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Please don't follow me for my Science of Reading skeets. Please.
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When I was a baby SAHM 11 years ago, I was constantly being bombarded with anti vax propaganda from almost every other mom I met. As time went on it went to "but I just don't trust the schools." Now it's "we should have content ratings for books" along with everything else. They're def lit there.
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"Save time by reading a summary of a legal document that will determine the educational setting for you child for the next year" STFU forever.
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Yep. And the skin is so thin, you're not getting very much, so it's like yes and no and I would say the second answer I got was the "correct" one but it still quoted garbage sources and I hate it all.
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That's why I said "basically;" the red ones have a little, but it's not in the flesh. So the dietary rec (which I think we would assume is what someone wanted from the q asked) is no, apples don't contain a significant amount of lycopene. Which is 100% different from what the sponsored link says.
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How did Mercier Orchards get weighted so heavily by the algos and the AI? Why on earth are we quoting that website in our answers? Couldn't Google sort that out in the past? It's a local orchard. Of course they're gonna tell you apples are nutritious.
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"Phonics is essential to reading instruction ... Educational attaimnet is partly in the genes."
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No child left behind was replaced in 2015.
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IVF will always run afoul of the prolife movement because embryos are (almost always) destroyed in the process.
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If we have to turn away from tech because of the mass adoption of genAI, where will that leave people like my kid? People with dyslexia & dysgraphia & dyscalculia? Are we going back to "well some are just not meant for education"? Because I've seen how that's *not* true when there are accommodations
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It's a good tangent! Tech is good & has created so many accommodations that have opened up education to people that 40-50 years ago would have been labeled loser burnouts simply because they didn't learn the "standard" way. And genAI being so awful is seriously risking so many of those things.
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My son is still in grade school, but he requires either a keyboard or voice to text for his assignments because of his dysgraphia. Generative ai sucks, and for so many more reasons than it outputs garbage.
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What always gets me is how much of my hair is in these nests. Where are they getting it? The dryer vent? Do I just shed that much?
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Credit where credit is due:
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RIP my walking foot.
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The only Christian holiday that is also a federal holiday here is Christmas Day.
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I used to work at Flying Magazine and one of the regular columns there was simply NTSB reports, and it radicalized me to never, ever, go on a personal or private air craft of any kind, hot air balloons included.
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My Pops once forced my aunt to eat a bologna sandwich she threw under a porch to avoid eating it for lunch. Served it to her, dirt and all, for dinner. This was relayed to me as a funny anecdote.
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It's a good movie! But it's also a graphic novel, and your library might have it (mine did).
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I know it's set in England and we don't have a comparable social safety net, but Ethel & Ernest really shows the insane trajectory of the 20th century.
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I'm a millenial with greatest gen grandparents (all passed in the 90s) and they had deep, deep trauma when it came to food and food security. My grandfather would insist you eat *everything* he served. Didn't matter if you were full. Didn't matter if you'd just eaten. Didn't matter if you felt sick
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I, genuinely, think that's lowballing it.
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My fave quilt shop canceled all fabric pre-orders yesterday and legitimately someone commented "but you're in NY, there are no tarrifs on NY" and that's how she found out almost no quilting cotton is made in America.
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Like how do I discuss the nuance of a book ban or censorship like this with you when you think Barnes and Noble is selling porn to minors?
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I spent most of yesterday arguing with people (romance authors even!) on tiktok about this and I have come to the conclusion that they truly believe (like many American book banners) that all romance is pornographic. I'm not sure how you discuss something like this with people with that mindset.
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It's a great message! There is no "the world will be good" magic button or action. You gotta do the hard work of making it good and have faith your actions will show others how to be good. For Luke to learn that so late was heartbreaking, but necessary.
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Joe disappearing himself to stop him from creating a monster 🤝 Luke disappearing himself to stop the monster he created
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Listen, I have been telling people that Looper and The Last Jedi are essentially telling the same "it's bad to try to kill a child because they *may* turn out bad and it's up to the adults to be responsible for their actions" story for years now.