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After the nihilism we witnessed in the House last week, the basic functioning of Congress during this term seems highly unlikely. It seems more likely that the government will be at constant risk of shutting down and at grave and catastrophic risk of defaulting on our international sovereign debt obligations.Republicans say that they want to reduce the debt, bolster an already $850B per year military, and "fortify the Southern border," all while defunding the IRS and reducing taxes.Do any of them actually understand how basic math works?
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Microsoft made almost $18 billion last quarter alone. No need for layoffs, strictly taking out their bottom 5% performers.
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I think the headline is that $200 billion in corporate subsidies is expected to take our share of chip manufacturing from 12% to 14%.What a waste. Corporate subsidies are never the answer.
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Democrats will not get credit for anything. I can't count the number of MAGA voters I know who literally think the $14K their family of 4 got from Joe Biden's 2021 American Rescue Plan was given to them by Donald Trump. The willingness to believe only what they want to believe and block out even basic facts runs too deep to counter with money and help.
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Tracey It's odd to think that UK health care, costing about 10% of GDP, would make the country uncompetitive, whereas US healthcare, costing about 17%, would not have that effect. The vast majority of US healthcare costs are paid directly by companies or by governments, State, local or (especially) Federal. In fact I would be willing to bet---but don't have the numbers here---that US government expenditures on health care, State, local and Federal, are as much as the UK government spends. But in the US private individuals also pay, far more than in the UK, because the system is so inefficient.
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Megan Publicly traded crporatios have no obligation to employees. As I understand it, by law, publicly traded firms' sole obligation is to increase shareholder value. Executives whose actions do not result in increasing shareholder value, say, by putting employees ahead of shareholders, leave themselves open to shareholder lawsuits.Every employee, from Microsoft to the corner mom & pop bodega, needs to remember; your job exists to make the boss money. When that stops happening, your job stops happening.
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I’ve listened to the members of the “Freedom Caucus” rail at their Republican colleagues for allowing the omnibus funding bill to pass. Here’s an idea: since these folks are dead set against the spending authorized in that bill, why don’t those deeply conservative, fiscally responsible 20 Representatives agree that none of the money will go to their districts. Then let’s hear from their constituents, most of whom are dependent on federal spending for their jobs, education, health care and other essentials of daily life.Virtually every Republican opposed and tried to prevent the infrastructure, CHIPS and Inflation Reduction/Climate bills from passing. Virtually every Republican-dominated state is going to receive tens of billions of dollars. Their states will see new investment in manufacturing and infrastructure, resulting in hundreds of thousands of new, well paid jobs. If they’re so offended by that legislation, let’s see them opt out of its rewards. Let them explain that to their voters. Then let’s see how many of them return to the House and Senate in 2024.
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The comments section is interesting to follow - mostly anti-capitalistic platitudes, uninformed bias, and assumptions - e.g., comments within the range of expectations on such a topic.However, nobody provided the truly horrific aspect of this round of layoffs for employees at MSFT: the uncertainty in the certainty. Every MSFT employee knows 10,000 people we be cut from the company; however, the process stretches out from today to the end of March. Microsoft employees will wake up every day from now to the end of March, wondering if they still have a job, looking for that HR email in the inbox every day. Before the end of March, nobody will know if their job is safe. That is a horrifically prolonged period to endure this type of stress.
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To advance the cause of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) it is important to understand why so many people oppose them:1. For most Americans their single largest form of investment (wealth) is the value of their homes, and they will do almost anything to prevent property values from dropping, whereas ADUs can lower property values and negatively impact neighborhood aesthetics.2. ADUs can strain existing infrastructure (e.g., schools, sewers, parking, water, electricity, public transportation) and lead to higher taxes.3. ADUs can affect the character of a neighborhood and lead to over-density. 4. ADUs can increase privacy and safety concerns, especially if the units are rented to unrelated tenants.5. ADU regulations and permitting processes can be difficult to navigate, leading to slow and complicated implementation.Because home-owners tend to be voters, those in affluent neighborhoods and the suburbs will continue to oppose laws and regulations requiring higher-density, low-income housing in their neighborhoods and communities.Thus the only way to economically and racially integrate the suburbs and affluent city neighborhoods will be to pass local, state and federal laws, and for President Biden to issue Executive Orders, mandating that single-family zoning be eliminated and multi-family, high-density, low-income housing be required throughout the US.
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As the parent of an almost 2 year old, this potential news is devastating. If I want to work, I can either spend my entire income on a nanny or just slightly less on daycare. Universal 3k and pre-K were a godsend. The 2022 NYPD budget was 10.8 billion. Those of us who live here see how checked out the police force is and how much crime has increased. Stop throwing money at the ineffective police while pulling vital educational resources that the middle class depends on. Early education programs like 3k make a profound difference in a child’s later educational success. Cutting this would be idiotic.
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This is a very interesting article written by someone with fewer than 10 years of HR experience and no formal education in HR, but she makes many good points that my 30 years of experience confirm. We should note that all the companies mentioned are post-IPO, meaning the markets/investors are pressuring companies to ultimately lay people off. She says as much in saying how companies are bending to external investor pressure. I also want to point out that in Talent-centric companies, what I build for organizations, the talent strategies are aligned with business strategy and vision. When this happens, companies don't have to give people so much stuff so they feel entitled to it in perpetuity.
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I was in a major East Coast city a while back, and had parked my car illegally on a city street. I was going to be there for just a few minutes as I was picking someone up, and there were no other spaces open. But there was a police station across the street, and an officer came out and approached me. He was very aggressive in telling me (not asking me) to move my car, even though there was no traffic on the road then. I explained that I was only going to be a couple of minutes. He didn't give a darn about that. He got into my face, very loudly, and was aggressive to me to the point where I though I was going to be cuffed. So, I moved my car, into the lane of traffic, where I parked it, at his instruction. There was no need for this officer to be that rude and confrontational. He could have done things better by just asking civilly that I move my car. But he didn't. He yelled at me right out of the box. There was no cause for that kind of behavior. I can only imagine what might have happened if I was black and he was white, instead of the opposite. It was an unnerving experience for me. I can't imagine what it must be like for a black person to be accosted and intimidated by a policeman like that. It's completely understandable why Tyre Nichols escaped and ran like he did.
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There’s no harm in taking some basic security precautions, and many communities will welcome them. For example, it was common at my son’s school in New Jersey for parents and other family members to be in the school to help in putting together the school play. Everyone pretty much knew everyone else, and the police could have been on the premises in minutes had there been a need. Yet as I recall, all the classroom doors were locked, and some of the interior doors were closed to mark certain areas as off-limits. Even as adults we would often do errands in pairs. One of the core ideas was that no one should be alone - not out of fear, but to demonstrate visibly that every action was a communal action. Openness and accountability are the basis of genuine security. Locks and barriers can sometimes help, where they are used appropriately, and where their purpose is understood.
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John Tollefson 1. Abortion meds are FDA approved; cannabis is not.2. Federal cannabis law is not irrelevant in CA. The justice department still has the power to go after producers, retailers, and even users in CA (and every other legalization state). It's simply not a priority for this administration. But if a stridently anti-cannabis administration came to power, that could change. Unlikely, but until cannabis is legalized at the federal level, it's possible.3. Texas's cannabis laws are indeed irrelevant in legalization states...until that cannabis comes across the border. Given that, in your example, a TX resident must:-Travel to and from New Mexico -Rent a hotel room/AirBnB-Obtain the prescription & get it filled-Take the first pill-Wait 48 hours (this is necessary for the process to work)-Take the second pill-Go through abortion process (several hours of cramping, bleeding, etc.)-Wait a week to get a follow-up exam to ensure the abortion was successful. Why? Because if they go to a doc in TX, the doc can refuse to treat them AND call the police.The meds alone average $500. Now add the cost of travel both ways. The cost of 10 days in a hotel + meals. The cost of the MD appointments. The cost of time off work. Many folks can't afford to do what you're suggesting, so it matters a lot.
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Sending $40 Billion dollars to Indonesia to stop burning coal is fiscally irresponsible and a waste of our tax dollars!Mr. Biden can certainly withdraw this commitment as a small step for fiscal accountability and lead by example!
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Richard It is the Rs who will not sit still for a "greed tax", a.k.a. Windfall Profits tax. That could have redirected some of the excesses out of energy prices.Another approach, one neither party likes because their big contributors don't like the idea, is a Windfall Profits Tax for Employees. Here I have in mind the C-Suite inhabitants whose total annual compensation exceeds $1 million. If $1million isn't enough to live on quite comfortably, I would ask "Why Not?"I used (or misused) the word "Employees" because the guys who built the company -- Bill Gates springs to mind -- should be allowed to profit, for it was they who created the jobs. On the other hand, Jamie Diamond, how ever admirably he has managed JP Morgan, isn't the fellow who created the jobs initially and thus, in my view, should be subject to such taxes.Democrats spend like drunken sailors? How about the trillions -- yes, trillions -- that both W and Trump put into corporate pockets? Is it drunken spending only when the common man benefits but not when the C-Suite execs benefit?
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WOW, what mythology this article imagines.I have worked in tech since 1985 as hardware engineer, an embedded systems engineer, a software specialist in digital video, videophones and cable television, a systems engineer responsible for cloud storage designs and supercomputers, and, finally, back to the beginning again working on solar powered designs. All of this work is difficult. All of it is frenzied. Tech companies are born, grow, falter, prosper, die, get traded, succeed, get huge, fail, splinter, get sold with amazing regularity in the 1-3 year time frame. I'm on my ninth company, and I spent 10 years out of the biz due to brain crash. That's 3 years at each company. In only two of these 9 companies was there any semblance of ordinary home life / work life balance. The others were all "get to market or die." This is a business, people. A voracious thunder-beast of an operation. It is not designed for the well-being of employees mental or physical health. It is a pure glacial grind, with a million tons of investor pressure pushing downwards into every programmer's cubicle. You would not believe the dysfunction, lying, cheating, stealing, which I cannot you because of the legal requirements which exist in various Non Disclosure Agreements which I signed in order to get severances.
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Our brains are the result of 4 billion years of adaptations, the most powerful being the ability to communicate and therefore coordinate within a group, which the great apes have been doing for millions of years.We exceeded their ability, yes, but with that great power comes great responsibility toward the rest of the natural world and our fellow living beings. I'd say it is us who are not living up to our true potential.
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Great Lakes Just a hunch.If it’s six weeks in advance she’s barely had an impact. She was announced Nov. 7th.The hunch derives from the NYT’s acquisition, which was announced Jan. 31st. The agreement included open access for an unspecified period, which I would suspect to be a year. After nearly a year of largely an unchanged game, minus a few words that didn’t fit the NYT, along with the recent addition of an editor I suspect evolution is afoot. We’ll soon find out, maybe.
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I am Puerto Rican and before we were forced to find her an assisted living home, my mom -- suffering from early stages of dementia -- spent every dime she had on the Home Shopping network and any salesperson who happened to knock on her door. Sick or not, she was always a spender with little regard for reality or her future needs. When we cleaned out her house, we found six $600 vacuum cleaners and thousands of dollars worth of unopened QVC jewelry under her bed, among tons of other hoarded belongings. It took three years to get her on Medicaid and all told, through 15 years of treatment for dementia, I spent $150,000 out of pocket... which is "cheap," all things considered. My retirement was deferred, but I somehow managed to catch up after she died. I am glad I was able to bail her out in her time of greatest need. But I sure wish there was a better, less painful way of helping our elderly who won't or can't help themselves.
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JC You have to realize that Krugman never paid much attention to the stagnant wages that created historic inequality until it became a popular subject, really until Occupy Wall Street occupied everyone. I will say that he did note the 2000s were not good years. But no good guesses why (the jobless recovery in spite of massive tax cuts isn't sufficient). He also said the 2010s were hampered by too small stimulus. He is mostly a globalist, in favor of free trade. He supported NAFTA. Don't take my word for it. Here's the low down: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/us/a-primer-why-economists-favor-free-trade-agreement.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/17/us/a-primer-why-economists-favor-free-trade-agreement.html</a>Krugman is not a big believer in greedflation either. And only recently did he speculate maybe there are better ways to slow inflation than slowing the entire economy, as we destroy the economy to save it.Of special note, I think he is dead wrong about the housing. There is a back log of demand from covid. There is a dearth new supply from both covid and now high interest rates. When interest rates stop climbing or begin to fall, because of those factors just listed, housing costs will climb in lock step. The high demand low supply will keeps rentals from falling. Not ending soon those conditions. Takes a lot of time to expand housing stock. We're still living with the fallout of foreclosed properties from the Great Recession that were left vacant and finally torn down.
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Brianna I am with you in wanting to build systems and trade in worker power... but you have to start by recognizing your powerlessness in the game as currently played. Corporations and C-suites did this because they can. They did it because their fear inverted from "missing out" on a feeding frenzy to margin calls and capital inversions. The one and only good thing unions could have done here is stop the wanton firings, forcing the companies to implode instead of the golden parachutes to open. I would have liked to see some tech companies suffer instead of just their workers.
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J Hagen And of course you take advange of that energy differential to invest in water systems like pipelines to keep the existing canals and reservoirs full all year to take advantage of good living conditions and the long growing season for agriculture.
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This just is another example of undemocratic nature of the GOP. This money has already been spent as initiated and authorized by Congress itself. Now it is time to pay the ensuing invoices.1. Instead, we get "financial terrorism" where the GOP threatens to destroy the economy if it can't get what it wants in the future because it lacks the votes under the mechanisms as set forth in the Constitution.2. It is equivalent to Biden threatening to move all border patrol agents to the Canadian border, leaving the Mexican border completely open, if Congress won't pass his proposed legislation. This is not the indicia of an actual democracy but rather something more similar to the Mob threatening to bomb your store unless you pay them a "security fee."Who votes for these people and why?
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To K HendersonAgreed and we could have started to cut military spending in the form of the 90 billion we have to Ukraine the past 11 months.
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KWDC To present a different perspective: For many, relationships with real people can be complicated and draining. TV provides an escape from stressors as well as a chance to experience catharsis through onscreen characters' relationships. I absolutely understand because it's my experience. I don't feel lonely at all. But, as a Christian, I believe that God wants us to be in community with each other so I'm trying to develop closer relationships with a few people — which is super scary because I feel things very deeply and others' problems become my own. Try sharing your concerns with your friends. Maybe it will change things immediately. Maybe it will take time. Maybe you'll have to let those friends go and continue on life's journey separately. But you sound like you're open, so you'll undoubtedly make new connections along the way with people who value you, too.
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John I largely agree with you, although I despise the current political terrorists behind the past week's shenanigans.I think the better solution would be to have open primaries with ranked choice voting, to improve the quality of candidates in the general election. This would allow more focus on the individual and the things they stand for. In red states you may end up with two R's for the job to chose from and the reverse in blue states, but I firmly believe this would improve the quality of the people that are sent to DC to represent us.
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Tiffany C This is a feature that is probably unknown to most people reading this article. What it seems to imply is that what you give back to your PE master of the universe is a function of your total revenue, not your profit (minus costs, including labor). The PE is only interested in the percentage of that revenue being as large as possible since if it were smaller due to higher labor costs that you paid out of your pocket then this would reduce their take. It's an insidious mechanism that prevents sharing of wealth, no matter how terrific your workers are. It also reveals some of the moral costs paid by franchise owners since it prevents them from profit sharing with employees.So the natural question is what, if anything, would it take to change this. A possibility would seem to be If all franchise owners banded together in a type of union or syndicate of franchise owners, then they would have some power to negotiate labor costs with what amounts to their management. The PE would have need to engage with such a syndicate since without itthere would be no franchises at all...so they'd lose something. Surely this is too naive but is there any another possibility?
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Luckily the PM has £700M in the bank. And the chancellor, another oligarch, who was formerly caught claiming parliamentary expenses to heat his stables, has now been revealed as a tax dodger. He even paid a fine, but when journalists got wind of this, he threatened to sue them. It also emerged today that the British government last year waived sanctions so that Vladimir Prigozhin (yes, that guy) could hire British lawyers to sue British jounalists who wanted to report his Wagner ownership.Britain may be dropping down the international rankings on living standards, and on freedom of expression, but it's certainly shooting up in the world corruption league.
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If anyone was paying attention they would have known that Putin despised Hillary Clinton and Trump had dealings with Russian oligarchs.Putin continually said in the open that the West meddled in other country’s affairs. Then he said how would the West like it if we did the same. About the 2016 election, while at a press conference with Trump he said that he preferred Trump.Remember that picture with Trump and the Russians smirking in the Oval Office like old chums? Trump’s behavior is what aroused the suspicions.Trump used the mechanisms of government to backfill, change reality and create chaos. This chaos and infighting allowed Putin to think that he could reconstitute the Soviet Union. We still have Republicans implying that we should let Russia win in Ukraine.
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Michael McBrearty Defense spending, including the war in Ukraine, accounts for less than 4% of US GDP, hardly a war based economy, compared to the 17% of GDP that the US spends on health care or the 5+% that it spends on elementary and secondary education. The closest the US came to a "war based economy" was in World War II when defense spending peaked at approximately 44% of GDP in 1944. Since then, it has been on a steady downward spiral despite fighting the Korean, Vietnam Wars and Iraq/Afghanistan Wars.
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deflator I do not think it is sleepwalking.Eyes are open.
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The « charge card » is not maxed out. Investors are willing to lend the US trillions of dollars more. The only condition they have set is they want to be repaid. Previous Congresses spent the money but now the current Congress does not want to honour (pay) that bill. Think of it as a retroactive veto of previous Congressional authorizations.
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Presumably those who spend thousands of dollars on matchmaking services are primarily looking for partners wealthy enough spend lots of money on a search most people manage for free. So mention, without dwelling on, your medical issues while subtly focusing on your healthy finances - maybe mentioning your love of your vacation home or your philanthropy.
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Milton Lewis "served with distinction" - racially abusing Asian comrades, and then liquidating 25 dirt poor Afghans in their own land from the comfort of a $55million warplane, before humble bragging about it. If you think this adds up to "distinction", ask yourself why he was forced to retire from the military aged 30, and has never stopped dragging the Monarch he swore an oath of allegiance too.
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Of course the 100K must also be tied to inflation and tax free, we all love free money, just need the suckers to pay for it.
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I wish they would ban open burning which is done is rural areas to get rid of their extra brush. That is far more harmful to the environment, other peoples' environments in that open burners will only set their fires when the smoke is blowing away from their house and towards their neighbors. Yes, it still legal in California, unbelievable but true and it really causes a great deal of harm. As far as gas stoves, get yourself a good range hood and filter system to get most of the pollutants.
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Tim I think 10X is the rule of thumb traditionally used by real estate investors. I also think think the lower multiplier makes much more sense in the current higher interest rate environment and after Trump elimination of itemized deduction.
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A severe health emergency (seizure) resulted in me waking up in the hospital days after my last memory. I'm not pointing to alcohol as the culprit, but my 3-4 glasses of wine nightly wasn't the relaxant I thought.I'm on day 77, completely clean and sober, and I can attest to significant improvements in every aspect of my life, from sleeping, to dreaming, to waking, working, outlook, cognitive skills, financials... everything.It's been an eye-opening experience..If you're considering a Dry January, that's a good indicator it's probably time for a change.Good luck. It's worth it.
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Active HOAs help maintain property values. Get active. Be involved. We have 2 open seats on our board and it looks like no one is willing to step up out of 300 units. I have been involved in an active HOA and a former HOA run by the developer's attorney. As of today, there is an above ground pool in the front yard of one of the units along with plastic chairs and a camper. The neighbors on either side of me hadn't mowed their property in 20 years. A neighbor got sick and the home was left unfinished for almost 3 years. The only solution was for all of us to chip in the cost to finish with no expectation of reimbursement until the property sold; which it did -15 years later. The other neighbor never did pave their entrance, so I got to eat their driveway dust for 15 years. It took forever to sell my home and I got almost $100K less than it cost to build. I'll take an active HOA any day.
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So much of Silicon Valley’s “productivity” (beyond stock prices) for the past several years seems to come from highly paid workers rearranging drop-down menus and relocating a check-box from one side of a web page to the other, refreshing a design or color scheme — in other words, window dressing. Gobs of people justifying their existence, but not really their salaries. So it’s not surprising there would be so much “bloat” in the system, and rather easy to cut jobs without raising the ire of users/consumers (many of whom don’t actually appreciate the constant tweaking and needless redesigns). But a closer look at this particular round of layoffs, with so many companies reporting layoffs in such similar numbers, reveals that the most likely explanation for them is a copy-cat motif, in which stock prices get artificially juiced by the announcement of the plan, rather than any significant change in the companies’ fundamentals. In other words, smoke and mirrors for short-term gain. But to the article’s point: It’s a harsh wake-up call for GenZ & younger Millennials. The rest of us have already been similarly burned by what motivates the C-Suite: greed greed greed. Our eCONomy is a shell game in which most of us lose big at some point, and few of us ever fully rebound. That’s what happens when shareholder profit is the guiding principle. And it’s why we are in the midst of another Mass Extinction. We need to learn how to serve one another rather than how to profit.
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There is a more fundamental problem. Government cannot regulate technology unless it can pay the regulators a salary that is vaguely comparable to the industry they are regulating. Government agencies are forced to hire beltway consulting companies because they cannot pay anywhere near market. So instead, the government pay market indirectly plus the profit for the companies. No wonder our regulations are a mess. Government pay must be normed to market rates. Conversely, government pay rates need to also apply to all government contractors. If a Programmer III pays $100K, then consulting companies should not be able to pay $200K and charge that, plus a markup, to the government. The government caps salaries that universities can pay on government grants. Why not cap what the government pays for-profit consultants?Then we can get competent experts in the government who will know when the corporations are shoveling manure and call them on it. We can get reasonable regulation for AI, the internet, hedge funds, and crypto...to name a few.
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Darn it! I got an estimate in early 2021 for an offer on my Crossover. It was astounding! $10k more than the dealership! It was so outstanding that I stepped back in suspicion. Ah well. Hindsight and all that.
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Let's say, for the sake of argument, that Hunter Biden was peddling influence. Those were pretty cheap bribes.It cost Saudi Arabia $2 billion to buy Trump through Jared Kushner.
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Amie Reisinger I am sure that this article produced for just 26:44 only sketches the big picture of what the Earth is undergoing. 'Buzz' by Thor Hansen seems to be a good resource. I would like to know more about why this was not considered important for the US to join in and it does seem to be a political battle; even though Biden's representative was in attendance and was trying to negotiate. The gentleman who accuses the US of taking advantage of other nations' biospheres and, yet, we aren't making attempts to help rejuvenate those areas is what I think was a most important takeaway.Presently, the trending topic seems to be AI, I thought this article was very well timed and I hope that your insight opens up more conversation and action in your community and that it pollinates other communities as well.I will follow Ms. Einhorn...but not on social media!
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Mr. Stephens repeatedly and now more frequently shows how far removed he is from ordinary Americans and how entitled he feels his financial demographic is. In the context of the discussion of IRS funding, no scrutiny of $400K a year and a Camry as transportation? What about the free choices these people made to live as they do? And all that their income brings them? Jaw-dropping arrogance.
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My first class in Fall 1971 at UC Berkeley, was in ecology, and was taught by Professor Arnold Schulz. He had coined the term ecosystemology, and was noted for applying systemic analysis to ecology problems. The textbook? "Ecoscience by Paul & Anne Erlich, and John Holdren, who would later be Obama's science advisor for 8 years. It had a very thorough overview of changes in troposphere because of increasing concentration of CO2 in the Atmosphere. This is 51 years ago. The AGU for the ENTIRE 51 years has been strangely quiet and in the background, rather than in the forefront of raising the alarm. Likely because a lot of money for the AGU has come from fossil fuel companies. As late as 2016 the AGU was accepting significant contributions from companies such as Exxon/Mobil (see "Exxon’s Donations and Ties to American Geophysical Union Are Larger and Deeper Than Previously Recognized " By Phil McKenna, Zahra Hirji and Lisa SongMay 26, 2016) The price of private industry induced inaction is before us. Even if we stop increasing CO2 this day, it takes 10 years for new equilibriums of CO2 /warmiing induced extreme weather to sort itself out.
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Any parent, teacher, caregiver knows these tactics. It's PLAYGROUND 101. "I want it my way and you have to do as I say or I'm not playing with you." What we're looking at are a number of spoiled children now costing the American Taxpayer (the 2-3 of us who actually pay taxes) $177K w/benefits for nothing more than a week of temper tantrums. They want change? Great. Give the president LINE ITEM veto ability. With a line item veto we might just see some reductions in the $1.7 trillion spending bill and eliminate the pork barrel 'bridges to nowhere', or maybe the other items listed at the time like: ''....earmarks passed by a Republican Congress included $50 million for an indoor rain forest, $500,000 for a teapot museum; $350,000 for an Inner Harmony Foundation and Wellness Center; and of course, as you all know, $223 million for a bridge to nowhere. I didn't see these projects in the fine print of the Contract with America, and neither did the voters.'' - John McCain - However, you'd probably get a President & cronies giving tons to whatever state/group let them pilfer the most for their votes. Like Trump's subsidies to farmers for his bad trade wars, (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/trump-farmers-subsidies.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/us/politics/trump-farmers-subsidies.html</a>) or Elaine Chao creating special 'liaisons' as Transportation Secretary to help husband, Mitch McConnell. <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/mcconnell-elaine-chao-1358068" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/mcconnell-elaine-chao-1358068</a>.How do you know politicians are lying? Their lips are moving.
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I would like to mention a third factor in the post-pandemic round of inflation that was recently visited upon us. An economic tsunami from the bottom up saw millions of people leaving their old, poorly paid jobs for new, better paying jobs, forcing many employers to raise wages to keep their employees. Walmart, for example, raised wages some $4/hour in a relatively short period of time (about two years) in order to keep their employees from leaving during the pandemic. Those increased costs to the employer were immediately passed on to the consumer. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't know that. We've all been to Walmart and faced the sticker shock on everything from panties to peanut butter. And despite the fact that this leaving present jobs for better paying ones will continue, we have probably seen the worst of it by now. As an aside to this, it is astonishing to me that Republicans are screaming about keeping government spending down when both the W Bush and Trump administrations increased the debt more than any of the Clinton, Obama, and Biden administrations did.
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I started working in 1986 as COBOL programmer on big IBM mainframe computers. This was a good career start in 1986. But somewhere I heard that it was better to get into « client / server » programming. And then around 1994 there was this new hot language « Java ». By 1998 I had escaped from COBOL and the mainframe and I was working in C on a Unix machine, and also some limited Windows C programming. But the arrival of the Euro and the Year2000 computer bug created an opportunity to work in France, the late 90s. A small company in Paris got me all the needed papers to work in France, and I came over to France from the U.S. in 1998. There was a lot of work, even after the Euro was in place and the year 2000 had arrived. After 9 months was hired by a bigger company, and in 2009 I became a French citizen. Most young kids run away from COBOL, but there is currently an estimated 800 billion lines of COBOL code in the world. Even worse, people like me are retiring. But in any case, I will probably be able to find work as long as I want to keep working. It doesn’t pay super well, but it’s a life. In fact, a good life.
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Unfortunate but unsurprising outcome for anyone confined to a tent during a rainstorm. California went from a $100 billion budget surplus last year to a current deficit of $29 billion. The homeless “advocates” blame a lack of affordable housing and mental health resources. Can the Times account for this astonishing mismanagement of funds? Or am I to conclude that people live this way by choice?
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I’m in my early 60s I love learning and have been taking one course a semester at my local urban public university for five years, mostly earth sciences. (I have 3 degrees already from my youth - did I mention I love learning?) One of the most important functions I serve as a retiree among the college age students is to show what learning looks like. I know a lot and have to ignore the pride that comes with that to be humble and open to new ideas. I have to do all the homework and struggle with the concepts (geochemistry, geophysics - not easy stuff). I take notes and share them with the students who’ve never learned how or why to take notes. I have to raise my hand and ask what feels like stupid questions. I joyfully answer questions when called upon, to show the joy in having mastered a concept. I have to risk my non woke self when we talk about indigenous people and geology. I have watched and helped many students go on to graduate even when they struggled with full time jobs or family burdens while attending college full time. I see the students struggling to stay awake after working night shift, and I take them for my lab partner, because lab comes easy for me and hard for them. The students know hard work, and seeing them work intellectually, and seeing them see it really pay off is gratifying and humbling.
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U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits Amid a tech cold war with China, U.S. companies have pledged nearly $200 billion for chip manufacturing projects since early 2020. But the investments are not a silver bullet. In September, the chip giant Intel gathered officials at a patch of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in two new factories to make semiconductors. Amid a tech cold war with China, U.S. companies have pledged nearly $200 billion for chip manufacturing projects since early 2020. But the investments are not a silver bullet.
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Pity the poor Professor who wants to flunk some million-dollar NIL-sponsored college athlete who is a no show for all classes and exams.The whole college sports industry in the US is a farce that corrupts education. Fortunately, the Supreme Court decision that forces the NCAA to allow college athletes to earn some dough will likely bring-down this whole tottering edifice.Up to now (pre-NIL) there was a stable equilibrium enforced by an exploitative set of rules—the college athlete would officially (if not always actually) be unpaid, while the college athlete would officially (if not always actually) be a regular class-attending, exam-taking student.Many college athletes (mostly black) at the wealthy D1 schools hated being unpaid, and hated being students, but they had no choice under extant NCAA rules, the effect of which was to funnel money to (mostly white) administrators and coaches.Post this Court decision, the better college athletes will have more options—in effect, more power. And they will use that power to negotiate exemptions from the rules requiring them to attend classes and take exams.Ideally, the players should be university employees like the coaches and administrators.
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BR Absolutely agree. Lets raise the tax rate on those who earn $5 million/year, no matter where that income comes from. Remember back in the 50's and 60's when the tax rate on the extremely wealthy (top 1% perhaps) was nominally 90%. Of course they didn't actually pay that much but it was a good starting point. And the income discrepancy was significantly less than it is now. Those were parts of the 'good old days' that the MAGA crowd doesn't remember or emphasize.
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I am currently dealing with this very issue. At almost 65, I have been a lifelong runner--first a sprinter in high school and college--the transitioning to distance running in my late 20's. My late husband was my coach and training partner. He coached me to a 3:27 marathon at 45 years old. So, no, I was not an elite runner, but I was better than the average runner.In March of 2022, I took a pretty significant header while trail running. I gave myself a few weeks off and then started back slowly. On April 6,2022, I was walking down a driveway and felt excruciating pain in my left knee. Could not move at all...had to get help to get to my car to drive home...long story shorter, I had torn the posterior root of my medial meniscus. I had a meniscal repair and was completely non weight bearing on that side for 8 weeks. Started rehab, and was doing quite well until December. Not sure if the repair failed or something else. Heading back to the ortho on Tuesday for an injection. My running helped me through the death of my beloved husband--it helped me cope with the profound grief I had. to not be able to run right now is torture for me. I had the repair so I COULD continue running, albeit not the 30 miles a week I was doing before the injury....I struggle...
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I'm a college graduate (engineering), and while I broadly agree with the spirit of this article, I think the message is sometimes over-simplified: E.g., “Instead of focusing on demonstrated competence, the focus too often has been on a piece of paper.”. OK, but isn't a degree/qualification just a certificate of competence, as demonstrated over a 4+ year period?A $100 bill is also just a 'piece of paper', yet that doesn't mean it's without value.I should disclose that I went to college in the EU (Ireland) where college is heavily subsidised, and so the financial barriers to access are probably not comparable to the USA.
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Alex Prop. 13 limits local property taxes to 1% of assessed value. So $30K to $50K in local property tax corresponds to a house valuation of $3million to $5 million. If one can afford a $3 to $5 million home, such level of taxation cannot be called a hardship. Long-time residents in their same home (with lower house valuations due to Prop 13 constraints on increase in valuation over time with same owner) are not likely Facebook employees in their 20s and 30s and are less likely to have their high salaries). Details matter.
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A fortune magazine article caught my attention. The cost of a home in the california bay area can be a million. To qualify, paying 20 percent down one would have to earn 210,000. With a ten percent down payment it would be 250,000. I bought my home in 1994 with a salary range of 40,000 to 50,000. Rents are also up a lot since 1994.A new car can be very expensive. Covid caused prices to rise as well. An EV can cost 40,000.So I can imagine how life is harder for poor people,but as I have always said poor kids and families need more support,and sustaining support.It will pay off.They will become productive and pay back into the system in taxes.Overall the economy is very solid and resilient.
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Miri the government failed to invest in schools, doctor surgeries and general infrastructure desite the increase in tax revenue from the Eastern European migrant workers. Also, all the English - I use that specifically as opposed to the word British - looked down on the "foreign workers" doing such so called menial agricultural work that they would never do themselves.It is typical of such English people who blame everybody, but themselves for such problems.
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Laura I did, too. My Y ran out of cash and went bust ~ 3 months into the pandemic (after operating there for 100 years), but prior to that catastrophe, I routinely walked to the Y every morning, swam a half mile as soon as they opened, and then spent 20 or so minutes in the sauna, just to relax. Interestingly, I noted that my blood pressure was measurably lower on days I had swum and used the sauna than on days when I had not. I think of it every time I walk by the empty lot where the Y used to stand.
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Santos was born in Queens to Brazilian immigrant parents.He said so.It should be easy enough to verify if he was born in Queens or not. If he passed the NY State Regents to earn a NY State high school diploma.To me, the Big Question is: where did all the money he gave his campaign come from? Who was buying a seat in the House for $700,000. and what do they expect to get for their money?There are lies... and there are crimes - some of the involving national security.
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One option is to sell the business to another PE firm. The new PE firm may think there is additional value that can be generated from the business that the first PE firm didn’t unlock. Another is to do a trade sale, where the business is sold to a company that believes the purchased business may complement their current business, thus creating synergies. Another option is an Initial public offering or IPO, where the business becomes a public company, is traded on a stock exchange, and is owned by the general public / a multitude of diverse investors. I believe there are other options, but these are probably the most common.
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Not just a tech problem. Coffee makers are great example. Most recently bought a $300 Capresso which lasted a little over a year. Opened it up to find the same water heater found in a $20 Black and Decker had rusted out - now wondering what manner the of heavy metals where ingested. Of course, no way to replace or fix and wouldn’t want to anyway with sub standard parts meant to become obsolete. Searched and found a coffeemaker made in Netherlands of all copper parts which should last a decade or more. Our Global Economy is predicated on a baste waste stream. Consumer diligence is a must to counteract and transform.
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Utterly compelling and unexpected episode. I did not expect the pauses (in the action and plot) to be so poignant and... moving. The mirroring of the first meal and the last meal between Bill and Frank. The depth of the horrors of the things left unsaid and unspoken - the mum with her baby being quietly and swiftly evacuated, the unfinished letter that Ellie stops reading, Joel's extended moment of private grief. Even the wilted flowers, melted down candles, and the curtains billowing in the wind as the scene slowly fades spoke of untold volumes. "It’s frankly remarkable that what is ostensibly an action-horror series could make time — in its third episode, no less — for an alternately heartwarming and heartbreaking short film about companionship. It’s as though the opening montage from the movie “Up” were extended to about 45 minutes and then dropped into the middle of “World War Z.”"I chuckled at Murray's references to this two very disparate movies. But the episode felt like something more.
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🌸🌸🌸 Same letter list, with mnemonics1/12/23an4al, annalIt takes an AN4AL scribe to keep adding “Nothing of import happened this year” to the ANNAL.atonal, tonal, talonThere is no such thing as an owl without a TALON and an (A)TONAL voice.atonally, tonally Early computer-generated voices spoke (A)TONALLY.baboon, nabobThe alpha BABOON is the NABOB of his tribe.baton, nanobotBender the robot hopes that the Singularity will pass the BATON of world dominion to a NANOBOT army.bonbon, bonobo, boon, noobHe was such a NOOB, he thought it a BOON to feed a BONBON to a BONOBO.bonny, bonyThat BONY lass is nae BONNY!lantana, natalMy grandma grows LANTANA flowers in my NATAL village.llano, loanThe developer took out a LOAN to fund paving the LLANO.loony, nylon, onlyThat LOONY tailor ONLY uses NYLON zippers.naan, nanaMy NANA loves to bake fresh NAAN.onto, toonJessica Rabbit turned him ONTO the, um, pleasures of TOON Town.Finding ways to link words sharing letters helps me remember them. I aim for drama and the bizarre, to make an emotional impact. Hope they help you. Good Bees 🐝🐝🐝to all!
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The most we ever paid for insurance was about $1,600 a month for a family of five for very good coverage, including vision and dental. Now my husband has Medicare and I pay $600 a month (through my employer) for excellent comprehensive coverage for myself and our youngest daughter who just turned 24. She will probably get Obamacare when I become eligible for Medicare.
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DL I've shared this point of view for awhile but was reluctant to comment in the past fearing it might appear too cynical. The "motive" is irrelevant because nothing will change. You don't need a sermon from a northern neighbour but as a frequent visitor to the U.S. I have a stake in this. Take a look at a few Canadian gun retailer websites to see what is required to purchase firearms. When you click on handguns they are virtually impossible to acquire. Open carry/conceal carry; good luck with that.
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Brexit was a huge own goal. The Conservatives daren't admit it because it would split their party wide open. Labour daren't admit it because a lot of their older voters voted for it and as we all know getting older people to admit a mistake is not easy.
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Well it's about time. For weeks we heard complaints that Democrats didn't do "oppo" research. Nonsense!The Nassau Republican Committee is exactly who should have known exactly who George Santos is. Did he drop out of the sky? Did he have the backing of a local municipality's chair?I'm a Dem town chair in a small town in Westchester County and I attend my county's monthly meetings. We know who runs for office. When Nita Lowey declined to run for reelection we have something like 9 candidates run in a Primary. And every single candidate was known to us, even the guy from California who's father founded Regeneron and moved back to NY to seek Lowey's seat. In the end Mondaire Jones won, and we knew exactly who he was, as he had worked in the Obama White House. He was vetted.The Nassau County Republican Comm. should be ashamed of themselves. They let this happen. There has to be more to this story, don't know if we'll ever hear it.Santos should resign. But he won't.In my opinion, Santos wanted to become rich. He had the perfect role model in Trump. After failing to win this in 2020, he found funding somewhere, Russia maybe?, and he hasn't reported it as he's required to do so.He claimed $40k in airline expenses. Sean Patrick Maloney, head of the DCCC in 2022, spent $8k on flights. Luxury living and fine dining are goals of Santos. So he spent campaign dollars on that stuff. Why not, there are no consequences for bad actions in DC. This is why Trump must go to jail.
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The title of this article says it all. "America, the Bland". I've lived in Seattle off and on since 1980 (ten years in NYC). Obviously much has changed in the last 40 years. In the 80's and 90's, Seattle's skyline changed, sometimes for the better. New skyscrapers were built and had enough architectural originality to be recognizable if not terribly inspired. After that brief interval building design began to slip and then crash until we now find ourselves in the land of interchangeable and profoundly uninspired 20 to 30 story business and residential buildings downtown (some are just server farms for tech companies) that have blotted out the sun on many streets (very little to no set-backs) and muddied the once recognizable skyline. There is special protection for the areas around the Space Needle concerning building height. Otherwise you can believe it would be boxed up by now.The 5 over 1 mania is in full swing here. I now live in a suburb that boarders Seattle and sit across from land that once held a major post office but was bought out by a developer who delivered three 5 over 1 buildings and decided that the colored panels would be shades of brown. It looks like a Soviet block building. The buildings are so close together that their windows are about 30 feet apart. The old long distance phone jingle of "reach out and touch someone" was never meant to apply to housing. Cheaply made, poorly designed housing is not the answer. Next up brightly painted shipping containers
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So please explain some thing to me. The President just approved around another $90 billion to be spent on military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Does this request or not even request but demand just automatically get put through with no approval from Congress or did Congress approve this. If we're bumping up against this debt limit, why isn't our president or Congress after approving these expenditures, automatically increasing the debt limit? If we can't afford this war then why does this country have to foot the bill for this war at the danger of imperiling all the other programs government funds. Didn't we just waste a trillion dollars on the 20 year war in Afghanistan.
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does anyone really care ?how about the people just a notch above these folks.....with children.....skating on melting ice....failure of urban America- run , in many cases, by DEMOCRATIC machine politicians .....make a list and see how many of these urban disasters are generations and decades long festering open sores that NOONER wants to address....avert your eyes...move to the suburbs....send a check....this is another failure of democracy.....shame on all of us
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Guy Rosdale Statements like “…the US currency may be under siege because of a national debt of $31.4 trillion” when the economy is sailing along (a bit more roughly currently but still no signs in the markets of an actual “siege”) are straight out of right-wing media. Operating with debt is just fine in the business world as long as debt payments continue to be paid on time. Wealthy benefactors of right-wing media flame the hysteria over the idea that governments can’t operate with debt because they want to force drastic cuts in social services and Social Security to fund the cuts they are ultimately seeking in their own taxes.
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How David Koch’s 1980 Fantasy Became America’s Current Reality. Koch poured $2 million into an embryonic Libertarian Party and knew he wouldn't win—but that wasn't the point. David Koch was particularly instrumental in legitimizing anti-government ideology—one the GOP now holds as gospel. [NewRepublic]THE SECRET ORIGINS OF THE TEA PARTY [TIME]How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Partnered with the Koch Brothers to take over the GOPDavid Koch’s 1980 VP campaign platform; the GOP TO-DO listAbolish the Environmental Protection AgencyAbolish the Occupational Safety and Health ActAbolish Medicare and MedicaidAbolish the Social Security systemAbolish welfare, relief projects, aid to children and ‘aid to the poorAbolish government regulated schools and compulsory educationAbolish compulsory insurance/tax-supported health and abortion servicesAbolish the regulation of the medical insurance industryAbolish all taxationAbolish minimum wage lawsAbolish the Postal ServiceAbolish the Federal Aviation AdministrationAbolish the Consumer Product Safety CommissionAbolish the Federal Election CommissionAbolish the Food and Drug AdministrationAbolish the Department of EnergyAbolish the Department of TransportationAbolish all public roads and national highwaysAbolish requiring safety belts, air bags, or crash helmetsAbolish all lending lawsAbolish all branches of the service except the ArmyPrivatization inland waterways and control of all water
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on the same page today: Woman in GoFundMe Scam Gets 3 Years in New Jersey PrisonProsecutors said Katelyn McClure and her boyfriend at the time spun a tale that helped them raise more than $400,000 for a homeless man. All three were eventually charged.She just didn't steal enough I guess.
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At this point, it seems classified documents could be found in my home... This reporting is problematic because the lack of specificity makes these discoveries lie on the same flat ground. The types of documents make all the difference. Not the number, the type. Are there numerous degrees of classified?Also, I want to know who is moving these documents. I imagine moving staff are doing it at the direction of WH staff...I doubt these men did the moving themselves. This is just plain frustrating. Lots of regular people are disastrous with their record keeping. But we just don't expect it from the country's leaders and their staff. Maybe Marie Kondo and her staff should swoop in do some organizing?Until a distinction or system can be made to assess the threat of these documents being in the open, it is difficult to know how much or how little to care.
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James, Toronto, CANADA With their $100mm Netflix contract they don’t even need to work for a living anymore. Put that in an S&P 500 investment fund and you can live a great life on about $5-$10mm/year in perpetuity.
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Maybe if we didn't spend almost $800 billion on the military we wouldn't be in this fix.
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Debbie Personally, I think Agriculture, as a part of California's economy is hugely important and should continue to be so. While it might now be a smaller percentage of the state's economy, Agriculture provides about $145B to the state's economy both in direct products but also associated revenues. But also, think about the tourism that Napa, Sonoma and Santa Ynez Valley wines generate. It's not so easy to separate the numbers.As I said above, I don't believe our politicians haven't started thinking big enough to solve our water issues. Israel is the most successful country in finding water solutions, but its population is about nine million. California's population is about 40 million with a about 18 times the size.
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My opinions on the Israeli government come mostly from my Jewish friends. If you dialed down the intensity of their feelings from (say) 10 to 1, you could call them “highly dissatisfied”. Unless the issues of human rights in Israel are opened up and debated honestly in an academic setting, the graduates of places like the Kennedy School will lack what it takes to separate genuine criticism from anti-semitism, and will more easily fall prey to strident name-callers like the current Israeli Ambassador. The United States as a nation will not be well served by this. A school of government at a place like Harvard can and should do better.
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They are not being paid. They are on a mission to pay back Putin for the pain he has inflicted upon them and their nations. Follow the money and you discover that Putin is after the minerals and farmlands that make Ukraine such a successful nation. He is greedy and desires more wealth for himself and his cronies. Russian resources have all been allocated and he needs to keep expanding to satisfy the greed of the oligarchs.
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Or you can wait for the sale. The mints sold at the High Museum during Kusama's exhibit had a price of $14. Much later we purchased the remaining items for $.99/ The pretty Kusama pins at the LA's Broad Museum were 6 bucks and buy one and get one free as the exhibit was winding down. I love the Kusama pencils from the High at the bargain rate after the exhibit moved on. Those the items that the rest of us get when we can never get through the door for the whole set of exhibits.
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Nowhere in your article did you mention the rights and concerns of the "rest of us", the non-Tesla lovers who at any moment may unknowingly and unwillingly become a victim of a veritable handful of people whose selfishness of throttling several tons of vehicle on roads and highways with dangerous, unpredictable software in control (?), has slaughtered multiple unsuspecting souls. I, for one, cannot believe that a society that prosecutes parents for leaving a child alone in a locked car in order to do a 5 minute errand, tickets someone for failure to wear a seat belt, and puts a six-year old child in handcuffs for problems at school, allows Tesla to experiment on public roads putting other drivers and 'vulnerable road users' in harm's way. Frankly, if you don't enjoy driving, please pay someone else to take you where you want to go, but for my sake, and others, please don't put me and others at risk for this. I don't want to be invested in it. I'll drive my car and hope that all the other cars have real live drivers too. And many, many thanks to all the safe & conscientious drivers out there, looking out for each other, mile after mile. May it ever be so.
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BT Well... hyperbole. It's taken 12 years. They had to get right of way and PERMISSION to SHARE USE OF THE EXISTING FREIGHT TRACKS and ROUTE. There was some govt funding but moreover the train tracks and infrastructure is EXISTING in use for freight except for 30 miles at Cocoa. A very old railway which was dedicated for future transportation mixed use by GOVT PLANNING in the 1990s. And of course citizens have a SAY. My own county delayed the thing all the way up to SCOTUS. That being said, the small portion that is complete is doing very well at 100K people per month between WPB and Miami. They did a nice job with improvements which include traffic signaling, parking garages, new sidewalks, street lighting, benches, bike racks, landscaping, and more. $15 one way for 1 hr and 15 min.
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sedanchair, you were not considered bad guys at the time you were allies. There were huge investments to Russia, including Volkswagen plant in Kaluga and many EuroChem chemical plants in many locations. Recall the IKEA stores and many other western brands in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Russia prospered from selling energy to Europe. Europe disarmed itself: last US tanks left the European soil 4 April 2013, and many countries discontinued conscription, including Germany and Sweden in 2010. St. Petersburgers made shopping trips to Helsinki and Finns took the 3-hour fast train to sightsee St. Petersburg.It's mind-boggling how delusions of a single man reversed it all.
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Mike If the US is supposed to have no say in what‘s going on over there, it then should also stop funding Israel with billions.
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The irony is that the Brexit vote is remembered as being swung by a campaign bus with the statement “We send the EU £350 million a week, let’s fund our NHS instead” written on its side. Voters can be swayed by the most ridiculous lies.
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Tim The Reagan tax cuts are not remembered very well. They largely represented a bipartisan effort to stimulate the economy and make the code fairer.The first Reagan tax cut in 1981 reduced the top bracket from 70% to 50%. The Democrats controlled the House, and all revenue bills must originate in the House, so the Republicans needed and received Democratic votes. The Recovery Act was passed in the House by a vote of 323-107. The second 1986 Reagan tax cut slashed the top tax rate from 50% to 28%. This bill was a compromise between Democratic Speaker Tip O'Neill and Reagan. Although differing on much, they were cordial and open to compromise.This tax cut really tried to simplify the tax code. It also increased the capital gains tax from 20% to 28%. It faced substantial opposition from both parties, but O'Neill and Senator Baker found the votes to comfortably pass it.Clearly the two parties had common ground on tax policy. Back in 1962, President Kennedy, in an address to the Economic Club of New York, stated the Laffer Curve, that is the basis of supply side economics:"It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now." Much of the deficit expansion was due to the massive increase in military spending that is credited by most, including the Russians, with being a major factor in the dissolution of the Soviet Empire.
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That wasn’t luck, it was theft of a Supreme Court seat. Obama should have gotten the first of those three picks, not Trump. They held that seat open for months to deny Obama his pick, then rushed the Stepford wife in at the last minute. By their own rules, that pick should have gone to Biden. Very interesting when it’s a Dem president we need over a year to fill the spot but when it’s a Republican and they are almost out of time they can fill that slot in mere weeks. Even a three year old can see how unfair that is,
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It’s a very good sign for the rest of the world and shows China used an intelligent strategy of waiting till the virus mutated to a weaker strain before opening up. That the numbers are already going down is absolutely remarkable.
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Tony Russia has no intention of taking over Ukraine, however it wont allow a NATO trained and equipped army to threaten its borders. That is how they perceive this as an existential threat. The US opened the can of worms by fomenting the bloody and violent coup on Maidan, and arming and training Ukrainians for the past 7 years as Ukr forces shelled Donbas (15K dead, mostly civilians). We need to push for an comprehensive European Security structure that includes Russia. Forces can be pulled back away from the borders by both sides. Ukraine will be neutral.
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A Nony Mous Yeah, this is a pizza humble brag. Pairs nicely with those "They had $900K, what apartment could they afford" stories.
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Professional woman here who loves working, truly, I do. But I am a single mother by choice. I was 45 when adopted my son through an foster/adoption concurency program when he was sixth months old. Parenting is hard, expensive, scary, amazing, and beautiful. What parenting is NOT a job, it is a life. A job is a job - and becoming a parent enabled me to see this. And though I knew it when I became a parent, having a child has shown me how very little infrastructor this country invests for our children, all of our children. If raising children was actually a job, and treated at the same level our current culture treats business, parenting would be much easier.
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NETransplant Chris Rock! Did you know that the largest small arms manufacturing plant, globally- is Lake City Army Ammunition Plant? Yup, in Independence, MO. Our U.S. government sells L.C. MIL manufactured ammunition on the open market, here in the U.S. to civilians.Sorry, the notion of a $1000 bullet is not likely. Further, the U.S.largest small arms manufacturer is selling ammunition into the civilian market. <a href="https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/features/northrop-grumman-and-lake-city-army-ammunition-plant-a-proud-heritage-of-service" target="_blank">https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/features/northrop-grumman-and-lake-city-army-ammunition-plant-a-proud-heritage-of-service</a>
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Eric B Wordle 576 3/6*⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 156🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WordleBotSkill 92/99Luck 58/99Mornin, Wordle Bees!🌅The pounding rain woke me up repeatedly during the night, but it cleared up by morning—a hint of blue is visible in the sky.🙏So, calmly, I entered my no-need-to-think-of-another-opener; I typed in my second word to turn 🟨 into 🟩, and it gifted me 2 more letters.After that, I expected to solve it in 3, unless I was careless and in a rush, as I often am.Boom!💥 Done!✅I’m happy with the 156-to-1-to word-found progression.😀
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Isn’t he worth tens of million$ ?
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Whatever her motivation to pursue public office, there is a valid point to be made here. The spectacle of a proven liar and fabricator with no comparable experience being elected to our House of Reps where he will earn $350K for two years of service has sparked the imagination of millions of highly effective folks working long hours with few benefits for much much less. And his coworkers have announced they will not work with him, and he can’t be fired. Why not me? I predict a surge of interest in public service by those who have hit the wall due to the Peter Principle. They have risen to the level of incompetence, but here is a good gig where competence is not required.
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yes
| 6,288 |
I wonder if young men, in the same situation have anything similar open to them? Alternatively, couldn't (shouldn't) the Rehearsal Club and Webster Apartments be Co-ed?
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yes
| 6,722 |
Our dog ran away a few years ago and I spent months checking a trail camera we put up to try to find her. Alas, never did. Saw lots of raccoons and a couple of beautiful foxes. This was in deep woods so no turkeys but in the open spaces turkeys have increased their numbers exponentially in the past 20 years. (I THINK they were introduced by the DNR to provide another outlet for hunting, but hunters are declining in numbers and deer and turkeys proliferating). Good time to be a coyote I guess. We never found our dog but did find and were able to return a different lost dog that once he appeared on the camera was shortly thereafter lured into a live trap with bait. His owners were very grateful.
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