The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread

[GenXer 3136]

39 minutes ago, hookem2010 said:

Do we have a moving out of Texas thread? It's going to take some time to be in a financial situation for us to do so, but we will have much more flexibility in a few years and are interested in options. Would like a good place to raise kids, outdoor activities nearby and decent diversity. Where would you send us?

It’s on page 2

Texpatriots

[Willfully Horn 8104]

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I saw saffron at Costco last weekend for 16.50 per gram.  I know it’s expensive but never priced it before to know how that price compares, but does the spice contain the seeds?

It shouldn’t. Only the flower’s stigma and styles, ie the crimson parts in the image.

Edited Monday at 03:56 AM by Willfully Horn

[InkaUtexas 26399]

3 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I saw saffron at Costco last weekend for 16.50 per gram.  I know it’s expensive but never priced it before to know how that price compares, but does the spice contain the seeds?

No, it is a bulb. Growing is easy. Harvesting the saffron is a bitch and it takes a lot.

[Horn Dog 10062]

sorry to football the cr but can’t resist 

[gmr548 16645]

On 11/30/2024 at 8:03 AM, Foosters said:

Every time I'm in Texas, I'm asked when I'm moving back. The last time the conversation came up, it was on the heels of everyone discussing what kind of generators they bought for their house for the next power failure. All living in the "energy capital of the world."

This might be a generational/social circle thing but we got a whole lot of "take me with you/wish I could" from peers and a lot of confusion from older folks when we decided to leave.

[DigglerontheHoof 21324]

8 hours ago, Horn Dog said:

sorry to football the cr but can’t resist 

That rat-faced cunt better stay away from the rest of Texas' games.  

[Goofyboy 3331]

Huh… who woulda thunk?

[Ojo Rojo 1986]

14 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

Do we have a moving out of Texas thread? It's going to take some time to be in a financial situation for us to do so, but we will have much more flexibility in a few years and are interested in options. Would like a good place to raise kids, outdoor activities nearby and decent diversity. Where would you send us?

I don't think I'll leave, but if I did and I was going to stay in the states I would go to Colorado. If shit goes down, it's harder to kill rebels in mountainous areas. In the meantime, I like to fly fish and snow ski.  

[sasquatch69 608]

7 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

I don't think I'll leave, but if I did and I was going to stay in the states I would go to Colorado. If shit goes down, it's harder to kill rebels in mountainous areas. In the meantime, I like to fly fish and snow ski.  

Northeastern New Mexico for me.  Same beautiful vistas and outdoor activities as CO, but the roads all suck so the bad guys can't get to you. 

Edited yesterday at 12:11 AM by sasquatch69

[GenXer 3136]

Speaking of bad guys

 

 

[GenXer 3136]

 

[Brisketexan 105691]

 

The irony of that Schriver dude being so obviously a self-hating closeted gay man….isn’t even ironic anymore.

[David Dennison 19136]

Get rid of income taxes is the funniest thing ever.

[Biff Tannen 45784]

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

Get rid of income taxes is the funniest thing ever.

This is how we elected Trump again. A huge number of people in this country have no idea how anything works. 

[Nivek 17077]

This is how we elected Trump again. A huge number of people in this country have no idea how anything works. 

This is what we get when we underfunded and dicked around with education.

[Horn Dog 10062]

1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

Get rid of income taxes is the funniest thing ever.

Modern day Conservatives-  “If you save me money then sure we can talk about getting rid of other people’s civil right!”

Great job maga fucktards!  Great job!

[wood 11637]

Trump appears to threaten Hamas with 'all hell to pay' over hostages https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62757dd55no

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Without mentioning Hamas by name, Trump posted online the same day: "Those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in the long and storied history of the United States of America."

I hope the Pro-Palestine folks who voted for Trump are happy.  Many of us said throughout the campaign that Trump's idea of ending the war is not the same as theirs. Hard to understand how they couldn't see it.

[Goofyboy 3331]

If you want a new computer, might wanna buy now.

[Longhorn_Fan68 33969]

good thing we manufacture all our tech here!

[Incredulity 11727]

14 hours ago, Nivek said:

underfunded

 

 

https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statistics

 

 

 

• Schools in the United States spend an average of $19,973 per pupil, which is the 2nd-highest amount per pupil (after adjusting to local currency values) among the 40 other developed nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

[Foosters 17950]

exactly. which is why our teachers are compensated so well, and our student-to-teacher ratio is so low.

[safe sex 11813]

36 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

If you want a new computer, might wanna buy now.

Literally me this weekend

[Aqua Buddha 14671]

If only someone would have told them....

“We will absolutely have a labor shortage,” said George Fuller, a longtime Texas developer who is also mayor of McKinney. “Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, these industries depend on immigrant labor.”

The McKinney mayor, who describes himself as a Reagan Republican, said he would prefer all workers to be documented and would like to see more materials produced in the U.S. But he said he thought a heavy-handed approach of deportations and tariffs would be a painful way to advance those goals.

“The short-term impact, I don’t want to say devastating, but it would be a significant impact,” he said. 

[High Plains Drifter 11075]

2 hours ago, Incredulity said:

 

 

https://educationdata.org/public-education-spending-statistics

 

 

 

• Schools in the United States spend an average of $19,973 per pupil, which is the 2nd-highest amount per pupil (after adjusting to local currency values) among the 40 other developed nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

 

Honest question, does anybody know: when comparing spending to other countries, does the amount we spend spending on sports, band, proms, etc? 

 

 

[DDD Dad 14394]

41 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Honest question, does anybody know: when comparing spending to other countries, does the amount we spend spending on sports, band, proms, etc? 

 

 

I happened to catch a little bit of Kris Boyd's "Think" last night on NPR:

The politics of school vouchers

Despite hard evidence that they [don't] work, school voucher programs are still gaining steam. Josh Cowen, professor of education policy at Michigan State University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why "school choice" is such a hot-button issue, the influential people behind its growth, and why this push is signaling distrust of public schools. His book is "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers."

One of the takeaways from his research was that there is a direct correlation between spending and improvement of outcomes with public education (from test score performance to later life successes, health, and reduced crime); whereas while school voucher "competition" does have a history of marginal improvement, if the money diverted to vouchers was instead directly investedto the schools it would increase the improvement exponentially.

Available to listen here: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/478859728/think (December 2 episode)

 

[Chad Fuck 17897]

5 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

I happened to catch a little bit of Kris Boyd's "Think" last night on NPR:

The politics of school vouchers

Despite hard evidence that they [don't] work, school voucher programs are still gaining steam. Josh Cowen, professor of education policy at Michigan State University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why "school choice" is such a hot-button issue, the influential people behind its growth, and why this push is signaling distrust of public schools. His book is "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers."

One of the takeaways from his research was that there is a direct correlation between spending and improvement of outcomes with public education (from test score performance to later life successes, health, and reduced crime); whereas while school voucher "competition" does have a history of marginal improvement, if the money diverted to vouchers was instead directly investedto the schools it would increase the improvement exponentially.

Available to listen here: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/478859728/think (December 2 episode)

 

[Brisketexan 105691]

28 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

whereas while school voucher "competition" does have a history of marginal improvement, if the money diverted to vouchers was instead directly investedto the schools it would increase the improvement exponentially.

When you understand that vouchers are about 1) improving the outcomes for the most fortunate (kids from families who could already afford private schools), including by increasing the funding to those schools (Tuition of $10k plus voucher for $5k = tuition of $15k now, and 50% more revenue to the school), and 2) fucking over everyone else, because harming others is even more important than helping your own, it all makes sense.

And I say that as someone who went to private school right up until my first day at UT.  An education my parents scrimped and saved to pay for, AS THEIR CHOICE.  And I also say that as someone who believes in the common wealth and the common good, and who has always wanted our public schools to provide a good and sound education to all people.  Because I don't know if y'all realized this, but all of those kids who go to public schools today?  They're going to grow up to be our neighbors, and our future workforce, tomorrow.  Would be nice if they weren't incompetent idiots.

 

BUT....on the bright side.....Brisketexan's FreedomEagleJesusGunPatriot Academy for Patriots is going to make a fucking KILLING.  And...isn't that what's important?  Personal grifting and profit, damn the cost to society?

Edited 17 hours ago by Brisketexan

[DDD Dad 14394]

3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

When you understand that vouchers are about 1) improving the outcomes for the most fortunate (kids from families who could already afford private schools), including by increasing the funding to those schools (Tuition of $10k plus voucher for $5k = tuition of $15k now, and 50% more revenue to the school), and 2) fucking over everyone else, because harming others is even more important than helping your own, it all makes sense.

And I say that as someone who went to private school right up until my first day at UT.  An education my parents scrimped and saved to pay for, AS THEIR CHOICE.  And I also say that as someone who believes in the common wealth and the common good, and who has always wanted our public schools to provide a good and sound education to all people.  Because I don't know if y'all realized this, but all of those kids who go to public schools today?  They're going to grow up to be our neighbors, and our future workforce, tomorrow.  Would be nice if they weren't incompetent idiots.

The interview is worth a listen.  I don't suspect there's anything in it you didn't already know or suspect, but hearing confirmation from someone who's devoted decades to researching the whole thing was quite interesting.  Also, he started out as a proponent for vouchers, but over time seeing the results (and then the subsequent bastardization of the process through expansion of programs to support more and more private schools) led him to become a vocal opponent.

From a promotion for a recent talk he gave at Princeton:

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In The Privateers, Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization. A former evaluator of state and local school voucher programs, Cowen demonstrates how, as such programs have expanded in the United States, so too has the evidence-informed case against them. 
 
This thought-provoking work traces the origins of voucher-based education reform to mid-twentieth-century fears over school desegregation. It shows how, in the intervening decades, a cabal of billionaire conservatives supporting a host of special political interests—including economic libertarianism, religious choice, and parental rights—have converged around the issue of education freedom in an ongoing culture war. Through deliberate policymaking, legislation, and litigation, Cowen reveals, an insular advocacy network has enacted a flawed system for education finance driven largely by dogma.
 
Far from realizing the purported goal of educational equity, privatization is failing students and exacerbating income inequality, Cowen finds. He cites multiple research studies that conclude that voucher programs return poorer academic outcomes, including lower test scores on state exams, especially among students who are at greater academic risk because of their race, their religion, their gender identity, or their family’s income. Continued advancement of these policies, Cowen argues, is an assault on public education as a defining American institution.

 

Edited 17 hours ago by DDD Dad

[WhatTheBuck 28851]

5 hours ago, wood said:

Trump appears to threaten Hamas with 'all hell to pay' over hostages https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62757dd55no

I hope the Pro-Palestine folks who voted for Trump are happy.  Many of us said throughout the campaign that Trump's idea of ending the war is not the same as theirs. Hard to understand how they couldn't see it.

“US President-elect Donald Trump has issued an apparent warning to Hamas, threatening ‘all hell to pay’ if hostages held in Gaza are not released by the time he returns to the White House on 20 January.”

This from the guy who told the audiences at his campaign rallies that most of the hostages are already dead.

[Pato del Muerto 52959]

Are we sure he didn’t say “all hail toupee?”

[brown water 3784]

3 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

I happened to catch a little bit of Kris Boyd's "Think" last night on NPR:

The politics of school vouchers

Despite hard evidence that they [don't] work, school voucher programs are still gaining steam. Josh Cowen, professor of education policy at Michigan State University, joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why "school choice" is such a hot-button issue, the influential people behind its growth, and why this push is signaling distrust of public schools. His book is "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers."

One of the takeaways from his research was that there is a direct correlation between spending and improvement of outcomes with public education (from test score performance to later life successes, health, and reduced crime); whereas while school voucher "competition" does have a history of marginal improvement, if the money diverted to vouchers was instead directly investedto the schools it would increase the improvement exponentially.

Available to listen here: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/478859728/think (December 2 episode)

 

And they say football players are dumb 

[Gil Bang 26119]

 

 

[C-Man 27411]

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[Tonesky 1017]

1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Too fucking bad swing state assholes - I’m saving my limited empathy resources for Trump’s “innocent” victims. 

[DigglerontheHoof 21324]

7 hours ago, Tonesky said:

Too fucking bad swing state assholes - I’m saving my limited empathy resources for Trump’s “innocent” victims. 

Yep.  Fuck 'em. 

[Nivek 17077]

16 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Honest question, does anybody know: when comparing spending to other countries, does the amount we spend spending on sports, band, proms, etc? 

 

 

We used to have textbooks when I was a kid that would be used for several years.  My guess is that the move to workbooks which lack any kind of instructional component but are replaced annually or issued more frequently (2-3 per year for the same subject) are also cost drivers in addition to adding more software/hardware to schools.   

[Jive Turkey 12772]

Here’s some video from the steelworkers. If you listen closely, you can hear the world’s tiniest violin playing.

 

[Nivek 17077]

Shocking they refused to vote for the successor of the guy from their area and instead voted for some silverspoon felon, prolific bullshit artist with a track-record of fucking over people like them, and it didn't work out in their favor?  

[TexArcher 38447]

Man, if only there had been some way to tell that Trump wouldn't honor his end of the deal when he bought your vote...  Some sort of precedent, or some sort of national archive of things that have happened in the past...

[Disco Strangler 1895]