• wabasso@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I have this formative moment from my teenage years where I finished something in the fridge and asked my parents if I should leave the packaging in there. My dad, obviously frustrated with the question, snapped back asking if I saw an accumulation of empty packaging in the fridge.

    My kids are starting to do this now. I’m still perplexed why this is the default our brains take.

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        11 months ago

        I read through that literacy link a bit. Very interesting. I was assuming at least a majority of the adult illiteracy was from people born outside the country, but that’s only 34% of them! Do you know how California has the lowest rate by state? Are those 34% concentrated there, or is public school particularly bad there? I’m not American.

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      11 months ago

      I think its just a “this was in there before so it must go back in after im done using it,” since it’s only when it’s fully empty that changes.