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  1. Both my kids were in full-time in-person school last year from October 2020 through the end in May 2021.  They each came home a couple of times for contact-tracing purposes.
    But one big difference is that last year, their schools were set up so you could move pretty seamlessly from in-person to online-only, because there was at least a small group that NEVER went in-person.  This year it's not going to be so straightforward, and I feel like the online learning will be even less productive than before.
    Aisd currently does not have an option for online learning besides what is on Blend -links, lessons etc. no class time.

    I get that TEA is driving that bus but you won't think having classes recorded would be a good idea even in normal times so kids are less likely to punished academically for staying home when ill.
  2. What's sad is that there is probably some legitimate criticisms about the way this played out (although I think there was no possibility of a peaceful or any form of non-chaotic exit strategy), but they've cried wolf so many times over illigitimate shit like birth certificates, tan suits, misuse of the term "socialism," "communism," and "facism," etc., etc., that nothing they can say has any meaning. They don't give a single shit about Afghanis, just something to criticize "the left" about. And even if some of them have legitimate care or concerns, you lost your credibility over the last several years. Fuck off and keep poisoning your base. The tide is going to shift soon when the fox news crowd starts dying off in droves from old age.
    Fox News and its ilk get new young viewers all the time. Thinking they will just die off is erroneous and dangerous
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  3. We have been through this many times in other contexts.  I think they can largely suss that out beforehand.  Grab him in the car.  Grab him in the front yard on the way to the car.  Lots of options.  Coming at 6AM doesn't guarantee safety if the subject is a methhead that's been up all night tooting or shooting.
    Whether the subject will come out guns blazing may vary.  The FBI coming at 6AM with a battering ram never varies.
    Search and arrest tactics here leave a lot to be desired.
    Yeah they prolly should have grabbed Koresh at Walmart...
  4. Okay, on the whole Abbott "kill kids".  Abbott and the Republicans are guilty of absolutely moronic ideas regarding liberty, the Constitution, and masking.  But ultimately, I think they'd justify their approach along the lines of how parents are allowed to keep guns in the house, or travel with their kids in cars, or take their kids out on the boat, or the myriad of other activities where government does not prohibit parents from accepting risk on behalf of their children.
    I think the above is the most fucked up logic in the world, but warped though it be, given Abbott's argument that he's not prohibiting anyone from wearing a mask, I think it does make the "he wants to kill kids" to win reelection a bit much.
    Irresponsible, a dereliction of duty, etc.?  Sure.
    Except these ghouls are fully vaccinated, have kids in schools with strict mask requirements and contact tracing, world class insurance and plenty of money.

    The ethos is solely winning reelection. A narcissist in Washington didn't want to wear mask so that's now an issue. Those in power wanted a strong economy to run on for reelection so "no lock downs no matter what was a thing." These people could have been coerced to do a lot better. If these clowns in charge were really the tough guys they claim to be they could have modeled wearing mask as tough and badass. Wear some modified bandana, "mask up for Texas, Texas masks, Texas tough."

    They are weak ass , selfish frauds.
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  5. here is NZ trying to do it right? or is that wrong? 
    https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/17/asia/new-zealand-lockdown-one-case-intl-hnk/index.html
    we fucking science fair experiments down here. not gettnig vaccinated, not getting any herd immunity, just time capsules. when we ever decide to reenter the world we will die when the wind blows the wrong way
    Or the rest of the world dies off over the next 3 years then you guys get all our shit.
  6. Yup. I was an econ major and still work somewhat in the field and study it often. I just can't get over the opportunity costs. What could we have done the last 20 years with all that money? We could have saved countless lives with simple disease and hunger initiatives without needing bombs or other war machines. Afghanistan has been a lost cause since the 70s, at least. There are horrible situations going on everywhere. Afghan people will suffer. So are Uighur Muslims in China, and countless people in Africa. We can't solve all problems worldwide. If we're gonna spend that kind of money for humanitarian efforts, lets focus on food, medicine, clothing, housing, education, etc., the things that can actually help third-world countries without war.
    Edit to add that one thing we can do to help the Afghan situation, and others worldwide, is wide and robust refugee program for people to settle in the US. Make the burdens minimal. The only thing I care about is ensuring that we stop people from entering with bad intentions, and that number can be higher than zero if it helps the vast majority of people who need refuge.
    we could have easily unfucked central america.
  7. If y'all want to know why we are completely and utterly fucked, understand that a healthy chunk of the anti-vax, anti-mask crowd shares this kind of thinking:
     
    These people are among us.  The majority political party in the entire southern US panders to them completely.  
    We are an aircraft that had a wing completely fall off.  I don't care if our pilot is the love child of Sully and Chuck Yeager, you don't recover from that.
     
    What if he's Zivi Nedivi and we come in hot but ultimately safe?
  8. What I don't understand is how anyone with any say over the situation is at all surprised by both the results and the speed of those results.
    I'm an amateur nobody, who has simply paid attention to the situation on the ground from a moderately educated perspective, and who has read a tiny bit of history (both recent and old).  This was always what was going to happen.
    I got into a big fight with my old man on the eve of this bullshit. I predicted a decades long quagmire with our ultimate defeat at the end. I was only wrong about our body count - it being much lower. I expected a faster bloodier initial fight. The rest of the guerilla IED shit was to be excepted. And that part pisses me off, so many just blown up for what...
    Ruined lives. Fuck.
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  9. On a zoom for Anderson HS.

    What a shit show the TEA and Abbot created.

    No virtual option allowed. If you don't show up the first week in person, they drop you.
    Even better, if you are exposed and symptomatic and have to quarantine for 10 days there is no way to make up in person portion of instruction.

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  10. Generally not a fan but I appreciate him being the adult in the room. MTG would’ve had a full body O working those people into an election fraud frenzy before sending them to her website to donate.
    gross
  11. They should be tested, and that needs to change. However, this is fear mongering considering how many busloads and planeloads of untested, likely unvaxxed enter the city daily from equal or hotter zones for covid. No one is testing fucktards returning from Floribama

    However we should not be contributing to the narrative of blaming brown people.
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  12. asshole "poll watchers" that were just mentioned:
    https://www.texasobserver.org/king-street-patriots-go-national/
    In my experience working as a poll watcher, GOP volunteers coordinate and tally the number of voters in a log book, working in shifts. Its wholly inaccurate and they do not account for people who get turned away, nor the votes that come through during bathroom breaks. They spend very little time observing issues or problem solving so people can figure out a way to vote. Mean mugging sans mask with the tally logbook is about it. And they follow the sheriff to drop off the ballot box.

    I'm sure that shits only going to get worse.

    I'm surprised these logbooks didn't pop up as evidence of fraud somewhere the last cycle, perhaps because of the favorable results in Texas.



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