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As a long-time publishing executive, I appreciate your sentimentality about B&N, but you’re missing some context.In 2022, Barnes & Noble began severely cutting its orders of YA and middle grade books from publishers. Further, Daunt’s “new model” has meant that the company entirely skips over certain titles from publishers. The ramifications: less diverse titles in stores, less debut novels, and less discoverability of new books, period.This is why they’re able to expand: They’re not taking risks on as many books that aren’t “sure things” from publishers and they closed several stores—some in communities where no other bookstores exist. They also eliminated roles of book buyers with 20 yrs of institutional knowledge of the publishing industry, some of whom had played an integral part in launching authors’ careers. B&N’s expansion comes at a hefty price: authors can no longer depend on their books being sold by the chain, and Amazon is no substitute for browsing a brick & mortar store. Thank goodness for libraries & indie bookstores that can more equitably serve their communities and whose support of authors is unwavering. Let’s not romanticize Barnes & Noble’s expansion; the story doesn’t end well for many authors.
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When I was transferred back to Philadelphia after living in DC for 4 years. My partner (now husband) and I decided to buy a less expensive row home in an up and coming (we prayed) part of center city. The house I had bought 8 years earlier was rented to a long term tenant ... prices had gone up and my transfer bonus did not go as far. What I discovered. Lots of long term residents were renters. This was 1994 and all my Italian neighbors owned and most of my AA neighbors rented ... It had been cheaper to rent for decades. The AA block captain told me she had been telling her neighbors to buy for years. Most were older women by then ... we ended up buying another in 96 -- paying just over 50k.I'm sure you know the story. 10 years later they were worth 200k plus and those older women had the money to move on w/ security or pass it down to kids. Buying is security. We were lucky .. Philadelphia was inexpensive (DC as well) .... we ended up growing in our careers. Buying gave us stability then and equity now.
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"content": "When I was transferred back to Philadelphia after living in DC for 4 years. My partner (now husband) and I decided to buy a less expensive row home in an up and coming (we prayed) part of center city. The house I had bought 8 years earlier was rented to a long term tenant ... prices had gone up and my transfer bonus did not go as far. What I discovered. Lots of long term residents were renters. This was 1994 and all my Italian neighbors owned and most of my AA neighbors rented ... It had been cheaper to rent for decades. The AA block captain told me she had been telling her neighbors to buy for years. Most were older women by then ... we ended up buying another in 96 -- paying just over 50k.I'm sure you know the story. 10 years later they were worth 200k plus and those older women had the money to move on w/ security or pass it down to kids. Buying is security. We were lucky .. Philadelphia was inexpensive (DC as well) .... we ended up growing in our careers. Buying gave us stability then and equity now.\n",
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"Create a bunch of email addresses. Each time a site or an app asks for your email, you could create a unique address to log in to it, such as,.... This is an extreme approach, because it’s time-consuming to manage so many email addresses and their passwords."---------I've been doing that for many years. Google lets you create unlimited email addresses. There are also services (free and paid) that allow you to create multiple email addresses. I have something like 200 active at any one time.Management isn't too difficult as browsers remember the address you give them. I also use a free open source app called Keepass to manage all the accounts I have had, either open or closed.Because of this process, I get almost zero spam in my accounts.
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"content": "\"Create a bunch of email addresses. Each time a site or an app asks for your email, you could create a unique address to log in to it, such as,.... This is an extreme approach, because it’s time-consuming to manage so many email addresses and their passwords.\"---------I've been doing that for many years. Google lets you create unlimited email addresses. There are also services (free and paid) that allow you to create multiple email addresses. I have something like 200 active at any one time.Management isn't too difficult as browsers remember the address you give them. I also use a free open source app called Keepass to manage all the accounts I have had, either open or closed.Because of this process, I get almost zero spam in my accounts.\n",
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Some Dude You paint with a really broad stroke and maybe not enough information. That amount might be true for someone who puts in more than 20 years (it goes up based on year of SERVICE) - which isn't true for a 45 year old and I don't know about officers, but my retired E-7 husband pulls in... he just got a "raise" $2k a month. So that's what? $24k a year? We also pay premiums and co-pays for our supposed "free medical care for life" for serving our country for 20 years. Officers aren't the only people in the military.
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"content": "Some Dude You paint with a really broad stroke and maybe not enough information. That amount might be true for someone who puts in more than 20 years (it goes up based on year of SERVICE) - which isn't true for a 45 year old and I don't know about officers, but my retired E-7 husband pulls in... he just got a \"raise\" $2k a month. So that's what? $24k a year? We also pay premiums and co-pays for our supposed \"free medical care for life\" for serving our country for 20 years. Officers aren't the only people in the military.\n",
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Mr Santos may have more problems than the House Ethics Committee, the DOJ, or the Brazilian government. It seems highly unlikely that someone would provide $700K to a political candidate whose campaign is based on innumerable fabrications. It is likely that he lied to his benefactor(s) as much as he did to his constituents. Given his high flying campaign spending, I doubt if there is much, if any, of that $700K left to return. The fact that he “loaned his campaign” the money means the source wanted to remain unknown. So now, the money can’t be returned and its source will likely be determined by planned investigations. Also, it is inconceivable that anyone will now donate to his campaign fund, how will it reimburse him for his loan. Isn’t that a campaign financing requirement?
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"content": "Mr Santos may have more problems than the House Ethics Committee, the DOJ, or the Brazilian government. It seems highly unlikely that someone would provide $700K to a political candidate whose campaign is based on innumerable fabrications. It is likely that he lied to his benefactor(s) as much as he did to his constituents. Given his high flying campaign spending, I doubt if there is much, if any, of that $700K left to return. The fact that he “loaned his campaign” the money means the source wanted to remain unknown. So now, the money can’t be returned and its source will likely be determined by planned investigations. Also, it is inconceivable that anyone will now donate to his campaign fund, how will it reimburse him for his loan. Isn’t that a campaign financing requirement?\n",
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F I went with my niece to court when she had a ticket. She is White, but while we were waiting for her to be called, I watched countless Black people who had to pay what I would say were big fines to pay for minor infractions, e.g., a broken taillight. One woman was fined $200 for a broken taillight! Several of my White friends have been pulled over for this same infraction, and were told by the police officer to get it fixed within the next couple of days, and let off with a warning. No tickets. Another Black woman came to pay a fine of $300 for something. She said she'd saved up the money because she knew she'd done something wrong. The judge said that she had an outstanding fine of $250 from seven years ago, and how would she like to take care of that? She insisted that she had paid it IN CASH. He wanted her to produce the receipt. She began sobbing uncontrollably. She didn't have it. He offered for her to spend seven days in jail ($30/per day would pay off the fine). She almost fainted when he told her that. "I'll lose my job if you send me to jail! Then what will I do?" These courts are a cash cow for some many municipalities. By contrast, the White people who came with attorneys in tow got off with slaps on the wrist. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes. I was incredulous.
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"content": "F I went with my niece to court when she had a ticket. She is White, but while we were waiting for her to be called, I watched countless Black people who had to pay what I would say were big fines to pay for minor infractions, e.g., a broken taillight. One woman was fined $200 for a broken taillight! Several of my White friends have been pulled over for this same infraction, and were told by the police officer to get it fixed within the next couple of days, and let off with a warning. No tickets. Another Black woman came to pay a fine of $300 for something. She said she'd saved up the money because she knew she'd done something wrong. The judge said that she had an outstanding fine of $250 from seven years ago, and how would she like to take care of that? She insisted that she had paid it IN CASH. He wanted her to produce the receipt. She began sobbing uncontrollably. She didn't have it. He offered for her to spend seven days in jail ($30/per day would pay off the fine). She almost fainted when he told her that. \"I'll lose my job if you send me to jail! Then what will I do?\" These courts are a cash cow for some many municipalities. By contrast, the White people who came with attorneys in tow got off with slaps on the wrist. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes. I was incredulous.\n",
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Today I went to give a Games gift subscription to someone. When it came time to make the payment, it was only $25 instead of $40. I used that annoying link that appears at the bottom of the page quite often. I didn’t see anything about a special discount, but it was a good deal!
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Jules But what other political systems have done better? China has done more damage to its environment than the USA by a LOT! They have sold out their natural bounty for $$$ on a scale that even the Robber Barrons might envy. Thus--totalitarianism has a much worse record than capitalism. Stalin? Moa and his "kill all the sparrows" campaign?? Weare flawed here in the USA--yes. But nations like Russia and China have NO protections beyond their ONE LEADER's choices. so far-these have proven far worse.
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"content": "Jules But what other political systems have done better? China has done more damage to its environment than the USA by a LOT! They have sold out their natural bounty for $$$ on a scale that even the Robber Barrons might envy. Thus--totalitarianism has a much worse record than capitalism. Stalin? Moa and his \"kill all the sparrows\" campaign?? Weare flawed here in the USA--yes. But nations like Russia and China have NO protections beyond their ONE LEADER's choices. so far-these have proven far worse.\n",
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James Baldwin the politics of the two parties are very distinguishable. The first two years of the Biden administration was a serious effort to invest in America and its people and put some meaningful social spending together. They got some of it passed despite the open corruption of Senators Manchin and Sinema. They did a lot, they may not have done enoug… but the Republicans would’ve done nothing. I suggest you update your comparison of the two parties policies because it is outdated.
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"content": "James Baldwin the politics of the two parties are very distinguishable. The first two years of the Biden administration was a serious effort to invest in America and its people and put some meaningful social spending together. They got some of it passed despite the open corruption of Senators Manchin and Sinema. They did a lot, they may not have done enoug… but the Republicans would’ve done nothing. I suggest you update your comparison of the two parties policies because it is outdated.\n",
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Indicative of the deeply entrenched duplicity and hypocrisy of the corporate mentality supporting right-wing, in their minds the egalitarianism of a "free market" should only extend to the owners of the corporate world, not it's "employees"."Employees" merely being the insignificant cogs in the wheels of Capitalism, rather than the saintly and deified "job creators".In their minds, and by their logic, "Without record executives... there'd be no music!".
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"content": "Indicative of the deeply entrenched duplicity and hypocrisy of the corporate mentality supporting right-wing, in their minds the egalitarianism of a \"free market\" should only extend to the owners of the corporate world, not it's \"employees\".\"Employees\" merely being the insignificant cogs in the wheels of Capitalism, rather than the saintly and deified \"job creators\".In their minds, and by their logic, \"Without record executives... there'd be no music!\".\n",
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Krugman is in a bubble: if you worked your whole life to save $500,000 for retirement THOSE dollars are now worth only about $400,000 in purchasing power. Inflation is a rate of change; it’s great that it is moderating but people are having to contend with the biggest increase in prices in their adult lifetime.
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"content": "Krugman is in a bubble: if you worked your whole life to save $500,000 for retirement THOSE dollars are now worth only about $400,000 in purchasing power. Inflation is a rate of change; it’s great that it is moderating but people are having to contend with the biggest increase in prices in their adult lifetime.\n",
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My town of Dennis, Massachusetts does not allow ADUs despite a severe housing crisis, including for the elderly. I can see the need despite not needing it myself. After joining an effort to change zoning, and getting it added to our town meeting warrant, it was summarily removed by our Board of Selectmen so that it could not be passed by voting on it. Real estate investment here in a resort centric economy influences everything and takes precedent over community. Over 70% of housing stock on Cape Cod is occupied for less than 3 months per year, and locals cannot come close to being able to afford a home, or even rent. It’s easy to say that we should simply elect local politicians who support zoning and planning reform, but it hasn’t happened in my lifetime. Our governance is stymied by economic forces in the form of real estate investment by outside money.
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"content": "My town of Dennis, Massachusetts does not allow ADUs despite a severe housing crisis, including for the elderly. I can see the need despite not needing it myself. After joining an effort to change zoning, and getting it added to our town meeting warrant, it was summarily removed by our Board of Selectmen so that it could not be passed by voting on it. Real estate investment here in a resort centric economy influences everything and takes precedent over community. Over 70% of housing stock on Cape Cod is occupied for less than 3 months per year, and locals cannot come close to being able to afford a home, or even rent. It’s easy to say that we should simply elect local politicians who support zoning and planning reform, but it hasn’t happened in my lifetime. Our governance is stymied by economic forces in the form of real estate investment by outside money.\n",
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Zac and the other deficit hawks:The US has been in debt most of its history. Hamilton began the process by creating new debt to pay for old debt. The cycle has continued ever since. and yes, government can pay off debt by creating money any time it wants to -- as long as it doesn't do so too fast. The greatest danger in borrowing, creating, and spending too much too fast is not debt: it's catastrophic inflation, which will likely occur long before debt becomes a problem. Middle class Germans learned this painful lesson when inflation wiped out their life savings in the 1920s. For all our concerns about inflation today, this won't happen here any time soon (thanks to the Fed Res among others), and investors know it. Indeed, wealthy Americans (many of them Republicans) continue to buy bonds from the US government because they know that over time Uncle Sam has proven to be the best guaranteed investment around. If they were really worried he would default, they wouldn't continue to do so. In 1945 US debt was approximately 125% of GDP. By 1970 -- after years of government borrowing and spending -- it was reduced to about 23%. Why? Because all that spending lead to a surge in economic growth the likes of which had never been seen before: revenue increased, debt shrunk, and Americans prospered. It worked for Alexander Hamilton in 1793, and it's still working now -- unless, that is, the GOP decides to blow it all up by refusing to raise the debt ceiling....
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"content": "Zac and the other deficit hawks:The US has been in debt most of its history. Hamilton began the process by creating new debt to pay for old debt. The cycle has continued ever since. and yes, government can pay off debt by creating money any time it wants to -- as long as it doesn't do so too fast. The greatest danger in borrowing, creating, and spending too much too fast is not debt: it's catastrophic inflation, which will likely occur long before debt becomes a problem. Middle class Germans learned this painful lesson when inflation wiped out their life savings in the 1920s. For all our concerns about inflation today, this won't happen here any time soon (thanks to the Fed Res among others), and investors know it. Indeed, wealthy Americans (many of them Republicans) continue to buy bonds from the US government because they know that over time Uncle Sam has proven to be the best guaranteed investment around. If they were really worried he would default, they wouldn't continue to do so. In 1945 US debt was approximately 125% of GDP. By 1970 -- after years of government borrowing and spending -- it was reduced to about 23%. Why? Because all that spending lead to a surge in economic growth the likes of which had never been seen before: revenue increased, debt shrunk, and Americans prospered. It worked for Alexander Hamilton in 1793, and it's still working now -- unless, that is, the GOP decides to blow it all up by refusing to raise the debt ceiling....\n",
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As a psychotherapist with 40 years of practice, I would add the developmental perspective that we all see through more windows than we knew were in our house - as we grow older. As the doctor generously shares with her readers that she is bringing new life into her world of previously no children, I am smiling at her good fortune and imagining the work, yes, but the joy ahead of her. She may in fact have "outgrown" her current practice of critical care patients and is ready to embrace a new chapter. What some call a mid-life crisis may indeed be a fortunate waking up to new views and pressing urges. Not everyone gets blessed like this or takes on a new open path when it appears. Only the lucky. I wish her the best possible joys of parenthood. By the way, the comments this honest piece brought forth are just wonderfully honest in return - on a topic that very much needs to be talked about! Made my day.
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"content": "As a psychotherapist with 40 years of practice, I would add the developmental perspective that we all see through more windows than we knew were in our house - as we grow older. As the doctor generously shares with her readers that she is bringing new life into her world of previously no children, I am smiling at her good fortune and imagining the work, yes, but the joy ahead of her. She may in fact have \"outgrown\" her current practice of critical care patients and is ready to embrace a new chapter. What some call a mid-life crisis may indeed be a fortunate waking up to new views and pressing urges. Not everyone gets blessed like this or takes on a new open path when it appears. Only the lucky. I wish her the best possible joys of parenthood. By the way, the comments this honest piece brought forth are just wonderfully honest in return - on a topic that very much needs to be talked about! Made my day.\n",
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Oscar Do not forget that Donald Trump paid a $10m civil fine for money laundering at his bankrupt casino, Taj Mahal, prior to being elected President. Apparently Republican Party voters have no standard that financial crimes are a deal breaker for them.
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"content": "Oscar Do not forget that Donald Trump paid a $10m civil fine for money laundering at his bankrupt casino, Taj Mahal, prior to being elected President. Apparently Republican Party voters have no standard that financial crimes are a deal breaker for them.\n",
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They are Edgeworthia chrysantha flowers and are not spent. That how they open, very early in the spring, before their leaves. Now in some places. They are very fragrant.
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Yeah, if you don’t know how to play the game drinks cost $18.00 to 20.00.
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No matter your reading goals: whatever you read, make sure you buy it from a local (if possible) independent bookstore.And not from Amazon.com!He's worth $176 billion yet pays less in taxes than you do!
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"content": "No matter your reading goals: whatever you read, make sure you buy it from a local (if possible) independent bookstore.And not from Amazon.com!He's worth $176 billion yet pays less in taxes than you do!\n",
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Louis Greenstein The $700,000 for Santos probably came from Bolsanaro.
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"content": "Louis Greenstein The $700,000 for Santos probably came from Bolsanaro.\n",
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Like most job applicants, Ms. Conway offers nothing that opens herself up to criticism. She says nothing about the former president's embrace of radicals rallyed to commit violence leading to death - it happened once, and nothing is in place to stop the same behavior. Counting on the fact that the former president has renewed his NY Times subscription, Ms. Conway submits this essay as part of her personal portfolio of deceptive tactics, hoping to be given the chance to run the same show.
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"content": "Like most job applicants, Ms. Conway offers nothing that opens herself up to criticism. She says nothing about the former president's embrace of radicals rallyed to commit violence leading to death - it happened once, and nothing is in place to stop the same behavior. Counting on the fact that the former president has renewed his NY Times subscription, Ms. Conway submits this essay as part of her personal portfolio of deceptive tactics, hoping to be given the chance to run the same show.\n",
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After reading this why would anyone want to invest with Intrater? The fact that he donated to the Santos campaign after getting burned intimates that something else is going on.
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"content": "After reading this why would anyone want to invest with Intrater? The fact that he donated to the Santos campaign after getting burned intimates that something else is going on.\n",
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As a male, going on age 79, I'm celebrating that I've gotten this far. It may be due to the healthy lifestyle (diet and exercise) that I and others have explored and developed. At 65, feeling stressed from work, I joined a "fit and trim" program at an Integrative Medical Center, a 3 month program, that shared instruction from a qualified nutritionist and physical trainer. As a biochemist and cancer researcher, I was an avid participant with myself a test case. An important insight was the time it took to develop new habits that stuck after stretching the program out to 5 months and the benefit became obvious. I was very surprised at how strong I got, from 10 pushups to my record of 400 non-stop pushups at age 70, pushing up from a low bar, that preceded 3 hour work-outs of strength and cardio conditioning. I loved how great I felt. I read that a team of 75 year olds nearly matched the record time for men bicycling across the US set by 40 year olds. Their physical trainer, an academic researcher, set this as the age that we could keep our fitness. I retired at age 70, spending part of my time traveling that cut into gym time. It became clear why lifespans are significantly higher in Italy, Spain and Japan, about 7.5 years in Japan. My exercise was reduced to walking, about 6 miles/day. As COVID hit, I isolated for a year with little exercise.After being vaccinated, I'm now back after 6 months. I long to get back to the gym but with COVID still circulating remain cautious.
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mpound And what about the Trump tax cut in 2017 that added a trillion dollars to the national debt? This, and the $3 trillion spent during the pandemic, has certainly had an effect on the country’s bottom line. Maybe your state will refuse the funds from the infrastructure legislation.
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"content": "mpound And what about the Trump tax cut in 2017 that added a trillion dollars to the national debt? This, and the $3 trillion spent during the pandemic, has certainly had an effect on the country’s bottom line. Maybe your state will refuse the funds from the infrastructure legislation.\n",
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I've rarely seen a non-compete enforced, and never for a non strategic position. How does a company invest in human capital and intellectual research without one? This seems a pretty biased and distorted article.
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"content": "I've rarely seen a non-compete enforced, and never for a non strategic position. How does a company invest in human capital and intellectual research without one? This seems a pretty biased and distorted article.\n",
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As someone who is very successful professionally and never had the slightly interest in having children I understand it perfectly. I never never had to fight and obsess over making sure my toddler got into the correct preschool. Wow, I'm pretty bummed about that. Studies have shown that people without children by choice consistently poll very high on happiness. My wife and I clearly fit into that category. The fact that Ross is so invested in his family centric view show a lack of vision on his part. Ice cream comes in different flavors for a reason.
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"content": "As someone who is very successful professionally and never had the slightly interest in having children I understand it perfectly. I never never had to fight and obsess over making sure my toddler got into the correct preschool. Wow, I'm pretty bummed about that. Studies have shown that people without children by choice consistently poll very high on happiness. My wife and I clearly fit into that category. The fact that Ross is so invested in his family centric view show a lack of vision on his part. Ice cream comes in different flavors for a reason.\n",
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Admittedly, a bad look for Biden here, which will eventually come back to haunt him if he runs for re-election. All ReTrumplicans need is a small crack of an opening in order for them to rip the door open."Silly Season 2024" has begun.
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"content": "Admittedly, a bad look for Biden here, which will eventually come back to haunt him if he runs for re-election. All ReTrumplicans need is a small crack of an opening in order for them to rip the door open.\"Silly Season 2024\" has begun.\n",
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Western greed financed and is still financing Chinese expansion. We got what we deserved.
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"content": "Western greed financed and is still financing Chinese expansion. We got what we deserved.\n",
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Canadian here. From my perspective, the largest problem is your university system. As much as I support higher education, if i lived in the US, I'm not sure that I would encourage my kids to go to university- the Return on Investment is marginal at best considering the years of exorbitant student debt.We have a daughter in university. She had multiple offers including at an internationally ranked school (University of Toronto) and the small local university. She choose the local university. She pays about $7000/year in tuition and lives for free at home. She can afford the tuition and basic expenses with her part time job and will graduate next year debt free. Lack of student loans makes a huge difference in the financial health of a young person. I really feel for American young people starting out. The deck is stacked against them.
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"content": "Canadian here. From my perspective, the largest problem is your university system. As much as I support higher education, if i lived in the US, I'm not sure that I would encourage my kids to go to university- the Return on Investment is marginal at best considering the years of exorbitant student debt.We have a daughter in university. She had multiple offers including at an internationally ranked school (University of Toronto) and the small local university. She choose the local university. She pays about $7000/year in tuition and lives for free at home. She can afford the tuition and basic expenses with her part time job and will graduate next year debt free. Lack of student loans makes a huge difference in the financial health of a young person. I really feel for American young people starting out. The deck is stacked against them.\n",
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John Harrington Meta builds lots of tools and contributes heavily to open source projects. They are one of the pioneers of what is called web 2.0 . So yes it's an out and out tech company as is Amazon despite it selling stuff . Same for Uber ,they have their own software infrastructure that supports their core business. Wasn't always the case , all of these companies at some point were frustrated with the software they were using made by Microsoft oracle ibm etc . They decided to create their own and it led to the web 2.0 stack that's used today. So successful that Microsoft open sourced many of their software and server tools .
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"content": "John Harrington Meta builds lots of tools and contributes heavily to open source projects. They are one of the pioneers of what is called web 2.0 . So yes it's an out and out tech company as is Amazon despite it selling stuff . Same for Uber ,they have their own software infrastructure that supports their core business. Wasn't always the case , all of these companies at some point were frustrated with the software they were using made by Microsoft oracle ibm etc . They decided to create their own and it led to the web 2.0 stack that's used today. So successful that Microsoft open sourced many of their software and server tools .\n",
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Crypto should be viewed as a tool, not an investment. No one collects dollar bills due to their inherent value; they are merely a manifestation of value, which we use as a tool to procure goods and services, or to retain for use later. People are treating crypto like stocks (which fluctuate based on whatever information is available to the market). Crypto is fluxtuating wildly because it is not regulated like a currency or a security. Bluntly, people seeking to get rich on crypto are seeking to get something for nothing. In the end, the laws of economics do not change; one cannot get something for nothing. I anticipate crypto will eventually become regulated to some degree, and become better integrated into the world economic/banking system. But then it will become less exciting, and libertarians will more on to seek some other new and novel way to be robbed and defrauded. Now, back to tending my tulip beds...
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"content": "Crypto should be viewed as a tool, not an investment. No one collects dollar bills due to their inherent value; they are merely a manifestation of value, which we use as a tool to procure goods and services, or to retain for use later. People are treating crypto like stocks (which fluctuate based on whatever information is available to the market). Crypto is fluxtuating wildly because it is not regulated like a currency or a security. Bluntly, people seeking to get rich on crypto are seeking to get something for nothing. In the end, the laws of economics do not change; one cannot get something for nothing. I anticipate crypto will eventually become regulated to some degree, and become better integrated into the world economic/banking system. But then it will become less exciting, and libertarians will more on to seek some other new and novel way to be robbed and defrauded. Now, back to tending my tulip beds...\n",
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Cromwell Having lived and worked in Europe, I would suggest that the wealth inequality in many countries there is less than in the US.I would suggest that the wealth inequality in third world countries, especially those run by dictators, would be more extreme than in the US.But when the typical Fortune 500 CEO make hundreds of times as much as the typical worker in such companies, the wealth inequality here is pretty extreme as well.Sundar Pichai of Microsoft was paid $54 million in 2022. How much do the 10,000 folks they are firing make per year, $250,000? If so, Pichai ONLY made 216 times as much. Boo hoo. (But I bet a lot of the folks being fired make less than $250,000 each.)
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"content": "Cromwell Having lived and worked in Europe, I would suggest that the wealth inequality in many countries there is less than in the US.I would suggest that the wealth inequality in third world countries, especially those run by dictators, would be more extreme than in the US.But when the typical Fortune 500 CEO make hundreds of times as much as the typical worker in such companies, the wealth inequality here is pretty extreme as well.Sundar Pichai of Microsoft was paid $54 million in 2022. How much do the 10,000 folks they are firing make per year, $250,000? If so, Pichai ONLY made 216 times as much. Boo hoo. (But I bet a lot of the folks being fired make less than $250,000 each.)\n",
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Clare ha that's what I thought at first. We moved to the general area over the summer and bought Starlink as a backup to the unreliable cable internet. It's basically flushing $100/month down the toilet (in addition to the $800 or so to buy the satellite). When using it, my husband has to disable video function on any calls, and can't upload or download most data sets. We're paying for the top tier and have never gotten even close to the advertised speeds. At this point, the only reason we are keeping Starlink is to make emergency phone calls when the internet is down (no cell service either, natch). We had assumed before moving here that Starlink could fill in the gaps re broadband, but it's hardly a panacea. Still glad we moved though :)
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"content": "Clare ha that's what I thought at first. We moved to the general area over the summer and bought Starlink as a backup to the unreliable cable internet. It's basically flushing $100/month down the toilet (in addition to the $800 or so to buy the satellite). When using it, my husband has to disable video function on any calls, and can't upload or download most data sets. We're paying for the top tier and have never gotten even close to the advertised speeds. At this point, the only reason we are keeping Starlink is to make emergency phone calls when the internet is down (no cell service either, natch). We had assumed before moving here that Starlink could fill in the gaps re broadband, but it's hardly a panacea. Still glad we moved though :)\n",
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Israel will get $3.8 billion in military and foreign aid this year from the US. Why do we give this money to a foreign power that works against US interest and is repressive against minorities and becoming an autocracy and a theocracy. Netanyahu is a Trumper and opposes Democrats like Biden.Cut this aid and use it in Ukraine or use it fund famine and drought relief elsewhere in the world and help the billions suffering from famine today.I as an American want my tax dollars used to help hungry and needy people in the US and around the world and to directly support our national interest like aid to Ukraine. Giving US dollars to a theocracy that oppresses its own people is nuts.
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"content": "Israel will get $3.8 billion in military and foreign aid this year from the US. Why do we give this money to a foreign power that works against US interest and is repressive against minorities and becoming an autocracy and a theocracy. Netanyahu is a Trumper and opposes Democrats like Biden.Cut this aid and use it in Ukraine or use it fund famine and drought relief elsewhere in the world and help the billions suffering from famine today.I as an American want my tax dollars used to help hungry and needy people in the US and around the world and to directly support our national interest like aid to Ukraine. Giving US dollars to a theocracy that oppresses its own people is nuts.\n",
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Biden declaring soon that he won’t run for re-election would make him a more effective President, conveying the dignified image that he’s above personal ego and politics and only cares about what’s best for the country. He also should be clear that he is not endorsing a successor, opening up the 2024 Democratic primary to the candidate who proves most popular with voters.
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The best thing by far that Djokovic has done for tennis is not becoming the GOAT but what's he's tried to do for the less well paid tennis pros, which Federer and Nadal both opposed.'More evidence for his claim came just eight months later, when Covid-19 forced the pro tours to shut down, plunging the sport into crisis as scores of players who had barely scraped by in pre-pandemic times suddenly had no work. Djokovic and others tried to organize a relief fund to which top players would donate money to help their hard-up colleagues. It was a compassionate gesture but also deeply embarrassing for a sport that has long projected an image of wealth and glamour. Quietly, Djokovic and Pospisil used the hiatus to brainstorm, and at the U.S. Open last August, they announced the formation of the Professional Tennis Players Association, or P.T.P.A., which would negotiate on behalf of the players over money, scheduling and other matters.''“We’re up against a huge machine,” Pospisil says. They are also up against Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, whose opposition to the P.T.P.A. has become an intriguing subplot to their rivalry with Djokovic.'<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/tennis-players-association.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/tennis-players-association.html</a>
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"content": "The best thing by far that Djokovic has done for tennis is not becoming the GOAT but what's he's tried to do for the less well paid tennis pros, which Federer and Nadal both opposed.'More evidence for his claim came just eight months later, when Covid-19 forced the pro tours to shut down, plunging the sport into crisis as scores of players who had barely scraped by in pre-pandemic times suddenly had no work. Djokovic and others tried to organize a relief fund to which top players would donate money to help their hard-up colleagues. It was a compassionate gesture but also deeply embarrassing for a sport that has long projected an image of wealth and glamour. Quietly, Djokovic and Pospisil used the hiatus to brainstorm, and at the U.S. Open last August, they announced the formation of the Professional Tennis Players Association, or P.T.P.A., which would negotiate on behalf of the players over money, scheduling and other matters.''“We’re up against a huge machine,” Pospisil says. They are also up against Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, whose opposition to the P.T.P.A. has become an intriguing subplot to their rivalry with Djokovic.'<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/tennis-players-association.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/tennis-players-association.html</a>\n",
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"... it could take 10 to 15 years or more before the metals were delivered to market because of the lengthy environmental studies and other work required to open a mining facility in Europe."EU can de super shortsighted sometimes. Until they start the production, the minerals are still supplied but through pipelines with zero regard to environmental impact including global climate change. Yet they will take their sweet time arguing about miniscule details of this specific operation. I'd bet their worst mine would reduce global environmental harm from these extractions significantly. This is not even mentioning humane impact through working conditions of miners in Russia, China, Africa and similar.. They need to realize impact does not end at their borders and harm also comes to them from what happens outside of their borders.
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"content": "\"... it could take 10 to 15 years or more before the metals were delivered to market because of the lengthy environmental studies and other work required to open a mining facility in Europe.\"EU can de super shortsighted sometimes. Until they start the production, the minerals are still supplied but through pipelines with zero regard to environmental impact including global climate change. Yet they will take their sweet time arguing about miniscule details of this specific operation. I'd bet their worst mine would reduce global environmental harm from these extractions significantly. This is not even mentioning humane impact through working conditions of miners in Russia, China, Africa and similar.. They need to realize impact does not end at their borders and harm also comes to them from what happens outside of their borders.\n",
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Hunter Greer As a struggling/reformed catholic I have to disagree. Many people in polyamory do experience deep and profound relationships with many people. More importantly, they experience complete openness and honesty in their relationships. This is what deepens the connections. When you can fully share your thoughts and desires sometimes it alleviates the need to act on them. Just knowing that you can makes all the difference. It's not about self-obsession it's about communicating and sharing with other people.
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"content": "Hunter Greer As a struggling/reformed catholic I have to disagree. Many people in polyamory do experience deep and profound relationships with many people. More importantly, they experience complete openness and honesty in their relationships. This is what deepens the connections. When you can fully share your thoughts and desires sometimes it alleviates the need to act on them. Just knowing that you can makes all the difference. It's not about self-obsession it's about communicating and sharing with other people.\n",
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Nobody cares. So long as they got their "individual freedom utopia compartment unlimited transportation units", complete with climate control, entertainment, soundproofing and every imaginable accoutrement from heated seats to automatic doors, as depicted in the commercials (where there is never any competing traffic to spoil the illusion).America is the land of suburbia and the automobile. We live by it and we are going to die by it.The fix is to undo over 100 years of planning, building and investment and do it over.Good luck with that.Gas needs to be $10/gal.Excuse me, I got to drive over to the 7/11 a block away for a pack of smokes and a slurpee. And get my lotto tickets.
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"content": "Nobody cares. So long as they got their \"individual freedom utopia compartment unlimited transportation units\", complete with climate control, entertainment, soundproofing and every imaginable accoutrement from heated seats to automatic doors, as depicted in the commercials (where there is never any competing traffic to spoil the illusion).America is the land of suburbia and the automobile. We live by it and we are going to die by it.The fix is to undo over 100 years of planning, building and investment and do it over.Good luck with that.Gas needs to be $10/gal.Excuse me, I got to drive over to the 7/11 a block away for a pack of smokes and a slurpee. And get my lotto tickets.\n",
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YiaYia One minor correction. I don't think of it as 'spending', I think of it as a country 'investing' in its people.The WW2 GI bill and all the investing in STEM after Sputnik are excellent examples. The range of technological achievements in the decades after ranging from materials science, environmental improvements, aeronautics and space, healthcare, and computing are the result.Plus the ending of the Cold War without a shot being fired. I'd say it's quite a good return on the investment.
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"content": "YiaYia One minor correction. I don't think of it as 'spending', I think of it as a country 'investing' in its people.The WW2 GI bill and all the investing in STEM after Sputnik are excellent examples. The range of technological achievements in the decades after ranging from materials science, environmental improvements, aeronautics and space, healthcare, and computing are the result.Plus the ending of the Cold War without a shot being fired. I'd say it's quite a good return on the investment.\n",
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Didn't the GOP just give themselves a raise? 174,000 bucks is not enough. Another 35 grand would cover those commuter expenses and the apartment in Georgetown.
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"content": "Didn't the GOP just give themselves a raise? 174,000 bucks is not enough. Another 35 grand would cover those commuter expenses and the apartment in Georgetown.\n",
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This article ignores the primary responsibility of an elite University president: fundraising, fundraising, fundraising, and cutting costs by paying the actual professors as little as possible (all despite a $13 billion endowment that will be spent instead on shiny new real estate projects and the associated administrative salaries).
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"content": "This article ignores the primary responsibility of an elite University president: fundraising, fundraising, fundraising, and cutting costs by paying the actual professors as little as possible (all despite a $13 billion endowment that will be spent instead on shiny new real estate projects and the associated administrative salaries).\n",
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Wouldn’t one expect a savvy new media company to be savvy and to carry out savvy thorough due diligence on its big investors in advance before taking the money? One wonders if there was an expectation (whether implicit or explicit) of favorable coverage of FTX and of the cryptocurrency industry in return for the investment . . ..
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"content": "Wouldn’t one expect a savvy new media company to be savvy and to carry out savvy thorough due diligence on its big investors in advance before taking the money? One wonders if there was an expectation (whether implicit or explicit) of favorable coverage of FTX and of the cryptocurrency industry in return for the investment . . ..\n",
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Critical Thought Disney will pay the billion dollars with taxes and/or user fees. You really think they are going to get free sewage and trash collection?DeSantis did not use executive power to make the change. The legislature passed a bill which he signed into law. There is no "Don't Say Gay" law and you know it.
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"content": "Critical Thought Disney will pay the billion dollars with taxes and/or user fees. You really think they are going to get free sewage and trash collection?DeSantis did not use executive power to make the change. The legislature passed a bill which he signed into law. There is no \"Don't Say Gay\" law and you know it.\n",
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The FBI got the Hunter Biden laptop early.There are emails detailing how Hunter got 10's of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine.Unless you read conservative media, you probably have no idea.The FBI knew this was damaging information so they went to social media companies and warned about potential "Russian Disinformation" about Hunter.The Russians weren't involved but social media shut down the NYPost for a legit factual news story. CNN breathlessly mouthed that this looked like Russian Misinformation but we know now it was US intelligence community misinformation because of the Twitter Files. NPR said they wouldn't cover the laptop because they don't cover stories that aren't real stories.Of course, Democrats will care nothing for this just a partisan Republicans didn't care about the Jan 6th hearings.
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"content": "The FBI got the Hunter Biden laptop early.There are emails detailing how Hunter got 10's of millions of dollars from China, Russia and Ukraine.Unless you read conservative media, you probably have no idea.The FBI knew this was damaging information so they went to social media companies and warned about potential \"Russian Disinformation\" about Hunter.The Russians weren't involved but social media shut down the NYPost for a legit factual news story. CNN breathlessly mouthed that this looked like Russian Misinformation but we know now it was US intelligence community misinformation because of the Twitter Files. NPR said they wouldn't cover the laptop because they don't cover stories that aren't real stories.Of course, Democrats will care nothing for this just a partisan Republicans didn't care about the Jan 6th hearings.\n",
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George,You are absolutely correct, many drugs are developed by the government, at taxpayers expense. Since the government isn't in the business of pressing pills, or making pharmaceutical drugs, they sell the formulation to pharmaceutical companies that then gouge us. What the government can and should do, when taxpayers have developed a drug, the government sound license that formulation and get a cut of the billions pharmaceutical companies make from our investments. Just like Bezos and Eloon Musk and their space program, exists BECAUSE of taxpayers initial investments in space BECAUSE Kennedy saw the value in it. Remember none of the technology that took the Apollo Astronauts into space existed, none. Rocketry was in its infacy it was because of taxpayers investment in that project that got us where we are today. All the technology we use, flows directly from NASA.
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"content": "George,You are absolutely correct, many drugs are developed by the government, at taxpayers expense. Since the government isn't in the business of pressing pills, or making pharmaceutical drugs, they sell the formulation to pharmaceutical companies that then gouge us. What the government can and should do, when taxpayers have developed a drug, the government sound license that formulation and get a cut of the billions pharmaceutical companies make from our investments. Just like Bezos and Eloon Musk and their space program, exists BECAUSE of taxpayers initial investments in space BECAUSE Kennedy saw the value in it. Remember none of the technology that took the Apollo Astronauts into space existed, none. Rocketry was in its infacy it was because of taxpayers investment in that project that got us where we are today. All the technology we use, flows directly from NASA.\n",
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Desantis is no middle of the road Republican. Along with Jim Jordan, he's one of the founding fathers of the "House Freedom Caucus". DeSantis voted to repeal the ACA and is one of 11 governors who did not expand Medicaid. What's more, now he wants to "unwind" Medicaid so even less Floridians have health insurance. Consequently, Florida ranks among the worst states for key health indicators (see America's Health Rankings 2022). What's more, he's wasted millions of dollars on "anti-woke" legal battles to erase citizens' voices and votes, arrested registered voters for voting, and is throwing away taxpayer dollars on cruel political pranks he played on legal asylum seekers. DeSantis advised GOP states on "alternate" slates of electors even before tRumps's lawyer Eastman did. He's full steam ahead MAGA and would be bad news for our democracy.
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"content": "Desantis is no middle of the road Republican. Along with Jim Jordan, he's one of the founding fathers of the \"House Freedom Caucus\". DeSantis voted to repeal the ACA and is one of 11 governors who did not expand Medicaid. What's more, now he wants to \"unwind\" Medicaid so even less Floridians have health insurance. Consequently, Florida ranks among the worst states for key health indicators (see America's Health Rankings 2022). What's more, he's wasted millions of dollars on \"anti-woke\" legal battles to erase citizens' voices and votes, arrested registered voters for voting, and is throwing away taxpayer dollars on cruel political pranks he played on legal asylum seekers. DeSantis advised GOP states on \"alternate\" slates of electors even before tRumps's lawyer Eastman did. He's full steam ahead MAGA and would be bad news for our democracy.\n",
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Lucy S. Open primaries should be the standard and it could be adopted if our representatives cared to speak out and educate their constituents on benefits to majority rule.
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"content": "Lucy S. Open primaries should be the standard and it could be adopted if our representatives cared to speak out and educate their constituents on benefits to majority rule.\n",
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My doctor told me that I am getting too old to shovel snow. So I went right out and bought a snowblower for $1,000. It would be nice to try it out.
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"content": "My doctor told me that I am getting too old to shovel snow. So I went right out and bought a snowblower for $1,000. It would be nice to try it out.\n",
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kmgx25 I heard a year or so ago that LG had exited the smartphone business. One day they were in it. The next they were out of it. Couldn’t believe it. This shortly after I’d purchased one of phones for $1K+. I wiped the phone clean, gave it to charity and finally broke down and switched to an iPhone. I won’t buy another product from LG.
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Annual returns of sixteen percent? What did he think this company did, smuggle cocaine by the ton? Print money? Was he really foolish, or did he assume he was investing in a criminal enterprise so it wouldn't be wise to look at it too closely?
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"content": "Annual returns of sixteen percent? What did he think this company did, smuggle cocaine by the ton? Print money? Was he really foolish, or did he assume he was investing in a criminal enterprise so it wouldn't be wise to look at it too closely?\n",
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When I was growing up, Kota was known for its beautiful cotton saris. The reality is quite different now. For a glimpse of what this means to the young stuck in these hyper-competitive, soul-crushing coaching centres, see the Netflix show "Kota Factory" which is a brilliant yet empathetic send-up of this new cultural icon of India.The main problem is the following: education in India is very non-uniform. As compared to the size of the population, there are a handful of elite government colleges where the fees are low enough to be affordable by all, so I understand this being the dream of those from a deprived socioeconomic background. Unlike the US, wealth will not get you into an IIT, you have to pass those entrance exams like everyone else, so it is in many ways an equaliser. But there is a fallacy here - those who have money have the ability to pay the exorbitant fees these coaching centres charge - for poor families, it means putting your entire savings into this hope of upward mobility. And the outcomes are appallingly skewed - very few government college seats for the number of aspirants. Here is where education in India differs from the US - in the US, there are hundreds of colleges where you can get an excellent education, even without the name brand.The solution is of course to have more institutions of higher learning. And India is trying to do that, but you need excellent faculty to provide the necessary education, and there remains a gap there.
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"content": "When I was growing up, Kota was known for its beautiful cotton saris. The reality is quite different now. For a glimpse of what this means to the young stuck in these hyper-competitive, soul-crushing coaching centres, see the Netflix show \"Kota Factory\" which is a brilliant yet empathetic send-up of this new cultural icon of India.The main problem is the following: education in India is very non-uniform. As compared to the size of the population, there are a handful of elite government colleges where the fees are low enough to be affordable by all, so I understand this being the dream of those from a deprived socioeconomic background. Unlike the US, wealth will not get you into an IIT, you have to pass those entrance exams like everyone else, so it is in many ways an equaliser. But there is a fallacy here - those who have money have the ability to pay the exorbitant fees these coaching centres charge - for poor families, it means putting your entire savings into this hope of upward mobility. And the outcomes are appallingly skewed - very few government college seats for the number of aspirants. Here is where education in India differs from the US - in the US, there are hundreds of colleges where you can get an excellent education, even without the name brand.The solution is of course to have more institutions of higher learning. And India is trying to do that, but you need excellent faculty to provide the necessary education, and there remains a gap there.\n",
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If Mr. Intrater has been much of an investor, he probably knows anyone who promises you a 16% return on an investment is a fraudster.What Mr. Intrater and his cousin were hoping for was a fraudster that could be elected and then blackmailed for Mother Russia.Once Santos was exposed for the faker he is, Santos is no longer any use to them so yeah, turn him over to the SEC.
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"content": "If Mr. Intrater has been much of an investor, he probably knows anyone who promises you a 16% return on an investment is a fraudster.What Mr. Intrater and his cousin were hoping for was a fraudster that could be elected and then blackmailed for Mother Russia.Once Santos was exposed for the faker he is, Santos is no longer any use to them so yeah, turn him over to the SEC.\n",
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Thank you NYT’s . I won’t ever go in another restaurant again. The last 2 years our local restaurant raised the prices on a chicken sandwich from 7.00 to 15.00. Then they want us to give a 6.00 . Such greed and they won’t get that from me. I stopped going to the local barber shop . A man’s hair cut is 30.00 with no washing the hair. You have to give them a high tip. I am retired Army and use to cut my hair short . I decided to cut my hair all off again and am saving lots of money a year over 1,000. I don’t care if it does not look good i am 69 and don’t have to impress any one to impress and am saving lots of money and not getting any barber shop viruses also. LOL
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"content": "Thank you NYT’s . I won’t ever go in another restaurant again. The last 2 years our local restaurant raised the prices on a chicken sandwich from 7.00 to 15.00. Then they want us to give a 6.00 . Such greed and they won’t get that from me. I stopped going to the local barber shop . A man’s hair cut is 30.00 with no washing the hair. You have to give them a high tip. I am retired Army and use to cut my hair short . I decided to cut my hair all off again and am saving lots of money a year over 1,000. I don’t care if it does not look good i am 69 and don’t have to impress any one to impress and am saving lots of money and not getting any barber shop viruses also. LOL\n",
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"As one of the 100,000 or so Catholics in this country who attend the old Mass each week, I will always be grateful to him for allowing for its widespread celebration despite the promulgation of a new, vernacular liturgy."This really says it all. "Soren Kierkegaard?"? Really? Mr. Walther may be the editor of "The Lamp," but his lamp sheds no light on Ratzinger or the fundamental evils of the continuous and painfully slow downward spiral that has been the trajectory of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church for a very long time.Vatican II opened up a great hope. Ratzinger and his followers saw in it only a threat to the cult of secrecy, both of the sacraments, and the sins. They have done much to unravel the all of the inherent good of Vatican II -- which actually made Catholicism interesting and meaningful to youths at a time of great cynicism in the world. Walther and his 100,000 should form their own 4th century Catholic schism, "despite the promulgation of a new, vernacular liturgy," and leave what's left of the Catholic church alone to re-build.
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"content": "\"As one of the 100,000 or so Catholics in this country who attend the old Mass each week, I will always be grateful to him for allowing for its widespread celebration despite the promulgation of a new, vernacular liturgy.\"This really says it all. \"Soren Kierkegaard?\"? Really? Mr. Walther may be the editor of \"The Lamp,\" but his lamp sheds no light on Ratzinger or the fundamental evils of the continuous and painfully slow downward spiral that has been the trajectory of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church for a very long time.Vatican II opened up a great hope. Ratzinger and his followers saw in it only a threat to the cult of secrecy, both of the sacraments, and the sins. They have done much to unravel the all of the inherent good of Vatican II -- which actually made Catholicism interesting and meaningful to youths at a time of great cynicism in the world. Walther and his 100,000 should form their own 4th century Catholic schism, \"despite the promulgation of a new, vernacular liturgy,\" and leave what's left of the Catholic church alone to re-build.\n",
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The GOP only gets deficit "religion" when a dem is in office--the don't mind the cognizant dissonance. They certainly won't acknowledge that the last supply side tax cut caused the deficit to jump immediately to 1 trillion from 650 billion before covid hit. With over 31 trillion in debt, the issue is insoluble.
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"content": "The GOP only gets deficit \"religion\" when a dem is in office--the don't mind the cognizant dissonance. They certainly won't acknowledge that the last supply side tax cut caused the deficit to jump immediately to 1 trillion from 650 billion before covid hit. With over 31 trillion in debt, the issue is insoluble.\n",
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Milton Lewis "served with distinction" - racially abusing Asian comrades, and then liquidating 25 dirt poor Afghans in their own land from the comfort of a $55million warplane, before humble bragging about it. If you think this adds up to "distinction", ask yourself why he was forced to retire from the military aged 30, and has never stopped dragging the Monarch he swore an oath of allegiance too.
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"content": "Milton Lewis \"served with distinction\" - racially abusing Asian comrades, and then liquidating 25 dirt poor Afghans in their own land from the comfort of a $55million warplane, before humble bragging about it. If you think this adds up to \"distinction\", ask yourself why he was forced to retire from the military aged 30, and has never stopped dragging the Monarch he swore an oath of allegiance too.\n",
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KWDC To present a different perspective: For many, relationships with real people can be complicated and draining. TV provides an escape from stressors as well as a chance to experience catharsis through onscreen characters' relationships. I absolutely understand because it's my experience. I don't feel lonely at all. But, as a Christian, I believe that God wants us to be in community with each other so I'm trying to develop closer relationships with a few people — which is super scary because I feel things very deeply and others' problems become my own. Try sharing your concerns with your friends. Maybe it will change things immediately. Maybe it will take time. Maybe you'll have to let those friends go and continue on life's journey separately. But you sound like you're open, so you'll undoubtedly make new connections along the way with people who value you, too.
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"content": "KWDC To present a different perspective: For many, relationships with real people can be complicated and draining. TV provides an escape from stressors as well as a chance to experience catharsis through onscreen characters' relationships. I absolutely understand because it's my experience. I don't feel lonely at all. But, as a Christian, I believe that God wants us to be in community with each other so I'm trying to develop closer relationships with a few people — which is super scary because I feel things very deeply and others' problems become my own. Try sharing your concerns with your friends. Maybe it will change things immediately. Maybe it will take time. Maybe you'll have to let those friends go and continue on life's journey separately. But you sound like you're open, so you'll undoubtedly make new connections along the way with people who value you, too.\n",
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Last night, I commented that I was surprised an experienced constructor with 108 published NYT xwords would think this could run on a Wed or Thurs. Reading today's comments, some agree it could have been a Wed, as it stood, and some thought it is fine as a Monday, again as it stood.Bob T replied to me with the comment "in fairness, we don't know what changes the editors made in the clueing...but with different clueing I could easily see it on a Wednesday"Very fair point. So I am posting to ask a community question, what makes a puzzle a Mon vs a Sat? Let's ignore the theme/themeless aspect of those days. I am going with 75% clueing / 10% entries / 10% grid design. Sure Sat might have some archaic 7th old French term, but in general, I think what makes the Saturday hard is the wordplay of the clueing, and the fact that many Sat grids don't give you many entry points into a corner (sure, there are those stacked 3x15 super open designs as well). Does anyone know of an article/video of a constructor that has (for fun?) made a puzzle, and adjusted the clueing for Mon->Sat, while keeping the same entries and grid design? I think that would be very neat to see, and so instructive (especially for newer solvers).
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"content": "Last night, I commented that I was surprised an experienced constructor with 108 published NYT xwords would think this could run on a Wed or Thurs. Reading today's comments, some agree it could have been a Wed, as it stood, and some thought it is fine as a Monday, again as it stood.Bob T replied to me with the comment \"in fairness, we don't know what changes the editors made in the clueing...but with different clueing I could easily see it on a Wednesday\"Very fair point. So I am posting to ask a community question, what makes a puzzle a Mon vs a Sat? Let's ignore the theme/themeless aspect of those days. I am going with 75% clueing / 10% entries / 10% grid design. Sure Sat might have some archaic 7th old French term, but in general, I think what makes the Saturday hard is the wordplay of the clueing, and the fact that many Sat grids don't give you many entry points into a corner (sure, there are those stacked 3x15 super open designs as well). Does anyone know of an article/video of a constructor that has (for fun?) made a puzzle, and adjusted the clueing for Mon->Sat, while keeping the same entries and grid design? I think that would be very neat to see, and so instructive (especially for newer solvers).\n",
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We should be really be promoting the new Air-dollar or Water-dollar currencies, which should be valued through a certain specific weight measure of so many pounds of clean, compressed air, or fifty five gallons of sparkling, absolutely clean water, and they should be available for purchase as an investment for the future. The way things are going now, we will no doubt have real need of them and their increasing scarcity will be pushing up the costs of doing certain specific things like breathing and making coffee. How much is a breath worth to you?Or that cup of water?
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"content": "We should be really be promoting the new Air-dollar or Water-dollar currencies, which should be valued through a certain specific weight measure of so many pounds of clean, compressed air, or fifty five gallons of sparkling, absolutely clean water, and they should be available for purchase as an investment for the future. The way things are going now, we will no doubt have real need of them and their increasing scarcity will be pushing up the costs of doing certain specific things like breathing and making coffee. How much is a breath worth to you?Or that cup of water?\n",
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Again, what do we need to have this silly "debt ceiling" thing anyway ? When G.W Bush left office, US national debt was around $1T. Ever since every administration added a few T's to it every year by lifting the "debt ceiling", now it is at $32T. So where is the end ? Can we pay our "bill"s by keep printing money we don have, which is the same as writing bad checks. Because we have been doing this so lone, nobody in world want to lend us money anymore, except the Fed with printed money.
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"content": "Again, what do we need to have this silly \"debt ceiling\" thing anyway ? When G.W Bush left office, US national debt was around $1T. Ever since every administration added a few T's to it every year by lifting the \"debt ceiling\", now it is at $32T. So where is the end ? Can we pay our \"bill\"s by keep printing money we don have, which is the same as writing bad checks. Because we have been doing this so lone, nobody in world want to lend us money anymore, except the Fed with printed money.\n",
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The fine is about $1 per privacy breach. The law and her courts are play things for big tech. If an ordinary citizen took another citizens private information and published it online would they be looking down the barrel of a $1 fine???$118 billion in revenues. Maybe the fines should be proportional to those revenues (and certainly not the reported profits). Then we would see some care.
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"content": "The fine is about $1 per privacy breach. The law and her courts are play things for big tech. If an ordinary citizen took another citizens private information and published it online would they be looking down the barrel of a $1 fine???$118 billion in revenues. Maybe the fines should be proportional to those revenues (and certainly not the reported profits). Then we would see some care.\n",
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As Gail points out, "the Social Security payroll taxation stops at about $160,000. So, a person making a million dollars a year doesn’t pay anything on about $840,000." Instead of raising the retirement age or cutting benefits, why not increase the earnings cap that the rich enjoy. The argument has always been that by increasing the earnings cap, the wealthy would be paying into the system more than they take out. So what? For the wealthy, social security is chump change. For 2022, the maximum is benefit is $3,345 per month. The rich pay more than that on golf club fees, like at Mar-A-Lago, for example. Meanwhile, more than 90% of working Americans earn less than the maximum but they're required to pay into social security on every cent they earn, while the very rich have an income cap. Just by raising the income cap, the issue of social security benefits running out would disappear. Instead, the only suggestion is for the rest of us to work longer or get less benefits.
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"content": "As Gail points out, \"the Social Security payroll taxation stops at about $160,000. So, a person making a million dollars a year doesn’t pay anything on about $840,000.\" Instead of raising the retirement age or cutting benefits, why not increase the earnings cap that the rich enjoy. The argument has always been that by increasing the earnings cap, the wealthy would be paying into the system more than they take out. So what? For the wealthy, social security is chump change. For 2022, the maximum is benefit is $3,345 per month. The rich pay more than that on golf club fees, like at Mar-A-Lago, for example. Meanwhile, more than 90% of working Americans earn less than the maximum but they're required to pay into social security on every cent they earn, while the very rich have an income cap. Just by raising the income cap, the issue of social security benefits running out would disappear. Instead, the only suggestion is for the rest of us to work longer or get less benefits.\n",
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Chris How much is “enough?”
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I’m sorry, I don’t think he is an example I would want my children to follow. You talk about revenge. I assume you mean toward Australia for deporting him last year. He not only flaunted the rules that he knew existed but, lied about the timeline of his prior Covid infection. He was deported for those reasons just as anyone else would have been. Rather than seeking revenge, he should be expressing gratitude to Australia for treating him like the privileged character he thinks he is and waving the 3 year requirement to return to the country so he could play in the Open. I would much rather my children learn from the examples set by Federer and Nadal.
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"content": "I’m sorry, I don’t think he is an example I would want my children to follow. You talk about revenge. I assume you mean toward Australia for deporting him last year. He not only flaunted the rules that he knew existed but, lied about the timeline of his prior Covid infection. He was deported for those reasons just as anyone else would have been. Rather than seeking revenge, he should be expressing gratitude to Australia for treating him like the privileged character he thinks he is and waving the 3 year requirement to return to the country so he could play in the Open. I would much rather my children learn from the examples set by Federer and Nadal.\n",
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No fallen American here. I think what they have done to their two families is tragic. Trashing one's family and spilling sensitive incidents, conversations and alliances is a sure way to extended estrangement. They'll probably play the victims yet again when no one from England wants to talk them. Truly, who would? They're not to be trusted for one millimeter. Patti Davis wrote a column yesterday that didn't have comments- in it, she said that she regretted needing to tell 'her truth' b/c later, she realized that everyone has their own version of how things go. She also said that she was thankful that she had enough time with her Dad to make things right. I was no fan of the Reagans but I am a fan of families be they functional or dysfunctional. You can debate about why they are doing what they are doing but to sell your family out just to be 'heard' or to the 'highest bidder' - I don't know- it seems like a losing proposition for everyone concerned. They don't look happy to me - Harry looks tortured even though he claims to have been saved- didn't he use to have a sense of humor?
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Dave Your question about memories of coloring the margarine have opened up a cascade of responses of all kinds! I just finished reading all of them, from Jesus waltzing through a dayroom with his posse to a mother who got bored with mixing in the yellow food dye and instead dyed her margarine blue! These responses are worth their weight in gold! Or in golden butter! It would be a delight to compile them into a work of sole kind, “The Joys of the NYT Spelling Bee!” or something on that order. Plus, whoever did that informal survey of our ages and professions seems to have missed a hefty percentage of our fellow readers and commenters. Perhaps you could conduct such a survey one of these days. Or another of us could do so. It would have to be published at 3 a.m.EST, in order to touch as many readers as possible. So many people mentioned not having seen the recent survey, and willingly gave their ages and professions in the responses to your margarine question, that it seems to be something that would be worth repeating. I suppose I could do it, too. The new SB comes out at the very civilized hour of 9 a.m. here in continental Europe. Let me know what you think!
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"content": "Dave Your question about memories of coloring the margarine have opened up a cascade of responses of all kinds! I just finished reading all of them, from Jesus waltzing through a dayroom with his posse to a mother who got bored with mixing in the yellow food dye and instead dyed her margarine blue! These responses are worth their weight in gold! Or in golden butter! It would be a delight to compile them into a work of sole kind, “The Joys of the NYT Spelling Bee!” or something on that order. Plus, whoever did that informal survey of our ages and professions seems to have missed a hefty percentage of our fellow readers and commenters. Perhaps you could conduct such a survey one of these days. Or another of us could do so. It would have to be published at 3 a.m.EST, in order to touch as many readers as possible. So many people mentioned not having seen the recent survey, and willingly gave their ages and professions in the responses to your margarine question, that it seems to be something that would be worth repeating. I suppose I could do it, too. The new SB comes out at the very civilized hour of 9 a.m. here in continental Europe. Let me know what you think!\n",
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Making my way through winterMaking my way through winter,I admire its frozen beautyas I dream of its end.On an icy lane, the lace of frost sparkles on low branches that will hold blossoms in May.Which is more beautiful?I can’t say.The warmth of my woolen shirt, colors softened from years of wear,makes me feel loved when I'm alone.Do I feel greater fondness formy khaki shorts and well-wornsandals now stored away? It’s hard to know.Venturing out on the frozen lake,my boots squeaking in the snow,I remind myself each step I take:the ice is thick enoughfor me to make this trek.It is a wondrous thingto stand far out from shoreand see the world anew.I close my eyes and dream of traveling to this same spotwhen the water is open,the waves unlocked,in a green canoe.I’ll pause for a moment when I do,to remember the dazzling expanse of whitethat once concealed the open water, dancing free, brilliant blue.Jan. 1 Bee words used: lane, lace, woolen, alone, well, anew, canoe, once, conceal.
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"content": "Making my way through winterMaking my way through winter,I admire its frozen beautyas I dream of its end.On an icy lane, the lace of frost sparkles on low branches that will hold blossoms in May.Which is more beautiful?I can’t say.The warmth of my woolen shirt, colors softened from years of wear,makes me feel loved when I'm alone.Do I feel greater fondness formy khaki shorts and well-wornsandals now stored away? It’s hard to know.Venturing out on the frozen lake,my boots squeaking in the snow,I remind myself each step I take:the ice is thick enoughfor me to make this trek.It is a wondrous thingto stand far out from shoreand see the world anew.I close my eyes and dream of traveling to this same spotwhen the water is open,the waves unlocked,in a green canoe.I’ll pause for a moment when I do,to remember the dazzling expanse of whitethat once concealed the open water, dancing free, brilliant blue.Jan. 1 Bee words used: lane, lace, woolen, alone, well, anew, canoe, once, conceal.\n",
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Miri the government failed to invest in schools, doctor surgeries and general infrastructure desite the increase in tax revenue from the Eastern European migrant workers. Also, all the English - I use that specifically as opposed to the word British - looked down on the "foreign workers" doing such so called menial agricultural work that they would never do themselves.It is typical of such English people who blame everybody, but themselves for such problems.
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There's no way 'bondholders-first' is politically viable for more than a week or two.There would be utter chaos when the first social security check bounces. And how many weeks do you expect the Armed Forces to work without getting paid? There's no way to solve the budget deficit without tax increases. The Trump tax cuts blew a massive permanent hole in the budget. It just hasn't been a problem yet because federal borrowing rates are below inflation. The federal deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2022. Let's hear their solution. If they don't want to raise taxes, what do they want to cut:- Social security was $1.2 trillion- Medicare and Medicaid were $1.3 trillion- Military Spending was $915 billion84% of federal expenses (and over 100% of tax dollars collected) are spent on Social Security, Healthcare, Defense, welfare/unemployment, and interest on the national debt. The rest is a rounding error.Republicans don't have a politically viable solution, so they're posturing with the debt ceiling to make it look like democrats are the fiscally irresponsible ones, while kicking the can down the road for someone else to solve 20 years from now. And sadly, I'm sure their PR campaign is going to work on many people.
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"content": "There's no way 'bondholders-first' is politically viable for more than a week or two.There would be utter chaos when the first social security check bounces. And how many weeks do you expect the Armed Forces to work without getting paid? There's no way to solve the budget deficit without tax increases. The Trump tax cuts blew a massive permanent hole in the budget. It just hasn't been a problem yet because federal borrowing rates are below inflation. The federal deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2022. Let's hear their solution. If they don't want to raise taxes, what do they want to cut:- Social security was $1.2 trillion- Medicare and Medicaid were $1.3 trillion- Military Spending was $915 billion84% of federal expenses (and over 100% of tax dollars collected) are spent on Social Security, Healthcare, Defense, welfare/unemployment, and interest on the national debt. The rest is a rounding error.Republicans don't have a politically viable solution, so they're posturing with the debt ceiling to make it look like democrats are the fiscally irresponsible ones, while kicking the can down the road for someone else to solve 20 years from now. And sadly, I'm sure their PR campaign is going to work on many people.\n",
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For one thing, Santos got $3,000 from starting a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for an army vet's dog. Instead of the dog's getting a needed operation, Santos kept the cash.The dog died. The veteran is out of a service dog.
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CitizenReally great point! I wonder how many cheap DJI-like drone-clones could have been mass-produced for, say, 10 billion dollars? If the program started a few years ago...?Ukraine would currently have a fleet of hundreds of thousands!And ditto when it comes to artillery shells (the other huge lapse/strategic oversight, if you ask me); it's completely inexcusable now (given how much of our tax dollars go to the military), that there wasn't a reserve of 20 million 155mm shells steadily accumulated over the last 20 years... and now ready for action. Because even putting aside "just a billion" a year out of the massive budget would have created 1 million shells excess per year (they're about a $1,000 each)... which could have gone into a reserve/strategic stockpile; which then would have meant Ukraine would now have TEN TIMES their current artillery capacity... for mere pennies on the dollar of the high-budget, white-elephant, budget-busters the Pentagon Wars and lack of oversight otherwise conduces to. A billion a year set aside; to make a million extra 155mm shells per year... starting in, say, the year 2000; would mean there would now be 22 million extra shells to "play with" for Ukraine. It's crazy to think about: when you actually do the math on just how cheap that return on investment would have been! Missed opportunities...Here's hoping lessons learned....
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"content": "CitizenReally great point! I wonder how many cheap DJI-like drone-clones could have been mass-produced for, say, 10 billion dollars? If the program started a few years ago...?Ukraine would currently have a fleet of hundreds of thousands!And ditto when it comes to artillery shells (the other huge lapse/strategic oversight, if you ask me); it's completely inexcusable now (given how much of our tax dollars go to the military), that there wasn't a reserve of 20 million 155mm shells steadily accumulated over the last 20 years... and now ready for action. Because even putting aside \"just a billion\" a year out of the massive budget would have created 1 million shells excess per year (they're about a $1,000 each)... which could have gone into a reserve/strategic stockpile; which then would have meant Ukraine would now have TEN TIMES their current artillery capacity... for mere pennies on the dollar of the high-budget, white-elephant, budget-busters the Pentagon Wars and lack of oversight otherwise conduces to. A billion a year set aside; to make a million extra 155mm shells per year... starting in, say, the year 2000; would mean there would now be 22 million extra shells to \"play with\" for Ukraine. It's crazy to think about: when you actually do the math on just how cheap that return on investment would have been! Missed opportunities...Here's hoping lessons learned....\n",
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When Harry was whining about how bad his measly little cottage was — located in the grounds of Kensington Palace no less — some equally whiny measly advisor whispered in his ear that he could make a $100m for a single interview telling how bad he'd been treated as a Royal. When Megan latched onto that the plan started to rocket into shape. How $200m and counting richer with a palatial CA home who can claim he should have stayed in the 'hovel'?
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Scott Care to offer a rebuttal to today's other NYT article pointing out that Tesla has been comparing open road highway driving for its cars to city driving for traditional cars? Can you not see a problem there? Or that Teslas tend to be owned by older drivers, thus removing the clearly-established risky behavior of teen drivers? Numbers without context can be every bit as misleading as sensationalist headlines.
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"content": "Scott Care to offer a rebuttal to today's other NYT article pointing out that Tesla has been comparing open road highway driving for its cars to city driving for traditional cars? Can you not see a problem there? Or that Teslas tend to be owned by older drivers, thus removing the clearly-established risky behavior of teen drivers? Numbers without context can be every bit as misleading as sensationalist headlines.\n",
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He is the result of having lots of unregulated dark money in politics. It attracts the worst people.P.S. He’s now my congressman and the entire district is livid. He cant show his face anywhere near here, ever. Whomever gave him the $700k overpaid.
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Third.Coast Great idea for the tea in a thermos. We do that many a time. We are not coffee drinkers but up here I am pretty sure it costs more than $4 Cdn. for a cup at the indy's. Here on the Gulf Islands and over on Vancouver Island, seeing a Starbucks is as rare as hen's teeth. Believe this is due in part to their labour practices that may not be legal here in Canada. Most likely there are more of them over on the mainland in Vancouver for the tourists.
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"content": "Third.Coast Great idea for the tea in a thermos. We do that many a time. We are not coffee drinkers but up here I am pretty sure it costs more than $4 Cdn. for a cup at the indy's. Here on the Gulf Islands and over on Vancouver Island, seeing a Starbucks is as rare as hen's teeth. Believe this is due in part to their labour practices that may not be legal here in Canada. Most likely there are more of them over on the mainland in Vancouver for the tourists.\n",
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The grandstanding of a failed and disreputable party in a two part system is not a reason to allow a country to fail on its obligations. Social Security is not a benefit it is an obligation. It is an investment by the country of matched funds from you as a tax payer and the business where you worked. A Social Contract so we do not have another great depression. It should not be in the budget or its funds used in the budget process in any shape, way or form. Having the ability to just decide to release thousands of workers because of stock valuation slumps or unaffordable basic needs like housing or vehicles is symptom of unchecked Capitalism. What the peoples of America are feeling is an infestation of smug pirates that are not paying their fair share. It is criminal if the IRS is being defunded so the smug pirates along with the defense establishment will not be audited and brought to account. We should probably focus on checking that block first, not ignoring it and stealing obligated monies. .
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"content": "The grandstanding of a failed and disreputable party in a two part system is not a reason to allow a country to fail on its obligations. Social Security is not a benefit it is an obligation. It is an investment by the country of matched funds from you as a tax payer and the business where you worked. A Social Contract so we do not have another great depression. It should not be in the budget or its funds used in the budget process in any shape, way or form. Having the ability to just decide to release thousands of workers because of stock valuation slumps or unaffordable basic needs like housing or vehicles is symptom of unchecked Capitalism. What the peoples of America are feeling is an infestation of smug pirates that are not paying their fair share. It is criminal if the IRS is being defunded so the smug pirates along with the defense establishment will not be audited and brought to account. We should probably focus on checking that block first, not ignoring it and stealing obligated monies. .\n",
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So Gold is a substitute for Crypto Currency? Did I read that correctly?Are there enough disgruntled crypto investors to nudge the market in gold?Crypto fell from a $3 trillion dollar market to a current roughly $1 trillion.So $2 trillion went poof. But that doesn’t mean the ghostly $2 Trillion went into the gold market, it’s languishing in money heaven, right?I’m confuzzled, must admit.
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"content": "So Gold is a substitute for Crypto Currency? Did I read that correctly?Are there enough disgruntled crypto investors to nudge the market in gold?Crypto fell from a $3 trillion dollar market to a current roughly $1 trillion.So $2 trillion went poof. But that doesn’t mean the ghostly $2 Trillion went into the gold market, it’s languishing in money heaven, right?I’m confuzzled, must admit.\n",
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I once worked in a family office where the wealthy owner berated me when I told him he couldn’t do something because it was illegal. He instructed me never to tell him he couldn’t do something. His request was that I tell him what the consequences would be if he took a particular action.Here’s how the scheme works:Someone goes to the boss with an idea that will give favored employees more money in their pockets and also reduce company tax obligations.The boss asks how much will it save me in taxes? The answer is millions of dollars.The boss asks if the plan is legal. The answer is no.The boss asks how likely is it that we get caught? The answer is not likely.The boss asks how much will it cost me if we do get caught? The answer is $1.6 million.The boss says - do it.
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"content": "I once worked in a family office where the wealthy owner berated me when I told him he couldn’t do something because it was illegal. He instructed me never to tell him he couldn’t do something. His request was that I tell him what the consequences would be if he took a particular action.Here’s how the scheme works:Someone goes to the boss with an idea that will give favored employees more money in their pockets and also reduce company tax obligations.The boss asks how much will it save me in taxes? The answer is millions of dollars.The boss asks if the plan is legal. The answer is no.The boss asks how likely is it that we get caught? The answer is not likely.The boss asks how much will it cost me if we do get caught? The answer is $1.6 million.The boss says - do it.\n",
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It's time that we reevaluate our relationship with foreign countries and which ones we decide to send billions of dollars. From where I sit, the return on our investment in Israel is a very poor indeed. The days of Soviet-American divides in the Middle East are long gone. Israel has diplomatic relations with it's most potent former enemies, and is more than capable of taking care of those that it doesn't have relations with without our sending billions to a government that is curtailing rather than expanding the rights of it's citizens.The bottom line: we've been on a never-ending conveyor belt of sending money to Israel with little accountability. Time to reexamine how, why and how much we send to the Jewish state.
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"content": "It's time that we reevaluate our relationship with foreign countries and which ones we decide to send billions of dollars. From where I sit, the return on our investment in Israel is a very poor indeed. The days of Soviet-American divides in the Middle East are long gone. Israel has diplomatic relations with it's most potent former enemies, and is more than capable of taking care of those that it doesn't have relations with without our sending billions to a government that is curtailing rather than expanding the rights of it's citizens.The bottom line: we've been on a never-ending conveyor belt of sending money to Israel with little accountability. Time to reexamine how, why and how much we send to the Jewish state.\n",
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Gwen - True. Note that Rachel Dolezal tried to pass as Black, she was not exactly welcomed with open arms when she was outed as white.
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Southwest has received billions of taxpayer money just a few years ago. Why didn't they overhaul their system during the Pandemic when people were not flying? There is no excuse for this mis-management and push-back on consumers, especially during a holiday. My son ended up paying nearly $5,000 for three people to get home. The airport security at ORD was so backed up from SWA problems at MDW, that the kids missed their alternate flight they purchased when SWA cancelled and then had to purchase a third set of tickets. Custody issues mandated they had to be back on a certain day so they had no choice. Our family is finished with SWA for a long while. So what, they get three $300 SW tickets after spending $5000 to go from PHL to Chicago? The government needs to step in and force SWA to reimburse expenses to its customers.
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"content": "Southwest has received billions of taxpayer money just a few years ago. Why didn't they overhaul their system during the Pandemic when people were not flying? There is no excuse for this mis-management and push-back on consumers, especially during a holiday. My son ended up paying nearly $5,000 for three people to get home. The airport security at ORD was so backed up from SWA problems at MDW, that the kids missed their alternate flight they purchased when SWA cancelled and then had to purchase a third set of tickets. Custody issues mandated they had to be back on a certain day so they had no choice. Our family is finished with SWA for a long while. So what, they get three $300 SW tickets after spending $5000 to go from PHL to Chicago? The government needs to step in and force SWA to reimburse expenses to its customers.\n",
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I continue to be baffled about why low and middle income Americans vote republican. Most don’t stay informed? Or restrict to faux news? Or only read beginnings of articles, thinking the importance diminishes. Maybe such crucial punchlines as you end these articles with should be the opening salvos.
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"content": "I continue to be baffled about why low and middle income Americans vote republican. Most don’t stay informed? Or restrict to faux news? Or only read beginnings of articles, thinking the importance diminishes. Maybe such crucial punchlines as you end these articles with should be the opening salvos.\n",
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A Trump-Netanyahu alliance is the last thing we need. Netanyahu is opening a new front in a global war that aims to split Congressional support and will test American resolve to stay neutral in the Middle East. No to Netanyahu No to Trump No to the extreme Right.
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"content": "A Trump-Netanyahu alliance is the last thing we need. Netanyahu is opening a new front in a global war that aims to split Congressional support and will test American resolve to stay neutral in the Middle East. No to Netanyahu No to Trump No to the extreme Right.\n",
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Spot on. Thank you Mr. Malesic. I look forward to reading your book and hope it is widely circulated and serves as an impetus for change!Decades ago, I read a book published by Herbert Kohl, titled, "The Open Classroom." It was a real eye-opener and covered much of what you have stated here. What stuck with me most is how constrained teachers are in the curriculum they're allowed to teach as well as the methodologies they're allowed to employ; a major cause of burnout among teachers, along with standardized test scores. Common Core has proved to be an unmitigated failure and the emphasis on STEM, to the near exclusion of literature and the arts, has also contributed significantly to our falling to 57th in global rankings for education.
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"content": "Spot on. Thank you Mr. Malesic. I look forward to reading your book and hope it is widely circulated and serves as an impetus for change!Decades ago, I read a book published by Herbert Kohl, titled, \"The Open Classroom.\" It was a real eye-opener and covered much of what you have stated here. What stuck with me most is how constrained teachers are in the curriculum they're allowed to teach as well as the methodologies they're allowed to employ; a major cause of burnout among teachers, along with standardized test scores. Common Core has proved to be an unmitigated failure and the emphasis on STEM, to the near exclusion of literature and the arts, has also contributed significantly to our falling to 57th in global rankings for education.\n",
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Lyndsey Marie Shanley Lucky you! At the Walmart near me eggs *start* at $4.58 (although those are usually sold out) and go up to over $7.00. And I'm talking dozens, not 18-count.This stands to reason though, as Iowa, the state with the largest die-off, is right next to me and far from you.
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"content": "Lyndsey Marie Shanley Lucky you! At the Walmart near me eggs *start* at $4.58 (although those are usually sold out) and go up to over $7.00. And I'm talking dozens, not 18-count.This stands to reason though, as Iowa, the state with the largest die-off, is right next to me and far from you.\n",
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Cheap money didn't fuel tech-it fueled investors. Tech companies are just the newest, shiniest way for the investor class to accumulate and hoard more wealth with little to no risk. it's not a risk to invest 100k into a company if you've got 100 million dollars to play with. imagine instead if regular people could try their hand at starting the business they have an idea for without risking their entire life savings and/or having to grovel before billionaires on a reality show.
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"content": "Cheap money didn't fuel tech-it fueled investors. Tech companies are just the newest, shiniest way for the investor class to accumulate and hoard more wealth with little to no risk. it's not a risk to invest 100k into a company if you've got 100 million dollars to play with. imagine instead if regular people could try their hand at starting the business they have an idea for without risking their entire life savings and/or having to grovel before billionaires on a reality show.\n",
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My admittedly incomplete understanding for the dramatically decreased values of tech firms stems from the denominator of the net present value formula.Taking the simple annuity formula as an example, for a tech firm expected to make X dollars profit annually.NPV=X/r, where r can be the risk-free rate, the discount rate, or the cap rate.Until recently r as a risk free rate was a very small number, like 0.01. Depending on risk, in terms of a cap rate it could have been say, 0.05.However, now with inflation and risk thrown in the real risk-free rate is closer to 5%, and a risk bearing cap rate might be 10%, and consequently the corporate valuations have decreased by 50-80%.That may all be over-simplified, but it's inescapable that in many cases the new, lower valuations are NPVs tied to higher discount rates. Now I can go back to practicing my tuba.
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"content": "My admittedly incomplete understanding for the dramatically decreased values of tech firms stems from the denominator of the net present value formula.Taking the simple annuity formula as an example, for a tech firm expected to make X dollars profit annually.NPV=X/r, where r can be the risk-free rate, the discount rate, or the cap rate.Until recently r as a risk free rate was a very small number, like 0.01. Depending on risk, in terms of a cap rate it could have been say, 0.05.However, now with inflation and risk thrown in the real risk-free rate is closer to 5%, and a risk bearing cap rate might be 10%, and consequently the corporate valuations have decreased by 50-80%.That may all be over-simplified, but it's inescapable that in many cases the new, lower valuations are NPVs tied to higher discount rates. Now I can go back to practicing my tuba.\n",
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The people of Buffalo have had a tough time of late.Back in May when a hate filled person opened fire in a grocery store, the recent deadly blizzard and now this, a Buffalo Bills player suffering cardiac arrest on the field. It feels like nothing will stop the money making machine that is the NFL. Not permanent brain injuries, not death.Betcha taxpayer dollars will not be pulled back from building a new stadium in Orchard Park, too much money involved. Money over people….same as it ever was.
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"content": "The people of Buffalo have had a tough time of late.Back in May when a hate filled person opened fire in a grocery store, the recent deadly blizzard and now this, a Buffalo Bills player suffering cardiac arrest on the field. It feels like nothing will stop the money making machine that is the NFL. Not permanent brain injuries, not death.Betcha taxpayer dollars will not be pulled back from building a new stadium in Orchard Park, too much money involved. Money over people….same as it ever was.\n",
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Why am I getting the impression these Comments reflect the chasm between those incensed at being unwitting participants in a potentially-lethal beta test of buggy self-driving software and a bunch of tech fanboys who may also have a cost basis in their TSLA shares north of $200?Caveat emptor et exactoris!
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"content": "Why am I getting the impression these Comments reflect the chasm between those incensed at being unwitting participants in a potentially-lethal beta test of buggy self-driving software and a bunch of tech fanboys who may also have a cost basis in their TSLA shares north of $200?Caveat emptor et exactoris!\n",
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I think the question should be "Does America Have Insufficient Corporate Taxation?"Between near zero taxes (15% doesn't cut it) and the burden of corporate America on the average family, be it through using our infrastructure without sharing in paying its cost, the pollution and the cost in health, the cost of having offshored so many jobs over time, the banking and accounting tricks to hide wealth, and paying shareholders instead of workers and investing in America, it is no wonder that we have as much debt as we do.Does that mean that I disagree with Paul's assertion that we can have a lot of debt, long term? I don't.But allowing corporations to own us, as they do, is what is keeping our social structure in the disarray it is in. There is no excuse for not having a safety net. There is no excuse for having millions of hungry children and millions more of hungry elderly. There is no excuse for having so many millions who live in poverty.There is no excuse for corporations and their human owners having as much power as they do over our politics.There isn't.
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"content": "I think the question should be \"Does America Have Insufficient Corporate Taxation?\"Between near zero taxes (15% doesn't cut it) and the burden of corporate America on the average family, be it through using our infrastructure without sharing in paying its cost, the pollution and the cost in health, the cost of having offshored so many jobs over time, the banking and accounting tricks to hide wealth, and paying shareholders instead of workers and investing in America, it is no wonder that we have as much debt as we do.Does that mean that I disagree with Paul's assertion that we can have a lot of debt, long term? I don't.But allowing corporations to own us, as they do, is what is keeping our social structure in the disarray it is in. There is no excuse for not having a safety net. There is no excuse for having millions of hungry children and millions more of hungry elderly. There is no excuse for having so many millions who live in poverty.There is no excuse for corporations and their human owners having as much power as they do over our politics.There isn't.\n",
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RJG Actually, the monarchy is a big money maker for the UK. It cost $ 102 mill last year to sustain the monarchy; this is about one penny a day. In 2017 alone, the monarchy brought in $ 1.76 billion (see reference below). This is about a 1,700 percent return on investment. I'd say this represents a fair share, especially since they don't take a salary and pay taxes even without taking any salary.<a href="https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The" target="_blank">https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The</a>%20Accounts%20for%20the%20Sovereign,from%20the%20previous%2012%20months.
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"content": "RJG Actually, the monarchy is a big money maker for the UK. It cost $ 102 mill last year to sustain the monarchy; this is about one penny a day. In 2017 alone, the monarchy brought in $ 1.76 billion (see reference below). This is about a 1,700 percent return on investment. I'd say this represents a fair share, especially since they don't take a salary and pay taxes even without taking any salary.<a href=\"https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The</a>%20Accounts%20for%20the%20Sovereign,from%20the%20previous%2012%20months.\n",
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When assessing DeSantis, note that the FL voter, more than voters anywhere else in the US, wants things easy--the easier, the better. If states endorsed cartoons, ours would depict a FL voter angrily denouncing govt, until the floodwater reaches the stem wall of his home, and then demanding FEMA money, altho he never bought flood ins.More evidence, you ask? Citizens Property Insurance represents socialized casualty insurance, sparing over 1M policyholders from the pain of paying market premiums. Staffing public schools too burdensome? Replace certified teachers with military veterans, even w/o college degrees. Nearshore water quality too expensive to maintain? Toss heads of lettuce atop the starving manatees who can't find sea grass to eat. Sometimes the easy path is hard to find. Health care too expensive? Hmm. Maybe the dreaded Obamacare is the easy way in a state that refused to extend Medicaid--thus, Hialeah and Doral in Dade County are the national epicenters of ACA policies.DeSantis hasn't been tested electorallly in FL. Sure, he's mastered the low art of tossing hunks of meat to the deplorables and the high art of grooming the Donor Class. But he's been careful not to challenge the voters--witness his silence after the Dobbs decision or token environmental spending in his budgets. Can DeSantis win the votes of informed, mature voters? Who knows. Can a FL man win a presidential election? I hope not, though it would be ok to rid ourselves of him two yrs early.
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"content": "When assessing DeSantis, note that the FL voter, more than voters anywhere else in the US, wants things easy--the easier, the better. If states endorsed cartoons, ours would depict a FL voter angrily denouncing govt, until the floodwater reaches the stem wall of his home, and then demanding FEMA money, altho he never bought flood ins.More evidence, you ask? Citizens Property Insurance represents socialized casualty insurance, sparing over 1M policyholders from the pain of paying market premiums. Staffing public schools too burdensome? Replace certified teachers with military veterans, even w/o college degrees. Nearshore water quality too expensive to maintain? Toss heads of lettuce atop the starving manatees who can't find sea grass to eat. Sometimes the easy path is hard to find. Health care too expensive? Hmm. Maybe the dreaded Obamacare is the easy way in a state that refused to extend Medicaid--thus, Hialeah and Doral in Dade County are the national epicenters of ACA policies.DeSantis hasn't been tested electorallly in FL. Sure, he's mastered the low art of tossing hunks of meat to the deplorables and the high art of grooming the Donor Class. But he's been careful not to challenge the voters--witness his silence after the Dobbs decision or token environmental spending in his budgets. Can DeSantis win the votes of informed, mature voters? Who knows. Can a FL man win a presidential election? I hope not, though it would be ok to rid ourselves of him two yrs early.\n",
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DecliningSociety It's 'woke' to pull together to ensure habitability or avoid mass dislocation due to climate change?And how is sourcing more coal and gas - given soaring and record prices of those now - a solution to the (partly Putin generated) shock?The UK is generating carbon conscious nucelar power and importing it from France. It's invested much more than the US in offshore and onshore wind, and has sizeable solar investments. Those renewables were *already* significantly 'cheaper' (your metric) than coal or gas, even in 2020. <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911817/electricity-generation-cost-report-2020.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911817/electricity-generation-cost-report-2020.pdf</a>
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"content": "DecliningSociety It's 'woke' to pull together to ensure habitability or avoid mass dislocation due to climate change?And how is sourcing more coal and gas - given soaring and record prices of those now - a solution to the (partly Putin generated) shock?The UK is generating carbon conscious nucelar power and importing it from France. It's invested much more than the US in offshore and onshore wind, and has sizeable solar investments. Those renewables were *already* significantly 'cheaper' (your metric) than coal or gas, even in 2020. <a href=\"https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911817/electricity-generation-cost-report-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/911817/electricity-generation-cost-report-2020.pdf</a>\n",
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ondelette I agree that public funding for edcation is too little. I do not agree that the minimum of $116k for a college education is "affordable". A summer job, or work study no longer can cover a tuition payment. Loans are high interest, a student can only take out so much, and then have to figure out how to pay for the remainder. Public funding covers far less of costs then it did in the past. Unfortunately the problem does not lie with pressure to go to Ivy League schools.
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"content": "ondelette I agree that public funding for edcation is too little. I do not agree that the minimum of $116k for a college education is \"affordable\". A summer job, or work study no longer can cover a tuition payment. Loans are high interest, a student can only take out so much, and then have to figure out how to pay for the remainder. Public funding covers far less of costs then it did in the past. Unfortunately the problem does not lie with pressure to go to Ivy League schools.\n",
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Thank you for ,once again,bringing ,how it really is,to light. I live in New York city,very different from your locale.In my neighborhood,despite said difficulties,there are new restaurants,bars and cafes opening practically every week. They come,and go,while useful stores that are convenient to locals are practically nonexistent at this point.Apparently,there are backers with deep pockets who are optomistic,foolish,or laundering money…I don’t get it.
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"content": "Thank you for ,once again,bringing ,how it really is,to light. I live in New York city,very different from your locale.In my neighborhood,despite said difficulties,there are new restaurants,bars and cafes opening practically every week. They come,and go,while useful stores that are convenient to locals are practically nonexistent at this point.Apparently,there are backers with deep pockets who are optomistic,foolish,or laundering money…I don’t get it.\n",
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Bill You could simply say: "I'm happy to give a statement but I'd like to have my attorney present"There's no reason a witness can't cooperate and speak to Police in the presence of their attorney or provide a carefully worded written statement that helps solve a crime while avoiding the obvious pitfalls of talking with the police in an open-ended way
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"content": "Bill You could simply say: \"I'm happy to give a statement but I'd like to have my attorney present\"There's no reason a witness can't cooperate and speak to Police in the presence of their attorney or provide a carefully worded written statement that helps solve a crime while avoiding the obvious pitfalls of talking with the police in an open-ended way\n",
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Jamelle Bouie proves once again he is the acme of the New York Times Opinion staff. Demolishing every false justification for open carry laws with deadly accuracy, he leaves the field open for those like me who would ban all guns in private hands. The only useful function of a gun is to maim and kill. Target practice can be easily performed by lasers. You say you hunt for food? Fine, use the same technology your forefathers did when they actually had to subside on hunting. They survived, so will you. I say ban all guns in private hands. Melt them down, turn them into solar panels. The real reason we are in this pathetic state, is that the Republican party needs all the emotional hot button topics it can gin up, for if they ran on their true values of Ayn Rand plutocracy they would never win an election. Apparently sheer racism is not enough.I'd love to see all weapons disappear but the world is not ready for that. Until then the license to kill should be under the strict control of the military, who in turn should be under the strict control of civilian leadership. There was a United States of America just like that, in living memory. The rest of the world looks upon us with pity and fear, as we sacrifice more and more innocents on the altar of greed, to appease Mammon.
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"content": "Jamelle Bouie proves once again he is the acme of the New York Times Opinion staff. Demolishing every false justification for open carry laws with deadly accuracy, he leaves the field open for those like me who would ban all guns in private hands. The only useful function of a gun is to maim and kill. Target practice can be easily performed by lasers. You say you hunt for food? Fine, use the same technology your forefathers did when they actually had to subside on hunting. They survived, so will you. I say ban all guns in private hands. Melt them down, turn them into solar panels. The real reason we are in this pathetic state, is that the Republican party needs all the emotional hot button topics it can gin up, for if they ran on their true values of Ayn Rand plutocracy they would never win an election. Apparently sheer racism is not enough.I'd love to see all weapons disappear but the world is not ready for that. Until then the license to kill should be under the strict control of the military, who in turn should be under the strict control of civilian leadership. There was a United States of America just like that, in living memory. The rest of the world looks upon us with pity and fear, as we sacrifice more and more innocents on the altar of greed, to appease Mammon.\n",
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Read the full Mueller report. Read the Senate Intelligance Committee report ( under a Republican chair). Both make clear that there was coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, likely through cut-outs of Wikileaks and Roger Stone, and that the Trump campaign welcomed the assistance of the Russians with open arms in the subversion of the election of 2016. We are still feeling the corrosion of our society and government from this attack, and the fifth column within our country that welcomed it.
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"content": "Read the full Mueller report. Read the Senate Intelligance Committee report ( under a Republican chair). Both make clear that there was coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia, likely through cut-outs of Wikileaks and Roger Stone, and that the Trump campaign welcomed the assistance of the Russians with open arms in the subversion of the election of 2016. We are still feeling the corrosion of our society and government from this attack, and the fifth column within our country that welcomed it.\n",
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MS: Invests $10B into ChatGPT and then immediately lays off 10,000 workers to pay for it.
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"content": "MS: Invests $10B into ChatGPT and then immediately lays off 10,000 workers to pay for it.\n",
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We have a leased, low mileage 2020 Avalon Limited hybrid with every bell and whistle Toyota had to offer, in immaculate condition--showroom condition. SInce the lease was ending in a. month, we thought we'd trade it in for a 2023 hybrid. What a waste of time. Our experience was simple: the dealers, without exception, would only sell high, way above MSRP, and trade-in low, naturally knocking all the value guides such as KBB, Edmund's, and J. D. Powers. Since the Avalon only has 19,000 miles on it, we decided to buy out the lease. Now, for half the price of a 2023, we have a luxury car that may be chronologically 3 years old with nary a scratch inside or out, but with only 9 months worth of wear and tear.
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"content": "We have a leased, low mileage 2020 Avalon Limited hybrid with every bell and whistle Toyota had to offer, in immaculate condition--showroom condition. SInce the lease was ending in a. month, we thought we'd trade it in for a 2023 hybrid. What a waste of time. Our experience was simple: the dealers, without exception, would only sell high, way above MSRP, and trade-in low, naturally knocking all the value guides such as KBB, Edmund's, and J. D. Powers. Since the Avalon only has 19,000 miles on it, we decided to buy out the lease. Now, for half the price of a 2023, we have a luxury car that may be chronologically 3 years old with nary a scratch inside or out, but with only 9 months worth of wear and tear.\n",
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