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Newdoc

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  1. Side gig “makeup artist”
  2. This. I read the beach detailed in the story and was not surprised.
  3. Masks on planes and trains is mostly theater at this point considering the bajillion other places you can catch and spread Covid other than federally regulated transportation. For frickin’ sake, the non prechecks are still taking off their damn shoes at the airport two decades after one guy couldn’t successfully detonate his sneakers on a plane. Despite our confidence to be logical, we are a very stupid society. Governmental agencies should not be viewed as reliable purveyors of science.
  4. Young team with the star in foul trouble and on the road. I understand Pop doesn’t have tank in his DNA but this promising very young team is not ready for the playoffs.
  5. These announcers are a beating. Every Pelican player is the NBA mvp and a rags to riches, playing on some blacktop playground for $3.50 a game prior to being discovered by the savy scouts from New Orleans. And they just cannot leave more than 0.5 seconds of airtime without their inane babbling.
  6. Not sure there is really anything "innocent" about throwing feces on a house. So there should have been some type of punishment to fit the crime (like cleaning the dudes toilets weekly for a year or pumping septic tanks for a couple of weekends). It certainly wasn't vigilante justice. Now we have a dead kid, a torn up family, traumatized friends and another family that will see their husband/father locked away for a significant number of years.
  7. The maturity of discourse here is fantastic. No wonder the modern political parties look like they do. And this is mostly a collection of flagship university graduates.
  8. Ahh, the ol’ snarky correlation vs causation crowd with clever memes. Here’s another one… You’re a fool if you don’t think the fed and our centralized government doesn’t have a frickin huge role in the current inflation cycle. Tell me you don’t know monetary policy and it’s role in inflation with “clever” memes.
  9. It’s a little disingenuous to start a thread on these “mass” shootings while you tip toe around the constant and inherent singular slaying of people (mostly inner city) at the barrel of a gun every damn day across the U.S. And the additive singular numbers are much higher than these two incidents. I guess there wasn’t some scary looking gun involved in the last two shootings because I haven’t seen the ban “assault weapons” crowd out yet. Gun violence absolutely needs to be addressed but mass shootings and “assault weapons” are scary window dressings that distract from the endemic gun and other deadly weapon problems in this country.
  10. Kansas watching shots go up on nobody putting bodies to block out. Fundamentals.
  11. Kansas guards looking frantic and out matched.
  12. I think these shirts were included in Jesus' statement, "Lord forgive them, for they know not what they do."
  13. So far this is not the game the media hyped it to be.
  14. Post game interviews. Completely banal and useless.
  15. Unless lab sampling or assay error then most likely you had asymptomatic or very light symptomatic infection. This will likely be the way forward for most people who have reasonable immunity via vaccine and/or natural infection.
  16. So Raccoon is my apparently my spirit animal.
  17. I feel like I’m watching 2A JV ball. And that should do it.
  18. But too many watching first ball strikes. Getting behind instantly. They did this all last year. I understand not swinging if a first strike is not in your ideal hitting zone but these are fastballs in the middle.
  19. Good 2 strike hit.
  20. Well, that avoided complete disaster.
  21. And I don't think you can quantify that those elite universities prepare these kids better than your state Tier 1 universities aside from connections upon graduation and riding a hundred year old reputation into grad schools and snobbery into the hiring process because a name looks good on paper. I completely agree that a liberal or classical education is important to build upon the STEM fields but if you are starting this after high school graduation, you are starting too late. It can be done in college but most kids are going into school already completing their "liberal arts" portion of their education through AP and community college dual credit courses. The STEM fields then become more polarized in higher education because the students have schedules filled with 12 hours of science/engineering/math per semester and are done in 3 years. AND the public high schools in Texas now do a piss poor job of starting the liberal (how to think) part of a student's education.
  22. More importantly is the question of how well the private school is preparing your student/child for higher education and the real world? Most likely they will get into a very reputable school with a good high school CV. It's no longer a ticket punch into ivy and maybe that's a blessing in the end. Besides STEM ivy type schools, the liberal arts education at the elite universities is now wack and not in line with what students need to become successful in everyday life. We can hope public education it is at least advancing the students in public school who don't have the means to go to private school or augment their public high school education. And they have the tools to succeed once they get there but I seriously have my doubts since the pandemic started.
  23. There is not much tangibly physical for a music fan to burn these days. Will spurned Church fans post fire .gifs with his virtual album covers in protest?
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