I’m not sure what specifically is meant by phonics. My grandma taught first grade for 30 years, ending around 2000. She said when phonics came in “that’s just teaching reading” and when phonics went out “well, obviously we still have to teach how the alphabet works” and when phonics came in again “eye roll”. So, whatever the school leadership says, my guess is kids are learning phonics.

Weird: this is Safeway, Canada

Remember that the stories you hear are always going to be the ones that are most controversial, otherwise they would not be news. The day in day out work of the FDA is enormous and most of it, I believe, necessary for the level of trust in what you find on the shelf, what you’re doctor recommends, what your pharmacist hands you, that we enjoy.

I don’t want to have to know my farmer, my chemical compounder, my importer, my distributor, my restaurant chef, etc, etc, for every stupid thing just to avoid eating lead or feeding hepatitis to my kids.

The loudest complaints-- selling raw milk is technically illegal? they allow red food coloring as long as you list it in the ingredients? they may or may not allow you to call oat liquid a “milk”?-- sound pretty small to me, and also even these issues are reviewed and discussed more or less transparently in response to people’s concerns.

Set “office hours” and stick to them. She can make a list of things to do. Maybe it needs to be 20 min every evening, or maybe just once or twice a week. My partner has a similar (but more minor) problem, and this has worked both increasing self-help and making the time spent more enjoyable. Though I’m sure it helps that the needy person doesn’t live with us. Good luck

Yeah, in the yard, though, not the driveway, that’s all.

I once thought so, but in my experience with maples and fir needles it works really well. Much easier than raking for wet stuff. Of course, the correct way is to wait until all of the leaves have fallen (enjoy Autumn to its fullest) and then round them up once for the whole season. Every week or two is why everyone hates leaf blowers.

Lol, Apple thinks it’s user base is annoyed by the length and subtilty of headlines. AI to the rescue!

Some people just want to be criminals. They are gamblers or just enjoy feeling superior

Of all the times to worry about being perceived as opportunistic “on the way out”. After a year of worrying about perception “during the campaign”. And three other years of “reaching across the aisle”. Like trying to choose a place to eat with my family except it’s the direction of our country in a time of rapid global change.

You’re the one giving them money every day for sugar water. I just said to maybe stop?

I’m not trying to change billions of people’s habits, just a few that I know and love :)

But, I don’t think I’m alone.

Where is the button I push to dissolve CocaCola? Our pure hatred isn’t going to do it.

Everyone wishes they could somehow multiply their own influence over the world, but being just one person is no reason to give in and do what they told you.

Voting once a year with a Coke in your other hand is a recipe for status quo.

I’m just going to be unpopular for a minute here and say if you find yourself drinking out of single use disposable containers everyday, take some time to see if you can change that, even a little bit.

The future “goals” listed here are so lame I don’t think you can pretend there’s a sustainable way for billions of people to have that habit.

It’s saying that it doesn’t match the job-seekers profile, ie seeker does not meet requirement

The first proposal for separate Jewish and Arab states in the territory was made by the British Peel Commission report in 1937.[3] In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a partition plan for Palestine, leading to the 1948 Palestine war.[4][5] As a result, Israel was established on the area the UN had proposed for the Jewish state, as well as almost 60% of the area proposed for the Arab state. Israel took control of West Jerusalem, which was meant to be part of an international zone. Jordan took control of East Jerusalem and what became known as the West Bank, annexing it the following year. The territory which became the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt but never annexed. Since the 1967 Six-Day War, both the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip have been militarily occupied by Israel, becoming known as the Palestinian territories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution

Basically from the beginning until 2014, that has been the basis of every proposal.

In October 2024, Salt Typhoon was discovered to have exploited backdoors in US internet service provider networks used by law enforcement agencies to facilitate court-authorized wiretapping.[9] Affected networks included those of AT&T, Verizon, Lumen Technologies, and T-Mobile.

What is it with all this regulation? I’ll be so happy when people are free to make their own choices based on myth and legend

Adding to this, beware of progressive lenses. Get dedicated readers if you need them for the distance of your screen so you don’t have to tilt your head even a little.

I think op is right. A new law that says you have to own real estate to vote would have been unconstitutional before and is not now.

I like your idea, but it just brings to mind how fragile all of our digital media is, not to mention the surrounding tech necessary to read and understand it. What we know works is to press your message to the future, grocery bill, whatever, into clay and then accidentally burn the city down around it – good for millennia.

I wonder if it would take more or less time with auto-complete.