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Professor Aaron Tang and others of his caliber could likely make an erudite legal case that ALL preliminary decision papers, discussions, drafts of SCOTUS should be open to public review, lest a black-robed aristocracy w life appointments be allowed to conduct the people's business in total secrecy, thus again privileging a powerful few while preventing national participation in or even knowledge of this fundamental aspect of American democracy.
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ASPruyn Of course it's a business, worth around 30B,that's with a B.
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Let me just start with his speech before all the questions.Biden achievements are astonishing:Unemployment is the lowest it's been in 50 years, half a Century, 11 million new jobs created, including 750,000 manufacturing jobsInflation at lowest level since Oct. 2021More Americans have health insurance today than ever in the history of our country, fewer families are facing foreclosure today, supply of insulin with Medicare is $35 a month and so many other accomplishments are hard to list it all.Infrastructure is no more a laughing joke.As the main targets of the QAnon party remained the same: cutting our mandatory SS and MedicareYes, he downplayed the issues of the documents in his garage, but overall he repeated his constant cooperation with the DOJ investigation.Huge contrast with:"They all mine"orTrump resisted requests to return stash of documents at Mar-a-Lago, saying 'it's not theirs, it's mine,' NYT reports.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-on-documents-sought-nara-not-theirs-mine-nyt-2022-8" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-on-documents-sought-nara-not-theirs-mine-nyt-2022-8</a>
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GMooG Redmond is a suburb of Seattle. Used to take 20 minutes to drive from one to the other. Now it can take an hour and a half or more! And an amazing percentage of Microsoft workers commute from Seattle!
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Henry without the fed (DeSantis hates fed spending) and the blue states he would have nothing.Move the Kennedy space center and all the air force bases to the blue states. Stop sending Billions in FEMA dollars to Florida every year because they have a condo complex fall in the ocean or a hurricane.DeSantis when in congress refused hurricane aid for NJ.DeSantis boasts of low tax rates because he refuses to fund the state property insurance fund after all he can just get bailed out by the fed.
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$17b in quarterly profit and they need to cut costs by throwing away 10k people. Capitalism. Gotta love it.
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I thank Mr. Kristof for being a voice of reason in an emotionally charged and polarizing debate. One thing he doesn't mention is that those pre-1986 machine guns cost anywhere from about $10K for an UZI to a $100K for a belt fed machine gun. Finding any of those weapons for sale at any price is nearly impossible.He is spot on with the semi-auto pistol topic 9mm is the flavor of the month but hi-cap semi autos are the weapons of choice in most homicides in the US. The are in the neighborhood of 150 times more likely to be used than any form of long gun and AR variants are a subset of that.Reasonable proposals promote and foster dialogue. I applaud you Mr. Kristof.
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It's a rude awakening when you go on Medicare and discover what drugs cost in America when you can't use coupons or ACA insurance. Drugs for which I'd formerly paid $5 a month shot up to $120 and then I was suddenly in the "catastrophic" Medicare "donut hole" paying hundreds of dollars a month for those drugs. I'm only 65, still working and in full control of my mental faculties--and even I had a hard time figuring out how they calculate their wacky sliding scale. (The people who run it barely understand it.)So I entered patient assistance programs, which pick up the cost of the drugs if you're under a certain income level. Abbvie was the worst! To get Restasis, another drug that has only recently gone generic, it was always almost an hour-long hold, with crazy hoops to jump through for both me and my doctor. All the other assistance programs make it very easy. Abbvie continually lost what I sent them, had new things they wanted from me and my doctor, and what they wanted or how they wanted it kind of depended on who answered the phone. It was almost like they didn't want me to have the drug at all. Without it I basically can't open my eyes. I almost gave up and paid. I could go to them for Synthroid but I'm just buying it in Canada, where it's about $12.50 a month. $40 here but then it puts you in the donut hole. For everyone who thinks universal Medicare would be great - it would be. Except for the drug costs, which are heinous.
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Jeff was the first concert I ever saw at the age of 15. It was the second Jeff Beck Group tour in 1971, with Stevie Wonder as his opening act in Detroit. Jeff was also the best concert experience I ever had. In 2009 I stood center stage below him at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, CA as he proceeded to take me to a place so transcendental that I was never the same again. To say that he was heads and tails above his peers doesn't begin to describe his genius. He was in a league all his own. He was his only competition, and he didn't rest on his laurels for a moment. He never stopped pushing the boundaries of what could be done with 6 strings and 10 fingers. Even at age 78, he left me wanting more.
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ESPN: "The ONLY concern is for the health of this young man, not for football at this time...."REALITY: The NFL is about $$$, violence and entertainment, multi-billions of dollars. If the NFL was truly "all about the health of the young man" they would have gotten rid of tackling long ago... Impossible I know, but therein lies their dilemma.
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What was Lloyd George’s main goal after WW2? It was to return Germany to to prewar position as UK’s number 2 trade partner. Very foolish. Germany (historically a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) used trade with UK to to fund militarization. Europeans bought oil for years from Russia and were surprised to see Russia (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) use the profits to attack Europeans repeatedly (Crimea 2014, Ukraine 2020). USA sold oil and steel to Japan (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) up to the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack. Japanese aircraft carriers made of US steel - fueled by U.S. oil - steamed to Pearl Harbor. Today, trade with China (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions on its military with your money, will China let its investment sit idle?
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There was a news story recently about Ukraine developing a $3,000 drone that could destroy a $3,000,000 Russian tank. It reminds me of the 1415 Battle of Agincourt. Heavily armed and armored French cavalry, with support from crossbow infantry, were defeated by an English force of lightly armed infantry with longbows, supported by cavalry.
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As a physician for over 45 years, I am realizing how great medicine is and certainly used to be. But there are major flaws on the medical schools. You are taught to treat diseases, patients, not people. You do not bill for every stamp or email like lawyers; you do not bill for each side of a tooth where there is one cavity but bill, as in the past, for one cavity. Their desire to help people has or is disappearing.With the new technology, people are treated by the results of lab and imaging results. We were taught that 70-80% of a diagnosis was from listening to the patient, then confirmed by examination and lab and imaging.To whom to lay blame, the medical schools, and mainly the government who Hailed the heroes of the Covid Pandemic and then decided to cut reimbursements across all of medicine by 4-5%- not to the hospitals with their lobbyists but to the physicians.Then along comes insurance companies trying to earn more money so they open up and advertise these false "medicare Advantage" plans for the elderly, so they can deny services and earn extra income off tests not performed.Dr. O'Connell is special. But we can alter his beginning to maybe help this massive problem which with only grow as the economy of the country falls:Medical School is expensive- following internship or residency, $25,000- $50,000 of debt should be forgiven, for every year served in this type of program that is similar to the one Dr O'Connell and Nurse McInnis established.Great article
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Richard Blaine Dogger Bank is a UK project, the international bit is building a power hub on an artificial island so that the power can be routed to Europe.40% of the UK energy market is renewable as of 2022, so the stuff yet to come on line can be exported. Dogger Bank could end up generating over 100GW -- or 50million houses.
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I’m a 56 year old engineer and make 160K. I live in rural Ohio and pay 425/mo for my house expenses (just taxes, insurance and utilities - paid off my $215,000 house a few years ago). I have no debt and about 2M in savings/401kI drive a used electric car that I bought for $7000. It’s a Fiat500e - available eBay for about 10k now. I have 2 kids in state collage and a spouse that is studying to be a teacher after she worked various jobs and ran a furniture shop. She grew up in NYC. Nice place but too expensive to build wealth for most people. My daughter is also serving in the local Air Force Reserve. She wants to be a doctor and have a farm. We feel lucky and privileged. Is there some way others can be benefit from the rural life style? I honestly don’t know but I do wonder if we should teach our kids frugality and wealth management county style. My Dad grew up poor during the depression in Cleveland but got an engineering degree and moved to the county / exburbs in 1970. He is now 89 and we take care of him but he still is basically self sufficient.
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KeninDFW Profit is a pretty accurate reflection of efficiency, accuracy, creativity, diligence and other "deliverables" that are difficult to measure. Generally speaking, Profit=Revenues-Costs. I have yet to see a job that does not affect profit. In a so-called non-profit we're still talking about work that yields more of an output than the investment. Either your work contributes to increasing (or maintaining) profits or to decreasing (or controlling) costs. If a job does not produce some kind of profit, it will be eliminated or the organization will go out of business.
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I sometimes feel that the question of when life begins depends on the society in which one is born. In some, the social structures reinforce one’s humanity and value. In modern American society which values materiality over humanity, it’s questionable whether life ever truly begins.To those who insist that life begins at conception, there is, as the article points out, the huge number of natural failures in the early and even later stages of gestation. If their god is responsible for the course of life, why would he create a mechanism that results in mass death that is indistinguishable from what these believers call ‘murder’? And if we are consistent in our beliefs, why not extend them to all areas of life: if I invest $100, it has the potential to become $1,000,000. But when an investment turns bad, whether accidentally or malevolently, we don’t prosecute the investment manager for stealing $1 million. Potential life is not actual life, any more than potential gains are actual gains.
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FlyingChalupaBros Just a tip, if it's the article limit you're trying to get around, you can open it in an incognito window on Chrome or the equivalent. But in my experience the recipes are behind a paywall regardless of how many you try to open
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DeSantis, of course, could opt instead to establish another completely separate small highly selective institution of higher learning for the kind of students DeSantis purports to wish to cater to. He could then see how the two schools fare in the open marketplace of ideas. Perhaps there is a burning demand for his new school. ... Perhaps not. Realistically, logic suggests that here DeSantis is mainly intent on tossing a new batch of political muck into the fan.
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Edmund L ‘ In 2021, 8.6% of total U.S. exports of $1.8 trillion to the World were exported to China and 17.9% of total U.S. Imports of $2.8 trillion were imported from China.’ Add that to the amount we would lose by sanctioning all the other countries trading with China and we definitely have a problem!
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Good article. However, it's a shame it limits itself to the hospitality industry. Online fakery in product and contractor promotion is far more egregious, and can cost consumers lots of money and grief. It's nice to see one sector take some sort of action, but the fakery will continue: digital information is an open door to fakes. Ask Donald Trump and Alex Jones. What we need is UNIVERSAL education, starting in jr. high-school, on spotting promo fakes. For about 90% of the stuff it's easy to spot (though I'm not going to reveal my own detecting tools -- that would only tend to disarm them!).One last point, it isn't only the Puffery Posts that proliferate, it's also the nitpicking, negative, and petty venting, some obviously posted by competitors. You may sneer at that, but in the end, it's the "no. of stars" that counts most, not the number of words in an attack. That's one thing that an educated consumer can spot immediately.
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"content": "Good article. However, it's a shame it limits itself to the hospitality industry. Online fakery in product and contractor promotion is far more egregious, and can cost consumers lots of money and grief. It's nice to see one sector take some sort of action, but the fakery will continue: digital information is an open door to fakes. Ask Donald Trump and Alex Jones. What we need is UNIVERSAL education, starting in jr. high-school, on spotting promo fakes. For about 90% of the stuff it's easy to spot (though I'm not going to reveal my own detecting tools -- that would only tend to disarm them!).One last point, it isn't only the Puffery Posts that proliferate, it's also the nitpicking, negative, and petty venting, some obviously posted by competitors. You may sneer at that, but in the end, it's the \"no. of stars\" that counts most, not the number of words in an attack. That's one thing that an educated consumer can spot immediately.\n",
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He received a $20 million advance. Only because he is part of the British royalty. Not exactly making it on one’s own.
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There’s not much distance between the mind set of your average extremist airplane hijacker and the members of the Freedom Caucus. The big difference is if you hijack an airplane at gunpoint, you may take a couple hundred passengers and crew members down with you. But the Freedom Caucus may take down a nation of over 330 million people, the democratic institutions it has built over the course of about 250 years, and quite possibly the global economy in the bargain.And those folks don’t even have to take off their shoes, open their carry-ons and make their way through the metal detectors to get on board.
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The country is in a total chaos with crime, which continues to climb. People feel so entitled now about stealing anything, because lack of prosecution. Petty robberies are no even reported because nothing happen to thieves. People brazenly break into houses like coming into their houses, causing PTSD to the owners whom feel totally violated and incapable of doing thing. I would like to se the thousands of reports in the police precincts accumulating dust because police feel totally incapable to deal with these crimes. I have talk to many employees in stores that they say we simple see people to walk away with thousand of dollars merchandise. The next thing is they may expect to tell them thank you for taking with you for taking away the products come back soon. Yes policing must change and try to reduce unnecessary situations, but at the same time the prosecution of criminals must become more severe. Crime is crime even if they steal 10 cents of merchandise.
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One of the most perplexing rationales that defenders of legislation such as DeSantis’ “Stop Woke” law cite is the potential damage to young white students. They fear that upon hearing of facts of our country’s history of slavery and the subsequent institutional racism and bigotry that persist to this day, that young white students will be saddled with feelings of guilt and shame, damaging their sense of self-esteem. The horrifying facts of our history should stop all of us in our tracks. But why, upon learning the facts, would our children instead of feeling shame, not develop a deep sense of empathy for the victims of racism? These are our fellow human beings who suffered unspeakable horrors for 250 years. Can we not, instead of reacting defensibly, open our hearts to them? It seems to me the only way we will find our way out of the darkness.
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Admittedly I've never watched any of the TV shows Mr. Segel was in, but any time I've seen him on the "big screen" I am always drawn in, even when I don't particularly like the character or even the movie. (I Love You Man comes to mind, I had very mixed feeling on that one.)That said, I thought he was phenomenal in Dispatches from Elsewhere. Truly moving. I still can clearly reflect upon his portrayal of David Foster Wallace and scenes from that film, he hit it home with that one. Unfortunately I don't have Apple TV, so I might have to miss this, though it sounds evocative. Something I would definitely watch.But, I am glad to read Mr. Segel is seemingly really coming into his own. It is not easy to make the transition from young adult acting too full on adult. A very smart and insightful move on his part to seek out therapy and do some inner work. Not only for his own peace of mind and heart, but for us, his audience. I look forwards to his future projects. I agree there is something very humane, likable and even tender, that he emanates, and I feel he is extremely talented. His investment in himself will hopefully only add to his potential with age, experience and wisdom.
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The critique of republican elected officials, and their supporters, is voluminous and substantive. Yet, they prevail, run everything into the ground, each time they get. War, debt, bad bailouts, unfettered criminal class, price gouging, punishing people - long list. Why do they prevail, if the critique is obvious?Democrats are too skittish, weak, spineless to call it what it is, and too afraid to win. This is a party that must deal with Herschel Walker getting over 49% of the vote.What the democrats do, in reality, is further their weakness. It is akin to petting a venomous snake while smiling and kneeling because of one fatal flaw. A democrat is happy not doing anything, as long as everyone in the room agrees s/he is a nice person. They have no desire to win. They are the nice people who lose miserably. People get away with robbery and treason, while they can mostly huff and puff (even then, they need a Liz Cheney, else it is mostly huffing and tears). I am sick of these clowns going around hugging people, feeling sorry for themselves.Republicans are open in their agenda. They want no social security and medicare, they want wars and debt. The democrats cannot translate this into a winning strategy. All they do is point to weaknesses of republican candidates (like Trump did not pay his taxes) - and lose graciously.
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Let us start with what we do know. Close to 70% of all mass shootings involve a perpetrator (white male) with a domestic violence history. Cloaking all mass shootings under the umbrella of "deaths of despair" shifts the conversation away from an analysis of our society's continued support of a misogynistic hierarchy to a more gauzy "what is wrong with these guys" review. We know what is wrong and what factors point to the likelihood of someone becoming a mass shooter-let's focus on that. "In the paper published in Injury Epidemiology, Lisa Geller, MPH, lead author of the paper and state affairs manager of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (EFSGV), analyzed data from the Gun Violence Archive between 2014 and 2019 to reach two major conclusions. First, that in more than two-thirds (68.2%) of mass shootings analyzed, the perpetrator either killed family or intimate partners or the shooter had a history of domestic violence; and second, that DV-related mass shootings were associated with a greater fatality rate. On average, only one in six people survive a DV-related mass shooting compared to one in three people for non-DV mass shootings." New Study: Majority of Mass Shootings Linked to Domestic Violence
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Hmm. Do we hear outrage at Jared’s $2B or hundreds of millions to the Trump family while DJT held office??
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Su sans an e If you typically use your phone to play and have the "split screen" feature available, I recommend opening the comments, from that window enabling split screen (so it's the one on top) and then opening the NYT Games app as the bottom split screen. It keeps from having to scroll back to the comment, as the comment is always "open" on the top part of your screen.
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Who is gonna buy stuff when we all have jobs that pay $30/40/50k(in todays value)?
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Trygve I was quite surprised that this was not listed as a major thing to do year round. While the museum has limited hours, the park is open year round and one of the most important sculpture parks in the word. Dozens, if not hundreds of lIfe sized nude sculptures exhibit almost every emotion felt by man.
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Billy Tauzin (R-La), when he was chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, pushed through the law that prohibited the federal government from negotiating drug prices for Medicare. For his efforts on behalf of Big Pharma, he was rewarded with a $1 million per year position as head of Pharma. To crib a line from The Godfather, our elected representatives (with a few exceptions, like Bernie Sanders) jingle around like so many nickels and dimes in the pockets of Big Pharma. And Big Pharma executives, to quote the late great George Carlin, truly are the "corporate swine."
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Perception of reality in rural areas and formerly industrialized towns is too often driven not by facts but by media whose primary purpose Is to sow discontent and to blame liberals/Democrats for every problem anyone experiences. But that is only part of the story. Republican worship of free-market capitalism with few regulations of any kind often results in negative events for rural areas because the free market is driven solely by higher profits. Just one example is the number of rural hospitals closed in recent years. Hundreds have been closed because they were not profitable or not profitable enough for those owned by private equity firms. Some rural hospitals have curtailed services such as pediatric care and maternity care, forcing residents to travel more than a hundred miles for care. Anti-abortion laws have exacerbated the closure of maternity wings as smaller hospitals do not want to risk being prosecuted for administering an abortion to save a woman’s life. As hospitals leave, so do physicians and a part of the economic life of the community. Our for-profit healthcare system delivers some of the worst results for those living in rural areas. Expansion of Medicaid under the ACA would help, but several Republican states have refused to do that. In Texas, nearly half of hospitals operate at a loss, but the state refuses to expand Medicaid because it was an Obama administration policy. That choice hurts people, but the blame often goes where it does not belong.
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The title of this podcast should have been “Let’s Listen to Two Male Members of the Sexual 1% Pontificate about Contemporary Sexuality." Not enlightening! I wasn’t convinced by Mr. Savage’s generalizations about straight culture co-opting gay culture—“tricks” are renamed “hookups”—no, the larger issue is that there is a big NOT EQUALS sign between an app like Grindr and an app like Tinder. As many have said, this podcast would have benefited from a woman’s participation. However, it also fails to address inequality within genders as well as between genders. If Mr. Klein is straight, he’s living in a sexual alternate universe that he mistakes for everyone’s world. Most men do not have an infinity of choices open up just because they download a dating app. In fact, one is between a rock and a hard place: on one hand, you have this glamorous hook-up culture rubbed in your face all the time, yet you can’t really be a part of it. And on the other hand, if you do hook up, the woman probably participated because she wanted it to lead to something more. One indeed gets the feeling that hook-up culture is inherently dehumanizing—as one commenter said, “sexual liberation does not equal sexual promiscuity.” In my view, Freud’s “Totem and Taboo” does a much better job than this podcast of explaining why the Sexual Revolution has generated so much unhappiness—not only are women exploited, but the band of brothers doesn’t have it so good, either.
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There are facts on the ground which obstruct all these wishes within this chat for US weapons to flow into Ukraine, and that is clearly the Russian forces in Belarus. Russia clearly has the option to invade from that country and seal off the Polish border and stopping 90% of the weapons flow. In fact they have also planned for the redirection of such flows from Romania and Moldova. So to all those pining for more war with Russia, Ukraine has no path to any kind of victory in this struggle and is bound to put another 100K UKR soldiers in their graves and lose Odessa and Kharkov if this conflict persists into next fall.
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My first job out of college was with Enterprise. I was an assistant manager at multiple branches for multiple years. Here are some real-world facts:-Its Enterprise policy to run as tight as possible. Theres a culture of "book everything & find a way to make it work." The area managers are responsible for this as they control when the website will stop allowing customers to make reservations. It was common to begin a Friday with 70 reservations & rent 100+ cars. Those with reservations arent necessarily given priority. Enterprise wants you to rent at each opportunity & then try to get cars from other branches to make up for it. Tough to do when the other branches are doing the same thing. If you reserved a car for 15 mins prior to closing that Friday, well, chances of you getting what you booked are a toss-up. Thats the system.-Its extremely common for rental contracts to be extended, customers to keep cars longer than they paid for, etc. Some reasons are valid (an insurance customers car isnt finished at the shop yet), others arent (stolen cars). Regardless, there isnt a system to penalize retail customers for not returning on time.-Further compounding things are cars that return needing oil changes & the like. It's policy not to rent those cars. But trust me when I tell you that when there are no cars in an entire city, not only will employees rent cars that need oil changes, they'll rent slightly damaged cars needing repairs too. Desperate times...-Out of characters now
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Tracy Because employers simply are not smart enough to realize that paying the government $15,000 a year to cover universal health care for a family is better than paying $20,000 a year for less coverage, higher deductibles, and greater copays.Ahhh, the exceptionalism of American business.
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Mike C Start with "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John Bogle.
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JSW ...oh that's rich..."A bit of open mindedness and respect for the opinion of others is always in order."....its religion and this particular Pope supported, ANTI LGBTQ rights. Where is the open-mindedness of religion and particular this pope and this religion?
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"content": "JSW ...oh that's rich...\"A bit of open mindedness and respect for the opinion of others is always in order.\"....its religion and this particular Pope supported, ANTI LGBTQ rights. Where is the open-mindedness of religion and particular this pope and this religion?\n",
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Ecstatic to see Yeoh—a fabulous actor—finally receive the widespread recognition she deserves. I was wowed by her back in the early 1990s in "The Heroic Trio," which costarred the equally awe-inspiring actors, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung. I dearly hope Yeoh wins the Oscar...and even more, I hope her dream that the Hollywood film industry opens its eyes to offer meaningful opportunities to the extraordinary GLOBAL talents who could be taking U.S. cinematic culture to new heights. And by this, I mean actors, directors, writers, and the like.In any case, Ms. Yeoh, I am rooting for you, and thankful for your wonderful performances over these many years.
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It's not hard to see Dr. Jim as a hero and to feel compassion for the people whose stories were shared in this profile.However, here in Seattle we spend billions on homelessness and are treated to parks, playgrounds, and sidewalks taken over by tents and strewn with needles, nightly break-ins, property damage, manic episodes, aggression, illegal camps with fires, shootings, rapes, etc.Meanwhile here, homelessness aid groups have huge budgets, pay their management exceptionally well, and one "mismanaged" their budget by millions and had to come back to ask for more. The city even lost $800k to blatant fraud which the city then paid again to the right recipient.It's a shame to feel that these groups are nothing like the helpers profiled here and that the homeless industrial complex is just another grift on the taxpayer.
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Look. It's not that complicated. The voters of his district elected somebody who doesn't exist. The "George Santos" they voted for is not a real person. Since this person is a fiction -- a totally made-up figment of a disturbed imagination -- the "Santos" seat in Congress is empty. Since it's empty, it must be filled by a new election in which the candidates are real people.And this "Santos" person, whoever he is (and whatever his real name is), should be committed for observation while the criminal investigation into who bought him -- where the $700,000 actually came from -- goes forward.
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With the Average income in 2019 being $31,300, it's hard for me to see where a couple making collectively $400K/yr is anywhere other than the top 5% of incomes. They are in no middle class I'm aware of. Republicans voting to eliminate the funding increase to the IRS are simply exposing their allegiance to the top .1% while wearing "populist" clothing. They have nothing on George Santos."All of which could have been avoided if Merrick Garland had simply taken a patient and low-key approach to the retrieval of those documents in Mar-a-Lago!" WHAT! The National Archives did just that for 1-1/2 years with no result other than a reluctant turn over of some documents and being lied to by a lawyer. Workers at Mar a Lardo were caught on video moving boxes with classified documents that led to the issuance of a search warrant on Mar a Lardo, where the additional 325 classified doc's were "discovered". Trump to-date refuses to sign a declaration all classified documents have been returned. This is a clarion call all his residences need searching. Pull your head out of the dark place Bret. “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” Describes the GOP House exactly. I read your piece with David Brooks. It exposed your limits of knowledge to the relative lengths of your lives. Older than both of you I suggest the rot began with Goldwater and the John Birchers. Reagan was never prosecuted for his arms for hostages dealings with the Iranians when running for POTUS.
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"content": "With the Average income in 2019 being $31,300, it's hard for me to see where a couple making collectively $400K/yr is anywhere other than the top 5% of incomes. They are in no middle class I'm aware of. Republicans voting to eliminate the funding increase to the IRS are simply exposing their allegiance to the top .1% while wearing \"populist\" clothing. They have nothing on George Santos.\"All of which could have been avoided if Merrick Garland had simply taken a patient and low-key approach to the retrieval of those documents in Mar-a-Lago!\" WHAT! The National Archives did just that for 1-1/2 years with no result other than a reluctant turn over of some documents and being lied to by a lawyer. Workers at Mar a Lardo were caught on video moving boxes with classified documents that led to the issuance of a search warrant on Mar a Lardo, where the additional 325 classified doc's were \"discovered\". Trump to-date refuses to sign a declaration all classified documents have been returned. This is a clarion call all his residences need searching. Pull your head out of the dark place Bret. “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” Describes the GOP House exactly. I read your piece with David Brooks. It exposed your limits of knowledge to the relative lengths of your lives. Older than both of you I suggest the rot began with Goldwater and the John Birchers. Reagan was never prosecuted for his arms for hostages dealings with the Iranians when running for POTUS.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,311 |
"The B.C.G. vaccine is more than a century old and generic, and drug makers have shown little interest in investing in research and development related to it. Newer treatments often carry eye-popping prices. One newly approved drug, teplizumab, may delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes by a few years but costs nearly $200,000 for a two-week treatment course." This is a big problem. There is no incentive for researchers to do this kind of research. None.
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| no | Classification | 2,750 |
Honest question: How is most of the described behavior in this article by FTX any different from the usual and legal business of investment bank security underwriting (i.e. bringing firms to the public market)? The roadshow and book-building, the artificial scarcity that is created in sales pitches, the price support by the underwriters in the first weeks, the lockup periods for investors on the primary market, the benefits from having a (supposedly) reputatable investment back doing the advising, etc. Why is not just FTX publicly underwriting an ICO?
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| yes | Classification | 5,853 |
Henry the pernicious myth that folks with HS diplomas who wear coveralls to work must be low middle class at best. 40 years working in the same Boeing union shop, this guy enjoyed an income and savings that most kids today graduating $80k in debt with unmarketable cookie cutter degrees will never know.
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| no | Classification | 1,161 |
Probably nothing the average Times reader needs to hear, but the national budget isn’t like anyone’s household budget, the latter of which typically has to balance out year-to-year. Obviously, living within one’s means is important, but countries need to invest in their people - infrastructure, climate change mitigation through energy infrastructure, education and training, etc. Saving 20 million people from going under during the first year of the pandemic was critical, and the numbers show that Biden’s ARPA was also necessary, due to the amount of time it takes to restart an economy, as opposed to keeping one alive. Of course, the GOP never seems to get many of the points noted here..Also, it bears mentioning that the GOP has run up FAR more debt than the Democrats over the past 20 years, especially if you include the disastrous Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as the Bush and Trump tax cuts for the wealthy. Yet they do little to expand the country’s capabilities (remember their infrastructure week, and the killing of Obama’s bill on that optic). Now they have entitlements in their sights, but without the Biden initiatives on infrastructure and renewable energy (which met with incredible GOP resistance), we’d have wasted another two years due to the GOP.I’m glad Biden called them out for wanting to erase the IRS budget increases. By the way, the intent of these increases is to have the wealthy not fudge their taxes, not people making under $200K a year.
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"content": "Probably nothing the average Times reader needs to hear, but the national budget isn’t like anyone’s household budget, the latter of which typically has to balance out year-to-year. Obviously, living within one’s means is important, but countries need to invest in their people - infrastructure, climate change mitigation through energy infrastructure, education and training, etc. Saving 20 million people from going under during the first year of the pandemic was critical, and the numbers show that Biden’s ARPA was also necessary, due to the amount of time it takes to restart an economy, as opposed to keeping one alive. Of course, the GOP never seems to get many of the points noted here..Also, it bears mentioning that the GOP has run up FAR more debt than the Democrats over the past 20 years, especially if you include the disastrous Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as well as the Bush and Trump tax cuts for the wealthy. Yet they do little to expand the country’s capabilities (remember their infrastructure week, and the killing of Obama’s bill on that optic). Now they have entitlements in their sights, but without the Biden initiatives on infrastructure and renewable energy (which met with incredible GOP resistance), we’d have wasted another two years due to the GOP.I’m glad Biden called them out for wanting to erase the IRS budget increases. By the way, the intent of these increases is to have the wealthy not fudge their taxes, not people making under $200K a year.\n",
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All things considered, the Biden economy is doing just fine. The unemployment rate is very low. Inflation (caused mainly by Covid, supply chain disruptions and the Russian invasion) is going down a lot. Gas prices are much lower, giving millions extra cash to spend. The deficit was not devastating high, given the previous, and remaining, problems. Of course the deficit would likely go down by hundreds of billions if the GOP-controlled House would fund the IRS expansion. Ramping up enforcement is necessary, but McCarthy would rather stop it and play chicken with America's ability to pay it's bills. And he cares nothing about the dire consequences. That's leadership? No. It's more like irresponsible behavior, which we've seen before. I truly hope the Dems don't allow McCarthy to cut Social security, Medicare and Medicaid to get a deal done. I, for one, would rather see a default, since I have enough FDIC-insured cash for the next 5 years.
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"content": "All things considered, the Biden economy is doing just fine. The unemployment rate is very low. Inflation (caused mainly by Covid, supply chain disruptions and the Russian invasion) is going down a lot. Gas prices are much lower, giving millions extra cash to spend. The deficit was not devastating high, given the previous, and remaining, problems. Of course the deficit would likely go down by hundreds of billions if the GOP-controlled House would fund the IRS expansion. Ramping up enforcement is necessary, but McCarthy would rather stop it and play chicken with America's ability to pay it's bills. And he cares nothing about the dire consequences. That's leadership? No. It's more like irresponsible behavior, which we've seen before. I truly hope the Dems don't allow McCarthy to cut Social security, Medicare and Medicaid to get a deal done. I, for one, would rather see a default, since I have enough FDIC-insured cash for the next 5 years.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,679 |
Congress needs to investigate Sen. Scott for the part he played in the Medicare fraud his company participated in while he was CEO! The one where he parachuted out with nearly $400 million, and used it to by the governorship of Florida.
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"content": "Congress needs to investigate Sen. Scott for the part he played in the Medicare fraud his company participated in while he was CEO! The one where he parachuted out with nearly $400 million, and used it to by the governorship of Florida.\n",
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Anita Larson Nonsense. She flew to NYC for a $5,000 baby shower. Some prisoner!!!! Staff go to the Firm, not the Royal Family. She was not an employee.
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"content": "Anita Larson Nonsense. She flew to NYC for a $5,000 baby shower. Some prisoner!!!! Staff go to the Firm, not the Royal Family. She was not an employee.\n",
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“ In 2014, AbbVie applied for another patent for a method of treating ankylosing spondylitis with a specific dosing of 40 milligrams of Humira. The application was approved, adding 11 years of patent protection beyond 2016.” That is called patent evergreening- prolonging a patent term. Fortunately for my country, a method of treatment is non-patentable so this case does not extend the monopoly period.
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"content": "“ In 2014, AbbVie applied for another patent for a method of treating ankylosing spondylitis with a specific dosing of 40 milligrams of Humira. The application was approved, adding 11 years of patent protection beyond 2016.” That is called patent evergreening- prolonging a patent term. Fortunately for my country, a method of treatment is non-patentable so this case does not extend the monopoly period.\n",
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"Investors are not just looking to invest in science projects but in real companies.”Says it all doesn't it.Decades and decades if tax-payer funded research and development, failure and trying again, university funding, subsidizing massively the earlier commercial efforts ....So that private funds can now, finally, come in and take 25 percent off the top as profit -now that tax-payers have invested billions, taken the highest risks with our money, to bring those costs down.And all we ask is that they pay their taxes - the only ROI we'll get from our investments. Not paying their share of taxes is their stealing our investment returns. But they call taxes a "burden" and lobby for reducing their taxes even further, they hide their income and profits etc.This VC funded "opportunity" is just another free ride on tax payers' backs.This is farce.
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"content": "\"Investors are not just looking to invest in science projects but in real companies.”Says it all doesn't it.Decades and decades if tax-payer funded research and development, failure and trying again, university funding, subsidizing massively the earlier commercial efforts ....So that private funds can now, finally, come in and take 25 percent off the top as profit -now that tax-payers have invested billions, taken the highest risks with our money, to bring those costs down.And all we ask is that they pay their taxes - the only ROI we'll get from our investments. Not paying their share of taxes is their stealing our investment returns. But they call taxes a \"burden\" and lobby for reducing their taxes even further, they hide their income and profits etc.This VC funded \"opportunity\" is just another free ride on tax payers' backs.This is farce.\n",
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I've never experienced anything remotely like what Mr. Wells describes - for all that "eating" is universal, parts of this read like fiction - or maybe, Mr. Wells trying his hand at self-parody.But there are no small number of instances in the US and a few other countries of a pie being sliced with what one might call normal size slices (maybe, even "generous" ones) until, say, 3/4 of the pie has been so divided, and then 20 sliver-slices are fashioned with a knife sharpened after every use.And those smaller slices, of course, go to either "supporting" players or - to use a term likely long out of favor - "grunts" in the enterprise - whether it be theater or investment banking or NGO's.We live in a society where rewarding innovators and "stars" has come unmoored from almost anything and everything else. There are a couple of mentions in Mr. Wells' piece of people working "unpaid." Mr. Wells is a marvelous writer, but in this one instance, I wish an editor had asked him for a little clarification. "Minimum wage" (or less) work & workers make no sense, of course, where a meal is priced at $500+, but people have long figured out that ours is a society where you can (some people only - in certain fields, certain eras) try to play a long game where - for instance - you opt to make less money in your 20's than some peers ... with the expectation that you'll be "lapping them" by the time you're 40, say. (Presumably, some doors open for folks who have "Noma" on their resumes.)
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"content": "I've never experienced anything remotely like what Mr. Wells describes - for all that \"eating\" is universal, parts of this read like fiction - or maybe, Mr. Wells trying his hand at self-parody.But there are no small number of instances in the US and a few other countries of a pie being sliced with what one might call normal size slices (maybe, even \"generous\" ones) until, say, 3/4 of the pie has been so divided, and then 20 sliver-slices are fashioned with a knife sharpened after every use.And those smaller slices, of course, go to either \"supporting\" players or - to use a term likely long out of favor - \"grunts\" in the enterprise - whether it be theater or investment banking or NGO's.We live in a society where rewarding innovators and \"stars\" has come unmoored from almost anything and everything else. There are a couple of mentions in Mr. Wells' piece of people working \"unpaid.\" Mr. Wells is a marvelous writer, but in this one instance, I wish an editor had asked him for a little clarification. \"Minimum wage\" (or less) work & workers make no sense, of course, where a meal is priced at $500+, but people have long figured out that ours is a society where you can (some people only - in certain fields, certain eras) try to play a long game where - for instance - you opt to make less money in your 20's than some peers ... with the expectation that you'll be \"lapping them\" by the time you're 40, say. (Presumably, some doors open for folks who have \"Noma\" on their resumes.)\n",
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alex While I, as a liberal, totally condone investigating this matter to its fullest extent, the two situations appear to be vastly different as far as their discoveries and handling of them (Trump apparently obstructing justice). And as far as politically motivated investigations against Trump, I agree with you. Those who want a fair democracy and are politically invested in that want to hold Trump accountable. And as a supporter of a fair democracy, I say more power to them.
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David Another solution is that they open their borders more, take in more refugees, the ones who never thought of going to Japan, with the resources they are willing to spend they could teach them Japanese and their labor would be a Godsend. To the Japanese...Ganbatte. To the Government, open your eyes...
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"content": "David Another solution is that they open their borders more, take in more refugees, the ones who never thought of going to Japan, with the resources they are willing to spend they could teach them Japanese and their labor would be a Godsend. To the Japanese...Ganbatte. To the Government, open your eyes...\n",
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In my opinion, Olaf Scholz is acting here in strict application of the logic of the Cold War, with all the emotions from this time of a West German, born in 1958. In 45 years of Cold War, with aggressions from Moscow the following was valid: We are safe as long as we have the Americans by our side. I am one generation younger than Olaf Scholz. But Transgenerational transmission of emotions makes Scholz's view still comprehensible to me. And I do understand why Olaf Scholz does not warnt to see alone German battle tanks in Ukraine. But it would have been okay from my point of view if the German Leopard had been accompanied by Leclerc form France and the British Challenger. What annoys me so much about Olaf Scholz : Why didn't he clarify with Biden 3-8 months ago that it is important for him to have the U.S. on his side in the situation of delivering battle tanks! The U.S. can't do magic either. Ukraine is losing time. And there was dissent on open stage as well. I hope that Joe Biden has told our Chancellor that he must please prepare the options and communicate the framework conditions with the USA at an appropriate time.
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B. Rothman not sure about Germany but in France Belgium and Scandinavia private insurance for upper middle and higher economic groups is growing larger. I have seen that in action. The open secret no one talks about is that as migrant groups flood these countries with legal access to their families more private insurance is sold.
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MSF Here is the OED on the origins of the wordEtymology: Probably a variant of palmette n. (compare sense 2 at that entry), palmette designs having been a conventional ornament on window cornices. Compare:1925 J. Penderel-Brodhurst & E. J. Layton Gloss. Eng. Furnit. 123 Pelmet, a word used by upholsterers and sometimes by art dealers, who prefer the word ‘palmette’, to denote the horizontal stiff curtains or valance hiding the rod, rings and headings of the hanging curtain decorating a door, window, bed, etc.”The operative word is the resemblance to palms which persisted at least in Victorian window treatments, and the rigidity. Often referred to a shaped box, perhaps covered in stiff fabric. Sometimes it was a piece of stiff embroidered and fringed fabric. Valances are usually just fabric and often ruched or mounted on an additional piece of hardware (in the US) in the UK Valances are used more to mean bed skirts, which again are pleated or ruched. All dust catchers and with handsome or otherwise invisible hardware, hardly necessary. My favourite extended meaning of pelmet (also from OED) is in reference to skirt length (hardly necessary since we have the original included in the Bee today) but isn’t this quote a beauty?“1987 Guardian 7 Sept. 11/6 It's just a matter of inches that decides whether it's a bottom-skimming pelmet, a modest mid-thigh, or a frankly frumpy knee-length skirt.“
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Dominic One of the best investments of society to address a plethora of problems (health related, financial, behavioural) would be to make sure, everyone who goes to school also learns basic cooking skills. Simple meals from scratch. The western world would be a better place.
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| no | Classification | 686 |
does anyone really care ?how about the people just a notch above these folks.....with children.....skating on melting ice....failure of urban America- run , in many cases, by DEMOCRATIC machine politicians .....make a list and see how many of these urban disasters are generations and decades long festering open sores that NOONER wants to address....avert your eyes...move to the suburbs....send a check....this is another failure of democracy.....shame on all of us
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| yes | Classification | 7,244 |
Bill read the article: "$125 for the omelet" it did have truffle shavings but even so that is an outrageous price for the limited amount of shavings you need to keep the omelet edible
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I was fortunate to have met Jim O’Connell when I was a medical student in the 1980’s. Being young and idealistic a group of us wanted to start a volunteer, student run medical clinic for the homeless in Syracuse,NY. I met Jim at a conference in Boston where he spoke passionately about healthcare for the disenfranchised. He subsequently came for a visit and inspired us to forge ahead with our plans. We opened a clinic staffed by volunteer physicians and medical students through a partnership with the Onondaga County Department of Health using there clinic facilities. To this day some iteration of SC-HOPE as it was known still exists.For me I practiced primary care at a community health center- one of the closest entities to healthcare for all. Thank you Jim - you continue to be an inspiration.
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| yes | Classification | 7,205 |
Not sure anyone will ever say anything to him in confidence ever again..so that ironically rules out any form of reconciliation. They will also be terrified of being taken out of context or run through the "oppression" lens Harry has picked up and appear as a villain in his next book, even if their efforts are genuine. He's got his mother's antennae, understandably and probably for good reason. It's kinda fishy though that this whole round of openness and mudslinging looks remarkably similar to Martin Bashir's efforts in 1995, which were based on Diana's false belief that her aides had been compromised by MI5 and they were trying to take her down. Harry said pretty much the same, that his staff and aides had been compromised and he had been targeted by palace forces. Bashir's special was an historical ratings monster, the deception had paid off handsomely for all who participated..people forget how it happened. Is it happening again?
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"content": "Not sure anyone will ever say anything to him in confidence ever again..so that ironically rules out any form of reconciliation. They will also be terrified of being taken out of context or run through the \"oppression\" lens Harry has picked up and appear as a villain in his next book, even if their efforts are genuine. He's got his mother's antennae, understandably and probably for good reason. It's kinda fishy though that this whole round of openness and mudslinging looks remarkably similar to Martin Bashir's efforts in 1995, which were based on Diana's false belief that her aides had been compromised by MI5 and they were trying to take her down. Harry said pretty much the same, that his staff and aides had been compromised and he had been targeted by palace forces. Bashir's special was an historical ratings monster, the deception had paid off handsomely for all who participated..people forget how it happened. Is it happening again?\n",
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Casey P I grew up with a teacher. She complained bitterly at the end of every single school day, about her idiotic principal, lazy parents and dumb students. She also slept until 11 am on ALL those days she did not have to work, thanks to the school calendar. She got 2 weeks off at Christmas, just as an example, not counting spring break, fall break, Thanksgiving, summer! I get 2 weeks toal off per year, for Dr. appts., being sick, looking after sick children or taking them to the Dr., official business with professions that keep limited hours and don't open on holidays, and-maybe-a family vacation 1x/year if I haven't used up all my "PTO" days. I don't get 2 weeks off at Christmas, summer, spring and fall breaks, etc. Maybe teachers should try working all year, and check out how stressful that is!
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| no | Classification | 1,496 |
The NY FBI field office is precisely the same office that was obsessed with finding dirt against Hillary and was notoriously staffed with pro-Trump agents. Mr. McGonigal's involvement with Albanian intelligence service for a payment of $225K while he was still an FBI agent, before retiring, should result in additional changes predicated on the Espionage Act. The Albanian charge is the most serious one: it is ultimate Espionage, if not Treason as well. Mr. McGonigal should spend the rest of his life in a federal maximum security facility: we do not pay traitors.
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The woman who founded the French Laundry in 1978, Sally Schmitt, intended to open an Alice Waters type restaurant, before Waters, filled with simplicity, an open heart, and appreciation for local ingredients in a world that was still dominated by French at cuisine.I’ve often wondered what she thought of its devolution into a snob destination. Thomas Keller, and his ilk are as focused on creating a buzz in the chattering classes as they are in turning out a perfect bechamel.What I object to is how calculating it all can be.
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Bryan, Our military budget is getting near a trillion a year so aid to Israel is not only a drop in the bucket it’s a good investment. And a downright bargain compared to, say, our Afghanistan adventure.
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"content": "Bryan, Our military budget is getting near a trillion a year so aid to Israel is not only a drop in the bucket it’s a good investment. And a downright bargain compared to, say, our Afghanistan adventure.\n",
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Tim Thumb Your suggestions are great during the prime earning years, but what about retirement? In retirement, we had trouble shifting from a saving mentality to a spending mindset and we were still invested 90% in equities and 10% in private placement. The planner we have now balanced our portfolio with bonds, calculated how much we could withdraw without depleting our accounts and manages our portfolio for maximum tax advantage. He's also managing a separate "legacy" account for money we'd like to leave to charities. It's a bargain for clarity and peace of mind I didn't need in my working and saving years.
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"content": "Tim Thumb Your suggestions are great during the prime earning years, but what about retirement? In retirement, we had trouble shifting from a saving mentality to a spending mindset and we were still invested 90% in equities and 10% in private placement. The planner we have now balanced our portfolio with bonds, calculated how much we could withdraw without depleting our accounts and manages our portfolio for maximum tax advantage. He's also managing a separate \"legacy\" account for money we'd like to leave to charities. It's a bargain for clarity and peace of mind I didn't need in my working and saving years.\n",
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If I remember correctly, the former Virginia Electric and Power Co. had spent over $250 million on a pumped storage project in the 1970s before it was learned that the storage reservoir wouldn't hold water. Oops.
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Ann It's pure racism and Edsall knows it more than any of us.But he wouldn't say it.Rural America is made up of 99.99% white Christians. They hate-with a passion-all non-white Christians. The hated liberal states of CA, MA, and NY give 3.8 dollars for every one dollar they contribute to the federal budget. But instead of appreciation, they hate us.Are we supposed to apologize for having high-quality education and good-paying jobs?Has anyone ever wondered why this is not a problem in France or Germany?You go visit the countryside in southern France or Bavaria in Germany and see how they respect and actually admire fellow citizens who live in Paris or Hamburg.
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"content": "Ann It's pure racism and Edsall knows it more than any of us.But he wouldn't say it.Rural America is made up of 99.99% white Christians. They hate-with a passion-all non-white Christians. The hated liberal states of CA, MA, and NY give 3.8 dollars for every one dollar they contribute to the federal budget. But instead of appreciation, they hate us.Are we supposed to apologize for having high-quality education and good-paying jobs?Has anyone ever wondered why this is not a problem in France or Germany?You go visit the countryside in southern France or Bavaria in Germany and see how they respect and actually admire fellow citizens who live in Paris or Hamburg.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,649 |
it's not the price gouging that's causing inflation, it's those jerk Americans with their savings accounts... please. The ruling corporate class won't be happy until they suck every dollar out of every American that they can find, forcing us into debt and a new form of serfdom and the Federal government pretty much supports that. How about taxes on windfall profits? How about investigations into price fixing and cartel operations? Maybe we could break up some of these massive corporations and create a real market with actual competition. No? some poor banker might make 3.2 million a year instead of 3.5 million and the fed can't have that, got it.
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| no | Classification | 664 |
Over the years, we have read about all of the expensive, sophisticated weapons systems that are gladly funded by Congress and are produced by corporations that fund their political campaigns, in spite of the fact that those systems are always way over budget, always delayed by many years, can't support their assigned missions, are down too long for maintenance, have poor inventory support, and are constantly requiring software and hardware changes -- because they can't perform their intended purpose.If we have learned anything from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it is that he U.S. and [particularly] its NATO allies are not prepared to protect themselves if a war should break out -- because of the serious lack of manpower and equipment. The military is not a priority in Canada and Europe. And the defense industries prefer to reap the huge profits from expensive never-ending projects that often cannot perform their assigned missions and whose costs no one ever properly audits. Money trumps patriotism in the conjoined world of defense industries and Congress.
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"content": "Over the years, we have read about all of the expensive, sophisticated weapons systems that are gladly funded by Congress and are produced by corporations that fund their political campaigns, in spite of the fact that those systems are always way over budget, always delayed by many years, can't support their assigned missions, are down too long for maintenance, have poor inventory support, and are constantly requiring software and hardware changes -- because they can't perform their intended purpose.If we have learned anything from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it is that he U.S. and [particularly] its NATO allies are not prepared to protect themselves if a war should break out -- because of the serious lack of manpower and equipment. The military is not a priority in Canada and Europe. And the defense industries prefer to reap the huge profits from expensive never-ending projects that often cannot perform their assigned missions and whose costs no one ever properly audits. Money trumps patriotism in the conjoined world of defense industries and Congress.\n",
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DB I'll take "Citations for That?" for $400, Alex.You can't just make blanket statements and not bother to at least say what you're basing them on. In reality, you're basing it on hysterical misinformation, not on scientific literature.
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Alan Yungclas Their goal is to attack SSI and medicare while passing tax cuts for the rich.This is what they did with Obama. Under no circumstances should democrats compromise. Our voters will hold you accountable. Moderates like Sinema and Manchin that are celebrated could have assisted us in bypassing all this nonsense by raising the ceiling. They could have also passed expanding voter protections and ending gerrymandering which would have given us a democratic house. Moderates did not and assisted republicans so here we are. How is the incrementalism going folks. Enjoying your SSI and Medicare being targeted yet? And nearly every other social safety net? While they try and tack in a corporate tax cut is my guess.If the moderates want to cut SSI and Medicare by all means stand with republicans to do so while rewarding this bad behavior of thermal nuclear economic destruction. And ask yourselves, what will the media defend?So Wall Street funds a group of morons that threaten thermal nuclear economic destruction. Really tired of this idiocy. Pay your taxes dudes. And media do a better job.
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"content": "Alan Yungclas Their goal is to attack SSI and medicare while passing tax cuts for the rich.This is what they did with Obama. Under no circumstances should democrats compromise. Our voters will hold you accountable. Moderates like Sinema and Manchin that are celebrated could have assisted us in bypassing all this nonsense by raising the ceiling. They could have also passed expanding voter protections and ending gerrymandering which would have given us a democratic house. Moderates did not and assisted republicans so here we are. How is the incrementalism going folks. Enjoying your SSI and Medicare being targeted yet? And nearly every other social safety net? While they try and tack in a corporate tax cut is my guess.If the moderates want to cut SSI and Medicare by all means stand with republicans to do so while rewarding this bad behavior of thermal nuclear economic destruction. And ask yourselves, what will the media defend?So Wall Street funds a group of morons that threaten thermal nuclear economic destruction. Really tired of this idiocy. Pay your taxes dudes. And media do a better job.\n",
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The studio actually seems the most spacious with the best use of space. Unfortunately, it reminds me of an apartment I rented in Los Angeles when I was in graduate school. My front door literally opened onto the sidewalk on Sunset Blvd. To have a constant flow of humanity at your doorstep and passing by inches from your front window occasionally banging on or bumping into it is indeed unnerving.
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Peter In most states, a CBC can also be done by patients themselves through LabCorp or Quest, and on-line ordering services. Costs about $75 for CBC + Vit D, about $40 for just CBC.It can be useful to have a record of "normal labs" so that when something occurs people know it's not normal. For example, CRP in someone with a long exercise history can rise 10-fold and still be "in the normal range," so inflammatory problems might be missed if we're just comparing the number to the range for a "normal patient."
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The libraries budget for NYC is only $400 million. To put that into perspective, that's about half of what the NYPD paid out in just overtime in 2022. NYPD who went about $500 million over budget (probably more) for overtime, despite being told to reign it in. This tells us everything we need to know about Adams and his priorities and his preferred city workers.
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"content": "The libraries budget for NYC is only $400 million. To put that into perspective, that's about half of what the NYPD paid out in just overtime in 2022. NYPD who went about $500 million over budget (probably more) for overtime, despite being told to reign it in. This tells us everything we need to know about Adams and his priorities and his preferred city workers.\n",
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Michael H McCarthy and almost all Republicans voted for the $113B aid to Ukraine, a staggering amount. If Ukraine was a US state, it will receive more federal funding than 40 US states. 90% of all military aid to Ukraine is by the US. There's little else the US can do other than directly get involved and start WW3.
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charles I always laugh when I hear fans complaining about big salaries. First, there are very few players making these gigantic paydays. Second the average professional baseball player's career is very short. Most are out of a job by age 27 or so. Third I have yet to witness a player holding a gun to an owner's head and say pay me a gigantic salary. Fourth, the owners split the enormous TV revenue that helps enable these salaries.The hidden truth is virtually every owner is playing the long game regarding finances. George Steinbrenner paid about $10 million for the Yankees circa 1973 and now they're worth about $4 billion. You do the math on that rate of return.
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"content": "charles I always laugh when I hear fans complaining about big salaries. First, there are very few players making these gigantic paydays. Second the average professional baseball player's career is very short. Most are out of a job by age 27 or so. Third I have yet to witness a player holding a gun to an owner's head and say pay me a gigantic salary. Fourth, the owners split the enormous TV revenue that helps enable these salaries.The hidden truth is virtually every owner is playing the long game regarding finances. George Steinbrenner paid about $10 million for the Yankees circa 1973 and now they're worth about $4 billion. You do the math on that rate of return.\n",
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As weird as it sounds I am very afraid of the automotive industry to act like Big Tech. For instance: after 3 years you will still be able to drive the car but the A/C will not be available anymore. After 5 years the heating. And the windows will not open.. You get the idea.
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Hugh Mac Toirdealbhach -Charge $10,000 for each bullet sold. And use the money to repair the lives of the people harmed by these senseless killings. Swords into plowshares.
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"content": "Hugh Mac Toirdealbhach -Charge $10,000 for each bullet sold. And use the money to repair the lives of the people harmed by these senseless killings. Swords into plowshares.\n",
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If you want to be an emergency medicine physician for children you do a pediatrics residency and then a fellowship for the ED. They thank you by paying the peds ER docs with less pay than straight up ED docs. Pediatric hematologist pay in Boston $90,000. Years tied up with debt and postponement of pay hoping to help kids with leukemia and thats the reward. Stop talking about the do tors greed and focus on private equity in medicine and insurance companies
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Yes, the Supreme Court’s announcement that it “will return to their prepandemic practice of announcing their decisions in open court” should be welcomed by all. But it by no means diminishes the extraordinary damage that the Roberts' Court has done to the nation’s judicial system and, more generally, American democratic values and practices. The Court’s conservative majority is not only disdainful of judicial precedents and norms but also wildly out-of-step with 21st century America. Providing an additional avenue to hear what the Justices have to say is welcomed but only to the extent that it will further expose the majority’s radical agenda that appears to be designed to help achieve ultra-conservative goals that remain largely out-of-reach at the ballot box (unless, of course, the electoral process can be rigged through Court-approved political gerrymandering and Court-sanctioned corporate funding for political campaigns). So, yes, public presentations by the Court are welcomed. But the decisions rendered by the Court’s conservative majority has permanently undermined public confidence and respect for the institution. This Court is beyond redemption regardless of whether or not the Justices choose to speak more forthrightly in public. The only way forward is to institute fundamental reforms that diminish the conservative majority's ill-begotten stranglehold on the Court and that increase the number of Justices so that more voices can be heard.
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Increases in Federal debt should be for something like the Covid epidemic, or serious economic downturn, and not for everyday expenditures. On the latter Raise Taxes to pay for these.Dr. Krugman is the expert-- and the acknowledged expert. On macro advice, just as in other economic investment advice, shouldn't he be acknowledging that the future may not be like the past?On rising healthcare costs, we pay up to an additional 30% for private based health insurance. Countries with single payer pay 5%--a lot of room for savings here.
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"content": "Increases in Federal debt should be for something like the Covid epidemic, or serious economic downturn, and not for everyday expenditures. On the latter Raise Taxes to pay for these.Dr. Krugman is the expert-- and the acknowledged expert. On macro advice, just as in other economic investment advice, shouldn't he be acknowledging that the future may not be like the past?On rising healthcare costs, we pay up to an additional 30% for private based health insurance. Countries with single payer pay 5%--a lot of room for savings here.\n",
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The Constitution actually has two places where it stipulates federal debt must be paid. In addition to the 14th Amendment, there is the original Article VI, which stipulated that the Revolutionary war debt be paid: "All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation."Paying our debts is literally a Foundational Principle, invoked AFTER our two most existential wars: the Revolution that allowed the country to come into existence, and the Civil War that nearly tore it apart.Compared to those crisis', today's Congress has it easy. Just pay the debt already incurred, and then, if Congress really wants to try it, pass bills limiting spending on Social Security, Medicare, or Defense - the biggest items after interest on the debt. It would be interesting to see Republicans try that, since the first two are the things much of their older base depends upon to survive.
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This is the second comment I've seen by an emergency medicine practitioner hobbled by these clauses. Color me ignorant but I had never realized the greed of for-profit medicine extended so far as to actually prevent those able to literally save people's lives from doing so elsewhere if it wasn't going to make their employers money. How utterly atrocious, where is our humanity? Thank goodness I've learned this information in the context of active measures being taken to abolish such a disgusting practice. And thank you and all others who still choose to use their lives to serve others over the dollar. Karma would be one of these fat cat medical execs having a health crisis with the only EMT around not being legally free to treat them, tho they still wouldn't be denied that help as such admirable people value what is right over personal risk or gain. Past time for our society to realign our values and reward virtue, or at the very least stop disdaining and taking advantage of those who dare to care for others in the land that worships individual Wealth and Success above all.
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Pan Over $6.5 million in cash compensation alone for chief executive! Something is very wrong with that picture.
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Why no mention of Microsoft’s all-in investment in A.I.?
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Housing and Rents skyrocketed 40% between 2020-21.This was not a monetary phenomenon as mathematically the price increase can't explain the pop in prices.The marginal buyers, and price setters, are a matter of public record - private equity and asset management companies holding residential real estate and multifamily assets in real estate investment trusts (REITs).After the FTX crypto exchange blew up, investors in at least 3 private REITs - Blackstone's BREIT, Starwood's SREIT, and KKR's KREF had to stop redemption requests given the billions requested from the private funds. These private funds are marked to market at about 35% above publicly traded REITs.Blackstone claims their private funds that are marked internally have outperformed the public REIT sector, with low volatility and low correlation. This is going into Bernie Madoff territory.The lower volatility and correlation are operational. Given they took $4.5 billion in new investments from UC Investments at a 25% of principal backstop, there is nothing to substantiate their marketing statements. The brag in BREIT December 2022 marketing material that they have raised rents at 300% of inflation. Now they are planning for the crypto tokenization of real estate assets using opaque decentralized autonomous organizations outside of the financial system. They have turned shadow banking into Web3 crypto banking - profiting at the expense of tens of millions of citizens.
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"content": "Housing and Rents skyrocketed 40% between 2020-21.This was not a monetary phenomenon as mathematically the price increase can't explain the pop in prices.The marginal buyers, and price setters, are a matter of public record - private equity and asset management companies holding residential real estate and multifamily assets in real estate investment trusts (REITs).After the FTX crypto exchange blew up, investors in at least 3 private REITs - Blackstone's BREIT, Starwood's SREIT, and KKR's KREF had to stop redemption requests given the billions requested from the private funds. These private funds are marked to market at about 35% above publicly traded REITs.Blackstone claims their private funds that are marked internally have outperformed the public REIT sector, with low volatility and low correlation. This is going into Bernie Madoff territory.The lower volatility and correlation are operational. Given they took $4.5 billion in new investments from UC Investments at a 25% of principal backstop, there is nothing to substantiate their marketing statements. The brag in BREIT December 2022 marketing material that they have raised rents at 300% of inflation. Now they are planning for the crypto tokenization of real estate assets using opaque decentralized autonomous organizations outside of the financial system. They have turned shadow banking into Web3 crypto banking - profiting at the expense of tens of millions of citizens.\n",
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clare bee and any others who care:a Guide to Searching the Comments to Spelling Bee and sharing specific threads.Direct your browser to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/spelling-bee-forum" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/spelling-bee-forum</a>and select the date you want (there is very invitingly a search tab there, ignore it for now) Or edit the URL <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/crosswords/spelling-bee-forum.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/crosswords/spelling-bee-forum.html</a> with the desired date--Select the comments either through the 💬 just on top of Bee photo or at the bottom of the page click on Read xxx comments.--The comments will normally open in the Readers Picks Tab, click on the tab that says All instead.--Now start scrolling down and down, the page does not load (=it is not available for searching) all at once. --Once you reach the end, you can go up slowly and open any thread with many answers, by clicking on "View All Replies" until each thread is open.-- now use whatever Find function is available to you. For example in a PC use Control-F will, in a Mac, Command- aka Butterfly-F. In IOS devices such as iPhone and iPads you will need to click on the share button (a square with an up arrow) and find and select the command Find on Page.—You will now have a box to search in, enter the word or words, it will return the number of hits and you will be able to move from one to the next with the arrows[continues in replies posts are limited to 1500 characters]
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Using Google Maps, the section of rail that goes over the bay is about a mile long with perhaps another 2 miles on one side and 1/2 on the other, $20 million could have a pretty nice bike/walking trail. I realize that it's not easy but ....
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Now that all money will no longer funnel to colleges, and thus no longer a cash cow in the eyes of administrators, this may just happen! I wouldn’t be surprised if this opens a path to a junior league with teams recruiting out of high school. Athletes would probably prefer this. Coaches would be fine as they would transition over.
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The Republicans in the House and many in the Senate (looking at you Ron Johnson) seem to believe their own lies — and are now acting in that belief. The bill to roll back IRS funding, which would increase the deficit by $100 billion and reward law breakers (and campaign contributors) was the first indication that legislation from McCarthy’s House will be untethered from reality. This new “investigative” committee is just another step down that delusional road. Hopefully, there will be no permanent damage, but the slope is getting ever more slippery. The US has nothing to fear from China or Russia; we continue to hold the face cards internationally, now and most likely for at least the balance of this century. The US’s Achilles heel is within our own country, among those who would divide us, who ignore real problems and facts, and who yearn to return to a past that never was. As we saw at the opening of this Congress, the extremists in the Republican Party want to “win” at any cost, including the cost of a functioning government of a Constitutional representative democracy. 2024 will be a VERY important election, up and down the ballot.
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The issue is, people want software to be free and open source, but want someone else to do the coding for them. There should be government grant programs for people to release open source libraries. If they give out research grants, there should no reason why the government shouldn't be giving out open source software grants.
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DaveNot bad as a void-filling ploy! A few penny memories from my childhood (pre-coin collecting days):1. Putting pennies on railroad tracks and watching them get squished into twice their size.2. The excitement of seeing the Lincoln Memorial replace the wheat stalks on the reverse side in 1959.3. Frequently finding those steel pennies that were minted in 1943 due to wartime shortages of copper.4. The day that I found a 1955 double-die penny in change, pointed out the weird-looking doubled image of the date to the proprietor of the corner grocery store, and proceeded to pay for a piece of bubble gum with it. (I remember the grocer taking a keen interest in the penny, which today is worth upwards of $2,000.)
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"content": "DaveNot bad as a void-filling ploy! A few penny memories from my childhood (pre-coin collecting days):1. Putting pennies on railroad tracks and watching them get squished into twice their size.2. The excitement of seeing the Lincoln Memorial replace the wheat stalks on the reverse side in 1959.3. Frequently finding those steel pennies that were minted in 1943 due to wartime shortages of copper.4. The day that I found a 1955 double-die penny in change, pointed out the weird-looking doubled image of the date to the proprietor of the corner grocery store, and proceeded to pay for a piece of bubble gum with it. (I remember the grocer taking a keen interest in the penny, which today is worth upwards of $2,000.)\n",
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Bob McBobbybob In fairness, she did reference Jan 6th.As for covid deaths, if you remember, during the time that Trump was minimising the virus, decisions were made both in the UK and US to empty hospitals and release elderly to care homes without first testing negative for covid. These decisions were made by Democrats as well as Republicans. The first year of the Pandemic, at least half of deaths were in nursing homes. As far as 'saving' the lives of nursing home residents, this cohort has a very limited life expectancy in any case. Care homes are liminal spaces, occupying that zone between the quick and the dead. And no one wants their care home days extended anyway. What for? To die of dementia? I despise Trump, just to be clear.
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"content": "Bob McBobbybob In fairness, she did reference Jan 6th.As for covid deaths, if you remember, during the time that Trump was minimising the virus, decisions were made both in the UK and US to empty hospitals and release elderly to care homes without first testing negative for covid. These decisions were made by Democrats as well as Republicans. The first year of the Pandemic, at least half of deaths were in nursing homes. As far as 'saving' the lives of nursing home residents, this cohort has a very limited life expectancy in any case. Care homes are liminal spaces, occupying that zone between the quick and the dead. And no one wants their care home days extended anyway. What for? To die of dementia? I despise Trump, just to be clear.\n",
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Agreed. I find it nothing short of appalling how we put so little value on nursing in American society relative to the value placed on those wizards of high finance receiving millions of dollars in annual bonuses for playing with other people's money. (And it doesn't seem to matter that they under-perform in the process.). As with most things, political will is the missing ingredient. Until we elect leaders that care more about the average working person than the billionaires who finance their campaigns, probably nothing much will improve.
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"content": "Agreed. I find it nothing short of appalling how we put so little value on nursing in American society relative to the value placed on those wizards of high finance receiving millions of dollars in annual bonuses for playing with other people's money. (And it doesn't seem to matter that they under-perform in the process.). As with most things, political will is the missing ingredient. Until we elect leaders that care more about the average working person than the billionaires who finance their campaigns, probably nothing much will improve.\n",
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As an older millennial who graduated with >$100k from undergrad, I really feel for everyone in this article but also want to tell them that even if it doesn't feel like it, you're all doing really well!The stress of my ~$1,100/month loan payment made me way better with money than my friends without them. They also gave me the motivation to make a plan to pay them off, and made me completely unabashed about asking for raises (tip: it's easier to ask for really big-to-you amounts over email :) ). Remember: your employment is an exchange between you and your company, and you should always feel like you're getting the better end of the deal. Don't feel bad about that. Your company does not care about you and will try to take as much for you as possible. Don't let them!But really: you are doing great. Missing a few years of contributing to a 401k or Roth IRA is no big deal. The people who lecture you about not saving enough are on a different planet and completely unaware that they've most likely lucked (through family history, generational wealth, etc) into their good financial standing. A lot of the "finfluencers" you see on Instagram and TikTok never had loans and their parents helped with rent when they were your age (facts). You will make more money in the future. You will get through it. And when you do, you'll be sitting *pretty*. Stay strong and sending love!
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Prof. Tufekci has obviously chosen to support poor Harry and Meghan against the terrible Royal Family, especially Camilla whose estate adjoins that of Piers Morgan. (For someone not interested in celebrities, Prof. Tufekci is certainly well-informed!) I quite agree that Harry and Meghan should call for the abolition of the British monarchy which is in cahoots with the racist tabloids. Oh wait, H and M don't want to renounce their titles or abolish the monarchy because then their media empire based on their victimization by King Charlie, Camilla, Prince Willy and Kate would lose its raison d'être. H and M just want the Royal Family to apologize and beg for forgiveness. Of course, H and M obviously have nothing to apologize for themselves because they are great victims. We know this because they have monetized their victimhood to the tune of 100 million dollars and counting!
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"content": "Prof. Tufekci has obviously chosen to support poor Harry and Meghan against the terrible Royal Family, especially Camilla whose estate adjoins that of Piers Morgan. (For someone not interested in celebrities, Prof. Tufekci is certainly well-informed!) I quite agree that Harry and Meghan should call for the abolition of the British monarchy which is in cahoots with the racist tabloids. Oh wait, H and M don't want to renounce their titles or abolish the monarchy because then their media empire based on their victimization by King Charlie, Camilla, Prince Willy and Kate would lose its raison d'être. H and M just want the Royal Family to apologize and beg for forgiveness. Of course, H and M obviously have nothing to apologize for themselves because they are great victims. We know this because they have monetized their victimhood to the tune of 100 million dollars and counting!\n",
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