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It sounds like the situation with your brother-in-law and sister-in-law has become a source of tension for you and your husband. It's understandable that you would want them to take responsibility for maintaining the home, especially since you are forgoing the rental income and paying for the substantial annual real estate tax. However, it's important to consider your husband's perspective and feelings as well.One option you could consider is having a conversation with your brother-in-law and sister-in-law about the expectations for maintaining the home and their responsibilities as renters. You could also discuss the possibility of them paying a reduced rent or contributing to repairs and upkeep.Another option could be to sell the house and recoup the money invested, and potentially provide them with a more limited subsidy. It's important to have a clear and open conversation with your husband and your brother-in-law and sister-in-law to come to a mutually beneficial agreement.
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It seems now if anything, the Mueller Report didn't go far enough investigating the links between Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York office, and Russian oligarchs in 2015-2016. As the New York office of the FBI went public reopening the investigation of Hillary Clinton's e-mail, while keeping mum on the ongoing investigation of Trump's campaign collusion with the Russians, an highly unusual intrusion that likely cost Clinton the election, there seems to be a lot of suspicious dirt that remains unplowed in this matter.
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My power company (Xcel) earned $7.579B in 2021 but then turned around and asked state regulators to allow them to raise rates because they were "devastated" by the early 2021 freeze where natural gas prices surged. I have to give it to Xcel, its a brilliant business model, privatize the gains and socialize the losses.
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JusticeForAll Evidently, the "What We Know" of New York Times' writers doesn't extend to the relationship between Biden's Think Tank where papers were found and large Chinese donations to the University where it was housed.New York Times readers should really expand their news sources because the NYT drags its feet if it reports at all information that is damaging to Democrats.
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$1.6m??? I thought Trump was a big successful businessman. That's peanuts.
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Heidi Layoffs are never good for anyone- companies, families and employees. Yet with ~20 weeks of pay and 6 months of health care, many folks will receive ~100K. For most Americans that's enough to survive for 2 years. So far tech workers have had no difficulty finding new jobs.
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Cynthiana Perhaps both sides have stupid policies. Democrats with open borders and Republicans with 2nd Amendment fanaticism.
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Let me just start with his speech before all the questions.Biden achievements are astonishing:Unemployment is the lowest it's been in 50 years, half a Century, 11 million new jobs created, including 750,000 manufacturing jobsInflation at lowest level since Oct. 2021More Americans have health insurance today than ever in the history of our country, fewer families are facing foreclosure today, supply of insulin with Medicare is $35 a month and so many other accomplishments are hard to list it all.Infrastructure is no more a laughing joke.As the main targets of the QAnon party remained the same: cutting our mandatory SS and MedicareYes, he downplayed the issues of the documents in his garage, but overall he repeated his constant cooperation with the DOJ investigation.Huge contrast with:"They all mine"orTrump resisted requests to return stash of documents at Mar-a-Lago, saying 'it's not theirs, it's mine,' NYT reports.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-on-documents-sought-nara-not-theirs-mine-nyt-2022-8" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-on-documents-sought-nara-not-theirs-mine-nyt-2022-8</a>
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Steve Sorry, but factory changes should take less time today than they did in 1942. Are you suggesting that automation makes it HARDER to ramp up production? If this had taken 2 years after Pearl Harbor, we might have lost the war.Today, we have factories running at 105 - 110% because it's cheaper than expanding capacity and the money is needed for STOCK BUYBACKS. Sometimes the bottleneck is that a 25 cent part is being made in China to save 3 cents. I would expect military contracts for consumables to include provisions in factory/line sizing to allow at least a 50% increase in production. Tanks or planes are one thing. Shells or grenades or ammo are quite another.
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I'm 61 and I can't wait for this to reopen so I can skate it with my son, 10. Big up to Steve Rodriguez for spearheading this. Between the legendary Brooklyn Banks, LES Coleman skatepark (under the Manhattan Bridge) and the Wall St area - which I've been skating since the early '80s, we will have access to a trifecta of skate spots that will bring in vitality, artistic expression and skate tourism to NYC -- justifying the city's time, effort and funding. Thank you NYC for recognizing that skateboarding is an important part of our culture.... the epicenter of skateboarding may be migrating to the east coast.
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I've never experienced anything remotely like what Mr. Wells describes - for all that "eating" is universal, parts of this read like fiction - or maybe, Mr. Wells trying his hand at self-parody.But there are no small number of instances in the US and a few other countries of a pie being sliced with what one might call normal size slices (maybe, even "generous" ones) until, say, 3/4 of the pie has been so divided, and then 20 sliver-slices are fashioned with a knife sharpened after every use.And those smaller slices, of course, go to either "supporting" players or - to use a term likely long out of favor - "grunts" in the enterprise - whether it be theater or investment banking or NGO's.We live in a society where rewarding innovators and "stars" has come unmoored from almost anything and everything else. There are a couple of mentions in Mr. Wells' piece of people working "unpaid." Mr. Wells is a marvelous writer, but in this one instance, I wish an editor had asked him for a little clarification. "Minimum wage" (or less) work & workers make no sense, of course, where a meal is priced at $500+, but people have long figured out that ours is a society where you can (some people only - in certain fields, certain eras) try to play a long game where - for instance - you opt to make less money in your 20's than some peers ... with the expectation that you'll be "lapping them" by the time you're 40, say. (Presumably, some doors open for folks who have "Noma" on their resumes.)
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While undoubtedly all this is true, the recent layoffs are different than most. Because what we have is companies, some of the richest in the world, laying off many thousands of employees even though they continue to be profitable. So the ask of managers is difficult. It's not just look the person in the eye. It is: look the person in the eye and tell them that the company to which they'll loyally devoted many years of service has decided to make them unemployed, not out of necessity, not because the company is at risk, but so that some greedy shareholders can earn a few more pennies. They would be asking the manager to defend the indefensible. And if the manager doesn't agree with the lay-offs, it puts them in a very awkward position. Should they resign in disgust (and so one more person without a way to feed their family or pay their mortgage)? Or should they at least tell the employee they don't agree (but what consequences could this have for them if word gets back to their superiors)? Or should they pretend to agree that this appalling, cynical lay-off is somehow appropriate and just a measured, proportionate response to the fact that some activist shareholder only earned $3.2 billion this year? Somehow, while it is totally wrong, it also feels appropriate that these most cynical and inhumane of lay-offs be executed in the most cynical inhumane way.
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Paul Krugman and John TollefsonI, The GOP today is a largely a coalition of white racial and cultural conservative voters and wealth and corporate conservative funders and elites. It's probably academic at this point, but the roots of this go back to at least Nixon's Southern Strategy and Silent Majority and the Powell memo (all of which, as I recall, were also around the time when the Chicago School began to gain traction). I'd argue that the current GOP union of what Robert Reich called white supremacists and wealth supremacists is a long brewing conservative reaction to both the expansion of civil rights and civil liberties associated with the 1960's , and the New Deal regulatory state, exacerbated by demographic and economic changes. (BTW, it seems to me that PK, like Thomas Frank, minimizes the role that white racial resentment and identity/self-esteem play in cultural war politics. If this is correct, perhaps he can one day explain why.)
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The dangers of gas stoves are found in only a few studies funded by anti-fossil fuel groups. Anyone who distrusts studies by Exxon, big pharma, big tobacco, should be skeptical of these as well."The science" (tm) does not support these studies that proport to say that gas stoves are a specific problem. NO(x) forms at 2800 F under high pressure, and typically from Nitrogen in the fuel, not the air, where it is relatively stable, being bound to another Nitrogen as N2. Natural gas does not contain Nitrogen, and cooktops do not operate at high pressure. Likewise, natural gas, burning in excess air (open flame) does not produce significant CO. It is indeed a clean burning fuel.Cooking does release particulates and gasses, smoke and smells, but that does not depend on how the food is heated. Cooking bacon smells the same on electric or gas or charcoal or wood (may actually smell better on wood and charcoal) or dung (well maybe not dung).
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You mean Trump, that arsonist? He hiked it upwards to a trillion. So now it is almost half of what it was. Seems to me the party now in power are the fireman putting out the fire. If Trump had told the truth about COVID from day one, maybe so much wouldn't have been spent on relief. Reagan and both Bushes raised the deficit hugely. Clinton got it down to zero. Obama cut it in half. So please, examine the facts and get back to us.
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The gang of twenty are in charge for the moment. They enjoy the type of immunity that terrorist do not enjoy. They can say their vote is constitutionally protected, while at the same time, effectively holding the nation hostage.This is an anomaly that permits outliers to hijack democracy. The question for dealing with terrorists: Do you negotiate, or do you refuse to negotiate? What is their true goal? It seems to me that their only goal is to engage in asymmetrical warfare to continue the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Neither the Democrats nor their party should cave into their demands. Instead, everyone must begin an email, letter writing, and telephone campaign to their headquarters [the have no office yet]. The message - your silliness will have consequences the next election in terms of fund raising, and political opposition.
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YM Pssst: Its owned by Microsoft.
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I appreciate whatever decreases PG$E's stranglehold on its customers. So when SF finally got a choice who to buy electricity from, I signed up for the program Clean Power, especially as it offers a choice of different levels of green energy. I would gladly pay more for energy from renewable sources. However, as it turns out, the highest level of green energy is cheaper/unit than PGE's rates.What increased utility bills in SF is PGE's 9% rate hike in 2022. Furthermore, PGE proposes to increase electricity and gas rates 40% and 60%, respectively over 2021 rates in the next four years. The stated purpose is to generate $12.8 billion to finance underground thousands of miles of power lines at a cost of more than $3 million/mile. While undergrounding is highly effective, the cause of PGE associated wildfires was found due primarily if not exclusively to the company's lack of maintenance and inspection. The funds for correcting these deficiencies should already be in the company's operating expenses. Business analysts say undergrounding is a type of capital spending that increases a company's profits. The four year rate hikes, therefore, is consistent with PGE practice of profit over safety. Hopefully, there will be some regulation of PGE's power to use customers to finance their investments.
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Wonderful story. His money would have gone further if Alabama had expanded Medicaid. Fewer people would have needed that help. It's sad so many in Alabama vote against their own best interests. Republicans think 'expanding Medicare' is heresy, some sort of plot, not realizing THEY themselves would benefit. Many don't make the link of their newfound health insurance to Obamacare ... which is another name for the coverage created under the Affordable Care Act. One Trumper told his doc he was glad to have health insurance through the ACA. The doc asked, "Obamacare?" "Oh, no, I'd never have that."The doc didn't even bother to tell him they are the same thing.
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Santos and Trump - two peas from the same pod - big difference Santos wasn’t given $400 million from his daddy.
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Mel J Smith The "right" is against reckless spending? lol. Trump racked up $30 trillion in debt and the GOP helped raise the debt ceiling three times without a whimper. Deficit spending has actually been significantly reduced during the Biden Administration.
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Hoops n Politics with respect, it's a gross oversimplification to blame "fringe extremists" for this situation. They aren't the ones who write 7000 page bills to be voted on the next day which finance untold thousands of unpaid-for pork barrel projects, or relentlessly expanding the military budget, or shoveling $100 billion into the Ukraine war fiasco, all while the country is 31 trillion dollars in debt. The current situation is completely unsustainable and everyone knows it, and it's the completely out-of-control DC establishment to blame for it, Republicans and Democrats alike.
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The attack on ESG is nothing more than certain corporations (fossil fuels, firearms, etc) worrying about their profits and attempting to lock states into long-term financing of their firms. Sonal Mahida is right-- “at its heart, E.S.G. investing is really about looking at all material risks."Just scan the headlines for a minute or two-- it's very clear that climate is a material risk and should definitely be a factor when thinking about investments.
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Is BlackRock the lowest cost, highest return investment firm? If a comparable rate of return is available from a firm eschewing E.S.G. investing then its a no-brainer, LA. should pull the money from BlackRock. I doubt you can calculate the effect of E.S.G. investing on industry in a single state so if BlackRock clearly offers the lowest cost, highest return then it would be irresponsible to pull investments from them.
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In constant dollars, interest payments are less than 1% of GDP. The CBO's predictions on this matter have consistently overestimated the future cost of interest payments, in part due to the unscientific rules it is required by law to follow.Let's not give in to the temptation to say the sky is falling when it is not. (See Paul Krugman's recent piece on this topic)That said, the US, like any modern civilized country, should indeed be spending much more on its citizens and investing much more in its future. To do so we should be raising much more in taxes, also like any modern civilized country.
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Conrad We can see now that Kennan was wrong - expanding NATO did not inflame Russian opinion or hurt Russian democracy. That's all down to Putin 10- years later in his grab for autocratic power.
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3 words to our European Allies: “Free the Leopards!”Us Americans are more than willing to match or double any “donation” of MBT to our ally Ukraine… we just would like to know our European partners and stakeholders in European security are also willing to show some initiative in their own self-defense. It has to be a joint, group effort… so it’s time for our European friends to break the ice, and each chip in a dozen NATO-standard western tanks now into a pool, which can be donated all together at the same time.Free the leopard 2s (I’m looking at you, Germany) and then the floodgates of American aid will truly open….“All for one, and one for all”… like the 3 musketeers!Let’s do it!
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A view of the National Debt - and slashing Medicare and MedicaidBy Paul Krugman, The NY Times A Fiscal Train WreckLast week the Congressional Budget Office marked down its estimates yet again. Just two years ago, you may remember, the C.B.O. was projecting a 10-year surplus of $5.6 trillion. Now it projects a 10-year deficit of $1.8 trillion.And that's way too optimistic. The Congressional Budget Office operates under ground rules that force it to wear rose-colored lenses. A year ago it said the deficit was only temporary. Now it says deficits don't matter. But we're looking at a fiscal crisis that will drive interest rates sky-high.A leading economist recently summed up one reason why: ''When the government reduces saving by running a budget deficit, the interest rate rises.'' Yes, that's from a textbook by the chief administration economist, Gregory MankiwBut what's really scary -- what makes a fixed-rate mortgage seem like such a good idea -- is the looming threat to the federal government's solvency.That may sound alarmist: right now the deficit, while huge in absolute terms, is only 2 -- make that 3, O.K., maybe 4 -- percent of G.D.P. But that misses the point. How will the train wreck play itself out? Maybe a future administration will use butterfly ballots to disenfranchise retirees, making it possible to slash Social Security and Medicare. The NY Times 3 - 11 - 2003Note: the result of " it says deficits don't matter."
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Been saying for years, Manhatthan can get WAY denser. Amd in the meantime, absolutely filling in under-utilized spaces like this makes paramount sense- and the impacts should be immediately noticeable. Takes pressure, too, off of outer boroughs which actually have affordable low-slung areas worth preserving for the QOL of existing and future residents already here (namely). But the island 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧? Build it up to the stratosphere🏢🏗️! Then one day some next generation of new-new Yorker's can really see whethat that solved anything - or just needlessly ceded more open sky pointlessly to purely capitalistic developer interests.
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My husband and I met, and married, late in our lives. We were both 64 when we met, and have now been together for 10 years. We live a lifestyle that is primarily plant-based, exercise, laden, and joyful. This Christmas season, I struggled with the items I might put in his Christmas stocking. I decided upon, small slips of paper, each describing a kind and thoughtful thing he does for me throughout the day. After opening our presents to one another, I said “oh, you have to open your stocking“. He, of course, suggested that we weren’t eating a bunch of junk and what on earth would I put in a stocking. As your article describes, we were both overwhelmed as he reached into the stocking, pulling out one crumpled piece of paper at a time with my thanks for the many individual, helpful things he adds to my day… cleaning up dinner, while I enjoy my bath, turning down our bed each evening, using a separate piece of paper to solve the Jumble so I can fill it out in the paper, covering and uncovering my car each day, turning on the heat before I get out of bed, taking out our neighbors trash cans each week, and on and on. He read each one aloud and I believe a new holiday tradition has begun - for us both!
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I get emails from the Trump organization, and they have a lot of the same feel. No political content per se, more like platitudes ("Save America!"); no information at all; just huckstering. Incredible (literally) offers like:"70X IMPACT!!! If you respond in the next two hours, your donation will be be matched 70 times!", never mentioning who might be providing that match."I'm providing you with this confidential 10-second preview of my campaign ad, Kari, because you've always been one of my most loyal supporters. Send $5 now to show your support!""Exclusive for YOU, Kari, I'm offering this DOUBLE ENTRY. You can win this trip to Mar-a-Lago, we’ll cover your flight and hotel, and you can bring a guest of YOUR choice. Best of all, I may even show up, and you’ll get to meet me. There’s no one else I want to win this EPIC opportunity, CLICK HERE to UNLOCK THIS EXCLUSIVE DOUBLE ENTRY OFFER FOR YOU ONLY!!!""Because of your premium status, YOU have officially been chosen as Trump's PATRIOT OF THE MONTH. This is a HUGE HONOR because only ONE Patriot is given this title per month. CLICK HERE to claim your certificate."
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There is a rise in egg prices? I haven't noticed. The people we buy eggs from down the street still sell a dozen of cage-free, organic eggs for $3.
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L I'm in the same position you are. Only difference is that my place of business has been open the entire time of this pandemic, because many of us could not work from home due to the nature of our work. So, even with the original on-site mask mandates, we did not have to wear them while at our desks. People sitting less than 6 feet apart were getting covid and spreading covid. We never even had weekly mandated testing for covid. Ever. No one got notified by either management OR contact tracing of these workplace covid exposures. And the Federal, state (NY) and local governments allowed this: for the entire time of this pandemic. Laughing, or crying, it makes me wonder just what IS the "science" of covid?
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Cold War ? Fear mongering at heart. Declining to not have one’s pocket picked is not war.Cherry picking grievances as an apologia for China’s “ I declare this World for the Middle Flowery Kingdom, see I got this picture proving I was there on tour once ” is disingenuous.China needs US. We need China. But that doesn’t mean we have to collaborate in undermining ourselves.Good Faith is a necessary pre-condition and when there is no Good Faith, there must be consequence. Business as usual does not apply.When you ship massive amounts of fentanyl to our shores in a poison-for-profit, business as usual does not apply.When you use shanghai’d fishing fleets impressed into your Navy to extend control over disputed islands, business as usual does not apply.When you creep your Himalayan mountain-lair’d line of control with sticks and stones, business as usual does not applyWhen you extend Manchurian Candidate mind control over an entire Uighur peoples under your care and control, business as usual does not apply.The voice of reason in defense of the unreasonable is no reason to be reasonable.The world’s second largest economy claiming special needs because of the poverty of its people while its leaders recline on silk and imported jade dining on pheasant tongues and honeyed urchin is a bit rich.Status and Power carries certain responsibilities to humanity, not a right to rapacity. Apologists notwithstanding.
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Joel Lynn Friedlander Success in college can be achieved only by dedication and focus on the subjects one has chosen to learn. Of course learning is a life long process even after one completes his university education. As the investment in a college education is rather very heavy, one need the determination to get good grades which help to get a deserving job so that the loan on education can b e serviced.
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While they are it, perhaps the committee can also look at how a member of the Trump administration, who also happens to be the former president's son-in-law, walked out of the White House and into a $2 billion "investment" from the Saudis.
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Google the phrase “coastal grandmother aesthetic”and you’ll see that Hilderbrand is considered the literary avatar of this lifestyle—well to do white women of a certain age who dress in linen and cashmere, shop daily at farmers markets, make pitchers of lemonade with lemons from those markets, and, of course, own luxurious seaside homes with open concept kitchens. And when evening comes they drink white wine and lots of it. The cinematic analog is embodied by Diane Keaton in movies by Nancy Myers.
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It is easy to read this headline as another fear mongering attention grabber, however, the danger of indoor air pollution from gas stoves is not a new discovery. In fact, indoor air pollution has been studied extensively and is know to be many times worse than outdoor pollution, even in the US and Europe. Though it is far worse in places where cooking is done on open fires inside or kerosene lighting is common.Indoor air pollution is not regulated and there are no federal guidelines or policies. It can be as much as five times (and sometimes 100x) higher than outdoor pollution. Gas stoves are major contributor to PM2.5, particles that are one of the worst for our respiratory system.It is always surprising to me that readers just dismiss this information without really seeking to do some research themselves.
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Brett is correct about the dangers of dynastic wealth evading generational taxation, but he fails to mention the unfairness of not taxing market gains on investments. Because the tax code does not consider gains in “wealth” to be subject to income tax, Jeff Bezos and others like him pay absurdly low rates of tax while their fortunes soar. While Bezos pays a lot in taxes, he actually pays a lower tax rate on his yearly increase in wealth than his warehouse workers pay on their wages.The Republican agenda is to give tax breaks to those best able to pay. After the 2017 Republican tax changes, Mr Trump was able to boast to a wealthy audience “You all just got a lot richer.” The Republicans already enacted a “flat” corporate income tax that cut tax rates for the most profitable corporations to just 21 percent, while actually raising the tax rates on small less profitable corporations. The rich got richer. Expect the same from Bret’s proposal for a flat tax on individuals. Don’t be fooled. Brett and other conservatives are looking out for the wealthy, not making the tax code fairer.
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Trump warned us in 2016Biden just keeps the border openThese types of murders are just the beginning
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A collection such as this that is neither available to the general public no less the local community might as well be cloistered somewhere in the Himalayas. Looking at the local community as a nuisance somehow shows a total misunderstanding of why art is created it should not only be a toy of the affluent.I applaud that the collection is being updated to include more contemporary artists. If opening this collection can spur the imagination of one child caught in poverty or can bring beauty if not a respite to the daily lives of anyone trapped in the subsistence of the day to day world, amends can be made past indifferences. I only hope entrance fees do not price out the local community.
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Connie MartinYour husband was right! Insulin was discovered over 100 years ago, and the scientists awarded the patent gave it away for $1 to ensure that diabetics could always receive affordable treatment. Its insane that insulin is now the gold standard of pharmaceutical company price-gouging. A vial that costs $5 to manufacture is sold for over $600. With all this profiteering, the players in the $20 billion market in the US alone will do anything to stop a cure.
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GFE- Did you notice that Putin just bought another member of the House of Representatives, George Santos?He received $56,000 in campaign cash from Andrew Intrater, cousin of Viktor Vekelsberg, one of Putin's wealthiest and most influential courtiers. And where did the $700,000 come from that Santos loaned to his own campaign?
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It is only logical that someone who is very young would not have necessarily experienced a job layoff. My only advice is that there is no such thing as a secure company and no one or no sector is recession proof. Capitalism at least in the US is about next quarters or six months profits. Employees are not assets they are regarded as a necessary evil. So no matter how qualified you are, dedicated you are to your job in today's environment you are subject to being terminated. Share price and investor returns take precedence over employees even valuable ones. None of us are indispensable.
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When reading articles about our gun epidemic, one point usually is left out: the millions and millions of dollars in costs the tax-payer is left behind with. From the 9-1-1 call to a swarming army of police officers rushing to the scene, to the paramedics, investigations, legal cases, hospitals, costly non-productive disruptions in the workplace and schools, silly tech security systems "to protect our kids" at schools that would cost millions (if not billions... for the taxpayer to pay), endless. Someone is making lots of money! When is the GOP going to complain about the billions of tax money being wasted over our gun-related calamities?
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Jack That ambitious trade strategy was TPP. Back in the day in trying to understand the Trans-Pacific Partnership I listened to a long interview with an Obama official on the Brian Lehrer show. Being exhausted by the naysayer call-in questions the TPP advocate admitted, "Look, TPP is a mud sandwich." Which it was. But it's unlikely to appear on the menu of global politics again. China is too wary.
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Joy Mars Yes, we need a Constitutional Amendment and legislation to overturn the Citizens United decision and subsequent decisions allowing unlimited, anonymous campaign contributions to candidates and parties as well as 501c 3 "educational and social service" nonprofits to fund attack ads against any Democrat or non "conservative" candidate for office. That won't happen unless we elect more Democrats to the Congress, not beholden to the 1% and their PACS. We need a 2/3 veto and Filibuster Proof majority in the Congress for this to happen.
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I've always loved gas ranges because you instantly know when they're hot by the flame; they don't need time warm up; seeing the flame is a much more direct way to ascertain heat than relying on a dial; and I just think food tastes better when cooked over an open flame. But my kitchen isn't near any windows. Since reading about this, I've had the high-powered exhaust fan from the overhanging microwave on whenever I use it, because I don't have neither the money nor inclination to replace it.
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“'I wouldn’t trade this for $10 million,' Kim said that day.”Except he did, for exactly $10 million. That's what he got in insurance money, and if he played again, he would have to give it up and either earn a living playing golf or flounder. He took the money. Which is fine, but let's not beat around the bush and let's not act like he's some kind of hero.(And nobody ever compared him to Tiger Woods, give me a break)
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I have told my now successful children and every young person we employ the same story to developing their careers and living a successful financial life.Get started. Entry level jobs are just that. A place to contribute but also a place to grow.Put your best effort into the job, be on time, create value for your employer. Along the way learn and acquire job-related skills. Critical thinking, creative problem solving, working with others. Writing. Be prompt. Be pleasant. Be determined. Deliver on your promises. Regardless of whether or not you stay with that firm your skills will transfer, as will your worth to an employer. Repeat this wherever you go and whatever you do. That is how careers are formed. Financially, live below your means, start saving and investing at a young age. Put a percentage of every increase you ever get into savings and once you have an emergency fund of at least three months of expenses, investments. Don’t buy the shiny thing, stick with the plan. Having money can create more money over time. Don’t be put off by setbacks. They are part of learning. Be resilient, be honest with everyone, especially yourself. Don’t get comfortable by explaining disappointment on someone else.Have a life outside of work. Family, friends, hobbies. Enjoy the ride, there isn’t really a destination.
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Curious Bird I write for a living. I used to do very creative stuff - mostly advertising copy - but I now do much more straightforward material - informational blog articles about insurance, health care etc.Were I still in a more creative realm, I would not be all that concerned about the bots. They are still a few years away from being able to navigate he twists and turns of creative writing. But the more informational material? They are almost there and will evolve quickly since OPEN AI now has tens of millions of unpaid beta testers.Why would a client pay me, say, $500 for an article when they can have a bot do the first draft and pay me $250 to tweak it up? Answer - they wouldn't. I am very concerned that I - and many of my colleagues - are about to hit a wall. A wall which I can ill afford to hit.
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Tobias W. Oh, my friend, there are so many other ways. Microsoft Word. Excel. Etc. Now I believe they tie you to a monthly subscription. You can’t just download the software as you did back in the day.
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JH But can Lee raise $20 million to even be competitive in the primary?
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As a 32 yo single straight man, I found this woefully incomplete! I am in support of the LGBT community and womens rights, and I think a lot of the advice here will really help on an individual level - on a case by case bases - but, on the societal level, we have some big problems to sort out! As they acknowledged, and Im sure most know by now, that single rates and divorce rates are exploding while overall happiness is plummeting! While I would never want to go back to a society where women are treated like property, we are running into problems with their inate hypergamy and double standard. I have a great job in STEM and I'm a homeowner, I try to treat all women like queens even if I'm not sleeping with them, and yet I have had several women dump me expecting to do better! I try and tell women about my past experiences and why I am slow to open up, but most aren't very sympathetic, and what's worse, most women outright deny the hypergamy! In the handshake that is a human relationship, it is often then man who offers their hand first, but modern women seem to be slapping that hand away, and then blaming men for their loneliness! I would love to hear Mr Savage's thoughts on this!
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The Fed has tried traditional remedies for a new problem, we do not have excessive demand we have a collapsed supply chain.Raising interest rates will not solve this problem and will only hurt the poorest among us.I fail to see the magic of a 2 to 3 percent inflation rate and I understand the need for a real increase in disposable income for the middle class and this can be achieved by increased productivity and reducing taxes for those earning less than say$100000, pay for this by ridding the tax code of tax welfare for the rich and Corporations .
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As a small business owner I have invested to become a specialist and develop a new market in my community. No compete clauses protect my business investment of training other clinicians to be specialist and perform in this market I created. Without a no-compete my clinicians would be free to work for the large health networks in my area. Without no-competes my business would not grow and I would have a waiting list of months. No-competes protect small business owners who have invented and developed markets. If the employee under the clause wants to truly develop a new market, they won’t be a competitor.
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The concept is good, but ONLY IF COUPLED WITH STRICT BORDER CONTROL of illegal economic migration pretending to be asylum claims. With open arms I welcome true refugees from persecution. Economic migrants need another program- guest worker visas for example. But the “I got here so you must take me “ is dangerous absurdity and must stop.
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They’re going to cut programs that will affect regular people. The rich will be protected. $800 billion a year in military spending will be protected. The government doesn’t function for the people. It never has and we will all the pay the price for believing in this illusion of democracy
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Ron May I don’t own any nasdaq specific funds. My main stock fund, VTSAX, is down 18% from a year ago. I’m rooting for it to drop further. For a young accumulator who still collects a regular paycheck, a bear market is what you want. Better to buy when something is $1 than when the exact same thing is $2. If you don’t have to stomach to aggressively buy when the stock market is tanking, then a financial planner would be a good idea for you.
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The motto of the Democrats should be "Raise The Cap" whenever Social Security and Medicare are brought up by the GOP. In fact, putting that motto on billboards in the districts of the right wing Republicans who are currently advocating cutting entitlement programs would be a great conversation starter. Most Americans do not realize that payroll taxes funding those programs cut off at a certain point (in 2021 it was $142,000). I think even Republican voters would be in favor of permanently getting rid of that cap if they just knew it existed.
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This country needs 5 million affordable, HUD subsidized units. 2/3 of them should be offered for sale to individuals who earn less than $32,000 per year.What kind of people are we that we permit homelessness over affordability?
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There’s an expression: “My mind is like a bad neighborhood; you don’t want to go in there alone.” In this neighborhood, the road signs are upside down or backwards; the street moves like a river; the house windows are where the doors are supposed to be. The doors are stuck and can only be opened by electric keys, patience, strained memory and a little help; people may speak only indirectly and by leaving notes in your mailbox; and no one knows your real name. Each constituent hopes to become the queen and knows there will be thousands and thousands of bees. Everyone stands in the same direction, wobbling up and down in unison while searching for the end of the river that never comes, and all the residents are tickled pink to be there together.
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Remember George Bush and big oil? His administration member Condeleeza Rice once said she wanted to be NFL Commissioner. That was when oil prices went sky high precipitaing economic harm in 2008. Have you noticed Republicans have always presided over historically high oil prices? Even Nixon was President when the Arabs cut off our supply of oil in the embargo. George Bush oversaw the highest prices reaching 147 dollars a barrel in July 2008. Before Trump announced, a barrel was only 19 dollars under Obama/Biden. Do you also remember when George Bush had a private pickup drive with Putin on his ranch outside Waco Texas? Do you also remember Trump had a secret meeting with Putin too? And did you remember most Trump protege' foreign trips were to oil producing nations that are all now sabotaging economies?
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It feels like we are in the cusp of another spectacular information age. The ability to combine existing information into relevant and fluent answers would likely have massive implications in all fields in sciences and arts. ChatGPT is showing how (relatively) chaotic our previous information integration processes were. The fact that this new technology is at this remarkable stage only seven years after Open AI was formed is a staggering thought.I am for one excited about what is in store in the coming decade.
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It has taken generations of players to negotiate for their safety in the most dangerous, popular game. The *billions* that the NFL makes because of that danger is ... are you ready??? Entirely without tax. The NFL is structured as a NONPROFIT entity. What madness allows this to continue to happen? One other commenter here noted how poorly paid the paramedics are in our country. We are a nation of takers. We take and take and take, then wonder why things are so messed up. Meanwhile, I'm extremely happy that Damar's mom didn't have to decide which organs to donate. Glad to hear that he's recovering. I hope this is a Cinderella story on the medical side of things. I've already seen that it is a great story about the generosity of fans (donating to the charity he set up as a GoFundMe with a modest goal of $2500).
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I have been a public school teacher for over 20 years and I can tell you the k-12 system is not failing students. Our society has failed to appropriately fund public education while simultaneously widening the wealth gap and eroding the social safety net. I am an excellent teacher but I cannot overcome the serious gaps that my students come in with. Every year my students have come in more poor and less prepared to learn than the year previous. My no honors freshman can read and have basic comprehension but not much else, making it quite the challenge to teach higher level thinking, yet I still try my best every day. Over 500 students (in a school of around 1900) are absent or so tardy they miss their first class which is 85 minutes long. We have kids who haven’t been to school this year which is illegal. We have one truancy officer and are told to stop filing the legal documents that compel students to come to school because there’s just too many and the courts can’t keep up. Then we get blamed when they have no skills. You wouldn’t blame a wartime field hospital for losing patients or compare them to Mass General, but we do. Please, put the blame for this mess where it belongs with those who refuse to fund public education as a national priority and are happy to let zip code determine success.
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I would add that if we start collecting more taxes that are owe, we would easily provide extra 300-400 billions a year to sustain government and reduce budget deficit. It would also have effect on reducing inflation.No debt hysteria necessary.
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Captain Nemo Not sure, but David sure wnats you to buy his "special" version oif the supplement he's been working on to extend life. :)
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I don't think we realize the spectacle we're in for. Here's what the House GOP did on day one in congress:- Their anti IRS bill was scored by the CBO, and would raise the deficit by nearly $115B. They proceeded to hail this as a victory.- They removed CSPAN cameras from the house chambers, and now only Republicans can dictate when Cameras are in the House when the House is in session. This was considered a victory for "oversight"- They threatened to defund DHS (including ICE and Border Patrol), if DHS doesn't do everything they want.Meanwhile, another new Republican congressmen was on air advocating for getting COVID instead of the Vaccine, just 12 hours after prominent conservative pundit Diamond of 'Diamond and Silk' (also an anti vaxxer, COVID conspiracist) died of COVID.Strap yourselves in. This roller coaster is just warming up.
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Microsoft is a monopoly that hasn’t innovated in this millennium.
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Open borders are an ultimate bogeyman waved in the face of right wing America. Like everything else, the reality is far more complex than simplistic propaganda. There is no room here to provide a detailed argument, so I will make a few points. 1) The service economy in America would disintegrate without immigrants, documented or not. Watch the movie A Day Without Mexicans for a fanciful presentation. 2) Social Security would also fall apart without the FICA contributions of this cohort who pay in vast quantities, but will likely never get their money back, something that should be pointed out to elderly xenophobes. 3) The vast majority of Mexicans have no interest in moving to the US, leaving behind their families, friends, culture, food etc. to make a difficult and dangerous journey to a place where they don’t speak the language and are too often feared and despised. And more return south than go north every year. 4) instead of worrying about immigrants, think about the vast economic and entrepreneurial opportunities in Mexico a country replete with natural and human resources. 5) Consider the enormous savings that could be realized if we stopped trying to close a border that cannot be closed, along with the benefits of a single currency such as the Euro.
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Real-time battlefield intelligence. More and better artillery. More and better long range missiles. An apparently open-ended budget for more weapons. Tanks from the Germans. Now, US support to Ukraine to strike Crimea. Drip, drip, drip. This is how real wars happen. I won't be surprised if within the year the US has "non-combatant advisors" on the ground in Kiev. Regardless of the righteousness of our support for Ukraine, I think it's long past time for President Biden to explain his long-term plans and expectations to the American people. Let us know what he sees as the stakes of this conflict. It seems that anything Ukraine asks for, it gets.And all along I thought the US president was in charge of foreign policy.
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As written - "The Supreme Court’s decision has left abortion rights groups with few other options."As is the case - The Supreme Court's decision has left WOMEN with few other options.This isn't about this or that group's day in court. This about whether half the country's populace retains bodily autonomy. But there's a far bigger picture in that it took 200,000 years for our population to reach 1 billion, 170 years to then expand to 4 billion, and only 47 years to surpass 8 billion. Apropos, forty-six states currently endure extreme or severe water shortage at least one month a year, as does 30% of our global population, and it's worsening.Scottsdale's cutting off water to Rio Verde was but the first highly publicized round in pending water wars where only those controlling its distribution will claim access. Concurrently, a fundamentalist religiopolitical sect is attempting to force birth on every woman or child in the nation who becomes impregnated. Having arguably passed the carrying capacity for our kind on this planet, this is the stupidest possible move at the worst possible time.
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I don't love swimming but I love what it does for me, not just for my sciatica issues, but for my overall well-being. I spend 45 minutes 3-4 times a week. It has kept my previous constant pain in my back and hip to about 10% of the level it once was. I believe it's the constant stretch you get from doing the crawl /freestyle combined with the decompressing of the spine due to the buoyancy factor. On alternate days I do weight-bearing exercise on the elliptical; it's very gentle on the body. Both somewhat boring activites compared to the adrenaline sports I used to do but it beats the pain that takes the fun out of everything.
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I'm actually fine with McDonald's food. However, there is a great need for coffee that has not been sitting on a heating pad for the last 10 hours, becoming more acidic and slowly carbonizing into sludge. I was really happy when Starbucks opened up on the PA turnpike. Finally reasonable coffee, However, since that time, Starbucks has descended into the same cost reduction scheme. It is not just cost reduction, creating a cup of coffee made N hours ago from a large pot is fast and looks like great customer service. Until you taste the coffee, and end up pouring it out the door.
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Mudge You may be correct about congressional salaries, especially those of the so called freedom caucus. They should be paid in jail time. But you lie about Trump. He raised the debt limit three times, mostly to accommodate the huge debt he built up with his tax cuts for the rich. He added something like $8 trillion to the national debt.
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When Harry was whining about how bad his measly little cottage was — located in the grounds of Kensington Palace no less — some equally whiny measly advisor whispered in his ear that he could make a $100m for a single interview telling how bad he'd been treated as a Royal. When Megan latched onto that the plan started to rocket into shape. How $200m and counting richer with a palatial CA home who can claim he should have stayed in the 'hovel'?
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As an American who has lived in London the past three years and has only recently returned, I feel like I have a good gauge on reactions from both sides of the pond. Many of my English students in their 20's were (and are) clearly pro-Republican and titillated by this young American usurper--but even with younger folks, there seems to be a sense that there is a certain way to act and here the Sussexes lose out for being perceived as tacky. Older folks in England are certainly more anti-PH and anti-Meghan. In America, it is clearly more of a mixed reaction that doesn't easily delineate along age and race and political persuasion. Americans can appreciate a good rogue account. I am partial to the Sussexes--if only because the British press is merciless and the culture in Britain has an underlying cruelty. The Sussexes' joint story and journey has everything: sibling rivalry, estrangement from family, royal intrigue, American openness vs. British reserve, the absence of a Millenial filter, historical protocol vs. today's currency of self-promotion, glamour, racism, the rediscovery of California as a place to heal and navel gaze. What's not to like?
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gm Their political contributions are probably 1% of the $2B. Next.
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JR taxpayers don't pay unemployment. It's an insurance premium paid by the employers and when they lay people off their premium increases. Microsoft employees will most certainly contribute to the economy as they will probably receive severance and are highly skilled meaning they should be able to find jobs elsewhere.
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I don’t get it. If you think Dry January will compensate for the 11 months where you have three glasses of wine a day or go binge drinking when the weekend starts, you are fooling yourself. I get the fact that genetics may play a role in not being able to limit oneself to one glass. Fortunately for me I don’t have that gene. On the other hand I can’t open a bag of potato chips without polishing the entire bag and feeling awful shortly after! So Ive declared No Chip January! So far so good in the new year.
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It’s 150% special interests. Just two recent examples - Southwest Airlines strands thousands over the holidays. Why? Shareholder profits over investing in software to improve efficiency. What has DOT done? Nothing. Why? The airline lobby. Who took pandemic funds, reduced their staffs through early retirement and spent the money on stock buy backs. Crying that their business would struggle. Then laughed all the way to the bank. In Colorado XCel Energy has raised rates exponentially then just reported 1.7 billion in profits. BILLIONS. Yet our PUC green lights every rate without pause. We aren’t for the people. We’re for the dollar. Without conscious.
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Haha. The party of losing seems to want to continue that… losing. In business, if you were predicting sales of say, $200M, and came in at $100M, people would lose their jobs. The RNC, despite having a golden opportunity to create a “red wave”, barely eked out a few extra seats in the House and even lost ground in the Senate. Yet, they re-elect the people responsible for it. They deserve everything they get, which will be more losses.
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I have never understood why people buy new cars. The math just does not add up. Years ago when I still lived in LA, I bought a 1982 Volvo wagon for $2500. I put another $1500 into it in repair work that needed doing. Then I had an excellent, safe $4000 vehicle that was great for skiing, holding my camping gear (I could even sleep stretched out in the back of it), carrying kayaks on the roof and large items in the back. The only reason I sold it is we moved abroad.My colleagues thought I was nuts for putting half the value of the car into repair. But if you do the math, I had a great car for 4 grand, while they were still making payments on far more expensive newer but lesser (and less safe) vehicles.To be fair, I know quite alot about car repair, can do a lot of work myself and can evaluate a mechanic pretty well. Still, if you have a good mechanic, keeping the old car on the road is almost always the better investment. Routine maintenance will keep a good car on the road for years.
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I was raised a devout Catholic in the 50's but by 1962, when I spent nine months being physically and emotionally abused by a nun while my father was hospitalized and near death that entire time, my eyes were opened.It sounds awful but it transformed my life by freeing me from the delusions of religion. Once that spell was broken there was no going back.I became a "devout atheist". By that I mean someone who pursues spirituality not through religion but through deep contemplation of the universe and its glory, not myths of virgin births, ascents into "heaven" and the endless misogyny of the Abrahamic religions.I have no idea what will happen to me after I am reabsorbed into universe as my atoms disperse into quarks, muons, Higgs bosons. But it's a lot more fun that worrying about the eternal fires of hell.
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Between 2000 and 2002 the NASDAQ lost +70% of it's value. And that's only because companies like Microsoft buoyed up the average, while more typical companies like TIBCO lost +90%. A VC friend of mine described it as "scorched earth."My own startup might have survived if 2002 was not followed by the crushing blow of Enron in the energy business.Then there was the "great bloodletting" of technology at banks like Citi in 2008 when entire trading desks were laid off.This is hardly fresh snow. This is the kind of well trodden snow that looks grey and wet in the gutters of NYC.Having said all that - it's more than a small pleasure to see Elon Musk get the comeuppance he so richly deserves.Tech will come back. It always does. PS - I promise that I wrote this myself and did not use ChatGPT - everyone's new favorite employee.
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I take issue with the idea that this is a feature of the tax code that needs to be fixed. This is an issue inherent to flow-through taxation. The tax code has ways to mitigate these types of situations that impact new partners by permitting income to be allocated away from new partners and toward old partners (at least with respect to built in gain assets such as those discussed in the article). However, that's often under the control of fund managers who have different incentives regarding allocations.
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Tuckmics Same here. In fact, I get eggs for $1.49/dzn at Yoke's Fresh Market in Spokane. The eggs are labeled as "Grade B," a USDA designation for older eggs, but they're not old. They are also labeled as "repackaged." The supermarket combines good eggs from cartons with cracked eggs, labeling them so customers know. A given carton may have eggs of different sizes, colors. Some of them are the cage free and organic eggs that go for premium prices otherwise. I examine the cartons and select ones that have large and bigger eggs, and brown or the Easter egg colors that local producers sell.
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Obsolesce is more common to software than hardware. I still have unsupported cell phones and laptops galore. I converted the laptops to Linux a few years back and they run better than ever. My next cell phone will be open source based Linux and it will run for many years, if I don't drop it.
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As a business person, I can think of no surer way to add mistrust and fear into the hiring process. The thought that a company, especially in hi tech, would gladly hire an employee with energy and a willingness to learn on the job, knowing that a typical hiree might mean an investment of $5,000 to $10,000 to fully train them and reveal the secrets of the company's inner operation, is ridiculous. The fact that the idea came from our highest judges and attorneys, only proves that few judges and attorneys have ever worked in the real world, outside of law school and a behind a desk. Ask most attorneys if they have ever had a job outside of law after law school, and the answer will be "No." In essence, this new invasion between an agreement between a free person and a business, will only lead to the further reduction of our workforce. Whether it be as simple as a MacDonalds or a Starbucks, both of which have spawned clones everywhere in the world, even in places like China, it's a combo job and business killer for the future. The anti-MAGA clubs outside of the U.S. must be smiling and holding up their champagne glasses.
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Congress needs to investigate Sen. Scott for the part he played in the Medicare fraud his company participated in while he was CEO! The one where he parachuted out with nearly $400 million, and used it to by the governorship of Florida.
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In California we don’t have a homeless crisis. We have a drug tourism crisis. Thousands of peopleflooding out state to participate in an open air drug superstore of cheap Cartel fentanyl and meth. If one talks to any recovered addict they will tell you: they go to where the supply is good, the prices low, the consequences lax (and in California, the cash payments and amenities are off the charts). Worst of all these new super drugs induce psychosis in a matter of days, generating the “mentally ill homeless” meme. Calling this stuff “homelessness” is like treating a virus with antibiotics. You have to know the sickness to cure it.
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NYC Dept of Ed Budget is 38 Billion dollars with an additional 20 billion capital budget. Divide $38,000,000,000 by one million one hundred thousand students and you come up with $35,000 per student per years plus capital spending. The money is wasted or stolen. The same happens with these large construction projects. In fact, most government spending is either wasted or stolen. Of course, a lot of people profit from this waste and theft.
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Bos To anyone who still thinks this is a NIMBY issue I beg you - get up the curve. Get the facts. The mining industry and Big Wind conglomerates, and all the other private equity investors, are profiting and destroying using the convenient excuse that anyone who is opposed does so for NIMBY reasons. They are using our tax dollars to fund their expected massive windfalls, and they are leaving us with sacred spaces destroyed and an enormous future tax bill to fund their decommissioning when they have failed our environment and laughed all the way to the bank. I am a Dem who wants genuine climate solutions, not this carried interest loophole ruse.
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Me Everything about this conflict is “slow” and “evolving“.It will add to the overwhelming sense of tragedy for America’s prissy refusal to step in and end things now, when it could have been done instantly, in a massive flash.Instead, as you say, America builds a sturdy foundation for a long and brutal war.Biden may not talk like a Trumpish isolationist, he may hold them in open contempt, but he wages war as if he believes the battle will never touch him, his people will never suffer.He wages war like a man utterly ignorant of history.
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My 2c: Letter 1: Tell the service about your medical issues, now. Not so much to "warn" others but to protect YOURSELF. You shouldn't have to be an example to "convince" someone that they "should" accept someone with your medical/sexual health issues. Your body is not someone else's learning experience. Period, full stop. All that NOT disclosing would do, in all likelihood, is piss off someone who paid $10K for 5 intros and one of them isn't a potential sexual partner in their eyes. That would make you feel bad, and you don't need that. Letter 2: Let it slide. You didn't have any formal contract written up, etc. In the absence of that, if you really still want this couple's friendship, let it go. I have a friend whom I have loaned money to on and off over the years. He always paid me back after each time, in short order once he got paid -- but now I'm sitting here waiting for a little under $300 back for over a year. I'm not bringing it up anymore, but the next time he asks, the answer is no. Similarly, you don't have to give this couple another dime, but if they haven't thought about paying you pack since their fortunes turned, they are not likely to do so in the future.
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Sorry, Bret, you are on the right track, but too optimistic when you imply that by some gentle approaches the US may be able to change China's behavior. It is purely wishful thinking. As I have remarked before, any article on China needs to also include what it has been doing wrong around the world since 1950. In its drive for territorial and economic dominance, it will not stop at any brutality (Tibet), any mass incarceration (Xinjiang), any predatory loan deals (Sri Lanka, Pakistan), any border aggression (Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, India, Philippines), and any technological espionage (US, Europe). In 1992 Bill Clinton's campaign rhetoric included scathing toughness toward China; yet, after having been beaten up by American corporate interests, he granted the most-favored-nation status to China which soon became permanent, leading in the next 30 years to the astounding economic rise of China, mostly driven by uncontrolled transfer of US manufacturing technologies and scientific prowess to China and exports by China to the US and the world. The debacle began with Nixon in 1972, in his so-called 'opening to China'. What opening? What it amounted to was, essentially, US telling China, "open your doors so we can voluntarily give you our decades of our advances"! And China said, "sure." In the history of mankind, there has never so much grabbing of advanced technological knowledge without use of force as what China has achieved in thirty years. Time to wake up!
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Tom The actuarial facts support the solution of Erik Fredrickson. Due to the plethora of guns, the rate of gun deaths and gun injuries in the U.S. far exceed those in any other advanced country. Indeed, our gun death rate approaches those of dystopias like Guatemala and El Salvador. In short, more guns = more gun deaths and gun injuries and thus more gun medical costs, now in excess of $3,000,000,000 per year.
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LD Indeed: a half trillion dollars of Russian assets is still held by Western banks -- roughly the amount Ukraine is going to need to repair all the death and destruction caused by the Kremlin -- and this will go into the reparations slush fund. Anything less would invite moral hazard... by encouraging kleptocratic dictators into thinking they can just knock over their peaceful neighbors for plunder, and still get off scot-free.Making the Kremlin foot the bill for the damages of their savage misadventure will also send a message to the higher-ups in the CCP -- all of whom own cars, real estate, and secret banks accounts in the West... for their 'rainy day funds' -- since then attempting any genocidal gambit in Taiwan like their buddy Putin is currently flailing at in Ukraine, would carry enormous, immediate downside risk. It would raise the cost of any invasion there by several trillion dollars... since the second it happened EVERY SINGLE ASSET owned in the West by rich Chinese nationals would immediately be forfeited. Like a soap bubble that burst in a bad dream!This should provide a carrot for cooler heads to always prevail.... Since otherwise all their wealth would have to stay parked/confined in the confiscatory, expropriating military dictatorship of the CCP. (And who wants that!)The best way to incentivize Peace in the future, is to show that we mean business now.
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Craig I tried some of these words, too, because… one never knows! 😉I appreciate your humorous post, in part because it provides an opportunity to discuss compound words, one of my favorite topics (as many regular Hivemates already know!🙄)There are three types of compound words in grammar, determined by how the words are separated:Closed compound words: no spaces between the words, such as ‘grandparent’ and ‘toothpaste’.Hyphenated compound words: hyphens between the words, such as ‘empty-handed’, ‘nitty-gritty’ and POP-TOP Open compound words: spaces between the words such as ‘school bus’, ‘hot dog’ and TOP HAT.Learn more about compound words here: <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/blog/open-and-closed-compound-words" target="_blank">https://www.grammarly.com/blog/open-and-closed-compound-words</a>/<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pop-top" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pop-top</a><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/top</a>%20hat
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