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Cake day: 2026年2月22日

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  • Momentum was not with project opponents, however, some of whom suggested no one would use the bike lane even as dozens of their neighbors spoke out in favor of its installation.

    Self centered idiots

    Bike lane opponents’ concerns always turn out to be “unfounded,” said longtime CB7 member and current CB7 transportation co-chair Ken Coughlin.

    “I’ve been through all the bike lane battles, every single one, and it’s always been like this,” he said on Tuesday. “People said businesses will suffer, safety will be compromised, especially for pedestrians, and there will be more congestion — and in every case, it’s proven to be unfounded.”

    And yet pro-car people never seem to learn. I guess for a lot of them it’s a “this is the first time I’ve ever thought about this problem”

















  • For years, schools taught reading using approaches that de-emphasized phonics and encouraged strategies such as guessing words based on context clues. As reading scores tumbled over the past decade, parents, scholars and literacy advocates pushed for teaching methods that align with decades of research about how kids learn to read — largely by sounding out words.

    Yeah that was a huge fuck up.

    https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ goes into detail.

    But also our society doesn’t value education very much. Teachers don’t make good money, so many people who would be good at it go into other jobs. One of my recent jobs had like 3 ex-teachers in software. They were making like double for half the work. That’s great for them, but do we really need more tech setups that much?