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Mike Alexander The funny thing is, that a lot of private wealth being accumulated is because of the social safety net programs. Take the deficit spending and those programs away, and the economy crashes hard.We are the only country in the world that can get away with this.
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People have forgotten more than 2 Trillion dollar doled out during previous administration in PPP loans and Pharma loans without any oversight. More than 90 percent of that money went into the pockets of business owners instead of folks who really suffered.
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| yes | Classification | 9,104 |
Ending the emergency at this stage feels like spiking the football at the 10 yard line. With 500 people dying (and tens of thousands contracting the virus) every day, it seems misguided to let up on the fight in May (as if things will be better then). But alas, much of the public, abetted by politicians and a complicit news media, have just decided that the virus has magically gone away (until they contract it, anyhow). What could have been a sharper decline will now be a long tail that lasts for years to come.
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| yes | Classification | 8,952 |
M Ford banning books for containing racist depictions would prevent us from teaching about Redlining in Michigan, the Selma march, the Montgomery Bus boycotts, even the contradictions in noteworthy Americans Jefferson and Washington, who championed economic and political independence while owning slaves. Keep an open mind during February, and read the articles whose headlines that rankle you the most, and join the rest of us grappling with how to live respectfully, making amends where we can for our forebears, and living in balance with others on the planet.
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| no | Classification | 424 |
I also litigated and negotiated non compete agreements. I agree that such clauses should not be routine, but there are several specific circumstances when they are appropriate. When a person sells a business, the buyer can justly include in the deal that the seller not immediately reopen a competing shop. In addition, employers should be able to protect against employees from taking genuine trade secrets and using them in new job.
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| no | Classification | 3,407 |
San Francisco has a green bin option, which we use (I believe for my cooperation I get a bag of garden soil every year), but it's not without added expense and minor annoyances.Added expenses are compostable bio bags to line the kitchen green bin. The bin needs to be washed frequently, which uses water, sometimes an issue in California.The bigger collection bin gets filthy with slimy liquid, scraps, and black mold. They suggest lining the bin with paper, and then you have an inch of wet paper soup to deal with. So either you wash it somewhere (without a power washer, a Sisyphean task), and the inevitable half-rotten slop goes into the gutter and then the storm drains, or you pay $50 - $80 per cleaning to a service.I would be nice if the garbage company would occasionally swap the bins for clean ones, but no.
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"content": "San Francisco has a green bin option, which we use (I believe for my cooperation I get a bag of garden soil every year), but it's not without added expense and minor annoyances.Added expenses are compostable bio bags to line the kitchen green bin. The bin needs to be washed frequently, which uses water, sometimes an issue in California.The bigger collection bin gets filthy with slimy liquid, scraps, and black mold. They suggest lining the bin with paper, and then you have an inch of wet paper soup to deal with. So either you wash it somewhere (without a power washer, a Sisyphean task), and the inevitable half-rotten slop goes into the gutter and then the storm drains, or you pay $50 - $80 per cleaning to a service.I would be nice if the garbage company would occasionally swap the bins for clean ones, but no.\n",
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Avi Black While I applaud your democratic impulse, his fanatical attention to detail and foraged ingredients could never be inexpensive or readily available. This is a labor intensive method of preparing food and obtaining ingredients and required lots of free labor to produce even at $500 per person. It may not be fair that only a few can experience this but short of a lot of cheap robots in the kitchen it won't change. Personally, I won't miss the duck brains...
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No he did not. Check your facts. He donated about $1.5million from the $20-35 million he was paid.
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"content": "No he did not. Check your facts. He donated about $1.5million from the $20-35 million he was paid.\n",
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| no | Classification | 268 |
NP bought pre-IPO Visa shares at $11 per share in 2008 ; as of 2022, she's sold those same shares for between $185-201 per share. Meanwhile, a proposed bill to regulate credit card companies (thus potentially hurting NP's intial investment) somehow disappeared from the House floor. When questioned about this by a 60 Minutes reporter in 2011, NP pretended not to understand what he was asking even though, in my opinion, he was quite clear. I only wish this reporter had felt emboldened enough to ask NP directly if she (or, sorry, "her husband" because of course you would never discuss finances like this with your spouse) bought the shares based on inside information. I'm sure she's a lovely person, but the fact that we allow legislators to continue to trade on information like this is pretty abhorrent. I'm not sure why there aren't rules in place to prevent this. As a legislator, your duty is to the American public. Not to your own financial interests. You will never govern fairly otherwise. I respect NP as a woman, but I cannot respect this. I also really don't respect details this reporter felt the need to include, like catching up at the Four Seasons over "French fries, a truffle butter-roll and chocolate-covered macadamia nuts." Whilst complimenting NP's four-inch Jimmy Choos. This isn't Sex and the City. This is the American government. This article is giving off very "let them eat cake" vibes. Then again, maybe that's the intent.
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Just don't do it in Pheonix Arizona in front of a bank, while being a black Wall Street Journal reporter. Open carry in Arizona applies only to guns, not note pads.
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Erik Frederiksen And where will the $100 trillion come that is allegedly needed to stop the climate from changing? That's the question the climate alarmists never want to answer, and rest assured all those greedy corporations' and billionaires' money won't cover more than 10% of the cost.
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BLB The "good man" you speak of is busy driving the U.S and Europe towards nuclear disaster in Ukraine. Trump made progress in the middle east (and proved himself a friend of Israel), possibly stopped nuclear confrontation in N Korea, and avoided an open conflict with Iran. And most promising of all, Trump is campaigning to begin negotiations towards peace between Russian and Ukraine on his first day of office. Yes , I am hoping for peace to prevail all over the world. I am hoping for a Trump victory in 2024.
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$20 million dollar is nothing. It should have been way more.
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So, our food prices are sky high so that investors can skim off $4 Billion from the "razor thin" grocery profit margin?Is this a nightmare, or am I really reading this?
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"content": "So, our food prices are sky high so that investors can skim off $4 Billion from the \"razor thin\" grocery profit margin?Is this a nightmare, or am I really reading this?\n",
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Nick Nick, a lot of economists have used "surrogate data" to loosely verify the broad accuracy of key economic figures provided by the CCP for years. With such a "well oil and all pervasive propaganda machine in place" you assertion is very well founded. Investing in anything to do with China is now increasingly problematic.
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Rick Brown Interesting observation. I got to add that R&D in a corporate environment absolutely doesn't like messy stews and long-term bets. It is a struggle to push for investing in "leaps" concept that are yet highly speculative. Startups typically only have a few years to achieve sufficient proof of concept and develop a path to a commercial product. It is hard in this concept to tackle big leaps. Even when you do, disrupting a market with a totally new product tend to be blocked by incumbent when they control part of the value chain you are trying to insert your product into. I worked in chemical innovation, clean tech and nano-technology. Most of the stuff I developed never made it past demonstration scale. Not because it did not work, because competitive pressure forcing adoption of new technology was not there. For example, saving 15% on producing a commodity chemical while also enabling capture of CO2 emission was not enough to get someone to build the first plant. I guess timing was wrong. With large carbon tax the $$$ are looking better.
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Epi-pens, the life saving injections used to reverse allergic reactions or extreme asthma attacks, used to be cheap. They used to cost around $100 for a two pack in 2009. Then Joe Manchin's daughter Heather Bresch, having climbed the ladder at Mylan Pharma after being hired by a friend of dad, had a brainstorm. She raised the price 500% to $600 in 2016. The injections hadn't become more expensive to make. Suddenly the pen that every asthma sufferer, anyone with a bee sting or peanut allergy carried around to prevent anaphylaxis/sudden death, became a luxury item.
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Bartokas Look, Turkish Politics has one dark side ( like many other nations) AKP's direct support in Parliament, called MHP, is Turkey's central problem since the late Ottoman era, Turkey's main problem. MHP is practically the long extension of Ottoman-era CUP. This particular political group holds strong military power; therefore, they are the principal planners of Military coups except in 2015 ( that is why that one failed) Turkey's dictatorial feature has always been there. Erdogan gets real support initially, trying to oppose this hidden political power. But he couldn't precisely manage that, even though he almost lost his life during the 2015 coup because he was trying to manage two strong groups, Fethullah and Nationalistic, but failed; what saved his life there, he went back to people, and with social media's help, he counteracted these two dictatorial powers. But he learned one thing, he cannot play with these people. Therefore after 2015, he firmly aligned with the nationalistic MHP, which proved to be a strong hand in Turkey. Dictatorship in Turkey politics was the main thing; even Erdogan couldn't move that stone, and Turgut Ozal was paid that with his life.
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Hypoteneus this not due to Crypto but to blockchain application. Crypto"currencies" are a blockchain developments that came to life thanks to libertarian and anti establishment crowd. Now that the Augean stables have been cleaned out of most of the crooks, I wouldn't be surprised to see Bitcoin and Etherum to become more main stream at a tool against devaluation like Gold or silver. As the world is moving toward more and more digitalization we should keep an open mind toward some of these new "assets".
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I'm a High School Teacher at a private school, with no job security beyond "we like you, we want to keep you." Twenty-eight one year contracts since 1995. Never bought a house, because I never felt I had the security to make the investment- so 28 years of renting. I wouldn't trade my job for any other, but I am looking forward to June, 2030 and retirement.
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Smaller servings could help. I sometimes will find myself wanting half a glass of wine, but I don't open the bottle because I'm worried it will go bad, and it's too expensive to let go to waste. I can open a beer and not feel guilty if I don't finish it. Maybe not though. The sad truth about the alcohol industry is the same as gambling or mobile games... the majority of sales are driven by a small percentage of people who consume unhealthy amounts. 30% of American adults don't drink at all, and another 30% drink less than 1 drink a week. But the top 10% of Americans consume an average of 10 drinks a =day=.The customer that drinks a bottle a day is going to be much more relevant than the ones who drink one every two weeks.
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Just in case this has not already been noted in the comments: most of this investment, as well as investment in EV battery and auto manufacturing, wind turbine production and other ‘new age’ technology will be done in Trumplandia in Ohio, Arizona, Tennessee, Alabama and elsewhere. Places where folks rail at ‘Marxist Democrats.’ Places represented by Congressional Republicans who relentlessly opposed the federal legislation that will be bringing jobs by the tens of thousands and economic opportunity to places that desperately need assistance if they’re going to survive in the 21st century.Evidently you can kick a gift horse in the teeth and get away with it.
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Time to mint a $1 trillion coin. It sounds silly except that, (1) it's legal and Biden can do it without any help from Congress, and (2) it perfectly threads the needle of nullifying the extortion leverage of House Republicans while protecting military families and Social Security recipients from hardship.
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I drive my kids to and from school every morning. There is an expanse of open fields and forest, an airport and the plodding construction of a light rail line on the 10 km trip. The mist rising from the ground, the snow covering the trees, the expansive sunrises and sunsets, the sheer immensity of the bridges and stations being constructed, planes taking off and landing immediately overhead, these are everyday pleasures that feel special. There is the awe of the new, but there is also the awe of the known and of seeing changes take place before your very eyes. The secret to this feeling in a lot of cases is giving yourself the time and headspace to really see the world around you.
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| no | Classification | 1,580 |
Republican's raised it three times for Trump without a peep. He left $8 trillion in new debt and counting because tax cuts add to debt every year thereafter.
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"content": "Republican's raised it three times for Trump without a peep. He left $8 trillion in new debt and counting because tax cuts add to debt every year thereafter.\n",
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I traveled to NZ in 2005 to backpack/explore the South Island for two months (with $2K in the bank). As a solo female traveler, I felt safe and welcome the entire time, from the retired Australian couple there on holiday that picked me up hitchhiking and put me up in their condo for three days, to the electrician with a small farm outside of Wanaka who gave me a beautiful spot to pitch my tent and made delicious, simple meals from the garden, to the Māori guy who was a caretaker for disabled people and pulled over to pick me up while en route to the Albatross nesting site and nature preserve outside of Dunedin (I ended up spending the afternoon with his group, observing the truly awesome sea birds with their young on the grassy slopes above the ocean). I got on the plane in Auckland at the end of my trip with $12 in my bank account. Beautiful people, beautiful country.
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Anne The bottle of red wine was worth a little under $3,000 US. it was a simple error by the then NSW Premier, who ran strongly on ridding the state of NSW of corruption.The almost instant wealth of Kyrsten Sinema is troubling. As is the source of the funding behind the new Republican House member, who goes by his current name of George Santos.Corruption of public officials is slowly being weeded out in Australia. Not sure if the US has the same enthusiasm for uncovering corruption.
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Looking forward to reading the book and supporting all future endeavors! In reality, Harry is doing what he can to make money for his family. His security ($3m/year) was removed which I think the Royal Family will regret. The family are billionaires!How do you pay for Andrew who was thrown out of his duties due to serious allegations and not Harry who walked away? Harry is easily recognized worldwide, whereas Andrew is recognized within a much smaller circle. Had they simply continued to pay for his security and not left them totally unprotected in Canada at the onsite of a global pandemic, many of these projects may not have happened. The person that looks the worst from the interviews seem to be his brother, the future King. I used to be excited for when he got the role, but now I am hoping for Queen Charlotte... George will probably be ok, but Charlotte seems to have a better personality. Of course, she will never serve because it will be George and then his children. I hope this experience will get the family to develop a better life for the "spares". Princess Margaret is the best example of a life ruined. She wasn't allowed to marry her first love and later was relegated to the background never to upstage her sister.Kudos to Harry for creating his own reality and then monetizing it! He is not beholden to the family for money.
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"content": "Looking forward to reading the book and supporting all future endeavors! In reality, Harry is doing what he can to make money for his family. His security ($3m/year) was removed which I think the Royal Family will regret. The family are billionaires!How do you pay for Andrew who was thrown out of his duties due to serious allegations and not Harry who walked away? Harry is easily recognized worldwide, whereas Andrew is recognized within a much smaller circle. Had they simply continued to pay for his security and not left them totally unprotected in Canada at the onsite of a global pandemic, many of these projects may not have happened. The person that looks the worst from the interviews seem to be his brother, the future King. I used to be excited for when he got the role, but now I am hoping for Queen Charlotte... George will probably be ok, but Charlotte seems to have a better personality. Of course, she will never serve because it will be George and then his children. I hope this experience will get the family to develop a better life for the \"spares\". Princess Margaret is the best example of a life ruined. She wasn't allowed to marry her first love and later was relegated to the background never to upstage her sister.Kudos to Harry for creating his own reality and then monetizing it! He is not beholden to the family for money.\n",
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Robert David South I see similarities to the years preceding the Great Depression. Many imagine that the Great Crash of ‘29 caused it. No. It was a nasty symptom, but not the cause. So, what did?I believe it was a consequence of the great naval arms race between Great Britain and Wilhelmine Germany between 1907-1915. I think Britain was determined to outbuild Germany, to protect its North Sea invasion route from Germany. I think Britain built something like forty-four dreadnoughts (battleships and battlecruisers) in ten years. I’m guessing. Plus other war vessels.How many factories do you think it takes to build and maintain a forty-four battleship fleet in just six years? And what was the size of the workforce? I’m guessing again. 200,000?Fast forward to 1922. The Great War is now over; Germany is defeated; its battlefleet surrendered, interned and later scuttled. The invasion threat? Gone. So Britain no longer needs its enormous expensive navy. It agrees to scrap most of it and limit the size of future vessels. Its huge shipyard workforce is mostly let go, just as Britain demobilizes its huge army. Millions of men are suddenly unemployed. Hundreds of factories must close; no UK government orders. No ready civilian jobs for most. It hits the economy like a tsunami.The blow takes awhile to work its way through the financial system, but the value of pre-WW-1 capital investment suddenly disappears. One result is the Great Depression.I see similarities now.
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"as Russia loses its war in Ukraine" More fantasy. Fact: US spending over $100 billion on a war we have no interest in and the US Congress refused to add tracking of the where the last $45Billion will be spent.
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"content": "\"as Russia loses its war in Ukraine\" More fantasy. Fact: US spending over $100 billion on a war we have no interest in and the US Congress refused to add tracking of the where the last $45Billion will be spent.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,268 |
Smilodon7 NY Post- "Hunter Biden’s access to lucrative financial opportunities also came with expectations — including kicking back as much as 50% of his earnings to his dad, text messages on his old laptop show."
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Perhaps money might have been better spent on lowering student loan interest rates (for grad school fed loans, rates can go as high as 6-7%). You’ll definitely be able to collect this money from these education-seeking idiots because it’s non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, so seems like a good bargain to me……in all seriousness, not sure why we’re throwing low-interest money at companies that have largely been proven to be destructive to society. And many of which have either laid off workers and/or collapsed. But sure please let’s incentive Facebook and Carvana over doctors, etc. Sure we need more ad gurus and data manipulators than people who can fix our digestive tracts and whatnot.
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| no | Classification | 3,786 |
Of the total 7.2 trillion in US debt held by foreign countries, Japan and Mainland China held the greatest portions, with China holding 870 billion U.S. dollars in U.S. securities. So it is an uneasy alliance/adversary relationship.
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Full Name Most Americans get little real value from the taxes they pay.What I call the security state chews up $1.3 trillion a year to support cost plus contracts for the Military Industrial Complex, a militarized police and Prison Industrial Complex to fight an unwinnable war on drugs and ever more invasive security which in the end will be used by the right wing and fascists to maintain permanent control should voters ever be so unwise as to hand it to them.The government's portion of health care spending alone exceeds what all other countries pay for health care, as a portion of their GNP. Then nearly as much again is spent privately to provide gold plated care for the top 10% and very inadequate or nonexistent for the rest. Somehow about half of Americans continue to be taken in by this swindle. The Republicans have access to a lot of dark money to do this.
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"content": "Full Name Most Americans get little real value from the taxes they pay.What I call the security state chews up $1.3 trillion a year to support cost plus contracts for the Military Industrial Complex, a militarized police and Prison Industrial Complex to fight an unwinnable war on drugs and ever more invasive security which in the end will be used by the right wing and fascists to maintain permanent control should voters ever be so unwise as to hand it to them.The government's portion of health care spending alone exceeds what all other countries pay for health care, as a portion of their GNP. Then nearly as much again is spent privately to provide gold plated care for the top 10% and very inadequate or nonexistent for the rest. Somehow about half of Americans continue to be taken in by this swindle. The Republicans have access to a lot of dark money to do this.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,958 |
I lived in China for 1.5 years (when Xi took power) and saw this first hand. One of America’s strengths is that it welcomes so many people from all over the world, anti-immigration people notwithstanding. China is not an open country that embraces true thinking-outside-the-box. So I left. They could be an incredibly rich (monetarily and culturally) country, decoupled from population growth, if they did decide to open up.
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"content": "I lived in China for 1.5 years (when Xi took power) and saw this first hand. One of America’s strengths is that it welcomes so many people from all over the world, anti-immigration people notwithstanding. China is not an open country that embraces true thinking-outside-the-box. So I left. They could be an incredibly rich (monetarily and culturally) country, decoupled from population growth, if they did decide to open up.\n",
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I'm certainly not an economist, but I am expert in elementary school arithmetic. So, when my bank account gets low, I realize I have two options: 1) reduce my spending, or 2) increase my income. Accordingly, I have to ask: why not increase taxes, especially on the wealthy ? Actually, we already do that if the wealthy are Democrats; when Donald Trump was president he put a cap on the federal income tax deduction ($10K) for state income taxes, which affects many New Jersey tax payers, but not many Kentucky taxpayers. Isn't it time that wealthy Republicans pay their fair share ?
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| yes | Classification | 6,358 |
If we could just get rid of Republicans THEN a wonderful new morning in America like has NEVER been seen.If we could STOP the flow of human wealth to the very few, THEN humanity could BLOSSOM.OF THE $42T OF WEALTH CREATED SINCE 2020 NEARLY 2/3 OF IT WENT TO THE TOP 1%.this is unsustainable UNLESS we return to the age of pharaohs and kings who's families become a new species way above homo savagus.
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"content": "If we could just get rid of Republicans THEN a wonderful new morning in America like has NEVER been seen.If we could STOP the flow of human wealth to the very few, THEN humanity could BLOSSOM.OF THE $42T OF WEALTH CREATED SINCE 2020 NEARLY 2/3 OF IT WENT TO THE TOP 1%.this is unsustainable UNLESS we return to the age of pharaohs and kings who's families become a new species way above homo savagus.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,671 |
When I was 16 growing up in Greenwich CT I was sitting in a park listening to the radio in my car minding my own business when a cop on a scooter pulled up and said open the trunk. I said I did nothing wrong and he had no reason, so he called for backup and they said open it or we will break some bones.
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Where is the mention about the CAUSE of people's distrust of "judges, members of congress and law enforcement agencies, the so called political elites"? How about the nonstop push from far right media and even from members of the GOP who have supported these conspiracy theories and distrust of all of the above, for the purpose of expanding their base and winning more votes? They DON'T CARE about the damage to the country, the security of our elections or the safety of all those people in that group. Not if it makes conservatives more paranoid and if it makes even ONE MORE PERSON distrust Democrats and decide to vote for a Republican. Poor Ashli Babbitt left her home in San Diego and traveled to DC for Jan 6th because she was convinced that the election had been stolen from Trump. She believed many of the things mentioned in this article. Her beliefs led to her death. It is easy enough to disprove these lies, however conservative media is working so hard to earn clicks and $$ that they don't care about the damage to our country. The only thing that'll make them stop is loss of $ or the court. When Dominion sued them, THEY STOPPED. No one is suing so they don't stop. And our country just becomes more divided and people just think that the gov't is out to get them. (EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT).Interesting to note that even though there are people on the left that don't trust congress, etc, they aren't leading a seditious attack against our gov't.
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"content": "Where is the mention about the CAUSE of people's distrust of \"judges, members of congress and law enforcement agencies, the so called political elites\"? How about the nonstop push from far right media and even from members of the GOP who have supported these conspiracy theories and distrust of all of the above, for the purpose of expanding their base and winning more votes? They DON'T CARE about the damage to the country, the security of our elections or the safety of all those people in that group. Not if it makes conservatives more paranoid and if it makes even ONE MORE PERSON distrust Democrats and decide to vote for a Republican. Poor Ashli Babbitt left her home in San Diego and traveled to DC for Jan 6th because she was convinced that the election had been stolen from Trump. She believed many of the things mentioned in this article. Her beliefs led to her death. It is easy enough to disprove these lies, however conservative media is working so hard to earn clicks and $$ that they don't care about the damage to our country. The only thing that'll make them stop is loss of $ or the court. When Dominion sued them, THEY STOPPED. No one is suing so they don't stop. And our country just becomes more divided and people just think that the gov't is out to get them. (EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT).Interesting to note that even though there are people on the left that don't trust congress, etc, they aren't leading a seditious attack against our gov't.\n",
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Paul The funny thing about America is everyone thinks they are middle class and no one thinks they're rich. Anyone making more than $400k in any city is not worried about the vacillation in the price of eggs. I can assure you they eat out regularly at nice restaurants, take multiple vacations a year, and maintain a nice nest egg of savings. To think anything else is kind of laughable in its disregard for the real world.
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Barry of Nambucca We in America have a $31 Trillion debt...time to cut our military budget in half with a cut in responsibility along with it
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Agreed we all need to pay our fair share of taxes and loopholes need to close Two questions does Congress have the backbone to do this with all the special interests they serve and what are we the voters going to do about this Lastly I am sick to death of hearing about Entitlement programs these are not free money I paid into social security for almost 55 years and even with Medicare spend almost $1000 per month for my husband and I for health insurance and a drug plan and supplemental coverage This in contrast to European countries that truly have a national health plan
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"content": "Agreed we all need to pay our fair share of taxes and loopholes need to close Two questions does Congress have the backbone to do this with all the special interests they serve and what are we the voters going to do about this Lastly I am sick to death of hearing about Entitlement programs these are not free money I paid into social security for almost 55 years and even with Medicare spend almost $1000 per month for my husband and I for health insurance and a drug plan and supplemental coverage This in contrast to European countries that truly have a national health plan\n",
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My wife (a permanent resident based on my US Citizenship) just got attacked, since 9/2022, for months, by a myriad of fraudulent guys, just after she bought something, and was robbed of 200-something dollars due to her naivité...Unfurtunately, I was couple of months abroad, - now I deleted all mails, tried to unsubscribed everything (includíng out stepdaughter´s "educational" offers).Those guys are so sophisticated and it is so difficult to get rid of them...33 years ago, when I arrived (proudly) to the USA as a permanent resident (based on my refugee status in Germany), it was more simple, just throw all junk mail into garbage immediately...Now, they get under your skin.Even myself (US Naturalized citizen) with my decades old experience of junk mail etc., I got caught in this web in Dunham dpt. store, in Sferling, IL, when a cashier (innocently) asked me during paying for good "what is your phone and email" - after couple of visits, I realize that this is not proper, and told him "NO".Surprisingly, he nodded and understood.It seems to me that clerks are trained to get customers mails and phones.Educate, educate, and educate - schools should have classes about saying no to "authorities" (like the cashier) when they try to intrude upon one´s privacy.
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"content": "My wife (a permanent resident based on my US Citizenship) just got attacked, since 9/2022, for months, by a myriad of fraudulent guys, just after she bought something, and was robbed of 200-something dollars due to her naivité...Unfurtunately, I was couple of months abroad, - now I deleted all mails, tried to unsubscribed everything (includíng out stepdaughter´s \"educational\" offers).Those guys are so sophisticated and it is so difficult to get rid of them...33 years ago, when I arrived (proudly) to the USA as a permanent resident (based on my refugee status in Germany), it was more simple, just throw all junk mail into garbage immediately...Now, they get under your skin.Even myself (US Naturalized citizen) with my decades old experience of junk mail etc., I got caught in this web in Dunham dpt. store, in Sferling, IL, when a cashier (innocently) asked me during paying for good \"what is your phone and email\" - after couple of visits, I realize that this is not proper, and told him \"NO\".Surprisingly, he nodded and understood.It seems to me that clerks are trained to get customers mails and phones.Educate, educate, and educate - schools should have classes about saying no to \"authorities\" (like the cashier) when they try to intrude upon one´s privacy.\n",
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Dr. John -Because House Democrats knew that they couldn’t force the Senate to get rid of those cuts, because it would require 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. And since the Trump Tax Cuts are multi year, they could not take it up in any reconciliation bill, which requires only a majority to pass and can’t be filibusterred, because reconciliation bills can only effect the current year.So, this is a crisis now because of the actions of the Republicans in the House, period. And, I wonder how the wealthy Republican donors will react if the default significantly cuts into their wealth. These people are supposed to be bright enough to understand how finance works, and an outright default on the national debt will severely roil the economy. It could easily make some of those billionaires into only multimillionaires. And I still remember how much Trump wailed when his wealth was reduced to less than $1 billion by the financial magazines.And the effort to foist this crisis on Biden is ludicrous as the Constitution indicates the Congress is the decider on federal spending. If they want to cut the budget, they should convince their fellow House members to do so in a Bill passed by the House and approved by the Senate.
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It's not uncommon for law firms, venture capital firms, and other companies built around a partnership model to keep laid off employees on the payroll until they've found a new job. Some companies provide job counseling and resume support to help speed the job search along. In cases like these, the company is often vague about timelines. They expect the fired employee to be serious about finding a new job, but they don't want to be pinned down as to how much time is too much. It's understandable that Gay was flummoxed when LW2 described a situation like this because it is confusing, but Gay really needs to learn more about jobs outside of academia and the world of letters. Her lack of knowledge about the way employment works for most people seriously undercuts her ability to be a work friend.
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newyorkerva If you save and invest a huge percentage of your income then sure. But 12.4% into SS (which is then poorly managed) plus 5% into your 401K is not enough for 40-45 years of work to fund 20-30 years of comfortable retirement. The math just doesn't work. Sitting around for 20-30 years while everyone else runs civilization for you is not an entitlement.
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Firstly it's an absolute disgrace that the US has allowed the advanced chip situation to get out of control to such an extent. Has nobody been paying attention?Secondly, I suspect the US won't need to worry much about staffing shortages, because when China attacks Taiwan the Taiwanese with the right skills will be welcomed in the US with open arms - if they time it right.
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We All Thought The Harley Was A Fictive Device Stu would show you his motorcycle if you were curious. It was in parts, in two greasy metal tubs, kept at the bus garage. He talked about fixing it up but the years went by and it seemed closer to a dream than actual, real world, transportation. He was one of the charter drivers, sort of the elite core at Campus Bus Service. He was the sole driver of the double decker bus from London. Most of us drove exclusively on I.U.'s campus. Stu drove to Evansville or Louisville KY w/ 35 string players for their symphonies. He went part time, started on a law degree, ran for student body president AND fixed the Harley. He was very cynical and anti-political. If elected, he promised to hand every single student a cookie and then resign. He and the veep of the Cookie Party would ride to the dorms on the Harley and tell everyone that student politics was a crock. The serious candidates were debating and posting signs; for transparency, each slate had to divulge their campaign expenses. Some were spending thousands. The Cookie Party: $ 2.56 for poster board (they drew a picture of the absent treasurer for newspaper group photo) and gas. Stu et al came in third place, beating out several serious candidates. I'm sure some students who were normally too apathetic to vote, voted for him just because his cynicism matched their own. He convinced a group of bus drivers that some dreams do come true.bee word: fictive
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"content": "We All Thought The Harley Was A Fictive Device Stu would show you his motorcycle if you were curious. It was in parts, in two greasy metal tubs, kept at the bus garage. He talked about fixing it up but the years went by and it seemed closer to a dream than actual, real world, transportation. He was one of the charter drivers, sort of the elite core at Campus Bus Service. He was the sole driver of the double decker bus from London. Most of us drove exclusively on I.U.'s campus. Stu drove to Evansville or Louisville KY w/ 35 string players for their symphonies. He went part time, started on a law degree, ran for student body president AND fixed the Harley. He was very cynical and anti-political. If elected, he promised to hand every single student a cookie and then resign. He and the veep of the Cookie Party would ride to the dorms on the Harley and tell everyone that student politics was a crock. The serious candidates were debating and posting signs; for transparency, each slate had to divulge their campaign expenses. Some were spending thousands. The Cookie Party: $ 2.56 for poster board (they drew a picture of the absent treasurer for newspaper group photo) and gas. Stu et al came in third place, beating out several serious candidates. I'm sure some students who were normally too apathetic to vote, voted for him just because his cynicism matched their own. He convinced a group of bus drivers that some dreams do come true.bee word: fictive\n",
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What Ms. Kristian is really complaining about is that Ron DeSantis is a Republican. Many of our presidents were state governors first, even Democrats like Clinton and Carter. Obama had even less experience, just a few years as a senator. The left is manifestly hung up on Trump, refusing to let him go as so many on the right are doing. Thus, everything is compared to the orange man. Presidents, like other executives, have whole departments dedicated to intelligence and analysis, gathering and interpreting information from around the world. No one expects any leader to know everything about everything. The purpose of a leader is to listen to his/her aides and make decisions. Decisions based upon values, politics, morality, and good sense. I, of course, recognize that many on the left ascribe none of these attributes to Republicans. Democrats of today refuse to accept the US is a pluralist society in which different people come to different conclusions based upon similar information. It is often said, I think correctly, that conservatives consider the other side just wrong, possibly open to a change of mind, while liberals, especially the far-left species, consider the other side to be evil, deliberately trying to hurt others and not due the time of day. These imagine that of course conservatives see the truth as they do, but refuse to change in pursuit of power and wealth. I don't know how to work with such closed-minded individuals. So it goes.
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"content": "What Ms. Kristian is really complaining about is that Ron DeSantis is a Republican. Many of our presidents were state governors first, even Democrats like Clinton and Carter. Obama had even less experience, just a few years as a senator. The left is manifestly hung up on Trump, refusing to let him go as so many on the right are doing. Thus, everything is compared to the orange man. Presidents, like other executives, have whole departments dedicated to intelligence and analysis, gathering and interpreting information from around the world. No one expects any leader to know everything about everything. The purpose of a leader is to listen to his/her aides and make decisions. Decisions based upon values, politics, morality, and good sense. I, of course, recognize that many on the left ascribe none of these attributes to Republicans. Democrats of today refuse to accept the US is a pluralist society in which different people come to different conclusions based upon similar information. It is often said, I think correctly, that conservatives consider the other side just wrong, possibly open to a change of mind, while liberals, especially the far-left species, consider the other side to be evil, deliberately trying to hurt others and not due the time of day. These imagine that of course conservatives see the truth as they do, but refuse to change in pursuit of power and wealth. I don't know how to work with such closed-minded individuals. So it goes.\n",
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Kat Perkins , Both parties are pawns to PE. Chuck Shumer and Kristen Sinama are both in PE's corner with their support of the "Carried Interest" tax rate PE partners pay on their fees. When Hillary Clinton said, "You need a public position on an issue and a private position" she was referring to telling the voters she was against the "Carried Interest" tax rate, while at the same time telling the PE players, she is fine with it and would do nothing to change it. Both parties are playing the game and carrying PE's water. When Mitt Romney who made his money in PE doing leveraged buyouts with Bain had what one of these deals business model is, supposedly said "That's crazy". He then went onto make millions doing them.
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"content": "Kat Perkins , Both parties are pawns to PE. Chuck Shumer and Kristen Sinama are both in PE's corner with their support of the \"Carried Interest\" tax rate PE partners pay on their fees. When Hillary Clinton said, \"You need a public position on an issue and a private position\" she was referring to telling the voters she was against the \"Carried Interest\" tax rate, while at the same time telling the PE players, she is fine with it and would do nothing to change it. Both parties are playing the game and carrying PE's water. When Mitt Romney who made his money in PE doing leveraged buyouts with Bain had what one of these deals business model is, supposedly said \"That's crazy\". He then went onto make millions doing them.\n",
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It's bizarre to see so many commenters decrying the public investment - much of it in the forms of grants or tax credits - as "socialism." It speaks volumes about US education, none of it good.Public investment into critical industries is not now - nor has it ever been - an anomaly in capitalist countries, including the USA. Do thirty seconds of reading, for crying out loud.
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"content": "It's bizarre to see so many commenters decrying the public investment - much of it in the forms of grants or tax credits - as \"socialism.\" It speaks volumes about US education, none of it good.Public investment into critical industries is not now - nor has it ever been - an anomaly in capitalist countries, including the USA. Do thirty seconds of reading, for crying out loud.\n",
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The Republicans are caught. They cannot bring it to an open vote because the 20 won't vote for that. And the 20 are not going to vote for McCarthy, so he's toast. Republicans like it this way though. Now nothing will get voted on and no new spending will occur. A perfect storm. Might as well adjourn until the next election in two years. Might not be bad for Biden. The Senate can go home too. If you want anything done, vote for Democrats next time!
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"content": "The Republicans are caught. They cannot bring it to an open vote because the 20 won't vote for that. And the 20 are not going to vote for McCarthy, so he's toast. Republicans like it this way though. Now nothing will get voted on and no new spending will occur. A perfect storm. Might as well adjourn until the next election in two years. Might not be bad for Biden. The Senate can go home too. If you want anything done, vote for Democrats next time!\n",
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Of the 435 representatives in Congress, about 20 (5% of all members) are in open rebellion in their conference. They might be called the Freedom Caucus but the number is probably much larger. They campaign that they only wish for all Americans to have a voice. Yet, they will not say what they are negotiating behind closed doors that the nation will have to live with. They say the system is broken. That is because they broke it. When the government was more open they were able to block all action. So the omnibus bills they object to were put in place to make sure the government remained funded. They are campaigning against the monster they created.But in their heart of hearts, these Republicans want to eliminate all government spending except what helps them. Their system of individual amendments and debate will guarantee that. No Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, no protection for consumers, no preservation of our national resources, no IRS, no taxes for themselves and no penalty for not paying up on their debts.
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"content": "Of the 435 representatives in Congress, about 20 (5% of all members) are in open rebellion in their conference. They might be called the Freedom Caucus but the number is probably much larger. They campaign that they only wish for all Americans to have a voice. Yet, they will not say what they are negotiating behind closed doors that the nation will have to live with. They say the system is broken. That is because they broke it. When the government was more open they were able to block all action. So the omnibus bills they object to were put in place to make sure the government remained funded. They are campaigning against the monster they created.But in their heart of hearts, these Republicans want to eliminate all government spending except what helps them. Their system of individual amendments and debate will guarantee that. No Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, no protection for consumers, no preservation of our national resources, no IRS, no taxes for themselves and no penalty for not paying up on their debts.\n",
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Wolfgang Roberts This doesn't mean anything without context. A minimum wage earner who is $20,000 in debt is not the same thing as a millionaire who is $20,000 in debt. The raw number is not really relevant compared to the overall size of the economy.
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The Democratic Party with an over whelming Majority hasn't delivered on Education, Housing ,Healthcare, Jobs or even a sensible Energy Plan.Kathy Hoschul is no better than Cuomo. $800 million for a Stadium in suburban Buffalo, More Casinos and no aid to NYC for the illegal migrant problem.Ooops, I forgot rising Crime and Bail Reform!
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Fun facts for history buffs:-The Mass that was reformed in Vatican II was the Tridentine Mass, promulgated by Pious V in 1570 in the wake of the Council of Trent. There was considerable variation in the Mass rites before that time, and the standardization of the Roman Missal was largely in response to the fear of Protestantism. -As part of that same response, the so-called "Roman Inquisition" (Congregation of the Holy Roman and Universal Inquisition) was established in 1542. It (which came to oversee the Index of Banned Books, as well as investigating, according to Andrea del Col, some 60,000 "heretics" and burning perhaps 1200 of them) was renamed in 1908 as "Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office" and again renamed at the end of Vatican II in 1965 as "Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith," and just last June (2022), was renamed yet again as "Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith." -Ratzinger was prefect of the Sacred Congregation from 1981–2005, helping to facilitate the opening of the Inquisition Archives to researchers. -It was also as prefect that he first came, at least by 2001, to be privy to the details of the many sexual abuse charges that were starting to surface. One interesting case, not investigated under his watch, was that of the hundreds of boys who claim to have been abused while in the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir in Germany, overseen from 1964–94 by Georg Ratzinger, Joseph's (Benedict's) older brother.
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"For years, I’ve been writing columns predicting China’s decline." So clearly we should be cautious about believing you now...You repeat a whole load of tropes and echo-chambered mis-truths. It is clearly the US that is causing trouble over Taiwan and has broken promises. Nothing I have seen suggests that the Mainland has any intention of militarily invading Taiwan. However, if the US starts putting military bases there, it may feel it necessary to do so, just as the US threatened Cuba over Russian missiles. And yes, please do keep faith with the people of China. They overwhelmingly support their government (according to an independent Harvard study that found numbers over 90% happy with their government) and would like the US to back off. Interestingly, a significant number of Taiwanese would like this too. The inhabitants of Taiwan are not a monolithic group.Incidentally, as a permanent resident of Hong Kong, I would disagree about your characterisation of Jimmy Lai. If you look into his case you will see that he is guilty of financial misdoings, which is why his newspaper failed. He was tried in an open court under a Western legal system based on Common Law, just like in the US. I challenge you to find anything wrong with the legal process.We still have a free press that is quite good at criticising our HK government (often with the same tropes that I find in the NY Times). So HK is really better off without his failed "National Enquirer" knock-off.
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"content": "\"For years, I’ve been writing columns predicting China’s decline.\" So clearly we should be cautious about believing you now...You repeat a whole load of tropes and echo-chambered mis-truths. It is clearly the US that is causing trouble over Taiwan and has broken promises. Nothing I have seen suggests that the Mainland has any intention of militarily invading Taiwan. However, if the US starts putting military bases there, it may feel it necessary to do so, just as the US threatened Cuba over Russian missiles. And yes, please do keep faith with the people of China. They overwhelmingly support their government (according to an independent Harvard study that found numbers over 90% happy with their government) and would like the US to back off. Interestingly, a significant number of Taiwanese would like this too. The inhabitants of Taiwan are not a monolithic group.Incidentally, as a permanent resident of Hong Kong, I would disagree about your characterisation of Jimmy Lai. If you look into his case you will see that he is guilty of financial misdoings, which is why his newspaper failed. He was tried in an open court under a Western legal system based on Common Law, just like in the US. I challenge you to find anything wrong with the legal process.We still have a free press that is quite good at criticising our HK government (often with the same tropes that I find in the NY Times). So HK is really better off without his failed \"National Enquirer\" knock-off.\n",
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"He (Zimmerman) decided not to spend what would have likely been tens of thousands of dollars to do more rigorous outside research." Preposterous. A comprehensive background check including verification of employment and educational credentials can be completed for under $50 in 5 or fewer business days and is standard hiring practice across a broad range of professions. I know this firsthand from more than 20 years in talent acquisition. Nearly every lie Santos told would have been uncovered with this simple step. The failure of GOP leadership to run a simple employment background check (yes, House seat is not a volunteer position; it is employment with a six figure salary and extraordinary benefits) is astonishing. The fact that many of the lies were known yet ignored is a disgrace.
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"content": "\"He (Zimmerman) decided not to spend what would have likely been tens of thousands of dollars to do more rigorous outside research.\" Preposterous. A comprehensive background check including verification of employment and educational credentials can be completed for under $50 in 5 or fewer business days and is standard hiring practice across a broad range of professions. I know this firsthand from more than 20 years in talent acquisition. Nearly every lie Santos told would have been uncovered with this simple step. The failure of GOP leadership to run a simple employment background check (yes, House seat is not a volunteer position; it is employment with a six figure salary and extraordinary benefits) is astonishing. The fact that many of the lies were known yet ignored is a disgrace.\n",
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They are not being paid. They are on a mission to pay back Putin for the pain he has inflicted upon them and their nations. Follow the money and you discover that Putin is after the minerals and farmlands that make Ukraine such a successful nation. He is greedy and desires more wealth for himself and his cronies. Russian resources have all been allocated and he needs to keep expanding to satisfy the greed of the oligarchs.
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"content": "They are not being paid. They are on a mission to pay back Putin for the pain he has inflicted upon them and their nations. Follow the money and you discover that Putin is after the minerals and farmlands that make Ukraine such a successful nation. He is greedy and desires more wealth for himself and his cronies. Russian resources have all been allocated and he needs to keep expanding to satisfy the greed of the oligarchs.\n",
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It’s disturbing that many politicians see this as something too celebrate. Yes… it’s a step in the right direction but shouldn’t our goal be to operate with no deficit? 1.6 trillion is well wide of that mark.
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"content": "It’s disturbing that many politicians see this as something too celebrate. Yes… it’s a step in the right direction but shouldn’t our goal be to operate with no deficit? 1.6 trillion is well wide of that mark.\n",
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All the health care bills and other programs for all Americans. Are "NO" match for the 5 billion dollars in advertising spent on Tobacco and Vaping, Tobacco companys make 10 million dollars an hour. That's an HOUR. Good Luck.
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"content": "All the health care bills and other programs for all Americans. Are \"NO\" match for the 5 billion dollars in advertising spent on Tobacco and Vaping, Tobacco companys make 10 million dollars an hour. That's an HOUR. Good Luck.\n",
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The obvious solution is immigration. The societies that survive will be the ones that open borders early, as they can assimilate and incorporate immigrants while there still is a mother culture.Whereas resisting immigrants—because they don’t have your skin color—simply delays the inevitable until the country becomes desperate and resorts to desperate measures. At that point the mother culture will be in the minority and the culture will be fractured.
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"content": "The obvious solution is immigration. The societies that survive will be the ones that open borders early, as they can assimilate and incorporate immigrants while there still is a mother culture.Whereas resisting immigrants—because they don’t have your skin color—simply delays the inevitable until the country becomes desperate and resorts to desperate measures. At that point the mother culture will be in the minority and the culture will be fractured.\n",
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Grantorino tech expertise (in thr way of ful stack developers) will always be needed. Maybe just not in the way people think. Nearly all companies have interactive websites. Someone has to maintain/innovate/update/compatibilize (if that is word) these sites as well as their companion phone apps. My niece helped get an entire city online, from creating interactive parking meter software to allowing people to securely view and pay any number of taxes and fees. There ARE jobs for techies, it just might not sound as glamourous as working for Google or Microsoft.
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"content": "Grantorino tech expertise (in thr way of ful stack developers) will always be needed. Maybe just not in the way people think. Nearly all companies have interactive websites. Someone has to maintain/innovate/update/compatibilize (if that is word) these sites as well as their companion phone apps. My niece helped get an entire city online, from creating interactive parking meter software to allowing people to securely view and pay any number of taxes and fees. There ARE jobs for techies, it just might not sound as glamourous as working for Google or Microsoft.\n",
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As a fellow Chicagoan I can attest to many an Easter having snow. One opening day about 10 years ago Wrigley Field looked like a Christmas setting for a holiday movie, complete with piles of snow and blowing wind. Brrrr!
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Part IIFO• A FO(4) is a baby horse.• He was a FO(4) for love, which he proved by marrying ten women, two of them twice.GA• In the movies Pony Express riders ride at a full out GA(6). In reality, they probably alternated between a lope, a trot, and a walk, depending on the terrain.• She loved to watch dancers sweeping past her in a lively GA(5), a ballroom dance in duple time popular in the 18th century. GL• GL(5) is defined in several sources as “a thick, sticky fluid or substance” and spelled with five letters. I am more accustomed to a similar word spelled with four letters: GL(4). Type both words into today’s SB as this is a two-fer hint.GO• The American football referee raised both arms upright in the air, indicating the team had successfully scored a GO(4).• GO(6) is to stare with wide open eyes at something, usually in surprise or bewilderment.• Many people attribute “GO(4) is a good walk ruined” to Mark Twain, but it was American novelist Harry Leon Wilson who said it in 1904.• The teacher admonished the boys to stop GO(4)ing off and finish their essay.• If in doubt and hints don’t help, then think, think, think again. Or go online and ask Dr. GO(6).• A GO(6) is the number “1” followed by a hundred zeros.• Have you ever used the multipurpose organic cleanser called GO(4) to remove grease or stains? It’s sold in a bright orange bottle and is quite effective.
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I’m in Playa Del Carmen Mexico.I booked on line and reserved a car for the next day. At a multi national car rental company.At 9 I walked to the office. ‘Sorry no cars’ come back at 2. At 2 I returned, ‘sorry no cars’. Please come back at 5. At 5 I returned….’we have a car’…great!‘Would you like collision insurance?’ I said no. I declined that on line. My credit card covers it. The gentleman replies ‘no problem. There is a fee of $21 per day if you decline and we need a deposit of $1,000.’ We’ll I certainly will not give these guys $1,000. ‘‘How much is the insurance I ask?’ $90 a day he says. So you book a car for $50 a day and end up paying $140.I found a small local car rental agency run by locals who had cars available for $75 a day.Renting cars has always been sketchy but it got way worse after Covid.
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In my 40 years of teaching college, every semester I reminded my students on the opening day that education is not about teaching but about learning. And, making mistakes or failing are parts of that experience. Also, keep in mind that much of what they learn about "careers" in their freshman year become obsolete as they graduate.With the exception of a few disciplines, tying jobs to education is a big mistake. I wholeheartedly agree. Now that I have retired for about ten years, I look back and still see that a major paradigm shift being a necessity in education in general.I taught my last course as an experiment where students came up with what they wanted to learn and how. What a fantastic experience it was for me and for them! They worked harder than I had ever seen in any of my classes and learned far more.Hint, hint ...
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Because nothing says anti-capitalist like a $600 million building for students paying $60,000 a year to develop an elite network and travel the world in their free time. Then there's the part where entire blocks of regular people paying average rents and the businesses they supported were displaced.I don't have any problem with these downsides because that's life, especially in ever-changing NYC, despite the unfortunate side effects. My problem is with those who gush over this as some sort of anti-capitalist revolution with no regard for what was destroyed in its wake.This article and building perfectly encapsulate why I could not stand Republican anti-elitism ~15 years ago but now totally get it. It's all so hypocritical, but let's throw another parade for everyone's complete lack of regard for reality.
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Sure, a software engineer at Microsoft making a boat load of money isn't the first person I'd feel sorry for. But when these tech behemoths justify layoffs by pointing to existential market fear that they're the ones inventing in the first place, it affects the entire economy, and ultimately, people with jobs in all sectors.Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon - all of them had record high profits within the last year or so. And now they're laying off because...why, exactly? It makes no financial sense at all. Meanwhile, executives retain stock and get rich. It's dirty.
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I have a great idea. Let’s give billions of tax dollars to a small group of individuals, allow them to own and operate dozens of castles, travel the world, flash jewelry far beyond most peoples’ imaginations, call them the heads of our government, and let them often act like they are somehow superior to the rest of us working stiffs who have to earn our keep.Oh, and they get to behave like the law doesn’t apply to them, only to the little people.Does that sound like a great way to organize a society? Me, neither.Of course, we have our own corporate oligarchy here in the US, too, which is taking on many of these same characteristics. And it is frightening to see our society shoveling more and more wealth and power into such a small percentage of people at the expense of the poor and working classes.Let’s just disenfranchise the Uber-wealthy, the Royals, and use the money to accomplish something serious.How? Beats me, but this model is slowly killing anything akin to democracy. And the Freedom Caucus and its ilk are aiding and abetting.
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CDiff Blaming Biden for the value of your investments is a largely fact-free exercise. Oh, and there are things that may be as important as the value of your investments, such as living under democracy versus authoritarianism.
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Ellen These are new communities in an old landscape that is, as you note, rapidly changing. Plus with the agricultural industry (which should really go—that Saudi Arabia story was eye opening) using more than half of the water supply, politics has rendered new sustainable living is a fantasy. I am reminded of the Brazilian film Bacurau about the loss of water to a town because of political benefits.
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It appears that Santos might have "lent" the campaign money which came from donors that never made its way into campaign coffers. When the "loan" is repaid, Santos gets a tax-free gift of $700,000. That is unless Santos gets caught which makes this theft and reverse money laundering scheme a ticket to prison.People like Mr. Santos think that they are geniuses who will never get caught.
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Kalidan Sure, but Microsoft and Google also have had large layoffs this month. Price to borrow clearly matters for growth. But everyone should be aware of another trend, not mentioned in this article, which is the emergence of transcendent AI technology. This will be a kingmaker for whichever company first figures out how to replace most of their software engineers with a few well managed AI systems. I suspect that is what is really driving Microsoft and Google decision making here.
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Testing is a formality only to show unity by EU. However, several countries such as Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Spain don't require any testing. I am sure Chinese tourists will visit there first. Since China reopened society in early December last year, millions of Chinese have been infected. Many of them show no symptoms at all. Even infected, majority of them recovered fast within 3~5 days with no lingering effect. Now they are all ready to spend either go back home for holidays during Chinese New Year or traveling abroad or domestically. Early signs already show revenge spending is on the rise. It will be too bad for those countries imposing testing on Chinese travelers. One thing they don't like to hear is more testing. They already had enough at home.
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sawduster My understanding is that they didn't even buy the land in Arizona. They are leasing it for $25 an acre with unlimited ability to pump water out of the ground (no regulation ore metering of what they use at all).
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Why does an epipen cost $800?
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Eric B Wordle 583 5/6*⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩There may be a right way to solve wordles, but this clearly is not it. I need better follow-up words for when the early ones aren't much help. After the second word it was mostly throwing words out there to see what works, with some actual vowel and consonant seeking involved. Shabby.Congratulations to both Great Lakes and Suz on their deuces. Seeing not one but two of our fellow solvers land a deuce really makes me feel stupid for not landing this one at least a little bit sooner. Some days you get the word, some days the word gets you.Eric B I heard that groan.Yesterday's words:STARE 33 words leftMATEY — words leftWhen the opener handed me the T, A, & E—all yellow—a pile of words came to mind, none particularly outstanding, An email (might've been a text) from Longhorn Steakhouse was full of pictures of various steaks, and though it might not have appeared within the ad, one word came to mind: MEATY. But it was ruled out by the A in the opener being yellow in the same place.No, my brain insisted, it had to be; make it work. I thought of things like STEAM (S is out, T is yellow in the same place in the opener, so no good.), TAMED (a four-letter word with an added D—no good), and others. It must have been the sound of the word itself that finally turned MEATY into MATEY. Too Long John Silver for my blood, but why not? It worked. And the ad was from another day.Just crazy.
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Deregulation in theory lowers prices but in practice it is a different story.It can lower them but if you have a few big companies running the show you can get the opposite.To be fair, a ticket for a movie theater in 1960 cost me 25 cents, the price of a gallon of gas was about the same.Now a ticket costs 10 or 15 dollars or more but a gallon of gas is only about $3.50.
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This article is opening my eyes to previously unimagined possibilities and I’m going to flip the script on my step kids. Can’t wait! All along, I’ve thought we’d have to keep helping the kids — grad school tuition, more cars than we can remember, co-signing home loans and in the future, kicking in for childcare expenses for new babies, then covering Montessori and private school tuition as the grandkids get older — and delaying our retirements to pay for it all. But, I’m printing this article and snail-mailing it to everyone. Ha! The kids thought we were buying them the saltwater swimming pools of their dreams but instead they’ll be sending us to Tulum every winter. They were expecting free babysitting and light housekeeping assistance and never imagined they’d be babysitting us while doing a few loads of laundry and hooking up the new cable box to the new TV they’ve brought over. We covered the costs of the first 25 years of their existence, so it’s only fair they cover the last 25 of ours. Hallelujah. This solves all our retirement worries. Only in the West would adult offspring expect ongoing and unending financial support from their parents only to kvetch about having to do anything for Mom and Dad as the parents age. Of course, I don’t really expect our kids to support us but maybe this article can help them accept our expectation that they now support themselves.
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L because these two are selling their not too sad story for well over one hundred million dollars. Both are well able to work for a living or just live on their savings. no hate, but dislike for the unmitigated greed.
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Love the living room with the ceiling open to the second floor.Must be nice to have that much $$$.He has 3 kids and 3 dogs, and so wants a larger house.That's what it is: wants.My husband and I were able to afford one child and no pets, but we were able to keep paying the rent on our conventional 3 BR house in an average neighborhood in the SFBay Area. So YAY us!
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Heysus - Absolutely! The other day Safeway in my area of CA had pint size Sorbet on offer at "Buy1 Get 1 Free". The price was $5.79. At 2 for 1, that means the single unit price would be $2.85.However the regular price for this sorbet is $4.29 before the 2 for 1 offer.I've complained to the FTC a coupe of times about this blatant practice but nothing ever gets done. Given how difficult and onerous the FTC makes it to file a complaint, I doubt they get many complaints. Which is what a corporate friendly government agency wants.
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"content": "Heysus - Absolutely! The other day Safeway in my area of CA had pint size Sorbet on offer at \"Buy1 Get 1 Free\". The price was $5.79. At 2 for 1, that means the single unit price would be $2.85.However the regular price for this sorbet is $4.29 before the 2 for 1 offer.I've complained to the FTC a coupe of times about this blatant practice but nothing ever gets done. Given how difficult and onerous the FTC makes it to file a complaint, I doubt they get many complaints. Which is what a corporate friendly government agency wants.\n",
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tonyvanw Plus "The 2017 tax law gave bigger tax cuts to foreign investors than middle- and working-class Americans in all of the states Trump carried in 2016." <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/foreign-investors-big-winners-trumps-tax-law" target="_blank">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/foreign-investors-big-winners-trumps-tax-law</a>/Krugman said the same thing. It's as if we needed a new RICO law to investigate the money getting paid to the Russians, the Saudis, and maybe even the Chinese plus any other country that has been buying politicians (most of the ones bought were republicans) to cut their taxes. And I recall that Reagan, Thatcher, and Murdoch went into No. 10 Downing Street and came out telling lies with bullhorns and making sure that nobody could shut their megaphones down.And in today's news; "Charles McGonigal also was charged Monday in Washington in connection with accepting $225,000 in cash — while working at the FBI — from a former employee of a foreign intelligence service." Money has turned us against ourselves.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's statement is an interesting development in the ongoing saga that has been his downfall. Although the allegations against him are serious, his contention that the majority of his assets remain available to backstop FTX customers is encouraging. Nonetheless, his attempts to shift the blame to Binance and the market crash are not convincing. His explanation of the role he played in Alameda's management also does not answer questions about his personal responsibility in the situation. Furthermore, the recent guilty pleas from two of his former top executives cast doubt on the veracity of his statements. Regardless, the news that FTX has recovered over $5 billion in funds is an encouraging development that should give hope to customers that they may get some of their money back.
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unclejake The largest Medicare fraud case in US history. "During Rick Scott's' tenure as chief executive, Columbia/HCA defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs. The Department of Justice won 14 felony convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history."link here,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott</a>
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| no | Classification | 1,309 |
Legislators are in a corner. They have painted themselves into the corner. Are they to cut here or there? Problems with cutting much of the budget is that Military is difficult to cut and Entitlements are good to talk about, but the Social Security cut for the elderly is to damage a big and reliable voting group and cutting other aid for the impoverished is not a winning situation either. Medicaid helps to pay Hospital bills for hospital survival and impacts to many businesses in areas where the poor live damage a significant block of small businesses and the financial structures of banking and their serviced loans.The poor and managing them in large numbers not only damages those with no voice, but a large group with some capital and some voice.None of this is right, but it is a concern.Small cuts are possible, but massive cuts that the Conservative caucus can push are simply not feasible!!If the National Debt is held hostage, the outcome could crash the economy. Too many Representatives and Senators are millionaires with a good deal of money invested at risk. Those lobbying with 'donations' for politicians would be hurt and even 'Fox Views' and the Murdochs could suffer financially and for what gain beyond some dogmatic ideal?I suspect that a compromise will be managed in the end as those on Capitol Hill have too much to lose by wealth, by support and by votes.
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"content": "Legislators are in a corner. They have painted themselves into the corner. Are they to cut here or there? Problems with cutting much of the budget is that Military is difficult to cut and Entitlements are good to talk about, but the Social Security cut for the elderly is to damage a big and reliable voting group and cutting other aid for the impoverished is not a winning situation either. Medicaid helps to pay Hospital bills for hospital survival and impacts to many businesses in areas where the poor live damage a significant block of small businesses and the financial structures of banking and their serviced loans.The poor and managing them in large numbers not only damages those with no voice, but a large group with some capital and some voice.None of this is right, but it is a concern.Small cuts are possible, but massive cuts that the Conservative caucus can push are simply not feasible!!If the National Debt is held hostage, the outcome could crash the economy. Too many Representatives and Senators are millionaires with a good deal of money invested at risk. Those lobbying with 'donations' for politicians would be hurt and even 'Fox Views' and the Murdochs could suffer financially and for what gain beyond some dogmatic ideal?I suspect that a compromise will be managed in the end as those on Capitol Hill have too much to lose by wealth, by support and by votes.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,459 |
Does anyone really believe the government is going to break up Ticketmaster? This is all Kabuki Theater.Ticketmaster lobbyists will pay off a few senators and congressman and ensure nothing happens. Americans will continue to pay $40 in ticket processing fees on a $100 ticket.When is the last time the government intervened and actually made a difference for citizens? AT&T / Bell? That was 40 years ago, 1982.
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"content": "Does anyone really believe the government is going to break up Ticketmaster? This is all Kabuki Theater.Ticketmaster lobbyists will pay off a few senators and congressman and ensure nothing happens. Americans will continue to pay $40 in ticket processing fees on a $100 ticket.When is the last time the government intervened and actually made a difference for citizens? AT&T / Bell? That was 40 years ago, 1982.\n",
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The overall problem here is scale. Add two or three zeroes to the “donation”, build a wing, and “legacy students” are then perfectly OK. Commonly admitted, above board, legally and all the time when daddy donates $50 or $100 million. This is not a game for upper middle class and millionaires. Only billionaires are entitled to unfair positioning of their progeny.
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"content": "The overall problem here is scale. Add two or three zeroes to the “donation”, build a wing, and “legacy students” are then perfectly OK. Commonly admitted, above board, legally and all the time when daddy donates $50 or $100 million. This is not a game for upper middle class and millionaires. Only billionaires are entitled to unfair positioning of their progeny.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,054 |
Israel and the US ceased to be friends a long time ago. For the past 50 years Israel has used and abused American support in every imaginable way, including a very long record of thefts of highly sensitive information, a deliberate attack and murder of many dozens of US sailors on a USN ship, interference in US politics to include elections, and misuse of much of the $100 billion given to date by US taxpayers. Whatever security benefit we receive from this lopsided dystopian relationship is overwhelmingly offset by the harm they have caused us. It's time to cut the cord.
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Goldberg is confused about the legal linits and schools and the mandates of educators. Parents do not control the content of education or dictate how a teacher operates in the classroom, but they most certainly retain absolute authority in what additional therapy or services their child will or will not receive above and beyond the general education setting.Take transgender out of it for a second and ask any educator this scenario: a child in your room starts having panic attacks. She says she doesn't want her parents to know but gives no clear reason why. You and the school psychologist arrange for her to start having counseling sessions at lunch, rearrange her schedule so that she can take all tests with 2X time, and let her sit in the classroom when it gets too loud at recess or phys ed. If the parent finds out about this, it's a lawsuit, open and shut case: educators cannot unilaterally apply special ed.And in the case of the child saying she's afraid of something at home, that triggers mandated reporting law. Again, not secretive treatment at educator discretion.So explain to me, without splitting hairs, why another DSM recognized condition like gender dysphoria is exempt from these rulez.
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Non-gamer here. That was a great start for the show to build upon, although I feel like I must be the only one who's still confused about cordyceps's direct transmission. Airborne spores? Open wound caused by the infected only (classic zombie stuff)? Nobody's masking - obviously that wouldn't go over well for dramatic purposes - so I assume the latter.Mostly I wondered about the kid with arm tremor at school, and next door neighbor grandma - airborne makes more sense there.
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"content": "Non-gamer here. That was a great start for the show to build upon, although I feel like I must be the only one who's still confused about cordyceps's direct transmission. Airborne spores? Open wound caused by the infected only (classic zombie stuff)? Nobody's masking - obviously that wouldn't go over well for dramatic purposes - so I assume the latter.Mostly I wondered about the kid with arm tremor at school, and next door neighbor grandma - airborne makes more sense there.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,180 |
I think I know where we can save a quick $75.7 mm: $174,000 * 435 = $75.7 mm. That's $207k per day. Each day that the debt limit is not raised (or, better yet, the Trump tax reduction act is not repealed), sorry - no pay. And this lost pay will be just that - lost. No returning it to each Congressperson once the House gets around to raising the debt limit. It's gone.
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"content": "I think I know where we can save a quick $75.7 mm: $174,000 * 435 = $75.7 mm. That's $207k per day. Each day that the debt limit is not raised (or, better yet, the Trump tax reduction act is not repealed), sorry - no pay. And this lost pay will be just that - lost. No returning it to each Congressperson once the House gets around to raising the debt limit. It's gone.\n",
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B As one of those private landlords who was depending on the extra money to live on I agree.Now I have to live on $1,200 and live in public housing. After I pay that 30% plus other costs I will only be sitting in the park.
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Your argument is so spurious it is beyond belief. Central Valley big ag “farmers” utilize one million acres of farmland to grow alfalfa, which represents 100 billion gallons of water, annually exported to Asia for……fattening up cattle. You want to know where the water went? It went to make hamburgers, steaks and lots of money for a few people in control.
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"content": "Your argument is so spurious it is beyond belief. Central Valley big ag “farmers” utilize one million acres of farmland to grow alfalfa, which represents 100 billion gallons of water, annually exported to Asia for……fattening up cattle. You want to know where the water went? It went to make hamburgers, steaks and lots of money for a few people in control.\n",
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Bruce Rozenblit. Funny, I don’t know you but I look for your comments, which often express my views. The majority of people today don’t bother with reality, and reading is too much effort. As someone commented here, people complain about the price of eggs, but they are happy to spend $10 on a cup of coffee. Virtual reality and the internet in general have distorted life to the point of no return. Reality is an illusion made up of loud noises and hype for many people today. And complaining is easier than sorting out facts from fiction, or just the act of thinking.
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"content": "Bruce Rozenblit. Funny, I don’t know you but I look for your comments, which often express my views. The majority of people today don’t bother with reality, and reading is too much effort. As someone commented here, people complain about the price of eggs, but they are happy to spend $10 on a cup of coffee. Virtual reality and the internet in general have distorted life to the point of no return. Reality is an illusion made up of loud noises and hype for many people today. And complaining is easier than sorting out facts from fiction, or just the act of thinking.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,740 |
billyjean, go to the realtor website and look at the second to last photo at the view from the top of the property. That, as well as the rest of the property, is what you are buying. Many people would find that beyond beautiful and not at all unattractive. The house is kind of beside the point. What some people would not be able to understand is a listing in this section a few days ago. It featured an 1,100 sq foot apartment on Madison Avenue with a tiny terrace and a sliver of a view of some pretty buildings. The price was 2.5 million dollars and over 36,000 dollars a year in maintenance costs. NYT commenters were drooling over it but I was mystified. I just don’t understand why anyone would pay so much for so little.
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"content": "billyjean, go to the realtor website and look at the second to last photo at the view from the top of the property. That, as well as the rest of the property, is what you are buying. Many people would find that beyond beautiful and not at all unattractive. The house is kind of beside the point. What some people would not be able to understand is a listing in this section a few days ago. It featured an 1,100 sq foot apartment on Madison Avenue with a tiny terrace and a sliver of a view of some pretty buildings. The price was 2.5 million dollars and over 36,000 dollars a year in maintenance costs. NYT commenters were drooling over it but I was mystified. I just don’t understand why anyone would pay so much for so little.\n",
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They’re still hoarding technical talent. As a recruiter in tech, who has been laid off more than once, the first thing to go is not your Engineers, Product Managers or Data Scientists.Every 10 years or so, the tech industry makes big bets that don’t pan out (late 90s with risky equity structures, 2022 with big bets on permanent changes in consumer and business behavior), or faces outside market forces even it can’t isolate from (early 2000s from Sept 11th attacks, 2010 from the housing market crash, and also 2022 due to pandemic). What’s problematic is the continuedirresponsible spending by inexperienced founders, CEOs and VCs letting them do it all for the sake of “growth and exits.” Spending tons of money on perks, events, not paying attention to contracts duplication (why do you need Zoom if you use Gsuite and have Google Meets bundled in for free? Why do different teams use Asana and Trello and JIRA at the same time?), burning through capital to hire expensive talent, acquire companies and build moonshots. VCs haven’t been forcing their founders to focus on profitability and companies have lost sight of being scrappy. Now, every board is forcing companies to come up with a profitability plan and we have a harsh over correction. Let’s hope it’s the new norm so that companies grow and hire responsible. If we know every 10 years there is going to be some type of shift or pivot needed, then operating principles need to change.
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"content": "They’re still hoarding technical talent. As a recruiter in tech, who has been laid off more than once, the first thing to go is not your Engineers, Product Managers or Data Scientists.Every 10 years or so, the tech industry makes big bets that don’t pan out (late 90s with risky equity structures, 2022 with big bets on permanent changes in consumer and business behavior), or faces outside market forces even it can’t isolate from (early 2000s from Sept 11th attacks, 2010 from the housing market crash, and also 2022 due to pandemic). What’s problematic is the continuedirresponsible spending by inexperienced founders, CEOs and VCs letting them do it all for the sake of “growth and exits.” Spending tons of money on perks, events, not paying attention to contracts duplication (why do you need Zoom if you use Gsuite and have Google Meets bundled in for free? Why do different teams use Asana and Trello and JIRA at the same time?), burning through capital to hire expensive talent, acquire companies and build moonshots. VCs haven’t been forcing their founders to focus on profitability and companies have lost sight of being scrappy. Now, every board is forcing companies to come up with a profitability plan and we have a harsh over correction. Let’s hope it’s the new norm so that companies grow and hire responsible. If we know every 10 years there is going to be some type of shift or pivot needed, then operating principles need to change.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,603 |
First, Ukraine should have had tanks months ago, Leopard tanks!...And there are plenty of leopards nearby and absolutely no need, political or otherwise, to send the Abram's. After all that we have provided and Mr. Scholz thinks he needs the political cover to unlock the door to their tanks? He's doing nothing but playing games and it is absurd. In addition, we are to believe that it will take months, possibly "after" the spring offensive, to get these tanks, that are sitting all around Europe, over to Ukraine?For those of us reading and watching, daily, the news of the deaths and destruction in Ukraine, it is mind boggling to see the glacial pace, particularly Germany, of supplying the necessary air and ground defense weapons.President Biden should not have catered to Mr. Scholz. Perhaps he should have said this, "Olaf, would you like to go turn Nord 1 and Nord 2 back on to get some cheap gas,... you know, those pipes you signed on to while undermining Ukraine? Do you want to do that, Olaf, and keep on playing footsy with Putin?"I know that I will never feel the same about Germany being a responsible partner in the EU and the NATO alliance.
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"content": "First, Ukraine should have had tanks months ago, Leopard tanks!...And there are plenty of leopards nearby and absolutely no need, political or otherwise, to send the Abram's. After all that we have provided and Mr. Scholz thinks he needs the political cover to unlock the door to their tanks? He's doing nothing but playing games and it is absurd. In addition, we are to believe that it will take months, possibly \"after\" the spring offensive, to get these tanks, that are sitting all around Europe, over to Ukraine?For those of us reading and watching, daily, the news of the deaths and destruction in Ukraine, it is mind boggling to see the glacial pace, particularly Germany, of supplying the necessary air and ground defense weapons.President Biden should not have catered to Mr. Scholz. Perhaps he should have said this, \"Olaf, would you like to go turn Nord 1 and Nord 2 back on to get some cheap gas,... you know, those pipes you signed on to while undermining Ukraine? Do you want to do that, Olaf, and keep on playing footsy with Putin?\"I know that I will never feel the same about Germany being a responsible partner in the EU and the NATO alliance.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,237 |
From a UK perspective it is kind of odd how we vote to leave the EU but as soon as European security is threatened we spend more defending Europe than any other European country. I don't particularly disagree with us spending the money, it just seems a bit of a contradiction.There is broad support for Ukraine in the UK. I can't see that changing any time soon. Just before war started on the 17th of February last year the UK, Poland and Ukraine announced a tri-lateral pact to improve co-operation and security. In the days before war broke out the UK was continually flying in C-17s full of NLAWs. This at a time Germany was still considering opening a second gas pipeline to Russia.I can understand Germany's reluctance to be involved in a European war and they have still given Ukraine a lot of support. I don't understand the French? Countries such as Canada and Norway have been supplying more military hardware to Ukraine than France. Australia has spent roughly the same amount on military support as Italy.The proportion of aid against GDP has certainly been highest from the Eastern Europeans and I'm sure that people in those countries will be disappointed with the response from most of western Europe.Western Europe seems incapable of dealing with security in it's own back yard.As ever, European security would be much worse without American support. Thanks for that, greatly appreciated.(Some info sourced from IFW Kiel Ukraine support tracker)
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"content": "From a UK perspective it is kind of odd how we vote to leave the EU but as soon as European security is threatened we spend more defending Europe than any other European country. I don't particularly disagree with us spending the money, it just seems a bit of a contradiction.There is broad support for Ukraine in the UK. I can't see that changing any time soon. Just before war started on the 17th of February last year the UK, Poland and Ukraine announced a tri-lateral pact to improve co-operation and security. In the days before war broke out the UK was continually flying in C-17s full of NLAWs. This at a time Germany was still considering opening a second gas pipeline to Russia.I can understand Germany's reluctance to be involved in a European war and they have still given Ukraine a lot of support. I don't understand the French? Countries such as Canada and Norway have been supplying more military hardware to Ukraine than France. Australia has spent roughly the same amount on military support as Italy.The proportion of aid against GDP has certainly been highest from the Eastern Europeans and I'm sure that people in those countries will be disappointed with the response from most of western Europe.Western Europe seems incapable of dealing with security in it's own back yard.As ever, European security would be much worse without American support. Thanks for that, greatly appreciated.(Some info sourced from IFW Kiel Ukraine support tracker)\n",
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