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?

I don’t want a 50% stake. I want all of it shut down and the resources directed to useful things. But I guess this is more feasible.

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.

We could definitely improve road safety by making less safe vehicles less easy. Without doing anything hard like changing infrastructure. Unfortunately, there are a lot of emotion driven large children who would get mad.

Exact same thought.

Though they’re probably mad they can’t use it for their particular brand of evil.

Violence isn’t the answer. It’s the question. Right now the answer seems to be “poor people and minorities”. We should change that answer.

But if you build transit then some people will be uncomfortable and it won’t be an immediate drop-in replacement! The biggest eyeroll.

I’m reminded of how old video game Dragon Age had Justice and Vengeance as two different manifestations of the same spirit.

I don’t think we’ll see justice in our life time. Not to make up for the evils enacted by Musk and those like him. But we might see him suffer and die in terror, and that would be a delight.

the worst thing you can do is execute Elon Musk

Doing nothing would be worse

The problem is you can say it’s mass murder. I can say it’s mass murder. Maybe a dozen of our friends can agree. But we need to take the next step. Get a bunch of people together, stop laboring, and demand Musk face justice.

Maybe I should write a short story about a small cell of activists who kidnap “Musk”, live stream a trial, and then execute him.

Every day I’m disappointed that Musk and friends continue to just walk around living free.

I enjoy many social interactions.

Went to a concert this weekend. Chatted with the person running the merch table. Briefly chatted with a rando at the bar. Was nice.

Went to a party this weekend. Had a nice chat with some people I’d met before. Maybe came on kind of strong to the socialists in one conversation, but it was fun.

Lemmy probably isn’t going to get you a representative sample of people.

I’m not interested in reliving the past.

Guild wars 1 and 2 are good games. The second one is still very active.

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.

He suggested at the time that the city […] station a police officer there to write tickets.

I mean … fuck the police but i would love to see asshole drivers getting fucked

While it’s not clear if any law enforcement has been dispatched to the area

But also the police are useless at best

This is true but you have to remember that management is stupid. Stupid and cruel, but mostly stupid.

If we know when and where he’s going to be, which a bunch of other assholes…

I mostly buy music from bandcamp. Drm free, different format options, you can stream before you buy (if the band has it configured as such)

Need to account for the cruelty and insecurity of management.

I don’t know any of the surrounding context but I think about this poem (?) a lot

"Get off this estate."

"What for?"

"Because it's mine."

"Where did you get it?"

"From my father."

"Where did he get it?"

"From his father."

"And where did he get it?"

"He fought for it."

"Well, I'll fight you for it.

Carl Sandburg, Selected Poems