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SParker I'm a senior citizen using a reduced fare metrocard....my bad! Thanks for the correction as I am reminded the "normal" cost for a swipe is currently $2.70
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Reader Which, in turn, is an anti-perk. I worked at a place that offered free food. I still took my lunch break and wandered over to the gas station for half an hour to grab a hot dog and a Monster. The point of that break wasn't to eat. It was to get as far away from my miserable open-plan office gulag as possible so I didn't go mad before five o'clock.Couldn't quit that job fast enough.I'll power through lunch without a break these days, but it's because I have my own office, to which I can take free food back to eat at my desk while I get work done.For introverted or neurodivergent (or both) workers, there is NOTHING worse than being "inculcated with the culture." Some people may enjoy that, but not me.
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Chris Smith 401k's are not tanking. The investments that you chose within the framework of your 401k are tanking.It's cyclical anyhow.
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We figured out from the fine print in a Trump gold coin TV informercial that the $50 coin contained about $3 worth of gold--just enough to cover its worthless pot metal core. How fitting.
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mike Law enforcement negotiates with hostage-takers all the time. That doesn’t mean they give in to their demands, beyond sending in a few pizzas and soft drinks. They generally don’t give in on the helicopter, the passenger jet and the bag with $10,000,000 in small bills.That’s not an unreasonable approach here.Also, as others have mentioned, the pressure on Republicans to back off will be enormous, as virtually every group with money and power joins forces to quash this attack on their interests and the country.
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Gene Try to be generous here Gene and not living up to some of Florida's less kind tendencies. A coworker, after putting in 20 years of service, at a slightly above the national median pay, received $20K from the company for his time. He and his wife used it to take a trip of a lifetime. And funny enough, he lives in Florida, where you struggle to pay your rent. Who knows, he could be a neighbor. Maybe his rent is cheaper, maybe he makes better financial decisions, maybe he lives on beans and rice. Your hardship shouldn't cloud your compassion, since this wasn't about getting for those that have. It's about how corporations should behave across the spectrum of service. No one is asking you to feel sorry, but to begrudge one what's due simply because they appear to have more than you is petty, even by Florida norms.
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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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$25 million dollar payout. Cities should pass laws that mandate use of force settlements be paid out of the police budget. The taxpayers should not subsidize or indemnify this sort of criminal behavior.
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Beyond the local Latino community -- the Hispanic Society and Audubon Terrace generally had turned its back on all of New York City for decades.I remember some years ago on a solo walking tour passing the area and coming upon Audubon Terrace. It was a forbidding place. A barren terrace gave no indication of any welcome whatsoever to passers-by be they local residents or other NY'ers, such as myself, wandering by.And while it is indeed heartening to see these institutions now attempt to outreach to the community -- one has to wonder about the impetus behind this new welcome.It goes without saying that the area around Audubon Terrace is rapidly gentrifying -- a movement impelled both by rising housing prices in the "traditional" UWS below and, more particularly, by the changes being fostered as part of Columbia University's massive campus expansion.Anyone passing through the 150's on Riverside Drive nowadays, as I often due when cycling up to the GWB, will note the multitude of apartment buildings under renovation as evidenced by the many street scaffolds in place. Similar renovations now stretch through the various side streets with many one-time townhouses now reverting to their original form after having served as rooming houses etc.So, yes, Audubon Terrace may now be opening up to its local community. But the reality is that the demographic composition of that local community is now rapidly changing.
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Alex This is not true!! Yes no one can live anywhere on minimum wage and it is an sin that we all accept that in what is considered the "riches country in the world. The obsessions of keeping up with the "jones" is the problem. We chose to live within our means, I stayed home until the kids were in full time school. 40 years ago I was criticized for not having the fancy house, expensive vacations, video games, big tvs, summer camps, etc from both family and society. I can only image how much worst social media had added to stress of chosing to make yourself happy. Believe me being a full time volunteer for those years kept me completely intellectually fulfilled. And opened doors to a great job with a lot of freedom so I was able to go to games, plays etc thru their high school days. Did we retire with the millions some of contempories did NO. We still saved enought to have a great retirement life and want for nothing. We are still enjoying our kids and grandkids.
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Mike C. In just 10 months, the US committed $113B in aid to Ukraine. In other words, the US provided more aid to Ukraine in 1 year than it will provide to Israel in 37 years (at $3B per year).
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No mention of the the wide open southern border as a contributing factor to this tragedy, and many others like it.Also, in general it appears we're expected to believe that the cartels are not totally irredeemable -- their violence is somewhat restricted: the cartel gangs endeavor to stay low key and not engage in the uber-carnage they perpetrate on the other side of the border; that's reassuring at least -- if you believe it. I for one do not. It's appalling to view cartel activity in the US as anything other than a profound menace to our nation and innocents of all ethnicities.
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I want to come home to America to stay, but your healthcare costs and drug prices make it a very high bar to clear. But I fear that it may nonetheless become necessary. This is because the Ontario, Canadian single payer system is in collapse because of the Conservative government of Premier Ford. Note that healthcare in Canada is not national, it is managed and delivered by the Provinces.Sure, drugs are virtually free here, but you will never find a GP; a clinic is the best you’ll do. If you depend on smaller regional hospitals you will find emergency rooms closing; in cities it’s ambulances that are scarce. Epic waits in the emergency rooms that are open. Massive delays for non-lifesaving surgery. Plus, the government is introducing “private” healthcare, which will further bleed the public system. Canada is drifting into a two-tiered system and Trudeau is asleep at the wheel, as always.
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So which of the facilities was the one the money was spent on and are LBGQT students barred from those areas? A college is not a bunch of disparate rooms but a whole institution with an overarching charter/ purpose/ creed. So did they accept money as a secular institution open to all or a religious based institution which bar's certain groups that don't follow their religion or religious attitudes? Simple question. One gets public money, one doesn't easy peasy.
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This piece opens my eyes to issues that never before occurred to me. Of course the right-wing rhetoric panders to the $25, $50 donor. I'm one of those with my gifts going to candidates who are progressive. I naively believed members of the House (and Senate too) had to do good work on committees in order to win the confidence of their constituencies. Turns out all they have to do is get booked on right-wing media to spew their filth, which, to some, is music to their ears.
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JTR There’s a paradigm that employees are a liability instead of an asset. This encourages some people (“activist shareholders” and private equity types) to encourage layoffs. Of course with stock based compensation for executives and stock buybacks, management is a lot more amenable to these destructive entreaties. Strangely the thousands who were laid off from the likes of Microsoft and Meta were the lucky ones. These are the ones who often get severance pay and sometimes even stock options (still hundreds of times smaller than the executives though).Anyway, most people don’t get severance pay. These people aren’t likely to answer economic surveys either, and these are precisely the people economic policy needs to reach before an economic recovery translates into increased political support. Worker protections will go a long way here, and I’d feel like it’d be political malpractice not to take a potshot or two at the executives and shareholders of the railroad companies who stiffed their employees on time off while spending more than the cost of sick pay on stock buybacks.
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Dan-O My 78s, 33s, open reel tapes, and CDs still play just fine. All my digital downloads still work just fine.The only repeat purchases are digital re-releases of 1950s-1960s Mercury Living Presence recordings made on special low noise three track tape recorders and properly remastered.A few of my recordings are shellac physically pressed in the 19th century. They still play fine (and probably sounded just as awful when new.)
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The love of our shared humanity was everywhere this week. Football – of all things – evoked it, stoked it, transmuted it into contagious compassion, unity, and joy.I have always loved the phrase, “God is everywhere;” it has taken me the better part of half a century to even begin to see and understand what it means. This week however, I could see and feel God* – the love of our shared humanity – everywhere.It began with a whisper in a still and silent Buffalo Bills stadium last Monday night with the fall of Damar Hamlin. It ricocheted across the country all week, then boomeranged back to the Bills stadium Sunday afternoon with a miraculous opening touchdown; a touchdown that gave flight to the Spirit of everyone who witnessed it.What began as a whisper, culminated in the deafening roar for a touchdown that brought the house down; a touchdown that delivered relief and joy not only to the battered folks of Buffalo – who have endured racist murders and the winter wrath of global warming – but to a nation of people weary of being at war with one another.I often say, “Without our humanity, we will possess nothing of value.” The love of our shared humanity however, possesses the power to heal, to unite, to open our hearts…to move mountains.*God, Great Spirit, Jesus, Allah, Elohim, the Buddha, Universal energy…whomever or whatever feeds your true Spirit.
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Todd If Russia collapses, thousands of nuclear weapons will be available on the open market. If Iranian drones with grenades strapped on are scary, imagine them with small nuclear warheads.
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john sheridan Agree, mostly. Unfortunately we bought a house with an exhaust vent that does not exhaust to the outside— it recirculates. We cook lots of meals on this gas range and are worried about both our own health and the environmental costs of natural gas. We live in a cold climate and just got a natural gas bill of over $230 for December. During this cold winter, opening a window, as the article suggests (while cooking) is less feasible.I do wish I’d been better educated about the health and environmental impacts of gas ranges. Glad the article addresses these. I plan to investigate induction ranges, though these are expensive.
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This is a message to the subject of this article (Andrew Intrater). Andrew, you do realize that the $625,00 you lost in Santos's & JP Maroney's Ponzi scheme at Harbor Capital was part of the $700,000 that Santos 'lent'/gave to fund his campaign, right? Or, you already knew that - a classic Russian Oligarch way to launder money to be used in a different way (for unfluence). You and your uncle now own Santos. For you and your uncle and your 'investors' - $625,000 is chump-change if it lets you buy a U.S. Congressman. In the end, if I were Santos, I would be very nervous right now. . . (well, after he is forced out of office). And, to you Santos: You will no longer be useful to them, once out of office. You stole from an oligarch's nephew - Russians have no problem exacting revenge on U.S. soil, especially in Washington D.C. If this is one group that will get their money back, it's the Russian Oligarch-crowd. Sleep tight Santos. . .
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michael sullivan I lost complete respect of Larry Summers years ago.He certainly does not know how to invest, or even assess risk. See the following article (and many other like articles)<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/11/larry-summers-lost-harvard-s-money/347426" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/11/larry-summers-lost-harvard-s-money/347426</a>/Larry Summers Lost Harvard's MoneyRisky investments cost the university $1.8 billion. Should taxpayers be worried he'll do the same in the administration?
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Ben Hubbard gives a useful if flawed analysis. Turkey's foreign policy is unlikely to change whoever is in power. The foreign ministry may have lost influence but it is not so much lost to Erdogan as to the defence ministry - the military has a large say in foreign policy, especially where it concerns Kurds, Syria, Greece, Cyprus and NATO. As for his economic policy, Erdogan is doing little different from any Western government about to face an election - spend, spend spend. Inflation is high but has always been higher than in the West. Britain had inflation at 1% pre-pandemic and is now above 10%. That's a ten-fold increase, ie. higher than the proportionate increase in Turkey. Erdogan has been criticised for his policy on interest rates but raising these by 1 or 2% is not going to make any sustainable difference to the international value of the Turkish lira and could well drive many small businesses to the wall. As for the opposition candidates, Imamoglu is a good potential candidate, but will not lead the party as long as Kilicdaroglu continues to head the opposition. So Erdogan should not waste effort on attacking Imamoglu. Erdogan's greatest asset is that the opposition is divided and has no coherent policy - it's all very well criticising the AK Party but CHP has nothing to offer in exchange except platitudes and empty rhetoric.
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Lula's corruption scandal is a bit more than personal favors and home renovation kickbacks and instead centers upon his peddling of political influence to secure funding for infrastructure loans in Angola for Odebrecht S.A. in return for a sizeable kickback on the loans to the tune of more than at the time $10 million US dollars (about $30 million reais in 2016). In turn, the Odebrecht scandal caught up many of the most influential leftist political leaders in South America that had come to power on Obama's coattails and strong left turn the region took at the start of the century. At the same time, he's a very corrupt populist, and has essential promised indigenous communities everything under the sun in exchange for their vote. It's not to say that Bolsonaro is a schoolboy--a former Infantry officer who once advocated immediate extrajudicial killings of gang bangers in flavelas (which only sounds crazy until you've lived in one), but when compared to Lula, Bolsonaro peddles more demagoguery than actual corrupt behavior. Ironically, Lula's return to power (he was let out of prison on a technicality btw) radically reorients Brazil as a staunch ally of Putin and the emerging multipolar world. His political compatriot, Christina Fernández de Kirchner (vice president of Argentina) was recently sentenced to prison for corruption charges related to money laundering with, you guessed it, the very same Odebrecht S.A. Her sentence bars her for office and comes with 6 years.
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SSanderson, I was disappointed that the state government allowed the cpuc to steal money out of the pockets of residential solar producers, by the bogus switch from paying 75% to the pittance 25%. Then I remembered PG&e must somehow pay their CEO 10 million. Per year. Then I remembered that Gavin will need the utility companies “donations “ in a presidential bid. That was my AHA moment.
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I get the self-righteous anger of some people. What on earth do we mean by subsidizing housing in the first place. Housing subsidies: $51 billion. Farm subsidies: $25 billion. Emotional outbursts wont solve the problem; cold evaluation of what subsidies produce might. Homelessness will produce a large number of first order, second order, and later order consequences that might cost more than $51 billion to fix.
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Michael Greason If you don't want to pay for Microsoft Office try Open Office. It's free and works pretty well for documents and spreadsheets.
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$600 per month is so much money! I live in the Netherlands and I pay €150 per month :-oI guess we pay more taxes than you do though...We also have private insurers btw, but they are bound to strict rules. They have to cover basic healthcare needs. There is a list of exceptions that you can get additional insurance for. Important exceptions are fysiotherapy and dental check-ups.Still our healthcare is also eating a growing chunk of our national budget. Caused by more elderly people and more healthcare offering. There are more treatments, more diagnostic tests, more medicine, etc.
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Mott American supply side economicsAnd the Tories thought they were in charge ofthe US economy, not the UK.The US has a near unlimited ability to tax, spendand borrow like nobody in history.The UK does not.Last year they were trying to plug a 60 billion pound budget hole about 50 billion USD. A bit largerthan the GDP of Montana.
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Sheldaine They spent years giving money out to their shareholders thats why they have legacy IT and management systems. Its their fault and other airlines do it but legacy carriers have superior systems to deal with crisis that southwest and yes you cannot expect a world for $1 ticket.
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And twice as much as in Canada. And, the US spends 5x as much on “health care administration” as we do. Private more efficient than public? The facts say no.
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One rarely understood point about ER overcrowding is that a major cause is usually a packed hospital. Patients can’t leave the ER if there is no open bed in the hospital, so they crowd the hallways on stretchers. Addressing this mean’s shortened length of stays and that means efficient 7 day a week care, social service availability to make discharge safe, and good outpatient follow up. An overcrowded ER is often a sign of a hospital that isn’t working well.
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The Supreme Court opened a Pandora’s box when they kicked Roe v, Wade to the curb. Numerous lawsuits will now work their way through the courts, from those of non-evangelical religions filing lawsuits because Christian/Catholic beliefs were established as law against the First Amendment to those arguing that it is the federal government that regulates interstate commerce, not individual states. If states are allowed to prevent legal products from being sold in their states, there is no limit to what they can outlaw. For example, the forced birth crowd is already turning to ways to outlaw all forms of birth control. Are all vaccines for Covid and childhood diseases next? Florida’s DeSantis is already making vaccine mandates in his state illegal? Don’t want to vaccinate your children? No problem. They can go to school and share deadly diseases with their classmates. This extremist Supreme Court made a huge mistake in overturning Roe because of its implications for many other forms of healthcare requirements that support public health. At this point, the only option I see is to balance the Court with four more justices that place the law above personal religious beliefs when ruling on important legal issues.
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Stan Continople I'm more interested in 'serendipity' than miracles. For example, just now I was watching Jeopardy and the contestant lost $ 6,000 on a Double Jeopardy bet forwhich the answer was -- Constantinople. Then I scrolleddown exactly one comment, to your screen name.
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It's unsurprising that Republicans are champing at the bit to repeal the limited price controls Democrats passed to make vital medications more affordable for seniors. They are devoted to ensuring that Big Pharma gets the best return on their campaign donation investment. But more importantly, they want their devoted base to know they're protecting the country from the Democrats' Evil Socialism. Their base consistently and enthusiastically votes against their own interests anyway, so Republicans have good reason to believe their voters would be ecstatic about the assiduous effort to undo anything the Libs enacted. After all, if Republicans aren't vigilant about stopping Libs from interfering with the pharmaceutical business, they'll soon seize our guns and burn our Bibles! If Democrats were at all competent, they would be on television screaming about how Republicans care only about protecting the inalienable right of Big Pharma to gouge the American public, and are perfectly happy with seniors continuing to choose between eating and paying the excessive price Big Pharma charges for their prescription drugs. But for some reason you'll never hear Democratic politicians driving home that important point. Maybe they are reluctant to bite the well-manicured hand that feeds both themselves and Republicans a generous banquet of campaign dollars?
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You are obviously quite young so you seem to be unfamiliar with how the British tabloids treated Prince Charles over the years. They ridiculed him endlessly. That stupid prince uses homeopathy! Years later, in a tone of total adulation, came another article that Princess Diana used homeopathy.I haven't read the book and don't intend to. I do question their assertions of racism in the royal family - which spent $30M on their wedding, and Charles walked M down the aisle.Other over the top assertions on Oprah (racism because of wondering what a child will look like, which every parent and family does, every single one) make me take much of what they say with a big grain of salt. And, btw, I started out as a very big fan of theirs.Anyway, it's the business of the British, and all this huffing and puffing in the NY Times (and endless free publicity) is essentially quarterbacking.
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Forgive me for saying this, but if The Creator made one mistake it was to give human beings intelligence that is superior to that of animals. I cannot believe we are casually observing the military of Superpower Russia kill thousands of outgunned innocent Ukrainian military members and civilians while Superpower America has a nearly $900 billion defense budget that is greater than the combined defense budget of China and Russia. If God had given our intelligence to reptiles they would do so much better than this.
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When we bought our house, we had a real estate lawyer on the closing to make sure that all the paperwork was correctly done and properly filed. It was a very minor cost and one that we felt was worthwhile.If you want to take your chances, that's your decision and, in most cases, you can certainly opt out of having legal oversight. We were putting a lot of money into this investment and wanted to make sure that everything was properly done.
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MONEY$$$$$. He thought it would get his campaign more finical support.
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J Don't forget, good 4 wheel drive Hybrid cars, like your wife's RAV 4 are available now. We own one , a RAV 4 Hybrid LE, but not the RAV 4 Prime , a plug-in-model Hybrid that you have. We wanted a Prime, but the dealer said wait a year, and maybe a $5000.00 "market correction" added on.I went to one Toyota dealer, for service on our Rav 4 Hybrid, and he wanted $52,000 for a used RAV 4 Prime (plug in hybrid) with 18,000 miles on it. That is $10,000 more than the original MSRP price. I looked it up; the monroney for that model.
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Yesterday we ate lunch at the only good restaurant in our area. I had a polenta dish and they knocked it out of the park. The dessert was also magnificent. To support their employees the restaurant has a "service charge" but I also paid a tip so the cost of the meal was a little over $96. But we are very light eaters so we took the leftovers home and had them for dinner. Restaurants serve too much food and diners should eat sparingly and take the remainder home. Using this strategy keeps the business open and the guests fed.During the worse of the pandemic the locals saved this restaurant by donating enough money so that outdoor covered dining could be constructed with fans and heaters. The restaurant was able to reopen.Vivian, I loved your PBS show. Come back!!
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Really this is quite simple. A drug treatment that costs this much simply is not, in truth, a treatment available to the population at large. Allowing drug companies to pretend otherwise is morally corrupt. Societies have to exert control over their health care systems, not allow the drug companies to push these cases. Yes it does mean some people will miss out on "available" treatments and that is distressing but every dollar diverted to pay for these expensive drugs means depriving others of some health care. Unless of course we are prepared to have an open cheque book on our spending for drugs, which is possibly exactly what the drug companies are trying to achieve.
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Raising the debt limit would be akin to raising my credit limit in order to pay off my mortgage and child support with a credit card & a continuous utilization rate of over 100%. In the long run, that doesn't go well... And it would become harder to find future creditors/lenders willing to trust me enough to buy my debt.One thing most somehow don't understand is that the FED doesn't print money. They issue treasuries that are being bought by investors - mostly other countries. They use US treasuries as high quality collateral to borrow money themselves from other lenders (credit bubble much?). Currently Japan and China hold most of the US debt/US treasuries. If we do not pay the interest to these bond holders- then the credibility of the US and consequently the desirability of the US Dollar will diminish greatly. With higher prices of goods and energy, plus the inability to raise credit to ensure liquidity- the US and the world economy will be in for a fun ride. Fact is: the US cannot default. Both Democrats and Republicans know that. 2023 here we come baby!
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Of course the missing "national health system" in the US will be argued here. I would just like to remind that in the UK and France, with national health systems, strikes, hospital closings and staffing issues are the same today or worse than in the US and several "free" healthcare systems in Europe are on the edge of total implosion. Healthcare is and will be costing more and more everywhere. All the personnel in the healthcare industries are like all other workers wanting better pay and conditions. Either citizens are willing to take on the much higher cost of always more perfected treatments and the personnel required (by paying the much higher taxes others do (50% on incomes ta above $50k to $100k/year) or the status quo will not change.
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Stanley The Tibetan Buddhists have a 30 day ritual that propels the soul in its separation from the body/earth/tactile perhaps world. Each week the soul is supposed to become stronger in its purpose maybe. I'm not sure, but I sort of agree that we might not suddenly become so divorced from our reality as living beings. Even if it happens accidentally. Plus some people just need permission to let go to really fly away or sail off into eternity or however one perceives afterlife. A priest visited an aged lady after Thanksgiving one year and she told him she was tired of living, she's outlived her friends and many family. He replied she might be ready to die and she did, not long after his visit. Another time a crew of med students and a resident did an exam on a lady at our clinics at UNC and she had "no vitals." Reporting in to the MD, he rushed to the room and shook her toe saying "So and so wake up. This is Dr. B. The resident is really worried you are going to die on his table, so we need you to wake up." She opened her eyes and said "Dr. B, I didn't see you on the way in." "I'm here like I always am each year. I'm still around." At which point they all laughed and finished the exam. Later in life maybe we come and go more than we realize even in waking state. Friends to wake up for matter.
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On rent change, month to month, latestData Zumper National Rent Report January 25, 2023Restricting myself to NY StateMonthly change , all data available on Zumber for cities in NY State DownstateNY City -4.4%UpstateBuffalo +5.9Syracuse 0.0Rochester +5.4Median Household incomeNY City $70,663Buffalo $42,186Rochester $40,083Syracuse $40,490The latest average month to month rent increase is + 3.8% in cities where average median household income is $ 40,920The month to months increase is -4.4 % in a city where household income is $ 70,663 (73% higher than thosewhere it is 40,920)The lower the household income, the higher the month to month rent increaseData<a href="https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data" target="_blank">https://www.zumper.com/blog/rental-price-data</a>/<a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts" target="_blank">https://www.census.gov/quickfacts</a>/"name of city"
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Charles Hmmm...perhaps the West (us) shouldn't have staged a coup there in 2014. Shouldn't have taken a deep dive into the astonishingly corrupt things going on there (here's looking at you, Biden Inc.) Shouldn't have pushed for NATO expansion. Just a thought....
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Aerys - Based on comments from my rural in-laws, they're absolutely convinced that they, personally, are supporting all those "freeloaders" in the urban areas. A relative who gets about $300,000 a year in farm subsidies swears he has never taken a penny from the government. (He also cashes his SS check and has his medical paid for by Medicare). I can guarantee that they'd never believe otherwise.
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I hope Mr. Lopez sued the behoozits out of that hospital for malpractice and got at least a million $$$ settlement. It is astounding how they could allow someone this incompetent to continue to practice at the hospital.
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There is an irresistible force toward Fairness in life, now more than ever, but it is not the only such force.Forty years ago I was the Compensation Policy and Practices guy in a two thousand plus employee company which had embarked on a time, money, and energy intensive drive to create fairness. I learned many things, including the first sentence, above, but also that Fairness is in the eye of the Beholder, that humans will select "facts" and create stories to support unfairness affecting them, that such stories can be endlessly entertaining and organizational energy draining, and finally that too much attention to the issue can result in interior focus approaching navel gazing.So, we can count on humans being humans.This aspect of social justice will play out over an extended period of time. Articles like this one are just a prologue.
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rjs7777 Yes, and the water being used for agricultural irrigation is being sold / subsidized by the Imperial Irrigation District at irresponsibly low prices — $20/acre foot— in ways that are not cost effective now and ensuring that growers have few/no incentives to invest in better irrigation
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JerseyG I really don’t like intentional division, including into the incredibly ill-defined “very serious people.” Shouldn’t we all be pretty serious these days? And where exactly are the rich going to decamp at this point? The rest of the world has its own problems and doesn’t want us. Mars is unsustainable. Meaning that we have to work together unfortunately. Here are a few practical suggestions: tax capital gains like you do income. Perhaps at even higher rates. Rich people have plenty of accountants and lawyers on staff, they can figure it out. (Not exactly sure why we’ve allowed them to evade their fair share of taxes for so long.) Eliminate any and all tax loopholes. So the wealthy (if they have to pay any taxes) don’t get advantageous 15 percent (current capital gains rate), at minimum. Tax fossil fuels at extremely high rates. Anyone who owns more than two properties has to pay increasingly high property taxes. Like very high. By fed reg cap rental payments at certain % above what owners are currently paying on their mortgage (I’d advise, at most, at 10 percent premium). Prevent corps like private equity from buying single-family homes and then place strict restrictions on multi-family. Single payer healthcare. That’s all I have right now.
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William A Keating Bill Gates' use of illegal restraints of trade not only shifted profits from other IT companies to Microsoft but also made MS's inferior software a ball and chain around the ankles of the U.S. economy for several years, particularly in the 1990s.
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I've always admired the original mid century homes in Palm Springs. They are iconic but also almost laughably unsuited to their desert environment. With their huge single glazed picture windows, flat roofs, and zero insulation, they are ridiculous to cool in the summer or heat in the winter. A modern version with double pane windows, coated roofs, modern insulation, and mechanics is diffinately interesting. Mountain views from multiple areas of the home make me think that $1.5 million seems low. It is either a teaser to attract multiple offers or something is seriously wrong with the location.
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Most people never deal with their childhood trauma, let alone before having kids of their own. Hence the term generational trauma. There is definitely no prerequisite to becoming a father.It may not be healthy, but it is extremely common for someone in Harry’s shoes to look for someone to provide the love he missed. There is always a connection between your partner and your childhood experience. Those that don’t see it have some homework…People are responsible for themselves, and he has had much time to work through this, though everybody works through it at their own pace. In many ways, he is ahead of the curve, as this type of issue typically doesn’t get fully addressed until the 40s or 50s. I suspect that this is part of his process, and journaling is a powerful therapeutic tool, but I would’ve shredded the manuscript upon completion. It does speak to his character that he is willing to sell it, but everyone has their price, and for most it is far less than $40M for a book or $100M for a show.
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Can't Turkey at least be temporarily suspended from the EU as a sanction?I assume US intelligence has inside details on their sanctions-busting and their perfidy but it's kept under wraps because they're a supposed Western ally. I assume it's an open question at the Pentagon as to whether Turkey would even honor their Article 5 commitment under NATO these days.
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Eggs in my (one) local store are $7.99/dozen. I buy them.These is a shortage due to a chicken virus, requiring millions of egg laying chickens to be killed. In time, more young chicks will be of age to lay eggs. Not a crisis.
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Nina McB I've had foie gras in many of Portland's fun eating spots, Central Provisions comes to mind. Foie Gras Torchon? $20. You wanna talk about elite economic status projection? The food tourists from Boston and NYC who roll up in their Canada Goose Down winter jackets. How many of these folks would buy that jacket without "the patch" on the shoulder? It is FAR from non-zero.
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TL So then what is your opinion of the fact that DJT increased our total national debt so much, that just his portion of our 200 plus year old accruing debt is 25%? He and his buddies overspent more money than ever in our history.... to give unfunded tax cuts to billionaires.,
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Mr. Brooks and Mr. Stephens are intellectuals who care deeply about what it means to be a citizen of the United States. What shouldn't be lost here is how much the two of them got wrong, even with their status, jobs, access to information, and the power structure. This is the instructive part of their dialogue today.None of us have a pipeline to the truth. As we wonder about what has gone wrong, we probably should be wondering even more about what is coming next.I don't recall reading about climate change in this dialogue today. Mass extinctions is missing from it. The threat of nuclear weaponry being used was absent.Which is to say that the threat of violence from the rank and file Republicans is not the main issue the rest of the citizens of this country are facing. The fact that Republicans today have no soul, no ideas, and nothing to contribute is troubling; and likely the least of our problems.We should be thankful that these two men have opened up their thinking, and shared with us where and when they believe the Republican Party went into the weeds, becoming a national nightmare of noise and ignorance.Our lives, this time, are bigger than any one country. For there to be a future, we must put aside our violence against each other, mitigate climate change, protect our environment, and figure out how to live within the bounty of our planet, and not dredge it, cut it, trawl it, explode it, into nothing more than a rock oozing with the sludge of dreams.
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There may be other hospital systems willing to take on this study. While unusual, research protocols can be "moved" to other sites, either by opening another site at a non-NYU affiliated hospital, or by allowing a Principal Investigator to enroll subjects and monitor data at more than site. Patient care is the priority. The CDC should become involved to ensure that this study continues, NYU should be scrutinized for lapses in research protocols, which include ethical considerations. There are probably a few doctors in the New York Metro area that remain independent from the influence of drug companies. Please keep the public informed.
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Any recommendations on a source of trustworthy education for basic financial/retirement planning? I’ve been watching YouTube (I know lol) and got the general idea that the best bet is S&P500 or rental property. I’m 40, self employed, no formal retirement, but do own my home and 2 rental properties in CA. I have another large chunk of cash to invest, but want to make sure that I make a more informed decision this time.
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I spent most of my career in commercial real estate, either as an employee or an outside consultant. There are many historic parallels with the tech industry. You benefited from the booms (the 80s was a particularly lucrative decade with the explosion of tax related limited partnership investment vehicles) and were shown the door during the busts, and there were many. I found that being a consultant was a career benefit. I was generally hired during the early stages of an economic recovery and often retained during the subsequent downtown. There always was anxiety, but I ended up making a pretty good living.
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Barry Schiller Apologists for Russia like to claim that NATO's expansion has led to Russia's attack on Ukraine. This seems to imply that NATO is some sort of an amorphous, ballooning blob. In fact, its expansion has taken place because individual Eastern European countries have sought membership and gone through an extensive process of attaining it. Their perfectly rational reason for doing so has been to avoid the fate which has now befallen Ukraine. Were they not NATO members, Russia might well have attacked them instead or in addition to Ukraine.If NATO actually were a threat to Russia, this would be a perfect time to invade: Russia has hollowed out its military installations to serve the war in Ukraine, leaving it much more vulnerable to attack through its borders north of Ukraine. The fact that Russia has done so proves that it does not actually believe that NATO is a threat to it.Russia could end the war at any time of its choosing. Contrary to its increasingly hysterical claims, the existence or territory of Russia are not at stake in the war; those of Ukraine are.
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I wouldn’t doubt that Santos was a Beta run for some group of wealthy donors. Specifically a test of how much a candidate can falsify their record and still get elected. First they needed someone so desperate and delusional that they would go along with it (enter Santos) then they put their money on the table and rolled the dice.The reason Santos won’t resign and Kevin won’t kick him out is because neither of them have the authority to make the call. The folks behind the money that got Santos in certainly knew everything about him and were okay with it. Now they want a return on their investment.
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Bill H "What about the existing new businesses that invest in creating qualified workers only to have them turn into competitors?"If an employee leaves a company for higher compensation or other reasons, then they weren't being paid enough. Or the work culture wasn't good. Or they hate their manager. Etc. All problems that the company can solve, but it's a heck of a lot cheaper and easier to just forbid them from moving to another job.
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I think that sending of lots of very good tanks from many NATO countries, and the 500% increase munitions manufacture in the U.S. is more likely to be a move toward the (very successful) Powell Doctrine.Overwhelming advantage decreases the total losses for both sides and the total damage to the civilian environment.I'm not sure an 'incremental' approach to the Powell doctrine is a good way to go about it, but a large increase in tanks (the modern equivalent to the cavalry) may herald a firm move toward a Powell Doctrine approach.Russia, with less than half the population of the US. alone, less than a fifth of of the population of the Western alliance - with 1/10 the GDP of China, is in no economic or populational position to match a Powell Doctrine assault on its forces in the Ukraine. This is especially so with the requirement to keep large part of its force at home to suppress local unrest.I think further escalation by Ukraine, with serious materiel assistance from NATO, will turn the tide militarily and (perhaps) cause Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin serious political headaches at home.Michael
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We are pizza fans, and have put up with mostly BLAH offerings for decades.Homemade pizza was usually better, but never a spur of the moment undertaking; more like a 12-24 hour effort.Then we got the Ooni outdoor oven (gas) last year and life is good. No, dough prep takes time, but it can be done in a day. Make and prove in the morning, eat charred Neapolitan pizza in the afternoon.Instant hit with friends and family. We made TEN pizzas our first run. All were edible, and in fact, amazing. If we hadn’t run out of dough, we’d have made more.No leftovers to date. We eat all we can make.I’m betting we never buy readymade again, especially frozen.Total cost…oven, cart, propane tank, peels, and cast iron pan for deep dish…was about $750. TONS of videos available, so not hard to do and get great results.
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FunkyIrishman Too late for "investing in their security and their fledgling Democracies" considering the downward spiral of South Africa--once one of the largest and most stable economies in Africa--now bankrupted by the corrupt ANC government (Mandela would turn over in his grave at their blatant disregard for his admirable blueprint to uplift the needy and unite all its people). And yes, the reports about Russia and China cashing in on the ANC's greed is all too true--the souls of African despots have long been for sale to the highest bidder and Jacob Zuma, for one, did not hold back, setting an example for his followers.
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Great comment, well written with most relevant data pointed out. Russia is repeating problems it had encountered often in its past: Russia is not Moscow and has never been Moscow. Moscow is the most western-looking city in Russia. Vast stretches of Russia itself, which emerges just a few Kilometers outside of Moscow, continues to be a rural giant badly administered by corrupt figures who have elbowed their way to the top by pushing rivals out or having them assassinated or by mysteriously "falling" out of an opened high-rise window. I suggest the hybrid warfare we now conduct must be augmented with a cultural campaign, using any media and other channels, including official political channels necessary, to try to modify the official public campaign to achieve new political realities within Russia. The official self-image of Russia projected by Putin, Kirill and others in power is insanely masochistic and self-mutilating. Russia does not deserve this kind of nonsense. Russia could be a valuable industrial, economic and cultural partner of the West. As long as the official line lambasts the evil West as its main enemy out to undo Russia, Russia is doomed to sink deeper and deeper in the swamp of its warped view of history and reality.
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I wondered what was up during the pandemic. All the hiring by the tech companies may have had some need but it wasn’t sustainable because the pandemic was either going to go away or we were going to learn to live with it. Yes the demand for some tech services surged but it wasn’t going to last forever. People should certainly gauge how their next position will do during hard times. Is the company growing at ridiculously fast rate? I mean seriously Facebook grew during the pandemic st crazy rate they hired like maniacs. Why when you think about the core of what they do. Some companies like Microsoft had the demand like crazy cause everyone was at home and folks needed computers and software but even they had to know this wasn’t going to last forever. I wonder st the CEO level what they were thinking hiring at these mad rates
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Burrito Thoroughly false! Where did you read this? It is fantastic. Even in 5th grade, we learned about the Stamp Act of 1765, which was one of many efforts by Britain to impose taxes to further exploit their colonies. By 1773's Tea Party, it was out in the open that they were intent on destroying Massachusetts's democratic self-governing ways. By 1773, Boston and the many towns of Massachusetts were in regular discussion about their sentiments regarding all this and how to resist it. The tax on tea was just one of many acts by Britain, less important than some. That tea, btw, belonged to the East India Company, the most notorious corporation in history, responsible for the deaths of millions in India just a few years before the Tea Party. There are so many informative books relying on a vast collection of town records of Massachusetts Town Meetings, its legislature, letters among its many leaders, and the various Committees of Correspondence - especially Boston's, all of which are inspirational to any patriot, republican or democrat. Check with any librarian.
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A strong, well-maintained, well guarded border fence may not be the absolute defense against illegal entry but it would sure make it a lot harder and also make it easier to guard the places where a fence won’t work. Instead of pursuing this simple logic, the Democrats made the wall the holy grail of opposing Trump, the result being open borders, yes, they are for all purposes open and the Democrats own them. Catch and release works better for trout.
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It’s simple. Most voters want government to focus on economic issues. Like many. I’d like to see changes to the healthcare and tax systems. Things that would bring real world benefits to many people. Like, universal healthcare, child care, expanded benefits for elder care, making wealthy people and corporations pay their fair share in taxes, funding public education, sensible gun regulations. The list goes on and on. Identity politics on both sides of the aisle don’t help anyone and create a lot of noise to distract attention away from the fact that our government is bought and paid for by tax cheats and corporate interests that want to fleece the public for all the are worth. I believe that both progressives and MAGA politicians are doing the work of the corrupt elite interests they claim to hate by distracting the voting public from real economic issues.
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In the spiritual traditions the word "appearance" is very important and the five senses are considered "gates". From this filtered viewpoint, we don't actually know what any of this is. The oceanic view of existence is that we are like waves or appearances and not separate. Science has not helped us to understand what any of this is. It has given us more refined definitions and labels of that which has always been the case. Science at its best is an open exploration of existence and not conclusive. As example, Newtonian physics was useful the most useful tool until Einsteinian physics came along. Efforts to improve aviation were once with the ICE engine until Frank Whittle and Jet engine appeared. We recognize not that all things are changing, but that there are no things; only appearances or only movement and change.... iron columns are rivers of molecules that move slow and things like thoughts, moods and light particles appear to move fast. Mountains turn into hills and astronomers tell us entire galaxies blip out of existence. There are as many stories of existence as there are humans. For the objectifying brain there are objects and these objects are given labels and put in proper categories. But, in nature no two appearances are the exact same. No two trees, no two snowflakes...no two humans. To question the appearances is not nihilism, but to acknowledge “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
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When all the tools in Congress are rich every problem is a rich guy’s problem.I say we trim their salary to $40,000 and have them trundled about town in used Yugos.It would be good for their crusty souls and likely solve the problem of term limits.
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I favor Biden following the Constitution 14th amendment that the US Government must pay its debts and obligations no matter what any particular Congress or President wants to do. BIden says he will direct Treasury to continue paying all debt and spending authorized in the December funding act.Last year the Treasury issued about $160 billion worth of $100 bills. Treasury could issue say $400 billion of hundred dollar bills and use those to pay expenditures and the debt.The House Repubs could go to Supreme Court and sue Biden, but unlikely even this nutty Court would agree to overturn the explicit language of the 14th amendment enacted after the Civil War to prevent any future Congress from playing around with federal debt and federal obligations like to veterans.
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One obvious solution for Meta would be to offer subscribers two options. Either the current service, including targeted ads, for free or for $10/month the service with non-targeted ads. Let subscribers choose. The old adage still applies, someone always pays, in cash or by providing information. PS. At 71 I have no need for Facebook and have never used it.
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US is drowning in money.As Treasury estimates we do not collect up to 600 billions in taxes because of rampant federal tax evasion. Around 300-400 billions is low hanging fruit collected with few changes at IRS, including increased efficiency, hiring more staff, increase tax return audits and remove thousands of tax loopholes for corporations and the rich.It is criminal not to do it.
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This will all come out in Alito's memoir as his ego won't allow him to not take credit for nipping Robert's attempt to leave the door open for women's health. Willful ignorance on the part of the investigators.
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OneView You conflate issues that are separable.Nobody says workers cannot be fired. This is not Europe with its ridiculous labor laws. As we all know, workers in the US can be fired with far less protection than senior executives. That's not even close to the issue.There is no similarity between the service academies requirement and a company's investment in its workers whatsoever. None. That's a red herring given the completely dissimilar functions of the two.While it is true that employers invest in employees to improve their skills, the employees in turn generate wealth for the companies while being trained. NO company ANYwhere trains employees as though they were students without other responsibilities. All acquire job experience with the employer. Both benefit from the relationship.Non competes and the like serve only to benefit companies and lawyers.
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The tone of this article about the worrying trend of voluntary population decrease is somewhat bizarre. It sounds as if all young women have decided to never ever have any children again. It sounds as if there’s no children’s laughter and birthday parties in China. 9.56 million children born in China last year is a lot of children!Our population doesn’t always need to grow. We can adjust and face challenges in bringing our global population down. The great majority of people are aging in a more healthy manner. The great majority of older people do not need one to one care for extended periods of time. A career focus could shift from child care to elder care, and from pediatrics to geriatrics. And maybe there will be a decrease in the amount of needless factory overproduction of stuff. Maybe we could buy less and take better care of the things we have.A slow and steady global population reduction will be better for our families. We will reduce water shortages, food insecurity, housing shortages, and resource scarcity. We will have more open outdoor space, more trees, and more flowers. Our air and our water will be cleaner. The many millions children that continue to be born will have better care, better job opportunities, and a better quality of life!
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Kitt Richards If only-- the New York Times and its editor of the Beewould stop using the misleading heading -FIND AS MANY WORDS AS YOU CAN- at the opening of the puzzle -without an immedite clarifification that in fact that is not what the puzzle is about, there would be fewer complaints.Experienced players know that many valid words will be rejected. Novice players read the invitation and think they are invited to FIND AS MANY WORDS AS YOU CAN. Why is it so hard for so many to acknowledge that the invitation is misleading? Isn't it clear that the Times and its editor keep it this way because it hooks people. A true heading "FIND AS MANY WORDS AS YOU CAN THAT OUR EDITOR HAS SELECTED TODAY OUT OF ALL THE POSSIBLE WORDS" would be far less sexy wouldn't it? Have some patience for the mislead. Ask the Times to be more open, clear, and honest.
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There is a difference between tech companies and tech "darlings". Meta, Twitter, Google (to a degree), et, al. are the latter. Darlings come and go. Darlings are almost always over-hyped, over leveraged and yes, when times are good, they are great at those companies. When things come back a bit to normal, they get hit the hardest.Most millennials and Gen Z don't remember the tech bust of 2000 (the oldest were just entering college). 1997-2000 was all about investing in e-commerce and defensively investing in the Y2K scare. Companies way over spent on tech. Microsoft stock was at an all -time high (a darling then). Perks were even more generous at some of the tech companies at the time. I remember going on an interview in a trendy suburb outside of Philly for a job at company that was juiced with VC money and when I asked them if they had any sales to date, their answer was "we're working on it". Things went bust badly after Y2K proved to be a dud...Lots of layoffs, outsourcing, etc. for years....The current tech landscape is nothing like 2000. Times are changing, but no one has been partying like it's 1999...
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Ellen Part of the problem is the media's determination to prove their "open-mindedness" by saying both sides are guilty.
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Dave Hello and what a great idea! I am 58 and moved to northern Italy 30 years ago from Minneapolis. I work as a language consultant. Mostly I teach in the public schools but also worked 15 years in the local conservatory with the jazz singers on their pronunciation while singing in English (dream job, since my parents are both [classical] musicians...). I also translate and sometimes do interpreter work.I love listening to music - all kinds - and cooking and reading and word games (esp the Bee and Wordle but also good ol' Scrabble when I can get folks together!), and the company of my super-affectionate cat. I find joy in taking walks and traveling when time and €€€ permit.I found this wonderful forum of word-lovers less than a year ago while going through some personal difficulties and it has been so nice to connect with the folks here who are fun, witty, sensitive and freely give their kind and sincere words of support to any of us in need, of which I have been a grateful recipient. (The list is long of those whom I admire and feel a connection to, but you know who you are.. 💕)Long live The Hive! (And ditto the Pale Alpaca!) 🐝😊💯💜
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Germany needs to ‘free the leopards’ ASAP.Otherwise— among other reasons— nobody will ever look at them as a responsible, trustable, honorable arms supplier and weapons exporter ever again; tarnishing their reputation there permanently….Because the time to grab the fire-extinguisher is when the fire is still in the kitchen; not when it spreads to the living room and the rest of the home. Europe— but especially Eastern Europe… which has lived under the Iron Curtain, known the nihilistic violence of Russia firsthand, and rightly identifies the threat of Putin’s neo-Soviet revanchist aggression for what it is — now wants to send in some of their own Leopards, to Ukraine… because in doing so they feel like they are protecting and investing in their own Security, too.So Germany is now preventing their OWN partners from protecting themselves, in other words…. (Thus making everyone beg the question: what’s the good of purchasing a Leopard, if you can’t use it?!)If Germany tries to prevent this indefinitely, eventually everyone will end up sending them anyways; but Germany will have lost its position at the center of Europe, as a responsible leader of the EU and stakeholder in European security.Now is the time to show a united front, and support the solidarity of Allies against the largest totalitarian aggression since WW2. If Germany doesn’t want to send their own Leopards in, fine; but don’t try to prevent your allies from sending theirs, too.
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Sorry but I am not buying this argument. $31T is fine say you. What about $51T? $100T? According to your argument the math still works. It does until suddenly one day it doesn't. Maybe our spending priorities need to change but the idea that we can add 10s of trillions of dollars to the debt without fear of any consequences makes no sense to me.
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We just authorized a spending bill of $785,000,000,000 for the military. Let's get our money's worth. Put 100,000 troops in the neighboring NATO states.
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Every plan considered to expand toward universal healthcare will bankrupt the country. You cannot offer everything to everyone at zero cost. At current rates of growth healthcare cost will be 100% of GDP. That is not possible.
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college athletics departments were never interested in your son. they needed him as the fig leaf to cover that their only purpose is to increase sports revenue whilst pretending that the NCAA is about "amateurism". colleges spend six-to-seven figures a year on coaches and ADs, and even more on fancy facilities for football and basketball, and then trick people into being upset that an athlete is getting money, when that athlete's efforts facilitates $1B/yr contracts (like the NCAA is paid for March Madness TV rights).
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KWDC - I agree. Literally everyone I know except for the two new infants in our extended family has at least two tech gadgets. I rarely hear from anyone in my family except for one of my two sisters and it really bugs me because it hurts. I am almost always the one reaching out. Relationships require both parties to participate, and I often feel I'm the only one really in it. This year at Thanksgiving, instead of my usual round of calls, I called no one and no one called me. My other sister called a couple of days later, as did my brother. It felt good to just let them go and not get caught up in the hurt. I have learned that when I pull back and stop trying, people are more likely to move toward me in communication. Go figure.You are also right about people watching television - there is so much on TV that repulses me with its idiocy and "no there there" vapidity, so I don't watch much and therefore cannot relate well to those who do.I have learned to keep very good company with myself. Yes, it is lonely sometimes, but I have my books, many (lucky me!) long distant friends, and a few really good ones that I can truly be my utterly politically incorrect self with - thank GOD.My running motto at all time is this:She who laughs lasts. Good luck!
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Michael If true...this is a bold statement, Michael, but disturbing, yes. So, if this is the situation, consider with he vehicle you have, the costs of generating your own small company; the idea would be to "emulate" the app companies, but using the phones, and such as communication to get started, as time goes by, and money comes in you would want to allot 30% of your receipts to repairs, gas, food, etc, perhaps 40% to start, but eventually 70% of your receipts would be yours. For new hires you take a smaller override, say 5%, and they use their own vehicles, etc. The big thing is not to be underinsured during this endeavor; as for competition they won't notice the "fly on the wall" until such time as you can sell your small company, and retire...do this, before others catch on.
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Tired of people like Ms. Pham who says she works in finance and can’t disclose her salary but makes between 160-250k. Let me assure you, there are no regulations in the financial world that prevent you from disclosing your salary. I would know… I worked in finance as well.It’s more likely that she makes around 240k a year, and doesn’t want people to know. Which is why she is hiding behind this “regulations against disclosing my salary” baloney.
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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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On the other hand, Coots, on one of my trips down South, I kept noticing relatively new ranch houses some yards away from 19th-century farmhouses that were falling in on themselves. Set in the fields, with old deciduous trees even artistically planted around them, they had been abandoned.It was clear that the farming families had moved out into newer, if unattractive, digs. They were still farming -- various crops including cotton were being tended. Aesthetics have taken a back seat.If people move to a place and save old architecture, why not? There are at least several properties in the area of Coxsackie going for less than $400,000. There might be some for less, but I'm not forty any more so I don't check out real fixer-uppers.Just one thing, new folks: Stop with the open-concept stuff, and stop with the gray paint. It won't add to the resale price, if that's what you're after.
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Let the GOP have their way. I'll die quickly, thank goodness. Then maybe they can open workhouses & more. I'm done with the AR-15 rattling & threats of civil war. Bring it. Let the world see who the GOP truly is. I'm seriously done pretending. Let the Pretender(s) take the throne. If in 10-20 years it works, well goody for them. If it doesn't, who'll be around to count the bodies? Not me!I'm tired & I'm tapping out. Anyone catch sight of those four horsemen yet? Yeah, I didn't think so.
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It's clear from the comments in response to this article, and from survey after survey, that the American people want single payer, universal health care. Now. But our elected officials take our tax dollars and spend them, among other things, to make sure they get premium health care and then they fund their re-election campaigns with donations from health insurance corporations. Until we get serious about using the only leverage we have as citizens, which is our vote, and refuse to vote for anyone who does not support universal, single payer health care coverage -- not as an ideal in some distant future, but now -- we'll continue to suffer the consequences of a profit driven, predatory health insurance industry.
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What's next? I'm going to open a restaurant where you pay $500 for an NFT of the food. The courses will be so creative, artistic and environmentally sustainable that it will leave Noma in the dust!
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Colorado recently announced its NOT going to expand a highway thru Denver, instead will invest in alternative modes for transport. There was much rejoicing.
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