I never said it was the only cause. Ignoring it completely as a cause at all is both unscientific and bad reporting when it affects 1 in 5 households with kids.

He’s literally describing what people with functional illiteracy do to work around being unable to read at a working level. He’s describing it as an acceptable goal. Batshit crazy.

The only time I’ve ever had unsupervised exams was for take-home, open book (ie, harder) exams. Before now they just… left them all alone in a room with the test and expected no cheating?

Not a single mention of food insecurity or nutrition in student outcomes, despite the fact that BEFORE the economy went sideways due to this stupid ass war 20% of homes with children were food-insecure. Only the deepest level of reporting from the NYT 🙄

This used to be what nurse’s hotlines were for. I feel lucky my current insurance has one, my previous one was like ‘lol figure it out yourself.’

Also, when I call nurse’s hotlines most of the time the issue I’m worried about needs to be checked by a doctor anyway. I don’t feel confident AI would necessarily tell you there’s not a way you can DIY it.

I can’t believe it, I use that exact one!

Tired: “are figs vegan?”

Wired: “is rice vegan?”

Washing and drying is way more aggressive on clothes than anything you’re doing in them, unless you’re a skater and regularly eat shit on the pavement.

New fear unlocked

Only if you hold me while I scream and cry and don’t judge me if I get turned on

I think some of them like to be handled a little rougher than we give them credit for, in short bursts at least. Our cat always gets ecstatic if I’m a little rough while scratching his head

Joke or accidentally not editing out all the coping in the draft?

I prefer getting my second opinions from a trained medical professional and not a chatbot. I’m weird like that.

and my doctor used and AI to look through thousands of studies to find a treatment regimen that fits my particular health profile better than the standard treatment

We used to call that a search engine.

At my last visit my doctor asked if I was okay with her recording for this (dunno if it was that exact company or not) and I said fuck no. I’m there to talk about sensitive shit, you wouldn’t catch me posting any of it online and you won’t catch me narrating it to a chatbot.

Vance wants sick kids to die.

Oh cool, thanks for letting me know! I’m so used to going ‘cool, can’t wear it 🥲’ so it’s awesome your fiancé does clip ons too!

I don’t think you’re wrong in thinking it looks like the Shire, it looks a lot like earthworks to me. Could be ancient or modern, depending on where it was.

Very beautiful! Makes me wish I could keep up with pierced ears instead of having them grow shut.

Damn, I just backed a project that doesn’t have adult content right now, but conceivably could in the future just because it’s a slice of life comic about adults (also sci fi but that’s irrelevant to the overall point). I wonder how this is going to affect funded but not yet disbursed projects.

Especially since the restrictions are so severe… you can’t do a ton of legitimate art if you can’t show nip or butt.