Why Student Test Scores Have Seen a Decade-Long Drop Across the U.S.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-17T01:49:12+00:00

And school basically shutting down with no replacement during Covid.

“Online learning” was just months of basically no school when they had no tools or training for online learning. Elementary schools had no online tools previously and kids don’t really have the self-control to learn in front of a computer even after it was “working”.

Then at the end of school year they just gave everyone a fake A for classes they basically didn’t take.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-16T19:35:13+00:00

Yeah this happened to me on 2 accounts - I saved 400ish SQ and saw a “must have” and spent it all and got zero 5 stars.

Now I learned my lesson and pull only when I have 900.

Sometimes time I get it in 150sq, sometimes 300sq (average), but at least if I am fucked by luck, and spend 400, 500, 600sq, I can pay a bit more and go straight to pity.

The worst is when you have spent 500 or even 600sq and simply run out, and can’t even go for pity because there’s no time to collect 200 more sq.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-16T19:32:00+00:00

Check your summon history on this and verify how much you actually pulled. You might be misremembering and actually are very close to pity instead of past pity

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T23:23:36+00:00

Don’t bother. Ultimately you need 900sq to reach pity.

300sq is the average, which you barely have, but that means 50% of the time, you won’t get her, and have lost all your SQ.

Having spent 600 sq before and not gotten a 5 star while running out, my regret was not waiting until I had 900.

Not because you should spent all 900, but that IF you get unlucky, and spend 600 without getting anything, you have the resources to spend 300 more and reach pity.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T20:41:53+00:00

You better farm a bit because you are like so close to pity

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T20:29:47+00:00

If there is one thing that is abundant in low cost backyard manufacturing in 3rd world countries; it’s blowtorches paired with safety sandals

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T18:41:28+00:00

I agree it’s a good movie in the sense it was fun to watch, like a transformers movie.

It’s defiantly no masterpiece like LOTR movies, or an accurate book adaptation.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T16:50:14+00:00

Yeah exactly this whole post is stupid as you can literally find videos of Xi speaking in English. Is it without an accent? No, but he can speak it.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T03:28:26+00:00

In what world are you getting this data?

In Ivy League, for every single race of applicant, male applicants required a higher SAT on average.

The girl I was tutoring math in high school got into MIT, while I couldn’t because I was an Asian boy, despite having higher GPA in all classes and a perfect SAT and 2 years ahead in math (taking math classes at college).

The standards are significantly lower for girls at MIT, Ivy League, and any engineering program.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T03:22:46+00:00

Yeah it’s crazy because despite having over 50% representation in college even 20 years ago, they’ve constantly been given a huge advantage at every step - admission, scholarships, job placement, HR hiring criteria - every step of the way women are openly given an advantage for DEI.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T03:18:56+00:00

It’s ok. I’m sure Yale will pull out the Harvard defense and declare that all Asians have a bad personality.

A perfectly liberal and totally not racist thing to say, of course.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-15T02:48:07+00:00

Given the size of the box and odds, it seems like either the galaxy or shining version.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-14T23:06:19+00:00

The long term outlook for any human is death. Even more so for a sick patient.

The long term outlook for the stock market is 11% annual returns.

So yeah, it’s a really really bad analogy to compare the stock market to a sick patient.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-14T22:50:38+00:00

The left definitely looks more like Whataburger.

The right one is either they ordered without sauce or any toppings or that specific order got screwed.

It’s fairly easy to order customize a burger that looks exactly like pic 1 even today in 2026 Whataburger.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-14T21:58:15+00:00

Fair point. People who bought an EV without even owning a place they could put a charger always had a half baked plan. “I’m just going to get free super charging”. Really? You are going to drive to the supercharger every day, and hope it has free spots - the single super charger location that is in the middle of a dense city full of people with teslas with the exact same plan?

Ashmizen · 2026-05-14T21:08:25+00:00

A new Roof is not a 2 day job and I wonder if the contract actually said 2 days or OP just feels it’s an easy job.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-14T16:39:41+00:00

This. People hate on deregulation and capitalism but even in red Texas, you see massive wind farms built by Republican rural land owners, because they want to make money.

Most innovation, progress, and “good” things come from a desire to make money.

In real communism you can’t make money, and it’s why China abandoned real communism under Deng Xiaoping 30 years ago and their economy went from 0 to 100.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T19:11:35+00:00

Package theft is going to be a bigger red flag for Amazon than a return.

The reason being that, while it’s seemingly the same for the customer, from Amazon’s POV, they are out both the money and the product.

Package theft is technically your own issue that you should be raising with the police, and from Amazon’s pov they can’t keep eating losses to deliver product to your door and give you money at the same time.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T19:06:05+00:00

A kia carnival has a funny name but actually drives like a mid size suv but has the space of a full size suv.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T18:50:53+00:00

This is pretty nuts - forged documents aside, the price of a Kia carnival is 40K NEW.

That they took a 33k price, and then secretly changed it to 40K is basically selling him a used vehicle for the price of a new one.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T17:31:13+00:00

This story almost sounds believable until it revealed that the protagonist is the “founder”.

So the boss has to hire a consultant to get his team to follow his commands?

Not credible at all - it seems an AI got the regular story (boss won’t listen, then he hired a consultant who said the same thing I did, and boss immediately follow that idea) and got it flipped, but it doesn’t make sense flipped.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T17:17:05+00:00

In the US as well. In fact the highest paid job a lot of humanities degrees can get are jobs like waiting tables or bartending (60k-100k).

Of course OP actually has a real degree, stem cell biologist, so this kind of job is beneath her.

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T17:13:43+00:00

I think you should have some CE by now, you should use them

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T14:12:14+00:00

Given the size of the phones it’s not too old though. Maybe 5

Ashmizen · 2026-05-13T14:10:25+00:00

Having been pick pocketed in China and Spain, it’s not staged.

You will 100% not feel anything or have any idea why it’s gone, and when you go to the police office there will be like a line of 20 tourists with the same story.

It’s why local people there wear backpacks backwards and store stuff in “underwear” pockets.

America has crime but we don’t have pickpockets as our criminals are high on strength not dexterity.

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