We’ve had a marked drop in literacy and math skills in the last decade. We need to shore up those core skills before adding in any kind of social comparisons. The lack of understanding of nuance and context in text has directly led us to where we are in this country.

It wasn’t …France, who was there fighting with us for that independence?

Yeah I’m sure me pointing out that there being more content than a person can sift through doesn’t matter if it’s not the right kind of content, will keep all the people who aren’t in Lemmy from joining Lemmy…

And apparently me stating that basic fact is enough to get labeled as a shitty attitude, as well as blamed for the actual shortcoming of having fewer people. Which is definitely not the type of aggressive behavior that is more likely to keep people away than an acknowledgement of current low population.

Good job.

… Were you not in school before 8 years old?

…I do. But the majority of the communities I subscribe to (and I have found multiple iterations across different instances) are not very active. Their reddit counterparts are.

You can stop trying to reject my experiences with your nonsense to make yourself look right. You’re not.

Not in the [not exactly small] niches I’m interested in. Front pages are stale for DAYS

Raining over the ocean where it is no longer in the stores of freshwater these systems are pulling from

Oh man…22 comments in 3 hours. Positively booming…

Measuring two different things. Your number: can read the words, mostly understand the words they read.

6th graders are generally literate. However, they’re not necessarily picking up on nuance, or subtleties. And they will often not take into account how the sentence they just read fits into the overall context of the piece, and they likely won’t question the narrator, assuming they’re reliable.

You can imagine how half of adults being that bad at these things has colored political discourse.