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  1. 16 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

    this is the kind of shit that's going to drive security services- like the secret service, absolutely bonkers.

    I can easily envision someone doing this with an even lighter version, have it take off at one of the numerous municipal airports within 25 miles of DC, where they pre-scout a path they can program into the controls to allow the plane to not have to climb above 45/50 feet going around larger trees or buildings and then enter DC airspace proper going after .... one of the larger targets there.    

    even with anti-air missiles, its gonna be tough as fuck for radar to see it,  911 is going to have a hard time giving the SecServ or Park Police any advance warning, and then the agents on the ground have to look at shooting down a large drone coming for them directly over highly traveled portions of the city.  where even if the damn thing is blown up in the air, it would cause a large enough explosion to damage all kinds of stuff near it... and if they just succeed in taking it down, when it hits the ground 200Lbs of HE leaves a pretty big fucking crater. or it hits a big building with even more people in it and does its intended terror job.

    Congratulations.   You're now on half a dozen government lists.  

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  2. 10 hours ago, BeardIP said:

    Like most things, there is a segment of the population that will have weird and negative side effects. I've watched a lot of YouTube videos by those 10% who get bad gastro issues, bad results, immune responses, etc. but for 90% (it seems, made up numbers) it seems safe and easy button.

    How is your taint?   Any chapping or bleeding?

  3. On 3/24/2024 at 11:39 PM, Brisketexan said:

    Holy shit. Had on the news to check the weather, and this ad that sounded like it was for a Monster Truck Show FEATURING TRUCKASAURUS!…and holy shit. It was for…a church.
     

    Reminds me of the old Esther's Follies skit...   Sunday, SUNDAY, SUNDAY!!!!  

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  4. What a great line regarding getting out the vote....   "To the young people, you wouldn't let your grandparents pick your playlist for the next 6 years.  Don't let them pick your Senator."

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  5. 2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I'm pretty sure people like him, who have become vocal never trumpers, most of them are mostly just pissed that their power within the Repulican party has been wildly diminished. Not that they actually give a fuck. 

    Bingo.

    I remember watching an interview with Bob Dole before the 2020 election and he was a Trumper.  He died in December 2021 and to my knowledge never spoke out about what happened on January 6th.   That the rank and file GOP leadership has pretty much stood on the sideline and let Trump continue to dismantle the party and our political process is so depressing.

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  6. 40 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Texas Institute of Phrenology and Phreedom

    Texas Institue for Phrenology, Phreedom and Moms for Liberty Phreesomes.

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  7. I can look at absences from a couple of different personal angles:

    1.  My own.   I graduated from UT in 1994.   I almost always attended class and the times that I didn't were 100% tied to being hungover or trying to get out of town on Th/F.   In high school, I might have missed 1-2 days a year and that was it.   

    2.  My kids.  The last Macanudoette is a senior in high school.   She has missed more days this year than I missed in all of high school.  And she likes school.   But she uses her period as an excuse each month to stay home for a day.   I don't get them so I'm not going to judge.  

    3.  My family experience.  I have 3 grade school teachers in my immediate family.   They all comment on how common it is for kids to miss all the time.   There is the mix of chronically sick, early out on Friday for family stuff/trips, etc.   A biggie is the number of kids who get taken out on the Friday before holiday/break weeks.   Humble ISD gets a week off in October, at Thanksgiving, in February and in March.  That goes along with two weeks at Christmas.  Some of these kids aren't in school on those Fridays for each break.   That's 5 times right there.

    4.  My (very short) experience as a sub.  I've been subbing in middle and high school since January.  Every class has 3-5 kids out each day.  I was in a class on the Friday before Spring Break and there were probably 6-8 out of each class.  

    There is a lot at play and most of it has been covered by earlier:

    - Lack of emphasis at the family level on attendance.

    - COVID did change things to a degree

    - Ambivalence from the schools.   This is kind of surprising because they get their funding based on attendance.

    - Teacher apathy.  I completely understand this.  Students don't care, and while our teachers thought the same thing, each generation it is getting worse IMO.  

    - Societal apathy.   I 100% completely agree that a large number of people have out that the corporate world sucks.   Executive greed and shitty management makes adult give up too.   Kids see there parents slog it out, put in a ton of hours and work very hard only to struggle to makes ends meet and/or get laid off during a downsizing.  My kids have seen this with me.  I worked my ass off at my prior job and then got laid off last year.   They don't know the comp numbers but the only years I got more than a 3.5% raise was when I got promoted in 2013, 2014 and 2016.  Every other year it was 2.5-3.5%.  And that was always at or above the the base level at the company.  

    - Teacher pay sucks ass.   In some places, they are making OK money.  People will point out that "they get off all that time."   Sure, they do get a lot of time off both during the school year and in the summer.   But the dedicated ones put in way more than 8 hours a day.   Even as a sub I'm doing about 8 hours on campus with 20-30 minutes to eat.   Full time (dedicated) teachers spend a lot of time after school and on the weekends doing shit.  

    - Ambivalence from kids about the need for an education, especially a college degree.   We've devalued the college experience and made having one fairly superfluous.  

    The absence problem is just a symptom of larger problems in our society. 

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  8. 1 minute ago, tx ind said:

    Let them rename the airport and then repurpose  it as a place to process undocumented people and get them visas.

     

    Could also use a wing as a vaccination center.

    And another for a GED diploma mill for the Boebert's and Rittenhouse's of the world.

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