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Larry T. Spider

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  1. Worth it to check both for cost and estimated wait time. Takes about 30 seconds and there can be a big difference on both cost and wait. Main problem I’m having right now is that uber is flat out bullshitting on their wait time estimate unless I’m DT.
  2. My viewpoint on homelessness in Austin has become a bit cynical. First, these people are transient by nature so they are naturally going to gravitate to the areas offering more services. I’m all for spending more money on homelessness but it has to be on a state or national level. One city trying to do more than their neighbors will get a never ending supply of new people and there will never be enough money. Second, until we have properly funded mental health institutions that include drug rehabilitation, the most at risk population will stay on the streets. There also needs to be a compulsory part when people get to a certain point. I am highly sensitive to civil liberties concerns, but cycling people in and out of jail every 24 hours is no better. We need a plan for the most severe cases first. Third, where’s the MFing train lines that people voted for? If people are paying ungodly money for something that is being significantly scaled back and delayed, work on that first.
  3. Not sure how it is taxed but there is a ton of oil out there.
  4. Heaven?
  5. What year was this? It was being discussed by leadership in 2021 when we were so desperate for teachers. Most of their potential candidates would have to drive by 20 schools on their commute to an AISD school. Combine that with most suburban kids being easier to teach and the funding being better - it was a tough sell to come to AISD.
  6. With the looming budget shortfall, my partial solution has always been to close campuses, consolidate, and sell the real estate. It causes problems in various communities, transportation, and a host of other issues. It can also lead to further enrollment decline, which turbofucks the recapture calculations. However, you can get a one time cash infusion, reduce overhead, and stop maintaining some of the expensive old buildings. You also get kids into the bigger schools with more specialized services. Every time you close a school, you save the cost of principal, AP, music teacher, art teacher, PE teacher, cafeteria workers, custodians, librarian, and office staff. You don’t have to lay these people off, there are so many openings each year that can absorb them.
  7. Haven’t verified the accuracy of this, but it underscores the problems in trying to run two different districts at the same time.
  8. Do you even bonanza for America, bro?
  9. I’m pretty sure you missed the part of the conversation where we were throwing out scenarios where the lege steps in to fix recapture. Of course all the options are outlandish. I guess the use of “long shots” wasn’t sufficient. 🙄
  10. Houston ISD didn’t even have a recapture payment in 2023-24. Austin ISD paid over $ 11,000 per student. These situations are nowhere near the same.
  11. HISD isn’t in nearly the same situation as far as recapture, especially on a per student basis. The optics of republicans saving AISD is also different.
  12. The difficult issue for AISD is that they have to sell their schools as a good place to send your kids or else they lose enrollment. That makes the recapture situation even worse. However that masks a ton of problems that people should know about. Stuff like basic building repair. At my last school it rained inside when it rained outside and the kids were trained on where to put the trash cans. Not sure if the video will work. IMG_8107.mov
  13. I actually think option 2 has a chance. Of course it involves a bunch of other bad shit happening first and probably would take 5-10 years to actually come to fruition.
  14. There are only two real chances at fixing the recapture issue and both are long shots. One is republican donors fighting for it. There are actually quite a few prominent ones in west Austin and westlake that send their kids to public schools. At least for elementary in AISD. Obviously an uphill battle fighting the “suck it libtards” crowd from the rest of the state. The more likely scenario is the state taking over AISD, placing somebody Republican friendly in charge, then listening to them when they figure out how bad the funding situation is. They then get to look like they saved AISD.
  15. I took a great education statistics class in grad school. You give me the demographics of a school and I can give you the test scores. There are some outliers, but very few. Larger the school, the more the correlation holds true.
  16. That would probably put me in a 2,000 calorie deficit per day. Would definitely work but too aggressive for my taste.
  17. 18,000 steps is crazy work. I’m going to do it one day to see how many calories I supposedly burn. Would be interesting just to know.
  18. Part of getting in shape was making a commitment to get at least 8k steps per day. Read some research saying there is a ton of health benefits when you get to that point. Going beyond that burns more calories, which is great, but the other benefits are already maxed out. So, I got a Fitbit to track steps and it also tracks how many calories I burn in a day. I take this with a grain of salt because I know there is a lot of variation between its calculations and reality, but I was surprised by the difference between my low days and high days. The most I have supposedly burned in a day was 3,600 and 2,200 was the low mark. I was expecting a much tighter range. If that’s even remotely accurate, then it puts a dent in my argument that weight loss is 90% diet. Now, if you’re eating 5,000 calories a day then yeah, it’s all diet. But if you are trying to eat reasonably healthy at 2,000-2,500 calories, movement is going to play a key role in your weight loss. Or the calculations could be pure shit. Who knows.
  19. McCallum has been the best kept secret in Austin ISD for at least a decade. I always laughed at the parents so desperately trying to get their kids switched over from the McCallum track to the Anderson track. Edit: the best part was listening to their thinly veiled racist reasons for wanting to switch before telling them that McCallum has a higher percentage of white students.
  20. Yeah, I have concerns about alcohol companies as well. The younger generation has a significant contingent that drinks less or not at all. The health impacts of even moderate drinking are starting to become more mainstream. California vineyards have been ripping out vines due to decreased demand after years of growth. The cost of going out and drinking certainly plays a part but I think the culture shift is the bigger issue. With that being said, the best stock I own in PM so you never really know.
  21. Dollar cost averaging into index funds in the brokerage account every two weeks. Pulled the trigger today. Fully expecting a stream of Trump tweets to obliterate me as soon as I get a decent amount in there. I get a lot of my commissions mid-summer which typically will max out the 401k or get me close. Thats when I truly expect the hammer to drop.
  22. It’s funny that you accidentally quoted me because I’m a huge cubs fan and just got done watching the game decked out in cubbies gear.
  23. I think Congress voted to give him the authority.
  24. This thread has officially been surlied. Go to hell fats, poors, and ketchup guzzlers!
  25. But they can never admit it. Just like their orange god, there's no place in their worlds to admit they were wrong, made a mistake, were duped, etc. “Biden and the libruls pushed us to this point.” ”It’s the Dems fault for running Harris. Nobody was going to vote for her.”
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