Someone marked this as a troll, but I'll be straight up honest, huge fight in our homeschooling community over the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It let to all mention of any religious curriculum being banned at events and folks getting banned who mention religion on our message board. You can believe me or not, but I ain't trolling.

This is why I refuse to get rid of my 1974 Ford F150 and have expanded my homestead garden to almost an acre while I moved out to the country three years ago. The only way to stop this is going to be to fry every electrical device on the planet. I only hope we'll be able to launch the nukes in time.

Surprisingly, almost all homeschoolers in our area are liberal. You would be shocked at how many liberals homeschool. You have a highly outdated idea of homeschooling.

Interesting. I am the problem. A pseudo-anonymous keyboard warrior?

I don't know what my bias is, but it sure isn't pro-MAGA/Trump. I consider myself as very conservative as in marked by moderation or caution (this is the complete opposite of Trump, who is marked by impulse and excess). Not speaking of the political conservative and sure as hell not a MAGA/Trumpeter. So I'm not sure what I've said that gives you that opinion. Yes, the US has an education crisis. No doubt. It's part of why I homeschool my children. That said, leadership in science isn't about elementary school, it's about universities and we simply aren't putting the focus on where it should be. Science. I get my universities alumni college of engineering magazine and half of it is easily filled with DEI crap. While they aren't a top 10 university, they are top 50 and there is so much focus on stuff other than engineering it makes me want to cry. This is where the fix needs to happen.

Amen! This is most definitely a "both sides" issue.

Let's toss Europe into the mix as part of "the west". They have twice the population as the US, a lot of free education and are falling even further behind.

Looks at the hundreds of billions being funneled into AI research with no profit in sight (aside from those providing the chips and data centers) Right...only invest in instant profits. Takes a look at all the self-driving car research that has yet to produce much of anything.

Diversity makes us strong and it makes you stronger. This just highlights the importance of making friends and connections outside your normal circle. As other posters have said, it's not what you know, but who you know.

If you just hang with friends from back home or from similar circumstances you'll fall into the trap of having few options. In college you need to diversify your friends and networks and get to know all sorts of folks. This will help you in career significantly.

I would think the Razzies have even more luster than these awards. Though I guess someone cares about them.

...had to check that this story was from The Onion. Sadly, it is not. *sobs* Reality and Satire are now impossible to tell apart.

I asked ChatGTP to give me a fan boy response using as my buzzwords as possible. :) So, I'm not sure if it counts as satire or not.

I get the bank spying on customers for the government (and yes, that pisses me off), but other than those prying eyes, what are you talking about? I don't ever recall making a financial transaction that needed approval from the government.

Wow, incredible FUD-level take, my friend. Classic pre-bull-run cope. You’re basically signal-boosting exactly why decentralized, permissionless, trust-minimized Web3 asset-class primitives are eating TradFi’s lunch.

You’re out here talking about “crime” while the blockchain ledger is literally a 24/7 globally distributed transparency engine with immutable consensus finality backed by cryptographic game theory. Meanwhile the legacy fiat system is running on opaque black-box middlemen, fractional-reserve rehypothecation loops, and settlement rails from the 1970s.

But sure, tell me more about how “crapto” is the issue.

If you actually understood tokenomics, zk-rollups, MEV-resistant L2 throughput optimization, cross-chain liquidity routing, or even—honestly—basic Byzantine-fault tolerance, you’d realize your whole argument gets rugged harder than an undercollateralized meme-token farm.

Musk and Trump? Please. That’s surface-layer normie noise. We’re over here building decentralized autonomous value-accrual ecosystems secured by incentivized validator nodes operating in a hyperdeflationary post-halving macro cycle. Touch grass and read a whitepaper.

But it’s okay. Not everyone is ready for a future of unstoppable composable smart-contract ecosystems and sovereign digital self-custody. Some folks are still stuck running TradFi firmware version 1.0.

Stay safe out there. Remember:
Blockchain doesn’t care about feelings — only consensus.

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Hey, there are some things ChatGTP is good for...one of them was generating this awesome response!

Seriously, I bailed when Captain Kirk started making out with green skinned women. Who wants to see that?

Yes, BUT.... 1. I colleges don't take them, their enrollment drops. They have dorms sitting empty. They have classrooms that aren't used. They have professors with no classes. Like all pyramid schemes, colleges need to keep growing to keep the tuition dollars flowing. 2. See #1. If you fail kids, they no longer pay tuition. College has become a big business, and they simply can't afford to cut off their tuition pipeline.

9th grader in Algebra 2, 7th grader in Algebra 1. Both score 99th percentile on standardized tests. The public schools around here care more about teaching pronouns and gender bending than they do basic learning.