Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

Why on earth do you think high reading level is a skill that correlates with the ability to parse legislation? I've literally had somebody trained in law try to explain specific laws to me and be completely wrong. Knowing long words isn't going to help you. A similar argument applies for your other examples.

If you think that reading level is just "long words" then your literature teachers completely failed you, and I'm sorry.

If you're reading a technical document aimed at professionals in the field, I literally don't care what your reading level is: you're not going to correctly parse the text unless you have the background knowledge the text assumes you have.

If you have a high enough reading level you can do further research to learn what the experts know. You can read multiple sources and make your own connections. You don't have to trust someone just because they say they have expert knowledge - you can check them.

If you're reading an article aimed at a general audience, then congratulations: it's already written in a way that you can understand it, because it's aimed at a general audience. If nobody could read it, nobody would buy it.

So if most people can only read at a 2nd grade level it's okay for journalists to write articles like See Dog Run? How are we supposed to communicate complicated ideas without complex language?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to funny in Are self-driving cars a traveling expense deduction or taxable income, and how would the car report this?

A churro is actually closer to a funnel cake, as you start with a choux paste which is piped into oil. Donuts are traditionally leavened with yeast before being deep fried.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

My hope is that somebody else reading the exchange will see the depths of the ignorance of OP. Because they're pretty fucking dumb.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to funny in Are self-driving cars a traveling expense deduction or taxable income, and how would the car report this?

Costco has the donut's ultimate evolution: the churro

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

Proposed and actual legislation. Complex articles about the implications of policy decisions. Scientific and medical articles. Anything that can produce an informed electorate is what they should be able to read, and most of that is well above a sixth grade level.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in amazon anti union posters put up by the company

Your supervisor has a duty to put the good of the company ahead of the good of the employee or they're risking their own jobs.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

I would very much like my fellow voters to be able to read and understand things before making a decision.

In Athens they gave political offices away in a lottery. (Slaves and women excepted, of course.) This meant that because the stupidest person in the city could randomly get the highest office, they had a reason to make sure everybody was at least a little competent.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels

This wouldn't be a problem except all of those people who don't read good are allowed to vote.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to aboringdystopia in amazon anti union posters put up by the company

"Oh no, I'll have to go through someone who actually has my interests at heart and not my shitty manager! Damn unions!"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to worldnews in 11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office over war in Ukraine

Yes, only Russia should send billions of dollars worth of human killing machines to Ukraine.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to worldnews in 11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office over war in Ukraine

You're both framing his invasion of Ukraine as a struggle against NATO expansion, which is the same excuse he gives for his "special military operation"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to worldnews in 11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office over war in Ukraine

Then why are you - and Chomsky - making excuses for him?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to worldnews in 11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office over war in Ukraine

And there's no way to resolve this without killing 50 people in a grocery store.

Leftists who don't see Putin as a fascist are fucking tragic. I feel sorry for you, bud.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to worldnews in 11 arrested in protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office over war in Ukraine

That totally justifies killing 50 people in a grocery store. Why would the US force Putin to do this?

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago to memes in How do y'all say GIF?

Yiff

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