My next book that I'm working on is basically a course on how to use the freebasic programming language, but the scaffolding of the book is going to be about the history of personal computing and all of the little things that you need to know about how computers actually work.
It is exactly as you say, a lot of kids are growing up constantly being praised for how good they are with computers, but in reality they're completely incompetent at computers and they're just good at Facebook or YouTubes app.
It is exactly as you say, a lot of kids are growing up constantly being praised for how good they are with computers, but in reality they're completely incompetent at computers and they're just good at Facebook or YouTubes app.
Over generations, I think people will have to figure out how to deal with the Internet and smart devices. I personally think the way every kid has a smartphone is the wrong way and I don't think kids should have such dangerous devices.
"We have reimagined the circus for modern audiences. We've removed everything except a man in a turtle neck reading poetry about how evil the west is and how we should all be penitent"
I know that's not what it is, I'm just joking around given what that phrase often portends.
I know that's not what it is, I'm just joking around given what that phrase often portends.
Two chapters of the graysonian ethic deal with failure.
One is titled "failure is an option" and it talks about times I've failed in my life (including completely failing a grade in high school and flunking out of college once) and the lessons that can be taken from those failures. "Failure is an option" refers to the idea that unlike what people say, it's possible to fail, you aren't going to just get pushed along regardless of what you do. Flunking out of college proved that sometimes you have to look at failure and figure out how to change course. I moved on and after dramatically changing strategy I tried again and succeeded.
The other is titled "when you make a mistake" and it starts talking about a stupid mistake I made while writing the book -- I went swimming in a lake with my car keys in my pocket and they fell out never to be found again. It was the only set of car keys we owned so it was a huge problem but I had to follow a process of accepting the mistake, figuring out how to fix it, and figuring out how to make sure the same thing never happens again.
Failure is a really complicated thing. You definitely don't want to fail in your life, but it's going to happen -- I have met a few people who have never ever made a mistake -- they literally don't do anything, so it's easy not to make a mistake. That being said, although you don't want to just accept every failure as a good thing, often it can be beneficial. It's a feedback mechanism that lets you know you aren't necessarily going about things the right way.
Anyone who raises their kid in such a way that failure is not an option is setting them up for failure. Even outrageously successful people don't make every single choice exactly correctly.
One is titled "failure is an option" and it talks about times I've failed in my life (including completely failing a grade in high school and flunking out of college once) and the lessons that can be taken from those failures. "Failure is an option" refers to the idea that unlike what people say, it's possible to fail, you aren't going to just get pushed along regardless of what you do. Flunking out of college proved that sometimes you have to look at failure and figure out how to change course. I moved on and after dramatically changing strategy I tried again and succeeded.
The other is titled "when you make a mistake" and it starts talking about a stupid mistake I made while writing the book -- I went swimming in a lake with my car keys in my pocket and they fell out never to be found again. It was the only set of car keys we owned so it was a huge problem but I had to follow a process of accepting the mistake, figuring out how to fix it, and figuring out how to make sure the same thing never happens again.
Failure is a really complicated thing. You definitely don't want to fail in your life, but it's going to happen -- I have met a few people who have never ever made a mistake -- they literally don't do anything, so it's easy not to make a mistake. That being said, although you don't want to just accept every failure as a good thing, often it can be beneficial. It's a feedback mechanism that lets you know you aren't necessarily going about things the right way.
Anyone who raises their kid in such a way that failure is not an option is setting them up for failure. Even outrageously successful people don't make every single choice exactly correctly.
It's really tough, because you need both.
On one hand, you do need to protect kids from the most brutal stuff out there and at first most things since you don't want to have them being wired up to insane degenerate stuff right from the womb. Brains wire themselves according to stimuli and if you allow really horrid stuff through all the time it'll wire their brains in horrid ways that arent conducive to a good and stable future.
On the other hand, someday your kids will be on their own and they'll be exposed to everything the world has to offer and if you just pretend it doesn't exist then they'll get immediate shock exposure to all of it the moment you're not there to put the blinders on, and that can have huge backlash implications as well. Look at the 21 year olds who never drank a drop of alcohol who go nuts once exposed without guard rails.
I think the key is to have a plan to slowly introduce the world in a measured and consistent way so kids have the opportunity to learn about the world but have appropriate guardrails at each stage of development ultimately culminating in the least restrictive guard rails so they're being trusted more and more leading up to the big day that they wont have any guard rails from you anymore.
On one hand, you do need to protect kids from the most brutal stuff out there and at first most things since you don't want to have them being wired up to insane degenerate stuff right from the womb. Brains wire themselves according to stimuli and if you allow really horrid stuff through all the time it'll wire their brains in horrid ways that arent conducive to a good and stable future.
On the other hand, someday your kids will be on their own and they'll be exposed to everything the world has to offer and if you just pretend it doesn't exist then they'll get immediate shock exposure to all of it the moment you're not there to put the blinders on, and that can have huge backlash implications as well. Look at the 21 year olds who never drank a drop of alcohol who go nuts once exposed without guard rails.
I think the key is to have a plan to slowly introduce the world in a measured and consistent way so kids have the opportunity to learn about the world but have appropriate guardrails at each stage of development ultimately culminating in the least restrictive guard rails so they're being trusted more and more leading up to the big day that they wont have any guard rails from you anymore.
Sargon on podcast of the lotus eaters has I think the only sane take -- a pretty blonde pop singer dating a Chad football player and loving life in a traditional relationship after years of publicly and vocally suffering in relationships with less traditionally masculine men is pretty much exactly a huge conservative W and the people whining about psy-ops really seem to be missing the big picture.
I blitzed through several volumes of "Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I'm Bored" because it's a wonderful read.
It has a few things that make it stand out. First is that the main character definitively does not want to be an adventurer and instead wants to learn about different things. He learns first how to craft things with his hands, then he learns the sword (not to kill but because he thought the art form was beautiful), and finally magic (just because he thought it was interesting). It's about the relationships and daily challenges and successes along the way.
There are a few examples of battles, but they're brief and not the core focus of the story. For example, he goes to fight a vampire in the second book, but that's just not the focus at all. Instead the focus is on his relationships with other characters such as his son, a famous elven adventurer, and several generations of students at the dojo he trained at.
He often revisits places he was earlier in the story so a major theme is the passage time, the fleeting nature of human life, and the ongoing consequences of your actions over time are major themes, as is the different passage of time of the different beings -- as a high elf he lives for a millennium, lower elves live about 600 years, half elves and dwarves live about 300-400 years, and humans live about as long as you'd expect, and being the longest lived he quickly outlives many of the humans he befriends.
I really enjoyed reading and I've got another half book to go and a new volume released this month.
It has a few things that make it stand out. First is that the main character definitively does not want to be an adventurer and instead wants to learn about different things. He learns first how to craft things with his hands, then he learns the sword (not to kill but because he thought the art form was beautiful), and finally magic (just because he thought it was interesting). It's about the relationships and daily challenges and successes along the way.
There are a few examples of battles, but they're brief and not the core focus of the story. For example, he goes to fight a vampire in the second book, but that's just not the focus at all. Instead the focus is on his relationships with other characters such as his son, a famous elven adventurer, and several generations of students at the dojo he trained at.
He often revisits places he was earlier in the story so a major theme is the passage time, the fleeting nature of human life, and the ongoing consequences of your actions over time are major themes, as is the different passage of time of the different beings -- as a high elf he lives for a millennium, lower elves live about 600 years, half elves and dwarves live about 300-400 years, and humans live about as long as you'd expect, and being the longest lived he quickly outlives many of the humans he befriends.
I really enjoyed reading and I've got another half book to go and a new volume released this month.
Wow! It's a good thing the stats haven't been revised down virtually every month for the past year or that might be really embarrassing breathlessly reporting the initial numbers!
https://youtu.be/MYjGh99Mht8
Pretty much exactly as many commentators expected, disney doesn't have a constitutional right to form its own government.
Commies are still pulling for Disney in this case because fascism and communism are cousins no matter how much they deny it.
Pretty much exactly as many commentators expected, disney doesn't have a constitutional right to form its own government.
Commies are still pulling for Disney in this case because fascism and communism are cousins no matter how much they deny it.
Sotomayor is the same retarded lunch lady who made the argument that because your body produces viruses when you're sick it should be regulated like a factory.
And by my measure she can't count either (as expected by a retarded lunch lady). A supermajority tends to be more than two thirds, but in reality it's just a simple majority -- 4 conservative justices, not 6.
And by my measure she can't count either (as expected by a retarded lunch lady). A supermajority tends to be more than two thirds, but in reality it's just a simple majority -- 4 conservative justices, not 6.
Honestly, I sorta feel like Internet Archive deserves getting sued and depending on the facts they're being sued over, they will justifiably lose.
Swaths of their site are just open hosts for piracy, I don't think you can just call yourself a library and expect to get away with something like that.
I say that as someone who strongly dislikes copyright as it exists today and have already pledged to give up the copyright to my book 15 years after it was published, so it isn't like I'm a big lover of the thing.
Swaths of their site are just open hosts for piracy, I don't think you can just call yourself a library and expect to get away with something like that.
I say that as someone who strongly dislikes copyright as it exists today and have already pledged to give up the copyright to my book 15 years after it was published, so it isn't like I'm a big lover of the thing.
Bitches in the club better get up on my dick right now 'cause age is just a number but I'm the high scorer
Live somewhere for 10 generations and They go "go home!" -- this is home. Get over it.
Because I was painting a picture of a thoroughly inoffensive pop star and conventionally attractive white blonde is part of that picture.
Nothing republicans hate more than (checks notes) a conventionally attractive white, blonde girl in a traditional relationship with a conventionally masculine man.
And they send the policies out to other western powers to copy, "oh it must be good, it's what the world's sole superpower does!"
When I went to college, I shared a 2 bedroom place with my brother, and we paid 350/mo. It wasn't a great building, but it was perfectly ok and in a decent enough part of town. You couldn't get that place for twice the place now. In fact, I bet you couldn't get a similar place for 4 times as much.
Half the problem is definitely too much money sloshing around the system thanks to central banks and various government programs that let people borrow way too much money at way too low rates.
In addition, however, it's pretty tough not to go to any store and order from any restaurant and also realize that there's a lot more people around (and a lot different people around) than back then.
I don't blame the people who took advantage of our policies, it's ultimately the fault of our politicians and the bureaucrats that we're in this situation.
Half the problem is definitely too much money sloshing around the system thanks to central banks and various government programs that let people borrow way too much money at way too low rates.
In addition, however, it's pretty tough not to go to any store and order from any restaurant and also realize that there's a lot more people around (and a lot different people around) than back then.
I don't blame the people who took advantage of our policies, it's ultimately the fault of our politicians and the bureaucrats that we're in this situation.
Wait... Do some people think saying "no bot" or using a hashtag will stop a malicious bot?
Because that's ridiculous and silly. Wishful thinking at best.
Because that's ridiculous and silly. Wishful thinking at best.
Maybe the kids should be forced to take cultural sensitivity training for refusing to respect his culture?