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They said no to Trump and Trump must kiss their asses because they are the only countries Trump actually got deals or bribes depending on what you call it.

Saudi Arabia , UAE, and Qatar fear Iran will attack them in response.

Israel (the real 51st State of US) wants US to attack Iran.

So this is why Trump didn't attack Iran already. Even though he said if Iran killed protesters he would attack Iran. Again, this why no one with half a brain believes anything Trump says.

Poor Trump wanted to use force to take Greenland by force but Republicans told him he would be impeached by them and Democrats , so he makes up story of a new deal with Denmark.

He wanted t

o bomb Iran but the other countries said no , so I can't wait to hear is lie on that. Some new deal I am sure.

So , now I guess it is on to Colombia and Mexico. Canada was supposed to be after he took Greenland.

I like replying with meme's or gifs sometimes and will go find the perfect one on google. a lot of times i find it but sometimes im looking forever until i give up lol. The joke timing window has closed! :P

ChatGPT was unavailable for a few hours a few days ago, but OpenAI got it back up.

Some high school and college students are complaining that they could not complete their papers on-time because of ChatGPTs outage.

Is that a legitimate excuse in today's world? Better than "My dog ate my homework"?

Please vote in the poll and add an opinion if you want.

If we have any teachers out there , we'd definitely like to hear your opinion on this.

The reason given for this policy is that you don't want to take the kid out of the game in the first quarter by giving a zero and creating a 30-week discipline & attendance problem. The local Board of Ed policy is we teachers have to leave room for them to pass the class. The math generally works like this across most districts that I'm aware of:

WITH THE ACTUAL EARNED ZERO (NOT LIKELY - MY EXPERIENCE IS IT'S USUALLY IN THE '30S OR '40S BECAUSE OF CLASS WORK & ASSESSMENTS) The kid would need to get a MINIMUM 81 EACH quarter AND on the midterm & final just to pass with a 65%.

WITH THE UNEARNED 50%: Each quarter is worth 2/10 of your final grade and the midterm and final is worth 1/10 of your final grade so, if you crunch the numbers, it's 2 * 50 = 100 and then you need 8 * 68 = 552 for a total final grade of 65.2% which is a passing grade.

So here's the question: Do you give them the freebie grade of 50 and only ask them to achieve a 68% average for the rest of the year or so you demand better and measurable improvement and make them work for the MINIMUM 81 for the next 30 weeks?

BEFORE YOU ANSWER KNOW THIS:
1) I have never known a department chair person to say no to a teacher's discretion to change the grade to whatever the most "common good" is; that is to say if the kid doesn't get the minimum 81 to pass but has shown improvement up to say let's say in the low mid-70s or even high 60s, as long as that chairperson gets a heads up on WHAT you're doing it's absolute teacher discretion, the WHY is left to us (correctly I believe) to determine after 40 weeks of being with that student.
2) EVEY ASSIGNMENT IS ONLINE for parents to view 24/7

So what's it going to be? Mediocrity or merit? Freebies or no free lunches? What's the "common good" for the student, the teacher, the school, the parents, the college, future employers and the community and nation at large?

The US Tax Code with regulations and guidance is about SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND pages long.

Not a single person in the country knows even a fraction of what is in it. And even the EXPERTS who DO know parts of it often disagree about their interpretation.

Yet, if you don't follow every rule, file every form, pay every penny, you will be fined or worse. How can people comply with something no one even understands? That just sounds unconstitutional.

We didn't even have a regular income tax until 1913 and every year since the tax code has gotten broader, bigger, more onerous and more impossible to comprehend. It has given the government more and more intrusion into you privacy and your life, taken more an more of what YOU earned to be spent by someone else and consumed more and more of your precious time to have to deal with.

Now we are paying tens of billions of dollars to pamper and attract illegal aliens? Who wants this stuff to happen? Not the ordinary citizens. So who?

Does this even sound like America to you?

What ever happened to "Land of the free?" How are you free when the average American in 2024 will be giving every penny they earn From January 1 to April 18th to the government? You are having FOUR MONTHS of your hard work stolen every year.

It's bad enough you are being robbed. But you also need to hire someone to figure out how much they will rob? Are you kidding?

This is unAmerican. We need to SCRAP the income tax system and come up with one that is not filled with corruption and that is simple and comprehensible to the average American.

It's not only a matter of fairness, it's a matter of FREEDOM!

I'm the descendant of immigrants, and I think it should be as easy today to immigrate to the US as it was for my ancestors in the late 1800s as I'm not a hypocrite.

Why can't both GOP and democrats agree: make it easier for those who want to come, work, raise their family, and start businesses to come here legally while making it harder to come here illegally at the same time?