Yeah, she was a very smart person, IIRC she was studying aeronautical engineering, literally a rocket scientist. Just one of those weird ways that you don’t think about your bias until it smacks you in the face.
Yeah, she was a very smart person, IIRC she was studying aeronautical engineering, literally a rocket scientist. Just one of those weird ways that you don’t think about your bias until it smacks you in the face.
I went to college with a Spanish guy, Milo I watched this exchange.
Girl: “What kind of Spanish are you?”
Milo: …
Girl: “You know, like Mexican or Colombian or Puerto Rican?”
Milo “No no, I’m from España”
Girl: “But like, which country did you grow up in?”
Milo: " España…uh Spain"
Girl: …
Me: “There’s a country in Europe called Spain, its the place where spanish originated, like England is where english originated.”
Girl: “Duh”
Me: “That’s where he’s from.”
Girl: *suddenly realizes how dumb this whole exchange has been and dies of embarrassment.
You’d think science would have already figured that out right? Oh yeah, they did. A century ago.
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
Don’t TLDR, actually read it, but it basically says, “we’ve done the math, it’s definitely us.”
People think we’re smarter than dolphins because we invented skyscrapers, digital watches, and war, while all the dolphins ever do is goof off in the oceans having fun. Dolphins know they’re smarter for the same reasons.
We’re going to be the first species to go extinct due to stupidity. A dude the other day told me that the guy who invented the weather channel says that global warming is due to Earth’s orbit not being a perfect circle. I don’t know how to combat that level of stupid.
I was trying to find the video where the guy actually solved the problem, and I stumbled on to this https://youtu.be/mokllJ_Sz_g
Apparently there are more, The Expert videos and they’re all spot on.
A couple reasons off the top of my head, 1.) You can’t let 20-30 kids loose without it ending in pandemonium, but you need kids to practice time management skills before college. Homework is a time where kids can learn to manage a workload, outside of the controlled environment of school. 2) Kids can’t candle a 9 to 5, they need recess and art, and music, and gym to give their brains a break. In the 7.5ish hours that kids go to school, there’s probably only 4 hours of work done. (but Bob, I only work like 30 minutes of any given day, and I’m an adult…)