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You don't have to get insurance through your employer. And you can pressure your employer to change.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/us-news/luigi-mangiones-family-operated-nursing-home-empire-that-was-cited-for-abuse-and-health-violations/

So, you never heard of a protest or boycott either? A protest spreads awareness so people leave UnitedHealth, starts class action lawsuits, gets people to join non profit health mutuals and start more, communities take over community hospitals, states start state health insurance,.... Killing him just spreads the same dehumanizing culture that UnitedHealth was operating on. Luigis family never even had UnitedHealth....

I don't think we could trust any literacy rate published in China, maybe they send dyslexic kids to the rice fields. Actually, dyslexic people may do better with kanji rather than alphabets. https://blog.dyslexia.com/teaching-japanese-to-dyslexic-students/

Obviously this is important with dyslexia though, not that I personally understand how, but dyslexic people really benefit from phonetic practice. For all we know, grades could be declining because of pollution even. I look forward to learning more about this though, I'd like to find a long term study, one from K to college.

Were there ever any protests against United Health or Brian Johnson, boycotts? I never heard of any. It's psychopathic to jump straight to assassination, regardless of how normalized that is in the u.s.

Ya, trends seem to correlate with the rise of video games and personal screens. Kids aren't going to spend as much time reading with so many distractions available, I don't care how you teach them. People have the TV raise their kids.

Do you not find it odd, take your thread title for instance "illiteracy epidemic", that the framing of these new claims is that our kids are illiterate, when literacy it at it's highest ever? I watched the videos you posted and looked at a few other sources. The data I see would be consistent with my "cheating" theory, children using 'low hanging fruit' words that they already know audibly. This just has the classic hallmarks of jumping to conclusions. I'm trying to find a long term study, the differences it makes when people grow up, college. Literacy shot up AFTER switching to Whole Word learning. You don't think they would have caught on if test scores declined after the switch?

You were never taught that outside of tutoring? Did you not read out loud in class?

@DocWatts do you know, with the phonics approach will schools still do vocabularly lists with definitions?

I think it was the Whole Word approach, I remember dyslexic kids that went to my school doing Hooked On Phonics outside of school. The 'sounding it out' was like until first grade, and only if you didn't know the word from memorizing the flash cards, that ended then and then it was pure memorization, lists and lists and tests of words on their definitions.

This is what I remember

You've looked into this quite a bit? Doesn't make sense to me, whole word is the way we all were probably taught. Growing up, it included sounding it out if you didn't know the word, and to spell it "eye wint two tha stoor"

To me (nobody), phonetics is a shortcut for low hanging fruit, for kids, simple sentences. It cheats, using phonetics to utilize audibly known words.

Can you give an example sentence or paragraph?

Have any words, for example?

Do you have any examples in mind? This does not sound right to me.

So,(I don't understand yet) it's more like converting what you know audibly already, to reading?

Phonetics helps you understand what a word means?

@Thought Art what do you really mean by sounding out the words to read though, if you sound out a word you then realize what word it is? Isn't this more about speaking rather than reading?

It's deeply ingrained in American culture. The irony, Luigi is spreading the thing that caused the CEOs behavior.

Trumps gonna promise everyone 10 virgins? Republicans are done, economy is in shambles, inflation is running away, everyone's going to be in the poor house before long. I think you just underestimate how much some people despise some of the progressive ideas, conveniently writing people off as "stupid" because they disagree with you. There's not much difference in intelligence on both sides, both sides have their stupid people that just outright lie, take AOC and Sanders for example.

I think you're such a great writer and thinker. I'm just imagining the things you might write in your lifetime. Thanks for sharing

Facebook seems to be out with the kids these days, what comes after ticktock? There's a growing awareness about the negative impacts. 45% of teens are reporting negative effects. What's next?

@Yeah Yeah You ever try to actively love yourself? Sort of like treating yourself like a separate person, telling yourself what you would tell your little brother in your situation? "I love you, there's nothing you need to do to prove yourself, whatever happens, i love you and I'm glad i've known you". I'm not any kind of even amateur expert, but i always think loneliness is from shame that others have put onto you. Usually not even overt shame, but just social conditioning "you can be anything you want!", 'material possessions shows your worth!',.... all of that causes deep shame that everyone is unaware of. Most people are uncompassionate to themselves, self-compassion is very important, being nice to yourself, not imposing social pressures onto yourself. There's no love you need from others, love is already within you, all the love there is, the only love anyone can feel is already within themselves, love is not something 'out there' to find or obtain,