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tokamak

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  1. What’s the spot in or around Wimberley these days?
  2. Cute that you think they'll cut into profits instead of just quietly dropping plans to improve readiness.
  3. Watched the replay tonight and my kids were hyped. Simone is just on a different level from everyone else. Noticed that Chiles placed 4th overall in qualification (behind the 3 eventual medalists) but only two from each country can go on to the finals. That's rough. Hopefully our girls can pile up the medals in the apparatus finals.
  4. Israeli gal surfing in basically a thong right now...if you're into that sort of thing.
  5. Not a thing anymore. Gotta declare now.
  6. I'm of the opinion that saying "never" if you live anywhere in Houston is a mistake. Shit's always changing. TMC flooded like crazy in Allison, so they made big changes to the bayou system to protect it.....which then caused Bellaire/Meyerland to start flooding more often. Any time they make an improvement somewhere, and everyone says hooray - well, that water has to go somewhere.
  7. I'm pretty surprised that Miles and co.'s arms haven't fallen off due to all the back patting they've done regarding those STAAR results. Seriously, the amount and intensity of the propaganda they fill my email inbox with is unsettling and unprofessional. The teaching model they've implemented is basically wiping away anything that's not direct classroom instruction (e.g., libraries, reading nooks, etc), a lot of high-intensity (almost always timed) instruction with constant check-ins from the teacher and administrators, and making it clear to the teachers that they'll be compensated based on test scores. It's designed to improve test scores, and that's what it did. Are kids actually learning more? More prepared for college? For the workforce? Honestly I don't know. The really big question, however, is is the model sustainable? My kids are at a non-NES elementary and anecdotally, morale is pretty low among teachers and staff. The firing of so many (often popular) principals has kinda blown everyone's minds. It really is Miles's way or the highway. There's also the fact that none of Miles's stuff is paid for, and HISD is digging itself a huge financial hole with no apparent plan to fill it. They are going to have to cut to the bone over the next couple years to make the math work out. At the end of this past school year they cut every single janitor in the district and offered to rehire them as contractors. Twenty years in the teacher retirement system? Fuck you, hit the bricks.
  8. On the flip side, apparently Mazi still looks like dogshit.
  9. Swanson needs to do a lot better with that
  10. Coffey was super off but she never touched the ball I don't think. Rodman was definitely on. I'm not real clear on that the rule is there.
  11. At least we're pretty consistently putting it on frame. And there it is like 5 seconds after I post
  12. Kind of a rough draw for us in the knockouts. We're going to get Spain or (more likely) Japan/Brazil.
  13. Ukrainian dude's hairline looks like my middle aged dome. I bet our abs are about the same, too.
  14. I don't love the way that NBC (or the Olympic feed) shows the scoreboard for gymnastics. It's pretty meaningless to show the total scores in real time because some people haven't finished their rotation yet. My kids were confused last night when scrub ass countries like Romania kept jumping "in front" of the USA. They should show average score instead.
  15. Men's all around on now. Don't think our guys are favored to medal but favorites keep making mistakes so you never know. As I type Juda kinda fucks up his vault.
  16. No offense to anyone but Judo is kinda boring. Just two people trying to grab each other. Then they occasionally fall on the floor and lay there for a minute.
  17. I don’t like how the rewind/ff doesn’t have any sort of preview. If you want to go back a few minutes to rewatch something you’re just shooting totally blind.
  18. Watching Simone kinda reminds me of watching peak Serena Williams. She’s just playing a fundamentally different sport out there than the rest of the competitors. The sport has evolved but there’s only one person at the new level right now.
  19. How the fuck does Peacock not have the gymnastics medal ceremony? My kids wanted to watch it
  20. Incredible save to preserve the clean sheet
  21. That was some fucking Manny Diaz-level tackling by Australia
  22. Paredes makes it 3-0 with an absolute blast
  23. This fencing gold medal match is wild. Tied 14-14 (they go to 15). Twice they hit each other at the same time and the ref had to go to the replay. Both times he said it was simultaneous. On the 3rd try the Hong Kong guy wins but the Italian coach is pissed. Very dramatic.
  24. It looks like grown women playing a middle school team
  25. German goal. Naeher could’ve done better. Caught flat footed.
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