pantslesswithwolves posted:Hnngnnngghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh https://www.theonion.com/dnc-aiming-to-reconnect-with-working-class-americans-wi-1819579456
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pantslesswithwolves posted:Hnngnnngghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh OK I'm voting GOP now They finally won
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Jan 6, 2022 20:50
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stealie72 posted:And in many places, they're also a source of clean clothes, a source of take home food for the family, a source of social service navigation (especially for non English speaking families), and even a source of Healthcare. It's one of those cases where shutting schools down / distance learning could be a lot less of a major problem if we had properly funded and working social services elsewhere, but, uh, well, we don't, as you describe all too well. Another small but unstated value, and one that applies even to kids that have well-off-enough parents, is that school is a place away from your family. If you have a lovely family, school can be the one place you get away from that environment.
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Jan 6, 2022 20:59
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poo poo got real loving stupid, fellas
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Jan 6, 2022 20:59
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Fn Walgreens trying to charge 125 for a home COVID test, yeah no. I’ll just assume this is it and crawl back into bed.
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Jan 6, 2022 21:03
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They're $20 at CVS at the register
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Oh are they scalping tests now
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virtually nothing has, or could be done to make schools not a hotbed of viral transmission but because number must go up we did virtually nothing to make remote learning any less of a clusterfuck.
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Jan 6, 2022 21:04
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only trust eugene stoner, the democrats will never save you
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Wasabi the J posted:They're $20 at CVS at the register Doesn’t matter if all the Cvs near me are out of them. Guess I should google covid tests harder.
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Jan 6, 2022 21:05
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Tiny Timbs posted:Oh are they scalping tests now $125 is probably a mail in PCR test, those have always been very expensive at retail since this started.
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Jan 6, 2022 21:06
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Hmm, I recall the mail-in tests being more like $40 in grocery stores but I never had to buy one myself
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Jan 6, 2022 21:09
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I've seen them from $40 to like $100, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it. The rapid tests I've only ever seen at like $30/2 or less.
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Jan 6, 2022 21:12
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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you have to pay for them
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Jan 6, 2022 21:16
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you have to pay for them not only that but there is a massive shortage because they destroyed millions of them
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Jan 6, 2022 21:30
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that you have to pay for them Seeing the White House spokesperson's brain try to divide by zero at the suggestion in a press conference we just hand them out for free is one of the most darkly hilarious laughs I had through all of 2021. Just a magnificently crystal clear "We are totally and absolutely hosed" moment.
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Proud Christian Mom posted:not only that but there is a massive shortage because they destroyed millions of them What? Why?
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Jan 6, 2022 21:43
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Proud Christian Mom posted:virtually nothing has, or could be done to make schools not a hotbed of viral transmission Yeah I’m trying to get my kids switched to virtual after I got two emails within minutes of each other of people in both of their class having it today. Kazinsal posted:only trust eugene stoner, the democrats will never save you I thought we were only supposed to trust first?
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Jan 6, 2022 21:45
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I remember as part of the 2016 campaign autopsy it was noted Clinton’s staff had annoyed Hamilton staff with excessive requests for comped tickets. Watch Emma Watson Beatbox For Lin-Manuel Miranda's Rap On Gender Equality
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Jan 6, 2022 21:59
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There are currently 11 members of 1 of my teams out with Covid. Here we loving go, let 'er buck and shut this bitch down.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:What? Why? BAKA! ~Inventory is one of the Seven Wastes!!~ https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/us/abbott-covid-tests.html posted:*Updated Sept 29 2021*
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shame on an IGA posted:America was notoriously slow in rolling out testing in the early days of the pandemic, and the story of the Abbott tests is a microcosm of the larger challenges of ensuring that the private sector can deliver the tools needed to fight public health crises, both before they happen and during the twists and turns of an actual event. Also, the tests don't have super long shelf lives, which doesn't help things.
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Jan 6, 2022 22:10
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MA-Horus posted:There are currently 11 members of 1 of my teams out with Covid. I started my gov job in July last year and have worked in person the entire time (masked mind you). Now we are back to 100% telework. I think like a third of our team came back from the holidays with covid.
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Jan 6, 2022 22:15
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everyone in america with an ounce of sense and the power to work remotely or segregate themselves from their workforce is doing so but the corporate/political message is back to work, its not that bad and teachers are lazy
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Jan 6, 2022 23:02
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Kamala Harris is probably lucky to be alive. https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1479209995589799939?t=4HhCGimq4eHG0iv0C_jClw&s=19 https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1479210938398035969?t=bzYqSPgw3gxhXWRoMlmCUg&s=19 And nobody still knows who planted the pipebomb in the first place - they're so well disguised that the feds don't even know if it's a man or woman.
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stealie72 posted:And in many places, they're also a source of clean clothes, a source of take home food for the family, a source of social service navigation (especially for non English speaking families), and even a source of Healthcare. You're not wrong about the impact on kids, but you're also completely disregarding the health of the teachers. These are teachers, not soldiers, but a large chunk of the country seems to just accept that some teachers are going to have to die so kids have more structure in their lives. Teachers in general are incredibly self sacrificing, or they wouldn't be teachers in the first place. Almost any other white collar worker would tell you to gently caress right off if asked to risk their lives in a petri dish for their job. So when teachers stand up and say "nah dawg, this is too risky for me" about in person learning, I'm inclined to listen to them.
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My mother has been a teacher for some 20+ years now, and all I hear is how each year its more a day care and less a education. They routinely have dozens of 8th graders who are pushed onto high-school while still illiterate with straight F's because its too much effort to fight the parents. e; I've gotta clarify that on the flipside of that the schools do a ton to help a LOT of kids, and the teachers try to help and do wonderful work, but for some parents it's daycare and that another problem besides kids needing help. M_Gargantua fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Jan 6, 2022 23:27
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As someone who wants to be a teacher this sure fills me up with hope
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ElMaligno posted:As someone who wants to be a teacher this sure fills me up with hope If I didn't land the job I started at this school year, I would have left the profession.
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Stultus Maximus posted:If I didn't land the job I started at this school year, I would have left the profession. my mother teaches third grade and moved schools this year in an attempt to not be the only experienced teacher in her grade level. for the past 5 years she's just had a revolving door of brand new teachers and long term subs and the extra workload was just too much. two weeks before school started the district moved the three other third grade teachers to other schools and gave her three more brand new teachers to work with. i think she's done after this year.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:You're not wrong about the impact on kids, but you're also completely disregarding the health of the teachers. These are teachers, not soldiers, but a large chunk of the country seems to just accept that some teachers are going to have to die so kids have more structure in their lives. BTW, this awesome org only works as well as it does because their Executive Director made a bunch of cash in her original career and can afford to volunteer like 60 hours a week to keep everything running. So workers get hosed. As always.
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M_Gargantua posted:My mother has been a teacher for some 20+ years now, and all I hear is how each year its more a day care and less a education. Oh yeah I was talking to a cousin from across the country who I don’t see a lot who was about to graduate high school, and from trying to play a board game with him quickly realized he barely reads at an early grade school level. Considering all I hear about him from his parents is football achievements they may not have their priorities straight.
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I still have 8 years until i retire, and i am looking at teaching in high school or community college as a post military thing. But man they dont care about education in this loving country
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Oh yeah I was talking to a cousin from across the country who I don’t see a lot who was about to graduate high school, and from trying to play a board game with him quickly realized he barely reads at an early grade school level. Considering all I hear about him from his parents is football achievements they may not have their priorities straight. A guy I know's son started having seizures at 6 and his biggest worry was that he might not be able to play football. This guy has been out of high school for 10+ years and still has photos of him playing HS football in his office
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Here is where I feel stupid: Aren't there serious long term repercussions to cutting back on education spending, keeping wages low, and keeping health care expensive? Like I get that in the short term it is all about pushing money to the billionaires, but at some point, so many people are homeless, sick, and illiterate that things just stop functioning at all levels. Like at some point you stop being able to train new doctors, teachers, engineers, or whatever because people are too dumb to do the job right? So then everyone suffers, Including the ultra-wealthy and their offspring. Is that the ultimate goal? Just a total collapse of the system? Please explain to me what I'm missing, because that doesn't make sense.
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That’s somebody else’s problem. F u, pay me.
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bengy81 posted:So then everyone suffers, Including the ultra-wealthy and their offspring. Answering your question with a question - how? The rich will always be able to find the best doctor, the best teacher, the best X for themselves and their offspring. Even if the "best" becomes marginally worse than in the past, it's still the best. Even if "the system" collapses, they're probably in one of the best positions to profit from it between their connections, employees, potential to make company towns with their own scrip, and so on. It's just a power thing. Republicans are going to make any education they don't control the enemy - I would expect state budgets for higher education to zoom close to zero as more and more state legislators claim they're just indoctrination mills. Meanwhile, the lower state education will teach that racism is over and democrats are just brain polluters that will transify your children. The rich want to stay rich, the powerful want to stay powerful, and that's it. That's their ultimate goal. The homeless/sick/illiterate can all be avoided if you're rich/powerful enough.
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bengy81 posted:Aren't there serious long term repercussions to cutting back on education spending, keeping wages low, and keeping health care expensive? Not for anyone near power. Hell even cops make shitloads of money compared to teachers etc. When the state wants to use them to crack down on poor's getting uppity they know who's signing the checks.
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shame on an IGA posted:BAKA! ~Inventory is one of the Seven Wastes!!~ After those articles came out the company defended itself by saying that they were required to destroy the intermediate stock that had been sitting for more than 6 months. That raises the question of if that’s is indeed all they were doing or not.
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bengy81 posted:Here is where I feel stupid: Aren't there serious long term repercussions to cutting back on education spending, keeping wages low, and keeping health care expensive? Like I get that in the short term it is all about pushing money to the billionaires, but at some point, so many people are homeless, sick, and illiterate that things just stop functioning at all levels. Like at some point you stop being able to train new doctors, teachers, engineers, or whatever because people are too dumb to do the job right? Yes, humanity's now centuries long experiment with non-feudal-serfdom economic systems will be remembered as a historical anomaly.
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