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What a dumb fuck. Labels like leftist, the left, liberals and libtards aren’t intelligent, especially when used on cable channels and in headlines. This is how crap is spread and how people believe and spew this garbage.

This approach seems reasonable too: https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/oak-park/ct-oak-oprf-reopening-plans-tl-0716-20200713-27vu2wmefrawreiuoizq62zwba-story.html

What would you say if they did three days of instruction in school and two days of learning from home? Currently my wife’s district is proposing class for last names A-M, then N-Z, then online on Wednesday, last names A-M and then N-Z. What do you think about that? The stupid part about this, they told the parents but haven’t told the staff yet. That makes no sense whatsoever. It also sucks they haven't released plans for many districts yet and we are almost halfway through July. Also, whose responsibility is it to provide PPE and thermometers? The state? Should federal funds be used or state funds? What should happen if there’s and increase in cases and it isn’t sustainable, do we keep classes in school or what would you propose? You seem thoughtful and have a wife who is a teacher so I thought I would ask.

Decimate them then. They’ll survive.

Why bother with keeping basketball and football? Call them all. What did they do now?

Trump finally wore a mask and in public. Now he dispatched his surgeon general and the assistant secretary for health on the Sunday shows to promote masks and defend the administration. Now he would be best served to go in front of the cameras and say to wear masks and their benefits. But still, this is the same dude that said that his opponent wearing a mask is weak. Nice about-face.

She did mention something about placental damage, but I haven’t heard about infections. We will go with what the doctor says about her going back to work in the fall, but it would be great if she could work with her maternity plans. Of course we could also swing her being out of work if the doctor so ordered or they couldn’t accommodate her, but that is why we are taking it day by day and saving everything we can! And it is convenient that I work from home and handle the shopping and everything outside so it is unlikely for us to get anything. (I do wear a mask, we don’t go out and see people on occasion.)

Thanks!

She has been following it more closely than I have, but what should I know? Any questions about the virus or the pregnancy are going straight to the doctor but I could always use more information to consider. It’s hard not to worry but we can’t do anything with worrying and have to take things a day at a time.

Hogan could be the face of the post-Trump Republican Party.

Same except add in the word pregnant before wife.

Are the people protesting wearing masks? Are they protesting outside? At the president’s rallies, are participants wearing masks or social distancing? We can complain about Mr. Trump each day if we want to, he is not leading against the virus from the top, is not considering teachers when returning to work this fall, is using schools reopening as a tool to reopen the economy without regard for lives and he is not for anyone other than his base. He also can’t unilaterally defund public schools, which are primarily funded through local and state taxes. After 2016, there is no way that we can assume he is not going to win.

How is one guy’s opinion so popular? And how is that network so popular when people often cite their talking heads? I don’t get it.

I’m a moderate and there’s no way I’m breaking from the left nationally. What exactly was CHAZ/CHOP about? Statues don’t really bother me, especially if they are confederate statues. I wonder how the polls are so inaccurate. People are just lying? Pollsters have to somehow know if someone is lying by the answers to questions.

The sad part is that after what happened in 2016, I can still see it happening.

And yet southern Illinois is fighting back against the governor’s order. I bet masks aren’t being worn well down south.

Automation is going to be tough on the economy. It’s part of one of the reasons I went back to get some modern skills even though I’m no expert. (And if I don’t succeed, I’m definitely considering healthcare or web development down the road.) But what is important is coming up with a product that helps employees do their jobs. Or figuring out what to do with employees. I don’t think it necessarily will be retraining or UBI, but I don’t know. It’s going to be a complex issue if jobs get automated away. You are right to pursue something that you can apply to your interests. I see more of a future with healthcare data, so that is one other reason to leave my company, in addition to what I previously mentioned. It all depends on the opportunities available though. You are also right about communication, although I am a rookie at this stuff and I wish people would teach more rather than assuming I know this stuff. It’s all about speaking up, pushing back and collaborating. My concern is also that because I am new, I will get into a role and they will become impatient with me if I don’t catch on initially, but I have a feeling they would give warnings and training before they would fire me. They being a hypothetical employer. Best of luck to you in your program and if you want, PM me and we can connect on LinkedIn. There is so much to learn in terms of data visualization, statistics, data analysis and machine learning, in addition to programming. Luckily it is rare that there is a unicorn who does that all well and opportunities will present themselves for those with a background. I hope.

All over the place and I may go to school in the future for something unrelated if this doesn’t work out. I graduated with a business degree and have worked in HR, marketing and insurance so far. If the company pays for some of the graduate degree, I would say it is worth it. I think learning programming at a boot camp or getting a graduate degree that is in data science is worthwhile. Software development seems to have less of a barrier to understand, although you may find it easier to grasp data science with a quantitative background. Feel free to take this to PMs if you want to discuss there instead.

Feel free to take this to PMs if you would like to. What program did you get into? Is work paying? The fact that you know SQL and Python is huge. A lot of the people in my program (like me) don’t have a background in it and that makes a learning curve tough. I am coming at the field completely blind, other than having industry knowledge in insurance. I wanted to go for a graduate degree and see what happened with it since my company paid for most of it. The tough thing is, I’m not in the same state as my employer where large offices are and it is tough to learn from people remotely. I am working to get on different projects at work so I can practice what I have learned, but they are often slow moving and occasionally, there aren’t lots of people who like to teach or help you develop that are on the teams that are involved with the project. So while my program was great, I am having a hard time trying to apply it to work. We will see what happens but my options could open up at the end of the month when I don’t owe my company anything and can look around or look internally at other departments that are tied to data science but don’t necessarily work in it and still involve data analysis. Programming is amazing, especially when work can be automated and people could be doing more productive things with their time. Creating tools with programming and data science is really cool.

Good luck with the Data Science masters program. To me it is like a modern MBA. It definitely isn’t easy stuff and getting experience in it can be somewhat of a challenge. I’ve lived through the program and am grateful my company paid for it so I could attempt using it for a job change.

And yet Planet Fitness has opened in Illinois and my account will probably be charged. I want to go and lift but I can’t be positive that I can trust everyone else who is lifting shared weights to not have COVID-19. I wish they would let me freeze my membership instead of having me cancel it for the time being.

First of all, given the level of classes he is at and the likelihood of success with that kind of STEM mind, I think he will be successful. Is it fair that you fault the district and not necessarily the teachers? If so, that is fair. If not, and you blame the teachers, that isn’t entirely fair. They had close to zero time to prepare for online learning. I would agree that video classrooms throughout the day would be better than online exams and homework, but I don’t know if that is up to the district, the school or the department. As far as the pass/fail, I think that was mandated by the state if I remember what my wife said correctly. If not, then it had to be the district. I would much rather kids get punished for cheating and take some accountability or actually do their homework, when many of them didn’t until the last few weeks and begged to have their grades rounded up. I don’t really know who should be at fault to be honest. But I don’t necessarily think it is the teachers who were at fault in the spring. I would agree with you that some sort of effective plan needs to be in place for the fall, with zoom calls, staggered classes by kids in each level, four day weeks or a hybrid approach being in place. I can also appreciate a father like you caring about his son’s education. At least you provided some good reasons rather than the usual garbage I see on social media thrown at teachers, usually without any rational, coherent thoughts.

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Not with the nominee and most moderates in congress...

“I told them, let’s slow the testing down please.” Don’t care if he said he was joking.