ZeroCool

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The Long Island Rail Road, North America’s largest commuter rail system, was shut down Saturday after unionized workers went on strike for the first time in three decades.

[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 28 points 2 days ago (16 children)

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A new analysis of student test scores reveals that American schools were in a "learning recession" for seven years before the COVID-19 pandemic, with student test scores in math and reading on a steady decline since 2013. This reversal ended two decades of progress, according to Sean Reardon, the Professor of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford Graduate School of Education, whose data forms the backbone of the new research.

[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I wonder how much time Pete Hegseth spends every day scribbling down ideas for "badass" names in a composition notebook like a bored teenager daydreaming about starting a rock band.

[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 17 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Those weird sycophantic meetings where everyone takes turns praising Trump for the cameras always remind me of a classic episode of The Twilight Zone called "It's a Good Life" (s03e08). For anyone out of the loop, it's about a six-year-old kid who had god-like powers and used them to hold his small town hostage. Anyone that failed to tell him what a good boy he was and how everything he did was good and special would be "banished to the Cornfield." The similarities are disturbing.

[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Imagine being such a massive turd that you feel compelled to admonish a 10-year-old kid who wrote a homework assignment about electric cars because he thinks they're neat and would like more people to be able to afford them. It's not even much of a unique incident. This is just how republican politicians conduct themselves now.

 

Rice plants and Venus flytraps share something in common that was not scientifically documented until recently. Using a faint smell to lure caterpillars into a trap, rice plants killed early-stage fall armyworm larvae by trapping them in a spikelet, the part at the end of a rice panicle where individual grains develop.

[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Perhaps this will finally make them wake up

Unfortunately it didn't. Conservatives were immediately telling each other that "it wasn't that bad and tHe RaDiCaL lEfT were just taking it out of context." But as is often the case, the context does not make it any better.

 

Note: This was originally made for The Onion's photo section, there is no article.
And for anyone OOTL: Trump is currently in China to meet with Xi Jinping. You can read about it here via the Associated Press.

[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There are California taxpayers and American taxpayers who are being defrauded because California isn’t taking its program seriously

I'm going to go ahead and stamp a big ol' [citation needed] on that claim. What does "California isn't taking its program seriously" even mean? I get that it's deliberately nebulous, but I'm just so tired of the constant stream of baseless claims from these ghouls. If they had any evidence they'd be parading it around on Fox News, but they don't. They never do.

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