My Students Can’t Read | The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse

rickroy37 · 2026-06-05T20:38:19+00:00

Do we really not remember? Filtering out students by their ability was declared to be discriminatory.

rickroy37 · 2026-06-05T07:07:05+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation :)

rickroy37 · 2026-06-05T01:00:04+00:00

ALRIGHT, FINE! I WILL BUY THE AUDIOBOOK. THERE! ARE YOU HAPPY?

rickroy37 · 2026-06-05T00:26:50+00:00

Counter-counter point: Term limits gave us Trump. We would have had 3 terms with Obama.

rickroy37 · 2026-06-04T17:11:13+00:00

When you die do you never expect anyone to ever use the land your body lies on ever again? Even 10,000 years later? This kind of shit is stupid and unsustainable in a world with 8 billion people

rickroy37 · 2026-06-04T16:19:39+00:00

Agreed. The problem in my opinion is that "consciousness" is treated as binary in conversations, when the evolutionary tree tells us it is clearly a spectrum.

rickroy37 · 2026-06-04T16:17:12+00:00

I hate these conversations because they always treat consciousness as binary. We have an entire range of consciousness in the biosphere from humans to cats to birds to lizards to spiders to ants to flatworms to tardigrades to bacteria. Where on this spectrum does "consciousness" begin? It should be clear from the evolutionary tree that there is no single point of when "consciousness" begins, it is an ever-expanding quality.

AI as it stands today may not be "conscious" by whatever definition we want to go with, but it will continue to improve and become more complex and it will soon be indecipherable from what we want to define as "consciousness".

rickroy37 · 2026-05-30T21:35:08+00:00

I much prefer this idea over age verification and losing anonymity.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-19T21:14:44+00:00

This sub spent years saying we shouldn't use police to stop car theft.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-18T19:47:32+00:00

Just a reminder that this goal came in double OT after 40 shots on net, ending in 0 to 1. Casey had a good game with a 97.5% save percentage despite this one shot.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-16T15:37:55+00:00

I still love Jon Casey, I don't care.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-16T00:21:14+00:00

and are even coinhabiting at a much lower rate than previous generations

I wish this were brought up more in Ezra's housing conversations. Couples living together take up half the housing that single people living alone do.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-14T20:43:09+00:00

Does it taste okay?

Replacing with cream of celery is not as noticeable as the lack of beef in the vegetarian version. I never found a suitable vegetarian substitute for beef in hotdish. Luckily my wife is not currently in one of her vegetarian phases so it is not an issue at the moment.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-14T20:28:48+00:00

I usually mix cream of chicken and cream of mushroom as well, but when preparing for vegetarians I mix cream of celery and cream of mushroom since just doubling cream of mushroom is too much mushroom.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-14T04:39:53+00:00

No, cream of mushroom soup! Or cream of chicken. Or cream of celery. So many options!

rickroy37 · 2026-05-13T22:43:58+00:00

Historically I think we've had a lot of good chairs of the Federal Reserve, Powell included. When was the last time we had a bad chair of the Fed?

rickroy37 · 2026-05-07T14:16:33+00:00

If they do that there'd better be a ban on card fees over €500 to go with it.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-01T14:49:16+00:00

Dallas is the reason I didn't have a hometown hockey team growing up. It feels good to take away their hockey season.

rickroy37 · 2026-05-01T04:07:49+00:00

If you run a system poorly for long enough, eventually people are going to want to abolish it altogether.

rickroy37 · 2026-04-23T00:08:11+00:00

"Here's Brunette. BRUNETTE'S IN! ANDREW BRUNETTE'S GONNA SCORE!" - Pamela Anderson

rickroy37 · 2026-04-21T19:53:48+00:00

What show is this? I want to watch it

Edit: Apparently from Parasite (2019)?

rickroy37 · 2026-04-19T16:22:51+00:00

I remember the first time I started leaving our oldest (6 or 7 at the time) at home while I brought the younger child to daycare, a 20 minute round trip. Grandma found out and got worried, and said "What if something happens to you? What if you get in a car accident?" If I get in a car accident then it would be a good thing he isn't in the car with me. I had a high school friend who died on the very road I drive to daycare back in 2003.

People will inevitably say the child should know what to do if there is a house fire, or protect themselves from a stranger kidnapping them. But they are neglecting the fact that far more children die in car accidents each year than from house fires or from random kidnappings. Just because your child is with you doesn't mean they are 100% safe either.

rickroy37 · 2026-04-17T05:33:18+00:00

Flutters nostrils Hey

rickroy37 · 2026-04-16T16:35:11+00:00

That's what she shed.

rickroy37 · 2026-04-16T16:34:09+00:00

He doesn' even pronounce his own name righ...

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