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  1. Brew
    Depends on the hotel and the way their system works as to where the cars are parked. Usually itā€™s a minimum $10, but if itā€™s a place that has close by parking and weā€™re going to be in and out itā€™s $20 which generally gets a better spot and faster service. We stay in a lot of the same places, for those itā€™s always $20 because everything moves faster and my wifeā€™s vehicle usually stays right around the entrance so I can walk right out to it. The nicer hotels keep notes and things like that get paid attention to. Also, it doesnā€™t matter what the hotel charges for parking, the valet gets tipped. This isnā€™t a difficult concept.
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    Just got back in from a few days with the kids in Chicago. We decided to try and eat places we have not eaten in the past for several of the meals. Sienna Tavern was an excellent meal, we were all surprised at how good it was and the fact that all 4 agreed on it. Itā€™s in the rotation going forward. Pistores was also a really good small neighborhood spot. Pizza and brunch were both excellent.
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    How many employees? You can PM if you prefer.
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    Heā€™s right, the roughing the passer is the only really bad one and even with it he got a shot on Beck on the head. If Simmons was on the line he would have been offsides but they never showed a down the line replay. You can bitch about no calls on GA (they have run a ton less plays which accounts for some of the difference), but TX has earned most of their penalties along with having shitty execution on their side of the field. Game should be out of hand by now, but blaming it all on the refs every game on this board is somewhat ridiculous. Execute and the refs wouldnā€™t have made a difference in the first half.
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    Each single gender wing has its own community bathrooms. Itā€™s not like there is much separating everyone though and again, floor common areas are for the entire floor. This isnā€™t some weird anomaly, we have toured multiple schools with similar setups in at least a couple of the freshman dorms.
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    The floors have 4 wings basically in a plus sign, 2 wings for each gender. Each wing has a community bathroom for the single gender wing. The common areas are all in the middle. She thinks itā€™s great and has friends all over the dorm because they are forced to interact, so itā€™s right up her alley. She is highly social unlike her parents, she might have been traded out at the hospital.
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    Donā€™t know whether you have a guy/girl, but coming from out of state to a SEC state school is tough going Greek. The primary ones pull from known instate schools, friend groups, legacy, etc so itā€™s hard to break through to a top tier from out of state. Daughter rushed UGA and she has 3 close friends that rushed Auburn. All had good experiences but all were focused on the mid/low tier sororities and were more interested in the experience than status. My daughter ended up where she needed to but it took a little while for her to come to that realization.
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    It depends a lot on where they are at and also where they live. My oldest is in a coed dorm with community bathrooms and her experience is similar to mine. They have open doors, all hang out together, go out and travel together, and come and go in all the rooms, etc. Sheā€™s dead set on living in a 5 girl room at the sorority house next year. I think sheā€™s nuts, but sheā€™s enjoying the social aspect. The girls in the apartment style dorms that she knows arenā€™t having the same experience and are probably more like what you see.
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    Federal income tax is not getting replaced, itā€™s a waste of time to even discuss it.
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    I would like to hear more about this. I grew up doing single audit work on school districts and other governmental entities. Last time I was heavily involved, the feds primarily provided Title 1, IDEA funds, and USDA funds on need based grant funding. They have been rolling out ARPA funds the last few years related to Covid that have pretty specific spending requirements also. What is the DOE coercing compliance with that you see as a problem and which grant funding program is it coming through? Feel free to be specific. Iā€™ll be happy to pull the audit requirements for the grant for you to see what it is for.
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    Do you though, because every post above you talk about pushing community education and disbanding DOE. Those two things have nothing to do with each other. Again, specifically whatā€™s your issue with TexasJeff and Goofyboyā€™s list of things the DOE does since you know they donā€™t deal with curriculum? Hell, if weā€™re disbanding entire Departmentā€™s, I would think you would at least have some specific relevant complaints.
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    It ALREADY is, have you not been paying attention? Local districts and state education departments set curriculum and the local education. The feds DO NOT deal with curriculum. They deal with the things that have been mentioned multiple times in this thread. Quit going on about something that doesnā€™t happen.
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    I so enjoy the deflect/distract method of discussing politics and political views. There have been numerous things posted above that you could respond to about your specific issues with the DoE and perceived lack of understanding on what they do. Either you have some point that isnā€™t clear or youā€™re parroting information found elsewhere with no way to discuss it.
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    See ā€œonly country with decentralized educationā€ and think about the ramifications of that. I am curious what data you are using other than ā€œpeople are sayingā€ to base your opinion.
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    One of its core tenets is prohibiting discrimination and providing equal opportunities in education. You lose most of the Trump supporters because of that. Letā€™s not worry about Title 1 funding and other funding that the government actually requires audits of to determine it is spent appropriately, Pell grants, disability education, research, etc. Those donā€™t matter, we prefer to discriminate. On your second thought, welcome to everyone getting involved in politics without putting in the time to understand how things work. Twitter said, so it must be true.
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    This is the basis of Trumpism. Itā€™s not policy driven, itā€™s isolationism and fear driven. Just the number of people around here and other places online that canā€™t discuss policy, have no idea what they are even arguing in support of, and really just interact by sticking their fingers in their ears and sticking out their tongues is fascinating.
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    States and school districts are where the ā€œdecision of how to educateā€ resides. Again, what specifically do you disagree with that the DoE oversees now that your original premise doesnā€™t hold? Do you even know what they do, why they do it, and that we are literally the only country with decentralized education already?
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    Who do you think sets curriculum and educational objectives? What do you think the DoE actually does?
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    Most of these I at least get the premise of even if I donā€™t agree with them. However, whatā€™s the primary issue with the Dept of Education and what are you proposing to replace it?
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    I can tell you when my MAGA parents call they arenā€™t talking about the NYT, WSJ, etc. They are talking about Candace Owens, Joe Rogan, etc which I think was the point being made. Whatā€™s the viewership on the Sunday Morning talk shows versus Elonā€™s followers on Twitter. I would agree they donā€™t meet the historical definition of mainstream media, but you should be able to agree the Rā€™s own the information/content wars at the moment through the various types of media outside of Legacy maybe. You can debate semantics (which seems popular around here) or you can debate the message/point (which is what most normal people would do).
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    Steel has worldwide tariffs with exemptions for Canada/Mexico, it wasnā€™t just a specific tariff directed at China. There are also targeted tariffs on Chinese steel outside of the overall tariffs. Numerous studies have shown the steel tariffs specifically to be detrimental to the consumer from a cost perspective, but there are also issues around the push for production of ā€œcleanā€ steel/aluminum that drive those tariffs as well.
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    Iā€™m not giving you my ā€œfeelsā€. Iā€™m telling you what my construction clients are seeing in their futures pricing. G650 is telling you what he is seeing/expecting in materials pricing. The guys on my side have all been in the industry a long-time and they are making plans for increased/unstable material costs and are not locking in long-term contract pricing. You have a short window to accept and a short window to pay for/purchase materials. Now, my steel guys are falling all over themselves with the proposed increase in the tariffs. Their numbers will go through the roof because their prices increase substantially with tariffs. They can charge more because of foreign material pricing. The end customer pays similar to what he would for imported tariffed steel (xx% higher than without tariffs) and the steel guys here just make a much larger spread. They love it.
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    You donā€™t, you could just respond to the couple of people involved in the industry that have posted. Or not, either way. Yes, the answer is always yes. Remember, deflect, disinformation, distract, itā€™s the way of their world.
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    Iā€™m actually trying really hard here to find your point, but I canā€™t. You clearly arenā€™t reading along or wanting to discuss the difference between actual things that are said by the individual and can be quoted versus those that are people saying this is what he will do or thinks. Weā€™re back to distract and deflect rather than actually discussing the level of misinformation Trump himself has injected into the narrative.
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    I can easily agree that his quote is a problem and itā€™s not a line of thought that normal people would take, but stretching it to ā€œhe wants her in front of a firing squadā€ based strictly on what he said is a bridge too far. There are plenty of people that would agree that politicians often take individual lives for granted in other countries wars while they sit behind their desks which is really the point he was making. Hell, it was a premise of the Democratic Party for some time.

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