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@Noahpinion To improve performance, you need to replace deferred compensation with higher salary. Adding a higher salary to the existing regime doesn't change anything.

Well that's sad. But the main point of raising teacher salaries is to attract a better caliber of teachers to the profession.

@brookelynn74 @Icebish1 @hashjenni Hillary's campaign slogan was: "Hillary for America." Kamala's was "Kamala" and ,"Kamala Harris for the People." These images are from the portfolio brand design firms that developed the branding for each. Every campaign puts last names on a yard sign. That's not a brand.

@Icebish1 @hashjenni

Why do we call Trump, Obama, Bush, and Biden by their last names but Kamala and Hillary by their first names?

@anishmoonka That's fine until the generation of nostalgic 80s or 90s kids that had a birthday at McDonalds dies. Then you become the place people stop eating when they turn 25 and won't take their kids - which is what is currently happening. The road to White Castledom.

McDonald's killed those PlayPlaces on purpose. Drive-thrus now pull 70% of their US sales, and every ball pit was sitting on floor space worth more as a second drive-thru lane. The first PlayPlace ever built, in Chula Vista in 1971, had boosted that store's sales by 63%. Other stores wanted in. By 1991, McDonald's was the biggest playground operator in America with over 3,000 locations. By 2013, the count hit 5,500. Then the way people order changed. Digital orders through the app, self-order screens, and delivery now make up 40% of sales in McDonald's biggest markets. A drive-thru lane and a kiosk keep making money every minute they run, while a ball pit makes nothing and costs a fortune to maintain. The legal bill made it worse. In 1999, McDonald's paid the US Consumer Product Safety Commission $4 million for failing to report more than 400 kids injured on the old Big Mac Climber jungle gym, including 20 with concussions or skull fractures and 80 with broken bones. A 1995 settlement had already cost them $5 million. Insurance costs climbed for stores that still had playgrounds. In 2011, an Arizona researcher tested 50 fast food playgrounds and found dangerous bacteria in 49 of them. COVID gave them cover to finish the job. On March 16, 2020, McDonald's shut every US PlayPlace overnight. By August, CEO Chris Kempczinski told Time magazine: "I don't know if we've got ball pits in our future." That November the company launched "Accelerating the Arches," a multi-billion dollar remodel plan built around drive-thru, delivery, and digital. McDonald's poured $2.4 billion into store upgrades in 2023 alone. Roughly 2,000 more stores are getting major remodels this year. During those same vanishing years, McDonald's total sales grew from $100 billion in 2019 to nearly $130 billion in 2024. That extra $30 billion was built on drive-thru windows and mobile phones while the play areas disappeared.

@KeruboSk Most people over 70... If they spoke to a person over ~65 at some point as a child, that person was probably born in the 1800s.

Just out of curiosity… who out there has actually talked to someone born in the 1800s during their lifetime?

@hashjenni Because their official Campaign Brands were: "Hillary for America" (also the actual campaign legal name) "Kamala" or "Kamala Harris for the People."

@MiniRetireMatt The teacher also has an additional $1m or more in deferred guaranteed compensation. To match this, the lawyer has to lower his income and invest. If that teacher spends 3 to 5 years as an administrator, the value of deferred compensation puts them in the top 1%.

The teacher making $125k per year, with 3 months of PTO, and 35 hour work weeks Is better off than... The attorney making $250k per year, with 1-2 weeks of PTO, and 60+ hour work weeks It's not even close

@Muchfaster @angie_rasmussen @neoavatara The 17 per 100k AEFI rate for more serious complications is extremely risky, in context. My kid has an immeasurably minute risk of getting Heb B by 1st Birthday. Why would I introduce an unnecessary 17/100k risk to a newborn on those odds?

@Muchfaster @angie_rasmussen @neoavatara Stunning rebuttal. Now facts: -98% contract Hep B from a parent at birth. -Of remaining 2%, most contract from close household contact. -Adverse event rate: 8-20%. Hep B is more dangerous than adverse event. There's just near 0% risk of contracting it in absence of risk factors

“The state” does not make that choice for anyone. The hep B vaccine is recommended at birth. It is not forced. It never has been. Parents have always had vaccine choice

@Mike_M_Klotz Statistically, the growing percentage of drivers who match her description are the greater risk. Since not-driving means death or poverty for many of them, it's safe to conclude the best solution is risk-lessening accommodation, not denial.

This is a danger to society, not something to be lauded.

@Messinadress1 That was true perhaps 3 generations of working teachers ago. Currently teachers are incentivized by: 1) maximizing their education, mostly in general theory vs. SME, 2) longevity, 3) working as an administrator for their final years. Performance is down. M.Ed and Admin is up.

As someone who comes from a family of teachers , 90% of you aren’t smart enough to homeschool your kids and are doing them a serious disservice

@CorieWhalen @Noahpinion If you can't follow that perhaps you can understand how I feel. My father died of a stroke following his vax. Would we have given it to him if we had known the now acknowledged stroke risks? Yes. Would we have made sure he was on daily aspirin had we known risks? Yes.

@CorieWhalen @Noahpinion I hope people reacting to thia news can appreciate the duality of: - Treatment tolerance for a death sentence. - Treatment tolerance for a low mortality risk with high correlation to know comorbidity.

I hope everyone who has crapped all over mRNA vaccines as a technology takes a good hard look at themselves and reconsiders.

@Convertbond Interesting. Rates temperature inflation, only if the subset of consumers driving spending aren't benefiting from rates. Concentrating wealth has made rates and asset more than a liability since few spenders use debt.

U.S.A. 1. The top 10% - 15% of income earners are 60 - 70% of consumption. 2. Money Market $$ Fund Assets 2026: $7.6T earning 4% 2021: $5.1T earning 1% 3. The bottom 60% holds only ~1–4% of total U.S. wealth, with many having low or negative net worth.

BREAKING: Heavily armed US Capitol Police officers are RACING to a reported shooting in the vicinity of a high-ranking US government official in Washington, DC’s Navy Yard The black SUV seen in the video is an armored Chevrolet Suburban used by leaders of Congress and members of the President’s cabinet. It is UNCLEAR if this was a targeted attack, but the alleged shooter is NOT in custody, and police are searching the area. I personally witnessed that official be EXTRACTED via undercover Capitol Police officers, protected by uniformed officers carrying long rifles I will not name the official without their express permission, as I don’t want to dox their home. Other officers can be seen sweeping the area for evidence like shell casings. Will update when I have more details.

@conor64 Correct. Two of the audiences with a high self-select drive towards leaving are criminals and the destitute. This is why every country in the world - aside from the US - screens for such audiences. And aggressively reports anyone later found to have lied.

A more useful way to think about immigration: the tiny cohort of people who self-select to leave one place and move to another are unrepresentative of the population of the place they're leaving in many ways, including being much better suited to the place they chose to go

@Brendan_F_Wendt @angie_rasmussen @neoavatara And keep in mind, since we give the Hep B vax in hospital, the data on adverse events is very high quality.

@Brendan_F_Wendt @angie_rasmussen @neoavatara You're welcome to read the reported incident rate for Hep B vaccines. They're very accessible. It appears your source is memes - which while also very accessible, are a poor basis for a child's care.

@angie_rasmussen @neoavatara Hep B should be given at birth to high risk kids. It should be considered at first year appointments for kids in group care settings. We should not place day old babies at risk of adverse events to protect against an event that is low-propensity, w high risk indicators.

@angie_rasmussen @neoavatara For all but high-risk babies, the incident rate for adverse reaction is higher than the risk on contracting Hep B. There is no medical reason to recommend Hep B at birth - other than avoidance of "shaming" high risk mothers.

@DeanAbbott @DStrachman There's demand. The problem is newspapers simply refuse to sell ads in any remotely valuable way. And the price floor for content is: "free." Substack proves readers appetite exists.

I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Very few people appreciate what America lost when we lost newspapers. Just being able to sit down every morning in silence and peruse news, opinion, sports, advice, recipes, interesting human interest stories all in one place was such a pleasure. The Internet has never produced anything that comes close.