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The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read
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i often think about this Chuck Jones quote about how animators, and by extension filmmakers, need to read.
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The real answer to this stem vs humanities debate is that no one reads and everyone is bad at math
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"Nature is being ruined and huge corporations rule our country. There is nothing we can do"
He could:
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having an intrusive thought and shaking my head to show the mind readers that I don’t approve
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There was a time in my life when I didn’t know who Erika Kirk was and I really took that for granted.
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We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.
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“Expecting an algorithmic description to instantiate the quality it maps is like expecting the mathematical formula of gravity to physically exert weight.”
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home | noun | a place of origin
Replying to @NASA
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
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Just so we're clear, Israel is now the first state to have an ethnicity-based death penalty since Nazi Germany.
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>be born in the 50s and 60s
>get a paper route to save for college
>nice, tuition is only $200 a semester
>graduate and get real job by giving firm handshake
>buy a house which is only 2x your salary
>work at same company for 40 years
>retire with a pension
>become a shareholder and get rid of pensions (stock price goes brrr)
>home “value” goes up 1,700%
>make no upgrades, refuse to sell under asking to new family; sell to Blackrock instead
>lecture every subsequent generation about work ethic



































