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Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.

14-year-old American found a roofing company on Google Maps with 4.9 stars and no website, copied their reviews and pasted them into ChatGPT 5.5. 2 minutes later - a complete brief. Pasted it into webuil io and just waited while the system built a full website with all pages, reviews and a booking button. Called the owner and showed him the live preview. He said yes immediately because he'd been meaning to fix this for years and never had the time. Invoice for $1,000. 47 minutes of work from the first search to a closed deal. Then he built a machine. Outscraper pulls 200 businesses from Google Maps in 10 minutes, ChatGPT 5.5 writes a personalized email for each one with their real business data - 500 emails a day, 3% respond. Month one - $4,000, month six - $15,000-20,000. Five million businesses on Google Maps are still waiting for that call.

Okay I watched it. As a pure documentary is was pretty ass. Boring, slow, not very interesting. The biggest takeaway I had is that while the Manosphere name still exists the actual Manosphere as it used to exist is gone.

Just watched Louis Theroux’s doc about the manosphere, and I think you can draw a pretty straight line from “any display of male libido has been punished for the past decade” to “the only remaining visible masculine role models for many young men are actual misogynist dickbags.”