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I fully support much of what this article say. However, at a time when our society is being shattered by people who believe outrageous conspiracy theories, it’s worth noting that a far higher percentage of those without college degrees believe these lies than people with a college degree. How to open better jobs to those with less formal education without turning over the machinery of governance to crackpots?? A social media scan?
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Whatever the real reasons and the financial strength of Microsoft, let's not glorify the layoffs. People are getting fired at a time when they'll have a hard time getting another job.Why not be smug and say the fireees are low energy losers or deadwood or pruning the tree? Because these unemployed workers won't be contributing to the economy. In fact, they'll be taking from it in the form of unemployment beneifts that have to be paid for by the taxpayers.
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| yes | Classification | 9,894 |
Obamacare is a farce. I was offered the "opportunity" to sign up for healthcare via Obamacare and it "only" increases my health care expenses by a mere factor of 4, compared to my full cost Cobra payments. Meanwhile I am told I need to cough up 3K in additional monthly fees to cover the rehabilitation needed to get back to work.Obamacare is designed to do one thing only: increase health insurance corporate revenues.Obama campaigned on fixing healthcare in several specific ways: 1. Making access afforable for all.2. Eliminating red tape that delays treatment, and over burdens doctors patients and their families.Switching everyone to a single payer system identical to those used by any of the 31 nations with longer life expectancies, better health and better productivity than the US would save lives, prevent 600,000 family bankruptcies annually, and cost us half of what we pay percapita, injecting 2.1 Trillion dollars annually into the economy without raising taxes or increasing the national debt. Obamacare is an embarassing scam. We are sacrificing financial security, health, business productivity and more because presently the healthcare industry has 2 lobbyists in DC for every elected member of congress, and leaders of both parties prioritize those grifters over the needs and well being of our fellow Americans.
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"content": "Obamacare is a farce. I was offered the \"opportunity\" to sign up for healthcare via Obamacare and it \"only\" increases my health care expenses by a mere factor of 4, compared to my full cost Cobra payments. Meanwhile I am told I need to cough up 3K in additional monthly fees to cover the rehabilitation needed to get back to work.Obamacare is designed to do one thing only: increase health insurance corporate revenues.Obama campaigned on fixing healthcare in several specific ways: 1. Making access afforable for all.2. Eliminating red tape that delays treatment, and over burdens doctors patients and their families.Switching everyone to a single payer system identical to those used by any of the 31 nations with longer life expectancies, better health and better productivity than the US would save lives, prevent 600,000 family bankruptcies annually, and cost us half of what we pay percapita, injecting 2.1 Trillion dollars annually into the economy without raising taxes or increasing the national debt. Obamacare is an embarassing scam. We are sacrificing financial security, health, business productivity and more because presently the healthcare industry has 2 lobbyists in DC for every elected member of congress, and leaders of both parties prioritize those grifters over the needs and well being of our fellow Americans.\n",
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The tax gap is what the IRS should be collecting and what it is collecting is currently at $500 Billion a year. Close that by 3/4 would solve some problems without raising taxes.or bold IRS reforms. See NPR's Planet Money Podcate 'Tax Hero'. For wage earners, which most Americans are, The IRS already has your information. They send you a card. John Q. Public the IRS believes you own $X amount. If you disagree, please fill out forms and send in what you think. We will get back to you.Most people will fill simply send in the check. But the accountants, tax preparation businesses, and a political party wants to make taxes painful and difficult.
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$4.99 at Target. But you know that - you live in PA.
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I have lived through tech's rise, fall and recovery endless times. In the early 70s, I often walked by the Harvard freshman dorms on my way to my computer club at the same time Mr. Gates was skipping classes and learning Basic. I've done fine, but, well, Mr. Gates was as ruthless as Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan and that ilk.In those early days, tech firms treated employees like gold because demand for tech talent far exceeded supply. No longer.Tech is now no different than other industries in terms of employee treatment. The gap between senior execs and the grunts is nearly infinite. Senior execs care more about investors than than employees, partners and customers. Instead of computer scientists and engineers coming from a small set of colleges, now the world swarms with engineers. And the "Singularity" hovers like a dark cloud over those engineers just like it has altered the face and value of labor.Maybe some of these tech jobs will come back. Eventually they won't. It is easy to foresee a world where manufacturing, distribution and service is so automated, you barely need a working soul. Ironically, it will happen to execs too. Maybe someday Microsoft's board will be 100% AI.Yes, this is frightening, but what is even more scary is that there are governments all over the world, including ours, fraught with "leaders" hell bent on looking backwards as a ruse for stealing power. Untethered tech plus extreme conservatism make Covid looks like a simple sniffle.
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Diane wilson It is right that people live now longer but it is false to consider it as a universal rule. In France, at the age of 62, 1 out of 4 people among the 5% poorest is already dead. Living longer shouldn't mean you have to work longer because you may not be equally healthy if you were a manual worker in chemical industry as if you worked in an open space.
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Let me add some practical information ...No matter which type of stove you have, you should have a hood over the stove with a ventilation fan. Now, really key items, which contractors often neglect:* Have unobstructed, metal ducting that exhausts air to the outside.* Do not get sucked in by the "more power is better" scam. For normal households, moderate range of CFM is fine. Especially if you don't have an automated intake vent for "replacement" air, exhausting air too fast can negatively impact a lot of things, including the way a gas stove performs, fireplace exhaust, etc.* Include an automated intake vent which has a baffle that opens when the fan is turned on. This provides a HUGE improvement in performance and safety.We built a high-end "green" house 8 years ago, and made the mistakes identified in the second and third items. So now, we hardly ever run the fan above its lowest setting; and even then, we crack a kitchen window to avoid problems.Ironically, banning gas stoves and not adding the three items above to building codes is rearranging the deck chairs, rather than dodging the iceberg.
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| no | Classification | 3,094 |
The elephant in the room is that someone, somewhere, sometime, will have to pay. Economically, socially, or by vast decreases in lifestyle, there will be a society-wide bill that comes due. We now have a global economy underpinned not by productivity or consumption, but by growth. If that growth isn’t maintained stocks fall, investment dries up, social services struggle. We are not taught how to live outside of a growth economy. Nor do we even see discussion of what a steady state or contracting economy would even look like. When that bill comes due it will be huge.
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| yes | Classification | 6,932 |
Calm Blue Ocean Food trucks and deli counters are profitable only because overhead & labor is significantly reduced. Before graduating with a culinary degree, I was required to mock up a restaurant concept and figure the ROI. Nobody in the class could make a profit until reducing the square footage, labor requirements, and eliminating equipment. I had a mentor who said "this restaruant is going to be a success if it takes every penny my father has." My culinary degree is the reason I never even tried to open my own restaurant.
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There are several US goals surrounding this conflict:1. To see Russia's military degraded. Lloyd Austin said this publicly right at the start of the war.2. To strengthen NATO. This is a goal with several sub-goals:2a. Convince the Western European nations to take the concerns of the Eastern European NATO nations seriously.2b. To convince the Western European nations to finally meet their agreed upon arms commitments, and to actually and effectively re-arm.2c. To buy time for 2a and 2b to occur - This is the main reason for gradual escalation!3. To see Russia defeated in Ukraine without direct US troop involvement.4. To convince the Asian Democracies of the threat of China and North Korea, and to increase their arms.5. To test US and NATO weapons systems in real world conditions.6. To demonstrate to India that money spent on Russian equipment is poorly spent.7. Finally, to present China with a strengthened, successful, well armed NATO, effectively mentored by the US and with the US forces free to respond elsewhere.
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| no | Classification | 3,169 |
Aaron 100%. We enjoyed season tickets till the pandemic. Houston also boasts many "off-Broadway" theaters (a big omission). Being an immigrant from Argentina, and because of Houston's openness, and cultural diversity, it was the first place I could really call HOME (even after living in NYC for 10 years). Lastly, one should point to another important big-ticket item: affordability. Granted, most of these things are not readily appreciable to short-term visitors, but yet, are worth mentioning.
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L I'm in the same position you are. Only difference is that my place of business has been open the entire time of this pandemic, because many of us could not work from home due to the nature of our work. So, even with the original on-site mask mandates, we did not have to wear them while at our desks. People sitting less than 6 feet apart were getting covid and spreading covid. We never even had weekly mandated testing for covid. Ever. No one got notified by either management OR contact tracing of these workplace covid exposures. And the Federal, state (NY) and local governments allowed this: for the entire time of this pandemic. Laughing, or crying, it makes me wonder just what IS the "science" of covid?
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One of the things this article points out, they are murdering environmentalists that oppose destruction of the Amazon forests. Here we have armed terrorists continually threatening Democrats and any who are not of the White environmentally destructive economic class. Prosecuting the Jan 6 ringleaders would also mean prosecuting the same people who have been (and are still) advocating environmental destruction and the unnecessary loss of life (criminal negligence) during the pandemic. Russian fossil fuel oligarchs are even proceeding in a brutal war to extend their economic environmentally destructive interests. Speaking of a will to control this backlash thru sane environmental policy means addressing this reality first, both in Brazil and the United States. The military alliance of the future is among nations that take sustainable environmental policy seriously enough to do something about it.What is that policy? Not burning fossil fuels and protecting forests and planting trees to make up for the forests already lost, and with this protecting biodiversity including in the ocean. The latter is the most difficult due to human encroachment, but can be controlled with better land management and policies promoting choice in birth control.The initial IPCC predictions were on the conservative side. But now with more data and more knowledge of positive CO2/CH4 feed back loops, it is now more urgent than ever to address global warming head on. The solutions are simple.
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"content": "One of the things this article points out, they are murdering environmentalists that oppose destruction of the Amazon forests. Here we have armed terrorists continually threatening Democrats and any who are not of the White environmentally destructive economic class. Prosecuting the Jan 6 ringleaders would also mean prosecuting the same people who have been (and are still) advocating environmental destruction and the unnecessary loss of life (criminal negligence) during the pandemic. Russian fossil fuel oligarchs are even proceeding in a brutal war to extend their economic environmentally destructive interests. Speaking of a will to control this backlash thru sane environmental policy means addressing this reality first, both in Brazil and the United States. The military alliance of the future is among nations that take sustainable environmental policy seriously enough to do something about it.What is that policy? Not burning fossil fuels and protecting forests and planting trees to make up for the forests already lost, and with this protecting biodiversity including in the ocean. The latter is the most difficult due to human encroachment, but can be controlled with better land management and policies promoting choice in birth control.The initial IPCC predictions were on the conservative side. But now with more data and more knowledge of positive CO2/CH4 feed back loops, it is now more urgent than ever to address global warming head on. The solutions are simple.\n",
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YM Pssst: Its owned by Microsoft.
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CMP With respect, you began your discussion saying: "I dispute the notion that visual learners invariabley [sic] lack other abilities."The author did not state that--I objected to your premise and noted your examples actually support the author's main argument. That aside, you again present a tangential argument that has nothing to do with the key questions. Using your own words, here is a question, how can you consider education to be a "zero-sum gain, assumption, equation," or that the author promoted such an assumption? Certainly the author had not, that misread is not a helpful. Please think about it.The author states: "There is too much emphasis in school on testing and not enough on career outcomes. The fact that I failed the SAT in math prohibited me from getting into veterinary school, but today I am a university professor in animal sciences and I am invited to speak to groups of veterinarians to advise them on their work. The true measure of an education isn’t what grades a student gets today, but where they are 10 years later.""Zero-sum" does not apply. The question is how can education best help neurodivergent people realize their potential?In my area primary/secondary education is $9,000+ yr/pupil, and does not vary from a traditional program & curricula. Can programs be better planned without added expense? Otherwise, parents must send children to $20,000+ yr programs. Many parents can't afford to, too many students suffer with dire consequences.
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H Silk Hi. I would have us:1. Wear N95 or better masks in communal settings.2. Clean the air with either fresh air or HEPA air filters. We need to open the windows in schools. 3. Operation Warp Speed 2.0 for nasal vaccines.4. Create more treatments for covid.5. Make tests much cheaper and require them at schools, offices, camps, etc…, especially after periods of high transmission. Then support the people who are sick, don’t ostracize them. 6. Encourage use of Paxlovid, not enough people are taking it. 7. Educate people about the consequences of repeated infections, including immune dysfunction (and what that means long term) and long covid and how people need to care for themselves during and after an infection. 8. Grace. Lots of grace. This is really hard.
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It's the consequences and reputation Al damage but if you are worried about the cost of trials, it costs about 4 times as much to try a death penalty case with mandatory appeals etc - I'm not sure you're going to get overwhelming support for cost/ benefit assessments, otherwise you are giving a green light to the many Trumps in the world.
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Rich in Atlanta Addendum. BREAK also led me to do some other searches - specifically wondering about BREAKER - and I came across a quite remarkable puzzle: A Tuesday from October 8, 2013. Here's an example of a theme answer: 23 Across: Clue: "With 23 Across, CBer's opening. Answer: BREAKERAll the other theme answers were similarly clued, with a self-referential cross reference. Another example: Clue: "With 55-Across and 55-Across, real-estate catchphrase "Answer: LOCATIONSome other theme answers, similarly clued: PROMISESMONDAYHEARYECHOOPETERTINHEY..
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“Directly removing carbon dioxide from the air would become more plausible, giving us a path to reversing climate change over time.”According to a communication last year from NASA's former lead climate scientist James Hansen, we would likely need to spend trillions of dollars per year extracting CO2 from the atmosphere to keep below the 2 degree C ceiling rise in temperature. <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2021/NovemberTUpdate+BigClimateShort.23December2021.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2021/NovemberTUpdate+BigClimateShort.23December2021.pdf</a>
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D.WhitIt’s not just the jersey. Even just taking in a single game with the family while forgoing the outrageously priced food/beverages can throw the family budget out of whack. If you want to follow your home team on TV you need to build at least $100/month into your family budget. In person it’s not really a ball game anymore, it’s a noisy variety show with strikeouts and home runs filling the voids between skits. At home it’ll kill 3 valuable hours a day and the thing is filled with advertising you’ve paid for the privilege of watching. Honestly, I’m 70 and until I was 60 I considered myself a real fanatic, baseball has lost me over the past decade or two (when they stopped broadcasting away games on over the air television.)
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Professional woman here who loves working, truly, I do. But I am a single mother by choice. I was 45 when adopted my son through an foster/adoption concurency program when he was sixth months old. Parenting is hard, expensive, scary, amazing, and beautiful. What parenting is NOT a job, it is a life. A job is a job - and becoming a parent enabled me to see this. And though I knew it when I became a parent, having a child has shown me how very little infrastructor this country invests for our children, all of our children. If raising children was actually a job, and treated at the same level our current culture treats business, parenting would be much easier.
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Non-compete agreements are illegal in Australia: by law you cannot stop a person from practicing their profession. If the person has sensitve data the company must employ the person, but have them take extended vacation until the information is sufficiently stale e.g. 1 year. A friend who worked for Hewlett-Packard (Australia) told me this was how it worked.
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AlanB. My own view is that Musk is good in the “visionary role”, setting up a company essentially from the start, announcing goals and recruiting a team of talented individuals to accomplish these. SpaceX for example is run by Gwen Shotwell and her experienced senior management team. Not widely appreciated now, but SpaceX had a “near death” experience early on with initial failures of its Falcon 1 rocket. In the case of Twitter, he walked into an existing company and tried to handle it as yet another startup. He fired way too many individuals in way too short a time frame, before understanding what the issues were with the company. And he spent $40 billion to get himself into this mess. Best reading to do on Twitter, its social media ilk (Facebook, YouTube) and the enormous problems in the way they are set up to operate is Max Fisher’s “The Chaos Machine”.
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mdbeck I love the open airy feel of this, and how wonderfully you describe the "wires that would emit a sorrowful whistling sound / when the wind flowed through them."Thoreau wrote about this phenomenon, and called the telegraph poles and their humming wires "telegraph harps."“Is not all music a hum more or less divine? I hear something new at every telegraph-post. I have not got out of hearing of one before I hear a new harp.” (His journal, February 8, 1852)“The telegraph harp sounds strongly to-day, in the midst of the rain. I put my ears to the trees and I hear it working terribly within, and anon it swells into a clear tone, which seems to concentrate in the core of the tree, for all the sound seems to proceed from the wood. It is as if you had entered some world-famous cathedral, resounding to some vast organ. The fibres of all things have their tension, and are strained like the strings of a lyre. I feel the very ground tremble under my feet as I stand near the post. The wire vibrates with great power, as if it would strain and rend the wood.” (His journal September 23, 1851)Thoreau’s characterization of the humming as “divine” music is likely a reference to the “music of the spheres" that I wrote about here last week.You used those Bee words masterfully, so smoothly-- I forgot they were Bee words.
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Emme Interesting. I can only assume they've corrected that problem, or perhaps over-corrected is the proper term: at least via their "virtual" (online) estimator, last year they valued my car at only $500 more than CarMax's appallingly low offer.I ended up selling it privately – for $7,000 more. Just in the nick of time, it seems.
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Albert Petersen Just watch as the GOP spends millions of taxpayer dollars on investigations that will go nowhere Where did the Dems's investiagtions/impeacment hearings go? Same place.
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Michael: Agreed. If you look sprawling cities in the US, freeways allow the working class to buy townhomes waaaaay out in no-mans land for 150k and then commute 1.5 hours in to the dealership or call center where they work. Fast forward 30 years, and they have equity in a home with zero rent, which means they can comfortably live on social security after retirement. It is naive to think we can just reconstruct this opportunity overnight. Widening freeways is really an issue of access for those who live the furthest out -- a demographic that usually is poorer.
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Disband the NRA. Outlaw all guns and ammunition. Buy back weapons for a year, then arrest anyone found with a gun. California has the tightest gun regulations and this still happens. It's time to rip off the bandaid. If we can't do this, then start taxing gun ownership. Buy a gun? Pay a $1000 tax. Our experiment with arming every citizen to the teeth is over. Big fail by the American culture.
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We should all get together and send Putin a "thank you" card for driving up the price of oil to the point where extracting rare earth elements (in SWEDEN!), and speeding up the adoption of renewable energy and technologies, has become more financially feasible....and for fostering a brain-drain from his economy so it has no chance of recovering...and for shifting European natural gas supplies from Russia to the USA...and for sending all your neighboring countries pounding on NATO's door begging to be let in. Thanks Vlad. Way to shoot your kleptocratic economy in the head...oh, and be sure to keep driving your economy into bankruptcy by building and lobbing million dollar-plus missiles into Ukraine so the Patriot batteries we sent them can shoot them out of the sky.
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Montalvo Yes. But since the Tories (conservatives/right wing) took over 12 years ago they have failed to properly fund the NHS. Thus, it's broke and needs $$$ to fix, something the current brit government is not willing to do. So, as in the US, a political party thinks that if you have a problem, it's on you and don't expect the community to help.
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ManhattanWilliam The money "sent" is 75% credits that are spent here for American military equipment. As with most of our foreign military aid, it is a jobs program for our military-industrial complex. Much of our stance towards Israel goes back to the Camp David Accords, which is why we also send military aid to Egypt, and now Jordan after their peace agreement.Regardless of Netanyahu's corruption and self-serving ways, the US has a vital military partnership with the IDF, including joint development of battlefield systems, especially defenses against rockets and projectiles. We also depend on Israel for certain intelligence gathering capabilities. Did I mention Iran? Why do you think so many Gulf states and Sunni nations are entering agreements with Israel? They have all decided that the abominable situation with the Palestinians is of lesser importance than their own defense and economic wellbeing.I truly wish the Palestinians and Israelis could come to an agreement for two countries. A threatened suspension of American military aid is not enough incentive to push Israel into an unpopular compromise and the Palestinians have no real desire for half a loaf, either. The worst forces on both sides of that divide have held a veto for too long. We can easily recognize the Israeli extremists and anti-democratic forces. I hope you have the clarity of vision to see the same amongst the Palestinians. Their president is now in the 18th year of his 4 year term.
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Public Education is the foundation of American democracy. NYC Dept of Ed is a travesty. We spend over $42,000 per student per year on education but only a small fraction of our students function on grade level. Even worse, most students after graduating never read books for entertainment. The entire system for hiring administrators is corrupt. No one is hired because they are the most qualified. Accountability is to politically appointed bureaucrats, not parents, students, or teachers. Massive amounts of money is wasted. We need to envision a new organizational structure and that doesn't mean charter schools.
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1.6 million. That's a studio in need of renovations on the Upper West Side.
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It's sad to read in these comments how many people want to dictate how some of us can find joy in life. Believe it or not, some of us really appreciate the skill and even art in true fine dining. I for one can be inspired by it. I suggest browsing the Noma cookbook to get an idea of the thought and work that go into creating some of the most interesting creations (food or not) accessible to "normal" people. It really can expand your ideas of what you can do and accomplish.And as for the cost? I see that in December Super Bowl tickets cost an average of $17,395 each. Why is that perfectly reasonable, but my spending $500 for a once in a lifetime experience is not? Some of us enjoy culinary art more than violent sports. And that's the kind of freedom of choice we should all have.
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In a good Asian country there would be a coup, and Putin would quietly disappear from the scene, to retire with silent honours to one of his luxury homes, to sup on tea as the sun goes down over a million-dollar view. And in the meantime, Russia would extricate itself, quickly, with funny excuses, from that conflict in Ukraine, and might even request the western nations establish some economic agreement with a perpetual non-member of the NATO alliance, to the benefit of the Russian men, women and children. A leader can, always perhaps, be thrown away, down, out sometimes -- not just in good ways -- as a real democrat could say
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MONEY$$$$$. He thought it would get his campaign more finical support.
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I thought this article might talk about Amazon reviews, as many other folks have already commented. I can’t really afford to take vacations or travel much.It’s the $7 kitchen gadget that I buy on Amazon and that falls apart with first use, despite having hundreds of rave reviews and 5 stars. Those little purchases really get me. The only solutions I’ve found are to look for reviews from a real person on YouTube or a blog I trust or to buy the thing in person. And as a rule I never buy stuff from those weirdly named Chinese companies that make up most of the Amazon product listings these days (and which the NYT has already done an article about).
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A successful conclusion of the war requires keeping the Russians out, getting Ukrainians to go home and rebuilding the country. Negotiations won't be enough as the Russians cannot be trusted, even if Putin no longer leads Russia.Without credible security guarantees and economic prospects, European banks won't invest and refugees will stay away. Hence, either Ukraine gets NATO membership or NATO countries--including the US--put troops on the ground after the war as a "tripwire" deterrent. Additionally, Ukraine will need a fast track to EU membership or equivalent association, mandating Ukraine rise up to the EU's economic and democratic standards.Getting all of Ukraine's territory back would be an important demonstration against aggressive war but would be less important than other concerns. Any border negotiations will depend on the battlefield results. We should continue to support Ukrainians militarily as long as their skill and sacrifice endure and may prevail over Russia's determination to keep fighting.
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that person Thank you for this. This was my response to this column:I work with undocumented immigrants and loved American Dirt. I thought the reaction to it was absurd. It wasn't a memoir and it is the rare author that can claim to share the identity of all their characters. With that said, Pamela Paul's columns on the transgender issue have been so intellectually dishonest and antagonistic, that I can not trust her positions on this or anything else...so I am alarmed to find myself in agreement with her on this issue...so much so that I am going to go back and attempt to understand the protests against this book with a more open mind.
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Frank P Tech salaries are also ridiculously lower compared to the US counterparts. It would similar to earning money as developer at your local city/county compared to a for-profit corporation like Microsoft who is answerable to pension funds and 401K investments.
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This is encouraging. I wouldn't have expected that degree of thoughtfulness in Perkins, so it gives me hope that there are more open-minded White conservative Christians.It's a reminder that we on the secular left need to keep an open mind when we encounter a White conservative Christian. we desperately need to find more common ground, otherwise I fear this country will come apart at the seams.
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This field is begging for government oversight. It’s not as though tech companies and their employees have a great track record respecting copyrights and prior art. Anyone creating original content of any kind should have absolute control of their work including rejection of any use by any AI tech company including Microsoft.
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I agree that working with private citizens has a lot of benefits but find it pathetic that citizens are expected to cover the cost. More offloading of government responsibilities onto its citizens. Plus, it means that only those with the financial means can help—that’s not right. It should be more like the foster care program where private citizen open their homes but are financially compensated by the government.
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"Alabama spends less than the national average on Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance for the poor and vulnerable, and officials have declined to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act."That is all you need to know about deep red states!
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Ya know, I still found a cooler chock full of cartons of a dozen large grade AA eggs for sale at my local Fred Meyer (Kroger) two days ago for $2.49. What egg shortage? And why is it Joe Biden's fault if some people are lying about eggs?
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The Windover site in Titusville Florida (near Cape Canaveral) is a bog burial site that was excavated by Florida State University in the mid-1980s. It dates to between 7000-8000 years B.P. and contained the well-preserved skeletal remains of over 160 individuals, some with preserved brain material in their crania. Those who were fortunate enough to participate in the excavations were able to witness multiple Space Shuttle launches while digging in deposits up to 10,000 years old. The juxtaposition was truly remarkable, and the site one of a kind.
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So I'm a photographer and had a book of portraits published back in 1996 (Couples - A Photographic Documentary of Gay and Lesbian Relationships, UPNE). I didn't get a huge advance for the project, but they printed 10K copies for a first run, so I was happy... The point of the book was not to make a million bucks. It was to highlight an injustice that I had experienced firsthand. I'm a straight guy and one of my best and oldest friends is gay. It dawned on me one day that he and his boyfriend didn't feel comfortable to just simply hold hands in public (unless of course they were in certain areas or neighborhoods like West Village or Chelsea, etc). But at the same time, my girlfriend and I were able to do that anywhere, naturally and unconsciously, like any couple might do. So I shot a portrait project of gay & lesbian couples and it became a book. (Not overnight, it took three yrs to do the whole thing). What I'm wondering though is, would I have been able to do that today? Is it that I'd have to be gay, to make that project valid, to get that project published today? So even though the advance didn't cover my expenses for the project, I still think it's the most valuable thing I've ever done: About a year after it came out, a friend told me that he had read in some article about a closeted gay kid in middle America somewhere, that would sneak to the back of B & N and look at my book, to just not feel so alone - That's worth way more than six figures.
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If it was appraised at 20 million, a fair price would have been about $9,750,000. The original owner got $14,500 which adjusted for inflation is about a quarter of a million dollars. The amount they got in 1924 might have been based on a fair evaluation at the time, but it's a moot point since the government had no legitimate right to tell them to move. There was no legitimate public interest person, short of some people not wanting Black people around.
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Does America Have Too Much Debt? Borrowing less would have created its own problems. The U.S. federal government last ran a budget surplus in the fiscal year 2001. (Fiscal years begin in October of the previous calendar year. Don’t ask.) Since then, the government has borrowed roughly $20 trillion. That’s a large number, even for an economy as big as America’s: Federal debt held by the public has roughly tripled as a percentage of gross domestic product, from 32 percent to 94 percent. Borrowing less would have created its own problems.
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Laura I was thinking the same thing. As someone who already struggles with an eating disorder, I have learned that it takes a lot of self-imposed misery to reflect a socially acceptable physical presence. The older I get, the more I think I would just rather eat what I like, in moderation, and be overweight. I find I do not really like most of the people who invest all of their time in outward appearances, anyway, myself included. I am much more pleasant to be around when I am thinking about something besides what I look like in the mirror.
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Rob D wrote, "...if they merely wanted the info to be correct they could have just sent their records and research to the DoD... ."The Barkers DID try to correct the info, repeatedly; from the article: "The brothers say they emailed the Defense Department repeatedly to offer their services, but the department was largely unresponsive." So, the brothers offered their help and correct data, but were turned down.Also, the Bakers didn't just suspect that DOD had 'probed' their website and research, but that it "might be paying people to vacuum up their decades of research, rather than engaging directly with them." Software exists that crawls through websites to scour (& can take) data, view a site's architecture/structure, see pages that aren't designated for others to view, access private and confidential material (like mailing lists, donors, etc.), etc. It sounds like the DOD -- which has vast spying capabilities -- may have done that, rather than later adding the Barkers to the project. If so, the DOD -- part of an almost $trillion/year agency -- broke into their website and stole not only their data, but also the time and effort they expended researching, gathering, proofreading, editing, and uploading all that info -- all those carefully researched and corrected names, stories from the war volunteered by surviving veterans, family members, friends, etc. The Barkers' time and resources were stolen even though they had offered to help with the memorial.
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I am 71 and the older I get, the further left I stand.I am deeply committed to participating in action that protects our environment, destroys white supremacy, protects reproductive rights, defends asylum seekers, promotes universal healthcare, advocates for free and open public education, guarantees voting access, demands criminal Justice reform, and replaces judgment with compassion.I am grateful your article was published and will be contacting Third Act to find out if I can be of service to these essential human values.
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bo "Harry and Megan's willingness to walk away when they were treated like trash..." They were not treated badly at all. Meghan was welcomed very warmly and with open arms by the British public. It was a Royal Wedding situation and some Brits get emotional; we love all that stuff. Damage limitation by the palace? No, I don't see that. We have a very upset RF though. No great nation has monopoly on oppression but the contribution of the slave trade to the British economy? That depends who you read, but industrialisation made us rich. [posted by gp]
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If the United States the sort of income and wealth distribution we had from the end of World War II to 1980 that would go further towards making it easier for young people to start a family, open a business and own a home than any back from old to young redistribution that would be even remotely politically conceivable. We had a system that worked much better for the vast majority of Americans than what four decades of electing too many Republicans gave us. Mr. Douthat has five extremely dubious propositions and if he doesn't live long enough to see them disproven they will be topics in his most difficult interview with Saint Peter.
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Hanes.com - you can get t's for under $15.00, and they wear and wash like iron and keep their shape and color.
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Bluhorizons At something close to $10M plus per mile plus maintaince (and that is conservative) it is ineffective. <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-border-wall-ladders" target="_blank">https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/trump-border-wall-ladders</a>/
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What We Learned - other than Harry is a privileged English royal? Nothing. Harry and Meghan are already worth around $60 Million, more than enough to establish businesses in the US that will contribute to our economy and employment. Enough of this constant begging for attention and money.
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The author seems sympathetic to the argument that allowing donors and sponsors to give directly to athletes will bankrupt sports other than basketball and football. The claim is that in the past athletic departments would distribute the money raised by basketball and football across varsity sports. Now with the changes there will be fewer varsity sports. I’m not so sympathetic to this argument. In the past programs that got money to kids and families through back channels involving shady characters had an advantage. Now the playing field is more level. Second much of the NIL money was going to the athletes already. Now its in the open. To whatever extent rowing, field hockey, golf, wrestling, etc are different without funding from basketball and football why is that a problem? Why are the athletes that play the revenue generating sports supposed to generate revenue for other sports programs? If you want to make money playing a sport play one that people pay to watch. There is great value from competing on sports teams, but the amount of money spent on teams is not required for the benefits. Maybe some varsity sports will look more like club sports. Purchasing and laundering your own uniform and gear doesn’t diminish the value of competition.
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Agarre They are making the decision that the $100B in cash will yield more value than these 10,000 employees. Simple as that.
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And suddenly Gen Z begins to understand that demanding lots of accommodations while doing little work is only a winning strategy in the good times. Welcome to your first recession. may it be an eye opening experience.
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My collecting interests are the 1880-1970 period, traditional and impressionist American painting. These kinds of works are staggeringly out of fashion. You can get very nice paintings, and not small ones either, for under $1000 at regional auction houses. Even relatively big-name traditional artists from this period run from $3000-20000, unless the work is really extraordinary. Some of these paintings are pretty dull, cows in fields or distant mountains in routine 19th-century style, but there are some good ones too.Sure, sometimes the bidders go crazy, but there is always another auction next week. Patient collectors can get good buys. You can go to an auction aggregation platform, put in the names of the artists you collect, and you'll be notified. Local auctions are another possibility. I once managed to snag a giant fall landscape painting by a listed Canadian artist for under $100. It's not particularly valuable, but a good art auction house could probably get $600-800.
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OneNerd I've been to Tokyo 5 times and have had Michelin star ramen at a restaurant called Nakiryu. Sure, I had to wait 45 min outside but the spicy noodles at this plain joint only cost me $7 USD and I left full and happy.
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fred herriman Just because the PRC is unable to distribute it's considerable national reserves along with flawed energy regulations does not mean that we should cancel sanctions against the barbaric Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Freedom has never been easy and many democracies around the world have sacrificed much to support the Ukraine even at a cost to their economies. China has $3.12 trillion in reserves. The PRC does not deserve our sympathy. The innocent men, women and children of the Ukraine who are fighting courageously against the Russians and their many human rights violations do deserve our sympathy and help. Sanctions are just one way we can support the Ukrainians. Next time anyone suggests eliminating sanctions should remember the innocent civilians living in a country where the energy and civilian infrastructure is constantly under bombardment. If your sympathy lies with China, perhaps you should direct your concerns to the dictator and his military to leave the Ukraine, so the freedom-loving Ukrainians can return to peace.
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"content": "fred herriman Just because the PRC is unable to distribute it's considerable national reserves along with flawed energy regulations does not mean that we should cancel sanctions against the barbaric Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Freedom has never been easy and many democracies around the world have sacrificed much to support the Ukraine even at a cost to their economies. China has $3.12 trillion in reserves. The PRC does not deserve our sympathy. The innocent men, women and children of the Ukraine who are fighting courageously against the Russians and their many human rights violations do deserve our sympathy and help. Sanctions are just one way we can support the Ukrainians. Next time anyone suggests eliminating sanctions should remember the innocent civilians living in a country where the energy and civilian infrastructure is constantly under bombardment. If your sympathy lies with China, perhaps you should direct your concerns to the dictator and his military to leave the Ukraine, so the freedom-loving Ukrainians can return to peace.\n",
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One doesn’t have to live somewhere to know its geography. The southern border is 2000 miles long. That’s 200 10 mile increments. 4 agents to cover each increment would total 800 agents. At $75K per year, that would come to $60,000,000. This seems quite feasible, and as the original commenter stated, cheaper than an adequately constructed wall. Not to mention the appalling image and symbolism of a wall running across the entirety of our border.
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Puzzlemucker Thanks so much for listing the finalists, you’re the best!Also thanks for the compliment and yesterday’s comment, just saw it a few minutes ago.Didn’t list the Constructor of the Year (COY) yet.It’s been strictly limited to Themeless constructors so far, such that the Themeless finalists also get to vie for the COY.Would it be fairer to 1. Pick the top 1-2 finalists across all categories or 2. Pick the top 2-3 in the Themeless category, and add the finalist in each of the other categories, yielding 5-6 COY finalists or3. Leave it as it was, go with the Themeless finalists only.Option 3 means the COY nominees can be listed at the same time as the finalists in other categories, a very efficient solution.The other options require waiting for the number 1 picks in all categories before voting on COY. It will delay the final result, but gives other constructors a shot at it.Btw, the COY was PM’s brainchild, but this COY question is actually open to anyone who has an opinion on the subject.
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Margo - Across the millennia, group goals and interests have caused as much cruelty as good for society. Group ceremony has fallen, yet ceremony flourishes in the daily lives of individuals and their extended families who celebrate life together with the small rituals and traditions uniquely precious to each of us.
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Mrs. S. I was turned down for a LTC policy while in my 50's because of osteoarthritis in my thumbs. I think you have to be Adonis to be approved. Also, to my knowledge, there are no more open-ended policies sold anymore. You buy by the year, typically 3 or 5 years of benefits. After that, you're on your own.
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j How interesting. And tell us j, how is it that you have this inside information on Durham’s findings and what his final report will say? Your comment seems like a pre-emptive strike, not this article, but like Barr and Trump, you project upon your political enemies the malfeasance of those you hope to protect. Just to clarify a point in your comment, it was the DOJ Inspector General who discovered Clinesmith’s crime; how easy it was for Durham to pick that evidence up and run with it. In the end, for his “heinous” crime, Clinesmith was given probation. But you may be right about interference in our electoral process by the agency. Apparently James Comey announced the reopening of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails eleven days before the election because he feared that the New York FBI office was about to reveal that information, and he that any such revelation - very much against the agency’s policies regarding making public anything about an ongoing investigation - should come from him (I think I have those details right, but anyone, please correct me if I am wrong).
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Kevin Roos Drivers buy SUVs because UberXL costs end users 40% more per ride and is booked more often because it can serve both large and small groups. Drivers are trying to maximize their earnings relative to initial capital investment, as one would expect. Probably not the best career to enter for that purpose, but they are not buying SUVs because they are big dummies who love big cars.
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MORE CLUES!!!CE4) Lucky penny = $0.01CI4) Make reference to5) Funky African cat5) Having to do with the affairs of a cityEF6) The 'Bee can have a powerful this on logophiles9) Persistently playing The 'Bee can make you a more _____ wordsmith9) Persistently playing The 'Bee can make you a more _____ spellerEN6) CharmEV5) Give the bum's rush7) Got the bum's rush6) Electronic mail you may send to actor V. VaughnFE5) "Touche!"FI7) About, say, novels, or sci-fiIN9) Achieving "Queen Bee" is a powerful one6) Spoilers may do this to The Hive11) Monkey typing is this when it comes to solving The 'Bee11) Monkey typing is also this when it comes to solving The 'Bee6) Spread the Bug for The 'Bee9) The Bug to solve The 'Bee is highly ______9) Spoilers may draw this sort of language NI4) When playing The Bee, play this way5) Sibling's daughterTI5) To touch with colorVI4) What The 'Bee can become
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"At the most basic level, politicians should refocus locally on building roads, lowering crime and revitalizing small business districts, instead of looking for votes by harping on divisive national topics." This is precisely what the GOP has refused to do at every turn. So have any number of Democrats. Yes, the GOP has never gotten over Watergate or, more recently, forgiven Americans for voting for Barak Obama twice. But that does not negate their duty to serve the country instead of their richest donors or their own rage. I remember Tip O'Neill being angry that Reagan won in 1980. He did want to stop cooperating but common sense won out. For decades the GOP has harped on the wedge issues in ways that have been proven harmful to the integrity and survival of the United States. They thought that they could control Trump and get what they wanted. They couldn't but they condoned his actions and language. As much as people want to blame Democrats and the GOP equally it's not possible. The GOP has supported violence, supported a president who incited an insurrection, supported this same president as he lied about everything nearly every time he opened his mouth. And this party has supported dismantling our meager social safety net while handing out welfare to the richest in the country. I don't trust the GOP or anything they say. Right now, that means I don't trust the government.
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Looking forward to what Charlie Munger has to say next month about cryptocurrency. He loves the cryptography, but disdains the use of it as a currency. He and his partner Warren had it figured out and called it out.If anyone was capable of recognizing the value of cryptocurrency, and capitalizing upon it, it would have been those two youngsters. Hopefully, like alchemists trying to turn lead into gold, there may be some tangible benefits, but as a currency no more than tulip bulbs.Regards
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Sam Bankman-Fried appears to have conned thousands of people out of billions of dollars. Hanging out in a lovely home in Palo Alto. George Floyd appears to have tried to pass a counterfeit $20. Executed on the spot.And people on this thread are sympathetic to poor SBF? An extraordinarily privileged man, continuing to enjoy his privileges. He deserves exactly zero sympathy at this juncture.
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Tax vehicles over $50k or so, large engines, large bodies, etc. heavily.Invest in and build train networks, not roads. Connect suburbs to city center and one city center to another.
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This technology really needs to be understood before it is deployed everywhere at scale. Consider this -- if you use chatgpt to translate correspondence, it can infer the context of the correspondence. It knows what you are talking about, which is private information that google translation doesn't have about you if it translates. Think about that. It _knows_. Microsoft runs outlook which means it has access to a tremendous amount of email. An AI can read that correspondence and understand the context of your life. It can suggest doctors for you if it determines that you are depressed, refer an attorney to your spouse if it determines that you are cheating in your marriage, and call the cops if it determines that you are breaking the law. An AI understands context. It knows. That is a game changer my friends because it also never forgets and can aggregate that data. It could be powerful. It could be terrible.
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Online reviews are useless now. Even sites like OpenTable, which claims only diners who've visited a restaurant can leave a review, are full of fakes. Here's how:Restaurant owner makes reservation at OpenTable, then checks himself in at the reservation time and posts a 5-star review for the low price of $1 paid to OpenTable for the reservation.
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Bill actually, Basic Pay is more in 2023. Basic pay for an E-1 with less than 4 months of active duty is $1,773.00
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Kevin Where's your source for the "likely selling to Russia" claim? How is it 10x worse? These documents were known about before the election and kept from the public, do you think if it was Trumps documents they would've been kept till after the election? How much longer do you think this blatant hypocrisy will continue? How much longer will the Left continuously get away with outrageous lies, media covering up for them, and then crucifying the Right, anytime the slightest suggestion of wrong doing comes up. Russian Collusion, Hunters Laptop, Twitter Censoring, and now this story, are all major stories with serious implications, regardless of how much Kevin and the MSM tries to down play them. What happens when you continuously tell half the country their side is wrong, despite the facts, and my sides issues are no big deal? Jan 6th was only a preview of what can happen when a country loses trust in institutions. This has to stop.
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"content": "Kevin Where's your source for the \"likely selling to Russia\" claim? How is it 10x worse? These documents were known about before the election and kept from the public, do you think if it was Trumps documents they would've been kept till after the election? How much longer do you think this blatant hypocrisy will continue? How much longer will the Left continuously get away with outrageous lies, media covering up for them, and then crucifying the Right, anytime the slightest suggestion of wrong doing comes up. Russian Collusion, Hunters Laptop, Twitter Censoring, and now this story, are all major stories with serious implications, regardless of how much Kevin and the MSM tries to down play them. What happens when you continuously tell half the country their side is wrong, despite the facts, and my sides issues are no big deal? Jan 6th was only a preview of what can happen when a country loses trust in institutions. This has to stop.\n",
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I do believe the deficit needs to be addressed, but any serious discussion of deficit reduction diet and foremost needs to include higher taxes on the riches Americans — maybe net worth of $250 million and up?The government needs more revenue — that’s an undeniable fact when you consider the deficit hole to be at least partially filled. Otherwise, never gonna happen.Serious discussion would not include tax cuts — just spending cuts.
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617to416 No, Brett, that couple making $400k a year is not driving a Camry. Puh-lease.
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Anonymous It’s not that outrageous. These beetles take forever to make. If the intern were paid at a fair price of probably 50 dollars an hour for the extremely skilled work, the beetle would need to cost at a minimum 200 dollars more than it already does. These restaurants charge an arm and a leg, but there are limits to what even the rich will pay. Throughout history, the fanciest food has always been made with slave labor. It’s the only way it’s economical.
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I can't believe how broken the US political system is.Ridiculous campaign spending, reality show presidents wielding far too much power, partisan Supreme Court, judge nominations as a political weapon, the Electoral College, gerrymandering, voting restrictions targeting minorities, no public referendums or other involvement of the public past elections, destructive procedures like the filibuster, idiotic rules like having to agree on a speaker but no provisions for a tie-breaker... it's mind-blowing to me (as a Swiss citizen) to look at this mess, and seeing no concerted effort to clean it up. Has anyone in government proposed changing the rules for how this speaker election works? It's really not that hard to come up with rules which work. E.g.: First round open to everyone, second round only the three candidates with the most votes electable, third round only the two with the most votes, abstaining/invalid vote does not count towards total, majority wins at any point. This way, it never lasts more than three rounds, and some 20 extremists have absolutely no way to take the government hostage.
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Another perspective is that of increased regulation. While this conversation is primarily focused on the first step (breakthroughs in the lab), it is important to understand the forces that grease the skids to market adoption. One example is medical device clearance in the United States; one of the "easiest" options is to get clearance via a 510(k). However, this option is based on anchoring your device on a predicate device (read incremental improvement). While investors may not be familiar with the intricacies of working with the FDA, they are demanding visibility to start ups' regulatory strategies before funds are released. This reality of increased regulatory pressures should be noted as many universities have programs to help push academic discoveries into the marketplace (such as University of Arizona's Tech Launch). This pressure to translate research to the marketplace does have downstream implications such as incremental technological improvements. But here's the thing, while regulation does add a layer of complexity, it also protects us as a society. There may have been more "breakthroughs" in the past but they came at heavy moral costs (think Holmesburg prison trials, the Milgram experiments, etc.). Maybe this slowdown in breakthroughs is the cost of humanity just trying to be better.
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Todd If Russia collapses, thousands of nuclear weapons will be available on the open market. If Iranian drones with grenades strapped on are scary, imagine them with small nuclear warheads.
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Second postSo the dear doctor is now suddenly self aware of her own aging. Yes doctor you will be into your sixties with a child in college. I am 74, in poor health but I relish each day that I am alive. I make it a point to learn something new everyday, I work full time and I am engaged politically. That said I cannot imagine artificially extending my life even if I had the resources financially to do so. We would be far better as a society if we shifted our focus to providing good quality basic heath care to all of our citizens rather than squandering resources on prolonging life to 150. Envision a geriatric "White Lotus" with the rich among us siting around a pool at age 100 plus with a contingent of doctors and nurses attending to their every immediate health need. They have all had numerous plastic surgeries but look like Barbie and Ken from the neck up only so they all wear kaftans. Their days are spent going from one therapy appointment to the next. There really is a lot to be said for aging gracefully and passing the torch. Aging and death are just a part of living.
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"content": "Second postSo the dear doctor is now suddenly self aware of her own aging. Yes doctor you will be into your sixties with a child in college. I am 74, in poor health but I relish each day that I am alive. I make it a point to learn something new everyday, I work full time and I am engaged politically. That said I cannot imagine artificially extending my life even if I had the resources financially to do so. We would be far better as a society if we shifted our focus to providing good quality basic heath care to all of our citizens rather than squandering resources on prolonging life to 150. Envision a geriatric \"White Lotus\" with the rich among us siting around a pool at age 100 plus with a contingent of doctors and nurses attending to their every immediate health need. They have all had numerous plastic surgeries but look like Barbie and Ken from the neck up only so they all wear kaftans. Their days are spent going from one therapy appointment to the next. There really is a lot to be said for aging gracefully and passing the torch. Aging and death are just a part of living.\n",
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leo Hey LeoNicely said...But the "Doomsday Clock" is rapidly becoming a subject more laughable than true, and it's been never quite accurate, not even close. That said, I agree with you, and I think a smoothing of huge ripples between the US and China is necessary-but if we put ourselves in their shoes, those people, who outnumber us 6:1 are over a billion and a half strong-they have been constantly exposed to the virus, have a leader too proud to accept Moderna's offerings, an have allowed the virus to once again rear yet another strain, which inevitably will travel the world...if the strain is reasonably benign compared to the others, we are in luck, if not, we are in peril. I think along the same lines, but think when we do reach across the pacific, the hand needs to be steady, trustworthy, and the promise need be very real. At that time if China refuses our hand, we would all be very surprised-they look to take back territories, and that our influence as interference because they are overcrowded beyond belief, and the sickest country in our world today, per person... We need ot be kind, and we need to be incredibly strong, so that that hand, will extend to countries who need us, want to join us, in a battle for both health, and climate no one expected for another 100 years-well, it came rather quickly, is that a coincidence?It's here now...and it has blatantly shown its perilous colors...Stay Well
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Tesla Bulls Are Back at the Wheel Shares in the electric carmaker continued to rally after the company reported strong profits, even amid growing competition and economic pressures. Tesla investors are feeling heartened by the electric carmaker’s earnings announcement on Wednesday, which had plenty for them to like: a 59 percent year-on-year gain in quarterly profit and rising demand for its vehicles. Shares in Tesla were up nearly 7 percent in premarket trading on Thursday. Shares in the electric carmaker continued to rally after the company reported strong profits, even amid growing competition and economic pressures.
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10k sounds like poor planning and management in the big data wold continues.I wonder how many and how big the bonuses for this will be?
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The fact that my 403b stocks & bonds retirement savings account has dropped 25% might be one reason I do not sense the wonderful economic growth numbers Mr. Krugman cites.
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Gregory Hagin -- My brother, in Pennsylvania, attended a concerned citizens meeting about 20 years ago, which was convened to address locals' concerns about the burgeoning coyote population, at which the local game commissioner spoke. At one point, a farmer who was concerned for his livestock spoke up and asked about mountain lions. The game commissioner resolutely insisted there were no mountain lions in Pennsylvania, and that the farmer must have seen a bobcat or somebody's large housecat. The farmer responded that he knew what he saw, and that was a cat that was easily 150 pounds with a long, bushy tail!When my brother relayed this story to me, I was struck by the condescension of the commissioner to a farmer, of all people, in telling him he misidentified the animal.In any case, the farmer then said, "Oh, okay, so if they don't exist, you won't mind if I shoot it the next time I see it!" "If you do that," the commissioner responded sternly, "you will be fined $2,000!" So there was a $2,000 fine -- for killing something that didn't exist!
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How is minting the trillion-dollar coin any more gimmicky or undignified than the behavior that is making a solution like that necessary in the first place? The reality is that the Republican Party, over the past several decades of its current iteration as the "fiscally conservative" party, has spent nonexistent money on their own boondoggles, pork, and giveaways to the ultrarich donors as a reward for funding their political careers. Now, as in prior years, they want to exploit public ignorance over the nature of a legislatively self-imposed financial limit in order to fraudulently portray themselves as the fiscally responsible half of a profligate government.If Pres. Biden ultimately orders a trillion-dollar coin be minted, it will be after one of the two major parties has already degraded the credibility and dignity of our government with their repulsive lies and grandstanding. It's a "gimmicky" solution to a gimmicky and idiotic manufactured crisis, so the undignified silliness cancels itself out as far as I'm concerned. The coin would ensure that soldiers and bondholders get paid, and it would put the box of matches out of the reach of this giant, petulant toddler we call the Republican Party. It's a win-win.
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Lucky for Kevin he is shameless or else these votes would be embarrassing. As it stands, he will still make the history books but not as he wanted. He will be remembered for feeding, elevating and strengthening the far right to the point where they can obstruct every function the House performs, including opening. There have been many ambitious politicians before him but history will note he was the thirstiest.
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Dr. C.K. Patient here (posting under husband's name). Actually, I was prescribed steroids by a family doc before I saw the neurologist, but it was only 10 mg for a few days and apparently that was too low to do any good. (Kocharla's initial prescription was for 60 mg a day; that's what put me in remission.)
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Regarding a couple earning $400,000 a year - check out Times article this week where people on the street were asked how much they made. Not many we’re making anything close to that. As an educator, my very best years were a bit over $100,000, working two or more jobs. $400,000 a year sounds pretty rich to me.
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Thank you for this comprehensive, clear and accurate picture of what has happened in my state. I will send it far and wide. Growing up in the state and now living in a small town named after a fish body part I know that many of us still think that our political independence and reverence for open country and wildlife aligns with religions and political believers we try to respect despite their growing power to codify respect for us only if we deny the evidence all around us in Montana verifying evolution, tell our neighbors whom to love and how to have sex, restrict our reading, gag our teachers, revere money, and openly carry guns. Most of us know that we have much to regret and more to work for.
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Now we all know it was one of the justices connected to these right-wing, forced birther, anti-choice groups. Thanks for leaving the door wide open for speculation as to which one!
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Newton Guy When you are always an 'employee at will,' what is the incentive to be anything but transactional?In the very olden days, I worked as an engineering contractor for a while. I made extremely good money because everyone involved, myself included, understood that I could be terminated at will. I received no paid vacation, no benefits, and had zero job security. So, I was paid twice as much as a regular employee. Some of that excess went to payroll taxes my employer would have had to pay. The rest was mine.The day I realized that modern day 'contractors' make less per hour than permanent employees was the day I knew that there would be a reckoning. Still, for many years workers seemed infatuated with our gig economy, being on call 24/7, and being required to go 'full hard bore,' or else.Covid seems to be the thing that shook them out of their stressed-induced stupor all at once.
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"content": "Newton Guy When you are always an 'employee at will,' what is the incentive to be anything but transactional?In the very olden days, I worked as an engineering contractor for a while. I made extremely good money because everyone involved, myself included, understood that I could be terminated at will. I received no paid vacation, no benefits, and had zero job security. So, I was paid twice as much as a regular employee. Some of that excess went to payroll taxes my employer would have had to pay. The rest was mine.The day I realized that modern day 'contractors' make less per hour than permanent employees was the day I knew that there would be a reckoning. Still, for many years workers seemed infatuated with our gig economy, being on call 24/7, and being required to go 'full hard bore,' or else.Covid seems to be the thing that shook them out of their stressed-induced stupor all at once.\n",
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The other day I owed a $20.00 co-pay for an annual checkup. At the time of the visit, no one asked me to pay it and, so, I left. Next thing I know ... 1) an e-mail invoice arrives with the $20.00 balance due2) After reviewing it, I immediately mail in my payment 3) Two days later I get an email "reminder" 4) I respond reassuring office it's in the mail 5) Get a call suggesting I have a question 6) Say i don't, check is in the mail 6) Get an email it's arrived.This whole process took four very nice female individuals. Nevertheless, it just goes to show how broken the system is. Bottom line: America is run by the "Capitalists Suits" not, for example, the dedicated medical men and women in their white coats.
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"content": "The other day I owed a $20.00 co-pay for an annual checkup. At the time of the visit, no one asked me to pay it and, so, I left. Next thing I know ... 1) an e-mail invoice arrives with the $20.00 balance due2) After reviewing it, I immediately mail in my payment 3) Two days later I get an email \"reminder\" 4) I respond reassuring office it's in the mail 5) Get a call suggesting I have a question 6) Say i don't, check is in the mail 6) Get an email it's arrived.This whole process took four very nice female individuals. Nevertheless, it just goes to show how broken the system is. Bottom line: America is run by the \"Capitalists Suits\" not, for example, the dedicated medical men and women in their white coats.\n",
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Mtnman1963 Unless you are willing to pay a lot, one shouldn't be expecting a heart transplant for a 90 year with Parkinson. Just a thought. We want unlimited care without paying for it. I was a paying a lot for medicare but the total is considerably less than what I would pay for medical insurance since I retired at 66. For full disclosure, I have Medicare Supplement Plan G. F charges a lot more than the deductible.When my mother had terminal cancer, her doctor advised me it is best to let her go peacefully rather than spending a lot money to keep her alive without her normal life. Well, that was in India and my mother was in her late 70s. My father's doctor told him it was time for him to go when he was in 80's and he lived happily for two years after that dying in late 80's eating whatever he wanted.It is time that we in USA also realize that a hip operation at 90 is a waste of money. Enjoy life and understand that everyone is going to die.On the other hand, spend money to educate and take care of poor.
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"content": "Mtnman1963 Unless you are willing to pay a lot, one shouldn't be expecting a heart transplant for a 90 year with Parkinson. Just a thought. We want unlimited care without paying for it. I was a paying a lot for medicare but the total is considerably less than what I would pay for medical insurance since I retired at 66. For full disclosure, I have Medicare Supplement Plan G. F charges a lot more than the deductible.When my mother had terminal cancer, her doctor advised me it is best to let her go peacefully rather than spending a lot money to keep her alive without her normal life. Well, that was in India and my mother was in her late 70s. My father's doctor told him it was time for him to go when he was in 80's and he lived happily for two years after that dying in late 80's eating whatever he wanted.It is time that we in USA also realize that a hip operation at 90 is a waste of money. Enjoy life and understand that everyone is going to die.On the other hand, spend money to educate and take care of poor.\n",
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