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Posts posted by atomheartbevo
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
RFK is a fucking ghoul.Mass murderers could only dream of being in his position.
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7 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
The kids who don’t get AI will be almost a different species. And there’s no downside because its not like a fucking violin you need to learn early; a critical and original thinker will be able to pick it up later and use it to run laps around the sloppers who are going to grow up with it.
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.
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Meanwhile, Tesla's taxi service
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Is Mali never in trouble? Probably not as long as Al Qaeda is around.
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3 hours ago, Samson's Wig said:
It's clear what is happening there, and while I have no idea how to stop a handful of cult-member billionaires from purchasing our state legislature for their own ends, I can look at who we hire to run our school district and know we can do much better.
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.
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53 minutes ago, CleverNickname said:
So the rich kids got special favors. Call me shocked.
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.
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On 11/3/2025 at 8:04 AM, Biff Tannen said:
This is all going well it seems.
Absolutely.
So he has no idea that it's already a democracy or that it's multi-faith.
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Angelina Jolie reportedly visits front-line regions in southern Ukraine
QuoteAmerican actress Angelina Jolie has reportedly visited southern Ukraine, with several local media outlets on Nov. 5 sharing piecemeal details about her visit.
Jolie reportedly visited children in war-torn Kherson, a regional capital that faces daily attacks from Russian drones and artillery fired from across the Dnipro River.
Photos circulating online show Jolie wearing a bulletproof vest with a patch from the Legacy of War Foundation, a UK-registered non-profit tasked with aiding civilians during war.
The photos show Jolie playing with children in what appears to be an underground shelter. The photos match a shelter in Kherson that local media reported on in the beginning of 2025.
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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.
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4 hours ago, Nicole44 said:
Look…not all of us were born with a Scepter and Crown Jewels…I’m doing what I can man. I am a bit jealous merely bc of location. The Thames River right there and all that…it flows all the way out to the North Sea…I’m wistful.
But you still have to worry about this lady finding evidence
Discover The Magic of Mudlarking on the River Thames in London
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1 hour ago, Samson's Wig said:
My primary concern with this current kicking of the can is that it will increase the likelihood of a TEA takeover in the next couple of years, and then we're all fucked.
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.
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29 minutes ago, Red Five said:
Surly turning a Miss Piggy thread into a Holly Rowe thread within 10 posts is pretty funny.
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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.
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51 minutes ago, PTINS said:
Pokrovsk has been sobering. The cumulative effect of Ukraine targeting critical Russian infrastructure is going to catch up with Russia at some point, but Ukraine is still losing people every day. It reminds me of how naive I was when I thought we were winning in Vietnam, until I grew up and realized people I knew from Bergstrom didn't come home.
But I see how effective Ukraine has been in their targeting deep inside of Russia, and believe they will have similar success along the front lines.
5 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:The latest reports from Pokrovsk are that the Ukrainian units aren't encircled, but the situation isn't great. The decision has apparently been made to hold out as long as possible to inflict maximum damage, and because Pokrovsk holds a lot of strategic value.
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.
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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:
The USAF intends to keep B-52s in service for about a century of use. (Also a plane that flys lots of long hours as opposed to quick hops).
So the airplane equivalent of the Ship of Theseus?
Because those things have been heavily rebuilt.
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8 hours ago, BoomMF said:
I let a friend borrow my Secret Weapons and he let his kid brother play the game and he trashed the code wheel. I still don't talk to him to this day.
Trashing somebody's code wheel.....that's grounds for
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I hope this is even slightly close to being accurate
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13 minutes ago, Captainant said:
lmao what a great example of "every accusation is a confession" with the russian state media accusing the US of stoking divisions in russia
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.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
in Daily Texan
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An associate of Strelkov, the Russian fascist Maxim Kalashnikov, appears to have regained his senses, admitting that the Russians have failed in the “cause of their forefathers” and that a generation of young Ukrainians driven by revenge and a desire to reclaim what was lost will soon emerge. In essence, he laments that “We couldn’t kill them all, and now they’ll come for payback".