Online education isn’t exactly great for people with poor self control or focus. At best, online education is good for lectures, but not much else (aside from if commuting or finding a place close by to live is a pain, then I suppose online education may be a tradeoff in that regard).

Everything else is generally better in person. Stuff like group projects and whatnot cannot be done online.

Since COVID, I’ve found that the growth of technology isn’t exactly great for the learning experience. Now a lot of educational work takes place through the distraction vortex (computers and phones are very tempting to do something else instead). Pre-pandemic when education was more paper and pencil based, it is much easier to focus. At “best”, you can only daydream or whatnot. Other people would not be as tucked to their phones and laptops like it is since the pandemic.

In a way, online education would also be harmful in reducing social cohesion as well if it becomes the default mainstream, so it’s not just limited in excluding certain neurodiverse populations from access to education. Online education isn’t exactly more “efficent”.

*2029

Holy sheesh. Should I take this at face value? Seems plausible.

The thing about implementing tariffs for a day then turning it off again after 24 hours to “test whether cheetoland’s or the Canada’s ecnomy crashes or not” seems too good to be true. The thing about destabilizing Canada with (social) media campaigns, then I remember the fact that I’ve already seen dozens of posts of “American media pretending to be Canadian” right here on Lemmy.

This article literally screams “get out ASAP” to me like it’s ringing alarm bells. I’ve never felt so scared or paranoid. Is this the thing that convinces me that I gotta leave my hellscape I’m in and emigrate elsewhere?

Canada clamped down on immigration several years ago, so that option seems, mostly difficult at best if at all. Not sure about Australia, England, and NZ either.

By the time the world allows those who want to leave the hellscape for elsewhere, it’s almost certainly going to be too late and much worse off :(.

I feel so scared and paranoid, and I’ve never been this scared and paranoid for just existing where I’ve lived my entire life. And yet I’ve already blocked dozens of news feeds and whatnot, and it still doesn’t go away with more slop that gets through the ever growing cracks. Can’t hardly focus or do a thing at all.

A slightly different graph from Fedecan shows the user growth more clearly without the Hexbear blip

Highest daily growth since 2023 at 1.2k per day the past few days.

Kinda wild. I really gotta leave and get out of this pile of a dumpster fire I’m in, and head to Canada or someplace. This screenshot is just insane. I have no words for what I’m seeing here in this screenshot.

Glad I no longer post to reddit anymore. May go ahead with a essentially full block of reddit and essentially all of Big TV outright at some point. I’ve thought about cutting off Big TV completely; as hearing from American news media has been driving me on the verge of outright mental insanity, but now seeing this tonight, it seems like I gotta cut Big TV outright.

I’ve never been so thankful and glad to be on Lemmy and Mastodon for this wild ride since the start. I’m realizing just how dire it is out there. Having to get this off my chest with nowhere to vent to. Now I just need to find a Lemmy community or something that helps with people coping with this insanity, because I might need to hide this community again otherwise for my sanity. I already had most of the news and politics communities hidden on Lemmy to manage the flow of insanity, but went back and forth on this one this week.

I did this on mobile, but I would do it all twice to mute it on both mobile on desktop. It’s one of those UX things that’s gonna make it hard to get new users onboard Lemmy, unless the UX can be improved to allow muting words directly within Lemmy and storing the list by Lemmy account.

I wish at the very least, Voyager allowed one to export the muted words list to a file and import the file, which could mitigate some of the hassle. On Mastodon, I have like 75 muted words covering news and politics, so muting them all is just painstakingly time consuming if I have to do it twice, and then updating the list twice as I come up with new words that need muting/blocking.