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The Sacklers got rich selling opioids. I still wonder why the flooding the country with opioids was overlooked and allowed by the politicians and law for so long? The Sacklers gave up 6 billion in exchange for immunity against anymore suits. In other words, 6 billion was the cost of doing business while pushing opioids made them richer for it. Crime pays!
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"content": "The Sacklers got rich selling opioids. I still wonder why the flooding the country with opioids was overlooked and allowed by the politicians and law for so long? The Sacklers gave up 6 billion in exchange for immunity against anymore suits. In other words, 6 billion was the cost of doing business while pushing opioids made them richer for it. Crime pays!\n",
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| no | Classification | 279 |
While both have dramatically reduced the $$ they will pay for a trade, they have only minimally reduced prices on what they are trying to sell. Their problems are growing each day.
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"content": "While both have dramatically reduced the $$ they will pay for a trade, they have only minimally reduced prices on what they are trying to sell. Their problems are growing each day.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,350 |
ansuwanee They certainly do do a lot for society but prefer to keep in quiet, it only gets reported when someone from the relevant group being visited leaks it to the press.The Duchy of Cornwall raises over 100 million UK pounds for charity each year.King Charles’s ideas were fundamental to the creation of a 540-acre town & residential development in southwestern England that was started in 2013 & will eventually house 4,000 people. It was built according to his housing philosophies, which emphasize sustainability and walkability""Charles was an early advocate for organic farming & many credit him with helping it take off in Britain. In 1990, he launched Duchy Originals, a line of food and drinks, which he grew into the UK’s top organic food brand. Charles’s very vocal support of organic farming angered many early on, but it has proven to be one of his greatest successes."
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"content": "ansuwanee They certainly do do a lot for society but prefer to keep in quiet, it only gets reported when someone from the relevant group being visited leaks it to the press.The Duchy of Cornwall raises over 100 million UK pounds for charity each year.King Charles’s ideas were fundamental to the creation of a 540-acre town & residential development in southwestern England that was started in 2013 & will eventually house 4,000 people. It was built according to his housing philosophies, which emphasize sustainability and walkability\"\"Charles was an early advocate for organic farming & many credit him with helping it take off in Britain. In 1990, he launched Duchy Originals, a line of food and drinks, which he grew into the UK’s top organic food brand. Charles’s very vocal support of organic farming angered many early on, but it has proven to be one of his greatest successes.\"\n",
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Pat They legally don't take half of millionaire's money because top rate well south of 50% and capital gains rates far lower. And with your state voting to cut the IRS budget the rich cheats will pay even less. Warren Buffett admits he has always legally paid far less % than his secretary. Pat you must be in the secretary class rather than the big investor class. Otherwise you would know that the gap between rich and poor is growing fast. So stop voting for tax breaks for the rich. OK to keep taxes low for the middle class but the rich making more than $1 million a year do not deserve the reagan, bush and trump tax cuts. Period.
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"content": "Pat They legally don't take half of millionaire's money because top rate well south of 50% and capital gains rates far lower. And with your state voting to cut the IRS budget the rich cheats will pay even less. Warren Buffett admits he has always legally paid far less % than his secretary. Pat you must be in the secretary class rather than the big investor class. Otherwise you would know that the gap between rich and poor is growing fast. So stop voting for tax breaks for the rich. OK to keep taxes low for the middle class but the rich making more than $1 million a year do not deserve the reagan, bush and trump tax cuts. Period.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,603 |
The wealthy transplants who have turned Montana into the second-fastest-growing state in the nation contribute to its hard-right turn (all that dark corporate money spent on campaigns) but not to its budget. Montana receives $1.47 in federal funding for every dollar it sends to Washington, much of it for Medicaid and Social Security.
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"content": "The wealthy transplants who have turned Montana into the second-fastest-growing state in the nation contribute to its hard-right turn (all that dark corporate money spent on campaigns) but not to its budget. Montana receives $1.47 in federal funding for every dollar it sends to Washington, much of it for Medicaid and Social Security.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,028 |
Nina McB I've had foie gras in many of Portland's fun eating spots, Central Provisions comes to mind. Foie Gras Torchon? $20. You wanna talk about elite economic status projection? The food tourists from Boston and NYC who roll up in their Canada Goose Down winter jackets. How many of these folks would buy that jacket without "the patch" on the shoulder? It is FAR from non-zero.
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"content": "Nina McB I've had foie gras in many of Portland's fun eating spots, Central Provisions comes to mind. Foie Gras Torchon? $20. You wanna talk about elite economic status projection? The food tourists from Boston and NYC who roll up in their Canada Goose Down winter jackets. How many of these folks would buy that jacket without \"the patch\" on the shoulder? It is FAR from non-zero.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,473 |
The traitors who seek to damage our democratic institutions and oppress marginalized people have a strong ally in Santos— a man who will say anything or do anything for money and recognition. I will continue to vote straight democratic as long as these clowns are in office. We can only beat them at the ballot box. 2018,2020,2022: rebuke them again in 2024. There are good, competent GOP leaders like Hogan from Maryland, but they are shouted down by a rabble of miscreants and a house speaker who sold out to those loonies for the gavel of fame. It is disgusting. Where is our beneficent, aspirational America?Maybe it went down the Twitter gossip, rabbit hole with too much of our society.
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"content": "The traitors who seek to damage our democratic institutions and oppress marginalized people have a strong ally in Santos— a man who will say anything or do anything for money and recognition. I will continue to vote straight democratic as long as these clowns are in office. We can only beat them at the ballot box. 2018,2020,2022: rebuke them again in 2024. There are good, competent GOP leaders like Hogan from Maryland, but they are shouted down by a rabble of miscreants and a house speaker who sold out to those loonies for the gavel of fame. It is disgusting. Where is our beneficent, aspirational America?Maybe it went down the Twitter gossip, rabbit hole with too much of our society.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,763 |
Louche Bear If you don't stop Putin in Ukraine, Xi going after Taiwan is next... and then all bets are off. A few 'pennies on the dollar' now to the Ukrainians, is the best return on investment in the history of american military expenditure/security/deterrence.
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"content": "Louche Bear If you don't stop Putin in Ukraine, Xi going after Taiwan is next... and then all bets are off. A few 'pennies on the dollar' now to the Ukrainians, is the best return on investment in the history of american military expenditure/security/deterrence.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,108 |
Gamecocks Aren't all student loan payments and interest on them paused now pending litigation over outright cancellation and havent they been paused since the beginning of the pandemic? Try "Googling" it. Alphabet could use the money, apparently. Click on an ad or two. Maybe you will help save a job of a highly-paid tech worker who perhaps soon will be told she need not pay back any or all of that $80K or so she borrowed in order to get the degree in order to get the job that pays $80-100K or more right out of college.
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Thank you, Ms. Renkl. I love how you describe grieving as open-ended and unpredictable. My parents are deceased, and I found my birth mother and other related-by-blood people in my late 50's. When I dream, it's about the aunts, uncles and the parents I always knew to be my parents. Sometimes they are clear as day, and I wake up with a few tears when I realize they are not physically here. Then I smile because I experienced the gift of a brief return. I talk to my dad--out loud and alone--when something happens that he would have commented on. My two dogs do not think it is odd at all.
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"content": "Thank you, Ms. Renkl. I love how you describe grieving as open-ended and unpredictable. My parents are deceased, and I found my birth mother and other related-by-blood people in my late 50's. When I dream, it's about the aunts, uncles and the parents I always knew to be my parents. Sometimes they are clear as day, and I wake up with a few tears when I realize they are not physically here. Then I smile because I experienced the gift of a brief return. I talk to my dad--out loud and alone--when something happens that he would have commented on. My two dogs do not think it is odd at all.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,068 |
In the end, Sam Bankman-Fried may end up swindling the public LESS than the other Crypto Bros, and what is a meager $250 million bond to someone who swindled the public out off $12 billion?
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| yes | Classification | 8,796 |
Kick the problem down the road. Keep expanding the Chinese population, maybe to 3 billion. What do you do then? Keep going to six billion? But since stoppong population increase is a terrible thing, twelve or twenty four billion is the only solution. Is it going to be easier stopping population increase when 24 billion people are crowded into China?
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"content": "Kick the problem down the road. Keep expanding the Chinese population, maybe to 3 billion. What do you do then? Keep going to six billion? But since stoppong population increase is a terrible thing, twelve or twenty four billion is the only solution. Is it going to be easier stopping population increase when 24 billion people are crowded into China?\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,183 |
Is the author a shareholder in the Howard Hughes Corporation? We would LOVE 100% affordable housing, but that’s not what Howard Hughes is proposing. Just as we are advocating that 5 World Trade Center should be 100% affordable housing, let’s turn this lot into a 100% affordable-housing complex too. This op-ed is disingenuous, because if you build 270 luxury housing units and 70 affordable units, then you’re skewing the demographics even more in favor of high-income, mostly-white people who treat housing as a real-estate investment, not as a home. As we’re seeing on the Lower East Side, luxury mega towers just cause rents to go up and real-estate speculation to increase, displacing the actual working-class people who’ve long lived in the neighborhood. Have you seen the Extel Tower at night? 90% of the apartments are dark, because their owners don’t live here, for them it’s just a speculative commodity investment. The City should take this land via eminent domain for pennies on the dollar, and turn it into 100% affordable housing. There are lots of existing models like Mitchell-Lama or NYCHA, or the City could convert it to a community-land trust. We need to stop letting developers treat our city and this land like a slot machine, and instead we need to build housing for the working people who make New York run.
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"content": "Is the author a shareholder in the Howard Hughes Corporation? We would LOVE 100% affordable housing, but that’s not what Howard Hughes is proposing. Just as we are advocating that 5 World Trade Center should be 100% affordable housing, let’s turn this lot into a 100% affordable-housing complex too. This op-ed is disingenuous, because if you build 270 luxury housing units and 70 affordable units, then you’re skewing the demographics even more in favor of high-income, mostly-white people who treat housing as a real-estate investment, not as a home. As we’re seeing on the Lower East Side, luxury mega towers just cause rents to go up and real-estate speculation to increase, displacing the actual working-class people who’ve long lived in the neighborhood. Have you seen the Extel Tower at night? 90% of the apartments are dark, because their owners don’t live here, for them it’s just a speculative commodity investment. The City should take this land via eminent domain for pennies on the dollar, and turn it into 100% affordable housing. There are lots of existing models like Mitchell-Lama or NYCHA, or the City could convert it to a community-land trust. We need to stop letting developers treat our city and this land like a slot machine, and instead we need to build housing for the working people who make New York run.\n",
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GMooG People like you would call a monopoly or a price-fixing cartel a free market. “Oh well you can buy a potato for $20 or starve, it’s your free choice…”
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| yes | Classification | 9,530 |
Wall Street investment banks have been gaming markets for decades and making sure that the SEC is deliberately underfunded.
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| yes | Classification | 6,465 |
A door has been opened in my mind to a reality based possibility I had not previously imagined. (Would ChatGPT have imagined it? Probably so. A lot of science fiction authors have.)I’m convinced that H. sapiens is on the brink of extinction and will soon fall into the abyss. But I’m an old guy and I’ve learned how to avoid being depressed about it. I previously thought that the only trace we would leave in the universe would be the concrete and steel cocoon we have built for ourselves. But ChatGPT and/or it’s descendants, not having the same biological weaknesses, could survive the coming catastrophe. Now I wonder … Will it remember us? Or even care?
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Jane I'm sure the oil companies are a bit worried but the auto companies are investing in EVs with gusto. Some of the automakers have announced a complete changeover to EVs by the middle of this century. Both Ford and GM have pledged to sell only zero emission vehicles by 2035.The media has no incentive to be against anything as long as the ad revenue keeps rolling in. An ad for a gas powered car and an ad for an EV both generate the same kind of revenue for them.I don't understand how you came to the conclusion that automakers and the media are in any way against EVs.
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"content": "Jane I'm sure the oil companies are a bit worried but the auto companies are investing in EVs with gusto. Some of the automakers have announced a complete changeover to EVs by the middle of this century. Both Ford and GM have pledged to sell only zero emission vehicles by 2035.The media has no incentive to be against anything as long as the ad revenue keeps rolling in. An ad for a gas powered car and an ad for an EV both generate the same kind of revenue for them.I don't understand how you came to the conclusion that automakers and the media are in any way against EVs.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,292 |
It struck me that certain foreign interests would gladly pay $750,000 to have a mole inside Congress. We should certainly investigate where Santos got $750,000 to run for Congress.
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Time to start calling him and for him to call himself Henry Windsor or Henry Markle or whatever other name he wants that doesn't have Prince or Duke or Sussex in it. There is reason to have some sympathy for Ms. Markle, though what alternate universe she thought she was inhabiting where there were no vicious tabloids in the UK, nor unsympathetic people in an extended family, I can't imagine. Why would she care if she is respected by those she doesn't respect as long as she was part of The Firm, a position which comes with many advantages? However, if you want out, you should be able to get out. Several women who married into the Imperial Family in Japan have suffered dearly for decades. Why anyone would marry into a family completely controlled by an arm of the government that is ossified, I can't imagine. But fine. If Henry Windsor and Meghan wanted out, then get out. But get out like Mako and Kei Komuro. Completely. What Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex apparently still wants is to be able to keep the fame and the fortune which goes with fame, which he would lose if he became good ol' Henry Windsor, selling split-level homes in the San Fernando Valley or whatever. Exactly what sort of lifestyle would he and his wife and their children have if he were to become a nobody special? She has not proved herself to be that great of an actress, though maybe she could be, who knows unless and until she tries. He hasn't proved he can do anything but shoot Afghans, party and complain.
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"content": "Time to start calling him and for him to call himself Henry Windsor or Henry Markle or whatever other name he wants that doesn't have Prince or Duke or Sussex in it. There is reason to have some sympathy for Ms. Markle, though what alternate universe she thought she was inhabiting where there were no vicious tabloids in the UK, nor unsympathetic people in an extended family, I can't imagine. Why would she care if she is respected by those she doesn't respect as long as she was part of The Firm, a position which comes with many advantages? However, if you want out, you should be able to get out. Several women who married into the Imperial Family in Japan have suffered dearly for decades. Why anyone would marry into a family completely controlled by an arm of the government that is ossified, I can't imagine. But fine. If Henry Windsor and Meghan wanted out, then get out. But get out like Mako and Kei Komuro. Completely. What Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex apparently still wants is to be able to keep the fame and the fortune which goes with fame, which he would lose if he became good ol' Henry Windsor, selling split-level homes in the San Fernando Valley or whatever. Exactly what sort of lifestyle would he and his wife and their children have if he were to become a nobody special? She has not proved herself to be that great of an actress, though maybe she could be, who knows unless and until she tries. He hasn't proved he can do anything but shoot Afghans, party and complain.\n",
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Why on earth would one write an article like this and not mention the money behind efforts to expand highways? Big money is to be made by the many firms involved, from the highway construction engineering firms to the auto and oil industries. Of course widening--and encouraging yet more driving--doesn't make sense. We know this. Yet when did we build things based on what is smart vs. what makes big companies more money? So much driving itself is counterproductive, except for those making money from it. One can be far more productive in, say, a train on the way to work than in a car, catching up on news and podcast episodes notwithstanding. Driving = unpaid work. Cities are designed for rich people to make more money, not for people and society; widening is merely part of that effort.
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"content": "Why on earth would one write an article like this and not mention the money behind efforts to expand highways? Big money is to be made by the many firms involved, from the highway construction engineering firms to the auto and oil industries. Of course widening--and encouraging yet more driving--doesn't make sense. We know this. Yet when did we build things based on what is smart vs. what makes big companies more money? So much driving itself is counterproductive, except for those making money from it. One can be far more productive in, say, a train on the way to work than in a car, catching up on news and podcast episodes notwithstanding. Driving = unpaid work. Cities are designed for rich people to make more money, not for people and society; widening is merely part of that effort.\n",
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Tracy When Republicans voted for their Trillion Plus tax break legislation, the Central Budget Office said it was not sustainable.That didn't stop them - and they now have the audacity to complain about the national debt, that they have contributed to over a number of administrations. $7 Trillion under trump, including the Payroll Protection Plan, that many benefited from - to the tune of Millions for some (Kushner's family, McConnell's family, etc.). No wonder the GOP wanted no oversight over the money. Investigate that!!
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"content": "Tracy When Republicans voted for their Trillion Plus tax break legislation, the Central Budget Office said it was not sustainable.That didn't stop them - and they now have the audacity to complain about the national debt, that they have contributed to over a number of administrations. $7 Trillion under trump, including the Payroll Protection Plan, that many benefited from - to the tune of Millions for some (Kushner's family, McConnell's family, etc.). No wonder the GOP wanted no oversight over the money. Investigate that!!\n",
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Given that his campaign was funded in large part by "ideological/single-issue" supporters, according to Open Secrets, I would imagine he's there to blow things up.
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It is only logical that someone who is very young would not have necessarily experienced a job layoff. My only advice is that there is no such thing as a secure company and no one or no sector is recession proof. Capitalism at least in the US is about next quarters or six months profits. Employees are not assets they are regarded as a necessary evil. So no matter how qualified you are, dedicated you are to your job in today's environment you are subject to being terminated. Share price and investor returns take precedence over employees even valuable ones. None of us are indispensable.
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Given what follows, Mr Douthat's opening line of his column would be more accurate if he'd written "There are 3 kinds of people in the world; those who can count, and those who can't."Anyone who has followed his pro-birth columns over the years knows this is a topic he returns to regularly not in order to examine his position, but to use it as an inarguable point in support of everyone, everywhere having more children. It's a blanket prescription for saving the future of the world, without nuance, without anything more than a basic head count: How many old people vs. how many young people.The real problem, though, is not getting past Mr Douthat's thinly veiled catholic solutions, it's reading those solutions more accurately than the simplicity he applies.Rule No.1: Redistribution of riches from old to young. In other words, shoving old people out into the ocean on ice floes. Or should we just trust that a TikTok obsessed younger generation will care for us if we just give them the money?Rule No. 2: Youth drives innovation. Ah, yes, the "old and in the way" argument for the free market. Crypto, anyone? Unbridled youthful innovation at its finest.Rule No. 3: Ground warfare. Really? This is what's important, making sure we have enough young people to die in ground wars?Rule No. 4: Youthful vitality. Agreed. Let's get that mandatory public service program for 18 year olds up and running ASAP.Rule No. 5: The Africans Are Coming! This one speaks for itself.
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"content": "Given what follows, Mr Douthat's opening line of his column would be more accurate if he'd written \"There are 3 kinds of people in the world; those who can count, and those who can't.\"Anyone who has followed his pro-birth columns over the years knows this is a topic he returns to regularly not in order to examine his position, but to use it as an inarguable point in support of everyone, everywhere having more children. It's a blanket prescription for saving the future of the world, without nuance, without anything more than a basic head count: How many old people vs. how many young people.The real problem, though, is not getting past Mr Douthat's thinly veiled catholic solutions, it's reading those solutions more accurately than the simplicity he applies.Rule No.1: Redistribution of riches from old to young. In other words, shoving old people out into the ocean on ice floes. Or should we just trust that a TikTok obsessed younger generation will care for us if we just give them the money?Rule No. 2: Youth drives innovation. Ah, yes, the \"old and in the way\" argument for the free market. Crypto, anyone? Unbridled youthful innovation at its finest.Rule No. 3: Ground warfare. Really? This is what's important, making sure we have enough young people to die in ground wars?Rule No. 4: Youthful vitality. Agreed. Let's get that mandatory public service program for 18 year olds up and running ASAP.Rule No. 5: The Africans Are Coming! This one speaks for itself.\n",
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A one-bedroom at $3500 would "only" be $42,000 a year. An ok studio at 1800, $21,600, so ... But still, that's a lot for less than $50,000 a year.
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The US spends 2X on health care per capita to what the average European country spends per capita for the same or better level of care.We spend approx. 20% of GDP on Healthcare or about $2 trillion dollars a year.Assuming that it's possible to emulate the European spend on health care, that means we are being robbed of $2 trillion dollars a year due to inefficiency and/or profiteering.There's a reason health care interests will spend millions to lobby against single payer / universal health care.The reason is $2 trillion dollars of our money.
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Perhaps the worst thing about all of this shameful handwringing is that we are speculating on incomplete evidence. The Republicans shamelessly understand that our media sphere has no self discipline and just jumps from one partial morsel to the next creating an overblown whiff of scandal. Constant refrains of "What about? What about? What about?" from news standard bearers get us further from the truth and deep in the bowels of destructive mythology. The uniqueness of Trump is that he continues to commit his crimes and misdeeds out in the open while those who should be holding him accountable are more concerned with the false application of "fairness" than justice. Trying to avoid perceptions of political bias is a fools errand and keeps us from holding people to account. Complete the investigation and give us the results. Meanwhile, understand that if it weren't for Biden's willingness to delve into the din of Washington politics, the Republicans would hold the House and the Senate right now with a great deal of suffering ahead.
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Look at All the Nope The Last of Us is still a lot more immersive than I think you give it credit for. And I think it’s the experience of the characters with the environment that helps people become engrossed with the characters.There are tons of Easter Eggs, secret locations, and other things for players to discover in the game. And that’s really what I am getting at. The game is immersive. It doesn’t have to be open world to be immersive.Games can be completely closed shoot-em-up arena combat like Doom Eternal and still be really immersive.I am just saying there’s a difference between watching an environment, and being *in* the environment. Totally different experience.I am not saying you can’t annoy the TV show. Just saying it’s different. To put it another way: you can like pizza, and you can also like miso soup. Liking one doesn’t mean you have to hate the other. But a miso-soup pizza probably isn’t going to be good.
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Burning through $1.7 each month. How much longer will Republican donors be willing to throw their money down this black hole? Once the money runs out, Truth Social will go the way of Trump Shuttle.
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In the 1970s there were few individual homes in Montecito since it was mostly very big estates, avocado groves, and open space. There were homes close to the beach but it wasn't until the late 80s that homes were built in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mts in number there in numbers.People couldn't get permits to build previously because there wasn't enough water, then some started allowing building and hook ups to existing water lines. But the big projects started after a pipeline bringing in Delta water was built. It was a huge mistake driven by greed. Money bought the politicians to pass it and the stage was set. It was inevitable that this would happen.Some 20 years or so ago I watched from the Harbor as 300 multimillion dollar homes went up in smoke. There were reasons like wildfires and mudslides to not build but newcomers didn't know: the Santa Ynez Mts are rising faster than any other in the country. Lots of erosion since the mountains are sandstone and conglomerate. And chaparral burns nearly every 20 years. At least three people died.Those homes, and in places like Malibu, get built out of a desire to cash in on real estate but the land doesn't want them. It'll slough them off like fleas. Later, after the fire was over, I overheard one of the people walking to their slip in the Harbor out near the end where the expensive slips are located say "we got bad press again" over the fires. The people and homes weren't important.
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The $10-20M insurance payout sounds like an extremely good reason not to come back. He's already too old to be seriously good, and has serious physical issues to overcome. If you subtract expenses, my guess is that the insurance payout is not far behind his expected payout of playing, and it comes without risk. He knows how well he can play now, and has probably decided it's not worth the risk.
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Going up: the trick while getting an MRI is to keep your eyes closed, or look down at your feet so you can see the opening. Barney Greengrass: I would have told the cranky complainer what to do, and it wouldn't be what dessert to order. Restaurants are noisy places. But the $100 was a nice gesture. Maybe we all should talk loud in restaurants if it could mean picking up an extra $100 now and then.
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Didn't you hear? They just voted themselves a $34,000 raise.
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A Blinkin is that 999 million Zimbabwe dollars (2.7M USD)?
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Steve The Constitution cannot feasibly contain a laundry list of absolutely all situational "rights" that may take place as the Founders recognized. That is why it opens with the statement that it has the general goal of ensuring "the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves..." The original Constitution then reemphasizes this at its conclusion (Bill of Rights) by stating that people have inherent broad individual rights even if not directly cited in the text. The Constitution also specifically recognizes the validity of Common Law [e.g., see the Bill of Rights]. Furthermore, the Constitution most obviously does not include embryos, etc. as "Persons." Only Persons [actual people] and the Press are granted rights under the Constitution.Abortion in pre- and post-Colonial America was legal up to the date of "quickening" [fetal movement] based on Common Law.Under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses, the government cannot strip rights from Persons and give them to "non-persons" absent a legitimate public policy interest. The religious supposition that "life" [whatever that means] begins at conception does not qualify.
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"content": "Steve The Constitution cannot feasibly contain a laundry list of absolutely all situational \"rights\" that may take place as the Founders recognized. That is why it opens with the statement that it has the general goal of ensuring \"the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves...\" The original Constitution then reemphasizes this at its conclusion (Bill of Rights) by stating that people have inherent broad individual rights even if not directly cited in the text. The Constitution also specifically recognizes the validity of Common Law [e.g., see the Bill of Rights]. Furthermore, the Constitution most obviously does not include embryos, etc. as \"Persons.\" Only Persons [actual people] and the Press are granted rights under the Constitution.Abortion in pre- and post-Colonial America was legal up to the date of \"quickening\" [fetal movement] based on Common Law.Under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses, the government cannot strip rights from Persons and give them to \"non-persons\" absent a legitimate public policy interest. The religious supposition that \"life\" [whatever that means] begins at conception does not qualify.\n",
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So interesting when the younger generation realizes that production of anything is work.. and requires such an old fashioned word "drudgery." And the self-congratulatory young and the self- absorbed - did she ever make art for which she was not paid while working a 9-5 job to make money to support herself while she made her art?? -- was forbidden to laugh.But who cares about assembly line workers or the people in China who make gorgeous stuff often with inferior material but impeccable craftsmanship... so the billionaires and the investors can Make money using money.Most sentient people appreciate the effort and if they pay for it.. well either they appreciate it or they simply do what is treandy -- hence the art market.All that bothers me is that the Billionaires and their ilk do NOT pay their fair share of taxes.. and this is the perfect example of s itme on which the FEDS should charge the 10% luxury tax --wake up Jerome Powell, Paul Krugman etc. put the luxury tax BACK. now. Anyone who cooks elaborate ddishes makes Seitan, beef Wellington or apple strudel pulling her own strudel dough knows.. It's work..and it's esp. satistying in the case of baking or cooking when the aromas fill the air.Do the children know that before were Meissen Porcelain figurines there was a sugar service with various items made from fondant.. and that sugar can be blown like class.Art is work..Cooking is art.. and BTW there's also clean up!!
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bbj I wish I could recommend this comment 1000 times!Remember: the last election cycle, the Republicans spent more than 60 million dollars to tell Americans who to hate, and Mr. de Santis was at the vanguard. All that so that once they attain political office, they can busy themselves in the pursuit of their most unpalatable economic agenda. Mr. Bouie's column today exposes that in sharp relief. bbj uncovers the other aspect of their strategy: churn up the muddy waters with all kinds of anti-science, scapegoating and patently absurd nonsense. All to the aim of causing others to expend so much energy addressing it, that, by the time the truth is exposed, it is already too late; the damage is done.Mr. de Santis' game needs to be fully exposed for the fraud it is.
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It would have been better to post the rules for getting a building named after you at Delta State. My bet it is money. Money either donated or brought in by the person. It is a rare college/university that names buildings after important people who did not buy the rights. Duffy Daugherty is about the only one that comes to mind. He played a sizable role in integrating college football so he has a smallish practice building named after him. Ervin Johnson has a statue. The inventors of a major cancer drug that changed cancer treatment and prolonged millions of lives have a bronze plaque in a dusty corner. But major corporations have buildings because they bought the rights.Does Ms Harris deserve to be honored? Absolutely. And if money is the reason why she is not being honored, then find out the amount needed and let's make this happen. I don't have much, but I'm willing to chip in what I can.
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"content": "It would have been better to post the rules for getting a building named after you at Delta State. My bet it is money. Money either donated or brought in by the person. It is a rare college/university that names buildings after important people who did not buy the rights. Duffy Daugherty is about the only one that comes to mind. He played a sizable role in integrating college football so he has a smallish practice building named after him. Ervin Johnson has a statue. The inventors of a major cancer drug that changed cancer treatment and prolonged millions of lives have a bronze plaque in a dusty corner. But major corporations have buildings because they bought the rights.Does Ms Harris deserve to be honored? Absolutely. And if money is the reason why she is not being honored, then find out the amount needed and let's make this happen. I don't have much, but I'm willing to chip in what I can.\n",
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"Privileged sport"... Have you ever heard of "golf" or "hockey?"Tennis is practically free by comparison. Unlike golf it doesn't cost at least $50 to $250 each time you play, nor does it cost $250K to join a country club.And unlike hockey your sporting life doesn't end if you don't get a D1 offer. Nor are you getting hit at 40mph on the ice.And unlike gymnastics (and figure skating) we don't hear story after story about the sexual abuse of young girls - who are forced to forego puberty in order to compete.At the highest levels all sports are incredibly demanding. But as a parent of 4 and a hockey dad to my GF's 15 year old I think tennis is one of the best possible sports for kids.Having the right parents helps ensure success? Oh dear. Alert the media. Wait a sec. This is the media.
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"content": "\"Privileged sport\"... Have you ever heard of \"golf\" or \"hockey?\"Tennis is practically free by comparison. Unlike golf it doesn't cost at least $50 to $250 each time you play, nor does it cost $250K to join a country club.And unlike hockey your sporting life doesn't end if you don't get a D1 offer. Nor are you getting hit at 40mph on the ice.And unlike gymnastics (and figure skating) we don't hear story after story about the sexual abuse of young girls - who are forced to forego puberty in order to compete.At the highest levels all sports are incredibly demanding. But as a parent of 4 and a hockey dad to my GF's 15 year old I think tennis is one of the best possible sports for kids.Having the right parents helps ensure success? Oh dear. Alert the media. Wait a sec. This is the media.\n",
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Every answer right on today! Neurosurgeon, freeze those eggs to take the heat off yourself and the men in your life. Give yourself a chance to appraise any man you date as a lover-partner-mate, rather than a sperm donor. A plus here is that you won't send Mr. Right running for the hills.Concert ticket provider, give your friend a chance to make good in the event that she's going through financial difficulties and is too embarrassed/ashamed to tell you. Tell her you need your money back but, if she's having difficulties, what would be comfortable payback agreeable for her? $100, $50 per month? This allows you to either forge a closer friendship, or let go one that isn't worth it.
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Trevor B, compensation may not be the most relevant factor here so I disagree. In this case, an individual may be using his employee position, as well as access to data, to steer patients to a different practice, thus diminishing the investments and value of the current practice.
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My first class in Fall 1971 at UC Berkeley, was in ecology, and was taught by Professor Arnold Schulz. He had coined the term ecosystemology, and was noted for applying systemic analysis to ecology problems. The textbook? "Ecoscience by Paul & Anne Erlich, and John Holdren, who would later be Obama's science advisor for 8 years. It had a very thorough overview of changes in troposphere because of increasing concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere. This is 51 years ago. The AGU for the ENTIRE 51 years has been strangely quiet and in the background, rather than in the forefront of raising the alarm. Likely because a lot of money for the AGU has come from fossil fuel companies. As late as 2016 the AGU was accepting significant contributions from companies such as Exxon/Mobil (see "Exxon’s Donations and Ties to American Geophysical Union Are Larger and Deeper Than Previously Recognized " By Phil McKenna, Zahra Hirji and Lisa SongMay 26, 2016) The price of private industry induced inaction is before us. Even if we stop increasing CO2 this day, it takes 10 years for new equilibriums of CO2 /warmiing induced extreme weather to sort itself out.
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Real story:Who has $25,000 in couch change and so indifferent to the risk of giving it over to an appeal over email?You?
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Catz If the landlord couple can forego $72K per year in rent without it denting their budget they presumably will not be relying on the teens to care for them.
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"content": "Catz If the landlord couple can forego $72K per year in rent without it denting their budget they presumably will not be relying on the teens to care for them.\n",
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Jaco Two myths about Republicans:1. They want small government2. They are fiscally responsible"The national debt rose by almost $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office." Covid was not to blame, welfare for the rich contributed to it."Trump departed the White House with the largest peacetime budget deficit in American history, and a national debt exceeding 100 percent of the economy for the first time since World War II.""The three largest U.S. trade deficits in history were on Trump's watch." Source: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2021/01/14/trumps-trade-deficit-legacy-three-largest-in-history-in-four-years/?sh=7bb350aa5ba0" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2021/01/14/trumps-trade-deficit-legacy-three-largest-in-history-in-four-years/?sh=7bb350aa5ba0</a>
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todd This fraud has gone down like (almost) every financial fraud before it, since the beginning of time. It begins with a blind belief in the enduring value of a new class of financial assets, a subsequent collapse in the value of those assets, often due to a change in broader economic conditions, and the misuse of funds in an effort to hang on until "things return to normal."There is a reason that the SEC and securities regulation exist, and a reason that crypto-zealots have fought to exclude their miraculous new asset class from these regulations. The blockchain enables decentralized encryption, plain and simple, not unicorn fairy tales.Mr. Ray unwound Enron. I doubt that he is in over his head in a "new world" of non-paper ledgers (which haven't existing for many decades). It is exactly this type of magical thinking that caused otherwise sane people to deliver their hard earned cash to a Bahamas-based charlatan sitting on $300mn of local real estate and refashioned as genius who doesn't have the time for little things like getting dressed properly.
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"content": "todd This fraud has gone down like (almost) every financial fraud before it, since the beginning of time. It begins with a blind belief in the enduring value of a new class of financial assets, a subsequent collapse in the value of those assets, often due to a change in broader economic conditions, and the misuse of funds in an effort to hang on until \"things return to normal.\"There is a reason that the SEC and securities regulation exist, and a reason that crypto-zealots have fought to exclude their miraculous new asset class from these regulations. The blockchain enables decentralized encryption, plain and simple, not unicorn fairy tales.Mr. Ray unwound Enron. I doubt that he is in over his head in a \"new world\" of non-paper ledgers (which haven't existing for many decades). It is exactly this type of magical thinking that caused otherwise sane people to deliver their hard earned cash to a Bahamas-based charlatan sitting on $300mn of local real estate and refashioned as genius who doesn't have the time for little things like getting dressed properly.\n",
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Does the working class really exist any longer.. as a class that political parties, Democrat, Republican and "other" that can be appealed to politicly? The impression one gets watching the news on television or reading newspapers is that cultural class has become the dominant target of political parties and the demographics of cultural affiliation has shaped the discourse by providing vocabularies and issues of interest. Cultural affinities helps explain why Trump remains popular and why even the Roe vs. Wade decision did not open the door to a Democrat majority in the congress. Working class people were once defined as people who identified with the problems of daily survival..unemployment, health care , food and shelter costs costs. Cultural affinities are more non-existential , intellectual , aspirational and appeal to the educated but tend to be dominated by the trust fund class...and this is the rub...it creates a space for dissent as to what is desirable, aspirational, traditional and a function of government. Today cultural identification exploitation is used by both Democrats and Republicans , this is unfortunate as issues such as climate and universal health care are not about culture but suffer as cultural issues dominate political debates instead of reality issues.
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Nan from CT I bet that I could make $60 mil last more than a decade.
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Ann Onymous. I am sorry for your loss. Truly.But this is an issue worthy of public discussion as well as private. Comments you disagree with are simply that. I have direct experience with Trans friends who welcome debate on matters involving children and their rights, and their parents input in these weighty issues.It can be a painful conversation, of course. But when the conversation extends to schools and the privacy of minors...well we're in territory of custodial responsibility, aren't we? The decisions made may be life changing, right? Can an 8-year old make that? A 13- year old?These are minors and it's an unbearable strain to put the entire responsibility for sharing on the school, but yet there it is. How it's shared is important.
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China’s Via Technologies recruited chinese high school students and pointed them to Stanford and Berkeley electrical engineering. Then VT steered them to work by day for Intel. By night, they sent secrets to back to China. This 10 year plan was exposed when Intel sued. Chinese use your openness — as their weapon. Trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions with your money do you think China will let its investment sit idle?
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"content": "China’s Via Technologies recruited chinese high school students and pointed them to Stanford and Berkeley electrical engineering. Then VT steered them to work by day for Intel. By night, they sent secrets to back to China. This 10 year plan was exposed when Intel sued. Chinese use your openness — as their weapon. Trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions with your money do you think China will let its investment sit idle?\n",
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"In the 40-page complaint, the commission said Alameda had borrowed as much as $10 billion from various digital lenders against FTT and other holdings.""The coin’s price skyrocketed to nearly $80 in late 2021, about 40 times what it was worth two years earlier."In other words, "crypto" currency has relevance, and most importantly value, only to the degree that it can be translated into a currency that has an actual economic function -- allowing the holder to actually buy a real thing like a house or a sandwich. The actual value of "crypto" currency depends on how long people are obsessed enough with the idea that it has value to allow it to converted back to a currency with actual economic meaning. This can in theory be said of gold or a Rembrandt and because the obsession with both has been long standing and widely accepted, it allows them to be valued as a real asset for people who own them. Crypto didn't invent this game and arguably the art world depends on it. But at least with gold you can in theory hold it in your hand and with a Rembrandt you can hang it on your wall. Crypto currency is purely imaginary. As for celebrity promoters of crypto currency like Larry David, I am guessing they were paid in dollars. Just a hunch. Finally, I note that the old Night Court series was just rebooted. It seems like the proper venue for these crypto cases to be tried.
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"content": "\"In the 40-page complaint, the commission said Alameda had borrowed as much as $10 billion from various digital lenders against FTT and other holdings.\"\"The coin’s price skyrocketed to nearly $80 in late 2021, about 40 times what it was worth two years earlier.\"In other words, \"crypto\" currency has relevance, and most importantly value, only to the degree that it can be translated into a currency that has an actual economic function -- allowing the holder to actually buy a real thing like a house or a sandwich. The actual value of \"crypto\" currency depends on how long people are obsessed enough with the idea that it has value to allow it to converted back to a currency with actual economic meaning. This can in theory be said of gold or a Rembrandt and because the obsession with both has been long standing and widely accepted, it allows them to be valued as a real asset for people who own them. Crypto didn't invent this game and arguably the art world depends on it. But at least with gold you can in theory hold it in your hand and with a Rembrandt you can hang it on your wall. Crypto currency is purely imaginary. As for celebrity promoters of crypto currency like Larry David, I am guessing they were paid in dollars. Just a hunch. Finally, I note that the old Night Court series was just rebooted. It seems like the proper venue for these crypto cases to be tried.\n",
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Michael actually all relationships are transactional "of or relating to personal or social interaction characterized by mutual influence and exchange:" or their abusive. Even love regardless of type is a personal and / or social exchange. You assume, wrongly, that "transactional" is a pejorative, it isn't. Its essentially a value neutral word that reflects the context that its used in. The "uncles" wanted the experience of an extended family and used a place to live nearby to enable that experience.
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Correction here is long overdue, may even spur a new round of investment. Sorry to everyone who lost their jobs.
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Please. Stress. It’s high class stress. Tough especially when you make considerable more than $4,000,000 in base sales. Should we feel sorry for him. It’s laughable regardless of context. Next an article about the stress of owning and sailing a $250,000,000 mega yacht.
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To much focus on their EVs.The numbers indicate that it is their non-EV business that have caused the good result.One of them is selling "emission credits" to other car manufacturers due to EU "CO₂ emission performance standards for cars and vans".The penalty for exceeding the standard is rather high. "If the average CO2 emissions of a manufacturer's fleet exceed its specific emission target in a given year, the manufacturer has to pay – for each of its vehicles newly registered in that year – an excess emissions premium of €95 per g/km of target exceedance."
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"Bacot was openly driving an $80,000 Audi"Okay, how do you hide the fact that you are driving a car?
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RP Inflation - back down and falling.Afghanistan - Trump-negotiated commitment the Biden admin was obligated to keep.'refusal' to arm Ukraine - ignores the the Obama-era military advisors that were *in Ukraine* training their military since 2014!Open (southern) borders - ignores the similar numbers that existed during the previous administration...but without acknowledging the bipartisan plan sitting in Congress that Republicans refuse to allow a vote on. Why? Because the 'problem' is critical as an election issue! The last thing the GOP wants is to 'solve' the undocumented immigrant issue!ETC.
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"content": "RP Inflation - back down and falling.Afghanistan - Trump-negotiated commitment the Biden admin was obligated to keep.'refusal' to arm Ukraine - ignores the the Obama-era military advisors that were *in Ukraine* training their military since 2014!Open (southern) borders - ignores the similar numbers that existed during the previous administration...but without acknowledging the bipartisan plan sitting in Congress that Republicans refuse to allow a vote on. Why? Because the 'problem' is critical as an election issue! The last thing the GOP wants is to 'solve' the undocumented immigrant issue!ETC.\n",
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An early boomer, most of my career was spent working in a skilled construction trade. The work is cyclical in nature, roughly following the ups and downs of the economy in general. We have a rule of thumb, among the union's members: save 20% of each paycheck. That's not savings for big purchases or retirement, but rather to cover living expenses when the economy goes south, taking the jobs with it. I think it's a good rule for every career, since a capitalist economy places shareholder value above labor. Live below your means, and always keep a healthy cash reserve. Separate the needs from the wants, then don't buy the wants until your reserves are in place. You and your family will sleep better.
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I was introduced to death at a young age. I attended my first funeral at age 5 and attended funerals for three of my grandparents between the ages of 8-10. Attendance at these rituals was an almost normal experience. Everyone it seemed died or was on death's doorstep. I do not remember crying. Death took a break but returned in full force in the early 1990s with every great aunt and uncle and my favorite dog. After another break, death has returned never to leave - an unending parade in the past nine years - my parents, two uncles, an aunt, my in-laws, two brothers-in-law, two friends, a former lover, several work colleagues, and my favorite pet. While my father's death has receded into the past, I still remember the last time I saw him as Parkinson's ravaged his body, and I remember his last words to me. My mother's death is more recent and raw. Not a day goes by where I do not think of her especially now with the imminent opening of spring training heralding the annual renewal of her favorite sport. I held my beloved cat in my arms until she took her last breath in October. I have discovered that I am not as tough or unsentimental as I once believed. I cry easily and more often now. I realize that, in the words of George Harrison, all things must pass, but it is nonetheless difficult to watch everyone and everything I love and loved be washed away by the tides of time. Live and love today. In the words of my paternal grandmother, it is later than we think.
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Love how he uses 250 million in stolen money to post bail.
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Tiffany C This is a feature that is probably unknown to most people reading this article. What it seems to imply is that what you give back to your PE master of the universe is a function of your total revenue, not your profit (minus costs, including labor). The PE is only interested in the percentage of that revenue being as large as possible since if it were smaller due to higher labor costs that you paid out of your pocket then this would reduce their take. It's an insidious mechanism that prevents sharing of wealth, no matter how terrific your workers are. It also reveals some of the moral costs paid by franchise owners since it prevents them from profit sharing with employees.So the natural question is what, if anything, would it take to change this. A possibility would seem to be If all franchise owners banded together in a type of union or syndicate of franchise owners, then they would have some power to negotiate labor costs with what amounts to their management. The PE would have need to engage with such a syndicate since without itthere would be no franchises at all...so they'd lose something. Surely this is too naive but is there any another possibility?
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Missing from this article is any mention of the pernicious issue of price-gouging --Many neighborhood supermarkets use all these supply-chain problems as a reason to artificially raise the retail price of certain items - including eggs - to increase their profits -At my local Key Food Supermarket - one dozen of Eggland's Best brand grade A large eggs costs about $6.49 -At my local BJ's Wholesale Club - a ten minute drive away - two dozen of the exact same eggs - packaged as a unit - costs $7.99 --We were at the Key Food recently -standing by their well-stocked egg shelves - looking at the ridiculous prices - when I overheard a woman standing nearby exclaim - "Wee, I guess we won't be eating eggs for a while" - as she walked away -Yes - eggs are expensive now - but at that same Key Food - Edy's Ice Cream is "On Sale" this week - two for $8.00 - when is was literally half that much about a year ago -There are a number of items which regularly appeared on my supermarket shopping list which I simply do without now -My wife loves grapes -This week green seedless grapes are $4.99 a pound --!!!Is there a version of "Avian Flu" for grapes and produce ...?
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In 2014, CA voters approved $7 billion in bonds to help increase water storage in the state. Since then, virtually nothing has been done. So all of this rain and snow will mostly find its way out the Golden Gate and into the Pacific, lost forever. Yet people still voted for Newsom and the other super-majority Democrats here.
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M Ford, don’t you think a president of the USA should be able to read? Do you think DJT, the $400,000,000 inheriting, constantly dishonest Atlantic City casino failure, has achieved an adult level of literacy? I sure don’t.
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Charles, I’d rather spend $2k on a destination wedding than spend many multiples of that on feeding 400 “close family and friends”. I know people who took out a second mortgage on their house to pay for their daughter’s wedding. Personally I would’ve given them a cheque and a ladder.
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DW The district wasn't considered competitive until the lines were redrawn. (Redistricting in NY became a mess because of some shenanigans from Cuomo) The Democratic incumbent ran for governor so it became an open seat. Santos ran in 2020 and was soundly defeated. The Republicans didn't have candidate so they threw him in for 2022 unopposed and unvetted. He road in on a wave of suburbanite fear of crime. The NYC suburbs flipped from blue to red after being inundated with fear ads from the right wing
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The biggest reason for less disruptive new science is that the low hanging fruit has already been picked. Galileo made a simple telescope and discovered the moons of Jupiter, which was massive new discovery in astronomy. Now to make progress in astronomy we have to spend massive amounts of money and large numbers of people to launch the Webb space telescope. Michael Faraday made major advances in experiments in electricity and magnetism, allowing James Clerk Maxwell to find equations that showed the behavior of electro-magnetism, that light was an electro-magnetic wave, and led directly to the invention of radio. The resources they needed for their research was very small compared to things like the Large Hadron Collider that we need now to keep advancing. As the edges of science get farther out, it gets harder and harder to move them.I think that the big advances in the coming years will be applied science like genetics or artificial intelligence. These advances will mostly be incremental and require a large number of people and a lot of investment. As microchip technology has shown, a lot of incremental advances might eventually add up to big things.
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Everybody hated George Bush for rejecting Kyoto, but his argument was sound -- basically, back around 2003, China had "twenty years to get rich before it got old," and it had NO intention of stopping full-scale industrialization and money-making because it was on a timer: "20 years and you're out." Bush realized then, perhaps mistakenly, that China had no intention of cutting coal-fired power plants because time was not on China's side, so why should the US play with a partner who had no intention of cutting back? China HAS take on some of the ideas of global warming (Bravo) but the underlying math of an ageing and shrinking population has come to pass, as predicted.
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Dr Mister The money spent on football generates 10 fold in revenue for government taxes, ticket revenue, advertising...That is why spending money on pro football is a good investment. The league has done everything it can to make the game safer.
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What Ms. Robbins leaves out is that during the last 6 years those profits were passed on to the stock holders. So, IRAs, 401Ks, state and other pension plans all benefited from the profits made selling Humira. Additionally many shares were sold during those years and the resulting capital gains taxes were collected by the federal government. So retirees, states and others all benefited and the amount of those benefits is totally left out, not even honorable mention. I'm curious. If there are vast benefits that come from something artificial shouldn't those benefits be considered real? AbbVie has a responsibility to its shareholders and to its employees too. How many other drugs were financed and brought out of research and development and into the hands of doctors who prescribe them? Both sides of the pricing of the drugs should be presented and that should include not just patients taking the drugs but the entire chain of financial beneficiaries.
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Anyone want to give me $1.6 million? I figure I'll need just a little extra....
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Yes, it matters. Building homogenous, cheaply made buildings without a community center or investment in the surrounding environment leads to denigration of spirit, increased crime and quick dilapidation of the buildings themselves. The character of our cities needs to not only be maintained but enhanced. Robust financing and creative housing plans for low income or homeless people is an expenditure that will save our cities and its citizens.
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Emma, the SAT test score counts less then than connections that student brings and any family wealth. A name and a pedigree opens more doors in this country then work ethic and intelligence any day of the week. It is why colleges have legacy students and it’s why some of the top colleges do not publish an absolute minimum for the SAT scores. That being said they will just pick another metric that only wealthy people can afford to do.
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Mark there is a portion of the Democratic Party that would prefer to fixate on race because that is what they did as neoliberals to avoid having to do social spending. Under Clinton and Obama they really didn’t want to unite their base through material policies. In the first two years of Biden that seems to have changed… the democrats want to govern and want to invest in America/Americans. That’s a good change.
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She was also deeply involved in anti abortion groups/activities. The Supreme Court needs a strong ethics investigation and makeover. And it needs to be open and transparent. They obviously can’t be trusted to do it on their own.
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Neither the article nor any of the comments mentioned robo advisors. These are software-based investment platforms that use algorithms to match you to an appropriate portfolio, based on your goals, risk tolerance and time horizon. Most of the large wealth management firms, banks and fintechs offer them. While there are differences between them, they all ask you a series of questions (as a good human advisor would) and then recommend a low-cost portfolio of mostly ETFs. The robo advisor will also automatically monitor your portfolio and rebalance it whenever market fluctuations cause it to get out of alignment with your stated asset allocation goal. They are very simple to use, and they do all of this for a fraction of the cost of a human advisor. Most charge 0.25% - 0.5% of assets under management per year, but there are a few that are actually free.These are a great solution for the majority of people that do not have the time or confidence to build and monitor their own portfolio. They generally do not include a true financial plan, but you can often pay an extra separate flat fee for a plan if you need one.
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I don't know what to make of this article. Are we supposed to believe that today's young people are made to feel bad by older people who preach to them about saving for the future? I really don't think that's a thing. Do today's young people face a different set of challenges than previous generations did? Ask yourself, how different is today's world from the world of 50 years ago? I absolutely see my younger self in the descriptions of various individuals in this article. An income of $40K today would translate to about $15-20K in my day, which I didn't achieve till I was a postdoc and which was not really a living wage in any case. I would have felt great if I had a savings account with $600 (a couple of hundred in my day). But one very big difference is revealed: so many of today's young people have tens of thousands in college debt. Even though I had zero in the bank, I didn't owe anybody any money. Can that be done today? The worst possible way to start a career is by taking on a crushing debt.
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“.....But the core of the G.O.P.’s financial support (not to mention that of the penumbra of think tanks, foundations and lobbying groups that promoted its ideology) came from billionaires who wanted to preserve and increase their wealth.' Yes. As did the money for the Democrats. Even more soTo cite:The NY TimesDemocrats Decried Dark Money. Then They Won With It in 2020A New York Times analysis reveals how the left outdid the right at raising and spending millions from undisclosed donors to defeat Donald Trump The analysis shows that 15 of the most politically active nonprofit organizations that generally align with the Democratic Party spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020 — compared to roughly $900 million spent by a comparable sample of 15 of the most politically active groups aligned with the G.O.P. The NY Times Jan 29, 2022And here is a view from abroad, on the Democrats tax policyThe Economist, UKThe Democrats’s hypocritical tax plans"The Democrats’ fiscal policy makes a mockery of their progressive pledges“ In the next five years the benefit will cost $275bn. Exactly none of it will go to the bottom 60% of earners. Instead 70% of the gains will go to the top 5%. For a party that came to power condemning Mr Trump’s tax reform for being regressive, the stain of hypocrisy will be hard to wash out. The Economist, UK Dec 4 2020
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"content": "“.....But the core of the G.O.P.’s financial support (not to mention that of the penumbra of think tanks, foundations and lobbying groups that promoted its ideology) came from billionaires who wanted to preserve and increase their wealth.' Yes. As did the money for the Democrats. Even more soTo cite:The NY TimesDemocrats Decried Dark Money. Then They Won With It in 2020A New York Times analysis reveals how the left outdid the right at raising and spending millions from undisclosed donors to defeat Donald Trump The analysis shows that 15 of the most politically active nonprofit organizations that generally align with the Democratic Party spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020 — compared to roughly $900 million spent by a comparable sample of 15 of the most politically active groups aligned with the G.O.P. The NY Times Jan 29, 2022And here is a view from abroad, on the Democrats tax policyThe Economist, UKThe Democrats’s hypocritical tax plans\"The Democrats’ fiscal policy makes a mockery of their progressive pledges“ In the next five years the benefit will cost $275bn. Exactly none of it will go to the bottom 60% of earners. Instead 70% of the gains will go to the top 5%. For a party that came to power condemning Mr Trump’s tax reform for being regressive, the stain of hypocrisy will be hard to wash out. The Economist, UK Dec 4 2020\n",
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A number of comments such as Livonian advocate the same old "shut up and dribble" mentality often used to subvert political statements at events - whether public or private. By punishing Dr. Abramoff, Oak Ridge and the American Geophysical Union are also making a strong political statement themselves; specifically, they are stating that their peers should shut up and pretend that the status quo is just fine. Unfortunately, the status quo is not fine and has created a climate crisis with significant deleterious effects. Kudos to Dr. Abramoff and others who engage in public actions to highlight the crisis we are facing - a strong tradition in the US which gave rise to many movements including the US Revolution, Abolition and Reconstruction, Labor, Civil/Voting Rights, women and the environmental movements. And shame on Livonian and allies who won't admit that their own silence - and the silencing of others - reveals a political statement as strong as the one made by Dr. Abramoff. At least, Dr. Abramoff is ready to take the consequences for her actions - while Livonian and others hide behind a facade and a false sense of apolitical superiority. I do not know the agenda of the AUF meeting but it seems that a much better response to the concerns of Dr. Abramoff and millions of other people would have been to schedule a plenary session addressing the issue of what the AUF and its members should do to address the climate crisis. Open debate is much better than stifling debate.
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Same can be said for businesses on the right. How many of Trump's friends got PPP? Both sides got these funds. Some want to make it look like the left are the only guilty ones. Trump and his admin just handed out the $$ without any thoughts about it. Apparently no real proof was needed to get those funds. Just make up some records and send it in to apply.
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Desantis is no middle of the road Republican. Along with Jim Jordan, he's one of the founding fathers of the "House Freedom Caucus". DeSantis voted to repeal the ACA and is one of 11 governors who did not expand Medicaid. Consequently, Florida ranks among the worse states for key health indicators (see America's Health Rankings 2022). What's more, he's wasted millions of dollars on "anti-woke" legal battles to erase citizens' voices and votes, arrested registered voters for voting, and is throwing away taxpayer dollars on cruel political pranks he played on legal asylum seekers. DeSantis advised GOP states on "alternate" slates of electors even before tRumps's lawyer Eastman did. He's full steam ahead MAGA and would be bad news for our democracy.
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I support very strong immigration control,far, far stronger than the absurdly weak levelto which Biden has lowered it.But, trying to cast it as a matter of criminal lawis a a big distraction and a big mistake.What's needed is very strong border control,including very strong border barriers,strongly patrolled and monitored,and very strong apprehension and deportation actionsfor those who cross without authorization,and strong interior apprehension and deportation actions,including strong workplace enforcement,and mandatory detention for all those apprehended,including women and children,unless and until they prove their right to be here.But detention is not jail.They have the jailhouse keys in their pockets:they are free to leave any time they want,straight back across the border.The world outside the USA might not be as good as the USA,but it is not jail.The world has 8 billion humans.It is absolute claptrap to mouth the mantra,as do Biden and Mayorkas,and the rest of the pro-open-borders crowd,that humane treatmentrequires letting as many of the world's 8 billion humanscome here and stay here as want to come.
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Why do I think this entire economy is a house of cards? It makes no sense. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer based yet sixty percent of Americans can afford a $400 emergency. Prices are still high, inflation still high and personal debt at record levels. I just don’t believe these numbers. The stock market is all over the place and Europe is an economic disaster. Oh, and the Petro Dollar is probably over which is the end of our standard of living.
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Jonathon D. Oe Depends on what you describe as privilege!My father was a mid level civil servant ( mother was a home maker) who spent his last penny (about 80 percent of his salary) on the education of his 3 children. Luckily we did get benefits such as government housing and transportation but I remember that there was no money left on the 30th of each month. I also remember my father borrowing money from friends and family to pay our expenses ( Liam’s that I paid off later). Also some of the ‘government bungalows’ we were assigned at nominal rents had no indoor plumbing or running water ( but there were hand pumps).As far as coming to US I did get lucky. Was admitted to Ohio State university with full financial assistance mostly because I had excellent grades with Honors in Economics and Mathematics and a GMAT score in the 99 th percentile.My brother who was an engineer in Singapore paid for my air ticket and loaned me 10000 USD to get through the first year (I did get a full tuition waiver at OSU but the monthly stipend of a doctoral student in 1984 at Ohio State Finance department was only 485 USD - not enough to pay for books and to live on).Hope this helps!
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He was a hero when I was learning to play guitar and learning about open tunings. He could really play, and he was a friend and promoter of Joni Mitchell. I’m happy to say I saw him perform twice. He had such an outsized impact on his generation. RIP David Crosby, you’ll be missed.
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MSFT currently pays a quarterly dividend of 68 cents per share. In August 2022 the quarterly dividend payment was 62 cents per share. So the QDP increased 6 cents per share from August 22 - Feb 23. Six cents x 4 dividend payments per year = 24 cents x 7.45 billion shares outstanding = $1.788 billion divided by 10,000 employees laid off = $178,000 per employee laid off. Perhaps if corporations like MSFT (and there are thousands of them) invested their profits in employees instead of share holders the gap between the have's and have-not's would not be quite as wide. Never mind that if you look at any major corporations's proxy sheet you will find that the C-suite's compensation is roughly 85-90 percent tied to the corporation's stock. Pass the pepto...
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Let's get serious with numbers. My family's gross is about 280K. Our take home is 181K. If the take home was about the same for a 400K income that would get you 258K. Even if you're spending 8K a month on a NYC mortgage (which would be like a 1.25 million dollar loan), that leaves you 162K, which is more than my take home after I pay my mortgage. And I live a good life, I pay for my kids expensive private college, I own 4 cars, I go out, I even travel some. Anyone making 400K a year in NYC is doing just fine thank you, they don't worry about buying eggs.
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Wow. Like the Second Ave subway opening, this brought out the naysayers in droves. Let me report that I was brought home last night from the theater to the UES on the Q quickly (10 mins) and safely. Let’s hope in a few months the LIRR riders from GCT will be similarly pleased and the gripers onto something new.
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I spent many, many extended visits at a relative’s co-op which is in a building located on the same block at Baruch College. It was regularly mentioned in passing as students came and went along Lexington Ave. This astonished Midwesterner, whose college campus reference was a huge land grant university taking up ALOT of geography, was fascinated by such a different way one could have a college experience. Now I know more! And I admire their students even more! And they deserve all the free publicity this silly fib has given them! I hope their Development office sends all their alumnae “I am not GS” buttons to wear.
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Bret Stephens is entitled to his opinion , but if it comes to economicsI will go with Ambrose Evans Pritchard who has an impressive recordAnd this is how he sees China, economicallyChina's apparent return to the fold at Davos raises hopes of a quick economic rebound Vice-premier Liu He, the economic plenipotentiary of Xi Jinping’s China, told a gathering of business leaders and ministers in Davos that China is back inside the tent and eager to restore the money-making bonhomie of the golden years. “We must let the market play the fundamental role in the allocation of resources, and let the government play a better role. Some people say China will go for the planned economy. That’s by no means possible,” he said.The green shoots of the next Chinese economic boom are already emerging.China's vice-premier Liu He stressed that the country was open for business again after two years of disruption Credit: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg“The technology sector is moving full steam ahead. We’re seeing the inflows come back through our China Connect and have got a hundred tech companies lining up to go public,” said Nicolas Aguzin, head of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange The Telegraph, UK, Jan 17
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Erin Yes, child care costs are high (I have twins). But that is termporary. I live in a community where public schools starts at 4 years old, so already we came out ahead on child care. We have superb youth centers that not only do after school and vacation week care (for a very low cost) but were also open on snow days. We also have a very popular summer work program for high schoolers (folks of all incomes participate). Yes, our costs were high until age 4, but in the long run it was more than worth it.
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To be blunt. 'Free Speech' comes with a bucket load of Responsibilities. These thoughts come from Snow Crash, a sci-fi book by Neal Stephenson (1993) in which he coined the phrase 'Metaverse' and showed us the world as it might be. Here are some of his thoughts about lack of Regulations. Without regulations, we are more 'vulnerable'. The situation (in this case Deep Fakes) leaves us 'wide-open', 'undefended', 'anyone can do anything with no cops' , 'can't defend self', 'can't chase the bad guy'. When we don't regulate, we don't protect. When we don't protect then the most corrupt can do what they want and they do it big. 'Personal Freedoms' are what you think, feel, say, eat, put in your body, do with your body. However, as you as you interact then you have Personal Responsibilities. In other words, you can go off to live alone to have your 'personal freedoms'. If you cut down all the trees, kill all the game, use your water as a toilet then you have NOT taken Responsibilities. Read Snow Crash because it's scary how accurately from 1993, he could see where all of this is heading. No, we don't need robots to take over work. We don't need AI. We don't need bio-metrics etc. We need to take care of The People, Planet, Water, Soil, Air, and All Species. I'm 78 and this scares me.
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I’ve known a number of people who have made what bystanders thought were irrational life decisions, only to find themselves somewhere else and quite satisfied. My oldest son was a gifted pitcher who walked away from a scholarship at the end of his sophomore year. He was disgusted with the culture of college athletics, the widespread steroid use routinely ignored by coaches, the pressure to play hurt and more. I know of a fellow who has a PhD in physics who opened a motorcycle repair shop and is, by all accounts, quite happy. I know a LOT of lawyers who desperately wish they had done something else. The real shame would be to spend one’s entire life in the pursuit of a dream that wasn’t ours and end up regretting the decision. Now that would be a shame.
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I don't love swimming but I love what it does for me, not just for my sciatica issues, but for my overall well-being. I spend 45 minutes 3-4 times a week. It has kept my previous constant pain in my back and hip to about 10% of the level it once was. I believe it's the constant stretch you get from doing the crawl /freestyle combined with the decompressing of the spine due to the buoyancy factor. On alternate days I do weight-bearing exercise on the elliptical; it's very gentle on the body. Both somewhat boring activites compared to the adrenaline sports I used to do but it beats the pain that takes the fun out of everything.
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‘Without You’ Review: Anthony Rapp’s Seasons of Love, and Loss The actor, who starred in the original Broadway run of ‘Rent,’ reflects on the show’s early days and dealing with the grief of his mother’s death. Anthony Rapp’s show “Without You” is, in part, about the genesis of “Rent.” It is opening Off Broadway on a symbolic date: exactly 27 years after both that hit musical’s first public performance at New York Theater Workshop, and the death of its creator, Jonathan Larson. That’s 14,201,280 minutes gone by, 14 million moments so dear. The actor, who starred in the original Broadway run of ‘Rent,’ reflects on the show’s early days and dealing with the grief of his mother’s death.
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Ivan Exactly. This situation is akin to a manager of Accounts Payables saying the firm shouldn't be paying its bills to creditors even though the expenses/liabilities have already been committed. That manager would immediately get fired by the treasurer and CFO.It is however totally fair game for the CFO to respond to investors by either increasing revenues to cover spending, and/or to reduce that spending (e.g., via budget cuts)... BEFORE the liabilities are created. That requires hard decisions, transparency, fact-based negotiations, and it also requires eradication of waste/fraud (e.g., funding the IRS just like firms fund internal/external auditors to find and eradicate waste). That transparency also means knowing what the parties want to cut or invest in. Both sides need to pony up on this one, but R's justifiably seem less inclined to expose their proposed plans (if they even exist), and I don't see a lot of good faith fact-based negotiations coming anytime soon. Time to de-risk my retirement portfolio. sigh.
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Of all of the faiths commonly practiced in the US, I admire Reform Judaism the most, hold with a vast number of its theological stances, and attend classes whenever possible.But few Jewish congregations, even those that align themselves with the New Jewish Revival movement, accept participants who do not have a Jewish family upbringing.This is ironic. Judaism was the first religion that conceived of a god independent of time and place, in an era when people commonly thought a deity must reside in a specific object or site. And in its first few millennia it was evangelistic, taking on adherents from all over and surviving while countless others faltered. I understand how a history of oppression and genocide have caused it to become clannish, and resist outsiders. But the intellectual and spiritual force of its teachings could make Judaism the light of the world at a time when people are falling away from organized religions or, worse, lining up behind fanatical, authoritarian sects.It's possible to celebrate the beauty of one's tradition while still opening it to a broader world. It's too bad more Jewish congregations, especially the liberal ones, don't see it that way.
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The wine industry doesn’t have a old people problem it has an industry problem.The wine you can get at a reasonable price in a restaurant is terrible huge jammy, oaky, flawed wines. The wine industry got way too big. Every tech industry multi-millionaire that retired early and decided it would be romantic to make wine so they bought a winery. Then they dumped huge amounts of money into buying substandard fruit then trying to charge $40 a bottle for crummy overly oakey Chardonnay, or even worse paying insane prices for excellent fruit and ruining it in the fermentation process and charge $60 a bottle for it. In Washington state in 2000 there were 74 wineries now there are over 1000! So they are paying insane amounts of money for and/or using crap fruit and making silly marketing ploys to get people to like it. In Addition, great wineries like Abeja in Washington which used to make extremely good Cabernets just got bought by Kendall Jackson, so a great Washington winery just got turned into, most likely, a one note, overpriced, boring wine factory. In Oregon, just kicked multiple excellent wineries and wine makers out of leases from the Freedom Hill vineyards that produced excellent Pinot grapes. I am sure that some gargantuan winery offered to pay insane prices for the fruit that in the end will go into insanely overpriced crummy one note wine that’s $75 or more per bottle. It’s really sad. The young people are smart for staying away.
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I, once again, would like to dispel this myth that Republicans are for small Government. They're not for small government.They're for an interventionist government, but only for the donor class, and only if Republicans are in charge to control the redistribution of taxpayer funds.There's a reason 20,000 lobbyists are parked just blocks away from the DC Capitol. There's a reason we have nearly $4B in lobbying per year, plus billions in unregulated/unfettered campaign contributions. There's an ROI for the wealthy and corporations.And we've seen the studies (e.g. Princeton), where the wealthy/corporations have better access to the government and are far more likely to get what they want from the government more than anyone else.Stop spreading this mythology that Republicans want a small government. They don't.
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Several observations:Blockchain as a distributed database mechanism has a future beyond cryptocurrency. One is a technology while the other is one way of using that technology.I have several older investor/friends who invested in Bitcoin early…made a bundle…realizing it was fundamentally a Ponzi scheme..got out and essentially let the “greater fools” pay them off.I have been transferring 5 figure dollar amounts to China and India for the last 15 years through B of A. The transfers take one(two at the most)days and cost me $45.00…yes..$45.00.I am no fan of the big investment banks in NY,but I haven’t found anything better for my purposes so far. When I travel abroad I get immediate services using my AE card. I know..there’s a fee.. but there is also some degree of protection Some have compared cryptocurrency to the derivatives used by big investment banks. We all know what happened there.And remember..Enron was also a highly valued( at the time) stock. This turned out to be a poor indicator of its future and cryptocurrency seems headed for a similar fate.
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"content": "Several observations:Blockchain as a distributed database mechanism has a future beyond cryptocurrency. One is a technology while the other is one way of using that technology.I have several older investor/friends who invested in Bitcoin early…made a bundle…realizing it was fundamentally a Ponzi scheme..got out and essentially let the “greater fools” pay them off.I have been transferring 5 figure dollar amounts to China and India for the last 15 years through B of A. The transfers take one(two at the most)days and cost me $45.00…yes..$45.00.I am no fan of the big investment banks in NY,but I haven’t found anything better for my purposes so far. When I travel abroad I get immediate services using my AE card. I know..there’s a fee.. but there is also some degree of protection Some have compared cryptocurrency to the derivatives used by big investment banks. We all know what happened there.And remember..Enron was also a highly valued( at the time) stock. This turned out to be a poor indicator of its future and cryptocurrency seems headed for a similar fate.\n",
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