tigerfoot

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Lane runs a much tighter ship, and he's not going to ramble

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have you listened to his answers.

Ramblin Man

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so I'm curious to see if it works

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I can answer that for you. When, in the history of America, has a handout showed an improvement in any metric for the intended population?

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This is part of the benefit. When they're not in school, they're getting involved in all kinds of bad shite.

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now they bring the bad shite to school. I’d rather have bad apples around all other bad apples out of school. Now we have poorly motivated bad kids next to ones trying to do the right thing. Wonder which force wins, the good or bad.

Mom is gonna force the kid to school to get her 100 bucks, the kid is gonna disrupt, and still hit the streets at 3.

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torn. It's tough to get HSers to give a shite about coming in, especially when it’s not reinforced at home

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coming in isn’t the goal of education, participating is.

Now, make it a performance or even a behavior incentive and although I think it is dumb, I can at least understand. But simply showing up and being the sane shithead you are in the streets? No

While I find the school completely off the rails with the assignment, and kudos to the parent for voicing the concern. It appears the police visit was for getting in a verbal altercation in the school parking lot with a black parent. An altercation where the person used 'language they regret"

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My kids are in 30s - 40 now. I funded investment accounts for each a few years ago, with about $10k. Am helping them learn to be investors. Several have added some of their money. Teaching them the "get rich slowly" approach.

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I have hammered my kids since their teens the importance of compounding interest. I would have retired a few years ago if I would have saved prior to 35 years old, and even then only small amounts.

My 28 year old has been saving 12% of her income a year for 6 years, plus match. So she is already compounding more interest than I put into savings when I was a decade older.

Back to the topic, I feel a certain responsibility to guide them thru their education insuring that they are employable post graduation, to have a voice I also think that means I pay for their education. Starting life managing debt is tough, if you owe a student loan or such it just makes the cycle of debt management a huge part of your financial future and that is generally disastrous.

In 15 years if they are all on their way to sound financial futures, their mom and I will spend every nickle we have saved whooping it up versus worrying about them.

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effectively leave you stranded somewhere.

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explain this to me, how does this strand a traveler?

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I'm not buying a 2x4 with a price of 3.28, I'm buying lumber with a board foot price of 5.15. There is no variation.

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then didn’t you already get your quote?

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t’s a very bad idea to inject foreign mRNA into your body.

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pretty much every healthcare intervention is a bad idea, unless you have weighted the risk. And in such case of melanoma, I will take the risk of the medicine versus the potential of having Stage 4 cancer.

Watched the interviews on squawk box today, some really neat info. It was a joint interview with Moderna and Merck CEOs as they partnered on this, but it seems to be based largely off Moderna research. Interesting was how they talked about the research being advanced after initial success of Keytruda where the researched showed being really effective targeting melanoma.

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If you are you better practice with it on. I have never used one when shooting a bow, but I can see how it would affect your anchor points.

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I have never had issues with a head covering, but sleeves have given me fits in the past. Sitka is too pricey gets hate, but they designed the best mid to light weight hunting coat imaginable, including arms that are nice and snug, but you can still layer under them.