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i love talking to strangers - especially in my topanga canyon neighborhood. i chat them up about their dogs, their holiday decorations, the occasional mail theft, their beautiful children, their beautiful children's drum practice, the rainy weather, the raging waterfalls on topanga canyon blvd., the gratitude for living in such beauty only 25 minutes from the cacophony of santa monica. when you "open the kimono" all kinds of wonderful relationships can blossom.
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More like back to business as usual. This article focuses on the outlier Carvana who benefitted from an innovative selling approach combined with good timing. And there’s a real possibility pre-owned pricing may hold steady based on the lack of off lease and off rental cars over the next few years. Describing Cox Automotive as a consulting company is a bit of an understatement. They’re a multi-billion company and own Mannheim Auto Auctions, Kelly Blue Book, Autotrader, and many other industry related companies.
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It would be a miscarriage of equality to judge Mayor Cantrell's acts subjectively based on her race and gender; however, it does not change the fact that her administration has performed poorly on an objective basis. Even putting aside her knee-jerk reactionary and mercurial policies on everything from COVID to short-term rentals, it has been poor. Even putting aside her use of city property to have an extramarital affair (all while paying the man city funds) and her refusal to take ownership of her $17,000 flight to France, it has been poor. We did not have trash pick up for months after Hurricane Ida. Street lights at major intersections have been out for over a year. Street disrepair is so severe that it damages our vehicles; at the same time, road repair projects linger for years without progress. Homeless encampments have grown. Car theft and carjacking have skyrocketed. We live in continual fear of violent crime in the broad daylight. We see drug abuse on street corners. Our cars are broken into, the property at our homes is stolen, and we cannot count on the police to show up. They do not come to the scene of motor vehicle accidents. Residents must park in municipal parks during rain events due to our failing infrastructure, but our sales and property taxes remain high. None of this has anything to do with race or gender of a city official. For most residents, the recall does not either - we simply do not think our city can survive without change.
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There are Americans who are skipping meals and selling plasma to make ends meet. Americans who can’t afford rent increases. It’s not just that the room at the Westin is 50% more for that upper-middle-class family vacation.It’s all a natural consequence of the overwhelming money printing from COVID. There’s no such thing as free lunch. All that printed money that went into PPP/stimulus checks, that was not tied to any productivity, serves only to dilute the value of all the dollars out there. And furthermore, it fueled an asset bubble so insane that jpegs of cartoon rocks sold for $3M and house prices rose 40% in two years. So Jerome Powell is right to administer the medicine needed to stop this from spiraling further out of control, and I applaud Joe Biden for supporting Powell to the end.
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The FDA is approving annual CoVID "best-projection" vaccines for conventional US medical care as the nation fails to unify on facts and end this danger. The USA has chosen a generational modus operandi that reflects a defeatism at best, a selfish elitism at worst - both financially and politically motivated.CoVID remains a deadly disease that should NOT be equivocated with influenza, despite the history of influenza early on.Lifetime long term effects of CoVID is accompanied by the fact that it remains significantly more contagious than the influenza virus. Despite this, reporting remains questionable in states where Republican politics takes precedence.Recently I had occasion to speak with a young Indian man. He stated that due to information coming from their border about a new Chinese CoV strain, they were under quarantine temporarily again. He told me he was proud of how his nation responded to pandemics, because to do otherwise would result in too many deaths.India is the second most populated nation in the world and by July 2022 had vaccinated over 98% of its population with at least a single dose, 90% with two doses. The US, a much wealthier public, is the third most populated single nation in the world, with a public today 79% vaccinated with a single dose and 65% vaccinated with at least a second dose.Like our response to gun control, the US response to CoVID shows once again a politically-motivated lack of concern for future generations.
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Just piling on here with regard to the $400k comment. That's bonkers. No way that couple is worried about the price of eggs. A better point might have been that setting an arbitrary limit like that would likely miss the most egregious tax cheats, who don't declare their full incomes and/or claim bogus losses.
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Erik Frederiksen Do you cook any "ethnic" foods? Many non-Western foods rely on open flame. Sure you can get a pretty good approximation of those foods with electricity, but nothing like foods done on an open flame--the searing, the heat level, the char, the concentration of the heat. As a very small, but perhaps relatable example, have you tried roasting a marshmallow over an electric burner? It's just not the same. Sure, you can do it, but hey, why would you? If you believe that this is a small issue, at least 1/4 of the world's population uses equipment that depends on an open flame. Because I cook food from non-Western tradition, I personally will not ever switch to an electric stovetop.
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Wall street, investment bankers and lawyers once again siphon off billions, leaving a debt burden which will be carried by communities, employees and consumers. Employee and community well being should be as important as the interests of the empowered ruling class
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A quite simlar article could be written about Japan, which was unilaterally demilitarized following WWII and is just now -- like Germany -- investing in upgrading and expanding its military capabilities. Of course, any mention of these two former enemies raises American hackles. But WWII is long ago and far away, and ti Germany's credit (but not yet Japan) it has atoned for the inhumanity of the Third Reich. Many Americans still want to honor the Confederacy.
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Robert My sisters and I had the same experience in the 70s in Canada, of walking to and from school which was a long way off, to and from the shops, the playgrounds, etc. We were expected to be independent. The difference is that each and every one of us- at elementary school age- had encounters with men approaching us in quiet streets (or once, in an empty school playground in the late afternoon) while openly masturbating with fly open and everything out on display. The police were always called once we reached home, but this was an exercise in futility. And we kept on walking everywhere. Yes, "the good old days". Fast forward- I bought my daughter a cell phone at about age 10 and let her walk home from school- straight after school amongst the other children- but able to call me if she felt at all unsafe. Peace of mind for us both.
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Vis You’ve latched onto an obvious comparison, I’m afraid, without noticing the underlying differences. Progressives would like Medicare-for-all (which doesn’t preclude private enterprise in healthcare; Medicare is reimbursement-based, the NHS is differently structured), but aren’t interested in the xenophobia and isolationist policies that have resulted in profound nursing shortages in Britain. It’s not progressives/Democrats who promote huge spending cuts and fail to promote the building of infrastructure, as the Tories in Britain have done. But who supports that here? Extreme conservatives and their wealthy donors, CEOs and boards of industry who are more interested in buying back stock to shore up their shareholders’ returns than they are in investing in the kinds of projects that would help their industries grow over the long term. This article is a cautionary tale, but are you absorbing its lessons or stuck in your own preconceptions? A question we all need to ask, including me, in this age of mis- and disinformation.
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I have been in Science Technology Development for four decades now. I can tell you with great certainty that only governments are capable of foundational discovery that leads to progress. Only governments can take on the risk of cost, impacts and potential failures because markets don’t punish governments, they punish entrepreneurs. Until the late 20 Century, the primary reason for governments to sponsor discovery was war. During the Pax Americana, we did manage to fund space exploration, Medicine, and energy research with altruistic goals, but that all went away on 9/11. Every new technology eventually gets repurposed in war, just look at drone technology in Ukraine or civil aviation on 9/11. What governments do best is fund research through government labs (think Oak Ridge), universities, institutes, and commercial interests (think vaccines). All of the systems Tesla uses for its computers (a Tesla is a computer on wheels) came out of a government lab or legacy commercial projects (think Bell Labs) funded by the government. What we have seen since the turn of the 21st century is crisis driven programs of national defense, not aspirational science designed to improve the human condition. If you want a flying car, make sure the technology is dual use so the crucible of war can be the anvil used to beat the sword into a plough.
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For one thing, Santos got $3,000 from starting a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for an army vet's dog. Instead of the dog's getting a needed operation, Santos kept the cash.The dog died. The veteran is out of a service dog.
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Galol Intentional or not the numbers cited are charitably confusing casualties with killed in action. Common reports from Ukraine and by NATO allies estimates Ukrainian killed in action between 10-15 thousand and total casualties at near the figure of 130K. Roughly 13K are listed missing POW, desertion etc (1/10 of the number in the original comment). The Ukrainian POW numbers are very blurry because to date Russia has not admitted the International Red Cross into the Russia's POW camps nor access to Ukrainian POWs.
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what do you expect from a company by any fake name that started as a crime they were never held accountable for. just like microsoft and the criminal who stole code from ibm.
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james Does that include The Commons in Kravia Hall? It would seem not. A glaring mistake, as well, at Steven Holl’s new Hunters Point Library in Queens, a $41.5 million city taxpayer project that does not provide wheelchair access to the amphitheater with panoramic views or to the entire floor devoted to fiction (I guess people with disabilities don’t read Flannery O’Connor or Adrienne Rich?). This in spite of passing ADA compliance…
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So fiendishly clever, so wildly original, so devilishly challenging that this might well be my nominee for Puzzle of the Year. It has LATE SHIFT to compete with, but still... I had to work much harder on this one. I was tearing my hair out in the NW and had to go elsewhere to find out what the theme was. Now if I'd known GROWLERS -- but I've never in my life heard of them. I know my kegs, my steins, my vats, my taps, even my simple glasses -- but what the hell is a GROWLER. Without GROWLERS, the theme cannot be figured out in this section. All you know is that you have a rebus of some sort.I moved to the NE corner where I was stymied as well. So I went directly to the revealer, filled it in patiently, and then went back to the NE where FORCEPS (I had the EPS) broke it open for me. There was, you see, no other surgical instrument ending in EPS.My mouth fell open at RO? for the place in the 1947 news. ROSWELL, of course!!!! SWELL!!!! So in this one I took the development in the other direction -- going from SWELL to SWEL to SWE to SW to S.And now, finally, I was ready for my challenge in the NW. As I went from G to GR to GRO to GROW, I saw that my answer at 4D was GROWLERS -- whatever the heck they are. And, tada, finished!!!!!!Just wonderful, Dan and Quiera! You challenged me, you baffled me, and ultimately you made me feel really smart. I loved this puzzle!!! It's a real BEAUT. Kudos!
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Private Equity often gets a bad rap, rightly so. But there are several key reasons they play an enormous part in the value/investment/business ecosystem. First, their playbook is to bet not just on undervalued assets - but under optimized assets. Yes returns are juiced by lower valuation - but these lower middle market assets are typically not well run or profitable as they could be. Secondly, most of these businesses have no clear way to extract value when they want to move on, retire, or access growth capital. The typical business owner has 90% of their wealth tied up in the business. There is an efficient market to extract that value (in full disclosure, I am a part of this ecosystem, though not in PE). Lastly, capital is efficient - and financial engineering provides an alternative investment for many pension and 401Ks (teachers/firefighters/police/and many blue collar professions). There are many horror stories - and many successes. I will say, having been both in a PE owned operation, as well as in the ecosystem dealing with PE every day, there can be a widely varying level of hubris in firms. Diligence on buyers and investors is always important.
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Biggest problem with the American wine industry - American wine producers charge too much, especially many wines from California. You can easily spend $50 for a mediocre wine from Napa versus $10 or $15 for an outstanding bottle from Spain or France, especially its Rhone region. No amount of marketing spin will change this reality.
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I think this is called familial responsibility, something that is lacking in an American society that typically dumps the elderly into nursing homes at federal Medicaid expense. Throughout history and across the globe, adult children have taken a much more active role in caring for their elders, disabled siblings, or extended family members when called upon to do so. The practice just seems like an outlier in a society that focuses on "me" first.
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Dr. K, The President is scheduled to give an economic speech on Thursday as a prelude to the State of the Union. There is a lot of noise in the media coverage on debt. I hope the team that is polishing the remarks will make the points that you have made, your FRED chart which shows "The Second comeback was better." is especially effective.Americans need to know when the economy slows, tax receipts slow and the deficit grows. If we pulled back on spending and investment every time the deficit increases, I am certain based on economic history that we would tilt into a recession.Further thoughts for the evening, layoffs in the tech industry are creating an opportunity for this talented group to form businesses or join businesses that are being created to respond to the climate crisis.Think about the number of projects that need coding talent in digital engineering and forming projects to create virtual reality to infrastructure projects with faster NEPA reviews.Someday, our government is going to recognize my recommendation to invest in competing the superconducting Maglev technology for passengers and freight so that the idea for using our existing interstate highway rights of way to construct a green prefabricated elevated guideway along our existing highway and rail rights of way that could also be used to carry electric transmission line and broadband and in many areas could create thousands of miles of solar cell canopy to increase our national electric supply.
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I unsubscribe from, and don't subscribe to "news letters" & "notifications about deals" and shut off ad codes in my browser and in Windows. I shut off software requests to gather data that monitor my activity for purposes of "improving services". I use 2 email addresses, one from people I want to hear from and the other for ordering goods. Microsoft and Google are good at sending spam to the spam folder. I don't have a Facebook account. I delete cookies occasionally. I block senders for the few unsolicited ads that get through. I'm sure data is being collected somewhere, but my inbox stays clean.
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ennio galiani I live five miles from the electric battery plant that you reference. Everybody around here is talking about the economic boom that will accompany this investment. I don't think it will make a bit of difference in the resentment that some people around here harbor toward others who they perceive as liberal. Many will not give the Democrats any credit for infrastructure investment in the region either.
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The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war. This lust for war is dangerous, pushing us into a potential war with Russia and, perhaps later, with China — each a nuclear power. It is also economically ruinous. The monopolization of capital by the military has driven U.S. debt to over $30 trillion, $6 trillion more than the U.S. GDP of $24 trillion. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year. We spend more on the military than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined. Congress is also on track to provide an extra $21.7 billion to the Pentagon — above the already expanded annual budget — to resupply Ukraine. Since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its discretionary budget on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government. The military-industrial establishment is nothing more than gilded corporate welfare. Military systems are sold before they are produced. Military industries are permitted to charge the federal government for huge cost overruns. Massive profits are guaranteed. For example, this November, the Army awarded Raytheon Technologies alone more than $2 billion in contracts, on top of over $190 million awarded in August …<a href="https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/25/chris-hedges-the-democrats-are-now-the-war-party" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/25/chris-hedges-the-democrats-are-now-the-war-party</a>/
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Republicans spent 4-1/2 years and $100 million in today's dollars investigating Clinton and Whitewater.There was nothing there.So they impeached him for lying under oath about Monica Lewinsky.Details that people may not know or remember, Gingrich was married to his second wife but having an affair with a staffer 23 years younger. (He eventually married her and is still married. Kind of interesting. I get the impression she runs the relationship.)Henry Hyde was spearheading the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair. It was revealed that Hyde himself had conducted an extramarital sexual affair with Cherie Snodgrass, who was also married. Hyde admitted to the affair and attributed the relationship as a "youthful indiscretion". He was 41 years old and married when the affair occurred. Close to the age of Clinton.They were going to replace Gingrich with Bob Livingston until it came out he had an affair. So Republicans put in Dennis Hastert. Before becoming a congressman, Hastert had been a high school teacher and coach. It came out in later years after Hastert had left Congress that he had molested boys while a coach.
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First, it is remarkable that nowhere in this article is there a mention of religion. .Second, in both 2016 and 2020, the GOP overwhelmingly won counties that had lost jobs. Democrats overwhelmingly won counties that gained jobs. It was stark. The Times reported on this..Third, the rural counties voting more heavily GOP would also gain the most from universal public health care, expanded medicaid or medicare; expanded child support services; expanded broad band, and many, many other policies advanced by the Democrats..By contrast, trillion dollar tax cuts for billionaires do not help people of limited education and limited job prospects in rural America. Yet that is what people in rural America vote for..Fourth, as the Times has reported, social mobility correlates positively with education and with social contact with people from more advantaged backgrounds. As the Times reported in the same article, it correlates negatively with church attendance. .Religion is one of the strongest factors driving both voting behavior and the economic and social problems of the counties that are losing jobs and losing population..Yet there is not one word about the harmful influence of religion in this entire long article..Remarkable.
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I explained mythology to my students as simple stories, allegories, to help steer largely uninformed or uneducated people toward making good moral choices. Children's literature is often similar. There are universal myths as well. In class we read a startling creation myth so smart to the biblical Adam and Eve story that students sat in open mouthed silence when I revealed it was written a thousand years before Christ was born. By a different people, from an entirely different part of the world. Turns out all of humanity has similar stories. What do you know? Myths serve a purpose, but so does disproving them. Recognize however that many do not welcome hearing their beloved stories taken apart and found to be lacking. When a student once argued against Darwin's natural selection, saying SHE certainly was not descended from apes, I merely stated that if she preferred to literally believe a story of a talking snake offering an apple to a nude woman made from clay and a magically obtained rib, that was her right. Once stated that way, she realized the myths absurdity and laughed along with the rest of the class. I do not argue the potency of this myth as a powerful metaphor--knowledge does differentiate us from the innocence of animals, which, no matter their brutality generally do not kill for pleasure but only for food and protection of young or territory. Myths explained as metaphors or lessons can be effective. Students often feel this is a good compromise.
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People that lost money from SWA should be entitled to a full refund from the airlines. There should also be large fines on SWA from the Feds for creating a preventable situation.The problem is a lack of leadership not only of airlines but other other industries that heavily rely on computers but don't hire executives that understand them and the needs of running a business reliant on computers. Moreover, these computer systems including cybersecurity are often not seen as revenue generating, and to implement them correctly requires a high level of expertise, thus underfunded. SWA was making plenty of money and should have funded the system. But the current CEO will not be fired and Congress will not investigate the federal regulatory agencies.The federal regulatory agencies should require proper stress testing of the scheduling software through computer programs that simulate severe weather and seeing how the scheduling systems respond. This is part of standard software specifications.Incidentally, a number of businesses such as Target and Home Depot and hospitals are hacked each year because like SWA, they lack leadership who understand computers and the importance of investment in technologies and competent personnel.President Biden should have appointed as Secy of Trans not a former mayor of 150,000 but a person who programed computers working in the computer industry. That person would launch a review of all airline computer systems.
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I always enjoy reading about the relative “lack of freedom” that Singapore provides in comparison to say, the U.S. As an American woman who has lived in Singapore for over a decade, I can do all sorts of things here that I could never do in the U.S. For instance, I can run alone at night without fear of being raped or mugged. I can send my children to school without worrying about them being shot. I can pursue higher education without drowning in debt, and I can be assured that hard work will likely be rewarded in meritocratic Singapore. I can walk down the street without being catcalled, and I can pursue a professional career without battling stifling sexism (yes, this also exists in Singapore, but to a noticeably lesser degree). My multicultural family can enjoy regular outings without being subject to racist remarks or worse. I can open a small business without drowning in taxes. Intellect, rather than celebrity, is appreciated. In pro-social Singapore, most people are considerate enough to wear masks and use hand sanitizer without much fuss. I can go about my day without a non-stop political circus humming in the background. The list goes on.Singapore, like all countries, has its drawbacks. Sometimes it feels creatively stifling. It’s highly materialistic. I miss chewing gum. But, it’s pretty freeing for this American woman, and I’m proud to call it home. It is no wonder that entrepreneurs from China are flocking here- I just hope the influx doesn’t price my family out.
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Exxon profited $100 billion this year. It's not hard to understand what's stopping humanity.
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ernieh1 Gary Kildal created the operating system CP/M which was in many way a predecessor to MS-DOS, the ancestor to Windows. However Kildall didn't think it was priority to adapt CP/M to the Intel line of microprocessor in the early 1980s. When IBM wanted to build their PC they contacted Kildall but he didn't respond promptly. IBM had already contacted Microsoft for their BASIC language interpreter. Bill Gates told them that since Kildall was not responding, he would also propose a compatible Operating System. Gates bought a piece of software called QDOS for "Quick and Dirty Operating System" from developer Tim Patterson and hired him for about $75,000 to adapt the software to the IBM-PC mere weeks before the launch. Kildall never got any money from Microsoft, as far as I know. CP/M quickly disintegrated into oblivion.The rest is history.
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Quite interesting that the only person to speak up in defense works at the Tsai Law Center at Yale. The same Yale that was investigated by the Education Department for failing to disclose foreign sources of funding. "An oversight", they said. Sure. $30M from the founder of Alibaba who described the Hong Kong democracy protesters as a "separatist movement" (see NYT for Oct 7, 2019).Distinct whiff of cui bono.
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Three points, Bret:1. Deficit reduction - How about we take a close and impartial look at our big ag donations. Tens of billions going to 1% of our workforce. Especially with so much land now getting bought by foreign investors.2. Raising the retirement age - I'm over 60, and have worked white collar for 40 of those years. Non stop. Not only am I fighting burnout, companies don't want me, and I'm pivoting on the decision to retire at all vs. allowing myself to die. Sad.3. What will your kids call the R party? Confederates, if they don't purge themselves of the current way of thinking.
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This is simply not true. I recently drove my Tesla -my only car now for 5 years- from Vancouver Canada to Phoenix Arizona and back. A 3600 mile trip. There were superchargers every 50 miles. We never had to wait for a charger, in fact one supercharging station had 52 stalls. The charging time was never more than 30 to 40 minutes to bring the battery up from a quarter “tank” to � charge for another 300 miles range. After 300 miles of driving, 30 or 40 minutes seemed a great time to stretch legs and get a cuppa coffee before continuing on. I never experienced range anxiety as the vehicle directed me from charger to charger in the most efficient manner. In total, it cost 1/3 of what a gasoline car would’ve cost for the entire trip. Incidentally, at home, I charge the car fully for less than $100 a month, every night. This year, tesla is opening its extensive supercharging Network to all other types of electric vehicles. You are not interested in an electric car, so you are not looking.
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To Donna Chang: Its $3.5 billion per annum (not trillions) for military aid; such as defence against Hanas rocket attacks (4,000 in the last confrontation) vs. $165 billion to Jordan and several hundred million to Egypt. When the IDF recently went into Jenin, a 75-year-old refugee camp supported by a very biased UN agency with hundreds of millions of $,to arrest an Arab murderer of 3 religious Jewish family men in Bnai Brak many Arab terrorists opened fire. Also, per capita, Israel is the most productive country in the world with regard to agriculture, medival, and computer technology research.
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Really? $4 a dozen? 33 cents each? And people think nothing of spending $4-$5 on a coffee? I really feel bad that there are people who are so financially fragile that this is a concern for them.
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Whilst your concerns for the valuations of your own tech investments are understandable, the fact remains that the high valuations were in part due to years of QE. Furthermore, there is huge strategic benefit to bringing chip manufacturing back to territories that are distant from potential belligerent nations. Semiconductors are the lifeblood of our modern economies, rather as food and heavy chemical industries were. There’s little to criticise in the ambition to bring chip manufacturers incentives to locate manufacturing in safer locations. There’s also innovation on the horizon with plastic, rapid prototyping, chips. Look at the work being done here in Cambridge UK.
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Ms. Bellafante:Are these permanently affordable units?Or are there increases/go to market at some future point?"....at least 70 of which would remain affordable....In this instance, a family of four making $45,000 a year — less than what two parents would bring home if each worked full time at $15-an-hour minimum-wage jobs"Also, perhaps you could do a column updating on the affordable housing that was supposed to be part of the Barclay's Center?
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I spent a few weeks in France recently. I felt incredibly free to do as I pleased within the laws, and never had to worry about being gunned down in the local supermarket. The kids there don't need to go through metal detectors on their way into school and are trusted to leave, get lunch on their own through open doors, and return for more learning. They are not locked in, and their teachers don't need weapons.So which country is more free? The US with all its guns, or France?Freedom isn't free. It costs your guns, apparently.
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mjc Indeed: a half trillion dollars of Russian assets is still held by Western banks -- roughly the amount Ukraine is going to need to repair all the death and destruction caused by the Kremlin -- and this will go into the reparations slush fund. Anything less would invite moral hazard... by encouraging kleptocratic dictators into thinking they can just knock over their peaceful neighbors for plunder, and still get off scot-free.Making the Kremlin foot the bill for the damages of their savage misadventure will also send a message to the higher-ups in the CCP -- all of whom own cars, real estate, and secret bank accounts in the West... for their 'rainy day funds' -- since then attempting any genocidal gambit in Taiwan like their buddy Putin is currently flailing at in Ukraine, would carry enormous, immediate downside risk. It would raise the cost of any invasion there by several trillion dollars... since the second it happened EVERY SINGLE ASSET owned in the West by rich Chinese nationals would immediately be forfeited. Like a soap bubble that burst in a bad dream!This should provide a carrot for cooler heads to always prevail.... Since otherwise all their wealth would have to stay parked/confined in the confiscatory, expropriating military dictatorship of the CCP. (And who wants that!)The best way to incentivize Peace in the future, is to show that we mean business now.
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Interesting situation. In a vacuum, what Gaetz sort of says is true...Congress should be more open and allow more public debate and transparency in their decisions. House members should get input in the process and should get to review legislation before voting. Sadly, he has shown that his actions affiliations undercut any likelihood that he will actually be responsible in any way with his newfound influence.
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Didn’t we have a reserve and capital requirements banks had to meet, also set by the Fed? Indeed, the Fed set the reserve ratio to zero in 2020, a step which means that a bank, at least in theory, need have no deposits at all to issue loans. We were told that reserves aren’t significant to the health of banks anymore, even though FDR’s people thought they were, in 1933. This loan-writing is how money is created; private banks are the largest creators of money in our economy—and the money supply is, by and large, the only controllable factor behind the inflation rate.I don’t claim to understand the Federal Open Market Committee, or business & economics in general. Much of it seems like a priesthood using esoteric terminology to keep the unwashed masses out of the inner sanctum. But things have gotten looser than ever before, with a near-zero Fed Funds rate for most of a decade, ballooning public & private debt, and calls to make the Fed a tool for social justice. Doing the latter will surely politicize the Fed. Existence of self-fulfilling prophecy in our system suggests it’s not responsive enough to objective constraints such as availability of energy, raw materials, labor power and trade contacts; it’s way too dependent on finance.Still, 2% is a tight inflation target reached only in 1986, 1998, 2002, and low-interest 2012-16 and 2019-20, making me not so sure that tolerating 2.5 or 3%, if needed to protect employment, should be declared unacceptable.
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This is great stuff. I've always said that open offices, non-linear cascades of messages, and task-switching are bad news for getting real work done. What is missing from Newport's ideas in this piece is that a great many people WANT to be distracted, because it's easier than doing real work.
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I've lived in NYC for most of my 60+ years and can bear witness to its periodic ups and downs. Perhaps just an embittered old man, but it's my assessment that New York is done and the call for casinos is its death rattle. The city is now a soulless glass and steel zombie, beyond salvation, and eviscerated by greed; it will shamble on bewildered, for years, because there is just too much money invested to admit the truth: this town is now as engaging as an embalmed corpse. No number of bold "policy initiatives" can alter this trajectory. Not only have the developers killed the golden goose, they're feasting on its fatted liver, and won't be happy until there's not a bleached bone left to scrape. The panoply of attractions that once made NYC a vibrant destination have been banished by unaffordability. The galleries, the quirky shops, the small music venues, the serendipitous joys of a stroll, now all buried under hideously ugly, banal monuments to avarice and corruption. The only "creatives" left are those parasites in finance who are creative with other people's money. Any young person seeking to make their fame and fortune as an artist would be an absolute fool to move to NYC. There is simply no way to pay your rent AND have the time and energy to produce a body of quality work; go elsewhere and live up to your true creative potential instead of becoming a galley slave to Durst, the Related Companies, Brookfield, Vornado, and the rest of the ghouls.
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At the end of WWII, every country in Western Europe welcomed the advancing American army with open arms. In contrast, as the Russians advanced over conquered Nazi territory in the east, the Poles were deathly afraid of the same behavior that we are seeing today in Ukraine. Rape, torture, murder, pillaging. The Nazis treated Poles like subhumans, and of course they exterminated the Jews. But if you can believe it, the Poles were far more fearful of the Russians than they ever were of the Germans. This has little to do with Putin. It’s in the mother’s milk of the Russians for centuries. To be perfectly honest, the Ukrainians historically were not any better. Check out the history of the Cossacks, or the Chmielnicki massacres of the 17th century, or Babi Yar in WWII. The main reason we support the Ukrainians now is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Good enough for now.
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You mentioned tobacco. I'm a former smoker who quit back in the mid-80's. The country has mostly come around to understand that tobacco is deadly. We've made it very difficult for people to continue to buy tobacco through high taxes. When I smoked, a carton was $7.00. How much is it today? Ten times that amount? Our society also shuns smokers. We don't let them mingle with the rest of us non-smokers. We don't let them smoke in enclosed spaces like airplanes or restaurants. Yes, there are people who still smoke. But by and large, smoking is not embraced; it's a dirty little habit that kills. Anyone who tries to defend smoking is laughed at. If you do it, it's for a whole host of bad reasons. I don't think we're anywhere near that on guns -- or let's be more specific: the kind of assault rifles that are made for killing a lot of people in a short amount of time. There's a whole gun lobby and ownership that defend those. If only we could get there, but co-opting the Constitution to defend something that wasn't even imaginable to the framers has been very successful for gun advocates.
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Sending 100 Leopard tanks to Ukraine is not going to enable it to reclaim much more lost territory. It hopefully will enable it to maintain its current defenses and to blunt an anticipated new Russian offensive. For Ukraine to really move the needle, it will need many hundreds of tanks as well as scores of modern jet fighters and other heavy offensive equipment. That in turn means dragging the war on for many more months and even years. In the meantime, Russia will continue to systematically bomb Ukraine's cities and slaughter its civilians. For every 1 Russian civilian being killed on Russian territory, 99 Ukrainian civilians are dying in Ukraine. Those are not sustainable odds. Russia is betting that NATO will not be able or willing to continue arming and financing Ukraine for the next 10 years, nor to give it the means to reconquer much more of its territory. That in turn will eventually convince Ukraine to settle along the lines demanded by Russia, which is not only a repulsive thought, but also geopolitically foolish (unless Ukraine joins NATO). Russia will continue this war for as long as it views the Ukrainian Government as a "bulwark" against Russian expansion, no matter the cost to Russia in lives and materiel. There may even come a time when NATO will need to decide whether to intervene directly or to let Ukraine go down the tubes, either militarily or financially. We are only at the beginning of this war, which will color and transform the rest of the 21st Cent.
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I’ve been an LGBT ally for decades. The fight for gay marriage rights was the most invested I’ve ever been in a political battle. But drag queen story hours are simply weird. Why, exactly, is it so important that hyper-sexualized mockeries of womanhood are championing early literacy?I’m not out there protesting or shutting them down, but count me among the silent majority who finds this an incredibly strange development.
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Not mentioned by Congressman Lieu is the rolling thunder of worker displacement, initially for low-skilled, low-paid workers doing repetitive tasks. This is already well underway. In sales today, meetings need to be coordinated for product demonstrations and video calls requiring multiple touchpoints to confirm scheduled and reschedule missed calls. Programs are available to do the same tasks using an AI program that today costs $25K per year. The program works beautifully and can easily replace two or more sales development representatives being paid $50K and up. That math is obvious.That same pattern will be established further up the line as AI will easily be employed to replace those workers pounding out phone call after phone call to other workers in other businesses who, for the most part, do not want to speak with them. While this may be a blessing to many of us, the effects on mid-level workers will be devastating as their skills have become obsolete and unnecessary.Take these scenarios to other jobs in customer service, medical coding, banking, and insurance, and more, and the effects are clear. Exponentially greater worker productivity without encumbering labor costs associated with hiring workers. Add Machine Learning to the mix, and soon enough, AI will replace higher-level workers and professionals as easily as their lower-level former co-workers.
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1.5$Million as charge for the trump organisation seems very low. Is the number correct?
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People seem to have missed the point. If you have an exhaust fan that vents out, turn it on when you use your gas appliance. In temperate times, open your window too. The combination increases the efficiency with which the gas exhaust is removed.The dilemma is in the cold winter months. What warm air goes out eventually draws in the equivalent amount of cold air. This both raises your heating cost and makes your air drier. It's not a bad idea to a quality electric burner for something you will simmer for hours to avoid running the fan.Another dilemma is the oven. It's not actually actively burning gas all the time during operation, only in heat up and when necessary to bring the temperature back up to the setting. I would certainly turn on the exhaust fan as the oven is getting up to operating temperature. I will turn off the fan when I can see the burners are off.I also try to combine my tasks when the oven is on. So If I know I need to boil water and heat up the oven, I do both at the same time with the exhaust fan on.
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My theory is this got kickstarted when we and the EU seized Russian assets, assets denominated in dollars. Nation states took notice, and adjusted towards holding gold. It’s a store of holding value after all, a traditional one that has a long history in every culture. Nothing like a global struggle between superpowers to make one look for ways to hedge against potential outcomes. It wasn’t safe to keep your money in Cyprus or yachts or apartments in Manhattan and London. Better to have that shiny stuff in your vault where no one can take it. That has opened the door to speculation and to other folks looking to put their money somewhere safe buying the shiny stuff too. After a while other folks take notice and jump on for the ride. And here we are….
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Bobbo , you must be looking at hybrids with lead acid batteries, like the early Prius. There are a lot of used Teslas in the $30-40k price range that still have 95% of battery capacity after 100k miles. If you need something for less than $10k there aren't many options yet, but with the new subsidies, we should have new, entry level EVs for $20k shortly.
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phacops1 What would be refreshing is if some amateur Economists would recognize that the alternative to bailing out the banks in 2008/9 was to crash the US and world economy and invite a reprise of the great depression. Likewise, there was no alternative to propping up the economy during the pandemic. We're not in a mess btw. The economy is performing strongly still, hundreds of thousands of jobs are still being created and there are about 10.5 million job openings. The obvious solution is to increase the tax take by 2 or 3% which is where it was in the late 90's when we last had a surplus.
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Eggs last over 5 months in fridge.All fish freezes perfectly, for later cooking.Costco Rotisseri chickens average 7 pounds, and cost $4.99. The chickens in super markets are about 2 lbs.and cost $5.99, or the $8.99! you mention in this article.My experience with cheese, is that they all freeze well.A large mutz, sliced in 1/4 inch slices, freezes perfectly.All berries and other fruits freeze perfectly.All bread, and the new Pepperidge Farms Swirl breadsfreeze perfectly.
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uwteacher, fixed income. locally (small rural) price has tripled in a year, 600% in 3. Protein options (pre-pandemic) were already problematic but, for decades eggs were a functional nutritional hedge. trying to establish a sustainable menu/budget where one item requires an extra $12/mnth is a challenge.Once the 'new normal' is established it is unlikely to include eggs in any way similar to how I used them 5 yr. ago. Not bit*7ng. Just reality. The 12 bucks has to come from somewhere & there's no where (at this point) for it to come from. (don't drink lattes and have to have a cell a phone)
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The child highlighted has a diagnosis of Autism, Anxiety, PTSD and ADHD. Most likely that child has received both psychological and educational testing to confirm the diagnosis. Most likely the school has an IEP or 504 plan to help accommodate this child at school. Because of the special needs, the child probably gets services at school to help reach academic and social/emotional goals. These services could include therapy, social groups and educational accommodations. The IEP team usually comes together each year to talk about the needed services and accommodations for the child. The parents are considered equal members of that IEP team which include teachers, behavioral specialists, therapists, psychologists and the parents. By withholding school related behaviors, the parents have not been treated as equal members of the IEP team which leaves the parents less able to help the child meet educational goals. If the child had no special needs, I might be able to also come to a decision that it was OK to not tell the parents, but this child has special needs and that places an extra burden on all interested parties to be open and trust each other so that the child can succeed. The school made the wrong decision. They needed to partner with the parents who have already shown bravery by getting the special needs diagnosis for their child and being open about it.
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Melanie Well, I am open to this idea, though I think I lean the other way. Perhaps "toxic masculinity" or "hegemonic masculinity" or "domination" are better words to use.I certainly know many men who actively reject this set of values, and the world is better for it.I read that in the 30s the cultural idea of masculinity was much more about being dutiful, hard-working, and conforming and/or contributing to the community.But unfortunately the vast majority of the masculinity that I experience and see performed and discussed is of the toxic / dominating kind.Even when masculinity takes the form of protecting or providing (which are seemingly positive), there is often a paternalistic, unequal aspect to it that can later support the negative/dominating aspects of masculinity.I look at how the vast, vast majority of spaces in the world are unsafe for women and femininity-expressing men (including, in many cases, the rooms where they sleep) and it seems to me that the cause is not some rare offshoot of masculinity, but masculinity itself, at least in its current form.Still, I am not rejecting your assertion since this is really a matter of opinion and experience, as well as collective/cultural opinion. It means whatever people think it means. I guess, regardless of the wording, we seem to agree that a culture that supports domination is toxic and should be avoided. I'm grateful to be your ally in this.
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Just wanted to post a quick recognition for Shea against anyone who might disfavor her perspective in the comments: She is one of the hardest working people I know. As her friend I’ve watched her work her way from a $10/hr position at the restaurant we both used to work at into graduating with a degree in the field she is passionate about. She moved halfway across the country so that she could do the work she loves and help people overcome addiction. I have yet to meet someone our age more money-conscious and meticulous about budgeting. Cost of living is expensive, period. This is coming from someone fortunate enough to have secured a state government position (of which I am grateful every day);whose job is in an area with high rent and taxes, and struggles with the same day-to-day financial stresses (and I’m a Dunkin’ girl -Mass born-and-raised! -ONCE a month). I hope the anyone who does not agree with her words can understand that while you don’t have to; they’re still going to be to be said.
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Aydin Torun Anyone who knowledgeable about the Middle East realizes that there has been no squandering of the resources sent to Israel. One, the weaponry the funds purchase must, by agreement, be purchased from UScompanies--the money some back. Two, Israel is on the front line in keeping in check--as much as possible--Iran, Syia, Hezbollah, and Hamas, reducing our need to do so, and without ever asking for American troops. Three, as Ashton Carter, Obama's former Secretary of Defense pointed out, Israeli technology saves American lives. Fourth, American investment in Israel's astounding technology industry, provides not only huge returns for Americans, but benefit to Americans and others around the world. And there is much more. Only ignorance of what Israel has accomplished and perhaps a good sprinkling of hatred toward the country, could generate the claim of "billions of dollars squandered to date." Please--do a little research.
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$31 Trillion, the rough size of the national debt, is a number almost impossible to get the brain around, like stars in the heavens or tablespoons in the Atlantic. It is similarly difficult is imagine the consequences to the United States', indeed the world's, financial system if America defaulted on all that debt. A 31-mile diameter asteroid hitting earth at 10,000 mph comes to mind. There is only one way to fix all this: Increase revenues and decrease expenditures until they balance. No amount of denial, screaming, or posturing can change that reality, neither Biden's refusal to negotiate spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling nor congressional kamikazes' threats to toast us all. The numbers don't care who's "humanitarian" or "soft on defense;" who's "coddling the rich" or "gutting the poor and middle class." Republicans and Democrats used to debate how much to tax and how much to spend with a shared understanding that there had to be a rough balance between dollars in and dollars out. A shared acceptance of the arithmetic. Let's get back to that, shall we, and come up with a negotiated, fair, long-term solution to this problem. Before the asteroid hits.
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Declaring Emergencies and Banning ‘Latinx’: First Acts for 9 New Governors Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania opened 92 percent of state government jobs to people without four-year degrees. Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska created a state office focused on broadband access. After a midterm election year in which statewide races were almost entirely wrapped up in national issues — abortion and democracy — the nation’s newly elected governors are showing their ambitions with a mix of virtue-signaling on national issues, currying favor with their political bases and, for some, reaching out to broader constituencies. Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania opened 92 percent of state government jobs to people without four-year degrees. Gov. Jim Pillen of Nebraska created a state office focused on broadband access.
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Ryan Cosgrove He definitely recived 10% or more . How is his House worth 50,000.00 $ a month in rent ? That is the Money laudering scam to get the 10% to the big guy
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Anton Joe Biden took $97000 from the healthcare companies in 2020. Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn have taken more than $2.7 million from Pharmaceutical industry. Ripping the American public off is a joint pursuit of both parties not just Republicans. The American Physician lobby, especially Specialty Physicians represented by the American Medical Association gave about $15 million in the 2022 election cycle recently. Physicians in America have a stranglehold on our healthcare system which is why we are the only nation in the western world without a Universal or Single Payer system. The people who vote frequently and consistently are the Seniors and since they are under Medicare, they have no clue for most part about the private medical insurance system the rest of the country suffers under. A silent cheerleader for this travesty are our leading private companies - Google, Apple, Amazon etc. They silently fork over massive amounts of money as the employer portion of insurance cost for their employees without any protests. The Employee portion of the cost is a before tax deduction on the payslip which again is injustice to the rest of us who buy our own health insurance. Corporations can band together and force either Single Payer or a Public Option legislation through Congress and Senate but they won't. It is a mystery.
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I commented earlier, but just to add. To me, Desantis is a paper tiger. Going anti-woke in 2021-2022 worked in Florida for the mid terms (and maybe Iowa) only because Florida currently only has one functioning political party, Republicans, and a Democratic party that's been non-existent in Florida the last three decades. Mostly everywhere else, especially PA, MI, and WI, the anti-woke crusade failed.Nevertheless, I present to you three questions that Democrats and the Media need to start pelting him with now, which could bury Desantis and put him in a corner:1) Are you vaccinated and boosted?2) Should the state of Florida open itself up for Oil/Gas drilling, as the rest of the country, or should Florida maintain a privileged status where Oil/Gas drilling is banned?3) Would you commit to making no cuts to Social Security and Medicare, including not triggering automatic cuts, and including not raising the retirement age?
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When I was in Kenya/Tanzania 15 years ago I met a bright young man as my guide to climb Kilo. As my guide he earned $1 per day. He spoke 4 languages because when he was 15 he hopped on a freighter not know where it was going. His 3 year trip as a stowaway took him to countries where he learned 4 different languages. I learned that this language skill would allow him to become a mobile guide at one of the resorts wherein he could earn $10 per day plus tips. He told me he was saving for the driving school for over a year. I asked how much it cost and he told me $260. It is a 6 month course because they also have to be an auto mechanic. I contacted the school and did some research to make sure I was not being conned. I paid the tuition directly. I have stayed in touch with him over the years and because I spent the amount I might spend on a dinner, his 2 daughters were given the opportunity to attend school and go to college. One is a teacher the other is a nurse. We always talk about the generational wealth created for our athletes when they sign multi million dollar contracts. However, when put into the perspective of this article, I may have created generational wealth for $260.
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It's very obvious that we need to cut spending rather than collect more taxes. The federal government is simply not efficient enough to redistribute tax revenue productively.If tax collections are 17.3% of GDP, then spending should be 17.3% of GDP. Extending your credit card limit doesn't improve your household finances.It's likely all categories including military are far too bloated. Growing GDP, should be the priority.
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If you divide the CEO salaries by the total number of employees, say at Microsoft, you get 250 dollars per employee. 54 million dollars vs 221,000 people, look it up. That's one dollar per workday per employee.
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What is with the sweaters? Is Santos trying to look young and immature?Having said that, $700,000 does not just Fall From the Sky.
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CDiff If you blame Biden for the end a of an era of artificially low interest rates (that made the stock market the only investment with any real returns), will you then credit Obama for the bull market that lasted for over a decade? Or blame W for the historic recession that happened on his watch?
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Nothing beat an AK chant while he was swagging with his belt buckle. Saw him at the US Open at Bethpage and it was awesome. Reading this article gives you Loch Ness monster vibes. Hopefully he has a happy life cause he created a ton of excitement in his time.
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I happily refer to myself as a friend of the Jews, having grown up in a diverse neighborhood with a significant Jewish population and with many Jewish friends and classmates. I would never deign to portray myself as Jewish or even Jew-ish, but I broadcast my solidarity and friendship proudly.Jewish culture was so much a part of my childhood that I didn't really comprehend casual antisemitism until I went off to college. Befriending other secular types who had not grown up around Jewish people, I was shocked when they'd say things like "of *course* she's Jewish" when referring to a wealthy classmate or would otherwise "other" Jewish people. It was very eye-opening, not only regarding how much of the world regards Jewish people, but in that it made me see how privileged I was to have been raised in such a diverse environment.As for George Santos... oy vey!
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Miss M.Come on. They lied in their marketing. They stole the option for people trying to do the right thing away from them. They left the door open because of their marketing lies and I hope everyone applicable walks in and gets theirs. If you are ok with this, I’ve got an organic, vegan, high protein, calorieless supplement for you!Words matter. Hopefully they always will?
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Having lived in NYC for many years, I have observed the constant low level of corruption along with overly restrictive zoning laws and union power inflate costs of everything. Expansions to rail service over the past decade have cost taxpayers $18 billion, with costs ballooned by out-of-control unions and no fiscal oversight by anyone. Cost of residential construction is astronomical. The city caused major problems by jacking up commercial real estate taxes so much that businesses fled city.We have a bloated city workforce with generous benefit packages.The real question is not why Black families are leaving; instead it's why more families of all races aren't leaving.
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$400,000? Yikes! Bret fails again! I live in the real world. As for Prince Harry? Tawdry? So why so much space given to this peripheral "royal?" Why give any space slobbering space to any royal? As for the outrageous fake equivalence of the Trump and Biden document issue? I guess this is one fault I see in these columns -- you're all taught to be narrowly relevant. I was taught elsewhere and learned to take account of context. Here, we must surely ask: does a rotten tree produce good fruit? And of the two, Biden and Trump, who is the rotten tree?
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Part II• The two leading contenders for the open council position delighted in throwing BA(4)s at each other rather than debating the important issues: the voters chose the third candidate.• Señora Jones quoted French proverbs in class, which was a bit BA(4) considering she was our Spanish teacher.• “I’m sorry,” said the outraged fashionista, “but wearing hairy Ugg boots with silk shorts and a spaghetti string crop top is simply a BA(9): clearly, she has no sense whatsoever!”BR• “Anybody up for a BR(4) and a beer?” “No thanks, I ate too many cheese curds” replied the Badger fan.• The young mother seated nearby pretended not to hear the BR(5) little girl demand her parents let her do what she wanted, rather than playing with her sister as they asked.• The donkey’s BR(4) is quite distinguishable from a horse’s neigh.• If you fall into a BR(5) patch, you'll emerge all scratched up and bleeding.• Wines strong in alcohol content and high in tannins are identified as BR(6) or brawny. [not an oenophile? take previous word + a “sometimes” vowel] BU• The term BU(5), chiefly southern, can refer affectionately to one’s brother or friend; using it to refer contemptuously to a young white male one considers uneducated is derogatory.• Using BU(7) to make Caprese salad (slice of ripe tomato plus a slice of the creamy cheese topped with a leaf of basil, sometimes with a drizzle of olive oil or balsamic vinegar over all) will win friends at any summer gathering.
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Baz "those people" cost the British taxpayers £7 million a day in accomodation costs, mostly hotels. A lot of dough.
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I've worked as a professional firefighter, USCG ship captain...am an avid outdoorsman with hundreds of wilderness miles logged per year...I tried to get work with the EPA and all they offer entry level is 12-15 dollar an hour jobs for individuals with 4 year degrees. Have fun with that...
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You haven’t actually described why a non compete clause is necessary at all in this scenario.If the salon isn’t paying enough to retain their staff, that is their problem. This hypothetical person opening a new salon would increase competition and drive down prices for consumers. Starting businesses isn’t easy or cheap. Employers can keep their talent if they treat them well, and *gasp* perhaps even offer equity to their most talented people
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mark Inflation, like all economic changes, have positive and negative effects. Some inflation is caused when low paid jobs are hard to fill. Then employers have to pay more which they pass on to consumers. Highly paid workers now pay more. The result is more income equality and thus a more stable society. Low paid workers spend what they make, boosting economic output. That in turn helps highly paid workers.More job openings created by government incentives thus could have several positive results. However, inflation eventually alters the economy creating havoc like we had in the '70s. And to be honest I don't think government actions control inflation nearly as much at they thing.
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Jack some of us can chew bubblegum and walk at the same time.The money we spend on countering Russia via Ukraine’s heroic resistance is the best and most cost-effective use of any defense-related money we spend. It’s their soldiers doing the fighting, against what is now clear is the most dangerous and disruptive enemy of world peace. If we don’t help the Ukrainians stop Putin now, do you think he’s going to learn it’s no longer acceptable to attack peaceful countries with no real justification in the future, just so he can go down in history as done great conqueror due to his inflated ego? How many more thousands of innocents must be killed?Stop voting for a party that has no solutions to the problems here which you mention, who’s only approach is to take more benefits from 99% of us to give even more money to the 1% who have avoided paying their fair share of taxes since Reagan. And then you can complain.
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If anyone believes Musk is interested in utilitarian good, I have a bridge to sell you.Musk is a salesman and his main interest is money. His shtick is what sells Teslas. I don't think he believes in anything other than seeing his pool of money grow. If he were interested in the greater good, he wouldn't have bothered with his Hyperloop and Boring Company nonsense. They are objectively bad ideas. Neither is remotely as good as public transit and both were designed to cool interest in public transit projects.If he were interested in the greater good, he wouldn't need the money he's been taking; it could be put to much better use than sitting in his bank account or bankrolling his pet projects. If he were interested in the greater good, his Twitter escapade wouldn't have happened. And even if it did, he wouldn't have saddled the company with $1 billion in debt payments every year. And as pointed out with others, if he were interested in the greater good, he'd be giving away Tesla's FSD system rather than charging $15k for it. More data, after all, would according to him, improve it faster. LEt's not waste time speculating on what he believes, let's not try to divine a world view from his tweets. Let's instead judge him by his actions. And there are more than enough of those.
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So far 2 sightings in the last 5 years in the rural Hudson Valley. Decent habitat made up of large woody tracts and occasional fields. Lots of deer. Due to the ugly mass wipeouts in western states of reestablished wolf population, I don't think this is a good idea. It's the same story, reintroduce wolves only for them to be targeted and decimated once they step over federally protected borders. Lift their endangered status. Killing the young in their dens. It's heartbreaking. What's the point? Let the few cougars that make it east be left alone to roam big open spaces. That would be the kindest scenerio.
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In the valley there is a stubborn and very large group that camps out in a public park and open space called the Sepulveda Basin. They set numerous fires during the summer, and then always need rescue in any amount of rain. It is a BASIN. It collects water. Numerous homeless outreach efforts have failed to persistently remove them. They refuse services. I am at the point where I have more sympathy for the emergency responders who continually have to risk their lives to put out their fires and pull them out of the water.
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John Chambers Every single time a read a food response like this I'm just amazed. The easiest and cheapest way to shop in any store is the outside isle if you avoid the meat and dairy. Expensive with much less food and nutrition is all the junk in the middle. I raised nine kids on fruits and vegetables as the main food source since that was the cheapest way to do it. A full bag of broccoli is a couple bucks even in inflation, a huge bag of greens is around four dollars, you can buy rice and beans in bulk almost anywhere and feed a family for months for 20 dollars. Oatmeal is still the cheapest way to buy cereal over the sugared boxed junk. Even Dollar General now has a vegetable area. People in general like boxed pasta with a pouch of something to dump in it, they like cheese which is super expensive and add any meat from the store and you can get fast food cheaper. In any grocery store now they have any kind of veggie your looking for including bokchoy or egg plant and sweet potatoes. You don't have to go to the Mediterranean to find beans and rice with cabbage.
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Pakistan continues to pay the price for being a willing partner in the Cold War, and the American proxy wars of the last four decades. Imran Khan had generally the right idea: there must be peace with all segments of the population, including the Islamists. They came into being as a result of Cold War policies, and now they must be slowly reassimilated into mainstream society. It is no coincidence that so-called "terrorism" went away nearly all over the world for a few years but is now making a predictable comeback with the return of Biden and the Democrats. Trump certainly had no interest in pursuing U.S. imperialist aims, so it was a relatively peaceful interregnum for the rest of the world. Now it's back to business as usual under the imperial warmongers based in D.C. and the allies they can find in different impoverished countries including Pakistan.
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steve schaffer Matt Damon makes 50 mil a movie. Taylor Swift charges $500 per ticket. Baseball is entertainment. Entertainment that attracts the masses and has for 120 years.
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Why we have this GOP debt is from Trump and the GOP leaders and supporters never paying their taxes. Always get the lawyers to find them ways not to pay. Then all the tax money that is out there goes right to the wealthy . Trump was going to stop the local bus 2 years ago and Mr Biden saved the day with a 38 billion pledge for the American transportation system. With the new GOP obstructionists in I suspect the end of our bus company will see hard times with all there cuts.
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If I remember correctly, the former Virginia Electric and Power Co. had spent over $250 million on a pumped storage project in the 1970s before it was learned that the storage reservoir wouldn't hold water. Oops.
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Mr Matt Reforms don't necessarily mean cuts. For example the taxes that pays for these programs can be extended to higher incomes (it currently stops at $125,000).
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me My best friend recently died of complications from MS. He was an avid user of Alexa to control the home heat thermostat he could not reach from his wheel chair. In bed at night he could call out "All lights on" should he sense danger about. When visitors knocked, he would say, "Garage Door Open" to admit them to his home. When he finally was in a nursing home, he was unable to handle a telephone or a TV remote control. But he could "phone me" via his Alexa as well as tell the machine to "Play MSNBC" so he could keep up with the news. Alexa was a godsend for him, right up to the final weeks of his life.
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I have found the opposite to be true in the last several decades. More and more directions for anything that needs putting together are in picture form. Elevators use pictures versus words for "open" and "close." Most signs are visual -- arrows, shapes, attempts at showing a person doing something, etc. As an almost 100% verbal learner, I find it difficult to read pictures. Tell me, don't show me! Or let me feel my way through- tactile or instinct. I duly recognize many prefer and/or need pictures so for directions, signs, etc. why not both?
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Those interested in developing a mine near Kiruna Sweden may end up developing a strong relationship to the Komatsu Company, Harnischfeger Industries in Milwaukee. This firm has been building mining equipment for a hundred years. Their visitor center was open to the public during Open Doors Milwaukee. They had big screens of world-class mining equipment on display. It is interesting that something so far away can be related to something so near by. The new Komatsu manufacturing facilities are among the best in the world. Their engineering know how could contribute to limiting environmental damage. Having worked for that firm 60 years ago, it was impressive to visit the visitor center and be impressed by how mining equipment evolved over the last ten decades.
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Just James , Scuba dive, in the open ocean, earn that thrill as you try to stay outa the food chain.
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Michael Yates If they hav the money our doors are wide open - except in the Biden and Obama Administrations; certainly in Trump's (not to mention all of the Red Notice occupants in Trump Tower).
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MKP oh, I misunderstood. Easy. All of Chinatown is open, lots and lots of shopping there. Maybe they were in Koreatown, which also likely has shopping on major holidays. Alternatively, the author meant "window shopping," which is certainly a popular past time during the Christmas holiday.
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This is the first time I see 'casino' get a makeover. It is refreshing to think that a cassino can be any environment we want it to be. Want big? Go to Vegas. What exclusive? Go to Saks. What chill beach vibe? Go to LA. Hopefully this is the opening to reimagining casinos from the current 'undesirable' theme to a more choice driven experience that will allow the general population to finally get over the stigma of what a casino is and see that it is just another place for you to spend your money as you see fit.
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Full Name $10 in 1955 is roughly $110 today... roughly half of what we spend weekly, on average. We now pay big bucks for marketing and transportation. Back then, home economics taught cooking skills, nutrition, and "seasonality."
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Thank you, Ms. Renkl. I love how you describe grieving as open-ended and unpredictable. My parents are deceased, and I found my birth mother and other related-by-blood people in my late 50's. When I dream, it's about the aunts, uncles and the parents I always knew to be my parents. Sometimes they are clear as day, and I wake up with a few tears when I realize they are not physically here. Then I smile because I experienced the gift of a brief return. I talk to my dad--out loud and alone--when something happens that he would have commented on. My two dogs do not think it is odd at all.
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You all know he is selling his tweets, right?I am not kidding.I spotted a MAGA follower holding a tome titled "Historical Tweets" as a collection. Oh yeah. Sure. Sotheby's will auction them for $10 million one day.The incoherent illiterate clown with a 4th-grade vocabulary is selling his tweets.And they buy them.Here's the link. look page or photo #4.<a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2021/07/03/trump-supporters-came-far-nebraska-see-rally-sarasota/7812264002" target="_blank">https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2021/07/03/trump-supporters-came-far-nebraska-see-rally-sarasota/7812264002</a>/
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