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5 hours ago, That One Guy said:

I appreciate hearing your perspective on it. We overlap on many opinions on the subject. 
 

I do think that the biggest one thing that has harmed education in the last 20 years is whatever the hell empowered suburban parents to endlessly defend anything their kids do and start behaving like shitheads to any school employees. Schools can’t fix kids without discipline. And that doesn’t appear partisan. It’s just broadly popular to be an asshole parent now. 

If only it were confined to parenting.

I never knew that the Scottish were so big on Van Hagar.

On 8/2/2024 at 1:58 PM, Rush Didact said:

 

I can usually deal with weird. Stuff like Mother is kind of grating, but I understand what they were doing. It's the dull, bloated crap like Behind my Camel that really ruins their albums for me and makes me start skipping tracks. There's no excuse for that song, and even less excuse for it to have won a Grammy.

Those are both Andy Summers songs.  I enjoy them, but I get that a lot of people don't. 

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

Low salaries discourage quality educators from entering or remaining in the field. Like low paid police, it’s a race to the bottom

 

Lack of funding for supplies, arts, and sports programs. We should be funding all of that very liberally. 
 

lack of funding and willpower for wholesome things like field trips. Any given school district is less gung-ho about field trips than they were 30 years ago. 
 

Generally school lunches are a joke nationwide. We could learn a thing or two from first-world countries on that one. 

School lunches are the result of lobbying by corps like Aramark.  Food packaging regs get put in place to prohibit freshly prepared food.

In 2024 Utah spent $2000 more per kid than in 2023.  It's not a lack of funding that kills field trips, it's choices. The pie is the pie is the pie, with only so many slices to go around.

Salaries have gone up dramatically in the past year or so, 20% or more in many cases.  Plus, signing bonuses are offered. Yet there is still a shortage.  Hemi touched on the root of the problem:  too many out of control kids with irresponsible and highly litigious parents.  Here in NorNev districts are hiring back retired teachers who can draw retirement PLUS salary and benefits.  Few retirees do it, because of working conditions brought on mainly by the lib social agenda.

59 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

A goalpost move to more than economics definitely opens up more to criticize Dems about. Californias new school gender identity notification law is wrong. 
 

There’s more wrong with public schools than things done in response to covid. If people keep gutting public school resources, this race to the bottom isn’t going to go well. I’m almost amazed todays 18 year olds are even half functioning at jobs and society as well as they are, given modern schooling. 

What resources do you believe are being gutted in schools?  

16 hours ago, That One Guy said:

Some guy juuuust solicited us at 8pm last night trying to hock solar at us 

 

no thanks dude I don’t need to spend five figures to save $30 a month some months 

Your power rates must be way below ours.

ETA:  Sure enough, Utah is lowest in the nation at 11cents per KW hour.  Nevada is 16 cents, significantly more.

16 hours ago, That One Guy said:

The fed successfully pulled off a “soft landing” after what COVID did to the world. That’s somewhat commendable. 
 

Blaming Dems for any annoyances you may have at the economy is stylish in some circles, but not all. Corporations and monopolies are the cause of most modern things pissing people off. Gooood f***in luck with a red wave this fall. 

Whole highly profitable to their big donors, Dem policies in (over)reaction to COVID have been  disastrous,  and not just economically.  The social fallout will be felt for a long time.

52 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Nah, residential solar when you’re in the middle of a massive urban area isn’t all that useful or cost-effective. 
 

Plus we hardly use any electricity until we eventually buy an electric car 

 

Summer power bills never get above $75 for us 

Why do you hate the planet?

On 8/2/2024 at 8:06 AM, BastillePark said:

The difference is, she was (supposedly) trying to make her way up the political ladder. Melania wanted to get a home in the US with a very rich guy, also supposedly. 

Mail order bride, from a high-end catalog

On 8/2/2024 at 6:57 AM, That One Guy said:

Food comes from farm-to-table gastropubs, electricity comes from solar panels bro 

I have solar.  Do you?

On 8/2/2024 at 6:54 AM, Nova Carmina said:

 

But they did meet the IOC standards, which is why they're competing,  and those are the same standards that keep people like Lia Thomas out of the Olympics. The IBA (an organization so corrupt even the IOC has broken with them) only came to that decision late (they had competed as female under IBA sanction previously), and possibly just to bust the IOC's balls (pun very much intended, thank you).

 

The chromosome thing is probably why they have the excess of testosterone.

 

Just as a non-scientific, but possibly non-trivial, point: does a country like Algeria strike you as the kind of place to tolerate or promote much gender leeway?

 

You're right, surely, that it is going to be interesting as it plays out!

That she is Algerian is a very interesting twist.

1 hour ago, JohnRogers said:

Feed your family exclusively from your rooftop garden. Power your apartment with your Peloton.

Food comes from stores, electricity from outlets.

5 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

There’s plenty of Republican platform items I do not want to see advance 

Abortion is a deciding factor for many, many people, and not in the GOP's favor.  I think Dems lose on the economy, war, immigration, sexualization of children, but Trump and his VP choice are so off-putting even those issues aren't enough to ensure a GOP win 

4 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Not sure if they’ll throw a super duper hissy fit if they lose to the same guy twice 

 

Or if Rs will if they lose to mediocre candidates twice 

Dems outspent Reps 2:1 more or less in 2020 (+/- $9 billion to $5 billion). Add to that their media advantage and the Dems have a pretty good shot this cycle now that Biden is out.  Trump is terrible at focusing on an opponent's record, relying instead on juvenile ad hominems.  That's worn thin, I think.

4 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Ew, if true 

It's true.  

We have a choice between two very shitty people.  Or voting third party, of course.

46 minutes ago, That One Guy said:

Republicans are gonna be so f***in uppity if they shit out an electoral college win on this one 

The question is, though, will Dems be as classy as they were from 2016-2020 if that happens?

1 hour ago, That One Guy said:

Donald is 24 years older than Melania. 
 

Classy. 

Kamala is 59yo and the matried man she had an affair with 20 years ago is now 90yo.  

Super classy. 

38 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

I'm guessing it'll have to end up with a death before people start to sit up and take notice. 

ETA:  Reports claim that the boxers in question tested positive for XY chromosomes

3 hours ago, Nova Carmina said:

My understanding is that she is not transgender; she has excessive testosterone production. Different things. 

Perhaps.  Here's a statement from the International Boxing Assoc regarding their decision to prohibit two boxers approved by the IOC for competition: "Both Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting post testing, did not meet the required eligibility criteria to compete within the female category of our respective events," [....]

"The urgent nature of the decision (to disqualify the boxers) was justified, as the safety of our boxers is our top priority."

It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

1 minute ago, BastillePark said:

That they do, but for me the voice is the thing that makes a band. 

Well, Joplin's voice ain't what it used to be.  

Trans boxer.     Not fair to women.  Italian biological female opponent quit after 46 seconds.

"...a still-tearful Carini said she quit because of the pain from those opening punches."

On 7/29/2024 at 5:48 PM, Leanne said:

Watching Fencing on Sunday, that's always been one of my favorites.

7 months pregnant and advances!  

On 7/28/2024 at 10:39 AM, Chicken hawk said:

Im watching the games on Peacock.  glad i can get it.   Every olympics seems to bring in new sports,.  

Break dancing!!!!!

2 hours ago, BastillePark said:

Aren't they kind of missing a very key member of that band?

Bands change singers all the time

Big Brother and the Holding Co.

Free concert two blocks from my house!  Should be fun