Oh yeah. This is my jam.

My journey reading her about me section went so quickly from

“Tch, no one is ever going to pronounce Khainsaw correctly”

To

“This person is orders of magnitude more capable and impressive than me in every conceivable way and I need to develop some kind of useful skill now so that I can seek her out as my protector in the apocalypse and be seen as worthy. “

Actually thank you for the question. I’m still processing a lot of this stuff so in many ways writing it out ended up being to my benefit more than yours.

I had very similar experiences. Let me know if you ever want to talk about it, but I’m also unsociable so I will understand perfectly if you never do, and may even be relieved.

You get it.

I was homeschooled K-12 and never went to college, so home school is literally all I know and I have thoughts.

1. Motivation matters - I was home schooled for religious reasons by parents who were themselves educated but wholly unqualified to teach a single child much less 4 kids. They homeschooled us primarily to avoid the indoctrination of the secular world, where the lies of evolution and gay baby killers reigned supreme. Thus, I was not well educated and didn’t realize it until I got into the work force. I have been battling crippling imposter syndrome ever since I realized how deficient my education was - I’m still in the process of understanding the scope of that deficiency
2. oversight is not optional. In my situation, we were homeschooled without any government involvement or oversight in any way. My parents told me at the time that this was how the laws in my state worked but they also told me to stay away from Truant Officers so I think they were lying. I had no sense of equivalency or where I stood compared to my peers until I was in the process of testing out to get my GED (because weirdly, prospective employees weren’t keen to accept the “diploma” my dad had printed from MS Word) that I saw my percentile rank in various subject
3. Unless you are an educator, don’t try to run a curriculum. If you’re going to homeschool, pay a tutor. If you can’t pay a tutor, probably don’t home school

I know that last bit sounds extreme and I don’t think my home school experience is typical so take it with a grain of salt.

Edit: none of this even addresses the social impacts, which are intense if not mitigated with a lot of sports and group activities, etc

Thank you. Open Source is basically table stakes for any new investment I make moving forward.

I want to get into 3D printing before it’s outlawed and I’ve been gravitating to Bambu because I’m novice enough that marketing works. Where should I be looking? Price is a consideration but not my first.

Which is why I will never buy a car made after 2015 if I can possibly avoid it. If I were writing the rules,

• My car should not be capable of pay-walling any features

• Just like my phone, I should have fine grained control over what data my car shares and with whom

• No vehicle controls that may need to be accessed while driving should require more than one click on a touchscreen to access

• Any touchscreen UI should be easily controllable from a steering wheel type d-pad

• No non-entertainment vehicle controls should be primarily accessible from a touchscreen

• Any controls that affect the speed, position, size, or access of the car should only have secondary touchscreen controls that are upstream of any failures modes in the primary physical control; in other words, a UI control should only be a backup method for important functions of the vehicle, and they shouldn’t be able to break the main method if they break

When I had to reluctantly buy a used car, I made it a point to buy a used car no newer than 2015 and this is why. Well this and touchscreen mania.

The increasing clarity that “big cloud” is one of the most existentially dangerous threats in the long term. The idea of not truly owning my own data, particularly in an era where truth itself is becoming more and more malleable, became intolerable.

Secondarily, the desire to get off the subscription hamster wheel and own all my own media.

Evolution?

One person’s regression is another’s renaissance.

It’s a thorn, and indirectly why we say “ye olde” when evoking an old timey thing.

I don’t mind it. Obviously OP could understand well enough to complain about it. Why not make our alphabet more efficient? Language is never complete until it’s extinct.

I’m a fan of the long s too. Bring em l back says I.

I broke up with my parents about 9 months ago.

I need to mourn the good, morally centered parents, who taught me all of the principles that are now being sacrificed by my parents, or by the creatures they have turned into. The parents that raised me are essentially gone.

Haven’t had any contact with them since. Makes it a bit awkward with my siblings, since they generally feel the same but haven’t taken as drastic a step yet.