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gyroprotagonist

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  1. dayum. that's crazy. both my folks were teachers so i never cut class much at all, but missing/late 280 days/540 (180 school days per year) is pretty impressive. But if you were getting 'passed' to the next class/grade anyway, then why stop cutting class? There is a lot of meat on the bone for everyone here. - The fuck 'em cuz 'poor life choices' crowd - The schools are a waste of tax payer money crowd - the 'what in the actual fuck' can we please spend more resources to fix the school system crowd everyone wins?
  2. other the the probably cynical truth that abbott is trying to blimp his way out the energy fiasco, was there anything resembling 'science' that said yeah, this is a good time to unleash the hounds? Of course testing numbers of positive cases are lower as Texas is recovering from 'dress up like a 3rd world country week' and no one was out and about and getting tested was not even an option. - were hospitalizations down? I mean, i am a libtard but if something pointed to saying this is OK to do, then i would be fine with making a change to policy. If it's to just unleash spring break and St. Paddy's day revenue generation for bars/restaurants and destinations, then that's another story. The thing is, there is little downside that is going to be attached or stick to abbott for this. As much as we want people who gave no fucks about taking some personal responsibility during the pandemic to fuck around and find out, the odds are overwhelming that they won't. Will transmission and death increase? Yes. Will it be so substantial an increase as to point a blood soaked finger squarely back to abbott in a way that hurts him politically? Odds say probably not. I am sure that by the time the mask order is canceled next week, abbott will have some stat that X% of olds are vaccinated and that 100-X% don't want it so we are good to go.
  3. i can't find a Dallas county dash board for hospitalizations, but just from reading Jenkins' tweets every day the deaths have seemed high lately ~45 per day-ish. Are hospitalizations going down due to deaths? I am guessing that most Covid deaths occur in a hospital, right? - I would think at some point the deaths would come down as the population that is most likely to die is also getting the vax at the highest rate. Are there a ton of olds out there with other health issues that prohibit them from getting the vax? googled and this article (from Jan 19th) came up that claims most of the shots are not going to the olds so i hope we have been making strides and maybe there are a lot of first responders or something that have skewed the initial response, but for only 25% of the first ~850K to go to seniors seems off.
  4. Saw this old vid pop up today on the wealth tax. obviously the devil is in the details. From very light reading, the warren plan strives to account for some of the failings of the wealth tax instituted in Europe - euro was based on residency and not citizenship. euros were obviously freer to move around and reside in neighboring countries to avoid the tax. - euro had a lower $$ amount trigger the tax. Spain's is something like $800K you start getting taxed. - Austria could not afford to keep up with all the work of appraising and maintaining tabs on the wealthy's assets. Warren wants to set aside 100B in the hopes of collecting $3.5T over 10 years. I picture a cottage industry spawning like there is for home appraisal for taxing. People repping their client to argue that "this Monet is not really worth $5M, it's probably a fake, in fact..." The list goes on.
  5. me not looking at all the spoiler posts will have to go back and look at the end scenes now. after rewinding about 10 times after eps 1 and 2 to make sure nothing ever popped up, i started skipping them
  6. oh yeah...well your favorite band sucks. how 'bout that? yeah, i was just sorting through google pics trying to find the relevant ones. i blame my QC team. here's that last one that i guess did not go through. apparently there a redit (of course there is) for all this shit.
  7. I admit I have no frame of reference for what TPA (total points added) is but this would seem like it's Luka and the 7 dwarves out there. found one for the Mavs with offense (Added) and defense (Saved) how KP is 'saving defensive points' i don't know. maybe blocks count big in the stat. http://qqpublic.qpic.cn/qq_public/0/0-516269395-F1E657C045C988786446160D019692D8/0?fmt=jpg&size=76&h=442&w=680&ppv=1 all NBA for reference. Joker is killing it.
  8. it would be interesting to see the % of made long range jumpers when a big switches off on a guard. from anecdotal evidence, the big would be better playing close enough to force a drive. The guard knows the big is going hang back a little too far and they will have a fairly uncontested jumper. Using a step back creates even more space vs a big. maybe the %s bear out taking away the drive, but to my eyes it seems like the guard never misses in that scenario.
  9. i was browsing books on how to cook brisket in the oven FOR A FRIEND!
  10. I grew up in a small town with only 1 high school. This one cop, maybe 2 years out of HS, kept pulling over this one HS girl (a Jr at the time) until she finally agreed to go out with him. I had gone out on 1-2 dates with her earlier in the year (we were both in HS) and right after they start 'dating' the cop starts pulling me over. Luckily it only really lasted a month or so and i was never cuffed and stuffed. I think girl and her stalker eventually got married, so there's that. OP, sucks that happened and you had to go through all the bullshit for 'reasons'.
  11. i was not counting on Smith to get healthy or play much going forward. Zach and Lael together good form a decent right side i guess. i think the left side will be lacking, but admit i know zero about how Smith is progressing. Dude is a beast but was not right all season when he did play.
  12. the Dems probably do this too at these little pep rallies, but fuck, this is no different than an old fashioned tent revival except they are worshiping 'Values' and Trump instead of God. God is probably in there as a subset of Values right there behind 2A, POC being put back their places, taking away rights for non-hetero peeps and insurrection. the collection bucket probably gets passed around more often, though
  13. did Russ watch any of the Cowboys games last season? Their Oline sucks. He's got to be trolling for a redo on his extension
  14. lulz. that's one way to deal with it, i guess. can't wait for the siege on the capital and 9-11 standup sets.
  15. yeah, but Vivaldi is playing in background while i post on this thread.
  16. meh, i am near white rock lake. it's ~6-7 miles to cross to the east side of 635
  17. cool! only 1 site within 10 miles of my hood, but it's in Mesquite and who wants to go there, right? not 1a or 1b anyway but if there were dozens of places with wide open bookings i might try to sneak in there.
  18. probably because it does. I have noticed the same thing (although i drive much less too) with NPR, but they usually follow that up with stats that back up the claim. I heard a piece on Pandemic jobless and they said that women were more likely to lose their job than men. Then broke it down further and black women were most likely to have lost their job in the pandemic vs any other group. I don't know the right balance that reporting should take, but i think they are trying to show that yes there are problems in the country and yes x race seems to have a harder time of it. is it all borne out of racism? is it more because of the types of employment black women were working at the time? Are those two related? dunno, probably some from each column. read this article today: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/us/smith-college-race.html (may be paywall; i was reading on phone) and it starts off with a story we have seen before of white employee at college questions why black person is eating while black in this specific area. But then goes on a little deeper and paints of picture of nobody really did anything wrong or racist, but black student still felt she was being profiled and harassed and may have falsely accused or amplified the circumstances. There was a kids camp going on and they were trying to keep people out of that area. anyway, i think it's fair to report on the stuff and it's fair to be fatigued about it.
  19. corn on the cob
  20. just like Slick Rick, i would rather die of extreme cold and lack of potable water with no federal regulation on our energy grid on my feet rather than live in an electrically stable temperature controlled home drinking safe water on my knees after kowtowing to federal regulation. But you pussies do what you want
  21. look man, i don't question your addictions or where you go to get a fix. plus i can quit anytime i want.
  22. are you saying people that believe in the virus and actually take precautions (masking, SD) but don't want to get a vax? seems off I thought just the don't tread on me patriots and jenny mccarthy types were not getting the vax + people who don't trust docs
  23. loved Fry's but here we are today. Hell, i am a EE that used to work for AMD and stopped building my own PCs. Used to go there all the time for passive components and you could count them to have most everything in stock. Last store i would just go visit 'just because' or because my pops was in town and he loved going in there.
  24. well, if they get convicted, I look forward to their scholarship offers coming from OU forthwith.
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