Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 723 points –

Just as the title asks I've noticed a very sharp increase in people just straight up not comprehending what they're reading.

They'll read it and despite all the information being there, if it's even slightly out of line from the most straightforward sentence structure, they act like it's complete gibberish or indecipherable.

Has anyone else noticed this? Because honestly it's making me lose my fucking mind.

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Is this what it's like to have a stroke?

Oh thank goodness I thought it was just me. When I read that I thought 'dang covid messed me up'

Been a few years since having covid, but my wife and I both feel like we lost some memory and brain power from it, even though we were both vaccinated and had less evere symptoms than others.

In our 30s by the way

nah its a copypasta internet meme from waaay back in the day. Probably like around 2004.

This feels like reading a language that you only kinda know.

Fuck this is actually funny

Tbh, that was my response lol

I understand what you mean, but I haven't noticed people not comprehending basic information. Can you give examples?

As a lot of people have already pointed out it's mostly prevalent in arguments. Like a comment I made on a video about lane splitting on motorcycles.

The video was explaining why lane splitting is safer for cyclists and shows a cyclist get rear ended at a stop light. The title of the video was "Most people don't understand lane splitting"

I simply commented "No we understand this specific scenario but to continue driving between stopped traffic is completely different"

All the replies to my comment were about lane splitting at a stop sign/stop light. The very thing I specifically stated I understood.

Well that's sort of a bad example. What your explaining are two separate things. Filtering (moving to the front of a stopped lane by moving between vehicles stopped or by stopping) and lane splitting (moving between lanes at highway speeds).

Iirc filtering is safer but splitting is like way more dangerous but I'd have to look it up.

lane splitting is legal on the highways in california, I don't know about on all streets. it sounds like maybe you shouldn't do it on streets where you'd run into stop lights, or generally anything more complex than the interstate. personally I'm always careful whenever I see a motorcycle.

why is lane splitting safer? intuition suggests that treating a motorcycle like a car and giving them the same space or more would be safer, especially since you could predict what they'd do better since it would be the same as a car

When all the cars have stopped, that's the safest time for the cyclist to slither up to the front of the line. At 20 mph on a crowded freeway, it's a little more dangerous but legal in CA as long as they don't go more than (iirc) 20 mph faster than traffic. At 65 mph on a still-crowded LA freeway, having a bike race past you doing 90 can be disconcerting to say the least. At least you know if they cause an accident and you're injured, they'll probably be your organ donor.

One reason I've been told lane splitting is allowed is because motorcycles are air cooled and stopping for prolonged periods in a traffic jam can be bad for the engine. Also by allowing motorcycles to move forward it frees up space for more cars, though that seems like a small impact.

I'm not trying to be rude but did you understand what I said? Lane splitting at a stop light/stop sign/stopped traffic is safer for the cyclist. Lane splitting and continuing to drive between the lanes of stopped traffic is not.

I have to say I find it ironic that all replies here are about the lane splitting too.