Not to dox the alleged asshole, but he should probably have taken his LinkedIn page down. Rather ironically he's a marketing manager at a place that provides teacher training. "Brand Management & Marketing Strategy Expertise". Oh yeah, that's some expertise right there.

Price levels are not standards.

ChatGPT is very good at these kinds of request, but really sucks at others. For instance, it totally sucks in finding things on the web. The other day I wanted it to find clinical studies that perform a certain experiment, and it wasn't helpful at all.

Next came the “curving” practice, which dictated that I convert a raw score on a test by multiplying the square root of it by ten. Hence, a score of forty-nine, an F, would be “curved” to seventy, a C minus. When I refused to curve grades, the principal had my department chair make the changes covertly. When I found out, I objected once again, and the principal rebuked me for “denying these children the opportunities all of us had.” The phrase "grading on a curve" was meant to refer to a normal distribution, your classic bell curve, where the top x % got one grade, the next top y % got another, and so on, so each class had the same "curve" of grades, if plotted on a chart where the x axis was the grade and the y axis was % of students with that grade. The sort of "curve" this teacher describes is a log transform of the original grades, which flattens, but retains shape. Everybody can still get an A in this method.

A bit cooler today. Make use of the weather. Summer in Houston is coming...

@jon-nyc said in $150B a year: I’ve heard the next generation of drugs will be even better. Ghrelin inhibitors? Leptin simulators?

Hahahaha great reference, Doc

I don’t know the scope of their law, we have something similar here for property taxes that Cuomo enacted. If they are raised more than, I think, 2% in a year, it requires 2/3 voter approval Or maybe 60%. Can’t remember.

This is interesting: Abbott ultimately failed to break through, with the death knell coming last fall when a bloc of 21 House Republicans — mostly from rural districts — joined with Democrats to strip vouchers from a broader education funding bill. It makes sense. In a city with lots of public schools, if funds are siphoned away the district can close a couple and still operate. In a district with one school, budget cuts are probably a lot harder to deal with.

Honestly I’m not sure what the technicalities would be. For example, if one of the candidates dies in October. There would be two separate questions. What the party process would be to choose a successor, (though surely the VP would be the lead by far) and then getting Biden or Trump electors to agree, since the ballots wouldn’t be changed at that late date. One complication is that some states have laws that require electors to cast their vote for the person who won the popular vote in their state. IOW, some could be forced to vote for a dead guy.

PResident Trump comments: "The reason I didn’t file paperwork for the Libertarian Nomination, which I would have absolutely gotten if I wanted it (as everyone could tell by the enthusiasm of the Crowd last night!), ....

https://nodebb.the-new-coffee-room.club/topic/31454/strategic-reserve-again/5?_=1716972192066 Had to release the 1MM barrels. That section of the strategic reserve is closing.

I am not reading anytihng that is that much different from what is already exist. Obviously, what they have now does not work, but I dont think he gives anything that is really different from what is out there. (But, i dont have any better suggestions. 555) ...creator led audio and video Why would people switch or why would this be better than Youtube, Tik Tok, Reels, etc?

Good question in your title. Hopefully, trying to prevent.

I can’t tell you how many calls we get about those.

Yep. We got the boy a pedal for his guitar Saturday. At a Sam Ash store.

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@LuFins-Dad said in Graduation ceremony: @Doctor-Phibes said in Graduation ceremony: If you'll forgive the boasting, he really knocked it out of the park after a slightly shaky start. He had a dismal year in 2020 doing Mechanical Engineering at Wentworth in Boston, which he absolutely hated, and also got derailed by Covid. Since then he worked for a while, then went back to do a non-engineering course at community college, and finished in the top 5% of the school despite having to drive a 50 mile commute three times a week. That’s really great! What is he thinking of studying for his bachelor’s? Criminal Justice. Not something I would have ever considered, but there we are…

@George-K said in For 60s and 70s kids.: The "Indian Guy" was Italian. In 1996, a journalist with The New Orleans Times-Picayune ventured to Gueydan, Louisiana, the small town Iron Eyes had allegedly grown up in, and sought out his heritage. Here, it was revealed that “America’s favorite Indian” was actually a second-generation Italian. “He just left,” recalled his sister, Mae Abshire Duhon, “and the next thing we heard was that he had turned Indian.” At first, residents of Gueydan were reticent to reveal Iron Eyes’ true story — simply because they were proud he’d hailed from there, and didn’t want his image tarnished. Hollywood, along with the ad agencies that had profited from his image, was wary to accept the man’s tale as fabricated. The story didn’t hit the newswires and was slow to gain steam, but The Crying Indian’s cover was eventually blown. Iron Eyes Cody, or “Espera Oscar de Corti,” was born in a rural southwestern Louisiana town on April 3, 1904, the second of four children. His parents, Antonio de Corti and Francesca Salpietra had both emigrated from Sicily, Italy just a few years prior. Mamma Mia! Dat’s a sadda development!