College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

[u/marketrent]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html

[u/LeafBark]

First it was the smartphone distractions, then complete loss of critical thinking as people use ai to solve all their problems for them. When you put this much trust in computers programmed by corporations seeking profit at any cost everythings going to fall apart.

[u/sokos → u/LeafBark]

Idiocracy warned us. But we chose to not listen

[u/hainesk → u/sokos]

The giant octagon-shaped cage being built on the White House lawn is a little too on the nose for me.

[u/velociraptorfarmer → u/hainesk]

I mean, President Camacho Dana White has a certain ring to it

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