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The Dutch House is narrated by Tom Hanks. It was very good.
Obama’s autobiography is read by himself. I really enjoyed it. I’m a liberal democrat so ymmv.-
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My district is mandatory masks. The surrounding districts were optional. With omicron the surrounding districts that were optional all had to go remote due to staff shortages and then return in person with mandatory masks. That’s been about the only way districts switch back. Even with the closures you still have parents complaining about the mask mandates when students return.
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I would lean towards the public school with a strong music program. My dd went to a very well regarded state university music program for undergrad. Admission was very competitive. The ps gave her ample opportunity to stretch musically- all state band, all state orchestra, encouragement to attend college honor band programs, Govenor school for music performance, and local youth orchestra etc. Her band teacher and her local private music teacher were tremendous mentors that really helped her grow and navigate the admissions process. College music programs can be very competitive. Also it was an area where dh and I knew nothing.
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8 minutes ago, Carolina Wren said:
Omicron seems to be largely mild cases, so if your U is not doing routine testing and/or omicron isn't there yet, that would be why.
Also my dd university had vaccination clinics with J&J last spring. A lot of universities used J&J last spring since it was one shot and students could be fully vaccinated before they left campus. If a portion of the population was vaccinated with J&J last spring and didn’t get a booster late this fall (students have to weigh the booster side effects with timing of finals) they have no protection against omicron.
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I have this headset https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hyperx-cloud-ii-pro-wired-gaming-headset-red/4505300.p?skuId=4505300 I like it a lot. I prefer wired headsets for sound quality and you don’t need to worry about charging.
I have speakers for my pc as well. Nothing great just something I got at Best Buy. I only use my headset when gaming with others and chatting over discord. I use my speakers otherwise.
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I would chalk it up to some people are like that. I also would talk to my kid about how making bad choices like skipping class can lead people to make the wrong assumptions about them and that is part of the consequences of their actions.
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4 hours ago, Quill said:
Look, it’s not that I think that could never happen at my kid’s school. We have our share of gun fanatic nut jobs here, too, for one thing. It’s that I have learned that I can’t control-away all the threats that could happen. I do not live that way; in that direction lies madness. Bad stuff happens. It happens everywhere; no one can wall off every threat.
It’s been a bunch of years since I thought the solution to school shootings was to keep my kids at home where they could not be involved in a school shooting. (Not sure if I actually thought that but it was probably an ideal I had subconsciously.) I’m going on this: it’s not the *likeliest* school in the nation. Of course anything can happen anywhere. But seriously; I can’t spend days and nights calculating all the possible bad stuff that might happen to my kids. I would lose my bloody mind.
I completely understand what you’re saying. My children have all attended public high schools and bomb threats, threats of gun violence etc just come with the territory. But the reality is in the United States there are mass shootings at schools, colleges, workplaces, stores etc every year. There is nothing I can do to control that. As long as we are a country where guns are easily accessible and there is rampant mental illness there’s nothing I can do to control the risk. (This isn’t to argue about gun rights etc it’s just stating our reality.) I cannot completely protect my children from that reality.
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1 hour ago, Carrie12345 said:
Can you skip all the “extra” prep? Sure. But you’re likely to regret it.
<— skipped most sanding.
Sanding with an orbital sander given all the other work that needs to be done is really not that big of a deal.
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I washed, sanded, primed with an oil based primer and used an oil based paint for my kitchen cabinets and it’s stood up great for years. It’s really worth putting in all the effort not to have to redo it in a couple of years.
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13 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:
Most criminal defense attorneys I know view their role as defending the bill of rights and ensuring that no innocent person is convicted. Our constitution is set up to provide those accused of crimes significant protections. But those protections only remain so long as an attorney stands up for them. Every time. No matter who the defendant is. I don’t think criminal defense attorneys really struggle with this. Our founders clearly were more concerned about an innocent person being convicted than they were about a guilty person going free. Their role is to protect that balance established by the constitution.
The defense can do that without the dog whistles. That is the only point people are making. Yes they deserve a vigorous defense, but the racist appeals are not required under that law. The lawyers were not better lawyers for going all in on racism if anything it backfired.
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11 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:
How would you defend these defendants?
I would not drag out the racist tropes. That is immoral. If she can’t muster a defense without being immoral then she’s not a talented enough lawyer to be the defense attorney.
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9 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:
Believe me, the defense never thought it was a slam dunk. The only defense they could offer is that it was a citizens arrest gone awry. There’s no other defense. They are good advocates.
None of that excuses the racism. They are not good advocates. They tried to appeal to the base instincts of a nearly all white jury in Georgia and failed. The fact that it failed is something we can all take solace in.
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19 minutes ago, lauraw4321 said:
I know the attorney who said this. She has a long history of providing excellent defense and protecting people’s rights. Even racist jerks are entitled to a defense. Whether that comment was a good defense, we can debate. But running without socks is unusual.
That said, I’m so relieved and grateful that the verdict came back guilty for all 3.
If that’s what she wanted to imply then she would have mentioned the socks and left it at that not go on to mention the dirty long toe nails.
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1 minute ago, Idalou said:
He was wearing khaki shorts, a white T, and running shoes. He was not barefoot, so she is making a comment about a dead man's feet. She is trying to present an image of him the same way people describe young black boys that are murdered as men, the way back men who are murdered are described as being hulking, large, etc. It is certainly to dehumanize them.
When this happened there were extreme right wing fanatics and neo Nazi types that spread rumors he was wearing 'khaki shorts and boots'. Even the popular conservative commentator, Candace Owens, tweeted multiple times, with one on May 9 to "stop with the just a jogger bulls*** narrative because avid joggers don't wear khaki shorts and stop to break into homes". We can all guess the other media who joined in.
Plus the argument that he didn’t belong in that neighborhood. It was all of 1.8 miles from his home. I jog through neighborhoods other than my own all the time.
I train with a running group twice a week. A couple of months back we were doing running drill around a track at 5:30 am and then for variation we we’re going to run through a well lit area of a neighborhood. There’s 1 African American in our group of about 35. He was the only one who did not feel safe running through the neighborhood and said so. It’s naive to think that he was unjustified.
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There was so much race baiting on the part of the various defense attorneys it was shocking. Dirty long toe nails, trapped like a rat - a way to dehumanize him remind us he was a black man less than human. Too many black pastors in the court room to complaining about armed black men intimidating the jury by marching outside the building - remember black people are dangerous. All this said by defense attorneys not in the 1950’s but today 2021 America.
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Now the feds need to investigate the police dept and local prosecutors as to why charges were not brought against the murders until 74 days after the murder. If the family did not hire a lawyer who was able to get a copy of the video of the murder to the press we would not be seeing justice today.
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I’ve also heard from friends who are hcw it’s pay. Nurses are taking loads of abuse from the unvaccinated who end up hospitalized and travel nurse pay is really high. Might as well take a contact and get higher pay if you have the flexibility to be able to do so.
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13 minutes ago, KSera said:
How on earth are people supposed to determine a “good guy with a gun” from “a bad guy with a gun”? If I’m in Starbucks and someone comes in with an AR-15 held across their front, I’m not waiting around to find out if they are an active shooter or if they just like to impress people with their weapons
I always assume they are a threat. I didn’t even realize I lived in an open carry state until the pandemic and started seeing this guy open carrying at stores around my neighborhood. If I see him at the gas station etc open carrying I wait outside until he’s out. I just assume all people open carrying are unstable and a threat. Just my not so humble opinion.
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I think I would try talking to the mom mom to mom and put the teacher hat aside. If the boy is 16 in 2 years he’s an adult and needs to get along in the adult world. What are their goals? What are they planning for him to do after he’s 18? Work? College? Either way he needs help to function as an adult in two years. If he’s the oldest in the family they may really be completely clueless as to how atypical he is. If that’s the case is there a way to show her his work compared to other students work in your class while keeping the identity of the other students private.
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29 minutes ago, Carrie12345 said:
The KR case is a poop show all the way around.
My only take away is that this is EXACTLY how life will continue so long as enough people believe the solution to shootings is for more “good guys” to carry guns. After each death, we can sit around and try to figure out which person was the bad guy and which was the good guy.I agree with this. Regardless of whether or not he’s convicted (and I think he should be convicted of something perhaps the lesser charges) he’s killed 2 men. He has to live with the moral consequences of that the rest of his life. People dismiss that as nothing. I personally can’t imagine having that on my conscience. He’s no hero. He’s a 17yo who got in over his head, went someplace he had no business being, ran around with a gun and killed 2 people. He will wake up every day look in the mirror and see a man who has killed 2 people.
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It varies by kid. We have dd27 dd25 dd23 dd20 ds16 and dd9. Dd20 is currently away at college. We have a family group chat that’s pretty active and we play a mmo weekly as a family while chatting on discord. My current college student participates in the mmo discord group pretty regularly. To be honest it why we picked that particular mmo to play. She FaceTimes with her youngest sister about once a week.
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9 hours ago, Matryoshka said:
That is literally the only game played in the US. All the money, all the campaigning, all the ads, it's all focused on the few states that are 'purple'. And then gerrymandering and voter suprressing the living heck out of the red states that have younger populations that might turn them purple so they don't have to be worried about. And since even though a majority of the population lives in costal states and cities that are blue, we can ignore them becuase the states full of empty have way more voting heft (in the presidential election, one person's vote in Wyoming is worth almost 4x as much as one person's vote in California).
8 hours ago, Melissa Louise said:Political reform is a lot harder than shouting about how ww are killing America, that's for sure.
Dem party advisors on TV in the last 24 hrs saying the same thing as Mounk. PBS News Hour.
I live in a swing county in one of the few swing states in the nation. I volunteer with the DNC. The amount of money, volunteers from all over the country, and politician visits (and this applies to both sides) to my area is obscene considering the small number of Americans who live here. My parents live in a nonswing state have never seen a presidential candidate campaign in person in their entire lives. They live in a much more populated area but the reality is that their vote doesn’t matter.
We don’t live in a democracy and never have.
Also James Carville is part of the problem and why we are where we are.
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4 minutes ago, Faith-manor said:
Here too. We did vote on this statewide and an independent commission was to draw up new district lines that make sense. But a certain party that benefits very heavily from gerrymandering in this state has interfered, interfered, interfered.
Our system is beyond broken, and it is going to put fascists in the driver's seat.
We need to go to algorithmic computer drawn districts. Yes it could still be manipulated but it can’t be any worse.
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27 minutes ago, Matryoshka said:
Um, except that a majority of the people in the US *don't* want the white supremacist agenda. The gerrymandering along with our winner-take-all system, and combined with the recent purges of voter lists (mostly of non-white voters) and new restrictive voting rules and shutting down of polls in non-white majority areas meaning that many can't access them at all and those that do have to wait hours and hours in line, when many can't take a whole day off (or even a few hours) without jeapordizing their jobs. The winner-take-all system also means that if you live in a district that tends to swing hard one way or the other, many people don't bother to vote - if you agree with the majority, you're going to win anyway, and if you're in the minority then your vote doesn't count at all. Every vote in the district goes to the winner.
This. If you don’t live in the USA you can’t appreciate the effects of gerrymandering on elections. I live in a state with a basic 50-50 split of Democrats and Republicans. However our Republican state house has redisticted our US House seats where 10 will be solidly Republican and 4 will be Democratic.
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posterior spinal fusion for scoliosis
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Momto3innc are you in nc? If so do you mind mentioning who did the surgery? When you say 2 large curve what were the angles of the curves? Where you originally told out of school for 6 weeks? We we’re told 3. Thanks. My 16yo ds is having spinal fusion this May for scoliosis in NC.