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Samson's Wig

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  1. Can confirm. My kids are at Lamar. We've been getting the warnings for weeks. Fuck these dumbasses who don't vaccinate their children. Fuck AISD for not enforcing it, as most of them would likely go get their child vaccinated if the kid wasn't allowed in school and they were forced to watch them all day at home. And fuck the parents who willfully decide not to vaccinate and fill out the damn form the most. You don't want to participate in society? Great. You can homeschool your disease-ridden children.
  2. How can any Texan take this piece of shit seriously? I don't care what your political beliefs are, every Texan should be able to spot a bullshit artist that is this obvious, right? Right‽‽‽
  3. Lawyers: I don't actually know shit, but I can think nonlinearly and solve nuanced problems. I'm fun to party with, and your wife secretly wants to fuck me because I can flirt better than you can and know how to make eye contact. My liver or a jilted wife/lover will eventually kill me. Engineers: I can solve every problem on earth better than anyone else, no matter the context, so long as it is black-and-white, with no nuance. I could be a great lawyer or doctor if I wanted to be, but that seemed too easy, so I stuck with trade school. No one wants to party with me, but I've made some cool friends, usually by building things that explode, and I occasionally get invited to parties where I end up making everyone else uncomfortable. Your wife doesn't want to fuck me unless she, too, is on the spectrum. A miscalculation and some hubris will eventually kill me. Doctors: I studied one thing and do one thing really well, and I think that means I know everything about everything. I should probably run for political office. No one even invites me to their parties, unless they want to ask me to invest in their latest venture. Your wife doesn't really want to fuck me, but she still thinks about it in the context of being my next wife and enjoying my big house and frequent vacations. I'll live longer than the rest of you, but I'll spend most of that time focused on a weird collection or a hobby that I don't really enjoy but makes me feel artificially masculine, like fishing or motorcycles.
  4. Thank you, yes. I've conflated them in my head somehow.
  5. Just to parse things a bit finer, for the hell of it, he has a BA in physics, not a BS. Some schools differentiate between the two, with the BS requiring much more work and difficult courses, but I'm not sure if Penn does or not. Many of the folks with physics degrees you've worked with in engineering likely had a BS in physics. Musk does not, but again, there may be no distinction at Penn. So now it's all as clear as mud. ETA: I kept reading and see that TwiceHorn beat me to this comment. I'll leave it up anyway.
  6. Didn't the LBJ library once show a film where something in your seat would poke you to make you think a rattlesnake is biting you? Maybe I'm remembering a different place, but I don't want to think about the details of such an attraction at the Trump library.
  7. That sounds a lot like enabling, and I suspect you're spot on for a lot of folks.
  8. Oh, I don't know. He sure sounded and acted like a white fella with some means. Seems like a target Garza might actually put some effort into. If it happens, we should take the win.
  9. That's the type of guy who somehow snuck through life without ever taking an ass whipping, likely because he's only a dick to people who aren't a threat, like a kid. ETA: From that Reddit thread it looks like the parents found out who he is and are taking action with law enforcement. Good.
  10. No doubt. His agenda is making sure we can drill for oil wherever and whenever.
  11. It's maddening. I understand making that an option for some kids, since we've all but given up on actually educating the bottom half of students and instead focus on their feelings, but making it the mandatory method for a book report is just giving up on everyone, and is representative of how our system is failing by focusing on ensuring all kids feel good while neglecting to actually educate the kids who can handle it. My autistic 8th grader would be much happier writing a five-page book report. Those stupid fucking art projects stymie him. The other area that this shows up prominently is how daily busy work counts for 70% or more of your final grade, while exams are typically no more than 20%. That same son will score 100 (or more if there is extra credit) on every single exam in every single class, which are all upper level, but nearly fails many of his classes because he doesn't turn in forms on time, or has the wrong color of binder. All of this in a school district where half the teachers don't even have emergency certification (i.e., they have no fucking clue what they're doing). This bullshit to make sure kids who don't test well don't get left behind is leaving behind kids who are excellent at content mastery (which should be the fucking point) but suck at inane busy work is a crazy way to run an educational system. We're so focused on creating a new generation of drones who will either skip college or get a business degree if they go, that we're failing to nurture the people we'll need to take the lead in the future.
  12. Please help me out, I don't recognize this reference.
  13. While I won't like moving away from the familiarity and friends, I can't wait to get the hell out of this house when the kids head off to college. We might stay put for four years or so to get them through undergrad with a familiar place to come home to, but that will be it. I need less house and more open space, a workshop, etc., and most importantly, no more city of Austin insane taxes.
  14. That last line isn't entirely true, but it's going to be completely accurate for both Tech and UT very soon. If you think Eltife is any less of a MAGA bootlicker than Campbell, I think you might be failing to look at this objectively.
  15. Tech's BOR was appointed by the same guy who appointed the UT BOR. I like your conspiracy theory, but it's missing some pieces and gives Tech more credit than they deserve for being clever. Their chairman has been buddies with Trump for a long time, going back to his first term and long before CC was on the Tech BOR. Like every single BOR member at any major public university in the state, including UT, he's there because he gave Abbott money. Tech isn't surrounded by any more virulent right-wing politicians than UT is. They're both drowning in them, along with every other public university in the state. The fact that Tech is the nation's leading university for wind energy research is going to make things interesting if Trump does make that offer, which I doubt ever happens because he'll move on to the next shiny object any day now and this compact nonsense will be forgotten. Just like UT, Tech is full of liberal professors and has cavemen on their BOR. Their alumni will hate or love this shit at a similar percentage as UT alumni do. And like UT, they will likely sign it if given the opportunity.
  16. It doesn't really matter if your kids are in AISD or a palace in the suburbs. If they're in a Texas public school, they're not getting much of an education. This isn't anything new; it's just getting worse.
  17. Not really. I left out the part where I die penniless.
  18. Stephenville is smack dab in the middle of the devil's triangle, or if you prefer, the epicenter of American evangelicalism. Nobody knows how to cover up sexual assault like that crowd, not even the Catholic Church.
  19. Surely you're aware of the countless number of southern baptist ministers who got away with diddling kids for years before the SBC released their names after they died. A metric shit ton of christian men get away with pedophilia solely because they are christian men.
  20. lol, no. But I'm not too keen on driving one of them across town for school at the same time another has to be driven somewhere else. The FAA has never been deemed an official magnet program, because they would then have to provide buses for the kids if it were a magnet program. One of many little wrinkles or our underfunded system. We've been hauling them to Lamar and back every day for three years due to no buses, and I'm not super keen on continuing it for another four, especially if it's to two different schools.
  21. It's a bummer. I've got two 8th graders at Lamar through the FAA. They both desperately want to go to McCallum with their friends. My fear is that one of them gets in and the other doesn't. In that situation, I suspect we'll just put them both at St. Stephen's and be done with public school altogether.
  22. Only if you could somehow convince the community that football is the preferred sport of dirty liberals.
  23. Cancel football.
  24. No doubt. Games there feel more like a pro game crowd than a college one. There is a relatively simple explanation for it, though. Their location prevents alumni from easily attending games. At least 80%, but probably more, of the folks in the stands never stepped foot in a classroom at Tech. They rely on the local community (the county has 330k with a trade area close to 1M) to fill seats. A ton of them are blue-collar folks whose company bought up a bunch of tickets and handed them out to employees. It's a rough crowd, and often a very drunk one. There isn't another major school in Texas that has this issue. The percentage of college graduates at UT games has to be north of 70%. It's a different vibe, for sure. It's kind of cool how much support they get from the locals, imo, but it does make the gameday experience less than family-friendly. When you bump into Tech people at away games, they tend to be alumni and normal people, not discernibly different from UT grads. I personally find the Aggie gameday atmosphere much more uncomfortable, but for very different reasons.
  25. Campbell isn't even their biggest donor, he's just the most vocal one. Tech will not be running out of money anytime soon. More than that, and what people seem to have trouble seeing, is they've built up the entire program. The facilities, the management, the coaching, all of it competes with the top programs now. The only thing they lack is skins on the wall. We'll see if that's enough to keep them away from the big boy table, but whining from fans of traditional blue bloods who don't like the new money walking around in the wrong pair of shoes isn't going to stop it. I find it funny that Tech fans suddenly sound just like UT fans did when the Horns were in the Big 12, with the "fuck the Big 12, get us out of here" talk. They've got the target on their back now, I guess. As for them getting to the SEC, I don't think it's going to shake out like that. Whatever super league is eventually formed may well include Tech. They're certainly more deserving than at least half the programs in the SEC and Big 10, even if they're not a historic blue blood.
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