JCPS is not suffering for funding. A big part of the issue is they used shitty software to plan a bus route. On top of it being notoriously hard for keeping drivers in the district.
Edit: but shit like this happens and the R’s that control the state are going to start calling for the funding to be slashed, because might as well, its already one of the worst in the state.
JCPS needs a massive overhaul. Something big needs to change.
The drivers aren’t vanishing in the night at the hands of shadowy cabal.
It’s “notoriously hard for keeping drivers” because the money needed to keep them has been pocketed by administrators or politicians. That’s why their wages keep going up but the wages of everyone below them keep going down.
It’s a problem with an identifiable cause and known solution, and it needs to be said out loud every time.
“On top of it being notoriously hard for keeping drivers in the district.”
If you pay them, they will drive. If you raise them adequately regularly, they will stay.
Just like the national “teacher shortage” because we pay them dogshit relative to their education, tell them they’re spoiled and don’t even deserve dogshit, and then blame the few still showing up for poor outcomes. Then, when kids recognize that getting into teaching makes you a sucker, we cry tears of blood about classroom sizes as if we can’t trace back why.
We should take half the defense budget for 10 years and put it into rebuilding the utter ruin that is public K-12, in order of the states with the worst outcomes, if we want to even compete in the future. We of course won’t though. We’ll jist keep saying “if only there was something we could dooooooooo…”
Ooh I know, we should cut rich peoples taxes yet again, that’ll help this time for sure!
I don’t want to anymore, but I’ve wanted to a lot in the past. Even now I wouldn’t mind having a “go bag” of sorts just in case society gets too shitty, but my parents would have to had passed on already. I definitely can’t go before them, I have to make sure to take care of them when they get elderly. And no, I don’t mean “take care of them” lmao
I feel that. I have bouts of really strong suicidal ideation once or twice a year that last 3-4 weeks. Been that way since ~2018. Ngl it’s harder and harder every time one of those moods come around. The only reason I’m still here is because of my parents, wife and cats. Hopefully that continues to be a good enough reason because god knows I can’t afford a psychiatrist, therapist, or meds
I was off the Musk bandwagon when he called that rescuer in SE Asia a pedophile for not wanting to use his stupid submarine. Cancelled my cybertruck preorder.
how the hell have we reached a point as a society where people would rather literally fucking die than get life saving blood from someone who thinks differently from them?
This started off when HIV was much more prominent in the gay and bisexual male population than anyone else. The Red Cross, among other organizations, decided it was better to just deny blood from gay and bi males than to check all their samples for HIV. Similarly, you can’t give blood if you were in certain locations in the '80s and '90s due to potential exposure to Mad Cow Disease. At this point, while HIV is still somewhat more prevalent in that demographic, rates have gone down significantly and HIV has spread to the other demographics. It’s also easier to test for than it was then. Repealing these restrictions was proposed quite some time ago and didn’t face any real pushback, but bureaucracy is going to bureaucracy, so it’s taken years to get this settled.
It wasn’t the Red Cross, it was the FDA. This article phrases it as the Red Cross loosening restrictions because the FDA ended the ban in May, and the Red Cross’s own procedural bureaucracy is just now catching up.
Which is crazy considering the Bacardi family had to escape from Cuba because of Castro’s takeover. So you’d think if any company would be against a hostile takeover, it would be them.
The US has been waging a hostile takeover of ethnic Russian areas of the Ukraine since 2014. Russia's special operation is primarily a defensive measures against this act of genocide.
No we just called you on bullshit. russia has been pulling out the russiaphobia card since the USSR fell. They did it in Georga, Transnistria, Abkhazia, Dagestan, Chechnya and Ukraine.
Come talk to me some more when you stop denying genocide.
Since you came back to talk to me, you have necessarily stopped denying the genocide that the US and Ukrainians have been waging on ethnic Russians since 2014.
In what universe can you draw that conclusion? I support Ukraine defending against it. This would all be over if Russia just, you know, fucked off back to its own land. So no, I don't support the Russian invasion. Nice try again there comrade. Slava Ukraini!
Ukraine's desperation drives them to devise the most unconventional approaches to garner support. They seem to have overlooked the weapon manufacturers who have a vested interest in prolonging the war in Ukraine and everywhere for their own financial gain, yet he never mentions them.
You seem like you don’t understand arms sales at all. Countries buy arms in peacetime too. In fact, they have more money to buy arms in peacetime because their countries are not being exploded. Guns and ammo have limited lifetimes and need to be replaced relatively often. Also, lots of training happens during peacetime.
Ongoing war is bad for business because it makes people interested in peace. Nothing promotes peace like seeing the aftermath of a battle.
Pickles said the offending account in question may have been sharing the content “out of outrage,” which would mean the account wouldn’t be permanently banned
Australian senator Helen Polley pointed to research that child sexual abuse material had gone up since Musk had bought the company. Polley questioned why child sexual abuse material wouldn’t result in an immediate ban on X since it was a crime, regardless of intent.
With Unilever, Mondelez and Procter & Gamble on that list, shopping for groceries and hygiene products might get complicated if you actually want to boycott all of them.
Feels weird to not see Nestlé on a list of big (food) companies doing questionable things.
Ben & Jerry’s was shocking. I don’t eat their ice cream or follow them, but from their online presence it seemed like they were privately owned by the “good guys.”
I love my Tesla, but I don’t think my next car will be one because of Musk and what he’s done to the brand. Really disappointing that he’s put the same people who’ve coal rolled and iced chargers instead of his loyal, reservation making, early adopting FSD clients like me. I’m watching the expanding market with excitement as other companies are rolling out vehicles with nicer features and comparable pricetags than current Teslas.
This is as close as it comes to my opinion on the subject.
I have an S. 7 years, 80k miles. I like the car, I really do. Even after all this time. I still get free supercharging, which is great when I travel out of the area, which I do not infrequently.
I’m not embarrassed by it, despite Elon’s dive into Coco Puffs Crazyland. When I got it, there was nothing else like it on the market.
Selling it now would be like buying a case of Bud just so I could shoot at it. Or burning my Nikes out of spite. I paid good money and it was worth every cent.
With that being said, between Elon’s dementia and all the complaints I hear about build quality in the other mods, my next car, whenever I go buy it, won’t be a Tesla. There’s competition now and they are catching up fast…and I don’t think the Cybertruck is going to save them.
Okay, so based on liquors, in 2021, $212 million in exports, $832 million in imports.
Beer is $141 million in exports, $361 million in imports.
Wine is $11.5 million in exports, $842 million in imports.
So, yeah, you're right, I guess -- unless I've missed some sort of category of drink -- that Russia's definitely a net importer of alcoholic beverages.
This is for 2021; I suspect that a few numbers have likely changed significantly.
42.75% of Russian wine exports went to Ukraine.
11.52% to China.
11.12% of Kazakhstan
8% to Belarus
5.22% to Latvia
I'm gonna stop at 5%, but you can go look at the treemap if you want more detail (like I said, though, the entire exports in 2021 were $11.5 million, so it's not a whole lot...I would guess that the numbers could be pretty noisy from year to year).
Yeah, they have Russian wines listed. Under the champagne section, but I'm assuming that that's a listing error, given that France has a bit of a spat with Russia over what constitutes champagne.
Yeah, true, but I wasn't trying so much to find whether there was a lot of alcohol being consumed. My aim was more to see whether Russia was a net importer or exporter, since the claim was that alcohol producers [outside Russia] would be upset with the Russian sanctions, that it would cut the producers off from the Russian market.
However, if Russia were a net exporter and you are an alcohol producer, then it'd be removing more competition than it would be closing off markets; producers would likely benefit.
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