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Incredulity

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  1. 35 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    My daughter reports one of her classes (split day) is very unruly, and the other is fine.  We have to work with her considerably more in the subjects where the class is unruly.

    This has been a huge problem for my kids classes starting after about elementary school.  The inability to firmly discipline and or remove students cripples the entire class.  A majority of the teachers(and some with specialists) time is spent dealing with the kids with behavioral problems.

     

     

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  2. 4 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

    I don’t know the legalities of it or enforcing it,

    I am not a lawyer and nor do I work in the mortgage business.  Contractual stipulations barring an "independent" businesses doing business with other businesses seems rife with opportunity for a motivated lawyer to start nailing asses.

  3. 7 hours ago, BeardIP said:

    Oh man, the football dream. Weird how we have similar reoccurring brain activity.

    I have the one where I can't find my cleats so I am forced to start the game barefoot.  Which I then realize in my sleep can't be real so I wake up.

    Probably took my subconscious 20 years to stop getting anxiety when the peak summer heat is raging in late July/ early August because doubles are starting soon.

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  4. tangentially to above.

    Nothing is quite as entertaining when a company decides that their engineering/design/technical staff needs to get out into the real world so they implement some sort of sales tag-along program.  Bunch of smooth talkers those engineers.

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  5. 9 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    Public school high school teachers in general don’t give a fuck and neither do the students by and large. This seems to be a post pandemic phenomenon.

    It's not just schools.  Most businesses I have dealt with over the last 4 years are completely out of fucks to give.  Honestly, I would say its gotten somewhat better over the last 6 months, or maybe I am just adjusting.

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I laughed. We really going to get worked up because we have to pay $0.15 more for a cheeseburger? Gladly pay it.

    Now do a post on how much I'm paying for self-employed health insurance. That's the real inflation that hurts.
     

     

    Now do McDonalds, Burger King...etc.  

    It's commonly known that fast food labor is about 25% of sales.  Cheeseburger was $4. (which is low comparatively)  Labor was $1.  Labor went up 25%.  Labor is now a $1.25.   They will have to charge more than $.25 more per Cheeseburger to maintain margins.

    They are choosing to boil the frog and not jump the price all at once.  It will get there.

     

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  7. 19 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    You want those bridges to shake a little. Shake so that they are less likely to break when shaken by an earthquake. 

     

     

    I understand.  Its just a bit shocking to feel that when you are stopped no matter the physics/science/engineering/logic behind it.

  8. 11 minutes ago, Grande Mart said:

    Yeah, I always think about the 1989 World Series Earthquake and the highway collapse when I'm stuck in traffic on the Marquam (I-5 over the Willamette) or the Fremont (I-405) Bridge in Portland. At least there is a nice view of downtown and Hood, St Helens, etc... If there is a big Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake during rush hour, that will suck. I guess it's lucky that the 1989 Earhquake happened during the World series between the Gianta and the A's so there were a lot more people off the roads watching the game.  

    Several years ago I was stuck on I-5 a few miles south of the I-5 bridge.  I believe several miles of that interstate is elevated and essentially bridge.  I couldn't believe how much that section of road shook from truck traffic headed southbound.

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