A Zillow search function that let's you find neighborhoods where candy can be left out in a bowl and pieces are leftover at the end of the night.
"So what, did we all get dumber or something?"
Freeze frame.
We are literally doomed
American High School English Teacher reads real responses from her student’s assignment after reading The Great Gatsby
We have a serious education issue in America and if we don’t address it, we have a horrible future ahead of us
These kind of responses are to be expected because 12th grade reading results in 2024 in America showed that reading levels right now the lowest they’ve ever been since the assessment began in 1992
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55 years into
“suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold and chill”
"How did this happen?" Amy asks, a good question to which I have an answer. From 1990 to today the cost of daycare as denominated by gold dropped by about 40%. The answer is that we have a currency problem.
I'll fight a brutal civil war before I drink cockroach milk...
Nutritious cockroach milk could be next superfood - and you'll never believe how it's extracted trib.al/W2FGJob
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Cockroach "milk" is a protein crystal secretion nourishing embryos inside one cockroach species; it is not practically harvestable, scalable, or shown safe for human consumption, contrary to superfood hype.
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The demonization of memorization is one of the top ~3 reasons that we have become retarded as a society.
Memorization is like pumping iron for your brain and you inevitably also come to understand/internalize what you memorize.
It shouldn’t be limited to vocabulary and times tables either. It should be poems in foreign languages, the ability to trace maps by hand from memory, timelines and dates, etc.
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From Louis de Robien's diary of the Russian Revolution. Some people foresaw what was coming but were unfortunately unable to change the outcome.
While the world burns...
The Vatican’s liturgy office has published details of a meeting in which it described the wearing of chapel veils and receiving Communion kneeling as a source of “division and confusion”.
✍️ Michael Haynes
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AI writing is obvious to any decently intelligent and observant reader because it's the uncanny valley of writing. A perfectly constructed simulation of something a human "might" write but constructed in a way that makes it obvious that it's a simulation by a machine.
Why exactly is it so obvious when someone is trying to pass off AI writing as their own? There are clear red flags like “quietly” and “load bearing” but there’s also something less tangible in the rhythm and construction that screams AI but is hard to precisely describe. I can tell when something is AI slop but I can’t always tell how I can tell.
Microsoft offering buyouts to 25% of its workforce is the most foreboding economic indicator I've seen in a while.
Preparing for a major cyber attack and/or grid down scenario.
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Elias Canetti on the morally corrosive aspect of great inflations.
"Thus in an inflation something happens which was certainly never intended and which is so dangerous that anyone with any measure of public responsibility who is capable of foreseeing it must fear it."
Years ago when I was an EMT we'd regularly get calls from a women using fake emergencies but really looking for a ride to the hospital to get her regular Sickle cell anemia treatments.
Know that when you pay $800 you arent paying for your ambulance ride you're paying for hers.
Time to hone your survival instincts...
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Prepare for the harder alternative.
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