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I have an interesting insight on this. I recently graduated from Texas A&M and frequently had to travel between where I grew up in Dallas to College Station. The distance is almost exactly the same if I take I-45 or I-35. Some of you may know that the state has spent a fortune and decades widening I-35. Parts of I-35 were unfinished when I first started going to college, so I used I-45 because there was less congestion. As I-35 began to be finished, I switched my usage. I say that to make the point, that expanding freeways only reroutes traffic, it does not ease congestion as I-35 is still a nightmare to travel on.
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I am proud that our country is taking the time to prosecute the low level participants in this case. Granted, many were caught in the moment and duped by the grifter in chief but I hope even 1 month in jail will open their eyes to what they did. They are fortunate to live in a country who still follows laws. There are many places where you would be tossed in prison for life or worse. Keep going until all of them pay some price.
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Cris Perdue The issue is that Abramoff was at the congress on Oak Ridge's dime - they paid the registration, travel, lodging, etc. This is a clear policy position for any employee, government or private. Therefore Abramoff was a representative of Oak Ridge when she chose to disrupt the AGU proceedings (and the plenary session at that). It does not matter if she used $0.01 of government resources for $1,000,000.As is clearly written in this column, there was no issue with her advocacy activities as long as it was clear she was speaking for herself, not Oak Ridge or the government. Multiple examples of how her management worked with her to enable her activist are provided by Abramoff herself. So it would have been fine if she attended a protest as a private citizen in whatever city the AGU congress was held. The issue is her behavior while on the clock.
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Seems like the wonderful and lovely Ms. Howard overstaffed and over reached for the market she was in. Let’s face it Deep Run North Carolina ain’t NYC or San Francisco. Then she probably could have charged $80 pp for a high end dining multi-tiered dining “experience”. But indeed the restaurant industry- at any level- is brutal! But it puts food on the table for many.
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Meta reinstated Trump for the same reason Twitter did. Both entities are struggling mightily and praying that a figure who will type anything for ratings will help these entities with the same which will, in turn, help them generate revenue. The lack of trust they have created, however, will make this a challenge. While not active on either platform, I’ve occasionally opened accounts under my dogs names when I need access to specific information housed on either. These accounts then lay dormant and I hear nothing from the services. Recently, I’ve been getting nightly messages for my dogs’ accounts attempting to get me/them to re-engage/bark. I delete the text and get a new notification the next night. If these services are so desperate for engagement that they are spamming my dogs, than they need more than Trump to make them relevant again.
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"content": "Meta reinstated Trump for the same reason Twitter did. Both entities are struggling mightily and praying that a figure who will type anything for ratings will help these entities with the same which will, in turn, help them generate revenue. The lack of trust they have created, however, will make this a challenge. While not active on either platform, I’ve occasionally opened accounts under my dogs names when I need access to specific information housed on either. These accounts then lay dormant and I hear nothing from the services. Recently, I’ve been getting nightly messages for my dogs’ accounts attempting to get me/them to re-engage/bark. I delete the text and get a new notification the next night. If these services are so desperate for engagement that they are spamming my dogs, than they need more than Trump to make them relevant again.\n",
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Invest in Crypto and live off the returns? Another cloying delusional and somewhat dangerously irresponsible article by The NY Times ,yes those profiled live somewhat modestly however they also seem to have the money ,investments inherited wealth ,exactly what is unclear other than that they apparently all seem to have the money which enables them to do so, unless they are racking up debt and being wildly irresponsible, we'll never know. It's cloying and irritating to read articles like this for those that are struggling and somewhat irresponsible for The NY Times to publish articles like this that may delude susceptible readers into getting into unsustainable debt by being inspired by articles such as this. It's also scary given that the news in this morning's NY Times on economy with alarming articles on the debt ceiling and other prospects looks bleak. Is the author of this article article aware of this? Is the editor of this article aware of this? Is it realistic and responsible to present such lifestyles when the economy as reported in this morning's paper is harrowing ? Such delusional and irresponsible reporting eviscerates whatever respect l have for the NY Times.
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"content": "Invest in Crypto and live off the returns? Another cloying delusional and somewhat dangerously irresponsible article by The NY Times ,yes those profiled live somewhat modestly however they also seem to have the money ,investments inherited wealth ,exactly what is unclear other than that they apparently all seem to have the money which enables them to do so, unless they are racking up debt and being wildly irresponsible, we'll never know. It's cloying and irritating to read articles like this for those that are struggling and somewhat irresponsible for The NY Times to publish articles like this that may delude susceptible readers into getting into unsustainable debt by being inspired by articles such as this. It's also scary given that the news in this morning's NY Times on economy with alarming articles on the debt ceiling and other prospects looks bleak. Is the author of this article article aware of this? Is the editor of this article aware of this? Is it realistic and responsible to present such lifestyles when the economy as reported in this morning's paper is harrowing ? Such delusional and irresponsible reporting eviscerates whatever respect l have for the NY Times.\n",
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Jim K ---"There is no more open land to move into or freely accessible resources to exploit" Sorry, Jim you need to get out more; there is plenty of wide open spaces for people to move into, and lots of resources to exploit for the benefit of mankind and for the benefit of the planet. If you raise my taxes, I will hide my resources and stop working(stop being productive, creating jobs and products) rather than give it to you. People in high tax states are doing this now---they take their money and move.
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Scott and so is murder which is being condoned by openly hostile individuals. Things need to change and if it’s, ignoring the Supreme Court or rejecting open borders it needs to be done. If a nation invaded and killed as many people as we allow their would be a war, and this is a war.
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The layoffs started in the spring of 2021....so very quietly,,,1000 here, a few months later 3,000 here and 2,500 here ...little blips no one was paying much attention but they were occurring. Talking to a co worker about a month ago and stated that layoffs were coming even if other indicators are/were not present openly...they are opening much more and faster now...and it doesn't matter which industry, but the effects for workers and the markets and how the investors withdraw and change their spending habits and investments. Once again the spiral is going down, how fast and hard is the question and how we all end up again...every 10-14 years cycle. Last one was 2007/08, and we blamed the housing industry, today Tech...who is to blame really, think about the one industry that never is blamed, but funds the program.
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Eric B Wordle 563 3/6*⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 87 words left🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 1 word left🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 — words leftI had come up with two choices for the second word—one that I've used before in this situation and one more, which I've never used. That was the one I went with, although I now realize that in using it to try a yellow letter in two places, the opener had already ruled one of those places out, A small oversight.In the end it was the better choice, this time anyway, since it was off by only one letter from the solution. The other word—also the bot's choice—would have led to the solution in three as well, but not as plainly. Strategically, that word was the better choice, if you play the percentages. I'll remember that next time.Yesterday's words:STARE 6 words leftSKIRT — words leftLeft with the S, R, & T, the first word that came to mind was SPURT, a possible solution, but one that seemed too wacky to be right. The sound of it gave me SKIRT, which seemed like a feminine counterpoint to the masculine choice of two days earlier.Had I taken the time and thought about it, I would have played SHORT, a better candidate among the six possible answers, and the bot's choice as well. But that would have meant a solve in four instead of two.Congratulations in advance to all who solve. Hopefully the three-bees will be out in force.
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I grew up in a pretty volatile household. Studying and homework were not survival skills. My High school grades revealed it. I attended my freshman year in college immediately after High School and my grades reflected no change. For the most part I failed. For the next two+ years I worked full-time at a variety of menial jobs and paid my way in an apartment. This was a major wake up call. In the meantime my parents separated and divorced. I eventually re-entered college, again paying my own way, but renewed enthusiasm and experience in the working world. I developed new skills, life skills actually: studying, completing the assigned homework, asking questions when I didn't understand, and took voluminous notes. I was disciplined with my time; between 20 hrs of work and a full time academic schedule, there was no time for goofing off. I learned how to learn; absorbing the material with increasing efficiency, (and to this date, I can still identify trees by their Latin names and spell them correctly for example). I applied for grants, loans, and had a work/study job in my field. 3 years post graduation, I was invited to apply for a position in a firm where one of my school lab partners worked. He indicated at the time, he had wished he had my study habits when at the University. I was flattered. I didn't apply. The hunger to learn is mandatory. If you are going to college to party, or don't know what you want to study, don't waste the money.
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Jack some of us can chew bubblegum and walk at the same time.The money we spend on countering Russia via Ukraine’s heroic resistance is the best and most cost-effective use of any defense-related money we spend. It’s their soldiers doing the fighting, against what is now clear is the most dangerous and disruptive enemy of world peace. If we don’t help the Ukrainians stop Putin now, do you think he’s going to learn it’s no longer acceptable to attack peaceful countries with no real justification in the future, just so he can go down in history as done great conqueror due to his inflated ego? How many more thousands of innocents must be killed?Stop voting for a party that has no solutions to the problems here which you mention, who’s only approach is to take more benefits from 99% of us to give even more money to the 1% who have avoided paying their fair share of taxes since Reagan. And then you can complain.
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Minneapolis Mom I agree. Also, the public is very uneducated about taxes we pay on income and keeping the GDP at 2% for the Last 20+ years. I read an article about how we will pay less in taxes this year, because the rate of inflation has doubled, although I do not believe that is the an adequate % representation. The Index mentioned here sys that if you take out fuel costs and food costs that the index went up only 4.6%. How do you NOT count those costs as a huge factor in inflation. Food is a basic necessity and if you want a working population, they will incur transportation costs of some type. This is a political/semantics game that is being played on working people, making under $400K and down. It’s very convoluted and makes no sense. Funny, if there are no shortages, prices do not drop significantly on food, ever. Once the higher price is set, it’s there. We all need to step back and think about what we need as opposed to what we want. We bought a brand new Subaru Outback 6 years ago, paid $29K. That vehicle has gone up by $7500+ since our purchase. Luckily, we are retired and only have less than 40K miles on it. As far as I am concerned, we will keep it until the wheels fall off. Sometimes, you just have to shut your purse on the greedy.
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Something the Dems will never admit, nor the corporate media:Public sector goods and services are a far, far better deal for Americans than anything from the Private Sector -- if unshackled from corporate control. If they can be truly non-profit and democratically controlled, it's not close. Their overhead is vastly smaller, and "economies of scale" are unmatched. The public sector can also pay the rank and file much more, because it doesn't pay its executives hundreds to thousands of times more. The public sector is roughly in the 5-1 realm. Tragically, our public sector has shrunk massively since the New Deal era, accelerating especially from Reagan on. Pushed by both parties, with the GOP being more aggressive, of course. Contrary to GOP endless fearmongering, America is easily the least "socialist" nation in the developed world, which is largely why our health, safety, and welfare metrics rank so low, and our economic inequality so high. Any party that reverses this trend, updates, expands, and extends the Commons, will form the largest coalition of Americans in our history. Boiled down, pretty much everyone but the 1%.
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c.a. matthews The EPA nor do most gov't agencies hire 'entry level' positions anymore (GS-2 to GS-6). They have internships and their regular hiring starts at GS-7 which is around $47K per year. In addition, many of their GS-7/8/9 jobs allow people to substitute education for experience and make even more. So it's simply not true what you are claiming...but I will agree that the fed govt pay sucks and they have not been great at hiring entry level staff in almost 20 years. If you want to use your environmental experience, I'd suggest (as a retired recruiter in both private and public sector) looking at energy efficiency firms and utilities who run the efficiency programs if you want to be out in the field.
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I predate B & N and Amazon by decades. They feel but upstarts, too corporate, even now. Yet I remain grateful to bookstores still alive. My lifelong romance has turned out not with any human but rather, the loves discovered within my cherished books. As a child, the town library became my personal sanctuary. More home than my own and where I read every animal book several times over. Farley Mowat. Anna Sewell. Walter Farley. Rudyard Kipling. Jack London. Black Beauty...my bible. These many years later, a large stable here houses beloved rescued horses. As well, a stately old farmhouse to house inanimate friends. Rescued books. Many discarded, to my dismay. Found stuffed into overflowing cartons on street corners at the semester's end. Purchased from corner bookstores, libraries, and yard sales. Each a treasure. I am incapable of discarding these lifelong friends. Safe now, they appear everywhere. In random style, in every room. On every side table, main table, bookshelf, sideshelf, mantle and most chairs. Bedside, fireside. I intend to reread each again, unable to part with this one or that one. In my defense, I did adopt out a lifetime of periodicals. The dignified hardcovers and paperback cousins remain. They sit quietly, awaiting their turn to be opened once again, to be of service, offering up theories, discoveries, secrets, poetry, other-worldliness. I cannot betray them. This mighty legion of library clutter will surely remain until my death.
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Miss M.Come on. They lied in their marketing. They stole the option for people trying to do the right thing away from them. They left the door open because of their marketing lies and I hope everyone applicable walks in and gets theirs. If you are ok with this, I’ve got an organic, vegan, high protein, calorieless supplement for you!Words matter. Hopefully they always will?
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My husband and I met, and married, late in our lives. We were both 64 when we met, and have now been together for 10 years. We live a lifestyle that is primarily plant-based, exercise, laden, and joyful. This Christmas season, I struggled with the items I might put in his Christmas stocking. I decided upon, small slips of paper, each describing a kind and thoughtful thing he does for me throughout the day. After opening our presents to one another, I said “oh, you have to open your stocking“. He, of course, suggested that we weren’t eating a bunch of junk and what on earth would I put in a stocking. As your article describes, we were both overwhelmed as he reached into the stocking, pulling out one crumpled piece of paper at a time with my thanks for the many individual, helpful things he adds to my day… cleaning up dinner, while I enjoy my bath, turning down our bed each evening, using a separate piece of paper to solve the Jumble so I can fill it out in the paper, covering and uncovering my car each day, turning on the heat before I get out of bed, taking out our neighbors trash cans each week, and on and on. He read each one aloud and I believe a new holiday tradition has begun - for us both!
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The judge sided with the people in the community and the historic district. This building will over power the seaport and possibly cast shadows on the Brooklyn bridge. It was $180 million dollars in lobbying that got this project through LPC. Seems like the budget for the lobbying is now higher with articles like this still popping up.
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| no | Classification | 2,018 |
Time for the government to face reality, open their borders, and invest in a healthy immigration policy. Birthrates are falling everywhere in the world and the only countries that do not face this crisis are countries that have more open borders. Though creating and expanding humane immigration policies can be quite complicated, the solution in of immigration itself is obviously simple.
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What came to mind for me was why would someone suddenly "loan" Hunter Biden $2 Million? How will it be or was it repaid? What quid pro quo took place for this timely bail-out? That's the real question to be asked.
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Anthony the Monarchy costs around 2 pounds/year a person. They are not the problem. They are also part of history. My history.
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Thinline flat tax of 20%: $1 million earner pays $200,000; $50,000 earner pays $10,000. How is that not "fair/fair share"?
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| no | Classification | 597 |
Germany needs to reinstate the draft. What is important is the mindset of the people. You can only have a strong army, if the citizens have a dog in the fight and are prepared to defend their country.There is no need to have an extended military service of a year or more. 6 months should be enough to train for territorial defense, with 4 weeks reserve training every 5 years or so.Germany could make this more palatable by coupling national service with preferential admission to public universities and other public institutions. What the pacifists do not realize is that by being pacifists they de facto invite war, i.e. occupation by an aggressor that does not share these values. Ironically the only thing that will prevent war is the ability to muster a decisive muscular response to any aggression. That's where Putin (and the West) miscalculated with Ukraine. Had he known how strong Ukraine is and how bad his own army is, he would not have attacked. Germany better learns that lesson again, and fast!
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Microsoft made almost $18 billion last quarter alone. No need for layoffs, strictly taking out their bottom 5% performers.
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This game has definitely expanded my vocabulary. Not in any useful way, but expanded nonetheless. (Although who knows? Maybe one day I'll go on Jeopardy! and the clue will be "this is an open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves." Boom! I'll be all over it)
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| no | Classification | 3,471 |
Maybe, just maybe, if we had invested just a fraction of the hundred billion dollar we gave Ukraine to fight our proxy war with Russia into our pediatric hospitals we would be able to take care of our own kids. Our government has been captured by the military-industrial-political complex and they don't care about the citizens of this country, only this insane Rules-Based-Order system that has us involved in wars and conflicts all over this planet.
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Mor - socialism has not failed. It hasn't been tried. Socialism is an economic system based on giving power & control to the actual working classes. Dictatorships Co-opted the name to "justify" their authoritarian regimes. They claim that the "people" have the power, but, conveniently, the regime is acting in the people's name. The people in these so-called Socialist republics have NO say, not ultimate say. True Democratic Socialism puts the economic power in the hands of the workers & makes each level up of representatives dependent on those they are supposed to represent. That's the opposite of the way faux Socialist dictatorships rule. An employee-owned company is the perfect example of Democratic Socialism. The #1 rated supermarket chain in the United States, year after year, is Publix (from the southern border of Washington, DC to the Florida Keys. It is also the largest autonomous employee-owned Socialist commune in the country. When profits are distributed each year, they go not to wealthy investors, but to the employees, who are the only people allowed to own shares in the company. The #1 cab company in the country is the Union Co-Op Cab Company, in Madison, Wisconsin, which is also entirely owned & operated by its employees. In its early days, Microsoft was similar, with thousands of its early workers being vested in stock & quickly becoming what is known in Redmond & Seattle as "MicrosoftMillionaires."
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On the other hand, Coots, on one of my trips down South, I kept noticing relatively new ranch houses some yards away from 19th-century farmhouses that were falling in on themselves. Set in the fields, with old deciduous trees even artistically planted around them, they had been abandoned.It was clear that the farming families had moved out into newer, if unattractive, digs. They were still farming -- various crops including cotton were being tended. Aesthetics have taken a back seat.If people move to a place and save old architecture, why not? There are at least several properties in the area of Coxsackie going for less than $400,000. There might be some for less, but I'm not forty any more so I don't check out real fixer-uppers.Just one thing, new folks: Stop with the open-concept stuff, and stop with the gray paint. It won't add to the resale price, if that's what you're after.
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We live a few miles north of Chatham in much more ungentrified Rensselaer County. The road was dirt for our first 35 years here, in the requisite 225 year old house. In dry times clouds of fine dust filled the air after every car passed. if it was windy it might blow everywhere. If it was still it would hang in a zone a hundred feet from either side of the road. House windows could not be open. In wet times a muddy morass. The vehicles were NEVER clean. Dust penetrated every atom-sized opening and filled the interior bodywork of all vehicles, blooming rust. Grit and sediment washed off on the surrounding land. Everything was covered with the fine layer of dust until a heavy rain washed it off.We have had what they call a "chip and seal" coating for the last three years and I say "AMEN!"
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| no | Classification | 420 |
Eric I bought a '21 Model S. They just refreshed the interior in 2021.I sat in a Lucid and the interior is dated. Just look at the screens. You can barely get one (same goes for EQS). Taycan has terrible range and is $$$$$$. And they all have to depend on a poorly maintained public DC fast charging network.If you want a high end EV and actually want to road trip with it, Tesla is still the only name in the game.
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As a voluntary Drug & Alcohol Counsellor I continue to be ASTONISHED at the binge drinking habits of young people, particularly males aged 18-30 years. In Australia, it has become a social norm to arrive at events armed with packs of 24 or 30 cans of strong beer and proceed to drink the entire amount until the consumer is “blotto” (unconscious), thereby earning valuable social credits amongst peers. But the cost is extreme: violence, accidents, expense (often $10,000/year), and the development of diseases (including cirrhosis) once associated with ageing alcoholics. The alcohol industry needs to bear some of responsibility for this warped “mateship” culture, as it actively encourages young men to purchase ever larger volumes.
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| no | Classification | 3,614 |
Everything Ms. Garcia-Navarro is mentioning about Miami here is accurate. I have lived here my entire life, and slowly but surely see how my hometown is becoming a place where I can’t afford to live. Miami has always been a place with a plastic culture, no reverence for its history and quick to demolish the few places left that tell our story and replace them with vacant luxury condos. I am still fortunate to be able to live in the community that I work in (public school teacher, in Florida, another comment for another day), but for how much longer as the cost of living continues to rise at a much higher rate than our salaries? There are people trying to make a positive impact in the community, trying to have cool places to hang out, eat or watch a band play, but the predatory nature of the real estate market, and the open invitation for the obscenely rich to come in and buy up everything we’ve built here will soon leave them wondering why they came down here to begin with.
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My mother was dying in the Atlanta area. I’d just had my credit card changed due to fraud. So I reserved a rental car at Hertz’s airport site but used a debit card. The manage insisted on a $200 cash deposit. I had $180. By this time I was crying. Even my bank manager assured them—yes we called. Overhearing that I was there to see my mother for the last weeks of her life, a lovely gentleman from Dallas—hat, boots, huge belt buckle and 6’5”—gave me $20 to secure the rental car and wouldn’t give me contact info to repay him. Maybe he just wanted the line to move faster. But to this day, 9 years later, I still avoid Hertz.
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I worked at Apple 20 years ago when this whole trend started. No, it was not some corporate conspiracy of planned obsolescence. There were two main drivers: 1) Making hardware that downs open dramatically increases durability and performance and 2) Creating software that supports old systems with any part a person wants to add is dramatically more expensive and less reliable. This trend started when Apple was a minor player that barely made money but it helped Apple climb away from bankruptcy and make all the products all of the current complainers enjoy. It is a reality of modern tech, not some top down directive to make wasteful things that take more of your money.
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Has Biden hammered Google and all the other tech companies who are firing thousands including a husband and wife, while they rake in billions in profits? Maybe the fact that these same companies who made sure to get him elected with billions of dollars spent on influencing the 2022 election has something to do with his silence.
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Abc123 Many of the big tech companies making headlines for layoffs are insanely, disgustingly profitable money-printing machines. The savings from these cuts will go to executives and shareholders.Twitter was never a terribly great business–profitable some years and losing money others, but it was seemingly a great place to work and didn’t really have a critical financial *problem* until a certain someone forced it to take on $13b in debt recently.
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Ed I disagree. The Democratic Party's priorities extend beyond equal protection and free speech. They include a tax code that puts more of a burden on those who don't need large tax breaks. They also include expanding health care access and addressing climate change and gun violence, the leading cause of death for American children. Among other things. The GOP wants to and has lowered tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. They get support from their base by evoking racial fears. Stick with the Dems, Ed. The alternative is costly.
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Huh? This is the LEAD WRITER on economics for the NY Times Editorial Board? I shudder to think what the DEPUTY lead writer thinks. We're in a debt bind because we spend 21% of GDP and tax 17%, so our challenge is . . . we don't tax enough. A sixth grader could fashion this argument. The debt challenge is the growth of GDP and tax rates. The more debt we carry, the more GDP and higher taxes we need, to pay interest on the debt (except if interest rates plummet, but inevitably that's a short-term item). Unless you think GDP is about to boom, or tax rates should increase more (already up to 18% in 2022, from 14% in 2010), the way we sort our debt item is to spend less. The item isn't that complicated. It get hard to sort out where to spend less (entitlements and/or the military) or how to grow GDP (legal immigration).
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"content": "Huh? This is the LEAD WRITER on economics for the NY Times Editorial Board? I shudder to think what the DEPUTY lead writer thinks. We're in a debt bind because we spend 21% of GDP and tax 17%, so our challenge is . . . we don't tax enough. A sixth grader could fashion this argument. The debt challenge is the growth of GDP and tax rates. The more debt we carry, the more GDP and higher taxes we need, to pay interest on the debt (except if interest rates plummet, but inevitably that's a short-term item). Unless you think GDP is about to boom, or tax rates should increase more (already up to 18% in 2022, from 14% in 2010), the way we sort our debt item is to spend less. The item isn't that complicated. It get hard to sort out where to spend less (entitlements and/or the military) or how to grow GDP (legal immigration).\n",
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The NYT is a little disingenuous when they say drivers make $5K a month. That's gross. That tally doesn't include gas or car costs. In Los Angeles, we make even less. Look, no one says it but the vice president of the United States is the sister-in-law of the vice president ofUber. The economic advisor of President Obama, Valerie Jarrett sits on the board of directors of Lyft. President Biden's official economic advisors are on borrow from BlackRock who as of today own almost two and a half billion dollars worth of Uber stock alone. Let's tell the big truth here, this is exploitation and it will not end. This is the very definition of limousine liberal.
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"content": "The NYT is a little disingenuous when they say drivers make $5K a month. That's gross. That tally doesn't include gas or car costs. In Los Angeles, we make even less. Look, no one says it but the vice president of the United States is the sister-in-law of the vice president ofUber. The economic advisor of President Obama, Valerie Jarrett sits on the board of directors of Lyft. President Biden's official economic advisors are on borrow from BlackRock who as of today own almost two and a half billion dollars worth of Uber stock alone. Let's tell the big truth here, this is exploitation and it will not end. This is the very definition of limousine liberal.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,631 |
I'm not sure that tech giants laying off 5-10% of their staff even qualifies as a "cyclical crash". Doesn't it just mirror the hiring boom we experienced during the pandemic?I worked through the dotcom bubble burst and was unemployed for a short stretch, but this current market feels like a cooling off and returning to normal. The company that I work for has dozens of openings and has had no luck filling them. Maybe that situation will improve with this wave off layoffs.
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I read a lot of confusing stuff about GOP wanting to eliminate Medicare. Medicare is only for 65+ and has close to 2 trillion $s. Apparently they close to $15000/patient to these Medicare Advantage companies. I have one for $39/month but I am not even going to use even 20% of the money the government gives. As for Obamacare at $500+ per person per month how can a small family of 4 afford to pay$25000 a year for health insurance, unless the family earning plenty money???
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"content": "I read a lot of confusing stuff about GOP wanting to eliminate Medicare. Medicare is only for 65+ and has close to 2 trillion $s. Apparently they close to $15000/patient to these Medicare Advantage companies. I have one for $39/month but I am not even going to use even 20% of the money the government gives. As for Obamacare at $500+ per person per month how can a small family of 4 afford to pay$25000 a year for health insurance, unless the family earning plenty money???\n",
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They had to come up with the $10B somehow that they are investing in OpenAI…
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"content": "They had to come up with the $10B somehow that they are investing in OpenAI…\n",
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The endless free meals, on-site gyms, "chill time", etc. ere all contracts of the over-indulgence of the early tech boom. Anyone who expected that to continue knows little of corporate responsibility and fiscal quarters. Tech, as every other facet of our economy, is subject to massive swings - and swinging they are right now.Covid knocked the socks off most businesses and the era of freebees and Gen-whatever indulgence is OVER. It's back to serious business like real grownups, so welcome to the REAL world.That doesn't mean that people have to be unhappy at work - it just means that work is now work and not play, not early Google and the like. Jobs can be very fulfilling unless one has unreal expectations - EARN your perques because they will not now be handed out like M&Ms.
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| no | Classification | 3,265 |
Tom Top full retirement age benefit is currently about $3600/month. If you wait until 70 to retire, it’s currently about $4500/ month. So, about $43,000/yr, or $54,000 if you wait until 70, and have paid the most possible in tax through your working life.
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"content": "Tom Top full retirement age benefit is currently about $3600/month. If you wait until 70 to retire, it’s currently about $4500/ month. So, about $43,000/yr, or $54,000 if you wait until 70, and have paid the most possible in tax through your working life.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,806 |
If the appeals ever end and Trump ends up actually paying this fine, will the $5 or $10 donations that will pour in from his fans be enough to keep him from digging into his billions?
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"content": "If the appeals ever end and Trump ends up actually paying this fine, will the $5 or $10 donations that will pour in from his fans be enough to keep him from digging into his billions?\n",
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The greed of these companies is breathtaking. When I was a kid in the 1970s my insulin cost under $20 per vial. Recombinant DNA insulin has not changed in decades. Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi have invested exactly $0 to improve insulin, relying on little tricks, like putting the same insulin into a pen, to charge more. The vial that cost $20 when I was growing up is now just about $300 at my CVS. I’m thankful to have employer-paid health insurance or I could not afford to live. Last April, 57 Republican Senators voted AGAINST extending the $35/month cap to people under the age of 65, causing the measure to fail 57-43. They big three insulin makers bought and paid for these lawmakers. Remember that next time you vote.
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"content": "The greed of these companies is breathtaking. When I was a kid in the 1970s my insulin cost under $20 per vial. Recombinant DNA insulin has not changed in decades. Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi have invested exactly $0 to improve insulin, relying on little tricks, like putting the same insulin into a pen, to charge more. The vial that cost $20 when I was growing up is now just about $300 at my CVS. I’m thankful to have employer-paid health insurance or I could not afford to live. Last April, 57 Republican Senators voted AGAINST extending the $35/month cap to people under the age of 65, causing the measure to fail 57-43. They big three insulin makers bought and paid for these lawmakers. Remember that next time you vote.\n",
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| no | Classification | 727 |
conesnail As a quick Google search will confirm, Amazon makes boatloads of money: $33 billion in 2021. <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-income#:~:text=Amazon" target="_blank">https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-income#:~:text=Amazon</a>%20net%20income%20for%20the%20twelve%20months%20ending%20September%2030,a%2056.41%25%20increase%20from%202020.
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"content": "conesnail As a quick Google search will confirm, Amazon makes boatloads of money: $33 billion in 2021. <a href=\"https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-income#:~:text=Amazon\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-income#:~:text=Amazon</a>%20net%20income%20for%20the%20twelve%20months%20ending%20September%2030,a%2056.41%25%20increase%20from%202020.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,026 |
Free markets depend on transparency of pricing. The price of labor is no different. As others have said, private employers are posting, at least here in Colorado, pay ranges... not a list of everyone's compensation. The major corporation I work for is still very weird about this- while required in Colorado, they only publish pay range information when there is an opening, and most openings are filled in about 48 hours, often internally. Unless employees here are actively watching for this information it vanishes and we still don't know.
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Lan Sluder At today's R/E NZ$370 at MAPU = US$240
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| no | Classification | 3,238 |
Jealousy and envy and vengeance are all human feelings and motivations for their behaviors. People are often deceptive or shy about their true feelings because they fear being hurt or embarrassed if they disclose. There are times when people will engage in frivolous behaviors which are just passing experiences and times when they demand seriousness and try to have certainty with respect to partners. I really do not know what discussions about what people want being reasonable or not has to do with such things. That presumes there are right or wrong behaviors. Even the most intolerant of actors are being who they really happen to be at the moment, even if others abhor it. In some cases open relationships are just ways to not be intimate and in others it's just allowing people to act how they feel. Generally, I think that for as long as the people feel happy with the arrangement, that's as good as it gets.
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I’m reminded me of Glass Onion. Top Gun‘s statement is so obviously loud and clear and Hollywood-approved that we miss it completely. It’s a recruiting rah-rah movie like the first one. It says it on the opening tin in both films. “On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the top one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to ensure that the handful of men and women who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world. They succeeded. Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapons School. The flyers call it…”Looks like a pretty Hollywood-approved, five by five, clear social message to the viewer. Maybe the message is muddled because in 2023 the lost art of aerial combat is soon to be lost, forever.
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| no | Classification | 509 |
Rick Much of the problem stems from US companies' investment and hiring patterns. I don't know Intel's situation, but many semi companies have cohorts of process and product engineers that are coming to retirement age. Engineering students I talk to invariably talk about going into software since that is the sexy and more lucrative end of the business. Please note that Taiwan has the big pool of engineers because the universities push the programs. Mainland China has some successes, but they have not brought them to volume production.
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| yes | Classification | 6,117 |
Nick Kalogeresis -- Strangely, it is none other than Lang-Lang who excels in Rakh's 2nd....Check out his opening.....and also Finale. Rivals Richter...almost Palvanov
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| no | Classification | 651 |
The governor’s “Pay Wall” for his second inauguration party says it all - $1 MILLION DOLLARS buys you access, and a rubber chicken and peas dinner, with the Governor. If you were paying attention, you would think this character caters only to the Ultra Rich. Your intuition is correct. He’s the shill of Billionaires.
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| no | Classification | 2,880 |
It seems now if anything, the Mueller Report didn't go far enough investigating the links between Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York office, and Russian oligarchs in 2015-2016. As the New York office of the FBI went public reopening the investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mail, while keeping mum on the ongoing investigation of Trump's campaign collusion with the Russians, an highly unusual intrusion that likely cost Clinton the election, there seems to be a lot of suspicious dirt that remains unplowed in this matter.
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"content": "It seems now if anything, the Mueller Report didn't go far enough investigating the links between Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York office, and Russian oligarchs in 2015-2016. As the New York office of the FBI went public reopening the investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mail, while keeping mum on the ongoing investigation of Trump's campaign collusion with the Russians, an highly unusual intrusion that likely cost Clinton the election, there seems to be a lot of suspicious dirt that remains unplowed in this matter.\n",
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What a great way to say thanks to your hard working, dedicated employees - laying off 10,000.I guess the notion of trimming costs doesn't include trimming salaries of the highest paid 1 percent of Microsoft.The fact that Microsoft is looking to "trim costs amide economic uncertainty" is almost comical. Doesn't laying off 10,000 employees ADD to the economic uncertainty they are fearful of or dreading?
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Dont worry, Yellen will figure a way to mess everything up. Unless she is still flying around the world for what reason who knows. Like backing Bernanke and his successors wishes to keep real interest rates negative for 14 years, growing the amount of U.S. debt held by the Fed to almost $9 trillion, stealing trillions in interest from savers and depositors with a de facto tax to bail out banks while enriching corporations wall street and wealthy investors and inflating asset prices sky high. Then there was transitory inflation. Funny how inflation has increased 14% in the last two years but the Fed and Yellen seem to think its great inflation went down this month. How's that? A long way to go to erase 14%.Dont wonder why we have severe inflation now going back two years. The Fed exploded the money supply.Debtors and deadbeats win while deposit holders and workers lose. The Fed way, always. The Fed loves inflation. It allows corporations to raise prices and pay off debt with cheaper $$. Then its time to go after labor gains. When will Americans ever wake up?
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So much for private - public partnership
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"Partnerships used by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor helping to shape President Donald Trump’s trade policy, have a 31 percent stake in Navigator Holdings, which the New York Times said earns millions of dollars a year transporting gas for Russian petrochemical firm Sibur.Gennady Timchenko, a Russian oligarch and Putin associate subject to U.S. sanctions, and Putin’s son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, are Sibur stakeholders,"
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N. Cunningham Well I'm sorry you didn't try one made by my friend Noke!A tasty melange of fresh cilantro, mint and basil, crisp carrot, Napa cabbage, glass noodles, chopped peanuts and chicken, adeptly swaddled in a neat package of rice wrapper. And oh her dipping sauces! Thai chili sauce with aged balsamic vinegar. Before eating you cut them in half with kitchen shears to open them up to dip. It's important too to enjoy them immediately, because if they sit around exposed to air they will become gummy. So wrap them tightly until you can eat. I did a handstand when I saw the wrapper soaker. It's genius!
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Herb, Doubtful that the $625,000 was hard-earned or completely clean.
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Inflation moderated slightly, but at what cost? We suffered a mild recession in 2021 with inflation. With interest rates rising, the major stock indices down more than 20% in real terms, and depleted strategic oil reserves, record federal debt, falling real wages, tech layoffs, looming social security shortfalls and an expanding welfare state the US economy is extremely vulnerable.Left unaddressed are the core causes of inflation. Failure to deal with production issues, curtailed energy production with no plans for renewables, dependence on foreign goods and labor, an overly expensive education system that doesn't educate, work disincentives, incentives to have unsupported unnurtured children, idled American talent, social engineering...
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Barr is and always has been a devotee of and blind defender of the Republican Party - no matter how low that party has sunk, no matter how its leaders have violated the Constitution, no matter what unethical acts they have committed, no matter how they have damaged the nation.Recently Barr corrupted and used the DOJ to protect Trump in a failed effort to protect the Republican Party, its power, its reputation. When he determined that protecting Trump was a hopeless effort he bailed and tried to salvage the party's and his own reputation at Trump's expense. Barr was and is willing to do whatever it take to defend the Republican Party. In that devotion, he exhibits his core belief that the end justifies the means, but worse, that the end doesn't have to be noble, doesn't have to be moral, doesn't have to have any redeeming benefit; the end simply has to be self-serving, in the interest of the Republican Party and by extension in service to himself. And in one way he succeeded."Mr. Barr tried to mislead the public into thinking the forthcoming Mueller report exonerated Mr. Trump, when in fact the report later showed just how strong the links were between the campaign and the Russian government..."Republicans knowingly advance the falsehood that the Mueller report exonerated Trump but many more Americans have been deceived into thinking that falsehood. The Republican Party moves forward with that lie, a cover-up of the Republican Party's lack of principles, moral compass.
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Alphonse Sanchez Thanks for mentioning internet. Like you said: healthcare, electricity and internet become predatory and abusive businesses under capitalism. We are beholden to them and everyone knows it. Yet we have no protection from their profit motives.I recently moved across town and Verizon tells me the $40/month 400mbps plan is not offered, I must now pay $50 month for a higher plan even though I have no need or use for the addition Mbps.
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If you think this is just an issue in the U.K. and not happening here in the U.S., you're not paying attention. The reason there are so many open positions at restaurants, in retail, hospitality, etc... anywhere where the pay is hourly and benefits aren't included, is because no one can cover their basic expenses in that scenario. Without universal healthcare here in the U.S., it will only continue to get worse.
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Benedict was a subtle thinker and had a profound grasp on the history and scope of Christian theology. He also had a creative mind.However, viewed in the spanse of Roman Catholicism's position regarding modernity, Benedict and John Paul II both played a major role to impede Vatican II. From the turn of the 20th century until 1962 Catholicism was profoundly anti-democracy, anti-science, anti-modern and generally in opposition to the major features of changes driven by modernity. Vatican II opened the doors But Paul VI was frightened by the conflicts between Vatican II and the many arch-conservatives within the church. John Paul II and Ratzinger decided that Vatican II should be new paint on the old theological, moral and other historical intellectual structures. In other words, they sided against modernity.John Paul II flew around the world being positive and energetic but very conservative. Ratzinger pulled out his red pen and began to attack people and writings from theologians and pastors who were saying very obviously true things like "birth control is not morally wrong."They left Francis with a church that has to say things that don't make sense like (1) a woman cannot be a priest because she doesn't have a penis as Jesus did, (2) we should love gay people but not let them have any sexual expression throughout their lives, (3) birth control is sinful even if no Catholics believe that it is. Only very conservatives folks believe all this stuff.
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| no | Classification | 4,479 |
Urban.Warrior I'm still mourning the absolutely delicious tomatoes I grew in my tiny 2' x 3' community garden plot last year. From two plants I harvested close to 30 lb over the season, and gave a lot away. Sauces, sandwiches, and salads made with the tastiest Roma tomatoes. Having to eat the anemic offerings at $2.99/lb these days is painful. If you have the opportunity, do grow your own. It's worth it.
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Just for context, the lodge is 900 a night
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Guy I fail to see the distinction between interest on the national debt and lost tax revenue, since they serve functionally the same purpose.When I paid off $11,700 in credit card debt, my monthly interest expense went down by a bit over $200. It had the same effect on my budget as if my employer had given me a raise of about a buck and a half an hour (accounting for taxes, about $260 a month gross or $3000-ish a year.)And, considering what I make, that interest expense was about the same "percentage of GDP" for my household as it is for the federal government, according to the article's own math. It's not insignificant, as anyone who's ever gotten a $3,000-per-annum before taxes raise can tell you unless they're up around the 1% already.You can't tell me the feds couldn't come up with a better use for that money than using it as a de facto handout to the rich (who, again as the article points out, hold most of the Treasury securities) or to foreign creditors who also hold such bonds. If nothing else, it could become a national security issue given enough time and treasure poured down that rabbit hole.
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Please, like NYC needs a $516 million bill. It is this type of extravagant expense that sends me around the moon, many times. Put the money into the rail service as those riders deserve the best in class.
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John Jabo When I was 12 years old malls i(n NY where I grew up) began opening on Sunday (Catholic sabbath). I didn't have language for this then but I recall the feeling: this is not a good thing. Half a century later, all the acceleration and quest for profit, and devaluing basic religious tenets: keep holy the sabbath - have landed us in cultural oblivion. Patagonia is one retailer leading a return to sane living by closing stores for holidays. Let's see more of this action.
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j You apparently missed the recent New York Times's solidly-reported article on Durham's and Barr's egregious abuses of power in this probe.Additionally -- and this evidently needs to be repeated until everybody acknowledges it -- Mueller was not charged with finding collusion. Collusion with a few narrow exceptions is not a criminal matter. Collusion is a weasel word that Trump introduced to the discourse for purposes of misleading the public.Mueller was charged with investigating eventual criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian agents. He found a great deal of evidence for that, but didn't believe he had found enough to prove the criminal conspiracy beyond a reasonable doubt. Mueller explicitly states in his report that Trump's massive obstruction of his investigation could be the reason he didn't find all elements needed to prove the criminal case beyond all reasonable doubt.Mueller also said that the reason he did not charge Donald, Jr. was that the statute requires the prosecution to prove the defendant knew what he was doing was illegal. So, Donald, Jr. didn't know it was illegal to express openness to a Russian agent offering goods stolen from another American campaign? Finally, Mueller under oath told Congress that Trump could be charged with a crime, obstruction, after he left office.
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I'm not surprised or required that level of persistence with American. I recently checked a bag with them from Nashville to Dallas nonstop. Somehow they managed to lose my bag in the most basic of trips for them. It required many phone calls, emails, complaints and hours of wasted time to get to where they acknowledged after 2 months that my bag is "gone" and that they would accept my claim of "only" $1000 and pay it. Eventually..... it was a work trip and my manager is understanding enough to approve of my avoiding American like the plague on any future trips.
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| no | Classification | 687 |
Noma has 40 seats and it's clearly hard to get a table. I am curious to which extent they've experimented with simply upping the cost. I would imagine it could cost $2000+ an evening, and there would still be 40 people around the world every day who'd happily pay it.Perhaps Redzepi and his staff wouldn't actually want to host the resulting kind of customer, which I would find very much commendable.
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Dimitraki Click on the pic so it opens separably and then it will expand.
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The « charge card » is not maxed out. Investors are willing to lend the US trillions of dollars more. The only condition they have set is they want to be repaid. Previous Congresses spent the money but now the current Congress does not want to honour (pay) that bill. Think of it as a retroactive veto of previous Congressional authorizations.
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The QAnon Shopping Network. Trump Bobble-Heads: $10 each + $5 shipping, or, if you take 50, 35 cents for the entire crate, shipping included.
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As a heterosexual, college-educated white male with no children, the oldest of two siblings, a member of Generation X, whose parents were Jewish and Protestant, but having not been brought up religious myself, while born in the South, and later having lived in New York City, and now living in Atlanta, and identifying as a liberal Democrat, while having flirted briefly with Libertarian politics in my 20s, but still respecting thoughtful conservatives like George Will, and being married, but having never been a homeowner, while fortunate to be in the top of the 12% tax bracket, and having been self-employed for most of my life, and being the son of parents who were small business owners, and the grandson of small business owners on both sides, and now teaching at a university, while taking care of two cats, and walking to work each day, despite having grown up in the car culture, and having a direct ancestor who signed the Declaration of Independence, whose descendants ended up poor dirt farmers, but remained literate, with a grandfather from a broken home who was baptized by being dunked in a creek, but escaped from that life through education and merit, and having other ancestors who immigrated from eastern Europe to the Lower East Side through Ellis Island in the 19th century, and moved to the South to open a grocery story as Jewish immigrants in a Black neighborhood, but sent their four daughters to college in the 1930s, ...Oh, wait. I forgot what I was going to say.
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Rest stops exist simply for drivers to quickly pull over en route to their final destination with 24-7 availability. People need gas, a clean bathroom, and maybe a coffee or quick snack. Food trucks and farm stands sound great in theory but will they be open late on a cold winter's night? or at 6AM? Doubt it. So the anchor businesses will continue to be the gas station and fast food. Chick-Fil-A is no better than (and maybe worse) than McDonalds. I once got a crushing migraine after one of their MSG laden salads, so never again. Have not tried Shake Shack, but it just looks like a fancier McDonalds and twice the price. Calorie counts are similar.
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When America actually WAS great, 40's-70's ,the ultra rich paid the highest PERCENTAGE of their income in federal taxes...up to 70%. We built the best military, the interstate highway system, and the best colleges in the worldYour Social security /Medicare payments, that you paid into since your first job, were held in trust for your retirement.But Republicans took your Trust payments and added your payments to general revenue. Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump spent your money and then cut and cut billionaire taxes, so billionaires now pay on average less than 7% federal taxes or less and you pay 20%!And where is your pension when you want to retire? Republicans spent it and wont' raise needed taxes on billionaires .
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No important legislation will pass for the next two years. We are at a critical juncture on climate change. The recent IRA law provides a bare minimum on the climate, but it needs massive follow up. The truth is we need about $1 trillion/year. Nothing will get past the far right R House and we will lose two precious, unrecoverable years.
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Corruption - in Ukraine? Impossible!Well, one has to be a truly incorrigible idealist to believe that there would be no corruption in Ukraine.... the issue is that it is not an abstract crime - they are stealing from me and you and you...but we have no choice as the decisions are made for us (by the leaders elected by us) how to distribute our money and so we continue to watch powerlessly how the money is being embezzled and wasted on another interminable war, and the US just committed another $400,000,000 of our money to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, this will make the war still more interminable.
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PJ The US military didn't want more M1 Abrams tanks, but Congress voted to buy them anyway. Why? To keep jobs in powerful politicians' districts. We have more than twice as many as we need already, and still building more (at over $10 million a tank).
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"content": "PJ The US military didn't want more M1 Abrams tanks, but Congress voted to buy them anyway. Why? To keep jobs in powerful politicians' districts. We have more than twice as many as we need already, and still building more (at over $10 million a tank).\n",
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Eric B This was painful. I like this opening word, but the two times I've used it this week have been longer solves. Word 4 received a "despite being a valid guess...not a possible solution" commentary. I did not validate or check any words today, just played my gut. At this point, I'm not really even motivated to maintain my streak, so these SWAG 😎 playing days are a bit more interesting. Almost a "how sloppy can I play and still solve the puzzle?" approach.Wordle 573 5/6*🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ S84, L30, WL303⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 S93, L66, WL7⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ S91, L15, WL2🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 S37, L50, WL1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 S99WordleBotSkill 80/99Luck 40/99🎶 Yesterday 🎵Jan 12, 2022Wordle 572 4/6*⬛🟨🟩⬛🟨 STARE S95, L85, WL12⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ DEATH S85, L15, WL4🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 LEANT S99, L38, WL1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAPT S99WordleBotSkill 95/99Luck 46/99This would have been a 3 if I had not been thinking alphabetically for letter 4. I should have LEAPT ahead and skipped the N. ☺️Great LakesInteresting analysis and I'm impressed with how much time you spent on working through all that. Thanks for sharing, as it does simplify what's happening with the bot's groupings in an easy to follow way.Happy Friday, y'all!
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Eric B Wordle 563 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 91 97 4 "Strong, Lucky"🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 99 34 1 "Excellent"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 "Well Done"Skill 99 Luck 66I have been on a roll with 3-solves. This is the fifth in a row. I began this one with an old, vowel heavy, favorite opener that was very lucky today. I considered the solution for the second guess but went with another that I thought would be more likely. I came close to a two-fer, but I am still glad to have beaten the Bot by one step.Yesterdays Wordle 562 3/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜🟨🟩🟨🟩 90 99 2 Wrist🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 99 25 1 Shirt🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 Skirt Skill 99 Luck 62I sprained my wrist shoveling snow, and it is still sore the word "wrist" was on my mind. There were just two words left, and I picked the wrong one. Thes 3-step solve beat the Bot by 1-step. As it did today, making the wrong guess yesterday elevated the skill score. If I had a two-fer on either day, the skill score would probably have been significantly lower while the luck score would have been higher unless the Bot happened to pick the solution on the second guess as well. In that case, the skill score would presumably have been 99. Cheers and happy Tuesday to all.
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I am still waiting for a journalist to consider salaries in the tech sector as a contrubuting factor for layoffs. Salaries in this space are SKY HIGH and with all of these tech companies (including the big ones) doing layoffs at the same time is this an opportunity for a correction in salaries? I just cant imagine--esp with new ai tech that can write code-- that software engineers just out of college can garner 200-300K salaries plus bonus, stock and benefits. even when these companies make huge profits, the labor costs must be looking hefty to investors.
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| no | Classification | 344 |
How’bout a Church that welcomes the Latin mass and the vernacular? How’bout a Church that defines “sacramental” marriage as one between adults that wish to commit to one another in the name of God? (I don’t know how Ross Douthat defines the term but gender really has nothing to do with it, regardless of how one chooses to interpret scripture.) If the Catholic Church wants to prosper, its leaders will quit promulgating exclusionary dogma and will begin opening their doors, their arms, their minds and their hearts to everyone of good will.
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| no | Classification | 4,328 |
We are having two, instead of three, children because our mortgage is about $400k as opposed to the $100k my parents took out. I make about the same amount my dad did, back in the 1990s, even with an advanced degree, and largely because I *can't* make more if I want to have some time with my children. Since we both work, we have been pay between $1200-2500 on childcare since our children were born over 7 years ago. That is the same amount my parents paid for private school and then for university. The economics of this whole endeavor are completely different. And apparently, our federal government has no interest in fixing it. No affordable childcare, no child tax credit, no loan forgiveness, no housing investment. Why would my children have their own children, unless it is easier than it has been for me?
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Just to be clear - every financial institution at all times has money set aside as a “bad debt expense”. JP Morgan is elevating their allowance, they’re not creating some entirely new program like this article seems to imply.
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What is with the sweaters? Is Santos trying to look young and immature?Having said that, $700,000 does not just Fall From the Sky.
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"content": "What is with the sweaters? Is Santos trying to look young and immature?Having said that, $700,000 does not just Fall From the Sky.\n",
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Yoda Here in Australia we have compulsory savings as 10% of your gross salary is paid into a savings investment scheme by your employer. This was set up by the Labor Govt. to break the back of wage inflation in the 80's by trading off wage rises with this scheme. As a result even "mug workers", have a meaningful amount of cash at retirement as well as access to an aged pension(subject to means testing).
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| yes | Classification | 7,729 |
I take Imbruvica, which costs $14,000 per MONTH. Medicare pays for it. In recent legislation, Medicare has been given the right to negotiate prices for ten drugs. Why not all drugs? The Drug cartel contributes money to political campaigns, so politicians of all stripes are beholden to them.The underlying cause of this corruption is our campaign finance system. Until this is fixed, these and other analogous problems will exist.
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I can't help but feel that if the ever-increasing obsession parents and kids have with the "top 20" and, even more so, with the "Ivy League + SM" went away, none of this would even be worthy of discussion. Mr. Zhao is a case in-point. He was/is willing to spend (from the sounds of it) up to $2.0 MM to get his kids into a school that won't provide the kind of ROI he should seek for at least 10 years (depending on the area of study). I realize that there are people out there who really drink the Ivy League prestige Koolaid (and that many of them are recent Asian immigrants), but is that kind of payment really worth the price of admission? I am much more concerned about the fact the top schools do virtually zero to support the communities in which they have so-called "non-profit" status, and the give back to society at large is generally nil. As an earlier commenter pointed out, there are literally hundreds of universities and colleges that provide great educations and that is where the focus should lie.
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"content": "I can't help but feel that if the ever-increasing obsession parents and kids have with the \"top 20\" and, even more so, with the \"Ivy League + SM\" went away, none of this would even be worthy of discussion. Mr. Zhao is a case in-point. He was/is willing to spend (from the sounds of it) up to $2.0 MM to get his kids into a school that won't provide the kind of ROI he should seek for at least 10 years (depending on the area of study). I realize that there are people out there who really drink the Ivy League prestige Koolaid (and that many of them are recent Asian immigrants), but is that kind of payment really worth the price of admission? I am much more concerned about the fact the top schools do virtually zero to support the communities in which they have so-called \"non-profit\" status, and the give back to society at large is generally nil. As an earlier commenter pointed out, there are literally hundreds of universities and colleges that provide great educations and that is where the focus should lie.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,436 |
I will never put a device with an open microphone inside my home. When would it pick up financial and other private discussions with my family? People are in for a dystopian nightmare in the coming years for choosing to connect all of their most basic stuff to the internet out of sheer laziness (lights, garage door, etc.). Major risks for the slightest benefit. And it’s not even that impressive. I have no problem turning off a light switch myself. Alexa and IOT folks are like moths to a light.
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vunderbar -- $7000 a month!! If that's the rate, I'll be making do in my own house. I'm 70 and there's no way I will ever afford that. It's scary to think where we poorer people will end up. The best thing for me will be to die before I get to the point where I need help. I just keep hoping I'll have a heart attack or cancer, so I don't have to face the reality that awaits me.
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"content": "vunderbar -- $7000 a month!! If that's the rate, I'll be making do in my own house. I'm 70 and there's no way I will ever afford that. It's scary to think where we poorer people will end up. The best thing for me will be to die before I get to the point where I need help. I just keep hoping I'll have a heart attack or cancer, so I don't have to face the reality that awaits me.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,881 |
There's no question that a major portion of Santos funds came from Russia. He has called Ukraine a "totalitarian regime"Andrew Intrater, a money manager for oligarch Viktor Veckselberg gave $56,000 to committees tied to Santos. He has plenty in common with TFG.
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This is quite irresponsible article that sounds more like Microsoft and OpenAI PR than neutral analysis. Teaching students to use ChatGPT, instead of using their own brains and efforts, would lead to a generation more dependent on the product owned by a for-profit company. We already have generation damaged by Google and Wikipedia that has led to the rise of fake news, as most of the public no longer has the bandwidth to dig deeper, which older generations used to do in newspapers and libraries.Moreover, ChatGPT is not accurate, and, by not divulging sources, backtracking of these answers are harder, not to mention sending the wrong message that you can learn or use someone else's work without compensating or crediting them.In conclusion, by asking schools to learn to live with ChatGPT is a recipe of disastrous consequences.
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Meanwhile the Government are going to spend a billion pounds on a coronation this May for a privileged family while fourteen million people are struggling to heat or eat this winter.
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Geez, for a couple who wanted privacy and to be let be, Prince H and Meghan M certainly invest a lot of time and energy into trying to insure they stay front-and-center in the public eye!
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