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hayden_horn

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  1. i have a weird perspective on this issue, i suppose. my two sons are adhd and were very poorly served by their austin isd elementary public school. so we moved to a free, public, secular charter school, where my wife eventually worked as well. it was a great experience. class sizes were smaller, there was more attention paid to the students, etc, and my boys are further along now (the youngest going into aisd high school the oldest already there after doing aisd middle school), and my wife now works in aisd. the problems i see are largely top down rather than bottom up, as is often the case in many organizations. aisd as an organization is a bit of a mess in and of itself, but it's also completely fucking hamstrung by the state and recapture. couple that with falling enrollment, and you have a dying school district that doesn't need to be dying. add in a massive layer of self-serving administration (that is a state-wide problem, to be honest), and you have a healthy appetite for public school alternatives that help serve the demands of more needy students, but that are still publicly funded, because believe it or not, folks who cannot afford private school tuition can actually still care about the educations of their children. republicans are trying to kill public schools, when of course they should be trying to fix them. but why bother. they don't want to fix anything. they want to break everything. fuck them kids is the republican mantra.
  2. it's a weird kind of psychology. i would argue that it's not evil, like @NameAlreadyInUse said. it's just sad.
  3. nah, peleton did that
  4. for real. either she was used to being above scrutiny or this is a hell of a coincidence. i'm inclined to believe that, like anything else, russian security lulled her (and everyone else they want) into a false sense of security by overlooking tons of shit for years. now that she can be important politically, of course they'll find something on her. but also, 2 cartridges would last her like two weeks with some disciplined intake. and two cartridges is nothing. so i've heard. so she no doubt had a domestic supplier too. i once left a lighter in my luggage on a domestic china flight. they pulled me out of line and dragged me into an interrogation room until i found the lighter in my dop kit. they refused to give me any clues as to what i had done wrong. i was sweating to say the least. that's forgetting something. i get it, going from a state where weed is legal to another state is one thing, but leaving the COUNTRY, one needs to be sure of what is carrying.
  5. seriously. i don't even take american courts at their word most of the time.
  6. haha, okay. maybe she did, maybe she didn't. i'm inclined to not believe the russian authorities, and citing her confession in court as any sort of actual evidence is hilarious.
  7. that's hardly anything. this country is so backwards.
  8. drugs weren't planted, but they were clearly "found." i'm willing to bet residue on a vape pen, not even the oil itself. she was purposefully targeted, imo. russians apparently don't take a dump without a plan, but they completely submarine their international athlete market for...some kind of political endgame? i don't get it.
  9. weird. the consistency inherent in this take. this is the cloak room.
  10. but see, i kind of also agree with this. go to russia and some russian gangster shit happens to you? well...
  11. as someone who studied russian in high school, is fascinated with russian culture, art, and history, and who very much wants to see much of that country.... fuck all that. i ain't going there anytime soon, if ever. i'd love to see syria and iraq as well. however, i feel for griner. i don't even care if she was set up - her detention is bullshit. it's very clearly a political prosecution.
  12. nothing out of her testimony surprised me at all. but i'm happy it's on the record. the guy is a fucking lunatic. we know this. those of us who care anyway. but, i don't think it'll matter.
  13. plenty of things that were a bit inconsistent, but on the whole, i think we got a pretty nice little series. obi wan has a terrible memory. doesn't recall ever owning a droid, doesn't let on he knows leia (nor does she, after he dies during her escape, etc); shit, threepio and r2 were with him the whole goddamn time. completely unnecessary, but not worth talking about here. here, i thought they did about as well as they could without wiping leia's mind. not sure reva was necessary but i see why they needed a young face to represent the younglings and to try and get her (selfish, sort of) revenge. this was peak darth vader. i loved the bit at the end of rogue one (whatever, fuck all you cynical assholes) and i loved darth's badassery in obi wan. i don't think anyone could beat peak vader, not even peak luke. they did such a great job with him and some of the parallels. the hoth callback, obi wan and the fire, and the lightsaber training which was a scene i told my wife that we needed in the prequels. felt nice for hayden christiansen to get a bit of redemption for that role. were there things they could've done better? yeah. but let's not forget that leia fully mouth kissed luke in empire. there were plenty of weird continuity issues in the ot as well. these weren't deal breakers for me. i thought it could've been a bit tighter, but i kind of disagree with @henrygandorf (happy birthday!) about a movie for this content. but 6 episodes did feel long, and even then they were 0:45 etc, including recaps and credits. so maybe it could've been a longer movie. but i had a great time with it. vader doing vader things like breaking necks of randos...goddamn, perfect shit there. just dragging that one person because he could...damn. so great.
  14. yep. i mean, there was that one time in pamplona when we got caught in between police and a riot. oh, that one time in amsterdam on the leidseplein where a brawl broke out and we ended up being detained by police. oh, there was that one protest in london that got violent. and then there's every night on dirty sixth, haha. i have no idea what yall think of europe, but from posts on here, you'd think it was lawless anarchy. people here (well, now on daily texan) were talking about police no-go sharia law zones. remember that? all that disinformation sort of congeals into an impression of a dark and scary bloodsoaked hellscape the likes of which we've never seen before. yes, there is a war in ukraine. that's not where @Brisketexan is sending his children. nor russia. europe is as stable as usual. it's a place full of people just trying to get through tier day like everywhere else.
  15. yeah for real. what is this happy horseshit?
  16. well, it's a very rare demonstration of corporate courage. so i reckon it's worth some attention.
  17. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/dicks-sporting-goods-overhauled-its-gun-policies-after-parkland-the-ceo-didnt-stop-there/2019/05/31/9faa6a08-7d8f-11e9-a5b3-34f3edf1351e_story.html
  18. yes? what a weird question. do you think Europe is somehow unsafe?
  19. first they came for the wombs, but i did nothing, because i didn't have a womb. just wait. you're on the list, buddy. the republican party does not operate through any other mechanism than opposition. eventually, they'll oppose yours and clarence's marriages, and then what? nothing. because you will have already forfeited any right to protest because of your acceptance of some fascism.
  20. yeah, except they weren't being dishonest. they were being clever enough to end around the democrats. nothing they said indicated that they weren't primed and ready to overturn the precedent. just that the precedent exists. it did. now it doesn't. i want to think this would backfire on republicans, but somehow, they've managed to convinced a large number of voters to vote against their best interests. they will continue to have success in this, because americans are stupid. also because the democrats are stupid. everyone is stupid. fuck. i hope that some kind of movement comes from this, but all we'll see on tv are the freaks on both sides. and people will calcify in their decisions. i will say that as someone calcified in my fucking decisions now. i'll never vote for a republican ever again in my lifetime. i'll actively work against them. fuck them.
  21. yeah we might be in colorado if it weren't for austin proximity of family. both my inlaws are here (wife is a child of divorce) and same with brothers-in-law. without that, i really think my wife is fired up about living somewhere else. japan was an amazing experience, but i don't know that i want that for life. i would love to move to london, but they are all fucked in their own way. finland would be outstanding, though the people there are a bit strange. but ultimately, i'm not sure about moving internationally, but i'm not against it. my kids are both now in high school, though, so we might need to go ahead and finish that here in austin. but once they are out, i dunno. maybe it's the heat this summer, or the political climate of the past several years, but i never would've thought i'd entertain the thought of living permanently outside of texas. i'm getting there.
  22. i really don't understand why yall don't use the political forum for political hot takes. it's right there. click it. post your political takes there. it's easy. enjoy the 24 hour break.
  23. lol, most corporate bullshit executive moment ever:
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