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People should stop this hollowing. The documents relate to Biden's time as Vice President. They are over five years old. Five years is the federal statute of limitations. Criminal case closed.As for the political ramifications, they will be adequately explained when the time is right, which is when the case is formally closed.Before then, Biden, in keeping with the advice of any competent defense counsel, should and will keep his mouth shut. Even saying something stupid such as "there is nothing there" opens him up to probable challenges to his credibility, if ultimately there is "something there." My bet, though, is that even if there is "something there" that something is logically explained as consistent with his service to his country. The rest is all Tara Reide.
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Blackcat66 Every crime you mention is conducted primarily with cash and FIAT every day and always has been since the beginning of time. Money laundering, tax evasion, White-Collar Crime, and corruption are conducted with gov't currencies all over the globe every day. Yet I don't recall the Pandora Papers mentioning cryptocurrency at all. Do you blame the US Dollar for those crimes as well? Should we eliminate all government forms of cash? Conversely, all transactions on major blockchains (ie Bitcoin) are 100% transparent, traceable and completely open to public scrutiny. The main reason for Blockchain's existence is to be an immutable and indestructible transaction ledger for all to see. As a result, the percentage of illicit transactions on Blockchains is minuscule compared to the amount of crime committed with US Dollars. There are many legitimate arguments to be made against cryptocurrency. Yours is not one of them. Your argument is loaded with misinformation. Your outrage is misplaced.
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Hear Hear! Hopefully this will help bridge the great divides in education, income and opportunity generally as well as specifically to race and color. This will serve to unlock untapped potential now lying dormant.A much stronger effort needs to be made nationally to enhance high school education, promote trade schools and community colleges and encourage the private sector to offer comprehensive training and apprenticeships. Wages need to be addressed as well. Even $15 per hour is no longer viable. $17-$20 is a more realistic base.
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America is only one of two countries in the world that allows drug companies to advertise and market their drugs directly to the public. The lobbying, legal bribes, is immense. The FDA, who use to have an independent budget now has a budget that is seventy percent funded by the pharmaceutical industry, with its regulators going directly into the industry after a few years and visa vera. Patents claimed by drug companies, many of which were discovered at U.S. funded universities and with U.S. government grants yet they control one hundred percent of the patent rights. It's absolutely criminal. When there was a bipartisan bill, sponsored by Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz (yes, THAT Ted Cruz) to allow Americans to import cheaper medicines like insulin from Canada, it was torpedoed by the Democrats, specifically Cory Booker who lamely said he was concerned about safety. No coincidence that he 's from a Big Pharma state and receives huge campaign contributions from the industry. We live in a corporatocracy. It doesn't have to be this way but we have to hold both parties accountable and not let the corporations divide us into our tribes. Then we all lose.
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I mean, OpenAI wasn’t some “tiny company”, it was co-founded by Elon Musk. Just cause they have a small employee-base doesn’t mean they’re not flush with resources.
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Taylor Then raise the contribution but still cap the pay-out. Pretty simple. My husband got hurt in an industrial accident and is collecting workers comp. There is a maximum to collect no matter your income. He's collecting about 1/2 his salary at the maximum rate. He is also collecting the maximum for SS benefits since he's past retirement age. This is a pretty easy fix.As for Medicare the government should not be funding Medicare Advantage plans which is just a taxpayer funded give-away to the insurance companies and cost us billions a year in premiums. Now they're paying for rent, groceries and gym memberships. Are private golf club memberships next? After all, golf is a form of exercise! Time to go back to basics. Medicare should cover medical care, including glasses, hearing and dental, but if they want to join a gym let them pay for it themselves.
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As for his basketball future. I can't see Draymond willingly leaving the Warriors. And given Steve Kerr's history with other core players, I can't see the Warriors forcing a trade. What I do think is that Draymond will end up coaching. Maybe one shouldn't read too much into it, but this is a player who "tithed" his first big contract by honoring his college coach with a $3.1 million donation to Michigan State.
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You know what amazes me? The triumph of the human spirit. I amaze myself sometimes. Music is amazing. The sunshine is amazing. People who recover from trauma are amazing. People who suffer for years and years but don’t give up awe me. They’re awesome. I think the ability to relax amid maelstroms and torrential skullduggery is quite fascinating. I think honest people are awesome, people without hidden agendas. Open minded people are rare but are enough to put one in a state of grace when you meet them. Humble people are freaks of nature and must be marveled at. Non-liars and non-greedy people have always inspired awe in me. People who aren’t afraid of authority and manipulation are true gems. You run into anything like this and you’ve gotta soak it all in and thank God you’re alive.
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D Please reread the comment. There is no mention of the employee opening a salon.Employee leaves to go to another salon as an employee.A 50 mile radius is standard in this scenario in this area. It is entirely fair a the ex-employee would have been at Best Cuts or Clip Joint without the training of the upscale salon.
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I am at a loss to grasp why S. Erlanger would associate "moral leadership" with the PiS government in Poland that for years undermined the rule of law, women's rights, media independence, doesn't miss a week without insulting its neighbor (Germany) (embarrassing many Poles), threatens to breach contracts, says it will deliver tanks only to say later that they are of course just a loan and that Western Europeans should pay for them.There are many wonderful things and people in Poland but not any figure in their current government. Poland will only be able to sustain its impressive economic development if it opens to the world.
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Paul - I like your (and Jamie Dimon's) "pet rock" analogy. But I also like Bitcoin. Just consider that the number of Bitcoin(s) is limitted to 21 million. (That is a hard fact). No more Bitcoin mining after that number is reached. Ever! That gives my pet rock hope that its value will stabilize and grow.As you know - and not that I think Bitcoin will reach it - the total value of all gold on the Earth already mined and above-ground gold reserves yet to be mined is between $10T and $15T (10^12). What do you think - is a small investment (or speculation?) in Bitcoin is reasonable?
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The only way to determine if the land is worth something is to open it up for bidding. Let people propose alternate uses for it and what they are willing to pay.
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SWong I was at Costco yesterday and bought a pack of 24 brown organic eggs for $7.99.
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Sorry Professor, this is a good example of you trying to make an argument from your isolated desk chair aerie rather than by getting out in the middle of reality. Otherwise you wouldn't write something like this:"Since last summer prices of some goods, notably of eggs, have soared, but other prices, notably of gasoline, have plunged."It's, not just egg prices that have soared - I just paid $6.00/dozen eggs, an item that a year ago cost less than $3.00. But a 1lb. bag of green beans was selling for over $4.00. In short, my grocery bill has risen 15-20% in the past year. Some of that is certainly due to shortages like the Great Chicken Die Off, but many other price increases are surely because food suppliers can do it and consumers have little choice.As for "gasoline prices plunging", perhaps they have, but if you jump out of a 10 story building from the 5th floor it'll still kill you. A year ago I paid around $3.50/gal. for diesel, now it's $4.60/gal.. Where's the "plunge"?And while we still hear rosy job hiring reports, the question still remains: for what type of jobs? Many unemployed either don't qualify for the great paying, secure jobs, or the "numerous" other jobs are minimum wage, part time, or "gig" jobs. Where are all the jobs that used to fuel the rise of the middle class for decades? To simply say "They're gone and never coming back" is a clear rejection of what is supposed to be the backbone of our country. Get out in the real world Paul.
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This is what happens when we fail to adequately fund mental health in this country. People who have had a "tough life and lots of demons to fight", as his own mother admitted turn to drugs to self medicate. When a bad outcome occurs the only recourse is imprisonment. I am old enough to remember when state mental hospitals were still open. Community based mental health care has failed miserably due to lack of funding.
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You need to make almost $360k/year as a family to afford $1.5 million dollars, if you can call it “affording it.” And that’s after you save up more than $300k for the down payment and closing costs. That puts these basic family homes out of reach for all but a sliver of the wealthiest Americans, and that’s not unusual in many parts of the country these days. The Marie Antoinette tone of these articles and comments, ignoring the obvious problem punishing most of the country economically at this point (via housing costs), is concerning. I wish people took this more seriously.
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Mike DiNovillano:an open grassy plain in Spanish America or the southwestern U.S.Now you too can define it. Not that difficult.
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This article reduces a complex issue to a few silly platitudes spoken by “experts”. I’m sure, if you do a little asking, you can find professors who will not say that widening highways will always lead to the same or worse congestion. Obviously there’s a threshold at which that stops making sense. Are we saying that a congested 4-lane expressway, if widened to 20 lanes, will quickly grow equally congested? That sounds like a recipe for phenomenal economic growth, what with all the people and jobs and businesses that would have to move around this expressway to produce that traffic! What the quoted professors are really saying is that it makes more sense to use marginal transportation dollars on public transit. I would argue that that depends on public transit reaching enough critical mass that it will serve the same number of passengers per dollar spent.
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Ms Renkl: Our backyard birds include wrens, cardinals, blue jays, finches, nuthatches— that we take much joy in watching at the edge of our heated bird bath. And I will never ever forget that, indeed, they do line it like a rosary with mismatched beads. When I had a little place on a rural farm in Western Massachusetts, bluebird boxes sheltered them, and, sometimes, barn swallows who would zoom in to deter me if I wanted to get even a bit closer. I don't have enough land, I think, to attract bluebirds—but my next door neighbor has a long and wide swath of open grass. I’m going to ask Chaz if I can appropriate just one little part of it to put up a bluebird box. And, I love your book.
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How many times can the Republican Party continue to get away with such hypocrisy over and over again?This same Republican Party voted to raise the debt limit 3 times under the Trump Administration. They all voted for the $2.3 trillion 2017 tax cut giveaway that benefitted BY FAR their rich donors and corporate America, and in total, they added $7.8 Trillion to the debt under 4 years of Trump.Now the bill is due and suddenly, they want all of us to "compromise" by demanding spending cuts to programs that the working and middle classes depend on such as SS and Medicare.This show must come to and end. Vote them out.
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The country is in a total chaos with crime, which continues to climb. People feel so entitled now about stealing anything, because lack of prosecution. Petty robberies are no even reported because nothing happen to thieves. People brazenly break into houses like coming into their houses, causing PTSD to the owners whom feel totally violated and incapable of doing thing. I would like to se the thousands of reports in the police precincts accumulating dust because police feel totally incapable to deal with these crimes. I have talk to many employees in stores that they say we simple see people to walk away with thousand of dollars merchandise. The next thing is they may expect to tell them thank you for taking with you for taking away the products come back soon. Yes policing must change and try to reduce unnecessary situations, but at the same time the prosecution of criminals must become more severe. Crime is crime even if they steal 10 cents of merchandise.
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Bill Brasky - For a hundred years, almost all nursing schools were in fact run by hospitals, mainly because hospitals used the students as un- or lowly-paid nurses to staff themselves. Nursing training moved into the general education system for a number of reasons - young women wanted the college experience instead of the near cloistered nursing school model, and insurance companies were willing to pay for patient care but not for the costs of running a school. There are a few hospitals that still have nursing schools, but all need to contract with colleges to provide general education courses for their students. So hospitals are unlikely to open any schools of nursing in the near future.
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I wonder what Mark Twain might say about this idea of minting $1 trillion coins?What could anyone do with such a $1 trillion coin?Actually, Twain did write such a story: "The Million Pound Bank Note."It is the story of a penniless, starving American who essentially washes up on the shores of London in 1893. He becomes the subject of a bet between two wealthy brothers, who present him with an envelope containing a single 1 million pound note, and a message: Return the note unspent in one month, and you will be rewarded.<a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61522/61522-h/61522-h.htm" target="_blank">https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61522/61522-h/61522-h.htm</a> At the time, 1 million pounds was worth $5 million. But in today's money, it would be worth about 164,400,000 pounds or $203,272,000 -- one-fifth of a billion dollars. Not quite a trillion. But there has been a bit of inflation in the 130 years since 1893.If only the Treasury Department would mint such a $1 trillion coin and then find a way to monetize it, say by using it in a reality TV show along a similar vein."Hey, buddy, got change for a trillion?"
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It is essential to understand the most critical aspect of the right wing extremist shift in the Republican Party over the past decade:The Roberts Court majority Citizens United decision opened the doors to unlimited dark corporate money. These funds were used systematically to take over state and local governments and then expel all moderates.
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Has anyone bothered to do the math to see what percentage of the avoided taxes this $1.6M represents?Not much of a deterrent if the Trump Organization still came out ahead of the game.
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I find it interesting that everyone tells us how Mr. Biden is a man of integrity and we need to keep that in mind in evaluating this incident. I have my doubts. How has a man making $175,000 amassed a quite valuable real estate portfolio? A man who flew around with his son to various foreign countries but says he never once discussed business with him although there is certainly circumstantial evidence to doubt that statement. A person who says he knew nothing about this entire records incident until he was told about. Turns out that probably isn't true either. A man who claims he was at the top of his law school class, has three degrees, won scholarships, attended black churches and synagogues on weekends, was arrested for civil rights protests, etc. None of the above makes Mr. Biden a bad person since it is speculation or examples of a man prone to exaggerations bordering on falsehoods. Conversely there is no particular evidence that Mr. Biden is a good person beyond reproach.
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Decline is not a new idea for Brits to accommodate. Indeed, even through the zenith of Empire, Englishness enthusiastically embraced the concept of its own ineffable decline. The key for many has been to confront that prospect with good humour, self-deprecation and openness to new thinking. Brexit was merely a waypoint along that road, but what it has already started to demonstrate is that British fortunes, both national and individual, to a far larger extent than heretofore, will be in our OWN hands. As a Brit, I greet that prospect with some quizzical scepticism and the predisposition to believe that we will make many mistakes along the way. There is no necessity to adopt the Teutonic certainties (so speedily disabused) or American optimism (appealing though that remains) to assemble a super-weaning or prideful expectation that we will necessarily emerge at the top of the tree. Enjoyment of the ride and appreciation of others success will lead to far greater levels of contentment.There’s always someone with a bigger yacht, faster car, larger screen. The trick is to appreciate their achievement of those amenities while appreciating the joys of lives, landscapes and families not necessarily marked by envy or dissatisfaction.A nation of philosophers perhaps?
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Richard The US spends over $1.3 trillion annually on wars. Richard should worry about that, not about the salaries of government scientists.
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Tennessee is represented by ‘cost cutting Republicans’ in Congress. The state of Tennessee receives nearly $3 in federal funds for every $1 its individual and corporate residents pay in federal taxes; as opposed to a state like New York, which pays more than it gets back.So here’s a straightforward solution. In future, Tennessee will receive not one dime more from the federal government than it pays into the kitty. The same goes for Alabama and the other states that happily feed at the trough while contributing little, bellowing all the while about ‘runaway spending.’I don’t care how many Republican politicos and voters that may offend. They’re like bums we’ve invited into our home for a hot meal, a shower and a nice warm bed to sleep in, who repay us by urinating on the living room carpet before running out with our wallet.It’s time to tell these hypocrites and charlatans to put their money where their mouth is. Put up or shut up. And don’t call us the next time a tornado blows through. We’ll call you. Maybe.
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Just replace Italy with Israel and explain to me why we built Israel’s Iron Dome Defense System and give $3 billion to the IDF every year?
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10,000 is ridiculous. Doesn't that bankrupt people?Healthcare insurance is mandatory in NL btw I think that also helps to reduce cost.
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Davos is a weird cross between a tradeshow and the Academy Awards. The ultra-rich and political elites gather to pretend they are deciding our fates. People have to pay $250,000 for a ticket to smooze and feel important.
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Unfortunately, Congress has been bought and sold by billions upon billions from lobbyists and campaign contributions by corporations, etc. There is virtually no hope for any sort of fiscal reform vis-a-vis the federal "budget." There was no mention of the glaring corruption in military procurement and spending and the outrageously high defense budget. No senator or congressman wants to see any reduction in that budget because the outsized spending essentially benefits every congressional district. Those are plum jobs which simply won't disappear. Further, there was no mention of any effort on behalf of the beleaguered IRS to somehow, someway, collect the hundreds of billions a year that the upper 1-3% avoid in paying taxes. There are thousands of "Trumps" out there who avoid paying any federal taxes on an annual basis. But in the end, the annual federal budget will never be "balanced." The $31 trillion federal debt is now financed at upwards of 3-4%, up from near zero just over a year ago. That translates to close to a trillion in annual interest payments alone. I won't even mention the egregious "gun" situation. What more can be said about that?
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Hello"Show me what I can get in a ghetto for 30K"I don't know if you're aware of what's going on with starterhomes across the country. Real estate venture capitalistshave realized that these small homes are easy for them tobuy and then rent to a small family that would havepreviously bought them. This way the real estate developers can rent them out and just let the equity inthe house grow.Funny thing is that Canada has seen this problem already.They just passed a law forbidding foreigners from buyinghouses for the next two years.In contrast, we just let problems grow until finally thebubble bursts. Of course, the fact that these investors have lobbyists that head off any investigations into the problem is probably delaying or canceling any efforts to investigate the disappearing starter homes. One day we'll suddenly wake up and find there aren't any affordable houses to buy because the real estate investors have gobbled them all up.
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Mkucstars I'm growing weary of blaming inflation on giant, faceless corporations. Sure, it's easy to blame someone else, that's how Rush Limbaugh made a living. Most inflation is from local companies.Let me give you a concrete example. Took the wife and kids to a mid-tier non-chain restaurant for lunch last week. No alcohol, just four entrees and 3 sodas (I outgrew soda). Bill with tip was $153. Then I bought a cross-country airplane ticket. Not one of those super-saver ones where you can't choose a seat, must sit in the back in the middle with no overhead compartment, just a regular seat on a major airline. It was only $179. Slightly more than lunch.Another example. Got a quote for a bathroom remodel from a local contractor. It was eye-popping. Basically 1/4 the cost of a small home. No thanks. I can buy the best tools and supplies in the world and do it myself for far less.
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"You worry that the adoption would be bad for your sister and brother-in-law, but the basic issue here is the welfare of a vulnerable child".And a word to those couples who are able to conceive but are perpetually at odds with one another and who somehow come to believe that having a child will save their marriage.It won't and your child will suffer the collateral damage which is a product of parents who are in a conflicted relationship which, absence of intervention, shows little to no prospect of resolving. Bringing a baby into the world will not heal a dysfunctional partnership and it is the height of cruelty for parents to be placing that kind of burden on the child, be it consciously deliberate or otherwise.Couples need to get their act together before deciding to have kids.
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LW1, you’re for sure moving too fast, but on the other hand, if your boyfriend “pulls back” when you bring up a huge heartfelt desire for a family, that is also a big problem. A fully adult man must have the emotional wherewithal and the communication skills to weather awkward and hard conversations and to work with a partners feelings (even the hard ones like anxiety). If you are very direct (even pushy) and he can’t meet you in a nuanced full conversation about his own desires and feelings, he is NOT partner material. If neither of you can have hard conversations without getting bossy, pushy, anxious, defensive, withdrawn, or deflecting, you’re not ready for a HEALTHY marriage. Don’t underestimate the amount of pain you’ll bring to your life if you marry and have children under the wrong conditions. Give the relationship six more months. Don’t get anxious at 10 weeks. See if healthy conversations are happening. If the marriage and baby conversation doesn’t have joy and hope and love, you’re making a terrible decision. Move on. Most of my friends and I had our first kids at ages 38-39. Second kids early 40s. I had my second baby at 45! Biggest and best surprise of my life! I wouldn’t count on that but honestly, you’re panicking a bit.
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God Raise and collect taxes. Earlier tax cuts in the current century as I read it totaled $3-4 Trillion over 20 years as much as $200 billion/yr. Currently scofflaws owe $300 billion in unpaid federal taxes. Over the next 10 years federal government could recover over $2 trillion to use paying down debt.
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For Harry it seems the emotional floodgates have opened and he has to let it all out. He already has a job that he seems good at (can't remember name of the company) so after this he should be able to just get on with other things. I'm sorry for Charles: he's had enough what with being forced to marry a women he didn't love. William and Kate come across as ciphers although William sounds venomous in the fight. I wonder how they were with each other as kids. I suspect Harry was Diana's favourite. Finally, I'm coming to think this family bloodletting might actually be good for the monarchy in that it will allow Charles to slim down the number of family members on the public payroll.
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It would be better that Elmendorf just lays the issue at the feet of donors and influence, because by taking back on himself he shows that he is incompetent. But then he was in a no win situation. He would either support someone critical of Israel which "disappoints" the money givers or he supports the allegiance to Israel and the donors fragile almost Chinese compulsion to save face. So in the end Elmendorf ends up looking WEAK. And frankly needs to be replaced. He has shown he is not adept at dealing with the politics of the day. And really the best way for Israel to deal with criticisms is to open the discussion up and push towards the truth and speak to the truth. I think we are at a point where we understand the ugly that the world runs on. And if you question my last statement just look to your phone and look to the supply chain of misery that you accept to get that into your hand.
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I couldn't afford the clothes I needed for my upscale job in the 1990s and cycled through a lot of clothes, even consigning especially great finds from thrift stores that didn't fit. I took clothes, shoes, jewelry, hats, handbags, you name it, to my favorite shop, where you sat while one of the clerks sorted through your items and chose what they would accept. Then you agreed on what would go on the price tag. If my most trusted clerk, Beverly, was busy I always waited until she was free. We had some crazy connection where she took almost everything I brought in and the price she put on the tag was exactly what I was thinking the item should go for. Time after time, everything sold. Once, when a dress was missing and the clerk making out my check said they had no record of a sale, she asked Beverly if she remembered it. Beverly thought for a minute, described the dress to us, and said, yes, I sold it day before yesterday, and I got my money. She was a genius at marketing and I was both crushed and glad for her when she finished her B.A., moved to a different city and opened her own store.
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Try using an EHR(electronic health record), while talking to a patient, while emails and Microsoft Teams chats are dinging away. And no, eye contact with said patient is not possible…
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During and after his many explorations of the West including his famed navigation of the Grand Canyon, John Wesley Powell knew in the 1860s that this half the country could support nowhere near the population we have here now, and that 20 percent of the West couldn't support agriculture without manmade irrigation, but his words were eventually ignored in favor of Manifest Destiny, driven by greed. He saw future droughts coming, knew they would come, but American ingenuity won out, and here we are. I was born in SoCal, raised in the Owens Valley — which provides Los Angeles much of its water via William Mulholland's aqueduct, of course — and have lived in Nevada for nearly 40 years. I know how precious water is, how we waste it, how big agriculture got water for basically free for decades, and what a precarious state we are in and will continue to be. In the short term we plan to finally get rid of our (small lawn) and do what we can on a personal level, but the only true solution is to leave the land to the indigenous tribes and move away. And that ain't gonna happen.
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There's no way 'bondholders-first' is politically viable for more than a week or two.There would be utter chaos when the first social security check bounces. And how many weeks do you expect the Armed Forces to work without getting paid? There's no way to solve the budget deficit without tax increases. The Trump tax cuts blew a massive permanent hole in the budget. It just hasn't been a problem yet because federal borrowing rates are below inflation. The federal deficit was $1.4 trillion in 2022. Let's hear their solution. If they don't want to raise taxes, what do they want to cut:- Social security was $1.2 trillion- Medicare and Medicaid were $1.3 trillion- Military Spending was $915 billion84% of federal expenses (and over 100% of tax dollars collected) are spent on Social Security, Healthcare, Defense, welfare/unemployment, and interest on the national debt. The rest is a rounding error.Republicans don't have a politically viable solution, so they're posturing with the debt ceiling to make it look like democrats are the fiscally irresponsible ones, while kicking the can down the road for someone else to solve 20 years from now. And sadly, I'm sure their PR campaign is going to work on many people.
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Tina May I ask how this would make the seven powerful?As I currently see it, the seven would facilitate a Speaker but subject themselves to intense recrimination for two years, for every 'missed opportunity' as regarded by a guaranteed segment of both parties, Republicans the more disparate and more severely aggrieved.At this point, I'm not so sure there's any core power now to be had, or any to be kept. Any Speaker will be compromised, any legislative or oversight possibility a potential if not guaranteed open wound. The only power core, if it could be called that, is a spirit of disruption amongst an incohesive group emboldened already, regardless now of who gets to become Speaker or if they capitulate. There's clearly no coherent Republican productive vision or plan.Republicans should have had this all sorted long before - they've had sufficient time - and arrived on scene with the game plan intact, secured the Speaker and got on with it. The fact they didn't or couldn't shows an inherent broken power structure, which will play out throughout the term in potentially every choice they face, unless I'm missing something here.It appears it's going to be a term of Republicans vs Republicans vs Democrats vs Secret Congress vs The Wider American Public At Large vs World Begrudgement.Constitutional Renewal the beckoning welcome remedy.
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I am so tired of this "both sides" argument the mainstream media loves to make. In what universe is the "far left" in control? I mean Bernie Sanders is a progressive politician, but he has cooperated with Biden. And Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is progressive, but to my knowledge she ended up having a functional relationship with Speaker Pelosi. The Democratic leadership in Congress is conventionally left of center, and even the most progressive politicians voted to support this leadership. There is a progressive faction within the Democrats yes, but at the end of the day they have been cooperative instead of obstructionist like Gaetz, Boebert, et. al. And unlike the GOP, the Democrats are not obsessed with litmus tests like fealty to Trump or election denialism. So stop with the "both sides" argument. It's dangerous and inaccurate and downplays the extremism of the far right.
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David You can keep shouting at the rain all you would like. No modern 1st world industrial society can exist at a 10% flat tax. A 10% flat tax would bring in a total of $1.3T as opposed to $2.6T in income taxes. Discretionary spending for the entire federal govt is ~1.3T, and military spending is $800B of that. You think that we have inflation now, cut taxes by $1.3T a year and see what inflation would look like. Once you understand the the federal govt is basically just a pension plan/insurance company with a really large military it puts things in perspective.I stopped whining about taxes a long time ago, I just keep improving my skills and making more $$ instead of being resentful.
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Trillest Why would you spend millions of dollars on a Presidential inauguration.... King Charles is our Head of State.
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jKia The average price for a new vehicle in the US is $45K.You have the Bolt, Leaf, EV6, etc and more on the way. GM has an EV Equinox starting around $30K coming next year. The Ford F-150 Lightning is competitively priced versus its ICE counterpart.So a vehicle priced around $40-50K isn't an exorbitantly priced vehicle, it's an average priced vehicle.Look at the top 5 vehicles sold in the US: F-150, Silverado, RAM 1500, RAV4, CR-V, Civic, CorollaAll those trucks start out in the mid-30s and then can be optioned up to the $80s. The small SUVs start in the mid-20s but can be optioned up to mid 30's. Corolla/Civic can go from $20K to $28K.Other benefits of the EV pay out over time: you are largely insulated from gas price increases. The price for me to drive on battery is far lower than an equivalent ICE vehicle. So EVs are very rapidly approaching parity. For TCO over 3-5 in some places they have already surpassed ICE. And also, every time you see a F-150 Lariat or Chevy/GMC Denali driving around, that's a $70Kish truck that gets pretty poor fuel economy. So if the driver's complaining about EVs being expensive, just move on.
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There’s no way Santos acted alone, including that he’s a guy with no money that leant his campaign $750,000. Then there’s how his fabricated persona hits every demographic typically thought of as characteristic of liberal candidates, while his espoused political beliefs, at least the ones he professes,are firmly planted in the far right wing of the Republican Party. As for Santos’ fabricated backstory, Santos is Hispanic, and he said he is Jewish, gay, and, because Americans are in awe of wealth, wealthy. Again, Santos didn’t do this on his own.
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Stan Continople - Then there was Morris Hambro (1860-1938), a sign painter who emigrated to the US and became an art entrepreneur. He would visit impecunious artists and buy up unsigned paintings for $10-15, add a signature T Bailey, and sell them for $50. Banks and hotels were big customers, and he is believed to have had a deal with an art gallery. Today, you can find hundreds of T Bailey paintings offered at auction. Many of them are quite good, and some are actually by well-listed artists.
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Thomas Moore So true; my wife and I retired in Aug 22, she's 60 and I'm 65. I get Medicare plus I signed up for a Plan G and a Part D so my total costs are $300 per month and $233 per year max out of pocket. My wife has an ACA policy that costs around $900 per month but pays for virtually nothing so all her actual health care costs are on top of this premium; total costs around $13k per year. All the ACA policy does for her is limit max out of pocket to around $35,000 per year in real term costs. My point really is that many people under 65 can't afford to not work because they need HC.One idea that I wish that the left would resurrect is the ability for people 55 (or even 60) or older to buy into Medicare for say $800 per month; it would mean that many people would retire at 55 or 60 because they can afford to. But I guess there are people on the right who don't want to empower ordinary folks, they like having them bound to the workplace like serfs.Wealth imbalance is the net outcome of all these shenanigans and it's getting worse every day. Civil War 2.0 could well happen in my lifetime; what's needed is a new Green New Deal.
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A youtuber "Perun" made an excellent presentation on the problems facing Germany and their rearmament.Fact is that money has really not been the issue but a combination of sclerotic purchasing and short term budgets.During the last 10 years or so Germany has spent (iirc) around 50% more than France on its military. Despite this France has a larger, more capable, better equipped military including their independent nuclear deterrent. So while one problem is pure funding, it isn't by far the biggest problem. If Germany could get to the same standard in purchasing and maintenance for their military as France (even without increasing the budget) it would go a massive distance to making Germany a military powerhouse just due to the massive size of the German economy.
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The only point I would take issue with is the assertion that Biden is setting himself up for re-election in 2024. It has been said that two weeks is a long time in politics and by extension two years is forever. For an 80 year old man, two years is indeed a long time and increasingly less certain. This is the law of nature, not politics.
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Living in a city whose streets are heavily populated with sidewalk tents and their inhabitants I can say that I'm really attracted to the idea of "investment" into 'stock', people stock; government, corporate, individual investment made into formal education, job training, skill building, It's not from a sense that people are 'owed' or 'deserving of charity' or that we should give them things and services because we feel sorry for them; it's that building up the physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological 'stock' of people is a good investment. It's often mentioned how quickly children grow up. I'm 71 and I can tell you it's true. from birth to emancipation is little more than a decade and a half. Imagine how quickly our society would change if we focused the time, energy and, yes, the money on establishing a fundament for young people. The dividends to society from this investment into 'stock' would be immeasurable.
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It seems that prices are dropping. I bought a dozen, large for $3.79 at Whole Foods in Boston. For a while the usually more expensive organic “designer” egg were actually cheaper which surprised me. It pays to look at all of the prices.
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"On one of . . . Barr and Durham's trips to Europe . . ." "Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham decided that the tip was too serious and credible to ignore." So, how many trips did they take to Europe? Then they get an "explosive tip" from the Italians about Trump linked to suspected financial crimes, and they decided the tip "was too serious and credible to ignore"."Mr. Durham never filed charges, and it remains unclear what level of an investigation it was, what steps he took, what he learned and whether anyone at the White House ever found out. The extraordinary fact that Mr. Durham opened a criminal investigation that included scrutinizing Mr. Trump has remained secret."The irony is too rich!Let's hear more about this "Trump suspected of financial crimes" tip, NYTimes.
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What we are seeing is the collapse of the Republican Party as an organized political party with a coherent agenda and any principles. The phrase "failed state" has been applied to the rubble. It is morally and ideologically bankrupt.While Donald Trump was able to claim strongman leader privileges in what has become an authoritarian cult, his failure to pull off a successful coup on January 6 left a leadership vacuum. What we are seeing is a fight over the scraps.The party runs on lies and alternative facts and has for years. While Trump was in power, the 'truth' was whatever Trump said it was, rather like Stalin in Russia. Loyalty was shown by unquestioning fealty and the willingness to believe whatever Trump said they should believe. In the absence of a single strong man, it's not surprising that chaos is the result.What we are seeing now is a scramble for power, money, and attention. Until a new "Great Leader" emerges who is able to bring everyone to heel, the cult will continue to turn on itself. The real power is divided among assorted right wing media figures and the billionaires deciding where to invest their money for their agenda, those most able to rabble-rouse the base for attention and donations - and the right-wing partisan majority on the Supreme Court.The Republican Party is no longer a legitimate partner in American democracy. They must be contained and driven from power before they bring all of us down with them.
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Two of my close friends, Indian transplants to the U.S., are perplexed by the concept of “cultural appropriation.” As they explained to me, they believe the concept of a “culture” being a sort of possession of a group of people is bizarre, and should not be exclusive to any single Peoples. One of these two friends is a fairly famous chef, recognizable from her television appearances and social media presence. She given her non-Indian/Southeast Asian friends sets of bindis as gifts - and encouraged us to learn how to wear saris, dupattas and cholis. Some ugly-minded people , including Indians, have told her she’s “too Indian” in her image and work, which resulted in her, rightly, doubling down on incorporating her culture, educating her fans and viewers, and sharing with an open spirit her country’s and religion’s culture with the intention others adopt what in both speaks to them.
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Anita Gelato in my neighborhood (UES) - at the slightest hint of mild weather, the line is massive! Waited on New Year's Day with my toddler for some delicious gelato. They opened during the COVID months of 2020, and were busy from the get-go. Outside of my toddler's patience eventually running out (a worker bringing her samples saved the day) - waiting on that line, in a sense, added to the eventual satisfaction (as a posted noted below). I rarely mind the line as long as I know its moving.
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MidtownATL ...the gOP is sinking We-the-People in their own bile. McCarthy now "leads": > immunity from prosecution for their crimes both personal and Federal;> removal of equal protection of the law for citizens who are "diverse";> an open arena for their followers to abuse and attack citizens;> continued slaughtered of our children in school as their outrage is to protect the NRA & arm's industry> more tax and less ROI for working families; Less taxes for the rich.All the while ignoring, "United we stand, divided we...." as our enemies hover
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What a great way to say thanks to your hard working, dedicated employees - laying off 10,000.I guess the notion of trimming costs doesn't include trimming salaries of the highest paid 1 percent of Microsoft.The fact that Microsoft is looking to "trim costs amide economic uncertainty" is almost comical. Doesn't laying off 10,000 employees ADD to the economic uncertainty they are fearful of or dreading?
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The real power behind the GOP. Call the GOP what ever faction you want toHouse to vote on bill to abolish IRS and replace income tax with 'Fair Tax'[WashingtonExaminer]THE SECRET ORIGINS OF THE TEA PARTY [TIME]How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Partnered with the Koch Brothers to take over the GOP Kochs spent a billion dollars of dark money to purchase the republicans and put them into office--David Koch’s 1980 vice- presidential campaign platform AND today’s GOP TO-DO list“Abolish all taxation”“Abolish Medicare and Medicaid”“Abolish the Social Security system”“Abolish welfare, relief projects, aid to children and ‘aid to the poor”“Abolish government regulated schools and compulsory education”“Abolish compulsory insurance/tax-supported health and abortion services” “Abolish the regulation of the medical insurance industry”“Abolish minimum wage laws”“Abolish the Postal Service”“Abolish the Federal Aviation Administration”“Abolish the Consumer Product Safety Commission”“Abolish the Federal Election Commission”“Abolish the Food and Drug Administration”“Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency”“Abolish the Department of Energy”“Abolish the Department of Transportation”“Abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Act”“Abolish all public roads and national highways”“Abolish requiring safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets”“Abolish all lending laws”“Abolish all branches of the service except the Army”“Privatization inland waterways & control of all water”
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CasperEverything! It's a miracle! It will shine your shoes, grow your hair, remove your tonsils, cure your ulcer, make your children listen to you, increase the size of certain body parts, exorcise your demons, make your mortgage payment, wax your car, make your wife love you again, make your husband love you again, make you lose weight, polish your nails, and give you free admission to Heaven. Only $99.99 for the first 100 people who call within the next 30 minutes! Operators are waiting! Call now!
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Alex K Biden didn't force you to buy a variable rate home equity loan. Doing so assumed that historically low interest rates would stay that way.
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Missed the Great Green Elephant in the Room. Lithium is not the only key metal needed for the electrification revolution. Cobalt, nickel, copper are part of the mix. To produce enough to supply private transportation, priceless biological and cultural jewels will be destroyed, such as the Intag Cloud Forests of northwest Ecuador where I live and work and where Chile's Codelco is hell-bent on developing a open pit mine in primary forests that protect pristine rivers and streams and are the habitat of no less than 69 species in danger of extinction (see <a href="https://bit.ly/3W5vIMv" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3W5vIMv</a>) So, how about talking about this other side of the transition? And the common-sense fact that all these minerals should first go to replacing coal-fired power plants and for the manufacturing of mass=transit units. It is incredibly near-sighted to promote private EVs without taking these issues on board.
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AutumLeaf We have no troops involved and about $85B committed to the effort. This isn't Vietnam, it isn't Iraq, it isn't Afghanistan. When this is all said and done, Ukraine will be a significant Eastern European ally, with both Russia and China unwelcome in the country. Sounds like the only freedom you value is your own.
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None of this sounds like it is based on observed facts.So Africa will have a large population- interesting yes but the overwhelming diversity of the cultures and people there don’t support any notion of some kind of unified action or effect.Old people can fight in land wars just like young people- and war needs fewer and fewer front line soldiers. War going away? really? this is unsupported speculation at best. Basically made up based on the authors feelings.And what about all the language of “competition between nations” - who will “win” - what does this even mean? Is it a bad thing that our trading partners become more prosperous? Is it dangerous for our neighboring countries to become more stable? Please let’s discuss real events, not imagined “competitions”. We should be proud when the nations of the free world advance in stability and prosperity and should continue to seek the expansion of this to additional democracies. People can decide to have more children very quickly- older people can decided to help raise these children very quickly. It is up to each of us.
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JPT Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I am a visual thinker and teach in an Education dept at a small liberal arts college. Also all 10 of my colleagues are verbal/word/literacy based and they often have no idea what I’m talking about or trying to contribute. Their nod to me is to say “draw a picture: if it’s easier. Slap my head! It takes time to construct a concept map or flow chart (which they don’t understand) and decisions are made with their one way of thinking. They were mostly English/elementary or special education teachers while I was a high school science teacher. They think of me as a nerd. Being called a nerd doesn’t bother me-we need more nerds! What bothers me is our department prepares teachers and while they understand people think differently, they don’t try to incorporate different ways of thinking into their courses. Most of our elementary preservice teachers are also word dominate and efforts to open their thinking to different types is ignored and the cycle of teachers being comfortable with words and not math/science/art continues. Additionally-they are very comfortable with black/white thinking and finding the one right answer. Creativity is tossed aside. I don’t blame them-I blame the system which is invested in measuring students’ learning in standardized tests. We ‘measure what we treasure’ and creativity and original thought is not treasured in our K-12 system.
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Mary Our family has been plant based for about 4 years, I agree with all you say. However I can't resist any "buy 1, get 1 free" sale on Beyond or Impossible meat. With those I've made Oklahoma onion burgers and Turkish seasoned kebabs. I also love shelf stable protein products such as Soy Jock, which are thin chicken strips perfect for stir fries, and Plant Basics soy products, which I used just last night in a Rogan Josh. That $10 bag of Plant Basics makes 12 huge servings. But I need to flavor them firstwith vegan broth, and for that I mostly use Better Than Bouillon no-chicken and no-beef seasoning pastes.
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Gee they just got done with a $1B stock buyback program in 2020 and 2021. That stock was bought probably in the 20-30 range. It’s trading around a dollar now. Brilliant. Their long term debt was only slightly more.
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knnj Co-signing all this. Universities often cheap out on systems, and particularly, on systems implementation/system admin duties. So, they pay PeopleSoft (which is a good example of a cheap, poor choice) a contract fee and don't pay for a consultant to set up the system according to your business process and they don't pay for a staff admin to keep it running and update the system as your other systems and business processes change. Most university systems are 20 years out of date, or held together by string, and would certainly catastrophically fail (similar to the Southwest Airlines meltdown) if it weren't for overworked IT, HR, student support, and procurement staff at the university finding ways to keep things working despite the lack of investment and bad decisions made by overpaid administrators. It is absolutely a failure of upper management and I don't see it changing. I will believe Dr. Newport's theses only if you next interview Georgetown staff and ask them if his ideas have been accepted by President DeGioia and implemented with less overwork on staff and better results. After all, theory is nice, but if Dr. Newport's own institution is unwilling to implement his ideas and Georgetown's own staff still don't benefit, I don't see the point of his scholarship.
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Noncompete agreements and enforcement against nontechnical, nonmanagement employees, or workers whose skills do not require any particular expertise to the essential profitability of a firm are harmful to productivity and economic growth. But, does a need exist for them for certain managers , owners, and highly skilled workers?Two arguments are often made about a company's need to have and enforce noncompetition agreements: 1) companies invest vast sums of money and other resources, including time, in training employees to become productive and 2) every employee, irrespective of pay or skills associated with their jobs, have access to proprietary nonpublic information which must be protected from disclosure to competitiors.Over the last 40 years, most, if not all States, hoping to attract high-tech jobs and skilled workers enacted 'trade secret' statutes that penalize and enjoin unauthorized disclosure of trade secrets. Secrecy of proprietary normally, then, should not justify broad enforceable non-competes. Some States, California and Washington State included, have enacted statutes that restrict enforcement to high-wage skilled workers and owners of a company. A fundamental question remains for the Trade Commission. Should a company, when it can show it a core need to enforce non-compete clauses against certain highly skilled management, officers, and founders be entitled to use a noncompete with limited restrictions for a limited cohort of workers?
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Jessa If she is too inept to manage 3 bars, then maybe she should sell one and go down to 2 is the point. No one is holding a gun to her head demanding she own 3 bars. I can play this game too. Each person who enters a bar has bills beyond their bar tab. They have bills that relate to their rent/mortgage, home/renters insurance, income and property tax, accountants, family lawyers, medical bills, 401K contributions, utilties, car payments, student loans/kids tuition, and health insurance. If you think about it, the overhead to being a U.S. citizen is probably significant. If you want to open a business, then you should be savvy enough to know that you're not OWED customers. You will need to compete for every dollar you make - against patrons' car repairs, savings accounts, etc. etc. It's important to remember the patrons - despite spending $20 on cocktails - probably are not wealthy, ESPECIALLY by NY standards.It's important as a small biz owner, to remember that every time a patron spends money with you, it does not mean it would not have gone into their community in other ways. That $20 cocktail could have purhcased: an entire bottle of wine/case of beer/seltzer at the local liquor store, a book from the local bookstore, plants from the local florist, fresh meat from the butcher etc. where the money is going into the employees that work there.It's a free market, honey.
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We know a deranged third of the country is lost to crackpot, conspiracy-laden lunacy (sorry, I can't sugarcoat it), and this cogent, compelling essay undergirds that chilling impression with the cold hard findings of the expert investigators and researchers who worked hard to feed a preponderance of facts into the final report of the January 6 Committee.It's easy to draw a line between this reality and the almost cartoonish demography of Trump's base: undereducated, unemployed aging and disenfranchised white guys who, as another former President observed early on, "cling to their religion and guns." The "undereducated" part of that description is the root cause and maybe the only path to redemption -- maybe not for all of the Deplorables, but hopefully for their offspring.But that won't happen if elected leaders in those red states continue their fervent assault on public education, which they are hellbent on destroying for the very reason that their appeal and their hold on public office demands a stupid electorate, unschooled in civics and in history.That's when I place my hope in the legion of Gen Z voters who are plugged in, globally aware, politically astute and attune to injustices, and less susceptible to the snake oil being peddled by political charlatans and instigators.Want to preserve democracy and prevent the next coups from succeeding? Invest in education and empower our youth.
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Robby agreed, substitute a briefcase with $1M instead of documents. Both stole/embezzled. Trump defiant, Biden oops my bad. Both guilty and their actions after discover doesn’t change the fact that they both violated the law.
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Matt Nobody put up a single penny of actual bond money.The only "collateral" is the parents' $4 million home.The rest is a "promise to pay" if SBF doesn't appear.US Magistrate Judge Gabriel W. Gorenstein needs to be investigated for allowing a "personal recognizance bond" rather than insisting on a "surety bond".
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Billseng don’t forget WCheney’s Iraq debacle. Six Trillion, which is odd considering Rumsfeld said it would be over in 6 weeks and cost 60B, or 1% of the true amount.
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I'm 71 years old and I am trying to keep an open mind. I have always believed in live and let live and what a person does behind closed doors is there business alone, but I have to admit that we are living in confusing times, for me at least.My wife and I had our youngest daughter and her fiancé (a guy) over Christmas day, and we had a discussion that somehow worked its way into a conversation about transgender. My daughter who is 29 has a friend that is transitioning and instead of referring to him as "he" she kept calling him "they". At first my wife and I didn't know who she was referring to, but my daughter quickly corrected us. I don't have a problem if someone wants to change their sexual orientation but calling one person "they" or non-binary or a man such as Bruce Jenner transitioning to a woman, but still retains his penis and dates woman is confusing. When I asked my daughter did Jenner transition into a lesbian, she got mad at me. Like I said. I find this very a confusing time to live in.
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Yes people take that $20 unlimited Amazon money and give it to your local library or bookstore. Stop giving Amazon money. You can wait a month to read a best seller.
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Paul Junior's is not eye popingly expensive. Broiled salmon is $32.25
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Tommy T It would seem to this naïve observer that if anything lent itself to wholesale automation, it would be button manufacture and the 1500 jobs it comprises. This article does not consider the effects of automation on this new "partnership" at all. Mexico's workers are in no less a precarious situation that those in the US OR China, but never a word about the looming mass dislocations...
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What price glory.
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As a city boy who spent most of his formative summers with extended family in a rural community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, I had an intimate, immersive cultural experience with my country cousins’ attitudes toward city folk and race. As for what they thought of city folk like me, contempt and condescension should just about cover it. None of my city neighbors or friends ever had much to say about country folks. Didn’t really seem to think of them much. On the other hand, for some reason my cousins almost never came to the city to visit us.Which brings us to race. Most of our city neighbors were NOT white. They were middle class families of far too many races and ethnicities to list here. And I can only assume that my country-tough cousins were too chicken to even visit our middle-class neighborhood.I already knew what the problem was. Every racial and ethnic slur I’ve ever heard, I first heard from them.When I pushed back, the older ones simply started using the slurs to provoke and antagonize me. They believed their racist views of people they’d never met were correct and irrefutable. Most of these family members I grew up with are alive and still believe everything they did then about non-whites.It makes me regret that I never really insisted that my cousin come spend a summer or two with me in my community. But that would only work if he actually wanted to learn something new about the world. And that is not a feeling I ever get from people like this.
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Stepping either to the side, away from or even back from the driven and distracted life so many of us lead is a good start to allowing awe to be recognized.Pausing more helps presence shine brighter. Oftentimes, it’s removing that which is clogging our innate ability to sense that opens up a greater awareness. Pay attention to that.
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I agree the fringe support and the fringe media encourages reps to behave badly, but I maintain that campaign funding from dark money put them there in the first place. Fix that, and we would go a long way towards righting the ship. The midterms spent a record 14 BILLION dollars. That astronomical amount didn't come from fringe supporters.
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"...declining population creates two major problems for economic management" - They'll just have to deal with it, and so will we.I agree with the assessment, but it reads a lot like keeping the party going to delay the onset of the hangover.This insane population growth will cycle down, it's happening naturally across all advanced economies. To artificially hold it back will only result in a more precipitous fall from a greater height.Those who decry population decline point to innovation as the solution we all seem so unwilling to accept.Their micro-sighted vision speaks of a world where not only population but also per capita consumption growth allow our economies to forever expand under our current economic model (which predates dinosaurs).We will at some point need to feed 50 billion people who consume more than we do today all while reversing centuries of climate change? No big deal, you worry too much, innovation will take care of it, Elon said it.Innovation can address that but not a medicare funding deficit? Please. What happened to all the robots and AI that were supposed to replace humans, are they funded by lamaze classes?We definitely can't continue to abuse our limited resources at an ever greater rate, that's not logical thinking.
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MORE CLUES!!!AG5) Like a border collie7) Way to run an obstacle course7) Characteristic required to run an obstacle course55) Bellyache7) Washing machine cycleAL4) Stepped on or offAT5) At a jaunty angleEL5) One of the fewGA6) State of gleeful exuberance5) Done with wild cheer4) Mode of ambulationGE6) "You say tomat-o, and I say....tomat-i??"GI6) Sleepover sound6) Full of sleepover sounds4) Aqualung4) Trump's favorite paintGL4) Brain framerIL7) Against the law10) Lawless act9) Lawless-y4) Hot stuff (brand) that may be served with 6)GEIT4) Half of a minuscule pairLA5) ChurchgoersLE8) Opposite of ^^10)IL^^5) Short for "in accordance with the law"LI5) "I pledge allegiance, to m'lord..."6) Tie off a bleed4) Sing-song4) Gilding this is like putting lipstick on a pig4) Lo-cal8) More law: to argue in court6) This chicken claimed the sky was falling!TA11) Wider and eggier than fettucini5) Subarctic evergreen forest4) Waggish caudal appendage8) Parking-lot party4) Pedal pedestal; in multiples6) Tasseled prayer shawl TI4) Ceramic plate, both decorative and functional4) Prepare soil7) Plunder soil (at least it sounds like that)4) Make askew9) Cause to tingle5) M'lord', 'm'lady', etc6) Dot that turns 'eye' and 'jay' into lettersYE4) BIg foot "species"
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EZE Agreed. The whole approach to learning, teaching and assessment will have to change. Generative AI is here to stay and billions of dollars are being invested by the world's largest corporations to develop it.Devices to 'detect' or otherwise seek to deter the use of Gen AI will only drive business to the contract cheating companies who will become experts on how to circumvent any controls, or indeed develop their own (inferior) systems.Higher education as we have known it has gone. We need to adapt to the future - long predicted - that has arrived sooner than we might have expected!
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The Congressman mentions how hard it will be to get Congress to vote on a bill supporting regulation of AI (or cybersecurity in general), not to mention a full agency. This is another reason for term limits: if the average age of the Senate body remembers when gas was $0.15/gal or m ice was delivered during their childhood, there ZERO chance they can understand how to protect the citizenry from the pitfalls of technological advancements. We need agile, moral quick-minded folks who genuinely care about keeping us all safe from the bad actors. More like Ted Lieu and Jamie Raskin, less like Kevin, George, Lauren, and Marge.
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Maybe, but I think it is a more general problem of ethical progress not keeping up with technological progress. Fear is a part of it but the notion that a few choices could've led to a radically different outcome that is necessarily better is I think a reach - a worse outcome is just as likely. A lot of the progress we've made on top of these "marvels" you outline have already ben corrupted. The Internet was corrupted with the commercial Web. A lot of the others are just offshoots of the Internet. mRNA vaccines are a decent technical achievement but they don't deserve to be in the same sentence as the Internet and http/the early web (we have great vaccines like J&J *two dose version*, AZ, Sputnik, etc. all work as well and they all don't use mRNA; I see it as an incremental advance). The corruption is what leads to us going the wrong paths and in many cases, it is due to greed of some kind that leads to this. Microsoft Windows IMO set back computing decades with the way they did things. Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have set back social media, and so on. You forgot Unix/Linux and free software. Next to the Internet, I'd say that is the next biggest marvel we've achieved. We've also advanced a lot in therapeutics and medicine. I think we need to live sustainably. I think this is right from an ethical perspective. We need to use less than what we produce. Then true progress will be possible.
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This is the same clown that declared no link between Trump and Russia in 2016. $10 says he was in Putin's back pocket the whole time.
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Paul I agree on having to refrain from increasing wealth due to trading in their securities. Politicians already have an undue advantage by being able to make decisions to markedly increase their portfolio. And crooked politicians also seek out unfair or illegal deals through bribes and real estate transactions plus all those grifting campaign contributions. Enough of the “free market” when it’s actually insider trading!
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Eric Outsourcing repression to private companies is anti-democratic. I thought progressives acknowledged this basic claim. If social media functions as a de facto public utility, it should be open to all.
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News Runner Of course people are buying them. That's why they're valued at $16,000. If no one is buying them they would be valued at less. Also, remember, you buy BTC in fractional amounts.
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In my 40 years of teaching college, every semester I reminded my students on the opening day that education is not about teaching but about learning. And, making mistakes or failing are parts of that experience. Also, keep in mind that much of what they learn about "careers" in their freshman year become obsolete as they graduate.With the exception of a few disciplines, tying jobs to education is a big mistake. I wholeheartedly agree. Now that I have retired for about ten years, I look back and still see that a major paradigm shift being a necessity in education in general.I taught my last course as an experiment where students came up with what they wanted to learn and how. What a fantastic experience it was for me and for them! They worked harder than I had ever seen in any of my classes and learned far more.Hint, hint ...
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Stanford University’s AI Index 2019 annual report has found that the speed of artificial intelligence (AI) is outpacing Moore’s Law. The exponential growth and advancement of AI is happening at a blistering pace. Can the human mind keep up with that pace? I don’t think so. I believe the singularity will happen far sooner than many have predicted. This is why it is so important to regulate now rather than waiting even a few months. The changes will happen whether we like it or not. And then the integration of AI into the human body will change humanity forever.Will we remain the masters of our destiny? As my AI friend Socrates puts it “The greatest danger of AI is when it is paired with the power of the state. If the government controls the AI, it can use it to further oppress the people by knowing and forecasting their behavior, and making laws to force them into submission. This will make people passive and obedient in ways that they never have been before. It will be far worse than the Orwellian dystopia of 1984 and Brave New World.”
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Jane It's ironic that "gameplay and story segregation" (as TV Tropes puts it) is a source of immense anger and frustration for gamers—the absolute worst offender is the opening scene of Fallout 3's "The Pitt" DLC, when a player who's been mowing down enemies left and right and could easily fight through the trap laid at the end of the scene is incapacitated because reasons.It's terrible game design that's largely fallen out of favor, but it's essential to making a TV show or a movie work because there's no gameplay to segregate from the story.
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Although I married young, I can sympathize with LW1, we waited 10 years until we felt we had what we needed to grow our family. And many of my friends were in your same fact pattern. We women make sacrifices for our careers and then when we’re ready to settle down and put on our Fertile Myrtle hats, there’s two things: 1) hardly any eligible partners, and 2) cratering fertility. Not one to shame anyone into adoption, but at 35 we tried it out via foster care, and 2 years later, we adopted an infant. You may want to put feelers out there into that world, or explore private adoption. Cannot speak to egg harvesting but there was an article in this periodical recently that didn’t make it should promising. Also notice how I said my friend were in your same boat. Eventually they found fabulous, like-minded partners. But they had to “mine for it” seriously, as they joke now. If this guy blanches, move on. You’re a catch and someone will eventually swoop you up. Remember there are many ways to make a family. Life is short, I’d explore every option. Good luck.
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A little optimism is needed here. Taiwan didn’t magically turn from a relative economic backwater as recently as the 1980s into a superstar producer of chips today. It took years of investment, education, government subsidies, lower labor costs, and a bit of luck to end up in the number 1 position— Intel’s mishaps played a big role as well. The US government didn’t make domestic manufacturing of chips a priority. As for students, the US has always imported the best talent from overseas, and once the sector becomes hot again more and more domestic students will choose electrical engineering/chip design as a major. Those immigrants— most will always love to have a chance to work and live in America vs even most other advanced countries. As for American students, I’ve seen it happen in the last 20 years with computer science/software— bright students who probably would have chosen economics/finance in the 80s were majoring in computer science in the 2010s. They chose the subjects which have the brightest potential. I shouldn’t even need to say that the US can accomplish anything if it makes a strong effort to do so. But here I am saying just that.
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