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Not me, I’m the One True Communist™

This would actually make for a really funny movie. Someone get Boots Riley

Seems like it would be way more useful and accurate to just have a bunch of participants interact with a blog or something as a “focus group” and have trigger warnings that let them skip an article if they want to. Ask them to view a certain number and explain skipping is fine. Then after, ask some questions about their triggers and see what lines up. Did people who report certain triggers skip those articles? Seems like an easy way to set this study up and actually test if trigger warnings are useful. Would be even better if you could include people in the study who have documented triggers, but that’s a lot harder to manage

Without looking into it at all, I can almost promise you it’s “the jews”

My secret is living in the woods, working from home, and finally making enough money to at least not worry about basic survival. I have a lot of sensory issues I wasn’t entirely aware of until recently, so living in a city was horrible for me. Sometimes I miss it being easy to go to a store (30+ miles away now), but being able to walk outside and see a forest, wildlife, and not have to hear my neighbors fucking or fighting is worth it.

However, this existence is almost impossible under normal circumstances. We got an incredible deal on rent because the landlady is kinda okay and we live in an old detached garage that’s been converted into a cabin, so it’s not exactly up to code. But our rent now is the same as it was in a smallish west coast city for a cheap 1br apartment, except we get access to 50+ acres of forest, a creek, etc.

I still exist in a constant state of depression because I know what the world is like outside of this bubble my partner and I have managed to create for ourselves.

DHMO asphyxiation is the leading cause of death amongst sailors in the US Navy. Support our troops and write to your senators to ban DHMO today!

I think the “6th grade” bit is made up to help translate the results of these studies into something even 6th graders can understand, but the feds do these massive studies every now and then

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/2023/national_results.asp

Worked for a major insurance company in rural Alabama. Had customers who couldn’t even write their own name, all of them were black people living in an incredibly poor area. None of them seemed particularly dumb or something, they just didn’t have access to education because of segregation. This wasn’t that long ago (2010ish), but a 70 year old today was school aged before desegregation in Alabama. Especially in rural areas that didn’t enforce it for a while.

I think a lot of people ignore the effect this has on stats like this.

Yes! Sometimes I wonder what would pass if it were written more plainly. Oregon voted down a measure that would only increase taxes on companies making a lot of money and then distribute that money to citizens. Like wtf how could that not pass?

Then they DID vote for a measure that allows the state legislature to impeach members. Literally giving up our power to vote for who we want and letting the politicians kick people out when they feel like it is ridiculous. I bet the first time someone gets impeached it will be a leftist/progressive and not some fucking piece of shit from east Oregon who is literally trying to become Idaho

And in some places they won’t allow you to have your phone out at all, so you can’t even look it up on the fly or keep a note on your phone. Even in states that require in person voting, sample ballots with explanations should be sent out weeks ahead