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atomheartbevo

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  1. This applies to a lot of things - my middle-schooler, we've had to work on him hard not to be a dick to various older relatives who believe the stupid shit they see on Facebook, and just kind of ease into the conversation that what they are talking about is fake, rather than "Haha that's fake how can anybody be stupid enough to believe that" (something he actually told an older relative). He's naturally cynical about a lot of stuff on the internet because of me and his mom, and because he and his friends seem to have the same shared cynicism about advertising, spam, etc. But there are definitely kids around his age who do not seem to have any critical thinking skills. Those kids are going to have their bank accounts cleaned out in the not-to-distant future.
  2. Is Mali never in trouble? Probably not as long as Al Qaeda is around.
  3. Not trying to imitate @Brisketexan and standing on the ledge, but I don't think it matters. We could improve our scores this year and they'll just move the goalposts like they've done in the past. Unfortunately, AISD is one of the crown jewels they are clearly after. Well, they want all of the largest districts, but AISD generates a lot of money, and for CR reasons, they really want to stick it to AISD. I think that this round of consolidation/boundary changes (and there will be future rounds in the next few years) should have focused on the at-risk schools who could take AISD into full state takeover. Even if their grades follow them around to other schools, we needed to at least attempt something. It fucking sucks, because I've still got a long way to go with my youngest. My oldest isn't even in high school yet, but at least we see the light at the end of the tunnel. I don't want to uproot them but given the boundary changes that affect their middle/high schools, AISD appears to be wanting to do that anyways.
  4. Or maybe keep the better performing/non-TAPS/TIPS schools open in the face of the TEA breathing down Austin's neck over low-performing schools. Look, if you hate these schools that were taken off the list, don't worry, when the state takes over, a whole fuckload of people are going to bail on AISD for private schools or neighboring districts, along with a lot of really good teachers, and there will be a lot more school closures, excuse me, conversions to charter schools. And if you think AISD is incompetent but then blindly accept their numbers about what will or will not save money and ignore how they've handle school closures in the past, then I've got a crypto scheme that will make you a lot of money - I just need you to give me $20,000 every few days in Bitcoin, and in 6 months I'll triple or quadruple it, just don't bother to ask me how.
  5. Absolutely. So he has no idea that it's already a democracy or that it's multi-faith.
  6. Angelina Jolie reportedly visits front-line regions in southern Ukraine
  7. Russians still haven't figured out that really slow river crossings are ripe for drones Right out of a movie. Or the Battlestar Galactica 2004 TV series.
  8. But you still have to worry about this lady finding evidence Discover The Magic of Mudlarking on the River Thames in London
  9. When the TEA takes over, it won't be because of any of the schools being kept open or any boundaries being preserved for another year, it'll be because of already failing schools, and most important of all, the legislature and TEA have set school districts up to fail and have changed criteria to hasten that, because the legislature is sitting on $32 billion that could help a lot of school districts, and because they are all in on wrecking public education. There's already 5 school districts in line to be taken over. We can rage about AISD management all we want, but at the end of the day, the state takes $820 million from AISD's budget, and the state wants to take over the largest districts, and they want to do away with a lot of programs because some fucking Christian nutcases want it to happen, and the state refuses to spend the money to bolster education (remember 30-40 years ago when our state leaders cared about education and wanted us to compete with the top states in the nation?) When the legislators and state leaders and rich Christian nationalists tell you they oppose public education, and they actively work towards that goal, and that they want to create more charter schools in place of public schools, listen to them. We have the money to fix all of the districts, but the state has decided against that.
  10. Belgium plans to invoke NATO’s Article 4 following recent drone incidents Repeated drone overflights have raised serious concerns in Brussels, according to local media reports. Article 4 of the NATO Treaty provides for consultations among member states whenever a country feels its territorial integrity or security is threatened. Earlier, during a massive Russian drone attack on Ukraine on September 10, a Polish request to activate Article 4 followed after a “Shahed” drone entered its airspace.
  11. It's crazy that they've spent over 100,000 dead and wounded trying to get Pokrovsk, a city of 50-60,000, but as Schulz mentioned, it holds some strategic value, and Putin needs a psychological win. I'm wondering if Ukraine is looking at the impact of their eroding the transportation infrastructure and think if they hold out a little longer, it'll pay off.
  12. So the airplane equivalent of the Ship of Theseus? Because those things have been heavily rebuilt.
  13. Trashing somebody's code wheel.....that's grounds for
  14. I hope this is even slightly close to being accurate
  15. There's going to be some pretty serious divisions in Russia this winter when the rich are getting fuel for their generators and the poor are being told to burn their furniture to stay warm. Russia generally doesn't do so well when the poor are constantly getting turbo-fucked, and while Putin has done a good job of removing anybody the peasants can rally around, there comes a point where they won't need a central figure to spur them on, since they can spur each other on through social media.
  16. Kyiv: used to blackouts, equipped for blackouts Moscow:
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