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I saw asking prices of $5-6K for 17+ year old minivans with 200K+ miles. Yes, I know it's a Toyota or a Honda but it's still 17+ years old.Perhaps that's why they were calling it an "asking" price?Also, used going for more than new? Anyone thinking that's going to keep up indefinitely is seriously deranged.
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“TSMC is a major producer of some of these chips, but it is focusing its new investments on more profitable plants for advanced chips.” Translation: TSMC prefers making the highest-priced chips in factories where workers earn much less money and companies are not held to strict environmental standards.
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Hmm. Do we hear outrage at Jared’s $2B or hundreds of millions to the Trump family while DJT held office??
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Emad The day that police abandon the ruling class and join the side of the workers, they will be welcomed with open arms.
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Making sure the stockholders interests come before those of the employees. The question must eventually be asked if economic expansion is really infinite.
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JoeA -- as a former Tesla Model 3 owner who bought at 47k and watched him cut the price by 9k not long after --- it's a feeling of being cheated. I was chastised for feeling this way because Tesla isn't a car company, but a "tech company," and should expect that to happen. Ugh.
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Miner with a Soul Yes. I have a cheap Dilongo expresso maker. ost about $80. I buy store beans from ethical producers. Not quite the same relationship with producers and roasters, but decent. I live in Portugal, where the availability of great coffee is a given - in every store and every street corner cafe. But the coffee I brew up on my DiLongi, using high quality beans, is superior. A 250 ml bag of beanbs costs 2.50 and promises to produce 30 cups. Well round off to 25 cups and its a dime a cup.
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Mr C These two “wild men” are among the most famous “freaks” exhibited by P.T. Barnum:The Wild Men of Borneo, Waino and Plutanor, were a pair of exceptionally strong dwarf brothers, most famously associated with P. T. Barnum and his freak show exhibitions. Waino and Plutanor were actually Hiram and Barney Davis, two mentally disabled brothers from Ohio.They were each 40 inches tall and weighed about 45 pounds, yet could perform feats of great strength, such as lifting heavy weights and wrestling with audience members on stage. Discovered and subsequently promoted by traveling showman Doctor Warner in 1852, the brothers were given new names, Waino and Plutanor, and a sensational backstory – they were said to be from the island of Borneo, where they had been captured after a great struggle with armed sailors. The two were soon exhibited at state fairs across the U.S.By 1882 Waino and Plutanor became involved with P. T. Barnum. With Barnum's fabled promotional skill, the careers of the Wild Men of Borneo took off and over the course of the next 25 years, the pair earned approximately $200,000, equivalent to $6,000,000 today. Their exhibitions primarily consisted of performing acts of great strength. They were said to be able to lift up to 300 pounds each. Hiram died in 1905. Barney stopped working after his brother's death. The two are buried together in Mount Vernon, Ohio, under a gravestone marked "Little Men.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Men_of_Borneo" target="_blank">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Men_of_Borneo</a>
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MegWright Sadly, the GOP have been able to spin a myth about tax cuts that makes no sense at all.Growth related business expenses are actually pre-profit and therefore pre-tax, so cuts in the tax rates actually do not even factor into the decisions to expand or hire. The only reason for a business to do so is if they see a projected increase in demand for their goods or services and this tends to occur when a population has plenty of disposable income and is driven "bottom up" by consumers, not "trickle down." In fact, many business owners may even choose to spend more on needed equipment for a business if taxes actually increase as a way to reduce reported income for tax purposes, so the opposite of what the GOP claim.Spending in this way does increase growth. I think Ike was aware of this spending or expense form of tax avoidance. In contrast when taxes are low more focus is on profit and not as often growth related expenses.
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Just to offer a perspective that runs counter to many of the comments here: As a small business owner who has made enormous investments in research and innovation in the education space (where I have very limited capacity to protect my IP in the existing IP regime), my ability to compete with much larger players in this space requires something which protects my small firm from having its IP poached and used against me in the marketplace. Without a non-compete of some sort (honestly, even with them in place) larger firms have poached our people and then taken all of our innovation. I can't invest in more innovation then because every time I do, I know that my team members will get hired away and our IP will (as it has before) continue to get stolen. I am not big enough to pay exorbitant salaries compared to bigger companies. The idea that the large companies in this space will drive badly needed innovation on their own is laughable - they want to protect their existing markets for their existing products. Small firms still need some form of protection for their innovative solutions. If it isn't going to be non-compete agreements, what is the alternative? A much less robust marketplace for solutions in a lot of industries.
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Until the ruinous effects of the very wrong Supreme "Citizen's United" ruling are reversed, this will only get worse. What we have NOW is a Govt (Congressional Reps, judges, etc.) who are OPENLY bought-and-paid for with unlimited amounts of "dark money". These interests are BUYING loyalty on a daily basis. We ALL see this and know deep down that it is corrupt. If not rectified soon - open revolt is certain. People have had it....
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If you open a window, you let in cold air and then have to burn more fuel for heating. That doesn't pollute the indoors, but it does add to our overall burden of pollution. This is also true if your electric heat pump is powered by gas or coal somewhere else ...
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quesofundido Open borders is the solution? That is the cause of the problem. Maybe TX can send you a few thousand "migrants" so you can share in the wealth.
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Missing from this article is any explanation of what the US has been doing - were we part of that request for $3.6 billion to not drill? Also missing is what sort of corruption may have been going on in Ecuador: in 2011 an Ecuadorian court announced an $18 billion judgment against Chevron for failing to clean up after itself and causing illness & deaths to indigenous people. A US federal court later invalidated that judgment as the "product of fraud and racketeering." There have been ongoing debates about the actions of Chevron, the Ecuadorian courts, and our own judicial system, indicating there is a great deal more to this story of Ecuadorian oil than the tiny glimpse we see in this article. That being said, there does appear to be at least the appearance of corruption in Ecuadorian government: "Mr. Correa now lives in Belgium and faces arrest in Ecuador because of a corruption conviction." So, either the courts or Mr. Correa are hopelessly corrupt. It's a lot like Bolsonaro's green light to ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil: poor nations need income, and the way to earn that income is by ravaging what's left of these rainforests. So what does the world do in cases like this? It's clear that there are no easy answers - but refusing to attempt to answer these complex questions is certainly not the best way forward. We must address these questions soon or we can only continue to watch as the world burns.
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Sue I got an LG, about 1/3 the cost of the Viking.
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Funny they couldn't find the leakers which was deliberately done to maximize the left leaning MSM to extend their slanted opinions towards swaying the upcoming 2020 elections. Every time these people point fingers accusing Alito or Roberts, we can be more than certain it was leaked by one of the three opposing justices who could care less about our constitution and always voting with an ideological agenda on every case. By the way, SCOTUS just returned the power of women's rights to individual states to decide where they rightly belong.
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The bit about money and media speaks to the basic problem R's face, but it's both simpler and more intractable than indicated.In a pattern going back millennia, the founding fathers created a plutocracy that fell victim to a burgeoning population of, well, uneducated rural populists eager to escape the vast inequality the founders engineered into the system. By grabbing these voters the D's overwhelmed the Whigs but found themselves on the losing side of the Civil War, unable to break their bond with Southern oligarchs or Jim Crow. The R's latched onto the new oligarchs, the Northern industrialists, who manipulated their workers using racial/ethnic/military divide-and-conquer tactics not all that different from their Southern counterparts (see: US Labor Movement, Coal Wars).A century after the Civil War the D's finally saw the writing on the wall and LBJ brought both parties together long enough to pass civil rights legislation, ensuring that Southern oligarchs and white Christian nationalists (not fig-leaf "ethnonationalists," Ezra) jumped ship to the R's, who welcomed this cancer with open arms. Unable to muster the brains & will to follow the evolution of D's by providing true leadership on the hard work of achieving grudging policy compromises for 330 million people, the R's now rely on bread and circuses to protect their Roman, er, American plutocrats.If we want to avoid the Roman Empire's fate (see: Visigoths), we need 2 parties committed to democracy, not just 1.
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Good article. However, it's a shame it limits itself to the hospitality industry. Online fakery in product and contractor promotion is far more egregious, and can cost consumers lots of money and grief. It's nice to see one sector take some sort of action, but the fakery will continue: digital information is an open door to fakes. Ask Donald Trump and Alex Jones. What we need is UNIVERSAL education, starting in jr. high-school, on spotting promo fakes. For about 90% of the stuff it's easy to spot (though I'm not going to reveal my own detecting tools -- that would only tend to disarm them!).One last point, it isn't only the Puffery Posts that proliferate, it's also the nitpicking, negative, and petty venting, some obviously posted by competitors. You may sneer at that, but in the end, it's the "no. of stars" that counts most, not the number of words in an attack. That's one thing that an educated consumer can spot immediately.
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Let's separate bitcoin and possibly ether from the rest of crypto. People buy bitcoin because it has some kind of utility and it is scarce. Its value really comes from its scarcity. You might argue that this is illusory. I would respond by mentioning that the Mona Lisa is clearly valuable for historical reasons, even though it has no utility. Yes I could hang it on my wall and admire it, but I could do the same with a valueless reproduction. Then there is the Honus Wagner baseball card that sold for $6 million in 2020. A piece of cardboard with a picture of long-dead baseball player. That card sold for pennies when it was originally printed. And now I have read that Kobe Bryant's jersey that he wore during his championship season is expected to sell for $6-$8 million. Really? A piece of cloth an NBA player sweated in? Give me a break. So please don't talk to me about your notions of value. Scarcity is what determines value.
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Lucien private equity fund management involves raising a blind pool fund, typically with a five year investment period, to go acquire a group of private companies. The owners of this franchisor appear to be a group of businesspeople who find companies that they acquire with their own money mostly, and earn profits by improving and selling, but have not raised a fund. If this is your definition of private equity, then the two guys in your town who bought a Jiffy Lube are also in the business of private equity.
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Michael A hard look at the union contract the police has with the city of Memphis should be done. The immediate supply of a lawyer for any accusation of impropriety, the notorious colleague silence of bad behavior, a sometime alliance with district attorneys to suppress evidence or even just stop investigating if someone is a handy conviction have degrades the quality of police. At many venues an associate degree and shortage of recruits fosters an easy entry to a job with inordinate power. Ten to 20 percent are psychologically unsuited for such responsibility and are not weeded out.Many police forces have a military mien instead of guardianship, with even military equipment is provided and many policeman are ex veterans. Police unions ofter protect police officers unsuited for such work, hamstringing administrators and the local government. Minneapolis and the George Floyd got a dose of that.
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You missed crucial information about fire code driven development. The design of midrise mutlifamily residential is largely driven by fire code and your development budget. The fire code only allow wood construction at 85 feet tall before going to steel and concrete. The most frequent midrise multifamily projects are "wrap" and "podium" (aka 5 over 1 or 6 over 2 with underground parking). With the adoption of mass timber into the fire code, it opens up more options for development. The only issue is that the market for mass timber is still underdeveloped and tariffs were just recently cut in half for imported wood. A lot of construction is hitting a pause at the moment due to uncertainty about economic headwinds. The timing is just off and more housing is needed to push down prices.
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Lisa I overheard an "all hands" call my wife (she's a nurse) had with one of their upper level nurse managers or CNO (not exactly sure the title). It lasted about an hour and everything that came out of this women's mouth was about money. I could have played a drinking came with how many times she used the phrase "the hospital isn't making any money". It's a non-profit mind you. Not one word about patient care and outcomes. All about staffing, specifically how expensive they are given as reasons why they are loading up nurses with more patients.The CEO of this hospital makes close to 2 million a year. Looking at her LinkedIn she started her career in 1982... as a Vice President. Since then she's been nothing but Vice President, President and CEO. We desperately need laws dictating sane pay for the executive class. These outrageous salaries are not merit based. They are simply rewards for being born into a class of person who preys on labor. The hyper focus on profit is self preserving for this class of people, it has nothing to do with helping the labor class or customers, in a hospital the patients. This needs to end. We all know it but we just have no power to get it done. Hospitals, especially, should be a no brainer here. Perhaps this is a good start for laws to cap pay? At least restrict any and all government funds if the pay at top is insane?
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That man on the line: he’s mineWhen I was young I dreamed of following the open roadinto the heart of the countryto meet up with one of Wichita’s linemen,his head in the clouds as he fixed wiresattached to high poles,wires that would emit a sorrowful whistling soundwhen the wind flowed through them.I’d be in my element out on the windy plains,with a sure-footed dreamerwho was able to climb high,heavy implements in his leather belt, whatever items he needed:no limit to his mettle or his imagining.Some dreams fade with time.Others remain, offering a place to return to,a story to tell, a song to sing.Jan. 11 Bee words used: mine, meet, linemen, emit, element, implement, item, limit, mettle, time.
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It's bizarre to see so many commenters decrying the public investment - much of it in the forms of grants or tax credits - as "socialism." It speaks volumes about US education, none of it good.Public investment into critical industries is not now - nor has it ever been - an anomaly in capitalist countries, including the USA. Do thirty seconds of reading, for crying out loud.
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concerned Boomer yup so their dumbing down professional jobs, anyone who can get a passing grade on the civil service can now become a case worker handling 50 cases at a time. And anyone who has to deal with the specific group of just passed the test by the skin of my teeth employees a who can't spell professional is a great idea. People complain now about wait time and service, lol. Wait till the just out of a local Philly high school clerk who doesn't like a tone of voice takes your call or opens your case. Of course NY times agrees, keep jobs dumb and unprofessional so they can get in line protesting the overpaid union college educated state workers who do their jobs well, which is next.
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The highly regulated ones are not investing in new gear, and are dependent on tax dollars. Just like when you say you get cheap $35 insulin, know that you are just receiving the drug along with the confiscated fruits of other people's labor.
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The US Air Force is not a particularly liberal organization, yet they are working on alternative fuels for hard-headed military purposes."The Air Force partners with Twelve, proves it’s possible to make jet fuel out of thin air Published Oct. 22, 2021By Corrie PolandAir Force Operational EnergyARLINGTON, Va. (AFNS) -- What if you could access fuel from anywhere on the planet, at any time, no tanker required? The Air Force thinks it’s possible with ground-breaking carbon transformation technology.Separate from carbon capture and storage or carbon utilization, carbon transformation can turn carbon dioxide from the air into nearly any chemical, material, or fuel, including jet fuel.In 2020, Air Force Operational Energy endorsed the carbon transformation company, Twelve, to launch a pilot program to demonstrate that their proprietary technology could convert CO2 into operationally viable aviation fuel called E-Jet.The project hit a major milestone in August of this year when Twelve successfully produced jet fuel from CO2, proving the process worked and setting up the conditions to create the synthetic carbon-neutral fuel in larger quantities. The first phase of the project is scheduled to conclude in December with a report detailing the process and findings."<a href="https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2819999/the-air-force-partners-with-twelve-proves-its-possible-to-make-jet-fuel-out-of" target="_blank">https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2819999/the-air-force-partners-with-twelve-proves-its-possible-to-make-jet-fuel-out-of</a>/
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I am almost giving up to even read anymore. I am so disgusted with the system. Dark money; of show accounts; Citizens United; Electoral college a farce; Gerrymandering; redistricting, on and on. No account and unlimited amount of money for elections for coproporations to influence the unaware citizens. Criminals are running our government. No wonder one just shakes ones head and wants to leave. The super rich don't want to pay their fair shares. It just goes on and on. Sorry but it is truly a frightening time to live in. I feel scared and worry for my grandchildren. So much greed and more greed and self centered me, me individuals having so much power over us.
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Many of these employees are earning 200K+/year and stock bonuses in addition. I wish that the NY Times would cover ordinary working people and not the top 5%. I really don't care that they got their announcement by e-mail. 6 months of severance for employees who had been there 5 years? The person in the article who was there 20 years will get over a year of pay as severance AND accelerated vesting of their stock options! Regular worker drones in the vast majority of jobs would be more than happy to accept these terms. Yes, e-mail announcements are impersonal, but the concrete benefits are much more important. Would you support a law that requires 6 months severance for ALL employees? Even 3 months severance would be a deterrent to capricious firing and a great boon to employees. That and compulsory minimum sick and vacation time.
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Rupert Harry inherited about $US 74 million, so I think that would go a long way.
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Invest in Crypto and live off the returns? Another cloying delusional and somewhat dangerously irresponsible article by The NY Times ,yes those profiled live somewhat modestly however they also seem to have the money ,investments inherited wealth ,exactly what is unclear other than that they apparently all seem to have the money which enables them to do so, unless they are racking up debt and being wildly irresponsible, we'll never know. It's cloying and irritating to read articles like this for those that are struggling and somewhat irresponsible for The NY Times to publish articles like this that may delude susceptible readers into getting into unsustainable debt by being inspired by articles such as this. It's also scary given that the news in this morning's NY Times on economy with alarming articles on the debt ceiling and other prospects looks bleak. Is the author of this article article aware of this? Is the editor of this article aware of this? Is it realistic and responsible to present such lifestyles when the economy as reported in this morning's paper is harrowing ? Such delusional and irresponsible reporting eviscerates whatever respect l have for the NY Times.
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Patrick M ...we just bought Apple Air Tags to place in all of our luggage so we can track it in case it gets lost or delayed. Yes they cost $29 each, but to us, it's worth it. There are other brands of trackers on the market, but before you buy, I suggest you watch Joanna Stern's humorous video review that compares them with a drug sniffing dog: <a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-technology/apple-airtag-vs-drug-detection-dog-best-way-to-find-your-lost-stuff" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/video/series/joanna-stern-personal-technology/apple-airtag-vs-drug-detection-dog-best-way-to-find-your-lost-stuff</a>/
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The watershed event that was an accelerant to the wildfire of rabid insanity that's swept over the Republican Party was the election of Barack Obama, an African American, to the presidency.It's an historical fact confirmed by multiple defectors that Russian intelligence has been attempting to stoke race war in the U.S. for decades, dating back to the first half of the 20th century. The development of the internet vastly increased the GRU's reach and effectiveness in infecting U.S. society with poisonous propaganda. And in this, America's right wing has been a complicit partner; in most cases, probably unwittingly; but in others -- as in the cases of Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and others of their ilk -- knowingly and treacherously.
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Is the $6,000 Prada leather briefcase also « part of his message »? He is completely out of touch with the reality of 99 per cent of the voters.
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When we find out exactly where the $700,000 that Mr. Santos “lent” to his campaign originated he will be arrested.
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Florida has more democrats than Maine Vermont New Hampshire Rhode Island Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. But not well organized and written off by the national party. DeSantis can crow that he kept the state and cracker barrel open but he has a multiple crisis that will soon make Florida's voters forget how the bars stayed open and the masks came off. Most Florida's work in the low wage service sector and rents are becoming unaffordable. Flying Venezuelans in Texas to Massachusetts with Florida dollars got a few laughs but it's getting hard to afford home owner insurance. DeSantis is flying a hot air balloon of grievance anti abortion politics and making it clear Florida's sons and daughters don't need to learn what their grand to great great grand parents did to former slaves and native americans here. And he is flying that hot air balloon into climate change hurricanes. This guy is like an other early anointed front runner Jeb Bush, but without the charisma.
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Granted UNC is central to this entire article, but given its length, it is amazing that the author neglected to at least make a passing reference to the very recent kerfuffle involving the University of Florida and a top ranked quarterback who was released from his National Letter of Intent, supposedly after a $13 MILLION commitment for NIL fell through.<a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35490106/source-gators-release-23-qb-recruit-jaden-rashada-nli" target="_blank">https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35490106/source-gators-release-23-qb-recruit-jaden-rashada-nli</a>
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There's one thing that is certain here besides workers losing in the inflation battle. The richest win again because they aren't taxed the same way most of us are. They have additional sources of income that allow them to outpace inflation. Our richest companies have not invested in the communities they "live in", the country, their employees, or much of anything other than their shareholders for decades. While the Fed and other economists may think that inflation needs to be controlled I wonder why this control must cost working people their livelihoods. If unemployment is expected as part of the work life cycle, it seems to this reader that it should be possible to assist unemployed people far more than we do now. In other words, improve the social safety net. Stop having such a low ceiling on the amount of income taxed for social security. Instead of taxing us for every dollar we make, why not start taxing us when we make over 35K/year? These are just suggestions but, given how few good jobs are out there, perhaps we need to revisit how we pay people, how we treat them if they can't or won't work, and what we do to keep people from falling into poverty when they aren't making enough money or any money at all.
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Brookhawk I think you're right about a fundamental quality of entitlement and self-involvement of the average GOP voter, that goes along with their average age (over 50), average ethnicity (white), and average gender (male). However, the true commonality is susceptibility to propaganda, which goes along with their average educational level (HS grad) and average religious background (Christian). When you're taught from infancy to accept religious beliefs on faith, including those that have no basis in fact, and are contradicted by objective evidence, that opens the door to brain-washing by propaganda. For the faithful, "believing" is the same as "knowing".
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We seldom wish to learn the lasting lesson museums and their artifacts teach us. We seem insistent on owning the past and its crumbling objects, as if to forestall the reality of the mutability of all that is human. As the article points out, even in John Keats' day there was great controversy over who should possess the "Elgin Marbles." When Keats had every reason to know his death was not many years off, he saw them in the British Museum. He wrote one of his great early sonnets in response:My spirit is too weak—mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship tells me I must dieLike a sick eagle looking at the sky. Yet ’tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keepFresh for the opening of the morning’s eye.Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud;So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rudeWasting of old time—with a billowy main— A sun—a shadow of a magnitude.I am glad that Keats could leave us a his own shadowy monuments. His poverty would have kept him from visiting Greece. His friends helped get him to the warmth of Rome, but he died three months later, at 25, 202 years ago next month.Return the marbles to Greece. Some claim Elgin saved them from turning to dust. Sooner or later, we and all our makings turn to dust. Such is the "undescribable feud" around the heart.
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RP Baloney.If getting the bank accounts in balance is the goal, their first bill to defund the IRS is going in the wrong direction.The IRS is underfunded and broken.1960s computers.$40,000 starting salaries to compete with $1000 / hr tax attorneys.It's wrong to allow tax scofflaws to get away with their tricks.
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Tom Chapman The DOD has long wanted to close a number of surplus military bases currently kept open due to the influence of local Congressmen and Senators. Biden should announce that if the debt limit is not raised, those bases will be immediately shut down and the troops immediately transferred elsewhere. I agree with eliminating Ag price supports but would include that as part of stopping any direct subsidy payments to all corporations and individuals.
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The contrast with Ms. Pelosi's tenure (and with a unified Democratic caucus) could not be more stark and revealing. The 18 Republicans who won in districts that Biden carried in 2020 are now on notice that their tenure will probably extend no longer than 2 years. The 2024 campaign ads (for Dems) will write themselves.
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Steve W Allowing money into our politics with Citizens United was a huge mistake that allows billionaires to spend millions on our supposed representatives. Now they're going after social security and anything else that helps the average wagged American citizen Their true colors are bursting out.
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The LP’s enable it by investing in the funds. Think state pension funds (public employees - teachers, police, etc), university endowments, ultra high net worth families. Follow the money. Frankly, without private equity returns state pensions would be more bankrupt than they already are.
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Betsy Teutsch Yay! So glad to hear that someone else is benefitting from it. That is a great line: Yes indeed, WE are the product. And yes, it takes some time and effort to "self-educate," but as you said, it is actually very easy to use, so at least that part of the planning process is straightforward. Right Capital should expand to be available directly to consumers, IMO, but that is up to the folks at RC.
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As a university professor, I see the situation somewhat differently. I definitely support equaling the playing field and making more jobs open to those without college degrees. But from the inside of the education system, the divide is not between those with degrees and those without; it's between those working in finance and tech and everyone else. As someone working in the humanities, we feel spat upon at every turn, told how worthless we are, and parents tell their kids to run from us because we are supposedly a waste of money. As a musician, I have seen my friends priced out of major cities around the country. There is a whole slew of educated people who are falling behind, too, because they picked the 'wrong' profession - just ask the thousands of adjunct professors working for less than minimum wage.The equality revolution must give more respect and money to artists and intellectuals, and not assume that everyone with a college education is doing fine. And we must give more respect to the intellect, not less - as has happened since everyone now seems to think college should only be about 'useful' skills like computer programming, not critical thinking, reading, and writing.
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While I desperately hope that sane minds will prevail and the "Conservatives" will come around to raising the debt limit, I am actually in favor of some spending cuts for the future.1 - Cut military spending. seventy percent of our taxes go to the most over bloated government agencies in history. 2 - Cut Farm subsidies. Paying Farmers to not produce food - or over produce to a point where we're just throwing it away and contributing to climate change with the waste - is completely insane.3 - Cut fossil fuel subsidies - Paying roughly $472billion in direct subsidies plus billions more in tax breaks to the coal, oil and natural gas industries that then turn around and gouge the consumer until heating the house or driving to work becomes a literally painful experience is also completely insane.Curb this real government waste and then we can talk about cutting "discretionary spending"
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.RetreatThe little lane that winds between the evergreens—where few will venture from the busy road to town,where wildflowers spring along the grassy track—beckons me to follow, to leave so much behind,to seek new weal in ocean air and solitude.For years without number, for ancient aeons past,this stony shore has curved around the wooded hill,stretched its spruce-spiked points to touch the open sea,embraced the wales of waves that roll in from the bay,and measured tides that rise and wane upon its reach.Beyond the wave-washed cobble, wild beach-rose blooms,and beach-pea twines in green and lilac ecstasyaround and over ancient bones of storm-wrecked ships.And then there is a bit of marsh, where dried reed-canes,massed like slender lances, conceal the nests of birds.An unexpected ocean of lupine gives way to ferns,and past the ferns, the rising headland greets the sea,crowned with towering cone-dense spruce and fragrant fir,old branches twined like lace against the wind-swept sky.Here, lone eagles watch the sea with distant eyes.Alone, I also watch the sea, breathe in salt air,the well of life from which I never will be weaned.The ocean cleanses me, in part, of long-held griefs,now annealed, that once were tender new-pierced wounds.This stark and stony shore is home, and life, to me.Bee words used from 1/01: aeon alone anneal cane clean conceal cone lace lance lane lone ocean once wale wane weal wean well
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“totally 100 percent true … with very few exceptions” from no less than a Harvard Business School economist. I definitely maybe think there is certainly perhaps a small internal inconsistency buried in that sentence somewhere…But more on topic, it’s sad that wealth is so highly valued in this greed-centric world. I would like to see humanity develop some sort of notion that it is repugnant to be ridiculously overpaid for any job, be it CEO of Shell or famous actor or superstar athlete. Ditto for extreme wealth.There is a bit of a stink in Canada these days, and I believe in the US as well, over execs who received multi-million-dollar performance bonuses while their companies received multi-million-dollar COVID assistance payments. Shame on them for that, and also for the simple fact that, COVID aside, many of them make many millions per year.And in a similar vein, being a billionaire should not be worthy of praise but of scorn. What can you do with that dollar that made you a billionaire that you couldn’t do without it?
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Mikes547 Several years ago my female relatives all started buying Coach bags. The logo was emblazoned all over the bags which was the draw. It advertised to anyone within sight, "I'm well-off enough to afford to buy a Coach bag!"I have too much Scot left in me to think spending many hundreds of dollars on bags and the like has value & is a good use of my limited & hard earned money. I could have saved & bought one but acquiring outer trappings to show others one has wealth (oftentimes even when one doesn't) has no appeal to me.One of my pet peeves is the insane amount money spent by celebrities attending numerous award & fashion shows. Most of the items will never be worn again. So many celebrities have causes but, instead of putting their money towards their causes, they spend eye opening amounts of money on things of extremely passing value (hours?) That money could help people in dire need. I'd love for them to start an off the rack movement in recognition of our modern word, the waste of resources, and the plight of the general population. A few years ago, there was some recycling of previously worn clothing but that has pretty much stopped. Surely they can save 10s of thousands of dollars and still find a way to be dressed to the nines. Besides, all the young women seem to wear little more than gauzy, see through materials (how much could that material cost?!) while still decrying being judged by their bodies and not their personhood & talent. Eye roll.
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Tim Simple. Conduct a buy back program over a year or so and then give people a short grace period of a few more months to turn them in without compensation, no questions asked. After that, anyone caught with one pays an automatic $20,000 fine and goes to prison for three years.If people hide them, fine. At least they aren't taking them out on the street. And buying ammunition for them would be illegal too, so unless they've stockpiled illegal ammunition they're just hiding a gun they can't shoot.
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I totally remember reading about a job on LinkedIn recently that said the range was $20,000 to $200,000. There are many ways the companies can make it so vague as to make the information pointless.
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While on the subject of how EVs keep surprising us - we also need to keep in mind how transformative that transition can be to one's mindset. I drive an EV; have done so for half a decade. EVs have the potential to last a long time. Ours is five years old and we still have pretty much full battery and have spent nothing on maintenance. We noted when we were looking, that the Old Nissan Leaf models are still going strong, which is why we invested in one. There is very little to go wrong on an EV.But a big piece of the climate puzzle is that once a person purchases an EV, it just naturally changes how we think about driving and emissions by providing different frame of reference in which to view how we get around. There less willingness to go back to gasoline, so a second car becomes something to re-consider, or to consider only as a hybrid. For many, a change to EV simply raises awareness to one's carbon footprint that much more.
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Todd Please. Trump took papers he had as president, and he had the power to declassify (whether he declassified these documents is open to question). He (or his reps) notified the nat archive that they had the docs and were in negotiations with them re which ones belonged to Trump and which ones needed to be returned. The docs were padlocked in a room at Mara Largo and the secret service provided 24 hour security.In contrast, Biden took the docs when he was exiting office as VP. He had no power to declassify the docs. He kept them, moved them around and had them stored with no guards in at least two locations in 2 different states.Once the docs were discovered (which is still fuzzy as to why his attorneys were going through his documents) -- the public wasn't notified until the mid term elections had passed. Clearly, if the public had known that Biden possessed classified docs before the midterms, it might have negatively affected some democrat candidates. So -- yes there are differences between the two situations -- mostly favoring Trump. In either case, both had classified material in their possession that wasn't authorized. End of story.
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Rob Mills Yes, there is also too late. I took a statin drug for 7 short months. Many things could have been done to hugely lessen the permanent damage that followed.I could have been told to back off intense exercise for a while, because both the statin I was prescribed and exercise both elevate CK levels. A very fit friend of mine who was put on this statin at age 76 continued his stair climb races; within a year, from running up 21 flights of stairs, he could no longer walk down one flight.I could have been switched from the lipophilic statin I was put on to to a hydrophilic statin. This however was unlikely, because the cardiological practice that prescribed the statin had received over $300,000 from the Big Pharma company that made the statin that I was put on.It could have been acknowledged that the adverse effects were indeed from the statin and I could have stopped it sooner. Also, the tightening up I was experiencing from the statin caused the physical therapist to offer me "assisted stretching" and to tear my hip labrum, among other things. Brutal!We could have a compulsory system for reporting the adverse effects of prescription medications. Most people think "side effects" are reported, but nope.Read Dr. John Abramson's book, MD from Harvard, title "Sickening." Big Pharma's influence on our health is frightening.
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Dicaeopolis Yup - where did he get the $700K he loaned his campaign?
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As a senior who works out quite a bit I shoot for 120-150 g of protein- I’m 155 lbsI’m trying to preserve lost muscle and maybe gain a little.Not enough protein-not enough protein synthesis No way I can eat enough “real” food - hate chicken breast - to get that without supplementingProtein in grains are much lower and not efficiently used in protein synthesis.A cup of egg whites and a high protein bar gives me a bump of about 45-50gThere are delicious bars that give 20-25g protein at a ratio of about 10 cal per gram of protein.Not as great as egg whites (5 cal per gram of protein) but delicious and makes up my dessert for the day.Think Thin and Trader Joe’s Builder Bar are good inexpensive options at about $1.50 per bar when bought in a box of 12Extra protein and some strength training are needed after 40 to offset sarcopenia.
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Ian R. By the time the Ethics Committee got around to Santos, he'll be out of office in the next election.Far more likely he'll be indicted by federal and/or state for financial fraud as at some time he'll have to explain where that $700,000 he donated to his campaign magically originated from.
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Thank you so much. I have taught at liberal arts colleges for over thirty years,and yes, the answer to success in college is simple--do you work, be willing to learn. One glaring example of the lack of this occurred one semester when my students (all Fine Arts majors) complained that the only course open the following semester was Landscape. These 20-somethings told that they "didn't do landscape." My answer--you are too young to know what you do--take this course and see what you can do with it. They seemed amazed at this idea. I taught required basic Fine Arts classes to non-arts majors who were terrified of the concept of creativity. They were "not artists." We regularly discussed creative thinkers--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Joe Flacco,Kenrick Lamar-and critical thinking. The desperate need for critical thinking and Liberal Arts departments cannot be overstated,and the willingness to be open to this must start in kindergarten.
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What a remarkable -- and eye-opening -- story! I couldn't have imagined that two people with such different sets of beliefs about the nature of our society and the workings of the human heart would come together as a force for good in the world. Amazing. Gives me hope.
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Moveyourbody Cheap eggs are a product of mistreated chickens. This price hike does not mean factory chickens are being treated better, though. I've bought cage-free eggs for $6 a dozen for years. They also taste way better and have more nutrients.
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I am confused why most readers herein are pounding the table calling for lowering the fed rate before seeing solid data that inflation returns to 2.0% target with "full" employment.1. What did Professor Krugman opined on Sept. 10, 2021:Paul KrugmanWonking Out: I’m Still on Team TransitorySept. 10, 2021<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflation-covid-consumer-prices.html?searchResultPosition=2" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflation-covid-consumer-prices.html?searchResultPosition=2</a>2. The Fed is going to raise and normalize rates as long as the labor market is too hot (employees forced to work along side unqualified colleagues who could be violent, have side jobs working "from home," inexperienced contractors like those who deleted files at FAA... ) 3. Obviously we are not reliving the 1970s/1980s. We are not paying double digit mortgage rates now, but are adding hundreds of $billions annual to service the runaway national debt, $31.45T and counting.
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Was heartened to see a very full parking lot at Northgate, in north Seattle, the other day, where a new light rail station opened last year. Obviously people are using the lot as a park and ride, to access the city from the north, where there has been a lot of residential development over the past few decades. Let's hope a hybrid office/work from home culture becomes the long term norm, because even with light rail and many tech workers still working from home, traffic is still bad in Seattle. Amazon's 18,000 layoffs should help, too.
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Thank you. Finally, an open mind. And someone who has actually paid attention to what Harry & Meghan's Netflix series was focused on: the unhealthy relationship between the Royal family and the press.
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No Utopia can exist without satisfying the irrational, instinctual, unchangeable nature of human beings and how they relate to others.The material "utopia" as envisioned is hollow. It assumes the irrational desires, strengths, and weaknesses of human beings as afterthoughts that will be magically satisfied with abundant energy and technology. But we've seen 100 years of increasing material abundance, and while there has been progress in many people's lives, there have also been societal breakdowns:-Intractable homelessness-Increases in mental illness-loss of social cohesion-worsening distribution of wealth-loss of faith in government and commercial institutions-the derailment of rational public discussions with bogus conspiracy theories driven by social media-un-sustainable agriculture, providing low quality processed food causing epidemic obesity and health problems-out of control rate of extinctionThere is a 3rd aspect to a world with vastly increased energy: the increased need to mine the physical materials to build the infrastructure that uses all this energy. Imagine tens of thousands of flying cars going overhead every day, bigger houses destroying wildlife habitat, vast open pit mines everywhere tearing out copper, lithium, rare earth metals, iron, aluminum, etc.But the most important thing missing is a discussion of the social "technology" to structure society to make it truly just, with physical comfort and social connections for all.
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At least gold is tangible. Anything of value has the value assigned by society. For example, you might think your home is worth $200,000, but you might have to sell for less if you get no offers at that price.
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Mon I oppose the $45 million increase over what was requested, and I'll hazard a guess that most on the left do too. So the easy cut would be right there.Or raise it from the billionaires.
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I am thinking this guy would not have passed a standard background check used by almost any corporation in America. There are multiple commercial services that do these sorts of simple checks for about $50 or less. I never hire anyone without such a check. Major discrepancies on the resume mean the person never gets hired. I’m not sure why a political party wouldn’t do the same. It’s a cheap and easy check before you hire someone.
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Paying one million to treat 100,000 people in the U.S. equals 100 billion dollars. The cost of development and manufacture will be trivial relative to this sum, don't let these two companies tell you otherwise. Almost all of this 100 billion will be pure profit, and the largess will keep on rolling in a new patient's are born.The government desperately needs to step in to negotiate a non-insane price. Paying one tenth of this theorized fee will still allow the investors of these companies to became extremely wealthy.
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If I show my age, 75, I believe I will got many ads pushing medicines that are not relevant to me, and ads about being insured at any age. So what if I see these instead of random ads.Meta has a much larger problem. They are betting it all that people will pay $1000 to be in a phony universe with terrible graphics. Every video game has superior visuals, and you have a choice of picking whatever scenario appeals to you, whether it's a sports game, killing dragons, or building a civilization. They are sure to go down the drain on that foolish whim by Zuckerburg.
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After his death, I listened to an interview with Anthony Bourdain recorded a few years before his suicide. I might have been biased by knowing his said fate, but it seemed to me that a vein of depressive self-negation ran through everything he said about himself and his career. He described his successes as unearned and his failures as well-deserved. A key moment in the interview was when Bourdain discussed his pre-Kitchen Confidential career as a chef. He said that he was mediocre culinary artist, but a superlative talker capable of repeatedly convincing people to invest millions in him only to lose their shirts. It occurred to me reading this essay that Bourdain was being too hard on himself, that the reason his restaurants all failed was more that such businesses are doomed to fail more than any lack of talent on his part. Is it possible the whole notion of culinary genius is misguided? It’s all just food, after all. Some of the best restaurant meals I’ve had in my life were the Southern-fried chicken with a side of greens at the Rendezvous Restaurant in my native, Hampton, Virginia. Of course, the Rendezvous had long since closed its doors as well…
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leo Hey LeoNicely said...But the "Doomsday Clock" is rapidly becoming a subject more laughable than true, and it's been never quite accurate, not even close. That said, I agree with you, and I think a smoothing of huge ripples between the US and China is necessary-but if we put ourselves in their shoes, those people, who outnumber us 6:1 are over a billion and a half strong-they have been constantly exposed to the virus, have a leader too proud to accept Moderna's offerings, an have allowed the virus to once again rear yet another strain, which inevitably will travel the world...if the strain is reasonably benign compared to the others, we are in luck, if not, we are in peril. I think along the same lines, but think when we do reach across the pacific, the hand needs to be steady, trustworthy, and the promise need be very real. At that time if China refuses our hand, we would all be very surprised-they look to take back territories, and that our influence as interference because they are overcrowded beyond belief, and the sickest country in our world today, per person... We need ot be kind, and we need to be incredibly strong, so that that hand, will extend to countries who need us, want to join us, in a battle for both health, and climate no one expected for another 100 years-well, it came rather quickly, is that a coincidence?It's here now...and it has blatantly shown its perilous colors...Stay Well
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My guess is that he was trying to get some of the $3 Million that the Israeli AIPAC Lobby spent directly influencing the 2022 US election. Just a guess. Judging by the buyers remorse I am hearing from his Jewish voters . . . I must be correct. No one likes to be conned.
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Magnificent.From Donovan’s opening pompous salvo of red confetti, through the bothsidesism, into the coats of whitewash over the lying and the insanities and the threats, into the assumption that a four-seat majority “led,” by an inept coward can pass legislation on its lonesome, this bowl of horsefeathers has it all.One mistake, though. I still noticed that the Big Plans are left completely vague. Either the bills’ll say, “this is a bill, look mommy, we passed a bill,” or there’s some odd sort of reluctance to mention that you intend to go after Social Security, Medicare, and any vestigial right to do weird hippie stuff like science and solar energy…
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I was ready to buy a new hybrid vehicle late last year. As I shopped, I was continually surprised to find local dealers adding from $5000 to $8,000 to the MSRP. Remember the MSRP? That was the price we used to bargain down from. Instead, I put $1500 into timing belt and new brakes for my 10 year old Odyssey. Will now keep it (it's just getting broken in at 88,000 miles) and might look again a few years from now.
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In some industries the ONLY customer for private industry IS the governmentie Defense contractors Unless they plan on opening up retail fighter jet showrooms near you
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You cannot learn how TSMC has optimized chip fabrication by “looking at it”. It has taken their large engineering workforce decades on IP development, much of it now existing in subtle processes and methods (including millions of lines of Matlab and other forms of abstracted expression). Can anyone understand how Facebook runs by opening their PC?
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I am waiting for Kevin to reduce my Capital Gains tax burden on my multi-million portfolio, all the while the poor MAGA farmers who don't own a single share of any stock cheerly support my further enrichment. What a great country.
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No important legislation will pass for the next two years. We are at a critical juncture on climate change. The recent IRA law provides a bare minimum on the climate, but it needs massive follow up. The truth is we need about $1 trillion/year. Nothing will get past the far right R House and we will lose two precious, unrecoverable years.
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zeynep TufekciThank you for this column.This is the first column I've read which offers a detailed assessment of the tabloids treatment of Meghan and Harry. Those awful tabloids, that lied to so many here about the benefits of leaving the EU- from £350m weekly promises to the NHS, to a 8% reduction in the cost of living. These were lies, told by politicians and repeated by tabloids that did not bother to examine them.And here we now are, 6 years later, So much more poorer and aggrieved.While the politicians and tabloids that told these lies, face zero consequences for gaslighting the country.
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Brand this on to your forehead. You are totally and the only one looking out for your welfare in the working world, not corporations, not unions. The loyalty arrow only goes one way from you to the company, there is no return.Keep your eyes and ears open to what is going on in the world and company. If there is talk of a layoff or even downturn get out first rather than be in a crowd of people looking for work.The union will make sure the company follows the rules, but you will still be laid off and the union officials will still be getting paid. If you do have a union make sure you get a withdrawal card or they will make you pay an initiation fee all over again.If you are laid off you are entitled to unemployment benefits, sometimes the union can help with getting that, but in a mass layoff the unemployment agency is usually overwhelmed. Ask the company for severance, ask the union to get you severance, you may be turned down by both, but you have nothing to lose. Ask for health insurance, same deal. COBRA is very expensive.Cut back on your expenses immediately, if we go into a recession you could be out of work for over a year. Consider moving, consider changing careers, you may have to dumb down your resume to get work in another field.I've been where you are now, it is not fun, it can be humiliating, but it is survivable for you and your family. Good Luck
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ATronetti Oatmeal (generic, rolled) is ridiculously cheap. Cabbage and carrots are cheap. Potatoes are cheap. Walmart Great Value frozen veg is typically 10 cents an once, or $1.60 a lb. Walmart dry pinto beans are under a dollar a pound, so a day's protein costs pocket change. Walmart chicken is $3/lb.
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Oooh...Okay, sexism, agism both exist. Let's agree on that. But a woman in "ill-fitting T-shirt and shorts" can't make it in this world? Please inform Billie Eilish! Rosie O'Donnell didn't seem to have a hard time making this her brand. What about Whoopi Goldberg back in the 80s? The reality is far more complex than Gross wants to examine. There are so few folks in the position of a Sam Bankman-Fried that finding ANY comparisons with the general population or societal norms is virtually impossible. Not one is lining up to give most men oodles of money for any project/idea/crypto-currency. The author may dislike Bankman-Fried's look, but one could also say that there are no male CEOs of billion-dollar companies who rose to that rank while wearing eye shadow and pastel skirts. The underlying level of misanthropy in this piece is disturbing. Are we to believe that Elizabeth Holmes swindled astounding amounts of money out of investors because as a woman she could simply get away with it? She was only 26 (that age when no one takes women seriously, right?) when she had amassed more than $92 million in investments. Only 31 when she was exposed as a fraud. Should we be writing screeds that young-ish "cute" blonde women can get away with anything? I would wager that tens of thousands of would-be entrepreneurs who fit that bill would beg to differ. Sexism is far more complex, and Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes, as outliers in our world, tell us nothing about it.
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The other day I owed a $20.00 co-pay for an annual checkup. At the time of the visit, no one asked me to pay it and, so, I left. Next thing I know ... 1) an e-mail invoice arrives with the $20.00 balance due2) After reviewing it, I immediately mail in my payment 3) Two days later I get an email "reminder" 4) I respond reassuring office it's in the mail 5) Get a call suggesting I have a question 6) Say i don't, check is in the mail 6) Get an email it's arrived.This whole process took four very nice female individuals. Nevertheless, it just goes to show how broken the system is. Bottom line: America is run by the "Capitalists Suits" not, for example, the dedicated medical men and women in their white coats.
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Kat and if those children are disabled and receiving government benefits, they cannot inherit stuff the regular way because if they do - they will lose the benefits.Special needs children/adults receiving valuable government benefits need Special needs trusts to address inheritances - not something to be found on Legal Zoom. You need a specialty attorney for these types of issues and be prepared to cough up about 10K for it.
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I grew up in a wine-at-the-table house and quality wine in smaller containers might have changed my buying habits when I was finally old enough to legally buy wine on my own (early 90s). A full bottle was too big for me to open - physically. Only one or two people would fit in my microscopic apartment and I didn’t have fridge space to store an unfinished open bottle. Nor did I have space for a wine ‘cellar’. Not sure if I would have found a four-pack of cans of the same wine appealing but the option to purchase decent quality reasonably priced half-bottles would have been great at that time in my life. Side note: The words I have always looked for are “mis en bouteille” when hunting for reasonably priced estate bottled wines. These words have led me on some merry adventures. May these magic words help others.
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Michael Jordan is "undeniably arrogant and lacking in graciousness and humbleness."Kobe.Tiger.Conor McGregor.I imagine Djokovic ($220M net worth, cute family, fame) will be happy to let the final record speak for itself.
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Blatant market manipulation as a part of what is a massive fraud. Market manipulation is standard operating practice in a speculative market dominated by whales. 25% of Bitcoin is owned by 0.001% of investors, 75% of Bitcoin is owned by 25% of investors.
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When America actually WAS great, 40's-70's ,the ultra rich paid the highest PERCENTAGE of their income in federal taxes...up to 70%. We built the best military, the interstate highway system, and the best colleges in the worldYour Social security /Medicare payments, that you paid into since your first job, were held in trust for your retirement.But Republicans took your Trust payments and added your payments to general revenue. Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump spent your money and then cut and cut billionaire taxes, so billionaires now pay on average less than 7% federal taxes or less and you pay 20%!And where is your pension when you want to retire? Republicans spent it and wont' raise needed taxes on billionaires .
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Santos pocketed the money from the "scam PAC" in unreporable pieces at 199.99,just under the threshold, and he was stupid enough to put that in writing. 🍿🍿 🎶 Ohhhh F. E. C. 🎶
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Larsen The house can be bought right now for carefully placed cash. McCarthy is eminently bribeable by any number of our enemies. Russia, Korea, China, Iraq, Iran, Syria, step right up to the ticket window! Government for sale, 50% off!
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fred herriman 'lso, "...tax shelters and all other like tax breaks..." are open to all, not just the wealthy. 'You're kidding right? Anyone can also buy a Rolls Royce, but that's not the point - is it?And I'm not relying on CBO scorings. There's actual data that shows how much additional revenue would have been collected - if not for the tax cuts and tax shelters.But I digress. I'll go set up my offshore accounts immediately and purchase my tax deductible show horse (after consulting with my army of tax lawyers), so I can take advantage of the tax breaks being afforded to all Americans.Thanks for the chuckle.
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Jus' Me, NYT "Some air travel might be deemed necessary....business, family..but tourism is frivolous." How about expanding one's mind? How about opening oneself up to other cultures, other ways of living? How about supporting foreign economies? Those things aren't frivolous.
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Marie V. Gagliardi In addition, how about taking back at least a certain percentage of the 2017 tax cuts the GOP gave to fortune 500 corporations that were making billions in annual profit and didn't even need them. Those cuts did almost nothing to benefit the middle class as they promised, did not pay for themselves, and have added an estimated 2 trillion to the national deficit already. I laugh at the GOP's hypocrisy when they talk about the cuts to "entitlement"programs like Social Security and Medicare that are needed after drastically reducing the US government's tax base with their 40% tax decreases for the likes of Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon.
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Perhaps the Republicans can ask their newest member, George Santos, to assume a lead role on the finance committee and solve this mess. He appears to be a financial wizard going from broke to loaning his campaign $700,000 out of the millions he made in just one election cycle.
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The cost of a US congressman?$625,000.Owning a US congressman? Priceless.
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PC Indeed, but with the current climate of public education. Where we have folks on the Right more worried about waging endless culture war battles over nonexistent issues. Than backing desperately needed STEM classes that focuses on over the horizon technology that will transform our economy for the better. We need to invest in our young people, so they can compete in a 21st century economy. So, we won't be at the mercy of China's digital economy. We will have to spend at least a trillion dollars a year just to level the battlefield.
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Not paying much attention to South Korea, this column is eye opening. At least women have the choice today to reproduce and it is amazing, if true, that 65 percent of women don't want kids. For all these hundreds of years, just about every one thought motherhood was the goal of women. I guess that was another myth. Give women choices, and you will hear the truth.
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