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DanRydell

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  1. 2 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Here's a little math, of which I am not well talented, but I blame my ADD and not my gender so there.

    If the stat regarding the transgender population as being <1 percent of the total population (around something like .6 IIRC?) then here is some dialed down math for Texas. From committee work I think one of the numbers was that there are slightly less than 5 million students in Texas public schools. That is K-12 boys and girls. So I'll round up to 1 percent of five million. That is what? 50,000 students total? Going off of highschool, take the average Texas 5A school as having a population of about 2000 students frosh through senior and now you're looking at 20 students, some of whom will be girls identifying as boys and vice versa. I am skeptical that this is going to be the tsunami of students legislatures are harping upon nor does it specifically address the mental health issues of turning minors into political scapegoats over extracurricular activities.

     

    And the Johnny Sacks of the world are really only concerned about mtf trans athletes. Most estimates are than 60-80% of trans persons are ftm so that cuts the numbers much futher.

  2. 14 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Jesus, pelvic exams?  Really? I care about my daughter’s athletics.  I help coach it.  Honestly I do give zero fucks about women’s college sports.  I’d rather watch the paint dry and once my daughter is 15-16 she’ll likely only play tennis and participate in cheerleading (she loves tumbling).  I wouldn’t thrill me if she was shooting hoops in her 20s   

    But as a child playing Lacrosse, I don’t want her competing against biological males.  Nor does anyone else I know.  

    Problem is everyone you know is also a piece of shit.

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  3. i pointed out at least once before that the filibuster only really blocks democrat's priorities, not republicans'.  tax cuts?  gutting social spending?  those can both be done by reconciliation, which are exempt from the filibuster.  packing the courts with fedsoc dark money funded kochsuckers so that they can rule on cases brought by fedsoc dark money funded plaintiffs and read briefs by fedsoc dark money funded amicii [sen. whitehouse has me really negative on the judiciary]?  filibuster doesn't apply to the judiciary.  gutting regulations to help the extraction industry and poison average americans?  can be done on presidential authority alone.

    And the second Republicans have power again in the future and can’t get 60 votes for cloture on something else they want to pass, you can be damn sure there will be an exception to the filibuster created for that as well.
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  4. 1 hour ago, Lat22 said:

    This trashy show is going to clutch pearls because Rachel went to an Old South party back in college in Georgia? That’s rich. 

    You say back in college like it was decades ago. It was less than 3 years ago, 2 years after even KA decided Old South parties were a bridge too far. And was attended by a girl who has appeared in photos with confederate flags, liked photos of friends in racist costumes, and is accused of bullying a high school classmate for dating black guys.

  5. I’m on this team with this one. Delay the season a month and let’s try and get the most games in we can with people in seats and back out locally. I could give a shit about the DH in the NL or expanded playoffs at this point, I want the opportunity to use my normal season tickets as much as possible. If that means a months delay and 7 inning DH’s, I’m good with it.
    MLB is the only one of the big sports that is now going into year 2 of lost local revenue. 

    Delaying the season a month isn’t a necessarily bad idea but that was a proposal that should have been made months ago, not two weeks before spring training starts.
  6. It seems to me that the MLBPA is more interested in making a stand in anticipation of next year’s CBA battle than doing what’s best for this season. 

    You mean doing what’s best for the owners this season.
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  7. That the owners have a legitimate reason to try and delay the season a month while still paying the players a full season. It increases the likelihood of fewer missed games and more butts in seats potentially.

    How does more games per week, and in turn fewer off days for make-up games, decrease the likelihood of missing games?
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  8. 54 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    Tim burton fucking sucks. All his movies are trash. Hes ruined so many goddamn franchises

     

    alice in wonderland

    Willy wonka

    planet of the apes

    Batman

    etc

    Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Ed Wood, and Edward Scissorhands are all great. Nightmare Before Christmas and Sweeney Todd are also pretty good.

  9. I know what she is talking about.  there is land all over pflugerville, east austin, hays, past leander.  get investors to build apartments there.  Is there some kind of land crisis in the Central Texas area? why do people have to rent in Austin proper?  
    Maybe build on the harvey penick golf course. do we really need that?

    Because the unmet demand is predominantly in Austin proper. Increasing housing supply way outside of Austin doesn’t do anything to address affordability in Austin.
  10. I think Ortiz is a sure-fire first ballot inductee, but then---the writers have only heard of this wild new designated hitter concept in the last couple of years so we have to be patient with them.


    Would seem like PEDs would be the bigger issue than his being a career DH.
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  11. Sad, Boerne has the demographic make up where with the right coach they could build a nice stadium, facilities, and etc. 
     
    Creating so many schools is really hurting San Antonio IMO. It's splitting what little talent they have too much.

    Sounds like it’s one of the only areas of the state without totally fucked up priorities.
  12. Well, if you came from a nerd family like I did, my mom wanted smaller classes and more emphasis on serious AP offerings then a freshman annex and a unified football squad.  But that was 15 years ago. 

    There are also some benefits to two 1400-person schools rather than one 2800-person school.

    But yeah, the population estimates from 15-20 years ago of 4000 students never came to fruition. It seems like they way underestimated how many empty nesters would stick around.

    Also, HP is more Pemberton than Tarrytown.
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  13. When I sign into Fox Sports Go app it only lets me watch Fox sports channels that I have on YTTV (FS1 and FS2, Big ten network). Still can’t see stuff on FSSW. Can you?

    Those are the only channels I see as well after logging in with YouTubetv.
  14. 14 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

    This probably is stupid but I read the rule is 2/3 of senators present have to vote to convict. Could a bunch of republicans just not show up resulting in a 2/3 vote to convict?

    Theoretically he could be removed by just 34 Senators (2/3 of a quorum of 51) but I'm not sure there's a political upside to skipping the vote.

  15. 11 hours ago, fakebusiness said:

    It was an honest question. We're still in the middle of a pandemic. Is it fair to ask if the time & resources used on impeachment should rather be used to help people during a pandemic? I hate Trump as much or more thab the next guy. I just can't wait until he's gone so we can focus on healing this country. Deplatform his ass and then let the courts convict him.

    It's not an either/or scenario. Congress has the power to do more than one thing at a time when they're so inclined. 

  16. I was under the impression that outside sales falls under the exempt category. Or is it still a requirement for the base salary to be above the threshold as well?

    Outside sales employees are exempt but to fall under the exemption, they have to work outside the office. Basically they need to be out in the field doing sales, not at a desk.

    As to the OPs question, not enough info to know whether the employees are exempt but if not, comp time is not a substitute for OT pay.
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