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PATRICK It is Norway. The country whose politicians are very honest to the extent they set up a sovereign wealth fund to invest and hold their income from North Sea Gas and oil for the benefit of the entire population. Unlike the UK where the politicians used the oil and gas money to buy votes.
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Late 30s and enjoy a glass of wine, but will rarely spend more than $20 per bottle. There is no great mystery for how to appeal to people like me: affordability and quality. There is no future in which its commonplace to spend $50 on a bottle.
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"content": "Late 30s and enjoy a glass of wine, but will rarely spend more than $20 per bottle. There is no great mystery for how to appeal to people like me: affordability and quality. There is no future in which its commonplace to spend $50 on a bottle.\n",
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The fabled "great Russia" glorified in literature and movies is nothing more that a succession of imperialist, repressive regimes that have constantly colonized, plundered, and ethnically cleansed (i.e. russified) countless peoples from Crimea to the Asian far east, since the days of the Czars. There is nothing noble, honorable or respectable about the Russia we see today on the map. This giant country is really the result of 300 years of coercion, genocides and forced migrations.It's about time that this monstrosity disappears from the maps, replaced by independent countries defined by the free choice of their own people. Hardly any non-russian ethnic group will want to stay under Moscow, living in abject poverty and underdevelopment only to be called up as cannon fodder whenever the ruling elites launch another kleptocratic war.Putin has opened the eyes of the world on the true nature of "Russia" as we know it today. He will bring his empire's final downfall.
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"content": "The fabled \"great Russia\" glorified in literature and movies is nothing more that a succession of imperialist, repressive regimes that have constantly colonized, plundered, and ethnically cleansed (i.e. russified) countless peoples from Crimea to the Asian far east, since the days of the Czars. There is nothing noble, honorable or respectable about the Russia we see today on the map. This giant country is really the result of 300 years of coercion, genocides and forced migrations.It's about time that this monstrosity disappears from the maps, replaced by independent countries defined by the free choice of their own people. Hardly any non-russian ethnic group will want to stay under Moscow, living in abject poverty and underdevelopment only to be called up as cannon fodder whenever the ruling elites launch another kleptocratic war.Putin has opened the eyes of the world on the true nature of \"Russia\" as we know it today. He will bring his empire's final downfall.\n",
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A life without an occasional indulgence is, for me, a life not worth living. Since I have no idea when I'm going to die--and what from--nor do I really want to know--my periodic binging on a plate of french fries slathered with cheese, my ordering an extra slab of fatty bacon on my half-pound cheeseburger just on impulse, and my throwing three sheets to the wind a couple of times a year when celebrating nothing other than the very magic of alcohol-- these are my ideas of a life well managed.Neither a Puritan nor a glutton, I gain immense satisfaction from my devil-may-care indulgences which have never failed to add some sparkle to my ordinarily sensible existence.And when I'm finally called up by the grim reaper, I'll experience few regrets over having denied myself an occasional walk on the wild side but for no other reason than to extend my lifespan by who knows how many years.As I had often been told by my mother who was 94 years-old at the time of her death, "Everything in moderation, including moderation." She certainly knew what good parenting was all about.
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"content": "A life without an occasional indulgence is, for me, a life not worth living. Since I have no idea when I'm going to die--and what from--nor do I really want to know--my periodic binging on a plate of french fries slathered with cheese, my ordering an extra slab of fatty bacon on my half-pound cheeseburger just on impulse, and my throwing three sheets to the wind a couple of times a year when celebrating nothing other than the very magic of alcohol-- these are my ideas of a life well managed.Neither a Puritan nor a glutton, I gain immense satisfaction from my devil-may-care indulgences which have never failed to add some sparkle to my ordinarily sensible existence.And when I'm finally called up by the grim reaper, I'll experience few regrets over having denied myself an occasional walk on the wild side but for no other reason than to extend my lifespan by who knows how many years.As I had often been told by my mother who was 94 years-old at the time of her death, \"Everything in moderation, including moderation.\" She certainly knew what good parenting was all about.\n",
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"If workers can produce more in the same amount of time, then their employers can afford to pay them more per hour without either raising prices or cutting into profits."I think the authors need to come out of their ivory towers and experience real life. Profits rarely get shared to all employees, but usually go to the owners/shareholders and top management. In over 50 years of working, I never received a cost of living raise, and merit raises (which depended on the whim of your boss) were at random.Annual review? A farce during which little feed back was given .Bonus? One year I got a ten pound turkey and a check for $5.00 (no, I did not displace the decimal). They withheld tax on the check, so it actually was for $3.92..It's no wonder that employee trust has been eroded. We know we come last in benefits and job satisfaction, after managers, stockholders, and consumers (who are almost as badly treated as employees).
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"content": "\"If workers can produce more in the same amount of time, then their employers can afford to pay them more per hour without either raising prices or cutting into profits.\"I think the authors need to come out of their ivory towers and experience real life. Profits rarely get shared to all employees, but usually go to the owners/shareholders and top management. In over 50 years of working, I never received a cost of living raise, and merit raises (which depended on the whim of your boss) were at random.Annual review? A farce during which little feed back was given .Bonus? One year I got a ten pound turkey and a check for $5.00 (no, I did not displace the decimal). They withheld tax on the check, so it actually was for $3.92..It's no wonder that employee trust has been eroded. We know we come last in benefits and job satisfaction, after managers, stockholders, and consumers (who are almost as badly treated as employees).\n",
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"Our system was devised by people who couldn't and didn't foresee the devastating consequences of a two-party system in which the predominant motivation of elected officials is the retention of political power."They knew:"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus, the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another."--Washington's Farewell Address
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"content": "\"Our system was devised by people who couldn't and didn't foresee the devastating consequences of a two-party system in which the predominant motivation of elected officials is the retention of political power.\"They knew:\"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus, the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.\"--Washington's Farewell Address\n",
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Is $250K+ worth selling out your country? I hope he serves aife sentence if convicted.
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"content": "Is $250K+ worth selling out your country? I hope he serves aife sentence if convicted.\n",
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Karyn It is I I didn’t feel yelled at and yes the rolled eyes 👀 was intentional. The interesting thing I thought about the sharing button is that it pops up after “genius” first and the option to keep playing is now a very small icon in the upper right of the screen (on a browser, anyway). Maybe that signals we’ll soon see much longer lists of accepted words (ducal, atlatl?) and a sense that the game really is over at genius except for diehards who want to sweep up 100 word lists..
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"content": "Karyn It is I I didn’t feel yelled at and yes the rolled eyes 👀 was intentional. The interesting thing I thought about the sharing button is that it pops up after “genius” first and the option to keep playing is now a very small icon in the upper right of the screen (on a browser, anyway). Maybe that signals we’ll soon see much longer lists of accepted words (ducal, atlatl?) and a sense that the game really is over at genius except for diehards who want to sweep up 100 word lists..\n",
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Zoning boards are going to have to deal with this problem for many years. In-law apartments are not new and they do not affect the footprint of a home in the same way as ADUs. I object to ADUs mostly because they crowd out open space and they do affect neighborhoods in ways that in-laws apartments do not. I myself would not afflict an ADU on my neighbors, even if I got a permit for one, which in my town, I doubt I would. Portland, where I have family, is allowing lots to be subdivided, as well as ADUs. The long term does not look good for quality of life there. The central problem to elder housing, and all housing, climate change, and water depletion, everything, really, is OVERPOPULATION! We'd better start talking now about incentivizing one child families or we as a species are screwed.
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"content": "Zoning boards are going to have to deal with this problem for many years. In-law apartments are not new and they do not affect the footprint of a home in the same way as ADUs. I object to ADUs mostly because they crowd out open space and they do affect neighborhoods in ways that in-laws apartments do not. I myself would not afflict an ADU on my neighbors, even if I got a permit for one, which in my town, I doubt I would. Portland, where I have family, is allowing lots to be subdivided, as well as ADUs. The long term does not look good for quality of life there. The central problem to elder housing, and all housing, climate change, and water depletion, everything, really, is OVERPOPULATION! We'd better start talking now about incentivizing one child families or we as a species are screwed.\n",
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I was visiting a friend overseas, and she was talking about how she had told her teenagers that they could do whatever they wanted as adults -- including blue collar jobs. Then I explained to her that the minimum wage in the U.S. was $7.25 an hour. "We don't pay a minimum wage," she said. "We pay a living wage. If I were in the U.S., I think I would be more stressed about what my children were going to end up doing."Of course there are occasional blue collar jobs in which people can do well financially. But we have set up a society in which the stakes are too high if someone does not fall within a certain set of desirable skills or a certain education level. We could do much better as a society with fewer billionaires and more working class people making $40k to 60k a year. (Of course, if everyone were paid that well, fewer people would be able to become billionaires. Most billionaires are directly or indirectly in their positions because of wage theft.)
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"content": "I was visiting a friend overseas, and she was talking about how she had told her teenagers that they could do whatever they wanted as adults -- including blue collar jobs. Then I explained to her that the minimum wage in the U.S. was $7.25 an hour. \"We don't pay a minimum wage,\" she said. \"We pay a living wage. If I were in the U.S., I think I would be more stressed about what my children were going to end up doing.\"Of course there are occasional blue collar jobs in which people can do well financially. But we have set up a society in which the stakes are too high if someone does not fall within a certain set of desirable skills or a certain education level. We could do much better as a society with fewer billionaires and more working class people making $40k to 60k a year. (Of course, if everyone were paid that well, fewer people would be able to become billionaires. Most billionaires are directly or indirectly in their positions because of wage theft.)\n",
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Adrienne If you're serious about food waste and economizing, and have the cash and space for it, a separate freezer is your best investment. Failing that, it's all about making lists and food prepping for the week. Because in this country, we collectively throw out about 40% of the food we buy.
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"content": "Adrienne If you're serious about food waste and economizing, and have the cash and space for it, a separate freezer is your best investment. Failing that, it's all about making lists and food prepping for the week. Because in this country, we collectively throw out about 40% of the food we buy.\n",
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Putin and his supporters in Russia deserve a multipronged approach to finally ending the irrational, unjustifiable attack that the mad dog in the Kremlin started. Chechens and Tatars and all other ethnic groups in Asia should open their own fronts against Russia and teach Putin and his supporters in Russia a lesson they won't soon forget. Putin is now struggling with his attack on Ukraine. What will he do with multipronged guerilla attacks from other borders?
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"content": "Putin and his supporters in Russia deserve a multipronged approach to finally ending the irrational, unjustifiable attack that the mad dog in the Kremlin started. Chechens and Tatars and all other ethnic groups in Asia should open their own fronts against Russia and teach Putin and his supporters in Russia a lesson they won't soon forget. Putin is now struggling with his attack on Ukraine. What will he do with multipronged guerilla attacks from other borders?\n",
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Joe It's because there are no cheap shelters after we turned housing into a speculative wall street corrupt investment.This not only causes homelessness but it is a massive tax on the working class as rents often increase far beyond wages. Though land lords complain rents often increase around 10% per year. Wages have not kept up.Thus here we are.This is possible because of debt schemes and speculation in housing from wall street.The costs of housing have been decoupled from the local wages. Meaning that if you only have low paid jobs the housing will fall to low paid workers costs. It should. But it isn't.That right there is why we are where we are. This goes directly back to corporations buying up housing and gouging citizens with rents.We have a serious problem in this country.It is capture of our system by the wealthy.
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"content": "Joe It's because there are no cheap shelters after we turned housing into a speculative wall street corrupt investment.This not only causes homelessness but it is a massive tax on the working class as rents often increase far beyond wages. Though land lords complain rents often increase around 10% per year. Wages have not kept up.Thus here we are.This is possible because of debt schemes and speculation in housing from wall street.The costs of housing have been decoupled from the local wages. Meaning that if you only have low paid jobs the housing will fall to low paid workers costs. It should. But it isn't.That right there is why we are where we are. This goes directly back to corporations buying up housing and gouging citizens with rents.We have a serious problem in this country.It is capture of our system by the wealthy.\n",
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In part, I sold my house in Vermont because it was on a dirt road. Not mentioned in the article is the heath hazard of breathing in the dust and aerosolized particulate of whatever material is used on the road. My house was well set back but I couldn’t keep road-side windows open or comfortably use outdoor space. And vehicles don’t slow down just because a road is dirt, so a ramble down our quaint Vermont road meant a mouth and eyes full of grit. The town wanted to pave the road because the constant maintainence is expensive, but just one homeowner blocked the improvement. When cars and trucks are replaced by horses, I’ll join a dirt road coalition.
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"content": "In part, I sold my house in Vermont because it was on a dirt road. Not mentioned in the article is the heath hazard of breathing in the dust and aerosolized particulate of whatever material is used on the road. My house was well set back but I couldn’t keep road-side windows open or comfortably use outdoor space. And vehicles don’t slow down just because a road is dirt, so a ramble down our quaint Vermont road meant a mouth and eyes full of grit. The town wanted to pave the road because the constant maintainence is expensive, but just one homeowner blocked the improvement. When cars and trucks are replaced by horses, I’ll join a dirt road coalition.\n",
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Two comments on remarks by Mr. Stephens that are incorrect and were allowed to glide by...Americans as a whole are not living longer. This is the new Republican canard trotted out to destroy Social Security. Rich Americans are living longer. We schlubs not at the top of the top quintile of income earners are not. And brushing off Ms. Collins point that asking a construction worker to work until 70 is different from asking a writer to work until 70 is disingenuous. After forty years in construction, does anyone believe workers should be forced to work forty hour weeks at McDonald's for even $15 per hour? Or that it is even physically possible for most?And gas stoves do not "cook better" than electric stoves. In the past, yes, but we're not talking about your grandmother's coil-burner electric stove, are we? Newer induction models cook more quickly than gas and with a level of control equal to gas. If we ever want to reverse or even slow GCC we must accept that minor facets of our lives will change. Like cooking over an open flame. The fact that Republicans have ginned up outrage over a proposed ban on gas stoves says more about the unseriousness and disingenuousness of Republicans than about Democrats "shooting themselves in the foot".
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"content": "Two comments on remarks by Mr. Stephens that are incorrect and were allowed to glide by...Americans as a whole are not living longer. This is the new Republican canard trotted out to destroy Social Security. Rich Americans are living longer. We schlubs not at the top of the top quintile of income earners are not. And brushing off Ms. Collins point that asking a construction worker to work until 70 is different from asking a writer to work until 70 is disingenuous. After forty years in construction, does anyone believe workers should be forced to work forty hour weeks at McDonald's for even $15 per hour? Or that it is even physically possible for most?And gas stoves do not \"cook better\" than electric stoves. In the past, yes, but we're not talking about your grandmother's coil-burner electric stove, are we? Newer induction models cook more quickly than gas and with a level of control equal to gas. If we ever want to reverse or even slow GCC we must accept that minor facets of our lives will change. Like cooking over an open flame. The fact that Republicans have ginned up outrage over a proposed ban on gas stoves says more about the unseriousness and disingenuousness of Republicans than about Democrats \"shooting themselves in the foot\".\n",
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I have been puzzled by why how much these events have saddened me, because I am neither British, nor a monarchist. I’ve realized what I’m mourning is the death of critical thinking as the norm. Just because Harry said it doesn’t make it true. He hasn’t presented a shred of actual evidence that his family worked against him. Yet so many people are reviling members of his family as dark hearted villains. For several reasons the family cannot/will not retaliate. But imagine if your partner or child or sibling drew up a list of every hurtful or indifferent word or action that was (allegedly) yours, and made only a passing reference to every word and action that was loving, protective, nurturing, caring. Would you feel the picture drawn of you was fair or accurate? Whatever details Harry has shared- smaller bedroom, lip-gloss, stress over dress alterations…is this the stuff heartbreak is made of? Harry is deeply unhappy and insecure. Happy and secure people do not expend so much effort into tearing down other people. He is consumed by the “unfairness” of the reality that his perks and privileges would never equal those afforded to William. Most others in his shoes may have been consumed with gratitude about the perks and privileges he did have, unimaginable to 99.99% of the world’s population. If your heart bleeds for Harry, have some sympathy for his victims as well.
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"content": "I have been puzzled by why how much these events have saddened me, because I am neither British, nor a monarchist. I’ve realized what I’m mourning is the death of critical thinking as the norm. Just because Harry said it doesn’t make it true. He hasn’t presented a shred of actual evidence that his family worked against him. Yet so many people are reviling members of his family as dark hearted villains. For several reasons the family cannot/will not retaliate. But imagine if your partner or child or sibling drew up a list of every hurtful or indifferent word or action that was (allegedly) yours, and made only a passing reference to every word and action that was loving, protective, nurturing, caring. Would you feel the picture drawn of you was fair or accurate? Whatever details Harry has shared- smaller bedroom, lip-gloss, stress over dress alterations…is this the stuff heartbreak is made of? Harry is deeply unhappy and insecure. Happy and secure people do not expend so much effort into tearing down other people. He is consumed by the “unfairness” of the reality that his perks and privileges would never equal those afforded to William. Most others in his shoes may have been consumed with gratitude about the perks and privileges he did have, unimaginable to 99.99% of the world’s population. If your heart bleeds for Harry, have some sympathy for his victims as well.\n",
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Since Reaganomics, (PATCO Aug 5th 1981). Workers went from the New Deal to a Raw Deal. The ruling elites in America have rigged a predatory economy that works extremely well for themselves, while leaving the average worker in the gutter and heading out to sea and on their own. Furthermore, union participation rate was 10.1 percent in 2022, down from 10.3 percent in 2021 according to www.bls.gov This is not good.Solution?We need to reverse Citizens United and end all the Dark Money in politics and start to refocus on average citizens and workers. If not, I fear what comes next.
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"content": "Since Reaganomics, (PATCO Aug 5th 1981). Workers went from the New Deal to a Raw Deal. The ruling elites in America have rigged a predatory economy that works extremely well for themselves, while leaving the average worker in the gutter and heading out to sea and on their own. Furthermore, union participation rate was 10.1 percent in 2022, down from 10.3 percent in 2021 according to www.bls.gov This is not good.Solution?We need to reverse Citizens United and end all the Dark Money in politics and start to refocus on average citizens and workers. If not, I fear what comes next.\n",
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A United States Savings Bond purchased thirty years ago for $5,000, maturing this month. paid about $21,000.. Distressing to know that those who try to cash them on or after January 19 may not be paid.
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"content": "A United States Savings Bond purchased thirty years ago for $5,000, maturing this month. paid about $21,000.. Distressing to know that those who try to cash them on or after January 19 may not be paid.\n",
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When Ukraine beat Russia, which they will, we, the US, our allies and partners must admit Ukraine to NATO. The EU must admit Ukraine to the EU.We are in the fight to save human rights or democracy, not just here at home, but around the world. Who the Anti Democracy line-up is should be clear to every American. It is the former president, his party, Putin, Bolsonaro, Orban, Meloni, MBS and XI.Ukraine is literally on the front lines of the battle and are paying the highest price there is, with their lives. Their fight is our fight and with the brilliant leadership of President Biden we have turned the tide in our favor.No one should think that this battle will end in a year or two, The battle for human right or light vs darkness has been going on since the the beginning of the human race.This century's battle is just beginning and it will not be decided until the last couple decades of it. JFK in his inaugural address to the world said that he welcome the challenge that his generation had to face, first in WW2 but then in the cold war. He said "In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger"In this century, Generation Z is being granted that role. By the time some of them turn 75 years old, history will have been made. Their challenge as with all battles is, will just enough them show up on the side of freedom, here and around the world.
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CSD This drug was created 20 years ago!"Over the past 20 years, AbbVie and its former parent company increased Humira’s price about 30 times, most recently by 8 percent this month. Since the end of 2016, the drug’s list price has gone up 60 percent to over $80,000 a year, according to SSR Health, a research firm."
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To this reader, a Democrat, a lot of the negative drift of the party started with Reagan: "government is the problem, not the solution." This set the table for tax cuts for the wealthy under the auspices of smaller government, wrecking the environment as "it was better for business," berating bureaucracy as the antecedent of the "Deep State," bashing unions as anti-business, and ending or greatly curtailing the Soviet threat: "tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev." Although, there were roots in Birch and Goldwater which formed strands that stuck around, were nurtured by Gingrich and Fox News, and got added juice with Sarah Palin's rise.Reagan showed that a grandfatherly politician could handle the press while advancing conservative ideas, and then clean the clocks of "those darn liberals" at the polls. Patriotism, union-bashing, and positive jingoism ("Morning in America") could sell, and allowed for two terms and a follow-up in Bush Sr.It was the Gingrich/Palin/Tea Party wing of the party that sat on the sidelines, madly fomenting as Barack Obama shook them up mightily, and those seeds got planted and sowed with Trump and Trumpism: revenge, liberal-loathing, press-pummeling, Obama-bashing, Hillary-hating. Today's House is the mean extension of the most recent group, showing that emboldened and aggressive leadership could light the fuse that sets back liberals and Democrats, and gives new life to the warped policy goals of the Right.Morality and decency died.
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Classified documents found (planted) in non-open to the public locations Biden conducted business as Vice President were returned IMMEDIATELY. Trump stole classified documents and refused to return them even with a subpoena, to this day. People protested after the murders of unarmed black people like George Floyd and Trump and his Peanut Gallery called the protestors "thugs" and the marches "violent." But the murderous riot on the Capitol to overturn a fair election is considered a peaceful protest by Trump and Republicans. Open investigations on Trump's family finances because his children are doing VERY WELL financially. Buying expensive homes and properties and have various businesses overseas with connections made while Trump was president. Let's talk about that Republicans.Democrats and companions need to keep fighting and show the public how delusional Trump and the Republican Party are to compare involuntary with voluntary, protests for justice with a monstrous mob riot, and breaking the Emoluments Clause. I know it's all politics, but for the Republicans Party to blatantly ignore real criminal behavior to protect Trump, rioters, and some of their own congress people is extremely disturbing. Vote Democrat and bring this Republican tax dollars wasteful spending nonsense to an end.
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"content": "Classified documents found (planted) in non-open to the public locations Biden conducted business as Vice President were returned IMMEDIATELY. Trump stole classified documents and refused to return them even with a subpoena, to this day. People protested after the murders of unarmed black people like George Floyd and Trump and his Peanut Gallery called the protestors \"thugs\" and the marches \"violent.\" But the murderous riot on the Capitol to overturn a fair election is considered a peaceful protest by Trump and Republicans. Open investigations on Trump's family finances because his children are doing VERY WELL financially. Buying expensive homes and properties and have various businesses overseas with connections made while Trump was president. Let's talk about that Republicans.Democrats and companions need to keep fighting and show the public how delusional Trump and the Republican Party are to compare involuntary with voluntary, protests for justice with a monstrous mob riot, and breaking the Emoluments Clause. I know it's all politics, but for the Republicans Party to blatantly ignore real criminal behavior to protect Trump, rioters, and some of their own congress people is extremely disturbing. Vote Democrat and bring this Republican tax dollars wasteful spending nonsense to an end.\n",
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Is premeditated murder illegal? If so, then the death penalty---premeditated murder by the state which, if memory serves correctly, does not necessarily reflect the views of the people and which has many people working in it who should not be there if true representation were reflected in, say, income level---should not be a legal method of punishing someone found guilty of murder that meets the criteria. With all due respect to the public defender, an overworked servant to the people, this insane person might not be facing the death penalty if he had driven his Tesla from his Upper East Side brownstone into a crowd of social justice protestors. The rich enjoy the "law" in ways the working class and poor do not. Yes, we want justice but we must insist that it is fair. I was there that day, across the highway, and my campus, BMCC, was totally ignored by the media circus surrounding our campus, covering this brutal, terrible event. I bring this up because my students are working class, attending a community college that struggles to stay open. If we want to prevent such violence, perhaps we can pay more mind to the violence we commit against our brothers and sisters at home and abroad. Perhaps we can stop funding rightwing coups. Perhaps we can stop baiting warmongers at home and abroad. Perhaps we can put on trial the former occupant of the White House. But premeditated murder---all murder---is wrong, even when the state does it under the facade of seeking justice.
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"content": "Is premeditated murder illegal? If so, then the death penalty---premeditated murder by the state which, if memory serves correctly, does not necessarily reflect the views of the people and which has many people working in it who should not be there if true representation were reflected in, say, income level---should not be a legal method of punishing someone found guilty of murder that meets the criteria. With all due respect to the public defender, an overworked servant to the people, this insane person might not be facing the death penalty if he had driven his Tesla from his Upper East Side brownstone into a crowd of social justice protestors. The rich enjoy the \"law\" in ways the working class and poor do not. Yes, we want justice but we must insist that it is fair. I was there that day, across the highway, and my campus, BMCC, was totally ignored by the media circus surrounding our campus, covering this brutal, terrible event. I bring this up because my students are working class, attending a community college that struggles to stay open. If we want to prevent such violence, perhaps we can pay more mind to the violence we commit against our brothers and sisters at home and abroad. Perhaps we can stop funding rightwing coups. Perhaps we can stop baiting warmongers at home and abroad. Perhaps we can put on trial the former occupant of the White House. But premeditated murder---all murder---is wrong, even when the state does it under the facade of seeking justice.\n",
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Glen Kaye I honestly believe the prices are jacked up then marked down a bit. I'm not a shopper but... a little bag of hard candy that I buy went from $1.99 to $2.50. Won't be buying these anymore. Greed is rampant.
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"content": "Glen Kaye I honestly believe the prices are jacked up then marked down a bit. I'm not a shopper but... a little bag of hard candy that I buy went from $1.99 to $2.50. Won't be buying these anymore. Greed is rampant.\n",
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Wondering why the normally cheapest, caged, non-organic eggs at my local Key Food (typically the most affordable store in the neighborhood) were $8.59/dozen, while at Trader Joes and Whole Foods they were one-third to half that price.
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"content": "Wondering why the normally cheapest, caged, non-organic eggs at my local Key Food (typically the most affordable store in the neighborhood) were $8.59/dozen, while at Trader Joes and Whole Foods they were one-third to half that price.\n",
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I find it interesting that athletic directors and. coaches who rake in mega million dollars for themselves and billions for the schools, find it somehow disconcerting when the players, who generate the wealth for the system, make a couple hundred thousand. The player who makes $300,000 is somehow preventing that same $300,000 from going to the swim team? — funny that we don’t hear that argument when $5 million goes to the head football coach. 
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Rural America thrives on delusions… and knows it. The cognitive dissonance is what drives folks mad.Rural America thinks of itself as ‘Christian.’ But Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Jerry Falwell… no one in her right mind would equate vicious, venal hypocrites of their ilk with the teachings of the mythical Jesus.Rural America thinks of itself as self-sufficient, ‘fiscally conservative,’ self-supporting common folk who live by the sweat of their brow. But if you follow the money, the predominantly rural ‘red states’ feed at the federal trough fast and furious. A state like Tennessee pays $1 into the federal coffers each year and gets $3 back; while New York, New Jersey, California and others pay $1 in and get less than $1 back. Turns out those folks banging the drum about their ‘good ol’ fashioned values’ are our nation’s ‘welfare queens.’ And they know it, every time another federal check comes in the mail. But they’d rather not think about it.Same thing with Rural America’s myth of urban violence and drugs. West Virginia leads the nation in opioid drug addiction, overdose and death. Gun violence per 100,000 people is highest in rural America.Democratic programs are the only game in town to revitalize stagnant and dying rural America. Sadly, that only buys rural America’s resentment — because they don’t want to be reminded that their self-image is self-delusion.Rural America is in the ICU and curses the people trying to keep it alive.
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"content": "Rural America thrives on delusions… and knows it. The cognitive dissonance is what drives folks mad.Rural America thinks of itself as ‘Christian.’ But Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Jerry Falwell… no one in her right mind would equate vicious, venal hypocrites of their ilk with the teachings of the mythical Jesus.Rural America thinks of itself as self-sufficient, ‘fiscally conservative,’ self-supporting common folk who live by the sweat of their brow. But if you follow the money, the predominantly rural ‘red states’ feed at the federal trough fast and furious. A state like Tennessee pays $1 into the federal coffers each year and gets $3 back; while New York, New Jersey, California and others pay $1 in and get less than $1 back. Turns out those folks banging the drum about their ‘good ol’ fashioned values’ are our nation’s ‘welfare queens.’ And they know it, every time another federal check comes in the mail. But they’d rather not think about it.Same thing with Rural America’s myth of urban violence and drugs. West Virginia leads the nation in opioid drug addiction, overdose and death. Gun violence per 100,000 people is highest in rural America.Democratic programs are the only game in town to revitalize stagnant and dying rural America. Sadly, that only buys rural America’s resentment — because they don’t want to be reminded that their self-image is self-delusion.Rural America is in the ICU and curses the people trying to keep it alive.\n",
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"Chatham went through nearly 14,000 tons of gravel to fix ruts and potholes, at a cost of nearly $100,000", but how much money was saved by not paving? An unkept paved road can be just as dangerous and costly to maintain. Up where I live, I have to avoid certain streets, even in good weather they are so full of potholes.
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"content": "\"Chatham went through nearly 14,000 tons of gravel to fix ruts and potholes, at a cost of nearly $100,000\", but how much money was saved by not paving? An unkept paved road can be just as dangerous and costly to maintain. Up where I live, I have to avoid certain streets, even in good weather they are so full of potholes.\n",
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Abortion should be rare because we reduce unwanted pregnancies via the aggressive expansion of healthcare coverage, not because we guilt-trip women into continuing crisis pregnancies. (The Family Van in Boston drives to poor neighborhoods for treatment of both chronic illness and mental health.) The most important word herein is "wanted", as in no one wants to continue a late-stage pregnancy more than the mother. But genetic defects are often not visible until the 4th or 5th month, when the fetus is larger. ... Abortion isn't a hobby, Hobby Lobbyists. From open-carry to WMD lies to healthcare denialism, the reductio of conservatism is violence, needless and preventable suffering and death.
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"content": "Abortion should be rare because we reduce unwanted pregnancies via the aggressive expansion of healthcare coverage, not because we guilt-trip women into continuing crisis pregnancies. (The Family Van in Boston drives to poor neighborhoods for treatment of both chronic illness and mental health.) The most important word herein is \"wanted\", as in no one wants to continue a late-stage pregnancy more than the mother. But genetic defects are often not visible until the 4th or 5th month, when the fetus is larger. ... Abortion isn't a hobby, Hobby Lobbyists. From open-carry to WMD lies to healthcare denialism, the reductio of conservatism is violence, needless and preventable suffering and death.\n",
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Unless the US gov't has borrowed euros or rubles or renminbi that we don't know about, it has zero "debt." What we're looking at is $31.5 trillion of ACCUMULATED DEFICITS expressed in US dollars. Why would the US Treasury/Federal Reserve ever have to borrow money that it can create at will out of thin air? And "debt" implies that we're going to pay it back, which is an absurd thought. Balances have to balance. If the public sector of our economy shows a deficit of $31.5 trillion, this means by force of logic that the private sector (plus the rest of the world) must show a SURPLUS of $31.5 trillion. That's our aggregate financial wealth. Trying to pay back the "debt" would drive us all into extreme poverty.BTW, it's one thing to say that the Fed is raising interest rates to fight inflation, and it's quite another thing (and incorrect) to claim the market is demanding higher rates. That is simply nonsense. The Fed sets interest rates and if you don't like it you can just go pound sand. The Fed doesn't sell bonds to "borrow" back the money it has just spent into the economy. It does so to remove excess currency from the banking system in order to meet its target interest rate. If it didn't, all banks would be flush with currency and never have to borrow from another bank to settle its accounts. This would drive interest rates down to zero.The notion that the gov't borrows its own currency and accumulates 'debt" is a zombie idea that just refuses to die.
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"content": "Unless the US gov't has borrowed euros or rubles or renminbi that we don't know about, it has zero \"debt.\" What we're looking at is $31.5 trillion of ACCUMULATED DEFICITS expressed in US dollars. Why would the US Treasury/Federal Reserve ever have to borrow money that it can create at will out of thin air? And \"debt\" implies that we're going to pay it back, which is an absurd thought. Balances have to balance. If the public sector of our economy shows a deficit of $31.5 trillion, this means by force of logic that the private sector (plus the rest of the world) must show a SURPLUS of $31.5 trillion. That's our aggregate financial wealth. Trying to pay back the \"debt\" would drive us all into extreme poverty.BTW, it's one thing to say that the Fed is raising interest rates to fight inflation, and it's quite another thing (and incorrect) to claim the market is demanding higher rates. That is simply nonsense. The Fed sets interest rates and if you don't like it you can just go pound sand. The Fed doesn't sell bonds to \"borrow\" back the money it has just spent into the economy. It does so to remove excess currency from the banking system in order to meet its target interest rate. If it didn't, all banks would be flush with currency and never have to borrow from another bank to settle its accounts. This would drive interest rates down to zero.The notion that the gov't borrows its own currency and accumulates 'debt\" is a zombie idea that just refuses to die.\n",
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Retailers, like so many other companies in other industries, have been far too enthralled with growth and increasing investor return. I've sat in enough meetings where everyone in the room gets greedy with very rosy scenarios, but no one stops to ask, "what if things go the other way?" I find that companies that stick to their knitting and invest in meeting their core customers where they are instead of inventing faux realities filled with phantom customers are the ones built for the long term. The problem is that those companies are becoming increasingly difficult to identify.
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"content": "Retailers, like so many other companies in other industries, have been far too enthralled with growth and increasing investor return. I've sat in enough meetings where everyone in the room gets greedy with very rosy scenarios, but no one stops to ask, \"what if things go the other way?\" I find that companies that stick to their knitting and invest in meeting their core customers where they are instead of inventing faux realities filled with phantom customers are the ones built for the long term. The problem is that those companies are becoming increasingly difficult to identify.\n",
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"Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate."Bret, let's go ahead and put our full faith and trust in industries that do everything they can to demonstrate they have our best interests at heart. We could allow banks to make high risk investments and bail them out again after the next financial crisis. Power plants will reduce their emissions because it is the right thing to do to combat climate change, and oil companies may have a little spill, but they will clean it up on their own initiative. Do you trust Boeing not to cover up a little defect that could lead to a tragic air accident? Confident that big agriculture's top priority is monitoring its products for food safety?Government regulation of industries saves lives.
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"content": "\"Deregulate, deregulate, deregulate.\"Bret, let's go ahead and put our full faith and trust in industries that do everything they can to demonstrate they have our best interests at heart. We could allow banks to make high risk investments and bail them out again after the next financial crisis. Power plants will reduce their emissions because it is the right thing to do to combat climate change, and oil companies may have a little spill, but they will clean it up on their own initiative. Do you trust Boeing not to cover up a little defect that could lead to a tragic air accident? Confident that big agriculture's top priority is monitoring its products for food safety?Government regulation of industries saves lives.\n",
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$1m? Seems like a pittance. A normal jury would have delivered a verdict in many multiples of that, no doubt. The estate should have rolled the dice on a trial, especially if its goal was to expose the barbaric practices of jailers. Kudos to the NYT for presenting this article and film. Its deep bench of talent and resources were brilliantly displayed here. Well done. Thank you.
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"content": "$1m? Seems like a pittance. A normal jury would have delivered a verdict in many multiples of that, no doubt. The estate should have rolled the dice on a trial, especially if its goal was to expose the barbaric practices of jailers. Kudos to the NYT for presenting this article and film. Its deep bench of talent and resources were brilliantly displayed here. Well done. Thank you.\n",
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$225,000! Is it worth selling one's morals/ethics/agency/country and going to jail for so little money? As the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s counterintelligence division in New York, he probably earned that in a year or at the most 18 months. He definitely could have earned that working for some corporation after his FBI career.Is $225,000 a life changing sum of money for somebody in his (former) position?
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"content": "$225,000! Is it worth selling one's morals/ethics/agency/country and going to jail for so little money? As the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s counterintelligence division in New York, he probably earned that in a year or at the most 18 months. He definitely could have earned that working for some corporation after his FBI career.Is $225,000 a life changing sum of money for somebody in his (former) position?\n",
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So if bitcoin is worthless and nothing more than a pet rock, then it follows that the Mona Lisa is worthless (value = who knows), since I can hang a copy on my wall and it will look just like the original (but it will not have a value derived from scarcity). And the Honus Wagner baseball card that sold for $6 million in 2021 should be worthless also, since I could make a copy of that and find the same pleasure looking at that as the original. And the Kobe Bryant jersey that is expected to sell for $6-8 million should likewise be worthless, since they sell those in nearly every sports stores. When I was a student at Princeton, sitting in Econ 101 with Burton Malkiel as Professor, we were told that value derives from scarcity. Bitcoin has an arranged scarcity, unlike most other cryptos. It also has utility as a medium of exchange if you care to use it for that.
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"content": "So if bitcoin is worthless and nothing more than a pet rock, then it follows that the Mona Lisa is worthless (value = who knows), since I can hang a copy on my wall and it will look just like the original (but it will not have a value derived from scarcity). And the Honus Wagner baseball card that sold for $6 million in 2021 should be worthless also, since I could make a copy of that and find the same pleasure looking at that as the original. And the Kobe Bryant jersey that is expected to sell for $6-8 million should likewise be worthless, since they sell those in nearly every sports stores. When I was a student at Princeton, sitting in Econ 101 with Burton Malkiel as Professor, we were told that value derives from scarcity. Bitcoin has an arranged scarcity, unlike most other cryptos. It also has utility as a medium of exchange if you care to use it for that.\n",
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I teach art history and it's incredibly obvious how out-of-touch contemporary art is with any sizeable public audience. Students cannot name a single living American artist of any repute, let alone work by that artist. Contemporary art is (rightfully) perceived as for elites, mostly financial and located coastally. Buyers paying huge sums for meretricious trash like “Warm, Wet ’N’ Wild' is just an extension of that trend. While "Old Master" idolatry presents its own challenges, it is art that has stood the test of time. Very very little art made today will pass that test and its patrons and makers will soon be forgotten. The role of contemporary departments of art history and studio art is critical in fostering this decline. Consider the disappearance of literary writing from the wider cultural scene. Visual art is next.
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In Wisconsin its simple. Non-competes have failed in or courts so many times that a non-compete now requires equal compensation. If you 're making $100k per year and the non-compete is for 1- year, then the contract requires a $100k payment for the former employee not to compete. And, any Wisconsin employer now trying to do non-competes in contracts is rare. Generally, just confidentiality clauses stand up.
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"content": "In Wisconsin its simple. Non-competes have failed in or courts so many times that a non-compete now requires equal compensation. If you 're making $100k per year and the non-compete is for 1- year, then the contract requires a $100k payment for the former employee not to compete. And, any Wisconsin employer now trying to do non-competes in contracts is rare. Generally, just confidentiality clauses stand up.\n",
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Unfortunate but unsurprising outcome for anyone confined to a tent during a rainstorm. California went from a $100 billion budget surplus last year to a current deficit of $29 billion. The homeless “advocates” blame a lack of affordable housing and mental health resources. Can the Times account for this astonishing mismanagement of funds? Or am I to conclude that people live this way by choice?
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"content": "Unfortunate but unsurprising outcome for anyone confined to a tent during a rainstorm. California went from a $100 billion budget surplus last year to a current deficit of $29 billion. The homeless “advocates” blame a lack of affordable housing and mental health resources. Can the Times account for this astonishing mismanagement of funds? Or am I to conclude that people live this way by choice?\n",
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Brian MacDougall It happened while reading this that the thought arose in my mind that this experience has already been. At night, closing the eyes, later, with them open, in the darkness, random images arise, fantastic images, any kind of image, not controlled by the rational mind, just blossoms in a neural garden. They can be watched as long as there is interest. And interest fades after a few minutes. It will be like this. Frost patterns on the window are lovely, and fascinating. What do humans look for? What do they need? How long can we be mesmerized by images without human content?
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Ten years ago our southeastern state awarded a contract to a private contractor to construct a highway connecting the coast to a major inland interstate. They immediately opened offices and billed the state for over $200 million dollars before the project was cancelled. The only spade of dirt turned was the archaeological team.They arrived on our farm in late June announcing that they would work in the fields from 9-4. I responded that I did all my gardening from 6-11 am but they could not start before 8:30. The team members may have had academic credentials but they did not have the physical fitness nor stamina to complete the physical labor. They frequently retreated to available shade to gasp for breath. They stayed in the most expensive hotel in town and did not work on weekends. After finding two boxes of trash tidbits they terminated the project because the crops were higher than six inches. Some basic research would have revealed that crops are higher than six inches in the middle of the summer!Meanwhile the environmental researchers came in early March searching for an endangered frog. Reptiles are not active in our area until later spring.Yes, some people had jobs, but a tremendous amount of money was wasted and in our case, no road was built!
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"content": "Ten years ago our southeastern state awarded a contract to a private contractor to construct a highway connecting the coast to a major inland interstate. They immediately opened offices and billed the state for over $200 million dollars before the project was cancelled. The only spade of dirt turned was the archaeological team.They arrived on our farm in late June announcing that they would work in the fields from 9-4. I responded that I did all my gardening from 6-11 am but they could not start before 8:30. The team members may have had academic credentials but they did not have the physical fitness nor stamina to complete the physical labor. They frequently retreated to available shade to gasp for breath. They stayed in the most expensive hotel in town and did not work on weekends. After finding two boxes of trash tidbits they terminated the project because the crops were higher than six inches. Some basic research would have revealed that crops are higher than six inches in the middle of the summer!Meanwhile the environmental researchers came in early March searching for an endangered frog. Reptiles are not active in our area until later spring.Yes, some people had jobs, but a tremendous amount of money was wasted and in our case, no road was built!\n",
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MarkS A green economy that will benefit the working class NOT AT ALL! The Chips act? Whoopee a great deal for the Donors and the professional class, the rest of us? Are you honestly going to say that Schumer & Pelosi millionaires' both are on the side of the working class? Can you say that with a straight face?And for those about to do a song and dance about ACA. What good is an insurance plan that costs $550 a month with $5K+ deductible to a man making $30k a year? A gift to the insurance companies it was & is. The rest of us? Hardly!And how many of those new jobs you're boasting about pay a living wage? And how many pay Walmart wages? I think you'll find Walmart wages ahead exponentially!
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"content": "MarkS A green economy that will benefit the working class NOT AT ALL! The Chips act? Whoopee a great deal for the Donors and the professional class, the rest of us? Are you honestly going to say that Schumer & Pelosi millionaires' both are on the side of the working class? Can you say that with a straight face?And for those about to do a song and dance about ACA. What good is an insurance plan that costs $550 a month with $5K+ deductible to a man making $30k a year? A gift to the insurance companies it was & is. The rest of us? Hardly!And how many of those new jobs you're boasting about pay a living wage? And how many pay Walmart wages? I think you'll find Walmart wages ahead exponentially!\n",
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Paying 1% of a million dollars is $10,000, each and every year. That is a ridiculous amount especially when year to year an advisor might spend an hour or two at most on your account. A smarter alternative is to hire an advisor by the hour for a one time assessment and then periodically to see how you are doing. Take Warren Buffett's advice and skip the stock picking, invest in low cost index funds at a place like Vanguard or Fidelity. You only need to re-balance your stock and bond funds every few years and an Excel spreadsheet can do that in seconds, especially if you have been smart and kept to a few wide ranging funds. The only real value of a "financial advisor" is to keep you from selling in a panic whenever there is a downturn. They can do that by the hour, too.
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"content": "Paying 1% of a million dollars is $10,000, each and every year. That is a ridiculous amount especially when year to year an advisor might spend an hour or two at most on your account. A smarter alternative is to hire an advisor by the hour for a one time assessment and then periodically to see how you are doing. Take Warren Buffett's advice and skip the stock picking, invest in low cost index funds at a place like Vanguard or Fidelity. You only need to re-balance your stock and bond funds every few years and an Excel spreadsheet can do that in seconds, especially if you have been smart and kept to a few wide ranging funds. The only real value of a \"financial advisor\" is to keep you from selling in a panic whenever there is a downturn. They can do that by the hour, too.\n",
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I do not know what to say; I do not know what to do. The violence perpetrated in this nation toward innocent people of color, to immigrant workers of my neighbor city of Half Moon Bay, to children, to women, to men, is beyond epidemic. It is a cancer metastasizing to every corner of our nation, every street, and building. I forced myself to watch the videos on the front page of Paul Pelosi and Tyre Nichols. I didn't do it for any macabre, perverse reason. No, I did it to escape my bubble of self-centeredness, to open my eyes to reality. And this nation's reality is poisonous. What on earth does it take to change this culture of hate manifested not just by the unstable but even by thuggery in our law enforcement agencies? This has got to change. We have no other choice. Our biggest sin would be becoming defeatists and perhaps worse yet silent and complacent.
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"content": "I do not know what to say; I do not know what to do. The violence perpetrated in this nation toward innocent people of color, to immigrant workers of my neighbor city of Half Moon Bay, to children, to women, to men, is beyond epidemic. It is a cancer metastasizing to every corner of our nation, every street, and building. I forced myself to watch the videos on the front page of Paul Pelosi and Tyre Nichols. I didn't do it for any macabre, perverse reason. No, I did it to escape my bubble of self-centeredness, to open my eyes to reality. And this nation's reality is poisonous. What on earth does it take to change this culture of hate manifested not just by the unstable but even by thuggery in our law enforcement agencies? This has got to change. We have no other choice. Our biggest sin would be becoming defeatists and perhaps worse yet silent and complacent.\n",
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Excellent, thank you. 1. Budget deficit over time should match or moderately exceed trade deficit, about 3% GDP per year. Why? Because trade deficit is net $ going overseas for stuff; a cash drain on private sector. Government deficits inject $ into private sector, offsetting drain on private sector.2. Serious deficit hawks want much higher taxes on rich and defense cuts. This excludes most Republicans, who want neither.3. There is no reasonable way to cut Social Security. You fund it by removing cap on payroll tax, around $147,000. That covers 70% of shortfall for 75 years. A 1 percentage point increase in payroll tax covers rest, or (better) a wealth tax.4. Healthcare costs about 40% less in Europe with comparable results. We should have a Healthcare Commission study the difference and making recommendations.5. Budget deficit in fiscal 2022 down 66% from Trump levels excluding student loans. It was below 2019 in $ and way below as % GDP.
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"content": "Excellent, thank you. 1. Budget deficit over time should match or moderately exceed trade deficit, about 3% GDP per year. Why? Because trade deficit is net $ going overseas for stuff; a cash drain on private sector. Government deficits inject $ into private sector, offsetting drain on private sector.2. Serious deficit hawks want much higher taxes on rich and defense cuts. This excludes most Republicans, who want neither.3. There is no reasonable way to cut Social Security. You fund it by removing cap on payroll tax, around $147,000. That covers 70% of shortfall for 75 years. A 1 percentage point increase in payroll tax covers rest, or (better) a wealth tax.4. Healthcare costs about 40% less in Europe with comparable results. We should have a Healthcare Commission study the difference and making recommendations.5. Budget deficit in fiscal 2022 down 66% from Trump levels excluding student loans. It was below 2019 in $ and way below as % GDP.\n",
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Maybe I'm being paranoid, but things have played out much as China, Russia, and Iran could have wished. How much of the fringe funding was from foreign sources?
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"content": "Maybe I'm being paranoid, but things have played out much as China, Russia, and Iran could have wished. How much of the fringe funding was from foreign sources?\n",
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I'd love to call my mother, but she passed away seven years ago. However, she was the "inventor" of the fixed-minute call.Whenever one of her four (adult) children -- would call, which was near daily, she'd open with "I can give you FIVE minutes, because that's when my laxative is going to work".
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"content": "I'd love to call my mother, but she passed away seven years ago. However, she was the \"inventor\" of the fixed-minute call.Whenever one of her four (adult) children -- would call, which was near daily, she'd open with \"I can give you FIVE minutes, because that's when my laxative is going to work\".\n",
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JND Congress hasn’t spent more of “your” tax money for years. Because there is less of it, not more, every year due to GOP intransigence to any increase in revenues. So both parties just put it all on the public credit card. $32 trillion in all. You can’t complain about taxes and the debt, too, and still not want cuts to your favored government programs. It’s obvious neither party is serious about cutting spending, so that means taxes must eventually be increased. We are a country living beyond our means with little desire to change our ways.
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"content": "JND Congress hasn’t spent more of “your” tax money for years. Because there is less of it, not more, every year due to GOP intransigence to any increase in revenues. So both parties just put it all on the public credit card. $32 trillion in all. You can’t complain about taxes and the debt, too, and still not want cuts to your favored government programs. It’s obvious neither party is serious about cutting spending, so that means taxes must eventually be increased. We are a country living beyond our means with little desire to change our ways.\n",
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Instead of cuts to middle class programs, why not increase revenue to balance the budget?Initiate a wealth tax on those individuals with a net worth of $50 million or more.
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"content": "Instead of cuts to middle class programs, why not increase revenue to balance the budget?Initiate a wealth tax on those individuals with a net worth of $50 million or more.\n",
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We need to both cut spending and increase revenue. The single biggest spending program to cut is Defense. Between Defense, intelligence, and war we have been spending $1 Trillion per year for a while now. The war in Ukraine put the lie to the notion that we need to fund the defense for the entire free world. That small, under resourced country is putting up a huge fight with help from their friends. Putin could not roll through Europe. So we need to spend a few hundred billion per year less on the military. We can ramp up when we need to but we need to stop enriching military contractors under the guise of defending the entire world.
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"content": "We need to both cut spending and increase revenue. The single biggest spending program to cut is Defense. Between Defense, intelligence, and war we have been spending $1 Trillion per year for a while now. The war in Ukraine put the lie to the notion that we need to fund the defense for the entire free world. That small, under resourced country is putting up a huge fight with help from their friends. Putin could not roll through Europe. So we need to spend a few hundred billion per year less on the military. We can ramp up when we need to but we need to stop enriching military contractors under the guise of defending the entire world.\n",
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V, Um, the dollar is very strong against other currencies like the Euro and the Canadian and Australian dollars -- not "devalued."The latter is worth only USD $0.67 and so on a recent trip there I bought a hat for AUS $265 that cost me "only" $177 USD.My my relatives who live there, were envious of my US dollars. :)
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Lis Create a new shortcut in you browser. Name it Spellcheck, then paste this into the place for the URL: javascript:void%20function()%7Bvar%20url=%22https://spellcheck.fun/init.js%22;document.querySelector(%22script%5Bsrc='%22+url+%22'%5D%22)%3FspellcheckApp.showGridModal():(script=document.createElement(%22script%22),script.src=url,document.querySelector(%22head%22).appendChild(script))%7D();When you’re doing the Bee in your browser, open the spellcheck shortcut right from the and you get 3 pages of grid and 2LL that shows what you’re missing. Someone once posted a link to this code with complete instructions, but there’s no way I can find that now. It does work like a charm, however.
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"content": "Lis Create a new shortcut in you browser. Name it Spellcheck, then paste this into the place for the URL: javascript:void%20function()%7Bvar%20url=%22https://spellcheck.fun/init.js%22;document.querySelector(%22script%5Bsrc='%22+url+%22'%5D%22)%3FspellcheckApp.showGridModal():(script=document.createElement(%22script%22),script.src=url,document.querySelector(%22head%22).appendChild(script))%7D();When you’re doing the Bee in your browser, open the spellcheck shortcut right from the and you get 3 pages of grid and 2LL that shows what you’re missing. Someone once posted a link to this code with complete instructions, but there’s no way I can find that now. It does work like a charm, however.\n",
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RAM why did cryptocurrency go from $1 to $50,000 now down to $17,000 why? Because they are a replacement for Fiat currencies so just like your dollar bill will be worth $50,000 bills tomorrow and your euro will be worth $50,000 in March crypto goes up and down just like regular money
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"content": "RAM why did cryptocurrency go from $1 to $50,000 now down to $17,000 why? Because they are a replacement for Fiat currencies so just like your dollar bill will be worth $50,000 bills tomorrow and your euro will be worth $50,000 in March crypto goes up and down just like regular money\n",
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Mark It's art..... and it is amazing.. and thrilling..and instead of boo hoo hoo.. applaud it.. Most of us won't afford a 40 Million or even a 4k painting.. but a 400$ artistic dinner.. Why NOT.. and it's chemsitry..I just wish the luxury tax was back in existence. 10% Federal tax on the unnecessaries.. we had it int the '50s and I paid a dime on the 1$ pin I bought mom for Mother's Day. Now the billionaires and their ilk the so called investors IMO call them the exploiters the users -- having other people make them $$ -- . John Q has to pay tax on his candy and soda and Ciggies -- exorbitant amounts.. but one can buy a 4 mllion $$ painting at auction and avoid paying a single penny in state tax. and these days there is not federal tax.. because the super rich are oh so special... Wake up America..
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"content": "Mark It's art..... and it is amazing.. and thrilling..and instead of boo hoo hoo.. applaud it.. Most of us won't afford a 40 Million or even a 4k painting.. but a 400$ artistic dinner.. Why NOT.. and it's chemsitry..I just wish the luxury tax was back in existence. 10% Federal tax on the unnecessaries.. we had it int the '50s and I paid a dime on the 1$ pin I bought mom for Mother's Day. Now the billionaires and their ilk the so called investors IMO call them the exploiters the users -- having other people make them $$ -- . John Q has to pay tax on his candy and soda and Ciggies -- exorbitant amounts.. but one can buy a 4 mllion $$ painting at auction and avoid paying a single penny in state tax. and these days there is not federal tax.. because the super rich are oh so special... Wake up America..\n",
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Type 1 and Type 2 are totally different conditions, and the article should be way more explicit about that. Insufficient reporting, to put it nicely. I will over-simplify. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease which people are born with through nobody's fault. Type 2 is, let's say, different. Diet choices, etc. are relevant. Look it up. Yet only Type 2 gets the $35 limit described in the article. Why? Boomers at it again. They live a certain lifestyle and we need to mop up the overflow. And the pre-Boomer President signs the law and takes a bow, without realizing or not caring, or not having the political strength to address, that the innocent Type 1 patients are not taken care of. Don't get me started!
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"content": "Type 1 and Type 2 are totally different conditions, and the article should be way more explicit about that. Insufficient reporting, to put it nicely. I will over-simplify. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease which people are born with through nobody's fault. Type 2 is, let's say, different. Diet choices, etc. are relevant. Look it up. Yet only Type 2 gets the $35 limit described in the article. Why? Boomers at it again. They live a certain lifestyle and we need to mop up the overflow. And the pre-Boomer President signs the law and takes a bow, without realizing or not caring, or not having the political strength to address, that the innocent Type 1 patients are not taken care of. Don't get me started!\n",
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Bruce MaierI think the quote in the article about the scale or "scope" of Chinese production (here, fabric manufacturing) is accurate. Such efficient capacity has a way of opening doors of a global marketplace. Sure, production in countries other than our own is gearing up, too. But we have become - through the actions of, imo, the corporate/capitalist Establishment (including our corporations, politicians, mainstream media and financial 'instruments') - the world's primary CONSUMER (and driver of consumerism in other countries). THIS is our important role in the process.
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LC your count is off. did you include the all-black Death of a Salesman? The Collaboration? (Last season was even more out of proportion, with some dreadful, albeit Black, skits posing as Broadway plays...and this season, Ain't No Mo' just closed. But sociology and tnetitlement trumps quality these days. In any case, even with your figure, 14 of 41, representing MORE THAN 1/3 of plays, and as someone who visits Europe all the time and sees quality theatre and true diversity, just consider that there are many great new plays written by Asian, Latinx, Middle Eastern, Irish, Turkish, Australian, Indian, SE Asian, and yes just white folks....I think we know what I'm talking about. The thrust of the article is that there is a "ceiling" on Black futures, as she says. They have to hustle, cheat, etc. like the characters in these three (Black) plays. If you can be honest for one moment, you can see that doors are hardly closed to and ceilings are hardly enclosing Black theatre artists. They've broken through that field quite nicely--good for them. But maybe the ceiling applies to the other groups I mention above? This is objective analysis, evidence-based, FACT. It is not based on self-righteous virtue-signals and bruised feelings. Not too long ago, that counted for something. Now, dangerously, feelings are more important--so I guess you would think what I am saying is "micro-aggressive?" Thanks for considering.
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"content": "LC your count is off. did you include the all-black Death of a Salesman? The Collaboration? (Last season was even more out of proportion, with some dreadful, albeit Black, skits posing as Broadway plays...and this season, Ain't No Mo' just closed. But sociology and tnetitlement trumps quality these days. In any case, even with your figure, 14 of 41, representing MORE THAN 1/3 of plays, and as someone who visits Europe all the time and sees quality theatre and true diversity, just consider that there are many great new plays written by Asian, Latinx, Middle Eastern, Irish, Turkish, Australian, Indian, SE Asian, and yes just white folks....I think we know what I'm talking about. The thrust of the article is that there is a \"ceiling\" on Black futures, as she says. They have to hustle, cheat, etc. like the characters in these three (Black) plays. If you can be honest for one moment, you can see that doors are hardly closed to and ceilings are hardly enclosing Black theatre artists. They've broken through that field quite nicely--good for them. But maybe the ceiling applies to the other groups I mention above? This is objective analysis, evidence-based, FACT. It is not based on self-righteous virtue-signals and bruised feelings. Not too long ago, that counted for something. Now, dangerously, feelings are more important--so I guess you would think what I am saying is \"micro-aggressive?\" Thanks for considering.\n",
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Orchard It's not really meaningful as the The federal government is approaching the roughly $31.4 trillion limit on borrowing set by Congress. As of Tuesday, the government has borrowed roughly $31.3 trillion. WSJ is better for the big picture.
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Bad news for everyone involved in this video recorded brutal murder by police. George Floyd's family settled for $27million. This incident should be worth about $50million.
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"content": "Bad news for everyone involved in this video recorded brutal murder by police. George Floyd's family settled for $27million. This incident should be worth about $50million.\n",
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Don Williams my son served two year long combat deployments in Iraq, the the first one during the surge in Ramadi. His 12 month deployment was extended to 15 because of the intensity of the war. That’s 27 months total. Harry served 30 weeks in Afghanistan in two deployments.My son only talks about his experiences with those that have also been in combat, unlike Harry who foolishly disclosed how many people he killed and put a target on his back. My son does not have or need $2 M yearly in security because he keeps his mouth closed.
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"content": "Don Williams my son served two year long combat deployments in Iraq, the the first one during the surge in Ramadi. His 12 month deployment was extended to 15 because of the intensity of the war. That’s 27 months total. Harry served 30 weeks in Afghanistan in two deployments.My son only talks about his experiences with those that have also been in combat, unlike Harry who foolishly disclosed how many people he killed and put a target on his back. My son does not have or need $2 M yearly in security because he keeps his mouth closed.\n",
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Economies at war are kind of like swimmers in a cold pool: "shrinkage" is relative/the important thing is Russia's isn't sustainable....Putin's economy has shrunk WAY more than 3% last year: and next year economists think it will lose another 6-10% at the very least; the Russian Stockmarket is moribund (with -35% drops in many key sector's indexes) and Russia's Consumer Price Index/PMI shows drops of up to -80% for new purchases in verticals like cars and refrigerators: which says that Russia's real economy is in free-fall....If the ruble wasn't being propped up by their central bank/could actually leave the country, now; it would immediately start trading at well above 130 to the dollar.Oh, and Ural Crude is being sold at less than $50 a barrel to India and China (!)... and this has been the worst year for Gazprom in its entire history, etc.Did I mention Germany went from importing 50% of their energy from Russia to... 11 months later, importing none? Ostpolitik's over forever!Point being, Russia's economy -- despite its official pronouncements/stiff upper lip -- is actually on death's door... and will take decades to recover. Kind of like the CCP's Zero Covid "data": you simply can't trust a totalitarian country's self-serving cooking-of-the-books.Ukraine -- like any country that has been suddenly attacked -- has indeed taken a hit. But they will win the war/have many friends to help rebuild. Russia, on the other hand, will have lost 30 years of progress.
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"content": "Economies at war are kind of like swimmers in a cold pool: \"shrinkage\" is relative/the important thing is Russia's isn't sustainable....Putin's economy has shrunk WAY more than 3% last year: and next year economists think it will lose another 6-10% at the very least; the Russian Stockmarket is moribund (with -35% drops in many key sector's indexes) and Russia's Consumer Price Index/PMI shows drops of up to -80% for new purchases in verticals like cars and refrigerators: which says that Russia's real economy is in free-fall....If the ruble wasn't being propped up by their central bank/could actually leave the country, now; it would immediately start trading at well above 130 to the dollar.Oh, and Ural Crude is being sold at less than $50 a barrel to India and China (!)... and this has been the worst year for Gazprom in its entire history, etc.Did I mention Germany went from importing 50% of their energy from Russia to... 11 months later, importing none? Ostpolitik's over forever!Point being, Russia's economy -- despite its official pronouncements/stiff upper lip -- is actually on death's door... and will take decades to recover. Kind of like the CCP's Zero Covid \"data\": you simply can't trust a totalitarian country's self-serving cooking-of-the-books.Ukraine -- like any country that has been suddenly attacked -- has indeed taken a hit. But they will win the war/have many friends to help rebuild. Russia, on the other hand, will have lost 30 years of progress.\n",
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Joe Smith To answer your question, there was limited political capital (and time) to expend and the debt ceiling fight could still be won later, but the spending bill could not. That's how it was reported in this paper. Krugman with an insiders access pleads ignorance, but he actually knows. That he says he doesn't is just frustration talking one assumes. Now the outcome of the eventual crisis, as other comments note, will hinge on public relations, messaging, public sentiment, and results in who the public blames and believes. Let's home the Democrats, and their allies, the coalition of corporate and woke liberals who control most of the media, listened to by at least half the country, do better than they have in the past.Finally, not a word about what happens budgeting for 2024? When House Republicans are in charge of all spending? How are government shutdowns or near shutdowns, and economic turmoil and cuts of freezing of expenditures to be avoided? Especially in an election year when poor economic performance might be blamed on Biden and Democrats? A debt ceiling crisis is easier to win than more consequential election year budget, it's a dress rehearsal. In a close election, the economic performance first six months of 2024 could be hurt by cuts or a freeze. But a lot of the spending is already baked in? How much? What's the minimum Biden could settle for and still see the economy grow? Could someone, an economist who has a column examine this and let us know?
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"content": "Joe Smith To answer your question, there was limited political capital (and time) to expend and the debt ceiling fight could still be won later, but the spending bill could not. That's how it was reported in this paper. Krugman with an insiders access pleads ignorance, but he actually knows. That he says he doesn't is just frustration talking one assumes. Now the outcome of the eventual crisis, as other comments note, will hinge on public relations, messaging, public sentiment, and results in who the public blames and believes. Let's home the Democrats, and their allies, the coalition of corporate and woke liberals who control most of the media, listened to by at least half the country, do better than they have in the past.Finally, not a word about what happens budgeting for 2024? When House Republicans are in charge of all spending? How are government shutdowns or near shutdowns, and economic turmoil and cuts of freezing of expenditures to be avoided? Especially in an election year when poor economic performance might be blamed on Biden and Democrats? A debt ceiling crisis is easier to win than more consequential election year budget, it's a dress rehearsal. In a close election, the economic performance first six months of 2024 could be hurt by cuts or a freeze. But a lot of the spending is already baked in? How much? What's the minimum Biden could settle for and still see the economy grow? Could someone, an economist who has a column examine this and let us know?\n",
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The Neoliberal bent of recent British "rulers" has as part of its platform the intentional destruction of the National Health Service. Guess what? After Brexit most of the non English health service employees left for Europe leaving the British people to fight for healthcare crumbs and goods from other nations. I like to watch Michael Lambert on YTube. As a business man he had many partners in commerce but that came to an end after Brexit and the miles of long, large trucks that were backed up for miles to be inspected before entering Europe via France. His business was basically destroyed. Further bizarreness is the new criminalization of public protests. The list is long including britons unable to heat their homes this winter because of the astronomic costs.
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One of the greatest of all time, all sports, anywhere. When you look at the French Open- grinding tennis in the red dirt.I named my dog Rafa - b/c Nadal is a class act who embodies everything you want in sportsmanship and athleticism.I wish him well- hopefully, we get to see him raise the French Open trophy one more time.
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New York State has received $12.7 billion in general COVID relief aid. How much of that was wasted? How much of that was just outright stolen through fraud and graft? No amount of Federal money will ever trickle down far enough to help these people.
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"content": "New York State has received $12.7 billion in general COVID relief aid. How much of that was wasted? How much of that was just outright stolen through fraud and graft? No amount of Federal money will ever trickle down far enough to help these people.\n",
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The Amirazad family are my neighbors, and I was so delighted to see them yesterday as the children scampered into our cul-de-sac after being house bound during the extended rains. I wish the Times had captured the pure joy and love of life radiating from their faces. Yes, it does take a lot of organizing, and sharing of expenses and time to give our fellow human beings such a lift in life. But many people, especially retirees, have surplus time and funds . . .
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Brooks and Stephens in their conversation have come up with the best tag line for what the Republican movement has become: "Populism in the service of nihilism". The aim is to break society apart and concentrate power and authority in themselves. One of the most powerful tools they have is storytelling that hides the truth as Mr Blow describes. But what do we do about? You can't cancel 20-30% of the population. You can't revert to a single party state run by Democrats. How do you remain a plural open democracy when one of its constituent elements has become a virus trying to destroy you?
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"content": "Brooks and Stephens in their conversation have come up with the best tag line for what the Republican movement has become: \"Populism in the service of nihilism\". The aim is to break society apart and concentrate power and authority in themselves. One of the most powerful tools they have is storytelling that hides the truth as Mr Blow describes. But what do we do about? You can't cancel 20-30% of the population. You can't revert to a single party state run by Democrats. How do you remain a plural open democracy when one of its constituent elements has become a virus trying to destroy you?\n",
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Microsoft employee here - Had my first tour as an FTE in 2006-2010, then consulted, now back full time for the last 1 1/2 years. Love the company, and love the cultural shift even more this time around. I'm hugely productive from home, work all the time, work out, keep on relationships, though have not vacationed in a while. I'm lucky i have a small room with an office set up, and it seems work is always around me, so I get it done, improved access to my leadership team when they need things at odd hours. But! I've been headed back to the office three days a week and it's awesome. But! I feel like my work life is now in two places. Same productivity, but bigger 'field' so to speak.Help!PS - Agree I got started in start-up (Visio, Rational Software), and now love, love, love the security and prestige of Microsoft. Our team (like many in the company) has a start up feel but the security of critical mass around me.
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Aaron - In capitalism, you need capital. Investors don't want to support bloated companies, if they can invest in good ones. Your stock price is your currency. If it is high, you can buy someone. If it is low, someone can buy you. Then there's credit - banks will charge a higher interest rate to companies that aren't doing well, and they will have to offer a higher rate on commercial paper.
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DM "there's plenty of waste in the government."Actually, there isn't. There was, then Clinton and Gingrich purged it. The budget was balanced until Bush said "we'd rather run horrible deficits in exchange for more tax cuts for rich people." Then Obama found some more things to cut, and Trump said "yay! More tax cuts for rich people!"There's not really anything left to cut of significant size. The military, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and interest payments on the existing debt are well over 90% of the total budget. And we need to cut at least 20% off the budget to have a hope of ever balancing it. Even worse, the last 10% are really popular and highly effective things like making sure you don't die on the way to work from a bridge falling on you. So. What exactly are you going to cut?
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Part IAL• AL(5)? First letter of the Hebrew alphabet• He boasted of having an AL(5) personality, and felt he was the top dog in any group. Then he got a girlfriend… AP• NAME the classic movie: The French police captain was AP(6)ed and shocked to learn that there was gambling going on in Rick’s Café, although he was pleased when they handed him a large bag containing his winnings. • The Red Cross is making an AP(6) to the community, asking people to donate blood as there is a scarcity of blood and plasma due to the pandemic.• The professor explained to the first-year law class that the AP(8) is “the party against whom the AP(6) is filed and who responds to and defends the AP(6). The girl nudged the person next to her: “is that spelled with one or two ‘p’s’ and one or two ‘l’s’?”• She was the AP(5) of her daddy’s eye, but he still bought her an android phone.EP• The student answered quickly: “An EP(4),” he said, “is a fencing or dueling sword… with a bowl-shaped hand guard and a blunted tip.” “Touché,” replied the teacher. HE • He insisted on adding two HE(4)ing teaspoons of sugar to every cup of coffee he drank. What a sweetie.• Today’s Beatles Earworm: “I need somebody, (HE(4)), not just anybody…”LA• He always wore a half-open red rose in his suit LA(5), declaring his availability to anyone interested.LE• Do you look before you LE(4)? Frankly, I prefer to walk around. You?
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FunkyIrishman We learned on 01/06/21 that Republicans can, and will, do anything. For example it would be ridiculously easy to abolish the FBI, the EPA, the Justice Dept, and the Education Dept, all certified “enemies of the people,” by simply budgeting $0.00 for each in next year’s federal budget. Not legislation required. The House controls the purse. Winter is coming.
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"content": "FunkyIrishman We learned on 01/06/21 that Republicans can, and will, do anything. For example it would be ridiculously easy to abolish the FBI, the EPA, the Justice Dept, and the Education Dept, all certified “enemies of the people,” by simply budgeting $0.00 for each in next year’s federal budget. Not legislation required. The House controls the purse. Winter is coming.\n",
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David Strouse, I agree. The lure ol an $174,000 salary seems likely to have been a factor in his running in the frst place. Although the source of that $700,000 that was reported to have come from him to his campaign is an interesting question.
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Being able to share some of my deeper thoughts and ideas with my closest friends is something I will always cherish and feel lucky to be able to do. On the other hand, I don't like to as much as I used to as I have grown up since then. For me, being able to be vulnerable can be hard to do. I do enjoy the occasional check up with one of my closest friends who I feel as if I can tell about everything to. Sometimes, I do spill out more than what I want with other people than that certain close friend though, and experience the "oversharing hangover" as mentioned in the article. Dealing with that feeling, I try to repeat to myself that they probably won't even really remember what it was I spilled, which sometimes helps calm me down about being so anxious. One saying in this passage that I think will help me become better with my feelings with vulnerability is as stated, "First, know that other people probably aren’t thinking about your disclosure as much as you are. Thanks to a phenomenon dubbed “the beautiful mess effect,” we generally view our own displays of vulnerability more negatively than those of others" (Holly Burns, NYT). I tend to be an overthinking person, so this quote puts me into a better perspective of being more open to other people I trust then the few I do as of right now. In the future, I do think that I can be open to being more vulnerable and share my feelings with others who do deserve that part of me.
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"content": "Being able to share some of my deeper thoughts and ideas with my closest friends is something I will always cherish and feel lucky to be able to do. On the other hand, I don't like to as much as I used to as I have grown up since then. For me, being able to be vulnerable can be hard to do. I do enjoy the occasional check up with one of my closest friends who I feel as if I can tell about everything to. Sometimes, I do spill out more than what I want with other people than that certain close friend though, and experience the \"oversharing hangover\" as mentioned in the article. Dealing with that feeling, I try to repeat to myself that they probably won't even really remember what it was I spilled, which sometimes helps calm me down about being so anxious. One saying in this passage that I think will help me become better with my feelings with vulnerability is as stated, \"First, know that other people probably aren’t thinking about your disclosure as much as you are. Thanks to a phenomenon dubbed “the beautiful mess effect,” we generally view our own displays of vulnerability more negatively than those of others\" (Holly Burns, NYT). I tend to be an overthinking person, so this quote puts me into a better perspective of being more open to other people I trust then the few I do as of right now. In the future, I do think that I can be open to being more vulnerable and share my feelings with others who do deserve that part of me.\n",
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Ray Z The piggybank consists of government bonds which pay interest. Lat year is $70 billion in interest.
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CMC This is exactly what so many think. The drinks overpriced and soft, the food Meh and overpriced. NYC in general is overpriced. I have huge TV at home. Watch movies, open good wine, order in or cook and done. the rent is too high for people to go out for dinner and blow 200 bucks every time.
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"content": "CMC This is exactly what so many think. The drinks overpriced and soft, the food Meh and overpriced. NYC in general is overpriced. I have huge TV at home. Watch movies, open good wine, order in or cook and done. the rent is too high for people to go out for dinner and blow 200 bucks every time.\n",
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"Try a few visits before you conclude that a therapist isn’t right for you. Dr. Bufka recommended at least two, and Ms. Bradden four to six, unless something was obviously not working."I'm sure that sounds great to the people who aren't actually receiving the therapy. The problem is, therapy isn't free. By the time you get two visits in, or four or six, you've already invested serious time and money -- not to mention the emotional energy of forming a relationship with a new person, opening up and being vulnerable, baring your wounds to a stranger, etc. (Plus, your marriage has gone through 2, or 4, or 6 weeks more conflict.) People tend to be swayed fairly significantly by their sunk costs. Especially if "this type of short-term therapy is completed within 12 sessions on average," then if you wait to get through the 6th session to decide that therapist isn't right for you, you've already gone halfway through the process. At that point, are you really going to say, "well, we've sunk $600-$1800 into this and wasted 6 weeks, but now we're sure this therapist isn't working, so let's go back to square one, spend a few more weeks interviewing new therapists, and then start the entire process over again, crossing our fingers that THIS time we'll find someone who works, because somehow magically our marriage won't continue to deteriorate while we are figuring this out"? Once you get to that point, you tend to stick with your decision, even if it turns out to have been a bad one.
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"content": "\"Try a few visits before you conclude that a therapist isn’t right for you. Dr. Bufka recommended at least two, and Ms. Bradden four to six, unless something was obviously not working.\"I'm sure that sounds great to the people who aren't actually receiving the therapy. The problem is, therapy isn't free. By the time you get two visits in, or four or six, you've already invested serious time and money -- not to mention the emotional energy of forming a relationship with a new person, opening up and being vulnerable, baring your wounds to a stranger, etc. (Plus, your marriage has gone through 2, or 4, or 6 weeks more conflict.) People tend to be swayed fairly significantly by their sunk costs. Especially if \"this type of short-term therapy is completed within 12 sessions on average,\" then if you wait to get through the 6th session to decide that therapist isn't right for you, you've already gone halfway through the process. At that point, are you really going to say, \"well, we've sunk $600-$1800 into this and wasted 6 weeks, but now we're sure this therapist isn't working, so let's go back to square one, spend a few more weeks interviewing new therapists, and then start the entire process over again, crossing our fingers that THIS time we'll find someone who works, because somehow magically our marriage won't continue to deteriorate while we are figuring this out\"? Once you get to that point, you tend to stick with your decision, even if it turns out to have been a bad one.\n",
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Born in the 40's, I spent the 1980's in Silicon Valley. Always with young, venture capital financed companies. They all crashed, laying off employees and stripping off unpaid vendors through bankruptcy. Only the top execs with exit packages came out ahead. Then they'd get picked up by another start-up and offered another generous exit package. Maybe one in ten startups survived long enough for employees to cash out stock options. We all knew the game and stayed in for the brass ring.
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Brian Michael Coyle About 2/3 of the budget is spent on social programs, including social security and Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, afdc (or its replacement), housing aid, unemployment assistance, etc., etc., etc. What you consider "poverty reduction" is an opinion. Millions are newly on Medicaid and many more millions get food stamps. All these funds are automatic and can only be changed via legislation, legislation which requires 60 votes in the Democrat-held senate. This current lie that Republicans want to end social security and similar tripe are made up and propagated by the uniformed. One or two extremist make a statement and suddenly it becomes policy, at least according to the media. And it is a spending problem. How much of the federal fisc is wasted on inane projects or simple graft and misappropriation? How many billions did we spend to prop up state funds, funds the states deliberately declined to pay as directed. Whatever. Soon the Democrats will be out of power, out on the street. Good times ahead.
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"content": "Brian Michael Coyle About 2/3 of the budget is spent on social programs, including social security and Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, afdc (or its replacement), housing aid, unemployment assistance, etc., etc., etc. What you consider \"poverty reduction\" is an opinion. Millions are newly on Medicaid and many more millions get food stamps. All these funds are automatic and can only be changed via legislation, legislation which requires 60 votes in the Democrat-held senate. This current lie that Republicans want to end social security and similar tripe are made up and propagated by the uniformed. One or two extremist make a statement and suddenly it becomes policy, at least according to the media. And it is a spending problem. How much of the federal fisc is wasted on inane projects or simple graft and misappropriation? How many billions did we spend to prop up state funds, funds the states deliberately declined to pay as directed. Whatever. Soon the Democrats will be out of power, out on the street. Good times ahead.\n",
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Why are first time homebuyer assistance programs so rarely mentioned? 10 years ago I purchased my first home with $0 down using an FHA loan. While not all buyers or homes are eligible, I am still shocked at the number of people who are completely unaware that this type of loan even exists.
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"content": "Why are first time homebuyer assistance programs so rarely mentioned? 10 years ago I purchased my first home with $0 down using an FHA loan. While not all buyers or homes are eligible, I am still shocked at the number of people who are completely unaware that this type of loan even exists.\n",
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Excellent to hear investments are being made in these areas! As a west coast psychiatrist who has lived in cities with similar problems (sparse housing, disjointed care, elimination of long-term beds) I’m surprised substance use was not mentioned at all. Ask any emergency room doctor or psychiatrist: The recent widespread availability of cheap ($1-5 a hit) meth and fentanyl has super-charged our mental health and homelessness crisis into something that these measures alone will not solve. We need coordination with the legal system to stem the tide of supply, divert substance users into mandated treatment (not jail where use continues), provide substance use treatment to the incarcerated and recently incarcerated, and build a compassionate but firm framework to confront substance use head-on in our communities.
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"content": "Excellent to hear investments are being made in these areas! As a west coast psychiatrist who has lived in cities with similar problems (sparse housing, disjointed care, elimination of long-term beds) I’m surprised substance use was not mentioned at all. Ask any emergency room doctor or psychiatrist: The recent widespread availability of cheap ($1-5 a hit) meth and fentanyl has super-charged our mental health and homelessness crisis into something that these measures alone will not solve. We need coordination with the legal system to stem the tide of supply, divert substance users into mandated treatment (not jail where use continues), provide substance use treatment to the incarcerated and recently incarcerated, and build a compassionate but firm framework to confront substance use head-on in our communities.\n",
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Small Business Owner:I sympathize. Your only recourse is to carefully document your intellectual property as “trade secret” and spend the energy and $$ to protect it. Trade secret theft brings treble damages in civil court. Guilty former employees often find employment difficult after being part of trade secret theft. Keep in mind that “damages” include the business value of the theft AND your legal costs. Judges tend to keep these cases short and final, in recognition of the cost to small businesses. But you have to be diligent in documenting and marking, and make sure your employees understand that you are serious.
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The writer says that the waived a potential $6,000 rental money with the understanding the sister and her husband handle the upkeep & maintenance. So, it's not a sudden change, it's what was agreed upon from the start. The judge is wrong on that.
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The Ethicists advice to Sister, following his several sentences of illogic and mansplaining-esqu shaming of her for "spying on a text chain" is that her brothers sext-life is none of her business. Whose business is it? If the fiancé marries her brother, this is her sister, who will, I guarantee you, find it a bitter pill to swallow that her presumptive family did not warn her about her husbands bright red flag for philandering even before he got married. I don't know if the Ethicist has ever seen a sext but in my experience, you don't have to get too close to see that it is adult content. It's also NOT FLIRTING. It's sex on paper. I do agree that the brother should be addressed first, but for a different reason. If he and his fiancé have an open relationship, then it will not end their engagement if any of them mention it to the fiancé. They can all have a good chuckle over the misunderstanding. If not, she can tell the brother that if the doesn't tell his fiancé about his extracurricular activities, she will do so. That is the ethical thing to do for both her brother and his wife. We are all bound to each other and lack of responsibility to hold our community from harm is NOT ETHICAL.
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"content": "The Ethicists advice to Sister, following his several sentences of illogic and mansplaining-esqu shaming of her for \"spying on a text chain\" is that her brothers sext-life is none of her business. Whose business is it? If the fiancé marries her brother, this is her sister, who will, I guarantee you, find it a bitter pill to swallow that her presumptive family did not warn her about her husbands bright red flag for philandering even before he got married. I don't know if the Ethicist has ever seen a sext but in my experience, you don't have to get too close to see that it is adult content. It's also NOT FLIRTING. It's sex on paper. I do agree that the brother should be addressed first, but for a different reason. If he and his fiancé have an open relationship, then it will not end their engagement if any of them mention it to the fiancé. They can all have a good chuckle over the misunderstanding. If not, she can tell the brother that if the doesn't tell his fiancé about his extracurricular activities, she will do so. That is the ethical thing to do for both her brother and his wife. We are all bound to each other and lack of responsibility to hold our community from harm is NOT ETHICAL.\n",
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Galol Intentional or not the numbers cited are charitably confusing casualties with killed in action. Common reports from Ukraine and by NATO allies estimates Ukrainian killed in action between 10-15 thousand and total casualties at near the figure of 130K. Roughly 13K are listed missing POW, desertion etc (1/10 of the number in the original comment). The Ukrainian POW numbers are very blurry because to date Russia has not admitted the International Red Cross into the Russia's POW camps nor access to Ukrainian POWs.
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"content": "Galol Intentional or not the numbers cited are charitably confusing casualties with killed in action. Common reports from Ukraine and by NATO allies estimates Ukrainian killed in action between 10-15 thousand and total casualties at near the figure of 130K. Roughly 13K are listed missing POW, desertion etc (1/10 of the number in the original comment). The Ukrainian POW numbers are very blurry because to date Russia has not admitted the International Red Cross into the Russia's POW camps nor access to Ukrainian POWs.\n",
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I've seen a lot of comments assuming a salary of 100k is not enough for single, young people to live decently in NYC. Please don't let high earning transplants build your entire understanding of this city (including me).I'm in my early 20s making six figures in NYC working in tech. I know a lot of other early 20-somethings making similarly. We go out to dinners, bars and/or clubs regularly and the people I know will travel a few times a year. I know this is extremely fortunate. Most of us get roommates, no more than one or two (recent college grads don't mind). We don't try to live in the Lower East Side, the villages, SOHO, Williamsburg or any other neighborhood that has a high price point only because of location. Most of us manage to live in buildings ranging from decent to luxury with amenities. I also have a lot of friends from college who are making nowhere near 100k in NYC, more around 50k or so. They work in the arts, education and in the restaurant industry. They definitely pay closer attention to their finances, but they also live very social lives and go out in the city. They live in upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs with one to two roommates. More people need to understand that the neighborhood in which you live will drastically change your cost of living here.
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"content": "I've seen a lot of comments assuming a salary of 100k is not enough for single, young people to live decently in NYC. Please don't let high earning transplants build your entire understanding of this city (including me).I'm in my early 20s making six figures in NYC working in tech. I know a lot of other early 20-somethings making similarly. We go out to dinners, bars and/or clubs regularly and the people I know will travel a few times a year. I know this is extremely fortunate. Most of us get roommates, no more than one or two (recent college grads don't mind). We don't try to live in the Lower East Side, the villages, SOHO, Williamsburg or any other neighborhood that has a high price point only because of location. Most of us manage to live in buildings ranging from decent to luxury with amenities. I also have a lot of friends from college who are making nowhere near 100k in NYC, more around 50k or so. They work in the arts, education and in the restaurant industry. They definitely pay closer attention to their finances, but they also live very social lives and go out in the city. They live in upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs with one to two roommates. More people need to understand that the neighborhood in which you live will drastically change your cost of living here.\n",
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David C. Clarke Is the USD a technology or a concept that transcends any particular technology? Is crypto a currency, or just one of many means of packaging a currency? If it is just software (it is), then all you are investing in is a wallet. Not without any value as a product, just not a currency. You are talking about technologies, not currencies, to which I say meh. The currency that people are currently buying with it, is not a sound investment.
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"content": "David C. Clarke Is the USD a technology or a concept that transcends any particular technology? Is crypto a currency, or just one of many means of packaging a currency? If it is just software (it is), then all you are investing in is a wallet. Not without any value as a product, just not a currency. You are talking about technologies, not currencies, to which I say meh. The currency that people are currently buying with it, is not a sound investment.\n",
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susie Not sure we know why Santos ran (although this was his second effort), and we don't know where the $700k came from that he supposedly "lent" to his campaign... leaving aside the fact that he seems to have tried to run that loan through his own corporation as a straw donor, which is illegal. I'd like to know where the money came from. To whom is this guy beholden, anyway? We don't know who Santos really is, what he's about, whether he's just another grifter and con man or whether he's a compromised asset of some country that is not our friend. For sure he's a fraud. It can only be a matter of time before his campaign finance arrangements fetch him up against the law.Hope the NYT and other papers with the resources will keep digging. Meanwhile as far as I'm concerned, Santos is a millstone around the neck of every Republican in the House. He sullies their reputation and that of the GOP for as long as he remains a member of Congress. I hope the media make the Republican leadership feel like their clocks aren't even working... with each day another slow drip drip drip of shame and wonderment about what else will turn up today and the next day and the next day after that about their swell Republican congressman Mr. Santos from the NY03 district.
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"content": "susie Not sure we know why Santos ran (although this was his second effort), and we don't know where the $700k came from that he supposedly \"lent\" to his campaign... leaving aside the fact that he seems to have tried to run that loan through his own corporation as a straw donor, which is illegal. I'd like to know where the money came from. To whom is this guy beholden, anyway? We don't know who Santos really is, what he's about, whether he's just another grifter and con man or whether he's a compromised asset of some country that is not our friend. For sure he's a fraud. It can only be a matter of time before his campaign finance arrangements fetch him up against the law.Hope the NYT and other papers with the resources will keep digging. Meanwhile as far as I'm concerned, Santos is a millstone around the neck of every Republican in the House. He sullies their reputation and that of the GOP for as long as he remains a member of Congress. I hope the media make the Republican leadership feel like their clocks aren't even working... with each day another slow drip drip drip of shame and wonderment about what else will turn up today and the next day and the next day after that about their swell Republican congressman Mr. Santos from the NY03 district.\n",
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SJ LW1 is neither a borrower nor a lender. LW1 said “We will give you a house worth $6K per month.” And the sister is saying “You have to give us more.”This has nothing to do with expectations.
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"content": "SJ LW1 is neither a borrower nor a lender. LW1 said “We will give you a house worth $6K per month.” And the sister is saying “You have to give us more.”This has nothing to do with expectations.\n",
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quesofundido There is no such thing as "open border" policy with Dems or R's. There is a complete lack of policy regarding immigration. Dems want a fair immigration policy, R's want tighter restrictions, and employers (mostly R's) love the cheap labor.
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"content": "quesofundido There is no such thing as \"open border\" policy with Dems or R's. There is a complete lack of policy regarding immigration. Dems want a fair immigration policy, R's want tighter restrictions, and employers (mostly R's) love the cheap labor.\n",
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EDJack I am so very sorry about your dad. America, we don't have to settle for this. We're still in control. But this will require looking beyond parties (because, frankly, they're both against us, and they're both bought and paid for by these parasitical corporations) in order to determine what we actually want. I think for the majority of Americans that is guaranteed healthcare untied to employment (that is good and reliable, the kind of healthcare these private equity funds have ravaged for profit), an affordable home, the ability to support a family on one income alone. Higher education that doesn't turn us into indentured servants to corporate America. A society in which community is valued. In which taxes are fair (the rich must pay their fair share). I could go on. We all know what we want. And it's completely achievable. But we have to work together for it. And that means ignoring all the divisions that are created by mainstream media to distract us from the fundamental problem.
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"content": "EDJack I am so very sorry about your dad. America, we don't have to settle for this. We're still in control. But this will require looking beyond parties (because, frankly, they're both against us, and they're both bought and paid for by these parasitical corporations) in order to determine what we actually want. I think for the majority of Americans that is guaranteed healthcare untied to employment (that is good and reliable, the kind of healthcare these private equity funds have ravaged for profit), an affordable home, the ability to support a family on one income alone. Higher education that doesn't turn us into indentured servants to corporate America. A society in which community is valued. In which taxes are fair (the rich must pay their fair share). I could go on. We all know what we want. And it's completely achievable. But we have to work together for it. And that means ignoring all the divisions that are created by mainstream media to distract us from the fundamental problem.\n",
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Please do an article to support GDP and population growth. I no longer believe that growth is a necessary objective. I've even thought of a financial solution to a no growth economy that depends on growth to increase share value. If a company invests 80% of its earnings into growing its business and 20% into dividends. Could that same company, if it was not trying to grow, retain 60% to maintain the business and dividend the remaining 40%? Doing that would double the dividend and provide a sufficient, but not large, return. Greed of returns is one of the reasons we want growth.
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"content": "Please do an article to support GDP and population growth. I no longer believe that growth is a necessary objective. I've even thought of a financial solution to a no growth economy that depends on growth to increase share value. If a company invests 80% of its earnings into growing its business and 20% into dividends. Could that same company, if it was not trying to grow, retain 60% to maintain the business and dividend the remaining 40%? Doing that would double the dividend and provide a sufficient, but not large, return. Greed of returns is one of the reasons we want growth.\n",
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The efforts by this coach are amazing but it does highlight another problem in equity and aquatics driven by Private Swimming Clubs across the country. These clubs have effectively pushed out so many people from recreating at public pools or providing access to other water sports. Most pools (public and private) traditionally charge rentals on a per lane basis— so private swim clubs stuff each lane with swimmers going back and forth. Meanwhile other aquatic sports, like water polo and synchronized swimming, become even more prohibitive and exclusive bc of the costs associated with renting pool time. So club swimmers swim nonstop (and their parents pay) until they realize they don’t have the time or times necessary to carry on further in the sport or they’d rather participate in a more team-based sport. Many get out of the pool in high school and never swim again— Instead of being exposed to or able to try other aquatic sports that do not require the same time investment to succeed. I wish this program tremendous success and also hope the athletes consider other aquatic sports that will keep them in the water as they grow up and can train year round or experience success in a team sport like water polo or synchronized swimming. This would only happen if public pools had a much different approach to aquatic sports that doesn’t feed the all encompassing yet dubious swim club economy.
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"content": "The efforts by this coach are amazing but it does highlight another problem in equity and aquatics driven by Private Swimming Clubs across the country. These clubs have effectively pushed out so many people from recreating at public pools or providing access to other water sports. Most pools (public and private) traditionally charge rentals on a per lane basis— so private swim clubs stuff each lane with swimmers going back and forth. Meanwhile other aquatic sports, like water polo and synchronized swimming, become even more prohibitive and exclusive bc of the costs associated with renting pool time. So club swimmers swim nonstop (and their parents pay) until they realize they don’t have the time or times necessary to carry on further in the sport or they’d rather participate in a more team-based sport. Many get out of the pool in high school and never swim again— Instead of being exposed to or able to try other aquatic sports that do not require the same time investment to succeed. I wish this program tremendous success and also hope the athletes consider other aquatic sports that will keep them in the water as they grow up and can train year round or experience success in a team sport like water polo or synchronized swimming. This would only happen if public pools had a much different approach to aquatic sports that doesn’t feed the all encompassing yet dubious swim club economy.\n",
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Jack Lee Good for you,but living in an apartment in New York, clucking is prohibited,unless I do it. That said,I can still pick up eggs at the greenmarkets for $6.00 per dozen.
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"content": "Jack Lee Good for you,but living in an apartment in New York, clucking is prohibited,unless I do it. That said,I can still pick up eggs at the greenmarkets for $6.00 per dozen.\n",
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one clear culprit is our worry - paranoia - about contamination of food, medicines, toothbrushes and the like. So much of what we buy is encased at least twice-over with plastic, to ensure that no one has messed with it. (Larry David had a bit about opening such packaging....)
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"content": "one clear culprit is our worry - paranoia - about contamination of food, medicines, toothbrushes and the like. So much of what we buy is encased at least twice-over with plastic, to ensure that no one has messed with it. (Larry David had a bit about opening such packaging....)\n",
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Great piece; had no idea this was going on. Would love to do it, but prices for components have gone mad. A year ago I bought a lowly Raspberry Pi Zero 2W at the $15 list price. If you can even get one today, it will cost around $100.
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Let’s be blunt, shall we? One of our two political parties has spent a decade attempting to kill the Affordable Care Act, opposing Medicaid expansion, opposing child tax credits and similar programs to lift children out of poverty and eliminate hunger, cutting taxes for the rich, incentivizing passive investment, broadcasting dangerous misinformation about contagious diseases — even calling covid-19 a ‘hoax’ as it killed over 1 million Americans — and braying about the ‘freedom’ to refuse to follow common sense public health advice.That party now has a majority in the House of Representatives — and it is so comically and tragically dysfunctional it cannot even select its own leadership.You name a serious problem facing America right now, and those folks will come up with a way to ignore it or make it worse, all in the name of ‘patriotism,’ and ‘fiscal responsibility,’ and ‘freedom.’Stupidity is what’s killing kids and adults in this country. Shameless, bullheaded, abject stupidity.
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"content": "Let’s be blunt, shall we? One of our two political parties has spent a decade attempting to kill the Affordable Care Act, opposing Medicaid expansion, opposing child tax credits and similar programs to lift children out of poverty and eliminate hunger, cutting taxes for the rich, incentivizing passive investment, broadcasting dangerous misinformation about contagious diseases — even calling covid-19 a ‘hoax’ as it killed over 1 million Americans — and braying about the ‘freedom’ to refuse to follow common sense public health advice.That party now has a majority in the House of Representatives — and it is so comically and tragically dysfunctional it cannot even select its own leadership.You name a serious problem facing America right now, and those folks will come up with a way to ignore it or make it worse, all in the name of ‘patriotism,’ and ‘fiscal responsibility,’ and ‘freedom.’Stupidity is what’s killing kids and adults in this country. Shameless, bullheaded, abject stupidity.\n",
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I am currently dealing with this very issue. At almost 65, I have been a lifelong runner--first a sprinter in high school and college--the transitioning to distance running in my late 20's. My late husband was my coach and training partner. He coached me to a 3:27 marathon at 45 years old. So, no, I was not an elite runner, but I was better than the average runner.In March of 2022, I took a pretty significant header while trail running. I gave myself a few weeks off and then started back slowly. On April 6,2022, I was walking down a driveway and felt excruciating pain in my left knee. Could not move at all...had to get help to get to my car to drive home...long story shorter, I had torn the posterior root of my medial meniscus. I had a meniscal repair and was completely non weight bearing on that side for 8 weeks. Started rehab, and was doing quite well until December. Not sure if the repair failed or something else. Heading back to the ortho on Tuesday for an injection. My running helped me through the death of my beloved husband--it helped me cope with the profound grief I had. to not be able to run right now is torture for me. I had the repair so I COULD continue running, albeit not the 30 miles a week I was doing before the injury....I struggle...
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"content": "I am currently dealing with this very issue. At almost 65, I have been a lifelong runner--first a sprinter in high school and college--the transitioning to distance running in my late 20's. My late husband was my coach and training partner. He coached me to a 3:27 marathon at 45 years old. So, no, I was not an elite runner, but I was better than the average runner.In March of 2022, I took a pretty significant header while trail running. I gave myself a few weeks off and then started back slowly. On April 6,2022, I was walking down a driveway and felt excruciating pain in my left knee. Could not move at all...had to get help to get to my car to drive home...long story shorter, I had torn the posterior root of my medial meniscus. I had a meniscal repair and was completely non weight bearing on that side for 8 weeks. Started rehab, and was doing quite well until December. Not sure if the repair failed or something else. Heading back to the ortho on Tuesday for an injection. My running helped me through the death of my beloved husband--it helped me cope with the profound grief I had. to not be able to run right now is torture for me. I had the repair so I COULD continue running, albeit not the 30 miles a week I was doing before the injury....I struggle...\n",
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Born and raised in H-Town and native Tejano generations deep. I'd recommend Spanish Flowers on N. Main, open 24 hrs. (carne guisada is a native Tejano dish and my fave), also Shipley's donuts across the street, usually open 24 hrs at that location (glazed donut, sausage/jalapeno/cheese kolache), and antique/vintage shopping in the Heights (about 5 minutes away). The rodeo is expensive, but worth it. And the Astros games, especially on dollar dog night, are fun. Memorial Park is a great place to run/walk.
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There are a lot of comments here that take the position that there are more important things to worry about - the climate, health care of everyone, and the planet in general - than addressing aging as this essay suggests. I disagree. Frankly, I like my life, and I am interested in extending my health for as long as I enjoy living. I'm retiring this summer (age 68) and I am fully invested in preparing for that event by practicing good health habits now and into the future.I am aware I could get hit by a car or some other unforeseen event; develop cancer or Alzheimers. But, until that happens, I am all in on healthy aging.
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"content": "There are a lot of comments here that take the position that there are more important things to worry about - the climate, health care of everyone, and the planet in general - than addressing aging as this essay suggests. I disagree. Frankly, I like my life, and I am interested in extending my health for as long as I enjoy living. I'm retiring this summer (age 68) and I am fully invested in preparing for that event by practicing good health habits now and into the future.I am aware I could get hit by a car or some other unforeseen event; develop cancer or Alzheimers. But, until that happens, I am all in on healthy aging.\n",
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A number of commentators jump to the defense of the drug companies by pointing out that what Abbevie and their fellow companies are doing is within the scope of the law. The argument made for allowing this kind of behavior is that it encourages research and development. Fine, require the companies to be accountable for how they are using the billions toward research. The United States is one of the few 1st world countries that allow the sick to be raped by the drug companies. Being within the scope of the law, isn't within the scope of basic human decency and ethics. Things might change if there was a 50% tax on profits that are not directly tied to meaningful research and development. A tweak in the dosage or usage of a drug should not be cause for extending patents.
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"content": "A number of commentators jump to the defense of the drug companies by pointing out that what Abbevie and their fellow companies are doing is within the scope of the law. The argument made for allowing this kind of behavior is that it encourages research and development. Fine, require the companies to be accountable for how they are using the billions toward research. The United States is one of the few 1st world countries that allow the sick to be raped by the drug companies. Being within the scope of the law, isn't within the scope of basic human decency and ethics. Things might change if there was a 50% tax on profits that are not directly tied to meaningful research and development. A tweak in the dosage or usage of a drug should not be cause for extending patents.\n",
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