It feels like you have to be remarkable or remarkably lucky now to succeed in America. That’s a very bad feeling. Being decent and hardworking ought to be enough.
Dude got called out on social media for riding a bike without a helmet. Realizing yeah, good call, starts wearing one and then a few days later he's promoting free helmets for the public. How can anyone hate on this guy?
BREAKING
Spain’s MEP Irene Montero:
“No woman has ever been freed by American bombs or illegal aggression.
Not in Syria. Not in Iraq. Not in Lebanon. Not in Afghanistan.
And it will not happen in Iran either.
They hide behind women’s rights to justify their colonial wars.”
The life of a millennial:
- Graduated into the Great Recession
- Entry level jobs required 3 years experience
- Pensions replaced by the 401k
- Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility
- Felt stability in life then a pandemic
- Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises
- Home prices doubled overnight forcing permanent renters
- Childcare costs 1 month of rent
- Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live
- AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years
I sincerely don't know what to say. Watching Kash Patel and Pam Bondi--the directors of the FBI and Attorney General of the United States--lie openly and SCREAM at sitting senators in a committee hearing. Screaming Reddit talking points and conspiracy theories and lies about the economy.
Idk man.
I get it, we don’t make pennies anymore. Totally fine. But if you owe me $0.02 and you don’t have pennies… that feels like a you problem, not a me problem.
My change at Walmart was supposed to be $1.57. Instead, I got $1.55. Will two cents ruin my day? No. Will I survive? Yes. But let me teach yall some math… If 50 people get shorted $0.02, that’s a whole $1.00. If it’s $0.04? Walmart makes $2.00. Now imagine how many times that happened today across the world.
I’m not usually a complainer on social media, but this rubbed me the wrong way. My money is MY money. I don’t care if it’s only two cents… it’s my two cents, and I’d like it back.
Google is so powerful that it "hides" other search systems from us. We just don't know the existence of most of them.
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from Christopher Seymore
The White House is framing whole milk in schools as a nutrition win. It isn't.
Whole milk and low-fat milk have the same protein, calcium, vitamin D, and 13 essential nutrients. The only difference is about 50 extra calories and 5 grams of saturated fat per cup. There's some observational data suggesting kids who drink whole milk weigh less, but it's all high risk of bias, and no randomized trials have shown whole milk is actually better for them.
What would actually improve school nutrition: giving kids more than 10 minutes to eat. Scheduling recess before lunch. Funding kitchens to cook real food instead of reheating processed products. Paying cafeteria workers competitive wages so schools can actually retain staff. Upgrading equipment that's decades old. Offering more menu choices, including culturally appropriate foods. Pre-slicing fruit so kids will actually eat it.
Those cost money. Swapping milk cartons costs nothing and gets you a headline and whatever the hell that AI milk video was.
This is such a great exemplar
He tried to do it himself, looked up the word, listened to it being pronounced, pronounced it himself, and then went right back to reading - no shame or anything (at least that he showed)
Yesterday in class we were reading and I came across a word I didn't know so I stopped reading, looked it up, and then went back to reading
My only comment was that I can't possibly know every word and its exciting to look up new words and learn them
Students need to see that this is a normal process and its all part of learning