I’m out of the loop now, but when I was younger there was a weird divide between the youth/young adult stuff, and adult.

The adult stuff was a lot of traditional “sit and listen to a talk”.

The youth was a lot more hand on, interactive. “Let’s start a bonfire, write down our fears, and throw them into it”. “We got people from the community to teach how to make instruments out of junk”.

I really liked it when I was younger, and met a lot of kids who were very cool.

Maybe I should see what’s on offer around here. I don’t want to go to a “service” but I miss the community sometimes.

I’ve known some cool unitarians. The org can collect a lot of upper middle class white people, but it’s also the first place I really learned about LGBT rights in the 90s (I’m getting old) and other social justice stuff.

Someone should stop him.

Police should be held individually accountable

That’s like using a machine to lift weights at the gym for you.

I have wondered about that. What kind of range can you get DIY? I guess if you did fire something they could try to do physics to figure out where it came from, but you’d hopefully be long gone by then.

Ooh a Unitarian. Don’t even have to be Catholic. I used to hang with unitarians. Some good folks there.

Pretty good. Didn’t have to worry about my parents barging in, or bickering, or any of that.

If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

Yeah , they could do a lot with their wealth. Unfortunately they are stupid and selfish. They’re playing a dangerous game and eventually they’ll roll for guillotines.

Not scared enough

I think it’s less about they would have died without having kids, and more about they would have died in some isolated village and their ideas would have died with them.

Now they’re all over the internet spreading their shitty thinks like viruses.

I don’t believe you. As they say, no one on the Internet knows you’re a dog.

Well, at the top of the hierarchy is probably capitalism. That’s largely why the climate is changing, why I don’t have a good job, why I need a good job to live a decent life, and so on.

More immediately, my water glass is empty but my cat is sleeping on my chest. I’m thirsty but Mr Meows is so content.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.