[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You're getting downvoted but my friend is a 5th grade school teacher in California and confirmed to me that for years now when her students get to 5th grade they can't read or even sound out basic words and she's required to keep passing them to middle school.

Teachers all over the US are saying kids can't read. Combined with the fact that teachers have to strictly follow their curriculums which are not designed for these kids, that means American kids will continue to not develop literacy skills. IMO it's a valid question to ask: what are we doing about that?

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Great stuff! Disappointing that the article didn't mention how they managed to get on the tarmac.

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Google Messages app already falls back to SMS automatically if RCS fails. SMS is not going anywhere.

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I see you got your food science degree from Trump University.

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 59 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I might be wrong but I don't think the commenter was joking. It's not a joke to say a lot of politicians have been assassinated and to question how someone in such a situation managed to get safely elected. I wonder the same thing.

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

"procrastination" can be seen as avoiding tasks, but IMO we need a different word to describe it for tasks you want to do (which eventually get done) and those you don't (which may not).

seems to me capitalists favor using that word for the former case as an explanation of why people with ADHD take so long to do tasks; they want us to see mental and emotional pre-processing as "wasted time"

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

exactly 💯 and then when I realize I forgot the thing it's like what was all the mental preparation for?

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[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

more of these stream of consciousness style comments lol

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Until a mental health issue has been concretely determined, I believe it's somewhat irresponsible to toss the idea around that it's the underlying root cause for this obscene behavior.

Religion, like other dogmas, has historically empowered and continues to empower a lot of otherwise mentally healthy people to feel okay doing plenty of fucked up shit, simply because religion said it's okay to do it.

Ever heard of the Stanford Prisoner Experiment? Many "normal" people will do terrible things if simply given permission.

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The only one! skeletons can talk ✅ and have girlfriends ✅

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

How do you combat bot accounts and illegal content? Is it moderation or algorithms or both?

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

What kind of political preferences are you referring to?

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