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In a more “normal” world, the cost of an epipen would be nowhere near the usd 800 it costs in this country.Our elected officials should strive to eliminate such outrageous prices for medicines which have been in the market for a long time and whose prices are kept artificially high through tweaking the formula and thereby extending the patent.This being said: god bless this good samaritan!
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| no | Classification | 465 |
Tim Thumb And multiple analytic reviews have shown that over the long haul (10+ years), index funds outperform actively managed funds. But the financial services industry including media don't like to publicize that fact becuase it would put many of them out of business.Just google "boggleheads" and read "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing" by John Bogle and endorsed by Warren Buffett. That alone will point you to an easy path to investing (and retirement) without paying a financial advisor.
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"content": "Tim Thumb And multiple analytic reviews have shown that over the long haul (10+ years), index funds outperform actively managed funds. But the financial services industry including media don't like to publicize that fact becuase it would put many of them out of business.Just google \"boggleheads\" and read \"The Little Book of Common Sense Investing\" by John Bogle and endorsed by Warren Buffett. That alone will point you to an easy path to investing (and retirement) without paying a financial advisor.\n",
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The pendulum swings both ways. Silicon Valley employees forget they were employees. The yoga rooms and nap pods are just silliness. But what matters is when employees start trying to dictate policy. Palantr just told employees if you don't want to work on defense or intellegence contracts for the US government then this company isn't for you. Microsoft and Google have had similar issues with government work. Netflix employees tried to block the release of a Dave Chapelle special and thankfully the company rebuked them. Employees at successful companies should be well treated and well paid. But expecting them to show up at the office every day is normal not a unfair burden. And most important letting them have or think they have a veto power over the company and its decisions is a disaster. Silicon Valley companies seem to have finally figured that out.
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"content": "The pendulum swings both ways. Silicon Valley employees forget they were employees. The yoga rooms and nap pods are just silliness. But what matters is when employees start trying to dictate policy. Palantr just told employees if you don't want to work on defense or intellegence contracts for the US government then this company isn't for you. Microsoft and Google have had similar issues with government work. Netflix employees tried to block the release of a Dave Chapelle special and thankfully the company rebuked them. Employees at successful companies should be well treated and well paid. But expecting them to show up at the office every day is normal not a unfair burden. And most important letting them have or think they have a veto power over the company and its decisions is a disaster. Silicon Valley companies seem to have finally figured that out.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,354 |
Bret, do you think all older people are healthy and able to work to 70? Why do Republicans always cater to the rich and go after the little guys? Maybe people who are financially secure should give up their Social Security. Let's be generous and say all people who are worth over 5 million dollars. No social security for them.
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"content": "Bret, do you think all older people are healthy and able to work to 70? Why do Republicans always cater to the rich and go after the little guys? Maybe people who are financially secure should give up their Social Security. Let's be generous and say all people who are worth over 5 million dollars. No social security for them.\n",
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schools in South Carolina opened Fall 2020. Schools in Charlotte, NC (borders SC) opened in April 2021 (4 days a week...) . I wish I had lived in South Carolina.
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"content": "schools in South Carolina opened Fall 2020. Schools in Charlotte, NC (borders SC) opened in April 2021 (4 days a week...) . I wish I had lived in South Carolina.\n",
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Your students learned zero from ChatGPT. Well, they learned how to open ChatGPT, and they learned a whole new way to cheat.Bravo. And listen up: genuine knowledge don’t come easy.
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So let me get this right. People who did nothing, spent nothing and invested nothing are to receive $20 million for being descendants. This is bad policy, bad government and bad precedent. If this model is pursued across the U.S. there will be Civil War part two.
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"content": "So let me get this right. People who did nothing, spent nothing and invested nothing are to receive $20 million for being descendants. This is bad policy, bad government and bad precedent. If this model is pursued across the U.S. there will be Civil War part two.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,191 |
John Oh, sure! My point is that none of the potential charges are directly related to committing fraud by running for office and that is the biggest problem. The $700K he loaned his campaign is only a problem because it may not have been declared income.Citizens United is only one aspect of the Swiss cheese that is our constitution. I highly recommend people read Prof. Sanford Levinson's Our Undemocratic Constitution. We are in even deeper trouble than most of us know.
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"content": "John Oh, sure! My point is that none of the potential charges are directly related to committing fraud by running for office and that is the biggest problem. The $700K he loaned his campaign is only a problem because it may not have been declared income.Citizens United is only one aspect of the Swiss cheese that is our constitution. I highly recommend people read Prof. Sanford Levinson's Our Undemocratic Constitution. We are in even deeper trouble than most of us know.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,302 |
Laroo. Odd that in this somewhat anti-capitalism article, there is no mention of the amounts that Kravitz donated ($100 Million) or that Geffen donated ($75 Million) to this new building. Of course, the donations from these two, and others ($10 Million from the Wang Family) were due to capitalism and their successful businesses.
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| no | Classification | 3,058 |
faivel1 I have hopes. One is that the gop is very, extremely open about their plans for Social Security, SSI and Medicare. *Those* are considered the luxury inessentials by the gop, while the military -- which lost track of 2 *trillion* dollars and nevertheless had its budget approved without a single investigation or debate. Rubber stamp approval for spending on we don't know what.Let's make sure the gop make their priorities crystal clear to American taxpayers: Yes to waste, fraud and abuse and zero accountability, if it's materiel for wars. No to caring for our citizens who are elderly and have paid for a sort of pension to get them through to the end. No to working people who become disabled and unable to work. Yes to killing. No to helping. Let there be no confusion about gop priorities.My other hope is that this past week has been a preview of the repub caucus's ability to govern. It's never been a priority for them during my lifetime; they're fond of obstructing Dem leaders' agendas and cutting taxes. Legislation? Actually writing passable bills? I haven't seen much of that.Let's leave them to their bickering and fisticuffs, their endless investigations we already know won't find anything wrong but that will nevertheless ricochet around as scandals. Let them waste allllll the time.Ideally that will prevent them from holding us hostage during a debt ceiling procedure. If they go through with their threats, we're all in trouble.
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"content": "faivel1 I have hopes. One is that the gop is very, extremely open about their plans for Social Security, SSI and Medicare. *Those* are considered the luxury inessentials by the gop, while the military -- which lost track of 2 *trillion* dollars and nevertheless had its budget approved without a single investigation or debate. Rubber stamp approval for spending on we don't know what.Let's make sure the gop make their priorities crystal clear to American taxpayers: Yes to waste, fraud and abuse and zero accountability, if it's materiel for wars. No to caring for our citizens who are elderly and have paid for a sort of pension to get them through to the end. No to working people who become disabled and unable to work. Yes to killing. No to helping. Let there be no confusion about gop priorities.My other hope is that this past week has been a preview of the repub caucus's ability to govern. It's never been a priority for them during my lifetime; they're fond of obstructing Dem leaders' agendas and cutting taxes. Legislation? Actually writing passable bills? I haven't seen much of that.Let's leave them to their bickering and fisticuffs, their endless investigations we already know won't find anything wrong but that will nevertheless ricochet around as scandals. Let them waste allllll the time.Ideally that will prevent them from holding us hostage during a debt ceiling procedure. If they go through with their threats, we're all in trouble.\n",
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Good The border is not wide open. The same Act 42 instituted under the Trump administration has been in effect, and thousands are deported every day. This is not going to get better until both parties commit to coming together for some sort of sane immigration policy.Want to investigate, fine. While you're at it, Investigate Jared Kushner's little $2 billion nugget from Qatar and the dealings of the crooked Trump organization, already convicted of tax fraud.Afghanistan withdrawal problem was partially the result of a deal with the Taliban set up by the Trump administration. I'm sure you wrote the Times about Trump's housing of secret documents — 10 times the number found at UPenn, at his personal residence.More than 900 Jan. 6 rioters have been charged.Weaponizing government? DeSantis is making a career out of that in Florida. In Wisconsin, Republican legislators worked to limit the power of a Democratic governor. In Pennsylvania, Republicans pass bills in the form of constitutional amendments to avoid possible vetoes by the governor. But hey, Democrats can just resort to the common Trumpian political fallback. "It's all a political witchhunt." Maybe they can become as well-versed as Republicans in refusing to respond to subpoenas and in the use of the Fifth Amendment.
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RT Jeff Fortenberry was convicted of lying to FBI, McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi called for his resignation in 2022. Fortenberry was convicted on three felony charges connected to his statements to the FBI about illegal campaign contributions.The FBI should be questioning Santos right now about the $700k he gave his campaign.
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"content": "RT Jeff Fortenberry was convicted of lying to FBI, McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi called for his resignation in 2022. Fortenberry was convicted on three felony charges connected to his statements to the FBI about illegal campaign contributions.The FBI should be questioning Santos right now about the $700k he gave his campaign.\n",
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McCarthy’s Speaker Proposal Tees Up $75 Billion Defense Cut [Bloomberg]McCarthy to lead GOP lawmakers, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, to southern border [CNN]Kevin McCarthy claims 'the debt and China' are the 'greatest threats' to the US after Trump oversaw a $7.8 trillion national-debt increase [Insider]So, the US is walking the edge of a razor with Russia and China while the Republicans are taking millions from the Russians and Trump making money deals with China but McCarthy wants to seriously cut the military budget.... all the while complaining about the security of the southern boarder, where Russia is now getting a footing in South America after Trump pulls out the US support for South America. But the Republicans want to give more tax cuts to the super wealthy undermining the US economy.The republicans are the greatest threat to this nation.
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"content": "McCarthy’s Speaker Proposal Tees Up $75 Billion Defense Cut [Bloomberg]McCarthy to lead GOP lawmakers, including Marjorie Taylor Greene, to southern border [CNN]Kevin McCarthy claims 'the debt and China' are the 'greatest threats' to the US after Trump oversaw a $7.8 trillion national-debt increase [Insider]So, the US is walking the edge of a razor with Russia and China while the Republicans are taking millions from the Russians and Trump making money deals with China but McCarthy wants to seriously cut the military budget.... all the while complaining about the security of the southern boarder, where Russia is now getting a footing in South America after Trump pulls out the US support for South America. But the Republicans want to give more tax cuts to the super wealthy undermining the US economy.The republicans are the greatest threat to this nation.\n",
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Patrick The federal government spent $6.27 trillion in FY 2022. Please, get your facts straight. Where do you get your "$1.6 Trillion budget?"
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"content": "Patrick The federal government spent $6.27 trillion in FY 2022. Please, get your facts straight. Where do you get your \"$1.6 Trillion budget?\"\n",
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JerryV "Please explain how exactly the US created this mess."How? By making excuses for its land grab and crimes, vetoing endless UN Security Council resolutions, by financing the occupation with over 5billion a year,. Official figures are just a fraction of what's spent to keep Israel secure militarily and economically. That much talked about Iron Dome, we paid for its development and now we pay to purchase, not sure why we need to which is another story.Bottom line, we have financed the entire country just like we are now doing it for Ukraine.
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"content": "JerryV \"Please explain how exactly the US created this mess.\"How? By making excuses for its land grab and crimes, vetoing endless UN Security Council resolutions, by financing the occupation with over 5billion a year,. Official figures are just a fraction of what's spent to keep Israel secure militarily and economically. That much talked about Iron Dome, we paid for its development and now we pay to purchase, not sure why we need to which is another story.Bottom line, we have financed the entire country just like we are now doing it for Ukraine.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,327 |
S. Abrams The healthcare exchange would cost my closet to 3k a month for the coverage I have now, which isn’t great. Don’t buy the hype.
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"content": "S. Abrams The healthcare exchange would cost my closet to 3k a month for the coverage I have now, which isn’t great. Don’t buy the hype.\n",
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James, Toronto, CANADA With their $100mm Netflix contract they don’t even need to work for a living anymore. Put that in an S&P 500 investment fund and you can live a great life on about $5-$10mm/year in perpetuity.
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"content": "James, Toronto, CANADA With their $100mm Netflix contract they don’t even need to work for a living anymore. Put that in an S&P 500 investment fund and you can live a great life on about $5-$10mm/year in perpetuity.\n",
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These same companies ignore older candidates, with quality experience and a desire for longterm stability, so I don't feel for them one bit. Agism in this contemporary job market is rampant. You folks want a sound investment in a loyal employee: try for the 50-year-old candidate, instead of the 35-year-old.
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"content": "These same companies ignore older candidates, with quality experience and a desire for longterm stability, so I don't feel for them one bit. Agism in this contemporary job market is rampant. You folks want a sound investment in a loyal employee: try for the 50-year-old candidate, instead of the 35-year-old.\n",
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Nan from CT Vienna,$60mm let’s see: 15% to his agent, Then taxes in CA, possibly upto 50%Then $2-3MM for securityPaying the staff of their foundationWith a cash burn rate like that, Harry isn’t exactly Croesus.Strange fact in the RF is that the first born inherits so much of land, assets, wealth that the younger ones depend on his/her largesse for their daily living.
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"content": "Nan from CT Vienna,$60mm let’s see: 15% to his agent, Then taxes in CA, possibly upto 50%Then $2-3MM for securityPaying the staff of their foundationWith a cash burn rate like that, Harry isn’t exactly Croesus.Strange fact in the RF is that the first born inherits so much of land, assets, wealth that the younger ones depend on his/her largesse for their daily living.\n",
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Michael Come on. The “free tuition” line is so worn out. Top D1 athletes in football and basketball make *billions* in revenue for schools, networks, advertisers, and the crooked NCAA. Should the Lakers be legally allowed to limit Lebron’s compensation $500k? After all, most people would be thrilled to make that much money! It’s plenty to live on. But they don’t and can’t pay him $500k, because he’s worth far more to them. Top NCAA athletes are worth way more than the cost of a college education. Their compensation should be adjusted accordingly.Also, the idea that you could afford tuition and housing at a D1 school in 2023 by working 20 hours a week is, sadly, laughable. It’s not 1975.
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"content": "Michael Come on. The “free tuition” line is so worn out. Top D1 athletes in football and basketball make *billions* in revenue for schools, networks, advertisers, and the crooked NCAA. Should the Lakers be legally allowed to limit Lebron’s compensation $500k? After all, most people would be thrilled to make that much money! It’s plenty to live on. But they don’t and can’t pay him $500k, because he’s worth far more to them. Top NCAA athletes are worth way more than the cost of a college education. Their compensation should be adjusted accordingly.Also, the idea that you could afford tuition and housing at a D1 school in 2023 by working 20 hours a week is, sadly, laughable. It’s not 1975.\n",
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Michael McBrearty Defense spending, including the war in Ukraine, accounts for less than 4% of US GDP, hardly a war based economy, compared to the 17% of GDP that the US spends on health care or the 5+% that it spends on elementary and secondary education. The closest the US came to a "war based economy" was in World War II when defense spending peaked at approximately 44% of GDP in 1944. Since then, it has been on a steady downward spiral despite fighting the Korean, Vietnam Wars and Iraq/Afghanistan Wars.
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Diane Gould The only thing our "local' paper covers in any depth anymore is local high school sports. Because high school wrestling is soooooo important? Or parents and friends will buy a paper if their kid is featured in it as Athlete of the Week? Most of the long-time local reporters are gone and the few that are left generally do soft news stories like "5 new restaurants soon opening in Bucks County" or the ever-popular "Policeman delivers baby". We'll hear sirens for hours and check the paper to see why- nothing. A lot of local stories are being written by the group that was featured in the story- Chalfont Firemen Collect 100 Tons of Food For Local Pantries- written and photographed by the firemen. "Local Police Team Up To Provide Christmas For Needy Children written and photographed by the policemen. The vast majority of the paper is USA Today and AP feeds. And the price of an actual paper keeps going up and up. Our local paper is now down to 5 days a week- with Saturday being an on-line USA Today and Monday being on-line only. I feel sorry for all the college kids suckered into being Journalism majors.
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"content": "Diane Gould The only thing our \"local' paper covers in any depth anymore is local high school sports. Because high school wrestling is soooooo important? Or parents and friends will buy a paper if their kid is featured in it as Athlete of the Week? Most of the long-time local reporters are gone and the few that are left generally do soft news stories like \"5 new restaurants soon opening in Bucks County\" or the ever-popular \"Policeman delivers baby\". We'll hear sirens for hours and check the paper to see why- nothing. A lot of local stories are being written by the group that was featured in the story- Chalfont Firemen Collect 100 Tons of Food For Local Pantries- written and photographed by the firemen. \"Local Police Team Up To Provide Christmas For Needy Children written and photographed by the policemen. The vast majority of the paper is USA Today and AP feeds. And the price of an actual paper keeps going up and up. Our local paper is now down to 5 days a week- with Saturday being an on-line USA Today and Monday being on-line only. I feel sorry for all the college kids suckered into being Journalism majors.\n",
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This is grotesque and preposterous. That convergence on the kill was like gridlocked traffic in midtown Manhattan on a rainy day.I was in this area in the early '70s and our jeep was essentially alone as far as the eye could see. Our guide kept us far from the animals but we were still able to see a lot and take pictures with our cameras on zoom. Just being in that vast space was awesome and transformative.Guides are tipped according to how "successful" they are at brining their customers close to the animals. So it shouldn't be on them to self-regulate. Mass tourism of this kind effectively destroys the experience people think they should have on such expensive vacations. It's more like visiting an open-terrain zoo. I wish authorities would limit the number of such vehicles in the parks and enforce distance rules. But I fear greed will win out and this is the kind of reality you will face if you plan a safari. Is it really worth it?
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"content": "This is grotesque and preposterous. That convergence on the kill was like gridlocked traffic in midtown Manhattan on a rainy day.I was in this area in the early '70s and our jeep was essentially alone as far as the eye could see. Our guide kept us far from the animals but we were still able to see a lot and take pictures with our cameras on zoom. Just being in that vast space was awesome and transformative.Guides are tipped according to how \"successful\" they are at brining their customers close to the animals. So it shouldn't be on them to self-regulate. Mass tourism of this kind effectively destroys the experience people think they should have on such expensive vacations. It's more like visiting an open-terrain zoo. I wish authorities would limit the number of such vehicles in the parks and enforce distance rules. But I fear greed will win out and this is the kind of reality you will face if you plan a safari. Is it really worth it?\n",
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I'm always amazed when Democrats blithely spread the gospel of the evil of declining populations. It's almost as if they cut a page out of the Capitalism Bible and changed the name of book./I remember a world of 2 billion, when I was born. It's 8 billion now, expected to be 10 billion in the not too distant future. Yes, some national populations will get smaller. That's not a bad thing. The problem with the premise of expanding population is that it's the other face of expanding economy. Only an expanding economy and population are desirable, according to these 21st. century "Democrats."We don't need more people. We certainly don't need ever expanding populations and economies that make further inroads into the declining natural resource base, particularly the oceans, which have become the warground of expanding economies, where major species are wiped out yearly. There are very good things about a stable population. The ability to plan, forecast, and conserve resources.
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"content": "I'm always amazed when Democrats blithely spread the gospel of the evil of declining populations. It's almost as if they cut a page out of the Capitalism Bible and changed the name of book./I remember a world of 2 billion, when I was born. It's 8 billion now, expected to be 10 billion in the not too distant future. Yes, some national populations will get smaller. That's not a bad thing. The problem with the premise of expanding population is that it's the other face of expanding economy. Only an expanding economy and population are desirable, according to these 21st. century \"Democrats.\"We don't need more people. We certainly don't need ever expanding populations and economies that make further inroads into the declining natural resource base, particularly the oceans, which have become the warground of expanding economies, where major species are wiped out yearly. There are very good things about a stable population. The ability to plan, forecast, and conserve resources.\n",
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The debt is largely the result of four plus decades of collapsed tax rates on the wealthy, large corporations, rich estates and the gilded class designed, implemented and championed by the Republican party and its Dark Money owners and operators.To a lesser extent, there has been a bipartisan expansion of spending that has contributed to the debt.If Republicans were actually interested in reducing the debt or balancing the budget, they would raise taxes like responsible adults and perhaps slightly trim spending with very specific suggestions in areas of waste, such as in the Unites States Department of Defense.Naturally, the GOP will do nothing of that sort since their real interests lie in dividing, distracting and destroying rather than rolling up their sleeves to help the country.D to go forward; R for reverse...over the cliff.Nice GOPeople.
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"content": "The debt is largely the result of four plus decades of collapsed tax rates on the wealthy, large corporations, rich estates and the gilded class designed, implemented and championed by the Republican party and its Dark Money owners and operators.To a lesser extent, there has been a bipartisan expansion of spending that has contributed to the debt.If Republicans were actually interested in reducing the debt or balancing the budget, they would raise taxes like responsible adults and perhaps slightly trim spending with very specific suggestions in areas of waste, such as in the Unites States Department of Defense.Naturally, the GOP will do nothing of that sort since their real interests lie in dividing, distracting and destroying rather than rolling up their sleeves to help the country.D to go forward; R for reverse...over the cliff.Nice GOPeople.\n",
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As someone who currently teaches college and who has taught at levels from 7 grade thru graduate school, I have watched the digital revolution both expand and contract our thinking. The benefits of the internet for learning are obvious, but the digitization of common modalities such as reading, writing, using maps, drawing, measuring, etc. and overuse of screens has made abstract what used to be concrete, and in doing so, has made learning more difficult for neurodivergent and normal people alike. Take digital books, for example. They have some benefit, such as being able to digitize what used to be very expensive textbooks, and make them available to students (temporarily) for a nominal fee, or sometimes even for free. Think about a book, which you can hold in your hand, on your lap,etc. It is a multi-modal experience, which can be looked at, touched, pages flipped, and even smelled. If you are a visual-spatial person, your brain can take a picture of a page and remember where stuff is on a page. What this means is that more areas of the brain light up when we use a physical book. While it can contain abstract ideas, the book itself is concrete, visual, aesthetic, and even has other practical uses such as laptop stand. The same benefits of physicality apply to paper maps and other common tools that have been digitized to fit inside our cell phones. The gains of a digitized world are obvious, but we still need to mitigate the losses.
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Can someone explain to me why Scottsdale has an open canal, from which water constantly evaporates, rather than water pipelines? I would appreciate a scientific answer. Thank you.
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"content": "Can someone explain to me why Scottsdale has an open canal, from which water constantly evaporates, rather than water pipelines? I would appreciate a scientific answer. Thank you.\n",
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If you frequent a particular supermarket, know what items go on sale and NEVER buy them until then. Canned Tuna, jarred spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, canned soup, hot dogs, chicken breast, chop meat, sausage, rice, pasta. Moreover, know which supermarkets always have lower prices on their store brands. I only buy bread & chips & toilet paper at Aldi; only 2-lb packages of butter at Walmart; only Cafe Bustelo coffee at 4x10oz=$10 at Stop&Shop. COUPONS! Not just the ones in the circular, or requiring a "shopper card" or a "digital coupon" load. Keep & use REGISTER-RECEIPT coupons too! Paper plates were $0.30 cheaper per 100 at a discount store that had a $10-off-$40 receipt coupon, so I bought 13 pkgs which saved an additional $0.77 per 100. I have 100+ cans of Progresso soups, 40+ cans of Bumble Bee Tuna, and pounds & pounds of pasta & rice in my pantry. My freezer space is saved for frozen meats: chicken breast & chop meat & sausage & pork loins, all the stuff I only buy & freeze when they are on sale. My biggest tip? Skip the beer & wine & get 1.75liter bottles of generic vodka for $12.49, just make sure you use it with a mixer :-)
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"content": "If you frequent a particular supermarket, know what items go on sale and NEVER buy them until then. Canned Tuna, jarred spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, canned soup, hot dogs, chicken breast, chop meat, sausage, rice, pasta. Moreover, know which supermarkets always have lower prices on their store brands. I only buy bread & chips & toilet paper at Aldi; only 2-lb packages of butter at Walmart; only Cafe Bustelo coffee at 4x10oz=$10 at Stop&Shop. COUPONS! Not just the ones in the circular, or requiring a \"shopper card\" or a \"digital coupon\" load. Keep & use REGISTER-RECEIPT coupons too! Paper plates were $0.30 cheaper per 100 at a discount store that had a $10-off-$40 receipt coupon, so I bought 13 pkgs which saved an additional $0.77 per 100. I have 100+ cans of Progresso soups, 40+ cans of Bumble Bee Tuna, and pounds & pounds of pasta & rice in my pantry. My freezer space is saved for frozen meats: chicken breast & chop meat & sausage & pork loins, all the stuff I only buy & freeze when they are on sale. My biggest tip? Skip the beer & wine & get 1.75liter bottles of generic vodka for $12.49, just make sure you use it with a mixer :-)\n",
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Bill Agreed! The coverage is one-sided. I have to wonder what education journalists have in environmental studies.Population changes are evolutionary; they bring an evolution of economies; they change day by day.Imagine the advantages of increasing open space, of restored forests, watersheds, fisheries; of improved opportunities for the young. Adapt wise policies to take advantage of these, and in time future generations will thrive and grow again.
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"content": "Bill Agreed! The coverage is one-sided. I have to wonder what education journalists have in environmental studies.Population changes are evolutionary; they bring an evolution of economies; they change day by day.Imagine the advantages of increasing open space, of restored forests, watersheds, fisheries; of improved opportunities for the young. Adapt wise policies to take advantage of these, and in time future generations will thrive and grow again.\n",
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L.I.R.R. Service to Grand Central Begins at Long Last The Long Island Rail Road is connecting to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, saving commuters as much as 40 minutes — and costing $11.1 billion. For half a century, transit leaders in New York have aspired to extend the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal, tunneling a new path to save passengers time commuting between Long Island and the East Side of Manhattan. The Long Island Rail Road is connecting to Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan, saving commuters as much as 40 minutes — and costing $11.1 billion.
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I have little doubt that historians will proclaim the Trump presidency as the biggest long con perpetrated on the nation...Number Two possibly only to the wealth transfer that is borrowing money to run the gov't rather than collecting it in taxes! The RNC failed to protect their debate stage and, by extension the republic, when they easily could have and as a result an unfit tax cheat was allowed to hold the Oval Office in a very dangerous time. As a result, at least $6T more than otherwise has been added to the national debt; 700K more Americans are dead from a respiratory virus than otherwise; (competent, non-aligned decisions to contain the outbreak could have delivered infection rate and deaths per millions of population closer to Canada's - Instead, USA is Number 1!) and Trump attempted an authoritarian coup rather than concede defeat...No mater that his plan never hatched. The GOP has a lot of forgiveness to beg, 'mea culpas' to deliver. When does that start?
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"content": "I have little doubt that historians will proclaim the Trump presidency as the biggest long con perpetrated on the nation...Number Two possibly only to the wealth transfer that is borrowing money to run the gov't rather than collecting it in taxes! The RNC failed to protect their debate stage and, by extension the republic, when they easily could have and as a result an unfit tax cheat was allowed to hold the Oval Office in a very dangerous time. As a result, at least $6T more than otherwise has been added to the national debt; 700K more Americans are dead from a respiratory virus than otherwise; (competent, non-aligned decisions to contain the outbreak could have delivered infection rate and deaths per millions of population closer to Canada's - Instead, USA is Number 1!) and Trump attempted an authoritarian coup rather than concede defeat...No mater that his plan never hatched. The GOP has a lot of forgiveness to beg, 'mea culpas' to deliver. When does that start?\n",
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a2lbd The issues in the lives of these people are not an experiment to see if a serial liar can learn to tell the truth. Would you let your child spend the afternoon with George Santos? Would you lend him $100 dollars and expect it back? No. And I certainly wouldn't be responsible for sending life-challenging problems to Santos to solve. Who wants to be that guy?
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Most of those open jobs are open for a reason. Look around here and what you will see is that they all pay $12-16 an hour. Not enough to live on here! (And that’s only if you are lucky enough to get consistent full time work). Even in the Midwest you cannot afford rent on that. That’s why nobody wants these jobs.
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I see no evidence of inflation 'cooling;'. With every weekly shopping trip I see astronomical price increases. Some items have nearly doubled in price from just a few months ago. A frozen meal tray that used to sell for a dollar now costs 1.69. A package of frozen fish sticks that was 3.99 is now 5.49; just a few weeks ago, t was 4.99. Due to the price increase for eggs, any store-made baked goods product price has nearly doubled. The only items I've seen with fairly stable prices are milk.
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"content": "I see no evidence of inflation 'cooling;'. With every weekly shopping trip I see astronomical price increases. Some items have nearly doubled in price from just a few months ago. A frozen meal tray that used to sell for a dollar now costs 1.69. A package of frozen fish sticks that was 3.99 is now 5.49; just a few weeks ago, t was 4.99. Due to the price increase for eggs, any store-made baked goods product price has nearly doubled. The only items I've seen with fairly stable prices are milk.\n",
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Joseph Fair share is no tax dodges/loopholes/Trumpness. $76 BILLION in profits? Pay 30% in taxes for a start.
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"content": "Joseph Fair share is no tax dodges/loopholes/Trumpness. $76 BILLION in profits? Pay 30% in taxes for a start.\n",
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Thank you, David Stewart for the beautiful photo of a fine, fat, flower fly nectaring in white blossoms!Thank you, worldsgreatest, for identifying the flower as sour cherry, Prunus cerasus<a href="https://nyti.ms/3J8k1l2#permid=122732244" target="_blank">https://nyti.ms/3J8k1l2#permid=122732244</a> 🌷🐝 🌸🐛🌻🦋🌼Many keen-eyed commenters have noted that this pollinator is not a bee, but a hover fly. I think I agree with Denise's suggestion of Eupeodes.<a href="https://nyti.ms/3Hmz1L1#permid=122729538" target="_blank">https://nyti.ms/3Hmz1L1#permid=122729538</a>Eupeodes are also known as aphid eaters, for the prodigious appetites of their larvae in devouring hundreds of aphids. Both American and European species are cultivated by biocontrol companies. If you want to attract them to your garden, the adults need nectar. Small, open-faced, white flowers are their favorites. If aphids appear, be patient. It takes a lot of aphids to feed one larva. When a larva hatches, it will hover up aphids like no one else's business.A bit more here:<a href="https://minnesotaflowerflies.com/syrphinae/eupeodes" target="_blank">https://minnesotaflowerflies.com/syrphinae/eupeodes</a>/
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"content": "Thank you, David Stewart for the beautiful photo of a fine, fat, flower fly nectaring in white blossoms!Thank you, worldsgreatest, for identifying the flower as sour cherry, Prunus cerasus<a href=\"https://nyti.ms/3J8k1l2#permid=122732244\" target=\"_blank\">https://nyti.ms/3J8k1l2#permid=122732244</a> 🌷🐝 🌸🐛🌻🦋🌼Many keen-eyed commenters have noted that this pollinator is not a bee, but a hover fly. I think I agree with Denise's suggestion of Eupeodes.<a href=\"https://nyti.ms/3Hmz1L1#permid=122729538\" target=\"_blank\">https://nyti.ms/3Hmz1L1#permid=122729538</a>Eupeodes are also known as aphid eaters, for the prodigious appetites of their larvae in devouring hundreds of aphids. Both American and European species are cultivated by biocontrol companies. If you want to attract them to your garden, the adults need nectar. Small, open-faced, white flowers are their favorites. If aphids appear, be patient. It takes a lot of aphids to feed one larva. When a larva hatches, it will hover up aphids like no one else's business.A bit more here:<a href=\"https://minnesotaflowerflies.com/syrphinae/eupeodes\" target=\"_blank\">https://minnesotaflowerflies.com/syrphinae/eupeodes</a>/\n",
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Bryan What total nonsense - from 40 years ago when Haig was around. Israel has NEVER hosted American military personnel. But do you know where we have full-blown military bases? In virtually every other MidEast country, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman and Jordan. not to mention our NATO ally, Turkey.We once had a pit stop in Haifa for the US Navy fleet, based in Italy, but 2 years ago Israel leased the port to China for the next 25 years, rendering it useless to us for security reasons. Yeah, some ally.And btw, 25% of the $4 billion in US taxpayers' dollars are spent in Israel on Israeli weapons manufacture. This "tiny" country is the world's 6th largest arms dealer, mostly by virtue of selling knockoffs of US military tech to countries it won't name. And those civilian tech innovations? They come from US companies built with US capital operating under US patents in Israel. Uh...tell us where the Israeli-branded electronics are on the shelves net to Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, etc.
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"content": "Bryan What total nonsense - from 40 years ago when Haig was around. Israel has NEVER hosted American military personnel. But do you know where we have full-blown military bases? In virtually every other MidEast country, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Oman and Jordan. not to mention our NATO ally, Turkey.We once had a pit stop in Haifa for the US Navy fleet, based in Italy, but 2 years ago Israel leased the port to China for the next 25 years, rendering it useless to us for security reasons. Yeah, some ally.And btw, 25% of the $4 billion in US taxpayers' dollars are spent in Israel on Israeli weapons manufacture. This \"tiny\" country is the world's 6th largest arms dealer, mostly by virtue of selling knockoffs of US military tech to countries it won't name. And those civilian tech innovations? They come from US companies built with US capital operating under US patents in Israel. Uh...tell us where the Israeli-branded electronics are on the shelves net to Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, etc.\n",
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"I know that might sound wildly premature, even fanciful: Abortion access has vanished across the South in the wake of the Dobbs decision, and anyone anywhere in the world remains free to pursue Texas women seeking abortions, along with anyone who helps them, for a minimum $10,000 bounty under the state’s S.B. 8 vigilante law."Maybe it's time for other states to pass vigilante laws, establishing minimum bounties of $100,000 for anyone interfering with a woman's right to control her own body - to include judges and jurors.Extreme? Of course it is. But maybe it will help the Republican justices on SCOTUS recognize what they've enabled.
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"content": "\"I know that might sound wildly premature, even fanciful: Abortion access has vanished across the South in the wake of the Dobbs decision, and anyone anywhere in the world remains free to pursue Texas women seeking abortions, along with anyone who helps them, for a minimum $10,000 bounty under the state’s S.B. 8 vigilante law.\"Maybe it's time for other states to pass vigilante laws, establishing minimum bounties of $100,000 for anyone interfering with a woman's right to control her own body - to include judges and jurors.Extreme? Of course it is. But maybe it will help the Republican justices on SCOTUS recognize what they've enabled.\n",
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John Here is one way to understand how our weather is changed by global warming which was discussed in 2012 in a TED Talk by NASA's former lead climate scientist James Hansen."Global warming is already affecting people. The Texas, Oklahoma, Mexico heatwave and drought last year, Moscow the year before and Europe in 2003, were all exceptional events, more than three standard deviations outside the norm.Fifty years ago, such anomalies covered only two- to three-tenths of one percent of the land area. In recent years, because of global warming, they now cover about 10 percent -- an increase by a factor of 25 to 50.So we can say with a high degree of confidence that the severe Texas and Moscow heatwaves were not natural; they were caused by global warming."That was in 2012 when these anomalies covered 10 percent of the land area. And somehow I don't think that has reduced since then, but rather expanded dramatically.<a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate_change/transcript?language=en" target="_blank">https://www.ted.com/talks/james_hansen_why_i_must_speak_out_about_climate_change/transcript?language=en</a>
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While $200 billion to restart the US chip manufacturing projects since early 2020 is great, it misses the point about who will eventually control the industry. At the heart of any high-tech industry is who owns and controls the #intellectualproperty. The narrative of manufacturing leaving the US resonates well with the public, most of us can touch and feel stuff at an electronics store. But many of us do not quite understand that the reason #Taiwan is a superpower in chip manufacturing is because of the number of and quality of #patents it holds in this space. Also, China used to be far behind the US in patent filings. The biggest increase in patent filings was in Asia in 2021/22, where 67.6% of worldwide patent applications were filed. According to an article in the IPWatchdog, Inc (<a href="https://lnkd.in/gGZ3GmEp" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/gGZ3GmEp</a>) China's IP office received 1.58 million patent applications, while the US received 591K patent applications according to the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO.With increased spending of almost $150 billion in #researchanddevelopment every year in the US, we still come up quite short on the protection of #patents in strategic areas, because of a disconnect between #basicscience and #intellectualproperty strategy. We spend only about $500 million for the protection and management of #patents from that research, which by the way, is not funded by the government, it is funded by the universities themselves for pursuing #techtransfer.
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Alex K That wont work. Allen Greenspan said years ago that SS can be fixed easily. Remove the cap and stop payments to people making over $200,000 a year. both of these actions would at that time have affected the top 10% A retired person earning over 200k really does not need another 30-40k from SS. Removing the cap and cutting the rate will not collect enough money to keep it solvent. Social Security works. More than 50% of people over 65 rely on SS for their only source of income.
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Why would "Russia’s elites conclude that it is as dangerous for Russia to leave Ukraine as to stay"? Would they believe giving up would give NATO, the EU and the U.S. an open invitation to invade? Or are they only concerned about humiliation in defeat? If any of the Russia decision makers (especially Putin, of course) was thinking rationally they'd realize they made a huge mistake by invading Ukraine, and should quietly seek a way out were they can save face, and get their $300 billion.
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Mark Thomason These are all good points. It is tough to argue that it is easier to do business in Mexico than China. However, the compliance departments of American corporations should ultimately be up to the task of wading through Mexico's many rule-of-law issues.Renewed investment in Mexico will surely be a force for positive change in that country. A burgeoning middle class of manufacturing workers could be just what's needed to force and pay for reforms.
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It’s not easy money—PE firms are notorious for investing in regulated and highly matrixed industries not realizing the complexity. These industries are attractive because the underlying models are real estate plays, which are where much of the expertise in PE firms lie. This honestly sounds like a case of a poorly ran franchise that’s getting cleaned up. The alternative to PE buyouts is bankruptcy.
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I studied physics in the 1970s, when the Standard Model was being born. I left it because I just couldn't warm up to that subject. It's sad to see that 50 years later, particle physics is still presented as "physics."About 20 years after I left, I met physicists who did experiments studying sloshing pans of water, or chaotic vibrations in a string hung with nuts and bolts. Another one I met got an experiment on the cover of Nature with a key piece of equipment that he bought with his credit card for under $400. And then there was the Nobel Prize awarded for the material graphene, which the two recipients prepared using adhesive tape and a pencil. One of the more terrific Nobels of the past 35 years went to the late French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who wrote a simply beautiful book of theoretical physics about polymers, a class of long molecules that includes DNA, proteins and plastics. He also wrote *the* book about liquid crystals, which is probably how you're reading this comment now. As well as being a major public face of science in France, after his prize he turned his attention to questions like why does your coffee cup leave a ring on the table. If I'd had any inkling that physics also included fun stuff like that, I might have stayed with it. And if those other aspects (condensed matter, materials, nonlinear physics, etc.) got more publicity, there might be thousands more young students attracted to STEM. Please don't reduce physics to particles.
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Putin's ideological desperation has him waging his war with a private, for-profit contractor that recruits ex-cons to fill its fighting ranks? Prigozhin owes his allegiance to Wagner's investors first, not Mother Russia, and mercenaries will fight for the highest bidder. How long can this last before Wagner's demands exceed Putin's capacity, thrusting Prigozhin into the lead (if he isn't there already)? Yes it's a de-facto arm of the Russian military for now, but the firm's growth is unmanageable, its reach well beyond Russian military interests, and its loyalty is to money. Hollywood could not make a credible movie with a storyline like this, but any script would have it end like historical examples instruct: badly for Putin.
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Brett is correct about the dangers of dynastic wealth evading generational taxation, but he fails to mention the unfairness of not taxing market gains on investments. Because the tax code does not consider gains in “wealth” to be subject to income tax, Jeff Bezos and others like him pay absurdly low rates of tax while their fortunes soar. While Bezos pays a lot in taxes, he actually pays a lower tax rate on his yearly increase in wealth than his warehouse workers pay on their wages.The Republican agenda is to give tax breaks to those best able to pay. After the 2017 Republican tax changes, Mr Trump was able to boast to a wealthy audience “You all just got a lot richer.” The Republicans already enacted a “flat” corporate income tax that cut tax rates for the most profitable corporations to just 21 percent, while actually raising the tax rates on small less profitable corporations. The rich got richer. Expect the same from Bret’s proposal for a flat tax on individuals. Don’t be fooled. Brett and other conservatives are looking out for the wealthy, not making the tax code fairer.
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What’s behind these clickbait headlines?Microsoft added 40k in the last 12 months and is now shedding 10k. A net gain of 30k jobs in 1 year doesn’t look like much of a downturn. Same with all of the other “tech layoffs”.
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Mott American supply side economicsAnd the Tories thought they were in charge ofthe US economy, not the UK.The US has a near unlimited ability to tax, spendand borrow like nobody in history.The UK does not.Last year they were trying to plug a 60 billion pound budget hole about 50 billion USD. A bit largerthan the GDP of Montana.
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I built a Python project in two weeks with help from ChatGPT. Never programmed anything in Python. ChatGPT doubters are missing the point. My learning of Python and productivity in such short time was impressive. It gave me no nonsense answers as I was keeping it open side by side while advancing. It walked me through everything from installation of python to API calls against the Uipath Orchestrator then to connection to the Teradata database. I am now contemplating moving deeeper into multi-threaded processes. If owners will ask me to pay $30/mo to continue to have access to this tool I will do it without blinking. I really don’t care about the tool’s ability to write articles in the style of Mark Twain, or speeches like Donald Trump, no value there. Goodbye Youtube videos, time wasted searching through documention and forums. The mode of operation is ask specific question, get answers with examples, adapt examples to my needs, test then move next.
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KAN Its current price. About $18/lb. here.
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Before people start saying that lets just throw money lets look at NHS's budget over the past 10 years and UK's population. Budget went from 131 billion pounds to 199 billion and it will decrease to 180 billion this year as extra money was for one off spending due to Covid. Britain's population in the past 10 years increased by 5.5 million. So thats not a huge jump.Before money is thrown at the problem a comprehensive audit needs to be done on what the NHS needs to clear current backlog and also future proofing and making it modern from the ground up and how long it will take. I think first thing government needs is a price tag of this cost and then it needs to decentralize the system like in Germany. This top down running of this massive agency is clearly not working. Also people need to understand they WILL need to pay a whole more to the National Insurance pot to pay for this. The rich will never pay and I am sure even if you tax them at 100% you will not plug the massive funding hole. People everywhere always expect way way too much from our governments everyone needs to severly lower expectations on what governement can do. Its a tough and thankless job of running it and there will always be funding contraints as expectations from public never get lower does it?
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Emile The 80% statistics, although true, probably do not address the issue that Ms Szalavitz is getting at. 1. The USA has 4% of the world population and has 58% of the world's Rheumatoid drug ($$$$) market-. (Precedence research). US insurance companies are trying very hard to reduce that percentage. /s2. Doctors opioid prescriptions have fallen but the death rate for opioids (particularly fentanyl) continues to increase. Fentanyl analogs are not easily measured in blood due to their extreme potency eg carfentanil (horses, elephants;MDs don't prescribe). The stats are an incomplete picture. CDC; See Case & Deaton re: "Deaths of Despair..."3. That 3 day rule is completely out of context. It relates to acute pain (eg fracture) not chronic pain. It has no application to chronic pain discussions. 4. The CNBC article is old. The CDC link within gives a 404 message and it... 5. linked most opioid deaths to medical intervention. Is that link causal or just an association? The latter is not surprising if people have pain. I am skeptical of the methods used.6. For years nurses/MDs were bombarded with messages that we were underevaluating pain, & that it was the 5th vital sign. It is probably true this messaging was industry supported but addressing it in pt.charts was a necessity. The wind changed direction and overshot, badly IMHO. 7. Docs have addresses, phone #s and licensure, dealers do not. 8. Doc Rxes are not the whole story.Retired rheumatologist.
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The national debt rose by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. The combination of Trump’s 2017 tax cut and the lack of any serious spending restraint helped both the deficit and the debt soar.The growth in the annual deficit under Trump ranks as the third-biggest increase, relative to the size of the economy, of any U.S. presidential administration.
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My thoughts indeed. $113B is a lot of money
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What the average American doesn't know..."Medicare ain't free." Between what is taken put of our SS checks for Part B, what we pay to private insurance companies for a Part B Supplement policy, a Part D drug policy (our's is the minimum because we don't need any prescription drugs yet), and a very basic dental policy which pays for most of two cleanings per year...our total monthly cash outlay is almost $800, and that includes nothing for eye glasses, hearing aids, or any real dental work...all three things of which are expensive and which most seniors need.
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"content": "What the average American doesn't know...\"Medicare ain't free.\" Between what is taken put of our SS checks for Part B, what we pay to private insurance companies for a Part B Supplement policy, a Part D drug policy (our's is the minimum because we don't need any prescription drugs yet), and a very basic dental policy which pays for most of two cleanings per year...our total monthly cash outlay is almost $800, and that includes nothing for eye glasses, hearing aids, or any real dental work...all three things of which are expensive and which most seniors need.\n",
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Ron Bartlett Composting doesn't attract rats, etc. if done right. On the other hand, throwing food items out in the trash in bags does attracts rats. The bags are very easy to rip open. And even if its in a trash bin, well, rats, squirrels, raccoons, possums, and bears can open trash bins.
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Editorials such as this always get the dynamic backward. No one seems to study how the CULTURE of rural areas DRIVES URBANIZATION. Face it, rural and small town life is dominated by a few rich families, and then there is everyone else. Openness to change does not exist. Openness to modernity, nothing. Entrepreneurship is zilch. Openness to newcomers, whether they are from the US or not, outright hostile. And on top of this, drugs, petty crime, and overuse of alcohol makes for a culture anyone with any ambition is ready to leave as soon as they can.But sure, blame the rich suburban people cause they don’t respect your “culture.” Here’s the answer: they know your real culture, that’s why they left.
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Peter Bret Stephens is one more rich white man who, just like the GOP, wants to ensure that rich white men continue to control and profit from this country. He, like the GOP, is a single issue voter in that regard, and the issue is white hegemony.I love Gail, but let's see the Times bring in a younger Black woman to engage in these dialogues with Bret. If he were called out on his true motives (and not treated with Gail's kid gloves), he would be afraid to open his mouth.
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The exact same thing happened to me a few days ago : received an offer for a 20$ gift card in exchange for a 5 star review for a couple of headlamps that cost around 15$. My review alerting others to this cheating was rejected by Amazon. I also called Amazon to report and they couldn’t have cared less despite my insistence. Amazon probably doesn’t want customers to realize reviews don’t mean anything.
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Benioff - worth $8B on paper - equivocating layoffs to death. That’s rich. When will tech workers realize that their labor arbitrage for billionaires and shareholders?
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"content": "Benioff - worth $8B on paper - equivocating layoffs to death. That’s rich. When will tech workers realize that their labor arbitrage for billionaires and shareholders?\n",
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jkpitt ".....teach civics, beginning in grammar school and through high school."An easy and entertaining read for teenagers and adults is "The Fifth Risk" by Michael Lewis (2019). It starts by detailing some of the efforts of the Trump administration to dismantle or hollow out government departments (which may turn off some Trump supporters) but it goes on to explain some of what our government does for us every day. It might be an eye-opener for many.You may recall that, as a presidential candidate, Rick Perry didn't seem to know what the Department of Energy does, even though he went on to run it under Trump. When he proposed getting rid of it, I doubt he knew that one of it's main tasks is to manage our nuclear arsenal.
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Duncan Thanks for the reply — I agree and personally still associate the word with trans exclusion. I also agree regarding "womxn," since trans women *are* women and don't need any alternative spelling unless they so choose. I suppose I meant that it was eye-opening to see in the article some people don't have that mental link between the spelling and radical feminism. One of those things that makes me question the cultural influences in my very framework of viewing gender and language. Again, thank you for your reply, and I'm sorry it seems we've stepped in something yucky with other commenters.
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"content": "Duncan Thanks for the reply — I agree and personally still associate the word with trans exclusion. I also agree regarding \"womxn,\" since trans women *are* women and don't need any alternative spelling unless they so choose. I suppose I meant that it was eye-opening to see in the article some people don't have that mental link between the spelling and radical feminism. One of those things that makes me question the cultural influences in my very framework of viewing gender and language. Again, thank you for your reply, and I'm sorry it seems we've stepped in something yucky with other commenters.\n",
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Richard I don't think this is a whose state is worse contest. Militias were mentioned and are nothing to trifle with. Although I'd bet that the pressure to conform to "norms" in general is much worse in Montana, however the whole point is that this open-carry, pro-gun, in your face ethos is virtually everywhere in most of the US now. This wasn't always the case. I traveled through Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado in the mid-1970s, and while you saw the occasional gun rack, guns were not flaunted, they were known to be a useful tool used on the ranch or for hunting. The NRA changed all that, and the SCOTUS too with the new interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Mr. Bouie said it best: "And in the absence of trust, democracy is a hard game to play" and too many people appear to want it that way.
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"content": "Richard I don't think this is a whose state is worse contest. Militias were mentioned and are nothing to trifle with. Although I'd bet that the pressure to conform to \"norms\" in general is much worse in Montana, however the whole point is that this open-carry, pro-gun, in your face ethos is virtually everywhere in most of the US now. This wasn't always the case. I traveled through Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado in the mid-1970s, and while you saw the occasional gun rack, guns were not flaunted, they were known to be a useful tool used on the ranch or for hunting. The NRA changed all that, and the SCOTUS too with the new interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Mr. Bouie said it best: \"And in the absence of trust, democracy is a hard game to play\" and too many people appear to want it that way.\n",
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Tax attorney here. Although flat taxes are simpler than progressive taxes, they are unfair and shift the tax burden to the lower and middle classes. First, wages are double taxed (through income and payroll taxes), but dividends are only taxed once, so workers will feel the pinch while the investor class gets a break.Second, we use tax deductions to encourage desirable behavior, such as saving for retirement, buying a home or giving to charity. Without those deductions, people will be even less likely to be able to retire or purchase a home, and most charities and arts programs will wither on the vine.Third, one common flat tax proposal is a national sales tax. Sales taxes are regressive because someone making $50k per year necessarily has to spend a much larger percentage of their income on necessities than does someone making $500k per year.The IRS does need to be better funded, including for audits. The tax gap (the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected) is almost half a trillion dollars a year. Before the government raises taxes on anyone, I would prefer that they collect back taxes already owed but not paid. Most wage earners pay their taxes through withholding from their paychecks. The super rich, however, are able to shift their income into tax planning vehicles or overseas. Closing the tax gap, which can only be achieved by auditing the upper class, will go a long way toward paying for things we need without raising taxes too much.
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"content": "Tax attorney here. Although flat taxes are simpler than progressive taxes, they are unfair and shift the tax burden to the lower and middle classes. First, wages are double taxed (through income and payroll taxes), but dividends are only taxed once, so workers will feel the pinch while the investor class gets a break.Second, we use tax deductions to encourage desirable behavior, such as saving for retirement, buying a home or giving to charity. Without those deductions, people will be even less likely to be able to retire or purchase a home, and most charities and arts programs will wither on the vine.Third, one common flat tax proposal is a national sales tax. Sales taxes are regressive because someone making $50k per year necessarily has to spend a much larger percentage of their income on necessities than does someone making $500k per year.The IRS does need to be better funded, including for audits. The tax gap (the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected) is almost half a trillion dollars a year. Before the government raises taxes on anyone, I would prefer that they collect back taxes already owed but not paid. Most wage earners pay their taxes through withholding from their paychecks. The super rich, however, are able to shift their income into tax planning vehicles or overseas. Closing the tax gap, which can only be achieved by auditing the upper class, will go a long way toward paying for things we need without raising taxes too much.\n",
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russ Good points Russ and I would add that a routine blood pressure test should be done before people get back to more strenuous exercise after an extended layoff. I once had a gentleman ask me for a new resistance training program and when I screened him his BP was … 220 / 180.As you know, while fitness training isn’t rocket science it is science (medicine) based and there are well established training principles that create success.A well qualified personal trainer can make exercise easier (most people push too hard too early in a new program - doing the wrong thing for what seems like the right reasons.Since the main theme of this article is cardio and resistance training I’m adding two new tips for our fellow readers.During a cardio workout, start with a longer, gradually increasing level of effort as it takes time for your heart to adjust and increase blood flow (oxygen) to the working muscles.For “strength” (resistance) training there’s a certain number of reps per, BUT a key point not mentioned is Momentary Muscle Fatigue (MMF).MMF is that point in a set of reps when you can’t continue. A training set should use a weight that results in MMF in the desired range of reps per set.If doing a set of say 8 - 10 reps, focus first on doing the exercise correctly, then choose the weight that creates MMF between 8 - 10 reps.MMF is the ‘training stimulus’ that triggers muscles to grow stronger during your rest days between workouts.PS - stretch after your workouts.
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Commenter Girl Thank you. I plead guilty to Trump derangement syndrome. It started right after he came down an escalator. Sorry for the diversion. When he opened up that talk about "America carnage", I had visions of maybe a million dead Americans, and 4 years into his reign, sure enough, we quickly led the world with over a million dead, General Bleach even wiped wiped out a sizable portion of his own senior crowd of supporters, but hey, when you are laying the groundwork for a violent coup, the end justifies the means.Getting rid of the electoral college system would be the first place to start reform of elections. And then the financing, or both at the same time.
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The optimism about battery-only EVs in the USA is wildly misplaced. Yes, they make lots of sense for local.and regional fleets, some commuters and seniors who would otherwise drive a golf cart. But this is still the very early days. No one had any sense of how to make a public charger profitable in the way a gas station is, and the charging infrastructure is already behind in many areas even though only a few people have BEVs. When people face real crowding and hours of waiting at public chargers, it will ruin their summer vacation or Thanksgiving weekend. They will then go running to either a gasoline hybrid or hydrogen-powered car, because the refueling will be so much easier. Refueling is simply the biggest differentiator possible among cars, it just happens to have been a non-factor when every car ran on gasoline. BEVs are unlikely to ever go beyond niche status. Getting from one percent to ten percent of market share is certainly possible, but this is not evidence that there is a pathway to one hundred percent for this technology. Once it is clear that we will need some percentage of cars to run on hydrogen, the BEV chargers will go from "not yet profitable" to "no hope of profitability". Hydrogen will then grow a fueling network very similar to today's gas stations and displace most non-fleet BEV sales. It is all about refueling time and sustainable - that is, profitable - refueling infrastructure.
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"content": "The optimism about battery-only EVs in the USA is wildly misplaced. Yes, they make lots of sense for local.and regional fleets, some commuters and seniors who would otherwise drive a golf cart. But this is still the very early days. No one had any sense of how to make a public charger profitable in the way a gas station is, and the charging infrastructure is already behind in many areas even though only a few people have BEVs. When people face real crowding and hours of waiting at public chargers, it will ruin their summer vacation or Thanksgiving weekend. They will then go running to either a gasoline hybrid or hydrogen-powered car, because the refueling will be so much easier. Refueling is simply the biggest differentiator possible among cars, it just happens to have been a non-factor when every car ran on gasoline. BEVs are unlikely to ever go beyond niche status. Getting from one percent to ten percent of market share is certainly possible, but this is not evidence that there is a pathway to one hundred percent for this technology. Once it is clear that we will need some percentage of cars to run on hydrogen, the BEV chargers will go from \"not yet profitable\" to \"no hope of profitability\". Hydrogen will then grow a fueling network very similar to today's gas stations and displace most non-fleet BEV sales. It is all about refueling time and sustainable - that is, profitable - refueling infrastructure.\n",
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Can the next photo be of the gun-toting smokers earning $173k?
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MSH I would love for the nyt to do a story to understand who is getting covered for this drug and who is not. I would be willing to share my access details with a reporter anonymously - I was only recently approved by my insurer and was previously on $25/month coupons from the manufacturer (ozempic then wegovy then mounjaro) . I suspect there is enough data showing the positive health effects of this drug that insurers would want to cover it at this point. And now we have the build back better plan, some questions around drug pricing are cleared up...are more people getting covered now? I think we all want to know how this will work going forward, I can't go off the meds now, I gain like mad when I do. But many more need access and supply is limited.
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" Standardized tests ... have long been criticized for handicapping poor students and students of color, partly because they may not have access to expensive test preparation classes." You can buy a good test prep study guide for $20 that is just as good as expensive classes.
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Christopher Wray and the FBI is taking the right approach on this disturbing matter.. the fact that harassment charges have been laid against Chinese operatives working out of these police "service centres" clearly demonstrates the ulterior motives behind them. Western democracies allowing these so-called "service centres" within their own borders are in effect compromising their own sovereignty while enabling the CCP to extend its influence and oppression beyond Sino borders. These "service centres" should be shut down immediately and any such "services" restricted to that provided by conventional embassies/consulates as per internationally recognized norms.
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Trillest Why would you spend millions of dollars on a Presidential inauguration.... King Charles is our Head of State.
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I liked my experience with ChatGPT. The program calls itself an assistant and that is what I used it for. I asked it to critique a paragraph I wrote. It took me 9 iterations of the paragraph to satisfy it and it was fun to get that kind of instant feedback. This is a new tool that does something amazing. It could be evolved to help every student and provide personal tutoring. It could be evolved to help every stressed teacher, such that the system is designed to help students grow and help them through trouble spots. Teachers when they are given more help will have more energy to create a community of learners, and focus on human beings working together.Let's actively engage with AI to design it to help every student. How about teachers focusing on students slipping through the cracks and using AI to help pull them up? It's a new tool, and like all our tools we use them for good and ill. What is a good use of the tool? Being able to test ourselves seems like a good use. I go to the gym and use machines to strengthen my arms, why can't I open my laptop and use a program to test myself and try to improve my mind? This is new, what will it be like in 5 years? We need to get the good out of this tool, and we need to try to prevent and limit the harm.
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Bettina Exactly. If this is happening with Trump and Biden, what about Bush, Clinton, Reagan? I think we can all assume that they need to open a full and complete search of all docs and look at all past presidents now. Its clear this is a farce and we can't rely on the old system to work here.
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D And yes, I have posted numerous times as someone pointed out, my concerns as to why there are public and private employers who do not have to inform their employees when they are exposed to covid in the workplace. And no one--absolutely NO ONE--has offered an explanation as to WHY Federal, state and local governments allowed them to do this. I am reporting this from personal experience, as I have had to work full-time, on-site for the entire time of the covid pandemic. Even though my employer is not a medical provider, or other type of first-responder, my place of employment was declared necessary to keep open right from the beginning of the pandemic. And they used HIPAA as the reason for not notifying us. So sorry...Not sorry...if some people on this thread are not "convinced" that I am reporting from personal experience what has actually been going on.
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A neurosurgeon should have enough social skills to know that it's not reasonable to talk about marriage and kids 10 weeks into a relationship. A sister can tell her brother his behavior is disrespectful and suggests that he isn't very committed and should address that before marriage (truly, no finacee has an agreement that sexting with others is ok... nevermind the questions you should have about someone you can't put down sexting at his mom's birthday party). Whether the brother left his phone out, asked his sister to snap a picture with the sexts right there or if she was snooping is a whole other issue. The $400 friend is undoubtedly a deadbeat -- either ashamed or worse unashamed. It's not forgetfulness. And the newborn, well, it depends a lot on how newborn -- a week old? 6 weeks old? More? Remember that the father is watching his own father die and no zoom call to a dying man will replace getting a single photo or few minutes of them physically together. RSV risk is real, but so is the father's grief. Even the linked article begins with 'Typically, air travel is appropriate for most healthy, full-term infants'.
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Thanks for the acknowledgment of yet another American moral panic gone out of control. Between a DEA breathing down every doctor’s neck and a campaign to sue manufacturers and distributors out of business, you can almost forget about an opioid prescription if you don’t have terminal cancer. Purdue Pharma led the march to extinction, and McKesson may quit selling opioids in the US to cut its exposure to legal risk after facing a $7.4 billion settlement with our states and cities, if that set of lawsuits launches a trend. A substance showing the efficacy of opioids without such high potential for abuse is the only definitive solution I can imagine, and it may be a long time coming.It’s not the first time we’ve seen this. Barbiturates were restricted to in-hospital use only and Quaaludes taken off the market altogether in the 1980s. All of these drugs are dangerous, of course; withdrawal from barbiturates can be fatal. We do need prescribing guidelines that go beyond what we’d apply to a blood pressure medication, along with surveillance of quantities dispensed, to prevent diversion to the streets. But the opprobrium attending use of opioids for chronic pain is unreasonable.
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The obvious way to avoid crossing the debt limit is to cut defence spending : The US spends more on defense than the next 9 Nations combined.US National debt is 5.5% of the GDP. This is unsustainable as increasing interest rates will drive up the payment on debt
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DavidS: Serious question? We just pull out our camping gear and set up the propane stove on the patio. The big concern during extended outages is not how we're going to cook but rather how we're going to keep the refrigerated food from spoiling.
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So here's my solution. Nominate a Democratic representative that might pass muster with a few of the house Republicans and use the mass of democratic votes (just 5 short of a majority) to elect the speaker. Since the GOP has the overall majority in the house, it can block any democratic party initiative they don't like and at the same time get underway with the possibility of compromise on needed legislation, such as keeping the government open and financed. At the same time, the far right Freedom Caucus tantrum is finessed and the house can continue in its customary fractious and muddling behavior.
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I think Intrater was trying to con the con on behalf of his cousin Victor Veckselburg, the aluminum oligarch. If Intrater is really leading a private investment firm, would savy investors invest with this man whose main and only client, as he himself has stated, is the Russian. Such a knowledgeable investor would know that sustained returns of 16% are unrealistic. Maybe he was looking to launder funds from his cousin Victor, on his mother’s side.
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"Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania opened 92 percent of state government jobs to people without four-year degrees."This is one of the more telling observations in the article.Education used to be critically important. But, today, the value of a non-STEM college degree is rapidly diminishing, and a growing number of employers are dropping a college education as a requirement for employment. Pennsylvania is not the first state to drop the requirement.It shouldn't be this way, but it is. Instead of learning how to think critically, students learn the importance of trigger warnings, the benefits of safe spaces, and how to recognize and react to microaggressions. Instead of paying attention to their professors, students focus on social media and their cell phone screens. What used to be a culture that emphasized hard work has seemingly morphed into the Victimization Olympics. Diversity quotas have replaced merit as the most important criterion for advancement.Today, more and more employers value work experience over education.If the faculty and leaders of our institutions of higher education don't acknowledge that there is a problem and work towards correcting it, they will, sadly, become obsolete. And this will not be a good thing for society.
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There are other crypto currencies more directly tied to certain markets, and they may very well be fine in the long term. (And Bitcoin is at about $21,300 as I type this, as it goes up and down often a lot like the stock market).For instance, Etherium is very tied to the art community and art collectors and that market is growing, not shrinking. I still believe that overall, the future of currencies is digital.Didn't we go through all this skepticism with plastic cards, decades ago?
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"content": "There are other crypto currencies more directly tied to certain markets, and they may very well be fine in the long term. (And Bitcoin is at about $21,300 as I type this, as it goes up and down often a lot like the stock market).For instance, Etherium is very tied to the art community and art collectors and that market is growing, not shrinking. I still believe that overall, the future of currencies is digital.Didn't we go through all this skepticism with plastic cards, decades ago?\n",
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Patrick That's exactly why the Fed is determined to engineer a recession, justified by the need to stop inflation. The pandemic forced a lot of workers to take the time to reflect on their priorities, and many of them reached the same conclusion as Ms. Gay. When the worst of the pandemic ended, and employers suddenly had an urgent need for the workers they had summarily discarded at the beginning of the pandemic, those workers felt no obligation to return to jobs at which they had worked so hard for so little pay. Employers, of course, blamed "disloyal" workers and Big Government handouts.... everyone but themselves.A recession is just what's needed to put all those uppity "empowered" workers back in their proper place. If they get hungry enough, they'll be at employers' doors begging for their old jobs and working conditions. The recession will provide the reboot necessary to restore the proper balance, making business models that rely on the hard work of underpaid workers viable again and getting America's Plunder Capitalism back on track to redistributing the nation's wealth to the Entitled 0.1%. The Fed is more than happy to do its part for the Investor Class it serves.
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"content": "Patrick That's exactly why the Fed is determined to engineer a recession, justified by the need to stop inflation. The pandemic forced a lot of workers to take the time to reflect on their priorities, and many of them reached the same conclusion as Ms. Gay. When the worst of the pandemic ended, and employers suddenly had an urgent need for the workers they had summarily discarded at the beginning of the pandemic, those workers felt no obligation to return to jobs at which they had worked so hard for so little pay. Employers, of course, blamed \"disloyal\" workers and Big Government handouts.... everyone but themselves.A recession is just what's needed to put all those uppity \"empowered\" workers back in their proper place. If they get hungry enough, they'll be at employers' doors begging for their old jobs and working conditions. The recession will provide the reboot necessary to restore the proper balance, making business models that rely on the hard work of underpaid workers viable again and getting America's Plunder Capitalism back on track to redistributing the nation's wealth to the Entitled 0.1%. The Fed is more than happy to do its part for the Investor Class it serves.\n",
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Remember when the U.S. government (we taxpayers) bailed out airlines during covid 19? "It's not an exaggeration to say the program saved the airline industry," American CEO Doug Parker said. American received over $5B in payroll support.
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We now know that corporations and investors need stability not democracy. The amount of investment and money poured in the China over the last 30 years just after the massacre of Chinese students proves that point. The current Chinese leadership has in my opinion overplayed their hand with tech companies in trying to control them and the Chinese population over Covid restrictions. The level of trust towards the central government has gone down and that is bad because trust towards regional governance was never good in the first place.
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bob There's an ad for itty bitty gold plated violins on Truth Social. Only $79.95, and they come with an official Trump coin! Get yours today before they sell out!
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And raise the income cap, currently at around $150k. That should be a no brainer.
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"content": "And raise the income cap, currently at around $150k. That should be a no brainer.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,603 |
"the Tory-led government set about cutting annual public spending, as a proportion of G.D.P., to 39 percent from 46 percent"If you're a wealthy, developed country expect to spend a large share of your GDP on government, maybe even as much as half. Or you can reduce the percentage and choose to become a poor, less-developed country.
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| yes | Classification | 5,418 |
We lived in China for about 8yrs, coming home in 2013. In our home town, in Guangdong Province, during this period there was non-stop construction of 15-20 stories apartment cluster. Where we lived, single family houses, same thing. Driving by these sites at night revealed only a few lights on the first floor - commercial space - and few to none throughout the remainder of the complex.When we asked our friends about this, they explained that many of the empty units were in fact sold, mainly to investors from Hong Kong. I'll leave it to your imagination as to why.When someone "buys" an apartment or house, what they own is a 100 year, transferable lease on the unit. The land under the units is owned by the federal government, in perpetuity.When we were there, there was no property tax, so sitting on an empty unit didn't accrue any expense. When we spoke with friends, from our home city in China, recently, they told us most of the units are still empty and new construction has ended.What this means for the future of the federal government, the CCP, good question. One possibility, a result of the various Mao driven revolutions, is the CCP greatest concern to its hold on power is unrest in the cities - wen hua da ge ming - great cultural revolution being the most ruinous. Perhaps they'll find a solution or maybe the current power structure will be altered in ways not imagined even 10 years ago.
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"content": "We lived in China for about 8yrs, coming home in 2013. In our home town, in Guangdong Province, during this period there was non-stop construction of 15-20 stories apartment cluster. Where we lived, single family houses, same thing. Driving by these sites at night revealed only a few lights on the first floor - commercial space - and few to none throughout the remainder of the complex.When we asked our friends about this, they explained that many of the empty units were in fact sold, mainly to investors from Hong Kong. I'll leave it to your imagination as to why.When someone \"buys\" an apartment or house, what they own is a 100 year, transferable lease on the unit. The land under the units is owned by the federal government, in perpetuity.When we were there, there was no property tax, so sitting on an empty unit didn't accrue any expense. When we spoke with friends, from our home city in China, recently, they told us most of the units are still empty and new construction has ended.What this means for the future of the federal government, the CCP, good question. One possibility, a result of the various Mao driven revolutions, is the CCP greatest concern to its hold on power is unrest in the cities - wen hua da ge ming - great cultural revolution being the most ruinous. Perhaps they'll find a solution or maybe the current power structure will be altered in ways not imagined even 10 years ago.\n",
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I have to take an medication and it used to be available OTC at a reasonable price. The Pharmaceutical companies decided that they should get that business so now my co-pay is $500 a month and that's with Medicare D . I'm taking half the prescribed dose and it will still run $5000 or more a year! The cost to Medicare and hence taxpayers is huge because most people over 65 are reducing their dosages or just not taking prescribed drugs due to the cost. How many thousands of people need to take statins or BP medicines but can't afford them?The results of not taking these meds is often heart surgery and long term medical care which is costing all of us a fortune while the drug companies get rich. The medical "care" in the US is dangerous and is rated as one of the worst "systems" in the world!
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"content": "I have to take an medication and it used to be available OTC at a reasonable price. The Pharmaceutical companies decided that they should get that business so now my co-pay is $500 a month and that's with Medicare D . I'm taking half the prescribed dose and it will still run $5000 or more a year! The cost to Medicare and hence taxpayers is huge because most people over 65 are reducing their dosages or just not taking prescribed drugs due to the cost. How many thousands of people need to take statins or BP medicines but can't afford them?The results of not taking these meds is often heart surgery and long term medical care which is costing all of us a fortune while the drug companies get rich. The medical \"care\" in the US is dangerous and is rated as one of the worst \"systems\" in the world!\n",
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Previously I have been critical of the Chinese government for not releasing accurate, or believable data on Covid-19. Now I would like to thank the government of China, and Xi Jinping for being more open. I wish they would accept America's offer of vaccines, and then they could do their own test if they think they need to. I wish the Chinese people well.
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Pete N Your perceptive comment illustrates the problem of government regulation. It's always imperfect. It may sound good in the abstract, but it's very hard to apply. Life's unfair. There are always tradeoffs. Those two unfortunate facts about the real world always seem to be glossed over by government officials who think they have discovered a simple and costless solution to a big problem that bedeviled all their predecessors. No, Lina Khan, you haven't found a way to increase workers' wages by $300 billion a year. Not even close.
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David L, Jr. Very much this, I'm afraid. It's as if some think all thought sprung sui generis from the split-open head of Zeus like Athena perfectly formed ready to invert civilization for its own sake.
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| yes | Classification | 5,749 |
Just finished 10 days of wearing a continuous glucose monitor. It was very enlightening! While I ate lots of vegetables and fiber, I learned that root vegetables (starchy) cause my blood glucose to spike almost as high as if I eat a cookie. Prolonged and drastic spikes lead to diabetes, which correlates highly with Alzheimers later in life.So, if I intuitively eat, even if perceived healthy, some foods don't work well with my body. This doesn't mean I never eat french fries or a sweet potato, but I eat them less often and when I do, make sure they're paired with healthy fats/protein/fibers. What I did observe is my blood sugar dips low when I'm hungry and if it spikes high, I'm really tired after 2-3 hours (the crash). So, intuitive eating should tell me that if I'm paying close attention to how I feel. The key would be not eating more high-spiking foods when I'm tired 2-3 hours later. I look forward to when tools like CGMs are used more widely and more affordable for everyone. There's a LOT to learn about one's own body. In the meantime, pay attention to how you feel before, during and for hours after a meal.
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| no | Classification | 4,935 |
Sarah Trump’s liberal use of his own money to finance his campaign makes it harder to separate the personal from the campaign. Candidates face no contribution limits, and he spent over $60 million to get himself elected.Trump himself said that it wasn’t a campaign expense, because he paid it himself.But at the end of the day, the personal vs. campaign test isn’t based on the account the money came from, but whether the cost would have come regardless of Trump running for office.
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"content": "Sarah Trump’s liberal use of his own money to finance his campaign makes it harder to separate the personal from the campaign. Candidates face no contribution limits, and he spent over $60 million to get himself elected.Trump himself said that it wasn’t a campaign expense, because he paid it himself.But at the end of the day, the personal vs. campaign test isn’t based on the account the money came from, but whether the cost would have come regardless of Trump running for office.\n",
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Zdanko absolutely. I wouldn't have given up for $17k. My point is "these people" shouldn't have to give up so much of their time to get a fair (and obvious) resolution.
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I've always admired the original mid century homes in Palm Springs. They are iconic but also almost laughably unsuited to their desert environment. With their huge single glazed picture windows, flat roofs, and zero insulation, they are ridiculous to cool in the summer or heat in the winter. A modern version with double pane windows, coated roofs, modern insulation, and mechanics is diffinately interesting. Mountain views from multiple areas of the home make me think that $1.5 million seems low. It is either a teaser to attract multiple offers or something is seriously wrong with the location.
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"content": "I've always admired the original mid century homes in Palm Springs. They are iconic but also almost laughably unsuited to their desert environment. With their huge single glazed picture windows, flat roofs, and zero insulation, they are ridiculous to cool in the summer or heat in the winter. A modern version with double pane windows, coated roofs, modern insulation, and mechanics is diffinately interesting. Mountain views from multiple areas of the home make me think that $1.5 million seems low. It is either a teaser to attract multiple offers or something is seriously wrong with the location.\n",
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Stephen - And will the taxpayers have to pay to house the Secret Service protectors at nearby hotels for $ 600-800 a night? (Mar A Lago, Bedminster)
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