Qasim Rashid, Esq.Apr 13, 2023

If you're shocked TX Gov Abbot is planning to pardon Daniel Perry for murdering a man at a peaceful BLM march—just remember—TX is the state that sentenced a Black woman to 5 years for an uncounted ballot, but not a white male judge for deliberate voter fraud—in the same County. TX sentenced a Black kid to 10 years for punching & killing 1 person, but not an affluent white teen for getting drunk & killing 4—they had the same judge

Texas GOP has proudly chosen fascism over democracy. Believe them

Show threadProbertd8Apr 13, 2023
@QasimRashid Texas is just weird - Has some of the best universities in the world - but is full of ignoramus's???
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Apr 13, 2023

@Probertd8 @QasimRashid

Texas does have some fine universities. But among the best in the world? I find that hard to believe.

I lived there in 2008 when the University of Texas at Austin cut its professors' wages while raising the football coach's annual salary from $2-million to $5-million.

UT was a C-grade school before then, and that didn't improve it any.

Show threadProbertd8
@johnlogic @QasimRashid I mean any metrics are always going to be subjective - But Austin Texas University - I mean it comes up in so many research findings from a publication like The New Scientist.
Apr 13, 2023 at 6:20pmWeb
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Apr 13, 2023

@Probertd8 @QasimRashid

UT Austin is one of the USA's 10 largest, so I expect that its having more students contributes to you seeing more papers from its students.

https://www.worldatlas.com/society/the-10-largest-universities-in-the-united-states.html

The 10 Largest Universities In The United States

There are approximately 4,500 institutions of higher education in the United States. These are the ten largest public universities in the US by enrollment in the 2021-2022 school year.

WorldAtlas
Show threadProbertd8Apr 13, 2023
@johnlogic @QasimRashid John rather unsurprisingly Texas Universities generally have a lot of money to spend - that attracts a lot of talent.
Anyway my old line is - If I was giving out stars for US states I'd give Texas a lone one.
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Apr 13, 2023

@Probertd8 @QasimRashid

For Texas universities, this is the order I'm used to:
1. Rice
2. UT Austin
3. Texas A&M
from https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/tx

UT has about 10x the size of Rice.

I've worked with a few very bright people from Rice, and many perfectly adequate people from UT.

Show threadProbertd8Apr 13, 2023
@johnlogic @QasimRashid Overall I stand by my statement - caveats accepted.