The Herman Cain award made me sad. It's people who are just the right mix of stubborn, alienated, uneducated, and gullible to dig their heels into something that really made no sense. And then dying because of it.
I wish I was smart enough to find a way to help them instead, but I always get too frustrated talking with them before I even begin to get close.
There used to be a button to visit a random subreddit that I liked to use, until the day that I landed on the sub unironically dedicated to beating your wife/girlfriend. I saw one or two fucked up posts before I fully processed what I was looking at, that I don't even feel comfortable detailing here because I would hate to trigger someone. Truly one of the darkest corners of the internet.
The post-secondary education system in my country is primarily an immigration pathway first, and an institute of higher learning second.
This is exactly what I do too, plus a tablet for quick notes or reading when I'm studying or somewhere a laptop might feel a bit excessive (basically anywhere that I need to be waiting for something).