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It’s mind blowing how little people (>90k) despite their education and experience. While the average realtor, selling one property, makes anywhere between 30k-50k per sale! The value of education and academia is falling.Meanwhile housing and cost of living have never been greater.On the upside, millennials are set to inherit the greatest wealth transfer in history, estimated at ~$70Trillion.
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| no | Classification | 4,084 |
Prior to boarding a 747 flight from Tokyo to New York in the early 1990s I could not resist buying a copy of the Sunday New York Times (which had probably just arrived at the airport on a flight from NYC). It cost around $20 at the time and was a splurge. I spent the flight on the nearly empty upper deck in bliss reading the paper, drinking a glass or two of wine, and looking at arctic glaciers out the window.
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| yes | Classification | 9,520 |
Andrew Yep-Bret just can't help himself. Avoiding the obvious solution of simply raising or eliminating the cap, bret forces an illogical and likely immoral coupling between raising the cap and pushing up the retirement age. Except many people will be unemployed long before reaching the extended retirement age due to automation and the continued offshoring of jobs. Or maybe what Bret is banking on is that a sizeable number of people will die before reaching the extended retirment age, thus taking them off the SS roles.
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A little optimism is needed here. Taiwan didn’t magically turn from a relative economic backwater as recently as the 1980s into a superstar producer of chips today. It took years of investment, education, government subsidies, lower labor costs, and a bit of luck to end up in the number 1 position— Intel’s mishaps played a big role as well. The US government didn’t make domestic manufacturing of chips a priority. As for students, the US has always imported the best talent from overseas, and once the sector becomes hot again more and more domestic students will choose electrical engineering/chip design as a major. Those immigrants— most will always love to have a chance to work and live in America vs even most other advanced countries. As for American students, I’ve seen it happen in the last 20 years with computer science/software— bright students who probably would have chosen economics/finance in the 80s were majoring in computer science in the 2010s. They chose the subjects which have the brightest potential. I shouldn’t even need to say that the US can accomplish anything if it makes a strong effort to do so. But here I am saying just that.
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But how much money did the illegal actions add to the company’s bottom line? Well more than the $1.61 million fine, I’m sure. Until laws are changed to seize the illegally gotten profits as well as a large fine, companies will continue to violate the law, whether through schemes such as this one or by defrauding customers a la Wells Fargo. A corporate death penalty is needed for the latter — break it up and sell it off.
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| no | Classification | 296 |
Microsoft to Lay Off 10,000 Workers as It Looks to Trim Costs The job cuts, which amount to less than 5 percent of the company’s work force, are its largest in roughly eight years. Microsoft on Wednesday became the latest addition to a growing list of big technology companies that have announced plans to lay off employees because of overhiring during the pandemic and worries about the economy. The job cuts, which amount to less than 5 percent of the company’s work force, are its largest in roughly eight years.
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| no | Classification | 3,861 |
Time for the Democrats to play hardball.Economists have warned that a US default would have catastrophic economic and financial consequences. It could cause an instantaneous cut” to US growth, worth as much as 5 percent on an annualized basis.Some predict shedding up to 3 million jobs in the event of a default, the equivalent of nine months of employment growth. The cost of an average 30-year mortgage would also swell by $130,000, while average retirement savings for older workers could shrink by $20,000.
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"content": "Time for the Democrats to play hardball.Economists have warned that a US default would have catastrophic economic and financial consequences. It could cause an instantaneous cut” to US growth, worth as much as 5 percent on an annualized basis.Some predict shedding up to 3 million jobs in the event of a default, the equivalent of nine months of employment growth. The cost of an average 30-year mortgage would also swell by $130,000, while average retirement savings for older workers could shrink by $20,000.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,643 |
“But the country’s share of global production capacity gradually slid to around 12 percent from about 37 percent in 1990, as countries in Asia provided incentives to move manufacturing to those shores.”“Incentives?” Nice euphemism for cheap labor and bigger c-suite bonuses and “shareholder value creation.”The US, whose taxpayers financed the key US breakthroughs in semiconductor technology and production technology, should have NEVER allowed the private sector “job creators” created these abject dependencies. Now, they’re being rewarded with even more taxpayer largesse.
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| no | Classification | 3,671 |
People who quit their jobs back then generally had options, so there is not that many of them with remorse. I do know a few people who quit because they wanted to take a few months off, and are having issues when applying for new jobs, now that their money has nearly run out. With all of the recent layoffs, and more to likely come, there are a lot of qualified people on the street in need of work who I think will be looked on much more favorably then those who voluntarily left the workforce to do their own thing, thinking that they would be welcomed back, if not by their past employer, then by many other companies who were just a few months ago going begging for new employees, as their own people weren't staying. Now those employers can afford to be picky, and could very well lay off some slackers who hung around to collect a paycheck. With those slackers gone, those companies will have extra open slots to hire decent people who were laid off recently.In a nutshell, hard workers willing to take on work, mostly in-office, will be at a premium, while slackers and those more interested in "working" from home, will not be looked on as hot commodities.An article in today's paper showed a big law firm that will not give as big a bonus to employees who do not work more than 3 days a week in-office. <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/sidley-to-associates-skipping-office-will-cost-you-bonus-money" target="_blank">https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/sidley-to-associates-skipping-office-will-cost-you-bonus-money</a>
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| yes | Classification | 9,768 |
OK, I don't think anyone but the most ardent vegetarian could deny that that steak au poivre looks absolutely to die for.As a native of this city, the thing that shocked me more than anything else was the realization that "the smallest room in a boutique hotel on the corner of CANAL STREET" - yes, Canal and Allen! - starts - yes, STARTS! - at $525. Canal and Allen, an area where even I, the lover of all things Chinatown, only warily venture in the heat of summer when Chinatown becomes Smellytown. This could be the most stark example of gentrification that I've ever come across - $525 for a small room on the corner of Canal and Allen. Nothing could scream louder that any semblance of Manhattan being affordable is really stone-cold dead.
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| yes | Classification | 9,916 |
Oh come on. Yes they deserve a return on investment, but these guys are making BILLIONS off this. Also how many of us have little or nothing in the stock market? We are paying the high prices too but get zip back. I’m not really interested in being bankrupted for my medicine while some stockholders make out like bandits and I will probably have to work until I die because I don’t have a great pension package.
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"content": "Oh come on. Yes they deserve a return on investment, but these guys are making BILLIONS off this. Also how many of us have little or nothing in the stock market? We are paying the high prices too but get zip back. I’m not really interested in being bankrupted for my medicine while some stockholders make out like bandits and I will probably have to work until I die because I don’t have a great pension package.\n",
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| no | Classification | 867 |
sy Key are very expensive and the $400 charge is about right. When buying a new car it said that one should try and bargain for an extra key.
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Well, I sure am glad that we can send billions of dollars to another foreign country while Flint Michigan still has poisonous water.Of course, if we wanted to reduce the amount of suffering in the world, we could just stop helping the Saudis slaughter the Yemeni.I'm sure that billions pouring into Ukraine while we've ignored Flint has nothing to do with the color of their skin, or the massive profits the military industrial complex is making.
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| yes | Classification | 7,186 |
Mike L National defense is 12% of the budget, much smaller than (e.g.) Social Security at 19%. You only get to count it as half if you ignore all "non-discretionary" spending, such as Social Security and Medicare. As for fuel being half the cost of the military, that's not even remotely plausible. Wikipedia says the U.S. military uses 4.6 billion gallons of fuel annually. Even at $5/gallon, that's under $25B. The annual defense budget is around $ Trillion these days. So, fuel is a few percent of the military budget.
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I had so many questions before yesterday's root canal - my endodontist exclaimed, "Just PI4 down and open WI4!"
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Lucien private equity fund management involves raising a blind pool fund, typically with a five year investment period, to go acquire a group of private companies. The owners of this franchisor appear to be a group of businesspeople who find companies that they acquire with their own money mostly, and earn profits by improving and selling, but have not raised a fund. If this is your definition of private equity, then the two guys in your town who bought a Jiffy Lube are also in the business of private equity.
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"content": "Lucien private equity fund management involves raising a blind pool fund, typically with a five year investment period, to go acquire a group of private companies. The owners of this franchisor appear to be a group of businesspeople who find companies that they acquire with their own money mostly, and earn profits by improving and selling, but have not raised a fund. If this is your definition of private equity, then the two guys in your town who bought a Jiffy Lube are also in the business of private equity.\n",
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$200,000 for a parking spot. Is that a typo?
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| yes | Classification | 8,723 |
With all of the emphasis on how stairs are connected to making connections, I kept looking for the ways people who aren’t able to climb stairs are being looped in. Are there moving sidewalks for students and faculty with mobility challenges? Open elevator spaces with windows and places to socialize? Or is business only meant for the wealthy and able-bodied? Another message sent loud and clear about the values of capitalism and corporations.
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"content": "With all of the emphasis on how stairs are connected to making connections, I kept looking for the ways people who aren’t able to climb stairs are being looped in. Are there moving sidewalks for students and faculty with mobility challenges? Open elevator spaces with windows and places to socialize? Or is business only meant for the wealthy and able-bodied? Another message sent loud and clear about the values of capitalism and corporations.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,644 |
Bruce Rozenblit You are kidding economy will growby 4% in 2022. For your info GDP was negative in firsttwo quarters. It grew by 3.4% in Q3 on annualized basis, It Makes nohas to boom in Q4 to get to 4%. Annualizing thequarterly number is funny. It assumes all subsequentquarters will grow at the same rate as the actualfor a quarter. Makes no sense
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Rk Exactly!Even if Noma were the best restaurant in the world, it certainly isn't the most expensive. There are certainly more expensive eateries in NYC!What those with astronomical excess wealth spend and trivially lose on $10,000 poker chips at the casino or pay millions of dollars on a blank canvas with a colored line near the bottom (I think I saw it displayed at MoMa a few decades ago) or other random splotch I am too unsophisticated to understand, or whatever they like to spend their untaxed loot on is easy to justly criticize.Artists, like chefs, aren't the one's who decide that a meal experience is worth $500 or that an art piece is worth a million or that a silly superhero NFT is worth $99. $500, or a million, is a trivial amount to the few who can afford it for an interesting and unusual experience given the massive amounts already wasted on so many trivial things in life by these people.Why is it easy to criticize one who works a few months for nothing to get Noma on their CV in return, yet not criticize the same motivation of many who spend a quarter million and study a bit to get Harvard engraved on their CV - just different ways to get ahead. Not as if the workers at a McDonald's will ever earn a living wage for their toil nor will it ever improve their CV or future advancement in life.
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Michael If true...this is a bold statement, Michael, but disturbing, yes. So, if this is the situation, consider with he vehicle you have, the costs of generating your own small company; the idea would be to "emulate" the app companies, but using the phones, and such as communication to get started, as time goes by, and money comes in you would want to allot 30% of your receipts to repairs, gas, food, etc, perhaps 40% to start, but eventually 70% of your receipts would be yours. For new hires you take a smaller override, say 5%, and they use their own vehicles, etc. The big thing is not to be underinsured during this endeavor; as for competition they won't notice the "fly on the wall" until such time as you can sell your small company, and retire...do this, before others catch on.
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Getreal High speed rail is great, but as we learned in California, it costs around $100-$250 million per mile just to build the railway and buy the rights of way. Plus equipment, operating and maintenance costs. If we budget $100 billion per year, we could build around 400 to 1000 miles. Let’s do that plus convert our airplanes to electricity and alternate fuels.Maybe we can find a way to also allow freight railway line owners to allow conversion of their rails to high speed, too, which might save some costs.
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"content": "Getreal High speed rail is great, but as we learned in California, it costs around $100-$250 million per mile just to build the railway and buy the rights of way. Plus equipment, operating and maintenance costs. If we budget $100 billion per year, we could build around 400 to 1000 miles. Let’s do that plus convert our airplanes to electricity and alternate fuels.Maybe we can find a way to also allow freight railway line owners to allow conversion of their rails to high speed, too, which might save some costs.\n",
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A national debt at 1.51% of GDP is pretty eye opening, and the way we construct GDP ignores a lot of financial activity and capital so it's even lower in reality. The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card for America’s Infrastructure currently gives the US a C- grade. It was a D, for recent decades.That constitutes an unpaid debt: collapsing bridges, the FAA's obsolete Flight control system (NOTAMS), unaddressed EPA Superfund toxic waste sites; not to mention what it will cost when sea level rise requires 10-20% of the US population to move away from coastlines. As any homeowner knows, you fix the roof before it starts leaking. America has a "debt problem", and it's deferred maintenance, not an accounting exercise.
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So many people citing guns as a reason not to go to Houston or Texas. 46 states allow open carry and nay 10 require permits (data from wisevoter.com), so guns can be a problem anywhere. You’d think this article was called “everyone should move to Houston” instead of 36 hours in Houston. Every city has pros and cons and everyone has preferences for weather, amenities, etc for a place they’d like to live. If you hate humidity, maybe Houston isn’t for you, but some people hate cold weather just as much. In addition, if we limit our travels to places where we agree with the politicians running the state we will miss out on a lot. I’m a liberal who’s been to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, and Anchorage. All were red states at the time. 36 hours in X is just a jumping off point for people who may find themselves in a particular city for whatever reason it’s not meant to be a referendum on that city or cover everything about it. This article didn’t mention the thriving and nationally respected performing arts groups in Houston.
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nerdrage no. Please do not partner with Amazon or Netflix and give them an even greater share over what people watch. These companies have proven time and time again that no matter how much money you throw at things you can’t produce art. Off the top of my head I’m thinking the Harry and Meghan hagiography (Netflix) and that terrible Lord of the Rings prequel (Amazon) they sunk billions into.
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NeilG Maybe think about extended families living together, and multigenerational households -- without the rigid gender roles of the past. There is a reason our families today are called nuclear.
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He has brought over 3500 lawsuits, mostly against contractors and vendors who said he owed them money for services and products. He is grifter pure and simple. How the American public allowed this charlatan to prosper is beyond me.
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| no | Classification | 2,107 |
Looking for the first museum gift shop offering Rene Magritte's pipe that's not a pipe; perhaps a plain white t-shirt for $70. For the actual pipe, a solitary price tag, $68.
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| no | Classification | 3,892 |
Between recent revelations that NYC yeshivas actually don’t teach anything except religion and basically stole more than $1 billion to fund no show jobs and parties and this revelation about Yeshiva University it seems that the entire Orthodox “educational” system is a scam. Elected officials in New York State need to stop supporting this community because they vote as a bloc.
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| no | Classification | 2,696 |
I remember when I took History of Nursing in nursing school and . I learned that nurses were always considered a commodity and lumped together with things like the cost of linens, not personnel. It was disheartening. The other thing that was eye opening was if the doctor wrote the medication order wrong, and the pharmacist filled said wrong order and then the nurse gave the patient the wrong medication based on the order, it was the nurse who was ultimately blamed.
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| no | Classification | 2,934 |
The entire concept of Scorpion should be re-examined. As should who should be considered for such a role. That seems to be asking for people who are willing to declare open season on anyone who attracts their predatory attention regardless of what they actually did. In this case it transcended race, it just went straight to sick mayhem. The Scorpio unit was justifiably disbanded. If it resumes I do hope the vetting takes into account the personality profiles of the applicants. In this case this was NOT White on Black, it was a gang of sociopaths on whoever showed up in front of them. Appalling.
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| no | Classification | 4,040 |
A fine of $414 million is nothing to a company like Facebook, sorry, Meta, that takes in billions daily. Make the fine fit the company.
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"content": "A fine of $414 million is nothing to a company like Facebook, sorry, Meta, that takes in billions daily. Make the fine fit the company.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,072 |
There is a simple way to cure this... but first Congress needs a spine transplant and to remember that it works *for* citizens, not *on* citizens.Patent reform would work like this:- Manufacturing patents continue to enjoy 20 years of non-extendable, non-variable protection.- Drug patents get 10 years of protection with an additional 10 years available at a 50% excise tax rate based on the sale price. No loopholes, no deductions.- Software and design patents would get 5 years with an additional 5 available at the 50% excise tax rate. Value would be determined by a 3rd party.IP abuse is rampant and drains capital from society. The system is working against society's interests. It may kill off a few global pharmaceutical companies, but frankly that has value by itself.
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| no | Classification | 1,226 |
Imagine if the money spent on sports advertising and sports gambling were directed toward investments in our country's future and solving immediate problems like climate change, income inequality, and uncontrolled proliferation of automatic weapons.. or even ten percent of that money...
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He even stole $3,000 donated for a dog with cancer for surgery.Santos is some piece of work.
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| no | Classification | 4,058 |
IOW deficit spending is not all bad in the long term. The lack of investment by means of borrowing is a recipe for an unpalatable desiccation in the menu of choices. But there is something to the aversion to national debt on face value. It doesn't sit well with those who control the money and who face an ever increasing tax burden. They want their future cake while they eat it every day. Cake Eaters don't necessarily have an angle on what's best for the country, everybody in it, even themselves. They just own the politics of the right.Do liberal countries, the social democracies, face such stagnation?
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"content": "IOW deficit spending is not all bad in the long term. The lack of investment by means of borrowing is a recipe for an unpalatable desiccation in the menu of choices. But there is something to the aversion to national debt on face value. It doesn't sit well with those who control the money and who face an ever increasing tax burden. They want their future cake while they eat it every day. Cake Eaters don't necessarily have an angle on what's best for the country, everybody in it, even themselves. They just own the politics of the right.Do liberal countries, the social democracies, face such stagnation?\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,097 |
In The Millionaire Next Door, one of the points made is to simply get into the habit of saving, even if it is small amounts. The FIRE movement is interesting in that most try to live on very lean amounts. One of the leading proponents, MMM, lives on about $24k/year with a paid off house.
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MLH This post raises valuable perspectives to which I would like to add. Like MLH, Covid became a factor in my decision to retire after more than 35 years of teaching. I also served about ten years on my school's academic misconduct board. Data that came to our attention clearly indicated: 1) Students of all abilities who cheated did so on assignments for courses in which they were not invested for some reason. 2) Many cheaters were not trying to get high grades, just high enough to get by. 3) Cheaters presume that "old folks," including younger professors, are unable to use the internet and other tools to locate plagiarized text. Often a professor/teacher already has significant weapons to fight cheating. Let me add that in many instances students demonstrated that they did not understand the operations of the technology they used. Copied spreadsheet files in a business class, for example, routinely embed an indicator of authorship that cheaters neglect to check. It is easy to identify files that have been copied by a cheater. In another instance, I gave students access to Turn-it-In so they could check for issues before they submitted a final version, one that I would check with Turn-it-In, and still routinely had a number of students hand in papers that were substantially plagiarized.
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"content": "MLH This post raises valuable perspectives to which I would like to add. Like MLH, Covid became a factor in my decision to retire after more than 35 years of teaching. I also served about ten years on my school's academic misconduct board. Data that came to our attention clearly indicated: 1) Students of all abilities who cheated did so on assignments for courses in which they were not invested for some reason. 2) Many cheaters were not trying to get high grades, just high enough to get by. 3) Cheaters presume that \"old folks,\" including younger professors, are unable to use the internet and other tools to locate plagiarized text. Often a professor/teacher already has significant weapons to fight cheating. Let me add that in many instances students demonstrated that they did not understand the operations of the technology they used. Copied spreadsheet files in a business class, for example, routinely embed an indicator of authorship that cheaters neglect to check. It is easy to identify files that have been copied by a cheater. In another instance, I gave students access to Turn-it-In so they could check for issues before they submitted a final version, one that I would check with Turn-it-In, and still routinely had a number of students hand in papers that were substantially plagiarized.\n",
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Well— my church and faith disagrees with the court. We welcome gay people and are pro-choice, from the female pastor to all the members. We are the conservatives worst nightmare. We can argue religious liberty just as well as they can. We have and we are getting louder. Liberals should work with open and affirming churches to beat back the far right nut jobs who have been proven wrong over and over throughout history.
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| no | Classification | 778 |
Raise the taxes particularly on the wealthy. It is ashame the hedge fund managers, raking in billions, aretaxed at 15% carried interest rate. No logic, justgood lobbying and donations. Wealthy folks benefit fromgovernment services. They should pay. Borrowing tofinance deficit is another way to exempt wealthy Americansfrom tax burden. It is fueling inequality that Mr. Krugmanhasn't addressed, It is related to minimizing tax burdenon the rich and well connected and fuel debt financing.. At some point the ponzi scheme( new debt to pay old debt) used by federal government will end. Lenders will catch on.
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The article is relatively thorough but the reporter mainly talked to Corporate Communications personnel and Chamber of Commerce types. The main Facebook technical expert did not talk to the reporter. But many other transportation professionals have studied this project over the years. Had they been consulted, they would have pointed out that the Facebook study revealed what two previous studies also made clear: that for up to $4-5 billion in capital investment, the project only produced 6,000 or so riders per day. Operating funds are also woefully under budgeted. That rider/investment ratio would rank among the worst rail systems in the nation (and the world). The bridge is not connected directly into the larger rail passenger network on either the west or east side, causing time-consuming 2- or 3-seat transfers for riders, rendering travel times uncompetitive against even Bay Area auto congestion. Sometimes, projects do not posses the "fundamentals" for a good investment. The NYT reporter fell victim to a "narrative" of a pristine, unassailable project searching for scarce funding and evil on both government and private sector sides unreasonably opposed. What a great story! However, those evil technocrats and high tech execs have relied on facts and analysis to conclude (since 2008) that the benefit isn't warranted given the cost. Even Facebook figured that out...
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Blackcat66 Every crime you mention is conducted primarily with cash and FIAT every day and always has been since the beginning of time. Money laundering, tax evasion, White-Collar Crime, and corruption are conducted with gov't currencies all over the globe every day. Yet I don't recall the Pandora Papers mentioning cryptocurrency at all. Do you blame the US Dollar for those crimes as well? Should we eliminate all government forms of cash? Conversely, all transactions on major blockchains (ie Bitcoin) are 100% transparent, traceable and completely open to public scrutiny. The main reason for Blockchain's existence is to be an immutable and indestructible transaction ledger for all to see. As a result, the percentage of illicit transactions on Blockchains is minuscule compared to the amount of crime committed with US Dollars. There are many legitimate arguments to be made against cryptocurrency. Yours is not one of them. Your argument is loaded with misinformation. Your outrage is misplaced.
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Tom Ruppel His financial disclosures seem to suggest he made a lot more than $174,000.00 per year recently.
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Sorry, Bret, you are on the right track, but too optimistic when you imply that by some gentle approaches the US may be able to change China's behavior. It is purely wishful thinking. As I have remarked before, any article on China needs to also include what it has been doing wrong around the world since 1950. In its drive for territorial and economic dominance, it will not stop at any brutality (Tibet), any mass incarceration (Xinjiang), any predatory loan deals (Sri Lanka, Pakistan), any border aggression (Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, India, Philippines), and any technological espionage (US, Europe). In 1992 Bill Clinton's campaign rhetoric included scathing toughness toward China; yet, after having been beaten up by American corporate interests, he granted the most-favored-nation status to China which soon became permanent, leading in the next 30 years to the astounding economic rise of China, mostly driven by uncontrolled transfer of US manufacturing technologies and scientific prowess to China and exports by China to the US and the world. The debacle began with Nixon in 1972, in his so-called 'opening to China'. What opening? What it amounted to was, essentially, US telling China, "open your doors so we can voluntarily give you our decades of our advances"! And China said, "sure." In the history of mankind, there has never so much grabbing of advanced technological knowledge without use of force as what China has achieved in thirty years. Time to wake up!
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The only point I would take issue with is the assertion that Biden is setting himself up for re-election in 2024. It has been said that two weeks is a long time in politics and by extension two years is forever. For an 80 year old man, two years is indeed a long time and increasingly less certain. This is the law of nature, not politics.
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Unconventional Liberal Woke: an active awareness of systemic injustices and prejudices, especially those involving the treatment of ethnic, racial, or sexual minorities.Nearly two in 10 (17%) of Florida children live below the federal poverty line, which means earning less than $26,500 per year for a family of four.Overall, Florida ranks 41st when it comes to health and health care. This is because Florida has large numbers of uninsured adults, high levels of premature death from treatable conditions, less investment in public health, too many people with mental illness unable to get the care they need, and residents facing mounting insurance costs that make health care less affordable than in many other parts of the country.
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I think a distinction should be made between productive effort and unproductive effort. Yes, a billionaire can build a 100 million dollar house, and employ a lot of people in doing so. That way the wealth gets spread around to the contractors and the workers at least. But the product is really useless, except as a way to impress others. It is like Versailles, really, a massive vanity project. The 100 million could be used to build schools, or hospitals, or homes for veterans. But no, it just goes to feed an ego or two. I regard the fruit beetles and still squirming slashed-apart shrimp (really?) in the same category -- work just wasted on people's egos. In this sense we have become to resemble the excesses of Imperial Rome, except that the excess is now glorified in breathless TV series and on-line social media. We don't have much time left. We should not fiddle while Rome burns. Let's work productively, either to keep our communities and systems up and running or to produce change in the world where so many are living on handfuls of rice and a little protein.
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Robert You're absolutely right. Which is why this won't be a voluntary thing. Do it with the tax code: if the company you run spends x% of what it costs to operate on goods and services outside the US, then x% is the tax rate on your total compensation. If 0% of your operating costs are spent on goods and services outside the US, then your tax rate is 0.This is not an actual tax code; it's an idea. It's not perfect; it's where we start. There will be hundreds of loopholes that will be found and must be addressed. Trivial example: Let's say you assemble everything in the US, but buy all of the parts and raw materials abroad. You just set up a shell company based in the US that does all of that buying, and you buy everything from them. You are buying nothing from a foreign company. The shell company can have a 100% tax rate on its CEO's compensation, but who cares? That person (an AI robot) can be paid $1/year.And so many other loopholes to imagine, find, plug. But you get the idea: create the incentive to do what's right with the tax code. Every CEO in the US will be happy to shoot for a 0% tax rate. Let the board pay them as much as they want. They'll still be bazillionaires, but Americans will be getting paid. Don't even need trade tariffs, either.
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"content": "Robert You're absolutely right. Which is why this won't be a voluntary thing. Do it with the tax code: if the company you run spends x% of what it costs to operate on goods and services outside the US, then x% is the tax rate on your total compensation. If 0% of your operating costs are spent on goods and services outside the US, then your tax rate is 0.This is not an actual tax code; it's an idea. It's not perfect; it's where we start. There will be hundreds of loopholes that will be found and must be addressed. Trivial example: Let's say you assemble everything in the US, but buy all of the parts and raw materials abroad. You just set up a shell company based in the US that does all of that buying, and you buy everything from them. You are buying nothing from a foreign company. The shell company can have a 100% tax rate on its CEO's compensation, but who cares? That person (an AI robot) can be paid $1/year.And so many other loopholes to imagine, find, plug. But you get the idea: create the incentive to do what's right with the tax code. Every CEO in the US will be happy to shoot for a 0% tax rate. Let the board pay them as much as they want. They'll still be bazillionaires, but Americans will be getting paid. Don't even need trade tariffs, either.\n",
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| no | Classification | 764 |
AnObserver the world doesn't exist to serve everyone at every possible hour. you know even in NYC, the city that never sleeps, almost every single restaurant, we're talking over 99% of them, is closed by midnight? do you know most businesses that stay open 24 hours are forced to charge higher prices to offset the labor and utility costs when there are very few customers around?
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| yes | Classification | 7,746 |
Several blocks of Telegraph Avenue leading to UC Berkeley were once lined with bookstores. Cody's, the best independent I ever lived near. Moe's. Shakespeare's. Then there was also the UC Berkeley bookstore, well stocked with non-textbooks and open to the public. My husband and I used to do bookstore crawls on Friday nights. Almost all these stores have been put out of business by online competition. I think Moe's is still there. Likewise, Palo Alto had an excellent independent, Printer's Ink, that went out of business. Please don't pretend Barnes & Noble is like an independent. It is another corporate monolith and itself has contributed to the demise of many independents. And Barnes & Noble sells online as well as in large chain stores.
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| yes | Classification | 8,692 |
Chinese EV price ranges from 5K to 150K ( BYD YangWang), and almost all non-Chinese EV are above 40K, I won't be surprised China will dominate the segment under 40K in few years, They produce many times more models than western brands. Why should a consumer pay 30% profit margin for a Tesla? We need more competition to bring down the price. We don't need a Ford 150 EV Pick up, we need a Honda Accord size EV.
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This game is fun. Can we also indict Kushner and Ivanka for offering US visas for sale to Chinese businessmen? There were witnesses to their presentation at one of their business events.
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| yes | Classification | 7,264 |
When I review my Crypto accounts, I remember, I don't have any. Since this is Bitcoin V.2, is anyone surprised that $15 or $30 Billion goes up in smoke, over night? It went somewhere...
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| no | Classification | 4,579 |
Jacinda Ardern is the very embodiment of what I grew up thinking a great political leader would act like and sound like, and her decision to move away from power seals the deal. She spent her time in office improving lives and saving lives, ever mindful of the need to shepherd her country from the darkness to the light. And what darkness she confronted.True, that childhood picture I had of the great political leader wore a man's face, so thanks, Ms. Ardern for another lesson in leadership.She left in tears, tears of love for her country rather than tears of desperation clinging to power. I don't suppose she'll start selling digital images of herself as Wonder Woman for $99, but, if she did, I'd buy one.
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You can tell anyone who doesn't call this a disingenuous hit piece didn't read it. This 516m dollars is funny money. It's not real. Right now that land is garbage and has no prospects whatsoever. It's been that way for a generation. This is going to create an entire new neighborhood in Queens on the soccer team's dime on NYC's land (not the team's land).
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Blatant market manipulation as a part of what is a massive fraud. Market manipulation is standard operating practice in a speculative market dominated by whales. 25% of Bitcoin is owned by 0.001% of investors, 75% of Bitcoin is owned by 25% of investors.
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"content": "Blatant market manipulation as a part of what is a massive fraud. Market manipulation is standard operating practice in a speculative market dominated by whales. 25% of Bitcoin is owned by 0.001% of investors, 75% of Bitcoin is owned by 25% of investors.\n",
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When my husband died, I needed to sell his 5 year old Honda Fit. With just 26K miles on the clock, it was in excellent shape. Carvana gave me $8,000 more for it than the local used-car-buyer could offer. The transaction was quick and efficient. I have only good things to say about Carvana, although I recognize that the marketplace is changing.
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I’ve been an LGBT ally for decades. The fight for gay marriage rights was the most invested I’ve ever been in a political battle. But drag queen story hours are simply weird. Why, exactly, is it so important that hyper-sexualized mockeries of womanhood are championing early literacy?I’m not out there protesting or shutting them down, but count me among the silent majority who finds this an incredibly strange development.
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| no | Classification | 2,373 |
So a bunch of people with money said, "Gee, i'd like to invest in some companies that do This Thing." Then investment funds went saucer-eyed at the dollars being waved around and said, "Gimmie!-Gimmie!-Gimmie! Sure, we can set up an investment fund for you!"And so everyone did a Capitalism and traded dollars for Things.So the only actual (?) complaint here is what? 1) Some of the companies in those funds aren't This Thing enough? 2) The investment funds are tired of having to research and find investments for those funds, like it says in the job description for which they are handsomely (over) paid? 3) Right-Wing Culture Warriors have decided ESG "exists" and so they hates it, my precious? hissss?Sounds like a lot of ... nothingburger x2.BlackRock as "woke". lol. Yeah, and so's Richard Spencer.
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"content": "So a bunch of people with money said, \"Gee, i'd like to invest in some companies that do This Thing.\" Then investment funds went saucer-eyed at the dollars being waved around and said, \"Gimmie!-Gimmie!-Gimmie! Sure, we can set up an investment fund for you!\"And so everyone did a Capitalism and traded dollars for Things.So the only actual (?) complaint here is what? 1) Some of the companies in those funds aren't This Thing enough? 2) The investment funds are tired of having to research and find investments for those funds, like it says in the job description for which they are handsomely (over) paid? 3) Right-Wing Culture Warriors have decided ESG \"exists\" and so they hates it, my precious? hissss?Sounds like a lot of ... nothingburger x2.BlackRock as \"woke\". lol. Yeah, and so's Richard Spencer.\n",
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Years ago I worked at a company that built sideshows for big corporate presentations. Clients would send the content and we would format the slides (actual slides!). The process was slow and expensive, so clients made only a few rounds of changes.The business died out when slideshows shifted to PowerPoint. How great was it that companies could create their own presentations in-house!Turns out, not so great. Highly paid executives were now spending hours deciding what font to use, searching for clip art, wrestling with Microsoft’s maddening formatting challenges, and trying to figure out if version V4.final.final.ppt was actually the final version. Those secretaries and copy editors and art departments did a lot of specialized and often tedious work for the knowledge workers and gave them time to do what they were being paid to do: think.
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The problem with many of these "historical comparisons", as Krugman well knows, is that the methods for determining metrics like unemployment and inflation have repeatedly been changed by the government to, well, make them look better than they really are.For example what we call "unemployment" nowadays is the number that the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes as "U3". In the past the top-line unemployment number was what BLS currently calls "U6".Similarly, inflation has introduced kludges such as "hedonics" (if NY Strip goes from $8 to $10 and Flank goes from $6 to $8, and a consumer who can no longer afford NY Strip buys Flank instead, that's NOT considered to be inflationary) and "owner's equivalent rent" (the single largest component of the inflation stat, where homeowners who have no concept of the rental market are asked to put a theoretical price on what they'd rent their house out for).Somewhere between "feelings" and manipulated statistics, Ronald Reagan's "are you better off now..." remains the proper measure of the economy.
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"content": "The problem with many of these \"historical comparisons\", as Krugman well knows, is that the methods for determining metrics like unemployment and inflation have repeatedly been changed by the government to, well, make them look better than they really are.For example what we call \"unemployment\" nowadays is the number that the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes as \"U3\". In the past the top-line unemployment number was what BLS currently calls \"U6\".Similarly, inflation has introduced kludges such as \"hedonics\" (if NY Strip goes from $8 to $10 and Flank goes from $6 to $8, and a consumer who can no longer afford NY Strip buys Flank instead, that's NOT considered to be inflationary) and \"owner's equivalent rent\" (the single largest component of the inflation stat, where homeowners who have no concept of the rental market are asked to put a theoretical price on what they'd rent their house out for).Somewhere between \"feelings\" and manipulated statistics, Ronald Reagan's \"are you better off now...\" remains the proper measure of the economy.\n",
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A youtuber "Perun" made an excellent presentation on the problems facing Germany and their rearmament.Fact is that money has really not been the issue but a combination of sclerotic purchasing and short term budgets.During the last 10 years or so Germany has spent (iirc) around 50% more than France on its military. Despite this France has a larger, more capable, better equipped military including their independent nuclear deterrent. So while one problem is pure funding, it isn't by far the biggest problem. If Germany could get to the same standard in purchasing and maintenance for their military as France (even without increasing the budget) it would go a massive distance to making Germany a military powerhouse just due to the massive size of the German economy.
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"But SamTrans would never get a chance, because on Jan. 3, 1998, much of it went up in flames in a three-day fire that left the bridge’s charred remains sitting idle for decades." This gross oversimplification is just lazy journalism. The fire was not what deprived us bay area residents of Dumbarton rail: the line was a sacrifice to political priorities. The public sector doesn't "lack" the resources; it HAD the resources and spent the dedicated funds on SOMETHING ELSE. I encourage all readers to instead read the "History" section of this Wikipedia page <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton_Rail_Corridor" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbarton_Rail_Corridor</a>, which includes informational quotes like:"In 2001, MTC estimated the total capital cost for DRC was US$129,000,000 (equivalent to $197,400,000 in 2021); of that, 91% had been secured or was pending via local sales taxes in San Mateo, Alameda, and Santa Clara Counties." After extensive delays that drove costs up, the money earned by Peninsula taxes was taken AWAY from Dumbarton rail and redirected to the BART Warm Springs Extension Project, and the money wasn't repaid because Oakland voted down the tax intended to refund the coffers (measure B1). For what it's worth, the late 90's and early 00's overall were not good for transit here: the bay bridge was delayed by both Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland ("it's ugly") and Willie Brown of SF ("it would cast a shadow on a building on Yerba Buena Island").
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The Israeli-Palestinian war is one of the drivers of conflict in the region, perhaps the most important one, perhaps in the long run it would be in Israel's. best interest to settle with the Palestinians and obviate the prime cause of conflict. Israel has the upper hand and the power advantage, now Israel should move to establish the moral high ground. By pre-emptively attacking facilities in neighbouring states, Israel provides its enemies with grist for the propaganda machine and a rationale for the eventual prime conflict, open war with Iran and its allies.
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John But we don't want McCarthy, at least not in his current form - he's an enabler of these far right MAGA nut jobs. He will rubber stamp every petty (and irrelevant) investigation of Hunter Biden, the Jan/ 6th Committee, and everything else, a la Benghazi. As things stand nothing will get done anytime this year. Biden will probably have to resort to idiotic sleight of hand with giant platinum coins to prevent the US from being forced into default. It doesn't actually matter whether they choose a speaker tomorrow or it takes six months. In the latter case we will be no worse off than the former. Let McCarthy, jonesing for his power fix, get to the point of being open to a deal with the opposition. Let him get desperate enough - and he isn't yet. If, say, he were open to appointing a few Democratic heads of House committees maybe there'd be something to talk about.
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"content": "John But we don't want McCarthy, at least not in his current form - he's an enabler of these far right MAGA nut jobs. He will rubber stamp every petty (and irrelevant) investigation of Hunter Biden, the Jan/ 6th Committee, and everything else, a la Benghazi. As things stand nothing will get done anytime this year. Biden will probably have to resort to idiotic sleight of hand with giant platinum coins to prevent the US from being forced into default. It doesn't actually matter whether they choose a speaker tomorrow or it takes six months. In the latter case we will be no worse off than the former. Let McCarthy, jonesing for his power fix, get to the point of being open to a deal with the opposition. Let him get desperate enough - and he isn't yet. If, say, he were open to appointing a few Democratic heads of House committees maybe there'd be something to talk about.\n",
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PB He said it's low risk for big players and high risk for regular people. He's not wrong. Look, clearly the tech sector and tech stocks have been home to financial speculation and manipulation over the past decade or so, driven (as the article says) by low rates. There's a lot of profit taking right now - investors have been getting out while the money is still fairly assured. Carvana shrank from an $80bn fairytale to a $1bn struggling hasbeen in a short time. Tesla shed $800bn (!!!) over the past year despite little change in business fundamentals. That wasn't all Elon - he's only sold $25bn or so. Clearly some finance guys are walking away with a lot of money, probably at the expense of smaller fish.
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"content": "PB He said it's low risk for big players and high risk for regular people. He's not wrong. Look, clearly the tech sector and tech stocks have been home to financial speculation and manipulation over the past decade or so, driven (as the article says) by low rates. There's a lot of profit taking right now - investors have been getting out while the money is still fairly assured. Carvana shrank from an $80bn fairytale to a $1bn struggling hasbeen in a short time. Tesla shed $800bn (!!!) over the past year despite little change in business fundamentals. That wasn't all Elon - he's only sold $25bn or so. Clearly some finance guys are walking away with a lot of money, probably at the expense of smaller fish.\n",
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If you enjoy staring at under lit, grainy video images of walls, carpet, children’s feet and unidentified murky nothingness that seem to linger forever, then this is the film for you! And subtitles! Even though the film is in English, there are English subtitles, because not only is it under lit, the audio is inexplicably impossible to hear. The best part of this film was the font in the opening credits. It all goes downhill from there. The looooong, tedious shots of walls, etc., begin, and at first you’re thinking, okay the filmmaker is establishing a tone, I’m sure the whole film isn’t like this. But you’d be wrong. The whole film, all one hundred and fifteen excruciating minutes of it, are the same slow, dark, dull ordeal of barely anything happening. Even the jump scares aren’t scary. There’s the kernel of something interesting there, but after seeing the same shot of a wall with things stuck to it for the seventeenth time, you realize that that kernel is never, ever going to germinate and you sit there, growing increasingly bored, restless and irritated, until the end credits bring blessed relief.
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So much for Biden's boycott.
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As I've noted in comments on other essays, it would be terribly refreshing to see some philosophical essays in the Times from atheists, Buddhists, Wiccans, etc as a counterpoint to the constant drumbeat of conservative Christianity we get from Ross Douthat, Tish Harrison Warren, and numerous guest essayists. Still, I tried to read this essay with an open mind and it does paint Benedict as a more complicated person than one might have imagined, not that that in any way excuses his unforgivable sins against the children who suffered abuse by Catholic clergy. But this essay is very strange, as it seems to be building to some unique contribution from Benedict but in fact lands at the conclusion that God is love, certainly a belief that countless others have tried not only to express in words but also in actions, something that Benedict demonstrably failed to do. Re the Latin mass: in what way is it "cosmic" and in what way does it make Catholicism more "accessible"? Since most congregants are probably not fluid in Latin perhaps it adds mystery and imbues the priesthood with an air of authority because its members are privy to a secret code? Maybe my Protestant roots are showing, but if you're going to go to church shouldn't you know what's going on while you're there? And if there is a god do you really need a middleman (and for Catholics it is always a man) to facilitate some sort of mystical connection to that god? Please, NY Times, expand your horizons!
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Yawn. Their continued victimhood is dripping with insincerity, projection and airing it all out in the open is never the way to go about it with your own family, regardless of who they are. Bad form. He’s been so badly taken in by the mrs. I’ve yet to see any real humility, or responsibility taken because we all know it takes a village.
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Count me among the (hopefully) former Humira patients - still actively trying to wean myself using every anti-inflammatory DIY intervention I can find (so far, so good!). The monthly stress of coordinating payments via insurance and AbVie copay assist exacerbated my psoriatic arthritis more than the medication relieved. I have a nearly $3k balance due since July 2022 that CVS specialty and Humira keep trying to make my responsibility, despite being enrolled in copay assistance and monthly assurances that this is being resolved by both parties. Manufacturer copay assist is another huge racket that needs examination - feels like a monthly shell game. To anyone else out there fighting the monthly insurance battle - I feel you.
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The USA certainly supported Mujahideen during the fighting with Russia. If US support had extended to Afghan society itself during this proxy war, perhaps life would be a little easier. Mujahideen remained & grew more powerful, especially in rural areas, after USA left. In this way, the USA is partially responsible for power gained by Saudi volunteers such as Bin Laden.
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Republican-controlled FL legislature has not expanded Medicaid and never will, which makes the ACA a lifeline in FL. Rubio & Scott have always opposed the ACA. So it is obvious which party is helping Floridians on healthcare. And yet republicans just won most of the Nov elections in FL by a 20 point margin including Miami Dade. Democrats have accomplishments they should be promoting, and by 2024 will have more when infrastructure starts being built. I want to know why the FL democratic party is this weak. If they don't speak up, the 2 republican senators will take credit for things they voted NO on. Why are FL dems not organizing from the ground up the way GA has been doing? Are they not spending the money needed for spanish language messaging in Miami? What is their problem??? Because the state party can't get it together, now FL is considered a red state & the national party is pretty much writing them off. As a FL resident, I am disgusted. We have a governor who spends all his time on anti-woke culture war garbage, a republican legislature that wants to strip all kinds of rights, and I don't see much action to fight any of it.
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TheProf The reason buyers insist on non-competes from sellers in business acquisitions is so that they have assurances that the newly flush sellers just don't turn around and start a competing business with all their knowledge, experience and connections and hinder the goodwill of the acquired business.This quid-pro-quo doesn't just advantage buyers. By giving the buyer contractual assurances that the seller won't turn around and compete the buyer can pay more for the business. A lot of business acquisitions won't get done -- or will get done at much lower prices -- if a buyer cannot obtain these assurances.Moreover, a 24.9% stake in a business could very well be worth a huge amount in dollars--like if the Google founders sold their minority stakes for the hundreds of billions they are worth.The exemption for business sales should capture any seller receiving more than 5% of the purchase price or $500,000 in proceeds.
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Kerry-Trump/Kushner also got $2B from the Saudi's and millions before entering office and during. What did the Saudi's get in return?
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Great just what we need another Republican Presidential candidate who governs using lies and conspiracies. What is with Republicans that they keep choosing people like him for their leaders? The man is attacking transgender children. Banning books based on the lie CRT is being taught in grades K -12. Despite the praise for keeping Florida open what is never talked about by his supporters is the high number of deaths per capita Florida had. At one point beating California for the number deaths. I’m just starting to believe the Republican Party is just the party of lies, hate and disinformation. But that’s what Republican voters like. Have we not learned the lesson from Trump what happens when you put who govern on divisiveness does to our country.
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Republicans oppose taxes and regulations in the sure and certain hope that the universe favors them over all others so they need not count upon others to have and keep what they possess. Social Security, Medicare, and other social services represent people cooperating to resolve challenges which anyone might find to overwhelming to address themselves. They are not the state taking over control over people’s lives and depriving them of liberty, as the right side of the political spectrum asserts. Social security differs from equity investment funds in that it assures income for people regardless of market conditions. Investment accounts provide income randomly with outcomes that can vary from far greater than average to nothing. Medicare assures medical care when it’s most necessary and costly to obtain. Both save elderly people from utter destitution and impoverishment that will bring suffering and early deaths. Similarly, public education, including higher education provide opportunities that would be limited to the wealthy, otherwise. It enables communities to enjoy better overall incomes and people able to attract better incomes.
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You make excellent points. It’s costing the US way more to treat the symptoms and diseases associated with an unhealthy diet then it would be to continue giving you as others, additional money for healthier foods (which tend to cost more). I love soup and with a cheap crock pot, can make a pot that will yield at least 6-8 bowls and freezes perfect (even the cream base ones). I hate frozen and canned fruits and veggies (I blame growing up in the 70s and 80s where box was best!). So I try to buy and eat the fruits and veggies that are in season and cheaper. Apples and bañases and oranges are usually year round and reasonable. But there are entire food deserts in the US where your eating options come down to what they carry at Dollar General! Pitiful. For as much as we subsidize the farming industries (who for the most part, do not need it), we could be feeding Americans a healthy diet. But then what would PepsiCo and the like do for profits? So many corporations have made so much money off our poor diets, that they pushed, that it’s hard to find a way out. Try farmer’s markets p, if available and co-ops, if you have any. I used to get a giant box of groceries (meat, fruit, veggies, herbs) for about $20 from my local co-op and would make it last. And the right herbs, seasonings and cooking methods can make most veggies taste pretty good.
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I'm actually fine with McDonald's food. However, there is a great need for coffee that has not been sitting on a heating pad for the last 10 hours, becoming more acidic and slowly carbonizing into sludge. I was really happy when Starbucks opened up on the PA turnpike. Finally reasonable coffee, However, since that time, Starbucks has descended into the same cost reduction scheme. It is not just cost reduction, creating a cup of coffee made N hours ago from a large pot is fast and looks like great customer service. Until you taste the coffee, and end up pouring it out the door.
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RS Imagine you're a politician and you've got a choice:1) You can accept a briefcase full of money in exchange for keeping the price of an Epi-Pen at $700.2) You can refuse the briefcase and do what's right.I would suggest that for 8 out of 10 of our current politicians the answer would be, "How much is in the case?"
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Our problems really started with the tax cuts of Reagan, extended by Bush 1 and 2 and pushed way over the edge by 45. Yes, there is some blame on the Ds side, but generally they added benefits to the common folk, not corporate greedy elites and blue chip stock holders. Yes...class warfare with one side armed by high priced lobbyists vs. the common man who can just write a single letter to her/his congressional representative.....who is forever calling on moneyed donors for thier next election cycle. You're a fool if you think that $$$ doesn't buy influence.
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American tax $$ subsidize paid family leave, childcare, housing, healthcare, pre-k and tuition free higher education for Dept of Defense employees & their families but not taxpayers in the private sectors. That’s a decisions Americans support and tolerate. Military spending is a easy foil. Maybe Americans need to demand more instead of giving the military more $$ than it asks for -with democratic support.
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Three years living & working in Cairo, Egypt, and another three in Accra, Ghana, taught me that while the African continent had certainly been plundered for the past half millennium by rapacious colonizers from Europe and North America, the one thing that they could never lose was their internal integrity. Consider the opposite: our last president. The most important lesson thinking people learned from the 4 disastrous years of his presidency is that what matters most is, in the words of Dr. MLK, "the content of their character." No matter the external trappings of wealth, fame, education, skills, etc., what ultimately matters is that one fundamental attribute: character. Integrity. Clearly your friend Kennedy has it, and knows how to recognize it in others. That's why SHOFCO has been successful.It is this foundation of personal integrity which gives strength to so many citizens of that great continent. They have spent hundreds of years tolerating arrogant white people and yet they still welcomed an arrogant white guy like me with open arms, kindness and patience. When Jesus said, "The meek shall inherit the earth," I'm guessing this is what he was referring to: the internal foundation of integrity upon which so many great things have been built. I have to join with others in thanking you for presenting this bit of good news, and for the years of work that were an essential prerequisite to write a story such as this. You are indeed a purveyor of hope.
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henry Gottlieb Influencers are social media users who have large numbers of followers. They use their social media accounts to market stuff. Many collaborate with brands and rake in the dough. Celebrities are the biggest influencers. Apparently the biggest influencer of all is Ronaldo. Kylie Jenner gets over $1M for an Instagram post (featuring a product) because she has 140M followers. Many influencers make a ton of money with their youtube channels.
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In 1994 Ukraine voluntarily gave up its third in the world nuclear stockpile in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, UK, and US.What did Ukraine get in return? - Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and started a full-scale war in 2022. And the UK and US were squabbling with Poland whether to give Ukraine a handful of old Soviet aircraft to protect its skies from Putin's nightmarish bombardments of its children and cities. WHAT A SHAME! APPEASEMENT of a DICTATOR DOES NOT WORK. Proven in 1939 and in 2022!West should've given Ukraine Patriot missiles in Spring of 2021 when Putin first amassed 100,000 troops on Ukrainian borders. That would've shown putin our RESOLVE and SUPPORT of Ukraine, and MOST LIKELY it would have PREVENTED this war!Today's war can not be won with OPEN SKIES! NO FLY ZONE OVER UKRAINE NOW!The longer NATO is waiting, the worse it has been and will get. War criminal putin MUST be STOPPED by ALL MEANS!
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I am amazed at the anti-abortion movement's change of strategy. Ten years ago, any group that advocated "expanded child tax credits, paid parental leave, affordable child-care options and expanded Medicaid funding for prenatal care, delivery and postpartum expenses" and other such entitlements would be branded as ultra-liberal and laughed out of congress. The so-called pro-life movement's acceptance of these realities for vulnerable populations is surely something I could sign on to.
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Cheryl Ann An alternative could be opening a fresh tab, copying the link (long press should offer that option as well) and paste it in the fresh tab and see if that is more stable. DK why, but now I am thinking Thomas Hardy novel. No not Tess, nor Judas…I was going to post the newly reorganised state of the Bee property today but given the general allergy to suggestions about using dictionaries, I probably won’t. Outside Observer I see you discounted MATED in your winning game yesterday, so did I (actually I wanted MAXED) but is that a general rule of the Wordle list no regular plurals, no regular past tenses? I might know subliminally but can’t remember for sure…
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This isn't a fine, it's a fee.I'll bet the Trump organization spent more on cofeve last year than this.I am sick to death of stories like this. The Sacklers were directly responsible for opioid deaths. They are still billionaires. Wells Fargo was recently found to be committing fraud again, after their last round of illegal behavior with customer data. Now we get the Trump Organization paying what amounts to nearly nothing a after they got away with so much more.What happened to treble damages? Sending people in fiduciary positions to jail?The Trump Organization should be paying out 3X what it stole. Sacklers should be in jail. Wells Fargo should be being broken up and put out of business at this point, and the execs should be doing time.Poor and middle class people live in real fear of this kind of thing. The rich just hire enough lawyers and skate. Enough is enough.
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"content": "This isn't a fine, it's a fee.I'll bet the Trump organization spent more on cofeve last year than this.I am sick to death of stories like this. The Sacklers were directly responsible for opioid deaths. They are still billionaires. Wells Fargo was recently found to be committing fraud again, after their last round of illegal behavior with customer data. Now we get the Trump Organization paying what amounts to nearly nothing a after they got away with so much more.What happened to treble damages? Sending people in fiduciary positions to jail?The Trump Organization should be paying out 3X what it stole. Sacklers should be in jail. Wells Fargo should be being broken up and put out of business at this point, and the execs should be doing time.Poor and middle class people live in real fear of this kind of thing. The rich just hire enough lawyers and skate. Enough is enough.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,198 |
Let me start out by saying that I agree with you 100% that Bitcoin is the Tulip Bulb of the new millennium. There's truly no "there" there.Now let's examine three of your own statements:"You can’t buy groceries, or even a house, with gold ingots."C'mon Paul. You know as well as I that the Treasury held physical gold and that citizens used gold (and silver) CERTIFICATES for their day-to-day purchases. But that paper currency was redeemable for gold/silver on demand if the citizen so desired.Also the so-called "gold standard" as established by the original Coinage Act assigned values not only to gold but to silver and copper for lower-value transactions."And historically the purchasing power of gold has been highly unstable. Here’s a chart...since 1970"Let's see a chart of the purchasing power of the dollar since 1970. In 1970 a candy bar was a nickel, a stamp was eight cents and a gallon of gas was around a quarter. The purchasing power of the minimum wage was as high as it would ever be, despite being only $1.25/hour."its purchasing power has been far less predictable than that of the dollar"Well yeah, the purchasing power of the dollar has been a predictable straight line DOWNWARD.This is all thirty seconds of Google-foo away for everyone reading this.
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| yes | Classification | 9,210 |
Superb essay by Kurt Streeter. May I remind him and the more than 330 million people in the US that the US remains at war, with four open "Authorizations for Use of Military Force," or AUMFs, officially the law of the US since August 2, 1990. The public doesn't know the full extent of the people killed, wounded, injured, traumatized, displaced or forced to become refugees. The US ignores the trillions of dollars spent, mostly on defense, yet more and more on our disabled Veterans. The real issue is the US remains at war, losing lives, money, and opportunities ... while people watch football on TV. War should be on the front page. And let's hope for a speedy recovert for Damar Hamlin.
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Do OpenAI Large Language Models dream of artificial sheep?
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Wholeheartedly agree. Gosh, I remember those cans of oatmeal and how fun it was to pull the string to open. I still wrap sandwiches in wax paper.
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If 70% of a city of 26 million are infected at this time, and there are 1400 million people scattered in towns and smaller cities, you can guess there are 100 .. 300 million active cases there now.They're on track for 800 million active cases by February spread by the new year holiday travel. I know they wear masks more than we do, but the impact of these cases all at once will be felt worldwide.The science says that new variants are more likely where there is already immunity in the population, meaning here in the US. China has an open field for the virus to plow with the tools it has. There is no pressure on the virus to evade immunity with variation if it's completely unopposed and successful in spreading. Omicron XBB was originally reported as 40% of the cases in the US but it's more like 27% at this time. It will be 40% by Feb. Recent moving averages in the US jumped from decline to increase with the Christmas holiday.
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"content": "If 70% of a city of 26 million are infected at this time, and there are 1400 million people scattered in towns and smaller cities, you can guess there are 100 .. 300 million active cases there now.They're on track for 800 million active cases by February spread by the new year holiday travel. I know they wear masks more than we do, but the impact of these cases all at once will be felt worldwide.The science says that new variants are more likely where there is already immunity in the population, meaning here in the US. China has an open field for the virus to plow with the tools it has. There is no pressure on the virus to evade immunity with variation if it's completely unopposed and successful in spreading. Omicron XBB was originally reported as 40% of the cases in the US but it's more like 27% at this time. It will be 40% by Feb. Recent moving averages in the US jumped from decline to increase with the Christmas holiday.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,073 |
I am thinking this guy would not have passed a standard background check used by almost any corporation in America. There are multiple commercial services that do these sorts of simple checks for about $50 or less. I never hire anyone without such a check. Major discrepancies on the resume mean the person never gets hired. I’m not sure why a political party wouldn’t do the same. It’s a cheap and easy check before you hire someone.
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| no | Classification | 4,105 |
Try writing a complex document (appellate brief) under a tight deadline that requires extremely focused concentration while fielding telephone calls from higher-up partners demanding immediate answers to complex legal issues for a judicial ruling in the middle of a major medical malpractice trial, reading and responding to incoming work (and personal) emails, trying to schedule a child’s dental appointment, worrying whether time will allow attendance at the PTA meeting that evening, all while two young associates hover in the doorway with an urgent legal issue that also needs an immediate answer. In a word: idiotic.
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IMHO, seems like privatizing the rest stops. Applegreenmade a deal with the state for 450 million. Makes me wonder how long the term is for this agreement?
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"content": "IMHO, seems like privatizing the rest stops. Applegreenmade a deal with the state for 450 million. Makes me wonder how long the term is for this agreement?\n",
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Had you finished reading their column you would have read that Gail did not sympathize with those making over $400,000 a year. Gail:"And for the people on top: making sure they pay what they truly owe will save the government an estimated $100 billion or more over the next 10 years. Which could, hey, cut the deficit."
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NYT: "How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System"Believe it or not, asking Congress to legislate on the issue now might only make a bad situation worse. The patent mess on our hand now is the result of the outsized influence of our largest most powerful corporations and their influence on tailoring any legislation to suit their business needs - the industry or the public - be damned.
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JRF Rheumatologists are the brainiacs of medicine, with deep intellectual curiosity. They labor like detectives with their minds rather than performing high-billing procedures. It's a career for a detective, who partners with her patient and always keeps an open mind, Imagine, this rheumatologist put together the symptoms of a condition she had never seen, yet she had the humility and drive to consult a medical reference, which she shared with her patient, and even then she referred the patient to a specialist at Mayo for confirmation.A skilled rheumatologist is worth his/her weight in gold, and has the respect of every other medical practitioner.
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Crime against humanity? … Since ChatGPT was trained on content created by a huge number of humans who have not been compensated by OpenAI, it seems the creativity and intelligence of humanity has been stolen. So OpenAI is committing a new kind of crime against humanity, or something in a nearby category that we don't even have a word for yet.
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