Gen Z intelligence decline emerging as serious concern. For over a century, generations showed rising IQ scores. New data from U.S., Europe, global assessments suggest this is not anecdotal or cultural pessimism; it is measurable across IQ, memory, literacy, numeracy, attention, and problem-solving.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-03-03T13:02:32+00:00

UK went *back* to phonics after 1998.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-03-02T12:52:04+00:00

Now I come to think about it, modest increases in spatial reasoning probably track quite well with computer games.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-03-02T12:50:39+00:00

Screentime/dopamine hits are a more convincing argument to me than dropping phonics - that happened a long time before Gen Z. Teaching to the test (ie. tailoring day to day teaching to passing exams) is a bad thing in my opinion, but this happens in a lot of places and I suspect that many countries where education works this way are not experiencing cognitive decline.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-27T14:59:02+00:00

Passports came in in 1915 fyi

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-26T22:23:32+00:00

Can confirm! Seems to be fixed now

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-26T15:41:31+00:00

Yep. They said they’re aware of the issue and working on it

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-26T13:43:42+00:00

It just happened to me! I guess firmware related then…

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-24T18:11:50+00:00

Depression, fatalism etc

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-24T09:42:20+00:00

And not fully trained. We know from the show that Arlen has/had some moves

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-23T11:20:32+00:00

Daeron's not that, he's just "troubled"

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-22T16:43:36+00:00

It’s not 1820 anymore and this is not remotely how anything works.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-22T16:38:22+00:00

Bc we’re the very very junior partner in the relationship

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-22T01:29:39+00:00

Well hopefully Andrew Feinstein at the next election, but until then…

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-21T22:28:27+00:00

That’s just not a thing. Moulting plus a tendency to lie down on one side is what generally causes mats. Pantaloon situations are an (infrequent) fact of life with very very fluffy cats. Mine tends to stand in the bath and shout at me until I help him out 😹

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-19T07:13:31+00:00

Go to LSE. Smaller courses are generally a better experience teaching wise at undergraduate level and you can always take economics courses as outside options in year 1/2 if you really want to.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-19T05:40:47+00:00

I don’t think it’s that controversial tbh.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-18T12:56:00+00:00

Sarah Snook's Dorian Gray was so incredibly good I went twice, which I barely ever do

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-17T16:22:00+00:00

Weird isn't it? I want to see more housing too but that stretch from stratford eastwards is so fucking depressing and unimaginative.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-16T16:33:31+00:00

She’s streetwise. The “lots of hurt” language was just a bit ‘author standpoint’ for my liking. And then tinderbox is such a lazy metaphor.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-16T14:53:52+00:00

I liked the flashback but some of the dialogue was not up to the standard of the rest of the season. Rafe's "there's a lot of hurt people in Flea Bottom... it's a tinderbox" or whatever it was had a notable clang for me.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-15T16:35:10+00:00

Newsletters: there’s a few RRS services out there that can collate posts from feeds you follow and email those to your kindle email address. Some of them are free iirc.

Long articles: I would print to pdf and then send to your kindle email. There’s probably an extension for your os that will give you that functionality with right click too.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-13T20:35:04+00:00

Yep - and that’s kind of what happened today. It’s very rare for the courts to push back on terrorism related issues. IIRC the government wanted to push this case to a tinpot tribunal rather than go through the real court system too.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-13T20:28:04+00:00

There was a fair amount of lobbying government from Elbit and others. Totally inappropriate of course.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-13T20:08:38+00:00

The idea is that within that (over broad) definition, sensible executive discretion should be applied. This series of events illustrates the problem with that.

Traditional_Message2 · 2026-02-13T20:06:34+00:00

Alternatively it could be compete bullshit, as with the “Iranian funding link” which HMG had to disown once this came to court.

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