How can you say you love someone forever if as soon as they die, you ditch them in the ground to rot and never look back? What kind of horrible, inhumane person does that?

This is just my own personal preference in lifestyle obviously, but one of the thoughts I can't stand is how repetitive the life of a modern teacher must be, the dread of just living year after year on loop teaching the same thing but with no progression and not even the same students to share the journey.  To me, the thought of it is like being trapped in Groundhog Day.  You are the rock that never moves while all your students pass you by.  Fifty years can pass, your students already having lived entire lives, and when they come back to visit, you're still there doing the same thing, as if part of the historical scenery itself.

I kind of wish there was a more old-fashioned approach, where you and your teacher are both a team growing and learning together until the student finally one day becomes equal or even surpasses the teacher.  What we have instead with schools/colleges is more an assembly line where students churn in and out, the teachers sometimes not even remembering the names of students they just taught last year, and the conversation always being one directional of the teacher just unloading their knowledge to the student. In college, it's even worse with you not having the same teacher for even 6 months and that teacher literally only clocking in one hour a week to talk on stage.

It would be so much more exciting if being part of a school was more like being on a team training to face the real world together.  That English teacher, instead of just reading and grading papers year after year, could actually be writing novels and expecting students to one day carry on the story.  That computer professor, instead of just explaining the same intro to computers year after year, could actually be working on an entirely new technology on which the students are being trained to one day help complete.  Instead of just talking about a subject, the same material in perpetuity, we learn as much as the teacher knows so far and then keep discovering more together.

It means that by becoming a student, you become dedicated to one day working with and carrying on the work you study, but maybe that would be for better.  I think I would have liked that kind of life more.

Daydream Believer Cover by Youmou & Ohana

What $200/night gets you in SF, worst part of town but rated 4/5:
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/I-paid-202-to-stay-at-a-micro-hotel-in-SF-14287621.php#photo-18030559

What $65/night gets you in Tokyo, center of Shibuya:
https://www.themillennials.jp/shibuya?lang=en

And food prices:
https://twitter.com/AiSideQuests/status/940082396426248194
($18+tax+tip in SF/LA vs $18 total for 2 ppl at Denny's)

For normal, local food, it's even cheaper (basically divide by 100 to convert yen to USD):

1000 yen for udon noodles + 3 desserts + drink at Meniroiro Itudemoyatu


600 yen for ramen + fried rice + potstickers at Toshu

Found @dillongoo's fan animation sadly more satisfying to watch than the second season. #OnePunchMan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niXMKRey9Yg

Had an idea for a story recently for if society found a way to make someone naturally like the taste of healthy foods (like vegetables, etc) - imagine if what you liked and craved lined up with what was good for you.  It sounds and all seems well, everyone eating better diets and enjoying better lifestyles.  Then imagine one day unexplained animal attacks start leaving people dead and torn up, seemingly at random and in generally urban settings with no dangerous wild predators.  As the story goes on, footage and evidence start to reveal the attacks seem to come from not any animal but a human.  The authorities track down and arrest one suspect, but the killings continue, seemingly at random and with no motive.  It turns out not to be any one person but people at random who suddenly go mad for human meat.  The commonality is they've all been genetically modified to like the taste of whatever is good for them, and it worked too well.  Because the healthiest...[More]

Bitcoin is moving so fast that call options on @LedgerX are priced below parity, as if $BTC was still below $11K. Literally free money (just buy the call and sell one Bitcoin to net the difference). #Bitcoin #BTC

Personal theory on where the #USDT is going - it's actually lent out on #Bitfinex. Risk-free return for the minters while collecting borrow fees during $BTC rallies. The thought came to mind when I noticed a $77M lending wall in their funding page at the same time the $100M USDT headline came out. Other exchanges having increased borrow rates once $BTC broke $9000, but the rates on Bitfinex stayed about the same.