead because there are ALWAYS headwinds and naysayers when new technologies come along. EVs were moving at a glacial pace until Tesla showed you could make them work and profitably. The irony of Musk is that a lot of right wingers love him for his personal views even as his largest success is EVs, which so many of them still fight against, and a lot of left wingers hate him for his personal views even as his largest success is EVs, and large batteries which are now being used to store green energy, which so many of them champion. Which goes back to "we need people to get past the headwinds." They've always been rare and Musk, unlike Trump, really is a game changer that way.
No idea what you're talking about Dunce Cap but you can always be counted on to put up posts that have no substance whatsoever. You're an entirely vapid person, which describes most Golf Course Karen cult followers.
I think maybe it was, or at least was derived somewhat from German and certain other European education concepts. The primary purpose was to create compliant citizens with learning reading, writing and math being secondary goals.
Most immigrants were German, Austrian, Prussian and such. While Continental Army was influenced by Baron von Steuben the schools got similar Prussian influence. Horace Mann was the von Steuben of education. Gov takeover of education is tied to Mann
Early 19th-century American educators were also fascinated by German educational trends. In 1818, John Griscom gave a favorable report of Prussian education. English translations were made of French philosopher Victor Cousin's work, Report on the State of Public Education in Prussia. Calvin E. Stowe, Henry Barnard, Horace Mann, George Bancroft and Joseph Cogswell all had a vigorous interest in German education. The Prussian approach was used for example in the Michigan Constitution of 1835, which fully embraced the Prussian system by introducing a range of primary schools, secondary schools, and the University of Michigan itself, all administered by the state and supported with tax-based funding...
In 1843, Mann traveled to Germany to investigate how the educational process worked. Upon his return to the United States, he incorporated his experiences in his advocacy for the common school movement in Massachusetts. Mann persuaded his fellow modernizers, especially those in his Whig Party, to legislate tax-supported elementary public education in their states. New York state soon set up the same method in 12 different schools on a trial basis. Most northern states adopted one version or another of the system he established in Massachusetts, especially the program for "normal schools" to train professional teachers.."
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Not at all. But facts are facts - Last year Space X launched more Satellites and had more launches (all reusable and successful) then the rest of the world combined. You may hate him but without Musk and Space X we would be still relying on the Russians and Chinese to launch our satellites.
Treasure is absolutely not the correct word. That kind of cultish adoration for other humans is a very, very bad idea. People who exhibit that sort of thinking are demonstrating evidence of psychological issues. Our nation has a widespread mental health problem right now in how so many people are forming these worshipful attachments to politicians and other public figures.
A much better, much more healthy example of a national treasure would be our constitution, the importance of which dwarfs the impact any individual could ever have on our national well-being. Our history books tend to glorify certain individuals by promoting their purportedly good deeds while glossing over their imperfections. But some of the most positively impactful people in our nation's history go entirely unnoticed in history books or news/media stories. One obvious example being special forces personnel or intelligence field agents whose work involves daily risk of torture and death.
Is someone really gonna claim Musk, a businessman of no demonstrated selflessness whatsoever, whose efforts are clearly intended to earn him billions of dollars, is more of a national treasure than the individuals who risk their lives, for no personal reward to speak of, to protect our way of life? Give me a break.
I agree we need people like Gates, Jobs, Musk, etc. But national treasure? Not even close.
Hate him? What possible reason would I or anybody else have to hate him? I've never even met him so have a very limited view of him. Thus I have no feelings towards him at all.
Perhaps you form hatred or love or emotional connections with public figures. But I do not. I don't hate any politician or public figure. Don't love any either.
I reserve hate for terrorists or rapists or other individuals who thrive on causing harm to innocent people. And while I'm very loving and quick to love people, I reserve it for people I actually get to know in person, not some stranger about whom I only know what the media publishes and who doesn't even know I exist.
I agree that it's shocking how many people even in a democracy show devotion to people instead of ideas and things like the Constitution. Trump worship is terrifying though we've always had people too enamored of the idea of the white knight come to "save the world." It reflects human psychology though: most people connect to people not ideas or objects. FWIW though Musk parachuting in StarLink to the Ukraine has been credited by them for saving their country.
Education has changed a lot since 1843. As with everything else, you're trapped in the past. The focus of the US educational system is very different from what hst it was then. I have a degree in education
Ridiculous take. Are you saying Taylor Swift isn’t a national treasure!?
I’m not bashing Musk. I’m simply pointing out the guy is a businessman, not a saint. He’s as imperfect a human as you or me. Adoration is unwarranted.
I don’t do human worship. Sheep maybe. Not humans.
The purpose of education was to create an informed populace in a democracy. It was also to bring people of different backgrounds together again for the purpose of democracy. In more recent times, the goal of US education has been to broadly educate all citizens in a similar fashion, which varies greatly from Europe amd elsewhere, where they emphasize early that different kids are headed down different paths: academia, vocational schools, etc.
Well, she does selflessly appear in public so the media can take video or photos that we may view her in all her gloriousness. And I’ve come to treasure her effect on her many haters in whose heads she lives rent free.
But nope, still not a national treasure.
Well, I wasn’t there to personally observe the discussions and decisions. So I cannot be certain.
But I suspect your description of the goals is unrealistically complimentary to the folks involved at the time and most things I’ve read about it over the years say it was more what I said earlier, compliant, patriotic, good citizens first, academics second.
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a recounting that said anything about creating an informed populace. That seems a much more modern concept. At the time, that would’ve been an odd thing to think given the very limited and slow state of knowledge transfer in the world.
You're confusing goals with methods. And, in any event, both things can and have changed over 200 years. One of my degrees is education. I was a student teacher. I studied this unlike Mr. Conspiracy Theorist Racist who read a Wikipedia link.
Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. It enforces memory safety—meaning that all references point to valid memory—without a garbage collector. To simultaneously enforce memory safety and prevent data races, its "borrow checker" tracks the object lifetime of all references in a program during compilation.
It's amazing how some people are so hate filled they find reason to hate Taylor Swift, tinky winky, doctors...but their favorite media talking heads they love love love.
Hate is toxic to the soul. Best avoided. Media talking heads, at least of the political variety, are toxic to the mind (all of them) and also best avoided, which I do assiduously.
It's always laughable to see people bad-mouthing the talking heads, or media sources, of the other side--and then implicitly believing the talking heads, or media sources, of their side. Unfortunately we're back to the 19th century in this country when media was unabashedly partisan. Partisan hacks think that means the OTHER side is partisan and dishonest but not theirs. I will say this, though: only one media outfit has been proven in court, extensively, to have knowingly deceived viewers. Those viewers continue to tune in.
