Something I’ve also noticed lately. Basic fucking math. I more often than not pay in cash, and recently I’ve had more than one person at more than one place give me incorrect change. And just not like a few cents, but dollars amount wrong. And when I try correcting them they’re so adamant they’re right even when I’m like… dude, you owe me 50 cents, not 3 dollars.
If they are giving you an extra $2.50
Why are you complaining?
It’s gonna fuck them at the end of their shift when their register cash is wrong.
Aye I worked retail.
I learned real quick how to do math when I had to make up the difference.
It’s literally the definition of their job.
Everyone can have a bad day or a brain fart. I’d rather take a few seconds to correct someone than screw them at the end of their shift. I’ve only ever walked off if they literally wouldn’t talk to me or shooed me away.
That’s not from math. That’s from lack of practice. Nobody has used cash in 10 years.
Yeah, no coins feature numbers prominently (one sas “dime” instead, a word nobody ever uses otherwise), some are near-worthless, the dollar is not nearly as widespread as it should be, the diameter is often not increaing by value (even within the same metal series) and the notes are way too similar, plus their value is on the low side… No wonder Americans switched to checks and insecure cards so soon
What?
No, it’s because we have something called “Civil Asset Forfeiture” which basically means that American cops can just stop you for no reason, file a lawsuit against your cash and just take it out of your wallet. If you want it back, you have to declare yourself to be a criminal defendant, and then be found not guilty of the criminal charges against you. If you don’t, they get to keep your money to put in their pension fund.
Dime is a pretty common word among basketball commentators and fans. It means assist!
A point guard who’s dropping dimes all over the place is playing really well and helping facilitate the team’s scoring.
I left the US five years ago and now I live in a country where the coins still have that problem (some are different sizes even when they have the same value!), but at least the bills are sized by denomination.
US bills must be a nightmare for people who have impaired vision.
I have, on multiple occasions paid an an amount that would have someone give me $5 back in change or exact cents, then had them be utterly confused and have to pull out a calculator.
But like, if the total is 17.75, and I hand them $22.75. I’m expecting the person to be able to figure out I’m making it simpler for them.
jesus fucking christ dude haha
Doesn’t the register show the cashier how much change he has to give out? Or are the math skills so bad that even just counting is already a challenge?
No idea where dude is shopping but I haven’t seen a register that didn’t show the change in the last 20 years. When I worked retail cashiers were told to never do math just put the numbers in the machine and give the customer what ever the machine says.
Trump’s racist policies are the cause of that
COVID stole a year or two of schooling for students in poorer families.
it stole 4 years for college and hs students. Ive read some reviews about certain schools in my area, before the lockdowns/protocols were lifted they were all unsatisfactory lack of experience, dint learn anything and job search, while the school was having trouble financially and raising TUITION all across the board. the ones that escaped from my local state uni, went to a UC school instead and had far better success, because that school likely had better resources for students undergrad experience and post-undergrad job search. some people started college around 2019-2020, they still lost the 4 years because the schools/instructors got lazy and put all thier lectures online instead of going to lecture in class even after they lifted lockdowns.
Would like to see the data disaggregated by grade. If this is the culprit, then we’ll see a rebound as kids away from covid appear.
But I believe (based on data from, say, other countries) that we don’t see this. Reading scores have been tanking for some other reason.
NJ again lowkey goated
Damn, New Mexico is really eating shit huh? Wonder why it’s so bad there specifically.
Look at those deltas, though… Vermont, Nebraska, Maine, Delaware. The declines are massive
They are all states with poor economies.
Any one with career opportunities leaves.
NM is one of the poorest states in the country. With no real major cities, there’s a lack of opportunity. Also, the eastern counties are as red as rural Texas.
Hey good for Mississippi!
Damnit NYT, states have an abbreviation standard!
Yes but people are now too stupid to know them.
Journalists have always used the old postal abbreviations. It’s part of the Associated Press style.
The NYT has its own style guide that doesn’t always match the AP.
The problem is for a lot of those I’m just guessing what they’re supposed to be.
Which ones have you guessing? It feels a little insane to read compared to the standard 2 letter abbreviation, but they’re all pretty clear to me.
What’s Ga. Va. and Gt.
Georgia, Virginia, and Vt. is Vermont.
Those are all literally the current standard postal abbreviations, just not in all caps.
Yes but the average NYT reader doesn’t know them.
Something to do with DC being the third lowest on this graph
I don’t understand why it would be “lit” if kids can’t read well. TIL is “This is lit!”. I did my own research.
When I was in junior high, they decided we weren’t reading enough. So for 40 minutes or so after lunch we had a reading period where everyone just read novels. Might be a good idea again.
All of the schools around where I live had SSR (Sustained Silent Reading). It’s pretty beneficial for students. You always get the morons who do everything they can to not read, but it helps most other people.
Do you mean “sit-down, shut-up, & read”?
It’s long enough that you’ll start reading just out of boredom.
Honestly, it’s is a good argument in favor of letting kids become bored. Being bored used to be a universal experience before we had pocket screens everywhere. It gave us the opportunities to explore reading, creativity, and the world around us. Putting screens in kids’ faces at every potentially-boring moment in life deprives them of that, and trains them to consume entertainment instead of creating their own.
I cherished sitting quietly in the back seat of the car on long rides. I loved the peace and the changing scenery, it’d let my mind wander. I’d ponder questions, come up with stories, and analyze my emotions and experiences to better understand myself. It’s scary to think that the future generations will be practically born carrying tablets, and as such will rarely, if ever, have experiences like we did to sit in peace and find comfort in it.
Idk i always hated being bored. I just always always had a book with me. If I was near the end of a book, I had to carry two so there would be no gaps. I don’t think my books were superior to carrying a screen. I still have a book in my purse anytime I go anywhere. I absolutely loathe sitting still doing nothing. Maybe it’s the depression. Idk.
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Back in the USSR.
MAGA!
Now show the chart of tik tok user growth.
Wtf is going on in Vermont in particular?
Vermont is poor and mostly rural. It has seen poor economic growth the last decade and residents have been leaving the state in droves. It was gutted by the rising of AirBNB rentals and then the pandemic.
Most of the economy is just rich people going there to vacation, who have drastically shot up the cost of living, prices out the locals, just like Colorado and other outdoor recreation areas. A lot of the local places were also bought up my Vale, etc.
“Video is the future. If it’s not on youtube, people don’t care.”
Reaping what the internet has been sowing for the past decade.
When I was younger, the Internet was primarily a text based medium. Images and videos existed, but mainly to illustrate text.
I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t able to read, so I wonder: do illiterate people now just watch videos on the Internet? Unthinkable 20 years ago that the Internet would be usable without being able to read.
It sure seems that way.
Remember… for most young people now, the internet isn’t even something you access through a browser - it’s a series of apps, some of which have replaced the majority of text with icons to avoid multi-language headaches.
I see.
I occasionally read debates at what age children should get smartphones or other devices. While I don’t have children yet nor plans to have any, I think my attitude would be: when they’re able to read and write and occasionally unsupervised, they get a GNU/Linux smartphone, with Plasma Mobile or similar, so they can use the Internet through a web browser and get used to that being normal.
They get an Android phone in their teen years when they need it for banking apps or similar.
There actually are a lot of good educational resources on Youtube right now. I feel like they probably aren’t among the popular channels.
That may be, but even the best possible educational youtube channels are not a replacement for literacy.
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My state is on this list, near the bottom, but my kid isn’t.
What about the other 12 states?
I like to think that Oregon isn’t included because it shifts the curve too aggressively. To the left.
The GOP welcomes their future voters. The dumber they are, the better for Republican votes.
Some heavily blue states plummeting too here.
Future red states you mean.
