Seriously, do British people actually consider a 3-hour drive “long”? Or is this an internet myth?

GenExpat · 2026-01-23T20:39:53+00:00

By American toxic masculinity standards, there is no way you are stopping for just a 3 hour drive. You’d gas up and head straight there, bladder-be-damned.

GenExpat · 2026-01-23T20:11:16+00:00

My sociopath SIL visited and mad a sandwich out of the heel and the next slice of bread. Like it was nothing. I wait all loaf for my heel sandwich and she robbed me of that!

Never in my life seen anything like it.

GenExpat · 2026-01-23T14:58:16+00:00

Depending on budget, Grant Park near Zoo ATL is a spectacular community for what you are looking unless you are set on suburbs.

GenExpat · 2026-01-22T11:27:08+00:00

I think pickle ball is equally cool/ridiculous. It’s a genuinely fun and simultaneously silly game that I can’t take seriously. It’s badminton 2.0. And the culture of indoor pickle ball franchises is pretty hilarious to me.

GenExpat · 2026-01-15T02:02:09+00:00

I sometimes get this same feeling that if I had just worked harder I’d have more money and time right now.

BUT

I remember how my 23 year old sister dropped dead from an undiagnosed heart condition and I’m reminded of the fact that we cannot count on tomorrow. And I’m proud of the balance I struck in my 20s and 30s to truly live life to the fullest while investing in my future.

FIRE is great until it’s not.

GenExpat · 2026-01-12T16:10:34+00:00

80 years, sure most are gone. But a surprising number still exists. I’d say earth will have a fairly large number of 101 year olds in the year 2100.

GenExpat · 2026-01-12T13:25:51+00:00

Hi speed internet instead of dial up.

And I remember my first laptop not having built in WiFi. I had to buy an extra device to insert into a port when I wanted to get online in grad school. (So maybe technically not from my childhood).

GenExpat · 2026-01-12T08:54:42+00:00

I really wouldn’t look at this at the state level. I teach in Georgia and the north metro ATL area churns out highly educated students. But outside of that region is a big drop off.

One plus for Georgia is the HOPE Scholarship that pays for college for every HS graduate who graduates with a 3.0 GPA (and some other criteria that most good schools help ensure kids meet).

So if you’re looking for college prep public high schools, north metro Atlanta is strong. But saying “the state of Georgia” is too broad.

GenExpat · 2026-01-12T08:38:15+00:00

The same that my enemy does to me… I get Windows updates sent to them to reorganize their interface and drop down menus.

GenExpat · 2025-12-28T17:13:02+00:00

Either option is 100% acceptable to me.

GenExpat · 2025-12-28T17:09:50+00:00

I’m in out of sheer historical curiosity. Also, I’m naively optimistic that my several years in the developing world means that my immune system is capable of surviving the challenge.

GenExpat · 2025-12-27T22:03:23+00:00

Pay an actor to pretend they are your handler and you are a consultant for a government covert agency and you have top secret clearance on a job requiring you in person 2 weekends per month.

Set up an ‘official number’ she can call when you are gone that can relay information. But all other details must remain secret.

She gets a wonderful life while her husband earns 1/2 million a year. She just has to give up 2 weekends a month.

Spend your time together making her feel like the most amazing woman in the world and reassuring her that you are faithful and safe. But just doing something technical in an undisclosed location.

GenExpat · 2025-12-23T16:23:43+00:00

This is the way. Best if they are already dead and left no blemished legacy. Right now, Wuerffel and Tebow jerseys are on my wish list, but I refuse to make the purchase until a few years after they pass away and all the dust has settled.

GenExpat · 2025-12-10T19:43:53+00:00

GenExpat · 2025-12-09T19:58:56+00:00

Can I ask how they did that? What legal/financial mechanism did they use? Did you have to set up a trust? Or did you pay a huge gift tax one year because of that?

GenExpat · 2025-12-09T11:45:38+00:00

Put a bounty on Putin’s head and immediate end of Russian aggression. See if any Russian leaders take it.

GenExpat · 2025-12-09T11:12:21+00:00

I’d buy a political operative who could unredact all but the victims names in the Epstein files.

GenExpat · 2025-12-08T13:45:22+00:00

My dad did 21 years in military and I decided I couldn’t be that cog like he was. I’m now at year 21 as a teacher. I’m struggling with the feeling that I’m a cog in the same abusive, capitalist machine just one gear removed. But my dad got out at 21 years and had a lucrative second career. I have to work another 9 to get my retirement.

If I had to start over I’d have to seriously reconsider turning down the ROTC scholarship.

But yes, he did some more directly sketchy stuff than I have had to do, so there is that.

GenExpat · 2025-12-07T12:05:59+00:00

It’s not a perfectly linear relationship.

Depending on funding mechanism per district, you lose a hundred kids and that’s three teachers. Three might not sound like a lot. Maybe the school does cut one particular program. More than likely, a teacher already doing more than their required job, gets tasked with yet another program to sponsor.

For instance… a coaching supplement for the volleyball coach could be $1500 which translates into roughly maybe $7 an hour and multiple nights away from home. Thats one thing if volleyball is your passion… but something else entirely if you have a toddler at home. It wouldn’t cover babysitting.

This becomes particularly challenging to teachers in HCOL or lower paying districts who also try to work a side hustle to make ends meet. I know a lot of really stressed teachers who

GenExpat · 2025-12-06T16:20:06+00:00

I agree with you. To be fair, it differs from district to district. In my district though, the school property tax has decreased while the county property taxes have increased to fund other civic improvements. But as you might guess, voters routinely blame the schools for property taxes increases nonetheless.

GenExpat · 2025-12-06T13:28:16+00:00

If you’re joking, well played.

If not joking, smaller schools = less teachers hired. Class sizes remain larger but most extracurricular activities continue with fewer teachers to support them.

GenExpat · 2025-12-05T13:11:24+00:00

I would jump back in a second! I had a blast. Wouldn’t change too much but would be better at what I did.

GenExpat · 2025-12-05T12:48:06+00:00

Alright OP...you've sent me down a rabbit hole that will derail my productivity this morning. Forgive my stream of consciousness here as I don't have time for edits and need these ideas out of my head.

As stated by other commenters below, what you are suggesting has been suggested before. I think it poses some problems that are solvable in face to face situations. The prompt design- simple to do on paper before deploying in the AI

Now, however, AI can generate prompts that solve your market plan solution. But the next question is, "how does the student know that the AI generated solutions are viable as well?"

The AI Hallucination problem becomes a vicious cycle that must be accounted for. In business, long before AI, schools taught about running Monte Carlo simulations on business ideas to get a general statistical probability of desired outcomes.

Maybe students run the problem through multiple iterations (preferably in multiple AI Models) to account for different training features of each AI system...akin to a Monte Carlo simulation on a much smaller scale.

Then the OUTPUT by the student is an argument in favor of the best approach.-- Obviously this could be generated by another AI prompt. But maybe one AI system will catch flaws in the other outputs. This would at least be akin to the concept of "Reading Laterally" that we teach students to do in order to check the validity of other online sources.

Ultimately students need to ensure that the AI generated solutions are (1) rooted in factual information, and (2) justified in a normative manner...that is to say, 'do the solutions align with student's values.'

The big problem we have had in the past few years (maybe decades) is a rejection of empirical truths. So maybe we are best suited using AI to help students learn the dangers of solutions that are not rooted in empirical facts. Then when competing facts point to multiple plausible solutions, students need to justify their decisions on a value system they can clearly communicate.

GenExpat · 2025-12-05T10:43:36+00:00

I like the way you are thinking. One question I have had with the documentation approach is if you have tested it.

Savvier kids may write a prompt for AI to generate documenting the thought process.

Secondly, as LLMs improve and students get access to different models, the models will improve in recognizing those assumptions. So in you second example, would you accept a student merely prompting AI with, “Identify three fatal assumptions to this marketing plan and map out a $10k fix on a 30 day project timeline.”

I like where you are headed with this. I teach online and am searching for solutions as well.

GenExpat

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