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Captainant

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  1. 16 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    So HISD wasn't able to use the onsite defibrillator after a child had a seizure and the child passed.   The defib. was not maintained.   While this might be a stretch, remembed Miles fired the custodial staff this summer. 

     

    10 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    HISD Board of Trustees also approved the sale of $80 million in property even though it doesn't know which buildings or properties will be sold or which schools may be affected.  

    [laughs in businessbrain cost cutting]

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    Edited by Captainant

    48 minutes ago, texashorne said:

    Too much capacity generated from the Covid boom. Now there's way to many trucks per load nationwide and the rates have yet to bottom out as indicated by these filings.. 

    Another this week..

    https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pride-group-closing-could-affect-freight-rates-driver-market

    I think it's that, plus interest rates going up (from the COVID baseline) is really going to amp up driver loan delinquency rates. Those guys already had a hard time keeping their trucks when loans were damn near free, I can't imagine that it's easier now to be a truck operator, which puts even more strain on the trucking companies

  3. 8 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

    If you want to be outraged, read the law and state what you have a problem with. 

    This isn't the thread to talk the policy but I did link the law a few posts up and pointed out my specific issue is that the signed law in the books explicitly gives the teachers immunity for violating the establishment clause. That's a pretty goddamn clear statement of intent. 

  4. 1 hour ago, Dbeasy said:

    Everywhere I turned over the last year or two, friends and family have been telling me Chipotle sucks these days. And I just saw that the CEO had produced excellent earnings growth over the last several years, hence why he was hired to Starbucks. So what’s the real story on Chipotle? All my friend are wrong, or my friends are smarter than all the dipshits still giving them business?

    their CEO recently remarked that it was an "accident" that portion sizes had been getting systemically smaller. It started out as a meme that the company brushed off, but they eventually addressed on an earnings call

  5. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Yeah, but given how effective they've been, they've been more than worth their weight in gold.  Plus, while it's apples and oranges, those can be replaced, but this big boy can't:

    Tupolev_Tu-22M3M_GEFEST_(19230388334).jp

    lulz maybe they drank all the coolant on the TU-22

    Apparently most of the soviet aircraft were raided for their ethanol working fluids

  6. Surprise surprise, the workers cleaning it up are getting poisoned and NFS is working to cover it up!

    https://www.wfmj.com/story/51217066/hidden-report-reveals-how-workers-got-sick-while-cleaning-up-east-palestine-derailment-site

    The creeks around East Palestine, Ohio, were so badly contaminated by last year's disastrous Norfolk Southern derailment that some workers became sick during the cleanup.

    Workers who reported headaches and nausea — while shooting compressed air into the creek bed, which releases chemicals from the sediment and water — were sent back to their hotels to rest, according to a report obtained by The Associated Press about their illnesses.

    The findings were not released to the public last spring, despite residents' concerns about the potential health effects of exposure to the long list of chemicals that spilled and burned after the disaster. The workers' symptoms, as described in the report, are consistent with what Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workers going door-to-door in town had reported shortly after the Feb. 3, 2023, derailment.

    Since then some residents have also reported unexplained rashes, asthma and other respiratory problems, and serious diseases including male breast cancer.

    Researchers are still determining how many of those health problems can be linked to the derailment and how the disaster will impact the long-term health of residents in the area near the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. Many wonder whether there will be cancer clusters down the road, which of course won't be clear for years.

    In the meantime, residents have until Aug. 22 to decide whether to accept up to $25,000 — as part of a $600 million class action settlement with the railroad to compensate them for any future health problems. Accepting that money though means giving up the right to sue later, when the cost of health care coverage and specific treatments needed will become more clear.

    Norfolk Southern spokesperson Heather Garcia said none of the workers who got sick during the cleanup “reported lingering or long-term symptoms."

     
  7. 8 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

    That benefits Putin. Kills them off, can blame Ukraine, who runs out of bullets and is then attacked. WW2 tactics 101.

    On the other hand, russia is not the recipients of a shitload of American bullets beans and bandages like they were back in WW2. Plus, putin doesn't have near the power that stalin did in their respective eras of control. I don't think they'd produce the same result, especially when they're not in a war of annihilation like was happening against the nazis

  8. It really is amazing that you are continually allowed to post these nakedly racist and political actors. Just because the one thing you're posting is borderline ok, doesn't meant you're not amplifying a fucking awful person. That last dude you're posting prong LOVES to call the brown women of Congress the "Chief of staff of Hamas" and other racist slurs (click his profile and scroll down like 5 tweets). Real classy. 

    I'm certain he's giving you a good and informed dose of poison

  9. 3 hours ago, PRONG HORN said:

    Do you read what you post?  Those two classes are electives.  

    I bet you wouldn't feel that way if it were an elective on the Koran, or some other non Christian religious work. 

    Point being, this is literally the state respecting one establishment of religion over another. I'm not sure how you're not more concerned about the 1A violation, considering your previous zeal for that portion of our constitution 

  10. 18 minutes ago, cmontexas said:

    Im getting notifications now anytime someone comments on a thread I have commented on mine. Used to be rep and (you)'s only

    I had the same problem - click your name then click on the "manage followed content" page, and then the very bottom under the 2019 and 2020 recruiting page links (maybe @immamac can clean that up luz) there's "members". You probably have someone followed there, that was the case for me

  11. 6 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    "no major announcements"

    except next week they will have a meeting to decide if butch and sunny are going home in starliner

     

    4 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    technical authority governance model

    3 independent elements

    all 3 have to agree

     

    1 minute ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    if they don't return on starliner they will have 8 months on orbit

    this is all stuff we've known through other reporting for some time. If Butch and Sunny stay up they'll be replacing two crew who've been training for a year or so for their planned mission and maintenance. It'll be a load of learning on the fly, but they're a couple of the most veteran astronauts NASA has 

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    Edited by Captainant

    2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    Starbucks fired their 1-year tenure CEO this morning. Replaced him with the Chipotle CEO. SBUX up 23%

    I've actually rediscovered Starbucks as an ok coffee shop again over the past 6 months. I can actually find a place to park and even sit if I want to for a few minutes. I had previously stopped going when it turned into a 15+ minute wait for my order. When driving to work, I can't have that long of a wait.

    While I like that as a customer, that must not be good for the bottom line.

    "Hey you didn't fill my cup all the way!"

    "Oh, that'll be a double then"

     

    They're gonna Chipotle your Starbucks, the CEO announcement only ever talked about creating value, and nothing about the product or customer experience 

     

    Edit: and besides, making your own coffee each morning is the fuckin BEST

  13. 1 hour ago, wildcat09 said:

    I'm guessing this decision wasn't made at the White House level. 

     

    1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I don't see how this couldn't be the kind of thing that Biden issues an EO for.  Sure, they'll push back, but at least try.

    Being the commander in Chief of the armed forces, I would think he could order the Air Force to clean up their mess

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    Edited by Captainant

    4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I expected every company to do this. I didn't expect the first fucking one to be our own military. Jesus this species sucks. 

    Honestly, I'm surprised Biden isnt stepping in on this. But I'm sure Alito could convince Roberts that it would be illegal for Biden to do so

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