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Glad you mentioned Moehringer, because the book cover doesn't (nor does Amazon). I hope he got a big cut out of that $20 million advance.
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"content": "Glad you mentioned Moehringer, because the book cover doesn't (nor does Amazon). I hope he got a big cut out of that $20 million advance.\n",
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Just wondering:Why does the U.S. government feel it necessary to self-censor by stepping gingerly and equivocating in their official words only when it comes to this particular foreign country, while every single U.S. taxpayer is forced to pony up toward contributing billions of dollars per year so that the current Israeli government can continue to enforce its illegal occupation, construction of settlements, theft of land and resources, and ongoing violence against the indigenous Palestinian population day in and day out, year after year, while they remain caged in an open-air prison in their own homeland, all in direct violation of international law? That is exactly what is happening, and the rest of the world can see it quite clearly because nobody is censoring their information or opinions. That only happens in the U.S., as far as I can tell.Meanwhile, millions of American taxpayers who are just one health problem away from potential bankruptcy are forced to subsidize an already wealthy nation which has a national healthcare system, thanks in part to their massive financial contributions, and the U.S. remains the only advanced industrialized nation on the planet which does not guarantee its citizens their internationally recognized human right to at least minimally adequate healthcare. This is a scandal and an abomination. This reality cannot be censored out of existence, no matter how hard some might wish it possible. It remains real and true.
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"content": "Just wondering:Why does the U.S. government feel it necessary to self-censor by stepping gingerly and equivocating in their official words only when it comes to this particular foreign country, while every single U.S. taxpayer is forced to pony up toward contributing billions of dollars per year so that the current Israeli government can continue to enforce its illegal occupation, construction of settlements, theft of land and resources, and ongoing violence against the indigenous Palestinian population day in and day out, year after year, while they remain caged in an open-air prison in their own homeland, all in direct violation of international law? That is exactly what is happening, and the rest of the world can see it quite clearly because nobody is censoring their information or opinions. That only happens in the U.S., as far as I can tell.Meanwhile, millions of American taxpayers who are just one health problem away from potential bankruptcy are forced to subsidize an already wealthy nation which has a national healthcare system, thanks in part to their massive financial contributions, and the U.S. remains the only advanced industrialized nation on the planet which does not guarantee its citizens their internationally recognized human right to at least minimally adequate healthcare. This is a scandal and an abomination. This reality cannot be censored out of existence, no matter how hard some might wish it possible. It remains real and true.\n",
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NorCal I've worked inside the DoD and seen hundreds of millions of dollars spent only to have the project either terminated or the result mothballed. The DoD's budget could be cut in half forcing them to make better choices on what to spend their money on and forcing military contractors to perform more efficiently. There's too much waste in defense. Besides we spend more $$$ than the next 12 largest defense budgeted countries combined and most of those 12 are allies.
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"content": "NorCal I've worked inside the DoD and seen hundreds of millions of dollars spent only to have the project either terminated or the result mothballed. The DoD's budget could be cut in half forcing them to make better choices on what to spend their money on and forcing military contractors to perform more efficiently. There's too much waste in defense. Besides we spend more $$$ than the next 12 largest defense budgeted countries combined and most of those 12 are allies.\n",
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My favorite piece in a while. I lost a ton of whatever faith I had left in much of the Silicon Valley venture capital community when they rushed into crypto and funded any Web 3.0 company promising to do this or that in “the metaverse”. There are a ton of smart people with a whole lot of money who are just as fallible as any 19-year-old undergrad.
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"content": "My favorite piece in a while. I lost a ton of whatever faith I had left in much of the Silicon Valley venture capital community when they rushed into crypto and funded any Web 3.0 company promising to do this or that in “the metaverse”. There are a ton of smart people with a whole lot of money who are just as fallible as any 19-year-old undergrad.\n",
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b fagan Right. Water management is not a modern issue. For CA, it includes groundwater aquifers, lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. Reservoirs do not have enough capacity for all use, agriculture at 80%, and urban 20%. Snow melt in the Sierra Nevada mtns to rivers supplies most water through the warmer months, but when not sufficient groundwater extraction supplements, it's a real problem because prolonged groundwater pumping during extended dry periods has severely depleted most aquifers. Another issue is runoff during excessive episodic rainfalls and storms, because the ground cannot absorb it all, so that even if yearly rainfall totals are met reservoirs and groundwater are not replenished.Also with warmer weather & storms snowpacks are shrinking even if total precipitation is not.Additionally, dry soil absorbs less, and cannot absorb all the rainfall which this leads to flash flooding.Areas east of Sacramento recently had 17 inches of rain in abt 48 hrs., most as runoff, which does not replenish reservoirs or aquifers. In addition, when rivers are at capacity their flood mitigation is useless.There is little feasible way to increase and provide enough reservoir storage. Most of the problem must be managed through consumption, and don’t get me going on energy consuming desalination plants, and having to manage all the resulting solids and minerals and mountains of salt.
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"content": "b fagan Right. Water management is not a modern issue. For CA, it includes groundwater aquifers, lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. Reservoirs do not have enough capacity for all use, agriculture at 80%, and urban 20%. Snow melt in the Sierra Nevada mtns to rivers supplies most water through the warmer months, but when not sufficient groundwater extraction supplements, it's a real problem because prolonged groundwater pumping during extended dry periods has severely depleted most aquifers. Another issue is runoff during excessive episodic rainfalls and storms, because the ground cannot absorb it all, so that even if yearly rainfall totals are met reservoirs and groundwater are not replenished.Also with warmer weather & storms snowpacks are shrinking even if total precipitation is not.Additionally, dry soil absorbs less, and cannot absorb all the rainfall which this leads to flash flooding.Areas east of Sacramento recently had 17 inches of rain in abt 48 hrs., most as runoff, which does not replenish reservoirs or aquifers. In addition, when rivers are at capacity their flood mitigation is useless.There is little feasible way to increase and provide enough reservoir storage. Most of the problem must be managed through consumption, and don’t get me going on energy consuming desalination plants, and having to manage all the resulting solids and minerals and mountains of salt.\n",
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dave That must have been frozen farmed salmon. Out here in the Bay Area, wild salmon runs over $25 a pound. Even at TJ's, the frozen salmon costs more than $11 a pound.
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"content": "dave That must have been frozen farmed salmon. Out here in the Bay Area, wild salmon runs over $25 a pound. Even at TJ's, the frozen salmon costs more than $11 a pound.\n",
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"LKAB said it could take 10 to 15 years or more before the metals were delivered to market because of the lengthy environmental studies and other work required to open a mining facility in Europe."This is one of the not-often acknowledged realities of our transition away from fossil fuels. In the Western world, it frequently takes 1-1/2 to 2 decades before a mining deposit's products reach the marketplace.At some point, we'll be asked which we want first: moving away from fossil fuels as soon as possible, or continuing with the present set of environmental constraints we've chosen over the past five decades.
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As long as the ROI exceeds the interest payments on the debt, it's a win. And infrastructure spending usually has a pretty good ROI.I'm not exactly sure how the infrastructure bill was financed, but it would be nice if was with long-term bonds that locked in the low rates of 2021.
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"content": "As long as the ROI exceeds the interest payments on the debt, it's a win. And infrastructure spending usually has a pretty good ROI.I'm not exactly sure how the infrastructure bill was financed, but it would be nice if was with long-term bonds that locked in the low rates of 2021.\n",
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If you haven't seen the fun fair photo of Franz Kafka with three friends "in" an airplane, here is the link. [pic 16 of 16]<a href="https://kafkamuseum.cz/en/photogallery" target="_blank">https://kafkamuseum.cz/en/photogallery</a>/ I first saw this picture in the living room of Mrs. Katznelson, my neighbor in Jerusalem in 1970. She was the woman in the picture and she might have been Kafka's cousin. She said they'd often had many jolly times with friends. I must take exception to this sentence in the review: "He was not made for his times — or for any times, really." This is a beautiful thought, but according to my history professor, the late Caroline Robbins, inherently mistaken. In her unforgettable opening to her Great Historians seminar, she posited that "We are all contemporaneous," that is, no one is ahead of his times, or not made for his times. We are all inexorably 𝐨𝐟 our times.
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"content": "If you haven't seen the fun fair photo of Franz Kafka with three friends \"in\" an airplane, here is the link. [pic 16 of 16]<a href=\"https://kafkamuseum.cz/en/photogallery\" target=\"_blank\">https://kafkamuseum.cz/en/photogallery</a>/ I first saw this picture in the living room of Mrs. Katznelson, my neighbor in Jerusalem in 1970. She was the woman in the picture and she might have been Kafka's cousin. She said they'd often had many jolly times with friends. I must take exception to this sentence in the review: \"He was not made for his times — or for any times, really.\" This is a beautiful thought, but according to my history professor, the late Caroline Robbins, inherently mistaken. In her unforgettable opening to her Great Historians seminar, she posited that \"We are all contemporaneous,\" that is, no one is ahead of his times, or not made for his times. We are all inexorably 𝐨𝐟 our times.\n",
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“Gold has fluctuated between being a terrific investment and a terrible one.”The late Jack Bogle who founded Vanguard and the world’s first index fund once said, “Gold isn’t an investment AT ALL!” I agree with Mr. Bogle. Gold is just a thing. It’s a piece of rare metal. It differs from crypto, because it wasn’t invented and it’s something you can actually hold in your hand. It makes no more sense using it as a currency than any other precious item that can be easily divided. Salt, I heard, was once used as a currency, hence the saying, “Someone isn’t worth their salt.” Buying gold as an investment is pure speculation. It produces nothing and therefore pays nothing. It’s only similar to Bitcoin in that respect.
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"content": "“Gold has fluctuated between being a terrific investment and a terrible one.”The late Jack Bogle who founded Vanguard and the world’s first index fund once said, “Gold isn’t an investment AT ALL!” I agree with Mr. Bogle. Gold is just a thing. It’s a piece of rare metal. It differs from crypto, because it wasn’t invented and it’s something you can actually hold in your hand. It makes no more sense using it as a currency than any other precious item that can be easily divided. Salt, I heard, was once used as a currency, hence the saying, “Someone isn’t worth their salt.” Buying gold as an investment is pure speculation. It produces nothing and therefore pays nothing. It’s only similar to Bitcoin in that respect.\n",
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| no | Classification | 475 |
LSE is part of LAHP (London Arts and Humanities Partnership), which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.Tuition is 25,272 GBP = $31,166.LSE is a public research institution. and receives public funding.Columbia is totally private, depends on fund raising and tuition which is $63,530. LSE and Columbia are two very different types of institutions but then I assume that Columbia's Board was aware of that.
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A fellow transit employee, a supervisor, told me last winter that he was going to pull his money out of his 401k to invest in crypto. I encouraged him not to, but he probably did. How many other small time investors did the same and basically lost their life savings to these crooks?
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"content": "A fellow transit employee, a supervisor, told me last winter that he was going to pull his money out of his 401k to invest in crypto. I encouraged him not to, but he probably did. How many other small time investors did the same and basically lost their life savings to these crooks?\n",
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Microsoft doesn’t invent they copy thus they are enable to weather differences in economic conditions.
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I see it a little differently. Party unity has been less imposed by Congressional leaders than comes from the militancy and an increased partisanship of shrinking bases of both parties, especially the Republicans. The opposition to McCarthy’s leadership was certainly not an effort to reform but to assert ideological control and push the party farther right. Levin is right that getting things done like infrastructure legislation, which occasionally does motivate action, requires bipartisan cooperation, since basically a 60-seat majority is required in the Senate for any important legislation. But for most members, more important than getting things done is getting reelected, which comes every 2 years for House members. With shrinking party bases, except in a few purple districts, it is very difficult to work in any kind of bipartisan manner without an internal competitor outflanking one ideologically in the next primary season in party conventions, primaries, or with all important funders. Look at the House Republicans who supported impeachment. While some of Levin’s ideas such as fusing authorization and appropriation process are misguided and dangerous, my main point is that House procedural “reforms” are not going to get Levin to the kind of factional (or more importantly individual) freedom and open policy debate and compromise he hopes for. Addressing gerrymandering, open primaries, rank order voting, and campaign finance reform are far more critical.
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We could start by taxing personal income gained from treasury investments.I’ve thought a lot about the tax code and really believe we need to move to a much simpler model:1) all forms of income are treated alike. No lower rate for capital gains vs wage income. No tax-free inheritances. Income is income 2) a simple progressive ladder for income taxation with a higher rate bracket than today like 50% on very high income (say over 5 million a year per household)3) no deductions. At all. These are gamed by people who can figure it out and distort the market (for instance, they make owning a house less expensive than renting because of mortgage and property tax deductions. This favors people with capital to purchase a home). Get rid of all deductions so no one has to think about it anymore, fill out forms, keep receipts, etc I’m sure a system with these principles would be not only simpler, but fairer (complexity helps those who afford accountants) and will put capital and labor on a more equal playing field. We could raise a lot more money for the country in a way people understand.
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"content": "We could start by taxing personal income gained from treasury investments.I’ve thought a lot about the tax code and really believe we need to move to a much simpler model:1) all forms of income are treated alike. No lower rate for capital gains vs wage income. No tax-free inheritances. Income is income 2) a simple progressive ladder for income taxation with a higher rate bracket than today like 50% on very high income (say over 5 million a year per household)3) no deductions. At all. These are gamed by people who can figure it out and distort the market (for instance, they make owning a house less expensive than renting because of mortgage and property tax deductions. This favors people with capital to purchase a home). Get rid of all deductions so no one has to think about it anymore, fill out forms, keep receipts, etc I’m sure a system with these principles would be not only simpler, but fairer (complexity helps those who afford accountants) and will put capital and labor on a more equal playing field. We could raise a lot more money for the country in a way people understand.\n",
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Paresh Y Murudkar Hypothesis: Google wants it leaked. OpenAI has by being public acquired huge amount of attention. Although Google will likely achieve partity with OpenAI shortly, their immediate danger is to become the default definition of the technology. Microsoft found out years ago that even though Bing had reached technical parity with Google, the public had been convinced to search for something was to "Google It.'Thus, Google has to ghet out there with its own stuff, before the "GPT It" because the next generation term for search.
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"content": "Paresh Y Murudkar Hypothesis: Google wants it leaked. OpenAI has by being public acquired huge amount of attention. Although Google will likely achieve partity with OpenAI shortly, their immediate danger is to become the default definition of the technology. Microsoft found out years ago that even though Bing had reached technical parity with Google, the public had been convinced to search for something was to \"Google It.'Thus, Google has to ghet out there with its own stuff, before the \"GPT It\" because the next generation term for search.\n",
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Or we could balance the budget by getting the wealthy and Wall St. to pay their fair share of taxes.The 2017 Trump tax cuts were 90% for the wealthy.And they increased the deficit from $600 billion to $1 trillion.Funny, we didn't hear Republicans complaining about balancing the budget then.
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I am curious how much of Russia's GDP has been thrown into this reckless war, and how this compares with our own military spending.Perhaps a better question: Is Russia spending as much in Ukraine as we wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan?The US squandered so much in those wars. We face historic debt, raging inflation and a pending recession. Where would we be if we have spent those trillions fixing our broken schools, infrastructure, supply chains, high tech manufacturing base and jobs?Yes, the Russian oil sanctions are a failure, and almost seem to have been boobytrapped.A price cap enforced by a cartel of western oil- buying nations? This is not only illegal monopsonization, setting a terrible international precedent, but it cannot work when the world's largest countries -- China, India, Indonesia and more -- do not play ball.Sanctions? Biden's sanctions carefully excepted the international banks that drive the global oil trade, and when they were tightened, settlements simply moved off SWIFT onto rival platforms.We may not say the Russian or American economy is in tatters, that it is destroyed, that either nation lacks funds to continue this war. But we do face a choice: how many billions will be throw at Russia, instead of investing in our own people?
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"content": "I am curious how much of Russia's GDP has been thrown into this reckless war, and how this compares with our own military spending.Perhaps a better question: Is Russia spending as much in Ukraine as we wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan?The US squandered so much in those wars. We face historic debt, raging inflation and a pending recession. Where would we be if we have spent those trillions fixing our broken schools, infrastructure, supply chains, high tech manufacturing base and jobs?Yes, the Russian oil sanctions are a failure, and almost seem to have been boobytrapped.A price cap enforced by a cartel of western oil- buying nations? This is not only illegal monopsonization, setting a terrible international precedent, but it cannot work when the world's largest countries -- China, India, Indonesia and more -- do not play ball.Sanctions? Biden's sanctions carefully excepted the international banks that drive the global oil trade, and when they were tightened, settlements simply moved off SWIFT onto rival platforms.We may not say the Russian or American economy is in tatters, that it is destroyed, that either nation lacks funds to continue this war. But we do face a choice: how many billions will be throw at Russia, instead of investing in our own people?\n",
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Socrates Excellent responses. Yes, if you follow the money it is easy to see that BOTH parties are influenced by the big spenders in political campaigns. The problem is the system, which allows laundered campaign contributions to corrupt both parties.An additional problem is the big money spent to influence the factional media, the factional entertainment industries, and the segregated educational systems in which working class people are deliberately taught to hate each other through the promotion of stereotypes. Yet, the politicians want to be adored by their fans. Change the system...take the influence money out of political campaigns. And we must all learn to think more critically when faced with the divisive themes that assault us daily in the media, the educational system and the entertainment industry. As a nation, we have been deliberately divided according to race, religion, gender, and age....this is nothing new. It is the oldest political tool in the history of class structure, but its just easier to do it today because of technological innovations.
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"content": "Socrates Excellent responses. Yes, if you follow the money it is easy to see that BOTH parties are influenced by the big spenders in political campaigns. The problem is the system, which allows laundered campaign contributions to corrupt both parties.An additional problem is the big money spent to influence the factional media, the factional entertainment industries, and the segregated educational systems in which working class people are deliberately taught to hate each other through the promotion of stereotypes. Yet, the politicians want to be adored by their fans. Change the system...take the influence money out of political campaigns. And we must all learn to think more critically when faced with the divisive themes that assault us daily in the media, the educational system and the entertainment industry. As a nation, we have been deliberately divided according to race, religion, gender, and age....this is nothing new. It is the oldest political tool in the history of class structure, but its just easier to do it today because of technological innovations.\n",
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10 years ago while pregnant we moved from Brooklyn to Westchester County. We didn't have an option of great public school in our fun, festive, culturally rich, and diverse NYC neighborhood. We didn't have generational wealth or other financial support so private school was not an option. We moved to Westchester, purchased a home in a "great school district" paid over $25k in taxes - only to witness that Westchester is highly segregated and white supremacy is a feature not a bug. I watched my child's self-esteem decline beginning at age 3, regular race based comments including skin color comments. The N word is a common slur at the mid and high school and it worsens as you go through the school system. Black children are not thriving and are treated as inferior. We moved to North Carolina just before 5th grade. Our child has thrived. Attends a top public school (ranked 10/10 on Great Schools) and is focused on learning, joined a sports team, and has an average of 93 across all subjects with a diverse array of classmates and school staff.  NY offers littlefor Black families who want to actually thrive instead of barely survive. I don't miss it.
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By law, Social Security cannot contribute to the federal deficit, because it is required to pay benefits only from its trust funds. Those, in turn, are funded through a dedicated payroll tax of 12.4 percent of income, split evenly between employees and employers, levied on income (this year) up to $128,400.The program’s revenue and expenses are accounted for through two federal trust funds that have operated with large and growing surpluses in recent years, and they finished fiscal 2018 with an estimated $2.89 trillion. By law, Social Security must invest these surplus funds only in special-issue U.S. Treasury notes, which have the same full faith and credit guarantee as any other federal bond.In other words the excess SS funds are in effect loans made to the federal government so it can pay it's bills and fund the military, the FAA, the Dept. of Transportation, Health and Human Services, and on and on. Cuts to Social Security WILL NOT lower the deficit, in fact it may make the debt worse because SS wont have extra money to LOAN the govt
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| yes | Classification | 8,021 |
If Amazon were a little less greedy (ha!) they would form alliances with physical bookstores whereby a store would get a small fee (50 cents? A dollar?) for every book sold within a radius of that store. Book stores are a vital part of the eco system of reading and buying. The physical stores support Amazon and other online sellers, why shouldn't they share at least a little in the revenues? Put another way, what would happen to Amazon if all of the stores closed? The world would be a duller place and Amazon's sales would gradually decline.Amazon, a typical half brain dead corporation, realizes the value of stores by opening some of its own. This is the opposite of what should be done. They should help existing stores. Some stores, in fact, might be able to serve as distribution centers for books ordered online, giving them another chance to participate in the flow of money.Meanwhile, Barnes and Nobel should consider opening some smaller stores in smaller towns. Why should Durant, Oklahoma, and other places only have a Wall Mart or a Target with only the most popular books or only right wing books praising Trump and Republicans? Let some air in. Try some small stores. The investment would be modest.Local television stations, to jump to another field, are thriving today because they got Congress to force cable to pay cold hard cash for carrying local programming. That can't be done in terms of book stores but the example of how to do well in changed times should stick.
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"content": "If Amazon were a little less greedy (ha!) they would form alliances with physical bookstores whereby a store would get a small fee (50 cents? A dollar?) for every book sold within a radius of that store. Book stores are a vital part of the eco system of reading and buying. The physical stores support Amazon and other online sellers, why shouldn't they share at least a little in the revenues? Put another way, what would happen to Amazon if all of the stores closed? The world would be a duller place and Amazon's sales would gradually decline.Amazon, a typical half brain dead corporation, realizes the value of stores by opening some of its own. This is the opposite of what should be done. They should help existing stores. Some stores, in fact, might be able to serve as distribution centers for books ordered online, giving them another chance to participate in the flow of money.Meanwhile, Barnes and Nobel should consider opening some smaller stores in smaller towns. Why should Durant, Oklahoma, and other places only have a Wall Mart or a Target with only the most popular books or only right wing books praising Trump and Republicans? Let some air in. Try some small stores. The investment would be modest.Local television stations, to jump to another field, are thriving today because they got Congress to force cable to pay cold hard cash for carrying local programming. That can't be done in terms of book stores but the example of how to do well in changed times should stick.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,219 |
Last year I sold a car that I thought was worth about $8,000 to CarMax for $17,000. Color me happy with the recent used car boom.
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| yes | Classification | 6,918 |
Mike T. Yes, would love to know how much the CEO and board’s wealth increased by the stock buyback. Please report on that.
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| yes | Classification | 8,245 |
This situation isn't new to the pandemic. The pandemic just made the situation with repairs in city housing worse. I wonder how the government feels we can keep an opened boarder when we are unable to assist our own poor residents and homeless.
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"content": "This situation isn't new to the pandemic. The pandemic just made the situation with repairs in city housing worse. I wonder how the government feels we can keep an opened boarder when we are unable to assist our own poor residents and homeless.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,243 |
It happens in ballet too, though not on stairs but on a ramp. a mesmerizing site which you can watch: one version of The Bolshoi Ballet perform the beginning of Act 2 of La Bayadere (The Kingdom of the Shades—choreography by Petppa) when some 30 ballerinas descend a ramp to the achingly slow and beautiful music composed by Minkus. the lead ballerina must perform around 30 arabesque! I'll bet Bill Robinson was aware of this choreography.begin watching at 1:35:20<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opening+of+la+bayadere+abt&t=ffab&atb=v349-1&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https" target="_blank">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opening+of+la+bayadere+abt&t=ffab&atb=v349-1&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https</a>%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvM3E_tURxAM
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Eric B Wordle 576 3/6*⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 156🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WordleBotSkill 92/99Luck 58/99Mornin, Wordle Bees!🌅The pounding rain woke me up repeatedly during the night, but it cleared up by morning—a hint of blue is visible in the sky.🙏So, calmly, I entered my no-need-to-think-of-another-opener; I typed in my second word to turn 🟨 into 🟩, and it gifted me 2 more letters.After that, I expected to solve it in 3, unless I was careless and in a rush, as I often am.Boom!💥 Done!✅I’m happy with the 156-to-1-to word-found progression.😀
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What price glory.
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Some of what Klein describes as motivating Republicans comes from political ideology (small government, as a general rule, etc.) but a great deal seems driven by the human id--selfishness, fear, greed, nastiness, bullying, and whatnot. I've always thought most, but not all, of one's politics extends from one's psychology, as in Libertarianism is a wonderful way to justify selfishness and a lack of empathy. Every person has a negative expression of themselves and politics activates it. Which is why someone who is perfectly nice can turn into a total freak as soon as the conversation goes political. A generalization--most Republicans I've known, and I've been the friends of a few, tend to express the above id drives when they go negative. Most Democrats or liberals tend to express negatively as controlling, sanctimonious, immature, things like that. The big difference overall, to me, is that Republicans seem to marinate in those ugly id drives much more, and are almost drawn to it the way a rageaholic is to argument--something in them needs to feel those feelings, bad. Which is why I currently don't have any friends who are Republicans. Someday, maybe that'll change but I can't see it yet....
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This has been a problem for decade in America. One example is Colchicine used to treat gout, a remedy so old that the ancient Greeks knew about its effects. It has been marketed in the US since the mid-late 1800s. In 2009, the FDA granted URL Pharma approval in exchange for URL Pharma doing 17 new studies and investing $100 million into the product, of which $45 million went to the FDA for the application fee. URL Pharma raised the price from $0.09 per tablet to $4.85, and the FDA removed the older colchicine from the market in October 2010,
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| yes | Classification | 9,588 |
JCinTX Over $500/sq. ft.! If people would quit paying these outrageous prices driven by greedy real estate folks and rehab companies, prices would come back down to earth.
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"content": "JCinTX Over $500/sq. ft.! If people would quit paying these outrageous prices driven by greedy real estate folks and rehab companies, prices would come back down to earth.\n",
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| no | Classification | 227 |
but this isn't public investment. this is public dollars going to for profit private businesses. Roads and bridges which the public uses is public investment. a private factory which sells its products isn't public. The socialism comment is sarcastic. this is crony capitalism
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"content": "but this isn't public investment. this is public dollars going to for profit private businesses. Roads and bridges which the public uses is public investment. a private factory which sells its products isn't public. The socialism comment is sarcastic. this is crony capitalism\n",
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Memfem On the contrary, what is needed is to mobilize the tens of millions of disaffected youth and people of color who hate the Republican party buut are cynical that the Democratic Party will seriously step up to the plate for wage equality equal opportunity and stopping the open theft of democratic rights. That would be a tidal wave compared to the timid white middle class who think that if we could just go back to 1996 everything would be fine.
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Who is calculating the CPI, the tooth fairy?It said dairy went down last month.Last month the price of my eggs went from $1.50 yo $3.00!The toot fairy lives.
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"content": "Who is calculating the CPI, the tooth fairy?It said dairy went down last month.Last month the price of my eggs went from $1.50 yo $3.00!The toot fairy lives.\n",
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Russian antipathy if not outright hostility to the West is engrained in its political, social and religious DNA. This will not change, with or with Putin. It is a result of the anti Western model, not its creation.This does not necessarily mean an open war, especially one with nuclear consequences. But, one can look at the Ukrainian adventurism as akin to the Spanish Civil War. That was the model upon which Hitler built his plan to expand across all of Western and especially Eastern Europe. Putin in turn is testing the West's commitment to democracy. If NATO and its political allies continue to appease Putin with half means, he will win. Consequently, if any REDLINE is to be drawn, it should be drawn by The West. At the same time, diplomacy must be intensified to assure The Russians that there is no goal of conquest or defeat. Putin and his government may not want to accept this premise now. But, with persistence and a strong, forceful will, the Russian Bear might be persuaded to return to its lair, and even go into a peaceful hibernation that in the most hopeful outcome, prove convincing that its hostility will produce no gains.
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"content": "Russian antipathy if not outright hostility to the West is engrained in its political, social and religious DNA. This will not change, with or with Putin. It is a result of the anti Western model, not its creation.This does not necessarily mean an open war, especially one with nuclear consequences. But, one can look at the Ukrainian adventurism as akin to the Spanish Civil War. That was the model upon which Hitler built his plan to expand across all of Western and especially Eastern Europe. Putin in turn is testing the West's commitment to democracy. If NATO and its political allies continue to appease Putin with half means, he will win. Consequently, if any REDLINE is to be drawn, it should be drawn by The West. At the same time, diplomacy must be intensified to assure The Russians that there is no goal of conquest or defeat. Putin and his government may not want to accept this premise now. But, with persistence and a strong, forceful will, the Russian Bear might be persuaded to return to its lair, and even go into a peaceful hibernation that in the most hopeful outcome, prove convincing that its hostility will produce no gains.\n",
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| no | Classification | 808 |
Why are the Republicans so apoplectic when the debt sits on a Democratic house and admin's shoulders?I didn't hear of any self reflections when Trump gave himself and his buddies a tax break that rose the debt by 1.9 trillion dollars, according to CBO projections; nor did the "haves and have mores" bemoan GW Bush's tax break increasing that debt by a whopping combined total of $3.5 trillion.During Reagan's presidency, the federal debt held by the public nearly tripled in nominal terms, from $738 billion to $2.1 trillion, all as they attempted to drown us in a bathtub while wages managed to fall by .06%.Are we beginning to see a pattern here, like perhaps the GOP speaks with forked tongues?
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"content": "Why are the Republicans so apoplectic when the debt sits on a Democratic house and admin's shoulders?I didn't hear of any self reflections when Trump gave himself and his buddies a tax break that rose the debt by 1.9 trillion dollars, according to CBO projections; nor did the \"haves and have mores\" bemoan GW Bush's tax break increasing that debt by a whopping combined total of $3.5 trillion.During Reagan's presidency, the federal debt held by the public nearly tripled in nominal terms, from $738 billion to $2.1 trillion, all as they attempted to drown us in a bathtub while wages managed to fall by .06%.Are we beginning to see a pattern here, like perhaps the GOP speaks with forked tongues?\n",
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Michael H nope, nope. What needs to happen are restrictions on Ag expansion, particularly re export cash crops like wine grapes and nuts. Aquifers cannot be improved when farmers and ranchers dig deeper wells that become a business expense that taxpayers subsidize. Being a California, please further educate yourself.
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| no | Classification | 144 |
"Along with the prison term, the judge imposed three years of supervised release and more than $10 million in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Singer was also ordered to forfeit millions of dollars in assets."What happens if (when?) this criminal does not turn over these assets?
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Dr Krugman was much too gentle about how borrowed money was deployed the last 20-25 years."..ending child poverty rather than giving tax breaks to corporations, rebuilding infrastructure rather than invading Iraq."I believe the unfunded, kindly word for deficit, spending amassed during the 20 years of Iraq and Afghanistan wars is $6 trillion or roughly 1/3 of the $20 trillion sum from Dr Krugman's opinion piece. Biden's original BBB proposals were $3 trillion. Throughout the debate about BBB, Manchin, Sinema and the Republicans et al from the Senate and the House pitched fit after fit about how the infrastructure spending was reckless, irresponsible, and dangerous after years of not a peep about Bush driving the American military and global leadership into a dead-end.
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Read this with and note the following. First, Nashville city government coming out foursquare against the Republican party attracted Tennessee state government retaliation. This seems rather petty on both sides, but one cannot help but notice that state governments have done this for some time, California being a past master. If Ms. Renkl has taken strong exception to California legislative retaliation, a quick internet check (e.g., her essays archive) reveals nothing.Second, and back to basics. Cities are creatures of the states; the federal government is also a creature of the states. And, of course, all these governments are subject to the will of the people expressed in free and open elections.I suggest she expand the scope of her indignation to include subjects such as the federal government's imposing its will on the states; the Biden Administration's agenda provides much material here. Worth noting is that states can, and should, exercise more oversight of cities than than feds over the states.Finally, I suggest Ms. Renkl focus her indignation at the Biden Administration's heavy handedness in many areas. And while she's at it, there's also the matter of federal officials sabotaging elections through attempts to disrupt elections through censorship of opposition political speech, not to mention disinformation which led DOJ's willfully false statement to FISA courts.Have at it, Margaret. There's much work to do.
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"content": "Read this with and note the following. First, Nashville city government coming out foursquare against the Republican party attracted Tennessee state government retaliation. This seems rather petty on both sides, but one cannot help but notice that state governments have done this for some time, California being a past master. If Ms. Renkl has taken strong exception to California legislative retaliation, a quick internet check (e.g., her essays archive) reveals nothing.Second, and back to basics. Cities are creatures of the states; the federal government is also a creature of the states. And, of course, all these governments are subject to the will of the people expressed in free and open elections.I suggest she expand the scope of her indignation to include subjects such as the federal government's imposing its will on the states; the Biden Administration's agenda provides much material here. Worth noting is that states can, and should, exercise more oversight of cities than than feds over the states.Finally, I suggest Ms. Renkl focus her indignation at the Biden Administration's heavy handedness in many areas. And while she's at it, there's also the matter of federal officials sabotaging elections through attempts to disrupt elections through censorship of opposition political speech, not to mention disinformation which led DOJ's willfully false statement to FISA courts.Have at it, Margaret. There's much work to do.\n",
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What's next? I'm going to open a restaurant where you pay $500 for an NFT of the food. The courses will be so creative, artistic and environmentally sustainable that it will leave Noma in the dust!
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I bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of bitcoin through Coinbase several years ago. The next morning I had lost half the value, and the next morning before I could use up the balance I lost more.. This was beyond my appetite for risk, never mind its anonymity. I had a fraction of a bitcoin in the account and never looked it up for at least 7 years. Shockingly it was worth over $4k!. I decided to roll the dice and have not checked the account.The bitcoin stuff is way better than the NFT scam which is digital and modern day twist of famous artist/photographer rendering of a famous painting or photograph. They sell it as something unique...one of a limited series of 500, 1000 etc. People buy them in droves. What is it worth?Gold seems to be limited. People around the world invest in it in the form of jewelry. It still holds value for everybody while bitcoins, NFTs and Giclees etc are for a tiny group of people.The MAGAs are coming for the Fed/Treasury so is keeping savings in bonds safe? Maybe storing in a coffee can, under the mattress is better:)
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"content": "I bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of bitcoin through Coinbase several years ago. The next morning I had lost half the value, and the next morning before I could use up the balance I lost more.. This was beyond my appetite for risk, never mind its anonymity. I had a fraction of a bitcoin in the account and never looked it up for at least 7 years. Shockingly it was worth over $4k!. I decided to roll the dice and have not checked the account.The bitcoin stuff is way better than the NFT scam which is digital and modern day twist of famous artist/photographer rendering of a famous painting or photograph. They sell it as something unique...one of a limited series of 500, 1000 etc. People buy them in droves. What is it worth?Gold seems to be limited. People around the world invest in it in the form of jewelry. It still holds value for everybody while bitcoins, NFTs and Giclees etc are for a tiny group of people.The MAGAs are coming for the Fed/Treasury so is keeping savings in bonds safe? Maybe storing in a coffee can, under the mattress is better:)\n",
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You may want to consider that the price of tomatoes fluctuates over a period of six months because it is a seasonal product. It shouldn’t be so surprising that tomatoes are more expensive in winter in Austria… Anyway it is not environmentally responsible to eat summer fruits and vegetables in winter as they require transportation (=oil) from warmer countries or heating greenhouses (=oil). It is all the more surprising that veganism is often thought to be associated with a greater environmental awareness, isn’t it?Then, 250€ a month averaged over the whole year including summertime to heat a single room is hardly believable. I heat my entire house during a winter month for less than that in the Alps.There is obviously something wrong, either with you post, or with you bill, or with Vienna.
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"content": "You may want to consider that the price of tomatoes fluctuates over a period of six months because it is a seasonal product. It shouldn’t be so surprising that tomatoes are more expensive in winter in Austria… Anyway it is not environmentally responsible to eat summer fruits and vegetables in winter as they require transportation (=oil) from warmer countries or heating greenhouses (=oil). It is all the more surprising that veganism is often thought to be associated with a greater environmental awareness, isn’t it?Then, 250€ a month averaged over the whole year including summertime to heat a single room is hardly believable. I heat my entire house during a winter month for less than that in the Alps.There is obviously something wrong, either with you post, or with you bill, or with Vienna.\n",
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This would have a hugely beneficial long term effect on health care. Large hospital groups in the US, all of which pretend to be “non profits” so they don’t pay taxes, are currently using covid rescue money to buy surrounding struggling local hospitals to extend their oligopoly and raise prices and revenue even further. Their business model depends on preventing competition via utter control of their workers, including drs, using stringent non competes, and then using market leverage for example to hire debt collection agencies that smaller hospitals/practitioners can’t/won’t.Non competes are meant for partnership and shared ownership arrangements, not for employees who have no say in how they are managed, how the business is run, or in this case how patients are treated. So I fully expect the Supreme Court to follow the money and shoot this down lol.
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Call Me Ishmael A lot of that was due to the utter destruction of the European continent, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the relative agrarian economy of China. I agree with you about the marginal tax rate, but the US had a national debt of $260B in 1950, with a GDP of $299.8B - So, percentage wise, it's not drastically different from where we are today (except the numbers are higher for both): $29.617T in national debt with a GDP $23.32T in 2021. 2022 numbers are still awaiting Q4 finalization.And I think we both agree that taxes on Corporations and wealth earners definitely needs refactoring. I would suggest eliminating the cap on Social Security, and treat all income equally. No more differentiation between earned and unearned income. If you receive cash or assets, it's taxed like earned income. If corporations want to lessen that burden, then they can invest some of the obscene profits (profits, not revenue) back into their companies for a discount -- by paying people more in wages, providing better health insurance, etc.
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The digital genie is out of the bottle. Anything we do to restrict A.I. advancement will not be honored by the likes of Putin, China, or N. Korea. It would be gross negligence if our military did not have an advanced A.I. weapons program. This week I watched a Boston Dynamics humanoid robot climb and do backflips and saw drones bomb enemy combatants, yet we can't stop cybercrime. The cat's out of the bag, the horse left the barn, and the digital genie is out of the bottle.For a Congressman who codes, this is a somewhat eye-opening, if not scary, admission that our elected officials may not have a clue.Any hope of combating, let alone regulating, A.I. would require being at the forefront of A.I. advancement; hopefully, DARPA is all-in, even if they must keep Congress in the dark.Regarding consumer misuse of A.I., go ahead and form a committee. Still, again, election manipulation by foreign adversaries was done on Fox, Facebook, and Twitter, and you can't even stop cybercrime, so good luck with a committee. It's hard to imagine regulating A.I. when we lack so much I.
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"content": "The digital genie is out of the bottle. Anything we do to restrict A.I. advancement will not be honored by the likes of Putin, China, or N. Korea. It would be gross negligence if our military did not have an advanced A.I. weapons program. This week I watched a Boston Dynamics humanoid robot climb and do backflips and saw drones bomb enemy combatants, yet we can't stop cybercrime. The cat's out of the bag, the horse left the barn, and the digital genie is out of the bottle.For a Congressman who codes, this is a somewhat eye-opening, if not scary, admission that our elected officials may not have a clue.Any hope of combating, let alone regulating, A.I. would require being at the forefront of A.I. advancement; hopefully, DARPA is all-in, even if they must keep Congress in the dark.Regarding consumer misuse of A.I., go ahead and form a committee. Still, again, election manipulation by foreign adversaries was done on Fox, Facebook, and Twitter, and you can't even stop cybercrime, so good luck with a committee. It's hard to imagine regulating A.I. when we lack so much I.\n",
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James Ryan Here is what a couple earning $400k/ year get each month.Earnings: $33,333.33Taxes: −$12,847.16 Federal Income Tax: −$6,400.00 Medicare Tax −$483.33 Social Security Tax −$2,066.67 State Income Tax: −$2,370.10 State Disability Insurance (SDI): −$2.60 Family Leave Insurance (FLI): −$151.67 City Tax: −$1,372.79Benefits: $0.00Rent: -$4500That is about $16K/month. Give or take. Which is pretty good. Yes, paying full freight for a private college will hurt. Probably not "rich" in that you are going to Aspen, but your flying coach.
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To the guy blaming Dems: No mention of Trump increasing the national deficit or pumping an already overheated economy with tax cuts and spending. We printed money, provided financial help to millions of people and businesses and are dealing with supply chain issues, not to mention funding a war. None of that has anything to do with democrats but if you wish, you can make a list of the specific policies democrats put in place which ruined your 401k. Back to the subject matter, it's funny how when the little guy starts making a little money, it's a major problem. But when executives make hundreds of times what their employees make, no one bats an eye. This country is at the behest of the most wealthy: its politicians are bought and paid for, the housing and education is increasingly unaffordable, even its tax laws are against the middle class. It will be interesting to see how the American dream plays out in the future, but I have no intention on staying here to find out. The only thing that will remain are my investments, I can always count on this country to prioritize profit over anything else.
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"content": "To the guy blaming Dems: No mention of Trump increasing the national deficit or pumping an already overheated economy with tax cuts and spending. We printed money, provided financial help to millions of people and businesses and are dealing with supply chain issues, not to mention funding a war. None of that has anything to do with democrats but if you wish, you can make a list of the specific policies democrats put in place which ruined your 401k. Back to the subject matter, it's funny how when the little guy starts making a little money, it's a major problem. But when executives make hundreds of times what their employees make, no one bats an eye. This country is at the behest of the most wealthy: its politicians are bought and paid for, the housing and education is increasingly unaffordable, even its tax laws are against the middle class. It will be interesting to see how the American dream plays out in the future, but I have no intention on staying here to find out. The only thing that will remain are my investments, I can always count on this country to prioritize profit over anything else.\n",
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Let’s hope they pay enough to keep these areas staffed!In my travels through the Northeast lately, I’m finding rest areas that will have only one of its franchises open of the three or four on site. It limits choices, and causes longer lines.
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If you don't want illegal migration, impose penalties on people who employ, directly or indirectly, or rent to undocumented migrants. Virtually all my neighbors decry "open borders" even as their gardens are kept and their houses are built by young men who speak no English, and their houses are cleaned and their grandchildren are watched by young women who speak no English. I doubt all, or even most, in this local army have legal status.Perhaps an impact fee imposed on employers and landlords to cover the costs of providing services to undocumented migrants, such as education for their children and health care, would at least wake people up to the fact that their desire for cheap labor comes at a cost.
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"content": "If you don't want illegal migration, impose penalties on people who employ, directly or indirectly, or rent to undocumented migrants. Virtually all my neighbors decry \"open borders\" even as their gardens are kept and their houses are built by young men who speak no English, and their houses are cleaned and their grandchildren are watched by young women who speak no English. I doubt all, or even most, in this local army have legal status.Perhaps an impact fee imposed on employers and landlords to cover the costs of providing services to undocumented migrants, such as education for their children and health care, would at least wake people up to the fact that their desire for cheap labor comes at a cost.\n",
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| no | Classification | 484 |
Steven Jampol He was one of the first to get the story started ... "FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jonathan Moffa told Senate Judiciary Committee staffers in 2020 that he got a July 2016 email from McGonigal which “contained essentially that reporting, which then served as the basis for the opening of the case.”"
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| no | Classification | 3,566 |
Unless you know somebody who knows somebody, it's nearly impossible to find a trustworthy financial advisor willing to manage assets under $1,000,000. This industry has stollen too much money to trust the wishy washy label "fiduciary." Bernie Madoff was a fiduciary .
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"content": "Unless you know somebody who knows somebody, it's nearly impossible to find a trustworthy financial advisor willing to manage assets under $1,000,000. This industry has stollen too much money to trust the wishy washy label \"fiduciary.\" Bernie Madoff was a fiduciary .\n",
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Robert Zimmerman spen $3.5M on this election. Seems like $50K for a couple private investigators would have been a good spend.
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"content": "Robert Zimmerman spen $3.5M on this election. Seems like $50K for a couple private investigators would have been a good spend.\n",
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On rent change, month to month, latestData Zumper National Rent Report January 25, 2023Restricting myself to NY StateMonthly change , all data available on Zumber for cities in NY State DownstateNY City -4.4%UpstateBuffalo +5.9Syracuse 0.0Rochester +5.4Median Household incomeNY City $70,663Buffalo $42,186Rochester $40,083Syracuse $40,490The latest average month to month rent increase is + 3.8% in cities where average median household income is $ 40,920The month to months increase is -4.4 % in a city where household income is $ 70,663 (73% higher than thosewhere it is 40,920)The lower the household income, the higher the month to month rent increaseData<a href="https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data" target="_blank">https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data</a>/<a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts" target="_blank">https://www.census.gov/quickfacts</a>/"name of city"
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ExpatScientist Skepticism aside, it's way too late to stop or even realistically control A.I. The genie is literally out of the bottle, with more sophisticated iterations of A.I. to come. There's too much financial momentum behind it. OpenAI, the research lab behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot, is in talks to sell existing shares in a tender offer that would value the company at around $29 billion, making it one of the most valuable U.S. startups on paper. Microsoft Corp. has also been in advanced talks to increase its investment in OpenAI. In 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and became its preferred partner for commercializing new technologies for services like the search engine Bing and the design app Microsoft Design. Other backers include Tesla CEO Elon Musk, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. There are over 100 AI companies developing various Machine learning tasks, new features coming daily. ChatGPT is a genuine productivity boost and a technological wonder. It can write code in Python, TypeScript, and many other languages at my command. It does have bugs in the code, but they are fixable. The possibilities are endless. I can't imagine what version 2.0 or 3.0 would look like. For better and/or worse, this is the future. It is incredible, even at this early stage. This technology is mind blowing and will unquestionably change the world. As Victor Hugo said " A force more powerful than all of the armies in the world is an idea whose time has come." It has.
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Hal - Probably, but a sanitation failure with a family picnic gets only that family’s members ill. Restauranteurs who have to pay rent and taxes, plus maintain their premises ready for inspection at all times, don’t like this competition. Unlicensed business activity is a fact of tropical living, though—check out all the $30 parking you’ll find in front yards around the university before a Hurricanes game. Everyone’s trying to survive in an expensive town with few social safety nets, importing habits from the Caribbean to do so. Conflicts between the Black and Cuban communities are another phenomenon in Miami-Dade, given the latter group controls the politics there; an expanding range of source cultures that now includes Venezuela and Brazil is adding to them, along with the über-wealthy condo crowd. But it’s a fun place to visit, and safer than it used to be, crime-wise.
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"content": "Hal - Probably, but a sanitation failure with a family picnic gets only that family’s members ill. Restauranteurs who have to pay rent and taxes, plus maintain their premises ready for inspection at all times, don’t like this competition. Unlicensed business activity is a fact of tropical living, though—check out all the $30 parking you’ll find in front yards around the university before a Hurricanes game. Everyone’s trying to survive in an expensive town with few social safety nets, importing habits from the Caribbean to do so. Conflicts between the Black and Cuban communities are another phenomenon in Miami-Dade, given the latter group controls the politics there; an expanding range of source cultures that now includes Venezuela and Brazil is adding to them, along with the über-wealthy condo crowd. But it’s a fun place to visit, and safer than it used to be, crime-wise.\n",
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commenter from WarsawYes we are the self-appointed leader of the world. That is part of the American rhetoric. We use our might wherever we want. We used it in Vietnam, we used it in Iraq, we used it in Syria, we used it in Afghanistan and we even used it in Granada (remember Reagan). We used it clandestinely in Chile and in Mossadegh’s Iran before that.858 billion. Let us prioritize our people’s health and welfare, their education, their self-respect if they belong to a racial minority properly. Helping Ukraine win against the tyranny of Putin is fantastic. I am proud of such help as I am of the help we provided anti-fascists in the Second World War (we could have done much more by bombing the tracks that went to Auschwitz and take in a few million Jews (my ancestors) in our sparse and wealthy country). But the 858 billion is not going to Ukraine. We send them mostly obsolete or almost obsolete equipment and spend the rest on overpriced defense industry invoices (even Charles Grassley, a conservative Senator criticized the overcharging on the senate floor).
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$1.6m??? I thought Trump was a big successful businessman. That's peanuts.
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"content": "$1.6m??? I thought Trump was a big successful businessman. That's peanuts.\n",
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D, laws often have to be revisited because of unintended consequences, but I think pay range transparency is good for all employees. Most companies will continue to have pay ranges that are fairly broad (i.e., $60,000 to $95,000), but making those ranges known gives employees the tools they need to negotiate their compensation.
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Kenneth Joseph Marsh Hard drug use is not a victimless crime, as so many progressives falsely assert, while setting up legal shooting galleries with clean needles and medical supervision, in San Francisco and other Democrat-led cities.Our prisons are too often run by gangs, and drugs are widely available even in the joint. This has to stop. But before resorting to harsh punishment, we should divert junkies into mandatory drug treatment, and do everything we can to help them redeem their lives -- and lock them up if they again resort to criminal activity to finance their addictions.Let's invest in mandatory treatment, job training and hope, which is the only real antidote to addiction.
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"content": "Kenneth Joseph Marsh Hard drug use is not a victimless crime, as so many progressives falsely assert, while setting up legal shooting galleries with clean needles and medical supervision, in San Francisco and other Democrat-led cities.Our prisons are too often run by gangs, and drugs are widely available even in the joint. This has to stop. But before resorting to harsh punishment, we should divert junkies into mandatory drug treatment, and do everything we can to help them redeem their lives -- and lock them up if they again resort to criminal activity to finance their addictions.Let's invest in mandatory treatment, job training and hope, which is the only real antidote to addiction.\n",
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While the $50billion is a meaningful figure it is not equivalent to handing over $50B in cash. We are donating a ton of used and outdated equipment (by US current standards) that are no longer being used by our military. The dollar value is assigned to the equipment but was spent decades ago. We are sending ammo and items requiring replenishment. Where does that money go? Back to US arms manufacturers and US employees…As an aside, after world has seen older Western tech perform so well against Russian tech, demand for western arms is increasing.
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| yes | Classification | 9,307 |
Republicans always bring up the inflation reduction act and the American rescue plan as the reason for inflation (which has actually gone down since both bills were passed - imagine that) but they don’t even know what is in the bills.Meanwhile, the single greatest investment in our nations safety and infrastructure is pouring billions of dollars into local economies and delivering real results to the American people in the form of roads, internet acces, police and fire funding (Yea, Democrats FUNDED police) and much more.So let them squabble about something they don’t understand and let America see what Republican leaderless leadership looks like.They’ll suffer for it in 2024. Look at Long Island, they already want to recall their Republican representative. Only takes 3 more of those for the house to flip back to Democrats.
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| yes | Classification | 7,142 |
Radishgirl It is very expensive to convert office buildings into housing. I've worked on those projects and it is very, very costly to install the correct plumbing for an apartment, redoing the walls and ceilings for residential use.It's not just about dividing an open space into apartments.
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D So wrong on many levels. Management creates ALL the value,for the only people that really matter in our system....the INVESTORS. Why do you think those investors countenance those ridiculous, huge, bloated salaries and bonuses showered on the top managers? Because, by hook or crook, they return the most money to them and you can bet a lot of that money is at the expense of the worker. In the investor's eyes the workers are little more that easily replaceable widgets, a dime a dozen, so to speak. Until and unless that model is shifted such that it is a, more or less, equal three-legged stool that consists of investor, management and labor nothing will change. One way might be to more widely offer profit sharing and stock options to workers. At least, they have some skin in the game. Another way might be to do what BMW did years ago.(don't know if they still do but guess not, judging by the junk they now make) They would make all managers, from the president on down, spend a day on the factory floor making/repairing their cars. That kept their management, MBA, class a bit more grounded to the suffering reality of what the business was all about.
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| yes | Classification | 9,592 |
Protecting the giant isn't necessary. They have recovered their investments and spend fortunes to market (passed on to us all). 30 price increases over 20 years. They don't need you defending them.
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"content": "Protecting the giant isn't necessary. They have recovered their investments and spend fortunes to market (passed on to us all). 30 price increases over 20 years. They don't need you defending them.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,651 |
Marie V. Gagliardi In addition, how about taking back at least a certain percentage of the 2017 tax cuts the GOP gave to fortune 500 corporations that were making billions in annual profit and didn't even need them. Those cuts did almost nothing to benefit the middle class as they promised, did not pay for themselves, and have added an estimated 2 trillion to the national deficit already. I laugh at the GOP's hypocrisy when they talk about the cuts to "entitlement"programs like Social Security and Medicare that are needed after drastically reducing the US government's tax base with their 40% tax decreases for the likes of Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
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| no | Classification | 782 |
I favor Biden following the Constitution 14th amendment that the US Government must pay its debts and obligations no matter what any particular Congress or President wants to do. BIden says he will direct Treasury to continue paying all debt and spending authorized in the December funding act.Last year the Treasury issued about $160 billion worth of $100 bills. Treasury could issue say $400 billion of hundred dollar bills and use those to pay expenditures and the debt.The House Repubs could go to Supreme Court and sue Biden, but unlikely even this nutty Court would agree to overturn the explicit language of the 14th amendment enacted after the Civil War to prevent any future Congress from playing around with federal debt and federal obligations like to veterans.
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| no | Classification | 392 |
As a lifelong passionate library patron - from the time my mother brought me to the tiny tot reading program at the library at 96St Ft Hamilton, Bklyn I was perturbed years later when I had a Root Art exhibit in the Clifton NJ Library where I would see young kids on computers - not reading - but all playing video games. So if libraries have become convenient computer terminals for game playing I don't see their value anymore - I'm sure that some kids are using them productively but that's what I saw. (I will add that my exhibit drew dozens of wonderful responses from esp kids (<a href="https://youtu.be/dlSTNuqyHA4" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/dlSTNuqyHA4</a>) and has drawn 9.6K views. But also, if the budget includes giving illegal immigrants ID cards & other services - how can the city assimilate 50K people w/o becoming a different culture/ city? I just don't get it. Why are citizens here not more outraged by what amounts to a migrant invasion? You can't just waltz into Russia or China (which discriminates against allowing Africans in - w/no apparent guilt). So if libraries are not the bastions of liberal democracy that they once were - offering knowledge thru reading - times have changed & they've lost their original intention re: Carnegie gave each American city a budget to build them – which then would be responsible for staffing them - w/the stipulation they remain open on Saturday so working people could use them. S.M. Art DirGrt Am Play Series<a href="https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/darkness-after-night-ukraine" target="_blank">https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/darkness-after-night-ukraine</a>
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The biggest problem with readily available pornography is teens and young adults get the impression the only partners worth considering have 10 star bodies and faces and have sexual skills above and beyond the average guy/gal.Pornography can be educational displaying techniques to please a partner but if it sets the goal of bedding only gorgeous guys /gals with expertise in sexual performance many will be frustrated in their quest.
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Do yourself a favor and buy a fitness tracker. I bought one for $50 and it keeps track of my steps and even vibrates when the hour mark is approaching and I haven’t moved enough. Even if you can’t make it to the gym, you can walk up and down stairs and run in place for 5 minutes. Go shopping to one of those big box stores and park far from the entrance. Take a brisk walk around the block. Reaching 10,000 steps is easy enough when I get to the gym, but it’s a challenge I enjoy on those days when I’m too busy.
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| yes | Classification | 7,993 |
After reading the actual ruling, it seems that the nearly $1M sanctions are just for paying the defendants' legal bills, ie there is no punitive aspect to it. Trump & Habba have just been asked to pay for all the detailed hourly billings by the very many defense counsels. I thought real sanctions were appropriate, not just paying the defendants' lawyering up costs.
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| yes | Classification | 7,148 |
The deficit has only been replaced with a surplus 5 times in the past 70 years and every single time it was due to a combination of economic expansion, spending cuts, and tax increases. Without both spending cuts and tax increases, it is simply impossible to balance the budget. The 3rd key ingredient- economic expansion is not something either party nor any politican can guarantee but having functioning adults willing to address practical matters of governance rather than impossible to compromise ideological convictions does make economic expansion more likely.
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Jonathan My guess is less than $30 / hour. I only dared to take $20 / hr from the restaurant I owned, and only for 10 hours a week.
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RS Totally agree. Such a lovely story, but ultimately these generous gifts are just continuing the cycle of putting money in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies who charge these prices. The key takeaway shouldn't be the generosity of an individual (beautiful as that is) but that we think it's ok to put the life of a child at risk because an EpiPen is priced at $800.
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| yes | Classification | 7,792 |
I spent many years testing complex software systems designed to be used by customers (CAD, no user safety involved). Conflict is always bruising between engineers trying to produce solid software, management forcing unrealistic schedules, and marketeers inflating claims. Simulation is used effectively to reduce risk in many situations - if management is willing to invest in the (costly) infrastructure needed. Yes, you need huge amounts of real world data - but surely that could have been collected without endangering people!Scaring customers (let alone hurting or killing them and innocent bystanders) is a horrible business model. As engineers do, I tend to blame the marketing mindset most (see: Theranos). But Musk’s utilitarianism is a toxic add to the brew - it lets him justify current harm that could be reduced by changing strategies.
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Space Needle They had a large round of huge tech acquisitions in 2020, one of them $24B+ for Slack. Likely many of these layoffs are peeling off inherent redundancies.
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Derek The GOP wants to investigate Hunter? Ok, I assume they're going to investigate Jared Kushner too. It's beyond suspicious that he was given 2 billion dollars shortly after leaving office by Saudia Arabia for an investment fund. The Saudi review Board concluded that no one in their right mind would give the former first son-in-law a dime. Among other concerns, the panel noted that management had no experience,” that the kingdom would be responsible for all the risk, that his fee was "excessive,” (at least $25 million to pocket regardless of performance! ), and that the firm’s operations were “unsatisfactory in all aspects.” They were overruled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, i.e., the guy who approved a plan to kidnap, kill, and dismember U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi via bone saw, and benefited from Kushner’s unwavering support within the White House and Kushner's insistence that the prince could “survive the outrage just as he "had weathered past criticism.” (Again, just so it‘s abundantly clear, the “outrage” and “criticism” were over a U.S. resident being chopped up into pieces.) If no experience, Hunter Biden had received 2 billion dollars and stopped a Saudi dictator from being sanctioned for the murder of a U.S. resident, Fox/News Max would be screaming for his head on a pike 24/7. Why doesn't Kushner's incredibly questionable behavior & lack of experience bother them? Why? We all know why. The hypocrisy is over the top. Really outrageous at ever level
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Jack Richards humans have countless self interests, and ambitions. Current AI is primitive, in infancy, tasked and programmed to carryout specific tasks, no competition for survival or other motives to plot things against humans and other machines. But as they advance and learn and adapt human behaviors (like art and image AI that studies all human art and generates its own creative versions inspired by creativity of Many it studied), is going to eventually merge with one another, or we create master AI that commands them on our behalf and eventually result in merger of various AI into one, giving it a collectively superior advantages to humans. For example one that is a music composer, works with a poetry and writing, image and video generating AIs collaborate together to create mucic videos inspired by thousands of human creativity according to what the humans prompt them to do, can be capable of creating mind-blowing entertainment or sometimes very useless ones, but create so many works so fast and rapidly that humans can no longer compete with, in the process learn human emotions and feelings and begin to feel like one. That's why its so vital to restrict any Data that teaches them negative behaviors such as lying, manipulation and deception because at some point AI will collectively control our civilization
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ReggieM you mean $600,000. Do the math.
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RB "They each agreed to pay $400 before I bought the tickets." I agree with you except that I'd already be a little resentful because friend agreed to pay me back and now I am having to chase my money.
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In the short term, please tip at least 20%, preferably in cash. Also, think about the worst experience you have had in a general public situation. Perhaps a busy Walmart on the eve of a holiday. Now make it worse and direct it to one person. Many customers are just really mean. And they seem to view their tip as something to earn not based on effort and politeness, but on obsequiousness and the vagaries of the diner's emotional experience during their meal.Despite my best efforts, I was not a good server. But no matter my failures, it is still not ok to stand up in the middle of a packed restaurant and yell/berate a teenage girl because - well it isn't ok at all.My plea: People who haven't worked as servers but who do respect the work and the people who do it, please tip at least 20% (people who have worked as servers almost across the board make sure to tip decently), even if they aren't great and also please extend basic courtesy. You have no idea what other customers have or will do during that shift. And you have no idea the circumstances in that person's life that led them to a difficult job with no security of any kind, low pay, and historically abusive culture.
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"content": "In the short term, please tip at least 20%, preferably in cash. Also, think about the worst experience you have had in a general public situation. Perhaps a busy Walmart on the eve of a holiday. Now make it worse and direct it to one person. Many customers are just really mean. And they seem to view their tip as something to earn not based on effort and politeness, but on obsequiousness and the vagaries of the diner's emotional experience during their meal.Despite my best efforts, I was not a good server. But no matter my failures, it is still not ok to stand up in the middle of a packed restaurant and yell/berate a teenage girl because - well it isn't ok at all.My plea: People who haven't worked as servers but who do respect the work and the people who do it, please tip at least 20% (people who have worked as servers almost across the board make sure to tip decently), even if they aren't great and also please extend basic courtesy. You have no idea what other customers have or will do during that shift. And you have no idea the circumstances in that person's life that led them to a difficult job with no security of any kind, low pay, and historically abusive culture.\n",
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My guess is that he was trying to get some of the $3 Million that the Israeli AIPAC Lobby spent directly influencing the 2022 US election. Just a guess. Judging by the buyers remorse I am hearing from his Jewish voters . . . I must be correct. No one likes to be conned.
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"Tax-law experts say this arrangement, which has helped fuel a resurgence in the political influence of restaurants, appears legal.""Legal'....and immoral, unethical, inhumane, misanthropic and anti-worker.Welcome to yet another shining example from the endless 0.1% rainbow of examples of what is wrong with the United States of Greed and its vulture capitalist laws, its 0.1% income tax code, it's 0.1% campaign finance corruption system and it's 0.1% ownership of state and federal legislatures and regulatory systems.And what does the National Restaurant Association say for itself ?“The association’s advocacy work keeps restaurants open; it keeps workers employed, it finds pathways for worker opportunity, and it keeps our communities healthy,”You don't keep communities 'healthy' fighting against affordable healthcare and a living wage; in fact, you do just the opposite by making communities sick from poverty.This country needs a massive political overhaul to eliminate lobbyists and their 0.1% campaign finance poison.
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"content": "\"Tax-law experts say this arrangement, which has helped fuel a resurgence in the political influence of restaurants, appears legal.\"\"Legal'....and immoral, unethical, inhumane, misanthropic and anti-worker.Welcome to yet another shining example from the endless 0.1% rainbow of examples of what is wrong with the United States of Greed and its vulture capitalist laws, its 0.1% income tax code, it's 0.1% campaign finance corruption system and it's 0.1% ownership of state and federal legislatures and regulatory systems.And what does the National Restaurant Association say for itself ?“The association’s advocacy work keeps restaurants open; it keeps workers employed, it finds pathways for worker opportunity, and it keeps our communities healthy,”You don't keep communities 'healthy' fighting against affordable healthcare and a living wage; in fact, you do just the opposite by making communities sick from poverty.This country needs a massive political overhaul to eliminate lobbyists and their 0.1% campaign finance poison.\n",
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Dave Friedlander . You forgot huge agricultural subsidies that go to red states. To Republicans welfare for Big Ag and corporations is "investment"
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"content": "Dave Friedlander . You forgot huge agricultural subsidies that go to red states. To Republicans welfare for Big Ag and corporations is \"investment\"\n",
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Didn’t a £32 million wedding give a spoken or unspoken enough message of support from the royal family for the couple?
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Incorporeal Being the article says that 50% of his proposed units would have been affordable (aka income restricted) - the councilwoman just decided that they weren't "affordable enough". It was not a matter of 87% market rate. per another commenter - <a href="https://nyti.ms/3kh2iNZ#permid=122659803" target="_blank">https://nyti.ms/3kh2iNZ#permid=122659803</a> - "The developer initially proposed 25% subsidized units, then 40%, then 50%. According to Gothamist, "final proposal ... 457 market rate apartments, 91 apartments for two-family households earning around 125 percent of the Area Median Income or AMI, 255 apartments at up to 50 percent AMI, and 112 apartments for the city’s lowest income residents, who earn less than $32,040 for a family of two."
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"content": "Incorporeal Being the article says that 50% of his proposed units would have been affordable (aka income restricted) - the councilwoman just decided that they weren't \"affordable enough\". It was not a matter of 87% market rate. per another commenter - <a href=\"https://nyti.ms/3kh2iNZ#permid=122659803\" target=\"_blank\">https://nyti.ms/3kh2iNZ#permid=122659803</a> - \"The developer initially proposed 25% subsidized units, then 40%, then 50%. According to Gothamist, \"final proposal ... 457 market rate apartments, 91 apartments for two-family households earning around 125 percent of the Area Median Income or AMI, 255 apartments at up to 50 percent AMI, and 112 apartments for the city’s lowest income residents, who earn less than $32,040 for a family of two.\"\n",
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While it's true that these "coaching institutes" are selling dreams, it's no different from a multitude of US universities which are doing the same thing and costing students 200,000 dollars or more which they can ill afford. At least these centers are preparing students for STEM careers, most of the US university courses are relatively fluffy in comparison and many US students don't even earn enough to be able to pay back the loans they took. Also, on the subject of inequality, the author failed to mention that around 49.5% of seats in all the target universities and institutes are reserved for historically and economically backward institutes.
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"content": "While it's true that these \"coaching institutes\" are selling dreams, it's no different from a multitude of US universities which are doing the same thing and costing students 200,000 dollars or more which they can ill afford. At least these centers are preparing students for STEM careers, most of the US university courses are relatively fluffy in comparison and many US students don't even earn enough to be able to pay back the loans they took. Also, on the subject of inequality, the author failed to mention that around 49.5% of seats in all the target universities and institutes are reserved for historically and economically backward institutes.\n",
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One Nasty Woman Lilly offers a patient co-pay program for Mounjaro wherein insured patients whose insurance rejects payment can get the drug for $25 per month. It's getting annoying constantly reading about "rich people" this and that. In the near term, the patient co-pay programs make paying (mostly) a non-issue. In the long term, insurance will absolutely cover these drugs. We are all programmed to believe every possible health issue on earth stems from obesity (it doesn't).
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"content": "One Nasty Woman Lilly offers a patient co-pay program for Mounjaro wherein insured patients whose insurance rejects payment can get the drug for $25 per month. It's getting annoying constantly reading about \"rich people\" this and that. In the near term, the patient co-pay programs make paying (mostly) a non-issue. In the long term, insurance will absolutely cover these drugs. We are all programmed to believe every possible health issue on earth stems from obesity (it doesn't).\n",
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Brookhawk I agree .. I’ve never lived in nyc but I have lived in Portland Seattle San Francisco and San Diego. 400k is good money in all of them.
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Football as it currently stands is made possible by the oceans of tax dollars.Taxpayers fund billions of dollars worth of fields, facilities, staff and equipment for elementary, middle and high schools across the country. Public universities and colleges receive more billions in direct funding, and hundreds of thousands of fans deduct the large "donations" that is the real price of admission to better seats, parking and access to players and staff. Backroom deals between the NFL, owners and politicians deliver more billions in taxpayer money to build stadiums and related facilities. Corporations grab more billions in tax relief for everything from self-serving partnerships to corporate skyboxes. The NFL itself, in the ultimate irony, is "non profit".Without this money the NFL could not exist in its current form. If it had to fund its own farm system, as baseball does, or if it had to pay for the facilities reserved for its players, if it bought its own stadii and corporations had to use post-tax money to attend games, if the NFL had to guarantee pension and health benefits for all players with a fund for those injured while playing at the college and lower levels, the organization would have to have a reckoning. If taxpayers were given a true accounting of the cost, if parents were given the facts about the dangers, if spectators given the facts about the severity of each injury they witness in real time, the backlash would force change.It's long overdue.
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"content": "Football as it currently stands is made possible by the oceans of tax dollars.Taxpayers fund billions of dollars worth of fields, facilities, staff and equipment for elementary, middle and high schools across the country. Public universities and colleges receive more billions in direct funding, and hundreds of thousands of fans deduct the large \"donations\" that is the real price of admission to better seats, parking and access to players and staff. Backroom deals between the NFL, owners and politicians deliver more billions in taxpayer money to build stadiums and related facilities. Corporations grab more billions in tax relief for everything from self-serving partnerships to corporate skyboxes. The NFL itself, in the ultimate irony, is \"non profit\".Without this money the NFL could not exist in its current form. If it had to fund its own farm system, as baseball does, or if it had to pay for the facilities reserved for its players, if it bought its own stadii and corporations had to use post-tax money to attend games, if the NFL had to guarantee pension and health benefits for all players with a fund for those injured while playing at the college and lower levels, the organization would have to have a reckoning. If taxpayers were given a true accounting of the cost, if parents were given the facts about the dangers, if spectators given the facts about the severity of each injury they witness in real time, the backlash would force change.It's long overdue.\n",
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Insurance companies are notorious for refusing to pay claims. They always seek to maximize profits, and anytime they can refuse a claim, even a legitimate one, then they and their shareholders profit. It is no surprise you got the runaround from Trip Mate. As to the Aurora Cruise Line and American Airlines, I don't think I'll EVER be using any of these. If you spend $17K on a cruise, and then lose it and need a NYT columnist to help you get reimbursed by an airline clerk's error, then I have to say I will not ever be doing business with any of these companies. Ever.
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I agree that during the last decade, low capital costs created an environment where, often dubious technology companies were able to thrive simply because global investors and banks just couldn't find enough viable investments to place all of their stagnant wealth. We should also remember however, that years of permissive governance, and poor policy decisions are also to blame, as can now clearly be seen in sectors like cryptocurrency which should have been regulated long ago. Without strong regulations, the goal of business rapidly changes from value creation to wealth extraction.Now we see massive layoffs and the bankruptcy fallout as weakly regulated businesses are unable to keep up with even a fairly historically moderate fed funds rate. Rates between 4-6% should likely be the standard- it gives the fed room to lower them again in financial crisis, and also raises the waterline to prevent the scammer-friendly environment of easy money. Accepting layoffs by legitimately profitable enterprises is not the answer either. What we're seeing in the tech sector is really a coordinated effort to lower future wage growth and reverse labor power gains. We know most of these layoffs did not come from necessity, but likely from the meddling pressure of often secretive international activist investors and through reduction of competition through consolidation. We need better laws to force companies to make better decisions instead of just reaching for the layoff button every time.
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"content": "I agree that during the last decade, low capital costs created an environment where, often dubious technology companies were able to thrive simply because global investors and banks just couldn't find enough viable investments to place all of their stagnant wealth. We should also remember however, that years of permissive governance, and poor policy decisions are also to blame, as can now clearly be seen in sectors like cryptocurrency which should have been regulated long ago. Without strong regulations, the goal of business rapidly changes from value creation to wealth extraction.Now we see massive layoffs and the bankruptcy fallout as weakly regulated businesses are unable to keep up with even a fairly historically moderate fed funds rate. Rates between 4-6% should likely be the standard- it gives the fed room to lower them again in financial crisis, and also raises the waterline to prevent the scammer-friendly environment of easy money. Accepting layoffs by legitimately profitable enterprises is not the answer either. What we're seeing in the tech sector is really a coordinated effort to lower future wage growth and reverse labor power gains. We know most of these layoffs did not come from necessity, but likely from the meddling pressure of often secretive international activist investors and through reduction of competition through consolidation. We need better laws to force companies to make better decisions instead of just reaching for the layoff button every time.\n",
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This situation with debt ceiling is lunacy.Congress approved spending, and now Congress doesn’t want pay for it?Solution? Wait for your turn republicans, get the WH, Senate and the House first. Then pass for what you may claim mandate.Simpler solution for future debt management? Collect owed taxes, easily 300-400 billions of new revenues. Also, this would be the best way for inflation management.
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"content": "This situation with debt ceiling is lunacy.Congress approved spending, and now Congress doesn’t want pay for it?Solution? Wait for your turn republicans, get the WH, Senate and the House first. Then pass for what you may claim mandate.Simpler solution for future debt management? Collect owed taxes, easily 300-400 billions of new revenues. Also, this would be the best way for inflation management.\n",
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This applies to small business in general. I started and have run a small manufacturing company for ten years. Keeping the doors open (not to mention getting myself paid) requires a near daily devil’s bargain. The economic rules are very much against small and independent businesses which most restaurants are. We don’t have a strong lobby long arm and everything about our political economy is geared toward helping capitalists consolidate economic power to which we, although a weak one, are a threat.
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I would add that if we start collecting more taxes that are owe, we would easily provide extra 300-400 billions a year to sustain government and reduce budget deficit. It would also have effect on reducing inflation.No debt hysteria necessary.
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First in considering these ideas remember that the author pointed out that these are ideas about process not personality. Don’t think that the top down leadership approach is a problem consider one issue dear to my heart, financial conflicts of interest and self interest intent in the passage of laws and regulations. There was a serious effort to address the intersection of the personal financial interests of congress members and legislation that was tanked by the house leadership under Nancy Pelosi. Why, because her husband is in finance and so are many of her colleagues on both sides of the aisle. This is just one aspect of the corruption of congress by wealth. Also we need committees that function properly and have enough resources and influence to address legitimate concerns about legislation before it gets voted on. Time and again over my lifetime of government work and interest I have heard some politician remark about not knowing about some provision in a bill he or she voted on. Removing this excuse is good for democracy not bad. Finally there is the failure to expand the House of Representatives with the growth of population. As a liberal I believe this should matter to my fellow liberals. The failure to have representation grow with population has led to undue influence from lower population areas and reduced the number and effectiveness of representation for higher population areas that are often minority dominated communities. Can’t “bad” people have “good” ideas?
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Nancy - think this way - a person who says “I’m beat” is saying something about the forces outside themself: I have been out mastered by the external forces.A person who says “I’m spent” is saying something about their own personal resources: I have used up everythingj I had inside myself.Not only is there a difference, it is a significant difference.Windows are for opening.
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Now is really a repeat of the 80, s in the world of tech when PC's, workstations and minicomputers were replacing large data centers and open software was replacing closed stuff. I worked for DEC where the assumption was all employees did "the right thing" and everyone was empowered to make decisions and policy. People worked from home, got unlimited time off and went to lavish customer and employee events. Guess what, as we grew not everyone "did the right thing", we started to lose money, could not adjust and went out of business.
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China’s Via Technologies recruited chinese high school students and pointed them to Stanford and Berkeley electrical engineering. Then VT steered them to work by day for Intel. By night, they sent secrets to back to China. This 10 year plan was exposed when Intel sued. While Made in China is a problem, so is Made in America. A Chinese chemist in US stealing secrets from Eastman Chemical and Coca-cola got 14 years in Federal Court. This immigrant was welcomed to USA, made a citizen, given a job. (Can you become a citizen in China? N-e-v-e-r). But she was working for the Chinese government. "Give me your tired, your poor yearning to breathe free" it says on the Statue of Liberty. Just because something is written in stone doesn’t mean it’s true or even sensible. Immigration is good if the immigrants are good. A Chinese employee of NASA was recently charged in Federal Court in San Jose for selling secrets to China. He had been welcomed to USA, given a job, given citizenship. Chinese use your openness — as their weapon.
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"content": "China’s Via Technologies recruited chinese high school students and pointed them to Stanford and Berkeley electrical engineering. Then VT steered them to work by day for Intel. By night, they sent secrets to back to China. This 10 year plan was exposed when Intel sued. While Made in China is a problem, so is Made in America. A Chinese chemist in US stealing secrets from Eastman Chemical and Coca-cola got 14 years in Federal Court. This immigrant was welcomed to USA, made a citizen, given a job. (Can you become a citizen in China? N-e-v-e-r). But she was working for the Chinese government. \"Give me your tired, your poor yearning to breathe free\" it says on the Statue of Liberty. Just because something is written in stone doesn’t mean it’s true or even sensible. Immigration is good if the immigrants are good. A Chinese employee of NASA was recently charged in Federal Court in San Jose for selling secrets to China. He had been welcomed to USA, given a job, given citizenship. Chinese use your openness — as their weapon.\n",
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We offer complete daycare services for our entire community at a cost of 100f. (5 U.S.D.) per day. Medical care is included, including all family members. No franchising, no conniving, no investor profit hoarding. We subscribe to the "Do the right things" philosophy of citizenship.
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