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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:
African Americans were supposed to be given the right to vote after abolition.

There was a brief period of time during Reconstruction where that happened. However, many states came up with complicated contrivances to make it impossible to vote - poll taxes, “literacy tests,” etc. Effectively, it was a right solely on paper until LBJ in the 60s. Conservatives throwing a massive fit about this is why we have the insane fascistic Right we do right now - they were pro public education until Black kids got to go to the same kids as white kids.

Women weren’t guaranteed the right to vote until 1920. Conservatives today are trying to revoke the 19th amendment and undo that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unmatched power⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
As long as you can choose to stop eating the Twix at any time, and they don’t encourage you to eat an unhealthy/dangerous amount of them, this would probably be easy to run past an IRB.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wet your hands with clean, running water, turn off the tap, spread cheeks, and apply soap.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
They should have shown little droplets coming from the spout. I’m sure that would make the instructions more clear.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who needs it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t get Shorts. I can’t watch them on my PlayStation, if I click on one on the phone app it’ll disconnect the PlayStation and force me to watch it on my phone.

If you try to upload a video that is less than a minute long, it forces you to do Shorts.

I also don’t get why opening up a community thread or something pauses the video I’m watching on the PlayStation.

I’ve also noticed lately that when I connect the phone app with the PlayStation, about 30% of the time, the video will play extremely slow without sound. I have to close and reboot the YouTube app on the PlayStation to watch anything afterwards.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOVE THEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Easier than completing Monkey Madness.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Gardner’s “multiple intelligences” model is a nicer way to think about intelligence, but it’s not really quantifiable in the same way. (How would you measure how “ecologically” intelligent someone is?)

It’s very appealing to think that we have some sort of “int” stat like a Dungeons and Dragons character, but I don’t think it’s really that valuable. If the IQ/the “g factor” measures anything, it’s probably something about being able to quickly process visual information. I have a relatively high IQ (from the testing they did in the teen torture facility I spent my adolescence in - my high IQ meant that I was a dangerous, manipulative liar of course.)

If you have two and a half hours to spare, I think this Shaun video is a masterwork of science communication.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DJ Butcher⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I have a t-shirt with this picture. Never felt comfortable wearing it in public.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oblivion is much more fun if you pretend that you are a normie though. All the elder scrolls games are like that - the best way to play Skyrim is as a refugee migrant farm laborer/subsistence hunter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being called a loser for liking animation while the entire world is falling for AI slop is beyond.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It was shown as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro in Japan.

My dad picked up both Grave of the Fireflies and one of the Escaflowne movies when I was 9ish, thinking that cartoon=“safe.” He also gave me the first issues of Transmetropolitan around that age, so similar issues with comics=“safe.”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
6 with socks. 7 or 8 depending on temperature.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Funnily enough, I’ve seen some compelling criticism of good old D & K.

The original paper by Dunning and Kruger starts with the quote: “It is one of the essential features of incompetence that the person so inflicted is incapable of knowing that they are incompetent.” This idea has spread far and wide through both scientific literature and pop culture alike. But according to the work of my colleagues and me, the reality is that very few people are truly unskilled and unaware. The Dunning and Kruger experiment did find a real effect – most people think they are better than average. But according to my team’s work, that is all Dunning and Kruger showed. The reality is that people have an innate ability to gauge their competence and knowledge. To claim otherwise suggests, incorrectly, that much of the population is hopelessly ignorant.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I named myself after two scientists, whose work I share with the world regularly 😉
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The solution is to put all of the uniqueness in the middle name. Then you still get to feel “special” while not forcing your kid to go by “tragedeigh” or whatever.

When I chose my name - I made my first as milquetoast and appropriate to my age as possible. My middle I went balls out - I guarantee I have a cooler middle name than you do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
With EA and Spore - SecuROM was a straight up root kit. Basically malware. Pretty sure on the Sims 2 forums there were people who had their computers bricked. (Sims 2 was already messy enough to reinstall sometimes, EA did lots of weirdness with the registry.)

Sony did something similar with music CD’s. Their elaborate scheme to prevent you from ripping your CD’s more than three times or whatever created a vulnerability that was actively exploited by malware developers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Books that help you sleep⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That sounds like a criminal confession. You’ll need to show up to court this Sunday for arraignment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yabba-dabba-doo!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
🎶[Tastes good, like a cigarette should]🎵
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

The videos and stills show soldiers forcing Palestinian men to parade in their underwear, abusing captives, looting and vandalising homes and even dressing up in women’s clothing they ransacked.

[…]

HRF lawyers and online activists trawl through mountains of images and videos submitted to them online to verify and geolocate each one, check its metadata and verify its chain of custody, from the soldier filming it through to HRF, Abou Jahjah explained.

Where the perpetrator is a dual national, HRF seeks prosecution under the second country’s existing laws on war crimes and in the case of sole Israeli citizens, collate legal files, which are then filed as evidence with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Abou Jahjah has also been personally threatened by Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli, who – alluding to the attacks on Hezbollah’s members’ communication systems in September 2024 – told him to “watch your pager”.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yabba-dabba-doo!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Fred and his best friend, Barney Rubble, participated in the Bedrock Wars, where they and other soldiers were deceived by the conqueror, Mordok the Destroyer, into committing genocide against the Tree People and burning down their home to establish Bedrock. Barney and his wife Betty raised the infant sole survivor of the Tree People as their son, Bamm-Bamm. The “Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge” from the original show is instead depicted as a veterans group the two attend to help them deal with the trauma of the ordeal.

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The best part of BlackkKlansman was that I watched it with two literal billionaires who most assuredly voted for Trump 3 times. I got to feel their reaction to that ending montage. Thank you for the reminder.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The absolute best strategy for most reading comprehension struggles is read aloud. Active discussion is good too.

Or I also like to tell my high schoolers to be contrarian with the text. To argue against it, to try to prove it wrong, even to the point of bad faith. “You’re saying the book sucks - I want receipts. Tell me about it.” I don’t carry an English certification but I will happily pressure high schoolers into reading the books in English class.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Random question -what’s your favorite book?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Not just historian, but a specific type of political historian. “Historian” is a broad umbrella - Snyder is the only one I’ve read, but he’s very much focused specifically on authoritarianism, fascism and genocide. His Bloodlands is kinda the book on Ukraine/Russia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
With regard to social issues, they certainly appear to be stuck there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
For some reason you reminded me of this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s probably some ASD-ish adjacent, but it just breaks my brain every time. It seems like there’s a large proportion of people who don’t seem to actually care whether they have an accurate understanding of the world or not? The amount of times online I’ve been able to show someone evidence that they demanded, and then they double down. At best they’ll go silent, but then you’ll see them making the exact same claim later.

In general right now it seems like there are a lot willing to call evil good, and good evil. Everything is backwards. The Moral Majority voted in a pedophile rapist.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

Flex Loans offer borrowers up to $4,000 at 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of people in debt that can land them in court.

Payday loans in the states are horrifying. It got so bad that the US government stepped in to limit the interest rates they could charge military members.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Hey - don’t stand so close to me.

Nabokov is fun, because he had an opinion on basically every author ever. If you feel frustrated about something you read in an English class, you can probably find an essay by Nabokov reading that author as filth.

“Dostoyevsky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre- Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human English words expressing several, although by no means all, aspects of poshlost are, for instance,” cheap," “sham,” “smutty,” “highfalutin,”“in bad taste.” dignity - all this is difficult to admire. I do not like this trick his characters have of “sinning their way to Jesus" or, as a Russian author, Ivan Bunin, put it more bluntly, "spilling Jesus all over the place.”

Like c’mon man - if you don’t feel something reading the Grand Inquisitor in Karamazov - are you human?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

You say in another comment that this is indicative of a failed American education experiment, and that there’s a generation of illiteracy.

Yes, I’m alluding to a larger context outside of that study. In addition to the obvious harms of COVID/virtual school, many US schools switched to a model of teaching reading that omitted phonics entirely. This simply does not work for the vast majority of students, and this had already been demonstrated in the 1970’s.

The authors refer to that larger context here -

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My remarks on generalizing the study to Kansas undergrads was to point out that is an entirely acceptable sample size. In statistics, when you think about sample size, you have to think about the population you are studying. This study was specifically studying the literacy of Kansas English undergrads, which I imagine is a small enough population that you can generalize that study to. This would indicate that many future English teachers in Kansas are struggling readers.

We can put that as a data point next to several other studies about the US’s current literacy crisis.

As far as why they chose Bleak House:

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
N of 85 is entirely reasonable for that kind of study. You could safely generalize that to the population of Kansas English undergrads - run that through G Power and tell me otherwise.