The PISA 2025 results are out today. Some quick insights.
- The major story is very significant global decline. The last PISA study was in 2022, and saw big declines in reading and maths scores from 2018. Obviously the pandemic played a part.
- But this 2025 round has seen further falls even from the 2022 lows!
Things haven't gone back to normal post-pandemic - they've got worse.
Every generation thinks the generation below is less smart - but this time they might be right!
I saw this post and wanted to address it.
If you look at social media today, you’ll see good, empathetic people admitting they are losing hope. They look at climate change, rising authoritarianism, and corporate greed and feel entirely powerless. If you feel this way, I want
"Norwegian data: 98% more doctor visits for memory problems and 150% more for concentration problems than the trend before the pandemic.
At the same time, an enormous increase in prescribed heart medications. Even in Sweden.
Precisely the things we know COVID infections cause. Whv don't we want to see the connection? "
RED ALERT ALBERTANS!
While UCP govt focus = dismantling and privatizing HC, safe and timely care may not be there for you or your loved ones in their time of need.
NO matter how rich you might be, no amount of wealth will help you if you need to access emergency services!
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BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson Warns Republicans: If Democrats Win the Midterms, Trump Will Be Impeached and His Family, Cabinet, Donors and Friends Will Be Investigated and Sent to Prison for a long time
@JackieSeidel1 What a frustrating experience!
But I believe the incompetence and resulting chaos is the point. Same with the referendum.
They’re real and annoying, but distractions from MHCare, bills quashing our rights, foreign interference, UCP grift, and on and on and on…
Recycling a solar panel is now seven times more costlier than recycling a TV in Alberta?
Alberta exempts Suncor's tailings pond dump from review, angering downstream communities?
Make it make sense? This is crazy!
🚨The most important graph in the world has another 6 months of data!🚨
NASA CERES satellites measure how much sunlight Earth absorbs and how much heat is radiated back to space.
The difference is heat accumulation, which has more than tripled over the past 26 years!
I hate to say it, but we may have crossed the stupid event horizon. Things may now be too stupid to recover to some sort of mildly non-stupid equilibrium. A singularity of sorts, but for stupid. A black hole of stupid.
https://t.co/9JR17NvPed
Listening to Minister LaGrange, I'm astounded that she cannot even answer the basic questions put to her.
She's leading the attack on publicly funded HC, and yet can't even answer simple questions.
Let's break down her answers:
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I am sick and tired of grown adults calling the climate crisis a hoax. This is not a debate, the science has been settled for decades. Your ignorance is not just embarrassing, it is actively destroying the planet and every living thing on it.
Someone I support asked me if covid infection caused the stroke that robbed them of their sight, and it made me think yet again that people don't understand causes and consequences.
Then I realised that this is exactly how public health talks about this stuff, and ...
"Covid is mild".... Zero publications to prove it.
"Covid is dangerous".... 492,027 publications to prove it.
There is no debate.
https://t.co/0vBU7PuwPf
I remember hearing that Paul Bernardo had a number of women who sent him fan mail and love letters and I wondered, what kind of crazy bitch would be infatuated with a rapist and a pedophile?