True, except Wheatley is the only one out of 267 schools that failed, and it has since met the states own metrics albeit after it failed for numerous years in a row.

I will say it's not that complicated. If you want to fix the problemed schools, then we need to fix the communities that they serve. But the state has no interest in investing in poor, minority communities.

It's what Trump tried to do, and for all the things he was wrong about, I actually think he was right back then too.

1. The app, even if necessary to function properly, harvests a lot of user data that the company has repeatedly failed to control. (just last year their employees accessed data on US journalists)
2. There is no independent judiciary in China. The CCP controls the courts. You can't expect Bytedance to refuse, let alone challenge, an invasive attempt by the CCP to access user data.
3. I don't understand why we allow a double standard with countries who don't allow Western companies to independently operate, let alone enter, a foreign country. While we allow companies from those countries that blacklist Western companies without a problem? There should be some basic element of reciprocity here.

I think it boils down to a trust issue where one cannot trust the CCP. Because even if we believed Bytedance to take corrective steps (which they have repeatedly failed), there is nothing to stop the CCP besides trust.

I teach in the area, it's entirely political.

There was one school, count them, one school, in all of hisd's 267 schools that consistently failed to meet state standards. The board also continued a meeting after closing it to the public, after some on the board made a controversial decision regarding the continuation of the Superintendents contract. this is against states law.

The state moved to take over HISD back in 2019 because of these things. But due to legal maneuvers and covid the process was delayed. In tge interim the entire school board has been replaced except for one member who was not involved in the controversy, and Wheatley High School, which serves one of if not the poorest and most crime ridden communities in the city, met the state guidelines.

The state still chose to take it over despite being a large urban district and averaging a B by the state's own metrics.

Vouchers are coming, I gaurentee it. Furthermore, there are many other districts with far more failing schools than houston, but those districts aren't nearly as left leaning.

Yeah, something a lot of people like to ignore regarding housing pricing is the lack of supply. This isn't like 2008 where there are a surplus of houses. And like you said, most owners are now locked in at historically low rates that make moving less likely.

Is this free market or state capitalism? Is US becoming China?

As they should.

But I’m guessing shills for China are going to invoke the “whataboutism” distraction tactic again by bringing up American social media companies collecting data on its own citizens, which is a bad thing, for the record, just a false equivalence because in no way is it the same as a hostile nation collecting data from the citizens of their enemy.

Can you imagine if Russia’s VK had penetrated the US the same way TikTok has? You would have to be nuts to still use social media run by a hostile nation.

OF COURSE what would really help with data privacy in the US is if there were more robust laws to protect consumers.

OF COURSE Meta, Twitter, and Google do a ton with data that is way beyond what the average person even understands.

OF COURSE the US has installed spying tools all across our own telecommunications, monitoring pretty much everything we do online.

That can be true and it can also be true that TikTok has been unable to properly assure anyone that data flowing through the app isn’t able to be read/shared with the CCP. In fact, there has been little driblets here and there that suggest the opposite. Namely, that Chinese-based personnel snooped on America journalists and Chinese-based developers have complete DB access.

In short: China is a black box. There may be absolutely no real concern here. There may be a massive spying campaign. Odds are it’s somewhere in between.

The problem is that we can’t know. It’s like how they handled COVID—we still don’t know the origin, we’ll never know the origin because China will never cooperate, and it’s clear they lied for quite awhile about the seriousness of the issue, even after everyone knew about it…even still today.

We can’t trust that a person who resides in China isn’t completely and utterly beholden to the CCP’s whims on this.

This should have happened a long time ago.

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Multiple glitches in the matrix.

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Can’t wait till he gets deposed and has to answer about his “have you ever had bbc in you”comment. Wondering how he will justify that.

The video is not enough to prove he did it. But we all know he did it.

Surprised some nitwit hasn't tried to blame this on Biden.

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So is the Greg Abbott, yet here we are.

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I’m sure we did.

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"Now Michael's looking over there for the first time" just didn't track with what I saw on the video having already seen him look over in her direction as she exited. "She's way gone" when she's all of a few steps away.

Looks like a really scummy attempt to get a payday out of something that can't be proved against them.

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Bounce between the realestate sub and rebubble. You'll get a wider view.

He looks guilty as hell in that video, IMO. She even did the "no thanks" thing and kept backing up.

None of it lines up with what he said. I believe the words of the hotel worker in this case 100%.

Lmao HISD is known for being terrible and corrupt.