Samson's Wig

The much more important question when considering Baylor is just how rapey you are and how much you want to develop that trait. Their program is off the charts, and not somewhere anyone comfortable with half-measures should even apply.

The fucking idiot Brits and Brexit wrecked this for our kids. They have UK citizenship through their grandmother, but the EU has now gone out with the bathwater.

Definitely similar, although Lubbock is a much bigger city. Tech's campus is nothing to sneeze at (one of the nicer campuses out there, surprisingly). Greeley has a decent jazz festival every year, but that's all I've got. Oh, the feed lots in Lubbock don't blow into town like they used to, so it doesn't stink anymore (supposedly). Both places have rough weather at times (but so does central TX these days). I'm pleased to neither live nor work in either place, but wouldn't mind my kids at either school if it was the right fit. Lots of talk about Texas State around here but little mention of Tech, which is a better university in almost every measurable way (I get that we're supposed to hate them, but I'd rather see my kids there than aggie, personally).

No doubt about it, and no question as to why, but that's a discussion for another forum.

We'd, of course, be thrilled with any of the three. Wife and her parents are UofT grads. We're in Toronto a lot visiting family, so I'm rooting for McGill to have the excuse to visit Montreal more often. EDIT TO ADD: Canadian Universities are a different animal than down here in that there are tons of excellent small universities that focus heavily on one area. Depending on what you want to study, there are tons of quality options.

Hot damn that thing is ugly.

My kids have Canadian citizenship through their mom and can attend any school in Canada with resident tuition. They still subsidize their schools up there, and compared to U.S. public universities they are very affordable. I'll never say it to the kids lest I lead them in the other direction, but that's what I'm holding out hope for.

Alternative option: move to Austin where you'll take the rate the city says you will and you'll like it.

What's likely dumber is not pouring more resources into building up other Texas universities (in the UT system or otherwise), but our state seems on a hellbent mission to destroy education and scare off anyone who actually has any (unless it's from aggie I guess)

I can afford to construct a building on their campus and still be disappointed about it.* * I can't afford that.

We're still a few years away, but my son asked to go tour Harvard last time we were in Boston, and he fell in love. One of us is going to be really disappointed in a few years.

lol. Look, obvious troll, go peddle your bullshit elsewhere. Maybe there is an RFK rally somewhere.

Completely agree. The estimates are wide, but my point was even the lowest ones dwarf the bullshit concern of myocarditis, which is only brought up by disingenuous anti-vax types. This was the main point of the posted video, that concerns over myocarditis are so severe that people should really not get this new vaccine until we learn more. We already know exactly how extremely rare myocarditis is, which means the good Dr. Offit is either purposefully obfuscating or he's lost his ability to think rationally. EDIT TO ADD: Now that they've pinpointed a variance for long Covid, I suspect we'll see better data in the coming months as it will finally be easier to track.

That is an insane level of flip-flopping from Dr. Offit. Really weird. It's almost to the point I would suspect a deep fake on that video, although I don't see evidence of that watching it. He's throwing out talking points of anti-vaxxers and QAnon idiots, people about whose stupidity he has literally written a book. I'm not sure if he's just chasing that attention high he received during the pandemic by switching teams, if it's fake, maybe just edited so that we're missing some of the context, or if he just fell off the old man cliff and needs to be put to pasture. But this is a guy who was on the same hit list as Fauci for a lot of mouth breathers out there over the last few years. What a confusing video. He's fully in the "just asking stupid questions" camp, now, apparently. I don't know whether people should get this next shot or not (I haven't yet but probably will when I get my flu shot), but I'll definitely look elsewhere than a pediatrician in his 70s who appears to have shifted his entire professional viewpoint in his waning years for medical advice. This is all especially frustrating coming at a time when we now know Long Covid is real and not psychological (which I admittedly thought it was), and this asshole is talking about myocarditis, which is almost statistically insignificant even for the only group really at risk for it (35 out of 100,000 for 12-17 yo males). So he's worried about a side effect that at worst impacts .03% of a small group of young healthy people who will also almost all recover from it just fine when long covid, which affects somewhere between 7%-40% of people who contract Covid (of any age). The more I think this through the more that video is just more bullshit anti-vaxxer porn.

You sound like someone who lives for the moment, has no regrets, and will likely die young (and who possibly suffers from ADHD based on chronic procrastination with a lack of self-loathing). NTTAWWT

While I'm sure the people in Bama's story were likely the standard issue pill heads trying to score, there is also a shortage of many medications right now which also leads to some heated discussions at the pharmacy. As a nation, we're running short of everything from chemo drugs, antibiotics, ADHD meds, testosterone (tin foil hat tells me this one may be regional in red states - for reasons), and even fucking lidocaine. I feel bad for the pharmacists being on the front line having to explain to sick people that they can't have their medicine because . . . . Blaming supply chain issues at this stage of the game seems like a copout, although I'm sure there's some reality to it. People are dying or living miserably not getting their meds. I've driven over 300 miles to pick up medicine for my son I couldn't get anywhere in Austin. We've got compounding pharmacies on speed dial. The whole thing just sucks, and I'm not sure what needs to be done to fix it. I do know that the pharmaceutical industry does not deserve as much rope as others, however. They're still drowning in money. https://www.ashp.org/drug-shortages/current-shortages/drug-shortages-list?page=CurrentShortages&loginreturnUrl=SSOCheckOnly

It's possible to love Texas and hate the corruption. Anyone who can defend recapture with a straight face is either a crook or a moron.

People keep saying/writing things like this, demonstrating they either have no clue how any of this works or would simply prefer to pretend that the largess they enjoy in their suburban communities is not being heavily subsidized by people in the city, particularly Austinites.

The 5th and 9th circuits enjoy going toe to toe every year to determine who can stretch reason the most to justify insane politically based jurisprudence. This is nothing new, but the scary thing now is the lack of a balancing force in the higher court.

You can't pass a bond like that when basic needs aren't being met. It's completely disingenuous to argue that Prosper residents are the only ones paying for that stupid stadium, just as when other suburban schools pulled similar bond elections for toys. Prosper ISD and other suburban schools have all of the basic needs met thanks to taxpayers in Austin (and to a lesser degree Houston and Dallas), so they have the luxury to propose bonds for bullshit stadiums. How do you think a $94M bond for a stadium will go over if it's on the same ballot as a bond to try and repair air conditioning and leaky roofs? When there isn't even enough money to pay for special ed services? It's an amazing socialist-style rip-off being enjoyed by the folks most likely to decry socialism. This entire thing is nothing more than a grift from the morons who run this state to funnel money to certain types of Texans while completely screwing over the "wrong" types of Texans. It should be criminal. I understand why suburbanites want to bury their heads in the sand. I would be ashamed too if I knew my kids' beautiful campus was being subsidized off the backs of impoverished minority kids in the inner city. Or perhaps even worse, to know that all that excess is being paid for by the pinko commie libs in Austin. It's much easier to just assume that our community is special and built all of this amazing infrastructure due to our hard work, special status, and the Lord's blessings. What's going to be amazing to watch is how these same entitled suburbanites react when they realize that vouchers will destroy these public school palaces they've built. The biggest supporters of vouchers live in the burbs. When half the kids in these districts disappear to learn about Jesus instead of science, what do you think is going to happen to their public schools? And who do you think is going to own and profit from all the new religious schools that pop up to meet this need? Every single bit of all of this is about funneling tax dollars to a handful of crooks and keeping those same crooks' preferred monkeys in office. It's not complicated. You say this as if Austin and AISD have a choice in this matter, or that the money isn't very purposefully being apportioned the way it is. The State steals money from Austinites (and other municipalities to a much lesser degree) so that it can funnel the money to their preferred districts. You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to recognize the determinative factor of where the money goes. Perhaps more egregious is that a lot of the money goes into the general fund. So Austinites subsidize a lot more than just public schools in the suburbs, and state leadership loves it because they get to steal money and clown on libs all at the same time. And it's all legal thanks to well-intentioned, but ultimately stupid legislation passed in the nineties that has zero chance of being changed.

To be fair, they're pulling from a uniquely entitled and pampered group of kids who have been protected from the dangers of things like books their entire lives. It's hard to find the requisite amount of grit to win football games in that situation.

NAEP is a joke, and the data is commonly wildly misconstrued and used to draw boneheaded conclusions. Most prominently, it was used by morons like Betsy DeVos to argue for school vouchers. It's also the only single metric that demonstrates Texas students are doing okay. The only one.

I grew up in Texas public school (a rural one to boot), and no teacher held back on the genocidal aspect of our history, but that was many moons ago. We also had proper sex ed back then. I know Texas whitewashes the shit out of things these days under the direction of our theocratic overlord Mike Morath, but I didn't know that was part of it. My kids are just getting to the age where they will cover these subjects. Looks like I'll be supplementing. I also will be really surprised if the teachers in AISD hold back, to be honest. We're not in the suburbs, and they don't tend to keep their opinions to themselves. You might be more likely to get angry parents around here if you taught some version of history that made it seem like wine and roses. It's one reason we send them to schools with no air conditioning and rat infestations rather than move to the suburbs.

But they get to go home knowing those South Dallas kids paid for their stadium. What a world.

Many of our state leaders come from that neck of the woods. Texas Senate District 8 is notoriously one of the more corrupt legal jurisdictions in America (and the system that has protected Paxton's sorry ass for so long). That their communities profit off the backs of poor minority students in urban centers should surprise absolutely no one.