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or the $2 trillion that was piled up soaked with jet fuel then lit on fire in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The corruption of men, and occasionally women, knows no bounds and has no conscience. Whatever aid given to victims of war, famine, plague, injury and abuse, there will be some man or men there to siphon off for themselves whatever they can. Maybe throwing money at problems isn’t the best answer. Maybe problems require actual physical investment of time and effort to be solved. Difficult question: of all of us who think Ukraine should now be supported by US money and weaponry, how many of us are willing to drop our work and families here, go to Ukraine, and help to, say, rebuild a children’s hospital for an open-ended period of time? And if we are willing, what’s prevented us from doing so up to now? Changing the dynamic of throwing money at problems in hope of solving them would change a lot of things for America, maybe for the world.
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As a voter in NY-03, it was obvious in the few main stream media interviews he did that something was seriously wrong with George Santos. The problem was that most of the MSM (the NY Times and Newsday, in particular) did not cover him at all, for different reasons. The residents of this district will suffer, and when we have asked our local elected representatives how they will replace the $40mm in federal funds that Tom Suozzi and Steve Israel routinely got for the district for schools, infrastructure, eldercare age-at-home programs and other boring but very valuable efforts, no one has an answer other than "we'll do our best", and when asked about why they didn't et GS, they answer "he lied to us, too." The local Democratic leadership also failed us during the election because no one thought that GS could win. Or that his win was inevitable because of an expected red wave.I don't care what Peter King thinks of George Santos - he voted against impeaching Trump, and is now bemoaning the loss of integrity in the House leadership and the Republican Party. I think that ship has sailed - I'm old enough to remember Watergate, and see that as a white-crow-level-rare bipartisan effort. Any hope for reasonable bipartisan collective acts began to fail rapidly when Reagan came into office, and was killed off completely by Newt Gingrich in 1995. Anyone who relies on the reputation of the Congress to buttress their own is dreaming. Pete, I hope you're enjoying retirement.
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Diane Gould The only thing our "local' paper covers in any depth anymore is local high school sports. Because high school wrestling is soooooo important? Or parents and friends will buy a paper if their kid is featured in it as Athlete of the Week? Most of the long-time local reporters are gone and the few that are left generally do soft news stories like "5 new restaurants soon opening in Bucks County" or the ever-popular "Policeman delivers baby". We'll hear sirens for hours and check the paper to see why- nothing. A lot of local stories are being written by the group that was featured in the story- Chalfont Firemen Collect 100 Tons of Food For Local Pantries- written and photographed by the firemen. "Local Police Team Up To Provide Christmas For Needy Children written and photographed by the policemen. The vast majority of the paper is USA Today and AP feeds. And the price of an actual paper keeps going up and up. Our local paper is now down to 5 days a week- with Saturday being an on-line USA Today and Monday being on-line only. I feel sorry for all the college kids suckered into being Journalism majors.
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With Intel, Apple, AMD, Samsung and Nvidia cutting production will these facilities open? <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-in-face-of-pc-slowdown</a><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/8/23392703/samsung-amd-semiconductor-chip-shortage-slump-2022" target="_blank">https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/8/23392703/samsung-amd-semiconductor-chip-shortage-slump-2022</a><a href="https://www.hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-reportedly-halts-production-of-nvidia-rtx-30-series-gpu-to-avoid-price-plummet" target="_blank">https://www.hardwaretimes.com/nvidia-reportedly-halts-production-of-nvidia-rtx-30-series-gpu-to-avoid-price-plummet</a>/<a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-apple-nvidia-reportedly-reducing-5nm-tsmc-orders" target="_blank">https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-apple-nvidia-reportedly-reducing-5nm-tsmc-orders</a>
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Does the working class really exist any longer.. as a class that political parties, Democrat, Republican and "other" that can be appealed to politicly? The impression one gets watching the news on television or reading newspapers is that cultural class has become the dominant target of political parties and the demographics of cultural affiliation has shaped the discourse by providing vocabularies and issues of interest. Cultural affinities helps explain why Trump remains popular and why even the Roe vs. Wade decision did not open the door to a Democrat majority in the congress. Working class people were once defined as people who identified with the problems of daily survival..unemployment, health care , food and shelter costs costs. Cultural affinities are more non-existential , intellectual , aspirational and appeal to the educated but tend to be dominated by the trust fund class...and this is the rub...it creates a space for dissent as to what is desirable, aspirational, traditional and a function of government. Today cultural identification exploitation is used by both Democrats and Republicans , this is unfortunate as issues such as climate and universal health care are not about culture but suffer as cultural issues dominate political debates instead of reality issues.
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I can afford $6/doz. as easily as $2.50/doz ones. For most of us this is a tempest in a frying pan.
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MSFa Guide to Searching the Comments to Spelling Bee.(Created an OP because it would have been deep in a thread otherwise. Apologies to those who have seen it before).Direct your browser to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/spelling-bee-forum" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/spelling-bee-forum</a>and select the date you want (there is very invitingly a search tab there, ignore it for now) --Select the comments either through the 💬 just on top of Bee photo or at the bottom of the page click on Read xxx comments.--The comments will normally open in the Readers Picks Tab, click on All instead--Now start scrolling down and down, the page does not load (=it is not available for searching) completely at once. --Once you reach the end (often, like today it's the Letter Box or the World Bees thread, you can go up slowly and open any thread with many answers, by clicking on "View All Replies" until each thread is open.-- now use whatever Find function is available to you. For example in a PC use Control-F will, in a Mac, Command- aka Butterfly-F. In IOS devices such as iPhone and iPads you will need to click on the share button (a square with an up arrow) and find and selective command Find on Page.--Now you have have a search box to search in, enter the word or words, it will return the number of hits and you will be able to move from one to the next[continues in replies]
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Nancy If there were data to support the notion that this path towards multigenerational wealth is a long-term sustainable solution, I'd be thrilled - but that simply isn't the case. Most college football players don't make a dime playing professional sports, and most who do play professional sports don't last more than a few years in the league. The financial literature is ripe with evidence that professional football players (by large margin) experience financial peril within several years of leaving the league. This isn't limited to the NFL, as the NBA has been shown to have a similar effect, but the NBA doesn't seem to have a growing problem with 50-year-old men developing CTE and killing themselves.<a href="https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/why-athletes-go-broke.aspx" target="_blank">https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0312/why-athletes-go-broke.aspx</a>
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Tuckmics Where are eggs 8 dollars? A dozen of eggs from the Mainland (this is what people of Hawaii call the continental United States) for non-organic goes for $8.99 and might go on sale down to $8.39.
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Bobby - I agree with you, but the problem in the US is that we've basically given railroads ownership of the existing rail system (for the most part) and so, we'd either be upgrading existing routes for -faster than now- travel, but not true high-speed on dedicated lines.So we'll have to see how things play out on the existing infrastructure upgrades vs. the developments in non-fossil aviation. The aircraft are getting built now for electric planes, and various groups all have development projects looking at starting with small (5-10 seaters) and moving up towards bigger and bigger planes.Alaska Air Group invested in ZeroAvia, who are developing a hydrogen fuel-cell power train - I was going to just link to the 2021 investment article but see that they announced a first test flight was a success - announcing that todayAlaska Air and ZeroAvia are developing a 500-mile range hydrogen-electric plane<a href="https://electrek.co/2021/10/26/alaska-air-and-zeroavia-are-developing-a-500-mile-range-hydrogen-electric-plane" target="_blank">https://electrek.co/2021/10/26/alaska-air-and-zeroavia-are-developing-a-500-mile-range-hydrogen-electric-plane</a>/"ZeroAvia successfully completes first flight of world’s largest hydrogen-electric plane"<a href="https://electrek.co/2023/01/19/zeroavia-hydrogen-electric-plane-successfully-completes-its-first-flight" target="_blank">https://electrek.co/2023/01/19/zeroavia-hydrogen-electric-plane-successfully-completes-its-first-flight</a>/And Norway's looking to electrify for their short-haul soon, too.<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2022/09/29/norways-electric-travel-revolution-goes-far-beyond-cars/?sh=260cdb7c7539" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2022/09/29/norways-electric-travel-revolution-goes-far-beyond-cars/?sh=260cdb7c7539</a>Interesting times!
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TSMC can do nothing without the advanced equipment it buys from ASML, the Dutch company that is the true key to advanced semiconductor manufacturing. Our government has worked with the Netherlands to prevent exports of ASML equipment to China (a "stick"), but has failed to proactively partner with ASML to pursue common objectives (a "carrot").And nothing has been done to learn how tiny countries like Taiwan and Netherlands got so far ahead of us in strategic technology, and to apply lessons learned to our future technology roadmap. So much to do and so little time!
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Greetings from a Trump stronghold in suburban New York. It might be wiser to wait until voters here actually vote before making pronouncements of Trump’s waning popularity and demise. Thinking back on the 2016 primaries, I have a vivid recollection of front runners and party favorites like Scott Walker and Jeb Bush sinking in the polls following Trump’s withering (yet highly entertaining) attacks. As a Democrat, I would certainly be open to considering voting for a pragmatic, moderate Republican. My Trump adoring neighbors however, have an entirely different agenda!
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America has a Putin obsession. And America has a Putin obsession not just because he’s tyrannical, murderous, bigoted, a control freak, by many accounts a deviant, someone who raided his country’s coffers to build lavish palaces and super yachts. America has people like that too.The reason America, or its leadership class, hates Putin so much is because he is the obstacle to the West’s control of what little fossil fuel sources and transmission routes are left. As I reported in 2014, Russian gas is still being bought up by Europe and Russian oil is still being used throughout the world. The reason the West is so adamant this strongman needs to go is so it can profit off of the remaining fossil fuel reserves Putin controls. The geopolitical strategy is to overthrow not necessarily Russia, but force Putin from power and install Western friendly leaders who will let Western companies make money off of natural gas and oil, build pipelines to supply Central Asia that the U.S. and Europe can get a cut from, and then control strategic territory and have strategic influence over Central Asia to block China from influencing the region. Putin has loyalists in the military and most oligarchs, but there are many Russian billionaires who’ve spent a lot of time in Britain and want a more open society and less domination of the rich by Putin and the FSB. So it’s the Davos friendly European interests that want to open Russia’s economy and get a foothold buffer against the East.
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The Red Cross estimates that nearly half of American adults have less than the minimum level of skills needed to swim safely in a pool. They can't save themselves, much less a child in trouble. The YMCA gives adult swimming lessons that are open to non-members. Also, many fitness clubs offer classes. Swimming is a great way to increase one's fitness. Even if you rarely have the chance to get in the water, knowing you have the skills to do so opens up opportunities for fun. Let's do it, outdated kids! Learn to swim! You'll feel proud of yourself.
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No. It’s art. And no one is forcing you to go. What are -your- hobbies and passions? Have any that could be open to cheap shots? I’m not a foodie. Nor do I have the desire to pay hundreds of dollars for single meal. But your comment about pretentiousness… is rather pretentious itself.
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Mrs. S. I was turned down for a LTC policy while in my 50's because of osteoarthritis in my thumbs. I think you have to be Adonis to be approved. Also, to my knowledge, there are no more open-ended policies sold anymore. You buy by the year, typically 3 or 5 years of benefits. After that, you're on your own.
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Mr. Bruni, with all due respect, what are you talking about. Is making $700 million dollars an achievement? Yes, it means you have achieved making $700 million dollars. Nothing more. You know that.Did Cruise, or anyone else associated with the production yearn to express inner feelings? Did they aim to provide insight into life so that others might continue this journey armed with something more than today's headlines? Of course they did not. They created entertainment, as Scorsese called it, a thrill ride, and that's it. You like it, and I may someday see it too, although, having just watched the original, I'm not encouraged.But Ms. Riseborough has done what artists have done since the stone age: She has exposed something of the inner core of her soul and created an interpretation of another human being which can guide sensitive people to a higher plane of understanding.Most people will ignore that effort and go watch another thrill ride. There's no moral judgment there. But to be surprised that her performance might not garner an award nomination puts her in the same company as Orson Welles, Hitchcock, Peter O'Toole, and so many others. In other words, company that any real artist should wish to keep. And for a lighter view, my favorite Oscar reaction, from Bill Murray, when he got his first nomination: "Oh Lord! Please don't make me want this!"
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V. Sloan Absolutely agree! My first apartment in Boston (mid 70's) was $150/month... Same apartment now rents for $2500. (and the neighborhood has not changed significantly). Cost of living/inflation increase should mean that apartment would be ~$780 in today's dollars. Subway one-way was $0.25, should be ~$1.50 in today's dollars but a round trip recently cost me $2.40 EACH way. Looking at entry level salaries for many professions, they have NOT increased in the same way. Our kids and our kids' kids are not in the same economic world.
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Galol True, but Ukraine actually needs that $3 billion annually. In so very many ways…
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The Chinese government made its bed. Now it sleeps in it. I agree with Bret Stephens' opinions on this. But anything the world give to China must come with conditions. I recall that the last shipment of donated wheat that Canada gave to China was in 2000. And then China went on to unjustly incarcerate our citizens - two of them for almost three years. They still hold one of our citizens. China lied about Hong Kong. It stole trade secrets from other nations. It mistreated, and continues to mistreat, its Uyghur people. It threatens Taiwan and other states. It has an appalling environmental record, putting our atmosphere, our ocean species, our global temperatures, our ocean water quality, and more, at risk. If the rest of the world gives to, or trades with China, we must be prepared, at a moments notice, to retract the agreement. We cannot afford to have any dependence on China's government. It has proven itself to be untrustworthy and dangerous.
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Ho hum, cue the usual hot takes from the commentariat about how fewer humans on the planet is a good thing. Meanwhile, anyone who's ever traveled or lived in a depopulated former population center knows it actually isn't so great being surrounded by olds. Open borders could potentially solve both problems!
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In all of these, the expectation that the offending parties will identify and remedy their behavior seems overly optimistic. In the case of #1, I was surprised by the sister-in-law’s comment that she said nothing because the LW and ex-husband “deserved each other” (which was not commented on). I have personally had zero success in dealing with people who shout at their ill-behaved and/or untrained dogs, and I doubt that people are open to feedback on their negative parenting style. In that case, besides the suggestion to vaguely advocate family therapy, I think the conspiratorial tone of “I know parenting is hard, here are some things that have helped me” in a calm moment is the only possibly palatable way to open this conversation. For the dogs, nothing is likely to change if neither the neighbor nor the landlady think there’s a problem, so outside groups are the only option. Look into white noise machines and noise-cancelling headphones while you wait.
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Michael You're sorely mistaken and revising history. Fact: they found thousands of Hillary's government classified emails on Weiner's laptop which is why the investigation had to be reopened. Hillary should have been prosecuted right there. The reason N.Y. FBI was pushing was because Comey and the D.C. office were doing their best to stall dealing with the laptop mails until the election was over. Yes, they were in the tank for her.
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T.: Notre Dame tuition--$58,843Georgetown tuition--$59,957Catholic University of America--$52,156Boston College--$61,706Those figures are for ONE year of tuition, not four. Nor do they include room and board or books. Far beyond the reach of the average Catholic family.Meanwhile, Catholic elementary schools and high schools are vanishing at an alarming rate, because Catholic families can't afford $7,000 or more in tuition per year. And dioceses aren't interested in sustaining schools that can't show a profit.The only Catholic schools doing well are the high-end ones that focus on making money and educating wealthy students--not necessarily the Catholic ones.Keep 'em poor. Keep 'em dumb. It makes them easier to manipulate and control.
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My mom was a single mom who had a generous county pension. She didn’t expect us to support her in retirement but she did expect us to repay her $50,000 after we completed our education. That money would be used to pay tuition for the next kid coming through. In the end we all went to private colleges and public/private grad schools but my mom did not have to carry impossible debt to help us so so.
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Excellent to hear investments are being made in these areas! As a west coast psychiatrist who has lived in cities with similar problems (sparse housing, disjointed care, elimination of long-term beds) I’m surprised substance use was not mentioned at all. Ask any emergency room doctor or psychiatrist: The recent widespread availability of cheap ($1-5 a hit) meth and fentanyl has super-charged our mental health and homelessness crisis into something that these measures alone will not solve. We need coordination with the legal system to stem the tide of supply, divert substance users into mandated treatment (not jail where use continues), provide substance use treatment to the incarcerated and recently incarcerated, and build a compassionate but firm framework to confront substance use head-on in our communities.
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Around 1970 2 years after arriving in Toronto from England, and in my early 20s a buddy and i took a greyhound bus to NYC. We arrived very early in the morning tired and hungry, we walked for a long time trying to find a place open for breakfast, but everything was in darkness, then in the distance we saw a light go on, we headed towards it. It was a bar, not what we wanted at that time but decided to go in and look at our map, we sat at the bar and had a beer, then the barman said have you boys had breakfast, we told him our story and he then pulled out a bag of hard boiled that he shared with us, and he popped bread into his personal toaster, hw gave us a beer on the house also. That night we had steaks and a couple of pints at Jack Dempseys bar and grill, washed down with beer, but no sign of Jack that night. You gotta love the bars of NYC, and the friendly people. Our family have been back many times since and have droppen in many pubs and bars there, it is still the best way to meet people and a great way to relax after a day in the City.
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Give Harry some credit for being public with his mental health struggles. This article doesn’t mention his combat experiences which are a major driver of his PTSD. The data on psychedelic impact on underlying behavioral states is pretty conclusive. No less a personality than Jordan Peterson has talked extensively about the ability of psychedelics to improve openness by a standard deviation. There is information on microdosing psychedelic use during the Kennedy administration by a number of high-ranking officials. It’s quite clear these are beneficial agents when used in a therapeutic setting.
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Declaring a pay range does not mean the range has to be narrow. A range of $60-90K leaves lots of room to provide more for the better performers. And they can always be promoted if more is required.
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For Tech Companies, Years of Easy Money Yield to Hard Times Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Rock-bottom rates were the secret engine fueling $1 billion start-ups and virtual attempts to conquer the physical world. But in 2023, reality bites.
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Uber steal from drivers and passengers. First they stole from drivers, to get a customer base, and then kept overall remuneration of drivers low; now they steal from passengers and keep the middle. Last week they took 243 dollars 'surge' for a 64 dollar median price and hid their theft in a "glitch in the app". I'm sure the driver saw none of it.
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SF Did you try <a href="https://raspberryshake.org" target="_blank">https://raspberryshake.org</a>/ ?That site seems very commercial to me.I helped set up a seismometer at a K-8 school a few years ago with an educational group that did the same thing but more science and less sales. <a href="https://www.iris.edu/hq/sis" target="_blank">https://www.iris.edu/hq/sis</a>You will find the Raspberry Shake alongside many others that are both build-it-yourself and commercial.Raspberry Pis are great! I have 5 or 6. But you could reuse virtually any old PC lying around for this application. As other people here have said, Pis are hard to get right now. Please don't give in to the greedy scalpers charging many times the list price! Don't let it stand in the way of science and learning. Get started by reusing old or alternative equipment. (For example the "Libre Le Potato" looks good at $35 (Yes that's its name!)
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The GOP wants to investigate Hunter? Ok, I assume they're going to investigate Jared Kushner too. It's beyond suspicious that he was given 2 billion dollars shortly after leaving office by Saudia Arabia for an investment fund. The Saudi review Board concluded that no one in their right mind would give the former first son-in-law a dime. Among other concerns, the panel noted that management had no experience,” that the kingdom would be responsible for all the risk, that his fee was "excessive,” (at least $25 million to pocket regardless of performance! ), and that the firm’s operations were “unsatisfactory in all aspects.” They were overruled by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, i.e., the guy who approved a plan to kidnap, kill, and dismember U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi via bone saw, and benefited from Kushner’s unwavering support within the White House and Kushner's insistence that the prince could “survive the outrage just as he "had weathered past criticism.” (Again, just so it‘s abundantly clear, the “outrage” and “criticism” were over a U.S. resident being chopped up into pieces.) If no experience, Hunter Biden had received 2 billion dollars and stopped a Saudi dictator from being sanctioned for the murder of a U.S. resident, Fox/News Max would be screaming for his head on a pike 24/7. Why doesn't Kushner's incredibly questionable behavior & lack of experience bother them? Why? We all know why. The hypocrisy is over the top. Really outrageous at ever level.
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The Ukrainians probably read how easy it was for dishonest Americans to milk the US government out of $60 billion in false unemployment claims during the pandemic.They saw what a soft-touch Uncle Sam was.
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ASPruyn Of course it's a business, worth around 30B,that's with a B.
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Steven do you really think what stands between suicide and managed pain is a pool? Also the insurance co-pay of $50 for physical therapy 3xs a week adds up quick. Not to mention your insurance will cease paying if they don’t see “improvement” every 4 weeks. Kinda makes aquatic therapy a non-starter for permanent, severe, debilitating pain.
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The debt ceiling should have been extended so that it would be reached during the run-up to the 2024 election. That would have been a great way to help Democrats clean House. Pardon the pun.
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Clear Thinker So true. I am classed as morbidly obese, I weigh 290 lbs and I'm 5'10" with a size 48 waist. Back in my 30s when I ran and pushed weights, I weighed 225. I eat less than my 140 lb wife but still the weight stays. At my PCP's suggestion, I had a vertical sleeve gastric bypass operation in spring 2016 and I'm now maybe 20 lbs lighter. My PCP prescribed Saxenda; the first month's prescription cost me $832 but then I hit my max out of pocket and paid almost nothing for it. I took it for 5 months and lost about 15 pounds but then I turned 65 and went on Medicare; I have an AARP Part D but there are zero Part D policies that cover Saxenda (or Ozempic or Wegovy) and it would cost me over $1,300 per month to fill the prescriptions so I don't take it and now I'm back to 290 lbs.Clear Thinker is right, most doctors I meet with all seem to think that an obese person must eat more than a 'normal' weight person, that we can't drive past a McDonalds or BK without going through the drive through for a Whopper, fries, and a shake, or that, at family gatherings, we must pile our plates high - none of those things describe me. I take no sugar, I avoid butter and fat, I eat very little bread or pastries, I drink in moderation, I try to exercise (walk) regularly. I have zero heart issues, my BP is close to 120/80, my cholesterol is slightly high (I take statins).I think there's something in the US food chain that's contributing to around 50% of us being overweight.
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Fred $30.8 by end of FY 2022.The highest debt to GNP ratio, ever.Granted, the shutdown that the Democrats forced on us at the onset of Covid is part of the reason.Interesting how shutdowns are no longer required now that the Democrats are in office. Quite dishonest.
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Documentalista Note if you look for the name of a poster(say Steve G) the system will give you two hits for each post he has (the name includes underlying code that contains the name) SO the number of hits will be higher than the actual number of found instances..Replies to the name will also be found, if the reply includes the default tag Name, or if the reply is tagged with the nameNote by the time you have done all the scrolling and opening, more comments will have been added, and when you refresh the page to see them... all your work has to be repeated.if you do not find a post you know you have previously seen:--make sure all the threads are open to the bottom of the page (boogie till you can boogie no more) have intervened and for some reason deleted it. Sometime whole threads go missing, thanks to one unruly post that is flagged. If you never see a post you submitted, then it may be the EMUs (Electronic Monitoring Units) at work, and the post contained something objectionable. It may be nothing much and the comment may appear later, or not all, depending I guess on how busy the human moderators are (there are comment pages for every article in the NYT, so the potential for localised explosion is great). Now we have someone who does look more systematically at the Community this may change.[continues in reply]
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I have recently retired from a career in marketing research focusing on the Pharmacy sector. One of the realities that is rarely mentioned is that Big Pharma has come to depend on sweat equity startups to develop new products, including biologicals, and then purchase or in-licence them, even buy the company, if they do well in early phase or even pivotal trials. Gone are the days when they took these risks. That in addition to extending patent life as noted in the article. Plus using DTC ads to push exoensive me-too or underutilized products that are subject to coinsurance vs copays, meaning far higher cost to patients. I'm glad that I worked mainly in the era of true breakthroughs and clinically meaningful blockbusters!
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Si Seulement Voltaire Really? Really? $2 billion front the Saudis and a bailout for the aptly named 666 property? Foreign licensing o products otherwise unknown save for sitting on the right side of a daughter at dinner. And a book that was a best seller - never mind that the buyers were the RNC. I remember when President Truman couldn’t get more than one gig for his daughter. (OK, she did lack the voice, but her books weren’t best sellers either.) There may not be ‘proof’ but would we ever have known them so well unless Daddy was in the White House? Has any other President “hired” their children to be top advisors? And Security Clearances? Hmmf? Who really needs them? There’s lots more too. It will all come out eventually. Truth has a way of doing that.
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Its shareholders include trillions of dollars of investment from non profits, teachers' unions' pension funds, and millions of 401k accounts belonging to the middle class. In other words, these shareholders aren't only smoking cigars and sipping scotch, they include many, many people who aren't rich and who, yes, need blue-chip companies to turn profits, and ever increasing profits at that.
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Israel will get $3.8 billion in military and foreign aid this year from the US. Why do we give this money to a foreign power that works against US interest and is repressive against minorities and becoming an autocracy and a theocracy. Netanyahu is a Trumper and opposes Democrats like Biden.Cut this aid and use it in Ukraine or use it fund famine and drought relief elsewhere in the world and help the billions suffering from famine today.I as an American want my tax dollars used to help hungry and needy people in the US and around the world and to directly support our national interest like aid to Ukraine. Giving US dollars to a theocracy that oppresses its own people is nuts.
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I once read an eye-opening article about rape. It was about healthcare workers and concerned community leaders persuading local/ traditional shamans, healers, "witch" doctors to put out a malevolent curse on anyone who engaged in rape in the local area. It worked to decrease rates significantly. It made me realize that - whether one believes in traditional folklore or not - the local people may. And they may believe it more than any rational talk or legal threat. Other than traditional beliefs, a large swath of Africa is very religious and believes in Christianity. If churches, especially Catholic organizations, want to do good, they should work with local groups to change the culture of how females/ children are viewed and treated, especially by men, in these countries. Another eye-opening article I once read detailed the high incidence of rape in children and babies in Africa. Some of it was not sexual pleasure per se but also beliefs about how sex with children was "purer" or "safer" (fear of STDs).
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Cris Perdue The issue is that Abramoff was at the congress on Oak Ridge's dime - they paid the registration, travel, lodging, etc. This is a clear policy position for any employee, government or private. Therefore Abramoff was a representative of Oak Ridge when she chose to disrupt the AGU proceedings (and the plenary session at that). It does not matter if she used $0.01 of government resources for $1,000,000.As is clearly written in this column, there was no issue with her advocacy activities as long as it was clear she was speaking for herself, not Oak Ridge or the government. Multiple examples of how her management worked with her to enable her activist are provided by Abramoff herself. So it would have been fine if she attended a protest as a private citizen in whatever city the AGU congress was held. The issue is her behavior while on the clock.
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Crisis? Sounds fortuitous. If India, the most populous country, doubled its productivity while halving its population - it will still remain a dirt poor country (per capita GDP will be $8k; compared to $70K approximately in the US). China, for draconian reasons, was able to stop furious population growth. All population growth now, and at a furious pace that destroys per capita GDP and quality of life, is in the poorest countries. I wish China's fortune to all.
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Heather As America's Gilded Age came to a close, the internal combustion engine was born. By 1920, ICE were growing in popularity, replacing the horse. By 1930 many middle class families had a car. By 1950, even lower income Americans had cars. That's what happened.So, what didn't happen? There was no government program to wean Americans off horses. Horse feed and pastures were not taxed to get riders out of the saddle and behind the steering wheel. People went from the horse based transportation to ICE because the ICE was measurably better. There was a niche for horses, but their use has continued to shrink, with the advent of 4 wheel drive trucks, dirt bikes and drones.Now, think about EVs and their charging requirements. If you charge your EV at home, it may be economical, however that won't be the case if you have to drive greater distances.Answer this question, when was the last time you pulled into a gas station that was owned and operated by the US government? You haven't. Large electric utilities will open and operate EV charging station franchises. And they will charge 5 to 6 times, or more what a recharge at home costs. Franchise costs are the same for any small business and include capital costs, insurance, taxes, maintenance and upgrade costs.
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Maybe I am missing the details here, but it seems like the Bruces bought land in 1912/1920 for around $1,235 and sold it to LA for $14,500 in 1924. I don't know what the value of the land was in 1924, but isn't $20M a lot more than the present value of whatever thy were underpaid? The chances that the Bruces would have held on to the land and given it to their heirs (without any tax liability) for neary 100 years seem slim, if you look at how many families in LA have held on to the same land for that long. By contrast, when the City of New London took families' homes to demolish them and give the land to economic development by Pfizer that never reached its advertised potential, the US Supreme Court, led by a then liberal majority, said that was OK, and those families don't get their homes back now or ever. I am not a fan of eminent domain, for the Bruces or anyone, but it is hard for me to see why the Bruces were treated especially unfairly, or why they deserve a windfall today.
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It’s funny to see the Silicon Valley set, used to holding employee meetings with senior management and articulating their concerns about the lack of vegan options at the cafeteria that is open 24 hrs and entirely free, get the ax and wonder how unfair it is. Maybe they’re not that any different than steelworkers or coal miners after all.
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I was fortunate to retire before email, smartphones, Slack, the open office plan, et al. came along. Designing and writing top-quality software in an interrupt-driven environment would have significantly reduced my productivity. If today's software developers are working under such conditions, I wonder what management thinks of the resulting lower productivity and quality and the attendant higher project costs.
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If we used Musk's logic we should just keep having people dying to perfect his software. The reason for that is Tesla is not spending enough on development such that Musk, if he drove the car, wouldn't have one of those negative externalities like dying. In software development, the more you spend on development and testing, the less issues you have in production. But what the issues are is all the difference in the world. If NASA took Musk's logic we would just learn a lot when the astronauts die and wouldn't worry about it because future astronauts would be safer. That's great for all of those future astronauts isn't it. But we are talking about driving a car. We are talking about not running over a wagon with a toddler in it. If we have to switch out of Autopilot to avoid that or when we enter a less than wealthy neighborhood, how can any one think it's "perfected" for adoption. It obviously isn't and that is because Tesla has not invested enough in the software development and testing but is being forced to move things into production faster because of the callous management decisions of a profit maximizing narcissist. Earth to Elon, there is no long term in using a car that has only a 10 year projected life. There will be no long term for Tesla if people die unnecessarily in the short term. Its one thing for people to ignore the "branding" disaster Musk created all by himself and another to ignore the development shortcuts legally covered up in the fine print.
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Mkm While $31T sounds like a lot, it is only about 13% of the value of the economy's assets. That % for WalMart equals 62% by way of comparison.History shows that deficits increase more when the GOP is in power (e.g., see Trump).But it does not make sense for the US to have zero debt as it can acquire capital at very low rates.
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There’s not much distance between the mind set of your average extremist airplane hijacker and the members of the Freedom Caucus. The big difference is if you hijack an airplane at gunpoint, you may take a couple hundred passengers and crew members down with you. But the Freedom Caucus may take down a nation of over 330 million people, the democratic institutions it has built over the course of about 250 years, and quite possibly the global economy in the bargain.And those folks don’t even have to take off their shoes, open their carry-ons and make their way through the metal detectors to get on board.
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Maybe if Ronal Reagan hadn't killed AT&T and Bell Laboratories, the breakthrough's may have kept coming?!Maybe if corporations went back to funding R&D at levels around 10% revenue instead of 0.5-1.5% the breakthroughs would keep coming?Maybe if American culture didn't idolize athletes and entertainers, more kids would go into science?Maybe if America graduated half as many engineers as China does each year the breakthroughs would keep coming?Maybe if America valued older employees instead of putting them out to pasture the breakthroughs would keep coming?Maybe if CEOs didn't suck up all the profits and you paid scientists decently the breakthroughs would keep coming?Maybe if truth and honesty mattered in America the breakthroughs would keep coming?
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Regarding the missed cruise, the NYT writer makes a great point: "Trip Mate and Aurora could have been more understanding or even — though this is a stretch — humane." It shouldn't only be on American Air to fix the problem. All companies involved could be a bit more accommodating. I don't pay for trip insurance, because the fine print makes it clear the companies hope never to pay. For a $17K cruise, trip insurance should provide some reassurance and protection.
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I'm sure I'm repeating others, but the question is actually quite prosaic. It is NOT definititional. The question is, when do we, as a moral society, decide to accord fetal life human rights ?The answer is inherently arbitrary. We either mandate forced-birth from conception, or decide upon some time limit. Most folks are most comfortable, pragmatically, with the latter, which has the merit of allowing women, parents, the freedom of choice.We shouldn't dress this question up with more philosophical weight than it merits. The original thershold of 2d trimester end was working rather well, other than to for the absolutists, motivated primarily by religions teachings, presumptions, endlessly hyped by Republican Corp.We let the absolutists gain control of the SCOTUS, and are living in confusion, scatter-shot convention on basic rates now be the matters for individual states.We de-evolved. Whether we will, anytime soon, regain the ability to decide basic questions or human rights nationally is an open question.
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David Walker So if my business deposits $1 million a year at the bank, is that my profit? Hopefully no. If I deposit $1 million a year from my business, it's mostly likely that 95% of that goes for overhead, salaries, and costs associated with business. All business is required to report income. Along with expenses. The remainder is sometimes called profit.
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Km Support your local chapter of Compassion & Choices - for optimal ideas and engagement for MAID (Medical Aid In Dying), VSED (Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking), Dementia wishes, etc.Switzerland is a very limited -- and expensive (~$10 to 20K) --option for the many many folks who are going to find themselves -or those they love/know - in these very shoes in the not too distant future.www.compassionandchoices.org
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The average Part D premium for 2023 is $31. 50 a month. What are you taking that’s cheaper?And as I was correctly corrected, Part D is in fact optional. However if you blow it off and then sign up late, there’s a sliding-scale premium penalty.
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Jack Lee Agreed! I haven't bought cheap eggs for years for that reason. When you buy a carton at $3 a dozen, you get what you pay for: eggs of poor nutritional value and lacking in taste, coming from a system that literally grinds chicks alive. I'd rather pay more and support humane practices, plus the eggs are so much more delicious. I just eat less of them. Nobody needs to eat eggs daily!
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Since you bring up "The Godfather", the Easter Egg is the orange. Just before someone dies or there is violence, an orange will be in the frame preceding. Also, while I learned a lot here (thank you) I also suggest the author dive into Ben Robinson's 2018 book (Paul Romhany Publisher, Vancouver 2018) HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. There, the author explains that 50% of what we see is...unseen. The book helped me enormously revel in his revelations because they are stark, clear and help me better negotiate my day when I am lost in the digital world of computer menus and ticket agents who seem unable to push a button to change a ticket based on some "law" or 'metric" that suddenly appears.The painting you offer in this article was included in at 1977 show at The NY Historical Society where master magician Milbourne Christopher (1914-1984) pointed out the "unusual use" of the magician in the top left window (a magician in that hat would never perform in such a place). This, Christopher offered, was the "chaos" represented in this painting--showing this for what they are not.Along the same lines, when MoMA reopened in 2019 just before the pandemic, a painting from 1956 was taken from their vast warehouse(s) and shown. It is displayed on the 5th floor in the largely surreal exhibit. To my knowledge, while the depiction is of a medieval conjuror in traveling wagon, not a single magic history reference notes this—why? Detective work.
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If you advertise, you are their customer. If you use their services, you are their product. I advertise. I can say that the obfuscation on their ads management is overly complicated and designed to steer advertisers toward a higher spend - frequently lessening impact of their ad budget. They they hound you by phone - annoying and rudely even though you’ve asked them to stop calling you. They seem nice enough at first but their goal is not to do best by you. It’s to up the spend. Try turning off the advertising network, for example, if you just want to do search. This is not at all intuitive. Frequently you must tweak a bid in certain circumstances rather than use a toggle; for example, reduce a bid to 0% for certain searcher characteristics or whatever, if your customers don’t come from there. Also, while I agree the reach is vast, it is well optimized for local small businesses, as well as large global businesses. It is horrible for a medium sized business with a global footprint. They’re constant trying to shoehorn you into one or the other category - to your detriment. They seem to have no modeling of such a type of business existing. At least they make little allowance for it in their tools. I support this suit wholeheartedly and will happily accept the day that Google ads market share and seqrch share falls below 50% - even if ten other cos. share the other portion. Competition must be meaningfully present. (PERIOD). Here it isn’t.
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Having spent a couple of years dealing directly with the Landmarks Commission, not as a developer but as a small (very) bldg. owner in an historic district, to say that the Commission decisions can be arbitrary and capricious is to put it ‘mildly’. But at the same time ignoring the reality that there is a desperate need for humane housing and that the city must find ways to partner and deal with big pocket builders to produce it, is self-serving and disgusting; the power of the NIMBI’er enclaves of the city Behind the righteous arguments there won’t be enough affordable apartments, there is also the desire not to get too many. Meaning too many often tips the property ‘value’ of the neighbourhood, edging it into ‘public housing'. And then the ever popular, "there are plenty of other empty places the city could use..." As if there aren't other interests in those places as well. To say nothing of the fact they should ALL be used. Between the investment and profit interests of developers and the sanctimonious purity of entrenched property owners there is too often little hope for a reasonable way to fix the city. Thanks, Gina, once again a spot-on piece about the ‘deep’ city
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Kathy Lollock To make things worse, cutting taxes at the top does not even have much impact on economic growth whereas helping the poor actually does. So the idea that there is some kind of tradeoff between the economy and doing the right thing for the poor is completely false in the first place (the opposite is true) and just another GOP myth used to cut taxes for their wealthy donors.Also, the whole notion (or rather nonsense) of tax cutting at the top as a growth tool, is a relatively newer GOP myth ushered in by Reagan (along with high deficits and debt to go with it - the only real result for our nation). Expanding a businesses and payroll are both pretax expenses and these actually reduce reported income or profit for tax purposes. Thus, lowering the tax rate has little to no impact on these growth and hiring decisions being made by businesses (in fact they are more likely to spend on these investments when taxes rise as a way to lower reported income or profit) so the GOP have the whole thing completely backwards.The ONLY reason for a businesses to hire and expand is increased demand for goods and services and this means more consumers who have enough to spend. Thus it is helping the poor and middle class that actually grows the economy and this is what helps businesses to thrive. The people who "know" what works or what wont, are accountants and the GOP have the whole thing backwards. The GOP are NOT good for businesses or the economy.
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Mkm Why restrict it to billionaires? How about this. The top 10% of the wealthy own 90% of the 145 trillion in wealth in the US. Take just 25% of the wealth from the top 10% - then all the national debt can be paid back right away. Those people have plenty of money so even losing 25% will barely be noticeable for them.
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From experience:1) You're using your sick days for the slightest discomfort, using it as an excuse for a day off because you'll take _any_ excuse, no matter how flimsy, to stay home. At my current job, which I enjoy, unless I'm legitimately "get to urgent care and see a doctor" sick or tested positive for Covid or something, I go to work.2) You only took the job because your other choice was to live on the street (and I mean that when I say it—taking jobs with open-plan offices or other dealbreaker working conditions just for the money), and you finally got a better offer. Last time I took an open-plan office job, I walked in the middle of a shift the hot minute I got the "you start Monday" call from the job I actually intended to keep.3) You want to blow up your life for an adventure. This is more a me thing, I think, but before I turned 40 and got too old for it, I'd ditch town purely on a whim for a pretty face or a chance to have a little fun or just because I hadn't been on the road in awhile and the wanderlust got to me. As long as you don't blow up your bridges, you can pick up more or less where you left off when you get back home.
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What has brought us to this point is the misguided belief that healthcare is a profit center, whereas we now are waking up to the fact that healthcare is actually an important infrastructure, and needs to be treated that way. While you we’re investing in healthcare 20 percent or more of healthcare dollars we’re sucked out the system to fuel Wall Street short term demands. Now you are saying that it’s the sick people’s fault..
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The distinctions between President Biden's document investigation and the Trump files requires an ability---and a willingness---to distinguish right and wrong.Trump's problems were never merely, or solely, about his possession of "some" documents. But rather, the massive number, types of documents, his unwillingness to part with them, insistence they were his, lying about having sent all of them back (when he hadn't done so) and continuing refusal to explain why he wanted even obscure---though informative---documents that would only be of value to America's adversaries.A central issue in all possible prosecutions, the issue of INTENT looms large in the Trump case. It does not, at all, loom with Mr. Biden. Also relevant, with Trump, is a history a casual disregard in handling sensitive information and documents. It started in 2017 at a dinner with the Japanese PM Shinzo Abe at M-a-L where he displayed sensitive files and pictures of North Korean installations in the open on the table during dinner. A M-a-L member even took photos and posted them to his Facebook account.Mr. Jordan, in asking "Where's the raid?" refuses to consider, see, or admit these differences. The answer to his question about the raid? In Mr. Biden's case, it-wasn't-necessary.
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My husband and I live in Manhattan on less than half of $400K and consider ourselves fortunate. We live within our means. If a couple making $400K are "wondering" why eggs have gotten so expensive, google is their best friend (avian flu plays a significant role). If they're *worried* about the price of eggs, they need to reassess their financial management skills. Boo hoo to them.
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I interviewed three different companies' Managed Services, UBS, Insight Wealth Management and Fidelity. All indicated that they were fiduciaries. I had heard good things about Fidelity and landed there. I waited about 6 months after transferring my funds before starting with their managed services area. Now, 18 months in, I can say that it was the biggest mistake I made. Luckily, I only handed over half of my overall portfolio (which was still in the millions), but the half that I handed over has lost between 15-20%, right from the get go. The portion I retained, and invested myself, is up by about 10%. I understand that the markets are pretty volatile, but still, if a Managed Service's ONLY job is to "manage" a portfolio, you'd think that they'd do a better job. They sell you on how their people are THE best. They're experienced in dealing with all types of financial and geopolitical environments. Yet they perform no better than the S&P! Also, it irritates me when I see commercials that say that they only make money when you make money. Not true. They only make MORE money, when you make money. They take 1% regardless of whether your portfolio grows or fails. It seems ludicrous in hindsight, that any company should claim any percentage on the base funds that the client is bringing in. Why? You brought the money in, why should they get a % of that? I'm waiting for my Managed Service portfolio to get back to where it WAS before I say Adios to Fidelity!
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Or Biden could engage in a good faith debate about government spending and its sustainability. But what Democrat cares about that. There are votes to be bought after all, and power doesn't come cheap. Ask Hillary - she had a billion dollar campaign and still lost. No, what you really need is a $5 trillion federal budget to spray like a firehose to your backers. Jim Clyburn gets me, right Jim?
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Students like these are leading the world today! Look at Google and Microsoft. Motivated, hardworking students and parents can overcome any odds. This is what is lacking in most of the American public schools.
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At the very least, college football should be extinguished. Many of the major universities have excellent med schools whose faculty would have no hesitation is saying that football has a high likelihood of leading to brain injury, yet these same universities invest in multimillion dollar football stadiums and facilities. There is a high degree of cognitive disconnect going on here. Many of these universities are now allowing their students to gamble on football games.But all this cognitive dissonance business is a euphemism. The real explanation is good old fashioned greed. Once again, money trumps everything.
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A $10mm annual subsidy that is theoretical in nature seems worthwhile to have a nice new stadium - and the economic activity associated with it - replace a bunch of dilapidated auto shops. This deal is far different from the Buffalo Bills stadium giveaway.
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To the extent that Bret is an informed and sensible American conservative we are in deep doodoo. Seriously, having to resort to to the challenges facing a family earning 400k per year to make a point. Who is actually protecting the elite here?! And a simple flat tax. The only thing that is simple about this is how well it will direct money into the distended bellies of the wealthy. Good. Grief.
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MR If 95% of NYT readers can’t name even one Drake song at this point, then I think it says more about the demographic and level of open-mindedness of the readers. I can name *maybe* five songs by The Beatles and the titles of *maybe* two of their albums, for example, but when NYT writes about them I won’t disregard the article or the music section as bad reporting just because I’m not at all a fan. I’m always open to learning more about this group that folks keep claiming to be one of the greatest bands of all time because, whether I think they deserve the acclaim or not, The Beatles have had a tremendous impact on music and pop culture in general. Folks may be quick to dismiss Drake, but the fact of the matter is — love him or hate him — he’s this generation’s Beatles. His sound is legitimately changing the music landscape, and not just the hip-hop landscape, either. Just about every modern pop song that you hear on the radio has been influenced by Drake’s sound. Why not lean in and read an article to at least find out why? I can name every album Drake’s released, and I’m 44. I have friends well into their 50s and 60s that can at least name a song. It’s not the reporting.
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Reagan campaigned in 1980 against Jimmy Carter because of his $900 billion deficit.He railed against “liberals” and “tax and spend” Democrats. It was a big part of the so called “Reagan Revolution”.He went around the country at every campaign stop saying… If ordinary Americans have to sit at the kitchen table every month and balance their check books , why doesn’t the “government” as he put it ?It worked, people bought it. That was the beginning of the right wing mantra that the government was bad, leave it to the private sector.When Reagan left office, the federal deficit was $2 trillion, followed by his VP successor Bush making it $3 trillion.It’s been a moon shot ever since, with both party’s in control of the government.And much of the US deficit is due to America becoming the “Endless War” country it has become in those year.Jimmy Carter campaigned during the 1980 election that it was election between war and peace. The people chose Reagan’s argument.
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RamS “ 8 billion vs. 10 billion or even 6 billion isn't that much of a difference.” Um, yes it is.
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Chip Young You might want to add other universities:Other Ivy League colleges have raked in Chinese money, including Harvard, which got $75 million during the 2014-2019 period, and Yale, which received $43.5 million, records show.You did not note that the donations went to the university, not to the Penn Center. That is a crucial difference that the New York Post and you ignore.
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I would caution about the tendency to talk about "the Republicans" when we are really talking about 20 people who are driving the other 90% of the members of the Republican caucus out of their heads. It is still possible, I suppose, that this will still be a cohesive group at some point, but this looks like an egg that will be hard to unscramble. Having said that, I am still struggling to understand exactly what these people want. As far as I can tell, it amounts to increasing demands to undermine whatever parts of government they personally object to independent of the views of the other 400 elected representatives. One of the saddest parts of this spectacle is that the "monsters" these people keep trying to unsheathe their mighty swords against are the elected representatives of the people and, by extension, the American people who elected them. Very patriotic. If I were a Democratic representative, I would have to start wondering if a point will come when it is time to get involved. If McCarthy is not extreme enough for these people, would it be in the Democrats' interest to allow Republicans to elect a Speaker who is? Democrats plus seven Republicans could elect McCarthy and get it over with. What an awful spectacle to watch.
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Better late than never. It's still a tragedy that former Governor Christie cancelled the ARC tunnel. Perhaps the worst public policy decision of any U.S. gov in recent memory. It would have been open by now and would have generated billions in economic growth for NJ and the region. And it was only cancelled bc he was planning on running for President and wanted to look anti-tax and anti-transit to the national GOP base. At least the region is getting the Amtrak tunnel. But NJ will one day have to build a separate tunnel it fully controls, to maximize regional mobility. The Gateway tunnel won't be enough in the long term.
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I was about to post this exact same thing. These parents need to understand why their child isn’t disclosing this part of themselves at home. It is not because the school told them not to, it is because the child does not feel safe or supported (which should not only be relegated to situations of physical abuse). Yes, parents spend substantially more time with their kids than over their life than individual educators. However, the vast majority of these same parents spend that time assuming that their children are undeniably cisgender and heterosexual. Children inherently do not want to disappoint their parents, and coming out as anything other than cishet (even to “liberal parents”) would be going against the parent’s expectations for the child. It is the parents duty not to raise their children in the image of themselves, but rather to raise children as their own independent beings. Creating a space for the child to freely express themselves and not make assumings on gender or sexual orientation. Maybe then their child won’t feel the need to “hide” themselves at home while being open at school.
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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."-Ronald ReaganFor me, this oft repeated comment by Reagan was the start of open season on the virulent strain of anti-government paranoia that is so firmly rooted in the GOP. Establishment GOP'ers like Books and Stephens continue to worship Reagan, but let's make sure that he gets his due for the current mess of the right wing.
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Imperfect preventative measures are better than no measures at all. I am immunocompromised and managed to avoid getting COVID for three years due to masking, boosting and hyper vigilance. People have treated me like I’m hysterical and paranoid. In early January. I had some airline vouchers and a hotel credit that were expiring and decided to take the risk to fly to Mexico. The vacation was fantastic, the place we stayed was open air, and everywhere we went was outdoors. It was blissful to feel that kind of freedom. But the flights there and back were filled with people coughing and sneezing yet not wearing masks. Upon my return I got a seriously scary case of COVID with 103 fever, intense, stabbing pain in my body, hallucinations,and the inability to get out of bed. I was lucky to have access to paxlovid, and it decreased the serious symptoms, but now I have a rebound case of Covid and have beenvery sick for 3 weeks. I feel angry at people who downplay the impact of this virus and refuse to wear masks when they are demonstrably ill. Getting on an airplane sick without wearing a mask is selfish bordering on sociopathic. For some people, this is not “just a cold.” One intervention we have at our disposal is consideration for other humans. Why is it so hard for some people to grasp that?
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faivel1 I have hopes. One is that the gop is very, extremely open about their plans for Social Security, SSI and Medicare. *Those* are considered the luxury inessentials by the gop, while the military -- which lost track of 2 *trillion* dollars and nevertheless had its budget approved without a single investigation or debate. Rubber stamp approval for spending on we don't know what.Let's make sure the gop make their priorities crystal clear to American taxpayers: Yes to waste, fraud and abuse and zero accountability, if it's materiel for wars. No to caring for our citizens who are elderly and have paid for a sort of pension to get them through to the end. No to working people who become disabled and unable to work. Yes to killing. No to helping. Let there be no confusion about gop priorities.My other hope is that this past week has been a preview of the repub caucus's ability to govern. It's never been a priority for them during my lifetime; they're fond of obstructing Dem leaders' agendas and cutting taxes. Legislation? Actually writing passable bills? I haven't seen much of that.Let's leave them to their bickering and fisticuffs, their endless investigations we already know won't find anything wrong but that will nevertheless ricochet around as scandals. Let them waste allllll the time.Ideally that will prevent them from holding us hostage during a debt ceiling procedure. If they go through with their threats, we're all in trouble.
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The split of the Republican started 27 years agoThe NY TimesThe Republicans: Unified No More"The solution was to balance the budget and give middle-class Americans a $500-per-child tax credit. This would not only give families more money in their pockets, they argued, but also encourage job-producing investments. Before long, the economy would be growing fast enough to insure a rising standard of living for everyone.All but one candidate seemed to agree that these were the key issues. But that one, Mr. Buchanan, won the first primary, in New Hampshire, and almost at once the Republican unanimity showed signs of stress.Mr. Buchanan has consistently -- and directly -- tried to appeal to workers displaced by economic change. In his speeches, he links middle-class anxieties to the rise of a global economy and trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement.Even as Mr. Buchanan appears to be turning into a protest candidate in the wake of Mr. Dole's eight-primary sweep on Tuesday and his victory yesterday in New York, the rifts he has exposed in the Republican Party are potentially lasting, Times March 8, 1996, Section A, Page 1<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/us/the-politics-of-layoffs-in-search-of-a-message.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/us/the-politics-of-layoffs-in-search-of-a-message.html</a>They turned out to be lasting .
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JRF Rheumatologists are the brainiacs of medicine, with deep intellectual curiosity. They labor like detectives with their minds rather than performing high-billing procedures. It's a career for a detective, who partners with her patient and always keeps an open mind, Imagine, this rheumatologist put together the symptoms of a condition she had never seen, yet she had the humility and drive to consult a medical reference, which she shared with her patient, and even then she referred the patient to a specialist at Mayo for confirmation.A skilled rheumatologist is worth his/her weight in gold, and has the respect of every other medical practitioner.
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I grew up around firearms. I learned how to use them at the age of thirteen—properly handling, firing, cleaning and securely storing them. My father had been a staff sergeant in the army and was a police chief, and he made it his business to instruct me rigorously. And there was nothing uncommon about this in Maine. A firearm is a tool, and like any other tool, it is designed to carry out a specific function—in this case to produce a lethal effect in an instant. However, any tool is only as good as the individual wielding it, and that is where I have the most difficulty with recent open carry legislation being passed all around the country. Mr. Bouie is talking about the social compact of trust here, and I think he’s spot on. If I cannot trust the individual drivers I have to commute among—people who choose to drive too fast, or to tailgate, or to pass in unsafe conditions, or to pull out into oncoming traffic, or to be the last one to hustle through a light controlled intersection, or to altogether too often be distracted by their handheld devices whilst driving—how am I to reasonably trust that the individuals carrying firearms in a public space are any more competent than the drivers I’ve described and with which everyone posting here is all too familiar?Would you trust someone who legally walks into a Walmart with body armor and a collection of long rifles, shotguns and sidearms? If you do, I would argue you possess an irrational optimism about human competence.
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I'm always amazed when Democrats blithely spread the gospel of the evil of declining populations. It's almost as if they cut a page out of the Capitalism Bible and changed the name of book./I remember a world of 2 billion, when I was born. It's 8 billion now, expected to be 10 billion in the not too distant future. Yes, some national populations will get smaller. That's not a bad thing. The problem with the premise of expanding population is that it's the other face of expanding economy. Only an expanding economy and population are desirable, according to these 21st. century "Democrats."We don't need more people. We certainly don't need ever expanding populations and economies that make further inroads into the declining natural resource base, particularly the oceans, which have become the warground of expanding economies, where major species are wiped out yearly. There are very good things about a stable population. The ability to plan, forecast, and conserve resources.
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A great article in today's WSJ talks about how private equity firms value the assets they own. Basically, there are three ways and of course the trick is to over value the true value of the assets. Wait until public pension funds find out that their assets invested in PE firms are overvalued. This is the makings of the next financial crisis.
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Thank you for researching and articulating such an insightful healthcare/pharmaceutical company article. The patent technique used by pharmaceutical companies is so disappointing yet in no way surprising. $114B (i.e., that’s 1,140 million dollars – think about it) is a lot of money by any standard. As a taxpayer I find this truly upsetting. As the owner of a small medical device startup who complies in good faith with the FDA, the DOT, Bluetooth, the FCC, and many other regulatory and other legal entities, the lengths that pharmaceutical companies go through “in bad faith” to avoid losing their patent protection is bad for everyone. While most likely not “illegal” it is “immoral.”
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Leninzen At the risk of sounding like I work for Zillow, that site tells you the monthly cost of each option to make comparing easier. For example, a 2 BR 2 BA condo in Fort Lee is presently listed at $4888 per month (the number assumes a mortgage) and a comparable 2 BR 2 BA coop is listed at $3163 per month (also assuming a mortgage). Typically, the purchase price of a coop is lower but the maintenance is higher, usually because coop maintenance includes an underlying mortgage, as well as taxes and utilities, while condo owners cover these costs themselves. There are other important differences between condos and coops so prospective purchasers be sure to do your homework!
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Mike S. "You'd think with $858 billion budget, the Pentagon could hire a few obsessive folks who would get this right."The Pentagon can't even get aircraft right and their budgets are at least as large.We need to stop thinking the US Government and its tentacles is so infallible. History has proven that it isn't, regardless of who is at the helm.
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Legato7 Cook didn't take a pay cut. His *salary* was decreased and his stock options increased. His lawyers negotiated that because it's a far more lucrative deal, and he gets to pay less in income taxes. Let's stop pretending that a company that uses slave labor in China to make $1500 phones and has at least 25% profit margins on them is in any way ethical. Neither Steve Jobs or Apple the company have made any significant charitable contributions, least not a fraction of what Bill Gates and Microsoft have.
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Oddly, this article never mentions Brexit. So I will. I was back in the U.K. a few months ago to wrap up some business that was closed down by the pandemic in March 2020.In the old neighborhood in Liverpool, several pubs and restaurants that were open when we were forced to leave were permanently closed. But, not by Covid. There were no workers to replace the people from the E.U. who were doing those jobs in the hospitality sector. Our favorite Greek restaurant was operating on a limited basis. We went in and said hello to the owners who had become our friends over the years. When we asked what was going on with the place the answer was fast and short: Brexit. Family members and others who could come and go freely from Greece to work in the restaurant before Brexit kicked in could no longer do that. The government never factored into account how many people from various E.U. countries were working across the U.K. economy. Lorry drivers, health care workers (that area is acute with lack of workers now), hospitality workers in hotels, restaurants, pubs, in supermarkets, all the way down to small shops that have had to close down. Brexit. It was a breathtaking lack of foresight as to what Brexit would do to the U.K. economy even without the pandemic. The NHS has been gutted of support workers who cleaned hospitals, were medical assistants and who did other critical tasks. The Tories brought it all upon the country. This article fails to discuss the obvious. Brexit.
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As always the details are important. I asked my friends in Italy about this and most providers are locked into contracts. The consumer likely will not have relief until the warm weather arrives. When we do video chats everyone is dressed very warmly inside the house. I have huge empathy. I am very warm for about $1.75 per day. I feel privileged.
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From a UK perspective it is kind of odd how we vote to leave the EU but as soon as European security is threatened we spend more defending Europe than any other European country. I don't particularly disagree with us spending the money, it just seems a bit of a contradiction.There is broad support for Ukraine in the UK. I can't see that changing any time soon. Just before war started on the 17th of February last year the UK, Poland and Ukraine announced a tri-lateral pact to improve co-operation and security. In the days before war broke out the UK was continually flying in C-17s full of NLAWs. This at a time Germany was still considering opening a second gas pipeline to Russia.I can understand Germany's reluctance to be involved in a European war and they have still given Ukraine a lot of support. I don't understand the French? Countries such as Canada and Norway have been supplying more military hardware to Ukraine than France. Australia has spent roughly the same amount on military support as Italy.The proportion of aid against GDP has certainly been highest from the Eastern Europeans and I'm sure that people in those countries will be disappointed with the response from most of western Europe.Western Europe seems incapable of dealing with security in it's own back yard.As ever, European security would be much worse without American support. Thanks for that, greatly appreciated.(Some info sourced from IFW Kiel Ukraine support tracker)
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