matt-schaefer.bsky.social
Union teacher, husband, dad, MSU fan and alum, trout angler, reader of serious and not-so-serious books, stories and poems.
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Midcentury and the subsequent styles of the late 60s and 70s are still 🔥
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I am a huge fan of fall and winter but around the (winter) solstice we only get 8 hours of light. I am 45 parallel and that seasonal affective disorder hits when the sun sets at 4pm. But enjoy your darkness if you like it!
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This is true for all consultants. “Here’s what you need to do…”. “Thanks but that’s too expensive”
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There’s bad grammar, because “good” and “bad” refer to judgment, and as you say, we judge ppl’s grammar all the time. I would say there’s no such thing as “incorrect” grammar. But that’s just me being a stickler for “good” diction.
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Well that settles it.
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Avoid both stores if possible.
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“I like Trump” still right there in your narrative. Your livelihood now gone, an industry gutted, but you still like him.
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Yep no problem here
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Im sorry the system didn’t empower you to become who you wanted to become, but I’m glad you found a way to get there.
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Oh there are systemic and very real problems with our schools. Some are even fundamental and require radical reform. But from my perspective there are also very good things being done. I mean, I assume we educated you, and you clearly have judgment, agency and passion.
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Btw I’m a public school teacher so I live this struggle and obviously have strong feelings about all of this that I acknowledge many (or most) others do not necessarily share.
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I think free public ed is the most important element of our democracy and while it has all kinds of problems and challenges, when we start demonizing it, it gives them fodder for further defunding and dismantling it. You think schools suck now? Wait until they are all for profit charters.
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I never made it a goal of mine to uphold the status quo and prep students for a life of meaningless drudgery. Literally the exact opposite, in fact. And I think most educators feel that way. BTW, yes I agree with you about free lunch and my state does it. It’s wild anyone is actually against it.
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I was Mack for years at a business I frequent a couple times a month. And not the general “what’s up Mack” but a slight miss on my actual name which they thought they were correctly using. I didn’t have the heart to tell them, nor did I mind, so I was Mack a few times a month for almost 20 years.
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Look at their social media. Listen to the reps. They LOVE the cuts to social programs, including Medicaid. Just don’t cut it from those they care about. But absolutely they support cutting it from ppl they hate, resent, fear.
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No they voted for (and still
Support) Medicaid cuts…just not for themselves and their families. They 100% still want it cut from all the ppl they feel don’t deserve it and are taking advantage of it. This is, of course, when we come back to your racism point.
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“Till death do us part”. Literally.
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Needs to be free and many ppl need it.
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You need to qualify your statement: College isn’t worth it for certain degrees. STEM degrees? Healthcare? Totally worth it…even taking-on debt to get it.
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History will not be kind to those two: the faces of these institutions of learning who often denounce the very greed, materialism and abuse of power that they actively practice.
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Never Target. Never Walmart. They don’t offer a thing we all can’t get a dozen other places.
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Many ppl are
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I didn’t even know DARE still
Existed. I did hear after the research showed that it had this opposite effect that they were going to revamp it. Hopefully your child is in the revamped version.
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That is a very common argument we hear from Trump voters. “He’s already so rich he doesn’t need to take money from the system, so he will clean up the corruption”. Second only to: “I want him running the country like a business”. Yes it’s totally insane but many, many red voters really believe it.
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The general progression: punk/post-punk leads to alt-country leads to Americana. Here there is usually a split, with some ppl moving into folk and others moving into bluegrass, but they converge eventually into classic (1950-1970s) country. You will be buying Hank Williams vinyl eventually. Enjoy.
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Agatha Christie: “Nah.”
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The term “crisis” sets the tone here for something that is not positive…painful and destructive. It requires a rebrand to “mid life transformation”
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It’s 4th for Cali and 8th for NY. Just an FYI as I agree with your point.
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60% of Catholics in the US voted for him so I’m betting a majority love this.
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Smell is a huge memory trigger that can get our brains back in time better than all our other senses. Enjoy the smells of your past!
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Same ppl that say we’ve been on the wrong end of trade deals for *checking calendar* 60 years and this will finally fix everything so we can be rich and not fleeced by *checking notes* Canada and Mexico. Yes 30% of Americans believe that.
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Thank god someone is having fun.
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Was doing stranger things and then like four ghost busters. I’m sure he’s happy to be working on anything.
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PFAS in ground water, lack of housing and childcare, food deserts and insecurity, cost of higher ed and medicine, meth, WiFi access, road and bridge infrastructure, veteran and elderly services. These are the main issues in my rural area. Dems won’t even run for office here…been red since WWII.
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Scary someone like that has 100 followers here. Bots? I guess I have blocked so much garbage I don’t often see that kind of stuff get through.
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I don’t either. I thought if you are some famous person who the inmates would attack, you would be isolated from them. I take it that’s not true?
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It is risk/reward. Risk is huge as he could be a bust, but just not an ordinary bust. A bust where dad is doing daily interviews criticizing the coaching, negative media hammering your team, a circus bust, straight shitshow. And possible the reward? In a few years he’s serviceable.
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Wild how 2/3 of jobs in America require a college education, but we stop educating kids for free at grade 12, as if going to “grade 16” is some radial thing. It’s like if in the 1960s everyone needed a high school diploma and we just stopped public ed in 8th grade and said “good luck”
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That was an easy one to figure out but sometimes it’s very tough. One tip I have is that many stores have “price per ounce” labeled in tiny characters on the price posting. That helps me compare various brand and size options. Thanks for your content.
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What is the big mystery? Risk/reward for him is 90% risk. Why the media pushed him like he’s Joe Montana is obvious. Damn we all had to pretend like Colorado was good for two seasons because media “liked the story”. Media drove the hype. Ppl making decisions didn’t buy it.
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So good
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She wrote three straight-up masterpiece novels in five years, starting with O Pioneers! (then Song of the Lark and My Antonia). Absolutely one of the greatest American novelists for those three alone. Crazy underrated prose and storytelling. Enjoy!
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This is the narrative that someone who has never lived in a small, failing rural town would find quaint and noble. And it’s complete nonsense.
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