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Mole

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  1. Suggestion: turn off notifications for rep. It removes a lot of the bad social media aspects of this place. If you need affirmations, just stare deep into your eyes in the mirror repeating how beautiful you are; if you need to feel bad about yourself, kickoff is in a few hours. Being constantly reminded every time someone thinks I wrote something smart/dumb/funny/sad isn’t good for clear thinking.
  2. Here’s a medical doctor admitting that COVID is fake and it’s all direct energy weapons. Busted.
  3. Both or those articles get a little mushy when it comes to the veracity of the father’s belief. Are police saying it was a sex-trafficking ring or are they saying he believed it to be a sex-trafficking ring? Same questions for the boyfriend’s involvement. I’m not sure why anyone should be quick to take the murder’s story as gospel truth.
  4. 1. Adherence to the shared, objective reality. There’s seeing things through your own political lens, spin, and whatever we’ve fallen into. You can’t discuss or advocate any issue if the current caricature of postmodernism persists. 2. Education: 3. Voting/Gerrymandering
  5. I want a say in my child’s education, but I deeply resent national political figures convincing the poorly educated, easily duped, or cynical members of my community to interfere with my child’s education. I don’t want these people to have a say in my family’s life. I’d rather they not destroy their children since we live in a society, but they won’t spread their trash into my household. There is certainly left-wing madness to deal with, but “conservative” degenerates trying to infect my family with their deranged thinking is the real looming threat when it comes to the schools. Well, that and valuing deranged for thinking over actually getting a good education, but it’s hard to differentiate. People who threaten teachers or administrators over political garbage are terrorists and shouldn’t get a say. I don’t consult the Taliban for parenting advice either. People who make up impenetrable riddles of false claims based on pretend boogie men are liars and shouldn’t get a say. There’s room for genuine disagreement on curriculum and managing a health crisis, but this isn’t what’s happening with the national narrative. It’s made up garbage damaging my community and my family.
  6. Including private schools: The state of Texas has three great music schools: UT, UNT, and Rice. SMU and Houston both have access to great professional orchestras, so their classical performance teaching will be excellent as well. Honestly, any school near a big city will do that well. California has UCLA, USC, Colburn, San Francisco Conservatory, and Cal Arts. Probably some others that I’m forgetting as well. In the orchestral job market, Colburn might be the best in the world at turning out students that win auditions.
  7. I’ve always viewed UW as a pretty widely accepted great school. It also has a great stadium; and it gave us Warren Moon, so it’s a Texas treasure.
  8. I’m perplexed at the use of the words “funny” and “laugh” on this page. Is there some subtlety that I’m missing? It’s not humorous, it’s just dumb, childish insults. It’s not even offensive, it’s just moronic. It’s Triumph the Insult Comic without the satire.
  9. CSB: I was in grad school when Facebook was just spreading to various colleges. The first person to tell me about TheFacebook later turned out to be regularly drugging and date-raping classmates. If you’re wondering where he did his undergrad, you’re a fool, because of course it was Baylor. And still, Facebook peaked when a Baptist sexual predator was telling me how great it was. It’s been downhill ever since.
  10. The proper response is for school librarians statewide to propose addendums to the list including their entire holdings; any book worth reading will necessarily make people uncomfortable. I do appreciate the additions to my own personal reading list though. Thanks
  11. The “Make Music Great Again” hat coupled with that song was some sort of next level meta irony that I can’t quite wrap my head around.
  12. Cultural appropriation trig teacher may be out of a job soon, but those kids as well as kids and adults around the country will likely never forget that mnemonic. You may question the appropriateness of her racist methods, but you can’t deny their effectiveness. Would a racial slur be appropriate when teaching quadratic equations? Of course not! Would the students ever forget the lesson? These are the questions that keep racist educators up at night.
  13. I feel this deeply. My whole house caught it over the summer — two breakthroughs and one preschooler. The preschooler was 100% better in about two days and ready to go crazy; I was mostly normal in about a week and my wife was worn out for about two weeks. I was glad and relieved that he bounced back so easily, but a slower recovery would have been good for household sanity during those two weeks.
  14. Ask as a noun and I’m a supporter of the ban.
  15. I was one of the Pfizer breakthroughs over the summer. I have my annual checkup in a few weeks. I’ll ask my doctor about the booster and then do what they say, since they’re paid to figure this stuff out. If I don’t trust them to give good advice, I should find another doctor. I appreciate taking ownership of your health, but pretending to sort out competing studies and various conflicting biases and then self-medicating (or self-not-medicating) seems like madness to me. But I guess you’re welcome to make important health decisions based on a small handful of sick Israelis or any other study that tells you what you want to hear.
  16. Here I am trying to figure out the difference between writing an audio book and recording a podcast.
  17. Anyone else keep reading that as Derkapasta?
  18. He spoke at Texas in the early 2000s when war/anti-war tensions were high. From my 20-year memory, he took some pointed questions from the audience and handled them admirably.
  19. If the ‘81-‘82 Celtics has completed the comeback against the Sixers in the conference finals and then lost to the Lakers in the finals, would that have made Bird’s legacy better or worse? If you say worse, you’re arguing that losing the conference finals is better than winning it. If you say it wouldn’t change his legacy any, you are likewise arguing that winning the conference means nothing. If you say better, you’re arguing 3-3 in the finals is better than 3–2 (it is).
  20. Unless demonstrated otherwise, anyone discussing the “jabs” is engaging in or with foreign propaganda and misinformation. My neighbors speak British English, so they come by the term legitimately, but your average Oakley wearer didn’t pick up the term from someone with good intentions.
  21. 25 year old me would have told 25 year old you to stop being irresponsible and get the shot. And then 25 year old us would have all clapped. That 25 year old me? Albert Einstein.
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