This is my father’s involvement and some personal views of #OUR and #TimBallard. He was an early participant in one of the jumps, but came out against OUR after seeing firsthand the operations. He does not identify as LDS, which puts him as an outlier.
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(From my brother)
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Our nephew is a kindergartener that lives in Lehi, UT. He was telling his grandma (my wife's mom) that his life isn't going well. He's only 7 and is in 1st grade. Grandma concerningly asked, "Why would you say that?"
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He said, "well, my brother is mean to me and kicks me a lot." That is of course concerning. But the next part was heart-wrenching: "And, I peed by pants at school and now all my friends make fun of me." Grandma delicately inquired why he had accidentally peed his pants.
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My nephew responded, "Well, we were having a lockdown drill and I forgot to go to the bathroom before it was going to start. We didn't know when it was going to start and I was afraid I was going to get trapped in the hallway and get shot."
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Salt Lake Tribune out this morning with a puff piece on how great $ZION Zionsbank is for the community and why we shouldn't want it to fail. It's. About. The. Rates. Zions deposit rates are WAY below inflation.
Leaving your money at Zions at this point is willfully giving them your hard earned savings, even if it IS below the $250k FDIC limit.
Zions isn't a charity. They should pay 100-200 bps above inflation for my money. That's just me.
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Do these rates look attractive to ANYONE in a 6-9% inflationary environment? If you'd had any significant amount of cash at Zions in the past 3 years, you've probably lost 20% of your purchasing power.
What's the matter with New York? It's simple: it's housing costs. It's not crime. It's not taxes. Consider this inconvenient factoid of Texas vs California:
"The middle 60% of taxpayers in Texas pay 9.4% of their income in state and local taxes. That’s actually higher than the tax rate on middle-income families in California."
Many people (us included) would MUCH prefer to live in a blue state instead of a red state.
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2) Quality control (where agents listen and score other agents) is really kind of arbitrary and biased. AI will only bed the linguistic/tonal biases further. QA monitoring should be non-scored, and reflective only.
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The big problem isn’t one of “automation”, but rather empowering. When software engineers, developers, logistics, and operations are far from the voice of the customer, that’s the problem.
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In light of the passage of HB 215, I think it is important that more people understand just exactly how public education is funded in Utah. A short 🧵:
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There are 3 main sources of funding for UT public schools:
1) UT state income tax: 63.99% 2) Local property taxes: 24.15% 3) Federal funds: 11.86%
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The #1 source of funding for UT schools is known as the "Weighted Pupil Unit". What is a Weighted Pupil Unit? It is a unit of measurement that is the same for EVERY K-12 student in Utah. Equality is key here.
@Loisco I worked in property management for a large apt complex in SLC, so I am unfortunately very familiar with this law and glad it is available. Women need to know of legal recourses to keep themselves (and their children) safe.