
Larry T. Spider
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4 minutes ago, Mdhorn said:
Universities, national parks, education and hospitals are getting hit no matter where you are.
One major roadblock for leaving the country, say with a US bank account, SS, or as my wife has—retirement for career teaching, is simply that the govt could just pull the plug on any of it. Contracts mean nothing now. And if you live overseas, what’s to prevent the government from stating they no longer view expats as Americans, since they no longer participate regularly in the American economy? America first isn’t going to care much for expats.
And the rest of the world is tied to its neighbors politics since they share borders. The world is a quagmire.
I do think this is a legit concern, especially if more left leaning people retire outside of the US. Whatever iteration of MAGAs are in charge at the time could make SS more solvent and claim the money should go to people who will spend it in the US to boost the economy.
Two birds, one stone. Of course, liberal tears is the real goal but they have to dog whistle that part.
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I wanted to make a separate post to ask a question about the perceptions of different posters. I’m in Texas where we get the double whammy of MAGA at the federal level and the likes of Abbot, Paxton, and Patrick at the state level.
Do the left leaning posters currently living in blue states feel the same sense of demoralization about the future of the US?
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Look at countries that have had shit hit the fan in the last 100 years. What commonalities exist between the people that were able to get out before it got bad.
1. Money. Probably the most important aspect as it makes picking up, moving, and having funds to live off of possible.
2. Foresight. If things get bad we will have a lot of people looking to leave at the same time. Also, we have a lot of people with money. Restrictions will certainly get tighter and we have already seen that in some popular destinations. Jumping before the masses would help greatly.
3. Political connections. Always helps to have somebody greasing the wheels in your favor. I don’t think it’s particularly necessary if you have a lot of 1 and 2.
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Outfield fences down at the disch
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A lot of rain in western RR but no hail.
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9 minutes ago, crash_davis said:
Honest question. Did we pay someone to create that "art"? Please god say No.
I though it was a safety feature similar to orange cones on the side of a highway.
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I used to work for Pflugerville ISD. Baris slams and goes hard. Ate there before every board meeting.
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So if we get the 11 billion back, it’s going to education? Sweet.
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I have to travel to a lot of random places for work which makes it impossible for me to accumulate status on one airline. I fly AA, SWA, United, and Delta.
Over the last two years, delta has been the winner. Toss up between the rest. Avoiding AA out of Charlotte has probably helped my opinion of them.
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On 5/25/2025 at 6:23 PM, MrBig said:
Most teachers now only are teaching because it’s the next step up in the career ladder. They can make 3X to 4X the money being assistant principals and principals, but they need the 3-5 years in the trenches as classroom teachers before they can apply for AP roles. I remember being in high school and the teachers were old ladies or old coaches who had been there for 20+ years. It’s not like this anymore with the younger generation of teachers and the younger generation of shithead kids who can’t go 5 seconds without their phones.
Where the hell are your numbers coming from? It’s pure absurdity. Do you really think assistant principals are making 150k or more a year?
After 10 years of teaching in AISD I made 55k. After 4 years of being an AP I made 67k. As a principal I made 104k.
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Got a decent shower in western round rock about an hour ago.
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We’re trying to burn more fossil fuels bro.
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I’m seeing a ton of solar on houses in new middle class to upper middle class neighborhoods. Are those numbers being factored into the statewide data coming out?
My in-laws live on the west side of San Antonio and it seems like every other house out there in the newer hoods.
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2 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:
Know it's probably going to just find its way into the round file but just sent a message to the Governor's office urging him to Veto SB3 and send it back to the Lege to come up with some regulations rather than full ban on THC. Think I made some decent points that this is just handing an 8 billion dollar industry to the Cartel, showing contempt for small businesses by shutting them down with the stroke of a pen eliminating 50,000 jobs, and is going to push thousands of Texans back into the hands of opioids and other dangerous prescription drugs. Likely spitting in the wind but had to at least try...
I sent an email to Ted Cruz once. I was immediately added to so many far right email lists that the block button wouldn’t really work. Various mutations of email addresses sending propaganda 10x per day. Eventually abandoned the email account. So, have fun with that.
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Colorado is making about 20 million a month in weed taxes. Texas has about 5x the population. Could help with reducing property taxes or funding schools…..but nah. We will just keep funding Colorado’s schools with our weed tourism. They have a fund that uses the excise tax money to renovate old schools or build new ones.
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46 minutes ago, bluto said:
The biggest losers will be the retail strip owners losing 25% of their tenancy by year end.
Developers and large corporations landlords hold a lot of power with Texas republicans. But the top of their conservatard hierarchy will always be feigned religious outrage. Helping the poor need not apply.
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The most widely used data to compare between states is the NAEP test that is given to 4th graders and 8th graders. Overall, our scores are meh, but so are a lot of other states.
I would argue that school funding is more about everything other than math and reading. Those are the last things to get cut. It’s band, art, music, bus routes, GT, special ed services, more elective options, teacher retention, higher level courses in HS, and any other extras that get cut.
These are often where good public schools excel, and often on the backs of people getting a 3k/year stipend for countless hours of work. Quite a few private school families come back for HS because of these things and AP courses that will be challenging enough for their college bound kids.
Insert the Texas legislature to intentionally sabotage all of that with a 10k voucher and funding that will necessitate cuts to all of the above. Parents are about to get asked for way more money for supplies and various programs
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We drove to Rosemary Beach and back last summer. Opted for New Orleans on the way there. Wanted to knock out more of the drive on the way home so we ate an early dinner in New Orleans then stayed in Lake Charles and hit the casino. If I did it over again I would just stay in NOLA both ways.
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Superintendents are already coming out and saying that if we get a $55 increase to the basic allotment, expect staff reductions and programs to be cut. It’s an embarrassingly low amount, even for the clowns running our state. As one pundit put it, people passed vouchers to save the hostage and now they are returning the hostage dead, in pieces, and in a body bag.
Even if a slightly larger amount gets passed, we have started negotiations at such a low number, we are going to end up in a really bad place. This is the equivalent of somebody offering you 15k for your 500k house.
Two things need to happen, and neither will help the kids or the districts.
1. Every superintendent needs to be extremely transparent with their community about what this will mean. Nobody should have any doubts about where blame lies when programs get cut. They have kept quiet in the past and taken the blame for the legislature’s fuck ups.
2. Rural republicans should be publicly shamed by their communities for being little bitches that fucked over their kids and (usually) the largest employer in their area.
Edit: just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase. Districts have faced massive inflation on building costs, maintenance, busses, and a million other things since the last increase 6 years ago.
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The people of Austin are willing to pay for mass transit. In fact, they already are, based on the promise of several new lines. What did we get? One additional line that *might* be operational by 2033.
Attitude of the taxpayers is not the problem. Delivering on promises is.
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4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:
Because....and this is super, super important to understand in Texas, 2025....NONE of those things are the goal of state leadership.
Killing all public education. That is the singular goal of our state leadership. A future generation of malleable drones and slaves is the dream, and they are very close to achieving it.
Republicans have very few political groups that oppose them in Texas. Public education, environmentalists and trial lawyers are about the only three. Pretty easy to predict who gets the shaft.
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13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
STAAR test going away, replaced by three smaller tests throughout the year.
This could be good if done correctly. Or it could cause campus disruptions and lost instructional time 3x as often. At the end of the day, if the test is tied to school ratings and keeping the state away, it will remain high stakes.
One thing that’s really important to remember is that teaching to the test and test taking strategies are very effective. There are some kids that are so far behind that it doesn’t matter and a few that are going to ace it no matter what. But I’ve watched kids with teachers that were poor at test prep pass off their students to teachers that were great at test prep the next year. Kids that were scoring in the 70s started scoring in the 90s. Year after year, the same thing.
Experienced administrators know this and start pushing it because the test scores are one of the few public facing indicators of success for the school. However nobody really thinks it’s making our kids smarter, our parents happier, or our teachers more likely to stay in the profession.
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49 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:
Austin ISD texted that they sent out an email about school consolidation.
Austin ISD School Consolidations | Austin ISD
This is 100% necessary in a declining enrollment district with funding challenges. If they play their cards right, it can potentially help with the test score issues as well. Strategically, it’s important to think about where the kids will go if their school closes. If there’s a charter across the street, it probably won’t be another AISD school.
With that being said, I’ll believe it when it actually happens. They aren’t even releasing plans for another 6 months. Then the protests and cries of racism/over privileged whining starts.
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14 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:
Got a nice shower over my house in GT.
Watched that little storm head straight for the Disch and cause a lightning delay.
Played some drinking games through the delay and learned an important lesson. I’m too old for this shit.
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2025 Thread of the Rains
in Daily Texan
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Looks like Travis is leveling off about 2 feet higher than before this latest round of rains.