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Game Week Thread 2025 Game Week 5: Texas at Florida
SimkinsMan replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Quick update on the weather. The trend over the last 24 hours has been toward less storm coverage during Saturday afternoon. Thunderstorms (with game delaying lighting) are still entirely possible, but at this point I would only place the chance of rain during the game at about one-in-three. In any case it does not appear to be wall-to-wall storms so the game is gonna get played. Winds may be more impactful. I think we're looking at sustained winds of 10 to 15 mph with higher gusts, perhaps occasionally reaching 25 or 30 mph. That is definitely noticeable, but the Swamp is built below ground level, and the stands are built up all around the field. I'm not an engineer, but this suggests to me the winds may be less of an issue on the field than outside the stadium. In summary, we walk out of the field like this: -
Our neighborhood in the southwest is also getting fucked. If this goes down this way, I would expect the number of kids enrolled AISD to drop even below what was discussed above. I think we have to leave as the quality of our kids education will drop in a big way. I guess we will see what else they spring on us with transfers et al.
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"farting fake fury"
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They covered this a few meeting ago. You can't close a failing school because that improvement plan then follows those kids to their new school and their cumulative score still counts towards that original failing score. However, you can move higher performing kids to a failing school to raise the grades at that school. Once they said that, then you knew the better performing kids were being sacrificed.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
mchookem replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
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US strikes another boat off Venezuela coast, killing four, Whiskey Pete Kegbreath announces https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/politics/strikes-boat-carribbean-fourth Live look at Herr Miller:
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No one is advocating for his death. But you do realize when it happens, you will see the largest worldwide celebration of all time right? Do you remember Yankee Stadium the night we got Bid Laden? Like that, but Earth.
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Bingo. I wish someone would say why. Spoiler: gotta have a sacrificial lamb in West Austin. (Trustee Lynn Boswell effectively said so to the neighborhood association.) And two of those three maps linked above carve Bryker Woods out of Austin High to go to McCallum. So thanks, AISD. You really put the screws to little ol' neighborhood for whatever reason. Edit: And yes, selling that property would generate a nice chunk of one-time cash. They are stupid enough to do it.
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I completely agree, and left out the other prong of state governments taking advantage of the situation by dropping the subsidizing of tuition to almost nothing to avoid bogging down my comment too much. But you're absolutely correct that this is an essential aspect of what happend. State governments felt more comfortable dropping funding, because of what happened after the bankruptcy reform act. They were already reducing prior, but you saw it fall off a cliff after 2003.
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Something something about a moped being fun to ride but you don’t want your friends to see you riding it.
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What's really pissing people off is why weren't the failing/near-failing schools closed last school year? Why are they talking about closing A schools, even the only IB-credentialed elementary (Bryker Woods) if they have failing schools like Dobie, Webb and Burnet that could shit-can the whole district and let Greg Abbott's people take over? All this consolidation doesn't mean shit if the state comes in and takes over. We have friends whose kids are at LASA or aiming for LASA, who were patting themselves on the back at fighting against Dobie/etc. students going there. LASA along with other such programs are fucking gone if the state comes in and I'm going to laugh my ass off at them taking a stand to keep a bunch of kids out, only to watch the state dismantle LASA for being a liberal arts program. One of our friends at Lee thinks AISD leadership gave up fighting off the state takeover and decided to try and close a bunch of schools with desirable properties to be sold off to developers that they know or who contributed to them in some way. Just so we are clear, Dobie, Webb and Burnet, one of them will fail again, and the state will come in and take over.
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I watched it. They looked pretty good. Grain of salt and all because any player in the world that's really good probably wouldn't have been released.
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"Inconvenience for you. I'm sorry."
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Rare instance, I'll allow ketchup in a scenario involving hot dogs. Carry on...
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I kiss gas station fried chicken at times
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Game Week Thread 2025 Game Week 5: Texas at Florida
Longhornade replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
Need the Jesus on the Texas sideline to dry them balls. -
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