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  1. Nice Guy Eddie
    one thing to consider is eclipse duration. You can zoom in more on this page (https://eclipse-explorer.smce.nasa.gov/) but here is the basic durations. The closer to yellow line, on your map, the shorter the duration.
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    hobbs and hobbes - you're putting words in my mouth and validating by the other agreeing that I said it. I don't understand why you don't move on. Have fun on your once in a lifetime trip to Hawaii.
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    I don't know what teachers do when kids take vacations during the school year. It wasn't a thing when I was in school. and I'm not talking about college. Of course some colleges and even a couple of my UT classes had mandatory attendance. It was rare at UT but not unheard-of. Both of my parents were teachers in secondary and college level so it was an impossibility for my family to take off during a school year. But I have zero recollection of any classmate doing so outside of illness or a death in the family. Christmas and Spring Break were vacation times along with summer. It would have been an unexcused absence where you most likely received a 0 for missed work. I realize I'm old but that is how it was. Sorry if my experience doesn't match yours.
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    this is satire right? It's cringey (is this an actual word?) in the opposite way how concert t-shirts from the 70s-90s are now cool but the person wearing them can't name one song from the band. And may actually not even recognize one song.
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    ohh burn. Nope to the homeschool. Unlike most UT students (at the time), I went to a small, poor Texas ISD with a single high school. FYI, the term homeschool didn't exist when I was in junior/high school. Those were called dropouts and in my town, they went to work. For elementary kids, the only alternative that I was aware of was a few religious based private schools. The main one being an hour away.
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    Yes I recall those stories as well. Basically a family/group run the entire county and bring in relatives from Dallas, and other cities, to vote.
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    you really butt hurt that I called out your Hawaii vacation? In fact I wasn't even calling you out, but there must be some underlying emotion that you're feeling about the trip and your kid missing school. You should have that checked out.
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    If one kid misses 5 days? No. If random kids are out every week? Yes. I don’t see how new lesson plans are taught if the teacher constantly starts over.
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    Not an attack on you but I don’t see how K-12 grades work if there are always kids out of school for non-emergencies. Or has school become completely worthless and now operate only as babysitters?
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    If weather permits, I’m looking to go to Waco. Sounds like the small towns are freaking out and will most likely make the traffic problems worse. of course I’m quickly losing faith that the weather will work out for most. I’m sure that some spots in Texas will get lucky with last second clear views which will be impossible to predict.
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    School issues aside, there are counties in Texas that could be consolidated. No one can justify Loving county with 50 residents.
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    My high yield savings account just announced a rate drop from 4.5 to 4.4%.
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    I fail to comprehend where some of these high school kids are going to land in the future in terms of a job or career, but as a 55 year old without kids, I guess it's not really my problem. I do think we've been failing our kids the last couple of decades and letting them slide in school doesn't seem to be a good solution. If someone has a good solution, I'm happy to do my part including higher taxes if it actually helps the future. I understand the opinion that some knowledge/info workers don't need an university degree full of unnecessary classes, but a degree represents more than sum of the individual classes. It shows completion of a long term commitment. For some of us, that commitment was shaky at times but we got through it. Personally I wouldn't hire someone today that showed up with a handful of online classes and a certification that may or may not have value.
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    Seems crazy to me to think that rules, competency and morals are to be followed in a war, especially now that we can kill people in a way where the operator is more detached than they if they were playing a video game. I imagine that there is a small percentage of the heroes in Arlington Cemetery that were killed accidentally by fellow Americans. And in the same wars, innocent civilians are killed at a higher rate. I'm very much a pacifist but also a realist when it comes to how war operates. What is occurring in Gaza has been occurring for centuries or thousands of years.
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    I know of a similar story that occurred with an Astronomy 301 final in the late 80s.
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    Wasn't a thing when I went to school in the 70s and 80s. Of course then again I went to a relatively poor school. Hell my parents did well, and our only annual vacation was 2 weeks in August. And yes, unexcused absences definitely lowered your grade after a certain point.
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    I assume that many kids got a pass for barely participating in the pandemic, and some parents noticed that the sky didn't fall. Of course being a dumbass kid with no ambition/plans is not really felt until a few years down the road after you can't earn a living. On @Pancho note about online influencers, I've watched a few clips where kids are being told by their peers, that school is a waste of time. While this peer is flashing money, cars, girls, etc. My viewing was other channels reacting poorly or laughing at these clips.
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    I'm not saying the good ol' school days were better, but I only recall missing 1-2 days of school (K-12) due to reason other than illness. It was my grandmother's death when I was in 3rd grade. Admittedly I did have a problem pretending to be sick because I wanted a break. As mentioned above, I regularly hear my friends talk about pulling their kids out of school for vacation because flights are cheaper on some days. Personally I could care less but that didn't seem allowable when I was in school. It was an unexcused absence that lowered your grade, and in theory could hold you back if it occurred too often.
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    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/29/us/chronic-absences.html no paywall but ads: https://archive.is/91mrf Nationwide absences (edit: chronic absenteeism) have doubled to 26% from before the pandemic. Quotes on the reasons I can understand why parents aren't always worried about a kid missing a day of school but this feels like a drastic change where we don't know the outcome.
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    Stories about people booking multiple hotels/AirBnBs across the country to mitigate weather issues. I imagine Texas hotels and hosts are being hit when cancellations which is painful if they had customer-friendly cancellation rates. Shame that Texas is looking so poor across the board. You would have thought either south or north Texas would have been clear. I've planned to take off Monday from work to drive from Houston but doubtful I will do that now unless the weather offers better chances somewhere in Texas.
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    One more piece of advice that I recommend for anyone dealing with parent who is entering assisted living, hospice, dementia care, etc: talk to a consultant. There are people who can answer almost any question you have. In my experience they get paid from the living facilities/services that they recommend. Obviously keep that in mind. In Houston, I found that Lori at the following was invaluable teaching me about everything senior care/living related. http://www.seniorlivingspecialistshouston.com/ I never asked her about the Medicaid lookback but I would assume that consultants understand that very well.
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    My mom had LTC insurance that was a blessing in allowing her to stay in assisted living near me (central.) If she didn't have the LTC, she would have had to stay in a place that was further (suburbs) from me. I found that Genworth Ins was awesome with my mom's LTC. They didn't have a problem qualifying her. They were inconsistent in payment dates so I made sure my mom's bank account wasn't dependent on the payment being received on the exact same date each month. I padded her account by a month's expenses. As for getting LTC for us younger folks, I would love to but I worry about the benefit time coverage and the uncertainty of rising premiums while waiting to someday use the benefit. On note of utilizing hospice care, the answer is 100% yes assuming that the person is effectively done with curative care. And even with that, you can opt out of hospice whenever you want, and re-apply.
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    Conservative LSU fans must be at a loss on how to react. They must simultaneously love Mulkey while hating the team.
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    funny how the "independent" politicians or formerly-liberal journalist do nothing but attack the Dems. At best they will attack Trump by saying that they wish he wouldn't tweet (or whatever) so much.
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    Wouldn’t it only take 1 or 2 of the GOP reps to announce that they’ve had enough and will caucus with the democrats? Seems like Jeffries could offer up some committee chairs to make that happen.

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