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2 minutes ago, billspro said:
that would be a very good draft. I think you have a pretty good chance of guessing the picks too.
Maybins tape wasn’t good in college. They are nothing alike. Most people thought Maybin was going to be a bust right after the draft.
I think he would win a starting role by midseason and be a beast for us in the playoffs.Ok. I’m trusting you now. No pressure.
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If we draft another bust from Penn State, someone has to be punished. I would like to stay away from DE unless Phillips drops to us. I’m getting sick to my stomach just thinking about it.
Some of you guys are real glutens for punishment.
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I actually have NewsMax channel. WTH? Why is that a real channel? Who would watch that? I thought that was just a YouTube channel for crazy people.
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20 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
Going to an expensive school for a teaching degree is definitely a poor investment. My wife got a masters from TC Columbia... lol. Hoping college prices plateau with virtual learning showing it can get the job done.
I suspect then your talking jersey not near philly or NYC. Hard to imagine taxes aren’t higher there and COl, but NC has been a place for northerners to flee taxes oppressive cost of living and crappy government.
my relative moved to Southport and live well for cheap, but it’s probably a relative perspective.
Good luck w/ jersey even if we despise each other’s political takes 😛
Southport is pretty far. That’s where the old people go. Lol. I used to work down there a lot. It’s just an old fishing town.
There's a community down there called St. James. They call that “little Jersey.”
Youre probably not touching a home down there for under 350 anymore. I know a few people that work at the nuclear plant there. It’s decent for retired folks but I wouldn’t suggest any young person go down there unless you’re transferring to the Research Triangle with your northern salary or landed some hotshot tech job in Raleigh.
Believe it or not, taxes are really high in NC. They get you every which way. Property taxes are a few grand cheaper but it really isn’t the savings people think when they get there. Taxes on clothing, food, etc.
The only good thing about becoming a teacher is the loan forgiveness program. If they took that away, your Walmart greeters would be your teachers. Lol.
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I’ll ask her tomorrow for the exact breakdown of pay in those two states and how long it takes you to get to certain pay. I’ll post it tomorrow. It’s pretty laughable.
It was a really easy decision for us to make.
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7 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
Jersey is way expensive over Wilmington. I have family outside of Wilmington. Dirt cheap to live. Don’t know Raleigh. So individual poverty in us is 13k / yr. starting teacher pay there is 41k. Avg is high 50s. That seems decent for that cost of living. I hope no one pursues teaching to get rich, that would be misguided.
Also a HH with two average salaried teachers at 50k/yr would be in the top 35% HHI in a lower cost of living. Not too bad...
I just left there bud. Cost of living is nearly identical. This is the mistake people make.
Maybe 10-12 years ago it was cheaper. Not anymore. All of the snowbirds moved in and everything is highly inflated. Raleigh is a little pricier than Wilmington but they’re pretty close. They both pay their teachers the same. Benefits suck. Pension sucks. No bonuses for doing extra stuff like the “Science Team” or whatever that’s called. Yeah, it’s a total joke down there.
You can’t go to UNCW, which is a pretty expensive school, and come out making 35 and then 42 or 43 in your 5th year of teaching. You don’t get to 50k for a long time.
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8 minutes ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
I’ve got family teaching in Virginia, NC Georgia and formally SC. If it’s a 7 day per week job, you’re either in a screwed up school district or there’s a productivity problem. Pay in NC was significantly superior to the surrounding states when I lived in Greenville. Not sure if that’s changed.I think she started 18k higher in NJ this year. That goes up again next year. Wilmington and Raleigh pay the same. It’s poverty. I’m not sure how it could be much worse than NC. You start at like 35 and don’t hit 60k for like 10 years.
You’d likely be around 85k in NJ after 10 years.
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4 hours ago, Over 29 years of fanhood said:
lots of people on salary work more than 40 hour. In IT we do cutovers 12 or more times a year that go from midnight to 8 am Sunday morning. There’s no extra pay for that.
in other less entitled parts of the world people work a helluva lot more than 50 hrs per week for professional jobs.
Teaching well is a tough job, but it’s not uniquely tough and they get paid pretty decently in many school districts. The job security is also extremely high.
in fact I started engineering right out of school and my wife started teaching at the same time. She made slightly more than I did, But my job was more demanding than hers.
I think there are some teachers who set out to do the job thinking it’s easy and summers off and all then are rudely awakened to the realities that work is well..... work
My original point was about lesson planning. In NJ, thst time is in your union contract.
in NC, and most of the South, you don’t have that time so you have to use your entire weekend doing it. Teaching is a 7 day/week job there for little pay.
Now, some would say, “why not just use your lesson planning from the previous year?”
Well, in the South, you’re not teaching that same grade the following year. They almost always change it so you have to do it all again each year for whatever grade you’re teaching.
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51 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:
It’s not a game. Just say 1 right wing position. No one has yet. That’s pretty telling.and yes I know you want to ignore everyone that says their voting rights are being restricted until a smoking gun comes out but people who don’t look like you are saying hey this hurts us. We can ignore that until the smoking gun comes out like it did in North Carolina.
I named one on the first reply.
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3 minutes ago, RochesterRob said:
Since you know how to navigate the net then you know how to find Levi's among other things. Levi's still can be found at a number of brick and mortar outlets including outlet malls. You could be in a pair of Levi's by sundown unless you are out in the desert.
You’re not supposed to wear jeans once you hit 40.
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If someone is going to slip, it will probably be Phillips. I could definitely see us moving up a few spots for him.
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Watch out guys!
Mom jeans, high rise jeans, and the jeans with the big holes in the knees are back in style. Noticed it NYC last weekend.
I only own 1 pair of jeans. Some brand called Mavi. I wouldn’t even know where to find Levi’s. I’m older so I mostly shop at Nordstrom or Nordstrom RACK for business casual.
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3 minutes ago, SoTier said:
When the hell have conservatives EVER been friendly to labor??? Cotton producers, yes. *****, never.
Not in my lifetime. I’m 45.
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On 1/26/2021 at 1:20 PM, The Frankish Reich said:
You knew it was gonna happen: presenting your newest Fox News insider analyst! Basically her same old job, better pay. Maybe they'll even give her the "leg chair" - that oughta be worth a little bonus.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kayleigh-mcenany-likely-to-join-fox-news-because-of-course
Trump killed a lot of young careers. The number could be in the hundreds. No future WH or respectable campaign is ever going to hire any of these folks. Damaged goods. News is their only option now.
The right’s last Hail Mary, the fake Hunter Biden stuff, really hurt both Fox and Trump. No one wanted to here from either one of them after that. That’s when people just turned it off. All that was left were the extremists.
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On 1/21/2021 at 2:29 PM, WideNine said:
I do think "conspiracy" is too grand for what Trump's campaign did. Opportunistic without a care in the world regarding campaign regulations and laws would be more fitting.
If some of the most strident doubters here would just read the bipartisan Senate Intelligence report rather than just taking the twisted cliff notes of Ted Cruz, they would be better informed.
Many on the outgoing staff of Obama were concerned that Trump's campaign just were not taking seriously their exposure and interactions with Russian contacts. This is reflected in the report as a bit of an excuse. That their inexperience made them more susceptible to doing something stupid like coordinating with Russia's attempts to influence the election.
Does not take a conspiracy, just those that think the laws do not apply to them and a hefty amount of ignorance and ego.
Handing Russian Intel polling data of specific states that Trump was behind and had to win was taking it to a different level. They got caught.
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On 2/26/2021 at 8:27 AM, SoCal Deek said:
It’s actually pretty interesting when you think about it. Before Fox nobody watched the news at all, except to get the weather report, a late sports score, or some update on a war in a distant land somewhere. CNN was just background noise in the airport. These (for profit) companies have done an excellent job of gluing eyeballs to screens, and now we have ordinary people discussing, arguing, and ranting about issues they didn’t give a rats arse about just a few years ago. Pure marketing genius! The result: everyone pissed off, multiple impeachment trials, riots in the streets, ‘insurrection’, and an utterly divided nation. Brilliant!
I’ve been watching the news since I was 3 years old. I used to watch Jimmy Carter speak and my mother would always say what a nice man he was, but not a great president.
I’ve seen every major speech all the way until Trump. He was an absolutely dreadful speaker. That’s when my streak ended.
As a family we watched the local and national news every evening during dinner.
I started watching cable news regularly around 1991 or so. I also had CSPAN and Washington Journal on pretty often before school.
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54 minutes ago, Motorin' said:
Jesus, it's a ad saying they have a higher quality product that will last longer. So you should by it cause it's better, and if you buy their product you'll also help the environment because you aren't buying disposable clothing.
If you don't see how that ad could motivate sales then you're probably just mad that the company is able to generate sales by saying it cares about the environment.
Maybe global warming deniers won't buy a brand that claims to care about the environment. But most people want to believe they are helping the environment when participating in consumerism. Even if it's total BS.
I agree with everything you said but there was actually a recent poll that said most people aren’t willing to pay more for environmentally friendly goods anymore which was a bit disturbing. I guess it really depends on what that product is.
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It’s not really a party of ideas anymore. It’s just manufactured culture wars.
1. Privatization.
That’s it really. They flip-flopped multiple times on most of the other issues.
Lately, they have this cute strategy where they pass an extreme law that they know the courts will overturn. They do that to get short term political points and they don’t get blamed for it going badly since the voters never actually see the law in place.
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1 hour ago, B-Man said:
Not true. Cats and Otters can get pregnant and they just found Otters at the aquarium that tested positive for Covid.
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Enough Trumpers have died from Covid to flip Florida blue and keep a few other swing states blue.
Its a national suicide pact to own the libs!
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3 hours ago, Chef Jim said:
I don’t get paid by the hour. I spend all sorts of time on perfecting my craft outside normal business hours because I know the better I get at what I do I will make more money. And I’ve been doing it for 20 years. So the answer to your question is a hell yeah!Found the millennial!
Someone should hire this young lad. He will answer texts and emails when his workday is done.
You could go on vacation!
This poster will run your entire business. You don’t even have to pay him.
Weekends? No problem!
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1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:
Are they paid by the hour or on salary?Do you usually work 10-20 hours a week for free when you aren’t on-site?
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5 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:
I'm not sure what your point is here. Are you saying a 50 week it too much?
It is when you’re only being paid for 40.
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5 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:
I live in California. I’m sure it’s different across the country.
Overall mood on teachers has improved over the last few years, but 8-10 years ago most polling broke against teachers even here in NJ.
Thats all Chris Christie did was attack teachers. Florida and NC were the same.
Who thinks teaching is a hard job?
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It isn’t actually happening. I’ve already heard states announce that there won’t be a virtual option for next year. I’m not sure if NY did yet but these are just scare tactics.
That poster is correct about kids not returning to class though. The worst part is that it’s kids of parents who complained about going virtual in the first place that haven’t gone back yet. Schools are open and the kids aren’t going.