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  1. to build upon anastasis's response, the statement that they "received around $87.5 million from the state" on your link is an extremely poor articulation that's leading you to very understandable confusion. it makes it sound like they received $87.5 million in recapture funding from the state but that's not what it's saying. every isd "receives funds" from the state but it is not necessarily robin hood funds. for example, here is eanes isd's budget: https://resources.finalsite.net/images/v1655934192/eanesisdnet/rrchb2vai5gezqrgwu8c/2022-23AdoptedBudget.pdf you can see that there is ~$8 million in "state revenue." so they put in $130 million and get $8 back and thus, the remaining is recaptured. meanwhile, austin isd puts in a billion dollars and gets $66 million back from the state. https://www.austinisd.org/sites/default/files/dept/budget/docs/Budgets/FY2023_Official_Budget.pdf prosper has absolutely gamed the system though to jimmy their tax rates to be juuuuuuust right in terms of revenue so that they get out of the state precisely what they put in and thus, don't contribute to recapture.
  2. fucking prosper isd, gets a chapter 49 designation for years and then suddenly, in the last two years, no longer does. unreal.
  3. as someone who is sympathetic to certain tenets of socialism that seek to provide some opportunity equity across our widely varying socioeconomic gradients - particularly in a state like texas, the concept behind recapture has never bothered me and seemed like it could work. but man, the state of texas has demonstrated with utter incompetence how badly they can fuck it up by not forcing that money into an al gore-esque lockbox for education purposes exclusively and instead let our dumbfuck state government redirect it to their own political purposes like performative border theater, as well as allowing local administrations like frisco and prosper to game their tax rates so as to not be required to contribute. unfuckingbelievable. i have been an eanes isd taxpayer for more about 15 years and I am fine with helping subsidize poor districts. i went to a poor ass district in east texas. but fuck this state's government for their gameplaying horseshit. absconding with the funds is absurd, as is the fact that the fuckface suburban pieces of shit that comprise frisco isd and their 2,000 high schools paid $8 million in last year while i, and my single high school, paid in $121 million and austin paid in $875 million for abbott, patrick, and the rest of the dipshit brigade to loot while shitting on us repeatedly to their idiotic constituency. also lol at pecos-barstow-toyah and its 677 person high school being the second biggest contributor behind austin isd. thanks for the boost in o&g royalty values, russia.
  4. the pac has been raising money for years on this garbage and white trash shit-for-brains across this country keep sending their disability checks to this dipshit brigade organization on a daily basis. the pac could spare a few bucks to mitigate the personal pain and leverage opportunity as a reasonably smart strategy. but here's hoping he just keeps pissing off his co-conspirators.
  5. you have to admire the unabashed insanity of publicly spurning one of your co-conspirators and not paying their legal bills for them. it's like you're daring them to do a deal and turn state's evidence.
  6. "But I think we're going to see a version of [ANY PLAYER WHO HAD SHITTY YEAR], that's going to be dramatically different now that he's healthy.” you don't even have to go outside in the 108 degree heat to know it's fucking august...
  7. game 1 is astoundingly at 2:30 in the fucking afternoon on september 2nd so you will not have an opportunity to judge. and if you attend game 1, you will never have a chance to judge because just like every other attendee of the dumbest fucking game in the history of the world, you will be dead because you attended a football game at 2:30 in the afternoon on september 2nd.
  8. hard to be shocked by human cruelty and stupidity anymore but jesus fucking christ...
  9. hmmm, i had a feeling all those stepsisters weren't actually fucking all their stepbrothers and stepdads.
  10. everyone can relax! everton is currently safe from relegation on goal differential.
  11. true, but i think it also automatically triggers a special provision precluding the possibility of no fault divorce under texas law.
  12. now there's a man that's heard me practicing the drums at my house for the last two weeks. less hurtful than my wife researching attorneys.
  13. i would definitely be in. seeking clarification though, this is something that everyone would take the prompt and then go work on it independently, correct? Not something collaborative.
  14. ha, i actually did this painting with my 9 year old daughter. trying to get her interested. she did the fruit in the bowl at the top left, as well as the green apple in the front center. anyway, we went pretty vivid with the blues relative to cezanne but we were making it a bit more fun. we need to work on some depth and three dimensionality but it was a fun project and she's improving.
  15. More Cezanne forgery…
  16. If martinez wants to be the douchebag villain of the sport, he can’t look that horrible.
  17. That chip was cheeky and awesome even though boo for Saudi team.
  18. Jesus this game may be the most entertaining soccer game in history by the end. Wide ass open.
  19. Or is it? That was a beauty.
  20. WTF?!?!?! We just got FUUUUUUCKED
  21. I can’t believe that no one in this thread has put it together that this guy went to Abeliene Christian for undergrad and UT for law school…precisely the same path as our very own jurist supérieur Johnny Sack.
  22. fuck everything.
  23. they are those clear/coated heads that remo does for dw. the way they put it: there is plenty of tone in my estimation. i currently have them in an unused room in my house (which is the only one with carpet to try and help with absorption) while i do a bit of reorganizing before they get to their final home. edit: speaking of resonance, based on the layout pictured above, any time i hit my mounted tom (and even sometimes with the floor tom), i am getting some residual snare rattle from the bottom of the ludwig. any suggestions for mitigating that?
  24. super interesting tool. thanks for posting the link. it shows a serious, serious fucking problem with increasing far right individual radicalization since 2016. of the 1,365 offenders in that time period, 899 of them are "far right" and 181 of them are "islamist" which i would say has a strong overlap in perspective. only 209 despite the summer of 2020 through 2021 increase in response to george floyd. interestingly, as to your single point, when i limit it to women, 84 of them are far right and 62 (out of 1,365) of them are far left. limiting it to single/divorced women, it is 41 far left and 27 far right. meanwhile, single/divorced men make up 760 of the 1,365 and of that, 357 of them are far right and 103 of them are islamist (94 are far left). shit gets way way worse when you limit it to 2019-2022. we have a serious fucking far right, single male radicalization problem that is trending in the way, way wrong way.
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