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atomheartbevo

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  1. I wouldn't put it past a developer or two or three to try and still get it out of AISD's hands and into somebody's hands that will sell it to them. It's that way with all of the schools. The scary thing is if/when the state takes over, if enough parents bail for private schools or move to one of the nearby ISDs, there will be a lot more consolidation.
  2. I'm going to try and avoid twitter, but the video still plays on the page instead of being taken off somewhere else with Bluesky. Unfortunately a lot of the sources referenced are using twitter. I'll try to screenshot. It's fascinating as hell to me. I took a long break from following it closely because I was busy with other stuff, but watching Red Dawn with my kid recently (and Rocky IV and World War III with Rock Hudson) got me back into, as he was dumbfounded over how they went from their portrayals in the 1980s to now.
  3. Having watched videos from several different meetings with different schools between parents and AISD/board members, there was always a whole lot that seemed way off with the whole process. Seeing the same person tell two different schools the same thing when one school was turbo-fucked and the other merely fucked, even though that person already knew the plan was crazy given that it's 2025 and parents are in constant contact with one another both within their own schools and with parents from other schools. Parents were going to talk to parents from other schools. I was pretty fucking pissed to find on Friday that my son would have to leave his middle school for another middle school and a completely different high school, even though we had been promised that the verticals wouldn't change. This whole thing has been so fucking crazy. I don't know whether the people who were doing all of this were incompetent or were lying through their teeth for some reason.
  4. BNO is out of Europe and has been around for a long time - they are legit.
  5. Edit: a text from a friend a few minutes ago said she had the feeling that the superintendent was being told some things by people under him, and when he showed up at a couple of the schools, he heard something completely different. But that’s just a feeling she had. Based on conversations at a kid’s birthday party that turned into a UT watch party on Saturday, some of the board members/advocates were probably playing favorites and clearly protecting some schools at the cost of other schools while pretending to advocate for everybody and telling everybody the same things. There may or may not have been campaign contributions from certain areas/individuals involved with some board members, or discussion of the future political careers of some board members. There is video of some of these board members/advocates trying to play both sides when they knew better and knew which schools were going to be affected. It was a pretty wide range of schools represented at the party, including four of the affected schools (and several of us were going to have our older kids be fucked by the boundary changes), and hearing everybody comparing notes and comparing videos of the advocates was interesting and very enlightening. Some of those board members are going to find that they may not have a chance at future elections, such as the Austin City Council. FAFO. There’s also some pretty fucking arrogant parents and get a few beers in them and they’ll let you know they wanted some schools to stay open simply because they didn’t want those schools’ kids to show up at their kids’ school.
  6. "In essence, the ‘special military operation’ is genocide against our own people". - Mikhail Spiridonov, a participant in the "special operation" and a resident of the village of Yadrikhino in the Transbaikal region. Upon returning home, he discovered that almost no one remained in his village. Of the three mobilized fellow villagers, one was killed, and another returned with severe injuries. "Understand, I’m a soldier. I don’t decide anything." — this guy is signing a contract for the second time already — it’s still not enough for him. And what does he want? Money? No. He just wants to kill — he enjoys it. But the second time, it turned out he had to fight drones, and that he doesn’t want to do: he says he likes to see his enemy.
  7. Kstovo — a little tour of the Lukoil refinery. The video shows repairs being carried out on a distillation column responsible for primary oil processing, which was damaged after previous attacks. They say that everything was "shot down" last night — it’s just that "debris was falling."
  8. As somebody who spent a long time in networking/IT, this is wish fulfillment for me.
  9. Stuff getting hacked about Russia's future bomber
  10. Russias rubber supply impacted paging @PTINS this seems huge. and another refinery
  11. They are definitely hitting them
  12. They probably have their transponders turned off, but would be interesting to see if tankers are leaving the Black Sea through the Straits riding high
  13. They planted explosives by hand on pipelines on the other side of Moscow, so we know they have operatives deep inside of Russia .plus, even though the head of Ukrainian intelligence is young, he made his reputation operating behind Russian lines after 2014. I feel like they have a lot of intelligence on Russian AD deployments. Russia may not even be moving stuff around, they maybe pretty tapped out.
  14. All of this stuff reminds me of one of my favorite photos from WWII Ploesti,Romania, was bombed Aug. 1, 1943, by a large force (177) of B-24s which came in at smokestack level, braved oil and bombs exploding close beneath them to hit refineries, tanks, cracking plants. 53 aircraft and 660 air crewmen were lost Operation Tidal Wave - Wikipedia
  15. When does China ask for some of their land back?
  16. “Insanely much. Even taking into account how much was stolen along the way. And the bloody Kyiv clowns stole endlessly. Even with the wild corruption of the Banderite regime — it’s catastrophically too much,” wrote Medvedev, apparently just out of the weekend. He insists everything will soon be like the US in Afghanistan: “There will be a return of our citizens and Russian power to the originally Russian lands.” Mondays hit hard...
  17. It’s a good thing Nigeria doesn’t have a shitload of oil…..oh shit.
  18. Ukraine is going to bleed Russia's power infrastructure dry - no way they are keeping up with replacement parts fast enough - their existing stocks have got to be draining quickly..and Russia can't protect all of these substations. Carl Spaatz would be damned proud of them.
  19. It's interesting the more they strike Russia, the more Europe appears to be opening up their wallets/arsenals.
  20. @PTINS They are not letting Russia catch their breath, and this is the third time this refinery has been hit since September 15th. And they hit it multiple times tonight. This was from a few weeks ago: Ukraine confirms drone strike on Russian oil refinery in Saratov Oblast, 2nd hit in a month and supposedly a major supplier to the military.
  21. Gave me vibes of somebody becoming obsessed with a woman and making up a story about her being an alien or paranormal being to convince a bunch of conspiracy idiots to help kidnap her. That never happens in real life.
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