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Should be a wild four years.

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Because of Obama the gay liberal eco-friendly cars can't handle their sour.
Sour crude jsut takes a lot more effort to refine. That effort makes it cost more, I don't know how Obama had much to do with that, but I'm open to change my mind if you tell me what he did.

Agreed, but we really need to overhaul the shit out of student loans, they are predatory as all hell.
 
on the whole word thing, I recall phonics being the freakish outlier like Montessori style schooling for much of my elementary school
I learned phonics in preschool so I could read circles around everybody, but I recall elementary public structured "okay, here's the words to learn from this lesson, here's how to pronounce and spell these words, NOT how to apply this widely, and what the words mean relative to this lesson"
I could read before I got to kindergarten, and don't really remember much of how they taught kids to read, beyond simply reading, lol. But, surely, anyone my age (50s) can remember the Hooked on Phonics commercials from the late 80s and early 90s. They were everywhere in those days.
 
Dickens is not very entertaining
Below a certain IQ level, I suppose not.
I hope it's Curtis, but New York always gets what New York votes for. And New York votes for the worst, every time.
Recently, pretty much. But Bloomberg was OK, and there are others in the past too (Ed Koch, for example). I also hope Sliwa wins - he's a real New Yorker, and hopefully there are enough of them left to vote him in. It'd be a great story.
 
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I could read before I got to kindergarten, and don't really remember much of how they taught kids to read, beyond simply reading, lol. But, surely, anyone my age (50s) can remember the Hooked on Phonics commercials from the late 80s and early 90s. They were everywhere in those days.
I have heard that schools teach whole word learning now, which explains why Reading Partners is even a thing.
 
Is Trump going to rejigger car efficiency standards so that cheap tiny cars are no longer cost prohibitive to sell?
GOD I hope so. The only people Ford is selling to atm is the Chinese, ultra rich and oil barons. Who tf is buying 80k SUVs...I want my small affordable cars again
I have heard that schools teach whole word learning now, which explains why Reading Partners is even a thing.
That's horrifying. I could also read before I ever centered school type learning- Do parents not sing the alphabet? Read picture books with their kids??
 
GOD I hope so. The only people Ford is selling to atm is the Chinese, ultra rich and oil barons. Who tf is buying 80k SUVs...I want my small affordable cars again

That's horrifying. I could also read before I ever centered school type learning- Do parents not sing the alphabet? Read picture books with their kids??
Back when I volunteered there, I asked myself the same question. Reading Partners, to their credit, does teach reading phonetically, but it's about 40 minutes for students that are not reading at grade level.
 
I hope it's Curtis, but New York always gets what New York votes for. And New York votes for the worst, every time.
Sliwa is a weird guy imo, but preferable to Mamdani (and especially Cuomo).
For whatever it's worth, everyone's pretty shook by the prediction markets, but they're never guaranteed.
It's a cope for sure, but you never know.
 
Apologies for the double post.

Trump is on his way to Asia, specifically:
  1. Malaysia (ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur)
  2. Japan (meetings with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo)
  3. South Korea ( for trade discussions and the APEC Summit in Gyeongju)
Here's a Guardian article about it (Archive).




While on Air Force One, he answered a question about China invading Taiwan:

 
I personally think the US should whip out the old Cold War playbook and put the fear of God back into South America with a good ol' fashioned coup. The Venezuelan government is already hanging on by a thread, just fund a couple of militias and have them fuck up the capitol.
I wonder if the CIA is even still capable of this after all the DEI and other such crap. Cultivating clandestine networks of anti-government forces is no walk in the park that's for sure. I wonder if they are ready for a new cold war, or multipolarity.
 
Big fight at the Portland ICE facility. They jumped Cam Higby (link to current livestream) to break his phone but one of them got unmasked and Antifa rushed in to protect his face from getting picked up on camera.


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Big fight at the Portland ICE facility. They jumped Cam Higby (link to current livestream) to break his phone but one of them got unmasked and Antifa rushed in to protect his face from getting picked up on camera.


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Right, because that silly little respirator will keep anybody who knows who this guy is from knowing it's him from the entire rest of his face. This is like IRL pretending that putting on a domino mask is all it takes for Dick Grayson to hide who he is. Fucking retards, the whole lot of them.
 
Surest way to know some faggot leftist (redundant I know) is legitimately seething is when they start doing this "no u" routine
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The saying "most flak over the target" is old, but forever accurate. Not only are you over the target when they start this intentionally obtuse faggotry, you're Stuka diving it.
 
The End of History they called it. A Pax Americana that would continue on in perpetuity, bringing enlightenment and prosperity to all.
The line shall ALWAYS go up. It MUST go up.

At least until the boomers die, then their stance is we can all eat shit and die. FYGM.
It is truly frustrating that so many americans who would used to have been 'middle class' are stuggling so fucking hard yet are unable to qualify for government assistance while being a decent somewhat productive member of society yet end up with an empty bank account week to week. Like truly rage inducing.
The fun part is eventually this results in entire generations just walking away and letting it collapse. The fire rises, things rebuild.

That's when they will end up trying to cause a nice big war to prune the rot.

For example, Europe CLEARLY expected a war with Russia with plans on shipping native Europeans over, allowing their pre-imported slave caste to immediately start work. This won't work for a number of reasons, but it's a moot point cause Saint Trump the Peacemaker stopped the war.
I'm a half smart retard, but how the fuck are you gonna try to get one branch of the government to tell the other they have to start a session to swear this retarded whore in?


Doesn't the separation of powers say that this isn't going to happen? Seems like article 1 covers this, they can declare laws (the scotus I mean) unconstitutional but trying to force them to act seems like it's doomed from the jump, right?
They think that their activist judges give them control over the Judiciary, which means by their retardlogic that everyone else has to listen to the judiciary until they can steal the Executive proper again, then the judiciary is to defer to the executive, of course. It's literally playground rules. "I have the magic stick so the magic stick is worth a BILLION GAZILLION POINTS. No, it doesn't matter if you had the magic stick, it was out of MAGIC when you had it!"
That's a B grade paper in a 500 level course.
My imposter syndrome and general hesitancy to go further in college due to a general feeling I was out of my league was utterly unfounded, I see.

But then again I'm a white male, they might hold me to actual standards.
Why are we importing truck drivers?
Because of the Trucker Convoy protests in Canada.

They have to destroy the political power of the truckers in the US. Right now, a trucker's strike would cause NYC, LA, Chicago, etc to starve within two weeks, so they'd have to capitulate. If they import infinity browns who will work no matter what, Saar, the truckers can all eat shit, they have no political power anymore and never will again.

Once you realize these people think only in power, you realize that you could frame a lot of these moves specifically as ways to counter perceived power.

Truckers in the US, before mass immigration, was primarily a white male job. They want to weaken the political power those truckers have before they wake up and realize they have it. So, infinity brown people. First it was wetbacks driving truck for warehouses in the PNW and CA, now it's Infinity Illegal Jeets.

Remember, Canada had an entire teen hockey team or somesuch killed by a Jeet who either had no fucking idea how to handle a break failure (you pull off to the side so the textured pavement can slow you down, worse case you drive off the road) or was completely asleep and made no fucking effort to even try and stop before killing a dozen people. And that was a few years ago, and the problem has only gotten worse and slowly spread down to us from up there.

That fucking jeet blew through THREE CARS before coming to a stop on a work truck. Not "hit 3". Drove THROUGH THEM. There's no fucking way he was paying attention. There's no fucking way he tried to stop. He was probably shitting through a hole he cut in the floor of his cab, watching porn, or asleep. The fact they haven't released the internal cab cam footage is telling.
 
That's why I'm sus on that reading comprehension test. Reading engagement is very necessary to comprehension and Dickens is not very entertaining. That's why South Park sticks metal newspapers and robot monkeys and Genesis devices into Great Expectations.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0q8mCm0188
Some Dickens is sure, but the first 7 paragraphs of Bleak House are comedic art, a (British-)funny painting of London's court system made in words instead of paint. The retards pretending to be English majors in that study couldn't use context clues to figure out things like "Michaelmas is a now-lost Christian holiday used to set us in November" or "It's such a wet, foggy, cloudy, and generally dreary day in London and wider England they turned the street lights on during the workday, it's all driving people crazy, and the legal system is what is actually causing this madness" or to be less metaphorical and less literal at the same time, "Dickens fucking hates the ground-to-a-halt English judicial system" which is very topical.

Read the actual study too, it's insane, one person ran into the very second word of the snippet, "Michaelmas" and - with access to the Internet - was totally unable to look up the meaning despite trying, while another person (from the group deemed competent!) just assumed "Michaelmas" was a character being introduced to the story despite the phrase being "Michaelmas term lately over".

There were 4 proficient readers out of 85 so-called English majors, here is the quality of understanding of the back half of the very first paragraph that meets "proficient":
And he’s talking about foot traffic within the city. I said London first, I didn’t say that out loud, but it’s taking place in London and he’s talking about the foot traffic and how the weather is creating an ill temper between people and everybody’s jostling and fighting with each other for a position on streets that are paved, it’s not a pavement, it’s a mess so it’s not perfectly smooth and level. And so people are “slipping and sliding” on cobblestone or whatever it happens to be and he’s connecting that with the past and saying how they’re just the latest generation of people to be walking and jostling in bad weather through these, through these stones that other people have gone before them and done these exact same things, uh, and it accumulates at “compound interest,” um, [Pause.] “adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement,” and “accumulating,” I’m assuming, “compound interest” means it’s interest on top of interest, so, it’s, the mud is growing exponentially if you will. And that’s one whole paragraph right there.
Just meeting the bar of "understanding the text literally" makes you a proficient reader for this study and only 4 out of 85 English majors (only 1 of 30 seniors!) were able to achieve that lofty goal. It explains so much about the world in general that the vast majority of people (how could the rate for general society be any higher than this?) aren't even capable of understanding the direct meaning of words and sentences.
 
Just meeting the bar of "understanding the text literally" makes you a proficient reader for this study and only 4 out of 85 English majors (only 1 of 30 seniors!) were able to achieve that lofty goal. It explains so much about the world in general that the vast majority of people (how could the rate for general society be any higher than this?) aren't even capable of understanding the direct meaning of words and sentences.
The people running the study couldn't have made it easier for the students, in their chosen field of study, to understand and interpret a 5, maybe 6/10 difficulty text. The Department of Education should be gutted and nearly every teacher in America shot for this level of sheer failure to educate. Apparently the shift away from phonics that began this disruption only started about a decade ago, so maybe it's not too late on that front. Fixing the "critical analysis" curriculum is going to take decades to unfuck.
 
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