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America's reading problem, explained as if it were sports: Imagine every 8-year-old in the country gets assigned to the same baseball team. 30 kids per coach. The kid who's been swinging since he was 4 and the kid who just picked up a bat yesterday are in the same drill, at the same tempo, getting the same cues. Nobody gets evaluated. Nobody gets a personalized plan. The coach runs one practice for everyone and moves on when the clock runs out, not when the players get it. Some kids are already bored. Some are lost. Most are faking it. This goes on for 12 years. Six hours a day. Every day. At the end, we hold a combine. Only a 1 in 3 of the players can make contact. The rest swing and miss at pitches they should've learned to hit in T-ball. The league's answer? Raise the coaching budget 36%. That's American reading. Per-pupil spending is up 35.8% since 2002, inflation-adjusted. Adults stuck at the lowest literacy level climbed from 19% to 28%. More money in. Worse hitters out.

Just remembered the story about a computer scientist who had his bike stolen and tried to explain binary search to a cop

wait i just realized. the way i love my son is the way my dad loves me? oh my god thats so fucked up. i've been such an asshole. oh my godddddddddddddd

24 years old. Fully paid off Costco hotdog. It's not "parents money". It's not luck. It's consistency. It's discipline. I grind EVERYDAY to live this lifestyle.

Her little world is so big 🥹

*opens up TurboTax* 5 minutes later:

Communists think capitalist societies are terrible because they compare them to a utopian ideal. Capitalists think capitalist societies are terrific because they compare them to the rest of recorded history and what is currently happening everywhere else.

Take it from me, a recent empty nester: The Good Old Days don’t feel like it at the time. It feels more like hard work and struggle. The days are long but the years fly by. Then, one day you wake up and the house is quiet. One of my most cherished memories is coming home from work each day and opening the creaky back door to our 1947 craftsman home. My 3-year-old daughter (now 21) would drop her toys and run down the hall—her footsteps booming on the old wood floor—to greet me. I love my life and don’t want to go back, but I do wish I could pass one message across time to 35-year-old me: You’re living the Good Old Days right now. Savor every moment.

Happy Easter from our family to yours #ForTheCity x #GoCoogs

AI has gone too far. Harry Potter "6 7" platform. Credit: Unhindered Studios

テキサスのみんな、お待たせ。 テキサスのソウルフードWhataburgerに行きました。日本だと「ケチャップを下さい」と言わないと、ケチャップがもらえないけど、ここでは何も言わずにケチャップの掴み取りができました。ドリンクも飲み放題で、体がすくすくと横に大きくなる理由が分かりました。

When someone says "hey Raj what do you think about that?" 39 minutes into the Zoom and I'm on Google Chrome tab #17 checking R.L Stine's wikipedia to see if he's still alive

When you first experience your toddler melting down because you gave them the green bowl instead of the blue one, or you put the ketchup in the wrong spot on the plate, or you zipped up their jacket when they wanted to do it themselves, it seems completely ridiculous. I know it did for me. But once I understood why it happens, it became a lot easier to stay calm and even laugh it off. Their prefrontal cortex is still years away from being developed. This means emotional regulation and impulse control is not there. When something does not match the expectation they had in their head, they literally do not have the circuitry to emotionally adjust. The emotion floods in and they have almost no ability to regulate it. They are not being manipulative or dramatic. They literally cannot do what you are asking them to do when you say "calm down" This is why staying calm as the parent matters so much. You are their external regulator until their internal one comes online. When you stay calm, your nervous system actually helps regulate theirs.

Favorite video yet is Dan Hurley's mom after The Shot: "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!"

This was a great read