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Yale “Totalitarian Historian” Timothy Snyder, who has spent his career studying dictatorships, makes many similar observations as this author. He points out that these "strongmen" actually don’t need “off-ramps”, golden bridges, olive branches and what have you… since they control their own mediaspheres entirely and so can spin their defeats into “propaganda successes” if they so choose; just like we’ve seen with Xi’s Lockdown Failure/his sloppy 180 pivot to reopening; any awkward faux-pas can be sold to the plebeians when you own all the propaganda organs by which they form their opinions.It’s not for us, the democracies, therefore, to contort ourselves into pretzels over how dictators are going to justify their OWN bad decisions to their own internal populaces; that’s their business. And they’re more than capable. They've had more than a lot of practice....Given that dictators lie to their people nonstop every day! It's basically their bread and butter.So if Putin's propagandists lied the Russian people into this foolhardy war; then they can lie them right back out it, when they so choose, with some "face-saving" spin of the Narrative or other.Let's not invite "moral hazard" here by rewarding the authoritarian adventurism of Autocracy Inc.If Putin wants to end the war of aggression ONLY HE STARTED, then he has only to turn his army around and leave Ukraine. Till then, let's give the Ukrainians everything they need for their sovereign democracy's self-defense.
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I respect Michelle Goldberg (even when we are not in full accord), but here she lost me from the get-go. The declaration that "trans people are under siege" is a premise she seems to take as a given, or a pervasive reality.Under siege by whom? Ron De Santis and a sizeable number of Evangelical preachers? Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham?For some on the Left, some group, some subset of people, is always being mistreated or ostracized. Now trans kids are under attack!Only they're not. Not by the vast majority of people, and parents, and not by adults who really care about kids, which is surely the great majority (of course, even if it's 95% sympathetic, a certain portion of progressive warriors cannot but focus on the mean 5%).The truth is, that when it comes to the recent and rapidly expanding phenonmenon of trans youth, or those with gender dysphoria, it's the parents who under a kind of siege, or in a no-win position, even we the progressive, science- and open-minded.In this new socio-political meta-game, the rules, and the goalposts, keep changing. And anyone who says, 'Hey, wait! What are the latest rules, and how do we abide by them?' And, 'Can't we just slow down a bit here? Do 7 year olds really know what they want about such a meaningful, life-altering matter?' Or, 'This needs more time, more study, does it not?' is seen as antipathetic or this side of hostile.But those questions are smart, and wholly necessary, and caring, not hostile.
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He is now making $174K per year. That should qualify him for most apartments.
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How did it cost them $180M?
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Eric B Wordle 573 4/6*⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Another one that was almost a three but not quite, because the third word should have been the second. Even then, there would have been two choices left, so a four still would've been just as likely as a three.Depending on the openers I don't expect to see a lot of deuces today, but I've been known to be wrong before.Yesterday's words:STARE 12 words leftHEATH 5 words leftLEAPT — words leftI played HEATH and immediately realized that TEACH would've been a better choice. I had been trying to think of something that would try out the WoF L, and maybe the N, but words like DEALT just eluded me (as did MEANT, another possibility). I was convinced that LEANT, unlike learnt, wasn't even a word (the bot disagreed) and moved on, trying to think of what might work. Its variant, LEAPT, at first looked suspicious, like a British version of 'leaped', but not much else seemed to work.I gave it a go and there it was. Two days of finding out what works by seeing what didn't work, first. Yesterday could have been worse. However, if I'd used my alternate opener, LEAST, I'd have joined what had to be a crowd of people chalking up deuces. It was not to be; no big deal. Hard-mode bot's deuce yesterday was a given, but I'm suspicious of the standard-mode deuce when DEALT was not yet eliminated. A lucky guess or inside information? I've taken shots like that too, and received lower skill scores as a penalty.
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"content": "Eric B Wordle 573 4/6*⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Another one that was almost a three but not quite, because the third word should have been the second. Even then, there would have been two choices left, so a four still would've been just as likely as a three.Depending on the openers I don't expect to see a lot of deuces today, but I've been known to be wrong before.Yesterday's words:STARE 12 words leftHEATH 5 words leftLEAPT — words leftI played HEATH and immediately realized that TEACH would've been a better choice. I had been trying to think of something that would try out the WoF L, and maybe the N, but words like DEALT just eluded me (as did MEANT, another possibility). I was convinced that LEANT, unlike learnt, wasn't even a word (the bot disagreed) and moved on, trying to think of what might work. Its variant, LEAPT, at first looked suspicious, like a British version of 'leaped', but not much else seemed to work.I gave it a go and there it was. Two days of finding out what works by seeing what didn't work, first. Yesterday could have been worse. However, if I'd used my alternate opener, LEAST, I'd have joined what had to be a crowd of people chalking up deuces. It was not to be; no big deal. Hard-mode bot's deuce yesterday was a given, but I'm suspicious of the standard-mode deuce when DEALT was not yet eliminated. A lucky guess or inside information? I've taken shots like that too, and received lower skill scores as a penalty.\n",
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GMac According to the National Deer Association: "Deer eyes have pupils that are wide, horizontal slits, as you can see in the image above. This shape allows them to let in more light than human pupils can, especially as they open wider in low-light conditions. It also is important in detecting movement across a wide, horizontal view where danger is most likely to appear. While this pupil shape helps them monitor a broader area, they sacrifice sharpness. Normal human eyesight is 20/20. Deer have a normal daylight eyesight of about 20/60, which means they see 3 times less clearly than humans! If you have ever made eye contact with a deer for what felt like an eternity, it is likely because they are trying to figure out exactly what they’re looking at."
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Steven do you really think what stands between suicide and managed pain is a pool? Also the insurance co-pay of $50 for physical therapy 3xs a week adds up quick. Not to mention your insurance will cease paying if they don’t see “improvement” every 4 weeks. Kinda makes aquatic therapy a non-starter for permanent, severe, debilitating pain.
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| no | Classification | 2,534 |
Wines has multiple strikes against it with the new generation. First, craft beers and small batch whiskeys (especially bourbon) are making huge inroads, and their variety makes them far more attractive to the younger market than in the old days. Second, the learning curve for wine and its subtle differences takes years -- a new drinker can hardly identify grapes, let alone appreciate the difference between a $15 and $100 bottle with radically different appeals. Third is the lifestyle difference. Gen Z eat out much more, but home with a nice dinner is the best place to enjoy and share fine wine. And wine in restaurants with meals is very expensive - I usually see $12-$15 bottles of wine marked up 2-3X, so the bottle of $36-$45 wine is going to be average and unexciting at best - a table wine. Fourth are the cocktails when eating out - you can choose from 10 different martinis alone, and they are very tasty. Start with one and maybe have two. Even I am starting to choose a cocktail at dinner sometimes, for something different. Two can cost the same or less than a shared bottle of $60 wine. And for Gen Z it's mostly red or white. Forget the 5+ page wine list, it's irrelevant.Fourth, the best wines are very expensive and only for a small market - for bottles in the NYT wine articles $25+ is not unusual.The problem isn't marketing, it's the nature of the wine market itself. Wine is the new opera. The young can't replace the older markets for either.
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Derek We raised our kids (now early 20s) here in San Francisco; we've never earned more than $120K gross between the two of us. We had zero family money or support. Friends who earned quadruple what we did were fleeing 30 years ago for cheaper pastures all while singing "poor poor pitiful me, SF is forcing me to move." But their requirements for The Good Life exceeded ours: 2 new-ish cars, cross-country & international travel, a big kitchen, fancy colleges for their kids. They also weren't willing to empty their IRAs & savings accounts & borrow $ from a close friend (repaid with interest) to pay the down payment on a 1200 sq ft leaky townhouse-style fixer. They weren't willing to take in a roommate to help pay the bills. Everyone makes their choices. Living month-to-month for years on end was stressful. It's not for everyone. But what those who say living in NYC or SF on a low income is not possible mean is that it's not possible in the style to which they've become - or want to become - accustomed.
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LJIS Granted, I left Denver in 2011 but uh... I made a lot less than $100K and had a pretty nice place in a good location, no roommates. My rent was $775 a month.
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Because we won't read about them, I often wonder about some of the thousands of business owners worth seven and eight figures, who received tax free PPP checks in the high six and seven figures to voluntarily share if they wanted.I hope that they aren't losing hope.
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Heidi Layoffs are never good for anyone- companies, families and employees. Yet with ~20 weeks of pay and 6 months of health care, many folks will receive ~100K. For most Americans that's enough to survive for 2 years. So far tech workers have had no difficulty finding new jobs.
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| yes | Classification | 8,881 |
Let's get real here. Netflix and Random House have to make back the $135,000,000.00 they have paid to Meghan and Harry, for the documentaries and books, full of vicious complaints that Meghan and Harry have made and embellished, against their own families and in-laws! With all the connections those media companies have, it is not a problem to send minions out to write incendiary articles to create more outrage for publicity, to try and get those multi-millions back!And never mind that most of Meghan's and Harry's repetitive stories have proven to be inconsistent, untrustworthy and callous. (Even Prince Philip's and Queen Elizabeth's declining health, did not slow M and H down.) Sadly, until Harry met Meghan, he was the second most popular royal in the U.K., after the Queen. Now, he is an unwelcome pariah everywhere. Harry has lost his family and his integrity. That is a very rapid and disgraceful fall from grace.It is mind boggling to see a conspiring couple synchronize their vindictive, defamatory, mean spirited attacks on a family who greeted Meghan so warmly. Meghan has the distinction of being the first person ever, to be invited to spend Christmas with the royal family before they were married! But, that doesn't stop Meghan and Harry from rehashing all their grievances, no matter how petty, small or confabulated, at every chance they get. No one has fallen for M and H, because quite simply, Meghan and Harry can never be trusted again.
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Ben Ross "To me it is insane how open borders allow miliiions, upon millions of uneducated people to cross the border. Anyone who says they don't cost taxpayers money is flat out lying. And to support those immigrants requires a big cut out of any paycheck in taxes."Rightwing memes are not facts.
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Where do the Democrats find these people?Indoor air pollution is a real issue, but it can be addressed by requiring that stoves with gas burners have hoods with exhaust fans of sufficient capacity, and that there be a source of fresh air nearby, like an openable window. This is a building code issue, not a consumer product issue. Besides, anyone with an electric stove knows that food sometimes burns when its being cooked, as our smoke detectors are quick to tell us. Spills on electric stove elements are a common cause of indoor pollution. I suppose we’ll soon be banning these as well.
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The correct number should be $4.5 billion a month.
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I have coded since 1966Autonomous weapons were first used by a US NATO ally on March of 2020 in Libya and are increasingly used in the War in the UkraineA.I . is used in health care for developing new medication and in a clinical setting as a tool for case triage. It supports a clinician reviewing images and scans. Congress should look into it, but if you look a precedents of the US Congress regulating high tech. such as it selling personal data it collects, and compare it to the EU it will fail - againAnd will do so, because it will not, and believe it can not , offend donorsLook up<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/nancy-pelosi/summary?cid=N00007360&cycle=2022&type=C" target="_blank">https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/nancy-pelosi/summary?cid=N00007360&cycle=2022&type=C</a>and you will understand
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I agree the gas should be phased out. It is a hidden health hazard, and many homes have unsafe levels. The logistics of doing it however are fraught with issues.I tried to do it in my house, and the landlord made it a big deal. The cost is also really high. It requires upgrades to the electricity some drywall repair and expenses. It amounted to about 7000 dollars. I would also need to file papers citing justification to get approvals. It was all crazy. Hopefully this process is easier in the future
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"content": "I agree the gas should be phased out. It is a hidden health hazard, and many homes have unsafe levels. The logistics of doing it however are fraught with issues.I tried to do it in my house, and the landlord made it a big deal. The cost is also really high. It requires upgrades to the electricity some drywall repair and expenses. It amounted to about 7000 dollars. I would also need to file papers citing justification to get approvals. It was all crazy. Hopefully this process is easier in the future\n",
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mark Companies have no incentive to invest in the things you suggest unless they see an increase, or potential future increase, in demand for their goods or services. This is also why tax cuts aimed at the top have so little impact on business growth investments, plus these types of investments are pretax expenses anyway and reduce reported income for tax purposes, so really tax cuts at the top really do not influence these decisions.Corporate and business behavior is pretty predictable since it is all about profit, so designing legislation with desired outcomes can also be pretty predictable should we want to influence their behavior - or at least it would be if the GOP had not started the HUGE myth about cutting taxes at the top being good for the economy (it is not). You can have high taxes at the top and a lot of growth as we saw post WWII because businesses have an incentive to reduce reported profit for tax purposes by engaging in the types of investments you mention and these investments are often good for the economy especially when savings are also built into the tax code (like for going green).The Fed Reserve actions and recession talk have caused many businesses to assume near future growth is less likely. Thus, there is less incentive to produce and increase supply to help the demand mismatch problem. This is also why we get so much more GDP growth when the Dems pass legislation to help the poor since this tends to increase demand and spark growth.
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I.T. guy here.I use mSecure (password manager and general info vault) and chose the option to sync the vault only between my devices via my local network -- not their cloud.They do offer cloud syncing but it's not required. It's a subscription product, $30/year, whether you use their cloud or not. So there's no pressure for them to start forcing it because you pay either way. I don't mind paying a subscription. Software costs money to maintain, you cannot expect to just "pay once" and use forever, getting updates, fixes, etc.My master password is quite lengthy, unique, and has upper, lower, numbers, and special chars. All my website passwords are similarly long, complex, and unique.Nothing is perfect but I've made it about as safe as I can without resorting to a paper-only copy.
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In terms of their ultimate goals, the pursuit of the Republican Party of the past was to increase income inequality in almost all tax and spending legislation and administration. These policies - sometimes very shortsighted - benefitted the wealthy elite Republican voters.They were always able to get some working people to vote with them against their own economic interests. In the 1950's they used fear of Communism, and in following decades, a rotation of scapegoats: Blacks, followed by Gays, then Secularists and Liberals, then Hispanics, each time increasing resentful white working class folks in their fold.Even in today's Republican Party, now populated with a much increased component of the non-college educated working class, the right-wing media spew of populist anti-elitist rhetoric never extends that populism to the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy elite that leave the tax burden on the middle class. That's because the coalition of today's Republican Party has maintained the same goal of increasing income inequality against the interests of their "base." It's just a larger base of support that they need to deceive, and so far, as bizarre and contemptible as their Republican road show is, after decades of demonizing Liberalism, their dedication to an increasingly Fascist agenda that they flirted with before WWII seems to be holding strong.
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From 1960 through 2021 Somalia's population has grown six-fold. GDP per capita is $532. I'm curious about how climate change caused these outcomes. Is there a plan that compensates Somalis for our carbon emission while perhaps freeing a Somali woman from giving birth to 6.4 children on average?
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Stan I feel like we are seeing a repeat of the 5th century AD...an increasing Christian orthodoxy that wants to wipe away secular and open learning and plunge us into a second dark age. The Muslim world is already there.
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While on the subject of how EVs keep surprising us - we also need to keep in mind how transformative that transition can be to one's mindset. I drive an EV; have done so for half a decade. EVs have the potential to last a long time. Ours is five years old and we still have pretty much full battery and have spent nothing on maintenance. We noted when we were looking, that the Old Nissan Leaf models are still going strong, which is why we invested in one. There is very little to go wrong on an EV.But a big piece of the climate puzzle is that once a person purchases an EV, it just naturally changes how we think about driving and emissions by providing different frame of reference in which to view how we get around. There less willingness to go back to gasoline, so a second car becomes something to re-consider, or to consider only as a hybrid. For many, a change to EV simply raises awareness to one's carbon footprint that much more.
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"content": "While on the subject of how EVs keep surprising us - we also need to keep in mind how transformative that transition can be to one's mindset. I drive an EV; have done so for half a decade. EVs have the potential to last a long time. Ours is five years old and we still have pretty much full battery and have spent nothing on maintenance. We noted when we were looking, that the Old Nissan Leaf models are still going strong, which is why we invested in one. There is very little to go wrong on an EV.But a big piece of the climate puzzle is that once a person purchases an EV, it just naturally changes how we think about driving and emissions by providing different frame of reference in which to view how we get around. There less willingness to go back to gasoline, so a second car becomes something to re-consider, or to consider only as a hybrid. For many, a change to EV simply raises awareness to one's carbon footprint that much more.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,564 |
Rachel until the past year, in 46 years of cooking, I'd never encountered a rotten egg. But last year we had 2 or 3 horrible stinkers, and they were expensive pastured eggs. Confirmed for me that I should never crack an egg into a bowl with other already opened eggs in it, or right into the flour or other ingredients for a recipe. I always use a separate bowl for the egg, and give it the "smell test" before it goes into the other ingredients.
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There is no reason to have that thing in your house. Even Amazon laid off a massive number of employees from the Alexa division. They know it’s not an investment area. It was designed to get you to spend more money as a verbal shopping cart. At the very least, now your interactions with it train Amazon’s AI for free. I know it’s easier to have Alexa answer kids’ never ending questions and requests for media, but relying on this device for childhood interaction is only useful to the tired parent and Amazon- not the child. Toss it.
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Patricia Yes, it's not our mother's course in international relations, Cold War style. Very complex insights into nation's "founding myths," and very helpful for Central and Eastern European tensions - inside nations and outside borders. Slovakia has gone through its own process of culture wars, first, as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, then a Czchoslovakia they never really were equal partners in before being gobbled up by Germany, then the Red Army in 1944-45. Under Franz Josef, the pecking order in the region of Slovakia (close to both Ukraine and Poland) was dominated by Hungarian landlords and their langauge in schools, and German economic powers as well...So that even though Slovaks were the dominant ethnic group by population, they were third in political and cultural power. And Jewish people were divided themselves into rural peasants and estate managers and small businesses - the handling of Jewish complexities is done well and in depth in Hannah Arendt's famous "The Orgins of Totalitariasm" which is a lot more complex and nuanced that the "takes" on it in our college courses...I found Snyder's late focus on "peasant parties and politics" fascinating and on target...and today, in Poland and Hungary and perhaps further, they are once again drifting Right, not left...Who can own the rich Ukrainian "black soil" is going to be a big contentious issue even if Ukraine wins the war. Foreign investors, not just Russians, have been eyeing it for years.
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Douglas Educational level is less a factor in Brazil in my opinion. The BBC described the groups that supported Bolsonaro when he was first elected. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45979682" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45979682</a>I'd say they remain his most ardent supporters today. People with privilege (wealth, property, security, contacts within the bureacracy, the "good life," etc.) fear they'll lose out greatly under Lula, painting him as a communist. Lula left office with a great deal of popular support, in the 70-80% range. He admittedly improved education, health and the economic opportunities for the poor, at some cost to the more privileged. But his party (and by extension, he) are blamed for IMMENSE corruption that came to light after he left office. His election this time appears to be due less to his popularity (he's not particularly popular), but rather to intense antipathy toward Bolsonaro and his personal and political tactics.
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Apple computer has a long history of preventing owners from fixing their apple products. Case in point, when the first Mac was introduced it only had a floppy drive. A company based in Boston, Hyperdrive, introduced an internal 20 megabyte drive. To open the Mac required a special screw driver and once opened the warranty was voided. Why people buy apple products today remains a mystery to me.
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| yes | Classification | 6,485 |
J One great problem with defense spending is also that it does little, if anything, to increase productivity and, in fact, robs the country of the opportunity to increase productivity. If the country spends a trillion dollars on defense, much of that money certainly filters into the economy. And it is also true that defense spending has produced enormous technical advances (at least in the past) that have increased productivity--jet planes, computers, the internet, etc. But the end result of the spending is mostly a bunch of weapons and people that do nothing productive. If the country spends a trillion on upgrading roads and bridges; on high speed internet access for everyone; on vocational and technical training; on health care and care for children; etc. etc., the country's productivity increases, as does the general good. Admittedly, we need to be safe, so we spend money on the the military, but it seems to me that we'd be a lot safer if we spent more to take care of our internal needs and thereby created a more vigorous society and economy than than to stagger along carrying defense spending on our backs. From a liberal (and conservative) point of view, Trumpism might then be viewed as a very rational, albeit veiled, response to defense spending.
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"content": "J One great problem with defense spending is also that it does little, if anything, to increase productivity and, in fact, robs the country of the opportunity to increase productivity. If the country spends a trillion dollars on defense, much of that money certainly filters into the economy. And it is also true that defense spending has produced enormous technical advances (at least in the past) that have increased productivity--jet planes, computers, the internet, etc. But the end result of the spending is mostly a bunch of weapons and people that do nothing productive. If the country spends a trillion on upgrading roads and bridges; on high speed internet access for everyone; on vocational and technical training; on health care and care for children; etc. etc., the country's productivity increases, as does the general good. Admittedly, we need to be safe, so we spend money on the the military, but it seems to me that we'd be a lot safer if we spent more to take care of our internal needs and thereby created a more vigorous society and economy than than to stagger along carrying defense spending on our backs. From a liberal (and conservative) point of view, Trumpism might then be viewed as a very rational, albeit veiled, response to defense spending.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,632 |
You can blame Apple for making this much worse. Unlike Microsoft who at least make some attempt to allow backwards compatible, Apple does not even try thereby forcing ppl to upgrade at great expense. But fanboys continue to praise them.
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BayArea101 Yes, every American deserves a decent home as a human right (so each wage earner should hand over 10% of their wages to the indigent). Require only small efficient housing with none of the fancy do-dads. Houses 1200 sf or smaller with small bedrooms and shared bathrooms. And incentivize apartment living by making the maximum 1450 sf. and some decent amenities. Require millionaires to pay a wealth tax of 3% every year on top of their current tax bill. Oh, and let people have as many children as they want and increase the number of immigrants to the country each year and give each immigrant family a house free as a human right.
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| yes | Classification | 5,778 |
Every conservative is out there yelling that our southern borders are “wide open”, and we have become a “border-less country”. Surely, that must be encouraging poor immigrants to attempt coming here.
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"content": "Every conservative is out there yelling that our southern borders are “wide open”, and we have become a “border-less country”. Surely, that must be encouraging poor immigrants to attempt coming here.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,132 |
This isn't that unusual a storm for California, and the state is prepared for this. There will be and always have been storms like this. (The ARkStorm project looks at what a real 100-year flood in California would look like.) Billions and billions of dollars have been spent effectively on flood control for over 100 years.Joan Didion:"The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way. I know as well as the next person that there is considerable transcendent value in a river running wild and undammed, a river running free over granite, but I have also lived beneath such a river when it was running in flood, and gone without showers when it was running dry."
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whitebuffalo I'm getting 2.9% in my regular bank savings account.
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Larsen The house can be bought right now for carefully placed cash. McCarthy is eminently bribeable by any number of our enemies. Russia, Korea, China, Iraq, Iran, Syria, step right up to the ticket window! Government for sale, 50% off!
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| no | Classification | 3,083 |
What a hero. Good guy; helps out the family business too. So sad that all these victims who were just pursuing their sweet pastime ballroom dancing could be targeted like this. Shooter obviously unhinged, bitter, delusional, paranoid, etc. like all of these mass murderers. But they are never too ill to figure out how to acquire and use an assault weapon, are they? What a country. I think there is just a major conspiracy among the Left and Right at National Level to protect the status quo on guns, and I think this is why: The U.S. Firearm industry contributes $51.3 billion to the economy. Guns are just too important to our economy, domestically and internationally.
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"content": "What a hero. Good guy; helps out the family business too. So sad that all these victims who were just pursuing their sweet pastime ballroom dancing could be targeted like this. Shooter obviously unhinged, bitter, delusional, paranoid, etc. like all of these mass murderers. But they are never too ill to figure out how to acquire and use an assault weapon, are they? What a country. I think there is just a major conspiracy among the Left and Right at National Level to protect the status quo on guns, and I think this is why: The U.S. Firearm industry contributes $51.3 billion to the economy. Guns are just too important to our economy, domestically and internationally.\n",
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Always Amazed They're not losing money. They're just not making the same growth rates as they did the past few years. For instance in last year's 3rd quarter, they made a profit of roughly $14 billion dollars but in the previous year made a profit of roughly $19 billion dollars in the same quarter. Still a massive massive profit but not quite as massive.
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Magnificent.From Donovan’s opening pompous salvo of red confetti, through the bothsidesism, into the coats of whitewash over the lying and the insanities and the threats, into the assumption that a four-seat majority “led,” by an inept coward can pass legislation on its lonesome, this bowl of horsefeathers has it all.One mistake, though. I still noticed that the Big Plans are left completely vague. Either the bills’ll say, “this is a bill, look mommy, we passed a bill,” or there’s some odd sort of reluctance to mention that you intend to go after Social Security, Medicare, and any vestigial right to do weird hippie stuff like science and solar energy…
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"content": "Magnificent.From Donovan’s opening pompous salvo of red confetti, through the bothsidesism, into the coats of whitewash over the lying and the insanities and the threats, into the assumption that a four-seat majority “led,” by an inept coward can pass legislation on its lonesome, this bowl of horsefeathers has it all.One mistake, though. I still noticed that the Big Plans are left completely vague. Either the bills’ll say, “this is a bill, look mommy, we passed a bill,” or there’s some odd sort of reluctance to mention that you intend to go after Social Security, Medicare, and any vestigial right to do weird hippie stuff like science and solar energy…\n",
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In some ways management has been hoping for a recession, they don't like job markets where employees actually have power and they have to compete when hiring good employees. For years, management was in control, with wages going up typically 2%. Suddenly labor markets became tight, and businesses had to compete for workers. Places that thought min wage would last forever, suddenly had to pay more. Working from home in most companies either was something you could do occasionally or maybe 1 day a week. The pandemic proved you could work remotely, but management wasn't happy, I can guarantee you that. The thing the people who thought they could work in a cabin or in some small city forgot is that they can hire the same people in India for like 30% of the salary, so if it is remote only, why hire here? They are using this to get people into the office, that is not speculation, it is fact.One of the reasons the GOP is looking to slash SS and Medicare isn't budget reduction, it is that businesses want people working longer, so they have a bigger pool of labor. This isn't so much skilled jobs, but rather it is in the service sector, where older workers could help provide a large labor pool they can use to keep down wages, if you can't retire until 70 or more.The days of employee power are swinging back towards management, and of course the scummy "activist investors" who have no care except 20% returns.
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When Southwest expanded it was a very nice airline to fly.Now the turnaround time is so short, the planes are not properly cleaned,the squeeze as many passengers ontothe planes as they can and have raisedthe prices so high, it makes you want to drive or take a train.The failure to provide adequate and decent service falls on the Board and Mr. Jordan andhis associates who put un-necessary profits ahead of the needs of their line employees and their passengers.He and the board should have to resign for the good of Southwest and the nation.
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The biggest challenges faced by the industry are a public that doesn’t understand the business model; a U.S. culture that expects more for less, often at another’s expense; and a long and regrettable history in America of people working for low (or no) wages, and the customer’s right to heap scorn on that worker at will.It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about NOMA or a run-of-the-mill “Mexican” joint run by white Americans. Or a legit pho spot. Or an Indian restaurant serving samosa that are lovingly fried on site but distributed from a warehouse. A restaurant must handle rising rents and greedy landlords, a skyrocketing minimum wage and a shrinking labor pool with an understandable chip on its collective shoulder; equipment prices that make your jaw drop; food prices that soar at the whim of commodity traders; fuel surcharges for delivery; and a public glued to its phone, expecting to pay nothing for an experience that in its most basic form takes multiple people a full work day to prepare before the doors even open. And those people may or may not show up to work today, often with zero notice.For restaurants to succeed we all need to understand how expensive prices should be. Want a $20 minimum wage? Great, me too. That means your basic plate of nachos will need to cost $28 for us to make a small profit. Does that work for you?At the end of the day, a restaurant isn’t a business it’s a myth, and like so many myths it is no match for the churn of modern life.
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Satya Nadella and Co. seem intent on making Microsoft the "Evil Empire" once again. "Great" leadership, all the while sitting on your own pile of lucre!
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Name With held And if the whole world was using fossil energies like the USA does with heating in NY so hot that you have to open the windows in frigid winter and AC at 64 in stores with doors open and 11 outside, then we could already not live on this planet anymore.Ecology is ecology.Your comment is misleading .
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I am not in the field of climate change. However I am a physician and scientist who has organized scientific conferences and supported advocacy actions by patients and families. The issues with your employer are different from the meeting organizers.1. For the Geophys Union, the concerns should be taken up with highest level group, likely the Board for a nonprofit. Find sympathetic members and have them advocate on your behalf. Most people in my field know I am more likely to be open to ideas so I am often the person contacted.2. For the employer, govt employees I know are restricted in their advocacy. even if your bos has accepted your actions before this doesn't mean that they will do so in the future nor is it necessarily incumbent on them to be consistent every time in accepting your actions.Ultimately you have to decide where on the spectrum between Insider and Outsider you want to be when it comes to advocacy. by Insider I mean working from within an organization/ field versus from the outside. Both are equally needed and both have pros and cons.If you are an Insider like me you won't get the attention that an outsider will get when progress is made. However it is still gratifying to see and you don't take the same career or financial risks.One thing you can do is reach out to the general public as you are doing today with this column. Not so much to explain your work position but to explain the science and why the public should act or vote in certain ways.
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"content": "I am not in the field of climate change. However I am a physician and scientist who has organized scientific conferences and supported advocacy actions by patients and families. The issues with your employer are different from the meeting organizers.1. For the Geophys Union, the concerns should be taken up with highest level group, likely the Board for a nonprofit. Find sympathetic members and have them advocate on your behalf. Most people in my field know I am more likely to be open to ideas so I am often the person contacted.2. For the employer, govt employees I know are restricted in their advocacy. even if your bos has accepted your actions before this doesn't mean that they will do so in the future nor is it necessarily incumbent on them to be consistent every time in accepting your actions.Ultimately you have to decide where on the spectrum between Insider and Outsider you want to be when it comes to advocacy. by Insider I mean working from within an organization/ field versus from the outside. Both are equally needed and both have pros and cons.If you are an Insider like me you won't get the attention that an outsider will get when progress is made. However it is still gratifying to see and you don't take the same career or financial risks.One thing you can do is reach out to the general public as you are doing today with this column. Not so much to explain your work position but to explain the science and why the public should act or vote in certain ways.\n",
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The ARM microarchitecture is overwhelming used in microcontrollers today. I agree with your point however bear in mind that chip companies seek more advanced fabrication technologies (10 nm and below) for cost reasons, and those economies of scale impact microcontrollers just as much as the latest Nvidia deep learning ASICs with their 50 billion transistors.
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Google the phrase “coastal grandmother aesthetic”and you’ll see that Hilderbrand is considered the literary avatar of this lifestyle—well to do white women of a certain age who dress in linen and cashmere, shop daily at farmers markets, make pitchers of lemonade with lemons from those markets, and, of course, own luxurious seaside homes with open concept kitchens. And when evening comes they drink white wine and lots of it. The cinematic analog is embodied by Diane Keaton in movies by Nancy Myers.
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I work on a -3 year cycle. When the Apple iPhone 13 came out, I bought a recycled iPhone 10XS on Amazon for about $250. It works beautifully and the OS updates will work for at least 3 years after I bought it. When the iPhone 16 comes out, I will upgrade to a recycled iPhone 12 unless of course the 10XS still works well in which case I will skip a year. Apple is more expensive but their products last and work perfectly (for me anyway).
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I followed the Newsday link in this article and in it I read that after Santos lost to Souzzi in 2020 he opened a recount account and collected $265,000 in donations to support his quixotic recount that he had zero chance of winningThe ability to raise unlimited money that can be spent without much scrutiny has emboldened grifters to never concede and just keep fighting- stop the steal is just “keep the grift going”.
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SMS45 There's a certain satisfaction in seeing McCarthy getting his comeuppance. McCarthy has always lacked a moral compass. He tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing & tries to head that way. No wonder some don't trust him. The radicals on the right have no desire to govern, only to cause chaos & try to jam their way into more power. The country is against them, & the party should be as well. The GOP needs to find a more rational & courageous moderate to be their speaker & then force the radicals to fall in line. Even if it means threatening to fund challengers to them in 2 years. Having said that, there's something to be said for spending curbs in exchange for raising the federal debt. Will we ever fix the ballooning federal deficit, or will we watch it spiral out of control? Earmarks to direct federal money to individual projects are out of control. Earmarks vanished for a decade after 2011 following the “bridge to nowhere” & other embarrassments. Last year's $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill contained no fewer than 367 pages of pet projects that lawmakers earmarked for their home state or district. Congress brought home the bacon for some 5,000 separate earmarks at a cost of $9.7 billion. Insane. The GOP group of 20 is also seeking to heavily fortify the U.S. border with Mexico. Are we ever going to repair this broken system, or is the plan to keep accepting more illegal immigrants until we are overwhelmed? These legitimate issues have to be addressed.
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In 2008 when the financial debacle hit I took note my company started attriting long term employees. In 2011 I was finally also let go but given a offer to retire else risk downsizing with less enticements. First 10 years as a retiree was bliss however with the pandemic underway inflation reared it's terrible inflation exacerbated by huge medical expenses. Between both a modest company pension along with Social Security all expenses were easily covered with funds leftover to bank during the first 10 years. This last year we finally had to dip into savings and retirement fund to meet ever increasing expenses. Everything (real estate taxes, homeowners/medical/vehicle expenses have increased dramatically but the company pension has not. Living in NYC is expensive and apartment rentals now average $2k-$3.5k for a 2BR. Frightening is how I catagorize inflation. My newest fear is there will come a time when I give up driving and must take taxi's to all these doctor's appointments...typical ride from Queens to York Avenue (a.k.a. Hospital Row!) is over $100 round trip. Imagine this particular cost when you have a dozen or more appointments each month!
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It's the pyramid and two sports only Men's Football & basketball players will reap the benefits...and what positions and how often they get into a game. The real issue is the pro level ...they should take these middle pyramid players and create their own farm system for their pro system, but that would be less of an audience and pay/salary/ endorsement monies to the athletes competing for a pro slot. We all can't be Tom Brady, or Michael Jordan Lebron ect...there is not enough of us or space...could you see Nick Saban coaching in a farm system for these athletes looking to join a pro sport, in college it's not costing the NFL owners or NBA owners poop. Thinking the time has come to separate colleges/universities from professional sports feeding farm.If you do, the costs for these programs will go down dramatically because most who donate to the program are only capitalist's, and the folks watching really don't want to watch and pay for the 2nd tier of the pyramid. Also hope these athletes hire some business students with tax experience, an education that will last much longer than a potential stint at the upper level where only the very very talented get to go and play, it's why they keep expanding , not because the talent is there or better... the monies they earn by letting more play....and why are our tax dollars still funding all these 'privately' owned stadiums and arenas at these two levels of the pyramid.
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SB Me, too: sent him $25.(I didn't realize how much I disliked Sinema: I felt that I had to do something, so I bought his staff five Big Macs. Enjoy them, guys, and get-er-done in '24.)
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Art "On what planet? I would bet Greenberg $1000 on this. I really would."There are always a handful who don't plan to run again. They may regret their part in bringing the US to its knees.If they live in a place where they are not likely to be staring down the barrel of an AR-15 for putting the country first, there is some possibility.However, you'd likely win the bet.
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Mr. Douthat's opening sentence in this piece:"For two years we have debated whether the essential feature of the Jan. 6 riot, the mob stirred up to storm the Capitol in frustration over the 2020 election..." foretells a problem in conservatives and Republican reality testing or, at least, an inability to tune in a TV network with a commitment to actual news.Jan 6 was not a just a riot, it was at attempted insurrection. Jan 6 was not born of "frustration over the 2020 election" -- although admittedly many were frustrated with Biden's win -- it was the product of a (poorly planned, somewhat stupid) plot by the President of the United States, many of his staff, some members of Congress and many of his political allies to directly challenge the peaceful transition of power, a Constitutional mainstay of American government.
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JTCheek - But we retiree's were shortchanged on inflation for many years prior and the index that the government uses to compute the annual inflation adjustment for retirees is different than the regular CPI and underweights actual inflation.Also, retirees can't up and change anything, like a job, to try and compensate.Realistically, all retirees should probably be given at least a permanent $500/month benefit increase but that won't happen because there is never enough money - unless we are talking about the annual "defense" budget, which has a nearly $850 BILLION this year and gets large increase each year.
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The question is: Are Republicans tired of losing yet?Probably not. They have too much invested in sowing dysfunction and disorder to abandon their tactics now. They don't have anything else to offer America. At this point, they couldn't rid thesir ranks of the rogue elements that they've made the core of their party, even if they wanted to. It's too late.In any transaction (and Republicans are nothing if not transactional) there has to be a buyer and a seller. Republicans bought the chaos and disruption that they guessed (wrongly) would win them the White House, Congress, and the judiciary in electoral "Red Waves" ever since 2016. Instead, they keep losing vote after vote, just like "My Kevin." But they knew what they were buying, and now they're paying for it.So, they have buyers' remorse because they can't control the very chaos they thought would save their moribund dinosaur of a party from extinction. That's politics.
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KPCheryl AnnRE: volatile webpage via permalinkWe are using the same types of devices in the same way with very different experiences. One possibility is we are running under different versions of iOS / iPadOS. I am running 16.1.2 on my iPhone, and 16.2 on my iPad. In both using Safari I open the Bee Forum page, go to the Comments, open our page in a new tab or background, and keep both tabs open all day. I do this on both devices every day, never a problem.You can check your version of iOS installed in Settings>General>About ; it’s about the second line down.Are you keeping the parent Bee Comments page open as well?
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When I grew up in the 60's there were no police in schools and school doors were open. People did not own assault rifles or other large magazine weapons.Now think of what we spend each year trying to turn schools and public places into fortresses just so some creepy sociopath can own a weapon of war.The country was founded by men and women who rarely needed a firearm and when they did it was a single shot muzzle loader. We would all be vastly safer if we turned the gun clock back to the 1700's.
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The most we ever paid for insurance was about $1,600 a month for a family of five for very good coverage, including vision and dental. Now my husband has Medicare and I pay $600 a month (through my employer) for excellent comprehensive coverage for myself and our youngest daughter who just turned 24. She will probably get Obamacare when I become eligible for Medicare.
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Richard I am sure the overpopulation of Montana has caused great harm to its citizens.I can assure you my investment in the future (5 children) dwarfs your slightly increased tax burden.Regardless, the Social Compact within a Welfare State includes child-bearing, leaving behind workers from whom tax revenue pays for the old-age entitlements.The childless are free riders.
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I agree that the US could do well with low-cost geographic commerce partners outside of China. Even if shipping times revert to pre-COVID durations, having alternate suppliers improves our bargaining power and reduces risk of stock-outs. One factor to consider would be the working conditions in Mexico. While I appreciate an affordable jacket, it isn't worth it if it was made in a distressing environment. The human costs of labor need to be weighed against the benefits of near-shoring in Mexico.
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Todd Vertically-integrated utilities in regulated states such as Wisconsin are overinvesting in transmission. Regulation is imperfect. A guaranteed 10 percent return on equity for investor-owned utilities (IOUs) encourages overinvestment in not only transmission but also generation. Wisconsin's IOUs are racing to invest in renewable (and non-renewable) generation before WI regulators truly understand (or have the political will to recognize) the benefits of renewable energy, including the extent to which battery storage reduces the need for high-voltage transmission lines.
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Well, sorry, I wrote it up and my comment was over the limit by 3800 characters! So the detailed story isn't going to get posted here. But this is a very difficult line for employers to navigate. In my case, if the employer had been more forthcoming about where in the building (we occupied 3 floors) the infected person worked, it would have helped me to decipher whether or not it was likely I had been exposed. This occurred in December 2020.Without that detail, I had to take the cautious route and was out of the office for an extended period of time, eventhough my test came back quickly and negative, because the employer required a certification from my doctor that I could return to work, and the doctor took more than a week to return the form.And it turned out that one of the two people in my office who had been out unexpectedly was not on leave due to COVID. Actually she had a family emergency that was completely unrelated to COVID exposure. Because I didn't know why she was out, I unnecessarily opted for getting a PCR test and then had to wait an extended period before I could return to work. A little more information from management would have helped to avoid all of this disruption to work activity.
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This is another example of the rights and needs of women and young children not being met despite scaled national policies and programmes at the intersection of gender equity and early childhood development. While Kenya and many Sub-Saharan African nations have developed extensive early childhood development policies, which include access to health services, this article highlights how these policies fall short when scaled without adequate human and financial resources to administer them and reach marginalized populations like the mothers and children featured in this article. Moreover, the gendered barriers to seeking and accessing treatment which could prevent inter-generational development and disease transmission are a crisis within a crisis. These barriers require significant investments being made in gender-responsive or transformative behavior change and communication programming in addition to treatment/drugs access, adequate health system policy operationalization and access. Importantly, policy makers must understand the grave human development, economic and social costs of inaction if not addressing testing and treatment for parents/caregivers and young children in their early years - likely astronomical costs in comparison to if they focused investments now into financing the early childhood and women’s policies developed.
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America is not “in” Ukraine. We are supplying Ukraine with badly needed weapons and Ukraine is using them to save its invaluable democracy and to weaken a criminal, fascist and extremely dangerous Russian leader who is a threat to the region and to the world. This investment is a small drop in our huge military budget. This is NOT where we need to be looking for savings. Consider how much money we literally flushed down the toilet in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the lives of our own soldiers. The right wing fascists in this country who have taken Putin’s side in this conflict are the very same people who took the side of Putin’s puppet when he claimed his election had been “stolen” from him. The far right in this country whines continually about its “freedom”. Ironic when it is clearly in the process of destroying our democratic norms and our Constitution. If the word freedom means anything, it means that our system of free elections and our Constitution must be held sacred, and must be protected from the manipulation and lies of political criminals whose personal greed has evolved into treason.
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"content": "America is not “in” Ukraine. We are supplying Ukraine with badly needed weapons and Ukraine is using them to save its invaluable democracy and to weaken a criminal, fascist and extremely dangerous Russian leader who is a threat to the region and to the world. This investment is a small drop in our huge military budget. This is NOT where we need to be looking for savings. Consider how much money we literally flushed down the toilet in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the lives of our own soldiers. The right wing fascists in this country who have taken Putin’s side in this conflict are the very same people who took the side of Putin’s puppet when he claimed his election had been “stolen” from him. The far right in this country whines continually about its “freedom”. Ironic when it is clearly in the process of destroying our democratic norms and our Constitution. If the word freedom means anything, it means that our system of free elections and our Constitution must be held sacred, and must be protected from the manipulation and lies of political criminals whose personal greed has evolved into treason.\n",
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Why wages do not keep up with inflation Econ 101If Governments run up debts , citizens one wayor another must pay for it.The preferred way to pay down large Government Debt is inflation. THE LIQUIDATION OF GOVERNMENT DEBTCarmen M. Reinhart, M. Belen SbranciaNBR Working Paper 16893This paper analyzes how Governments paid off the large debts of WW II between 1945 and 1980And it finds it did so with inflation"For the United States and the United Kingdom our estimates of the annual liquidation of debt via negative real interest rates amounted on average from 3 to 4 percent of GDP a year.”<a href="https://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res2/pdf/crbs.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res2/pdf/crbs.pdf</a>That is: Governments engineered negative real interest rates (nominal minus inflation) for 35 yrs . I.e, inflation to pay back the debts.Economist call this “monetizing the debt"The Trump and Biden Government ran up high debtsIdeally thew would be paid down by by taxing the Rich. But it would require vote - a vote offending campaign donors.Hence back to the traditional way to engineer inflation A tax politicians have not to vote on.Conveniently, it falls most heavily on the less well off - i.e. those who do NOT donate to campaignsCredit worthy Rich actually * profit* from inflation as long as they can borrow at negative rates Borrow, invest - and DO donate to political campaignsSo why workers are losing in the inflation battle ?The least politically powerful get the bill
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In my younger days I had casual friends, or even good acquaintances, who would ask me to loan them money. My income varied wildly from year to year and the requests typically came when I was flush. Except for a couple very close friends the loans were never repaid. Finally, I learned from my experience. When a loan was requested, say $1,000, I would tell them I never loaned to friends, but I could perhaps make a small gift. They were always delighted! A gift with no repayment expected! The gift would be small ($100 or $200) and promptly forgot about it. More importantly we remained friends, unlike the loan recipients who ducked and dodged and wouldn’t even return phone calls.Make a gift, keep a friend. Make a loan, lose a friend.
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Easy solution to this problem and the Biden/Newsom administrations are already implementing it - open borders and stricter gun control laws. Newsom has the advantage of a super majority to enact the gun controls. Hopefully the Republicans don't prevent Biden from keeping the southern border open. Strange that it is only the southern border. I wonder why Canada hasn't been an issue.
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"content": "Easy solution to this problem and the Biden/Newsom administrations are already implementing it - open borders and stricter gun control laws. Newsom has the advantage of a super majority to enact the gun controls. Hopefully the Republicans don't prevent Biden from keeping the southern border open. Strange that it is only the southern border. I wonder why Canada hasn't been an issue.\n",
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Bobbo , you must be looking at hybrids with lead acid batteries, like the early Prius. There are a lot of used Teslas in the $30-40k price range that still have 95% of battery capacity after 100k miles. If you need something for less than $10k there aren't many options yet, but with the new subsidies, we should have new, entry level EVs for $20k shortly.
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AKJersey I think strategic investing and onshoring critical manufacturing is an excellent goal. Slapping tariffs on goods manufactured in a country where production is massively subsidized is also an excellent idea. What America is doing here is investing in strategic industries; a laudable goal. It should also make as a priority removing Chinese manufacturing from their supply chains until China stops threatening its neighbors. And America should immediately recognize Taiwan as both a sovereign nation and a legitimate China.
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There are Americans who are skipping meals and selling plasma to make ends meet. Americans who can’t afford rent increases. It’s not just that the room at the Westin is 50% more for that upper-middle-class family vacation.It’s all a natural consequence of the overwhelming money printing from COVID. There’s no such thing as free lunch. All that printed money that went into PPP/stimulus checks, that was not tied to any productivity, serves only to dilute the value of all the dollars out there. And furthermore, it fueled an asset bubble so insane that jpegs of cartoon rocks sold for $3M and house prices rose 40% in two years. So Jerome Powell is right to administer the medicine needed to stop this from spiraling further out of control, and I applaud Joe Biden for supporting Powell to the end.
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“When they leave their deep freeze, the heat from the sun erodes their surfaces, and they start spewing gases and dust until they host a glowing core, known as the coma, and a flamelike tail that can stretch for millions of miles.”This doesn’t sound right regarding the “heat from the sun”, given the fact the temperature in space is 3K (-270 degrees Celsius). I always thought the glow was caused by solar wind?
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Rural resentment is largely the same resentment that has been growing since the 1970s, and it is based on the loss of the possibility of a meaningful role in society by blue-collar men. I am, and always have been, politically left of center, but the left appears unaware of the real problem. The left is still focused on promoting women’s interests and has ignored the problems that blue-collar men are experiencing. We still hear about the 18% difference in income disparity between men and women. Still, child-care responsibilities largely explain that difference, and the same income inequality exists between the primary caregiver and partner in same-sex female couples with children.The wages of blue-collar men have fallen compared to previous generations, and women’s income has risen dramatically over the same period. Women prefer to go it alone rather than marry a man who makes less money than she does. Far fewer blue-collar men have the opportunity to be the providers and the defenders of families. It is a cultural reversal that goes against 200,000 years of human biology. The left talks about blue-collar men voting against their self-interest, but the left doesn’t recognize the problem.
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I cannot take seriously anyone’s insistence that induction stoves’ cooking is as good as a gas stove until I know WHAT they’re cooking on a daily basis. I’m sure boiling water is great, and making a simple pan seared chicken breast is good too. But most of my cooking is Indian food. I need to be able to easily control the temperature for a few SECONDS to temper mustard seeds in hot oil. I routinely char eggplants and chilis on the open flame. I finish rotis on the fire for a few seconds after they puff up. But it’s ok- Indians also know from back home that you can just get a stovetop gas range very easily if Big Government gets in the way.
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phyl Because people rebelled against the strict lockdowns and the government could no longer control the protests. In my opinion, the government chose to lift the lockdowns in order to avoid being seen to fail at containing the protests.What is missing is the intermediate step, in which the government develops effective vaccines during the strict lockdown phase and fully vaccinates everybody before opening up. The Chinese people have been poorly served by their government.
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"content": "phyl Because people rebelled against the strict lockdowns and the government could no longer control the protests. In my opinion, the government chose to lift the lockdowns in order to avoid being seen to fail at containing the protests.What is missing is the intermediate step, in which the government develops effective vaccines during the strict lockdown phase and fully vaccinates everybody before opening up. The Chinese people have been poorly served by their government.\n",
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Why do I get the feeling that this is definitely not an isolated incident with these “Scorpions”?Why do I have this sinking feeling that this kind of behavior was everyday and routine - until there was a cascade of errors that caused both Mr. Nichols’ horrific death and the whole dysfunctional culture of that police department to break open like a rotten melon. Is there a panel of both police officers AND civilians that reviews the body camera footage of random officers each month, much as random drug tests are done? Maybe these officers would have thought twice about their actions if they knew that body camera footage would be reviewed on a regular basis. Something else that seems like a good idea would be if the supervisors at the police department had the ability to remotely dial into any officer’s body camera at any time. I also saw another commenter asking why the police seem to have the ability to turn their body cameras off at will. They should be set up so they are absolutely tamper proof, so that the camera is on and transmitting every second. If the camera stops working, an audible alarm goes off, both on the officer and at headquarters. This would keep everyone safer.There, I think I have covered it. Everyone would be safer if at least some of these safeguards were in place - both the officers wearing the cameras and the general public.
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"content": "Why do I get the feeling that this is definitely not an isolated incident with these “Scorpions”?Why do I have this sinking feeling that this kind of behavior was everyday and routine - until there was a cascade of errors that caused both Mr. Nichols’ horrific death and the whole dysfunctional culture of that police department to break open like a rotten melon. Is there a panel of both police officers AND civilians that reviews the body camera footage of random officers each month, much as random drug tests are done? Maybe these officers would have thought twice about their actions if they knew that body camera footage would be reviewed on a regular basis. Something else that seems like a good idea would be if the supervisors at the police department had the ability to remotely dial into any officer’s body camera at any time. I also saw another commenter asking why the police seem to have the ability to turn their body cameras off at will. They should be set up so they are absolutely tamper proof, so that the camera is on and transmitting every second. If the camera stops working, an audible alarm goes off, both on the officer and at headquarters. This would keep everyone safer.There, I think I have covered it. Everyone would be safer if at least some of these safeguards were in place - both the officers wearing the cameras and the general public.\n",
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Thanks to Torres and Goldman for this request.Amid the recently roiled Republican House actions, it is doubly important to have Santos investigated. No secret that McCarthy stayed silent on Santos so he could have his vote but now, in the aftermath of the speakership chaos, let us know what Santos did or did not do, where his $700,000 came from and who helped him in his bid for the House. I want the facts of this unsavory, and most probably illegal, election of Santos. Btw, Santos walked about the floor of the House during the televised speaker voting, shame written all over his face.
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| no | Classification | 2,835 |
Perhaps true scientific breakthroughs have declined because of the push for everything to be monetized to earn millions or billions. Is scientific research being limited somewhat by an evaluation of what would be most profitable versus what may not have immediate rewards but offers the possibility of unlocking one of those eureka moments? Research scientists need to be supported financially through those times when their research isn’t providing breakthrough technology, but in our era of demand for instant results—and demand for quick profits—we may no longer be funding that basic research.
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"content": "Perhaps true scientific breakthroughs have declined because of the push for everything to be monetized to earn millions or billions. Is scientific research being limited somewhat by an evaluation of what would be most profitable versus what may not have immediate rewards but offers the possibility of unlocking one of those eureka moments? Research scientists need to be supported financially through those times when their research isn’t providing breakthrough technology, but in our era of demand for instant results—and demand for quick profits—we may no longer be funding that basic research.\n",
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Global Charm Yes! For many reasons, including accountability and openness. We can learn and adapt. But there’s always trade offs. For example, after the child sex abuse by clergy scandal, the Catholic schools in Chicago made changes to both the human schedules and also the physical buildings, in order to make every area open to oversight by anyone walking the hallway, essentially making nowhere to hide. Open concept building. But that means that the exterior of the building must be even more secure. There’s the trade off. It’s complicated and difficult, especially for city schools in high crime areas.
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"content": "Global Charm Yes! For many reasons, including accountability and openness. We can learn and adapt. But there’s always trade offs. For example, after the child sex abuse by clergy scandal, the Catholic schools in Chicago made changes to both the human schedules and also the physical buildings, in order to make every area open to oversight by anyone walking the hallway, essentially making nowhere to hide. Open concept building. But that means that the exterior of the building must be even more secure. There’s the trade off. It’s complicated and difficult, especially for city schools in high crime areas.\n",
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John Harrington $4,000.00+ "signed" on Ebay right now.
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"content": "John Harrington $4,000.00+ \"signed\" on Ebay right now.\n",
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850,000,000,000 dollars for the pentagon this year with essentially 0 oversight on how that money is spent.Meanwhile, the nation is awash in poor, and middle class alike who have no mental health care or what is available is completely inadequate.That’s just the tip of the iceberg.Our government has forgotten to collect taxes from the rich and is now in its greatest debt ever and the public is likewise in its greatest debt.So you can applaud the completely inadequate achievements of congress or you ask yourself what has gone totally wrong with our government.
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"content": "850,000,000,000 dollars for the pentagon this year with essentially 0 oversight on how that money is spent.Meanwhile, the nation is awash in poor, and middle class alike who have no mental health care or what is available is completely inadequate.That’s just the tip of the iceberg.Our government has forgotten to collect taxes from the rich and is now in its greatest debt ever and the public is likewise in its greatest debt.So you can applaud the completely inadequate achievements of congress or you ask yourself what has gone totally wrong with our government.\n",
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The biofuels arm of cleantech went bust because Silicon Valley thought it could disrupt the energy sector through the sheer force of entrepreneurship with complete disregard for the scale, economics and scientific and engineering challenges driving the energy sector. It was apparent from the start that investors in companies like Solazyme (fuel from algae grown in fermentors) and KiOR (adapting petroleum refining technology to make fuel from waste forest products) were prone to magical thinking. Investors like Vinod Khosla learned the hard way that molecules are much more intractable than electrons. It would be wise for climate tech to heed these lessons.
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"content": "The biofuels arm of cleantech went bust because Silicon Valley thought it could disrupt the energy sector through the sheer force of entrepreneurship with complete disregard for the scale, economics and scientific and engineering challenges driving the energy sector. It was apparent from the start that investors in companies like Solazyme (fuel from algae grown in fermentors) and KiOR (adapting petroleum refining technology to make fuel from waste forest products) were prone to magical thinking. Investors like Vinod Khosla learned the hard way that molecules are much more intractable than electrons. It would be wise for climate tech to heed these lessons.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,397 |
With the discovery of so many planets around so many stars, surely there must be an alien intelligence that is a billion or so years ahead of us.Maybe they hold office hours?Why not broadcast a list of questions -- like what the heck is dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe -- and see what answers come back?We may hear nothing, but it sure wouldn't cost billions of dollars just to ask.
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"content": "With the discovery of so many planets around so many stars, surely there must be an alien intelligence that is a billion or so years ahead of us.Maybe they hold office hours?Why not broadcast a list of questions -- like what the heck is dark energy that is accelerating the expansion of the universe -- and see what answers come back?We may hear nothing, but it sure wouldn't cost billions of dollars just to ask.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,974 |
JanDespite the impressive figures, salaries in general in the US have not gone up nearly as quickly as housing prices have. That makes establishing a safety net rather difficult. That said, I find it hard to believe she was doing her personal computing on a work laptop. That's just screaming & begging for trouble. Older refurbished laptops with screens good enough for extended reading can be had for less than $300 and under $200 if you only need to do reading, emails, & web browsing. So perhaps there's something else going on.
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| no | Classification | 4,464 |
Bought myself an Elektra and a ceramic grinder. Expensive but a couple of decades later with all my coffee ( Americanos made with fair trade locally roasted espresso) made at home, except when travelling: I know I have saved a fortune. It's a privilege to be able to buy good equipment, and I know I am fortunate, but having invested I can now support small farmers ( the stewardship of their land) , the local roaster who works directly with cooperatives. I'm not drinking inferior coffee or consuming packaging. No coffee on the run requires some organization, but the taste is so much better, enhanced (in my enjoyment) knowing I am closer to the producer not a middleman. By my calculations, each cup of coffee costs me less than 50 cents. At 3-4 cups per day, I am spending between $550 and $700/year ( plus electricity). If I had gone to Starbucks or an independent, that Americano would be between $2.50 and $3. I would have spent around $2700 ($2.50) for only 3 cups per day. The Elektra has paid for itself many times over!
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After the nihilism we witnessed in the House last week, the basic functioning of Congress during this term seems highly unlikely. It seems more likely that the government will be at constant risk of shutting down and at grave and catastrophic risk of defaulting on our international sovereign debt obligations.Republicans say that they want to reduce the debt, bolster an already $850B per year military, and "fortify the Southern border," all while defunding the IRS and reducing taxes.Do any of them actually understand how basic math works?
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| no | Classification | 4,349 |
This is a full-on, heart-breaking tragedy. Even in large anesthesia groups that cover more than one hospital, there are better and worse places to work ... and guess who covers the worse assignments? Junior members. The best docs, as well as the senior docs, get the plum assignments. There's also a shortage of 'gas passers' which means some places just need bodies to stay open. In OB, the patients just keep coming. In the early days of the pandemic, I'm sure the doc in question was fatigued beyond belief. As a less than stellar doc going into it, he worsened during it. Some people gain competence in trial by fire, but not all of them. NONE OF THAT EXCUSES THIS. One of the laws of medicine is that if you don't know what to do, stand down. Mother Nature is way, way smarter than you are. Had the doc fainted on the floor or burst into sobs of exhaustion BEFORE attempting the epidural, the OB would have said, "Sorry, Mom, you're gonna have to do this without an epidural." All would likely have turned out well.
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The late William Safire (how I miss his language columns!) wrote this in 1992 about Barr:"And Mr. Barr has thoroughly abused the F.B.I. Field agents have told me for a year that higher-ups at Justice have steered them away from rewarding lines of inquiry. This month the former head of the F.B.I.'s Atlanta field office, William Hinshaw, publicly accused Justice of having "delayed indictments for nearly a year in the $5 billion (Iraq) scandal."Seems, abusing the FBI and our Justice System to serve his own personal and political agenda is a habit hardwired into Bill's DNA? Why was he appointed AG again?
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Liz I think that there might be real shortages in some regions, but what you say about affordability is very true. When we were looking to buy a house in the Bay Area in 1999, we saw flippers who didn't lift a finger: they would buy and sell a house, closing both transactions on the same day, with the sale at $100,000 over the purchase.We've endlessly discussed how to prevent this so that people who will live full time in the dwelling get priority over investors who will rent it (on AirBNB), flip it, or keep it in their "inventory". It seems that there's no solution in sight, thanks to political will (to keep things the way they are) and the always-clever loopholes that investors will find (or create).
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"content": "Liz I think that there might be real shortages in some regions, but what you say about affordability is very true. When we were looking to buy a house in the Bay Area in 1999, we saw flippers who didn't lift a finger: they would buy and sell a house, closing both transactions on the same day, with the sale at $100,000 over the purchase.We've endlessly discussed how to prevent this so that people who will live full time in the dwelling get priority over investors who will rent it (on AirBNB), flip it, or keep it in their \"inventory\". It seems that there's no solution in sight, thanks to political will (to keep things the way they are) and the always-clever loopholes that investors will find (or create).\n",
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First the far right Republicans [like Gingrich] adopted a non-engagement strategy. Then the middle and moderate ones follow. They believe our country need not recognize how our planetary partners have changed. They deny how the planet is evolving. We, the USA, need to continually adjust and adapt to this state of constantly change. The Republicans want to retreat to our borders and ignore what’s going on globally. They refuse to believe we need to act, to proactively engage to keep our country politically safe and economically secure. Woe will be to us all if they prevail. That said, we need them for the country to be successful. We need everyone engage and focus on common interests and goals rather than differences. Without some working together, we will not persevere and thrive. Right now this means burying the hatchet, having a conversation. Realizing compromise is not a 4 letter word. It would help if we all would acknowledge the "U" in USA stands for united.
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"content": "First the far right Republicans [like Gingrich] adopted a non-engagement strategy. Then the middle and moderate ones follow. They believe our country need not recognize how our planetary partners have changed. They deny how the planet is evolving. We, the USA, need to continually adjust and adapt to this state of constantly change. The Republicans want to retreat to our borders and ignore what’s going on globally. They refuse to believe we need to act, to proactively engage to keep our country politically safe and economically secure. Woe will be to us all if they prevail. That said, we need them for the country to be successful. We need everyone engage and focus on common interests and goals rather than differences. Without some working together, we will not persevere and thrive. Right now this means burying the hatchet, having a conversation. Realizing compromise is not a 4 letter word. It would help if we all would acknowledge the \"U\" in USA stands for united.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,941 |
Private corporations and companies have been unleashed by lack of regulations and an agreeable Congress. They have run amuck for too long.I'm thrilled to see that the approval rating for unions is at 71%. This is history repeating itself.What remains to be seen is if there's a renaissance like the New Deal and the widespread acceptance of unions.I hope there is. Businesses have proven yet again that they can't be trusted. They squeeze every dollar out of labor, take every last dollar for themselves and their shareholders.Part of the reason was the move to the "Friedman Doctrine" and Free Market Economy. Make as much money as you can. Make sure you give your shareholders dividends and buy back stocks when you can. Serious selfish behavior by corporations.In addition, as wages (especially hourly wages) have increased recently, instead of the company taking less profit, they just add the extra cost on to whatever the product is.Accordingly, The price of the item rises because the company insists on making the same profit. What's most galling about this is many companies received monetary assistance during the pandemic. And many invested this windfall to buy back stock. Selfish.I hope unions make a strong comeback. The Titans of Industry have proven they only wish to enrich themselves by using labor and treating that labor badly.
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"content": "Private corporations and companies have been unleashed by lack of regulations and an agreeable Congress. They have run amuck for too long.I'm thrilled to see that the approval rating for unions is at 71%. This is history repeating itself.What remains to be seen is if there's a renaissance like the New Deal and the widespread acceptance of unions.I hope there is. Businesses have proven yet again that they can't be trusted. They squeeze every dollar out of labor, take every last dollar for themselves and their shareholders.Part of the reason was the move to the \"Friedman Doctrine\" and Free Market Economy. Make as much money as you can. Make sure you give your shareholders dividends and buy back stocks when you can. Serious selfish behavior by corporations.In addition, as wages (especially hourly wages) have increased recently, instead of the company taking less profit, they just add the extra cost on to whatever the product is.Accordingly, The price of the item rises because the company insists on making the same profit. What's most galling about this is many companies received monetary assistance during the pandemic. And many invested this windfall to buy back stock. Selfish.I hope unions make a strong comeback. The Titans of Industry have proven they only wish to enrich themselves by using labor and treating that labor badly.\n",
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Paul: Yes, and our governor refuses to expand Medicaid under the ACA even though it is now 12 years since it was past. With that decision, about half the medically uninsured in Texas could be fully insured with the vast majority of the cost (90%) covered by the Federal government.But, no, Republicans here just have a mean streak and don't want to help anyone who is poor.
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Declaring Emergencies and Banning ‘Latinx’: First Acts for 9 New Governors Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania opened 92 percent of state government jobs to people without four-year degrees. Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska created a state office focused on broadband access. After a midterm election year in which statewide races were almost entirely wrapped up in national issues — abortion and democracy — the nation’s newly elected governors are showing their ambitions with a mix of virtue-signaling on national issues, currying favor with their political bases and, for some, reaching out to broader constituencies. Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania opened 92 percent of state government jobs to people without four-year degrees. Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska created a state office focused on broadband access.
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Yesterday while walking I saw a Lufthansa 747 on approach to JFK.Such a beautiful site.I flew on 747’s many times including one flown by Peoples Express ($99) to Los Angeles from NY and on a 747-SP, a smaller version flown by United from the West Coast to Hawaii. The only other plane back in the 70/80’s that even came close to the Queen in terms of style and smooth flight was the Lockheed L-1011 which Delta flew from LGA to Florida.
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Citizen Interesting that your historical perspective goes back only two years. The largest deficit on record -- $3.1 trillion -- was during the last year of the Trump presidency. The deficit in 2022 was less than half this level at $1.375 trillion.
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"content": "Citizen Interesting that your historical perspective goes back only two years. The largest deficit on record -- $3.1 trillion -- was during the last year of the Trump presidency. The deficit in 2022 was less than half this level at $1.375 trillion.\n",
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Seemingly always missing from the debate about budget deficits and the national debt is the roughly $500 billion the US gov't pays for interest on its debts every year. How can this expense ever be justified? Whenever the extreme left and extreme right get a grip on deficit spending, collectively Americans will realize that we can finance whatever we can agree upon as a federal budget (assuming such consensus is possible) with an emphasis on the Dems fairer tax agenda.Social Security can be saved, defense can be adequately funded, new and old programs can be financed, and the national debt can be reduced as well as serviced by simple application of tax equality principles. But again, we have to get rid of the hypocrisy from both the right and the left that whatever is the urgent budget needs of the moment deserves deficit financing that we really can't afford, and (from the right) that taxation is a perennial target for reduction, regardless of budget needs.
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"content": "Seemingly always missing from the debate about budget deficits and the national debt is the roughly $500 billion the US gov't pays for interest on its debts every year. How can this expense ever be justified? Whenever the extreme left and extreme right get a grip on deficit spending, collectively Americans will realize that we can finance whatever we can agree upon as a federal budget (assuming such consensus is possible) with an emphasis on the Dems fairer tax agenda.Social Security can be saved, defense can be adequately funded, new and old programs can be financed, and the national debt can be reduced as well as serviced by simple application of tax equality principles. But again, we have to get rid of the hypocrisy from both the right and the left that whatever is the urgent budget needs of the moment deserves deficit financing that we really can't afford, and (from the right) that taxation is a perennial target for reduction, regardless of budget needs.\n",
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Salim Durrani The investor class loves it. Unlimited taxpayer dollars flowing to defense corporations. More lucrative and safer than crypto.I would like to think McCarthy could put the brakes on some of this nonsense, but I have my doubts.
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"content": "Salim Durrani The investor class loves it. Unlimited taxpayer dollars flowing to defense corporations. More lucrative and safer than crypto.I would like to think McCarthy could put the brakes on some of this nonsense, but I have my doubts.\n",
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"...the scene in the film “Jurassic Park” when the velociraptors learned to open doors."Excellent analogy. I'm saving this.
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Not a good choice amongst any of them. That said, McDaniel spent some $75k on makeup and spa treatments during her resign. If you feel you can write off that much in party funds to make you look presentable and unstressed, perhaps you should find another line of work.
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