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Rob Why is this the Democrats fault? At any time, a tiny number - just six! - of GOP reps could join with the other party and elect a Speaker. Doesn't even have to be Jeffries. I have heard a number of Democrats say they are open to such a compromise - it just doesn't seem like one is forthcoming from the majority party.
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Here we go. Michel’s Christiana, a restaurant opened in 1959 where Hem had his last meal on the evening of July 1, 1961 in a corner booth and in the company of his wife Mary and their friend, Geroge Brown, his boxing coach and trainer, who flew out to Rochester MN to drive Hem and Mary to Ketchum from the May Clinic, a 5 day road trip which began on June 26. Hem ate a New York strip steak, baked potato, Caesar salad and drank a French red wine, probably Châteauneuf-du-Pape. During dinner, Hem thought that two men at a small table farther back were FBI agents following him. The next morning, while Mary slept, Hem blew his brains out with a shotgun. And now, 62 years later, people would have dinner there because Hem did? Why?
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"content": "Here we go. Michel’s Christiana, a restaurant opened in 1959 where Hem had his last meal on the evening of July 1, 1961 in a corner booth and in the company of his wife Mary and their friend, Geroge Brown, his boxing coach and trainer, who flew out to Rochester MN to drive Hem and Mary to Ketchum from the May Clinic, a 5 day road trip which began on June 26. Hem ate a New York strip steak, baked potato, Caesar salad and drank a French red wine, probably Châteauneuf-du-Pape. During dinner, Hem thought that two men at a small table farther back were FBI agents following him. The next morning, while Mary slept, Hem blew his brains out with a shotgun. And now, 62 years later, people would have dinner there because Hem did? Why?\n",
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𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀 in case you're stuck 🐝 Have a bee-utiful day! (Today's Total: 30 words, 𝟭 𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺)AM - 1 word(4) short for combat supplies such as bullets and gunpowderAT - 2 words(4) a particle of matter that consists of protons, neutrons and electrons(6) nuclear/AT4 +icAX - 2 words(5) a self-evident truth that requires no proof(𝟵) self-evident/AX5 +aticCA - 2 words(4) short for a sleeveless undershirt(4) the type of pattern on an Army combat uniformCO - 4 words(4) a state of prolonged unconsciousness(5) funny, making you want to laugh/a cartoon magazine or book(5) ,(6) entrust/consign, as in a romantic relationship IM - 1 word(4) one who leads Muslim worshippers in prayerMA - 6 words(4) injure so severely that it causes lasting damage(4) mom(5) momma/the previous MA4 with two m's(4) a long skirt that goes just above the ankle, (5) +m, (6) +maMI - 3 words(4) a shiny mineral with a layered structure(4) a protective glove used in baseball or baking(5) copy/imitate somethingMO - 4 words(4) a deep, wide channel dug around a castle(4) open to discussion/debatable(5) mom (see MA5 hint)(5) a phrase that expresses a belief or ideal/a life mo___OM - 1 word(4) leave outTA - 1 word(6) a Japanese mat used as a floor coveringTO - 3 words(6) 🍅 (6) a male domestic cat(6) a small song bird𝗘𝗻𝗱 🐝 Hope you all reach Queen Bee today!
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The watershed event that was an accelerant to the wildfire of rabid insanity that's swept over the Republican Party was the election of Barack Obama, an African American, to the presidency.It's an historical fact confirmed by multiple defectors that Russian intelligence has been attempting to stoke race war in the U.S. for decades, dating back to the first half of the 20th century. The development of the internet vastly increased the GRU's reach and effectiveness in infecting U.S. society with poisonous propaganda. And in this, America's right wing has been a complicit partner; in most cases, probably unwittingly; but in others -- as in the cases of Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and others of their ilk -- knowingly and treacherously.
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"content": "The watershed event that was an accelerant to the wildfire of rabid insanity that's swept over the Republican Party was the election of Barack Obama, an African American, to the presidency.It's an historical fact confirmed by multiple defectors that Russian intelligence has been attempting to stoke race war in the U.S. for decades, dating back to the first half of the 20th century. The development of the internet vastly increased the GRU's reach and effectiveness in infecting U.S. society with poisonous propaganda. And in this, America's right wing has been a complicit partner; in most cases, probably unwittingly; but in others -- as in the cases of Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and others of their ilk -- knowingly and treacherously.\n",
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This baby boomer paid inheritance and estate taxes on a small inheritance (everyone paid them years ago), now people can inherit $13 million and pay no taxes (I inherited about $200,000, actually slightly less, plus a teardown house with no driveway), and I have also paid the nation's highest property taxes, since I live in New Jersey. Not all boomers are freeloaders. But the rich of every generation are freeloaders.
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"content": "This baby boomer paid inheritance and estate taxes on a small inheritance (everyone paid them years ago), now people can inherit $13 million and pay no taxes (I inherited about $200,000, actually slightly less, plus a teardown house with no driveway), and I have also paid the nation's highest property taxes, since I live in New Jersey. Not all boomers are freeloaders. But the rich of every generation are freeloaders.\n",
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philly The "old" tax the rich is actually just re-establishing taxation on the rich, who have made huge ROI's by investing in buying lawmakers who have reduced or eliminated taxes on them, allowing the rich to make huge profits off of investments that benefit from the infrastructure that fewer and less economically advantaged taxpayers are left to pay for to maintain. Trumpublicans passed a $2 Trillion tax cut that benefited primarily the already wealthy who then used it to for stock buybacks, that tenth mansion, and a bigger private jet. Now the same gofers for the oligarch set are predictably faux moaning about a fake crisis besetting social security so they can force that money out of the SS fund and into the stock market where hedge fund managers can steal it.
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"content": "philly The \"old\" tax the rich is actually just re-establishing taxation on the rich, who have made huge ROI's by investing in buying lawmakers who have reduced or eliminated taxes on them, allowing the rich to make huge profits off of investments that benefit from the infrastructure that fewer and less economically advantaged taxpayers are left to pay for to maintain. Trumpublicans passed a $2 Trillion tax cut that benefited primarily the already wealthy who then used it to for stock buybacks, that tenth mansion, and a bigger private jet. Now the same gofers for the oligarch set are predictably faux moaning about a fake crisis besetting social security so they can force that money out of the SS fund and into the stock market where hedge fund managers can steal it.\n",
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Blue Moon I agree. Laws need to be upheld in order to have a productive society. We cannot choose laws like items on an all you can eat buffet, based off what flavor we like. Our boarders should be open, to those willing to come here legally. We cannot enforce our laws, if a large portion of our population does not have a legal identity. We do no favors to immigrants when we allow them to come illegally, they will have fewer opportunities for education and meaningful employment, and never able to fully assimilate into our culture. We also commit a great disservice to those who have travailed to come here legally, putting there efforts at naught.I'm all for reforming the process of citizenship, but not for abandoning it all together.
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"content": "Blue Moon I agree. Laws need to be upheld in order to have a productive society. We cannot choose laws like items on an all you can eat buffet, based off what flavor we like. Our boarders should be open, to those willing to come here legally. We cannot enforce our laws, if a large portion of our population does not have a legal identity. We do no favors to immigrants when we allow them to come illegally, they will have fewer opportunities for education and meaningful employment, and never able to fully assimilate into our culture. We also commit a great disservice to those who have travailed to come here legally, putting there efforts at naught.I'm all for reforming the process of citizenship, but not for abandoning it all together.\n",
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There are some people whose leaving the planet -- like David Crosby - will shake me to my core, whether it's because of what I heard in the songs they wrote or sang, or because of what I felt when I tried to learn and play those songs, or because of what the lyrics meant. The members of CSN (and Y) were singly and combined brilliant but there is a Crosby song that I believe should be included here: David Crosby's/Graham Nash's "To the Last Whale" with it's opening harmonies, whale-sound first bridge, lyrics and meaning made me weep when it came out in 1975 and still does today some 47 years later. We have not saved so many things that my generation thought we could save-- and this song continues to give me the chills -- and makes me think at least some people became one more iota aware from their own tears and tried a little harder. "Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own and now you are washed up on the shoreline... maybe we'll go, maybe we'll disappear, it's not that we don't know, it's just that we don't want to care..."
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"content": "There are some people whose leaving the planet -- like David Crosby - will shake me to my core, whether it's because of what I heard in the songs they wrote or sang, or because of what I felt when I tried to learn and play those songs, or because of what the lyrics meant. The members of CSN (and Y) were singly and combined brilliant but there is a Crosby song that I believe should be included here: David Crosby's/Graham Nash's \"To the Last Whale\" with it's opening harmonies, whale-sound first bridge, lyrics and meaning made me weep when it came out in 1975 and still does today some 47 years later. We have not saved so many things that my generation thought we could save-- and this song continues to give me the chills -- and makes me think at least some people became one more iota aware from their own tears and tried a little harder. \"Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own and now you are washed up on the shoreline... maybe we'll go, maybe we'll disappear, it's not that we don't know, it's just that we don't want to care...\"\n",
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I'm one of the ones who depends on this medication for the prevention of a flare of uveitis, an inflammatory eye condition. Prior to medicare, when I was on a Marketplace plan, I was able to receive support from AbbVie's own cost lowering program. However, once I went on Medicare, I was prohibited from receiving that program's benefits due to Medicare's own rules! Thankfully, my prescribing doctor was able to connect me with a foundation which picks up the out of pocket cost for the medication and the pharmacy from which I obtain the medication gets it for a very low price based on their negotiated price with AbbVie. My doctor explained the pricing strategy and how AbbVie extended their patent protection by removing the citrate from the drug. (Which makes it much less painful to inject.) I comprehend that it is expensive to develop medications, but price gouging over such a long time is obscene.
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"content": "I'm one of the ones who depends on this medication for the prevention of a flare of uveitis, an inflammatory eye condition. Prior to medicare, when I was on a Marketplace plan, I was able to receive support from AbbVie's own cost lowering program. However, once I went on Medicare, I was prohibited from receiving that program's benefits due to Medicare's own rules! Thankfully, my prescribing doctor was able to connect me with a foundation which picks up the out of pocket cost for the medication and the pharmacy from which I obtain the medication gets it for a very low price based on their negotiated price with AbbVie. My doctor explained the pricing strategy and how AbbVie extended their patent protection by removing the citrate from the drug. (Which makes it much less painful to inject.) I comprehend that it is expensive to develop medications, but price gouging over such a long time is obscene.\n",
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Cities are economic generators that can sustain better standards of living for less money, particularly where car ownership is no longer required as this unlocks large chunks of discretionary spending.The pattern of siphoning money from cities is well established, even in blue states (see New York). However, any partisanship is sad to see because it's a symbiotic relationship - rural areas near thriving cities tend to have (much) better standards of living then ones without. The Nashville situation is really dumb because the short term gain in politics comes with a long term drag on the city - which will in turn impact their "localized" rural voters that now determine their representation. I suppose it would become really sad if it turns into a vicious cycle where any economic malaise by these new conservative districts will simply be blamed on the city - reinforcing new policies that underinvest further in Nashville. I hazard a guess that Jackson MS is another good example, appearing to fall on "black and white" lines - that city can't catch a break and has no capacity to fight in its own interest (see water crisis). The legislature seems content to let it fall apart, even to the point of withholding/diverting funds "because they don't have funds" - my guess on the economic outlook for that region? Not great.
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"content": "Cities are economic generators that can sustain better standards of living for less money, particularly where car ownership is no longer required as this unlocks large chunks of discretionary spending.The pattern of siphoning money from cities is well established, even in blue states (see New York). However, any partisanship is sad to see because it's a symbiotic relationship - rural areas near thriving cities tend to have (much) better standards of living then ones without. The Nashville situation is really dumb because the short term gain in politics comes with a long term drag on the city - which will in turn impact their \"localized\" rural voters that now determine their representation. I suppose it would become really sad if it turns into a vicious cycle where any economic malaise by these new conservative districts will simply be blamed on the city - reinforcing new policies that underinvest further in Nashville. I hazard a guess that Jackson MS is another good example, appearing to fall on \"black and white\" lines - that city can't catch a break and has no capacity to fight in its own interest (see water crisis). The legislature seems content to let it fall apart, even to the point of withholding/diverting funds \"because they don't have funds\" - my guess on the economic outlook for that region? Not great.\n",
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Enlightened government policies and technology advances can help fending off climate disaster. However, catastrophe will not be prevented without very major cultural changes: widespread changes in attitudes about personal responsibility on the climate issue. What’s needed is such a vast and extensive cultural change that few individuals anywhere would vote for a crude right wing climate science denier, or would purchase an obnoxious and often unnecessarily immense vehicle (and drive it at extremely high speeds), or zoom around in large over-powered boats or private planes spewing vast amounts of CO2 per minute, or build a new house without investing in triple pane windows or heat pump, etc. The obstacles to such a cultural shift are found in corporate board rooms, on pulpits, and in the right wing media.
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"content": "Enlightened government policies and technology advances can help fending off climate disaster. However, catastrophe will not be prevented without very major cultural changes: widespread changes in attitudes about personal responsibility on the climate issue. What’s needed is such a vast and extensive cultural change that few individuals anywhere would vote for a crude right wing climate science denier, or would purchase an obnoxious and often unnecessarily immense vehicle (and drive it at extremely high speeds), or zoom around in large over-powered boats or private planes spewing vast amounts of CO2 per minute, or build a new house without investing in triple pane windows or heat pump, etc. The obstacles to such a cultural shift are found in corporate board rooms, on pulpits, and in the right wing media.\n",
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Grace White It's too late Grace. When the national debt hit $1B in 1980 ($4B inflation corrected for 2022), action was requested but denied with the can kicked over and over down the line. There is no good solution now. The debt is not repayable. There are too many mandated payments and not enough tax revenue. Those that make alot of money by paycheck pay too much in taxes, those that own businesses (especially some of the larger ones) sometimes pay nothing and the bottom 50% pay also pay nothing in Federal taxes.
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"content": "Grace White It's too late Grace. When the national debt hit $1B in 1980 ($4B inflation corrected for 2022), action was requested but denied with the can kicked over and over down the line. There is no good solution now. The debt is not repayable. There are too many mandated payments and not enough tax revenue. Those that make alot of money by paycheck pay too much in taxes, those that own businesses (especially some of the larger ones) sometimes pay nothing and the bottom 50% pay also pay nothing in Federal taxes.\n",
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In California we don’t have a homeless crisis. We have a drug tourism crisis. Thousands of peopleflooding out state to participate in an open air drug superstore of cheap Cartel fentanyl and meth. If one talks to any recovered addict they will tell you: they go to where the supply is good, the prices low, the consequences lax (and in California, the cash payments and amenities are off the charts). Worst of all these new super drugs induce psychosis in a matter of days, generating the “mentally ill homeless” meme. Calling this stuff “homelessness” is like treating a virus with antibiotics. You have to know the sickness to cure it.
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"content": "In California we don’t have a homeless crisis. We have a drug tourism crisis. Thousands of peopleflooding out state to participate in an open air drug superstore of cheap Cartel fentanyl and meth. If one talks to any recovered addict they will tell you: they go to where the supply is good, the prices low, the consequences lax (and in California, the cash payments and amenities are off the charts). Worst of all these new super drugs induce psychosis in a matter of days, generating the “mentally ill homeless” meme. Calling this stuff “homelessness” is like treating a virus with antibiotics. You have to know the sickness to cure it.\n",
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Worth noting, I think, that this is spilling over into other areas/types of medicine as well. I have occipital neuralgia, and my doctor gave me a month's worth of only 10 mg of a very, very different drug that is not at all as addicting or powerful as these opioids. Meanwhile, she put in a request for me to get an MRI. My insurance refuses to cover the MRI, so after my medicine ran out, she refused to give me any more. She says I cannot get any more medicine without the MRI, but again, my insurance will not cover the MRI and I cannot afford it myself. I was not addicted to the pills, felt no funny "high" effects from them whatsoever: they simply allowed me to live my life without chronic neck pain for a month. Now, I'm back to the chronic pain, with no end in sight...
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"content": "Worth noting, I think, that this is spilling over into other areas/types of medicine as well. I have occipital neuralgia, and my doctor gave me a month's worth of only 10 mg of a very, very different drug that is not at all as addicting or powerful as these opioids. Meanwhile, she put in a request for me to get an MRI. My insurance refuses to cover the MRI, so after my medicine ran out, she refused to give me any more. She says I cannot get any more medicine without the MRI, but again, my insurance will not cover the MRI and I cannot afford it myself. I was not addicted to the pills, felt no funny \"high\" effects from them whatsoever: they simply allowed me to live my life without chronic neck pain for a month. Now, I'm back to the chronic pain, with no end in sight...\n",
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Blandino Totally disagree. The Queen herself gave Harry and Meghan the leadership of the Commonwealth Trust, her life's goal to improve conditions and trade and educational resources in the Commonwealth, the voluntary association of former British colonies and other nations who have voluntarily joined. Harry and Meghan rejected this powerful position which could have done so much. The problem? No money in it for them such as $100 M Netflix deals. And you have to cut ribbons and visit old folk homes and open supermarkets in the rain. Princess Diana happily did this for years, but it wasn't lucrative enough for them. Read The Court Circular. A lot of the duties are pretty mundane, constantly meeting with strangers, not celebrities in a gold coach. Explain the "racism" instead of reeling off the term willy-nilly.
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"content": "Blandino Totally disagree. The Queen herself gave Harry and Meghan the leadership of the Commonwealth Trust, her life's goal to improve conditions and trade and educational resources in the Commonwealth, the voluntary association of former British colonies and other nations who have voluntarily joined. Harry and Meghan rejected this powerful position which could have done so much. The problem? No money in it for them such as $100 M Netflix deals. And you have to cut ribbons and visit old folk homes and open supermarkets in the rain. Princess Diana happily did this for years, but it wasn't lucrative enough for them. Read The Court Circular. A lot of the duties are pretty mundane, constantly meeting with strangers, not celebrities in a gold coach. Explain the \"racism\" instead of reeling off the term willy-nilly.\n",
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Moby Dick is worth it. And add the major works of Theodore Dreiser. Both of them had their eyes open, even if their style sometimes draws sneers from people whose highest good is a well-wrought sentence.
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"content": "Moby Dick is worth it. And add the major works of Theodore Dreiser. Both of them had their eyes open, even if their style sometimes draws sneers from people whose highest good is a well-wrought sentence.\n",
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We need a Manhattan Project ( Investment from major economic countries and industries) to come up with new ways to replace plastic- New less toxic chemical compounds that have similar qualities (clear, flexible, light weight etc) but are biodegradable within a reasonable time frame. What we are using now was discovered in the 1800’s . Make it economically attractive for industries and people to switch away from plastics.
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"content": "We need a Manhattan Project ( Investment from major economic countries and industries) to come up with new ways to replace plastic- New less toxic chemical compounds that have similar qualities (clear, flexible, light weight etc) but are biodegradable within a reasonable time frame. What we are using now was discovered in the 1800’s . Make it economically attractive for industries and people to switch away from plastics.\n",
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Raising taxes on >$400k of income would cover the increase in costs for social programs. Better yet, it is time to look at how we tax people. Republican states like Texas, Tennessee, and Florida do not have income taxes but have huge surpluses because of substantial tax increases. For example, Texas is running a $33 billion surplus. They don't have to call it a tax increase because the rates have not gone up, but inflation and the housing boom are creating unprecedented increases in sales and property tax revenues. People are moving around and giving up their homestead exemptions on their old houses. I just moved away from Texas, and my taxes are going way down even though I have to pay state income taxes. Not to mention a significant decrease in auto and homeowners insurance, which have ballooned in Texas over the past 25 years. Medicare should be able to cover its losses just like regulated private home/auto insurers do with premium hikes.The republican lawmakers from these states who condemn tax hikes are a bunch of hypocrites!
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"content": "Raising taxes on >$400k of income would cover the increase in costs for social programs. Better yet, it is time to look at how we tax people. Republican states like Texas, Tennessee, and Florida do not have income taxes but have huge surpluses because of substantial tax increases. For example, Texas is running a $33 billion surplus. They don't have to call it a tax increase because the rates have not gone up, but inflation and the housing boom are creating unprecedented increases in sales and property tax revenues. People are moving around and giving up their homestead exemptions on their old houses. I just moved away from Texas, and my taxes are going way down even though I have to pay state income taxes. Not to mention a significant decrease in auto and homeowners insurance, which have ballooned in Texas over the past 25 years. Medicare should be able to cover its losses just like regulated private home/auto insurers do with premium hikes.The republican lawmakers from these states who condemn tax hikes are a bunch of hypocrites!\n",
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I bought a two-dozen carton of eggs for $4.49 at Costco two weeks ago. What’s the problem, folks?
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"content": "I bought a two-dozen carton of eggs for $4.49 at Costco two weeks ago. What’s the problem, folks?\n",
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So many pitfalls and stresses. A friend opened a restaurant and it failed pretty quickly. He invested several million dollars and had an ever changing fleet of consultants coming and going. They all told him he could not fail-just do this next. They left with a big check and he's under foreclosure with the bank nipping at his heels. I had an up close window into the issues and was so glad it was not my problem. But I was sorry for the staff , some of whom put their hearts into it , while others contributed in several ways to the downfall. People are noble , inspired,dedicated, talented, problematic , unreliable,and dishonest when you get a batch in one room. Customers are fickle and in today's America mostly want the food to be fast, cheap, and caloric. Actual connoisseurs are rarer than people who read the Times might think.I seldom eat out. It is expensive and fattening. But I've had memorable, though rare, and few and far between experiences. Beautiful restaurants in Athens, on Bainbridge Island , in Lisbon, Galveston (yes!), Houston, San Antonio, New York....I love it when there is a view or the table settings are lovely and they do it better in Europe I agree. But it can be done here.Parenthetically several times I have become ill from meat that was past the safe date and it was generally at the expensive places where they are reluctant to throw anything out as it affects the bottom line. Sometimes it is safer at the busy, cheap, workaday eatery .
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"content": "So many pitfalls and stresses. A friend opened a restaurant and it failed pretty quickly. He invested several million dollars and had an ever changing fleet of consultants coming and going. They all told him he could not fail-just do this next. They left with a big check and he's under foreclosure with the bank nipping at his heels. I had an up close window into the issues and was so glad it was not my problem. But I was sorry for the staff , some of whom put their hearts into it , while others contributed in several ways to the downfall. People are noble , inspired,dedicated, talented, problematic , unreliable,and dishonest when you get a batch in one room. Customers are fickle and in today's America mostly want the food to be fast, cheap, and caloric. Actual connoisseurs are rarer than people who read the Times might think.I seldom eat out. It is expensive and fattening. But I've had memorable, though rare, and few and far between experiences. Beautiful restaurants in Athens, on Bainbridge Island , in Lisbon, Galveston (yes!), Houston, San Antonio, New York....I love it when there is a view or the table settings are lovely and they do it better in Europe I agree. But it can be done here.Parenthetically several times I have become ill from meat that was past the safe date and it was generally at the expensive places where they are reluctant to throw anything out as it affects the bottom line. Sometimes it is safer at the busy, cheap, workaday eatery .\n",
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These online platforms are in an interesting position. They are not common carriers like the telephone company that is not responsible for what is said by its customers on the telephone. They are not purely publishers like newspapers that have discretion as to what they publish and are responsible for what they "publish." Then there are decisions like PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980) where the Supreme Court ruled that California could interpret its state constitution to protect political protesters from being evicted from private property, held open to the public, without running afoul of the Fifth Amendment. In effect, the state constitution made private property that was open the public a public forum. Could this reasoning be applied to Facebook and others? In general, I think the internet should provide a distributed source of information instead of concentrating information through any gateway. I found this NYT article through the Benton Foundation headlines, not through Facebook.
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"content": "These online platforms are in an interesting position. They are not common carriers like the telephone company that is not responsible for what is said by its customers on the telephone. They are not purely publishers like newspapers that have discretion as to what they publish and are responsible for what they \"publish.\" Then there are decisions like PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins (1980) where the Supreme Court ruled that California could interpret its state constitution to protect political protesters from being evicted from private property, held open to the public, without running afoul of the Fifth Amendment. In effect, the state constitution made private property that was open the public a public forum. Could this reasoning be applied to Facebook and others? In general, I think the internet should provide a distributed source of information instead of concentrating information through any gateway. I found this NYT article through the Benton Foundation headlines, not through Facebook.\n",
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AjG Part of that $200 billion will go to buying the next many places in ASML's production line over the next many years which will close out Chinese orders.
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"content": "AjG Part of that $200 billion will go to buying the next many places in ASML's production line over the next many years which will close out Chinese orders.\n",
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“In a thriving marketplace for pet apparel that was valued at $5.7 billion in 2021, dog owners account for a majority of sales.”I for one take some comfort that the dogs themselves are at least not making the purchases for themselves.
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Wow, for $4.5M I could walk to the Pederson Car Museum everyday. What a dream come true. And I used to like LACMA too before they expanded it so much as to become an exhausting ordeal to visit. Around there Canter’s Deli is still the only thing worth the walk.
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"content": "Wow, for $4.5M I could walk to the Pederson Car Museum everyday. What a dream come true. And I used to like LACMA too before they expanded it so much as to become an exhausting ordeal to visit. Around there Canter’s Deli is still the only thing worth the walk.\n",
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Given Santos' connection to a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the U.S. whose brother donated lots of money to Santos' political campaign, the U.S. Federal Election Commission and other U.S. authorities like the U.S. Treasury's FINCEN, need to investigate if Santos received money from a banned Russian oligarch via the oligarch's brother. The financial links to and donations from Santos' Russian "friend" seem highly suspicious. Putin and his oligarch allies have spent years giving money to political campaigns all around the world, particularly Western democracies, to influence the outcome of national elections. The Russians have done the same type of thing in England, for example. The Russians have worked on influencing the outcome of U.S. elections for years.
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M We may not know them personally, but we can sure judge them by their actions. We don’t know our politicians personally, but we certainly judge them and vote for them. And I really don’t care what their personal experiences are, the way they’re handling them is atrocious and just like Donald Trump it’s quite obvious that they’re both narcissists. And while I have some sympathy for Harry given that he lost his mother at a young age and his parents were divorced, I just don’t have any sympathy for a girl who was spoiled by her parents, and led to an acting career by her father, who is in the business, and then worked all her friends to get ahead, and then did the ultimate in networking to meet Prince Harry. And then she took on a job that she never intended to actually do (and had the British spend I think $20 million on her celebrity wedding) because she always intended to return to America as the Duchess of Sussex and make money off the deal. It’s so obvious it isn’t even funny. She’s obviously a master manipulator. Her interview with Oprah her podcast and her Netflix special prove that.
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"content": "M We may not know them personally, but we can sure judge them by their actions. We don’t know our politicians personally, but we certainly judge them and vote for them. And I really don’t care what their personal experiences are, the way they’re handling them is atrocious and just like Donald Trump it’s quite obvious that they’re both narcissists. And while I have some sympathy for Harry given that he lost his mother at a young age and his parents were divorced, I just don’t have any sympathy for a girl who was spoiled by her parents, and led to an acting career by her father, who is in the business, and then worked all her friends to get ahead, and then did the ultimate in networking to meet Prince Harry. And then she took on a job that she never intended to actually do (and had the British spend I think $20 million on her celebrity wedding) because she always intended to return to America as the Duchess of Sussex and make money off the deal. It’s so obvious it isn’t even funny. She’s obviously a master manipulator. Her interview with Oprah her podcast and her Netflix special prove that.\n",
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Alastair Townsned The CD is no longer affordable for those who've lived there for generations. Uncle Ike's, started by the guy who claims to have grown up in the CD but actually grew up in Madrona and spent all of his time whining to the Rush Limbaugh of Seattle, Dori Monson about "antifa" being the root of all evil. Amazon then opened a grocery store in the CD, the epitome of worker and economic exploitation. The murals may be gorgeous and by local artists, but the new developments in the CD that can only be purchased by tech bros like Chipalo Street aren't exactly screaming equity or affordability.
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"content": "Alastair Townsned The CD is no longer affordable for those who've lived there for generations. Uncle Ike's, started by the guy who claims to have grown up in the CD but actually grew up in Madrona and spent all of his time whining to the Rush Limbaugh of Seattle, Dori Monson about \"antifa\" being the root of all evil. Amazon then opened a grocery store in the CD, the epitome of worker and economic exploitation. The murals may be gorgeous and by local artists, but the new developments in the CD that can only be purchased by tech bros like Chipalo Street aren't exactly screaming equity or affordability.\n",
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"Colinford Mattis’s trajectory from a working-class upbringing in East New York to the Ivy League and corporate law abruptly ended at about 1 a.m. on May 30, 2020, when a Molotov cocktail ignited the center console of an empty police car during a Black Lives Matter protest."This opening paragraph suggests the Molotov cocktail acted on its own initiative.Colinford Mattis threw it. Try this: ". . . when he tossed a Molotov cocktail into a police vehicle, which then exploded into flame."Lots of people lift themselves up from working-class childhoods. Most don't engage in domestic terrorism.
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from MSFT site: "Amid this dynamic environment, we delivered record results in fiscal year 2022: We reported $198 billion in revenue and $83 billion in operating income.". but yes, layoff your employees, no big deal. unbelievable.
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"content": "from MSFT site: \"Amid this dynamic environment, we delivered record results in fiscal year 2022: We reported $198 billion in revenue and $83 billion in operating income.\". but yes, layoff your employees, no big deal. unbelievable.\n",
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How can one trust likes of Jordon, Perry, Biggs, Gosar, Marj and the rest. They need to investigate one of their own con man, Santos. While assistant wresting coach at Ohio State University, Jordon closed his eyes and ears while the athletic doctor was molesting students and he did not stand up for truth. Jordon and the rest are vengeful and they are on these sham crusade because of their own action on 1/6 supporting the chief insurrectionist, Don Trump.
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Your Investment Lost Money Last Year. So Why the Big Tax Bill? When you invest and where matters for taxes. But a few rules of thumb can stave off some nasty surprises, our columnist says. Tax planning is usually the least of my financial concerns. Most of the time, just making a living, paying the bills and salting away money in suitable investments are much bigger deals. When you invest and where matters for taxes. But a few rules of thumb can stave off some nasty surprises, our columnist says.
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Milvu Sorry, but no. Biden's addiction issues and personal life are not the issue here. For what it's worth, I have enormous respect for somebody that goes to rehab multiple times until they succeed in beating their addiction.The issue here is that there are multiple corroborations about the claim that Joe used his son to hide kickbacks he was receiving for facilitating business meetings/dealings, while he was serving as a prominent politician.These allegations are not new, and have been around since at least 2018 in Peter Schweizer's book "Secret Empires". The book was fact checked and reviewed by this very paper. It's not a partisan attack, as the book documents Republicans engaging in similar schemes - like McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao. Besides Schweizer's investigative work, there is also the testimony of Hunter's former business partners, and of course the emails on his laptop - emails which neither Biden has called faked or altered. In short, at minimum Hunter seems to be guilty of failing to register as a foreign agent - like Paul Manafort failed to do.
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"content": "Milvu Sorry, but no. Biden's addiction issues and personal life are not the issue here. For what it's worth, I have enormous respect for somebody that goes to rehab multiple times until they succeed in beating their addiction.The issue here is that there are multiple corroborations about the claim that Joe used his son to hide kickbacks he was receiving for facilitating business meetings/dealings, while he was serving as a prominent politician.These allegations are not new, and have been around since at least 2018 in Peter Schweizer's book \"Secret Empires\". The book was fact checked and reviewed by this very paper. It's not a partisan attack, as the book documents Republicans engaging in similar schemes - like McConnell and his wife Elaine Chao. Besides Schweizer's investigative work, there is also the testimony of Hunter's former business partners, and of course the emails on his laptop - emails which neither Biden has called faked or altered. In short, at minimum Hunter seems to be guilty of failing to register as a foreign agent - like Paul Manafort failed to do.\n",
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China is a land filled with ghost apartments and ghost cities. Most of it stems from the fact that the Chinese family structure promotes saving money. Since the Chinese government severely restricts cash flows out of the country (unless you are one of the elite class), Chinese people have few investment opportunities. They are stuck with their own stock market, which is opaque, rigged and corrupt; or real estate. At least with real estate it was somewhat tangible as they could see the pretty renderings, usually a model in the showroom and the vacant land. On top of that, no self-respecting Chinese woman will even consider marriage if the man doesn’t come into it owning an apartment, and you’ve got a set-up as a developer to literally print money. When Xi came into office he did a nice anti-corruption dance while proclaiming he was a man of the people and actually bamboozled most of the citizenry tired of being taken advantage of; but it was an act designed to consolidate power by eliminating his rivals. Now it’s back to core CCP values - power and money - with no concern for the average citizen other than keeping them cowed, quiet and compliant.
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"content": "China is a land filled with ghost apartments and ghost cities. Most of it stems from the fact that the Chinese family structure promotes saving money. Since the Chinese government severely restricts cash flows out of the country (unless you are one of the elite class), Chinese people have few investment opportunities. They are stuck with their own stock market, which is opaque, rigged and corrupt; or real estate. At least with real estate it was somewhat tangible as they could see the pretty renderings, usually a model in the showroom and the vacant land. On top of that, no self-respecting Chinese woman will even consider marriage if the man doesn’t come into it owning an apartment, and you’ve got a set-up as a developer to literally print money. When Xi came into office he did a nice anti-corruption dance while proclaiming he was a man of the people and actually bamboozled most of the citizenry tired of being taken advantage of; but it was an act designed to consolidate power by eliminating his rivals. Now it’s back to core CCP values - power and money - with no concern for the average citizen other than keeping them cowed, quiet and compliant.\n",
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Help! A Check-In Agent’s Mistake Made Me Miss an Antarctic Cruise and I’m Out $17,000. An American Airlines error kept a traveler from getting to her cruise’s departure, but the carrier wouldn’t take financial responsibility and her trip insurance refused to pay. Then our columnist stepped in. I was set to take what for me was the “trip of a lifetime,” a $17,000 Antarctic cruise with Australia-based Aurora Expeditions. But when I tried to check in for my flight from Nashville to Santiago, Chile (via Miami), the check-in agent insisted that entering Chile required two forms I had never heard of, even though I had researched the requirements carefully. I missed my flight, and the cruise. When I complained, American Airlines quickly refunded the (nonrefundable) flight, but Aurora would not give me credit for a future cruise and my travel insurer, Trip Mate, denied my claim. I’d like American to acknowledge in writing that they made a mistake and use that to ask Aurora to reconsider and to file an appeal to Trip Mate. Can you help? Deborah, Franklin, Tenn. An American Airlines error kept a traveler from getting to her cruise’s departure, but the carrier wouldn’t take financial responsibility and her trip insurance refused to pay. Then our columnist stepped in.
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"content": "Help! A Check-In Agent’s Mistake Made Me Miss an Antarctic Cruise and I’m Out $17,000. An American Airlines error kept a traveler from getting to her cruise’s departure, but the carrier wouldn’t take financial responsibility and her trip insurance refused to pay. Then our columnist stepped in. I was set to take what for me was the “trip of a lifetime,” a $17,000 Antarctic cruise with Australia-based Aurora Expeditions. But when I tried to check in for my flight from Nashville to Santiago, Chile (via Miami), the check-in agent insisted that entering Chile required two forms I had never heard of, even though I had researched the requirements carefully. I missed my flight, and the cruise. When I complained, American Airlines quickly refunded the (nonrefundable) flight, but Aurora would not give me credit for a future cruise and my travel insurer, Trip Mate, denied my claim. I’d like American to acknowledge in writing that they made a mistake and use that to ask Aurora to reconsider and to file an appeal to Trip Mate. Can you help? Deborah, Franklin, Tenn. An American Airlines error kept a traveler from getting to her cruise’s departure, but the carrier wouldn’t take financial responsibility and her trip insurance refused to pay. Then our columnist stepped in.\n",
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I’m a fan of low budget horror and I had high hopes for Skinamarink, but I was left with a headache from squinting at the screen trying to figure out what I was supposed to be seeing. The best part of this film was the font in the opening credits, which had a cool 80s horror vibe. Then the long, repetitive underlit shots of walls, carpets and children’s feet began. At first I was thinking, “okay the filmmaker is establishing a tone, I’m sure the whole film isn’t like this” But I was wrong. The whole film, all hour and forty five minutes of it, is the same: slow, dark, and barely anything happening. There were one or two jump scares but I spent so long anticipating them that when they finally arrived they didn’t make me flinch. There’s the kernel of something interesting there, but after seeing the same shot of a wall with things stuck to it for the seventeenth time, I realized that that kernel was never, ever going to germinate and I agree with a previous viewer’s “emperor has no clothes” comment.
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I read a lot of physics. And most of this is sheer nonsense while we spend billions looking for ever more elusive particles. in our quest to understand. sure. but unlike most science articles about the newest discoveries, never a word about how this could benefit us all. and things moved with astonishing rapidity after fundamental insights and discoveries a century ago, despite requiring far less money and time. now everything moves slow as molasses, they're still playing fancy math games with stuff that was discovered many decades ago. of course they describe it as the most interesting time ever, that's how they get governments to give them 10 billion dollar toys. what are space and time? Feynman would have laughed at (most of) this, and told them where to shove their fancy equations that just go on and on.
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"content": "I read a lot of physics. And most of this is sheer nonsense while we spend billions looking for ever more elusive particles. in our quest to understand. sure. but unlike most science articles about the newest discoveries, never a word about how this could benefit us all. and things moved with astonishing rapidity after fundamental insights and discoveries a century ago, despite requiring far less money and time. now everything moves slow as molasses, they're still playing fancy math games with stuff that was discovered many decades ago. of course they describe it as the most interesting time ever, that's how they get governments to give them 10 billion dollar toys. what are space and time? Feynman would have laughed at (most of) this, and told them where to shove their fancy equations that just go on and on.\n",
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Rural Progressive And you are not paying any taxes either whereas the people who buy gas are paying about 5 cents a mile (at least in CA). That's about $7.4 Billion in annual revenue that the state will have to replace. Possibly with a GPS toll system that tracks time and distance on roads.
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"content": "Rural Progressive And you are not paying any taxes either whereas the people who buy gas are paying about 5 cents a mile (at least in CA). That's about $7.4 Billion in annual revenue that the state will have to replace. Possibly with a GPS toll system that tracks time and distance on roads.\n",
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This has probably been said already, but right now there's not much at stake having a stalled House. It's less inconvenient than a government shutdown, by far. We'll be fine without a Speaker, and all that implies, until there's a threat of default on the national debt. At which time, miraculously many intransigent House Republicans will be visited by representatives of wealthy Republican donors, and voila, there will be Republican Speaker. Possibly it will be Matt Gaetz who gets to the mic first to proclaim victory, that he and his mates got exactly what they wanted.The other possibility is that the circus just gets stale and nobody pays attention any more, meaning the Clown Caucus has to find another tactic to attract attention.
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"content": "This has probably been said already, but right now there's not much at stake having a stalled House. It's less inconvenient than a government shutdown, by far. We'll be fine without a Speaker, and all that implies, until there's a threat of default on the national debt. At which time, miraculously many intransigent House Republicans will be visited by representatives of wealthy Republican donors, and voila, there will be Republican Speaker. Possibly it will be Matt Gaetz who gets to the mic first to proclaim victory, that he and his mates got exactly what they wanted.The other possibility is that the circus just gets stale and nobody pays attention any more, meaning the Clown Caucus has to find another tactic to attract attention.\n",
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I will feel sorry for Bret’s inflation-beleaguered $400k/yr couple when he also tells me how much their home(s) and stock portfolio “inflated” since the beginning of the pandemic.
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"content": "I will feel sorry for Bret’s inflation-beleaguered $400k/yr couple when he also tells me how much their home(s) and stock portfolio “inflated” since the beginning of the pandemic.\n",
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The debt ceiling relates to legislation that has already been passed and spending that has already been authorized. It's absurd to attempt to "negotiate" spending you've already committed to making. That's what the budget is for, but I see little to no attempt to clarify that. Additionally, I noticed this article made mention of the "$5 trillion spending spree" for Covid, but not a peep about the $2 trillion or more that Trump shoveled into the pockets of the wealthy through unnecessary and undeserved tax cuts. Apparently the livelihood and health of senior citizens is on the line, but never the pointless and wasteful tax cuts for our domestic oligarchs and corporations that Republicans love.
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"content": "The debt ceiling relates to legislation that has already been passed and spending that has already been authorized. It's absurd to attempt to \"negotiate\" spending you've already committed to making. That's what the budget is for, but I see little to no attempt to clarify that. Additionally, I noticed this article made mention of the \"$5 trillion spending spree\" for Covid, but not a peep about the $2 trillion or more that Trump shoveled into the pockets of the wealthy through unnecessary and undeserved tax cuts. Apparently the livelihood and health of senior citizens is on the line, but never the pointless and wasteful tax cuts for our domestic oligarchs and corporations that Republicans love.\n",
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I was always curious and have a hard time trusting people, I do not think it is only me that has a hard time finding good doctors,dentists and mechanics. Anyone remember Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser? Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack is anothercurrent interesting show to check out. Currently reading Figuring it out by Charles D. Ellis, some old information andhe does repeat some of it, but sound advice. He drills it in,1 percent fee's, are really incremental fee's that run up to15 to 20 percent of your gains. Advisors very very rarely,and over the long run almost never beat the index's when youadd in their fee's, they used to, but that was 40 or 50 years ago.Today with computers and all the professionals out there, thereare not any hidden hot stocks to find. It is a shame so manypeople do not pay attention until it is too late, a family memberwho recently retired is now paying 1.5 percent to have someonehold her hand. Buffet's partner (Charley Munger) said the best thing you can dowhen the market's inevitably rattle is to sit on your hands, whichis easier said than done, some of the best advice I have heard.I started saving for retirement in my 20's, glad I did. Never wanted to work till I dropped over. Instead of new vehicles I drove them til they were basically junk and put that moneyinto mutual funds. Was not difficult to figure out or do, mostpeople will not make the effort or sacrifice.
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"content": "I was always curious and have a hard time trusting people, I do not think it is only me that has a hard time finding good doctors,dentists and mechanics. Anyone remember Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser? Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack is anothercurrent interesting show to check out. Currently reading Figuring it out by Charles D. Ellis, some old information andhe does repeat some of it, but sound advice. He drills it in,1 percent fee's, are really incremental fee's that run up to15 to 20 percent of your gains. Advisors very very rarely,and over the long run almost never beat the index's when youadd in their fee's, they used to, but that was 40 or 50 years ago.Today with computers and all the professionals out there, thereare not any hidden hot stocks to find. It is a shame so manypeople do not pay attention until it is too late, a family memberwho recently retired is now paying 1.5 percent to have someonehold her hand. Buffet's partner (Charley Munger) said the best thing you can dowhen the market's inevitably rattle is to sit on your hands, whichis easier said than done, some of the best advice I have heard.I started saving for retirement in my 20's, glad I did. Never wanted to work till I dropped over. Instead of new vehicles I drove them til they were basically junk and put that moneyinto mutual funds. Was not difficult to figure out or do, mostpeople will not make the effort or sacrifice.\n",
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Oatmeal SPAN panels are currently available. R&D leading to production does take time, and will involve failures along with small successes, but technology has a way of leapfrogging expectations at certain points. If you told most people 10 years ago we would have sub-$35k EVs with 250+ miles of range that outperform their gas counterparts and have a lower total cost of ownership, they probably would not have believed you.
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"content": "Oatmeal SPAN panels are currently available. R&D leading to production does take time, and will involve failures along with small successes, but technology has a way of leapfrogging expectations at certain points. If you told most people 10 years ago we would have sub-$35k EVs with 250+ miles of range that outperform their gas counterparts and have a lower total cost of ownership, they probably would not have believed you.\n",
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If you work at Amazon and get laid off, then complain it's a "challenge" to look for a new job because you no longer have a computer, please explain how it is you could not know that Amazon sells a tablet that is cheaper than a cell phone - a Kindle - for under $100 that is perfectly capable of helping with a job hunt. Add a $25 wireless Bluetooth keyboard and you are in business.
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"content": "If you work at Amazon and get laid off, then complain it's a \"challenge\" to look for a new job because you no longer have a computer, please explain how it is you could not know that Amazon sells a tablet that is cheaper than a cell phone - a Kindle - for under $100 that is perfectly capable of helping with a job hunt. Add a $25 wireless Bluetooth keyboard and you are in business.\n",
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Todd Please. Trump took papers he had as president, and he had the power to declassify (whether he declassified these documents is open to question). He (or his reps) notified the nat archive that they had the docs and were in negotiations with them re which ones belonged to Trump and which ones needed to be returned. The docs were padlocked in a room at Mara Largo and the secret service provided 24 hour security.In contrast, Biden took the docs when he was exiting office as VP. He had no power to declassify the docs. He kept them, moved them around and had them stored with no guards in at least two locations in 2 different states.Once the docs were discovered (which is still fuzzy as to why his attorneys were going through his documents) -- the public wasn't notified until the mid term elections had passed. Clearly, if the public had known that Biden possessed classified docs before the midterms, it might have negatively affected some democrat candidates. So -- yes there are differences between the two situations -- mostly favoring Trump. In either case, both had classified material in their possession that wasn't authorized. End of story.
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"content": "Todd Please. Trump took papers he had as president, and he had the power to declassify (whether he declassified these documents is open to question). He (or his reps) notified the nat archive that they had the docs and were in negotiations with them re which ones belonged to Trump and which ones needed to be returned. The docs were padlocked in a room at Mara Largo and the secret service provided 24 hour security.In contrast, Biden took the docs when he was exiting office as VP. He had no power to declassify the docs. He kept them, moved them around and had them stored with no guards in at least two locations in 2 different states.Once the docs were discovered (which is still fuzzy as to why his attorneys were going through his documents) -- the public wasn't notified until the mid term elections had passed. Clearly, if the public had known that Biden possessed classified docs before the midterms, it might have negatively affected some democrat candidates. So -- yes there are differences between the two situations -- mostly favoring Trump. In either case, both had classified material in their possession that wasn't authorized. End of story.\n",
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Davebarnes yup.Here in Madrid, a glass of house wine - which in some places is literally the owner's family's vineyard, but in most is the local equivalent of "mass produced" - is the same as a pint of beer (more than a caña). Usually around €3, sometimes as much as €6, and that is in the national capitol, which is far more expensive than much of the country.In the US, a glass of wine is usually twice to three times the price of a beer or cider - $8-12 - for low-quality wines.No wonder younger imbibers - I'm 39, by the way - have had trouble gaining a taste! There is also the whole "mystique" thing, grape varietals, wine snobbery, even association with "femininity". That is pretty much absent from general culture here. 99% of the time you just order a Vino Tinto and get what you get, or at nicer places have ~10 options rather than the 100 or so at many "nice places" in the US...
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“The fundamental issue is this was a business whose main business was not public transportation or infrastructure,” Ms. Levin said. “Having them in that role was a risk.”The only reason corporations sign on to a public project is to get good PR that they can then leverage to boost profits. Their mindset is all about short-term investments and payoffs. I hope FB/Meta goes bankrupt with its stupid virtual reality focus.Meanwhile, we need to get our local, state, and federal governments to invest in mass transit -- and not tie their mast to the ship-of-fools that is the automobile-and-highway cartel. Where is former San Francisco governor -- and now California governor -- Gavin Newsom on this? California can set a model for mass transit with such local/regional projects and with bullet trains connecting major cities. Time to turn up the heat on California Democrats to make mass transit a priority!
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"content": "“The fundamental issue is this was a business whose main business was not public transportation or infrastructure,” Ms. Levin said. “Having them in that role was a risk.”The only reason corporations sign on to a public project is to get good PR that they can then leverage to boost profits. Their mindset is all about short-term investments and payoffs. I hope FB/Meta goes bankrupt with its stupid virtual reality focus.Meanwhile, we need to get our local, state, and federal governments to invest in mass transit -- and not tie their mast to the ship-of-fools that is the automobile-and-highway cartel. Where is former San Francisco governor -- and now California governor -- Gavin Newsom on this? California can set a model for mass transit with such local/regional projects and with bullet trains connecting major cities. Time to turn up the heat on California Democrats to make mass transit a priority!\n",
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BTM All in favor of this, provided they're not replaced by open-plan offices. I have a simple rule. When I go on a job interview, and I see workers in open-plan spaces, I immediately go into "intentionally blow the interview" mode, giving screwball answers to the questions purely for my own amusement because I already know there ain't a chance in heaven or earth I'm going to accept an offer even if they still give me one after I've answered questions like "where do you see yourself in five years" with "working somewhere else!"
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"content": "BTM All in favor of this, provided they're not replaced by open-plan offices. I have a simple rule. When I go on a job interview, and I see workers in open-plan spaces, I immediately go into \"intentionally blow the interview\" mode, giving screwball answers to the questions purely for my own amusement because I already know there ain't a chance in heaven or earth I'm going to accept an offer even if they still give me one after I've answered questions like \"where do you see yourself in five years\" with \"working somewhere else!\"\n",
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Netanyahu is what 4 billion in US tax dollars buys America every year. Kind of like investing in a car that loses an essential part every year . . . but somehow keeps rolling.
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"content": "Netanyahu is what 4 billion in US tax dollars buys America every year. Kind of like investing in a car that loses an essential part every year . . . but somehow keeps rolling.\n",
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Tibby Elgato this is not true. My husband and I are gen x, didn't start until age 40, and had loans. We don't work in a high-earning field. We bought a fixer-upper in a cheap part of town, lowered our overhead, and began maxing everythign we could--two 401ks, family HSA, the 529 for the kid. The the apartment also appreciated nicely. Start as soon as you can, and go big!!I do agree the savings account will never do it. But neither will putting small amounts into conservative investments.
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"content": "Tibby Elgato this is not true. My husband and I are gen x, didn't start until age 40, and had loans. We don't work in a high-earning field. We bought a fixer-upper in a cheap part of town, lowered our overhead, and began maxing everythign we could--two 401ks, family HSA, the 529 for the kid. The the apartment also appreciated nicely. Start as soon as you can, and go big!!I do agree the savings account will never do it. But neither will putting small amounts into conservative investments.\n",
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Out of morbid curiosity I used an audible credit to buy Spare. I’m up to Chapter 33 and he hasn’t met MM yet. It starts with his mother’s death and it’s mostly vignettes and each one included complaints. I get the part about missing his mother and hating photographers but it’s as if nothing good EVER happened to him. No nice stories are included. C’mon, he must have had some fun somewhere. It’s very tone deaf to complain so much while you had copious amounts of great food, lived in splendour and an A education (which instead he complains was just too difficult for him). All this even before he’s 18. He’s had a chip on his shoulder from day one. Geesh, I’d put the suffering in my life up against his any day and I don’t even have a Title and $100 million plus much more. I really don’t get this need to whine and complain publicly. I always felt sorry for him. I’m his mother’s age. But no longer. And his attention seeking, selfish, narcissistic, manipulative wife? Don’t get me started. She got the darn lip gloss didn’t she? I was so happy when they got married-a lovely ceremony. Now I believe she always meant to return home. She never fired her Agent, Attorney or Accountant from CA and hired a Hollywood PR firm while in London to fix her suffering image. I do not trust her at all or believe what she says. And yes, how did they so easily move to the US? Didn’t she give up her citizenship? Maybe not after all?
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"content": "Out of morbid curiosity I used an audible credit to buy Spare. I’m up to Chapter 33 and he hasn’t met MM yet. It starts with his mother’s death and it’s mostly vignettes and each one included complaints. I get the part about missing his mother and hating photographers but it’s as if nothing good EVER happened to him. No nice stories are included. C’mon, he must have had some fun somewhere. It’s very tone deaf to complain so much while you had copious amounts of great food, lived in splendour and an A education (which instead he complains was just too difficult for him). All this even before he’s 18. He’s had a chip on his shoulder from day one. Geesh, I’d put the suffering in my life up against his any day and I don’t even have a Title and $100 million plus much more. I really don’t get this need to whine and complain publicly. I always felt sorry for him. I’m his mother’s age. But no longer. And his attention seeking, selfish, narcissistic, manipulative wife? Don’t get me started. She got the darn lip gloss didn’t she? I was so happy when they got married-a lovely ceremony. Now I believe she always meant to return home. She never fired her Agent, Attorney or Accountant from CA and hired a Hollywood PR firm while in London to fix her suffering image. I do not trust her at all or believe what she says. And yes, how did they so easily move to the US? Didn’t she give up her citizenship? Maybe not after all?\n",
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Retired biology teacher with 35 years experience with students in the classroom and the outdoors here, sharing a few thoughts.1. Over the years I needed to adopt and integrate a host of innovations in my pedagogy - calculators and computers, the internet, Wikipedia, and Google. One thread that my mentors and I held firm: the overall goal of science education is to encourage and provide the resources for students to think like scientists. The best teachers will find ways incorporate ChatGPT while keeping their eyes on the prize. 2. Homework is generally overemphasized and overvalued. Real learning takes place in the classroom with students engaged in supervised research and lab work, collaborating with their community of their peers. And, as much as possible, the best biology teaching gets students outdoors to make their own observations, explorations and discoveries. Again, good teachers will find ways to incorporate AI in this process, but it will never substitute for direct engagement with nature and each other.3. Marshall McLuhan had something: the medium is the message. Digital technology is useful in so many ways, but having students (and everybody else) become addicted to looking at screens for the primary source of information interferes with our human capacity to connect with each other and the rest of nature.4. The algorithms for ChatGPT are human generated. So, the old adage holds: Garbage in, garbage out.
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"content": "Retired biology teacher with 35 years experience with students in the classroom and the outdoors here, sharing a few thoughts.1. Over the years I needed to adopt and integrate a host of innovations in my pedagogy - calculators and computers, the internet, Wikipedia, and Google. One thread that my mentors and I held firm: the overall goal of science education is to encourage and provide the resources for students to think like scientists. The best teachers will find ways incorporate ChatGPT while keeping their eyes on the prize. 2. Homework is generally overemphasized and overvalued. Real learning takes place in the classroom with students engaged in supervised research and lab work, collaborating with their community of their peers. And, as much as possible, the best biology teaching gets students outdoors to make their own observations, explorations and discoveries. Again, good teachers will find ways to incorporate AI in this process, but it will never substitute for direct engagement with nature and each other.3. Marshall McLuhan had something: the medium is the message. Digital technology is useful in so many ways, but having students (and everybody else) become addicted to looking at screens for the primary source of information interferes with our human capacity to connect with each other and the rest of nature.4. The algorithms for ChatGPT are human generated. So, the old adage holds: Garbage in, garbage out.\n",
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In China, almost 70% of all investments Chinese make is in real estate. Why? There are few other options to invest. Foreign purchases are forbidden (except for well-connected CCP members); the stock market is highly regulated by the government, as we've seen the past few years, with companies like Alibaba, Tencent and many others suffering >50%losses because the CCP decided to steal some of their profits, er, I mean, make them comply with securities law (which the CCP just made up).As this article shows, real estate was supposed to be the ticket up for middle class Chinese.Real estate makes up nearly 30% of China's GDP. If it suffers, China suffers.China's public debt is now over 300% of their GDP - and with their just released numbers showing the population is not only declining but getting much older, how are they supposed to pay for this aging society?Remember Evergrande, the huge Chinese real estate developer? They defaulted on their debt and still have to find ways to pay off $300 billion. They are the most heavily indebted company in the world. Other developers like Sinic, Country Gardens and more are even worse off.The great Chinese real estate bubble has burst, and it's just getting started.
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"content": "In China, almost 70% of all investments Chinese make is in real estate. Why? There are few other options to invest. Foreign purchases are forbidden (except for well-connected CCP members); the stock market is highly regulated by the government, as we've seen the past few years, with companies like Alibaba, Tencent and many others suffering >50%losses because the CCP decided to steal some of their profits, er, I mean, make them comply with securities law (which the CCP just made up).As this article shows, real estate was supposed to be the ticket up for middle class Chinese.Real estate makes up nearly 30% of China's GDP. If it suffers, China suffers.China's public debt is now over 300% of their GDP - and with their just released numbers showing the population is not only declining but getting much older, how are they supposed to pay for this aging society?Remember Evergrande, the huge Chinese real estate developer? They defaulted on their debt and still have to find ways to pay off $300 billion. They are the most heavily indebted company in the world. Other developers like Sinic, Country Gardens and more are even worse off.The great Chinese real estate bubble has burst, and it's just getting started.\n",
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Save us from the evangelists.NFTs will tie the world together? Most people in the world would rather use their money on real-world things like food, a place to live, clothing, all the stuff that's too inconveniently physical to sit on a blockchain as some bytes. "Owning" a digital thing on the blockchain that's just a digital image anyone can make an identical copy of? You're greedy or you've been had. Might as well invest in good solid assets like the constantly-counterfeited sports memorabilia racket.The guy who fantasizes that banks are used by government to attack people for their climate change impact might have (well deserved) guilty feelings about massive energy waste of Bitcoin.True believers are just a veneer covering the massive money interests who want to get in, hype things, cash out and then move on to the next Silicon Valley thing. Those same folks got rich on crypto and there wasn't a lot of effort on the investor's part to crack down on the massive fraud, theft, money-laundering that was happening based on their invested funds. But then, their ideology was OK with crimes by Uber and other blithe disregard of law like Airbnb's ignoring zoning and hotel rules.We can read the flowery hopes and dreams that "Web3" promises to one and all - and then notice that something promising freedom from the big corporate/government world is being promoted and funded by the t-shirt billionaires who gave us the toxic stew of social media all for ad revenues.
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"content": "Save us from the evangelists.NFTs will tie the world together? Most people in the world would rather use their money on real-world things like food, a place to live, clothing, all the stuff that's too inconveniently physical to sit on a blockchain as some bytes. \"Owning\" a digital thing on the blockchain that's just a digital image anyone can make an identical copy of? You're greedy or you've been had. Might as well invest in good solid assets like the constantly-counterfeited sports memorabilia racket.The guy who fantasizes that banks are used by government to attack people for their climate change impact might have (well deserved) guilty feelings about massive energy waste of Bitcoin.True believers are just a veneer covering the massive money interests who want to get in, hype things, cash out and then move on to the next Silicon Valley thing. Those same folks got rich on crypto and there wasn't a lot of effort on the investor's part to crack down on the massive fraud, theft, money-laundering that was happening based on their invested funds. But then, their ideology was OK with crimes by Uber and other blithe disregard of law like Airbnb's ignoring zoning and hotel rules.We can read the flowery hopes and dreams that \"Web3\" promises to one and all - and then notice that something promising freedom from the big corporate/government world is being promoted and funded by the t-shirt billionaires who gave us the toxic stew of social media all for ad revenues.\n",
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These people! Look, far be it from me to criticize anyone for doing things to look good. I certainly do, everything from exercise to using a variety of face creams of questionable efficacy. But my life is so far removed from spending $1,000 per month (into perpetuity, perhaps) to stay thin, followed by spending $75,000 on a "deep-plane facelift" to counteract the consequences of the monthly $1,000 outlay, that I can only laugh. Good on you if you feel and look great, but somewhere in my depths - underneath all of my own shallow concerns - I do feel a twinge of concern that we as a society have gone very profoundly wrong somehow.
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"content": "These people! Look, far be it from me to criticize anyone for doing things to look good. I certainly do, everything from exercise to using a variety of face creams of questionable efficacy. But my life is so far removed from spending $1,000 per month (into perpetuity, perhaps) to stay thin, followed by spending $75,000 on a \"deep-plane facelift\" to counteract the consequences of the monthly $1,000 outlay, that I can only laugh. Good on you if you feel and look great, but somewhere in my depths - underneath all of my own shallow concerns - I do feel a twinge of concern that we as a society have gone very profoundly wrong somehow.\n",
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LW4: oh heck no, ask her for that money! Don't be afraid to be direct with people about things like this. Best case, your friend meant to pay the first time you asked and then got distracted and forgot and just needs a reminder. Worst case, she doesn't want to pay you back and is hoping you will continue to not bring it up so she won't have to feel obligated to pay. Either way, just suck it up and be direct. This is $400 we're talking about - that's a significant amount of money for most people. It's not a comfortable conversation, but it is the adult way to resolve issues. These kind of situations are a great example of the phrase "we teach people how to treat us." You're not just getting your money back, you're setting an expectation of clear, direct communication with your friends.
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"content": "LW4: oh heck no, ask her for that money! Don't be afraid to be direct with people about things like this. Best case, your friend meant to pay the first time you asked and then got distracted and forgot and just needs a reminder. Worst case, she doesn't want to pay you back and is hoping you will continue to not bring it up so she won't have to feel obligated to pay. Either way, just suck it up and be direct. This is $400 we're talking about - that's a significant amount of money for most people. It's not a comfortable conversation, but it is the adult way to resolve issues. These kind of situations are a great example of the phrase \"we teach people how to treat us.\" You're not just getting your money back, you're setting an expectation of clear, direct communication with your friends.\n",
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I appreciated and enjoyed this tale and it made me think back to 2020 when a major American-based producer of outdoor wear adopted a policy whereby it would not support the oil and gas industries, likening the move to its stance of not investing in the tobacco and porn industries. The company refused an order for 400 outdoor jackets that were to be purchased by an energy company and to have the energy company's logo on the jackets.The blowback from the oil and gas industry was immediate, with commentary to the outdoor wear manufacturer pointing out that (a) the manufacturer's products were made up of a high percentage of oil/gas derivatives (polymers and plastics), and (b) the manufacturer's products were used in many outdoor activities that could not be possible if it weren't for oil/gas derivatives.My takeaway from this article is that anyone can contribute to reducing the use and waste of plastic materials. I also had a good laugh at the extremes to which the journalist went to avoid plastic.
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"content": "I appreciated and enjoyed this tale and it made me think back to 2020 when a major American-based producer of outdoor wear adopted a policy whereby it would not support the oil and gas industries, likening the move to its stance of not investing in the tobacco and porn industries. The company refused an order for 400 outdoor jackets that were to be purchased by an energy company and to have the energy company's logo on the jackets.The blowback from the oil and gas industry was immediate, with commentary to the outdoor wear manufacturer pointing out that (a) the manufacturer's products were made up of a high percentage of oil/gas derivatives (polymers and plastics), and (b) the manufacturer's products were used in many outdoor activities that could not be possible if it weren't for oil/gas derivatives.My takeaway from this article is that anyone can contribute to reducing the use and waste of plastic materials. I also had a good laugh at the extremes to which the journalist went to avoid plastic.\n",
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Go home, Mr. Blinken. The rest of the world is staring in wonder at the American superpower marching over the cliff of national extinction. Whatever Utopian vision of the future you and your Democrat colleagues have in mind, the rest of the world does not share your enthusiasm for a non working citizenry living on the largesse of a small number of tax payers, an open border policy that allows in terrorists and criminals, a definition of democracy that punishes concerned parents and citizens while whitewashing government officials getting obscenely rich on Congressional salaries of $180K per year, enough drugs brought to our nation to kill our children several times over, and crime so vicious that people and businesses are relocating out of the cities. You come on home and help supervise the dissolution of the American society, security and economy. The rest of the world, particularly beleaguered small states, want you to send our still excellent technology and science, but otherwise go away until you've completely disintegrated or woken up to reality.
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"content": "Go home, Mr. Blinken. The rest of the world is staring in wonder at the American superpower marching over the cliff of national extinction. Whatever Utopian vision of the future you and your Democrat colleagues have in mind, the rest of the world does not share your enthusiasm for a non working citizenry living on the largesse of a small number of tax payers, an open border policy that allows in terrorists and criminals, a definition of democracy that punishes concerned parents and citizens while whitewashing government officials getting obscenely rich on Congressional salaries of $180K per year, enough drugs brought to our nation to kill our children several times over, and crime so vicious that people and businesses are relocating out of the cities. You come on home and help supervise the dissolution of the American society, security and economy. The rest of the world, particularly beleaguered small states, want you to send our still excellent technology and science, but otherwise go away until you've completely disintegrated or woken up to reality.\n",
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Figure08 the same way many do today - the most powerful form of advertising - word of mouthI used to tell my students - people will drive across town to visit a place recommended by their friendsand will walk past, and never go into, places they've heard negative things about from their friendswe live strolling distance from a restaurant district so regularly walk past many new and old restaurants and get to observe their popularity and progress over timeone of my techniques is - when we used to get advertising flyers in our letterbox, I would say 'no need to go there - if they need to advertise, that means they aren't attracting customers by word of mouth so that tells me it's no good'the places we frequent - reliably good, cheap, delicious - never advertise - and one has been in business since 1968. New places come and go - we watch them open and close - and I can typically project within about six months how long they will stay open.
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The association with someone close to a Russian oligarch is not even remotely surprising. It may be too late to uncover the complexities of the infiltration into the political and financial systems in this country. Before the identity of the "investor" was mentioned I found it interesting that once again we see that the wealthy are forever chasing schemes that promise massively greater returns than anyone else can get. Apparently, the more money one has, the more one needs. The acquisition of wealth and power are ends unto themselves. The power part can be bought in this country for relatively peanuts. All one need do is find a compliant candidate and pour money at him/her. The former administration was full of these sorts and rather obviously, now the US House has been bought. This country has a great future! See Peter Thiel/JD Vance for another recent example.
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"content": "The association with someone close to a Russian oligarch is not even remotely surprising. It may be too late to uncover the complexities of the infiltration into the political and financial systems in this country. Before the identity of the \"investor\" was mentioned I found it interesting that once again we see that the wealthy are forever chasing schemes that promise massively greater returns than anyone else can get. Apparently, the more money one has, the more one needs. The acquisition of wealth and power are ends unto themselves. The power part can be bought in this country for relatively peanuts. All one need do is find a compliant candidate and pour money at him/her. The former administration was full of these sorts and rather obviously, now the US House has been bought. This country has a great future! See Peter Thiel/JD Vance for another recent example.\n",
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Until Republicans acknowledge they recently let or even helped Trump add $7.8 trillion to the national debt, $2 trillion of which was for tax cuts for the rich, they shouldn’t go near the nation’s finances, much less threaten to default or rob the pension fund.They are total disasters. Trump has had several bankruptcies and has been found guilty of fraud multiple times in twice for tax fraud in 1987, as well as for Trump U fraud and Trump Foundation fraud.
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"content": "Until Republicans acknowledge they recently let or even helped Trump add $7.8 trillion to the national debt, $2 trillion of which was for tax cuts for the rich, they shouldn’t go near the nation’s finances, much less threaten to default or rob the pension fund.They are total disasters. Trump has had several bankruptcies and has been found guilty of fraud multiple times in twice for tax fraud in 1987, as well as for Trump U fraud and Trump Foundation fraud.\n",
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Scott How can this statement be improved? The context is a NYT reader comment as a reply to a (man?) from NYC who believes ChatGPT will cause a 10% job loss amongst (his?) associates. The field is assumed to be un-specifically "White-collar".`Knowing how to use AI effectively will become what separates an effective worker from an ineffective worker.`"Adapting to the integration of AI in the workplace will be crucial for job performance and career advancement. Those who embrace and utilize AI will be more valuable and effective employees, while those who resist its implementation may fall behind."
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Agreed. I had a desk job for 38 years in banking. Fit (competitive swimming) and I thought in good shape, I’m glad I retired at 62. Heart attack and quadruple bypass at 65 made me appreciate that decision even more. Lost 2 life partners to date - one at 76 and the other at 68. To those in their 20’s - save - and invest in down markets. You’ll be glad you did when you’re nearing 60.
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If we used Musk's logic we should just keep having people dying to perfect his software. The reason for that is Tesla is not spending enough on development such that Musk, if he drove the car, wouldn't have one of those negative externalities like dying. In software development, the more you spend on development and testing, the less issues you have in production. But what the issues are is all the difference in the world. If NASA took Musk's logic we would just learn a lot when the astronauts die and wouldn't worry about it because future astronauts would be safer. That's great for all of those future astronauts isn't it. But we are talking about driving a car. We are talking about not running over a wagon with a toddler in it. If we have to switch out of Autopilot to avoid that or when we enter a less than wealthy neighborhood, how can any one think it's "perfected" for adoption. It obviously isn't and that is because Tesla has not invested enough in the software development and testing but is being forced to move things into production faster because of the callous management decisions of a profit maximizing narcissist. Earth to Elon, there is no long term in using a car that has only a 10 year projected life. There will be no long term for Tesla if people die unnecessarily in the short term. Its one thing for people to ignore the "branding" disaster Musk created all by himself and another to ignore the development shortcuts legally covered up in the fine print.
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"content": "If we used Musk's logic we should just keep having people dying to perfect his software. The reason for that is Tesla is not spending enough on development such that Musk, if he drove the car, wouldn't have one of those negative externalities like dying. In software development, the more you spend on development and testing, the less issues you have in production. But what the issues are is all the difference in the world. If NASA took Musk's logic we would just learn a lot when the astronauts die and wouldn't worry about it because future astronauts would be safer. That's great for all of those future astronauts isn't it. But we are talking about driving a car. We are talking about not running over a wagon with a toddler in it. If we have to switch out of Autopilot to avoid that or when we enter a less than wealthy neighborhood, how can any one think it's \"perfected\" for adoption. It obviously isn't and that is because Tesla has not invested enough in the software development and testing but is being forced to move things into production faster because of the callous management decisions of a profit maximizing narcissist. Earth to Elon, there is no long term in using a car that has only a 10 year projected life. There will be no long term for Tesla if people die unnecessarily in the short term. Its one thing for people to ignore the \"branding\" disaster Musk created all by himself and another to ignore the development shortcuts legally covered up in the fine print.\n",
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Retired Fed, who says? My dad died at 62, never collecting on the benefits he paid as the breadwinner of the household. My mother had the means to invest & would never have had to collect SSI from his & I presume her paltry contributions combined. She lived very frugally with everything paid off on SSI minus what was taken out for Medicare. I recently visited a member of the family in the hospital. Due to diabetes/kidney complications of the mother, the baby due was delivered by caesarian two-three months early & is a preemie in an incubator, & will have to remain in the hospital for a month. I have no children because I chose not to live a precarious life with a child and unwilling others to get involved with the financial/caregiving responsibilities. I thought about this.....I would prefer a M4A system despite having not yet required major medical care. I foresee an increasingly privatized system going forward wanting to financially drain my resources instead.
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"content": "Retired Fed, who says? My dad died at 62, never collecting on the benefits he paid as the breadwinner of the household. My mother had the means to invest & would never have had to collect SSI from his & I presume her paltry contributions combined. She lived very frugally with everything paid off on SSI minus what was taken out for Medicare. I recently visited a member of the family in the hospital. Due to diabetes/kidney complications of the mother, the baby due was delivered by caesarian two-three months early & is a preemie in an incubator, & will have to remain in the hospital for a month. I have no children because I chose not to live a precarious life with a child and unwilling others to get involved with the financial/caregiving responsibilities. I thought about this.....I would prefer a M4A system despite having not yet required major medical care. I foresee an increasingly privatized system going forward wanting to financially drain my resources instead.\n",
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I've always loved gas ranges because you instantly know when they're hot by the flame; they don't need time warm up; seeing the flame is a much more direct way to ascertain heat than relying on a dial; and I just think food tastes better when cooked over an open flame. But my kitchen isn't near any windows. Since reading about this, I've had the high-powered exhaust fan from the overhanging microwave on whenever I use it, because I don't have neither the money nor inclination to replace it.
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Buying a few shares of these corporations is easy. As a shareholder, you can attend annual meetings and agitate for change. Terminating people without cause when companies are profitable is wrong. If companies can be pursued to have principles about not investing in certain industries, they can be pursued to treat human beings justly in their career operations. And pension funds, hedge funds, colleges etc should stop investing in these companies.
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"content": "Buying a few shares of these corporations is easy. As a shareholder, you can attend annual meetings and agitate for change. Terminating people without cause when companies are profitable is wrong. If companies can be pursued to have principles about not investing in certain industries, they can be pursued to treat human beings justly in their career operations. And pension funds, hedge funds, colleges etc should stop investing in these companies.\n",
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Eric B Wordle 580 2/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩🟨⬜🟩🟨 90 98 2 "Strong, Lucky"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 74s "Excellent"Skill 99 Luck 86Today, a favorite opener left just two words. Actually, I had better than a 50/50 chance for the deuce. I didn't even think of the other word. Yesterday's Wordle 579 4/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜ 90 4 252 Ariel⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 88 16 26 Sound⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 88 55 2 Butch🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 92 76 MuckySkill 89 Luck 38With just one vowel after two guesses, I feared that my streak was threatened. After considering that the "u" was probably the second letter, I searched for a "tch" ending and thought of "butch" which left me with two choices. Lucky and "ducky" came to mind but were ruled out by previous steps. They did bring "mucky" and "yucky" to mind. "Yucky" was, well, yucky so I chose "mucky."TGIF! Happy Friday!
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"content": "Eric B Wordle 580 2/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩🟨⬜🟩🟨 90 98 2 \"Strong, Lucky\"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 74s \"Excellent\"Skill 99 Luck 86Today, a favorite opener left just two words. Actually, I had better than a 50/50 chance for the deuce. I didn't even think of the other word. Yesterday's Wordle 579 4/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜ 90 4 252 Ariel⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 88 16 26 Sound⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 88 55 2 Butch🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 92 76 MuckySkill 89 Luck 38With just one vowel after two guesses, I feared that my streak was threatened. After considering that the \"u\" was probably the second letter, I searched for a \"tch\" ending and thought of \"butch\" which left me with two choices. Lucky and \"ducky\" came to mind but were ruled out by previous steps. They did bring \"mucky\" and \"yucky\" to mind. \"Yucky\" was, well, yucky so I chose \"mucky.\"TGIF! Happy Friday!\n",
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Indeed Ross and what good has that done? There's still $28 billion in the rainy day fund which is to be used for?
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"content": "Indeed Ross and what good has that done? There's still $28 billion in the rainy day fund which is to be used for?\n",
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According to the Fed, the top 1% has 16X the wealth of the bottom 50 percent. That's $43 trillions for the top 1% and $2.8 trillions for the bottom 50 percent. Every darn Republican and corporate Democrat wants to continue to help the very rich, putting the squeeze on almost everyone else. Upkeep of the very rich is very expensive. Why do we do it?
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"content": "According to the Fed, the top 1% has 16X the wealth of the bottom 50 percent. That's $43 trillions for the top 1% and $2.8 trillions for the bottom 50 percent. Every darn Republican and corporate Democrat wants to continue to help the very rich, putting the squeeze on almost everyone else. Upkeep of the very rich is very expensive. Why do we do it?\n",
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We have an aging population that is requiring services. We have known this was going to come for decades. Instead of preparing for it, we ignored it and cut taxes like crazy.Tax cuts have never paid for themselves. From studies I have seen reported in the media, you get back about 33 cents in increased revenue for every dollar cut. So you lose about 66 cents for every dollar cut in taxes.The big difference here is that tax cuts make the top end wealthier. The working class save a few hundred, but the high earners make millions more. Then the working class, which depends upon Social Security and Medicare is grossly underfinanced.When Bush II came into office, he enacted huge tax cuts which ballooned the deficit. Then we had the dot com bust, and then the massive financial crisis, which all cost trillions. We finally got back on our feet and then Trump enacted more massive tax cuts. Between the irresponsible lack of regulation and huge tax cuts for the super rich, we have dug ourselves into a deep hole. Everything the right has done to enhance prosperity has been funded by debt. Debt finances growth just like spending does. The differences is that debt is targeted to the super rich while spending is usually targeted to the working class.
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"content": "We have an aging population that is requiring services. We have known this was going to come for decades. Instead of preparing for it, we ignored it and cut taxes like crazy.Tax cuts have never paid for themselves. From studies I have seen reported in the media, you get back about 33 cents in increased revenue for every dollar cut. So you lose about 66 cents for every dollar cut in taxes.The big difference here is that tax cuts make the top end wealthier. The working class save a few hundred, but the high earners make millions more. Then the working class, which depends upon Social Security and Medicare is grossly underfinanced.When Bush II came into office, he enacted huge tax cuts which ballooned the deficit. Then we had the dot com bust, and then the massive financial crisis, which all cost trillions. We finally got back on our feet and then Trump enacted more massive tax cuts. Between the irresponsible lack of regulation and huge tax cuts for the super rich, we have dug ourselves into a deep hole. Everything the right has done to enhance prosperity has been funded by debt. Debt finances growth just like spending does. The differences is that debt is targeted to the super rich while spending is usually targeted to the working class.\n",
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kmgx25 in addition to all the excellent ideas you present, the compromise that would be extremely effective, I think, would be for any organization that abandons support for their products to be required to completely open up their product and release all the source code, by law. The result will be that enthusiasts will keep products that need to be kept alive alive.The other alternative is that they can continue producing security updates indefinitely, as selling a known insecure product should also be unlawful.
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"content": "kmgx25 in addition to all the excellent ideas you present, the compromise that would be extremely effective, I think, would be for any organization that abandons support for their products to be required to completely open up their product and release all the source code, by law. The result will be that enthusiasts will keep products that need to be kept alive alive.The other alternative is that they can continue producing security updates indefinitely, as selling a known insecure product should also be unlawful.\n",
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This is such a classic and unfortunate rhetorical strategy common in the NYT. Present an uncontroversial ethical issue (pay should be transparent), and turning it into a watered-down both-sides argument. We need to expand this notion of transparency to keep companies accountable to their workers. Financial transparency across the board. A worker shouldn't be paid based on the market rate, or the rates of their coworkers. That just pits workers against other workers. Workers should be paid based on how much value they produce for the organization. And how are they supposed to know if they're being paid fairly if they don't understand how much money the organization is bringing in? I used to work as a tutor for a private tutoring corporation (seems oxymoronic, but there you go). We were getting paid minimum wage while the parents were being charged over $100/hour. And still I have absolutely no idea how much profit this company was making. I do, however, vaguely understand that I was completely taken advantage of to make money for ownership and pay bloated corporate executive salaries. Can't imagine they would have hired easily if people understood going in they were getting about 10% of what was being paid in by parents, while doing nearly 100% of the labor
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"content": "This is such a classic and unfortunate rhetorical strategy common in the NYT. Present an uncontroversial ethical issue (pay should be transparent), and turning it into a watered-down both-sides argument. We need to expand this notion of transparency to keep companies accountable to their workers. Financial transparency across the board. A worker shouldn't be paid based on the market rate, or the rates of their coworkers. That just pits workers against other workers. Workers should be paid based on how much value they produce for the organization. And how are they supposed to know if they're being paid fairly if they don't understand how much money the organization is bringing in? I used to work as a tutor for a private tutoring corporation (seems oxymoronic, but there you go). We were getting paid minimum wage while the parents were being charged over $100/hour. And still I have absolutely no idea how much profit this company was making. I do, however, vaguely understand that I was completely taken advantage of to make money for ownership and pay bloated corporate executive salaries. Can't imagine they would have hired easily if people understood going in they were getting about 10% of what was being paid in by parents, while doing nearly 100% of the labor\n",
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johnw I’m not surprised he’s going hard right. I’m sure that was the plan and that’s where he received the $700k in question.
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"content": "johnw I’m not surprised he’s going hard right. I’m sure that was the plan and that’s where he received the $700k in question.\n",
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Florida Man V What country did Trump visit first, it wasn't the UK, France or Germany, it was Saudi Arabia. Report: Jared Kushner’s $2 Billion Saudi Check Appears Even More Comically Corrupt Than Previously Thought<a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-saudi-arabia" target="_blank">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/jared-kushner-affinity-partners-saudi-arabia</a>
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Sorry for introducing the whataboutism here, however, I cannot stop comparing Hunter's story with the largely unlooked-at saga of just how Javanka came out of their WH years with about $640M in profits. Where is the GOP concern for their dealings?
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"content": "Sorry for introducing the whataboutism here, however, I cannot stop comparing Hunter's story with the largely unlooked-at saga of just how Javanka came out of their WH years with about $640M in profits. Where is the GOP concern for their dealings?\n",
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From Reuters and other sources:In her opening statement during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was blessed to be "born in this great nation" and added: "I must also pause to reaffirm my thanks to God, for it is faith that sustains me at this moment." Jackson, 51, pledged independence if confirmed by the Senate to the nation's top judicial body and embraced a limited role for jurists.We should be worried that someone who used her intelligence, hard work and diligence to get where she is would attribute her success to an imaginary friend.
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"content": "From Reuters and other sources:In her opening statement during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was blessed to be \"born in this great nation\" and added: \"I must also pause to reaffirm my thanks to God, for it is faith that sustains me at this moment.\" Jackson, 51, pledged independence if confirmed by the Senate to the nation's top judicial body and embraced a limited role for jurists.We should be worried that someone who used her intelligence, hard work and diligence to get where she is would attribute her success to an imaginary friend.\n",
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Jim S Thanks so much for this post! This is exactly how I have been feeling for years, working at 3 and even 4 institutions some semesters, as more and more the humanities are attacked as useless, elitist wastes of money. Sometimes I teach a class with 20 or so of students, but the pay receive is equal to the tuition paid by TWO of them. But if it weren't for being in two unions, I wouldn't even earn that! One place where I work DOES offer health insurance, thank heavens, so there are adjuncts WAY worse off than I am. There is a huge wealth and value gap opening up in higher ed that I'd wager most of "the forgotten" in our society know almost nothing about. In some ways, our plight isn't that different from theirs, in other words.
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"content": "Jim S Thanks so much for this post! This is exactly how I have been feeling for years, working at 3 and even 4 institutions some semesters, as more and more the humanities are attacked as useless, elitist wastes of money. Sometimes I teach a class with 20 or so of students, but the pay receive is equal to the tuition paid by TWO of them. But if it weren't for being in two unions, I wouldn't even earn that! One place where I work DOES offer health insurance, thank heavens, so there are adjuncts WAY worse off than I am. There is a huge wealth and value gap opening up in higher ed that I'd wager most of \"the forgotten\" in our society know almost nothing about. In some ways, our plight isn't that different from theirs, in other words.\n",
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Highly exaggerated article. The Valley has gone through some changes, particularly since the pandemic and allowing workers to work from home. But there aren't throngs of employees getting laid off and being undervalued. Most tech workers, particularly engineers, thrive in their jobs and enjoy them. And the two companies this author mentions -- Microsoft and Tick Tock aren't even headquartered in Silicon Valley.
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"content": "Highly exaggerated article. The Valley has gone through some changes, particularly since the pandemic and allowing workers to work from home. But there aren't throngs of employees getting laid off and being undervalued. Most tech workers, particularly engineers, thrive in their jobs and enjoy them. And the two companies this author mentions -- Microsoft and Tick Tock aren't even headquartered in Silicon Valley.\n",
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My question is about the 850 pre-Covid Article 28 psychiatric beds that remain "off-line." In NYS, Article 28 covers voluntary, not-for-profit hospitals like NYU Medical Center, NY Presbyterian, the Northwell System, Mt. Sinai, Montefiore, and other major, politically powerful organizations. Prior to Covid, those 850 Article 28 beds provided a real service to people with severe mental illness, their families, and the entire community by offering acute care-level (about 30 days) of inpatient care to individuals whose symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, etc., had worsened for any of a host of possible reasons. Those loss of those 850 beds have likely contributed to the increase in the visibility of severe mental illness in our midst, and to the suffering of many individuals and their family members. The question is have these 850 beds been permanently converted into far more profitable beds for competing redundant cancer treatment centers, orthopedic and plastic surgery "institutes," etc.? Governor Hochul and her administration are to be commended for proposing serious next steps to address the long-standing enormous gaps in our mental health treatment system. But the devil is in the details, one of which is enforcement. Will $2,000/day penalties be sufficient to influence the multi-billion dollar Article 28 empire in NYC? I doubt it.
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"content": "My question is about the 850 pre-Covid Article 28 psychiatric beds that remain \"off-line.\" In NYS, Article 28 covers voluntary, not-for-profit hospitals like NYU Medical Center, NY Presbyterian, the Northwell System, Mt. Sinai, Montefiore, and other major, politically powerful organizations. Prior to Covid, those 850 Article 28 beds provided a real service to people with severe mental illness, their families, and the entire community by offering acute care-level (about 30 days) of inpatient care to individuals whose symptoms of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, etc., had worsened for any of a host of possible reasons. Those loss of those 850 beds have likely contributed to the increase in the visibility of severe mental illness in our midst, and to the suffering of many individuals and their family members. The question is have these 850 beds been permanently converted into far more profitable beds for competing redundant cancer treatment centers, orthopedic and plastic surgery \"institutes,\" etc.? Governor Hochul and her administration are to be commended for proposing serious next steps to address the long-standing enormous gaps in our mental health treatment system. But the devil is in the details, one of which is enforcement. Will $2,000/day penalties be sufficient to influence the multi-billion dollar Article 28 empire in NYC? I doubt it.\n",
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They can inherit $13 million, tax free. Back in the day, I couldn't even inherit a teardown without paying inheritance and estate taxes on it.
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"content": "They can inherit $13 million, tax free. Back in the day, I couldn't even inherit a teardown without paying inheritance and estate taxes on it.\n",
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And the trillions of dollars that the government will have to print to fund all this will certainly increase inflation. At some point the rest of the world will decide that investing in the US dollar is no longer a good idea.
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"content": "And the trillions of dollars that the government will have to print to fund all this will certainly increase inflation. At some point the rest of the world will decide that investing in the US dollar is no longer a good idea.\n",
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OlyMom Truffles cost a fortune.
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Michael Gallagher this article highlights the ability of people from different backgrounds to form a strong bond and learn from each other. Regardless of Mr. Perkins’ many failings, it sounds like he learned to be more open and understanding by virtue of this relationship. No one is saying he or his twisted beliefs should now be accepted. The point of the article is much simpler: We can learn and grow from connecting with other human beings, even ones who are very different from us.
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"content": "Michael Gallagher this article highlights the ability of people from different backgrounds to form a strong bond and learn from each other. Regardless of Mr. Perkins’ many failings, it sounds like he learned to be more open and understanding by virtue of this relationship. No one is saying he or his twisted beliefs should now be accepted. The point of the article is much simpler: We can learn and grow from connecting with other human beings, even ones who are very different from us.\n",
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It's a harsh reality. We've seen it in Oil & Gas but the real threat is water. I live in an arid region of TX in a mid sized city and we have spent over $100 million securing water rights to underground supplies and building a 75 mile pipeline to our water plant for use. We also impound water in reservoirs built decades ago by the Corp. of Engineers. We go through periods of time in which we are flush with water, and other periods when the reservoirs get low and we ration water. So I feel their pain. But a growing population presents the same problem only with more urgency. Don't build houses, or buy houses unless you are on a reliable public water supply. That's the moral to this story.
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"content": "It's a harsh reality. We've seen it in Oil & Gas but the real threat is water. I live in an arid region of TX in a mid sized city and we have spent over $100 million securing water rights to underground supplies and building a 75 mile pipeline to our water plant for use. We also impound water in reservoirs built decades ago by the Corp. of Engineers. We go through periods of time in which we are flush with water, and other periods when the reservoirs get low and we ration water. So I feel their pain. But a growing population presents the same problem only with more urgency. Don't build houses, or buy houses unless you are on a reliable public water supply. That's the moral to this story.\n",
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“Has Prince Harry’s Confessional Tour Run Its Course?”Good lord I certainly hope so!With so much going on in the world that demands our attention having to be witness to the drivel coming from H and M even peripherally is beyond the pale. Harry and his bride are making millions of dollars over his “family issues.” Hard to feel sorry for them. And as a 23 year-old well educated man he thought his dead mother was still alive? Please.
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"content": "“Has Prince Harry’s Confessional Tour Run Its Course?”Good lord I certainly hope so!With so much going on in the world that demands our attention having to be witness to the drivel coming from H and M even peripherally is beyond the pale. Harry and his bride are making millions of dollars over his “family issues.” Hard to feel sorry for them. And as a 23 year-old well educated man he thought his dead mother was still alive? Please.\n",
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The real problem is that we don't know the source of the $700,000 he used to finance his campaign.If the money was supplied by a foreign country, the expectation is that it would be paid back with valuable information that would endanger our security. I hope I'm wrong, but we definitely need to get Santos out of Congress before it's too late!
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"content": "The real problem is that we don't know the source of the $700,000 he used to finance his campaign.If the money was supplied by a foreign country, the expectation is that it would be paid back with valuable information that would endanger our security. I hope I'm wrong, but we definitely need to get Santos out of Congress before it's too late!\n",
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It is a shame that great QBs can destroy their own team by raiding their franchise's cap. If I were an elite QB, I'd want my team to be a compliment to my talent. These QBs can afford to take less & invest in a HOF financial team, to ensure multi-generational wealth, while allowing their team to grow around them. I believe this is what Brady did with The Pats.
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Applaud Gen Zs for being transparent about their salary. The more open we are about it, the less taboo it appears. It’s just a number, we are hesitant to share because of OUR THINKING that number equates our value/worth.
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"content": "Applaud Gen Zs for being transparent about their salary. The more open we are about it, the less taboo it appears. It’s just a number, we are hesitant to share because of OUR THINKING that number equates our value/worth.\n",
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“All of the above“ works for me. Here’s one more:— Mint a wooden nickel. — Incinerate it with a blow torch on camera. — Post the video on the Internet. — Make an NFT of the site. — Sell the NFT to the Fed for a trillion dollars. — Fed loses the NFT’s key. The advantage of this approach is that you don’t have to worry about custody of a coin. Plus, crypto bros should love it.
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"content": "“All of the above“ works for me. Here’s one more:— Mint a wooden nickel. — Incinerate it with a blow torch on camera. — Post the video on the Internet. — Make an NFT of the site. — Sell the NFT to the Fed for a trillion dollars. — Fed loses the NFT’s key. The advantage of this approach is that you don’t have to worry about custody of a coin. Plus, crypto bros should love it.\n",
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Guns are fine as tools, but once they become intertwined in one's identity they become dangerous. A weapon cannot repair damaged self-esteem and a sense of inferiority. Open carry becomes a mechanism for controling one's immediate surroundings through initmadation and an implied threat. Confident people don't need this equilizer and don't need to impose themselves on others.
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"content": "Guns are fine as tools, but once they become intertwined in one's identity they become dangerous. A weapon cannot repair damaged self-esteem and a sense of inferiority. Open carry becomes a mechanism for controling one's immediate surroundings through initmadation and an implied threat. Confident people don't need this equilizer and don't need to impose themselves on others.\n",
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Barbara add in the 34k they are set to receive as a stpend for travel and other expenses and the money for their staff and I’m positive we can get the job done in about 6 seconds. Maybe less
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"content": "Barbara add in the 34k they are set to receive as a stpend for travel and other expenses and the money for their staff and I’m positive we can get the job done in about 6 seconds. Maybe less\n",
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If there were such a thing as making money simply, my neighbor found it during the pandemic. He became a toilet paper mogul. He claimed that he made $100k in less than a year selling his commodity on eBay.What an experience.
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"content": "If there were such a thing as making money simply, my neighbor found it during the pandemic. He became a toilet paper mogul. He claimed that he made $100k in less than a year selling his commodity on eBay.What an experience.\n",
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Over the past 10 years, We have had cause to drive through, and to, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. My husband and I are self-identified as white, affluent, Jewish/Episcopalian seniors from the SF Bay Area, so our politics and beliefs are fairly baked in to the left. We do, however, try to be open minded regarding other’s beliefs, but find that there is a troubling message along our roadsides in this country that is festering and we are seeing the effects of it everywhere we go. There are folks in rural areas who spend hard earned money having giant signs made that they place on their businesses, farms and ranches that inform passers-by that the election was stolen, babies are dying without Trump in office and Jesus is the only one who can save us. So these folks have seen the light and know that politics is the only way that Jesus’s work can be accomplished. They are running in local elections for school board, mayors, supervisor, etc. Montana seems to be embracing these reimaginers of the history of this country, which BTW, actually was founded by people who wanted no oversight of their religion by a government, and vice versa. So, I’d say, be aware, be politically active, and be afraid. This may not end well.
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"content": "Over the past 10 years, We have had cause to drive through, and to, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. My husband and I are self-identified as white, affluent, Jewish/Episcopalian seniors from the SF Bay Area, so our politics and beliefs are fairly baked in to the left. We do, however, try to be open minded regarding other’s beliefs, but find that there is a troubling message along our roadsides in this country that is festering and we are seeing the effects of it everywhere we go. There are folks in rural areas who spend hard earned money having giant signs made that they place on their businesses, farms and ranches that inform passers-by that the election was stolen, babies are dying without Trump in office and Jesus is the only one who can save us. So these folks have seen the light and know that politics is the only way that Jesus’s work can be accomplished. They are running in local elections for school board, mayors, supervisor, etc. Montana seems to be embracing these reimaginers of the history of this country, which BTW, actually was founded by people who wanted no oversight of their religion by a government, and vice versa. So, I’d say, be aware, be politically active, and be afraid. This may not end well.\n",
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fact or friction the trump tax cuts cost 190 billion over 10 years- 1.9 trillion in total. Not accounting for any economic gains that is the amount we lost from these cuts. However, if you consider the fact that unemployment fell pretty far and we had other economic gains, then I am not so sure that we lost anything from those cuts. We did, however, continue to expand government beyond any former budget we had in history (and continue to do so). So, my point is that the deficits are almost entirely a result of too much spending and only modestly from the lack of revenue collected.
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"content": "fact or friction the trump tax cuts cost 190 billion over 10 years- 1.9 trillion in total. Not accounting for any economic gains that is the amount we lost from these cuts. However, if you consider the fact that unemployment fell pretty far and we had other economic gains, then I am not so sure that we lost anything from those cuts. We did, however, continue to expand government beyond any former budget we had in history (and continue to do so). So, my point is that the deficits are almost entirely a result of too much spending and only modestly from the lack of revenue collected.\n",
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Joan White Youngkin won because he pledged to open schools and allow parents to exercise their rights in regards to their children. Nothing more, nothing less.
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"content": "Joan White Youngkin won because he pledged to open schools and allow parents to exercise their rights in regards to their children. Nothing more, nothing less.\n",
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I've been studying the U.S. defense industrial base for over 40 years now. It has become hollow. THe industrial base we have now is NOT the industrial base we used to "win" the Cold War. It is certainly not the industrial base that we used to defeat Hitler.The major contractors are driven by the need to reduce risks, in order to improve their appeal to shareholders (since returns are largely capped.) The legacy contractors have become "ATMs," focused on generating cash and returning it to investors so they can invest it outside the defense industry.Investors see this. The complete set of publicly traded defense companies in the US -- added together -- is worth less than Facebook.Meanwhile, we are trying to attract tech companies to support DoD. But for most, DoD is a small, difficult-to-serve, niche market. The regulations -- most recently CUI -- drive away companies who have better options. Example: iRobot, which built robots used in the first Gulf War, would rather build vacuum cleaners for Chinese consumers. It exited the defense business, selling it to private equity investors. None of this will change until we develop an acquisition model that can embrace risk, as opposed to just using SBIRs, OTAs, etc. to try to circumvent the current acquisition process.Putin has done us a huge favor. He is demonstrated the failure of our defense industrial base. A sense of urgency has emerged. Now the question is whether we will see the leadership in DoD to drive change.
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"content": "I've been studying the U.S. defense industrial base for over 40 years now. It has become hollow. THe industrial base we have now is NOT the industrial base we used to \"win\" the Cold War. It is certainly not the industrial base that we used to defeat Hitler.The major contractors are driven by the need to reduce risks, in order to improve their appeal to shareholders (since returns are largely capped.) The legacy contractors have become \"ATMs,\" focused on generating cash and returning it to investors so they can invest it outside the defense industry.Investors see this. The complete set of publicly traded defense companies in the US -- added together -- is worth less than Facebook.Meanwhile, we are trying to attract tech companies to support DoD. But for most, DoD is a small, difficult-to-serve, niche market. The regulations -- most recently CUI -- drive away companies who have better options. Example: iRobot, which built robots used in the first Gulf War, would rather build vacuum cleaners for Chinese consumers. It exited the defense business, selling it to private equity investors. None of this will change until we develop an acquisition model that can embrace risk, as opposed to just using SBIRs, OTAs, etc. to try to circumvent the current acquisition process.Putin has done us a huge favor. He is demonstrated the failure of our defense industrial base. A sense of urgency has emerged. Now the question is whether we will see the leadership in DoD to drive change.\n",
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MidtownATL Much, but not all of the funding is public.None of this erases the fact that drug development is very difficult and therefore costly.Just look at how many fundraising dollars are raised every year for common diseases like cancer or MS, versus actual new drugs developed to treat those diseases. The fact of the matter is that research scientists need to be paid a living wage, and extensive trials need to take place before a drug is released to mass market.
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John Grint I would add the massive reorg of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the purpose of which was to open the NHS to more private provision. A lot of the Act has been reversed in some ways, but the reorg added costs at the same time funding was being squeezed.And to that you can add Brexit and the exodus of EU staff.I hope you are reconsidering loyalty to the Tories.
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$60 checks?!!!! Wow - Please open near me! We dine out 7 nights a week - and NEVER pay less than $100 per person - usually $125 to $150 and we are not big drinkers - we just dont know how to cook:) I guess Kinston is a pretty small rural place where ppl won’t pay more?
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Is the Times now delicately backtracking on identifying the real-life conductor on whom the film is based? It's that paragon of elitism, the finally-deposed conductor of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, who treated her musicians like sweatshop slaves. The one who would use three $100 words when one would suffice, to justify her MacArthur fellowship status. It didn't matter that she couldn't make beautiful music, so long as she kept smooth-talking the board and donors. And in the end, she left the orchestra with larger debt and a disintegrating staff.
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"content": "Is the Times now delicately backtracking on identifying the real-life conductor on whom the film is based? It's that paragon of elitism, the finally-deposed conductor of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, who treated her musicians like sweatshop slaves. The one who would use three $100 words when one would suffice, to justify her MacArthur fellowship status. It didn't matter that she couldn't make beautiful music, so long as she kept smooth-talking the board and donors. And in the end, she left the orchestra with larger debt and a disintegrating staff.\n",
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