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Business is business. I’ve got a friend who was making ~300K a year at Goldman Sacs. A month ago she was telling me all her hacks for not working while at work. She lost her job a week or so ago. And now she’s acting like Goldman was dishonest, disloyal, and committed some sort of crime by letting her go. Jobs and business = transactional relationship. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s all cost/benefit analysis for all involved.
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Traditional work managers are merely paid pawns used by capital owners to extend their influence over paid workers who set aside their own aspirations in exchange for a salary. This article excellently points out the huge fly in the ointment when it comes to digital work. It describes the impossibility of the traditional manager in a digital world of work. It ends with the very anodyne conclusion that managers probably won't change though.What then. Lets extrapolate.The obvious answer is to eliminate these paid pawns. But then how does capital exert its influence to get stuff done and make more capital? Would capital then have to hire many paid workers directly on a laissez faire basis? Obviously, that is not going to get much complex work done. How about everyone does his own work with his own capital? Those that make the best decisions get more capital. Those that make stupid mistakes won't get more capital. The invisible hand of market at work for real. But mercantile life is not a Monopoly board where everyone starts at Go. etc etc.But what if we could use digital technology to fairly and cooperatively divvy out the digital work? Oh, if we only had that capability! But we don't.My point is, instead of hoping or expecting managers to change their behavior, it would be more appropriate to think about eliminating them all together.
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"content": "Traditional work managers are merely paid pawns used by capital owners to extend their influence over paid workers who set aside their own aspirations in exchange for a salary. This article excellently points out the huge fly in the ointment when it comes to digital work. It describes the impossibility of the traditional manager in a digital world of work. It ends with the very anodyne conclusion that managers probably won't change though.What then. Lets extrapolate.The obvious answer is to eliminate these paid pawns. But then how does capital exert its influence to get stuff done and make more capital? Would capital then have to hire many paid workers directly on a laissez faire basis? Obviously, that is not going to get much complex work done. How about everyone does his own work with his own capital? Those that make the best decisions get more capital. Those that make stupid mistakes won't get more capital. The invisible hand of market at work for real. But mercantile life is not a Monopoly board where everyone starts at Go. etc etc.But what if we could use digital technology to fairly and cooperatively divvy out the digital work? Oh, if we only had that capability! But we don't.My point is, instead of hoping or expecting managers to change their behavior, it would be more appropriate to think about eliminating them all together.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,636 |
J Hagen And of course you take advange of that energy differential to invest in water systems like pipelines to keep the existing canals and reservoirs full all year to take advantage of good living conditions and the long growing season for agriculture.
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| yes | Classification | 5,871 |
osusannahh I'm looking at the menu on their website, and I'm fairly certain $125 is a typo.
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I got into a debate with a guy years ago, when Uber and Lyft arrived, who insisted on calling such services "ride sharing." He insisted it was cheaper, and it was, and a way to avoid patronizing a system that was corrupt with grandfathered hack medallions being sold at ridiculous premiums. "Just watch" I said. Rates will eclipse regulated taxi rates, the drivers will see increasing fees for each ride, and as the drivers become more and more dependent on the income, Uber and Lyft will squeeze them even harder. Worst of all, it will put tens of thousands of GPS distracted drivers on the road who have no business driving professionally. Added to that, a huge part of the revenue is syphoned away from local economies and into the deep pockets of a handful of people in Silicon Valley. I'm amazed when I see the surge pricing rates for some fares. Sometimes as high as 100 to 150 percent over the norm. It means somewhere out there, some fool is willingly paying it.
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Dobbs is another step towards the dictatorship Republicans seek. Unbelievable that now all the women in this country have lost personal rights over their own bodies, becoming slaves of the state. As we all know, Republicans have violently attacked the pillars of democracy with insurrection and now this unbelievable removal of a Constitutional right. In many other ways they are advancing toward their goal of destroying democracy. Eyes wide open, folks!
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I think the article, interesting as it is, lacks context in that what a person makes is only relevant when held up against what it costs to live. When rent is 2,000 to 5,000 dollars a month you can knock 30k to 50k right off the top. Add to that eating and drinking out, and the other costs of city life, especially NYC, most of these wages were not too impressive. My 40k/yr seems a pittance compared to some of these, until I consider 100% of my living expenses come to under 10 k/yr, including food and car-related costs.I wonder how many of those in the 100k range actually put away 30k per year...or any amount , for that matter.
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"content": "I think the article, interesting as it is, lacks context in that what a person makes is only relevant when held up against what it costs to live. When rent is 2,000 to 5,000 dollars a month you can knock 30k to 50k right off the top. Add to that eating and drinking out, and the other costs of city life, especially NYC, most of these wages were not too impressive. My 40k/yr seems a pittance compared to some of these, until I consider 100% of my living expenses come to under 10 k/yr, including food and car-related costs.I wonder how many of those in the 100k range actually put away 30k per year...or any amount , for that matter.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,498 |
Kate this is why when DS says that “gay men must be doing something right” because they can stay in open marriages I think he assumes everyone wants/is ok with this. Yeah, maybe when two men are put together they don’t care that much about exclusivity, but it seems women aren’t as ok with it. I guess DS thinks they should be, but that’s just the same kind of imposition if values that he found so repressive in his parents’ generation.
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AbbyNemo 3 instances from Britannia: “Turgor is what makes living plant tissue rigid. Loss of turgor, resulting from the loss of water from plant cells, causes flowers and leaves to wilt. Turgor plays a key role in the opening and closing of stomata (see stoma) in leaves.“
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As a retired Army officer that has worked with and admired Israeli counterparts in the past, this situation opens a lot of pandora boxes that could be disastrous to that state in the future. Israel is free in a very hostile region due to the strength and capabilities of its military and its universal system of conscription, both men and women. When you take away 20% (and growing) of potential soldiers to protect your country from enemies dedicated to wiping you off the face of the earth, you are undermining the future viability of the Israeli state to survive for a short term political gain.
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| yes | Classification | 8,631 |
Here's a quote from Ms. McDaniel:"Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, opened the winter meeting with a crack about Pelosi and the Republican recapture of the House. “Why are we in California? Because I just wanted to rub Nancy Pelosi’s face in it one more time,” she said, this morning, shortly after the videos were released online."If this is the voice of the GOP I am happy to read that they don't want to participate in the "biased" Presidential debates....
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Most colleges/universities are tax exempt. As an example, this from Harvards website:"President and Fellows of Harvard College is exempt from federal income tax as an educational institution under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended."it has a 53.2 billion dollar endowment and billions in revenue but does not pay taxes- or a significant amount of taxes.
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| yes | Classification | 5,148 |
Dan Thoma Forgive me but I think you missed the point, rather than made one here. Bitcoin was valued at $61K and now is either $17K or $21K. I think that the author said that it's real value is zero no matter what it trades for. Soon, people will realize that, and the magical thinking will end. That is the day that crypto in fact has no real value at all. The "value" today is based upon a lingering magical thinking, not a slightly decreased "real" value.
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A VERY good induction costs that much, but they start around $1000 and prices are dropping as they become more popular
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Happens outside of corporate culture, too. At a public university where I previously worked, I was a "great team player" and "awesome collaborator." Then I gave a 3-week notice that I was going elsewhere, and assured my boss that I'd give more, if not for my lease ending in that three weeks; month-to-month would have been $2,100, so three weeks it was. As a result, I was regarded coldly by a dean, and a co-worker who was assigned part of my job gave an even colder "Gee, thanks." And so on. I wasn't on the faculty.It's like the 6 years I was there didn't matter, and I knew I'd made a good choice.
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If this comes pass, Gaetz, Boebert and partners will get their wish and they will blame Democrats for bankrupting the nation. They know that not enough of their constituents understand what the debt ceiling is. President Biden has to get on the air and address the nation. He must explain in plain language what Republicans are trying to do in order to make a point. And he must stress in no uncertain terms what default will mean to the average American, Democrat and Republican.
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Over the past two months, the United States has pledged billions in new arms and equipment, including a roughly $2.5 billion package announced this week that, for the first time, includes Stryker armored combat vehicles. Other American weapons on their way to Ukraine include the Patriot, the most advanced American ground-based air defense system; Bradley fighting vehicles; armored personnel carriers; and artillery systems. NATO allies have thrown more weapons into the mix, including the first heavy tank pledged to Ukraine, the Challenger 2 heavy tank from Britain. Germany, historically reluctant to have its tanks used against Russia, is under heavy pressure to allow its allies to export its first-rate Leopard tank to Ukraine.For those who are perplexed by the problem of the U.S. in passing a monstrous $31+ billion national budget, there is an easy answer, as the 'TIMES' itself should recognize:Many Western companies have left, trade with the West has dwindled, and financing the war is 'draining the budget'. Numerous foreign airlines have ceased service to Russia. Add to that the millions of Russia’s best and brightest who have fled, and the future is bleak.America's financial budget is not just paying for social entitlements at home, massive infrastructure multi-billion dollar projects, and ever increasing sophisticated weapons systems for the Ukrain, but is also funding not just a normal American country, but also having to pay for our entire Global EMPIRE.
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"content": "Over the past two months, the United States has pledged billions in new arms and equipment, including a roughly $2.5 billion package announced this week that, for the first time, includes Stryker armored combat vehicles. Other American weapons on their way to Ukraine include the Patriot, the most advanced American ground-based air defense system; Bradley fighting vehicles; armored personnel carriers; and artillery systems. NATO allies have thrown more weapons into the mix, including the first heavy tank pledged to Ukraine, the Challenger 2 heavy tank from Britain. Germany, historically reluctant to have its tanks used against Russia, is under heavy pressure to allow its allies to export its first-rate Leopard tank to Ukraine.For those who are perplexed by the problem of the U.S. in passing a monstrous $31+ billion national budget, there is an easy answer, as the 'TIMES' itself should recognize:Many Western companies have left, trade with the West has dwindled, and financing the war is 'draining the budget'. Numerous foreign airlines have ceased service to Russia. Add to that the millions of Russia’s best and brightest who have fled, and the future is bleak.America's financial budget is not just paying for social entitlements at home, massive infrastructure multi-billion dollar projects, and ever increasing sophisticated weapons systems for the Ukrain, but is also funding not just a normal American country, but also having to pay for our entire Global EMPIRE.\n",
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Terry Roberts We think alike. Who but a corrupt individual would raise $3-5 million to acquire a seat for 2 years totaling $350K, unless they were getting a lot more out of it? The system is corrupt, as is a SCOTUS who would define money as "free speech". Essentially saying "money is free". if so, where do I get in line?
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David Heizer Every administration has an "Open Borders Policy", using one of two methods.Method One: The administration that has a tongue-in-cheek policy sends a message to potential illegal migrants when it allows uncontrolled migration across "borders that are not open". "Don't come now" is such a message. Millions of illegal migrants cross those "not open" borders.The administration that has a serious policy will block the thousands of migrants who approach the border........and not allow them to enter the country using valid law-based reasons. When a few thousand migrants are not allowed quasi-legal entry, he number of migrants slows dramatically. The migrants know who is serious and who is not serious.Taxpayers know who is / is not serious as well.
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It’s interesting reading the comments, and the variety of takeaways from Britain’s decline. It’s quite clear that their austerity measures were a huge mistake. But then where should the government invest and how much spending is sustainable? Liz Truss found out you can’t ignore the bond markets.It’s also clear that Brexit was an enormous mistake. But how do you participate in free trade with partners but still control borders and ensure employment opportunities for your own citizens?The Conservative Party seems to have gotten wrong at every turn, and we should all be wary about the decisions our own government is making.
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Coffee Drinker Don't understand it...light rail isn't coming to West Seattle for more than a decade (if everything goes well).Right now the fight is over completing the 1 line to N Seattle/N King County/Lynnwood or completing the 2 line (at least that is what I think it's called) from the International District across Lake Washington to Redmond/Microsoft corporate via Bellevue.I live in beautiful, boring Bryant so we finally have our nearby light rail station (can you say "moose?" so I keep my mouth shut. I'd prefer the north line because I avoid the Eastside whenever I can and I'd actually use the north end light rail to visit folks (they'd get me at the train).It's all screaming and politics at the end anyway.
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"content": "Coffee Drinker Don't understand it...light rail isn't coming to West Seattle for more than a decade (if everything goes well).Right now the fight is over completing the 1 line to N Seattle/N King County/Lynnwood or completing the 2 line (at least that is what I think it's called) from the International District across Lake Washington to Redmond/Microsoft corporate via Bellevue.I live in beautiful, boring Bryant so we finally have our nearby light rail station (can you say \"moose?\" so I keep my mouth shut. I'd prefer the north line because I avoid the Eastside whenever I can and I'd actually use the north end light rail to visit folks (they'd get me at the train).It's all screaming and politics at the end anyway.\n",
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Hopefully when these manufacturing plants open, the employees will not be treated as hourly workers. To be a successful country with a stable economy, companies need to hire full time staff, with benefits. Our business model of hiring hourly workers of the last few decades had led to an economy that is not in the country’s best interest. It doesn’t matter if they are well paid, they need a stable work environment. Pensions, 491Ks, PTO, health insurance are what will make this country robust again.
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"content": "Hopefully when these manufacturing plants open, the employees will not be treated as hourly workers. To be a successful country with a stable economy, companies need to hire full time staff, with benefits. Our business model of hiring hourly workers of the last few decades had led to an economy that is not in the country’s best interest. It doesn’t matter if they are well paid, they need a stable work environment. Pensions, 491Ks, PTO, health insurance are what will make this country robust again.\n",
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Not sure what the point of this article is - US is behind other countries in chip making? There is no alternative - Intel (and IBM through Samsung) are investing in semiconductor technology. Its like investing in bread. If there is no bread, you cannot feed anyone. If there is no chip making, there is no future technology. No alarms here. This is basic investment in US business.
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"content": "Not sure what the point of this article is - US is behind other countries in chip making? There is no alternative - Intel (and IBM through Samsung) are investing in semiconductor technology. Its like investing in bread. If there is no bread, you cannot feed anyone. If there is no chip making, there is no future technology. No alarms here. This is basic investment in US business.\n",
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Selena You are hilarious!For decades, the complaint was that women couldn't get to the executive level. Now that they've made it there, you are celebrating when they quit.Please, make up your mind.Del Rocio works for her politician sister.Hanson is scrambling to pay her rent.Sobel, age 53, had to scramble to get her basement ceiling fixed.Padham seems unfit for life as an entrepreneur. By that I mean, buying property with a “partner” who leaves, presumably doubling the economic pressure on Padham, and has only a vague plan to open her business sometime in the next year.As I said earlier, good luck, ladies.
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LennyM If that is true, perhaps Mr. Walcott could live on $500,000 per year instead, which would leave $220,000 to help keep a branch open.
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Sean You can thank the subsidies that the government provides to meat and dairy industries (around $38 billion per annum) as compared to only about $4 billion per annum to other agro industries. This is from the book "meatonomics" which goes into much further detail about how much harm these subsidies cause.
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MonsP Your so-called shock value is naive and dangerous, for a number of reasons. So-called extraordinary moves to keep government running include raiding the government employee Thrift Savins Plan (TSP) program--it's like a 401K-which is money employees voluntarily contribute to the TSP from paychecks each pay period, with a small matching funds component. The entire TSP is basically raided. The last time this happened (in recent memory), it took many months for the government to reimburse the TSP.Also on the line are discretionary funds and programs, many government agencies and programs are considered "discretionary," such as the USEPA, science, environment, and energy, domestic and international programs outside of defense. In 2019 these totaled 14 percent of federal budget, and of that science, environment, and energy programs totaled 11 percent ($75 billion).When the USEPA and other programs cannot pay their contract obligations their contracts go into default, and the government is obligated to pay triple damages, even if no goods or work was received. In the USEPA, we spent many months trying to straighten the mess out after the fact after government shutdowns. Plus, the extra money paid out for defaulted contracts goes against the current budget, thus a vicious cycle. Most often the defaulted work still needs to be completed at yet more waste and expense.This is NOT a prudent way to run our government. It's an un- mitigated mess.
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Atter receiving billions in covid funding, they will now dump the workforce.
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Capitalism has no inherent morality. The only mark of success is profit. Over-paid bosses with lavish lifestyles of conspicuous consumption deliberately advertise the money they make to imply the power they want people to think they have.This is evident in the poster boy for fake power without money - George Soros. There is a story elsewhere in these pages of how Mr. Soros used high-priced (allegedly stolen) preppy clothing to insinuate himself into the corridors of power as a high-rolling big spender with lots of money to blow on $520 Burberry scarves and $7,000 watches. It worked.America doesn’t worship God. America worships money. Hard times ahead. The boss is back.
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"content": "Capitalism has no inherent morality. The only mark of success is profit. Over-paid bosses with lavish lifestyles of conspicuous consumption deliberately advertise the money they make to imply the power they want people to think they have.This is evident in the poster boy for fake power without money - George Soros. There is a story elsewhere in these pages of how Mr. Soros used high-priced (allegedly stolen) preppy clothing to insinuate himself into the corridors of power as a high-rolling big spender with lots of money to blow on $520 Burberry scarves and $7,000 watches. It worked.America doesn’t worship God. America worships money. Hard times ahead. The boss is back.\n",
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Secretary Blinken did his dog and pony show Monday only so the Left in America and Europe can satisfy themselves in their arrogant misunderstanding of a strategic situation that has significantly changed in the last 10 years, and continues to change rapidly. Nobody trusts the US in that part of the world after Obama’s and Biden’s myopic policies. Sad but true. If it weren’t for Israel, Iran already would have the bomb, in response, Saudi Arabia and the UAE would probably have had to get bombs - perhaps from a joint development, perhaps via a purchase from Pakistan or North Korea, If it weren’t for Israel, Saddam Hussein and Basher Al Assad would have had nuclear bombs many years ago. Everyone in that region knows it, particularly the Sunni Arab states. That’s why they are aligning with Israel, overtly or otherwise.Our foreign policy is so blind it’s more than embarrassing— it’s dangerous. It’s time for Blinken, Sullivan, and yes, President Biden to shut their mouths and open their eyes. Here’s what our message to Israel should be: “Under no circumstances get the US in a war with Iran. Short of that one condition, do what you have to do and to the extent we can help you we will.”
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"content": "Secretary Blinken did his dog and pony show Monday only so the Left in America and Europe can satisfy themselves in their arrogant misunderstanding of a strategic situation that has significantly changed in the last 10 years, and continues to change rapidly. Nobody trusts the US in that part of the world after Obama’s and Biden’s myopic policies. Sad but true. If it weren’t for Israel, Iran already would have the bomb, in response, Saudi Arabia and the UAE would probably have had to get bombs - perhaps from a joint development, perhaps via a purchase from Pakistan or North Korea, If it weren’t for Israel, Saddam Hussein and Basher Al Assad would have had nuclear bombs many years ago. Everyone in that region knows it, particularly the Sunni Arab states. That’s why they are aligning with Israel, overtly or otherwise.Our foreign policy is so blind it’s more than embarrassing— it’s dangerous. It’s time for Blinken, Sullivan, and yes, President Biden to shut their mouths and open their eyes. Here’s what our message to Israel should be: “Under no circumstances get the US in a war with Iran. Short of that one condition, do what you have to do and to the extent we can help you we will.”\n",
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China is being a brute.In the short term, it works. In the long term, resentment often builds and destroys initial gains.In general, China is over-extended in many areas. China is expecting other countries to repay the investments; they should realize that most will not be able to.
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Commenter Girl I would like to know why the previous Congress didn't extend the debt limit to January 31, 2025 or abolish it altogether.I would also like to know whether the Democratic Party, consistently and constantly weak on messaging, will start warning the public in the summer about the coming debt limit crisis and how the crisis will adversely affect the receipt of benefits. To politically succeed on this issue, it must get the jump on the Republicans on messaging as the Republican message will be their refusal to agree to raising the debt limit without concessions on spending will result in lower taxes. Telling the public that taxes will decrease is like waving a steak in front of a hungry dog.
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'Harry thought he’d find closure in disclosure.'Cute, but I think he was more interested in $.
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All of the research that goes into discovery and development of these drugs comes from taxpayer funded grants, so before we start feeling too grateful to these drug companies, we ought to start holding them accountable.No one needs to make 2 billion to recoup their costs. It’s all profit. Sickening to profit off of health.
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Part IVPrevious section is actually “PO” [tired typing fingers]PR• The bottom pane of her sash window would fall shut so she used a stick to PR(4) it open.• She worked as a PR(10) in a nursery, taking seeds or cuttings from a single plant and planting them to create more.RA• A grad school classmate drove a blue convertible VW Bug with a black RA(6).• The students established a RA(6) among themselves as they swapped stories of where they came from originally.• An eagle is a type of RA(6) or bird of prey: so are owls and hawks.RO• The crowd let out a RO(4) as the ball sailed through the uprights.• Many believe that money is the RO(4) of all evil; I think it depends on how and on whom you spend it.• Four years ago I had RO(7) cuff surgery and had to learn to sleep sitting up.• A RO(5) is the “rotating assembly in a turbine.” (Oxford Languages Dictionary) TA• The Ginkgo tree grows a very long TA(7), which is why Los Angeles has it on a list of suggested trees to plant in a parking strip.• Recently I wrote about the traditional luau dish of purple poi, which is made from TA(4) flour: an acquired taste, I believe.• A woman did a TA(5) reading for me long ago, predicting great success, wealth, and happiness. Was she telling me the truth, do you think?• My daughter has a dolphin TA(6) on her ankle to mark her eight years as a high school and collegiate swimmer.TH• The young man had a sore TH(6), persistent cough, and body aches so he took a Covid test.
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DG YET Congress ADDS over 50 billion dollars each year to the Pentagon budget! Money the Pentagon nor Trump's or Biden's WH asked for, wanted or needed! But that never is an issue for some reason and NEVER questioned. And 9.7 is "insane"?? Really??
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So I'm lost here. Age 74 and on 5 prescription medications. I have an Advantage plan that costs $78.00 per month with an added dental plan that costs $38.00 per month ($116. per month + the SS monthly Medicare deduction). According to simple math my costs for the "same" coverages under "traditional" Medicare with a Medigap plan and a Part D plan would be an additional $120. per month more with less actual coverage and that does not include the dental. Also, Eliquis is one of my prescriptions which is a big additional Part D out of pocket cost in all of the plans available in MA. So explain to me how "traditional" medicare would be better for me????
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Part II• The two leading contenders for the open council position delighted in throwing BA(4)s at each other rather than debating the important issues: the voters chose the third candidate.• Señora Jones quoted French proverbs in class, which was a bit BA(4) considering she was our Spanish teacher.• “I’m sorry,” said the outraged fashionista, “but wearing hairy Ugg boots with silk shorts and a spaghetti string crop top is simply a BA(9): clearly, she has no sense whatsoever!”BR• “Anybody up for a BR(4) and a beer?” “No thanks, I ate too many cheese curds” replied the Badger fan.• The young mother seated nearby pretended not to hear the BR(5) little girl demand her parents let her do what she wanted, rather than playing with her sister as they asked.• The donkey’s BR(4) is quite distinguishable from a horse’s neigh.• If you fall into a BR(5) patch, you'll emerge all scratched up and bleeding.• Wines strong in alcohol content and high in tannins are identified as BR(6) or brawny. [not an oenophile? take previous word + a “sometimes” vowel] BU• The term BU(5), chiefly southern, can refer affectionately to one’s brother or friend; using it to refer contemptuously to a young white male one considers uneducated is derogatory.• Using BU(7) to make Caprese salad (slice of ripe tomato plus a slice of the creamy cheese topped with a leaf of basil, sometimes with a drizzle of olive oil or balsamic vinegar over all) will win friends at any summer gathering.
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Have you ever noticed in life that everyone has a story. It almost always has the ingredients of pain and suffering- with whiffs of occasional insight and intuition. And we cling to these stories and are confounded or disappointed that others don't necessarily find then as true or profound or whatever. In truth these stories are but dreams and they have no claim to reality beyond what we believe they represent. In "Spare" we have one man's story. I've not read it- but I presume it has poignant details, shocking perspectives and some element of wisdom acquired. If the Royal House were wise- they would accept Spare as Harry's story- ignore their friends (or enemies) in the Tabloid Press and focus on their own stories- their own growth- their own duties. And maybe, in a moment of compassion they can accept that Harry's story is his- whether they agree with it or not.By doing so- they will counter the other back story- that the Royal House, the Firm is a brand- not a respected institution. Because you can't have it both ways. Finally, what Harry does do very well in Spare is show the effects of trauma on children and the need for openness, love and compassion to help children reintegrate their lives and emerge into successful adults. To few children receive this support and it doesn't seem to matter whether the family is Royal or Poor.
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Verbally and physically abused his employees, mistreated foreign workers in particular, all in order to serve $500 per person plates?Why is this guy not locked up? Goodbye and good riddance.
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What we have reached is the new level of exploitation. A new level of pricing. Wages remain more or less flat. Here is where the unrealistic, highly-pressurized demands for unlimited growth brings us.Inflation is always discussed as fear of wage increases, not price increases.Deficit spending always focuses on cuts to social programs, not on increasing IRS funding to bring in missing revenue from the rich. Deficit spending always focuses on cuts to the vanishing middle-class and poor, not on revenue from the rich.Yet the economy is driven by consumer spending. What does the economy do when consumers have no more to spend?Might some blame for this situation be placed on the small handful of men who have more money than half of humanity, as Oxfam has evidenced? When those few men have managed to put the wealth of the globe, the last pennies, in their piles—what will they do then? Will they feel lost? Billionairism is an illness which may help lead us to extinction."World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion peoplePublished: 20th January 2020"<a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-have-more-wealth-46-billion-people" target="_blank">https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-have-more-wealth-46-billion-people</a>
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What the emergence of Santos, Trump, and the many open arms to depravity in the Republican Party have shown us is that the Constitution needs amending. But given the polarized electorate that is only getting more polarized by the day, the Constitution has seen its last amending - it's closed to any further growth or improvement. How is it possible to flat-out lie a whole new identity on an application and then get cleared to hear security briefings? How can pro-insurrectionists win or keep office they undermine by feigning sympathy for the very insurrectionists that imperiled our nation? How can someone sic his mob of zombies against the very government he swore an oath to protect be allowed to run for the very office he desecrated? Republicans are not only cannibalizing their own party - they're cannibalizing everything that is decent in our society.
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"content": "What the emergence of Santos, Trump, and the many open arms to depravity in the Republican Party have shown us is that the Constitution needs amending. But given the polarized electorate that is only getting more polarized by the day, the Constitution has seen its last amending - it's closed to any further growth or improvement. How is it possible to flat-out lie a whole new identity on an application and then get cleared to hear security briefings? How can pro-insurrectionists win or keep office they undermine by feigning sympathy for the very insurrectionists that imperiled our nation? How can someone sic his mob of zombies against the very government he swore an oath to protect be allowed to run for the very office he desecrated? Republicans are not only cannibalizing their own party - they're cannibalizing everything that is decent in our society.\n",
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scottAlso let’s not forget West Germany had a HUGE army, 10x its current size, sticking up to the Soviets throughout the Cold War. So their “downsizing” and free-riding on American taxpayer security expenditures is far more recent; a shortsighted political decision of a few of the last German administrations….Hopefully they’ll start properly investing in their own self-defense and deterrence starting now, because the CCP is watching closely, and looking for disunity/easy pickings….
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St.Simeon Correct, it is called barrier to entry. The barrier in the regulated taxi business is the medallion, and in most cities is simply called a license and the number is limited based on the population. No such thing exists for the app driving business resulting in too many on the roads, diluting earnings and clogging traffic. In Boise in 1979 licenses were limited to roughly 15 for a city of 80,000, I earned the present equivalent of about $35,000/yr - while paying $75 for rent.
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The biggest problem is that PG&E is a commercial, for-profit, regulated monopoly, meaning they get built-in profits. Throw that on top of the profits from the deregulated players that PG&E buys from, and the cost to the consumer is obvious. One step in the solution is for the state to take over PG&E. Why is our electricity being gated by a for-profit entity? Our water isn't. It just doesn't make any sense in this day and age. The state really needs to take over the blasted utilities.This issue may be coming to a head. There is a developing schism between the haves and the have-nots. Home owners who can afford solar, or even solar + batteries under the new NEM that was just passed, would much rather make that investment than send that cash to their utility. The new NEM is more fair to non-solar customers, but it still won't prevent an exodus. Non-solar customers will continue to hold the bag, so to speak.One glimmer of hope on the horizon is that more and more these days, California is mitigating or removing the need for more new large transmission line projects by focusing on strategically located grid-scale energy storage. The storage will allow renewables to continue to expand and allow a resumption of the decommissioning of fossil resources.Ultimately, the new grid will result in lower costs for consumers. Or it will be forced to.
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An excellent, inexpensive way to try induction cooking is to buy a portable cooker that plugs into regular 110 volt power. The one I bought costs $70. It excels at bringing water to boil quickly; as well as for long, slow simmering. It sits on top of a 20-year-old high dollar Thermador with three broken burners and non-working oven. (diagnosis: failed motherboard, no longer available.)The new gas stove will arrive next week, I decided NOT to spend big bucks on the pro-style range; AND bought an extended warranty for 5 years of coverage.
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Slartibartfast There is a reason that when Gelsinger returned to Intel as CEO, the engineers inside the company made t-shirts saying "the nerd is back". He comes with lots of engineering and design experience. All of Intel's early CEOs were engineers - maybe engineers and MBAs, but engineers, who understood tech and the business. A few years ago Intel finally promoted someone from their business side (marketing or sales) to the CEO slot. Someone not from engineering/design. They massively underinvested in updating their production process and reduced risk in the designs to the point of killing innovation. (It was great to squeeze profit from their laurels.) And now this is the hangover that Gelsinger is charged with fixing. He won't obviously just do it on his own - but he is the one advocating $50B (or something like that) in investment in fabs and production. I'll give him credit for setting that direction and taking those risks. There are 10s of thousands of engineers behind that trying to make it real, but under Gelsinger, at least they're allowed to go for it. (And there's no guarantee, actually, that having been 2-5 years in front of everyone in semiconductor production to now being 2-5 years behind TSMC and maybe Samsung, they can catch up.) But at least now they can try.
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I am one of two health care providers in a practice that caters to the needs of the homeless and precariously housed. Everything about “efficiently” running a clinic has to go right out the window. Appointments? They can’t keep them. We are simply open and they come if and when they can. Hugely complex needs must require hourlong appointments, sometimes several of them, to begin to address the health needs. Transportation. Medications. DME. Referrals. After six months working, neither of us has taken a penny in salary. Medicaid reimbursement pays for the skimpiest overhead. I have no assistant. No nurse. I pay for my malpractice insurance out of my own pocket.I do it because I’d rather treat these patients. But I wish I could do it full time and not have to have another full time job in a traditional practice just to keep myself from joining the ranks of the homeless.
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I am interested in the rationale behind the layoffs. If meta held 40 billion in cash, those 11,000 employees at 150,000 a year would have cost 1.6 billion a year. Comparatively…a rounding error compared to their productivity? So…it’s about something else. What?
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Theo My brother lives in the Hudson Valley. His paved street is one over from an unpaved road. Unless the unpaved road is damp, dust flies up everywhere, despite its being well graded with gravel. Fortunately, my brother's house is sufficiently far away so he is unaffected by the dust cloud which I observe from afar when I am sitting on his front porch, but the unfortunate people across the street from him have back yards that abut the unpaved road. They can't even sit outside and enjoy their property without getting a nose full of dirt every time a car passes.And they can't keep their windows open because the dirt gets all over the house. So, the idea of this wonderful open space out in the sticks where you can leave your windows open and enjoy nature is a something of a myth.
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Biden's case is interesting. First off, he probably knew he had the documents all along. Why else send lawyers to pack up his closet? I bet the bill for a couple high end lawyers is over $1000 per hour.Second, he left boxes of documents in an unsecured high traffic area, namely his or his son's (not really sure who owns the house) garage, while his son was living there. Photos have recently surfaced showing his son driving his Corvette. Reports indicate that some documents referenced Ukraine and other places where his son did questionable work.Third, like Trump, more documents kept surfacing after we were told that his lawyers had searched and found them all.Fourth, the FBI was not present for the search, and the search was not documented by photographs (at least that we have seen). In other words, the lawyers went in and muddied up a crime scene. Any evidence has been spoiled by Biden and his lawyers.Biden supporters want to say "move along, nothing to see here" but no one has the data to make that case.
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"content": "Biden's case is interesting. First off, he probably knew he had the documents all along. Why else send lawyers to pack up his closet? I bet the bill for a couple high end lawyers is over $1000 per hour.Second, he left boxes of documents in an unsecured high traffic area, namely his or his son's (not really sure who owns the house) garage, while his son was living there. Photos have recently surfaced showing his son driving his Corvette. Reports indicate that some documents referenced Ukraine and other places where his son did questionable work.Third, like Trump, more documents kept surfacing after we were told that his lawyers had searched and found them all.Fourth, the FBI was not present for the search, and the search was not documented by photographs (at least that we have seen). In other words, the lawyers went in and muddied up a crime scene. Any evidence has been spoiled by Biden and his lawyers.Biden supporters want to say \"move along, nothing to see here\" but no one has the data to make that case.\n",
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"Rural Rage" is nothing more than the result of intense right-wing propaganda. The so-called "liberal" "socialist" "elitist" Democrats have done FAR more for Rural America than their Republican counterparts have ever done or will do. While the Republicans want to slash the social safety net rural America is heavily dependent upon, the Democrats have provided farm subsidies (providing millions of rural jobs), rural electrification, extended cable & internet services, social security, medicare, SNAP (aka "Food Stamps") and heavily subsidized educational & health care Institutions. Not to mention physical infrastructure including roads, bridges and highways, which will increase DRAMATICALLY under the Infrastructure Act--also provided by Democrats.As for the attitude that blue state and urban dwelling people look down on rural America, this, too, is a massive falsehood. As some rural dwelling Americans bemoan that they are looked down upon by blue-state folks, what about rural America's declaration that they are the "Real America?" So what are urban-dwelling blue-State residents? Non-Americans?Urban, blue-State residents need only to scrutinize their utility bills to see how they are paying for rural electrification & more. So painfully ironic that those blue-State so-called "elites" heavily subsidize rural, red-State America, and don't even blink while doing it. New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts heavily subsidize Alabama, Mississippi, & Louisiana, etc.Enough!
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"content": "\"Rural Rage\" is nothing more than the result of intense right-wing propaganda. The so-called \"liberal\" \"socialist\" \"elitist\" Democrats have done FAR more for Rural America than their Republican counterparts have ever done or will do. While the Republicans want to slash the social safety net rural America is heavily dependent upon, the Democrats have provided farm subsidies (providing millions of rural jobs), rural electrification, extended cable & internet services, social security, medicare, SNAP (aka \"Food Stamps\") and heavily subsidized educational & health care Institutions. Not to mention physical infrastructure including roads, bridges and highways, which will increase DRAMATICALLY under the Infrastructure Act--also provided by Democrats.As for the attitude that blue state and urban dwelling people look down on rural America, this, too, is a massive falsehood. As some rural dwelling Americans bemoan that they are looked down upon by blue-state folks, what about rural America's declaration that they are the \"Real America?\" So what are urban-dwelling blue-State residents? Non-Americans?Urban, blue-State residents need only to scrutinize their utility bills to see how they are paying for rural electrification & more. So painfully ironic that those blue-State so-called \"elites\" heavily subsidize rural, red-State America, and don't even blink while doing it. New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts heavily subsidize Alabama, Mississippi, & Louisiana, etc.Enough!\n",
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citizen Did Biden's 15% international corporate tax ever happen?I know that of our top billionaires, Elon Musk paid the highest rate - something like 1.3%. Much less than us commoners pay, in any case.REPUBLICANISM IS THE ISM OF OUR TIME.
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Silicon valley tech bro. Except for some part time techs doing cable harnesses, I'm the lowest paid guy at the latest startup I founded: $35K/year full heath. But, like Musk, I run another startup -- after a couple of years of pouring every penny back in, we cleared almost $5M this year with $1.5 in profit, so we paid ourselves $50K there. At a non-profit I founded and run, it covered some travel and computer I bought, but I otherwise rarely take a salary, but paid out nearly a million to other workers. On the other hand, I had a company I had invested in sell, so that was nearly $1M and then some real estate trust sold some properties for another $1.5M. Of course, both of those were things started 3-7 years before. So, my income is all over the place and have more than enough to retire long ago. I keep going because ... habit.Still, I can't see living in NYC at some of these salaries. I love NYC, but I call it "$20/block" -- that is, if you measure your travel or walking in the city, it comes out to about $20 a block distance (for shows, hotel, uber, restaurants etc). Let's say I get my 10K steps in, more than 5 miles, ~20 blocks per mile.
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"content": "Silicon valley tech bro. Except for some part time techs doing cable harnesses, I'm the lowest paid guy at the latest startup I founded: $35K/year full heath. But, like Musk, I run another startup -- after a couple of years of pouring every penny back in, we cleared almost $5M this year with $1.5 in profit, so we paid ourselves $50K there. At a non-profit I founded and run, it covered some travel and computer I bought, but I otherwise rarely take a salary, but paid out nearly a million to other workers. On the other hand, I had a company I had invested in sell, so that was nearly $1M and then some real estate trust sold some properties for another $1.5M. Of course, both of those were things started 3-7 years before. So, my income is all over the place and have more than enough to retire long ago. I keep going because ... habit.Still, I can't see living in NYC at some of these salaries. I love NYC, but I call it \"$20/block\" -- that is, if you measure your travel or walking in the city, it comes out to about $20 a block distance (for shows, hotel, uber, restaurants etc). Let's say I get my 10K steps in, more than 5 miles, ~20 blocks per mile.\n",
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During the Coid times, Tech recruiters were chasing people to join their firms, recruiting a lot of under-qualified people. There is an app called Blind where people were boasting about how they faked their offer letter to get higher salaries from competing companies. It was a very well known fact that many people faked their resumes and took advantage of online interviews to use proxy people to do the interview for them. Recruiters did not do the due diligence!It was a mad rush! Even the new grads were getting a total compensation of 250K or more. I still wonder what made all these Tech companies to think that if they don’t mass hire people, they will run out of talent.
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Eric B Wordle 588 3/6*⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 90 55 92⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 94 92 1 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 — — WordleBotSkill 97/99Luck 73/99Lucky opener and smooth solving in-spite of the turmoil in my personal timeline. Just the vowels, ma’am.Glad to see this lighter mood for all members of our group. 😍But yesterday’s mini-story turned out weird:He wanted to GLOAT at the STROP she was in, after hearing the CORNY jokes her DORKY mate indulged in, but then decided not to WORRY.I also tried my hand at writing one with Spelling Marauder’s progression on Thursday, but the turning point to make Beefy believable is not quite there. Still here they are.The BURNS on the BLEAK side of the mountain ran into the BEECH coppice and turned it into a BEEFY forest once its management was neglected during lockdown.Robert BURNS wrote of little mice, and BLEAK moors, and BEECH woods, and luscious BEEFY meals, but we just remember him for Auld Lang Syne.Have a good weekend all!
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"When rumors of layoffs began to circulate last year, she assured colleagues that their jobs were safe, pointing to the more than $40 billion in cash the company had in the bank. But in November, she was among 11,000 workers laid off."Maybe it would be best not to be so naive next time. Those billions aren't for you, they're for the top execs milking the cow.
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The Ukrainians need to be careful how they use their resources, both human and material. Putin is waging an economic war, believing that Western powers will eventually see the cost/benefit of war with Russia as not in its interest. Ukraine needs to expend the precious resources it has wisely, not expending a million dollar missile to shot down a $20,000 drone. The economics don't play well for the Russians, as long as the West is willing to provide. The Putin thugs, too stupid to realize the costs of their genocide in terms of public support in the West, will ensure that the missiles and bombs needed to send the Russians home continue into perpetuity.
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Ellen what do you consider fair price? And how could a regular consumer stretch their budgets if fair price is 10x the discounted sweatshop price? There is a reason why we have so many Walmarts and 99c store and fewer Whole Foods.
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Marcy It's insurance, not payment for services. Although it might cost you $107k to insure yourself over the next 10 years, the odds aren't insignificant that you could spend 5x that amount if you get seriously sick in the next 10 years. Being older = higher odds of using a lot of expensive health care. It's really not rocket science, and it comes down to just a handful of choices.Do we want to deny people health care if they don't have insurance or prepayment, or do we want to treat people regardless of their ability to pay?Do we want to mandate that people buy insurance, or do we want to make it optional, which means that people will only buy it when they need it, thus making it much more expensive?Do we want people to pay premiums based on their current actuarial risk (young people pay very little, people in their 60s pay $30-50k/year in premiums)? Or do we want younger people to pay more so that by the time they are older they pay less?Do we want to pay private for-profit insurance companies to do this - trained in the art of denying a claim - or do we want to follow the lead of the rest of the world and have universal coverage? And if we do want universal coverage, do we treat it as a product, or a societal benefit, meaning do we fund it by charging everyone a flat tax for it (everyone pays $5/year, whether you make $20k/year or $2m/year) or do we fund it with a tax that is higher on people who make more money?That's about it.
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"content": "Marcy It's insurance, not payment for services. Although it might cost you $107k to insure yourself over the next 10 years, the odds aren't insignificant that you could spend 5x that amount if you get seriously sick in the next 10 years. Being older = higher odds of using a lot of expensive health care. It's really not rocket science, and it comes down to just a handful of choices.Do we want to deny people health care if they don't have insurance or prepayment, or do we want to treat people regardless of their ability to pay?Do we want to mandate that people buy insurance, or do we want to make it optional, which means that people will only buy it when they need it, thus making it much more expensive?Do we want people to pay premiums based on their current actuarial risk (young people pay very little, people in their 60s pay $30-50k/year in premiums)? Or do we want younger people to pay more so that by the time they are older they pay less?Do we want to pay private for-profit insurance companies to do this - trained in the art of denying a claim - or do we want to follow the lead of the rest of the world and have universal coverage? And if we do want universal coverage, do we treat it as a product, or a societal benefit, meaning do we fund it by charging everyone a flat tax for it (everyone pays $5/year, whether you make $20k/year or $2m/year) or do we fund it with a tax that is higher on people who make more money?That's about it.\n",
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David One point: haven't congressional members from high tax states which are run by Dems been the loudest voices wanting to repeal the $10,000 limit on the SALT deduction that took effect in 2018? Prior to that the deduction was unlimited. The limit raises taxes for the wealthy.
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"content": "David One point: haven't congressional members from high tax states which are run by Dems been the loudest voices wanting to repeal the $10,000 limit on the SALT deduction that took effect in 2018? Prior to that the deduction was unlimited. The limit raises taxes for the wealthy.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,303 |
My heart goes out to the Chinese people who are fighting against this Whatever Regime. We need to end the autocrats and be more open and united. Sooner or later, we all get fed up.
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Bluebirds for Democracy Go outside any of the larger towns and it’s like Appalachia. Just a mile or two outside of Palm Beach, it’s run down strip malls and people that have never been to a dentist. Not just poverty, but extreme poverty. With the major corporate monopolies today, government, has to provide some stimulus to the proletariat. No one is opening a hardware store next to a Home Depot. Healthcare everywhere is a ripoff but in depressed areas it’s worse. DeSantis, has only one thing to offer, no State Income tax. So he has no money, and nothing is going to change. Florida, could be like California, one of the greatest economies in the world. But, he’s hanging on to the edge of the pool, and doubling down on divisive conservative memes. On his re-election, he should have bumped up the State Tax on the wealthy, and hit the gas peddle on the economy. Rich people aren’t going to leave! No guts, no glory.
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A similar situation occured in 2017 with Dana Schutz's painting of Emmet Till "Open Casket" at the Whitney Biennial. This is a strange and fraught time in the arts.Classic films (Gone With the Wind) are cancelled, others are preceded by trigger warnings. It's going to be sort of crazy for the next few decades I think...
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When it comes to friends and money: give freely or not at all; never lend. Giving freely means without conditions and with zero opinions about how the money is directed. If you need or even just want the money back, you're not in a position to give. Sure, it's hard to watch a friend struggle when one has funds in the bank. But if you're going to want that $500 (or $50,000) back, lending it out, or giving with the hope that it will one day be repaid is a prescription for resentment. You can help instead with practical gestures: share your CSA haul with them or cook them dinner from time to time; give them your old car instead of trading it in (if you can afford it); offer to save them babysitting costs by having their kids over sometimes and definitely pass along (nice) hand-me-downs. These will not solve major financial troubles, but that's not your responsibility. If they need a loan, that's what banks are for.
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"content": "When it comes to friends and money: give freely or not at all; never lend. Giving freely means without conditions and with zero opinions about how the money is directed. If you need or even just want the money back, you're not in a position to give. Sure, it's hard to watch a friend struggle when one has funds in the bank. But if you're going to want that $500 (or $50,000) back, lending it out, or giving with the hope that it will one day be repaid is a prescription for resentment. You can help instead with practical gestures: share your CSA haul with them or cook them dinner from time to time; give them your old car instead of trading it in (if you can afford it); offer to save them babysitting costs by having their kids over sometimes and definitely pass along (nice) hand-me-downs. These will not solve major financial troubles, but that's not your responsibility. If they need a loan, that's what banks are for.\n",
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As an affluent Manhattanite who votes straight ticket Democrat, my only complaint is that every time the government or my party decides it needs to raise more revenue, they come after the merely affluent as opposed to the super rich. Getting the super rich is hard. Getting the affluent is easy.Contrary to many of the morally superior individuals commenting here who are able to manage their less complex and expensive financial lives and undoubtedly live in lower cost areas with no issue: variability in tax policy every few years is very difficult to manage. Plus or minus a negative $30-75k a year matters over the course of a lifetime.The Trump Salt cap was tough to swallow. Limited warning, $50,000 less cash the next year and every year until it expires.
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Kasten The eco lobby? Are you kidding?The special interest lobby of big oil and big coal has kept us from innovating policy in the halls of congress and the statehouses of America for decades. The 'eco lobby' has pennies on the dollar to spend vs big oil lobby in lobbying activities, being outnumbered by 20 to 1 by polluting interests.If big oil and coal had embraced climate change as a reality in the 1990s, when it became a clear concern, the industry could have started investing in innovating technologies. Carbon records began in the 1950's, the science was clear by the 1990s. Instead, big oil wasted precious time publishing bogus science to market inaction to the media and policymakers. We wasted decades because big oil wanted to protect its investments to pollute. There are still so many technologies and policies we could implement to reduce pollution and enhance innovation that are being fought by the companies who see those proposals as threatening their bottom line. To pretend otherwise is naive.
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"content": "Kasten The eco lobby? Are you kidding?The special interest lobby of big oil and big coal has kept us from innovating policy in the halls of congress and the statehouses of America for decades. The 'eco lobby' has pennies on the dollar to spend vs big oil lobby in lobbying activities, being outnumbered by 20 to 1 by polluting interests.If big oil and coal had embraced climate change as a reality in the 1990s, when it became a clear concern, the industry could have started investing in innovating technologies. Carbon records began in the 1950's, the science was clear by the 1990s. Instead, big oil wasted precious time publishing bogus science to market inaction to the media and policymakers. We wasted decades because big oil wanted to protect its investments to pollute. There are still so many technologies and policies we could implement to reduce pollution and enhance innovation that are being fought by the companies who see those proposals as threatening their bottom line. To pretend otherwise is naive.\n",
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Congratulate me - during the Covid stay-at-home I managed to organize an entire drawer that often couldn't be opened because of all the stuff jammed into it. It is a satisfying accomplishment and a joy to behold. I even show it to guests.
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| no | Classification | 3,172 |
Congress should agree to automatically increase the debt limit at the rate of inflation each year. Anything beyond that could be subject to a vote.So for example, the debt limit for 2022 would increase by around $2.7 trillion dollars. In normal inflation years it would increase by a mere $600-900 billion.This also points up that our national debt was increasing at less than the inflation rate last year.Note: numbers based on $30 trillion dollar national debt, and inflation rate for 2022 estimated at 9 percent.
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"content": "Congress should agree to automatically increase the debt limit at the rate of inflation each year. Anything beyond that could be subject to a vote.So for example, the debt limit for 2022 would increase by around $2.7 trillion dollars. In normal inflation years it would increase by a mere $600-900 billion.This also points up that our national debt was increasing at less than the inflation rate last year.Note: numbers based on $30 trillion dollar national debt, and inflation rate for 2022 estimated at 9 percent.\n",
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sundance carrigan shirt ($98)
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When Gerald Ford died, President GHW Bush gave a eulogy at one of his services. I remember being so moved by Pres. Bush's eulogy - especially his opening remarks - that I copied and saved it - and it appears below -"Well, as the story goes, Gerald Ford was a newly minted candidate for the United States House of Representatives in June of 1948 when he made plans with a reporter to visit the dairy farmers in western Michigan’s Fifth Congressional District. It was pouring rain that particular day and neither the journalist nor the farmers had expected the upstart candidate to keep his appointment. And yet he showed up on time because, as he explained to the journalist, 'they milk cows every day and, besides that, I promised.'""Because I promised" --It speaks to a kind of decency and ground-level fair-mindedness which is swiftly disappearing from the basic fabric of our society today -Many comments below speak of the intense right-wing media and use of the internet as being the squeakiest wheel to attract the largest amount of oil -When Orson Welles' Mercury Theater broadcast a reading of "War of the Worlds" in 1938 - people who turned on their radios in the middle of the broadcast actually believed we were being invaded - resulting in mass panic and people fleeing in their cars -Today - instead of Orson Welles - we have the right-wing media - with gullible listeners reacting in the same way -Gerald Ford would be turning in his grave...
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My much loved adult son died recently from a rare and agressive stomach cancer. The hospice doctor explained about medically assisted suicide as an option when the pain became too much. He declined. Some weeks later he asked me to get the doctor because the strongest possible pain meds were not working, the pain was getting worse and was unrelenting. I got the doctor to come explain his options. It was too late to get the medication (that takes at least 15 days) but he could choose palliative sedation and be unconscious until he died. He said, yes, do that. There is a difference between extending life and extending death...I was devastated to lose him, but I am glad he could choose how he wanted to spend his final 36 hours. RIP
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Eric B Documentalista Cheryl AnnYou are so kind to help with this issue. Many thanks.My iPhone iOS is up to date. I just played around —AGAIN!—with opening the Permalink, and finally figured it out.Up to a few days ago, I just had to tap your Permalink, and it opened and saved immediately in a new tab. Never a problem.Now, I have to tap the link, wait til a toolbar opens, then I have to click “Open in New Tab.”As I said, never had to do this before.Problem solved, all’s well. Cheryl Ann, I hope you see this post. Perhaps this will fix your issue, too. 🤞
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When I started investing in the early 70s I was lucky to find a couple of mentors who drilled some basics into my brain:1 the optimal investing strategy is get rich slow2 learn the rule of 72 which means that one should divide that number by a certain rate of return and that will indicate how quickly a person could double their money. Since the average rate of return over the last 200 or so years is about 6% that means it takes about 12 years to double one's money in the stock market (this works well with rule #1)3 put as much money as possible in your company's 401K to get the "free money" company match4 invest for the long term (again see rule.#1)
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If rates stay above 3.5% for three more years interest payments will become about as large as the military budget. The other issue is the size of deficits are now a trillion a year vs 2-300 billion. Running 4% of GDP budget deficits with 3-4% of GDP interest payments is approaching the point where cutting spending can no longer reduce the size of each years deficit and any unexpected rise in real rates (rises in inflation affect both tax receipts and expenses) becomes pretty risky. At the least deficits need to come down below the level of real rates. Right now that's about 1.5% across the curve.
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"content": "If rates stay above 3.5% for three more years interest payments will become about as large as the military budget. The other issue is the size of deficits are now a trillion a year vs 2-300 billion. Running 4% of GDP budget deficits with 3-4% of GDP interest payments is approaching the point where cutting spending can no longer reduce the size of each years deficit and any unexpected rise in real rates (rises in inflation affect both tax receipts and expenses) becomes pretty risky. At the least deficits need to come down below the level of real rates. Right now that's about 1.5% across the curve.\n",
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I shutdown my Facebook account yesterday. I saw Maria Ressa speak last Saturday. She opened my eyes to the purposeful deceit incorporated into the algorithms as well as the greed driven policy decisions. Yesterday was the last straw. Any good I derive from the ability to stay in touch with a few people is completely negated by the evil it helps perpetuate.I never had an Instagram account.I would advise businesses that now only use these social media tools as their way to communicate with the public that they are no substitute for a website. Every business should have a simple website with place of business, hours, and contact via phone and email.
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"content": "I shutdown my Facebook account yesterday. I saw Maria Ressa speak last Saturday. She opened my eyes to the purposeful deceit incorporated into the algorithms as well as the greed driven policy decisions. Yesterday was the last straw. Any good I derive from the ability to stay in touch with a few people is completely negated by the evil it helps perpetuate.I never had an Instagram account.I would advise businesses that now only use these social media tools as their way to communicate with the public that they are no substitute for a website. Every business should have a simple website with place of business, hours, and contact via phone and email.\n",
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War and pestilence cannot combine to reverse the world's rapid population growth. Of nearly 2 Billion people at its start, five hundred million people died as a sequel to both during the 20th century; and, here we are 23 years on with 7.9 Billion. Capitalism, the bastard child of religion, demands population growth for a return on investment. The great miscegenation that you posit would be a consequence of weakness and need. The wild population of growth of Afghanistan and Nigeria offer a glimpse of the future, absent a New Idea, to take us from delusional beliefs to rational behaviors to find solutions to our over-burdened world.
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"content": "War and pestilence cannot combine to reverse the world's rapid population growth. Of nearly 2 Billion people at its start, five hundred million people died as a sequel to both during the 20th century; and, here we are 23 years on with 7.9 Billion. Capitalism, the bastard child of religion, demands population growth for a return on investment. The great miscegenation that you posit would be a consequence of weakness and need. The wild population of growth of Afghanistan and Nigeria offer a glimpse of the future, absent a New Idea, to take us from delusional beliefs to rational behaviors to find solutions to our over-burdened world.\n",
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Trump warned us in 2016Biden just keeps the border openThese types of murders are just the beginning
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Ralph Reed shows every time he opens his mouth why many democrats and decent men and women have no respect for the evangelical leadership. Ralph Reed "we have to show that the democrats are extremist". Didn't the evangelical leadership ever hear of the ten commandments? Thou shall not call false witness upon your neighbor! I'm a democratic along with some of my friends and family and none of us would ever be considered "extremist" in any shape or form. Politicizing religion by the evangelical leadership mixed in with them demonizing the other side with untruths just makes them seem like very small minded phonies who forgot their way.
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"content": "Ralph Reed shows every time he opens his mouth why many democrats and decent men and women have no respect for the evangelical leadership. Ralph Reed \"we have to show that the democrats are extremist\". Didn't the evangelical leadership ever hear of the ten commandments? Thou shall not call false witness upon your neighbor! I'm a democratic along with some of my friends and family and none of us would ever be considered \"extremist\" in any shape or form. Politicizing religion by the evangelical leadership mixed in with them demonizing the other side with untruths just makes them seem like very small minded phonies who forgot their way.\n",
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The source of your “best estimates”, please? The $1m missile was bought not with their but OUR money.
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"content": "The source of your “best estimates”, please? The $1m missile was bought not with their but OUR money.\n",
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The world knew that the Ukraine was full of corrupt government officials and oligarchs but it set all that aside when Putin invaded the country. The United States has spent over $50 billion on their war effort with no end in sight. Now we learn that Zelensky has fired a bevy of military and political officials, even a deputy head of the President's Office, on corruption charges. So what's going on here? If we know about this certainly Biden and his team of advisors have known it for a while, so why are we sending Abrams tanks their way? Everything needs to stop until we figure out exactly to what end we're helping to defend the Ukraine; in order to preserve an obviously corrupt and opressive government? There's a reason Ukraine didn't join NATO 20 years ago.
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"content": "The world knew that the Ukraine was full of corrupt government officials and oligarchs but it set all that aside when Putin invaded the country. The United States has spent over $50 billion on their war effort with no end in sight. Now we learn that Zelensky has fired a bevy of military and political officials, even a deputy head of the President's Office, on corruption charges. So what's going on here? If we know about this certainly Biden and his team of advisors have known it for a while, so why are we sending Abrams tanks their way? Everything needs to stop until we figure out exactly to what end we're helping to defend the Ukraine; in order to preserve an obviously corrupt and opressive government? There's a reason Ukraine didn't join NATO 20 years ago.\n",
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You know it makes sense to have $1000 per hour lawyers clean my office…it just makes so much sense. It’s almost like they were sent there knowing this documents will be found. Here I thought voting for Biden would mean he will be above the fray but he pretty much broke same rule he was lecturing former president Trump about. I know media will try to say this is different than Trumps and play it off because of their bias.
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"content": "You know it makes sense to have $1000 per hour lawyers clean my office…it just makes so much sense. It’s almost like they were sent there knowing this documents will be found. Here I thought voting for Biden would mean he will be above the fray but he pretty much broke same rule he was lecturing former president Trump about. I know media will try to say this is different than Trumps and play it off because of their bias.\n",
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When I was in high school, eons ago, I constructed an acrostic puzzle, purely for my own amusement… but still, the fact no one was up for the challenge of solving it was somewhat discouraging. That effort is long lost, so whether or not it would have held up under serious scrutiny is an open question. I, alas, did not follow up with any further attempts, and it was not until many years later that I started solving straight crosswords. I am rather intimidated by the idea of constructing my own… and yet it is secretly (I guess no longer! 😉) on my bucket list to have one published in the NYT. I can only hope that if I ever get the nerve to give it a shot and make a submission, it will give folks as much pleasure as this one gave me. Congrats on a lovely puzzle, Ms. McBride, with a nice feminist message imbedded as well. Kudos for having the confidence to go for it… you are an inspiration to me in my dotage!
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Thomas Moore NY TimesPaul Krugman: Notes on Immigration "First, the benefits of immigration to the population already here are small. " "My second negative point is that immigration reduces the wages of domestic workers who compete with immigrants. That’s just supply and demand: we’re talking about large increases in the number of low-skill workers relative to other inputs into production, so it’s inevitable that this means a fall in wages" "Finally, the fiscal burden of low-wage immigrants is also pretty clear. Mr. Hanson uses some estimates from the National Research Council to get a specific number, around 0.25 percent of G.D.P. Again, I think that you’d be hard pressed to find any set of assumptions under which Mexican immigrants are a net fiscal plus, but equally hard pressed to make the burden more than a fraction of a percent of G.D.P." The NY Times , Mar 27, 2006 And costs the US taxpayer, taking the 0.25 percent of the GDP value, 52 Billion?This is not a small amount : The entire National Science Foundation Budget for 2021 is 6.91 Billion
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Why does The NY Times keep providing H & M so much free publicity. Enough already. I, like many others, was a big fan of theirs and rally watched their $30 million dollar wedding, paid for by Harry’s self-described “racist” family. The crime (for which Oprah provided an operatic size response: wondering about the baby’s skin color. Which set of prospective parents hasn’t wondered what their newborn would look like?Enough of these two navel gazers. Just stop.
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I would like to see the New York State Attorney General's office investigate whether George Santos was using GoFundMe to run scams to support himself like that veteran who got scammed out of $3,000 that may be just the tip of the iceberg.The same with the animal rescue group he kept talking about that did not have 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.Was George Santos under his many alias using GoFundMe and websites for fake rescue groups to support himself?There was that couple in New Jersey that got lengthy prison terms for defrauding people on GoFundMe campaign for that homeless guy and sounds like Santos may have done the same!
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These firms should never have over-hired in the first place. It's crazy to me that they think they can hire and fire so many people in such a short period of time without a significant negative impact on prospective applicants' views of the firm in the future.I hope the likes of Facebook, which is facing far costlier regulation in the UK, EU, and US crunched their numbers well, because I expect folks burned by this poor management will be hesitant to bother applying to work at these places again.A few high profile "big" law firms are still licking their wounds recruitment-wise from cut-throat layoffs during the great recession. Cooley's recent mass layoffs are likely to have a similar impact on the firm's long-term recruitment prospects.Unlike investment banking, where Goldman Sachs is still the biggest fish, there will be more/new great tech opportunities in the not too distant future. If folks don't think these kinds of mass layoffs, brought on by poor management of over-hiring during a boom time when the bust was readily predictable, will make workers less inclined to work their assess off, employers are in for a rude awakening. Folks 22-35 have already shown themselves unwilling to put up with practices their parents endured. These mass lay-offs will have plenty of consequences for productivity and effort down the line. The prospect of making less money might be better than culling the workers firms will rely in a few years.
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"content": "These firms should never have over-hired in the first place. It's crazy to me that they think they can hire and fire so many people in such a short period of time without a significant negative impact on prospective applicants' views of the firm in the future.I hope the likes of Facebook, which is facing far costlier regulation in the UK, EU, and US crunched their numbers well, because I expect folks burned by this poor management will be hesitant to bother applying to work at these places again.A few high profile \"big\" law firms are still licking their wounds recruitment-wise from cut-throat layoffs during the great recession. Cooley's recent mass layoffs are likely to have a similar impact on the firm's long-term recruitment prospects.Unlike investment banking, where Goldman Sachs is still the biggest fish, there will be more/new great tech opportunities in the not too distant future. If folks don't think these kinds of mass layoffs, brought on by poor management of over-hiring during a boom time when the bust was readily predictable, will make workers less inclined to work their assess off, employers are in for a rude awakening. Folks 22-35 have already shown themselves unwilling to put up with practices their parents endured. These mass lay-offs will have plenty of consequences for productivity and effort down the line. The prospect of making less money might be better than culling the workers firms will rely in a few years.\n",
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Microsoft has a stake in Chat GPT and most probably board seats - it will be acquired by MS as soon as they develop a coherent business model.
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First of all, there really is no such thing as US Government debt. The government issues Treasury securities for anachronistic reasons. There was a time when the dollar was convertable to gold, so we needed to worry the quantity of money (reserves) that was floating around the world, because theroretically the holders of those reserves could demand gold in exchange, of which we had a fixed amount. In those days we could actually default.But once we went off the gold standard in 1971, that risk was no longer in place. There is really no operational reason to issue securities anymore. The government can finance itself entirely by creating money when it spends (as we do today) and destroying money when we tax (as we do today) with no need to issue securities should we create more money than we destroy in any given year. The notion that we "borrow" money and incur "debt" is completely absurd. It makes no sense at all. Think of it this way. When we "pay off" debt to today, which simply means we retire securities when they come due, all we do operationally is move funds from bank securities accounts at the Fed to their reserve accounts at the Fed. It is the functional equivalent of moving money from you savings account to you checking account. The government could tonite, while we are all sleeping, move everyone's money out of their security accounts and into their reserve accounts, and the entire $31 trillion in so-called debt would be paid off all at once. Easy right?
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Federal agencies, led by James Comey, furthered the false narrative that there was Russian collusion in the 2020 election, leading to a 40 million dollar special prosecutor investigation that came up empty. The documents recently released by Twitter indicate that one or more Federal agencies paid Twitter roughly 3 million dollars to shut down accounts of people whose views they did not want aired. Do our First Amendment rights really depend on whose ox is being gored? Does anyone remember the Pentagon Papers case that made it to the Supreme Court? Or the decades of jurisprudence surrounding "prior restraints" in publication of information. Twitter is a private entity but when the Federal government uses it as a tool to suppress free expression, things change. If not, would we accept a practice whereby a Federal agency pays a private actor to break into someone's home to search for evidence of a crime and then claim that they, the government agency, never entered the property so no 4th Amendment violation occurred? I sure hope not. We should want to know what happened. Ultimately, those on this new committee may end up looking foolish. But if it is discovered that government suppression of speech occurred, we should all be concerned. "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." William O. Douglas, former Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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I see no solution to this. Maybe Bombas should open physical stores, hire some employees to ensure authenticity. With those prices, they obviously can afford it.
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George S. Saw that tour too, awesome. They used to switch who would open, always thought that said a lot about their respect for each other.
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It’s about time. And I have to wonder about the value of the land itself? Is it worth 20 million? Or does that include the value of the business that might it have generated? I hope that this effort is followed as a precedent for other Black families that experience these circumstances. The real estate was all but stolen, but it’s the stolen history of a Black owned business that is the tragedy. We can’t refund that.
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That's right, you can't put Humpty Dumpty together again after a default as Bill Dudley said. I give absolutely no credenece to anyone who talks about mitigation measures. A US default is not a 9/11 occurrence. It is the largest nuclear bomb in existence being dropped on Manhattan. You can't mitigate or predict the affects of that mass casualty except that it will be a different world afterwards. I was a corporate bankruptcy partner in the NY office of one of the largest law firms in the world in 2007 and 2008. I worked on Lehman Bros. whose bankruptcy almost brought down the financial system of the world. It had about $500 billion in assets. The US saved the world financial system by massive and urgent bailouts of many financial institutions. The US debt is about 31 trillion dollars and a bankrupt US in default will not have the capacity to bail anyone out. It might actually convince more people who need to be convinced of the seriousness of the problem by telling them the truth rather than playing prediction and mitigation games.
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It is one of our finest cliches that plant-based eaters do not/cannot get sufficient protein. Fact: The U.S. government subsidizes the livestock and dairy industry to the tune of $50 billion every year. It cannot be any wonder then that the dietary supremacy of meat and dairy will be the dominant narrative. Separately, 'The Game Changers' is a compelling, credible documentary about the many world class professional athletes (Novak Djokovic, Lewis Hamilton among many others) who are solely plant-based.
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I attended Wesleyan in the mid-late 70’s as a “diversity” student: poor white Irish Catholic girl from a single-parent family in a working class New England town. And I received a very generous financial aid package (graduated with $4k in loans!). It was a big step up for me at that time. I struggled mightily in my freshman year as I was totally not prepared academically. Made it through and have to say, the Wes credentials gave me a subtle advantage over the years in my career. Those nifty 50 colleges and universities, fairly or not, do carry a lifetime cache. And the SCOTUS ruling will add complexity to an already crazy and complicated US college admissions process. Maybe the Brits have it right as another writer suggests.
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Solomon We had a very good $120+ electric kettle that lasted several years. Then a small mesh filter that snaps into the spout degraded and fell apart. Without it, the kettle would not shut off when it reached boil. I contacted the manufacturer to see if I could order a replacement filter. It's a piece of plastic about 1 by 2 inches that could have been mailed in a tiny envelope. Nope. They are not sold or shipped separate of the kettle. So the entire perfectly good metal and plastic electronic appliance had to be tossed and a whole new kettle purchased. We went with a different brand, obviously.
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Another observation is what are the incentives and outlets for creative people that could be the "Einsteins" of the future. If you can make far more money than a scientist posting funny TikTok videos, I wonder why would you put yourself through 8 years of post graduate studies and be paid 1/4 of what a surgeon makes. Even if you are passionate enough, to be successful you still have to be a good self promoter, get into the best labs to learn from the best, build a network of allies. It takes real social skills to do that. Very few top creative minds have both exceptional IQ and EQ. My wife does, she talked her way to collaborate with Stanford Scientists, worked with Nobel price winners, but decided eventually that academia did not pay enough. I had come to this conclusion a lot sooner ( I never had the inclination to do the networking needed) and worked for the industry. Even then, if you are one of the top 1% in your field you are not paid like an NBA player, because the market is tilted by non-compete clauses, high degree of specialization leading to a swallow market. You also need to become an executive or company founder to get any shot at big equity pay out. Making money with money is unfortunately easier than that when you have access to credit and a steady 6 figure incomes. It is what my wife and I did, in parallel to our science careers. I still love to disrupt and dream the future but gave up on capturing value it. This is both sad and wonderful.
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Gamecocks I will take our climate in New York over most of the rest of the US any day. The entire Great Lakes basin is one of the few regions in North America that has access to substantial water resources, and is protected from hurricanes and earthquakes and firestorms and drought. That’s why Micron is investing $100 billion dollars in a new chip plant near us. And New York is certainly an expensive state. We spend more on education per capita than most other states, for example. We are spending hundreds of billions updating our electric grid and converting to 100 percent sustainable energy, which will insulate us from fossil fuel dictatorships in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Which are also reasons Micron chose New York.Oh and by the way, we control the financial markets, which are mainly based in NY. That’s attractive for companies that need financial resources.
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Jackson 86% Support Background checks on guns - Quinnipiac, March 6, 2019. 68% support stronger gun safety laws - Forbes, June 15, 2022.83% support expanded medicare - Data For Progress - June 15, 2021.62% support raising minimum wage to $15 - Pew Research - April 22, 2021 .85% support a woman's right to have an abortion in some or all circumstances - Vox.com - June 24, 2022 (Vote results in Kansas - 59%, Vermont, 77%, California 67%, Michigan 57%, Kentucky 53%. Note that California has double the people of the others, combined)..65% of Americans want stronger action on Climate Change, 80% want tougher standards on Carbon emissions, 71% want stronger standards on car exhaust; 79% want more effort on developing alternate energy sources - Pew Research - June 23, 2020.Support for stronger Social Security runs 70% - 80% depending on the question - NASI study, January 2013. See also Data For Progress, July 11, 2022..Overall, the main planks of the Democratic party policy platform are very popular across the broad swath of American public opinion.
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