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Sure- Dems would like credit so we can continue to govern in a way that demonstrates that we care for everyone- not just ourselves. But telling those we support that we deserve credit seldom works. We are barking up the wrong tree.Better to build relationships with our neighbors and work together to solve problems based on upstream issues. Take child anxiety, mental illness and behavior problems. Start with a good diet. Provide breakfast and lunch with fresh unprocessed food in schools and watch 50% of the problems melt away. Don't believe me? Look at the Appleton WI case study.Take the Fentanyl crisis. 100,000 deaths and $1 Trillion in tax payer dollars per year. Think about the lives and $ we'd save if we decriminalized all drugs, provide safe havens for drug user coupled with programs to support jobs, housing and trauma work. We'd put the cartels out of business. Oh look- one of the immigration issues solved without a war.Take unwanted pregnancies. Instead of abortion debates, look to giving support to young people for ways to prevent pregnancies or the responsibilities of parenthood. Start with the easier issues and work up to the tougher ones once you have trust and compassion for each other.
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"content": "Sure- Dems would like credit so we can continue to govern in a way that demonstrates that we care for everyone- not just ourselves. But telling those we support that we deserve credit seldom works. We are barking up the wrong tree.Better to build relationships with our neighbors and work together to solve problems based on upstream issues. Take child anxiety, mental illness and behavior problems. Start with a good diet. Provide breakfast and lunch with fresh unprocessed food in schools and watch 50% of the problems melt away. Don't believe me? Look at the Appleton WI case study.Take the Fentanyl crisis. 100,000 deaths and $1 Trillion in tax payer dollars per year. Think about the lives and $ we'd save if we decriminalized all drugs, provide safe havens for drug user coupled with programs to support jobs, housing and trauma work. We'd put the cartels out of business. Oh look- one of the immigration issues solved without a war.Take unwanted pregnancies. Instead of abortion debates, look to giving support to young people for ways to prevent pregnancies or the responsibilities of parenthood. Start with the easier issues and work up to the tougher ones once you have trust and compassion for each other.\n",
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Fascinating, particularly the notion of the reiterative effect whereby (if I understand things correctly) AI can create and instill archetypes in the collective human consciousness. But is it all that different from films in general and how they may affect the way we write, think, and perceive? The advent of cinema was the opening of a Pandora's Box on human cognition. We cannot not think in its terms. As a thought experiment, I wonder how the writing (and therefore thinking) of someone who'd never seen a film might be different in the construction of the narrative, plot, relationships, speech, etc. Were I younger and in search of a topic to research for a degree in rhetoric or something similar, this is what I'd look into.
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"content": "Fascinating, particularly the notion of the reiterative effect whereby (if I understand things correctly) AI can create and instill archetypes in the collective human consciousness. But is it all that different from films in general and how they may affect the way we write, think, and perceive? The advent of cinema was the opening of a Pandora's Box on human cognition. We cannot not think in its terms. As a thought experiment, I wonder how the writing (and therefore thinking) of someone who'd never seen a film might be different in the construction of the narrative, plot, relationships, speech, etc. Were I younger and in search of a topic to research for a degree in rhetoric or something similar, this is what I'd look into.\n",
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Here's a thought: Overturn the ruling on Citizens United. Get dark money, including foreign influence, out of the coffers of our elected officials. France limits presidential candidates' spending to $25 million, and requires that only half of campaign money can come from private donors; the rest is funded by the State. Corporate and trade union donations are illegal. But wait, there's more at the link. In other words, there are better ways to achieve democracy. <a href="https://thefulcrum.us/Elections/Campaign-Finance/money-in-politics" target="_blank">https://thefulcrum.us/Elections/Campaign-Finance/money-in-politics</a>
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It's a bad thing when a student uses AI to write an essay, it's a very bad thing when they use AI to solve problems in, say, engineering classes. Do you really want to drive over bridges or be in buildings designed by cheaters? Are you comfortable with your high tech car being designed by a cheater? Do you trust cheaters to send rockets into orbit? Do you trust a cheater doing your open heart surgery? What if the FDA, CDC, FAA, and NTSB were staffed by cheaters? Do you feel a cheater might make a competent lawyer or judge? Do you want your kids educated by cheaters?
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"content": "It's a bad thing when a student uses AI to write an essay, it's a very bad thing when they use AI to solve problems in, say, engineering classes. Do you really want to drive over bridges or be in buildings designed by cheaters? Are you comfortable with your high tech car being designed by a cheater? Do you trust cheaters to send rockets into orbit? Do you trust a cheater doing your open heart surgery? What if the FDA, CDC, FAA, and NTSB were staffed by cheaters? Do you feel a cheater might make a competent lawyer or judge? Do you want your kids educated by cheaters?\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,834 |
This is heart-rending. And we shouldn’t forget the children starving in Afghanistan because the US refuses to return over 7 billion dollars belonging to that country where we fought 20 years of war for the benefit of America’s weapons industry, or the children starving in Yemen where the US sends weapons and support to the Saudis in order to keep a murderous civil war with children as its most tragic victims raging.
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| no | Classification | 1,462 |
Can somebody please remind me how many trademarks in China President Biden helped to obtain for Hunter?Can somebody please remind me who of the Biden family got 2B$ from Saudi's for doing nothing?Can somebody please help me to remember in which Biden hotels the official delegations to the US are sleeping and eating and spending at the bar?And so on and so forth.Looking forwards to Gym's questioning.
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"content": "Can somebody please remind me how many trademarks in China President Biden helped to obtain for Hunter?Can somebody please remind me who of the Biden family got 2B$ from Saudi's for doing nothing?Can somebody please help me to remember in which Biden hotels the official delegations to the US are sleeping and eating and spending at the bar?And so on and so forth.Looking forwards to Gym's questioning.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,446 |
Bill Clinton cancelled the SSC in 1993 and thereby retarded elementary-partial physics by decades. The LHC will never be what the SSC would have been in 2000. Trillions for wars and weapons, much less for social welfare, and virtually nothing for science and education.
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"content": "Bill Clinton cancelled the SSC in 1993 and thereby retarded elementary-partial physics by decades. The LHC will never be what the SSC would have been in 2000. Trillions for wars and weapons, much less for social welfare, and virtually nothing for science and education.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,238 |
In 2012 about the time the Economist came out with their Brazil will take over the UK as the 5th largest economy coverI I met my pretty well connected future Brazilian attorney brother in Law. I was waxing poetic considering some investments in his São Paulo condo. As I read the highlights he couldn’t stop laughing and said why do so much of the Brazilian middle class want to emigrate. later my sister asked what did you say to scare my brother.The lusosphere is a unique group of cultures. Low expectations, low political involvement, and a broad point of view that can best be summed up as ethical relativism. As an example try finding some one to buy your house if you insist on putting the actual sales price on the tax documents.What I have seen is corruption is rampant on both the left and the right. A scandal some years ago showed many female politicians of both stripes were collecting the child family purse credit while serving as sitting members of Congress. If I have a gripe with the left they are less likely to see the corruption in their own party.I was talking to a respected professor of international business and remarked it just seems with their protectionism, vast reserves of forests, minerals, gas and Oil that the country should have a higher standard of living across the board. His comment even accounting for 10 per cent corruption, Brazil with a Western European style Judiciary, values, and efficiency should be the Australia of South America.
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"content": "In 2012 about the time the Economist came out with their Brazil will take over the UK as the 5th largest economy coverI I met my pretty well connected future Brazilian attorney brother in Law. I was waxing poetic considering some investments in his São Paulo condo. As I read the highlights he couldn’t stop laughing and said why do so much of the Brazilian middle class want to emigrate. later my sister asked what did you say to scare my brother.The lusosphere is a unique group of cultures. Low expectations, low political involvement, and a broad point of view that can best be summed up as ethical relativism. As an example try finding some one to buy your house if you insist on putting the actual sales price on the tax documents.What I have seen is corruption is rampant on both the left and the right. A scandal some years ago showed many female politicians of both stripes were collecting the child family purse credit while serving as sitting members of Congress. If I have a gripe with the left they are less likely to see the corruption in their own party.I was talking to a respected professor of international business and remarked it just seems with their protectionism, vast reserves of forests, minerals, gas and Oil that the country should have a higher standard of living across the board. His comment even accounting for 10 per cent corruption, Brazil with a Western European style Judiciary, values, and efficiency should be the Australia of South America.\n",
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channa I lived in Canada and loved their healthcare system. Yes, there are waits, but at least you will get in and you will be able to have healthcare. You forgot the mention the "waits" Americans have. Wait for a job with coverage. Wait until open enrollment, wait until you get married and will have spousal coverage, wait until you are poor enough for Medicaid. Wait until you are old enough for Medicare. Wait until you die first in many cases. Your 3-4 week wait is a non issue comparatively.
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"content": "channa I lived in Canada and loved their healthcare system. Yes, there are waits, but at least you will get in and you will be able to have healthcare. You forgot the mention the \"waits\" Americans have. Wait for a job with coverage. Wait until open enrollment, wait until you get married and will have spousal coverage, wait until you are poor enough for Medicaid. Wait until you are old enough for Medicare. Wait until you die first in many cases. Your 3-4 week wait is a non issue comparatively.\n",
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SC Can anyone control these two? Clearly not. What some will do, or not, for a few $100 million.
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"content": "SC Can anyone control these two? Clearly not. What some will do, or not, for a few $100 million.\n",
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Mike S Reality is that the growth of the deficit over the past 20+ years is simply not sustainable and it is a MAJOR problem facing the government. The solution is not to shut down the government but to solve the problem.The only practical solution is to increase taxes and control spending and yes indeed, there are hard choices. If they are not voluntarily made, they will be made when US faces a debt crises. Back in 2011, President Obama received the results of his own appointed commission, Simpson-Bowles and they gave him a recommendation. Back then, an equal number of Dems and Republicans supported the recommendations but it fell just one short of being sent automatically to Congress for a vote. Unfortunately, President Obama did not get behind the proposal and it died. Since 2011, US debt has more than double, $31 trillion and 123% of debt in relation to GDP. The notion that either party is willing to take the necessary steps to get their arms around the deficit is bogus.
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"content": "Mike S Reality is that the growth of the deficit over the past 20+ years is simply not sustainable and it is a MAJOR problem facing the government. The solution is not to shut down the government but to solve the problem.The only practical solution is to increase taxes and control spending and yes indeed, there are hard choices. If they are not voluntarily made, they will be made when US faces a debt crises. Back in 2011, President Obama received the results of his own appointed commission, Simpson-Bowles and they gave him a recommendation. Back then, an equal number of Dems and Republicans supported the recommendations but it fell just one short of being sent automatically to Congress for a vote. Unfortunately, President Obama did not get behind the proposal and it died. Since 2011, US debt has more than double, $31 trillion and 123% of debt in relation to GDP. The notion that either party is willing to take the necessary steps to get their arms around the deficit is bogus.\n",
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Jim Yes, they were a delight to watch, even from the cheap seats, which cost $4.00. To see the best basketball on the planet, where ball movement to the open man for a jump shot or easy layup and defense reigned supreme.It's sad that such teamwork is absent from the current NBA.
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"content": "Jim Yes, they were a delight to watch, even from the cheap seats, which cost $4.00. To see the best basketball on the planet, where ball movement to the open man for a jump shot or easy layup and defense reigned supreme.It's sad that such teamwork is absent from the current NBA.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,843 |
Democrats will do well to not yield to this Republican murder-suicide pact. If the GOP is serious about the debt limit it should be open to tax increases and making adequate resources available to the IRS to collect delinquent taxes. Proposing unrealistic budget cuts and threatening the full faith and credit of the United States are not actions in good faith.
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This analysis is quite interesting, but one major point I find missing is the active courting of evangelicals in the Republican Party. In order to keep them happy, beginning with Reagan, the GOP has enthusiastically supported anti-woman legislation. Abortion rights, forget it. ERA, no way. School prayer - great idea! "Moral Majority"! "Family values" (at least those espoused and practiced by the Trump family are only exterior design). And then we have Nixon's delightful "Southern Strategy", which spoke to the basest racist instincts in many people. It is no coincidence that Reagan opened his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi to appeal directly to that base, using "states' rights" as a code word for "racism is OK".I grew up in a Republican family, similar to those of David and Bret, in Connecticut in the 70's and 80's. I even voted for Jerry Ford in my first presidential election, convinced that he was the better candidate. When Reagan appeared, I know there was no room for me in the party, and I changed my registration to "D".Although I moved abroad, I watched my sister and my mother move to the Democrats as well, and the GOP has basically died out in the northeast. Maybe there should be a new party, socially liberal and fiscally conservative. There is a need for it, but I fear that the GOP is just too wacky to evolve.
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"content": "This analysis is quite interesting, but one major point I find missing is the active courting of evangelicals in the Republican Party. In order to keep them happy, beginning with Reagan, the GOP has enthusiastically supported anti-woman legislation. Abortion rights, forget it. ERA, no way. School prayer - great idea! \"Moral Majority\"! \"Family values\" (at least those espoused and practiced by the Trump family are only exterior design). And then we have Nixon's delightful \"Southern Strategy\", which spoke to the basest racist instincts in many people. It is no coincidence that Reagan opened his campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi to appeal directly to that base, using \"states' rights\" as a code word for \"racism is OK\".I grew up in a Republican family, similar to those of David and Bret, in Connecticut in the 70's and 80's. I even voted for Jerry Ford in my first presidential election, convinced that he was the better candidate. When Reagan appeared, I know there was no room for me in the party, and I changed my registration to \"D\".Although I moved abroad, I watched my sister and my mother move to the Democrats as well, and the GOP has basically died out in the northeast. Maybe there should be a new party, socially liberal and fiscally conservative. There is a need for it, but I fear that the GOP is just too wacky to evolve.\n",
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I think around here, the solution isn't to widen the road, but to re-engineer the existing road. I-95 through Fairfield & New Haven Counties literally has an on/off ramp every mile. Stamford has grown and is now the second largest city in the state. It's also the most miserable city on Earth to drive in (worse than Boston or NYC in my opinion). Some of the ramps need to be closed. Metro North needs to run faster. A lot of the complaints people have that they say leads to them driving is that the train is simply too slow and even with traffic they can drive faster. The train is also no bargain because in many communities, even if the train fare is inexpensive, the parking at the stations is ridiculously expensive. And to commute into NYC? From my town, you're talking about $324 a month for a train pass that doesn't even include a subway pass if you need to connect, and $105 a month to park at the station if you are lucky enough to have a permit. If you don't, it's $12 a day, which comes out to $240 a month if you assume 4 weeks at 5 days a piece. If you want people off the roads, you can't do this. It becomes cheaper to drive. This is the REAL reason why people in this area are so reluctant to return to office.
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"content": "I think around here, the solution isn't to widen the road, but to re-engineer the existing road. I-95 through Fairfield & New Haven Counties literally has an on/off ramp every mile. Stamford has grown and is now the second largest city in the state. It's also the most miserable city on Earth to drive in (worse than Boston or NYC in my opinion). Some of the ramps need to be closed. Metro North needs to run faster. A lot of the complaints people have that they say leads to them driving is that the train is simply too slow and even with traffic they can drive faster. The train is also no bargain because in many communities, even if the train fare is inexpensive, the parking at the stations is ridiculously expensive. And to commute into NYC? From my town, you're talking about $324 a month for a train pass that doesn't even include a subway pass if you need to connect, and $105 a month to park at the station if you are lucky enough to have a permit. If you don't, it's $12 a day, which comes out to $240 a month if you assume 4 weeks at 5 days a piece. If you want people off the roads, you can't do this. It becomes cheaper to drive. This is the REAL reason why people in this area are so reluctant to return to office.\n",
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William Meyers - "push" the population to a billion or so? Without resorting to murder, that's several hundred years, and your chosen number really needs justification, since we can operate much of life more cleanly now by not letting polluters just pick places and pollute - the Cuyahoga hasn't caught fire in so long people may forget that was a thing, for example.Regarding the mine, environmentalists can look at other open-pit hard rock mines and consider the acid that's generated when exposing underground sulfides (the rock at the Pebble site has a lot) to water.So they're talking about crushing millions of tons of rock, in a watershed draining into rivers and a bay full of salmon, and doing so in a state prone to earthquakes. And they were caught explaining they were intending to extend the mine far beyond 1 square mile x 1500 feet deep.And there's a fair amount of rainfall annually there.What could go wrong?
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"content": "William Meyers - \"push\" the population to a billion or so? Without resorting to murder, that's several hundred years, and your chosen number really needs justification, since we can operate much of life more cleanly now by not letting polluters just pick places and pollute - the Cuyahoga hasn't caught fire in so long people may forget that was a thing, for example.Regarding the mine, environmentalists can look at other open-pit hard rock mines and consider the acid that's generated when exposing underground sulfides (the rock at the Pebble site has a lot) to water.So they're talking about crushing millions of tons of rock, in a watershed draining into rivers and a bay full of salmon, and doing so in a state prone to earthquakes. And they were caught explaining they were intending to extend the mine far beyond 1 square mile x 1500 feet deep.And there's a fair amount of rainfall annually there.What could go wrong?\n",
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I feel certain it was a "trick question" from the early calculating wife of Harry for future spins of racism. No one wants to share lip gloss!! My best friend helped herself to my $58.00 Tom Ford gorgeous lip balm which I encouraged. You don't ask, you accept if offered.. Meghan is so low class and brought Harry AKA ( HENRY down with her.
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When you elect people on a platform of obstructionism, contrarianism, and anti-intellectualism, don't be surprised when you get obstructionists, contrarians, and anti-intellectuals. This leaves the 'liberal establishment' with a dilemma: find the votes to avoid catastrophe, making the contrarians ever more ungrateful and angry, or let the contrarians win, having the ensuing economic and humanitarian disaster show them the error of their ways. A deal would solve the immediate problem, and Wall Street, an enterprise centered around negotiations, expects it. This contrarianism is the manifestation of something darker: a world and worldview shaped by fear and power rather than one amenable to reason, negotiation, and compromise.Matt Gaetz' goal with the speaker debacle was not to earn specific policy concessions; it was to humiliate McCarthy, bring attention to himself, and grind the government to a halt. As long as Congress was not passing legislation or making deals, Gaetz was winning.When the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, their policy goals were ill-defined and irrelevant as long as they were angry and they made someone else angry. Even if they had somehow overturned the election, would they have just turned around and gone home?When Putin invades Ukraine screeching about NATO biolabs, a 'Russian World', and nuclear apocalypse, is he really open to appeasement? We can't solve any problems if half the country only wants to cause problems for 'the other side.'
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"content": "When you elect people on a platform of obstructionism, contrarianism, and anti-intellectualism, don't be surprised when you get obstructionists, contrarians, and anti-intellectuals. This leaves the 'liberal establishment' with a dilemma: find the votes to avoid catastrophe, making the contrarians ever more ungrateful and angry, or let the contrarians win, having the ensuing economic and humanitarian disaster show them the error of their ways. A deal would solve the immediate problem, and Wall Street, an enterprise centered around negotiations, expects it. This contrarianism is the manifestation of something darker: a world and worldview shaped by fear and power rather than one amenable to reason, negotiation, and compromise.Matt Gaetz' goal with the speaker debacle was not to earn specific policy concessions; it was to humiliate McCarthy, bring attention to himself, and grind the government to a halt. As long as Congress was not passing legislation or making deals, Gaetz was winning.When the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, their policy goals were ill-defined and irrelevant as long as they were angry and they made someone else angry. Even if they had somehow overturned the election, would they have just turned around and gone home?When Putin invades Ukraine screeching about NATO biolabs, a 'Russian World', and nuclear apocalypse, is he really open to appeasement? We can't solve any problems if half the country only wants to cause problems for 'the other side.'\n",
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The Republicans have been given the rather thankless task of running the economy, so that there is enough money for the Democrats to give away to their constituents in return for votes. Capitalism is not the most noble of economic systems, and it requires excess capital to be put in the hands of the private sector instead of handed over to the government. This can make it look like the Republicans are favoring the wealthy, but this is the system that raises the most money for the country to spend. Remarkable individuals like Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft have created the world changing products that have kept this country employed in high-paying jobs and wealthy enough to be able to afford the New Deal payments. Only capitalism gives college dropouts this ability. We still fall short of being able to fund Medicare and Social Security as they were originally written, because we have less people working to support more people living off the government. So the Republicans must take the responsibility of making sensible cuts in programs like Social Security, so that they do not run out of money. Raising the minimum age at which you can receive full benefits is not popular, but is necessary and sensible, considering the later age at which the population now retires.The Democrats do continue to lead the Republicans in self righteous congratulations to themselves for spending the money that American business has created.
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"content": "The Republicans have been given the rather thankless task of running the economy, so that there is enough money for the Democrats to give away to their constituents in return for votes. Capitalism is not the most noble of economic systems, and it requires excess capital to be put in the hands of the private sector instead of handed over to the government. This can make it look like the Republicans are favoring the wealthy, but this is the system that raises the most money for the country to spend. Remarkable individuals like Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft have created the world changing products that have kept this country employed in high-paying jobs and wealthy enough to be able to afford the New Deal payments. Only capitalism gives college dropouts this ability. We still fall short of being able to fund Medicare and Social Security as they were originally written, because we have less people working to support more people living off the government. So the Republicans must take the responsibility of making sensible cuts in programs like Social Security, so that they do not run out of money. Raising the minimum age at which you can receive full benefits is not popular, but is necessary and sensible, considering the later age at which the population now retires.The Democrats do continue to lead the Republicans in self righteous congratulations to themselves for spending the money that American business has created.\n",
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I live in one of the most expensive housing markets in America. Let me assure you, Mr. Stephens, that even here in the land of affluence and nothingburger houses going for north of $1 million, a couple earning $400,000 or more a year is not ‘just scraping by.’ And I will tell you from personal experience, the IRS is a completely broken system, overwhelmed by the volume of business and unresponsive to the needs of taxpayers. Aside from the fact that those earning enough to hire lawyers and accountants to game the system are unquestionably paying less than their fair share, the IRS is simply unable to communicate with or provide basic services to the public.Last year I paid my taxes as usual — which, by the way, amounted to many, many times what that ostensible billionaire Donald Trump paid in most years over the past decade. I then received a form letter — which came off a dot matrix printer likely 30 years old — to advise me I owed quite a lot more and would face penalties and possible criminal exposure if I did not pay or appeal within 30 days. I was provided various ways to communicate with the IRS with an explanation, or to object. Good luck with that! A retired attorney, I prepared a detailed objection with exhibits attached and sent it off into the IRS void. About a month later, I received a small refund check, without explanation. About six months later, I received another dot-matrixed form letter that said ‘oopsie.’And Republicans won’t fix that? Really?
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The tech industry quietly lays off around 100,000 workers, most well-educated, highly compensated, relatively young people whose unemployment likely will have ripple effects throughout the economy. Those 100,000 newly unemployed workers represent twice the total U.S. employment in the mining industry. So what’s the battle cry that drives voters wild? ‘Bring back beautiful clean coal! Open up the mines! Millions of jobs!’Talk about distraction and misdirection. Unbelievable.
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Good. Thats all I got to say as an businesswoman who spent 10 years working just to raise $500k and in the process lose control of my company. Meanwhile, Zuck, who was at Harvard while I was at MIT, can do whatevef he wants and ppl lined up to buy points for tens of millions each.
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Proof positive that Keynesian Economics works and that Trickle Down Economics is a failure.The government investing in infrastructure, technology and people always lifts a country out of recession and depression and even a world wide pandemic. Just two years ago at this time 4,000 people were dying every day, 9 million were unemployed and vaccines had not been distributed. Joe Biden and the Democrats should be quite proud of this historic achievement.
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"content": "Proof positive that Keynesian Economics works and that Trickle Down Economics is a failure.The government investing in infrastructure, technology and people always lifts a country out of recession and depression and even a world wide pandemic. Just two years ago at this time 4,000 people were dying every day, 9 million were unemployed and vaccines had not been distributed. Joe Biden and the Democrats should be quite proud of this historic achievement.\n",
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VMG Ah, but airfares are much lower, inflation-adjusted, then before deregulation, and there's *much* more extensive service. As with so many things, we remember the good (wider seats) and forget the bad (regulated routes which happened to stop in the districts of the House Transportation Committee members, regardless of how preposterous and inconvenient that was for the rest of us).We can agree on banks though: they should not be making investments, only issuing loans and credit cards.Back to electric power, consider this data point: in deregulated Massachusetts, Eversource and National Grid each serve about 1/3 of cities and towns with rates in the 30¢/kWh range. The remainder are served by municipal utilities owned and run by each town, with average rates in the 10-15¢/kWh range.[Silver lining to the high Eversource and National Grid rates: sun-starved Massachusetts is #5 in solar capacity per capita, behind only Hawaii, California, Arizona and Nevada. But there's almost no rooftop solar in the towns served by municipal utilities.]<a href="https://solarpower.guide/solar-energy-insights/states-most-solar-installations" target="_blank">https://solarpower.guide/solar-energy-insights/states-most-solar-installations</a>Deregulation itself isn't the problem. It's the remaining investor-owned "distribution" monopolies which abuse the system to jack up rates and profits. I wish the article had covered this.
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"content": "VMG Ah, but airfares are much lower, inflation-adjusted, then before deregulation, and there's *much* more extensive service. As with so many things, we remember the good (wider seats) and forget the bad (regulated routes which happened to stop in the districts of the House Transportation Committee members, regardless of how preposterous and inconvenient that was for the rest of us).We can agree on banks though: they should not be making investments, only issuing loans and credit cards.Back to electric power, consider this data point: in deregulated Massachusetts, Eversource and National Grid each serve about 1/3 of cities and towns with rates in the 30¢/kWh range. The remainder are served by municipal utilities owned and run by each town, with average rates in the 10-15¢/kWh range.[Silver lining to the high Eversource and National Grid rates: sun-starved Massachusetts is #5 in solar capacity per capita, behind only Hawaii, California, Arizona and Nevada. But there's almost no rooftop solar in the towns served by municipal utilities.]<a href=\"https://solarpower.guide/solar-energy-insights/states-most-solar-installations\" target=\"_blank\">https://solarpower.guide/solar-energy-insights/states-most-solar-installations</a>Deregulation itself isn't the problem. It's the remaining investor-owned \"distribution\" monopolies which abuse the system to jack up rates and profits. I wish the article had covered this.\n",
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I live on the west side of Tehama county in the Sacramento Valley,a rural county that has experienced an influx of almond orchardsthe last 25 years. These orchards, refugees from the San JoaquinValley, pump groundwater for irrigation, resulting in a loweringof the groundwater and the drying up of residential wells. Ourcounty has approved all orchard and well permits, and whenthe recent orchards are in full production virtually all residentialand municipal wells will go dry. I use a sonar sounder to measuredozens of wells monthly on the west side of the county, whichshows the groundwater going down about ten feet a year duethe the pumping from orchards in the area. This rate will increasewhen then new orchards start production. When our 300 foot well was drilled 20 years ago the water was 70 feet down, todayit is at 170 feet down, so I estimate in ten years I will have todrill a 500 foot well at a cost of over $30,000. In 2014 a state lawwas passed which set up a program to create a system forsustainable water use. It is poorly written, with evaluations everyfive years with a goal for sustainability by 2044. In the meantimewells are going dry.
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A 20 million dollar Trust Fund was more than enough for he and his wife to live a more comfortable life than 99 per cent of humankind. If he wanted even more money, he and his wife could have gotten jobs, like 99 per cent of humankind.
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Why do elected democrats have terrible instincts. Department of AI? Another group of unelected bureaucrats that have enormous powers to regulate businesses? Small businesses in our country cannot catch a break while people like this congressman are bent on creating new regulatory department that can be completely captured by big business. How about congress do its job? Hold hearings in open hearings in committee to show what regulations are necessary by bringing all stakeholders to the hearings. Take votes in committee on regulations and pass it through congress. I do not want a new opaque regulatory body to harm business interests or be worse captured by big business interests reducing competition. Do your job congressman, if you think cars powered by AI cannot go beyond 100 miles an hour put it through congress. However, I think states will resolve this issue through legislature. If there are many accidents involving AI cars, state governments will act to add speed limit requirement for cars.
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"content": "Why do elected democrats have terrible instincts. Department of AI? Another group of unelected bureaucrats that have enormous powers to regulate businesses? Small businesses in our country cannot catch a break while people like this congressman are bent on creating new regulatory department that can be completely captured by big business. How about congress do its job? Hold hearings in open hearings in committee to show what regulations are necessary by bringing all stakeholders to the hearings. Take votes in committee on regulations and pass it through congress. I do not want a new opaque regulatory body to harm business interests or be worse captured by big business interests reducing competition. Do your job congressman, if you think cars powered by AI cannot go beyond 100 miles an hour put it through congress. However, I think states will resolve this issue through legislature. If there are many accidents involving AI cars, state governments will act to add speed limit requirement for cars.\n",
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Puzzlemucker I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong, when I try to open these links they all take me to the same wordplay column. I know I can’t open links at all from the app, and I can’t fathom how links that look so different can take me to the same place?
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Filmer I’m going to believe that most people are honest about their motives. Some may switch for the money, but most who say they switched to save the world probably meant it. I have no evidence, of course. But neither do you. 😏Despite all the layoffs in the industry, the tech company I work for still has a lot of open positions. So it can’t be only the money for everybody…
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Phyliss Dalmatian It constantly amazes me when the likes of Mitch McConnell stand next to Pres. Biden and vulgarly allows credit to be given him for an infrastructure fund to benefit his supporters that he was adamantly against. This is the typical republican reaction when they're forced to pass on their spoils to the peons. The Republican Party does nothing for the average citizen with the exception of poisoning the conversation with lies and, as Ms. Conway smirks, alternative facts. Very sad .
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Might it not make more sense to roll back the open carry laws for most citizens, control gun sales (no over the internet), license gun owners including insurance and required safety training, and raise the age to own a gun to at least 21. That doesn't mean young people couldn't learn to hunt with relatives, but who honestly wants teenagers with guns? And if you threaten to shoot someone, you lose your guns and your right to own a gun for at least a decade. The American public is really tired of the gun lobby's right to murder the public for profit because they bought the Republican party.
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"content": "Might it not make more sense to roll back the open carry laws for most citizens, control gun sales (no over the internet), license gun owners including insurance and required safety training, and raise the age to own a gun to at least 21. That doesn't mean young people couldn't learn to hunt with relatives, but who honestly wants teenagers with guns? And if you threaten to shoot someone, you lose your guns and your right to own a gun for at least a decade. The American public is really tired of the gun lobby's right to murder the public for profit because they bought the Republican party.\n",
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I've seen reports of the 'secret' demands the uber-Maga are making on McCarthy. If he's forced to accept them, it makes Maga House an open National Security threat.E.g., future convicts like Gaetz get to defund the FBI, while private militias constitute an army of vigilantes under Maga direction. Also, the goaders of Jan 6 get to wander into Congress with guns or knives, without any security checks.Pres. Biden, beef up that FBI and Nat. Security infrastructure and do it by Exec. Order if you can.
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"content": "I've seen reports of the 'secret' demands the uber-Maga are making on McCarthy. If he's forced to accept them, it makes Maga House an open National Security threat.E.g., future convicts like Gaetz get to defund the FBI, while private militias constitute an army of vigilantes under Maga direction. Also, the goaders of Jan 6 get to wander into Congress with guns or knives, without any security checks.Pres. Biden, beef up that FBI and Nat. Security infrastructure and do it by Exec. Order if you can.\n",
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qu I've got a great gas stove which I cook lunch and dinner on daily (with adjacent windows open) -- using one burner most of the time. Am open to trying a single-burner induction since I'll be buying a new house soon, and could switch from gas that time. Do you recommend a certain brand /model? Seems I could try that for now, since I'm not cooking big-family meals with all burners and oven any time soon.
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Placing this here:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/microsoft-openai-chatgpt.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/microsoft-openai-chatgpt.html</a>
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| no | Classification | 1,087 |
The very salient issue here, i.e. the University's refusal to support the LGBTQ club based on its self-defined status as a religious institution, and the debate about the legitimacy of that stand, has been somewhat clouded by incomplete reporting/editing. Many of the comments are focused on the funds referenced and confusion about the institution itself. This article could have done a better job explaining that: 1) the $230MM in bonds cited were not gifted federal funds, but loans by the Dormitory Authority to the University; and 2)Yeshiva University is the name of a nationally ranked university, separate from the numerous "yeshiva's" (synonymous for a religious Jewish K-12 school) which the Times has reported on recently. As others have said, "do better, NYT."Separately, I fully support the right of the club to exist and hope that there's a way to work that out no matter how the University defines itself--it's 2023, folks!
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JerseyG I really don’t like intentional division, including into the incredibly ill-defined “very serious people.” Shouldn’t we all be pretty serious these days? And where exactly are the rich going to decamp at this point? The rest of the world has its own problems and doesn’t want us. Mars is unsustainable. Meaning that we have to work together unfortunately. Here are a few practical suggestions: tax capital gains like you do income. Perhaps at even higher rates. Rich people have plenty of accountants and lawyers on staff, they can figure it out. (Not exactly sure why we’ve allowed them to evade their fair share of taxes for so long.) Eliminate any and all tax loopholes. So the wealthy (if they have to pay any taxes) don’t get advantageous 15 percent (current capital gains rate), at minimum. Tax fossil fuels at extremely high rates. Anyone who owns more than two properties has to pay increasingly high property taxes. Like very high. By fed reg cap rental payments at certain % above what owners are currently paying on their mortgage (I’d advise, at most, at 10 percent premium). Prevent corps like private equity from buying single-family homes and then place strict restrictions on multi-family. Single payer healthcare. That’s all I have right now.
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"content": "JerseyG I really don’t like intentional division, including into the incredibly ill-defined “very serious people.” Shouldn’t we all be pretty serious these days? And where exactly are the rich going to decamp at this point? The rest of the world has its own problems and doesn’t want us. Mars is unsustainable. Meaning that we have to work together unfortunately. Here are a few practical suggestions: tax capital gains like you do income. Perhaps at even higher rates. Rich people have plenty of accountants and lawyers on staff, they can figure it out. (Not exactly sure why we’ve allowed them to evade their fair share of taxes for so long.) Eliminate any and all tax loopholes. So the wealthy (if they have to pay any taxes) don’t get advantageous 15 percent (current capital gains rate), at minimum. Tax fossil fuels at extremely high rates. Anyone who owns more than two properties has to pay increasingly high property taxes. Like very high. By fed reg cap rental payments at certain % above what owners are currently paying on their mortgage (I’d advise, at most, at 10 percent premium). Prevent corps like private equity from buying single-family homes and then place strict restrictions on multi-family. Single payer healthcare. That’s all I have right now.\n",
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Is he even gay? Is his name really George? Is he a US citizen? He seems to lie like other people breathe.I'm writing this in my new 12 bdrm home in Toronto's exclusive Rosedale neighbourhood. The price? $199.99!
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"content": "Is he even gay? Is his name really George? Is he a US citizen? He seems to lie like other people breathe.I'm writing this in my new 12 bdrm home in Toronto's exclusive Rosedale neighbourhood. The price? $199.99!\n",
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It's $35 for each family, not each person.
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Many worry?What does that mean in a country of what?A billion on a planet of 8 billion that can only support 4?I'm not worried that they stopped creating an ever increasing population.It's encouraging.Maybe my grandchildren won't have to cope with a world population of 12 billion and all it's impacts on an overloaded earth.
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I worked in restaurants from 1996-2007 on both coasts and somewhere in between. Well-regarded, midpriced restaurants with market produce driven menus. For much of that time I fantasized at owning and running my own place. So glad I grew up and realized that the emotional costs were not worth it--constant stress of trying to keep things going on razor thin margins when each day could bring a fresh catastrophe--a sick dishwasher is a worst case scenario; never having a day off much less a vacation. People still ask me why I don't open a restaurant--besides being too arthritic now, I just raise my eyebrows and laugh.
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Per usual in the Times, as when Mr. Krugman has opined on this topic, the term "crypto" is used in a blanket, general, and frankly lazy way by people who are purportedly serious, academic, and up with the times. Precision, please. Bitcoin, Ethereum, and VC-funded projects like Solana use up all the oxygen, but they are only part of the story. "Investing" in "crypto" is only part of the story. Someday, I hope the Times and other publications will catch up, and start writing less simplistically about a hugely complex topic.
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Sparky But most people do not pay it back readily at all. I read that something like 40% of student loans are for graduate degrees. The statistics for repayment are truly dismal. I myself did not realize what a disaster the student loan issue was until I started researching it. It changed my mind about Biden’s plan from “WHAT?” To “OH MY GOD THAT IS A DROP IN THE BUCKET.” That is because my paradigm about student loans and salaries was thirty years old. The truth on the ground is that many students graduate with upwards of 100K in loans—federal student loans but also private loans. Of the almost 80 million student loans that living Americans have taken at some point, 40M or so of them have not been replayed. It is estimated the total debt in the public sector is 1.7 trillion. It takes people decades to pay off these loans and disproportionately, the most affected are women and people of color whose wages never quite measure up.You would think an Ivy League graduate education is self funding but that assumes you graduate and have a job day one that allows you to handle housing and expenses right off the bat. If you try to defer the loan, the fees add up. It is nearly impossible to discharge student loans via bankruptcy.The result of this is that a place like Columbia caters almost exclusively to rich students because the super high tuition thanks to these high buildings create economic propositions that make no sense. Capitalism? Yeah. Classism and worse too.
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JMR He did not have plenty of money at his disposal. He had 20 million dollars from his mother. While this might seem like a lot, his security costs 5 million dollars a year, alone. I think he was incredibly brave to leave to royal family and embrace a new life, tell the truth about his life and find a way to make a living and protect his family.
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I've read several articles about the layoffs and most of the individuals mentioned have been in their late 30's up to late 40's, some with decades of service to their companies.I think it would be eye opening if the government or some non-governmental organization, like AARP or the NY Times, gathered all the statistics on the age off those fired to see if there is any sestemic age bias.I'll wager that there is.
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Osito Or you could spend around half the price and be located in a decent neighborhood with a variety of food options, including ones where you could spend more generously because of what you saved on hotel costs. Unless one plans to hibernate in the hotel most of the day, the ROI is pretty low on $525.
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Only 3 years for a multi-million dollar scam over years? No wonder people like Singer think a life of being a corrupt thief is worth the risk. As for the Zhaos, their case seems even worse as it demonstrates, as the article says, exactly the kind of people Harvard looks for --those for whom paying $.5 million in tuition on top of a $1.5 million "donation" is obviously no big deal. Good luck trying to get in on your own merits, if these "applicants" are the gold standard.
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It is way past time to face facts re 9/11.Our "allies and partners" in Saudi Arabia encouraged and financed the jihadists that brought about the attack that killed thousands of our fellow citizens and thoroughly traumatized the rest of us. They may have thought that Bin-Laden and his minions couldn't possibly pull it off, but they ardently wished for it to happen.Having this come out in open court for all the world to see, simply cannot be allowed.
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For the most part, any tribute I could possibly write would only repeat the words of many another commenter to this Jeff Beck obituary.Nevertheless, perhaps I can add this:that in the many of the Jeff Beck videos I’ve seen over recent years have featured his collaboration with some fantastic women musicians. It seems as if he has purposely joined with them, perhaps providing these musicians on the rise opportunities that might have eluded them in a “man’s world”. Other times, it seems he appears as their guest. Regardless, to my eyes and ears, each of these women musicians are en par with the many male rock stars Jeff has played with over the past 60 years.A particular favorite of mine is him joining with Sharon Corr playing a Celtic song “Mna Ma Hereann”. That a young Tal Wilkenfeld is on base is icing on this musical cake. But there are many such cakes, all of them delicious to the ears.I can only surmise that the many collaborations such as this reflect Jeff’s openness to recognize, perform and highlight these most talented of women is something unique in the rock & roll world.Maybe this social consciousness starts early on with Yardbirds’ “Mister, You’re a Better Man Than I”, or the Jeff Beck Group’s cover of “Morning Dew” on “Truth”. I can only speculate on that.
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Loud and Clear . . .the saying is profoundly myopic and simplistic. Are you aware in WW2 the USA provided Stalin's USSR with the 2022 equivalent of $180Billion in military and humanitarian aid? They were our (USA & Canada) enemy before WW2, and this did not change after WW2 . If one examines history looking for examples of your 'saying' one cannot find an incident where the war did NOT expand.The reality is simple: Since the formation of Russia, circa 800 AD, they have engaged in one Pyrrhic victory after another, leaving a bloody train of persons hating them.
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AutumLeaf We have no troops involved and about $85B committed to the effort. This isn't Vietnam, it isn't Iraq, it isn't Afghanistan. When this is all said and done, Ukraine will be a significant Eastern European ally, with both Russia and China unwelcome in the country. Sounds like the only freedom you value is your own.
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Mary The trouble with these very worthwhile suggestions is that the price of formerly cheap stuff, like ham hocks or chicken backs--which don't even seem to exist anymore, is now astronomical in comparison. I do take issue with organic milk being fresher. It depends on when it hits the shelves. There is nothing innately "fresher" about organically produced milk. I buy ultra-pasteurized milk which keeps for ages unopened, and far longer than regular milk, once opened.
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Way down here we'll be watching this young man.“It’s like Christmas when you’re provided [with] a good player that doesn’t have any bad habits.”Philadelphia offensive line coach Jeff Soutland, who on Monday helped deliver the Eagles to Super Bowl LVII, is reflecting on his first encounter with $64 million offensive tackle Jordan Mailata.The ex choirboy from Bankstown Sydney.
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Oooh...Okay, sexism, agism both exist. Let's agree on that. But a woman in "ill-fitting T-shirt and shorts" can't make it in this world? Please inform Billie Eilish! Rosie O'Donnell didn't seem to have a hard time making this her brand. What about Whoopi Goldberg back in the 80s? The reality is far more complex than Gross wants to examine. There are so few folks in the position of a Sam Bankman-Fried that finding ANY comparisons with the general population or societal norms is virtually impossible. Not one is lining up to give most men oodles of money for any project/idea/crypto-currency. The author may dislike Bankman-Fried's look, but one could also say that there are no male CEOs of billion-dollar companies who rose to that rank while wearing eye shadow and pastel skirts. The underlying level of misanthropy in this piece is disturbing. Are we to believe that Elizabeth Holmes swindled astounding amounts of money out of investors because as a woman she could simply get away with it? She was only 26 (that age when no one takes women seriously, right?) when she had amassed more than $92 million in investments. Only 31 when she was exposed as a fraud. Should we be writing screeds that young-ish "cute" blonde women can get away with anything? I would wager that tens of thousands of would-be entrepreneurs who fit that bill would beg to differ. Sexism is far more complex, and Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes, as outliers in our world, tell us nothing about it.
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I worked as a salmon biologist in southeast Alaska for many years for the state department of fish and game. We would charter local seine boats to do test sets to see how the runs were building in advance of an opening for the fleet. One spring the test sets went on for a while, the native (Tlingit) crew were getting hungry so we kept a sockeye salmon or two the cook found a bag of rice in the galley and some fairly sprouted yellow onions left over from the fall deer hunt. It all went into the big pot (including the fish heads which are very delicious) and cooked for a late lunch. Maybe it’s was because we’d been at it since morning working on the water but it was a memorable (probably 40 years ago now) hot meal eaten on deck with great camaraderie.
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What makes a great investment for a smart, sensible investor? Increasing your returns by a guaranteed one percent. (Spare me your cryptocurrency or stock-picking or real-estate miracles)How can you find this investment? By firing your financial advisor. I don't doubt the value of sound financial advice, and some people need the hand-holding. But if you can figure out the basics for yourself (save, invest in index funds, don't spend too much) then you should be fine. (Ok, come back in 30 years and ask me then)
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AS Yes...this. I just turned 60 and pay for people in my profession (support staff) is the same as it was 20 or even 30 years ago. I hate my job but every time I look for a new one, I realize I'd have to take a pay cut if I changed industries, or even companies in the same industry. I can barely afford living now--there's no way I can earn even less and survive. Meanwhile, my director brags all day about the $100,000 Rivian electric truck he got last week. My company's board of directors and all the VPs make a fortune. "A rising tide lifts all boats"...not so much.
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SMB as time passes and if American democracy survives people will start talking about Biden as a top ten president. He defeated a demagogue at the polls, took the political hit to end an unnecessary war, helped get congress to invest in America and its people, nominated judges that reflect 21st century Americans, is waging a successful proxy war that might topple Putin and he’s overseen a real economic recovery. Obama who?
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A number of these tech companies still have the startup ethos in their DNA. They expand and contract at the drop of a hat. For young people, not a bad idea to have a side hustle - a second job, a project, part time grad school funded by the company. Do not blur the lines between the job or “mission” and your real life. Take advantage of all the job offers in the best sense - learn everything, make connections, use tuition reimbursement, live below your means and always keep your eyes open. When they say layoffs are coming and you are not in a group where they are also offering retention payments, you are vulnerable. Don’t get jaded. That is life in tech and biotech. You will be wiser when you find your next gig and you may also have picked up another credential along the way. You will also understand what VC and PE investor money means.
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Good luck.It's tough to change peoples conceptions. Great restaurants are hard to find. Good food well prepared, attractive, with reasonable portions and at a reasonable price doesn't exist.I just returned from a dinner for 2 that cost $160. It was a pleasant experience because of the people we were with but since the pandemic the restaurant had closed for a while and had been redecorated and that money had to be recovered.Unfortunately the redecoration and closing changed a good menu to a great one but a slip in the quality of the food, Tough veal (first time I have had veal in 3 or 4 years). Great looking food but poor quality. If you cut up asparagus into 4 pieces, the 3 to 1 ratio causes an unbalance in the flavor of a spear. Mashed potatoes should not be whipped up into the consistency of farina.
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Mike M. Again, there's plenty of talk about how to generate the necessary electricity to replace fossil fuels by lots of very smart people. If you're legitimately interested, you could check out "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" by Bill Gates where he addresses a lot of this. Solar and Wind turbines can in theory supply all the power we need. The US already gets 20% of its electricity from renewables. Admittedly, there are problems with renewables, namely intermittency (the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow), and also that places with demand for energy aren't always favorable locations for renewables. There are solutions to these problems, like battery storage (companies like "Form Energy" are working on that) and green hydrogen for long term storage, use as a fuel, and as an energy carrier that can be transported long distances via pipeline from places with lots of sun and wind, to places who need more energy than they can produce (Western Europe). Nuclear power should also be on the table as a carbon neutral alternative, and Bill Gates has invested in "SMR" technology to try to make nuclear safer and easier to deploy. The bottom line is the technology exists to net-zero, it's just a matter of getting to scale, and finding ways to change an economy with a whole lot of inertia for doing things with fossil fuels.
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"content": "Mike M. Again, there's plenty of talk about how to generate the necessary electricity to replace fossil fuels by lots of very smart people. If you're legitimately interested, you could check out \"How to Avoid a Climate Disaster\" by Bill Gates where he addresses a lot of this. Solar and Wind turbines can in theory supply all the power we need. The US already gets 20% of its electricity from renewables. Admittedly, there are problems with renewables, namely intermittency (the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow), and also that places with demand for energy aren't always favorable locations for renewables. There are solutions to these problems, like battery storage (companies like \"Form Energy\" are working on that) and green hydrogen for long term storage, use as a fuel, and as an energy carrier that can be transported long distances via pipeline from places with lots of sun and wind, to places who need more energy than they can produce (Western Europe). Nuclear power should also be on the table as a carbon neutral alternative, and Bill Gates has invested in \"SMR\" technology to try to make nuclear safer and easier to deploy. The bottom line is the technology exists to net-zero, it's just a matter of getting to scale, and finding ways to change an economy with a whole lot of inertia for doing things with fossil fuels.\n",
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This "situation" certainly presents a contrast. No one (except Republican allies) looked into Mr. Santos's background and now everyone is shocked at what a liar he is. In contrast, anyone who was paying attention to a voluminous public record knew that tfg was a degenerate and a loser at everything he did, for decades prior to running for office. And he is "tfg," once elected president of the United States -- and an open dupe for Putin. Go figure.
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I think the headline is that $200 billion in corporate subsidies is expected to take our share of chip manufacturing from 12% to 14%.What a waste. Corporate subsidies are never the answer.
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BK Historically, we have not 0% interest, as we have for the last 22 years. In 2000, we lowered rates to a point that we created a housing bubble, with disastrous consequences.The Bankers loved going to the Fed and borrowing through their money for 0% and charging their borrowers obscene rates for credit cards, while paying the lowest rates of interests on savings accounts/money market accounts. Wages have been a losing proposition for all workers below the Officer level of a Company, while the Government and Business tinkered with the GDP model. As a retiree and Homemaker, I can assure you that inflation in this Country has been well ABOVE 2% for the last 20 years. It all depends on what they leave out of the model for GDP….like the real numbers for the costs of food, transportation, and housing. That has been the case, no matter the Party in charge. We bought a tricked out GMC 2500 Truck in 2011 for $38K….that same truck today is $65K+. Food has gone up consistently and we have gone through merchants selling us less of a product and charging us more. It’s all about the greed by a few, affecting all of us. It is called living in an Oligarchy, not a free market. Look at any industry…4-5 big players in that space. That business models inhibits growth, entrepreneurship, and real competition. It makes billionaires of a few, at the expense of working people and basically, the financial health of this Country .
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"content": "BK Historically, we have not 0% interest, as we have for the last 22 years. In 2000, we lowered rates to a point that we created a housing bubble, with disastrous consequences.The Bankers loved going to the Fed and borrowing through their money for 0% and charging their borrowers obscene rates for credit cards, while paying the lowest rates of interests on savings accounts/money market accounts. Wages have been a losing proposition for all workers below the Officer level of a Company, while the Government and Business tinkered with the GDP model. As a retiree and Homemaker, I can assure you that inflation in this Country has been well ABOVE 2% for the last 20 years. It all depends on what they leave out of the model for GDP….like the real numbers for the costs of food, transportation, and housing. That has been the case, no matter the Party in charge. We bought a tricked out GMC 2500 Truck in 2011 for $38K….that same truck today is $65K+. Food has gone up consistently and we have gone through merchants selling us less of a product and charging us more. It’s all about the greed by a few, affecting all of us. It is called living in an Oligarchy, not a free market. Look at any industry…4-5 big players in that space. That business models inhibits growth, entrepreneurship, and real competition. It makes billionaires of a few, at the expense of working people and basically, the financial health of this Country .\n",
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Deficits can be an issue, but the federal Debt is as close to a non-problem as there can be--it’s a historical accounting. Deficits can be a problem, they can drive inflation or squeeze private investment, but no one is talking about that.Most everyone intuitively, and wrongly, equatesSovereign Debt with private debt. They should ask themselves how much debt they could manage if they could set interest rates and print money?The only sane part of the argument is about increasing interest expense (which, like other government spending, can drive inflation) which affects the deficit--but the ignore the other half of the equation which is that high interest usually accompanies high inflation--which reduces the overall Debt burden. No one is talking about how inflation wiped out $3T of Debt in real dollar last year. i.e. Debt + Budget in real dollars ran a surplus.Every time I start feeling I’m in crazy land surrounded by a deluded mass of people, I remind myself that accounting isn’t the real economy and, whatever we can do, we can afford.
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I didn’t see any comments on the external influences of fuel prices for independent generators. Example, natural gas rates for electric generators go up in winter as electric producers compete with retail consumers for heating fuel. In addition, transmission rates are all over the boards. When federal regulators deregulated transmission access in the early 90’s, they left the transportation pricing of energy to the states, sort of. The national electricity grids were not designed to handle the open markets, and the normal methods of cost recovery for transmission system reinforcement disappeared. Therefore grid expansion and reinforcement stopped. Made worse by NIMBY. The concept of deregulation, while not a bad idea, left out a bunch of details in execution. Bottom line, local utilities in many states get cost recovery for the local grids thru state regulators, energy costs (which include transportation) vary every day depending on what’s going on with the grid, the weather, etc. in the deregulated world. Any comparison of states has to take the differences into account. Politicians make for poor economic designers.
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If we’re back to Julian Simon’s bet with Paul Ehrlich, we might want to consider the influence working at Los Alamos had on Richard Feynman, when flying cars would have been powered by fission, or the arms race on Nikolai Kardashev’s taxonomy for first contact with extraterrestrials, which applies the dictum that civilizational level is constrained only by the energy available to it—an extension of Alfred Lotka’s maximization of energy flow in systems governed by Darwinian natural selection to those where selection is artificial. Vaclav Smil deconstructed most of this, and Eric Drexler’s gray goo remains a dream forgotten today.Perhaps some technology must effectively amount to magic, instead of just seeming that way to pre-industrial minds. Little matter whether the State is to drive progress, as the NY Times’s editors prefer, or private enterprise as championed by Friedrich Hayek, for whom price information played much the role heat does in physics. Counting our eggs before they hatch isn’t smart.Then we note diesel running $1.80 a gallon above gas, a figure its slightly higher energy density doesn’t explain, in case Messrs. Krugman or Coy are up to a lecture, or we build a spherical shell around the sun to capture all its wattage and become a Kardashev type II civilization while I’m asleep. Thomas Malthus turned out wrong only because we’ve an ability to limit per-capita consumption and births by choice; exponential growth cannot continue forever in a finite world.
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AEH Add to that, to travel any distance for a farmed, non native (there are no salmon in that part of the world) fish raised on a diet of pellets is the definition of being misled over hype. Raised in fresh water no less! Real salmon forage for shrimp, herring, smelt, squid... in the cold open ocean (also known as salt water), traveling thousands of miles over their lives. A farmed salmon from a lake in NZ, no matter how well treated, is a pity compared to one fresh off the boat in Alaska (or BC, Washington, Oregon, maybe Iceland if you are really lucky), and a lot closer to home.
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It’s not the debt it’s where the money goes that created the debt.Money well spent can yield enormous returns to the American people, but hundreds of billions spent on weapon systems that will be never user or be obsolete in 10 years is money not well spent.I believe we spent an estimated two trillion on the war in Iraq.That war killed American soldiers and ancillary support and killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.That was not money well spent.Imagine the infrastructure improvements that 2 trillion could have brought to the country and the lasting positive economic benefits.
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Alanb And how would they be saving that much money for you (every year)? How much risk are they taking? Are you comfortable with having someone investing in options for you? Cryptocurrencies? If so, fine, it's worth it. But I think your average retiree with a million dollar portfolio is not going to be comfortable taking those kinds of risks.
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Perhaps a quick run through an AI assistant would avoid this problem. Here's ChatGPT's version of an article from today's business section:"On a fateful day of great portent, the esteemed home goods retailer Bed Bath & Beyond delivered a grave warning to its loyal investors. Despite its former grandeur, with stores scattered throughout the realm, the company's future seemed to grow dimmer with each passing moment. In a report of preliminary earnings, it was revealed that sales had dwindled and foot traffic had slowed, a dire state of affairs indeed. For the quarter ending on the 26th of November, the company's sales had dwindled to a mere $1.3 billion, a tragic fall from the heights of the previous year. The possibility of bankruptcy loomed on the horizon, a fate that would strike fear into the hearts of even the bravest merchants. As the great Black Friday approached, all eyes were upon Bed Bath & Beyond, praying that it might weather this storm and emerge victorious."
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“Its side”? There is no ‘side’ here. Black people — like all people who are working to ensure inclusion and participation — are not Democratic tokens, nor are we engaged in a high-stakes game of politics. We are fighting for our lives.Yes, Biden was speaking to a primarily Black audience, but to borrow from Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, we, too, are America, and that truth illustrates our demands for equality, equity, and justice. This is not a matter of winners and losers, nor a tug-of-war between “sides.” While politicos may seek to describe it that way to rally their bases, journalists should have the discernment to separate partisan posturing from substantive issues and describe each one accurately. Accuracy matters. The struggle for access to the ballot and fair housing, education and employment practices — among other rights, liberties, freedoms and opportunities — is central to the fate of the republic. Yet this newspaper routinely characterizes “our democracy” as a winner-take-all game limited to white people and those who have or can easily assimilate into the so-called American dream. Such framing feeds the narratives and mindset of those who believe they need to “take (their) country back,” rather than being productive and collaborative contributors to an ever-evolving nation and society.The author should reconsider the framing of this article.Have you learned nothing in the last 10 years?
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"content": "“Its side”? There is no ‘side’ here. Black people — like all people who are working to ensure inclusion and participation — are not Democratic tokens, nor are we engaged in a high-stakes game of politics. We are fighting for our lives.Yes, Biden was speaking to a primarily Black audience, but to borrow from Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, we, too, are America, and that truth illustrates our demands for equality, equity, and justice. This is not a matter of winners and losers, nor a tug-of-war between “sides.” While politicos may seek to describe it that way to rally their bases, journalists should have the discernment to separate partisan posturing from substantive issues and describe each one accurately. Accuracy matters. The struggle for access to the ballot and fair housing, education and employment practices — among other rights, liberties, freedoms and opportunities — is central to the fate of the republic. Yet this newspaper routinely characterizes “our democracy” as a winner-take-all game limited to white people and those who have or can easily assimilate into the so-called American dream. Such framing feeds the narratives and mindset of those who believe they need to “take (their) country back,” rather than being productive and collaborative contributors to an ever-evolving nation and society.The author should reconsider the framing of this article.Have you learned nothing in the last 10 years?\n",
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I've able to hold it together, mostly, until Kai Ryssdal on Marketplace played the opening salvo of "Wooden Ships." No comment or context or warning. Just, wham.
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The sudden reverse of zero covid tolerance policy and opening of its economy exactly reflects how quickly the Chinese government responds to its people's protest if you look at it from another perspective. The Chinese leaders did learn from their Tananmen Incident 3 decades ago and thus prevented nationwide massive protests. On the other hand, here in the US, we have been having protests like civil rights, racial discrimination protests for decades. Things have not been changed much. Otherwise there wouldn't have been BLM protests a few years ago.
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Over the past 5 million years, we have become less fertile (lower "r" in ecological parlance) than our closest living relatives (both chimpanzee species) yet more widespread and numerous in the process. The reason is greater investment per offspring, leading to more productive adults. From an evolutionary perspective, population growth and economic growth are incompatible and their coincidence over the past 200 years will turn out to be a short-lived anomaly.
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The problem is that Arizona does not yet have an open primary top two system in place. If it did, there would not be a problem. Either Gallego ir Sinema would finsish second in the primary and then face off against the Republican in the general election. This is why Sinema went independent- to avoid the Democratic primary and run directly in the general election. Because Arizona does not have a top two primary, the Republican is likely win the general election if Sinema and Gallego are both running.
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When you get down to it, most Americans won't ever give up their cars, no matter how expensive, inefficient, and polluting personally owned vehicles are.A big push towards a European style transit structure is just not in the cards here, and even many of the most liberal Democrats would never make the logical policy proposal of increasing taxes on gasoline in order to fund one.So we're stuck for the at least the next 50 to 100 years. It's terrible, but this isn't changing, and Americans who want walkable communities need to focus on their own neighborhoods.If the government could provide a bit more money for subway extensions and a bit less for highway expansion that would be a great start.Here's hoping.....
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Brooks and Stephens publicly admit their political mistakes, but they don't get to the heart of the matter.All they had to do was read the 1971 Lewis Powell Memorandum and blueprint for the Republican, corporate and 0.1% domination of American democracy to understand what the GOP has wrought on a once great nation.They never mention Ronald Reagan's 1987 catastrophic cancellation of the Fairness Doctrine that eliminated the requirement of news broadcasters to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that fairly reflects differing viewpoints, thereby opening the fatal giant windows of right-wing misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy and incitement that hijacked nearly half the nation into an altered state of fact-free reality.They fail to mention decades of catastrophic 0.1% right-wing 'libertarian', 'moneyed speech' lawsuits that methodically converted American democracy into a dollarocracy, a theocracy, a kakistocracy and an idiocracy.They fail to mention that the 2000 Presidential Election and Florida vote counting stoppage was a real tipping point when the Republican Party and its GOP Supreme Court publicly rejected democracy in favor of minority rule by any right-wing means necessary.They fail to mention that the GOP's only real public policy - trickle-down economics - is a fraudulent vehicle to feed the rich.The GOP has been morally, intellectually and economically bankrupt for decades and needs to file for bankruptcy.
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Why our corporate sphere is still actively investing in and engaged with this totalitarian regime which is avowedly out to get us is truly mind-baffling.It’s a version of the same sleep-walking “privatized profits, socialized costs” which led to the 2008 financial crisis— but this time, if the CCP did attack Taiwan, the cost of our no-strings-attached empowering of China all these years will turn out to have been much greater.And all of us will be made to pay….The best time to have started divesting/decoupling from China was last February, when Xi’s “no limits” bestie Putin was given the green-light to attack Ukraine.The next best time to finally stop empowering the CCP is right now.Because we cannot wait forever….Or soon it will be too late.
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"content": "Why our corporate sphere is still actively investing in and engaged with this totalitarian regime which is avowedly out to get us is truly mind-baffling.It’s a version of the same sleep-walking “privatized profits, socialized costs” which led to the 2008 financial crisis— but this time, if the CCP did attack Taiwan, the cost of our no-strings-attached empowering of China all these years will turn out to have been much greater.And all of us will be made to pay….The best time to have started divesting/decoupling from China was last February, when Xi’s “no limits” bestie Putin was given the green-light to attack Ukraine.The next best time to finally stop empowering the CCP is right now.Because we cannot wait forever….Or soon it will be too late.\n",
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From the story, was it all a blunt, baldfaced case of short-term thinking, short-term planning, almost zero reading or understanding of the relationship between the problems facing the U.S. real economy and U.S. economic/financial policies (and that of the country's major trading partners), and fast, manic greed of both the borrowers and the lenders. And yet few have learnt from history's biggest corporate (and economic) bust-ups, one as recently as 2008's global financial crisis, which also turned out to be the global economic crisis, or from the one ten years earlier, and ten years before that ...
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Ippolita Ferrari: Ginia Bellafante isn’t claiming that healthy, fresh food isn’t for the poor. She is pointing out, rightly so, that poor people don’t have much access to it, and that it is frequently priced beyond their means. Have you ever seen the food offered at Trading Posts on/near reservations or “Convenience Stores” adjacent to public housing projects? It’s great news that local farmers’ markets are opening in the inner cities and reservations across the country. If the Thruway Authority approves fresh food sourced locally, that will be better for travellers and the local economy. But I absolutely agree with you that Italy has far superior rest areas along its highways. Back in 1970, when I was a child, I remember being transfixed by a rest stop that was built like a bridge: it spanned the highway it served. Travellers from both directions could use the same rest area because parking on both sides was available and customers simply used the elevator or stairway on their side to access the restaurant/rest area built over the highway. Especially exciting to me was the beautiful food, as would be offered in a “real” restaurant. It came in a range of offerings, from tableclothed hot food to trattoria-style dishes and freshly-made pannini and fresh fruit. I wondered then, as I do now, why Americans haven’t developed similar rest areas on our highways. Buon viaggio!
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Linda Almost the same thing happened to be when I returned from Europe, where I worked "off-the-books" for an American firm, earning, travel points. Returning to my banking career, but in a new city, they just kept hammering about what I thought those points were worth in US $. They offered me exactly what I estimated. What a mistake. Based on what others made, I bet they would have paid at least 30% more had I come up with a higher number.
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Investor123Your local library doesn't routinely have new books being written by its patrons and placed on the shelves, old books being pulled and burned by librarians, and existing volumes being declared to be a book or not a book according to arcane and constantly-shifting criteria frequently exercised by the city council.Classification is a living and ever-evolving system, not some static library of hidebound tomes. It's office paperwork with fangs, and no office can routinely tag and trace each and every printout ever spun off by its employees from cradle to grave without herculean effort and at least some docs slipping through the cracks.This doesn't excuse the Biden team's sloppiness or the Trump team's rampant theft of public property (though one of those remains clearly worse than the other), but handling classified documents isn't as simple as you think.
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I think there is still a value in non-competes. I had a staffing firm in FL and three employees stole everything from me and went down the street and opened a competing firm. My non-competes allowed me to shut them down for a year. They came back after that year, but didn’t last long. Running a staffing firm is not as simple as it seemed to them.
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Melanie Well, I am open to this idea, though I think I lean the other way. Perhaps "toxic masculinity" or "hegemonic masculinity" or "domination" are better words to use.I certainly know many men who actively reject this set of values, and the world is better for it.I read that in the 30s the cultural idea of masculinity was much more about being dutiful, hard-working, and conforming and/or contributing to the community.But unfortunately the vast majority of the masculinity that I experience and see performed and discussed is of the toxic / dominating kind.Even when masculinity takes the form of protecting or providing (which are seemingly positive), there is often a paternalistic, unequal aspect to it that can later support the negative/dominating aspects of masculinity.I look at how the vast, vast majority of spaces in the world are unsafe for women and femininity-expressing men (including, in many cases, the rooms where they sleep) and it seems to me that the cause is not some rare offshoot of masculinity, but masculinity itself, at least in its current form.Still, I am not rejecting your assertion since this is really a matter of opinion and experience, as well as collective/cultural opinion. It means whatever people think it means. I guess, regardless of the wording, we seem to agree that a culture that supports domination is toxic and should be avoided. I'm grateful to be your ally in this.
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Another case study for the ever-growing pile of failed and false meritocracies. When I was in undergraduate and graduate school at elite US and UK institutions, I had roommates who were international students from India and often hung out with them and their friends. Through our shared conversations and misadventures it quickly became clear that they came from extremely wealthy Indian families— top 1%ers. The rich will almost always have a way to get their kids into elite institutions, and afterwards to help them get good jobs. The poor as described in this article can invest time, money, and effort beyond their capacity to almost inevitably fall short amidst the extreme competition. Hard work does not guarantee success when structural inequality runs abound and the wealth gap perpetuates itself. To be self made and pull oneself up by the bootstraps— ascending into new social and fiscal class, achieving a higher quality of life, and tapping one’s full potential to the benefit of society at large— when one’s family has been at the bottom for generations, is near impossible. Serious reform is needed.
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I realize this might be a fantastic movie, but I just can't bear watching animals suffer, even in a fiction film.I am a wildlife conservationist, but I can only endure seeing photos or film of suffering or dying animals very sparingly, and only when it's absolutely necessary to understand a certain issue.Otherwise, powerlessness, desperation, anger and depression overwhelm me and compromise my ability to really help these animals.By the way, real donkeys - unlike the fictional one in EO as described by Ms. Dargis' wonderful reviews - would not feel "free" alone in a forest. In reality, they should never live alone (which isn't considered humane), but in a donkey group, and should hardly ever walk on wet ground, because their hooves are made for dry soils like deserts or savanna or plains, and they would also be quite scared in a forest - they like the wide open spaces.And by the way, they should at most carry about 20% of their weight (so a 400lb donkey could carry 80lb in weight - so they should never carry a person heavier than a child).And while we're on the subject, one of the greatest threats to donkeys worldwide is Chinese demand for E Jiao (阿膠, donkey gelatin) for Chinese Medicine, which decimates both domestic and wild donkeys, mainly in Africa, by millions each year, and robs people there of their often beloved pets and pack animals, so that several wild donkey species are already extinct or vulnerable.
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Absolutely!!! BUT BUT BUT..... I charge 2 arms and 1 leg for overhead work._ A small room 10x10 = 100 sqft at my price _ MATERIALS.... not included$5000 for wallpaper ($50 sqft)$7000 plain plaster waxed$10000 Venetian plaster with pigments
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We shouldn’t be surprised by this. It’s basic capitalism, which is what most Americans apparently want. Those who own the means of production will always seek to extract the maximum rents from their properties. Increased concentration and increased exploitation are inherent to the system. The rich get richer, and so on. It would be straightforward to bring the operation of children’s educational activites under some kind of public sponsorship. At the very least they could be better regulated. The allowable fees to the owners of franchise systems could be set by law, for example. The Federal agency that protects small businesses could be better funded. But what can you do about people who “invest” in a martial arts franchise without knowing anything about martial arts? The state can only do so much to protect people from their own foolishness.
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Anyone who would invest without due diligence, hire Michael cohen for a million bucks and still have 200k left over for political donations gets no sympathy from me. Or anyone I’m guessing.
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I wound my way through this puzzle, repeatedly expecting to stall out, but always managing to suss out the next opening, ending with the magnificent 33A. The puzzle certainly did not serve up anything ONAPLATTER.Had OUTOFREACH before OUTOF TOUCH, and WHEREILIVE before THESEPARTS but somehow got PLASMATV from the S in SAX, and a couple of the other long entries from just two crossing letters.Which makes me feel vaguely like I've been doing too many crosswords.A delightful and entertaining puzzle, IMNSHO.
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Just went through an open carry state and saw more than 3 people carrying. I suppose that will be one of the new great rest stop equalizers .If so I am going to start packing as much of my own food as possible on my next road trip.It’s a very strange sight to see a person who is not in law enforcement openly carrying a firearm.
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Nonsense. We have improved Medicare, Obamacare, solid regulations on a wide variety of corporate excesses, $357 billion downpayment on the transition to a green economy, 10 million plus new jobs, rising wages, strong international,alliances, a broad new infrastructure bill, the Chips Act to combat China’s excesses and more, thanks to Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the Democratic Party, with occasional assist from Senate Republicans. If we are to survive, the Trump extremists must be defeated and he and they are well on their way to accomplishing that.
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Who is “they” though? Shouldn’t the employer decide how valuable the employee is? Should a small coffee shop pay the same wage to someone who can work faster and more efficient compared to someone who needs help and is less productive? I was reprimanded once as a young 125lb woman at a retail store because I couldn’t lift heavy boxes full of clothes. I was told I should either figure it out or I am out because those boxes needed to get stacked on shelves (over my head). And that was the store’s right to demand that I perform a certain way or they would instead hire someone who can. The problem with our society is that we are all for free market economy until it affects us negatively. Another consideration - adults with disabilities get SSI (around $1k/month) & free Medicaid but that comes with income cap. If they are able to work as much and as efficiently as others, what happens to these services? Should they continue getting them while their colleagues don’t? Isn’t that government’s way to supplement their income? This isn’t a trivial matter: yes, of course, on a surface it sounds great to make sure everyone is entitled to the same pay, but this is a nuanced issue, and as always - the government is supposed to step in, but not businesses.
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Sarah Divers use brushes similar to a commercial floor buffer to remove marine growth. In Australia, commercial offshore divers make about $3000 per week. Depending on the type of work, commercial divers in the U.S. earn between $30,000 to $85,000 per year, in some cases even more.
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Tanks appear to be headed to UA, wow now that is an eye opener. The western nations can't figure out which direction to take to mail these tanks to. Hopefully the UA military will learn before 2025 how to use these advanced weapons. This is "a war of all wars" meaning countries that are sending tons of weapons to UA are not really involved in this war, just the UA military with feet on the ground. When Putin snaps out of his daze he has been in since last February he'll be closer and closer to using low yield nuclear weapons. I wonder what Zelensky will do then, probably demand nuclear weapons from the West are required in order to continue the war and hopefully win it. Zelensky needs to learn his situation is no different than North and South Korea: a divided country because western nations couldn't figure out what does "win" mean.
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Michael Faklis It's best to, at most, cosign a bank loan.
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These types of articles are why I don't mind paying $17.50 a month for a NYT subscription.Delta State should either close their doors or name their coliseum after this black female athlete! And DeWine, Ohio's governor, should go after this RACIST university! There is absolutely No excuse for their racism....and guess what, my White grandfather, Mark W Patterson was on the Ohio Supreme Court and twice rescued financially <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga_Lake" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga_Lake</a> which is now a 6 Flags. He would be utterly ashamed of Delta State University!!!!I too am white, educated and financially secure and ASHAMED of Delta State! It does not reflect the value's of Ohio!
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"content": "These types of articles are why I don't mind paying $17.50 a month for a NYT subscription.Delta State should either close their doors or name their coliseum after this black female athlete! And DeWine, Ohio's governor, should go after this RACIST university! There is absolutely No excuse for their racism....and guess what, my White grandfather, Mark W Patterson was on the Ohio Supreme Court and twice rescued financially <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga_Lake\" target=\"_blank\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga_Lake</a> which is now a 6 Flags. He would be utterly ashamed of Delta State University!!!!I too am white, educated and financially secure and ASHAMED of Delta State! It does not reflect the value's of Ohio!\n",
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Okay, for openers—which, “modern methods of birth control,” did you have in mind? Because the updated pills are about as modern as it gets, unless you mean the Plan B pills that joints like Texas are trying to ban. Second, abortion numbers HAVE been declining, especially among teens. Why? Oh, little things like the sex ed, access to contraception, and Planned Parenthood clinics that you lot are ALSO trying to ban. I dunno where you get the, “fact,” about convenience from, but it’s just plain a silly claim. Third, what “liberals,” often—not always, but often—believe is that the decision about the fetus is best left up to the pregnant, not to the State and certainly not to some Church. We also think that all moms and babies deserve a decent start in life, which your legislative clowns just did away with yet again. Last, for pete’s sake, will at least five of you guys take a few minutes, and at least learn what the word, “liberal,” means? Pro tip: it ain’t, “baby-murdering communist.”
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"content": "Okay, for openers—which, “modern methods of birth control,” did you have in mind? Because the updated pills are about as modern as it gets, unless you mean the Plan B pills that joints like Texas are trying to ban. Second, abortion numbers HAVE been declining, especially among teens. Why? Oh, little things like the sex ed, access to contraception, and Planned Parenthood clinics that you lot are ALSO trying to ban. I dunno where you get the, “fact,” about convenience from, but it’s just plain a silly claim. Third, what “liberals,” often—not always, but often—believe is that the decision about the fetus is best left up to the pregnant, not to the State and certainly not to some Church. We also think that all moms and babies deserve a decent start in life, which your legislative clowns just did away with yet again. Last, for pete’s sake, will at least five of you guys take a few minutes, and at least learn what the word, “liberal,” means? Pro tip: it ain’t, “baby-murdering communist.”\n",
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This article reduces a complex issue to a few silly platitudes spoken by “experts”. I’m sure, if you do a little asking, you can find professors who will not say that widening highways will always lead to the same or worse congestion. Obviously there’s a threshold at which that stops making sense. Are we saying that a congested 4-lane expressway, if widened to 20 lanes, will quickly grow equally congested? That sounds like a recipe for phenomenal economic growth, what with all the people and jobs and businesses that would have to move around this expressway to produce that traffic! What the quoted professors are really saying is that it makes more sense to use marginal transportation dollars on public transit. I would argue that that depends on public transit reaching enough critical mass that it will serve the same number of passengers per dollar spent.
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"content": "This article reduces a complex issue to a few silly platitudes spoken by “experts”. I’m sure, if you do a little asking, you can find professors who will not say that widening highways will always lead to the same or worse congestion. Obviously there’s a threshold at which that stops making sense. Are we saying that a congested 4-lane expressway, if widened to 20 lanes, will quickly grow equally congested? That sounds like a recipe for phenomenal economic growth, what with all the people and jobs and businesses that would have to move around this expressway to produce that traffic! What the quoted professors are really saying is that it makes more sense to use marginal transportation dollars on public transit. I would argue that that depends on public transit reaching enough critical mass that it will serve the same number of passengers per dollar spent.\n",
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If you don’t find the idea of Noma appealing, move on. I can’t imagine spending more than $10k on a vehicle, and yet people some waste hundreds of thousands on them. An object that moves A-to-B, really. But I can accept that it’s a fetish that I just don’t get; I don’t need to belittle those who enjoy that which I do not. Some people spend thousands of dollars on first-class plane tickets; some spend thousands of dollars on sports, non-fungible tokens, antiques, and hotels. In a world where people drop thousands of dollars on all manner of obnoxious interests, $500 for a unique meal does not seem so outlandish that I must scorn it. Is this simply modern America, where one cannot abide another having a difference in opinion (or even a difference in delight, it seems!)
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"content": "If you don’t find the idea of Noma appealing, move on. I can’t imagine spending more than $10k on a vehicle, and yet people some waste hundreds of thousands on them. An object that moves A-to-B, really. But I can accept that it’s a fetish that I just don’t get; I don’t need to belittle those who enjoy that which I do not. Some people spend thousands of dollars on first-class plane tickets; some spend thousands of dollars on sports, non-fungible tokens, antiques, and hotels. In a world where people drop thousands of dollars on all manner of obnoxious interests, $500 for a unique meal does not seem so outlandish that I must scorn it. Is this simply modern America, where one cannot abide another having a difference in opinion (or even a difference in delight, it seems!)\n",
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