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Snake Diggity

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  1. Astros prospects showing really well in the fall league. Janek has been one of the best overall players in the whole league so far. Sullivan is playing really well. Hicks and Brito have been extremely good thru 2 appearances each. I expect that Wohlgemuth and Leach will be like Danny Meszaros but overall Houston’s farm is looking good based on what we’ve seen in Arizona so far.
  2. I am probably just being cynical. But I looked around, and even though there were tens of thousands of people down there, I just saw a bunch of people who voted for Harris and Biden and Clinton. I didn’t see anyone acting nearly angry enough; people were acting happy and enthusiastic. And even though it’s millions of people across the country I don’t think any one in power on either side is going to really take any kind of positive action because of it. We’ll get a temperature check in 12.5 months with midterm results, but things just feel too far gone.
  3. I just got back from the one in Austin. It was my first political rally/protest of any kind. The crowd was very large, but to me it felt…ineffectual. Im glad I went but I think the time for that stuff was 2-10 years ago. I was surprised there weren’t more Trumpers out there. I still predict we don’t get out of this mess without a lot of violence and an economic depression.
  4. I don’t understand what he’s gunning for. He has zero chance of getting on the 2028 POTUS ticket. Is he aiming to be in the next cabinet? He really sold out quickly.
  5. You can’t be serious. Have you done ANY reading whatsoever on this topic? What evidence can you cite that shows vouchers improve outcomes for students in the lowest 50% of household incomes?
  6. Vouchers make the problems caused by recapture worse, not better. Incentivizing residents to pull their kids out of the system means less resources for the district. Not just the reduction in funding but also the reduction in other resources brought by families who can afford private schools. I pointed this out in my email to the decision makers in this current process; my 2 kids have a combined 18 years of schooling left, so pulling my kids out of AISD means a reduction of ~$270,000 in funding to the district over that time. On top of that, my wife and I have donated several thousand dollars per year to our kids’ public schools via fundraisers etc., and my wife volunteers a couple hundred hours per year at the school, and that all goes away as well. There’s a logical theory that vouchers could eventually improve an education system by having private enterprise build up to offer quality affordable options, but that’s only possible over a very long time frame and with a lot of luck. The guarantee is that in the short and medium term, poor urban kids get royally fucked even worse than they already are.
  7. We’ve been mostly satisfied with Baldwin elementary. We lost our really good principal to retirement this year and they’ve been bleeding good teachers like everywhere else, so I’m not all that happy about the trajectory. But when I researched private schools 5 years ago I was just not impressed with any of them. I just think our society has deprioritized education and so good schools are few and far between. We’ve kind of decided to just ride it out in AISD. If our kids become super unhappy or are just not progressing then we will be forced to do something but I don’t know what that would be. I really hope my oldest can go to LASA and that it’s still as good as it is now in 4 years. My youngest is not going to be able to go to LASA so if Bowie sucks then we will have to do private, but that’s still 6 years away. I learned during preschool that nowhere is going to meet what I think the standard ought to be, so childcare and education are going ti be constant disappointments for me until my kids are grown.
  8. Listened to the live Q&A session tonight. The director of planning came off pretty sharp but pretty much every other person, including Superintendent Segura, came off pretty unprepared and incapable. The call started late, had technical difficulties, then had 10+ min of the consultant moderator going over needless administrative points before they actually got to the Q&A. Anything on this topic should always be prefaced with the fact that AISD is only in this position because of the restrictions that state and federal govt have put on them; give the district $800M more in funding and all of a sudden every body with kids in AISD would be more than satisfied. I am focused on SW Austin and here were my other takeaways: Seems like they focused more on distance than commute when redrawing zones, which is stupid as fuck. They moved a bunch of people from Gorzycki to Small middle school, meaning families are going from a 1 min commute to a 20+ minute commute even though the distance is only a couple miles different, because to get to Small they’ll have to go thru the Y (290/71 split) in Oak Hill. To their credit they said they are looking at it so I have hope they’ll fix it. This was the only change that affected my family so I’m hopeful, but if they don’t fix it a ton of well-resourced people are going to be fucking pissed. It doesn’t seem like they put much thought into how many families will go private due to these changes and how that will affect district funding. Eanes being its own thing is really fucking up the high school zoning. There are a bunch of kids in SW Austin that are gonna get royally fucked having to go all the way to Crockett or Austin High instead of Bowie, when really most of them should be going to Westlake if they aren’t going to Bowie. Segura gave lip service to a question about transfers for folks who purchased a home specifically for the schools they were zoned to; he said they were looking at it, but my takeaway is that those people are fucked. Same thing around families who have been rezoned between kids and want their subsequent kids to go thru the same vertical the previous kids went to. Overall most of the responses were non-answers, especially during the academic and transfer portions.
  9. This is the exact way leading Democrats should be speaking about anyone associated with the GOP. “Dumb motherfuckers” “fucking liars” “evil pieces of shit” “shitty morons”…these should all be commonly repeated.
  10. Thanks for posting. I read that when you posted it earlier. There’s some bullshit in there but overall it’s a pretty clear picture of why Thiel is evil and crazy.
  11. I think Thiel is one of the top 10 worst human beings on the planet. Super rich, super crazy, super evil. A true 21st century Bond villain. He basically single handedly decided who would be vice president. Scary shit.
  12. What exactly is “speaking out”? I think a lot of people, myself included, are “speaking out”. That shit isn’t working, and the next step involves a lot more risk.
  13. I think a major question of this moment is: at what point do sane people engage in violent resistance? Trump has clearly done a lot of authoritarian shit over the last 9 months, so why haven’t we seen widespread violence in opposition of those things? It’s one thing to talk shit on the Internet and lament how crazy/bad things are. But if all these things are as bad as most of the regular commenters on this thread are saying they are, then doing shit like message board banter, voting, peaceful protest, etc. is all weak, pointless, and woefully inadequate. Of all the commenters talking shit about people downplaying things, I am pretty sure none of them have actually done anything other than whine about how bad things are and maybe donate a few dollars to opposition groups. But taking meaningful action involves serious consequences. It means risking your life and the safety of your family. That’s a different animal. And for just about everyone, the tipping point for choosing that path hasn’t yet arrived, and it’s very very difficult to determine what that point will be and how to recognize it when it gets here. I do think there’s a chance some real shit could go down on Oct 18.
  14. War on Woke? Lately Trump looks like he’s fighting a War on Stroke…and losing.
  15. There are really only 2 types of candidates the Dems should be fucking with: the type you just described, who rail against the GOP and the crisis they are creating (using a lot of cuss words while they do it), and the type like Talarico, people who can effectively challenge the notion of the GOP as the party of religious people. These milquetoast Allred McGrath types are fucking losers.
  16. McCormick and Garcia are for sure gone. Only one of Dubon or Urias will be kept. Jesus Sanchez will probably be dumped. Trammell and De Los Santos are potential non-tenders. All totaled, if they cut/trade Garcia, McCormick, Sanchez, and Urias, they’ll enter the offseason $30M-$40M under the CBT threshold. If they were also able to shed the bulk Walker’s salary they’d be in really good financial shape; $50M-$60M is a very healthy amount to work with considering their needs (2 SP and a backup C).
  17. Have you ever been married? THATS WHY THEY HATE IMMIGRANTZ!
  18. Anyone still saying “Trump has a plan” is a hopeless moron. That person is not worth wasting one second of energy discussing politics. Fuck that dude and everyone like him all the way up their ass. Also, Talarico doesn’t lay out his legislative plan in any given speech, for 2 reasons: first, he knows that’s not the way to generate campaign momentum in an election like this, and second, he’s running for Senate, not President; I don’t think it makes much sense for a senate candidate to lay out a bunch of legislative priorities they determine <1% the vote for. Also, it’s pretty find out where he stands on the issues and what his legislative “plan” would be as a Senator, if you’re willing to spend 15 minutes looking on the internet.
  19. I think that guy might just be the 2nd shittiest human being on the planet.
  20. My wife, setting up her new phone: “Surry, play some music. Surry, play some music. SURRY! Play some music. SURRY!…” Me: “What are you doing. Are you trying to say ‘SIRI’?” Surry. wtf.
  21. That’s the most disheartening part of all this. The powerless feeling that my only option is let the fuckers win by pulling my kids out of AISD and putting them into private schools. I REALLY do not want my kids going to a religious school and really don’t want to close them off from experiencing diversity, but I’m also not going to let them get a shitty education. It’s all fucked. Fuck the state govt all up their ass with a hot iron poker.
  22. We got rezoned to a lesser rated middle school which is 3 times further away than the middle school we were previously zoned to. Cool. And fuck my life.
  23. I think it’s pretty funny this post was begged by King George.
  24. That dude has a book out called Christian Patriot. Fuckin A. Get in that grift son. I am extremely tempted to have AI write me a book called Patriot Christian. Doesn’t matter what the book says, I have full confidence I could sell a few million copies.
  25. It always amazes me how much people enjoy embarrassing themselves. Folks just running in here straight up yelling “look at what an evil dumbfuck I am! Hahahahahaha!!!” Shit is crazy.
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