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SydneyCarton

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  1. I don't understand the issue you have with general capitalism? "Travesty of land use." Car washes make bank, and they're an excellent way to pay the land note while the land itself does another round of appreciation. And as JS1 said, the same dude/dudes own all the other restaurants on that side of Shepherd for like 4 blocks. "Car detail is going to take an hour. Why don't you head down the street and grab a beer, we'll text you when we're done." That bigger monstrosity on Shepherd by the apartment complex will also make money.
  2. Please. I've got to be in the top 1% of "normal" posters on this website. Also, I can't grow any kind of beard, including neck.
  3. And then a booster sues the ncaa and conference for arbitrarily determining the fair market value of a deal, when the definition of a free market is what someone will pay for it, and the notoriously eager to litigate NCAA gets its ass handed back to them, because the basic premise of NIL that the courts declared in the first place is being violated by the ncaa and conference. to be clear, this is what i predict eventually happens. additionally, if there’s any a school with a booster network and businesses and corporate NIL around to mitigate these type of situations and find creative solutions, it’s Texas.
  4. “You’re the Ricky Williams of fucking underage boys.” ”Thanks for the fucking compliment, bro!” -One of the Dumbest Motherfuckers to Ever Live
  5. You didn’t have to eat the scorecard.
  6. You know, considering what you chose to bold in your response, are you tacitly saying that you also think Chili is better with beans? I'll hang up and listen.
  7. But your reaction, as well as the weirdos on this board involuntarily and furtively looking side to side, is priceless.
  8. Gotta love when "new" posters show up, with an obvious knowledge of some of the posters, and just roll right into things. Almost like they probably posted here before and got their face ripped off in some manner and had to slink back with a new handle.
  9. You think the ranch dressing in most pizza joins is homemade, do you? Negged
  10. We don't kink shame. You know there have to be at least 3-4 posters on this thread who pay some large, smelly women to yank their nipple rings as hard as possible. The point is, for some incel adjacent neckbeards pain IS pleasure. I mean, shit, look at all of aggie fandom.
  11. This is actually Taylor Hamm in the year 2035. That or about 15 minutes after his first wife informed him she wanted a divorce and was marrying a big dicked UT alum.
  12. You shut your whore mouth. Alberts needs a lifetime contract at A&M, with buyouts that make Sumlin blush. The link worked for free on desktop, fwiw. But it didn't for mobile. So I'm guessing you're still forked.
  13. First, as South Austin said, there's nothing wrong with dipping crust in ranch, or anything else. That being said, lets stop pretending yall eating the crusts of your "boneyard" with dipping ranch is because you were a starving college student. Because it's a fucking buffet, and you already paid for it. You can dump the crusts and go get more pizza if you fucking wanted at any moment. Hell, I had a roommate who used to get the pizza buffet at the bottom of the Castillian, or whatever it was called, and would sneak pizza rolls into a ziploc bag he kept in his backpack to take home.
  14. I mean I'd fucking love to know the name of the donor we have that just won't tap out or quit. Texas One Fund would like to know too.
  15. See my above chart. 15k puts us in the lowest quartile in America. If you believe these guys, it's in the worst 20% https://www.raiseyourhandtexas.org/policy/school-funding/ https://www.raiseyourhandtexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/04_Policy-Paper-2024_School-Funding_FINAL.pdf Additionally, with Abbott's efforts to get more property tax relief this session, that's likely less money as well.
  16. Well the same Chat GPT that told me minimum wage was $7 plugged that in, so maybe the numbers in general are suspect? I'm pretty sure minimum wage still exists. McDonalds in Texas pays 11. I think you get my point, and additionally, the math doesn't change much if they're making 310 a week versus 260. Also, it's not about "people I know." I don't know anyone, but I know these people exist. You talk about administration in Texas being bloated, but that's not the point. The point is money spent per student in Texas has gone down in aggregate consistently for a long, long time now. This isn't a new thing. And saying it's bloated admin, who cares. The point is, These Programs and this kind of education DOESN'T EXIST for kids. The same way we all bemoan that we don't teach kids about personal finance in public schools either. I think you're putting a bit too much faith in ChatGPT. Dollars spent "in education" divided by students isn't a good metric. You're a Houstonian, I'm sure you're at least somewhat tangentially familiar with Mike Miles accused of funneling money to his charter schools in Colorado, or the state of HISD that brought about Miles to be inserted as head of HISD. Ask teachers how it's going, every single teacher I've known the past 10 years has spent a sad, pathetic amount of their already meager income on their own classroom supplies. Fund raises are held to supplement school funding. This shit didn't happen when we were children. And that willy only get worse when vouchers take hold. Texas is in the bottom quartile of per student spending in the country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/per-pupil-spending-by-state The cuts being made in Texas are in Teachers, Special Education Teachers and funding in general, and resulting in class size bloating, etc. But that's not this debate. But to sit there and pretend that the state is awash in funds they're willing to give back to programs for education of any kind, much less food education and obesity when they won't even uphold their financial obligations for special needs children is extremely naive. Or it's not naive at all.
  17. "Teach them to use AI" is as nice a catch all as "let them eat cake." Who's going to teach them? There aren't a ton of school programs for that these days with budget cuts, at least in Texas at public schools. Lets assume the parents aren't AI masters. You're coming from a place of knowledge, and you know how to use tech but more importantly, ask the right questions. Again, like my mother programming a remote control. Or telling me "Just learn Spanish." You're being willfully naive here. ChatGPT: What's the average weekly take home salary for a minimum wage worker after taxes? 📊 Summary A full-time minimum wage worker in Texas would take home approximately $266.89 per week after federal taxes. This equates to about $1,067.56 per month or $13,878.38 annually. If you're interested in a breakdown for a different state or a worker with dependents, feel free to ask! I'm sure that spending 100 dollars a week on groceries for healthier food at Walmart or Aldi's seems plausible with rent and lets assume a car and car insurance, utilities. But yeah, I'm sure with all that largesse everyone also has a phone and is googling how to eat healthy. Of they don't even have a car and there's a McDonalds or convenience store down the street.
  18. Brisket has addressed much of this with an earlier post, but people have to be taught HOW and WHERE to go seek out data. And these days, it's harder than ever with misinformation being thrown in your face be social networks of choice. "This is basically ozempic in powder" is an add I saw on FB awhile back, it's for a fucking fiber product. You spoke earlier of how you (and wealthy) people had a better background to pass on healthy and smart habits to children. And yet you also talked about the circumstances in your own life that led to prolonged years of an unhealthy lifestyle, even though you should have seemingly been taught better by your privileged parents/lifestyle. Because guess what, circumstances matter. And if they matter to you, they certainly matter to poor people. Sure there's a world of information out there, and it's one most people are woefully incapable of effectively navigating. Sure, technically my mom can use the internet and her phone, but good luck telling her to Google how to reprogram her remote control. To some people, changing habits blind is not only hard, it's impossible. Yes, sugary drinks are the fucking devil, and yes, they could live healthier lifestyles if they just knew better, and had someone to teach them those things. But lets not ignore that a) the programs educating and offering healthier options for poor people have been getting slashed and burned since the 80's, so there's no inherent knowledge to pass down, and no resources to turn to with authority and b) all the sugar that they've likely been ingesting since they were kids has them fucking addicted to the shit. You're asking lifetime smokers to give up cigarettes, except people acknowledge that quitting smoking is hard. Quitting sugar for lifetime addicts is fucking hard. Is it possible that poor people consume more sugary drinks because they have few pleasures in life other than their food, and they don't know how damaging sugar is until they're already addicts?
  19. I think you're drawing the conclusion you want to draw. It's easier for wealthy and privileged to lose weight because healthy food is more expensive than cheap AF processed food with fillers and additives. And it goes bad over a longer timeline. And lots of poor or underprivileged areas don't have as much of a stock of healthy food because it won't sell or goes bad. And you talk about people passing down good habits and behaviors to their kids, well, guess what. People from poor backgrounds with lagging education don't know what good habits they're supposed to pass down. Because THEIR parents weren't privileged. Poor people aren't fatter or more overweight because they said "I want to be fat and have shitty habits." I can only speak from my personal experience. I was tracking the same routine, the same food, same myFitnessPal, same diet. I elevated my caloric intake by 230 and the pounds started rolling off after a month of jack shit.
  20. To quit drinking? You shut your whore mouth.
  21. Lets keep in mind this is over the course of 30 years. Most of those years were pretty consistent
  22. Yeah. If you eat too few calories your body goes into starvation mode and you can't lose shit. The last time I had to lose weight, I actually ended up having to up my caloric intake. It was like I had to hit a threshold to give my body permission to burn fat. You know, if I make any money in my life, I don't want to blow it on fucking elder care for a shitty back 15 years. I'd rather die young and leave an inheritance. That's what I'm telling myself.
  23. I'm not sure anyone here has suggested that poor isn't a massive factor in obesity. Overlay the poorest states with a map of heart disease and obesity and the results will not shock anyone.
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