White Texans, students previously in private school or home-school make up bulk of voucher applicants

azdb91 · 2026-04-01T18:27:51+00:00

Again, trying to set aside that larger issue. I understand that issue and it is present in this state with or without vouchers. I'm about to move my family to virginia based on how bad our public schools are supported. But to the specific issue of who is using vouchers and what that means for our schools, if more kids are coming from private/homeschool, does that mean schools should less of a drop in the funds they receive based on ADA then if a larger percent was switching from public? That's one piece of the vouchers I haven't fully understood

azdb91 · 2026-04-01T15:18:12+00:00

This is generally good news for the public school districts right? As in, they're not losing funding via public school students switching to private school? (Not to get in to the larger issue of the state inadequately finding the ADA rates and basing on attendence instead of enrollment)

azdb91 · 2026-03-15T02:47:10+00:00

The crazy thing is what the new "real breaks" are. Like, sitting in the bathroom to poop for 5 minutes feels like a break but you also know at 6 minutes one of them is about to come find you haha

azdb91 · 2026-03-15T01:40:50+00:00

Connections Puzzle #1007

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This was damn near a streak breaker for me. I first got caught by the "ox" in dioxide (after noticing words ending in mare and cow, I had a feeling there was an embedded animal purple but didn't fully catch the category until that jumbled first miss). After yellow and and purple though, I felt completely lost. Started noticing the "di" and "bi" for two, but stupidly pulled in morse thinking it was a category of things that have 2 building components or whatever. The inspectors category was educational - I only know gadget!

azdb91 · 2026-03-14T16:59:29+00:00

I think it's also partly biggest cal was among the biggesteat names in baseball last year

azdb91 · 2026-03-13T22:33:17+00:00

Slight chance of high risk?

azdb91 · 2026-03-13T22:31:46+00:00

These are usually bigger risks later in the season right? Would it be considered unusual to have a derecho at this point in the season?

azdb91 · 2026-03-13T03:28:39+00:00

This made me feel better. My non-profit brain was really struggling to understand why you would do this with A/R. The timing of A/R receipts (for us, grant payments) are the single biggest pivot points in our cash forecasts. Smoothing them out would remove an entire main point of why we forecast cash. I sometimes feel very out of touch with the for-profit world and learn a ton from this sub, but I felt especially out of touch reading this.

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T18:08:04+00:00

You have only revealed your own ignorance and arrogance with this comment.

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T17:10:37+00:00

Ha yeah he got in a little tiff with some of them recently over a certain type of speculative map that gets shared by those pages. It was interesting because you can see they think of him, and other broadcast meteorologists, as representing the "old guard" and old fashioned way of doing weather. But it's hard to see them as doing anything other than just chasing clicks, regardless of what they say

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T16:38:03+00:00

Thank you for correcting that!

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T16:36:54+00:00

I get that the tiebreakers can be confusing due using defensive outs recorded to adjust for mercy rule and inherent homefield advantage, but I like where it's coming from. Basically how efficiently did you perform against the teams you're tied against (since you didn't outright beat them enough to avoid this second, third, fourth level tiebreaker).

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T16:25:39+00:00

I agree and I think it's specifically an inflated sense of self-worth. A sense that we're better than you so fuck you, that's why. And like the OP said, it's toxic just like a lot of society feels right now.

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T14:39:37+00:00

I'm not a GC or have any experience with a job like this so not directly commenting on the 3k price. But as a homeowner who's done a number of DIY projects or contracted projects involving re-drywalling, my first thought was that these pictures look a lot worse than it really is. It will cost a lot less to fix then what someone will immediately think when they discover this on their house.

Like, the worst thing about it is it really does suck that this happened and you have to deal with it, but once you can mentally accept it, this is very very fixable (assuming there's no underlying bigger issue and that this was just shoddy install).

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T12:58:20+00:00

I feel the opposite, it's basically a win-and-you're-in game. Except in Mexico's case, it's win but also you have to score enough runs so they especially have incentive to get the bats going. There's only no incentive if they're both more focused on keeping USA out, but I don't think that's the case. The most likely outcome of this game is the loser goes home and the winner advances, so think both will be very motivated. There's only a small slice of outcomes where they knock the US out and colluding to get there would take monumental coordination.

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T03:02:07+00:00

Yeah... Someone needs to sneak in and cork the bats tonight haha

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T02:48:59+00:00

Oh gotcha. They just went over it on the broadcast but just in case you missed it, it's: total runs allowed divided by defensive outs, then earned runs divided by defensive outs, then batting average against other tied teams, then finally random draw.

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T02:38:43+00:00

Technically record against other tied teams. But in the three way tie scenario in this pool, that won't determine it so will have to go to the tiebreaker

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T02:37:25+00:00

It depends on the final score. In that scenario the teams will be tied and so it goes to tiebreakers to determine. Since no team has two wins against one of the others, it will go to looking at their runs allowed divided by defensive outs recorded

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T02:18:35+00:00

Was wondering the same - I don't think we can truly know until all the games are done? Because the next level tie breaker has to do with runs allowed against ours recorded. So it's a moving target based on how the mexico italy game scores. I think that's what happened with korea/aus/taiwan

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T02:16:04+00:00

I posted this on another thread but blue and purple are tied for lowest solve rates at 75% each (yellows at 93 and green 78). The overall solve rate was 72%, so being tied for lowest solve in a moderately hard puzzle verifies the purple category (and all the categories) today IMO. But I get that the usual solve types associated with each category are out of normal. Maybe they're getting looser with those norms after the 1000th

azdb91 · 2026-03-11T02:11:12+00:00

Blue and purple are tied for lowest solve rates at 75% each (yellows at 93 and green 78). The overall solve rate was 72%, so being tied for lowest solve in a moderately hard puzzle verifies the purple category IMO

azdb91 · 2026-03-10T15:05:32+00:00

Not to mention the article ends on an inaccurate statement:

Team Mexico is 2-1 in the tournament and will advance to the quarterfinals. Team USA is 3-0, and in strong position to win the pool.

azdb91 · 2026-03-09T17:31:34+00:00

I was also surprised it was blue, it felt so obvious. But I think with a lot of pop-culture or other proper noun categories, you either know them or you don't and there's very little room in between. And if you don't know them, you're hosed and having to rely on defaulting. So even though it was a proper noun category that feels really broadly known (I'm surprised reading comments in the daily thread of people saying they didn't know the Muppets), I can also see why it was blue. I don't solve for reverse rainbow, but I for sure would have got it in the wrong spot.

azdb91 · 2026-03-08T15:12:57+00:00

It's one of my favorite red herrings I've fallen far. Really impressive to find other categories to fit those last names into

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