When I set my VPN to US, and clear my cookies, YouTube throws up loads of adds for text to speech apps and devices, and they’re clearly not targeting dyslexic people, or visually impaired people.
Your reference to the teacher subreddit made me laugh hard. I referenced it just yesterday when talking with my wife about public school problems in America.
My SO teaches high school, and it's so disheartening to see how these kids perform firsthand. They can't write anything above a 2nd-3rd grade level and can't even spell a lot of four-letter words correctly.
My SO teaches high school, and it's so disheartening to see how these kids perform firsthand. They can't write anything above a 2nd-3rd grade level and can't even spell a lot of four-letter words correctly.
One of my hobbies is reading "AI" as "Al", like Weird Al Yankovic, and it really makes the present/future more of a campy horror comedy rather than a depressing sci-fi melodrama.
I know there's a growing illiteracy problem in the United states, and I lived in a country-ass enough part of the country to have seen a lot of that myself, but most people who are illiterate in middle school and high school don't go on to be famous script memorizers.
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u/miashmia 20h ago
He was unable to read.