While the origins of the “three cueing” method may have been well intentioned I’m guessing lobbying and kickbacks are what’s keeping it in schools, not it’s effectiveness.

There is also the fact that the resistance to classic phonics in the USA developed as an anti-Bush stance during the 2000s. People thought they were taking a progressive stance against his family's conservative ideas about reading by adopting the cueing methods.

Turns out his family's passionate attack against cueing was actually completely justified even by the science of the time, let alone what we know now.

Bush is not a good guy but partisanship has ruined multiple generations of Americans' ability to read, and this cueing bullshit has been leaking into other countries too.

I repair computers on the side and this exact issue happens so frequently I know some of the error codes that I dont bother trying to fix now. The sheer amount of Windows reinstalls I have to do... honestly its often faster than trying to fix the problem.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted for correctly using the term and calling out the degenerates who self-insert as little girls everywhere.

Not going to lie, I've never seen it used outside of its pejorative use. I will assume it's safe to imply that you aren't using it that way, and with that explanation I'm satisfied that it is a real term with real uses.

This does describe most voters who are not just permanently voting red or blue though...

holy shit are people nitpicking this bad? No wonder no productive discussions are taking place.

low information voter

I didn't think people unironically used this term. What does it even mean?

Good example, there is also Africa by Toto which is just nonsense and yet one of their most famous songs.

Appreciate the opinion, I'm thinking I'm just going to go ahead and pick it up

The worst part about the politics here in Canada is that the Liberals always spend years setting up the layup that the Conservatives use to dunk on Canadians. This round is going to feature a whole host of anti-competitive business, bad trade deals, media favouritism, privatization, waves of attacks on worker's rights... all this and more thanks to the moves set up by the Liberals doing things like refusing to stop the Rogers/Shaw purchase, the failure to make deals with other countries, setting up media and "CanCon" subsidies that favour big media companies, and the intentional attacks on the efficiency and effectiveness of public services.

We are so fucked.

Yeah and you're getting renovicted so they can split all the bedrooms up and double the occupancy (and rent)

What the polling likely isn't capturing is how many people will ultimately choose not to vote out of despair, and that was the real threat the whole time.

Trump's still in control of his (meager) faculties and that's the issue. They're going to have to put someone else in against Trump or admit that the past few years have been Weekend at Biden's

I’m just wondering if I need to call the police or the ambulance

Both? One of these guys is a convicted felon turned robber baron and the other is a retirement home escapee who has lost the light in their eyes.

Icarus looks interesting but I've been eyeing Enshrouded. My wife liked playing Volcanoids, Astroneer, Drake Hollow, Smalland, Conan Exiles, Dinkum, Palworld, and of course Stardew Valley, among others. Not sure which of those are on sale but check them out.

I once asked a friend with a truck to help me pickup a BBQ. When attempting to load it he got so worried about us scratching the truck bed that eventually we couldn't proceed. Called another buddy with a minivan, we put a moving blanket down and off we went. No whining, just work.

Rush Limbaugh had only been on the air for a little over 10 years when the Columbine shooting happened. For News started that year I think. Other news agencies also did 24 hour coverage of the various big shootings and blasted the killer's identities everywhere, just like the media used to do for serial killers before they were blamed for causing more serial killings.

I think the media is certainly complicit but I think people need look deeper, back to when gang violence, poverty, and the ruining of the American worker began to come back. Neoliberalism has been a cancer infecting the Western nations for decades now, governing over the decline of our industries and the rapid growth of wealth inequality. You can track all the increases in gun violence and mass killings right back to it and its consequences.

And yet gun violence is growing across Europe despite few if any changes to gun law.

What about countries that do have strict gun laws and only relatively recently started having shootings? What changed between then and now across the West?

During the summer BLM protests, police were using excessive force constantly, shooting people in the head with rubber bullets/beanbags, beating people nearly to death, gassing everything... it was pure hatred from the thin blue line.

When protesters were calmly walking wearing their rifles, police were mysteriously real polite. Funny that.

You used to be able to purchase brand new military machine guns right off the wall until 1986, yet I struggle to prove that more than 3 people have died to civilian-owned machine guns. Semi-automatic rifles were widely available for decades before anything really happened. Here is the question: what changed between then and now that started the trend of mass/school shootings?