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Bret The Republican Party hasn't actually given a rodent's tuchus about spending since at least St Reagan.Unless of course it's for the benefit of the wealthiest people and biggest corporations -- and then the chequebook can't open widely enough.
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"content": "Bret The Republican Party hasn't actually given a rodent's tuchus about spending since at least St Reagan.Unless of course it's for the benefit of the wealthiest people and biggest corporations -- and then the chequebook can't open widely enough.\n",
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Rachel Yep, aside from not speaking up about what is patently wrong (OK, that's a BIG deal), the democrats and "traditional" republicans likely have a greater interest in governing than the anger motivated anarchism that the far right feeds on for its sustenance. This would be a great opportunity to work together (yes, I may be delusional) to elevate the positive demeanor of the democrats' selection of a Pelosi successor to a cooperative governance of our country.These folks have the perfect storm needed to create coalition that focuses on respectable governing rather than....politics. :) Wow, this seems like the best opportunity for good people to lead the country rather than politics and opinions leading the way to popularizing complaints of the whiners who don't work well with others.
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"content": "Rachel Yep, aside from not speaking up about what is patently wrong (OK, that's a BIG deal), the democrats and \"traditional\" republicans likely have a greater interest in governing than the anger motivated anarchism that the far right feeds on for its sustenance. This would be a great opportunity to work together (yes, I may be delusional) to elevate the positive demeanor of the democrats' selection of a Pelosi successor to a cooperative governance of our country.These folks have the perfect storm needed to create coalition that focuses on respectable governing rather than....politics. :) Wow, this seems like the best opportunity for good people to lead the country rather than politics and opinions leading the way to popularizing complaints of the whiners who don't work well with others.\n",
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Emil During the Great Depression, as a result of decreased tax revenues and government spending on social programs, public debt was 40% of GDP. As a result of financing the Second World War (remember War Bonds?), it had risen in 1945 to 112% of GDP. but at neither time there was there talk of national bankruptcy or default . Trump started the ball rolling when he announced himself the king of debt, and opined the U S could declare bankruptcy the way he and his businesses did so 6 times.
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"content": "Emil During the Great Depression, as a result of decreased tax revenues and government spending on social programs, public debt was 40% of GDP. As a result of financing the Second World War (remember War Bonds?), it had risen in 1945 to 112% of GDP. but at neither time there was there talk of national bankruptcy or default . Trump started the ball rolling when he announced himself the king of debt, and opined the U S could declare bankruptcy the way he and his businesses did so 6 times.\n",
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Andy "For better or worse, he is tied to it, his entire appeal is due to his role in the monarchy."So true. Even his good looks are largely owing to privilege. How can the door be truly "open," when he keeps shutting it?
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"content": "Andy \"For better or worse, he is tied to it, his entire appeal is due to his role in the monarchy.\"So true. Even his good looks are largely owing to privilege. How can the door be truly \"open,\" when he keeps shutting it?\n",
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Debt service is about 9% of federal spending. The current agony on the debt ceiling makes it likely that the interest rate on new debt will rise. Investors and governments all over the world will want higher rates if they lend to the US. These higher rates will lead to MORE government spending and debt. The squabble over the debt ceiling worsens the problem the Republicans want to solve. Don't they see this?
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"content": "Debt service is about 9% of federal spending. The current agony on the debt ceiling makes it likely that the interest rate on new debt will rise. Investors and governments all over the world will want higher rates if they lend to the US. These higher rates will lead to MORE government spending and debt. The squabble over the debt ceiling worsens the problem the Republicans want to solve. Don't they see this?\n",
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Adam The rare earths, though widely scattered, are rarely present in sufficient quantities to support the difficult processes to mine and refine them.Neodymium, a rare earth used in powerful magnets, is $4.50 an ounce. Lithium spot price is currently around $2.20 per ounce. Compare these to rhodium at $12,000 per ounce. And rhodium, used in catalytic converters, isn't even a rare earth.
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"content": "Adam The rare earths, though widely scattered, are rarely present in sufficient quantities to support the difficult processes to mine and refine them.Neodymium, a rare earth used in powerful magnets, is $4.50 an ounce. Lithium spot price is currently around $2.20 per ounce. Compare these to rhodium at $12,000 per ounce. And rhodium, used in catalytic converters, isn't even a rare earth.\n",
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Smilodon7 She makes 174K a year and her husband got hired on with the oil industry at a million a year. Running for Congress and having a vote for sale is lucrative as George Santos figured out as well.
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"content": "Smilodon7 She makes 174K a year and her husband got hired on with the oil industry at a million a year. Running for Congress and having a vote for sale is lucrative as George Santos figured out as well.\n",
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Mark Thomason -- It is the starter of wars who benefits the "military industrial complex," NOT the defenders. Peace is achieved only when neo-imperialists know that invasion will bring upon them only disaster. Weapons that will hasten defeat for Putin are the best investment we can make for peace.
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"content": "Mark Thomason -- It is the starter of wars who benefits the \"military industrial complex,\" NOT the defenders. Peace is achieved only when neo-imperialists know that invasion will bring upon them only disaster. Weapons that will hasten defeat for Putin are the best investment we can make for peace.\n",
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Incorporeal Being There are open public spaces with seating and tables across the street from both entrances. In the summer those tables fill up quickly, but they exist.
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"content": "Incorporeal Being There are open public spaces with seating and tables across the street from both entrances. In the summer those tables fill up quickly, but they exist.\n",
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President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill included $21B for environmental projects (including cleaning up Superfund sites) and $15 for replacing lead water pipes in cities.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/whats-in-the-infrastructure-bill.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/politics/whats-in-the-infrastructure-bill.html</a>
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The scenario described in this article sounds like a win win situation. I live in an old single family neighborhood in San Diego where the developers roam like hawks turning old neighborhoods into patchwork hell. Not for extended family or one rental unit or low income housing, but for their own personal profit with no cares for the neighborhoods they destroy with shoddy ugly construction and the city allows them complete freedom. I understand there is a housing issue, but our cities loose guidelines are just creating new problems. I am all for the situation this article describes, but what is happening in our city is not the way to do it.
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"content": "The scenario described in this article sounds like a win win situation. I live in an old single family neighborhood in San Diego where the developers roam like hawks turning old neighborhoods into patchwork hell. Not for extended family or one rental unit or low income housing, but for their own personal profit with no cares for the neighborhoods they destroy with shoddy ugly construction and the city allows them complete freedom. I understand there is a housing issue, but our cities loose guidelines are just creating new problems. I am all for the situation this article describes, but what is happening in our city is not the way to do it.\n",
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Your newsletter is encouraging. We must electrify transportation, home, and business heating and cooling, hundreds of industrial processes like concrete, steel, and aluminum; and a huge increase in non-fossil electric power generation: a formidable challenge to meet the quality of life aspirations of a population projected to be 9 Billion by mid-century.I have been working on the energy challenges since the 1970s in the Navy, as a U.S. Senate staffer, and as a technology entrepreneur and I have concluded that this is the toughest problem that humankind and governments have ever faced.We are in a race to bring the atmosphere to a climate-stable state before a self-sustaining and exponential release of greenhouse gases currently trapped in the Arctic Permafrost are released. President Biden came up with a brilliant strategy in his tasking question sent to his science advisors, “How can breakthroughs in science and technology create powerful new solutions to address climate change—propelling market-driven change, jump-starting economic growth, improving health, and growing jobs, especially in communities that have been left behind?”I believe this is the only strategy that will work. I recommend the market-based transformation could be accelerated by government-funded competitions to improve the confidence of investors, media, and the public in the performance and costs of new technologies. I suggest American-invented superconducting Maglev transport technology,
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"content": "Your newsletter is encouraging. We must electrify transportation, home, and business heating and cooling, hundreds of industrial processes like concrete, steel, and aluminum; and a huge increase in non-fossil electric power generation: a formidable challenge to meet the quality of life aspirations of a population projected to be 9 Billion by mid-century.I have been working on the energy challenges since the 1970s in the Navy, as a U.S. Senate staffer, and as a technology entrepreneur and I have concluded that this is the toughest problem that humankind and governments have ever faced.We are in a race to bring the atmosphere to a climate-stable state before a self-sustaining and exponential release of greenhouse gases currently trapped in the Arctic Permafrost are released. President Biden came up with a brilliant strategy in his tasking question sent to his science advisors, “How can breakthroughs in science and technology create powerful new solutions to address climate change—propelling market-driven change, jump-starting economic growth, improving health, and growing jobs, especially in communities that have been left behind?”I believe this is the only strategy that will work. I recommend the market-based transformation could be accelerated by government-funded competitions to improve the confidence of investors, media, and the public in the performance and costs of new technologies. I suggest American-invented superconducting Maglev transport technology,\n",
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What would you give to have full and unrestricted access to Goldman's internal files including all investments, ownership and equity stakes?Can you even imagine the results of a leak from their databases?Almost as much fun as watching Solomon squirm in front of the cameras. Almost.
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"content": "What would you give to have full and unrestricted access to Goldman's internal files including all investments, ownership and equity stakes?Can you even imagine the results of a leak from their databases?Almost as much fun as watching Solomon squirm in front of the cameras. Almost.\n",
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According to a recent NPR news clip, there are 600 billion dollars of tax money that could be collected without raising taxes if the IRS had the staff to do so. And who knows how much would be collected if everyone just paid their fair share of taxes. What a bunch of whiners - complaining about everything but not offering up a single solution.
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"content": "According to a recent NPR news clip, there are 600 billion dollars of tax money that could be collected without raising taxes if the IRS had the staff to do so. And who knows how much would be collected if everyone just paid their fair share of taxes. What a bunch of whiners - complaining about everything but not offering up a single solution.\n",
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The “freedom” caucus is getting everything they want: media attention, concessions on legislations and power to disrupt and get their agenda. In a couple of days McCarthy will be the speaker and all these days of votes will fall into oblivion as the next drama happens.Everyone thinks McCarthy is weakened. He’s not weakened. They’re all on the same page essentially. Voters who support the Republicans through all the Trump years are not going away. This is not a sign that Republicans are at odds. Once the first committee is formed to investigate Biden they will all fall back in line. Do not be fooled by this or the extensiones media coverage which keeps on making baseless comparisons to 123 years ago. It’s not relevant.
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"content": "The “freedom” caucus is getting everything they want: media attention, concessions on legislations and power to disrupt and get their agenda. In a couple of days McCarthy will be the speaker and all these days of votes will fall into oblivion as the next drama happens.Everyone thinks McCarthy is weakened. He’s not weakened. They’re all on the same page essentially. Voters who support the Republicans through all the Trump years are not going away. This is not a sign that Republicans are at odds. Once the first committee is formed to investigate Biden they will all fall back in line. Do not be fooled by this or the extensiones media coverage which keeps on making baseless comparisons to 123 years ago. It’s not relevant.\n",
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The dark comedy that is being played out in the House for the past three days is what we as a nation deserve to watch. Boebert won by a margin of 586 votes. This means many Democrats did not come out to vote for Frisch. The people who chose her what was their rationale, except that she is a consummate gun advocate and able to disrupt everything without a plan. We ought to forgive her ignominiousness as she is really ill prepared as her knowledge base seems shallow. Boebert is not alone. Jordan the wrestling coach is now wrestling with our system of government. A very large part of our population has become cynical about our institutions and have lost faith in them. Erosion of public trust has taken place as our politics is now driven by money, not by ideas, policies and service excellence. From the day one, the elected officials only concern is their campaign coffer. The media is indirect partner in this cabal as it gets enriched from the campaign funds. The Supreme Court even greased the way through its Citizens United verdict. American Democracy is fast becoming a thing of the past.
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"content": "The dark comedy that is being played out in the House for the past three days is what we as a nation deserve to watch. Boebert won by a margin of 586 votes. This means many Democrats did not come out to vote for Frisch. The people who chose her what was their rationale, except that she is a consummate gun advocate and able to disrupt everything without a plan. We ought to forgive her ignominiousness as she is really ill prepared as her knowledge base seems shallow. Boebert is not alone. Jordan the wrestling coach is now wrestling with our system of government. A very large part of our population has become cynical about our institutions and have lost faith in them. Erosion of public trust has taken place as our politics is now driven by money, not by ideas, policies and service excellence. From the day one, the elected officials only concern is their campaign coffer. The media is indirect partner in this cabal as it gets enriched from the campaign funds. The Supreme Court even greased the way through its Citizens United verdict. American Democracy is fast becoming a thing of the past.\n",
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Only $1.7b is in cash? And $5b is not the $8b that was lost.
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"content": "Only $1.7b is in cash? And $5b is not the $8b that was lost.\n",
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Let's look at the proposal of working until age 70 before Medicare and Social Security kick in. There is no national health care. How many people in this country have employer subsidized health insurance? And even if they do, living longer does not mean healthy-longer. Bret's comment about changing jobs to something less physically demanding - like what? And then does that less physically demanding job pay anywhere near the original job? Instead of raising the age to 70, Congress should consider raising the contribution to FICA. The taxable maximum earnings for 2023 is $160,200 or 7.65 per ct of earnings. Raise the maximum earnings as well as the per cent. Bret and Gail - please discuss.
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"content": "Let's look at the proposal of working until age 70 before Medicare and Social Security kick in. There is no national health care. How many people in this country have employer subsidized health insurance? And even if they do, living longer does not mean healthy-longer. Bret's comment about changing jobs to something less physically demanding - like what? And then does that less physically demanding job pay anywhere near the original job? Instead of raising the age to 70, Congress should consider raising the contribution to FICA. The taxable maximum earnings for 2023 is $160,200 or 7.65 per ct of earnings. Raise the maximum earnings as well as the per cent. Bret and Gail - please discuss.\n",
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Followup, re collapse of the Roman Empire: Not mentioned here, but I am greatly troubled at how sports betting has taken hold and is spreading like a plague over professional and college sports in the U.S. Advertising and media coverage now centers not on just the winner/loser outcome but on the betting odds. Would like to see a comparison of the betting money vs ticket sales, and other revenue. As the money flows differently in college sports, what will happen next ? The way we are headed, sports, politics, justice (even the “judicial process”), the rule of law—virtually every institution which helps create and protect sound values (especially for and with young people) is at great risk and open to corruption. As a conscientious nonagenarian, I fear for the future.
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"content": "Followup, re collapse of the Roman Empire: Not mentioned here, but I am greatly troubled at how sports betting has taken hold and is spreading like a plague over professional and college sports in the U.S. Advertising and media coverage now centers not on just the winner/loser outcome but on the betting odds. Would like to see a comparison of the betting money vs ticket sales, and other revenue. As the money flows differently in college sports, what will happen next ? The way we are headed, sports, politics, justice (even the “judicial process”), the rule of law—virtually every institution which helps create and protect sound values (especially for and with young people) is at great risk and open to corruption. As a conscientious nonagenarian, I fear for the future.\n",
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Ann So true.But as local family hardware store owners tell me: the big box stores' -retail- price is less than the -wholesale- price that the family store buys it at.This matters because most consumers are price sensitive.Also, the big stores can stay open until 9-10 pm to pick up that marginal sale. Small stores cannot absorb those labor costs and so they close at 5.Capitalism is rapacious. It consumes everything in its path.
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I never used a password manager because of the possibility of a breach of security where all my passwords are stored together. Even the long and convoluted passwords are all stolen at once. I could never understand why this was not considered an obvious flaw in the system. Tech writers all encouraged people to use such managers as if they are 100% safe when they would be an obvious target of hackers. I have been using passcode sentences for a long time. It is an easy way to remember complex passwords which few others could even guess. I store them in a locked app on my phone and even there, they are not written out but I have written clues about what they are. Sometimes, I have trouble figuring out exactly what the passcode may be and have to try several things. Usually, I can figure it out in two or three guesses. However, I sometimes have trouble with the challenge questions stored on the websites if I need to change my password. What was my favorite band at the time I opened that account? I don't know.
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"content": "I never used a password manager because of the possibility of a breach of security where all my passwords are stored together. Even the long and convoluted passwords are all stolen at once. I could never understand why this was not considered an obvious flaw in the system. Tech writers all encouraged people to use such managers as if they are 100% safe when they would be an obvious target of hackers. I have been using passcode sentences for a long time. It is an easy way to remember complex passwords which few others could even guess. I store them in a locked app on my phone and even there, they are not written out but I have written clues about what they are. Sometimes, I have trouble figuring out exactly what the passcode may be and have to try several things. Usually, I can figure it out in two or three guesses. However, I sometimes have trouble with the challenge questions stored on the websites if I need to change my password. What was my favorite band at the time I opened that account? I don't know.\n",
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Ale It is not correct to say that induction ranges do not caramelize or fry well. Induction hobs can do everything a gas hob can. They are every bit as flexible as gas, in terms of turning the heat quite low for caramelizing, and they have plenty of power for frying. Also, since they do not have an open flame, they are much safer if there are children around. The hobs do not heat up at all (although reflected heat from a pot can make the surface hot). Since I bought one, I have never regretted the purchase or wished I had gas again.
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"content": "Ale It is not correct to say that induction ranges do not caramelize or fry well. Induction hobs can do everything a gas hob can. They are every bit as flexible as gas, in terms of turning the heat quite low for caramelizing, and they have plenty of power for frying. Also, since they do not have an open flame, they are much safer if there are children around. The hobs do not heat up at all (although reflected heat from a pot can make the surface hot). Since I bought one, I have never regretted the purchase or wished I had gas again.\n",
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The 2017 Tax cut was enacted, stating it will wipe away the entire national debt. In the end Trump spent $7.8 Trillion and the national debt rose to $31.38 Trillion. He also lost close to 4 million jobs.Last month, the debt ceiling has been raised to $31.40 Trillion. Biden has created 11.2 million jobs in the first two years and has added $200 Billion to the national debt.Now Republicans are crying about the soaring national debt, saying under Trump things were prosperous and there was responsible spending.Let us wait for the cuts GOP will be proposing.
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"content": "The 2017 Tax cut was enacted, stating it will wipe away the entire national debt. In the end Trump spent $7.8 Trillion and the national debt rose to $31.38 Trillion. He also lost close to 4 million jobs.Last month, the debt ceiling has been raised to $31.40 Trillion. Biden has created 11.2 million jobs in the first two years and has added $200 Billion to the national debt.Now Republicans are crying about the soaring national debt, saying under Trump things were prosperous and there was responsible spending.Let us wait for the cuts GOP will be proposing.\n",
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I don't know, $22,000 discrepancy doesn't seem exceptionally alarming. Who knows how much loan baggage college graduates must carry including interest. That needs to be factored into the gap. College should be free, I went back to community college recently and teachers at that level are magnificent, nothing again high school teachers, but it's not the same.
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"content": "I don't know, $22,000 discrepancy doesn't seem exceptionally alarming. Who knows how much loan baggage college graduates must carry including interest. That needs to be factored into the gap. College should be free, I went back to community college recently and teachers at that level are magnificent, nothing again high school teachers, but it's not the same.\n",
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Joanquilts I mean, it's a big city. Depends on how you live.. If you come from Ohio to New York, your plan was probably not to live in Bay Ridge or Flushing. So they cram themselves 3-4 people into an apartment in Williamsburg or Manhattan, and feel like they can't make ends meet. Eventhough they make $100K.It's the way the city has always been, so I don't understand why people are suddenly so surprised by it.
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"content": "Joanquilts I mean, it's a big city. Depends on how you live.. If you come from Ohio to New York, your plan was probably not to live in Bay Ridge or Flushing. So they cram themselves 3-4 people into an apartment in Williamsburg or Manhattan, and feel like they can't make ends meet. Eventhough they make $100K.It's the way the city has always been, so I don't understand why people are suddenly so surprised by it.\n",
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CSL Moving from a city to a rural area opens up other expenses such as what to do for transportation to go to work, school, and shopping. NYC has one of the cheapest modes of transportation in which to get around. Where can can you spend $1.35 and go to anywhere in the city? We also know that once there is a price increase for services they stay permanent.
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"content": "CSL Moving from a city to a rural area opens up other expenses such as what to do for transportation to go to work, school, and shopping. NYC has one of the cheapest modes of transportation in which to get around. Where can can you spend $1.35 and go to anywhere in the city? We also know that once there is a price increase for services they stay permanent.\n",
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A moderate Democrat candidate is to the left of Ms. Sinema, seeing she failed to vote for $15 dollar minimum wage with a thumbs down, failed to allow Medicare negotiate Rx drug prices, and is basically an ally of the Republican party.
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"content": "A moderate Democrat candidate is to the left of Ms. Sinema, seeing she failed to vote for $15 dollar minimum wage with a thumbs down, failed to allow Medicare negotiate Rx drug prices, and is basically an ally of the Republican party.\n",
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From his inception of the FTX exchange, it was to fund to the Alameda hedgefund which was losing millions. In 2020, Alameda was already $5B in debt and that was all “borrowed” customer funding from his exchange. “I didn’t know what I was doing,” yet he kept transferring funds secretly and spending it lavishly. Crypto exchange is a scheme.
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To advance the cause of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) it is important to understand why so many people oppose them:1. For most Americans their single largest form of investment (wealth) is the value of their homes, and they will do almost anything to prevent property values from dropping, whereas ADUs can lower property values and negatively impact neighborhood aesthetics.2. ADUs can strain existing infrastructure (e.g., schools, sewers, parking, water, electricity, public transportation) and lead to higher taxes.3. ADUs can affect the character of a neighborhood and lead to over-density. 4. ADUs can increase privacy and safety concerns, especially if the units are rented to unrelated tenants.5. ADU regulations and permitting processes can be difficult to navigate, leading to slow and complicated implementation.Because home-owners tend to be voters, those in affluent neighborhoods and the suburbs will continue to oppose laws and regulations requiring higher-density, low-income housing in their neighborhoods and communities.Thus the only way to economically and racially integrate the suburbs and affluent city neighborhoods will be to pass local, state and federal laws, and for President Biden to issue Executive Orders, mandating that single-family zoning be eliminated and multi-family, high-density, low-income housing be required throughout the US.
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"content": "To advance the cause of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) it is important to understand why so many people oppose them:1. For most Americans their single largest form of investment (wealth) is the value of their homes, and they will do almost anything to prevent property values from dropping, whereas ADUs can lower property values and negatively impact neighborhood aesthetics.2. ADUs can strain existing infrastructure (e.g., schools, sewers, parking, water, electricity, public transportation) and lead to higher taxes.3. ADUs can affect the character of a neighborhood and lead to over-density. 4. ADUs can increase privacy and safety concerns, especially if the units are rented to unrelated tenants.5. ADU regulations and permitting processes can be difficult to navigate, leading to slow and complicated implementation.Because home-owners tend to be voters, those in affluent neighborhoods and the suburbs will continue to oppose laws and regulations requiring higher-density, low-income housing in their neighborhoods and communities.Thus the only way to economically and racially integrate the suburbs and affluent city neighborhoods will be to pass local, state and federal laws, and for President Biden to issue Executive Orders, mandating that single-family zoning be eliminated and multi-family, high-density, low-income housing be required throughout the US.\n",
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During Trump's administration, Ivanka and Jared made significantly more than Hunter in their private business dealings... while they were employed by the government. Besides the money they made, the Saudis invested $2 billion in Jared's business.
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"content": "During Trump's administration, Ivanka and Jared made significantly more than Hunter in their private business dealings... while they were employed by the government. Besides the money they made, the Saudis invested $2 billion in Jared's business.\n",
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".....whose brewery charges $16 for a four-pack of 19.2-ounce cans."I was in NYC sometime around 2000 and was bemused by the price of beer at at least $5 per GLASS (not by the PINT, by the GLASS, the SERVING glasses everyone thinks are "pints" can't deliver you 16oz of liquid without spilling it).Now I'm wondering how a six-pack (four-19.2 ounce cans is a little more than ONE pack of six-12 ounce cans) came to cost $16? SIXTEEN DOLLARS? $64 dollars a case?
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"content": "\".....whose brewery charges $16 for a four-pack of 19.2-ounce cans.\"I was in NYC sometime around 2000 and was bemused by the price of beer at at least $5 per GLASS (not by the PINT, by the GLASS, the SERVING glasses everyone thinks are \"pints\" can't deliver you 16oz of liquid without spilling it).Now I'm wondering how a six-pack (four-19.2 ounce cans is a little more than ONE pack of six-12 ounce cans) came to cost $16? SIXTEEN DOLLARS? $64 dollars a case?\n",
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With Intel, Apple, AMD, Samsung and Nvidia cutting production will these facilities open? <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown</a><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/8/23392703/samsung-amd-semiconductor-chip-shortage-slump-2022" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/8/23392703/samsung-amd-semiconductor-chip-shortage-slump-2022</a><a href="https://www.hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-reportedly-halts-production-of-nvidia-rtx-30-series-gpu-to-avoid-price-plummet" target="_blank">https://www.hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-reportedly-halts-production-of-nvidia-rtx-30-series-gpu-to-avoid-price-plummet</a>/<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-apple-nvidia-reportedly-reducing-5nm-tsmc-orders" target="_blank">https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-apple-nvidia-reportedly-reducing-5nm-tsmc-orders</a>
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Most of the public composting sites in New York City (which generally collect one day a week, sometime between Thursday and Sunday) were closed last weekend for Christmas and again this weekend for New Year's. This has been hard on those of us who have to save three weeks worth of composting scraps until next weekend! I have grapefruit rinds and eggshells spilling out of my freezer. Something simple that NYC could do is make sure that there are accessible composting sites open every single week of the year, because the reality is that people do not stop cooking and eating over the holidays.
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"content": "Most of the public composting sites in New York City (which generally collect one day a week, sometime between Thursday and Sunday) were closed last weekend for Christmas and again this weekend for New Year's. This has been hard on those of us who have to save three weeks worth of composting scraps until next weekend! I have grapefruit rinds and eggshells spilling out of my freezer. Something simple that NYC could do is make sure that there are accessible composting sites open every single week of the year, because the reality is that people do not stop cooking and eating over the holidays.\n",
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It appears this assessment is biased as well as flawed in several respects. The opening idea that climate change is a belief, rather than fact goes against what we can all see here and now. Then, there is a blind lack of vision for resilience in population trends. On the one hand invention and technology are already naturally growing toward enhancing and sustaining an aging population - augmented by their wealth. In an economy based on globally industrialised land use and mechanised labor, this will bring jobs and benefits to the younger generation. On the other, we can forsee a drop of aged population as Boomers reach their lifespans over the next two decades. This will most likely be followed by a slope of more balanced population decline as society learns to incorporate childbearing and early childhood care accommodations into women's education and career paths. Global birth control will emerge in developing countries as it did 40-50 years ago in developed countries. The Amish and other high birth rate groups are subject to attrition and assimilation into larger society. The more they grow, the harder it is to segregate. So, I see a future where less is more. People will continue to be more liberated by technology and innovation because creative talent and resources can emerge more easily in a deeply connected World. We don't need to be concerned about population decline as it is part of a long-term picture of sustainable human existence. Climate needs to be the focus.
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"content": "It appears this assessment is biased as well as flawed in several respects. The opening idea that climate change is a belief, rather than fact goes against what we can all see here and now. Then, there is a blind lack of vision for resilience in population trends. On the one hand invention and technology are already naturally growing toward enhancing and sustaining an aging population - augmented by their wealth. In an economy based on globally industrialised land use and mechanised labor, this will bring jobs and benefits to the younger generation. On the other, we can forsee a drop of aged population as Boomers reach their lifespans over the next two decades. This will most likely be followed by a slope of more balanced population decline as society learns to incorporate childbearing and early childhood care accommodations into women's education and career paths. Global birth control will emerge in developing countries as it did 40-50 years ago in developed countries. The Amish and other high birth rate groups are subject to attrition and assimilation into larger society. The more they grow, the harder it is to segregate. So, I see a future where less is more. People will continue to be more liberated by technology and innovation because creative talent and resources can emerge more easily in a deeply connected World. We don't need to be concerned about population decline as it is part of a long-term picture of sustainable human existence. Climate needs to be the focus.\n",
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Lots of comments on here about him being a “hero” for sticking to his principles and not getting vaxed. Hero? For lying to people about not getting vaccinated and entering a country without authorization and then spreading lies about the COVID vaccine? Over 5.5 BILLION doses have been given and its has literally saved millions of lives. It’s safety has been proven over and over again. To say something differently is just careless and irresponsible. Yes, he’s a great tennis player but a complete bonehead as a person. And I’m familiar with his upbringing and what he’s done for the sport, but that doesn’t give someone carte blanch to be an idiot and blame others for his choices to keep him from playing.
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"content": "Lots of comments on here about him being a “hero” for sticking to his principles and not getting vaxed. Hero? For lying to people about not getting vaccinated and entering a country without authorization and then spreading lies about the COVID vaccine? Over 5.5 BILLION doses have been given and its has literally saved millions of lives. It’s safety has been proven over and over again. To say something differently is just careless and irresponsible. Yes, he’s a great tennis player but a complete bonehead as a person. And I’m familiar with his upbringing and what he’s done for the sport, but that doesn’t give someone carte blanch to be an idiot and blame others for his choices to keep him from playing.\n",
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Al Send it to whom? Opra? Shack? Obama...and then, after you issuie the $7 trillion checks, should the "needy" then co-sign them over to the Native American Tribe of their choosing?
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"content": "Al Send it to whom? Opra? Shack? Obama...and then, after you issuie the $7 trillion checks, should the \"needy\" then co-sign them over to the Native American Tribe of their choosing?\n",
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I find it fascinating when I hear a newly elected member of the House state that “I’ve been elected to empty the swamp and change the destroy the status quo!” As if those other 434 representatives are meaningless. We’ve had a congress determined to make President Obama a one-term president. How did that work out. The Republican House may lead with a 20% minority by throwing a wrench into the gears of government. In 2024, however, the voters are going to remember who tried to take their social security checks, and who tried to destroy their health care, and who caused a free fall of their pensions/401K plans/investments due to their cockamamie marching orders originating with the Koch Brothers, America First, Tucker Carlson, and my favorite mental giant - Matt Gaetz!
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"content": "I find it fascinating when I hear a newly elected member of the House state that “I’ve been elected to empty the swamp and change the destroy the status quo!” As if those other 434 representatives are meaningless. We’ve had a congress determined to make President Obama a one-term president. How did that work out. The Republican House may lead with a 20% minority by throwing a wrench into the gears of government. In 2024, however, the voters are going to remember who tried to take their social security checks, and who tried to destroy their health care, and who caused a free fall of their pensions/401K plans/investments due to their cockamamie marching orders originating with the Koch Brothers, America First, Tucker Carlson, and my favorite mental giant - Matt Gaetz!\n",
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In the 1970s, I served on a student council committee tasked with revising the school's dress code. At the time, we were more sensitive to not restricting women more than we restricted men, but not yet open to the idea that no dress code was needed. We found it quite easy to write a gender-neutral dress code: No shorts or skirts shorter than mid-thigh; no shirts or tops open more than four inches from the top of the sternum; loose enough so that a nickel between the skin and the cloth would not be visible, etc.In the 1990s, I remember a day in the office (no official dress code that I recall) when, during a meeting at which both men and women were present, someone noticed to the amusement of all that everyone was wearing the same 'uniform': black or dark gray pants, and a blazer or sweater over a shirt. I cannot yet appreciate our culture's recent desire to re-emphasize gender. I'm glad I grew up and worked in eras where the tide was running the other way--toward acknowledging the superficiality and irrelevance of gender, when even without a word for it, we moved everything we could toward the nonbinary.
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"content": "In the 1970s, I served on a student council committee tasked with revising the school's dress code. At the time, we were more sensitive to not restricting women more than we restricted men, but not yet open to the idea that no dress code was needed. We found it quite easy to write a gender-neutral dress code: No shorts or skirts shorter than mid-thigh; no shirts or tops open more than four inches from the top of the sternum; loose enough so that a nickel between the skin and the cloth would not be visible, etc.In the 1990s, I remember a day in the office (no official dress code that I recall) when, during a meeting at which both men and women were present, someone noticed to the amusement of all that everyone was wearing the same 'uniform': black or dark gray pants, and a blazer or sweater over a shirt. I cannot yet appreciate our culture's recent desire to re-emphasize gender. I'm glad I grew up and worked in eras where the tide was running the other way--toward acknowledging the superficiality and irrelevance of gender, when even without a word for it, we moved everything we could toward the nonbinary.\n",
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If you live in the city here are a few things you can go do to experience awe far more frequently than you imagine:Ditch your phone and ditch VRread a book outside your comfort zoneEat a meal in an ethnic restaurant , where members of that ethnic group eat regularly Savor it while observing your fellow diners Avoid pre packaged ‘experiences’ Someone else has already chosen what they believe will awe youMost of all , take something of an everyday experience and find the transcendental in it It could be as simple as a walk in your neighborhood or watching birds fly outside your window Next time you fly on a plane book a window seat Unless you’ve developed wings there’s no better way to see the earth than outside that window But get off the tech and into the ‘real’ world There’s a whole lot there to help you experience awe Just open your eyes
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As a city boy who spent most of his formative summers with extended family in a rural community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, I had an intimate, immersive cultural experience with my country cousins’ attitudes toward city folk and race. As for what they thought of city folk like me, contempt and condescension should just about cover it. None of my city neighbors or friends ever had much to say about country folks. Didn’t really seem to think of them much. On the other hand, for some reason my cousins almost never came to the city to visit us.Which brings us to race. Most of our city neighbors were NOT white. They were middle class families of far too many races and ethnicities to list here. And I can only assume that my country-tough cousins were too chicken to even visit our middle-class neighborhood.I already knew what the problem was. Every racial and ethnic slur I’ve ever heard, I first heard from them.When I pushed back, the older ones simply started using the slurs to provoke and antagonize me. They believed their racist views of people they’d never met were correct and irrefutable. Most of these family members I grew up with are alive and still believe everything they did then about non-whites.It makes me regret that I never really insisted that my cousin come spend a summer or two with me in my community. But that would only work if he actually wanted to learn something new about the world. And that is not a feeling I ever get from people like this.
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"content": "As a city boy who spent most of his formative summers with extended family in a rural community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, I had an intimate, immersive cultural experience with my country cousins’ attitudes toward city folk and race. As for what they thought of city folk like me, contempt and condescension should just about cover it. None of my city neighbors or friends ever had much to say about country folks. Didn’t really seem to think of them much. On the other hand, for some reason my cousins almost never came to the city to visit us.Which brings us to race. Most of our city neighbors were NOT white. They were middle class families of far too many races and ethnicities to list here. And I can only assume that my country-tough cousins were too chicken to even visit our middle-class neighborhood.I already knew what the problem was. Every racial and ethnic slur I’ve ever heard, I first heard from them.When I pushed back, the older ones simply started using the slurs to provoke and antagonize me. They believed their racist views of people they’d never met were correct and irrefutable. Most of these family members I grew up with are alive and still believe everything they did then about non-whites.It makes me regret that I never really insisted that my cousin come spend a summer or two with me in my community. But that would only work if he actually wanted to learn something new about the world. And that is not a feeling I ever get from people like this.\n",
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When is enough enough?Apparently never.147 members of the Republican Party supported Trump and his insurrection by encouraging it, abetting it, helping to incite it, looking the other way after it happened, refusing to hold him accountable for it afterwards, and by voting to deny the results of the 2020 election within hours after his mob tried to hang Mike Pence on the front lawn of the Capitol - based on that lie.And what of the millions and millions of Americans who's votes these traitors tried to nullify? Why, they're standing by and watching as the vast majority of these seditious moral degenerates get sworn in to Congress so that they can continue their quest to end their healthcare and social security, enable white supremacists, arm every mass-murderer with military assault weapons, destroy the planet, and give whatever remains of the middle class to the 1%.And, best of all? They're paying each and every one of them $174,000/year - of their own money - for the privilege.Enjoy the decline!
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"content": "When is enough enough?Apparently never.147 members of the Republican Party supported Trump and his insurrection by encouraging it, abetting it, helping to incite it, looking the other way after it happened, refusing to hold him accountable for it afterwards, and by voting to deny the results of the 2020 election within hours after his mob tried to hang Mike Pence on the front lawn of the Capitol - based on that lie.And what of the millions and millions of Americans who's votes these traitors tried to nullify? Why, they're standing by and watching as the vast majority of these seditious moral degenerates get sworn in to Congress so that they can continue their quest to end their healthcare and social security, enable white supremacists, arm every mass-murderer with military assault weapons, destroy the planet, and give whatever remains of the middle class to the 1%.And, best of all? They're paying each and every one of them $174,000/year - of their own money - for the privilege.Enjoy the decline!\n",
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Olivier Blanchard was quoted twice today:"Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of a distributional conflict, between firms, workers, AND TAXPAYERS (emphasis added).""One can/should dream of a negotiation between workers, firms, AND THE STATE (emphasis added), in which the outcome is achieved without triggering inflation and requiring a painful slowdown."These 2 statements are expressing very different ideas. It's true that taxpayers play a key role in taming inflation. Because the federal gov't always spends first and taxes later, the collection of taxes keeps us from drowning in a sea of cheap currency. And paying your taxes is not a voluntary activity. The gov't has the power to do horrible things to you if you fail to pay your taxes. This arrangement causes us to covet the U.S. dollar, and paying your taxes ensures that the dollar maintains most of its face value. But we didn't see covid coming.It's the state, not taxpayers, that has the authority to fight inflation by means of price controls. For example, President Biden could have declared almost 2 years ago that the price of gasoline could not exceed $2.50/gallon. This policy would admittedly have been bad for the environment but good for a person's finances. I think a clear majority of Americans would have agreed. Instead, Big Oil was allowed to price gouge and make huge and unethical--but sadly, not illegal--profits off struggling workers.We've forgotten that price controls helped us win WWII.
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"content": "Olivier Blanchard was quoted twice today:\"Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of a distributional conflict, between firms, workers, AND TAXPAYERS (emphasis added).\"\"One can/should dream of a negotiation between workers, firms, AND THE STATE (emphasis added), in which the outcome is achieved without triggering inflation and requiring a painful slowdown.\"These 2 statements are expressing very different ideas. It's true that taxpayers play a key role in taming inflation. Because the federal gov't always spends first and taxes later, the collection of taxes keeps us from drowning in a sea of cheap currency. And paying your taxes is not a voluntary activity. The gov't has the power to do horrible things to you if you fail to pay your taxes. This arrangement causes us to covet the U.S. dollar, and paying your taxes ensures that the dollar maintains most of its face value. But we didn't see covid coming.It's the state, not taxpayers, that has the authority to fight inflation by means of price controls. For example, President Biden could have declared almost 2 years ago that the price of gasoline could not exceed $2.50/gallon. This policy would admittedly have been bad for the environment but good for a person's finances. I think a clear majority of Americans would have agreed. Instead, Big Oil was allowed to price gouge and make huge and unethical--but sadly, not illegal--profits off struggling workers.We've forgotten that price controls helped us win WWII.\n",
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Ken You could always try posting an ad at your local art college. Provide materials and a couple of hundred bucks remuneration. A lot of young artists would love the opportunity to do something like that in the real world.When we opened our first bistro that's exactly what we did for our sign. It gave a young local artist a few bucks and a lot of exposure. A lot of people asked who did it and we always referred them on to him.
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And yet the monarchy will put on a spectacular bread and circus display costing millions of pounds. Wouldn't it be amazing if they kept it small and elegant and donated the extra money to help the people? Ha ha never going to happen. Wake up Brits! We have the same pariahs over here being worshipped. Never helps the average citizen.
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There is an irresistible force toward Fairness in life, now more than ever, but it is not the only such force.Forty years ago I was the Compensation Policy and Practices guy in a two thousand plus employee company which had embarked on a time, money, and energy intensive drive to create fairness. I learned many things, including the first sentence, above, but also that Fairness is in the eye of the Beholder, that humans will select "facts" and create stories to support unfairness affecting them, that such stories can be endlessly entertaining and organizational energy draining, and finally that too much attention to the issue can result in interior focus approaching navel gazing.So, we can count on humans being humans.This aspect of social justice will play out over an extended period of time. Articles like this one are just a prologue.
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"content": "There is an irresistible force toward Fairness in life, now more than ever, but it is not the only such force.Forty years ago I was the Compensation Policy and Practices guy in a two thousand plus employee company which had embarked on a time, money, and energy intensive drive to create fairness. I learned many things, including the first sentence, above, but also that Fairness is in the eye of the Beholder, that humans will select \"facts\" and create stories to support unfairness affecting them, that such stories can be endlessly entertaining and organizational energy draining, and finally that too much attention to the issue can result in interior focus approaching navel gazing.So, we can count on humans being humans.This aspect of social justice will play out over an extended period of time. Articles like this one are just a prologue.\n",
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“The entire case was driven by greed,” Justice Merchan."...plead guilty to scheming to defraud, grand larceny, conspiracy and tax fraud" and "paid...$2 million in taxes, penalties and interest that he owed...""...consequential felony convictions...", DA Alvin Bragg.How consequential?"Mr. Weisselberg... "had been facing years in prison. Under a plea deal, he agreed to testify TRUTHfully in exchange for a punishment that, with good behavior, might last no more than 100 days."Oh, you mean being truthful earns me a serious slap on the wrist? Whaddya wanna know? Er, without me implicating my boss, I mean.Just another day in our legal (not justice) system.
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"content": "“The entire case was driven by greed,” Justice Merchan.\"...plead guilty to scheming to defraud, grand larceny, conspiracy and tax fraud\" and \"paid...$2 million in taxes, penalties and interest that he owed...\"\"...consequential felony convictions...\", DA Alvin Bragg.How consequential?\"Mr. Weisselberg... \"had been facing years in prison. Under a plea deal, he agreed to testify TRUTHfully in exchange for a punishment that, with good behavior, might last no more than 100 days.\"Oh, you mean being truthful earns me a serious slap on the wrist? Whaddya wanna know? Er, without me implicating my boss, I mean.Just another day in our legal (not justice) system.\n",
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Garland is not doing his job, similar to how the US Army is too timid to deal with their own top brass, like the Flynn brothers. 17 security agencies inside the Beltway, costing taxpayers $3 billion/day, and not one could come to the assistance of nearby Capital cops.
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_ESS All 3 of my kids went to public NYC schools, and the results were not at all 'horrid' - it was fabulous*. But, it was easy to see how management changes, from the princlipl to the DO to the DoE, can rapidly disrupt everything. The quoted responses from the current admin sound very much like top down, no consulting w the ppl who have to implement changes, etc. (*Cornell/Google, Oxidental/NYU (10K scholarship) Duke/Berkeley (50% fellowship))
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I have lost none of the $0.00 I've invested into crypto and NFTs, making me one of the biggest winners in the sector this year.
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"content": "I have lost none of the $0.00 I've invested into crypto and NFTs, making me one of the biggest winners in the sector this year.\n",
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Our dog ran away a few years ago and I spent months checking a trail camera we put up to try to find her. Alas, never did. Saw lots of raccoons and a couple of beautiful foxes. This was in deep woods so no turkeys but in the open spaces turkeys have increased their numbers exponentially in the past 20 years. (I THINK they were introduced by the DNR to provide another outlet for hunting, but hunters are declining in numbers and deer and turkeys proliferating). Good time to be a coyote I guess. We never found our dog but did find and were able to return a different lost dog that once he appeared on the camera was shortly thereafter lured into a live trap with bait. His owners were very grateful.
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"content": "Our dog ran away a few years ago and I spent months checking a trail camera we put up to try to find her. Alas, never did. Saw lots of raccoons and a couple of beautiful foxes. This was in deep woods so no turkeys but in the open spaces turkeys have increased their numbers exponentially in the past 20 years. (I THINK they were introduced by the DNR to provide another outlet for hunting, but hunters are declining in numbers and deer and turkeys proliferating). Good time to be a coyote I guess. We never found our dog but did find and were able to return a different lost dog that once he appeared on the camera was shortly thereafter lured into a live trap with bait. His owners were very grateful.\n",
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Brett,You are lucky to be in the presence of a well-honed intellect like Gail Collins. Your weekly exposure to her questions and thoughts has done wonders for your enlightenment. Your progress in understanding the significance of the climate challenge and the urgency of the need for moving toward a sustainable electric future is remarkable. Your shift away from the climate change deniers makes reading about your progress very satisfying.Now, to help you a little with the INSURANCE policy that FDR brought into the American economy after forty years of policy debate, the best option to assure that the program is continued is to ELIMINATE the cap on payroll taxes. It should have never been put into place, to begin with, and in my view, the SSI Trust Fund should be held apart from the Federal Budget. The pile of funds accruing to the fund is loaned to the Treasury and now earns interest at the 10-year note rate. Believe it or not, until about the mid-80s, the loans to the Treasurer did not earn interest. As a staffer that discovery made my day, and my boss changed it with unanimous approval. The story of social insurance from 1892 until FDR did his thing during the Great Depression and the following years of policy debate is one of the most interesting topics in American public policy history. I did my research by reading from the morgue of the NYT courtesy of the Library of Congress. SSI should not be a bargaining chip. It is a political success story.
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David Agree on the prices - but it's everywhere. On the west coast, a really good burrito used to run may $8. Now same is $12. Some restaurants are holding prices somewhat, but I notice the takeout portions are smaller, too.
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"content": "David Agree on the prices - but it's everywhere. On the west coast, a really good burrito used to run may $8. Now same is $12. Some restaurants are holding prices somewhat, but I notice the takeout portions are smaller, too.\n",
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If you divide the CEO salaries by the total number of employees, say at Microsoft, you get 250 dollars per employee. 54 million dollars vs 221,000 people, look it up. That's one dollar per workday per employee.
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"content": "If you divide the CEO salaries by the total number of employees, say at Microsoft, you get 250 dollars per employee. 54 million dollars vs 221,000 people, look it up. That's one dollar per workday per employee.\n",
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Just follow the money.The difference is more stark at the leadership level. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) got $129,000 in drug industry campaign cash. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), meanwhile, received just $11,000. 'Ahead of a historic election, pharma targets its Republican favorites'<a href="https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/prescription-politics" target="_blank">https://www.statnews.com/feature/prescription-politics/prescription-politics</a>/'The United States is an outlier as most other developed nations do negotiate drug prices with manufacturers.Drug pricing reform opponents win most pharma lobbying money'<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/capitol-hill-drug-pricing-reform-opponents-among-biggest-beneficiaries-pharma-2021-10-25" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/capitol-hill-drug-pricing-reform-opponents-among-biggest-beneficiaries-pharma-2021-10-25</a>/
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Hmm . . . Benioff takes "full responsibility" and also took home 28 million in total compensation for 2022. Anyone else see an issue with that?
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"content": "Hmm . . . Benioff takes \"full responsibility\" and also took home 28 million in total compensation for 2022. Anyone else see an issue with that?\n",
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Most people can do a cleanse for pennies, with a small investment in a blender. My favorite is wild blueberries, picked in the wild (which in itself provides multiple benefits - I picked 11 pounds this year) frozen banana (you can buy the brown ones for pennies and freeze them peeled and broken into chunks) whey powder (for protein), oats, nuts and maple syrup. It's delicious!
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Well, i hope these layouts don't affect the high quality of Microsoft's OS products (he says, as File Explorer freezes yet again as I type in a search string).
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Albert Petersen I love this idea. The delicious meat you mention would probably cost $40-$80 per pound, but the environmental value would be priceless.
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"content": "Albert Petersen I love this idea. The delicious meat you mention would probably cost $40-$80 per pound, but the environmental value would be priceless.\n",
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David Martin Is anyone buying those $16,000 Bitcoins?Didn't think so.They are only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.
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"content": "David Martin Is anyone buying those $16,000 Bitcoins?Didn't think so.They are only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.\n",
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That's simple. Chicago School trickle-down economics calls for massive privatization, deregulation and gutting public program in favor of the vaunted 'invisible hand' of the market, which to their minds is a beneign, rational force that will balance everything out. That does not work now, did not work in the past, and will never work in the future. In areas where the profit motive is in direct conflict with the interests of the people being served, it is a role for government. For example, if your kitchen was on fire and you called 911, you would be enraged of the dispatcher wanted a credit card number to send one truck, but for a premium price you could upgrade to two trucks. We would never stand for that.Research and development likewise ought to be publicly funded. Privately funded research is necessarily driven by the profit motive. If we allow our government to fund more research and development in things like hydrogen batteries, water conservation, mitigation of plastic waste and so on, we'd all be much better off. Wall-Street greed is a poor partner for discoveries that SHOULD be low- or no-cost and benefit everyone. Like insulin, which we now pay dearly for in sacrifice to the Golden Bull idol of Wall Street.
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"content": "That's simple. Chicago School trickle-down economics calls for massive privatization, deregulation and gutting public program in favor of the vaunted 'invisible hand' of the market, which to their minds is a beneign, rational force that will balance everything out. That does not work now, did not work in the past, and will never work in the future. In areas where the profit motive is in direct conflict with the interests of the people being served, it is a role for government. For example, if your kitchen was on fire and you called 911, you would be enraged of the dispatcher wanted a credit card number to send one truck, but for a premium price you could upgrade to two trucks. We would never stand for that.Research and development likewise ought to be publicly funded. Privately funded research is necessarily driven by the profit motive. If we allow our government to fund more research and development in things like hydrogen batteries, water conservation, mitigation of plastic waste and so on, we'd all be much better off. Wall-Street greed is a poor partner for discoveries that SHOULD be low- or no-cost and benefit everyone. Like insulin, which we now pay dearly for in sacrifice to the Golden Bull idol of Wall Street.\n",
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Luxembourg "Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too"Create a law to strip women of their natural rights but add "exceptions" that make it seem "reasonable". However, the exceptions are vague and the process for using them is muddled, meaning in practice no exceptions are granted.End result? An "open" law on the books bans everything in practice.That's extremism. Leaving personal medical decisions to a person and their doctor is not.
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"content": "Luxembourg \"Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too\"Create a law to strip women of their natural rights but add \"exceptions\" that make it seem \"reasonable\". However, the exceptions are vague and the process for using them is muddled, meaning in practice no exceptions are granted.End result? An \"open\" law on the books bans everything in practice.That's extremism. Leaving personal medical decisions to a person and their doctor is not.\n",
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1bluecollarman Before addressing this comment, I do wish to thank the journalist for her clarity regarding facts and reality. As a senior, still working full-time in a field that crosses both medicine and education -- speech-language pathology -- I have friends in the same age group, who have invested in properties in Florida. It is hard for me to grasp, but there still is that pull of 'warmer, winter weather.'That said, I want to address the issue of Democratic 'regimes' in this comment. As a resident of Massachusetts, I live in a small, beloved home that I have owned for about 25 years. When I struggled financially, I was fortunate to receive grants that provided the means to renew my home so I can live comfortably and safely for years to come. We are now living in a fully corporatized America. Referring back to my work, education and medicine are now driven by this. Quality of service has fallen victim to profits even as both fields struggle to maintain service providers. My island has been a gateway over the last several years, to investors and wealthy home-owners who do not regularly practice climate and environmental safety, but instead, overbuild in a fragile setting. Housing has become unaffordable. Is this a MA dilemma? Hardly. I am looking forward to the 'regime' that has recently been elected to provide the legislation necessary to make a home for all people, providing meaningful healthcare and education for all. I endeavor to do so in my own work.
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"content": "1bluecollarman Before addressing this comment, I do wish to thank the journalist for her clarity regarding facts and reality. As a senior, still working full-time in a field that crosses both medicine and education -- speech-language pathology -- I have friends in the same age group, who have invested in properties in Florida. It is hard for me to grasp, but there still is that pull of 'warmer, winter weather.'That said, I want to address the issue of Democratic 'regimes' in this comment. As a resident of Massachusetts, I live in a small, beloved home that I have owned for about 25 years. When I struggled financially, I was fortunate to receive grants that provided the means to renew my home so I can live comfortably and safely for years to come. We are now living in a fully corporatized America. Referring back to my work, education and medicine are now driven by this. Quality of service has fallen victim to profits even as both fields struggle to maintain service providers. My island has been a gateway over the last several years, to investors and wealthy home-owners who do not regularly practice climate and environmental safety, but instead, overbuild in a fragile setting. Housing has become unaffordable. Is this a MA dilemma? Hardly. I am looking forward to the 'regime' that has recently been elected to provide the legislation necessary to make a home for all people, providing meaningful healthcare and education for all. I endeavor to do so in my own work.\n",
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Thank you for debunking this popular partisan fiction. Clinton and Newt did indeed partner to get close to break even, but even that was on the back of Bush 41 breaking his no new taxes pledge, which temporarily contributed to a recession, which basically got Clinton elected, and then the additional tax revenue followed.
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Have your own domain ($20/yr). Have a default rule that forwards mail to your real mailbox. Create email addresses of the form yourdomain.com . You can then blacklist any addresses that are compromised. Simple.
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This is about AI, not any coming recession. Microsoft is making a serious push into this space and need to prioritize a different skill set.
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"content": "This is about AI, not any coming recession. Microsoft is making a serious push into this space and need to prioritize a different skill set.\n",
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Kyle "We live in the richest country in human history and spend 4.2 trillion on healthcare in a year."But how much of that actually RESULTS in health care?
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"content": "Kyle \"We live in the richest country in human history and spend 4.2 trillion on healthcare in a year.\"But how much of that actually RESULTS in health care?\n",
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Having been on all sides of downsizing activity over a long career at one of the worlds largest corporations, I can say without doubt the business school and consultant mentalities of these past several decades have removed any semblance of humanity from the already stressful process of downsizing. Corporations employ mass layoffs as a regular employee management tactic, extending far beyond its histrionic use as an emergency measure in conditions of financial peril. Executives are too lazy and risk averse to properly train their managers to recognize and adjust the careers of individuals who may not be up to performing specific tasks.  Instead, CEOs use mass layoffs as their primary tool to get rid of non-performing employees, disrupting corporate morale and unfairly targeting many good workers by using error prone, statistically driven processes. Layoffs are also abused as tools to position companies for acquisition, often for the sole purpose of rewarding the corporate executives who engineer these transactions with ridiculous financial rewards. With CEOs so heavily incentivized to lay people off on a constant basis by the Wall Street financiers, ever increasing numbers of ham-fisted debacles just like those at Twitter and Google are inevitable. Younger generations are fast losing their tolerance for greed driven, executive dishonesty about “caring” for workers. Generational change is in the air.
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Another reason for the Biden Administration's "cautious approach" might be that they can't take the stability of the Ukrainian government for granted. It would be a political disaster for the President and his European partners if a new Ukrainian government friendly to the Russians opened the door, let them walk in, and take possession of all those Abrams, Leopards, Patriot batteries, and everything else we've given them in the name of peace and reconstruction. Russia certainly can't be trusted in any truce talks, but one must be very careful about giving their first cousins the Ukrainians too much credit as well.
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"content": "Another reason for the Biden Administration's \"cautious approach\" might be that they can't take the stability of the Ukrainian government for granted. It would be a political disaster for the President and his European partners if a new Ukrainian government friendly to the Russians opened the door, let them walk in, and take possession of all those Abrams, Leopards, Patriot batteries, and everything else we've given them in the name of peace and reconstruction. Russia certainly can't be trusted in any truce talks, but one must be very careful about giving their first cousins the Ukrainians too much credit as well.\n",
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mich n I'm sure he has let it be known that he's open to such an arrangement. I doubt that there are 5 Rs willing to do so, however.
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"content": "mich n I'm sure he has let it be known that he's open to such an arrangement. I doubt that there are 5 Rs willing to do so, however.\n",
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M Ford - Not remotely true.Reagan took the deficit from 70 billion to 175 billion. Bush 41 took it to 300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from 0 to 1.2 trillion.Obama halved it to 600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion.
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Anyhow America gives things for free whereas China has built-in paybacks. Memos-of-Understanding between governments are not disclosed, but dangling $$ in front of politicans to spend is always grabbed up.Remember "The Mouse that Roared"; taking over a country without a war. (I am stretching it a bit) And remember the humor involving ignoring the paragraph about the first born male child.
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"content": "Anyhow America gives things for free whereas China has built-in paybacks. Memos-of-Understanding between governments are not disclosed, but dangling $$ in front of politicans to spend is always grabbed up.Remember \"The Mouse that Roared\"; taking over a country without a war. (I am stretching it a bit) And remember the humor involving ignoring the paragraph about the first born male child.\n",
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I imagine that there are places that could be trimmed in an $817,000,000,000 annual budget for defense.
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Deirdre They will vote Democratic. SeeThe NY Times "The Politics of Layoffs: In Search of a Message"/1996/03/08From ibid"Even Mr. Buchanan (a Reublican) who has made fighting the loss of American jobs one of the central themes of his campaign, acknowledged recently that he did not know how, if he were elected President, he would respond to an announcement of more layoffs by a company like I.B.M. or AT&T. "That's a very tough question, because I don't have the answer to it," he said last Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."Mr. Clinton has presided over a steady economic recovery, for which he would obviously like credit. Yet even as the recovery has produced rising profits for many corporations and their shareholders, it has produced only pink slips and falling wages for many of the voters who supported him.Mr. Clinton ...acknowledged the underside of that same economy. "While more Americans are living better," he said, "too many of our fellow citizens are working harder just to keep up, and they are rightly concerned about the security of their families."If the problem is unfair trade, then the answer, increasingly advocated by House Democrats, might be to adopt a tougher stance with America's trading partners. The NY Times /1996/03/08That is EXACTLY what Biden is doing re China
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"content": "Deirdre They will vote Democratic. SeeThe NY Times \"The Politics of Layoffs: In Search of a Message\"/1996/03/08From ibid\"Even Mr. Buchanan (a Reublican) who has made fighting the loss of American jobs one of the central themes of his campaign, acknowledged recently that he did not know how, if he were elected President, he would respond to an announcement of more layoffs by a company like I.B.M. or AT&T. \"That's a very tough question, because I don't have the answer to it,\" he said last Sunday on NBC's \"Meet the Press.\"Mr. Clinton has presided over a steady economic recovery, for which he would obviously like credit. Yet even as the recovery has produced rising profits for many corporations and their shareholders, it has produced only pink slips and falling wages for many of the voters who supported him.Mr. Clinton ...acknowledged the underside of that same economy. \"While more Americans are living better,\" he said, \"too many of our fellow citizens are working harder just to keep up, and they are rightly concerned about the security of their families.\"If the problem is unfair trade, then the answer, increasingly advocated by House Democrats, might be to adopt a tougher stance with America's trading partners. The NY Times /1996/03/08That is EXACTLY what Biden is doing re China\n",
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As mom to mellenials ….They refuse to pay off balances every month on charge cards. Their balances Hoover around $6000. Once we their 70 yr. Old parents pass they have no financial safety net. We help them a lot. We can and have the means. If trust funders can have a “ leg up” from family wealth then why not middle class kids with parents that practiced good behavior using credit. Thoughts??? Parents and teachers? How do we teach good money managment? In this capitalistic environment. !?
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If this is your quaint way of suggesting the $50-billion we now squander over there--roughly a thousand million dollars a week, could be better used somewhere here, I request expedited consideration be given to replacing the aging boilers of New York City's public housing developments. That will set you back only $2-billion. A bargain.
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Anthony Hopefully the world sanctions of Russian Federation kicking in this month will bring the Kremlin to its knees sooner better than later. It's a big country, Russia, but also sparse population that is going down, and basically a resource GDP. Their gold is sanctioned already and the oil they promised to India is going for a low price, like 30% off or $30 dollars off per barrel. There isn't much of a pipeline to India either, so transportation costs will eat into the profits too.I think these next months will see Russia failing internally from sanctions and hopefully that will stop the war and we can prosecute Russians as terrorists and war criminals. A lot has happened in only 10 months regarding Russian stability.In the beginning I thought all the Rus soldiers would defect. And for them it is a lot worse now than ever, no food, no fresh water, no medical assistance. CO's disappear when Himars go off and all the sad stories we've gotten probably only a taste of how bad it is for Russians at war. (Ergo they take it out on the UA civie's even, shoot their dogs, eat their pigs, raid the pharmacies and all that tragic worse nonhumanitarian scenarios. The Wagner troops are distant from the Rus defense teams. It all leads to chaos internally for Russia in my mind. They have wheat to eat so far anyway and that MacDonalds is just under a new name. But maybe for Rus internally the worst is yet to come, financial collapse maybe? Bloodless revolution?
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It’s 150% special interests. Just two recent examples - Southwest Airlines strands thousands over the holidays. Why? Shareholder profits over investing in software to improve efficiency. What has DOT done? Nothing. Why? The airline lobby. Who took pandemic funds, reduced their staffs through early retirement and spent the money on stock buy backs. Crying that their business would struggle. Then laughed all the way to the bank. In Colorado XCel Energy has raised rates exponentially then just reported 1.7 billion in profits. BILLIONS. Yet our PUC green lights every rate without pause. We aren’t for the people. We’re for the dollar. Without conscious.
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"content": "It’s 150% special interests. Just two recent examples - Southwest Airlines strands thousands over the holidays. Why? Shareholder profits over investing in software to improve efficiency. What has DOT done? Nothing. Why? The airline lobby. Who took pandemic funds, reduced their staffs through early retirement and spent the money on stock buy backs. Crying that their business would struggle. Then laughed all the way to the bank. In Colorado XCel Energy has raised rates exponentially then just reported 1.7 billion in profits. BILLIONS. Yet our PUC green lights every rate without pause. We aren’t for the people. We’re for the dollar. Without conscious.\n",
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There are several reasons to support Harry and Meghan:1) Meghan is an American -- and was viciously insulted by the News Media of a minor country whose primary language would now be German or Russian is not for the US military.2) Harry is her husband -- who fought in combat alongside our soldiers in Afghanistan. About the only thing I can recall the Royal Family doing for America in the past 50 years.3) Plus look at their enemies:a) Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail --- who avoids British taxes by staying out of England and claiming the non-domicile loophole. Which makes the Mail's loud and fake pose of British patriotism rather hilarious. Although understandable given Meghan's win in the lawsuit against the Mail.b) All the vicious , anonymous bootlickers in the Palace -- whose venom is driven by the fear their gravy train might end and they might one day have to work for a living.c) What has blowhard Piers Morgan ever done? In contrast to Harry's efforts to help wounded military veterans.4) And the Royal Family? So scared of the British press they were willing to throw Harry and Meghan to the wolves. 5) Harry has to earn money now because he has a big Taliban and Al Qaeda target on his back due to his military service on behalf of the Crown. It takes at least $2 million a year to provide even a paltry, basic level of protective security.
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"content": "There are several reasons to support Harry and Meghan:1) Meghan is an American -- and was viciously insulted by the News Media of a minor country whose primary language would now be German or Russian is not for the US military.2) Harry is her husband -- who fought in combat alongside our soldiers in Afghanistan. About the only thing I can recall the Royal Family doing for America in the past 50 years.3) Plus look at their enemies:a) Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail --- who avoids British taxes by staying out of England and claiming the non-domicile loophole. Which makes the Mail's loud and fake pose of British patriotism rather hilarious. Although understandable given Meghan's win in the lawsuit against the Mail.b) All the vicious , anonymous bootlickers in the Palace -- whose venom is driven by the fear their gravy train might end and they might one day have to work for a living.c) What has blowhard Piers Morgan ever done? In contrast to Harry's efforts to help wounded military veterans.4) And the Royal Family? So scared of the British press they were willing to throw Harry and Meghan to the wolves. 5) Harry has to earn money now because he has a big Taliban and Al Qaeda target on his back due to his military service on behalf of the Crown. It takes at least $2 million a year to provide even a paltry, basic level of protective security.\n",
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Medicare and Medicaid should be expanded, not cut.If anything is draining money from the pockets of the American consumer, it is health care costs, not national debt payments. What do we get for it? Not much.These for-profit insurance companies, hospital chains and doc-in-the-boxes charge as much as possible while providing as little as possible care with as few staff as possible, and as few hospitals as possible.What is this called? Capitalism - for profit business. But capitalism doesn't work when there isn't competition from multiple providers competing for the consumers' dollars through price and quality, and in a setting where the consumer has a choice. Virtually none of this applies in health care. Nationalized medicine in some countries has problems, in other countries works great. But America has created a system where consumers have the worst of all worlds, with a hodgepodge of programs.Put everyone on Medicare and Medicaid and make America healthy. Illness costs the economy, too.As to Social Security, eliminating it would bring back the bad old days of recessions, depressions and great depressions. Why?There have been a lot of predictions about an impending recession in recent years, which has yet to happen. I suspect Social Security has A LOT to do with it. Spending by Social Security recipients is helping to stabilize the economy. The economy and stock market might go up and down, but SS payments are constant. And so is spending by seniors.
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"content": "Medicare and Medicaid should be expanded, not cut.If anything is draining money from the pockets of the American consumer, it is health care costs, not national debt payments. What do we get for it? Not much.These for-profit insurance companies, hospital chains and doc-in-the-boxes charge as much as possible while providing as little as possible care with as few staff as possible, and as few hospitals as possible.What is this called? Capitalism - for profit business. But capitalism doesn't work when there isn't competition from multiple providers competing for the consumers' dollars through price and quality, and in a setting where the consumer has a choice. Virtually none of this applies in health care. Nationalized medicine in some countries has problems, in other countries works great. But America has created a system where consumers have the worst of all worlds, with a hodgepodge of programs.Put everyone on Medicare and Medicaid and make America healthy. Illness costs the economy, too.As to Social Security, eliminating it would bring back the bad old days of recessions, depressions and great depressions. Why?There have been a lot of predictions about an impending recession in recent years, which has yet to happen. I suspect Social Security has A LOT to do with it. Spending by Social Security recipients is helping to stabilize the economy. The economy and stock market might go up and down, but SS payments are constant. And so is spending by seniors.\n",
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Substitute “Gutenberg printing press” for “OpenAI” or “ChatGPT” and this whole article could have been written in the second half of the 15th century. Technology revolutions are disruptive, existing power structures are threatened, society eventually adapts and takes on new forms, often frightful in their prospect, yet in retrospect viewed as giant leaps of progress.
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EdgeNinja then you should try opening a business and fielding the calls from yelp representatives trying to shake you down for higher ratings, they don't even hide the fact they are asking for extortion dollars. And they are loud and vulgar and threaten to ruin you if you don't pay. Their algorithm is a total mockery of what they claim they do.
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A Happy 2023 begins with humility, something that comes to us all eventually, whether by choice or by circumstance. We can seek it or we can be propelled to it under the force of an overwhelming fate. It is a moment in which we catch a fleeting glimpse of the inescapable truth that nothing exists under our control—not others, not money, not any government, not the totality of our days or the days of those we love. Neither the love we seek nor the love we give. Like time, our comprehension of humility evaporates while we are trying to grasp it. It is nonetheless foundational to any growth we may hope to find on our way to becoming better versions of ourselves, a goal we often set at the turn of a new year. All of life’s lessons stem from sanguine openness to a path into some change of our being that feels scary but is inescapable. If we try to claim humility, it floats up to a cloud above our head and wisps away with the wind. I recently heard a friend in her 70s say that she realized that every new year’s resolution was a striving for her unattainable perfect self. And the word self was key in that foolish ritual. She ultimately found a happy new year in any day focused upon helping another human being. Humility only comes to us when we linger in the midst of the human crowd and see our fellow beings as equally vulnerable to the lash or glory of fate. Humility’s synonym is spiritual egalitarianism.
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"content": "A Happy 2023 begins with humility, something that comes to us all eventually, whether by choice or by circumstance. We can seek it or we can be propelled to it under the force of an overwhelming fate. It is a moment in which we catch a fleeting glimpse of the inescapable truth that nothing exists under our control—not others, not money, not any government, not the totality of our days or the days of those we love. Neither the love we seek nor the love we give. Like time, our comprehension of humility evaporates while we are trying to grasp it. It is nonetheless foundational to any growth we may hope to find on our way to becoming better versions of ourselves, a goal we often set at the turn of a new year. All of life’s lessons stem from sanguine openness to a path into some change of our being that feels scary but is inescapable. If we try to claim humility, it floats up to a cloud above our head and wisps away with the wind. I recently heard a friend in her 70s say that she realized that every new year’s resolution was a striving for her unattainable perfect self. And the word self was key in that foolish ritual. She ultimately found a happy new year in any day focused upon helping another human being. Humility only comes to us when we linger in the midst of the human crowd and see our fellow beings as equally vulnerable to the lash or glory of fate. Humility’s synonym is spiritual egalitarianism.\n",
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I think some bipartisan compromise is called for on this subject.Let's call it the Church of Benghazi Committee (version 2.0)We've all seen enough Republican off-off-off-off Broadway shows to know how this Jim Jordan and the GOP Sunshine Band committee will work out.Look at the political elephants stand on their legs and wag their tails.....oh my !Meanwhile, Rome burns, and Republican carnival workers are opening extra circus tents and selling fried dough.Nice GOPeople.
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"content": "I think some bipartisan compromise is called for on this subject.Let's call it the Church of Benghazi Committee (version 2.0)We've all seen enough Republican off-off-off-off Broadway shows to know how this Jim Jordan and the GOP Sunshine Band committee will work out.Look at the political elephants stand on their legs and wag their tails.....oh my !Meanwhile, Rome burns, and Republican carnival workers are opening extra circus tents and selling fried dough.Nice GOPeople.\n",
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I am willing to admit the as sordid and sad as Hunter’s life has been as a result of his various addictions and so forth that his business dealings, while no doubt resulting from his father’s positions, in actuality were nothing burgers insofar as governmental policy influence and so forth is concerned. That isn’t to say, however, that Hunter didn’t want to deliver influence and allowed his questionable partners to believe he could provide influence; but, that, perhaps it simply never happened, millions of dollars to the contrary notwithstanding.US Attorney Weiss could help this situation by making a decision on prosecution or not and resolving the lingering “what ifs”. Frankly, if Hunters various violations are routinely handled in a specific way, such should be so handled out of fundamental fairness, regardless of Republican blowback. Weiss can explain that if so.That said, the real investigation should be into why main stream media uniformly didn’t lift a finger to investigate the Laptop and all gurgled the “Russian misinformation” mantra and whether the FBI and other intelligence agencies were similarly involved. I am still waiting for 60 Minutes Mia culpa on Leslie Stahl’s interview with President Trump and, as a self touted investigative program, why it didn’t then investigate a bit and whether or not the FBI or others were involved it’s gaslighting the American People.
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"content": "I am willing to admit the as sordid and sad as Hunter’s life has been as a result of his various addictions and so forth that his business dealings, while no doubt resulting from his father’s positions, in actuality were nothing burgers insofar as governmental policy influence and so forth is concerned. That isn’t to say, however, that Hunter didn’t want to deliver influence and allowed his questionable partners to believe he could provide influence; but, that, perhaps it simply never happened, millions of dollars to the contrary notwithstanding.US Attorney Weiss could help this situation by making a decision on prosecution or not and resolving the lingering “what ifs”. Frankly, if Hunters various violations are routinely handled in a specific way, such should be so handled out of fundamental fairness, regardless of Republican blowback. Weiss can explain that if so.That said, the real investigation should be into why main stream media uniformly didn’t lift a finger to investigate the Laptop and all gurgled the “Russian misinformation” mantra and whether the FBI and other intelligence agencies were similarly involved. I am still waiting for 60 Minutes Mia culpa on Leslie Stahl’s interview with President Trump and, as a self touted investigative program, why it didn’t then investigate a bit and whether or not the FBI or others were involved it’s gaslighting the American People.\n",
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Chris Fox What a cheerful optimist you are! All the things you state may be true, but what of it? It is what it is, we are where we are. People seem to be waking up to our shared reality, that we must alter our behavior with regards to consumption, and we are starting to. Procreation is a biological imperative, it's not evil, or entertainment. Life is wired to reproduce. When people stop fearing famine, war, pestilence and old age, they don't have as many kids. We will fix this or we won't. Eyes open hopefulness in the face of danger reveals more opportunities than despair does. Help someone in some way that moves them towards a better future. I found for me it washes away bitterness and fear. Joy is our birthright. We need only claim it.
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"content": "Chris Fox What a cheerful optimist you are! All the things you state may be true, but what of it? It is what it is, we are where we are. People seem to be waking up to our shared reality, that we must alter our behavior with regards to consumption, and we are starting to. Procreation is a biological imperative, it's not evil, or entertainment. Life is wired to reproduce. When people stop fearing famine, war, pestilence and old age, they don't have as many kids. We will fix this or we won't. Eyes open hopefulness in the face of danger reveals more opportunities than despair does. Help someone in some way that moves them towards a better future. I found for me it washes away bitterness and fear. Joy is our birthright. We need only claim it.\n",
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Albela Shaitan They saw the slow down coming. They initiated many cost saving measures to prolong the inevitable.Google's average employee makes $300k/year - not exactly middle class. And, they'll all find work very soon thanks to their stellar resumes. I'm not worried about them at all. However, I am worried about you. Are you okay?
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"content": "Albela Shaitan They saw the slow down coming. They initiated many cost saving measures to prolong the inevitable.Google's average employee makes $300k/year - not exactly middle class. And, they'll all find work very soon thanks to their stellar resumes. I'm not worried about them at all. However, I am worried about you. Are you okay?\n",
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I would love to have a simpler tax code but I will be long dead before it happens, if it ever does. In the meantime, I'm all in for increasing the staff and expertise at the IRS and paying for it. The only reason the GOP opposes it is because it's mostly them and their donors who are afraid of getting caught cooking the books. $400k a year would put me in heaven and I'd gladly give about 20% of that to my tax load and endure an audit now and then. I'd still be so far ahead of where I am it's laughable. It's a good thing I've been frugal all my life, but there are a heckuva lot of people who aren't as lucky as I am and have been. It's not the people making $400k who are struggling.
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"content": "I would love to have a simpler tax code but I will be long dead before it happens, if it ever does. In the meantime, I'm all in for increasing the staff and expertise at the IRS and paying for it. The only reason the GOP opposes it is because it's mostly them and their donors who are afraid of getting caught cooking the books. $400k a year would put me in heaven and I'd gladly give about 20% of that to my tax load and endure an audit now and then. I'd still be so far ahead of where I am it's laughable. It's a good thing I've been frugal all my life, but there are a heckuva lot of people who aren't as lucky as I am and have been. It's not the people making $400k who are struggling.\n",
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Unconventional Liberal one big difference, Hunter Biden was not an official advisor to the President, nor did he make a 2 Billion $$ deal with the Crown Prince.
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"content": "Unconventional Liberal one big difference, Hunter Biden was not an official advisor to the President, nor did he make a 2 Billion $$ deal with the Crown Prince.\n",
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Kurt Pickard mine is $5/month for a year. I will cancel at the end of a year and look for a new deal.
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"content": "Kurt Pickard mine is $5/month for a year. I will cancel at the end of a year and look for a new deal.\n",
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Let’s hope the Feds never take us back to artificially low interest rates, and also that it does not prematurely ease up on rate increases until inflation meets its markers for being sufficiently cooled. In recent years the Fed has been a booster for Wall Street - not Main Street. Think of its QE policy during the Great Recession when it pumped an obscene amount of money into the economy for Wall Street’s benefit. Average Americans were still losing their jobs and homes, while big banks were swimming in trillions of dollars created by the Fed. As for recent layoffs, these are a way for big corporations to rid themselves of unwanted employees and to create a better company bottom line for investors and, of course, for executive leadership.
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"content": "Let’s hope the Feds never take us back to artificially low interest rates, and also that it does not prematurely ease up on rate increases until inflation meets its markers for being sufficiently cooled. In recent years the Fed has been a booster for Wall Street - not Main Street. Think of its QE policy during the Great Recession when it pumped an obscene amount of money into the economy for Wall Street’s benefit. Average Americans were still losing their jobs and homes, while big banks were swimming in trillions of dollars created by the Fed. As for recent layoffs, these are a way for big corporations to rid themselves of unwanted employees and to create a better company bottom line for investors and, of course, for executive leadership.\n",
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617to416 One of my former bosses, the CEO of our medium-sized company, believed that if you had a good candidate for an open position, grab them (no matter sex or ethnicity), and if you had a good worker, hold on to them. If you have a good performer, you would be performing managerial malpractice to deliberately chisel on their salary relative to others on staff just because they were a woman or otherwise. Good performers should be held on to...
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"content": "617to416 One of my former bosses, the CEO of our medium-sized company, believed that if you had a good candidate for an open position, grab them (no matter sex or ethnicity), and if you had a good worker, hold on to them. If you have a good performer, you would be performing managerial malpractice to deliberately chisel on their salary relative to others on staff just because they were a woman or otherwise. Good performers should be held on to...\n",
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I’ve been waiting to buy a hybrid Accord; I like the old model better than the new. New is $45K and up. Waiting until August now for the leases on the ‘21 models to roll in…. What do I care if it had 30K miles on it? My 2007 Odyssey we bought new has 250K and still going. Will be our teens car come August.
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"content": "I’ve been waiting to buy a hybrid Accord; I like the old model better than the new. New is $45K and up. Waiting until August now for the leases on the ‘21 models to roll in…. What do I care if it had 30K miles on it? My 2007 Odyssey we bought new has 250K and still going. Will be our teens car come August.\n",
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| 9,221 |
Not a useful article. Just go to your local market, and purchase Amy’s frozen Margherita pizza. $8.99 and worth every penny .It is delicious.
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"content": "Not a useful article. Just go to your local market, and purchase Amy’s frozen Margherita pizza. $8.99 and worth every penny .It is delicious.\n",
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David Kiel do you really think Microsoft is in some 'wildcatter' days?the company is about over 45 years old.
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"content": "David Kiel do you really think Microsoft is in some 'wildcatter' days?the company is about over 45 years old.\n",
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Diane B Actually Netflix got ripped off. Nothing the couple has done so far is worth $100 million. Harry and Meghan are a one trick pony show.
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"content": "Diane B Actually Netflix got ripped off. Nothing the couple has done so far is worth $100 million. Harry and Meghan are a one trick pony show.\n",
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Under Rodrigo Duterte the Philippines was one of America’s most prickly allies. He visited China five times and Russia twice, but vowed never to set foot in the US, issuing threats and foul-mouthed warning to Obama not to criticise his arbitrary executions of alleged drug criminals. Since Marcos jr. came to power he has been rekindling relations with the US, Manila’s decades old treaty ally, allowing it to play a crucial role in the Indo-Pacific region. Last September he flew to the US to address the UN General Assembly and met Biden for the first time on the side lines. Biden was the first world leader to call and congratulate Macros after his landslide win in May 2022. After six years of destructive populism under Duterte, Marcos jr. appeared more acceptable on the global stage. He wants to continue fostering a relationship with Beijing while moving closer to the US. The question is whether his vice-president Sara Duterte shares her father’s hostility towards the US, which seeks to broaden its engagement in the region by bolstering a web of security alliances and partnerships amid China’s growing influence and ambitions. The northern Philippines is strategically located across a strait from Taiwan and could serve as a crucial outpost in case tensions worsen between Beijing and Taipei.The US had repeatedly assured Manila that it would come to its aid if the Philippines came under attack in the disputed South China Sea, much of which Beijing also claims.
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"content": "Under Rodrigo Duterte the Philippines was one of America’s most prickly allies. He visited China five times and Russia twice, but vowed never to set foot in the US, issuing threats and foul-mouthed warning to Obama not to criticise his arbitrary executions of alleged drug criminals. Since Marcos jr. came to power he has been rekindling relations with the US, Manila’s decades old treaty ally, allowing it to play a crucial role in the Indo-Pacific region. Last September he flew to the US to address the UN General Assembly and met Biden for the first time on the side lines. Biden was the first world leader to call and congratulate Macros after his landslide win in May 2022. After six years of destructive populism under Duterte, Marcos jr. appeared more acceptable on the global stage. He wants to continue fostering a relationship with Beijing while moving closer to the US. The question is whether his vice-president Sara Duterte shares her father’s hostility towards the US, which seeks to broaden its engagement in the region by bolstering a web of security alliances and partnerships amid China’s growing influence and ambitions. The northern Philippines is strategically located across a strait from Taiwan and could serve as a crucial outpost in case tensions worsen between Beijing and Taipei.The US had repeatedly assured Manila that it would come to its aid if the Philippines came under attack in the disputed South China Sea, much of which Beijing also claims.\n",
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| 8,940 |
Well....this is just one healthcare worker's take on their current living situation. I moved to Philadelphia 10 years ago (since I could no longer afford NY). My salary increased a tiny bit over that time, but then during the beginning of the Covid pandemic my salary was cut and is back to when I first moved here, due to Medicare cuts, or at least that's what my company said. I work as an occupational therapist in a nursing home which really was a slap in the face at the time when we were risking our health and were working so hard with limited ppe and understaffing. My rent, on the other hand, is well over 50% more than when I moved here even though I moved to a crummier apartment building to save money, food prices are crazy, and eating out is a luxury since even eating out at a local pub easily costs $80 for 2 beers, 2 burgers and tip. I've been paying my student loans for 16 years and am hoping they'll be paid off by the time I'm 60. So yeah call me crazy if I think my job that required a master's degree wasn't worth the investment, and I'm not too impressed with the economy. Sorry for sounding whiny, but moral injury (for working in an industry that puts patient care last--the opposite of my profession's code of ethics) and job burnout takes its toll.
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"content": "Well....this is just one healthcare worker's take on their current living situation. I moved to Philadelphia 10 years ago (since I could no longer afford NY). My salary increased a tiny bit over that time, but then during the beginning of the Covid pandemic my salary was cut and is back to when I first moved here, due to Medicare cuts, or at least that's what my company said. I work as an occupational therapist in a nursing home which really was a slap in the face at the time when we were risking our health and were working so hard with limited ppe and understaffing. My rent, on the other hand, is well over 50% more than when I moved here even though I moved to a crummier apartment building to save money, food prices are crazy, and eating out is a luxury since even eating out at a local pub easily costs $80 for 2 beers, 2 burgers and tip. I've been paying my student loans for 16 years and am hoping they'll be paid off by the time I'm 60. So yeah call me crazy if I think my job that required a master's degree wasn't worth the investment, and I'm not too impressed with the economy. Sorry for sounding whiny, but moral injury (for working in an industry that puts patient care last--the opposite of my profession's code of ethics) and job burnout takes its toll.\n",
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Mt. Sinai pays its executives millions of dollars each year (CEO Ken Davis took home almost $6million in 2019, the last year the company's tax forms are available for).They would now rather pay scab nurses $300 an hour than hire additional nurses to fully staff their wards.They are behaving like any other giant corporation - exploit and extract labor to maximize the bottom line. Don't believe the "non-profit" label.
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"content": "Mt. Sinai pays its executives millions of dollars each year (CEO Ken Davis took home almost $6million in 2019, the last year the company's tax forms are available for).They would now rather pay scab nurses $300 an hour than hire additional nurses to fully staff their wards.They are behaving like any other giant corporation - exploit and extract labor to maximize the bottom line. Don't believe the \"non-profit\" label.\n",
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| 1,377 |
LW1 and his husband did not think their offer through.They may have had the $$ for a luxury home for family, but they didn't have the brains to set it in a legal document.They are now reaping the results that could have easily been anticipated, even with a fully functioning sister-in-law.Better prepare to either pay for repairs or watch their investment home's value plummet.And then there is the matter of who is paying for the kid's college tuition and the retirement funds for the SIL and hubby.NEVER do something so financially impactful without consulting a lawyer. Worth every penny to get an outside take on how badly your generosity could turn out.
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"content": "LW1 and his husband did not think their offer through.They may have had the $$ for a luxury home for family, but they didn't have the brains to set it in a legal document.They are now reaping the results that could have easily been anticipated, even with a fully functioning sister-in-law.Better prepare to either pay for repairs or watch their investment home's value plummet.And then there is the matter of who is paying for the kid's college tuition and the retirement funds for the SIL and hubby.NEVER do something so financially impactful without consulting a lawyer. Worth every penny to get an outside take on how badly your generosity could turn out.\n",
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| 7,220 |
Tom Block Context? Hamlin was getting paid about $900K a year to engage in said sport. There was no whip to his back.I wish him a speedy recovery. That blessing was not to be for my mother, who died later in the night she experienced her first heart attack, one of thousands like her that week.
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"content": "Tom Block Context? Hamlin was getting paid about $900K a year to engage in said sport. There was no whip to his back.I wish him a speedy recovery. That blessing was not to be for my mother, who died later in the night she experienced her first heart attack, one of thousands like her that week.\n",
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