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The story fails to discuss the actual cost of these raspberry shakes seismometers. I looked at their website and the cheapest is about $300 and the most expensive is about $800, although there is a $125 discount for home users and educational users.
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Sarah Of course we do. Usually around 3am and, also of course, doing so while standing in front of the open fridge while the door is dinging is de rigueur.
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Hunter Greer The problem is NOT ''entitlements'' (where not all citizens invest in proportionally I might add), but it is defense spending. (which is multiples of all of the other top countries combined) We are all in this together, which means that if we invested into any program proportionally and Progressively, then all of them would be working and solvent for generations,Take the FICA cap as an example. Social Security would be solvent and could be expanded in benefits if all paid into it proportionally to their income and wealth, but they do not. If we had single payer, then again all would be paying into the program, so that there would NO need for private programs. There are many examples of this all throughout the rest of the industrialized world. I suppose we could just ignore all of the above, keep our heads in the sand and let republicans have their way through inaccurate statistics. We could also have an equal society.
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"content": "Hunter Greer The problem is NOT ''entitlements'' (where not all citizens invest in proportionally I might add), but it is defense spending. (which is multiples of all of the other top countries combined) We are all in this together, which means that if we invested into any program proportionally and Progressively, then all of them would be working and solvent for generations,Take the FICA cap as an example. Social Security would be solvent and could be expanded in benefits if all paid into it proportionally to their income and wealth, but they do not. If we had single payer, then again all would be paying into the program, so that there would NO need for private programs. There are many examples of this all throughout the rest of the industrialized world. I suppose we could just ignore all of the above, keep our heads in the sand and let republicans have their way through inaccurate statistics. We could also have an equal society.\n",
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Great to see displayed the athleticism of elite receivers . So tired of watching players like Gronkowski, who is probably 50 pounds heavier than the poor guy covering him, literally manhandle him to get open. Once read an interview with Jerry Rice who was asked how he managed to get open so often, and he responded, hours and hours spent alone during the off season running pass patterns. Beautiful embeds.
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It is no accident that the hyper-growth of an unfettered globalized economy and exponential income inequality has resulted in the desolation of community in the United States. As factories closed, the tax burden shifted to the middle class, rural towns collapsed, and services to those in need decreased, many faced a lonely life seeing no where to turn. Our lifestyle is propelled by that of a solitary independence that ignores the need that we have supportive relationships. The opioid epidemic, homelessness brought on by housing shortages, and guns deaths are all symptoms of our unwillingness as a culture to invest in community. Ironically our prescriptions to harden schools and public venues while individually investing in home security has not made us safe from such ongoing violence. The growing development of radical communities like militias, and even the storming of the Capitol, are partially the result of the void of healthy communities. Our increased vulnerability to grifts of all kinds and the growing isolation that results from a predatory social media sphere are also symptoms. Our greatest human resource is one another, yet our destructive impulse is to value "me".
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GustofWind - Thank you for sharing a bit about Panpsychism. I can well imagine the scientists who dominate this article dismissing it as "New Age mysticism". Yet they have no firm evidence that their mechanistic approach is any more valid when it comes to capturing the elusive spark of consciousness.My intuition and my chosen religion the Baha'i Faith lead me to anticipate that it will require a genuine meeting of minds between people committed to material neuroscience and AI, and to those equally committed to spiritual concepts like panpsychism. This blending of Substance and Spirit is a vital part of humanity's journey toward unity and maturity. Only success in this journey will assure us all of an open-ended future that is positive and healthy for humans, animals, and very likely conscious machines.
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"content": "GustofWind - Thank you for sharing a bit about Panpsychism. I can well imagine the scientists who dominate this article dismissing it as \"New Age mysticism\". Yet they have no firm evidence that their mechanistic approach is any more valid when it comes to capturing the elusive spark of consciousness.My intuition and my chosen religion the Baha'i Faith lead me to anticipate that it will require a genuine meeting of minds between people committed to material neuroscience and AI, and to those equally committed to spiritual concepts like panpsychism. This blending of Substance and Spirit is a vital part of humanity's journey toward unity and maturity. Only success in this journey will assure us all of an open-ended future that is positive and healthy for humans, animals, and very likely conscious machines.\n",
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Madrugada Mistral When our kids were young, during our travels, we always would seek out bookstores or books in giftshops. We were strong library supporters as well and what you say is true and applies to your local library's other services, workshops, lectures, website, and online offerings as well. In fact, on my property tax bill (which I just paid a little over a month ago) the library portion is $659. I used to smile, years ago, when my kids would tell me they could borrow tapes and DVDs "free" at the library as they were exchanging books there as well. I realize costs and services varies greatly by locale. You, nevertheless, owe it to yourself to make use of the library. I think, these days, most libraries work hard to stay relevant.
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"content": "Madrugada Mistral When our kids were young, during our travels, we always would seek out bookstores or books in giftshops. We were strong library supporters as well and what you say is true and applies to your local library's other services, workshops, lectures, website, and online offerings as well. In fact, on my property tax bill (which I just paid a little over a month ago) the library portion is $659. I used to smile, years ago, when my kids would tell me they could borrow tapes and DVDs \"free\" at the library as they were exchanging books there as well. I realize costs and services varies greatly by locale. You, nevertheless, owe it to yourself to make use of the library. I think, these days, most libraries work hard to stay relevant.\n",
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Scott Obviously you guys haven't done the math.China and India have 1.4 billion people each.That is 2.8 billion people or 2.8 x 10^9.Said another way 2.8 thousand million.Italy has a population of 59 million. So Italy's population is 2% of China and India.If you wanted to stem global population growth, wouldn't it be more effective to say every country should cut their poulation by 1% rather than have the population of a few countries wiped out while the others continue increasing? For example, just checking the data on India's growth (worlddata.info) : From 1960 to 2021 the population of India increased from 450.55 million to 1.41 billion people. This is a growth of almost a billion people or 212.4 percent in 61 years.On the other hand from 1960 to 2021 the population of Italy increased from 49 million to 59 million. This is a growth of 10 million.
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Paul Nanson Your points are valid for negotiating important legislation. Including the $1.7 trillion omnibus bill.But that is not how it works for choosing a Speaker. At least for the last 100 years. The Republicans had nearly two months since the election to work this out among themselves.
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Diogenes OK, let's raise everyone's taxes by 1000% to start paring down the $33 trillion dollar debt.
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“totally 100 percent true … with very few exceptions” from no less than a Harvard Business School economist. I definitely maybe think there is certainly perhaps a small internal inconsistency buried in that sentence somewhere…But more on topic, it’s sad that wealth is so highly valued in this greed-centric world. I would like to see humanity develop some sort of notion that it is repugnant to be ridiculously overpaid for any job, be it CEO of Shell or famous actor or superstar athlete. Ditto for extreme wealth.There is a bit of a stink in Canada these days, and I believe in the US as well, over execs who received multi-million-dollar performance bonuses while their companies received multi-million-dollar COVID assistance payments. Shame on them for that, and also for the simple fact that, COVID aside, many of them make many millions per year.And in a similar vein, being a billionaire should not be worthy of praise but of scorn. What can you do with that dollar that made you a billionaire that you couldn’t do without it?
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"content": "“totally 100 percent true … with very few exceptions” from no less than a Harvard Business School economist. I definitely maybe think there is certainly perhaps a small internal inconsistency buried in that sentence somewhere…But more on topic, it’s sad that wealth is so highly valued in this greed-centric world. I would like to see humanity develop some sort of notion that it is repugnant to be ridiculously overpaid for any job, be it CEO of Shell or famous actor or superstar athlete. Ditto for extreme wealth.There is a bit of a stink in Canada these days, and I believe in the US as well, over execs who received multi-million-dollar performance bonuses while their companies received multi-million-dollar COVID assistance payments. Shame on them for that, and also for the simple fact that, COVID aside, many of them make many millions per year.And in a similar vein, being a billionaire should not be worthy of praise but of scorn. What can you do with that dollar that made you a billionaire that you couldn’t do without it?\n",
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Tobi Move east ... we have many and covid opened spaces. I have an older friend who was able to have his pick and get it early do to openings and income
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Maybe this is part of a broader structural problem? Modern corporations tend to be large and integrated (encompassing many functional areas) to deter competition, which has enabled Capital to incrementally prosper at the expense of Labor for many recent decades, in terms of GDP share. Collaboration between these internal functional areas - which have different agendas to continually reconcile - is much less efficient than it would be if the corporation outsourced most functions, and empowered their key function to dictate priorities to the other functions (now as outside vendors). The result - a world of small, highly specialized companies - would make for more productive, focused workplaces. Multi-tasking stress must be highly correlated with enterprise headcount size? I recently retired from large dysfunctional asset management business, which would have benefitted by either deeming investment or sales as the "key function", and allowing key function to outsource the other and dictate priorities. The politics and endless "micro-negotiations" between functions were took up half of everyone's time.A world of small entities might have less profit for investors because of more competition, but more GDP share for labor and less stressful white collar work too
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For Tech Companies, Years of Easy Money Yield to Hard Times Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites.
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Bob I disagree - they received $17,000. There were probably some expenses they incurred even with a no show but they could - and should in my opinion - offer some amount of future credit.
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A casino in NYC is the very LAST thing we need…. Related’s Hudson Yards is the epitome of how developers and politicians are so wrong. Did we really need a group of taxpayer-funded “luxury”shopping malls? Clearly not as they are an utter failure, sitting nearly empty. Did we need a $200 million hideous stairway to nowhere?? That eyesore is now infamous for suicides, and has been closed for more than a year. We certainly do not need a casino for people to come and lose their shirt. We need affordable housing!! Related should pay the city back the $4.5 billion in taxpayer funds it received before it can do anything else. Think about Corbusier’s L’Unite d’Habitation, an architectural gem of affordable apartments in France, and compare that to what greedy developers have done with nearly $5 billion. We could have had THAT in place of Hudson Yards.
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"content": "A casino in NYC is the very LAST thing we need…. Related’s Hudson Yards is the epitome of how developers and politicians are so wrong. Did we really need a group of taxpayer-funded “luxury”shopping malls? Clearly not as they are an utter failure, sitting nearly empty. Did we need a $200 million hideous stairway to nowhere?? That eyesore is now infamous for suicides, and has been closed for more than a year. We certainly do not need a casino for people to come and lose their shirt. We need affordable housing!! Related should pay the city back the $4.5 billion in taxpayer funds it received before it can do anything else. Think about Corbusier’s L’Unite d’Habitation, an architectural gem of affordable apartments in France, and compare that to what greedy developers have done with nearly $5 billion. We could have had THAT in place of Hudson Yards.\n",
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Shame. Look at the robust discussion that ensues when we discuss subjects that are controversial. The article and this comment sections are evidence of why the open discussion of charged issues promotes deeper understanding. Especially when these conversations are respectful and all view points are welcome, we all learn from each other. That said, the comment section (and frankly the article) is missing the voice of someone who would defend the offended.
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Doug Fuhr - Well said! The Flatland of sequential thinking cannot grasp the higher dimensions of perception needed to more fully comprehend and embrace genuine consciousness. Neuroscience and AI are entering upon a vast new territory. Like young teenagers thrilling to their new-found capacities, practitioners may act like they will soon have everything figured out and replace earlier outmoded ideas. Such brash self-confidence will I pray give way to a more mature grasp of limits and the possibility of adopting a more humble approach that will seek to establish collaborative consultation about these topics across a broad spectrum of humanity. If scientists and investors repeat childish patterns of elitism, egotistical self-aggrandisement, and financial profit-seeking, humanity and planet Earth will likely pay a very high price that we may discover will be unendurable for the current civilisation.
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MidtownATL 22-year-old Elvis Presley purchased his Graceland estate on March 19, 1959, for $102,500 or more than $900,000 in today's money.......I don't think many people were spending $102K on homes in 1959.....I think my parents first home around same time was $10K
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So far 2 sightings in the last 5 years in the rural Hudson Valley. Decent habitat made up of large woody tracts and occasional fields. Lots of deer. Due to the ugly mass wipeouts in western states of reestablished wolf population, I don't think this is a good idea. It's the same story, reintroduce wolves only for them to be targeted and decimated once they step over federally protected borders. Lift their endangered status. Killing the young in their dens. It's heartbreaking. What's the point? Let the few cougars that make it east be left alone to roam big open spaces. That would be the kindest scenerio.
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"content": "So far 2 sightings in the last 5 years in the rural Hudson Valley. Decent habitat made up of large woody tracts and occasional fields. Lots of deer. Due to the ugly mass wipeouts in western states of reestablished wolf population, I don't think this is a good idea. It's the same story, reintroduce wolves only for them to be targeted and decimated once they step over federally protected borders. Lift their endangered status. Killing the young in their dens. It's heartbreaking. What's the point? Let the few cougars that make it east be left alone to roam big open spaces. That would be the kindest scenerio.\n",
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This column is absurd in its conceit. When I was born, in 1958 (the beginning of what Douthat cites, China’s “Great Leap Forward”), the world population was below 3 billion. Late last year, it exceeded 8 billion. How a 275% increase in world population in 65 years, an average increase of 4.23% per year, every year, in that time, can be described as a population bust, remains a risible mystery.Perhaps it is only knowable to someone wedded to the dictum of supposed celibates that all sexual activity must be open to the possibility of conception.Meanwhile, the NY Metro area is a week away from setting the record for the latest first recorded snowfall, a record that seems highly likely to fall. The far west is crumbling under unprecedented crippling rains. In the middle of the country, water levels are low enough to create a crisis in the Colorado River basin, and parts of the mighty Mississippi became unnavigable. Potable water, or a lack thereof, Ross, will be the true eventual source of a population bust.This article veers from wishful thinking to a deranged avoidance of reality. As your party has shown, Ross, alternate reality is where it chooses to stake its claim.
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"content": "This column is absurd in its conceit. When I was born, in 1958 (the beginning of what Douthat cites, China’s “Great Leap Forward”), the world population was below 3 billion. Late last year, it exceeded 8 billion. How a 275% increase in world population in 65 years, an average increase of 4.23% per year, every year, in that time, can be described as a population bust, remains a risible mystery.Perhaps it is only knowable to someone wedded to the dictum of supposed celibates that all sexual activity must be open to the possibility of conception.Meanwhile, the NY Metro area is a week away from setting the record for the latest first recorded snowfall, a record that seems highly likely to fall. The far west is crumbling under unprecedented crippling rains. In the middle of the country, water levels are low enough to create a crisis in the Colorado River basin, and parts of the mighty Mississippi became unnavigable. Potable water, or a lack thereof, Ross, will be the true eventual source of a population bust.This article veers from wishful thinking to a deranged avoidance of reality. As your party has shown, Ross, alternate reality is where it chooses to stake its claim.\n",
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Few things are as reassuring as knowing the woman next to you in the produce aisle, reaching for a nice greenhouse-grown red pepper, has a pink 9mm pistol on her hip. When I experienced that in Montana last summer, I thought: "Why don't we have this in Canada!?!"As a US expat living here I have come to miss that comfort-- that politeness and sense of open friendship amongst my fellow citizens--that I left behind in the US and that is fostered by full armament of the population.I don't care if a pistol really won't help against the number one cause of death in grocery stores--falls and slips--but perhaps if enough people will start shooting each other in grocery stores so that's the number one cause, and then a pistol would surely help. Better to be prepared for the future than arrive too late.
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"content": "Few things are as reassuring as knowing the woman next to you in the produce aisle, reaching for a nice greenhouse-grown red pepper, has a pink 9mm pistol on her hip. When I experienced that in Montana last summer, I thought: \"Why don't we have this in Canada!?!\"As a US expat living here I have come to miss that comfort-- that politeness and sense of open friendship amongst my fellow citizens--that I left behind in the US and that is fostered by full armament of the population.I don't care if a pistol really won't help against the number one cause of death in grocery stores--falls and slips--but perhaps if enough people will start shooting each other in grocery stores so that's the number one cause, and then a pistol would surely help. Better to be prepared for the future than arrive too late.\n",
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Part Two!Ultimately, we don't need to remove degree requirements from more jobs, especially not government jobs; we need people who have been exposed to philosophy, art, literature, scientific reasoning and the like in such positions. That's how you get local elections workers and Secretaries of State who understand our history and the underlying philosophical tenets of democratic governance sufficiently well to compel resistance to the pressure brought to bear by a corrupt president seeking to overturn an election. No, what we need is to make a liberal arts education more accessible to all, even if that means subsidizing it as we do secondary education now. We invest in our own future when we make college more feasible for more of us.
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By my own reckoning, I seem to be an average, middle of the road person, although when I was a youth 60 years ago, and into my early adult years, I found and read all manner of books on the library shelves, sometimes as school assignments. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Huckleberry Finn" "Lord of the Flies", "Animal Farm", "Lolita", "Kite Runner", and on and on. I read "Harry Potter" and "Where the Wild Things Are" to my boy, who also grew up to be a well-adjusted, open-minded person. To think of my reading experience without these books, which gave me so many different viewpoints, is unimaginable. Even worse is to think of a life where a few people can decide what schools and libraries can or cannot offer. Some have gone too far in foisting their values on others.
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| yes | Classification | 5,992 |
MU6 brings to mind the opening lines of the epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. "This is the forest primeval. The MU7ing pines and the hemlock, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic . . ."
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It's important to note that without Santos's vote, Kevin McCarthy would not have been elected Speaker on the 15th round of voting.Whoever gave Santos the $700,000 bought himself a Congressman and, one of his goals was to make "my Kevin" Speaker, terrifyingly placing him in the line of Succession
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| no | Classification | 2,142 |
They both had a net worth of 35 million when they married ,more than enough money to have a comfortable life for themselves and their children . The only reason for this book and the Netflix series is greed, enough money to support a mansion in Montecito and private jets. This couple bemoaned their humble 1400 square foot Nottingham cottage while people live on the street in the U.K. And the U.S.A. One comment referred to a state of grace for this couple, that can only occur when you forgive and show mercy to your own families. Forgive as you yourself wish to be forgiven as the Beatitudes so rightly state.
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| yes | Classification | 8,017 |
Scientist2 it is eye-opening, then, for many to see how it is for more people than meets the eye. I’ve seen it with the patients I have worked with at the VA, in private practice, and the communities I have lived in across the country. I fear my own retirement years. While I have contributed to my 401K, I don’t think it will be enough to cover me when that golden age of 65 comes in 16 years. I am a frugal spender but I certainly don’t think I will be pulling in the $49K I make now yearly from that 401K. I plan to work until I die. Better to be prepared for that, than think retirement is something coming my way.
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"content": "Scientist2 it is eye-opening, then, for many to see how it is for more people than meets the eye. I’ve seen it with the patients I have worked with at the VA, in private practice, and the communities I have lived in across the country. I fear my own retirement years. While I have contributed to my 401K, I don’t think it will be enough to cover me when that golden age of 65 comes in 16 years. I am a frugal spender but I certainly don’t think I will be pulling in the $49K I make now yearly from that 401K. I plan to work until I die. Better to be prepared for that, than think retirement is something coming my way.\n",
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Brilliant and true. I’d define awe as: The wonder of unknowing. Or maybe simply, wonder. In any case, it’s about being open and curious. Whether that’s trying something new, traveling or listening to some place/thing new (ie. www.future-of.XYZ), or just getting into nature- awe can be cultivated.Thanks for this great start of year article.
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| yes | Classification | 9,843 |
Lumpy And do you, or anyone else, think that the local media point out the truth that these Republicans voted against the bill that provided these benefits?And, documented by a professor at a Tennessee university on a PBS’ program, "Open Mind," is the attitude exemplified by a poor man in Arkansas, who had critical medical needs which would have been covered by the extension of Medicaid, but who didn’t want to state to accept the extension because it would help "undeserving others."
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He did not come out clean in his testimony. The five-month deal that prosecutors cut with Weinberg is laughable; poor and non-white criminals get ten times more stiff sentences.He was paid more than a million dollar annually, during the investigation, his guilty please, and his testimony at the trial against Trump organization. If you believe his testimony that Donald Trump and his family members did not know or approve of the tax scam, then I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.The judge was also not comfortable convinced that Weisberg testified truthfully. He wanted to give a harsher punishment, but in the end, he decided to.honor the please agreement.
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"content": "He did not come out clean in his testimony. The five-month deal that prosecutors cut with Weinberg is laughable; poor and non-white criminals get ten times more stiff sentences.He was paid more than a million dollar annually, during the investigation, his guilty please, and his testimony at the trial against Trump organization. If you believe his testimony that Donald Trump and his family members did not know or approve of the tax scam, then I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.The judge was also not comfortable convinced that Weisberg testified truthfully. He wanted to give a harsher punishment, but in the end, he decided to.honor the please agreement.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,452 |
Ever since the 1960s, conservatives always seem to find a “hippie” somewhere to blame for social, cultural and economic decline—including, if not especially, the lack of inexpensive, abundant energy. In reality, we are not living in the shadow of the 60s, we are living in the epoch of the “Reagan revolution” where government could do no good and the “market” could do no ill. The resulting deregulation and wealth concentration corresponds directly with the decline of the promise of the future (no flying cars as envisioned). When Reagan removed the solar panels from the White House it signaled that the future would be defined by the past and that fossil fuels would be the limit of our possibilities. Underinvestment in basic research has sapped our dreams. Private investment simply cannot compensate as the focus on short term profits is obviously focused on the present and our billionaire “visionaries” are too often petulant children who simply indulge their egos. The restoration of a belief in public purpose—and public funding for research to expand the realm of possibility—is the necessary ingredient to put us in “flying cars.”
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"content": "Ever since the 1960s, conservatives always seem to find a “hippie” somewhere to blame for social, cultural and economic decline—including, if not especially, the lack of inexpensive, abundant energy. In reality, we are not living in the shadow of the 60s, we are living in the epoch of the “Reagan revolution” where government could do no good and the “market” could do no ill. The resulting deregulation and wealth concentration corresponds directly with the decline of the promise of the future (no flying cars as envisioned). When Reagan removed the solar panels from the White House it signaled that the future would be defined by the past and that fossil fuels would be the limit of our possibilities. Underinvestment in basic research has sapped our dreams. Private investment simply cannot compensate as the focus on short term profits is obviously focused on the present and our billionaire “visionaries” are too often petulant children who simply indulge their egos. The restoration of a belief in public purpose—and public funding for research to expand the realm of possibility—is the necessary ingredient to put us in “flying cars.”\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,254 |
Eye-opening, yes. But more factors than those noted. First is the extraordinary increase in the skill levels of more and more players. At least half of Todays players can likely make 30% of their three-pointers (and the game would have been better if these shots were worth only 2.7 points). Than there is the emasculation of personal responsibility for referees: Unless a defensive player is virtually frozen in place, he will be assessed a foul as a (usually large) player barrels into him. Palming (or "carrying") is widespread, and rarely called. The League wanted more scoring , more scoring meant more revenue, and the League got it. The League shouldn't diminish the extraordinary growth in player skills. But it could give defense a boost by enforcing basic rules.
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"content": "Eye-opening, yes. But more factors than those noted. First is the extraordinary increase in the skill levels of more and more players. At least half of Todays players can likely make 30% of their three-pointers (and the game would have been better if these shots were worth only 2.7 points). Than there is the emasculation of personal responsibility for referees: Unless a defensive player is virtually frozen in place, he will be assessed a foul as a (usually large) player barrels into him. Palming (or \"carrying\") is widespread, and rarely called. The League wanted more scoring , more scoring meant more revenue, and the League got it. The League shouldn't diminish the extraordinary growth in player skills. But it could give defense a boost by enforcing basic rules.\n",
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| no | Classification | 801 |
Viv NM differs, as usual... Over 65 is $5/credit hour up to 10/semester but, recently, the state universities now offer "free tuition" to the youngsters with some conditions... details: <a href="https://hed.nm.gov/free-college-for-new-mexico" target="_blank">https://hed.nm.gov/free-college-for-new-mexico</a>. I took a slew of art classes over the years.
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| no | Classification | 4,801 |
Much like our financial system, our sexual system has become a very, very steep pyramid for men. To the winner go the spoils. Men at the top of the heap, good looks, good income, good at talking to women have sexual access today that would make a 10th century BC emperor blush. And women who wouldn't have gotten a 2nd glance from these men in the past can now "enjoy" them for a night because hookup culture has made that OK.The problem comes with the 99% of men who aren't in that top tier, the "illusion of choice" makes average women think they can get a 1% man (because they can, but only for a night), so they keep chasing that dream, ignoring those men who would like a long term relationship. The men who aren't in the upper echelon, in many cases, just drop out, they can't or won't compete; the cost of entry is too high, and replace women with video games and pornography. The result is that women have great access to top tier men, none of whom will marry/LTR. The lower tier men have very limited access to women and have to work incredibly hard to land and keep a partner. Neither sex is, IMHO, in general, super happy with this situation. It's great for the 1% of men, but for most men, it's a disaster. And for most women, unless they are looking for a short term/one night thing, it's also a bit of a disaster.
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| no | Classification | 2,359 |
He can’t resign. Whoever owns him (the $700,000 ‘investment’) want their money back or want him to ‘produce’.
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Snookems: The entry level net worth to the top 1% of households a bit north of $10 million. Billionaires start at 100 times that.
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"content": "Snookems: The entry level net worth to the top 1% of households a bit north of $10 million. Billionaires start at 100 times that.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,030 |
Jim Equally important as the money supply is the method and amount of taxation on the other end. The main reason the Fed and government got away with so much money printing for the past 12 years is because the inflation that resulted from it primarily affected the stock market, not "Main Street," and that served to make the rich richer.What is rarely mentioned (because the answer will negatively impact the wealthy) is the effect a restructuring of the tax system can have on these problems. When huge amounts of money are injected into the system, it has to be "burned" at the end of the cycle, otherwise the money supply would increase infinitely, leading to uncapped inflation and collapse of the economic system, like an engine that is receiving too much gasoline.What has happened instead, is all of that excess money has pumped up the stock market and then the rich simply hoard the wealth. That's why we have 50 years of GDP growth with virtually flat wages. We have moved from an industrial economy to a financialized (and globalized) economy, and that has only hurt the majority of us in the USA who are workers.For a much deeper exploration of this topic, check out the lectures of economist Michael Hudson on YouTube. The solution to the current problem is what the media and government *don't* want to talk about: wealth redistribution. Even the hedge fund genius Ray Dalio freely admits this.
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A good reminder to those of us who are not economists. Not to panic and react to the fearmongering of the far right is a good strategy. I hope the news media takes heed and stays calm. It would be good to rescind those huge tax breaks for the wealthy. The government could invest that money into infrastructure, housing, health care and other things that would actually benefit the average American,.How many houses and cars and yachts and diamonds does one really need?
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"content": "A good reminder to those of us who are not economists. Not to panic and react to the fearmongering of the far right is a good strategy. I hope the news media takes heed and stays calm. It would be good to rescind those huge tax breaks for the wealthy. The government could invest that money into infrastructure, housing, health care and other things that would actually benefit the average American,.How many houses and cars and yachts and diamonds does one really need?\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,317 |
If you advertise, you are their customer. If you use their services, you are their product. I advertise. I can say that the obfuscation on their ads management is overly complicated and designed to steer advertisers toward a higher spend - frequently lessening impact of their ad budget. They they hound you by phone - annoying and rudely even though you’ve asked them to stop calling you. They seem nice enough at first but their goal is not to do best by you. It’s to up the spend. Try turning off the advertising network, for example, if you just want to do search. This is not at all intuitive. Frequently you must tweak a bid in certain circumstances rather than use a toggle; for example, reduce a bid to 0% for certain searcher characteristics or whatever, if your customers don’t come from there. Also, while I agree the reach is vast, it is well optimized for local small businesses, as well as large global businesses. It is horrible for a medium sized business with a global footprint. They’re constant trying to shoehorn you into one or the other category - to your detriment. They seem to have no modeling of such a type of business existing. At least they make little allowance for it in their tools. I support this suit wholeheartedly and will happily accept the day that Google ads market share and seqrch share falls below 50% - even if ten other cos. share the other portion. Competition must be meaningfully present. (PERIOD). Here it isn’t.
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The "debt ceiling" isn't about spending. The money's already been spent -- by Republicans and Democrats under previous administrations. The only question now is how much interest do you want to pay on the balance they've already run up? When rates were at unprecedented lows, the government could actually make money by borrowing money, and spending on infusions of cash into the pockets of working people helped keep the economy afloat during the worst years (so far) of the pandemic. It doesn't take long to dig the economy out of the mire in times of prosperity. Clinton and Gore did it after 12 years of Reagan-Bush tax-cutting-and-spending debauchery. Obama and Biden did it after Bush II's catastrophic war misadventures, self-created housing market meltdown and resulting Great Recession -- even though a Republican Congress hobbled the recovery and prolonged the misery by refusing to spend money in the right places when stimulus spending was needed. Republicans are simply re-enacting the failed rituals of the past. Every time they've shut down the government (or threatened to shut down the government), the voters are the ones who pay for their irresponsibility. Everyone knows it. Republicans are always the ones voters rightly blame for their misfortune -- because, in fact, the Republicans are the ones who needlessly manufactured the crisis. A suicidal default now would simply add trillions in interest hikes to the national debt. For nothing.We see you. We're not fooled.
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"content": "The \"debt ceiling\" isn't about spending. The money's already been spent -- by Republicans and Democrats under previous administrations. The only question now is how much interest do you want to pay on the balance they've already run up? When rates were at unprecedented lows, the government could actually make money by borrowing money, and spending on infusions of cash into the pockets of working people helped keep the economy afloat during the worst years (so far) of the pandemic. It doesn't take long to dig the economy out of the mire in times of prosperity. Clinton and Gore did it after 12 years of Reagan-Bush tax-cutting-and-spending debauchery. Obama and Biden did it after Bush II's catastrophic war misadventures, self-created housing market meltdown and resulting Great Recession -- even though a Republican Congress hobbled the recovery and prolonged the misery by refusing to spend money in the right places when stimulus spending was needed. Republicans are simply re-enacting the failed rituals of the past. Every time they've shut down the government (or threatened to shut down the government), the voters are the ones who pay for their irresponsibility. Everyone knows it. Republicans are always the ones voters rightly blame for their misfortune -- because, in fact, the Republicans are the ones who needlessly manufactured the crisis. A suicidal default now would simply add trillions in interest hikes to the national debt. For nothing.We see you. We're not fooled.\n",
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Not Sure "attempting to define the term AI in technical terms is nearly impossible; it's a catch-all term which is only useful to laypersons."The initial function of Artificial Intelligence was to enable a computing machine to interface with humans such that the human can't distinguish whether they're messaging with a computer program or a human being; that's known as the Turing Test. One doesn't need to know how that's done to give it the "Artificial Intelligence" label. And the fact that you tried to relate AI software with Crypto makes me questions your use of the phrase "'us' us engineers."Microsoft's way of dealing with their OS software sales was to push for more bells and whistles and not care too much about removing buggy or bloated software. But, even China used to be fine stealing it and using it to their advantage, bugs and all. There should have been a law about that, but at least the function of M$'s buggy Operating Systems wasn't to pretend they're human. What if someone takes AI 'advice' and it turns out very badly. I've a suspicion that their lawyers have already produced boiler-plate user agreements to cover their AI's present and future 'bugs'.
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LD Indeed: a half trillion dollars of Russian assets is still held by Western banks -- roughly the amount Ukraine is going to need to repair all the death and destruction caused by the Kremlin -- and this will go into the reparations slush fund. Anything less would invite moral hazard... by encouraging kleptocratic dictators into thinking they can just knock over their peaceful neighbors for plunder, and still get off scot-free.Making the Kremlin foot the bill for the damages of their savage misadventure will also send a message to the higher-ups in the CCP -- all of whom own cars, real estate, and secret banks accounts in the West... for their 'rainy day funds' -- since then attempting any genocidal gambit in Taiwan like their buddy Putin is currently flailing at in Ukraine, would carry enormous, immediate downside risk. It would raise the cost of any invasion there by several trillion dollars... since the second it happened EVERY SINGLE ASSET owned in the West by rich Chinese nationals would immediately be forfeited. Like a soap bubble that burst in a bad dream!This should provide a carrot for cooler heads to always prevail.... Since otherwise all their wealth would have to stay parked/confined in the confiscatory, expropriating military dictatorship of the CCP. (And who wants that!)The best way to incentivize Peace in the future, is to show that we mean business now.
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"content": "LD Indeed: a half trillion dollars of Russian assets is still held by Western banks -- roughly the amount Ukraine is going to need to repair all the death and destruction caused by the Kremlin -- and this will go into the reparations slush fund. Anything less would invite moral hazard... by encouraging kleptocratic dictators into thinking they can just knock over their peaceful neighbors for plunder, and still get off scot-free.Making the Kremlin foot the bill for the damages of their savage misadventure will also send a message to the higher-ups in the CCP -- all of whom own cars, real estate, and secret banks accounts in the West... for their 'rainy day funds' -- since then attempting any genocidal gambit in Taiwan like their buddy Putin is currently flailing at in Ukraine, would carry enormous, immediate downside risk. It would raise the cost of any invasion there by several trillion dollars... since the second it happened EVERY SINGLE ASSET owned in the West by rich Chinese nationals would immediately be forfeited. Like a soap bubble that burst in a bad dream!This should provide a carrot for cooler heads to always prevail.... Since otherwise all their wealth would have to stay parked/confined in the confiscatory, expropriating military dictatorship of the CCP. (And who wants that!)The best way to incentivize Peace in the future, is to show that we mean business now.\n",
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Joan Very similar experience in Chicago! Stayed at an investment property run by a concierge service. Got locked out even due to a malfunctioning key pad. Notified the owner who gave me the concierge number, let the owner know there was no response. Several hours later with still no assistance the owner revealed a lock box with the combination and key. Months before the review was published and it was old and far down with other more recent positive reviews.
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"content": "Joan Very similar experience in Chicago! Stayed at an investment property run by a concierge service. Got locked out even due to a malfunctioning key pad. Notified the owner who gave me the concierge number, let the owner know there was no response. Several hours later with still no assistance the owner revealed a lock box with the combination and key. Months before the review was published and it was old and far down with other more recent positive reviews.\n",
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Microsoft is finding it harder to compete in a free market after abusing antitrust laws to form a virtual monopoly in the early PC business.
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Bill Chaisson Correct. I looked it up myself before I saw your comment. I would say that $174,000 is probably somewhere between 10 and 100 times more than he was making per year before being elected, so it's perfectly conceivable to think that he's in it for the money. Period.
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The darkest part of my mind wonders if Xi Jinping suddenly dropped all Covid measures at once as an "I told you so" to the Chinese people. Dictators can never be wrong. He just opened the floodgates, knowing this was going to happen and stands "blameless" since he just satisfied the peoples' demands. Jinping knew the old would suffer the most, and the old are a problem for him due to the one child policy; there are not enough young people to care and support the large elderly population and due to the preference for boys, there are not enough women who usually do most of the caregiving. The Chinese people traded freedom for economic security, but if you ask me, they made a Deal With the Devil. These photos broke my heart.
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"content": "The darkest part of my mind wonders if Xi Jinping suddenly dropped all Covid measures at once as an \"I told you so\" to the Chinese people. Dictators can never be wrong. He just opened the floodgates, knowing this was going to happen and stands \"blameless\" since he just satisfied the peoples' demands. Jinping knew the old would suffer the most, and the old are a problem for him due to the one child policy; there are not enough young people to care and support the large elderly population and due to the preference for boys, there are not enough women who usually do most of the caregiving. The Chinese people traded freedom for economic security, but if you ask me, they made a Deal With the Devil. These photos broke my heart.\n",
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Juan Briceno Under President George W. Bush, the debt rose by just under $5 trillion.
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From a corporate perspective it would be crazy not to insert a non-compete clause, as there’s no downside to them.Banning them altogether seems extreme too.In European countries there is usually a lower threshold for an NCC to be legal (which means most lower level employees can’t be subjected to one) and there’s a mandatory minimum compensation by the employer e.g. 1/4 salary of the length of the clause, which is often one year. Usually employers have a 2-week or so period to waive the clause after contract termination.I guess this is the FCC framing the negotiation opening shot, so a balanced solution can eventually be reached.
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In 1992, the emergence of the laptop and desktop computers changed Soviet Russia fundamentally. For the first time in nearly 100 years, people could communicate broadly and quickly. The Soviet Union dissolved and doors opened. Now, the molasses has set back in. On a cold winter day. Closed door thinking:“The entire West has closed ranks against us in order to destroy us,” Yekaterina Kolotovkina, the head of a soldiers’ humanitarian fund and the wife of a Russian general fighting in Ukraine, told the Samara rally, echoing a main theme of state propaganda.
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So, on a personal level what can you control on this issue?If you do not have family or business obligations in Florida don't spend your $$$ there.Look at it this way; if a store only had Red campaign signs in the window would you shop there? Well, that's Florida. Your $$$ has a voice.Use it for good.
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Brexit was a huge own goal. The Conservatives daren't admit it because it would split their party wide open. Labour daren't admit it because a lot of their older voters voted for it and as we all know getting older people to admit a mistake is not easy.
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Pediatricians and family medicine doctors are the lowest paid doctors in medicine because reimbursements are terrible. Unless there is significant reform in these systems, in the not so distant future, you will be hard pressed to find a physician who takes insurance, and commercial insurance/public option will only get you to the nurse practitioner or physician assistant or whatever watered down version of “healthcare provider” will exist at that time. Doctors have no control in these systems in their current permutations and the financial incentive to spend 300k on medical school, work like a dog in residency and fellowship for 10 years just doesn’t exist for many non procedural specialties.
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I was recently in Alexandria and took the Metro into DC that passed these townhomes. There are a lot of them. A lot. It's a very crowded, somewhat disorganized looking neighborhood, and quite a few of the buildings back up to the train tracks. Alexandria is a nice city but I wouldn't pay $700k to live in one of these townhomes.
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Regardless where Blacks go, there will be little escape from the economic asphyxiation caused by systemic discrimination. Large MSA’s like my town NYC were Shangri La for enterprising, hard working black people. For over a century these big cities offered a myriad of options for Blacks to both survive and thrive. Be it through talent, intelligence, work ethic, creativity, courage or sheer luck, Black folks were able to overcome endemic poverty and become major contributors to the local economies. However, in the face of tighter economic markets the emerging success of Black Americans was too much for the majority to take. Draconian actions were necessary.As such, the powers that be embarked on an insidious multi-prong campaign to destroy its most loyal Americans. First outsourcing and automation outsourced millions of blue color jobs, while providing little in the form of training or funding to be retrained. 2nd, struggling Black communities were ring-fenced and infested with drugs, liquor and poor nutrition, then enslaved in a Stalin-esque justice system. 3rd, in the 90’s saw a massive indoctrination campaign to under-educate Blacks, neuter critical thought, creativity and imagination. 4th, through a vast network of malevolent architects, digitization was used to steal vast wealth from Blacks, including copyrights, trademarks, real estate, estates, investments, royalties, “rights” and access. Destroying blacks is in America’s DNA. There’s no escape.
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ejb You are just as far away in Bucks County, Pa. so it is hard to see how your knowledge of the situation could be any clearer than that of others who pay attention to the news. The US has and will continue to supply Israel with more than it probably needs, Israel is a large trading partner. Our aid us guaranteed and good for American business.
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He didn’t get suckered. That was a $650,000 donation to Santo’s campaign that was funneled through the company. He’s trying to explain away the illegal contribution by saying he got scammed.
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The state is in the enviable position of sitting on $100 billion as more challenges continue to present themselves.Its predicament could be considerably worse, and it's quite fortunate to be, by far, the richest state in the country.And with the smartest people and politicians in the country, too, we needn't worry about California's capacity for dealing effectively with the challenges it will continue to face.
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 I don't know what world Mr. Stephens lives in, but in the world most of us inhabit a couple making $400,000 a year isn't suffering. Or scrimping. Or just getting by. Not even close.
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Nothing new here. Stud athletes have driven nice rides for years. As Jimbo Fisher noted in his Saban dust up, it's simply all out in the open now. Almost all. The student-athlete charade. College teams are the minor leagues for the NFL and NBA and play action figures for foundations and athletic departments. Admit it publicly, employ the players and assign contracts to the pros for cash. Everyone wins.
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Housing is wildly overpriced and this was going to happen at some point to address that problem. A home is a place you live and if you treat it as your primary investment vehicle that’s on you.Nobody should have expected a low interest environment to continue forever.
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Bruce makes many interesting points here. And at first I felt saddened that the NIL market is going to adversely impact the second tier sports. I played college soccer in the 70s and my stepson played tennis for Amherst. BUT as I thought on it more, my attitude changed because:1. Many ( if not most) of the second tier (country club) sports are populated by white kids. Think tennis, golf, field hockey, swimming, water polo, rowing. Look at any college team roster on that.2. Many of those kids are well off. Their parents can afford tuition. And they get into college on the sports, which possibly keeps other qualified student out.3. Do we really need colleges fielding all white tennis teams? Golf teams? Swim teams? Why exactly? 4. Many MANY spots on elite teams - tennis, soccer - go to foreign nationals. Check out the Amherst tennis team or the Pitt men soccer team or Marshall’s recent NCAA champion soccer team or any Big Ten womens row team. Why are we giving foreign nationals spots at great colleges just because they are athletes?Frankly, I’d support schools dropping the country club sports - they can be clubs - in favor of only diverse team sports like basketball, volleyball, baseball. Think of all the admissions spots that would open up! Small sports have been used by colleges just like legacy and donor admissions - to mostly let in the already privileged. So maybe the NIL retrenchment will kill off that system and that would be a good thing.
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"content": "Bruce makes many interesting points here. And at first I felt saddened that the NIL market is going to adversely impact the second tier sports. I played college soccer in the 70s and my stepson played tennis for Amherst. BUT as I thought on it more, my attitude changed because:1. Many ( if not most) of the second tier (country club) sports are populated by white kids. Think tennis, golf, field hockey, swimming, water polo, rowing. Look at any college team roster on that.2. Many of those kids are well off. Their parents can afford tuition. And they get into college on the sports, which possibly keeps other qualified student out.3. Do we really need colleges fielding all white tennis teams? Golf teams? Swim teams? Why exactly? 4. Many MANY spots on elite teams - tennis, soccer - go to foreign nationals. Check out the Amherst tennis team or the Pitt men soccer team or Marshall’s recent NCAA champion soccer team or any Big Ten womens row team. Why are we giving foreign nationals spots at great colleges just because they are athletes?Frankly, I’d support schools dropping the country club sports - they can be clubs - in favor of only diverse team sports like basketball, volleyball, baseball. Think of all the admissions spots that would open up! Small sports have been used by colleges just like legacy and donor admissions - to mostly let in the already privileged. So maybe the NIL retrenchment will kill off that system and that would be a good thing.\n",
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The CBO's by-section scoring of the IRA offers insight into what offsets Congress expects to "pay for" the law's health care benefits. It appears that more than a majority of these benefits depend on putting a lot of future costs back on drug manufacturers -- and I understand that no benefit is free of cost to someone. Too many health care/drug users seem to think that it's a good -- costless -- idea to reduce the revenues of drug producers. If I read the CBO tables correctly, Congress envisions putting about $200 billion back on the manufacturers in the coming decade. Why should you care about drug company profits? If that's your view, you may want to reconsider.For example, the private health care sector (which prominently includes pharma) comprises nearly 16% of the total market value of the US large-cap S&P 500 equity index. Some $7.1 trillion of assets are indexed to that metric. So, if you have any passively managed equity index fund investments among your assets, YOU should care about drug company profits. The CBO scoring of IRA is at <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-09/PL117-169_9-7-22.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-09/PL117-169_9-7-22.pdf</a>. A fact sheet of the S&P 500 equity index is at <a href="https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/idsenhancedfactsheet/file.pdf?calcFrequency=M&force_download=true&hostIdentifier=48190c8c-42c4-46af-8d1a-0cd5db894797&indexId=340" target="_blank">https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/idsenhancedfactsheet/file.pdf?calcFrequency=M&force_download=true&hostIdentifier=48190c8c-42c4-46af-8d1a-0cd5db894797&indexId=340</a>.
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Alcohol, where one or both in a couple drink too much, can play a big role in mental illness, marital discord and dysfunction. And not just for Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.For example, a woman who was a friend of my wife had a husband who drank too much chilled beer, a common problem in Oz. His excessive drinking was causing problems and costing them a small fortune. So his wife started making home brew for him. Then she gradually watered it down. Eventually, he was on the wagon. No more alcohol – at all.All went well until one birthday when two old mates he hadn't seen since he'd stopped drinking came round and insisted on taking him to the pub for a few beers. He came back late that night completely wrecked. All the wife's good work undone within a few hours. He began drinking again. His mood and behaviour worsened.There's no affordable provision for couple therapy in Oz if you're poor. On the advice of a friend, the wife kicked her husband out the family home. He booked himself into a motel. A week later he killed himself, apparently in part so his wife and kids could cash in his life insurance for about $70 K.The eldest child blamed the mother for her father's death. Moved in with her boyfriend's family. Got pregnant. Became a mother at fifteen. Dropped out of school.
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Rapscallion Do you know all the details of this situation? No? Neither does the letter writer, the Ethicist, nor I. If restitution or a fine has bern paid, then even from the perspective of the harmed party, the matter is finished. Or are you one of those persons who feels that all criminals should continue to pay for their crimes in perpetuity, even unto the next generation? As reported in June 2022 by this newspaper, Google paid $118 million to settle a suit filed by some female employees about pay disparities. Should you therefore avoid using Google, and should you spread gossip about the (non-)news that Google has engaged in gendered pay discrimination? The *ethical* action is to at least try to do the right thing, which almost certainly means engaging with members of one’s community.
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I"m okay. But are they.Hi. Individually and jointly Biden and his press secretary havedemonstrated they are incapable of doing even simple arithmetic. Does Bidenknow the difference between a billion dollarsand a trillion dollars. Biden is arguably the least capable person in USA to solve themassive budget deficit.
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For Russia, this is a war they cannot afford to lose; for the U. S. and Western Europe, this is a war that Russia cannot be allowed to win; for Ukraine, a negotiated settlement was always possible--until Russia passed the point of no return and took it upon herself to try to subjugate Ukraine by force when it invaded on February 24, irrevocably poisoning Russia-Ukraine relations for generations to come.For Russia, the Ukraine war is an existential crisis, no less crucial for them to resolve decisively in their favor than it was for the U. S. to resolve the utterly intolerable situation in the fall of '62 when the nation woke up to find the Soviets building nuclear missile sites on our doorstep in Cuba. For Ukraine, the war has united Ukrainians in the conviction that Ukrainians can never know peace until every Russian soldier is gone from Ukraine.The weak point in this tense opposition of forces will be the United States, as the Russians wait for the far-right Republicans they helped to get elected through years of social media manipulation and attempts to divide Americans against themselves to waver for their support for Ukraine and ultimately block or curtail increased support for Ukraine. This is why influential Republican apologists for Russia such as Tucker Carlson are so dangerous. Then Russia's decade-long investment in Republican and far-right causes will finally bear fruit
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Oracle I think you are missing a couple points... like how they've managed to own the buy and sell side of advertising technology for over a decade. Not to mention how they've leveraged highly trafficked publisher content to incentivize customers into that buy/sell closed environment. This has allowed them to manipulate the pricing on both ends with little transparency. Beyond this Google has used concerns on "privacy" and Google Chrome to neuter competition that tries to operate within that very adtech marketplace and impact competition and customer's ability to exchange information. For the great Kraken that is Google and the multiple influences it has in adjacent products, the head doesn't know where its arm is - and it doesn't need to.
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Robert, yeh the comment that Holmes was a rush to judgment was comical. She should have been in jail years ago — instead she is currently living on an estate that costs $13,000/month for upkeep according to the probation department while she appeals her conviction which took years. A movie was made between the time she was arrested and before she’s done a single day in jail.
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"content": "Robert, yeh the comment that Holmes was a rush to judgment was comical. She should have been in jail years ago — instead she is currently living on an estate that costs $13,000/month for upkeep according to the probation department while she appeals her conviction which took years. A movie was made between the time she was arrested and before she’s done a single day in jail.\n",
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Maani Rantel They are both running because they both want to be Senators, and are not about to defer to anyone. Barbara Lee will also receive a lot of support, but I wonder if she can muster the $20 million it will take to make it to the general election, and another $20 or more to be competitive?
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House Republicans said nothing when in 2017, in addition to travel and lodging costs for the security team, the Trump clan spent at least $26,000 on rental vehicles, as well as $22,000 on the necessary equipment agents needed in order to accompany the family down the slopes.House Republicans said nothing when on a Passover getaway to Whistler, BC, Canada for Jared, Ivanka and their children in 2017,, the hotel bill for the security team was $59,654, as well as $6,884 for "multi-day ski passes”. House Republicans said nothing in 2018 when Ivanka and Jared billed the government for over $58,000 for security on their long weekend in the Dominican Republic.House Republicans said nothing after the Charlottesville white taxpayers paid $14,000 for security for Ivanka and Jared's spa getaway.Of course these are pittances, relatively speaking. But the GOP has absolutely nothing to do with "fiscal responsibility." Their MO is always tax cuts for the wealthy, shoveling money into red states that somehow their constituents never see, and shredding the social safety net. They always explode the deficit and the debt and then demand Democrats clean it up -- without billionaires paying so much as a penny more.
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"content": "House Republicans said nothing when in 2017, in addition to travel and lodging costs for the security team, the Trump clan spent at least $26,000 on rental vehicles, as well as $22,000 on the necessary equipment agents needed in order to accompany the family down the slopes.House Republicans said nothing when on a Passover getaway to Whistler, BC, Canada for Jared, Ivanka and their children in 2017,, the hotel bill for the security team was $59,654, as well as $6,884 for \"multi-day ski passes”. House Republicans said nothing in 2018 when Ivanka and Jared billed the government for over $58,000 for security on their long weekend in the Dominican Republic.House Republicans said nothing after the Charlottesville white taxpayers paid $14,000 for security for Ivanka and Jared's spa getaway.Of course these are pittances, relatively speaking. But the GOP has absolutely nothing to do with \"fiscal responsibility.\" Their MO is always tax cuts for the wealthy, shoveling money into red states that somehow their constituents never see, and shredding the social safety net. They always explode the deficit and the debt and then demand Democrats clean it up -- without billionaires paying so much as a penny more.\n",
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My artist friend recently died just short of age 103. He kept abreast of sports and hard news. A major prize-winning traditional watercolor painter, he painted daily. He lived alone in his home, rising each morning to open his window shade as a signal to the neighbors and texted six others to, as he said, “let them all know I’m still alive.”
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| yes | Classification | 9,488 |
It's important to note, too, that the coin would not have to be in platinum either. It's very difficult for conservatives to understand this, but the value of money has nothing to do with what it's printed on. A $100 dollar bill is not worth $100 because of the value of the paper it is printed on. However, I think it is high time to say enough is enough. We're tired of Republicans only caring about the debt and deficit when a Democrat is in office. We're tired of their manufactured crises. We're tired of them shutting down the government. It's all they know how to do, and it's just tiresome. So let them destroy the economy and the credit of the US. If Americans aren't smart enough to see who is at fault for that, then they will be getting what they deserve.
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Well, Ms Howard confesses that she could pay her salaried staff only from the profits she could make on the sale of alcohol to her patrons. Unfortunately, it may be a fair guess that most of the customers who could afford dining at such expensive eateries which charge as much as $500 per head may be under their doctors' orders to avoid all sorts of culinary items and also alcoholic beverages. In fact, a few days ago, there was a report emanating from Canada which warns against imbibing even a little alcohol if one wishes to live longer. From my own experience, during my childhood, I loved to taste icecream but there was no one to buy me one but when I could afford it in plenty now, I am under strict medical prohibition with regard to sugar intake!
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Jack That ambitious trade strategy was TPP. Back in the day in trying to understand the Trans-Pacific Partnership I listened to a long interview with an Obama official on the Brian Lehrer show. Being exhausted by the naysayer call-in questions the TPP advocate admitted, "Look, TPP is a mud sandwich." Which it was. But it's unlikely to appear on the menu of global politics again. China is too wary.
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$1600 a month? Does no one from Lending Tree--or the New York Times--actually live in NYC?
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Part IIIFL (7-8)• FL(8) couch pillows will make the living room look cleaner. So does washing the windows.• She dramatically FL(5) her hand out and pointed at him: “You ate the last piece of chocolate cake, didn’t you?” FU• FU(4) is a substance such as gas, coal, or coal.• The gasoline station and common sense require that you turn off the engine while FU(7) your car. [perfect pangram]• Eating FU(4) or puffer fish sushi can be hazardous to your health if the chef does not remove the poisonous parts properly.• I was speechless when I walked one night into the Stephansdom (St. Stephen’s Cathedral) in Vienna and heard the organist playing J. S. Bach’s organ FU(5) in G minor, BWV 578: “ethereal” describes it best.• In order to major in any discipline, a college student must FU(7) all the prerequisites.• She found her volunteer experience of working with the unhoused during the last three years to be immensely FU(10) as she was able to help so many.• “No thanks, I’m quite FU(4) after all I ate.”• There are colorful FU(5) growing on old tree stumps in my neighborhood although none are edible.• The family always went to the state fair so they could have freshly made FU(6) cakes.• By FU(9) all your unspent money into one bank account and leaving it there, you can increase the amount of compound interest earned. [pangram] GL• She was GL(7) at the thought that she wouldn’t have to wash dishes for at least a month when she broke her wrist.
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America has the opportunity to fully reinvigorate NATO with the ascension of the Nordics, and eventually Ukraine. The Russians have been successful at spreading their influence in Italy, Hungary, Serbia, Moldova and other countries on NATO’s Southeast flank. Since they are now strategic partners with China, we cannot ignore a growing threat.There is little reason to keep the Abrams in America; they are difficult to move and are of limited use in the Indo-PAC competition with China. During earlier periods of Soviet threat we kept hundreds of our best tanks in Germany. We also had full repair facilities, which we should also rebuild. The Abrams is the right weapon system for Ukraine’s fight for survival.
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"content": "America has the opportunity to fully reinvigorate NATO with the ascension of the Nordics, and eventually Ukraine. The Russians have been successful at spreading their influence in Italy, Hungary, Serbia, Moldova and other countries on NATO’s Southeast flank. Since they are now strategic partners with China, we cannot ignore a growing threat.There is little reason to keep the Abrams in America; they are difficult to move and are of limited use in the Indo-PAC competition with China. During earlier periods of Soviet threat we kept hundreds of our best tanks in Germany. We also had full repair facilities, which we should also rebuild. The Abrams is the right weapon system for Ukraine’s fight for survival.\n",
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Why Biden is doing this Paul Volcker , at age 91, NY Times InterviewMr. Volcker is no great fan of the president, but he acknowledged that Mr. Trump had cannily recognized the economic worries of blue-collar workers. Mr. Trump “seized upon some issues that the elite had ignored,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question about that, in kind of an erratic way, but there it is.” He wondered how many lectures and presentations he had sat through with economists “telling us open markets are wonderful, everybody benefits from open markets.” ... concern was dismissed too easily, with talk of worker retraining or some other solution far easier said than done. NY Times Oct. 23, 2018 Trump cannily tapped into the resentment of Americanswho saw their jobs moved to ChinaTo win Trump voters, Biden is doing the same: Politics in America, is first of all about winning elections , by 'whatever it takes.' Not about what is good for the country
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I don't think we realize how all this infection of objective and open academic discourse and research by woke-ism is severely impairing us long-term, especially as we face adversaries such as China whose political ethos is atrocious but whose science and academic research is not tarnished by woke values of intolerance, cancel culture, etc.
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And while he is at it, Sunak also promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75% and improve the taste of my homemade lasagna by 22%.But seriously folks, Rishi Sunak is in an impossible situation. To grow the British economy, he needs un- and semi-skilled labor. Given that UK decided to leave the EU, enticing Romanians and Poles is a dead end. So, the labor will have to come from elsewhere - India, Thailand, Vietnam and such. And to reduce waiting times at NHS hospitals, he needs doctors and nurses from somewhere. And the British public is not about to open the floodgates to new immigration.This is what happens when people vote without bothering to understand the long-term impact of their choices.
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PB sorry, but that is completely wrong. When the interest rates go up, it is precisely to prevent the inflating away of the value of the dollars that have been lent. Inflation is a decline in the value of money relative to goods. Banks hate it. If you lend 100,000, you don’t want it repaid with dollars that are worth half of their initial value. Which is precisely why the Feb has introduced a credit crunch. Which is leading to massive unemployment. But thanks for mansplaining Econ 101 to me.
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Radishgirl That’s what I thought too! I lived at the Webster summer 2002 and I have so many stories from just a couple of months. Room phones were still connected to a house phone. I locked myself out of my room a couple times after a shower and an old lady would come upstairs to open it and charge me $2.It was very safe and secure and I met women from all over the world.I am so sad to see it is moving and that was really buried in the story. It’s a beautiful old building that I believe is still a non profit? Originally owned by thr Macy brothers so shop girls had a place to live.It would be great to have a follow up on the Webster.
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| no | Classification | 51 |
I dined there in 2007, before it was named Best Of, based on a recommendation to a "new Danish idea' from a local acquaintance. Very, very interesting presentation, rather pretentious but not too much back then, very good food, including bristles and nettles or whatever. The check said $600 for two, which left me stunned. Frankly. I do not taste a lesser difference at Aquavit in NYC.
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DeSantis is a clear danger to our democracy because he stokes the culture wars to keep their attention on how liberals are supposedly destroying the country while he quietly refuses to help Florida citizens in need, as in his refusal to expand Medicaid. He violated the voters’ will to allow ex-felons to vote by going to the legislature to set up barriers to prevent them voting. While in Congress, as a founding member of the Freedom Caucus he voted to “pass a budget resolution that would have cut more than $250 billion from Social Security and Medicare over a decade.” Again, he favors hurting the most vulnerable people in the country. DeSantis is far worse than Trump because he is smarter, and he hides his pro-wealth, anti-democratic policies better. In other words, he’s the perfect candidate for the today’s Republican Party that believes in rewarding the 1% while ripping the social safety net away from the poor and those unable to work. He would diminish our country, not lift it up.
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"content": "DeSantis is a clear danger to our democracy because he stokes the culture wars to keep their attention on how liberals are supposedly destroying the country while he quietly refuses to help Florida citizens in need, as in his refusal to expand Medicaid. He violated the voters’ will to allow ex-felons to vote by going to the legislature to set up barriers to prevent them voting. While in Congress, as a founding member of the Freedom Caucus he voted to “pass a budget resolution that would have cut more than $250 billion from Social Security and Medicare over a decade.” Again, he favors hurting the most vulnerable people in the country. DeSantis is far worse than Trump because he is smarter, and he hides his pro-wealth, anti-democratic policies better. In other words, he’s the perfect candidate for the today’s Republican Party that believes in rewarding the 1% while ripping the social safety net away from the poor and those unable to work. He would diminish our country, not lift it up.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,361 |
Eric Shen New Study: In the Midst of COVID-19 Crisis, 7 out of 10 Big Pharma Companies Spent More on Sales and Marketing than R&D.Imagine how it must be in normal times!Added tidbit: during the first 15 months of the pandemic the total wealth of vaccine billionaires had increase by over $50 billion. Hey, isnt $50 billion the same amount of the record charitable donation recently made by Bill Gates?$50 billion back to the normal folks, and $50 billion into the pockets of...I have no words (that I'd be allowed to say here).R&D? Give me a break. Greed.
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"content": "Eric Shen New Study: In the Midst of COVID-19 Crisis, 7 out of 10 Big Pharma Companies Spent More on Sales and Marketing than R&D.Imagine how it must be in normal times!Added tidbit: during the first 15 months of the pandemic the total wealth of vaccine billionaires had increase by over $50 billion. Hey, isnt $50 billion the same amount of the record charitable donation recently made by Bill Gates?$50 billion back to the normal folks, and $50 billion into the pockets of...I have no words (that I'd be allowed to say here).R&D? Give me a break. Greed.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,263 |
Notice the difference in the Pelosi tape. The police come in response to a call about a man at the Pelosi house waiting for his wife. When the door opens, they see a white man holding a hammer and an old man. They don’t even tase the white guy with the hammer! They just ask for it! And even AFTER the white perp pounds Paul Pelosi in front of them, they tackle and subdue him without hurting him. Not one punch.
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$2 million in missed tax payments. Heck, Trump's accountants wouldn't even bother to notice such a minute amount.As to those gun charges, it's funny how Republicans never want to tighten gun laws.And where is the Republicans' outrage about an American citizen being denied a passport just because he was unfairly being persecuted by the IRS, no doubt the story they would tell if it was them or one of their children
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Count me as another who reacts with a big dose of scorn. The SCOTUS has lost its legitimacy. Conservative justices pay lip service to high ideals and principles, which they drop at the first chance they get. They crave power, not justice.Whether it does or does not announce its decisions in open court is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Who cares? The ship is sinking.
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| no | Classification | 220 |
It’s difficult to know where to begin in addressing the many examples of evasion and disingenuousness in Ms. Conway’s opinions (though special mention must be made of the delusional statement that Trump “stared down Putin “). But I wish she had compared Trump’s Groundhog Day-like “infrastructure week” to the astonishing investment in our infrastructure actually achieved by Biden. The current president’s “feckless approach to the economy” might not be great for people like Jared Kushner, but the long game looks better for the country. Then again, history shows that Democratic presidents have long come in to clean up Republicans’ mess. Alternative facts indeed!
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| no | Classification | 380 |
My husband and I recently stopped at one of the new and open NYS rest stops. It was refreshing to see so many healthy options in the food market. The inside of the building is much smaller and limits people to sit and eat. As far as the restrooms…they have been significantly reduced, to 4 toilets and a combination trough sink with soap, water and air dryer for hands. Not optimal.
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Richard : It sounds familiar... I have a LTC from John Hancock for about 15-20 years, and everything I've read about this or other LTC policy providers is negative. They've just raised the annual premium by about 10% and indicated that it will be increased in the future. They're offering a lump sum settlement if I decide to cancel my policy, of about 40K, which I guess would cover about 2 months in a facility! Astounding! I'll keep the policy in effect, thanks, and keep the fentanyl handy......
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| yes | Classification | 8,260 |
One notices differences when Democrats and their familiars are targeted for investigations in that not once does anyone ever mention the words " Witch Hunt." Also, that nary a peep was uttered by the GOP, when the former guy's daughter and son-in-law who were technically members of the administration, made off with $2 Billion from the Saudi's allegedly to be used in an investment firm. The level of hypocrisy is just mind numbing.
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| no | Classification | 2,321 |
Related anecdote that’s a somewhat chilling glimpse into the many mini FTX type companies around the globe:I lived abroad and taught English for a few years. My best friend was a British guy who was formerly a semi professional online poker player. He started teaching to get away from the stressful grind of greed that is pro poker.The guy is really smart but never really had a real job. After I returned home, he got into yoga and meditation. He moved to Nepal to become something of a monk. There, he met a wealthy guy who had started yet another “crypto exchange” in a sketchy city somewhere in Asia. The wealthy guy made my friend the COO — my friend, the 38 year old who never had a real job until becoming a crypto executive.The gift was clear and cynical: get a white educated guy with a British accent to be the squeaky clean front man for this sketchy crypto company.I mean when I heard of all this, my jaw literally hit the floor. Here I was wasting money on masters degrees, barely getting by and my chronically unemployed friend is now a financial executive.This is the world of crypto. And the crazy thing is this is the norm. My friend sent me a link to a crypto summit where such people converged to exalt crypto for several days. The guest speakers were all like SBF.
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At the legal consulting firm where I used to work, first year lawyers (mostly about 25 years old) start at $ 215k per year, plus benefits which can include a modest bonus. That progresses up to the $ 300-400k range by years 6 to 8. If they make partner, which few do, they will take home in the $ 1.5 to 3.5 million range. This is all public knowledge by the way.
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| yes | Classification | 8,697 |
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there was never a better time to organize unions and collectively bargain with employers. Unions are really the only secondary institution have to amass some power to fight this kind of callousness, where executives will say to you: “Oh, it’s just business.”The younger generations generally know nothing about labor unions and have been taught to view themselves as something better than just “labor.” It ain’t so and the sooner they realize this and become a political force, the better— there are already signs of workers in the service industry organizing, partly because of the presence of radicalized underemployed college graduates.The longer employers get away with perpetrating this kind of heartless action against their employees, the worse it will get. They convince themselves that dehumanizing the process makes the best and safest solution, but they piece is correct: it is the act of cowards.The European social democracies do a far better job of mitigating these kinds of abuses of labor, tilting the playing field a little more in favor of the workers. Eventually, the US could follow suit, but it will take an extended fight and tactical strategies to overcome adverse lobbying by employers who, correctly, will see some of their power and independence threatened.
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"content": "Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there was never a better time to organize unions and collectively bargain with employers. Unions are really the only secondary institution have to amass some power to fight this kind of callousness, where executives will say to you: “Oh, it’s just business.”The younger generations generally know nothing about labor unions and have been taught to view themselves as something better than just “labor.” It ain’t so and the sooner they realize this and become a political force, the better— there are already signs of workers in the service industry organizing, partly because of the presence of radicalized underemployed college graduates.The longer employers get away with perpetrating this kind of heartless action against their employees, the worse it will get. They convince themselves that dehumanizing the process makes the best and safest solution, but they piece is correct: it is the act of cowards.The European social democracies do a far better job of mitigating these kinds of abuses of labor, tilting the playing field a little more in favor of the workers. Eventually, the US could follow suit, but it will take an extended fight and tactical strategies to overcome adverse lobbying by employers who, correctly, will see some of their power and independence threatened.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,478 |
I was laid off from an IT job in 2007. I was told my work was irrelevant. Six weeks later, one of co-workers called me at home, and asked me to train him on the software package that I had been managing. I took the phone away from my ear and looked at it.Then I inhaled.Then I told him in all honesty, that I couldn't for two reasons: 1) I had been away from that application for six weeks, meaning that any and all package enhancements would have gone through without my being trained on them. 2) My security clearance had expired the moment my supervisor laid me off. I had no access to either software or relevant data, that according to their own internal security standards. To give me access without re-hiring me would violate those same security standards,I wished him well and signed off.At that time, the corporate habit of hiring and firing people in repeated patterns over time was referred to as "churn and burn." Fire old, hire new, wait 10 months, do it all over again. It guaranteed a traumatized workforce that would do anything to stay in their positions. Same old same old. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
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As for his basketball future. I can't see Draymond willingly leaving the Warriors. And given Steve Kerr's history with other core players, I can't see the Warriors forcing a trade. What I do think is that Draymond will end up coaching. Maybe one shouldn't read too much into it, but this is a player who "tithed" his first big contract by honoring his college coach with a $3.1 million donation to Michigan State.
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"content": "As for his basketball future. I can't see Draymond willingly leaving the Warriors. And given Steve Kerr's history with other core players, I can't see the Warriors forcing a trade. What I do think is that Draymond will end up coaching. Maybe one shouldn't read too much into it, but this is a player who \"tithed\" his first big contract by honoring his college coach with a $3.1 million donation to Michigan State.\n",
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Republicans and Democrats refuse to raise the income limit on Social Security because many of their large donors benefit from a low cap. Imagine if all those Goldman Sachs wunderkinds had to pay Social Security on more of their income?! The limits are far too low. The Medicare tax is too low also, and of course Republicans won’t fund IRS - it would mean more audits and perhaps we’d collect more taxes - which Republicans never want to pay! As for Part D and Insurance insinuating itself into Medicare, it was George Bush who opened the door to privatizing Medicare, not Democrats.
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"content": "Republicans and Democrats refuse to raise the income limit on Social Security because many of their large donors benefit from a low cap. Imagine if all those Goldman Sachs wunderkinds had to pay Social Security on more of their income?! The limits are far too low. The Medicare tax is too low also, and of course Republicans won’t fund IRS - it would mean more audits and perhaps we’d collect more taxes - which Republicans never want to pay! As for Part D and Insurance insinuating itself into Medicare, it was George Bush who opened the door to privatizing Medicare, not Democrats.\n",
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gratedNutmeg Stretching does not involve the creation of open wounds in the body! Yes, many women tear and need stitches. Insane.
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"content": "gratedNutmeg Stretching does not involve the creation of open wounds in the body! Yes, many women tear and need stitches. Insane.\n",
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