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    It’s an elementary school so they aren’t eligible yet.
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    I don’t see any changes coming at this point. There isn’t the political will for it. My biggest concern is the number of parents that don’t send their kids back because there will be little social distancing and not many masks. This is disruptive to a school to have so many kids in and out and obviously hurts their eduction. At the most basic level, we staff schools for the number of children. Having 400 in August and 600 in December (after kids are vaxed) it would be a staffing difference of 9-10 teachers. I don’t expect the numbers to be that drastic, but I am already hearing from parents that won’t be sending their kids back until they are vaccinated.
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    I’ll go back and reread it tonight. I skimmed it and a lot of time was spent on brushing scams if that wasn’t what was actually going on.
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    They didn’t order the seeds. It was a brushing scam. For it to work, you actually have to send something, preferably cheap. Seeds made a great dummy product.
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    Sushi

    Larry T. Spider replied to futureman's topic in Austin

    Haven’t been since pre-covid but Soto is great. Only been to the lakeline location.
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    We are starting school as normal. It would take insanely bad numbers to change that. Currently virtual is not funded by the state and requiring masks is prohibited. Almost no chance Abbott retreats from that stance. The superintendent is also all about a normal start to the year and isn’t really thrilled with how last year went down. It was her first year so she didn’t have a lot of leverage.
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    While I don’t see temple as a future metropolis, I have been checking out potential investment properties there. Would be easy for me to manage from my current location, has a low entry point, and plenty of potential for growth.
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    I’m the principal of an elementary school. Let me know if she ever needs anything.
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    The thread about fat people has devolved into people talking about all you can eat meat buffets.
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    I did some basic searches of small town teacher salary schedules and was not able to find anything under 40k. Anything near a city is close to 50k. Austin ISD is currently starting at 51k with a 6k bilingual stipend. Of course you are making 53,500 after 10 years but that’s a different story….
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    It’s a Kevin Fowler song
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    Is the wife teaching at a private school? She can start at 50+ in public school and get a 6k stipend if she is bilingual.
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    Pics not coming through yet. I’ll check back since I’ve had some Wi-Fi issues today.
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    You gonna tell yours to lose 10 pounds?
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    With all due respect, tell the wife to fuck off. Respectfully, of course.
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    My wife is on a low sodium diet due to a health condition so I basically am too. It’s amazing how salty restaurant food tastes when you don’t eat like that regularly.
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    Those are all great things at an individual level, but I don’t think it’s realistic across the 200 million people that need to lose weight in this country. Like I said with calorie counting, it’s far from the ideal solution. But when dealing with large numbers, something that everybody can understand and implement is going to yield the best results. In football terms, you can’t roll an NFL playbook out to middle schoolers.
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    As I’ve been reading through this thread I’ve been thinking about the simplest solution on a national scale. The best solution will never work because we are idiots, only the simplest has a chance. Getting people to count calories and stay under a specific number is the only idea I can really think of. I would guess the average 50 pound overweight person doesn’t know how many calories they should be consuming or how many are in their typical foods. What I see a lot of people ordering as a normal whataburger meal is 1,645 calories. If you are 200 pounds and want to maintain your weight, you have less than 1,000 remaining calories in the day. That’s fine if you are aware of it and make adjustments. But if you keep plowing through calories you are going to be a fat ass in short order.
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    There may be more to it, but I just thought it was an easy way to make an extra 35k in interest per unit per year. They pay 50k a year in rent but you have to provide a lot of services. The investment income is a lot easier. Then they keep 10% of it at the end.
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    My wife and I have started splitting meals when eating out. Usually a small app and 1/2 an entree is plenty. When I hit late 30s, the weight management got a lot harder.
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    1. No 2. Probably
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    The answer will always be “both”. People with no personal responsibility or impulse control will always struggle with this. But we can create a macro environment that makes it easier for the middle of the road person to find some level of success. Portion sizes and processed garbage that is called food are things that can be manipulated. Does it stop somebody from going to Popeyes for the 4th time this week? No. Would it have some impact on the obesity levels across 330 million people? Probably. Treat it like a national security issue and get buyin from “both sides”.
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    I started this thread in February and expected a little more consensus on a top few choices. Maybe there isn’t another Austin in the near future. There’s no economic law that says there has to be. It will be interesting to track the growth of some mid-sized cities over the next decade to see if anybody breaks out.
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    He’s pretty normal in most ways but when it comes to food, his views are definitely crazy. And they will kill him. Damn near already did. Sadly I think he is closer to the norm than many would like to admit. It’s not the same issues with each person, but as a country we have an extremely unhealthy relationship with food.
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    It’s mostly a meat and potatoes type diet. Almost no fruit and the vegetables are limited and the variety is without much nutrition such as corn. Big portions of meat are always the main component, sometimes ok and sometimes not. Lean grilled meat isn’t bad but the pork chops smothered in gravy…not so much. Anytime he eats out it’s BBQ, burgers, or Tex-Mex. Just about anything else and he will remark that “this doesn’t seem very traditional”. The standard portion size is probably double what it should be. I think it’s tied to his childhood but is also a cultural thing to him. Eating the way he does is how he connects to his masculinity. It’s somewhat tied to his politics as well.

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