NorCali

Australia is pretty awesome
They volunteered to turn in their guns in response to a domestic mass shooting. Wasn’t government forced. But easier to control when you are on an island they are coming to grips with the left of center policies and pushing back

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In fairness they went to California public schools so they never had a chance.

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this blanket statement is grossly inaccurate. Palo Alto, Los Altos, Cupertino and Mountain View have excellent schools, some of the best in the nation., What the UCs are doing is using Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC), basically a quota by zip code. To reduce the number of students from higher income zip code because they have more “resources” and judging kids by how they do in the local context. This has been impacting the student body of the top 3 UC schools (Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD).
What is forgotten is that every other UC campus and All of the Cal State schools have a program where you can go to a local community college campus for free for 2 years, knocking out your core courses and saving money by living at home, then transfer into one of those major campuses and completing your degree.
The UCSD faculty has published a good bit on how many of the students showing up to campus under these new standards are NOT ready for the rigorous classes. UCSD is unique in that it is made up of 8 colleges (Revelle being the hardest and where they put most of the kids in the honors program), so they already had a system in place to help mitigate this new standard but they are still showing it’s a major problem.

Isn’t the stock market a bit like gambling though?

The Dad looks like he did a part as a Klingon

Believe it or not, Alabama recruits Silicon Valley pretty hard and makes the final list for a number of girls who want to go to Alabama and live their best life in a sorority. This are not the colored hair types, obviously

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$120k is great money in most states.

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And it’s a starting base salary, with probably 3%/year increases, great benefits (hard to get), etc.
What I wish was discussed more is if there is any impact from the unions making it possible to retire after 20 or so years? Maybe that has changed but don’t know.
As an aside, Alabama has done a great job investing in education of trade workers and that is part of why they have all the car plants

Isn't there a "wild game" dinner in some towns in South Louisiana that isn't exactly about what is on the dinner menu? :lol:

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My understanding is that ballots had already been printed (and many already mailed back) when Smith suspended his campaign.

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hmm, maybe the same apparatus used to get Dems elected was used to weaken the R side by helping the non-candidate. Is it a closed primary?
Kind of a smart strategy if you have a weak incumbent, help the weakest on the other side win their primary

Perhaps it’s Private equity affiliated with LSU and/or other state institutional endowment funds?
Having Private Equity isn’t necessarily a bad thing until you see the terms and understand the valuation given and path to exit or return on investment.
LSU athletics is not a failing entity that needs/can be broken down and sold for component parts.
Agree with others this is first step towards a class of “ownership”

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stay home and raise three amazing children to adulthood, with all the sleepless nights, sports, school projects..

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the lack of objective value in society for this is one of our biggest challenges. Fathers that go to work all day have no clue the physical and mental exhaustion of this. Women without children have no clue either. Closest thing I can relate (I’m a male doctor) is being on call virtually 24/7 and doing rounds (the mundane daily tasks) everyday except when you can find someone to cover (grandparents, sitter, nanny, etc). I’m also convinced there are some women that decide a career is easier than being a stay at home mom (can’t blame them) and go back to work for that. Raising multiple kids is the most important but most thankless job in society and I salute you for doing it. Oh and those judgmental career women, highly likely they are envious that you were able to do something they wanted to do but for whatever reason couldn’t

No one disagrees with making it available for older, higher risk people and voluntary for others.
Many people disagreed, strongly, about mandating for others (especially children) and instituting punitive measures for non-compliance, such as travel restrictions, not being able to participate in events and in the extreme loss of employment.
This move led to the questioning of the credibility of those making these decisions which led to the realization of very real conflicts of interest such as age bias ( Trump, Biden, Fauci, Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer were all near or were Octogenarians and highest risk group so bias for self interest even benefits were on shown to the individuals vaccinated and never to stop transmission) or personal bias with Fauci as he was on record as supporting gain of function research which may have been the root cause of the pandemic.
As an aside, the lack of effectiveness for slowing transmission is probably related to the fact that RNA vaccines only give short term (measured in weeks) immunity so the fact of many infections post-vaccination and the early introduction of boosters also
led to questions of credibility in a “gene therapy vaccine” which has long term risk implications if the transgenes become integrated.
I never saw published the estimated therapeutic index or the Number needed to treat (NNT) in order to prevent a death or Number needed to harm, which is a measure of the number vaccinated with a severe adverse event/total vaccinated. Ideally the NNT should be much higher, but we never saw this, so again leads to credibility issues.