AI could potentially knock out most of our careers in the coming years. It might be good to start pushing for UBI instead of saving every buggy whip company.

Some children go through great distress attending classes. It can be due to bullying, hardships at home, innate mental woes, or a mix of all three.

As someone who had all three, I would have *loved* the chance to go to school remotely and have it be culturally acceptable to do so. I ended up coming out of it with so much PTSD that I couldn't function as a person for years. Later I managed to take college classes online and get a comp sci degree. Top of the class. Got offered a job straight out of it, also online. Definitely worked better for me.

It doesn't sound like a perfect solution yet, but it does make one wonder if selective breeding of the things could bring it up to a symbiotic level. How many adverse side effects have to be eliminated?

Now I want to watch Stargate again.

-glances toward Madden game series-

If we can get them into our glasses lenses and wait for AR tech to catch up, would we really need them anywhere else?

Between this, the removal of the feature to send pictures, and the lifetime subscription price going up by a factor of 5 out of nowhere, I'm not so sure this company is going to be around too much longer. Unless they suddenly make a huge breakthrough in their VR experience to stand out anyway.

There are a lot of sketch overreactions going right now. It'll be interesting to see how this time is looked back on in 10 years. I personally hope it'll be a lesson for selfish politicians to stop demonizing foreign countries during elections.

There's hope in an emergency option. If the climate and heat really do get out of control, we could experiment with purposefully creating a nuclear winter. It's win-win. Either it works or we go out with a bang!

DC wiring is pretty scary over long distances. There used to be fires all over the place before folks switched over to AC power. Quite scandalous. Cooked elephant. Good reading.

Next time the US invades a country, they can honestly say they're doing it for Freedom now.

These folks should release miniature house STL files. It'd be fun to print it out to see how it would look and you'd end up with a pretty interesting scale model when you're done.

Jonathan Swift proposed a working solution in A Modest Proposal.

If a student goes the distance of going to a doctor, being referred to psychologist, meeting with that psychologist long enough to get referred to a psychiatrist, and then is willing to take the poison/medicine prescribed that makes them sick every night, then chances are they really do have a pretty serious anxiety problem.

I was that kid. I am now that adult. Pushing through speeches makes it worse for us, not better. I pushed through daily tasks that stressed me out up to the point I had to quit my job. I lost 80 lbs unintentionally. Whenever I went in, people would tell me I looked sick. And I was pretty damn sick. Despite all that, people's default reaction was to assume I was faking it for some unknown purpose. They still think that even though I've gained absolutely nothing from it.

I tried to talk to an economics student about that once. He screamed, "Capitalism is the only system!" and ran away. Red Mars should be assigned reading - you learn plausible science and a surprising number of new social ideas.

I'm almost wondering if he spoke that way on purpose to dissuade hackers from bothering. Where would the challenge be?