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  1. Viva La Ferrari!

    Great race from Sainz, would have liked to see how it turned out without the Max retirement but Max and RBR have had an unbelievable run of good luck while all the other manufacturers didn't, so what goes around comes around.

    Not sure about the penalty on Fred, I don't think he did something intentionally dangerous, and I do think he knew if he kept doing the same thing then Russell was going to have an excellent chance to pass.

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  2. 7 hours ago, markstanco said:

    Maybe this is sarcasm, but he was a damn good player for them back in the day  Won some awards IIRC.  That is what is a little shocking to everybody for him leaving.  

    Pretty sure everyone knows this.

    The joke is, the ags are beating their chests and crowing like they pulled off some major coup, but in reality Trev hasn't accomplished... well... anything, since he became the AD at Nebraska.  Their volleyball team was nationally elite long before Trev became AD, and their football team remains the butt of many national jokes.  

  3. One of the craziest races ever, the 1984 Formula 1 Dallas Grand Prix.  The track ran through Fair Park in Dallas, right around the Cotton Bowl for a portion of it.  The race ran on July 8th, and the ambient temperature was something like 103 degreesF.  Seriously, when you have the chance, take the time to watch this all the way through--I can't even begin to describe all the crazy stuff that happened.

    It doesn't want to embed, so here's the URL:

    https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8mf3nx

     

     

     

     

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  4. Anyway, the public/private sector discussion is a red herring, it really doesn't have anything to do with the subject at hand.

    The FACTS are, that we know that an increasing percentage of the population is unhappy enough to answer as such in surveys.

    And we know that the negative responses disproportionately skew to those under 30.

    Beyond that, this thread has really been nothing more than speculation as to why.  There's some plausible speculation, and some stupid-as-shit speculation, and some insensitive "don't care got mine" responses as well.

    What I'd be most interested in finding, is WHY those who responded as unhappy, did so. I'd like to find it out directly from the original set of respondents.  And I'd also be interested to view similar past surveys over time, of the same age ranges, to see what the trends look like for those age ranges, over, say, the past 60-80 years.

    As a solid GenXer, I can say that plenty of my peers had some fairly negative views of their surroundings, from ages 18-30.  In some ways it was expected or even fashionable to behave so-- youthful rebellion, young-person's angst, and all that.  But as I, and my peers, have become older, and gained perspective,, and learned how to live a contented life, much of that angst and fear and anger, have faded and been replaced by happier feelings.  This is only anecdotal of course, but that's my own experience.

    That's why I'd be interested to see the trends over time, from generation to generation, of such a survey.

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  5. 10 hours ago, ConferenceRoom said:

    Spoiled rotten. Back in my day, we sometimes had to wait until Monday before a Sky or Channel 4 torrent was uploaded. 

     

    9 hours ago, deft said:

    Damn skippy. Oh what it would have been like to see day old news about what good old team Vanwall had done in ye old Grand Prix.

    Well at least there was no sports media coverage of F1 in the USA, to spoil it for you, until you finally managed to watch it.  Oh wait, there STILL isn't...

    2 hours ago, G650 said:

    Sheeit. Back in my day there wasn't an internet. You had to go get a VHS from the store 6 months after the fact.

    They also occasionally had F1 on ABC's Wide World of Sports.  That's how I first started watching it in the early 80s. 

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

    The DPS office in Waxahachie is filled with the most pleasant, helpful people you can imagine. Honestly seems like it can’t really be a DPS office

    I absolutely love the "new" DPS policy of making appointments. Sure they can book up well ahead of time, but if embracing that discipline of scheduling early, means I'm not waiting hours upon hours in a Beetlejuice-like hellscape of first-come first-served, then I'm completely down for it.  And the people I've interacted with have been quite lovely ever since the transition.

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  7. 14 minutes ago, texasdago said:

    Still leaning on 1) walking to a nearby park and just watching it go dark for 2 minutes (I think we get two minutes or something) OR convincing someone to take the boat out on Lake Austin which I think would be bad ass.

    Need AISD to cooperate, though

    I'm just pulling my kids out of school all day on Monday.  I think it's a worthwhile tradeoff.

     

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  8. I've tried almost everything over the last 2 years and in my experience DTV Streaming and YouTubeTV are the best for F1 coverage, and pretty much most sports coverage in general.  DTV Stream has LHN, and YouTubeTV does not, but that's about to become meaningless.

    I dropped my Spectrum TV streaming package, which unbundled me and drove up the price of my Internet access.  Overall, putting YouTubeTV on top of the new higher-cost Spectrum internet, ends up being a bit more expensive than the previous Spectrum internet/Spectrum streaming TV bundle, but the increased quality and quantity of offerings on YouTubeTV is enough to make me feel like it's worth it.

     

    For now, anyway.  I'm sure it will all change again in a few months or a year.

     

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  9. 12 minutes ago, Dutch said:

    More "Adrian Newey to Ferrari" smoke. Apparently he's already had one meeting with Elkann (Ferrari president) and has an other scheduled. If Fred Vasseur lands both Lewis and Newey? /ioweyouanapologyiwasntfamiliarwithyourgame.gif

    https://www.funoanalisitecnica.com/2024/03/ferrari-newey-incontro-f1.html

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    A few days ago we talked about the exploratory maneuver of John Elkann , president of Ferrari . The boss of the historic Italian team is certainly not an expert in the highest category of motorsport. However, he can be called a master in the field of negotiations. Witness the hidden move through which he snatched Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes . The seven-time F1 world champion has decided to accept the great challenge and if you remember correctly, Newey himself has never denied how much he would like to deal with a champion like the next Ferrari driver.

    The Red Bull RB20 continues to dominate the scene. It does so also thanks to the great talent of Max Verstappen , capable of merging with the mechanical vehicle to perfection. The Dutchman maximizes the Austrian car. A sort of "Terminator" because for years now he hasn't even made the mistakes he once did. However, things around him are not idyllic. The internal struggle between the two factions is creating great confusion within the team and as we know Christian Horner , in the grip of a clear delirium of omnipotence, seems convinced of one fact: A hypothetical "Thai Red Bull" , without Adrian with Alexander Albon in Max 's place , he would still be able to win.

    Ferrari Newey
    John Elkann, president of the historic Scuderia Ferrari – Saudi Arabian GP 2024
    In all this Ferrari did not stand by and watch. The red top management is trying a coup: bringing the most popular designer to Maranello . Now or never, basically. At this time, compared to the three occasions mentioned by the English designer himself, the desire to fully satisfy the British designer's wishes exists. And we are not referring to the issue of emoluments, that has never been a problem. We are talking about 360° future planning where Adrian would also have free reign in other branches of the company. Precisely for this reason the negotiations with the Italian team exist. They are real.

    The meeting in the paddock at the court of Olaf Mintzlaff , during the Arab weekend, where team principal Frederic Vasseur also briefly participated , was certainly not a courtesy visit. The excuse linked to the pact of concord does not hold up. Among the various issues discussed, no one claims that this topic was not mentioned. However, there is evidence of negotiations well underway regarding the acquisition of the technical cognitive skills that Red Bull inhabits . They are confirmed, because the mediation to convince Newey to abandon Milton Keynes is at an advanced stage .

    And it doesn't end here. According to information gathered in the last few hours by our editorial team, the parties involved should have already scheduled another meeting, scheduled during the two-week break that separates the Japanese Grand Prix from that of China . A meeting that could prove decisive for the future of the partnership under discussion. Repeating Ferrari 's firm will to reach an agreement would be almost superfluous, considering the fervor and commitment with which the Prancing Horse is approaching this negotiation.

     

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  10. 2 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    That's fair, but people do like to blame the CDC/NIH for what young kids went through/are still going through.  Good, bad, or indifferent---no CR---but they continue to be an oft-cited fallguy for this stuff and they are technically federal agencies.  There's plenty of monday morning quarterbacking in this thread on Covid but the approaches were made on the fly and we can get into the sub-populations that probably spread this thing more than it needed to be.  But looking back, the disconcert of approaches from muni to muni, ISD to ISD, city to city, county to county, state to state just looks worse and worse in hindsight.  My daughter missed 3/4 of a year in in-person instruction but thankfully my wife created a physical classroom in our garage for 4 kids to do remote learning and she picked up the gaps given her training in schools.  She even got us actual school desks and an old-school clock and those goofy plastic chairs we all remember from Elementary School.  But there were other kids who were back in the classroom in a matter of weeks and still others, it was 2 years.  Everyone's mileage may vary, especially the kids.  Our youngest is our Covid-19 baby.  She's only ever known a world of this pandemic.  She was 11 months old when quarantine set in, pulled her out of day care, and while she's doing great at pre-school and playdates...maybe it's for the best since she didn't know life before it.  

    But my point is we continue to hand-wringing on how this place did this and that place did that.  We were too busy thinking of rural v. urban, remote v. in-person, blue v. red, masks v. no masks, won't somebody think of the children, etc.  All the while ignoring the elephant in the room---the virus didn't care about municipalities and classroom mental health.  We were too busy thinking of our own bullshit and forgot it simply wanted to spread and mutate.  I think in hindsight we took a moderate approach with our oldest.  She definitely has some setbacks from spending almost a year coop'd up inside with her anal-retentive parents.  She's doing so much better now.  But I know we'll continue to unpack what this has all meant for the meant for the mental well-being of kids that were 4-14 when Pandemic hit for decades.  

    I'm not making any value judgment on the various responses by local/county/state actors, I'm just pointing out that THOSE are the appropriate levels of government to consider, when discussing the length of time any particular group of students stayed out of full in-person schooling.  THOSE were the people making the decisions.  Not the president, not the CDC, not Congress.  I'm keeping all of my commentary strictly within the context of this thread, which is "Kids' happiness" and not other issues related to the pandemic and any entities' responses to it.

    In Leander ISD, my kids were only out from mid-March 2020 thru mid-September 2020.  It wasn't two years, it wasn't 18 months, it wasn't even one year, it was only 6 months.

    However, that 6 months made an incredible impact to my then-6th-grade daughter.  I saw her turn from a bright, cheerful, outgoing, deeply happy child who excelled in all of her classes and never once thought about NOT turning in an assignment on time, into a withdrawn, timid, introverted, morose, ghost of a teenager who lost track of all sense of responsibility and normalcy.  It took her almost two years to re-form good school habits and re-engage with her friends.  She's now thriving, a straight A+ student with tons of friends and tons of activities, but even those 6 months set her back potentially years.  

    So people who are debating the 6 months versus 2 years or whatever, are completely missing the point.  It's much less amount the DURATION of the event and more about the total psychological trauma induced by the event itself. 

     

     

     

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