Maria Karam
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Maria Karam
@mkaram99
BE NICE TO YOUR FELLOW HUMAN AS WELL AS TO YOURSELF. WE ARE ONE SPECIES. LOVE LOVE LOVE ONE LOVE. IF ONLY THE BILLIONAIRES WERE NICE. IMAGINE!




DEI: Chicago’s teachers insisted that higher pay would unlock student success. The city obliged, hiking per-student spending by 70 percent and boosting average teacher salaries to $100,000. The result? Failure on a grander scale. Today, just 11 percent of black students in Chicago are proficient in reading — a tragic monument to the bankrupt promises of a broken system.




Punting predictions for humans to Mars decades into the future is, in my view, largely political and not based on science and engineering. If humans make in in the next 10 years, which is reasonably likely, it has to be SpaceX doing it. No other game in town - maybe the Chinese with a crash program but they don't seem to have the intent to do anything like that. To some this is politically unacceptable. Musk cannot be allowed to win. By predicting absurdly long timetables, they hope to make it true. They want to give NASA and the broader public sector time to take control of the process and lead the mission, so that Mars is run by a bureaucracy that is broadly on their side - rather than some anarchic frontier where tech bros can build stuff without someone around to tie them up with regulations.








