@oren

Something interesting I thought about today: If I’m being honest, I could get a job as a Burger King worker making $11 an hour and get my daily needs cared for, just barely at least. But I want to live more comfortably and more enjoyably, so I worry about getting into and paying for college. I make college a priority for the wrong reasons.

My priority is on getting more opportunities so I can get more money to live more comfortably. I think everyone should agree that just living for your own comfort won’t last and is not a good long-term goal. Instead, college should be a tool to get more opportunities to serve others, make a positive impact, or something similar. And if you aren’t going to be able to do any of those things better by getting a university degree in a certain field, it’s probably not best to get that specific degree, because then you’re just seeking your own gain.

For example, the sigma grindset jobs that many influencers support in which you grind 80 hours a week with no free time just racking up more money for yourself are not very helpful to anyone else but you. In the same way a college degree that just lets you get more for yourself is not good either.

This was something I was studying and thinking about today to teach on in a couple of weeks, but I just thought it was interesting enough to share here.

Now that Syria is stable for the moment, this might be possible

I was thinking about this, but I think for now it will be too much with my schedule. Maybe in the summer.

My friend works at Moe’s, and he can give us a 50% discount

I took the SAT today. It was pretty easy, except for the very last math section. I had to guess on three of those. I had a homeschool friend in the room with me, so that was fun.

I have smart lightbulbs in my room, they’re not very good if I’m being honest. If I ever want to have mood lighting, I can do that though. I also have a HomePod mini that never works, somehow it can’t connect to wi-fi.

Hey guys, I’m interested in running a new version of @b4us/@b4ca/@b4eu. The last games were not incredibly fun because it was solely based on land area. I want to make it based more on the real world, and strengths and weaknesses of each place. It’s definitely gonna have a little bit of a D&D style, so it won’t be just stats though. Some questions:

• What region do you want to do? I’m thinking America and Canada, or maybe Europe.

• What statistics and data should be used to give each state its strengths and weaknesses? It can’t be too complicated. I’m thinking it should be limited to 3 different stats (like population, industry, and terrain), that we use to balance each state out.

• How should it be more fun?

• How should it be more strategic? In the last game, every place you invaded was basically equal, so there’s no reason to go in any specific direction over another.

• Most importantly, would you play this?

Time for me to take their place on the leaderboard…?

Lets goooo alpha

One of my friends got an Apple Watch and he uses that to text, but he’s blocked from messaging anyone outside his family. On the Apple Watch, if one of your friends completes a workout, you can reply from the notification. So whenever I workout, even though he’s blocked from messaging me, he can still send me a message using that workaround. The funny part is, I can’t respond back

I made an app! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quidgets/id6739544236

Hour 1 of Unity coding: Dang, this is a very detailed editor.

I started reading the trending page on Mastodon every day a while back, and took the political compass test again to find that I had moved further leftwards and towards the libertarian side. I don’t know the exact numbers, but it was a big shift.

I guess this tells you something about how the information you consume changes you.

Country hot takes (in order of how hot they are):

• Every possible country should join the EU and NATO

• Let Kurdistan be independent

• Let Kosovo be independent

• Let Catalonia be independent

• Let Greenland be independent

• Let Abkhazia and South Ossetia be independent

• Let Somaliland be independent

• Give Washington DC to Maryland

• Move the Idaho/Oregon border (Greater Idaho movement)

• Northern Ireland should join Ireland. All other UK independence movements should not move forwards, however

• Let all Canadian provinces vote to join America

• Merge Liechtenstein into Switzerland, San Marino into Italy, Monaco into France and Andorra into Spain. Or let them join the EU. Either option.

• Make a single country out of the EU (like a United States of Europe)