Snow Day

Apparently I'm going to be caught up in a huge snowstorm tomorrow. Didn't realize just recently how big this thing was, as it seems to be sweeping across a big chunk of the nation in record-breaking fashion. Never been caught in a blizzard before. Should be fun. Blizzard used to be my favorite video game company... then they sold out hard and it came to light that they were just a bunch of toxic bros who would try to extort women for nudes during job interviews. Typical Gamer-Gate activity. But I suppose this is wildly off-topic.

My nephew is losing his damn mind being forced to go to school while we are in town. "I hate school." Blah blah blah, you all know the drill. #kids!

Although I can relate quite a bit to that because certainly school was a gigantic waste of time for me and people like me in many respects. Did that poster-board really needed to be decorated by me with glue and glitter? Hm, no... it didn't. So much busy work and so little actual substance.

With AI on the rise and online education seemingly taking over, the direction we are heading in is clear. Colleges have been increasing tuition and other associated costs with higher learning for DECADES. It will only be a decade or two more before they become completely irrelevant. They will not be able to survive when the new paradigm comes to eat their lunch. Obviously they could never compete with getting paid to learn, especially considering this paradigm of student-as-a-job will be a better education in addition to getting paid to learn.

Higher learning is also inherently left-wing for whatever reason, which doesn't bother me much because I lean that direction often, but at the same time I have enough self-awareness to realize that it's becoming more radical and absurd, while at the same time alienating a huge percentage of students that actually want to engage in real science and debate.

By politicizing education, the ability to retain a healthy amount of skepticism given certain topics is impossible to achieve, and we see that many of the arguments presented exist solely in an echo-chamber of confirmation bias that 'proves' itself to be true because it is true because we said so. Hm, yeah... that's the opposite of science.

My nephew is "gifted", if you know what that means, which is why I generally sympathize with his plight of attending public school. I can tell he's going to become an insufferable know-it-all... already is really... and I make sure to call him out on it pretty often. Kid can watch educational YouTube videos and memorize the location of every country on the planet in a couple hours. Makes music on a dozen different instruments. Pretty wild.

But on the other side of that coin the term 'gifted' can also be equated to 'idiot savant'. For every gift the kid is given 'god' chips a little piece of normalcy and stability off somewhere else. You can't be a semi-autistic genius without suffering from a few ailments on the wonderful spectrum of autism. I know from experience. Got me a nice cocktail of weird shit going on in this brain of mine. Fun stuff.

The chance that he becomes a depressed drug addict in a world like this has got to be shockingly high. Gotta find a way to cope with them bad feelz somehow, amirite? It's very frustrating to think about just how ridiculous the world is and how much wasted potential just gets sucked out of the room simply because of how society and capitalism operate on a basic level. I'd like to think that we crypto peeps are on the forefront of a solution to that effect, but this is yet to be realized within the simulation we are running here.

Much timing, very wow.

I just got a text message telling me to set my faucets to a drip to prevent the water pipes from freezing. I forgot that was a thing (not that pipes can freeze but to set the drip to promote thawing). Not sure if I've ever had to deal with frozen water pipes. Maybe once but it was no big deal or memorable in any way.

Conclusion

Looks like my stream of thought post has ended.
And now I'm being summoned to pick up the kid at school.
DONT BE LATE. I guess I'll be leaving now.
It's going to be a white Christmas.

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