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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LIJvh3JJ8

I don't know why we ever moved away from teaching phonics. It just makes sense to teach reading that way.

Anyone who argues otherwise is either too stupid to be taken seriously or is malicious with their intentions. I think we had a case of both of those when it came to moving away from phonics and teaching "whole word" reading.

Who is behind all this spam bot accounts in Merovingian.club? What is the point of spamming a bunch of word salad nonsense like "Optimize the ladder. Rework the panda in record time."

What is the goal even? It cannot be for propaganda or psyop. Because that would require some coherency to work.

Not surprised gas prices are still elevated. If one of the side effects of the war with Iran were to have a scapegoat for economic issues (high gas prices can have downstream effects besides gas being more expensive), then I think it is more detrimental than helpful. Trump started the attack, so the blame will get (rightly) pushed on him.

Yes he is also being controlled, but that does not make him blameless.

Just ran a sub 6:30 mile. It was on a treadmill, so perhaps it is not an official time. But it is the best time I have been able to do in a while. I doubt I will ever get back to my all time best time, but I never would have thought I could get it down this much since my high school days.

Among all other circumstances with war with Iran, I saw gas prices spike overnight. I suppose it is a minor inconvenience when considering everyone who is within striking distance of missiles in the Middle East. I will take having higher gas prices over being in the war zone itself.

The war shouldn't be happening in the first place, but that is something not in our power to choose.

With a new war kicking off with Iran, we must consider the possibility of a draft taking place. While I think the possibility is quite low, the probability is still above 0.

The draft would be an extremely moronic idea. But given the current trend of government choices, they are quite willing to enact ideas that are terrible and evil. I have to wonder how many of them understand that if you want a civil war, enacting a draft is one way to spark that powder keg.

I for one am sick of the incorrect pronunciation of Epstein. It is "Ep-stine", not "Ep-steen." I don't care about any retarded justifications, the "ei" makes it a long I, not a long E.

Even more retarded when it was with Harvey Weinstein, when it was said as "Wine-steen." As if we do not see the exact same letter combination in the same name.

Is the media doing this because the "stine" pronunciation of Stein would make people associate the name as Jewish? Too late, everyone already knows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ohoqQqXes0

This sums up how I feel about the prospect of space travel outside of our solar system. In short, other stars are too far away and anyone who thinks we are going to get the magical technology to travel fast enough to make such travel possible is delusional.

My conspiracy theory of the day: the demonitizing of videos using terms like "pedophile," "rape," and "porn," are not used to protect children, but to serve as a shield to our own corrupt rulers so that it is harder to discuss the horrible acts they are doing.

Not that it really would work anyway, since people just created replacement terms like "PDF file," "grape," and "corn." You can't truly stop the message, you just force people to come up with new terms.

I have an idea to sell the idea of a net-taxpayer voter system to leftists. Use their hatred of billionaires against them. Talk up how billionaires should not be voting since they have been getting huge tax cuts.

Maybe it won't work, or maybe it will force them to look into how much each group actually pays into the tax system.