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jtrek

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  • stop making him look so cool lmao

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  • It's just emotional chum for the right wing to stay frothy at the out-group. Even though many of them would benefit from DSA or further left policies, they're drunk on group identity. (See also: every right wing accusation is a confession, "identity politics")

  • Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

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  • More of an inference that an assumption, really. But go on. Did you read the article? Do you have any expertise on the subject?

  • Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

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  • Because it doesn't seem like you've read the article nor have any real expertise in education, but you're making grand pronouncements anyway.

    "People learn in different ways" may be true, but is irrelevant to the point that some ways of teaching reading are ineffective or even counter-productive

  • Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

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  • That's an amazing degree of hubris. Get out of here lol

  • Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

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  • It's certainly better than "look at the pictures and guess".

    Go read (or listen to) the article. People who have studied this more than either of us have weighed in.

  • Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

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  • I was going to point out how heroic launcher is fine, but that's not a store.

    That's not really Valve's fault that all the other storefronts don't care to support Linux, though.

  • Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

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  • For years, schools taught reading using approaches that de-emphasized phonics and encouraged strategies such as guessing words based on context clues. As reading scores tumbled over the past decade, parents, scholars and literacy advocates pushed for teaching methods that align with decades of research about how kids learn to read — largely by sounding out words.

    Yeah that was a huge fuck up.

    https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ goes into detail.

    But also our society doesn't value education very much. Teachers don't make good money, so many people who would be good at it go into other jobs. One of my recent jobs had like 3 ex-teachers in software. They were making like double for half the work. That's great for them, but do we really need more tech setups that much?

  • Bernie Sanders proposes bill to give the public a 50% stake in AI companies

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  • I don't want a 50% stake. I want all of it shut down and the resources directed to useful things. But I guess this is more feasible.

  • Have you ever panhandled? What was the experience like?

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  • One time I was waiting near the train station for my old man to pick me up, and a kid thought I was homeless and offered me money. Confusing for everyone. Not homeless. Just had a gross beard and thrift store clothes.

  • pickup truck owners really be like "i want the one that says SUPER DUTY in big letters across the back"

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  • We could definitely improve road safety by making less safe vehicles less easy. Without doing anything hard like changing infrastructure. Unfortunately, there are a lot of emotion driven large children who would get mad.

  • NSFW

    Memorial in DC right now

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  • But if you build transit then some people will be uncomfortable and it won't be an immediate drop-in replacement! The biggest eyeroll.

  • How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People

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  • I'm reminded of how old video game Dragon Age had Justice and Vengeance as two different manifestations of the same spirit.

    I don't think we'll see justice in our life time. Not to make up for the evils enacted by Musk and those like him. But we might see him suffer and die in terror, and that would be a delight.

    the worst thing you can do is execute Elon Musk

    Doing nothing would be worse

  • How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People

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  • The problem is you can say it's mass murder. I can say it's mass murder. Maybe a dozen of our friends can agree. But we need to take the next step. Get a bunch of people together, stop laboring, and demand Musk face justice.

    Maybe I should write a short story about a small cell of activists who kidnap "Musk", live stream a trial, and then execute him.

  • How Elon Musk Killed Hundreds of Thousands of People

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  • Every day I'm disappointed that Musk and friends continue to just walk around living free.

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  • I enjoy many social interactions.

    Went to a concert this weekend. Chatted with the person running the merch table. Briefly chatted with a rando at the bar. Was nice.

    Went to a party this weekend. Had a nice chat with some people I'd met before. Maybe came on kind of strong to the socialists in one conversation, but it was fun.

    Lemmy probably isn't going to get you a representative sample of people.

  • A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning

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  • I'm not interested in reliving the past.

  • the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

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  • Velocity is not helpful if you’re not pointed in the right direction, and even if you are pointed in the right direction it’s not useful if you overshoot your destination.

    I made this metaphor at work but management is not interested.

    Giving an incompetent team AI is like giving a child a chainsaw. Maybe he'll chop wood faster but that's probably not all that's going to happen.

  • Plastic Bollards Installed To Block Chicago Drivers Using Elston Bike Lane To Skirt Traffic

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  • He suggested at the time that the city [...] station a police officer there to write tickets.

    I mean .. fuck the police but i would love to see asshole drivers getting fucked

    While it’s not clear if any law enforcement has been dispatched to the area

    But also the police are useless at best

  • ICE commander Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal today

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  • If we know when and where he's going to be, which a bunch of other assholes...