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I come from a family of mixed heavy and thin people, eat healthily and exercise, but have a large appetite that makes me feel hungry most of the time. But when I started taking phentermine last year (which suppresses the parasympathetic nervous system), intrusive thoughts about food that had plagued me my entire life evaporated as if by magic. It was such a welcome relief, and I lost weight steadily thereafter. I wish I’d known sooner - not thinking about food / not feeling invested in what I’m eating feels amazing and frees up my mind for more valuable things. The cognitive friction my own hungry brain caused me as a young adult shouldn’t be experienced by anyone, and phentermine ($20/mo without insurance) is an affordable measure for most.
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Chris Ryan Look how much people screamed when the price of a head of iceberg lettuce hit $2.99.Do you know who picks iceberg lettuce?Latin American immigrants who can no longer come in to work.
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Yesterday's Wordle 572 3/6* 99/76⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 CRANE96/76 WL 20🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 LEAST99/75 WL 1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAPT99/—Today I learned about "groups," as used in the bot's analysis. After my starter, I began looking for my next guess with the premise that the solution would have an xEAxx pattern, since the A was fixed and the E didn't belong in the last position. I searched the Wardle list for words using the EA combination and found 98 total words. But, using just the xEAxx pattern, (plus the four words that use an ExAxx pattern,) and excluding words with letters that my first guess ruled out, there were just 20 possible anwers. *Seven* of those 20 possibilities were previous solutions, leaving just 13 viable words. Just messing around today, I sorted the 13 viable words into "groups" formed by common pattern and first letter. The bot may separate words into additional groups, but after doing all this, I had no desire to expend any more effort to find out. =)Here are my Numbered GROUPS (if you see a word that's missing, check the previous solution list). (OT Note: Not sure how I missed it, but BLEAT *is* on the list.)1BEAST2DEALT3HEADYHEAVY4LEAFYLEAPTLEASHLEAST5MEALYMEATY6YEAST7EMAILEXALT
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brooklyn - Thanks so much for your comment. Too many people incorrectly think the stock market is nothing but rich people. But 58% of Americans are normally invested in stocks. All of us face big losses when we make bad picks. But our capital, often hard earned through wages or modest inheritances, is what keeps American innovation and strength alive.I became a tech investor in 2008. The Fed fund rate was modest during the bull years but not so low that it fueled inflation until they went to the extreme of dropping it to near zero in the pandemic. The American Prospect has recently suggested that our government should fight inflation by unleashing regulations that are holding back productivity. Jeremy Siegel has criticized the Fed recently.As a tech investor, my gains and major 2022 losses are not about lazy wealth. I've been homeless several times when I was poor. I've studied the markets for 3 hours daily since 2008, especially tech, and was a market beating investor most of that time. But my main reason for being in the market is because I want to launch a tech company of my own as an inventor seeking patents soon. I could have easily done it if I had sold in November of 2021.Many investors were misled by Fed "guidance" suggesting at first that "unexpected" inflation was modest and would not require much pain to cure. They pioneered much pandemic inflation and now they're benefiting by reducing the deficit at everyone's expense, especially workers and investors.
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Re: So should we start trying to pay this debt down now?We ARE paying down rate now. Via financial repressionThat IS the way Governments do pay down debtsHE LIQUIDATION OF GOVERNMENT DEBTCarmen M. Reinhart M. Belen SbranciaWorking Paper 16893 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCHThis paper analyzes how 70 Government paid off the debt of WW II “For the advanced economies in our sample,real interest rates were negative roughly ½ of the time during 1945-1980. For the United States andthe United Kingdom our estimates of the annual liquidation of debt via negative real interest ratesamounted on average from 3 to 4 percent of GDP a year. For Australia and Italy, which recorded higherinflation rates, the liquidation effect was larger (around 5 percent per annum). “That is: Governments engineered negative real interest rates to be negative (which requires inflation) to pay off the debtCurrently, the real negative interest rate is 3.52% (rate of 10 yr T ) minus 6.5% (inflation) = (-) -2.98 %A negative real interest rate “eats up” the US debt at 3% annuallyThat is how Governments around the world paid off the debt of WW I and WW IIAnd that is , how the US , right now, is paying off the debtVia inflation. Inflation is a tax. A tax that is paid by savers and pension funds, and that falls most heavily on lower paid peopleThose are paying off the debt. Now. And will, for the coming decade(s) , see Carmen's paper
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Oh come on. There is no fair comparison between hands-on manual selection between multiple high quality lenses, control of film speed, white balance, aperture, exposure time, focus, depth of field (and image sensor size) in a quality digital SLR and a smartphone camera.You can try and emulate various effects with manipulation, but the lense, camera speed and aperture used in the original image can’t be changed, so depth of field is typically wide open in a smartphone shot, except in clever emulated modes like “portrait”. But lugging around an SLR, an associated camera bag with lenses and large detachable flash, maybe even a tripod, requires advance planning and mindfulness that we are heading out for the principal purpose of photography, which focuses the mind on composition, light, framing, all kinds of elements. It just is not the same process as using a smartphone, or even a point and shoot parallax camera, and trying later image manipulation with software. There is good reason when you are at significant events you see those phalanxes of pro journalist photographers with big SLR cameras and so much bulky equipment. And why their images are so superior to smartphone captures. What the smartphone camera has done is make documentary recording of daily life ubiquitous. Photographic records of almost everything and anything for the masses. Fantastic. But artistic parameters for creating beautiful images? Limited.
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Another extremely high-priced drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb is causing financial difficulties for AFib victims. There are less expensive anticoagulant drugs, but eliquis is the drug being prescribed by doctors. Generics were supposed to be available this year but the US patent and trademark office has now extended the eliquis patent to November 2026. There seems to be very little control over drug companies in the United States.
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Aurora is innocent in this matter.The insurance owes $3k.American is the responsible party.Pretty clear.(and the customer is foolhardy to book same day arrival)
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Another reminder that Social Security has not added to deficits or debt in any way. Recipients (boomers) have paid about $2.8 trillion into the system than has been taken out, so far. This cushion will mostly be gone by the time boomers are gone, but then the system will be back to its original design as pay-as-you-go, not a funded system. To keep up promised benefits while not having a deficit in the program the tax base of SS can be expanded if necessary by raising the cap or taxing interest, dividend, rent and capital gains income. I suspect that many if not most people are not aware that these types of income are not taxed for SS.And there is no moral or economic reason why the SS program must have its own isolated budget and never go into the red. The military is not supported by its own taxes and required to have a balanced budget, nor is the government as a whole. The problem with SS is that workers' wages and salaries have not kept up with overall economic growth as inequality has increased. Since higher incomes are not taxed for the program there may be a shortage at some decades in the future. This can be easily fixed by revising the tax code.Social Security is in no way a threat to the fiscal health of the country.
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Richard You're apparently not understanding it. You have tremendously more control. With a cloud-based password manager, if they are hacked, everyone's data can be stolen - as it was in this case.When you store it in your own cloud storage location, you have control over how that cloud storage is secured and how access is managed to it. If you're really paranoid, you can even store it in an encrypted container. That was you can still use it easily on your own computer. For example, create a small VeraCrypt container and store it in a OneDrive synced folder. For someone to get in, they would need to first break into your Microsoft account (which you should have MFA set up on), then know to find a VeraCrypt container (which could be named anything), then figure out that password, then finally figure out the password to the actual password vault - and hopefully your important stuff all has MFA/2FA so the password alone is still not enough to get in!
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Unfortunately, Mr. Pichai is a manager, not a visionary like Larry Page and Sergei Brin. Now they’re behind the eight ball with nothing to challenge ChatGPT and other AÍ companies. The same thing happened to Microsoft with browsers and the cloud 20 years ago. They had to reinvent themselves, which they successfully did, but not before gaining the has been moniker.It will be interesting to see what happens in the next 5 years. Certainly, there will be no need for keyword searches anymore. We will essentially be able to communicate with a smart, flexible AÍ app much like we do with a person, including experts in all areas of knowledge. This will result with a major advance in epidemiology.
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I suppose we should be grateful that the MTA and governor's office haven't further insulted our intelligence by referring to the delays as "unexpected" and the ballooning price tag as "an investment."Instead, they dragged out "equity," their shiny new buzzword.And they want Uncle Sam to bankroll this hot mess they dumped on us?Sure, just as soon as the US District Court for the Southern District of New York gets a complete look at the books and starts perp-walking anybody who got their pockets lined.
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Western greed financed and is still financing Chinese expansion. We got what we deserved.
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The reason someone goes into a field like that is because they value the work over the money.But it shouldn’t come as a shock that employees of a large company making billions a year have perks for their employees beyond what is provided at a nonprofit.
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I am 71 and the older I get, the further left I stand.I am deeply committed to participating in action that protects our environment, destroys white supremacy, protects reproductive rights, defends asylum seekers, promotes universal healthcare, advocates for free and open public education, guarantees voting access, demands criminal Justice reform, and replaces judgment with compassion.I am grateful your article was published and will be contacting Third Act to find out if I can be of service to these essential human values.
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Noncompetes are no different than NDAs that protect criminals.Unless a non-compete contract is 100% mutual - ie the corporation doesn't compete against me either, or I'm paid 100% for lost earnings for the entire period I do not compete with them - I'll never sign such a demonic give your soul contract.A malicious boss who fired me after 22 years in order to get away with stealing over $88k in independently verified earnings from me, followed up trying to coerce me to sign a career ending non-compete so outlandish my lawyer said no court in the land would validate it. Unfortunately I could not overcome the "do not poach employees" agreement between the many noncompeting companies we worked with."No poaching of employees" agreements between companies should also be outlawed too as anti-competitive, especially between market monopolies!The suppressing of "income by roughly ... $250 billion to $296 billion" also suppresses the corresponding income tax on that amount that could offset slightly the massive tax evasion by those same employers.Bottom line, American style capitalism hates paying any taxes and competition.Clearly Elon Musk is no rocket scientist. Imagine if the government he pays no taxes to had noncompetes on all NASA employees, especially rocket scientists? He'd be grounded playing with toy rockets and cars because he's no automotive engineer or designer either and the big three had noncompete brain-chains on all their automotive engineers and designers.
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We are at 8 Billion now and expected to grow to 10 Billion soon. We are still multiplying more than rabbits.
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While Nadella and all the other expensive empty suits party in Davis enjoying his almost 55 million dollar salary. Ain’t capitalism great?
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The flat tax seems like a simple solution, but say someone who makes $40,000/year and then pays $4000 leaving $36K to live on, but the guy making 1,000,000 pays $10,000 leaving a whopping $990,000. Does that seem right? Talk about wealth heading up the column.
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"Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told reporters on Thursday that she was hopeful that a crisis over the debt limit will be avoided this year.“'The discussions of debt limits are always quite intense,' Ms. Georgieva said. 'History teaches us that in the end, a solution is being found.”'A caveat included in every prospectus is that "past performance does not guarantee future results".The latest crop of Republicans is reckless enough to cause some serious damage. Or has Ms. Georgieva not been paying attention for the last decade or so?
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So - not a eulogy I guess, but for a Christmas present to me two years ago my wife hollowed out a big old book James Bond style and filled it with 365 fortune cookie-type messages thanking me for everything from mix tapes I made her in college to “Not really getting hung up on the details of reality with me”. Also things like “I love when you’re doing your lumberjack thing in our suburban yard”. Best present I ever got. Brings me peace and happiness every time I open the old book. It was supposed to last me a year, but I don’t think I’m even 1/2 way through the batch.
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Certified appraiser here. The "two respected sociologists" reviewed census data to determine if there was racism in appraisals. Sorry, but that is not how reviews work. It takes the actual reviewing of individual appraisal reports by other appraisers to determine if there were valuation errors. Appraisers look for sales that are in closest proximity to the subject property. A similar house next door to the subject property is the best comparable sale. A similar house one mile away in a different census tract is not a good comparable sale. So if you are appraising a two-family rowhouse on 115th Street and Madison, you don't use a "model-match" rowhouse sale on 95th Street and Madison. It's called location, location location. The same goes for the appraisals of properties where in one instance the appraiser is greeted by a black owner and the other appraiser is greeted by a white owner. Again, no reviews of appraisals, just the automatic assumption that the low appraiser was a racist. No Licensing Board would penalize the low appraiser without several outside reviews. As for the $472,000 and $750,000 appraisals, one (or perhaps both) appraiser is totally incompetent. Which one? We don't know.Finally, why in the world would an appraiser knowingly jeopardize his/her license by low-balling a black homeowner? Answer: 99%+ don't.
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Dan B. I wish you had one to sell at that $100 price. It would be great for the environment and cancel out any issues created by Elon's ego.
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The real issue with employee injuries are safety equipment .As a Union member the mantra became safety , safety , safety !OSHA 10 , OSHA30 courses were required. How this extends to football , is safety of equipment , they improved the helmet lining so the skull would not be jolted as much. Now maybe the experts should focus their expertise on the exterior of the helmet? Possibly instead of the other player being hit by a hard thermoplastic object at 30 miles per hour , the outer layer of helmit materal can be somewhat cushioned also , so as to mitigate the impact to someones chest . Remember when football was invented , they used leather helmits , with little cushioning , I dont know how many injuries there were , but probably numerous. The new helmit would still have the logo , and not neccessarly look too much different , but think of the injuries it could prevent. Note rules have recently been modified as per other rules of play , why cant they look at equipment . Now the issue of compensation . Share the wealth , if BILLION$are being made in this big business , there certainly is enough wealth to at least pay medical claims for those unfortunate enough to be paralized , and maimed. Something has to be done!
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Douglas Educational level is less a factor in Brazil in my opinion. The BBC described the groups that supported Bolsonaro when he was first elected. <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45979682" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45979682</a>I'd say they remain his most ardent supporters today. People with privilege (wealth, property, security, contacts within the bureacracy, the "good life," etc.) fear they'll lose out greatly under Lula, painting him as a communist. Lula left office with a great deal of popular support, in the 70-80% range. He admittedly improved education, health and the economic opportunities for the poor, at some cost to the more privileged. But his party (and by extension, he) are blamed for IMMENSE corruption that came to light after he left office. His election this time appears to be due less to his popularity (he's not particularly popular), but rather to intense antipathy toward Bolsonaro and his personal and political tactics.
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Anne Well said! I'm an RN - well, just an N.....as I retired thus didn't renew the Registration. Your statement reminds me of what a 52 year old patient said to a cardiothoracic surgeon who had just told him he need open heart/bypass surgery:Patient: but I'm just middle-aged.MD: How many 104 year old people do you know?
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“The mutiny, waged by ultraconservative lawmakers…”There’s nothing conservative about the ‘Freedom’ Caucus. They are to the right of conservatism, further to the right apparently, than McCarthy. They are anti-democracy authoritarians. I think it would be be more accurate to call them ultra right-wing or hard-right as they were referred to in the opening sentence.
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Santos is a poster boy for the Republican Party. His grifts and lies track perfectly with the Party's overall arrogant, hypocritical and callous approach to our realities. Of course the new Speaker of the House welcomes him with open arms and committee assignments.Is it striking that Mr. Intrater is a "wealthy investor" handling the assets of his cousin, a Russian oligarch under US sanctions, but is allowed by the Treasury Department to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to various Republican causes?
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Eric B Allow me another post to comment on Bob the Bot’s comment in the side by side analysis yesterday. I wondered before about the comments re “What other Times readers did” , and I think the data from yesterday confirms that the Bot looks at only the immediately preceding step rather than the whole path. And that step may be the pattern rather the word in the first step. (Did that number of people really use CREAK as an opening?)Anyway the number of people faced with my scenario changed drastically from step to step, with the ATTIC trap obviously a common one.1stCREAK is a strong opening guess. Not only is this a good guess for any Wordle, but it was also a lucky one today: You’ve eliminated all but 34 of the words in my dictionary.….Here’s what 82,603 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.2NDLATCH was a solid guess here. It looks as if you’ve narrowed it down to only two remaining words: ATTIC or ANTIC.Here’s what 24 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.3rd ATTICWith two words to pick from, the best strategy is to guess whichever one you think is most likely. Unfortunately, ATTIC wasn’t the right answer this time, but it’s exactly what I would’ve guessed in this situation. ….….Here’s what 629 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.4th step ANTICThere was only one possible solution left — and you got it! ….Here’s what 9,551 other readers did who faced the same scenario as you.What sez you BotWatchers?
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"Mr. Intrater is a private equity investor perhaps best known for his financial ties to Viktor Vekselberg, his cousin. Mr. Vekselberg is a Russian oligarch whose U.S. assets were frozen in 2018 by the Treasury Department because of his ties to the Kremlin."That's all I need to know.
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So it's the first of the month and time to make payroll for every federal employee. That includes our active duty military and disabled veterans who need the money to pay their bills. It includes air traffic controllers, FBI agents, research scientists, public health nurses, and kitchen staff at cafeterias in the capital, in National Parks, and the Smithsonian museum. All of these people have already done their jobs and are counting on their paychecks to cover their own obligations. It's also time to pay retirees surviving in barely adequate Social Security benefits, and time to pay contractors who are trying to keep highways and bridges open. It's time to pay the business who delivered the new copy machine yesterday, to pay for new vehicles in the motor pool, and the fuel to run them. And, oh yeah, also time to make interest payments to bondholders.Who looks at that list and says: "Time to prioritize; we absolutely must make the interest payments to the bankers, financial institutions, and rich bondholders?" Only the bankers, financial institutions and rich bondholders. By any rational criteria and set of values interest payments are the least critical obligation and the most readily postponed. Wall Street should be wary of demanding prioritization.
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Brett, the only thing you got right in this week's conversation with Gail is your last comment on Adolfo Kaminsky. When, as a retired RN living on my savings and Social Security, I paid more in 2020 federal income taxes that DJT did, there is a problem with the entire tax code and collection structure. And a VAT or flat tax will only tighten those screws to those of us in the mid and lower income levels. Really, $400,000.00 is not enough to live comfortably on? Change your expectations and life style.
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Josh Trump added $7.8 Billion to the national debt during his "business-savvy admin". Also signed deal with Saudi Arabia to restrict oil output to placate Trump's fracking donors. That was in 2020 and that's when gasoline prices started to go up from $2/gallon.
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While I agree that layoffs via email is cruel, what has gone unsaid is the generous benefits of Tech firms. Most are giving weeks and even months of severance in addition to extended medical coverage. In the non-digital workforce you're simply shown the exit.
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Bill Brasky During the first Palestinian uprising (1989) before suicide bombs or rockets from Gaza existed in Israel and when over a thousand youths were killed by the IDF, an American-Palestinian (Mubarak Awad) opened the “Centre for Non-violent Civil Disobedience” in Jerusalem. He was promptly deported.A few years earlier (1982) Israel used the pretext of an attempted assassination of one of its European ambassadors by a breakaway PLO group to invade Lebanon and “crush PLO terror.” (17,000 mostly Lebanese civilians perished).In reality, the PLO had been observing a US-brokered ceasefire for the 11 previous months. More importantly, it had for the first time been publicly debating a two-state solution, thus rapidly gaining international acceptance with even the Vatican hosting Arafat. It was this, that then-prime minister Menachem Begin (a wanted terrorist during the British Mandate) found intolerable.Israel has always feared Palestinian diplomacy far more than its violence.
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If this is your quaint way of suggesting the $50-billion we now squander over there--roughly a thousand million dollars a week, could be better used somewhere here, I request expedited consideration be given to replacing the aging boilers of New York City's public housing developments. That will set you back only $2-billion. A bargain.
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In his speech, McCarthy said ""My friends – this chamber is now fully open for all Americans". All of the Republicans applauded and all of the Democrats remained silent. Evidently, the Democrats believe the House represents a subset of Americans. Maybe just the elitists?
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Its not a bad idea. Gun violence is actually statistically so rare compared to the volume of guns and so concentrated to specific demographics and locations that insurance for someone like me is like $10 a month. How do I know this? Because I can already buy gun insurance with full coverage of all physical and legal liabilities with a $2k deductible for $10 a month. If it was mandatory that price would probably be cheaper since the criminals that usually use these guns to murder people arent going to follow any rules anyways.
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Lee Lee I'm sure the obscene money made by tech workers in comparison to most others in this country, who are working far longer and for a barely livable wage, will help see you and your team through the next few weeks before you are hired again by another tech company.Just never fool yourself: Giant corporations which have greed and little else in mind, are never going to be 'family'. You sell your soul to tech, you pay a price.If you're looking for connection, work for 15.00/hr at the local store or business that actually sees community as a worthy investment.
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An early boomer, most of my career was spent working in a skilled construction trade. The work is cyclical in nature, roughly following the ups and downs of the economy in general. We have a rule of thumb, among the union's members: save 20% of each paycheck. That's not savings for big purchases or retirement, but rather to cover living expenses when the economy goes south, taking the jobs with it. I think it's a good rule for every career, since a capitalist economy places shareholder value above labor. Live below your means, and always keep a healthy cash reserve. Separate the needs from the wants, then don't buy the wants until your reserves are in place. You and your family will sleep better.
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George Santos is a liar and complete fraud. He isn’t who he claims to be. Yesterday, it was reported that approximately $3,000 of a GoFundMe account that was raised money to help a veteran’s sick dog was not turned over by Santos to the veteran.Today, it’s this story about Harbor City Capital.Santos is a con-man and a thief. He’s not to be trusted by anyone.What’s next to discover: his involvement in online romance scams?
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john Community and State Colleges where tuition is cheap are the way to go. In my area back in the 70's when the local community college opened it was to be a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 split between the the local county/school districts, the state and the student. Take a guess on who has refused to keep their end of the bargain. THE STATE.The state of Pa. with it's politicians have failed primary and state level college. They have refused to alter the real estate based funding for K-12 which is notoriously unequal and refused to fund community college and Votec (Vocational Tech. Trades) schools. We have a shortage of 300k trades people and another 100k truck drivers.
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San Francisco has a green bin option, which we use (I believe for my cooperation I get a bag of garden soil every year), but it's not without added expense and minor annoyances.Added expenses are compostable bio bags to line the kitchen green bin. The bin needs to be washed frequently, which uses water, sometimes an issue in California.The bigger collection bin gets filthy with slimy liquid, scraps, and black mold. They suggest lining the bin with paper, and then you have an inch of wet paper soup to deal with. So either you wash it somewhere (without a power washer, a Sisyphean task), and the inevitable half-rotten slop goes into the gutter and then the storm drains, or you pay $50 - $80 per cleaning to a service.I would be nice if the garbage company would occasionally swap the bins for clean ones, but no.
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The Economist points out that Republicans owe their very slim House majority to just 6,670 votes out of 107 million cast. If the "berserker caucus that tormented Mr McCarthy" tries to cut Social Security and Medicare, it will almost certainly open a path for the Democrats to win back to a durable majority in 2024.
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Eric B Wordle 573 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 90 11 201 "Strong, Unlucky"⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 85 69 6 "Solid"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 84 "Excellent"Skill 92 Luck 55A favorite opener was decidedly unproductive today. A word from today's spelling popped into my head for the second choice. Without much analysis, I thought of two words for the third guess. Only after the Bot analysis did I see that there were six words. Happily, I chose the right word for a 3-solve.Yesterday's Wordle 572 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨92 62 56 Alone🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩93 89 1 Least 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩99 LeaptSkill 96 Luck 75After getting three letters on the first guess, I was in a good position for a 3-solve. I didn't expect that the Bot's favorite starter in hard mode would be the answer, but the "LEAxx" pattern seemed like a good bet. That choice paid off leaving only the solution.Great Lakes Wow! Your analysis is as impressive as it is informative. I haven't been able to turn off my Firefox adblock and don't want to pay monthly for <a href="https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wordle-past-answers" target="_blank">https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wordle-past-answers</a>Is there another site that alphabetizes the past answers?TGIF Happy Friday!
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GDP is estimated to be close to 4% for the year. We shall find out soon. That's nowhere near a recession. Unemployment is very low at 3.5% which is essentially full employment. There are nearly 10 million jobs open right now which is nearly twice as many an those without jobs. Inflation is slowing down and the next release will verify that. Inflation has been a global phenomenon with it being higher in Europe than here. Gas prices have come down $3 or less depending where you live. The stock market is still holding up. So what's the problem?There is pain in the economy and it lies mostly with uneducated, rural white males. These people form the backbone of the Republican party. All the right has to do is cast blame for their condition on the Democrats and it's off to the races. Never mind that the Republicans have never done anything for these people and still wont. Biden's new spending plans are targeted to help them and they should start to reap those rewards soon. I predict the Republican House will take credit for those jobs and claim that they are the result of spending cuts. Watch for it. Then when the budget cuts come through next year, the Republicans will claim that the downturn was the result of excessive Democrat spending and taxation. Watch for that too.
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The state is in the enviable position of sitting on $100 billion as more challenges continue to present themselves.Its predicament could be considerably worse, and it's quite fortunate to be, by far, the richest state in the country.And with the smartest people and politicians in the country, too, we needn't worry about California's capacity for dealing effectively with the challenges it will continue to face.
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Fair enough, Ant’, but we’re not talking about a $50 supplement here. This was about AAV mediated reexpression of Yamanaka factors, which would be comparable in complexity to AAV mediated SMA treatment.The point of the post was to illustrate the cost differential of somewhere in the order of 6 powers of 10 once these treatments are no longer “niche products”, but now effectively everyone becomes eligible.Medicine has reached the ceiling of what it can pay for.
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John C You could offer me $ 1 M and I would still reject pregnancy. Thankfully it's now becoming more acceptable for a person - man or woman - to admit we don't want children.
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To me and my wife health insurance is the main reason for staying in current jobs. Health insurance premium is 950 per person/month. Out of pocket deductible is 2000 per person. The irony is that we spend around 48k a year, car payment including, and health insurance premiums make 1/3 of the 72k number. That is ridiculous.
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Frank The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 did not institute the debt limit.Congress created the debt ceiling with the Second Liberty Bond Act of 1917.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_debt_ceiling" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_debt_ceiling</a>Quote:A statutorily imposed debt ceiling has been in effect since 1917 when the US Congress passed the Second Liberty Bond Act. Before 1917 there was no debt ceiling in force, but there were parliamentary procedural limitations on the amount of debt that could be issued by the government.Except for about a year during 1835–1836, the United States has continuously had a fluctuating public debt since the US Constitution legally went into effect on March 4, 1789. Debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War and under the Articles of Confederation led to the first yearly report on the amount of the debt ($75,463,476.52 on January 1, 1791[1]). The national debt, as expressed in absolute dollars, has increased under every presidential administration since Herbert Hoover. End quoteThe issue I am raising is whether any law that creates a debt limit is constitutional.Even laws that are finally adjudged to be unconstitutional are in force until that decision is reached.But first on has to raise the legal issue.
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Steve Well, they have been going up of late. And lets face it, the Middle Class is overwhelmed with living beyond their means.Far too many Youngz feel they should be living as they lived under Mom and Dad...with free WiFi, free cable, free food and a well running car at the ready. That their lifestyle should not change from living at home, to living on their own. I recently helped a friend remodel a mother daughter set-up to rent. Really nice, clean, modern set-up, far better than I had when I was renting in my youth. I was there finishing up some work, for several of the walk-thrus...and everyone one of the Young prospective renters asked if, Cable, WiFi, electric and water were included. Shocked that they were not, that they would have to pay for such necessities. That the fair priced rent, didn't include what would likely amount to another $500+ a month shocked them all."Why not?," 24yo asked. "Uh, because they cost money." The agent said, "and the landlord already pays for his own children."When I (24yo)moved out on my own, into a house share with a friend, we didn't eat like Kings. We didnt have a TV for nearly a year. We shared the landline for a year. We scrimped and found short-cuts for all sorts of expenses. I got a second job at a deli, so I could eat there,often bringing home "end of day" food stuffs that couldn't be sold the next day. Living paycheck to paycheck is not new, and these Youngz, need to listen to those who went thru it and learned how.
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All this talk about the success of cities such as Seattle in adding new housing seems to overlook their biggest housing problem. And that is not that the designs are uninspired - it is that none of the housing is affordable. The current concept for "affordable" housing is to build the same expensive units and then demand public subsidies for potential residents. Given that Seattle still has many people living on its streets and open spaces (Portland is even worse), this is not working.
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As Zelensky said, he does not want a WWIII. Nor do we. Better to send tanks than to have another huge war that destroys much of Europe if not humanity. Send all the tanks, antimissile devices and other hardware we can afford. Then help Ukraine rebuild when it wins. It's still cheaper than sending people. The only other option is open war with Russia--and that's very dangerous given Putin's nuclear weapons.
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I was fortunate to have met Jim O’Connell when I was a medical student in the 1980’s. Being young and idealistic a group of us wanted to start a volunteer, student run medical clinic for the homeless in Syracuse,NY. I met Jim at a conference in Boston where he spoke passionately about healthcare for the disenfranchised. He subsequently came for a visit and inspired us to forge ahead with our plans. We opened a clinic staffed by volunteer physicians and medical students through a partnership with the Onondaga County Department of Health using there clinic facilities. To this day some iteration of SC-HOPE as it was known still exists.For me I practiced primary care at a community health center- one of the closest entities to healthcare for all. Thank you Jim - you continue to be an inspiration.
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Open your church to diversity of experience of God, instead of doctrinal conformity and you’ll find God as often in the color purple, admired on a warm summer day, that just shocks you into the beauty of being alive. I pitied Benedict for being a cloistered traditionalist, so much like the villain in my favorite book The Name of the Rose. I’m much more of a William of Baskerville, skeptical of humorless wet shirts and pious holy rollers. The Bible’s nice as a fairy tale, in fact teaches better and less frightening lessons than Mother Goose or Brothers Grimm, but they really only snuck one true line in the accepted cannon and it’s in the gospel of Luke. The kingdom of God is within you. I have been on more spiritual quests and saved more flesh and blood bodies than anyone dressed in a mitre or flowing gown. That’s because I came up from dirt and know I will return to dirt. No billions of dollars of art and real estate holdings will absolve you of the sins of true decadence, Ross, an institution that sits on the wealth of man while the bellies of the poor cry out in pangs. You want Francis to lead a true spiritual revolution on Earth? Do as John Paul I did and try to hold a Roman estate sale. Then you’d get people to stop chasing after the minutiae that doesn’t matter an iota to the inner god; but that we only consume and stuff ourselves to fill the lack we feel of spiritual happiness and contentment and generosity.
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Dear NYT:As the NYT properly frames the question: Is Encouraging Unauthorized Immigration Free Speech or a Felony?This is more than ironic. We’re seeing a huge surge of illegal immigration during the Biden administration because illegal aliens know Biden will not enforce the law, and indeed, he promised therm benefits and eventual amnesty.Throughout his campaign, Biden has encouraged illegal immigrants to come here, and to remain.In February 2020, Biden promised, “Nobody is going to be deported in my first 100 days.”In January 2020, Biden promised to end illegal alien detention across the board.In March 2020, Biden replied "no" when asked if police should turn over criminal illegal aliens to ICE.In April 2020, Biden repeatedly called for a suspension of deportations.Then in August 2020, Biden announced he would put in place a policy favoring illegal aliens with government benefits, the same benefits “everybody else has access to.”In December 2019, Biden twice promised federal health care for illegal aliens.While in office, Biden has reinstated Obama's catch and release policies, ended "remain in Mexico" and aided and abetted smuggling by providing services and transportation to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants dropped at the border by cartels, who made more than $13 billion last year.How is all this not "encouragement?" If this law is upheld, and it should be struck down as unconstitutional, why should Biden himself not face prosecution?
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Jennifer Before Reagan CEO's were almost blue collar in salaries since RR they loan money to the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations.
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The pharm industry in the US is broken. It charges outrageous prices for drugs and advertises these drugs on evening news programs. But prospective patients don't choose drugs on their own. The drugs they take are usually chosen by physicians. So why all the expenditure on advertising on television?Patents are important because they incentivize research. This is important. New techniques using messenger RNA led to a rapid development of vaccines for COVID that were had higher efficacy than vaccines created with the old approach. This was done by Moderna and Biontech in collaboration with Pfizer. This new approach promises medicines in a variety of areas. Prior to COVID, BIontech was trying to develop vaccines for cancer. These new drugs have the potential to revolutionize medicine in the long run.Much of the spending occurs up front. Investors want to be repaid for the development of new drugs. Yet we need a realistic payment system as well.So there is a balance that needs to be struck. I guess what I am saying is that we want the research to flourish, and we want researchers who develop something truly new to be rewarded. But we also need to make sure pharma companies don't rely on past successes and make money by preventing competition.I wish I had more confidence that Congress had the ability to strike the right balance. Our Congress is dysfunctional and accepts too much in payments from lobbyists.Americans are paying for government dysfunction.
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RS Totally agree. Such a lovely story, but ultimately these generous gifts are just continuing the cycle of putting money in the pocket of the pharmaceutical companies who charge these prices. The key takeaway shouldn't be the generosity of an individual (beautiful as that is) but that we think it's ok to put the life of a child at risk because an EpiPen is priced at $800.
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Hunter Greer Last time I checked, the inheritance exemption was around $12M. That's a bit above upper middle class. If anything estate taxes need to be increased. The real problem is the loopholes you allude to.
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Auntie Mame - You don't understand economics, and there was never a time computer products were protected. The reason you can have an iPhone or iMac for the price it costs is because it's made in China & Taiwan. The reason the manufacturing was moved to China is to lower manufacturing cost. If an iMac were made in the US it would be $5000 and nobody could afford it. The people overseas who build Apple products make Burger King money.
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KG :I would recommend that you invest in low cost ETF.Inquire if your 403 offers you that option, otherwise, check out other Mutual Fund institutions.
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Read the NYT Food section comments. Foodies can be simply silly. We live in an Emperor’s New Clothes universe now, from Kardashians to Mar-a-lago to art, music, and restaurants. Let’s not forget Goop. Pretty soon we’ll all just put tip jars outside our doors for thanks for opening them and make our livings on Go Fund Me. Why not let the little guy grift too?
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But let’s spend what has been estimated to be ONE BILLION DOLLARS to cover over a couple of miles of the Kensington Expressway when the monies could be, and should be, better spent meeting the real deficiencies of the East Side of Buffalo, some of which are self-inflicted (crime, guns, shop-lifting, looting, poverty to some extent) and some of which are not (old housing stock, infrastructure, poverty to some extent).
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It is amazing how the chat.openai.com can be used to program simple Perl and Python scripts. I tried one last night was surprised at the result.
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Let them eat their own party from the inside. This is what happens when you have a party that allowed itself to be taken over by crazy people. They will accomplish nothing. The Democrats own the Senate. The next 2 years will be a 3-ring circus with the GOP impeaching anything that moves and opening ridiculous investigations into nonsense. I say do it all. Show the American people their incompetence. Show the country a GOP president would be a really bad idea in 2024
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Ellen 2022 N.Rest.Assoc. Top Compensation:$5,891,851: Dawn Sweeney, President and CEO$1,427,471: Terry Erdle, COO$1,175,743: Marrin Irby, CFO$1,002,135: Sherman Brown, EVP, Training and Certification
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Bravo! Congratulations and best wishes on your inspirational journey. Mayor Smith, several readers offered some great ideas to help you restore, rebuild and resurrect the small town of Earle. 1) Evaluate many cities around the world, that found tear down costs of dilapidated homes was exorbitant re: City Budget. See Puglia Italy, several small towns in Portugal - many sold the homes for $1 …requiring rehab and renovation by new owners. See Detroit where at least 1/3 of the city was abandoned: Detroit didn’t provide electricity to street lights etc. But in areas close to the downtown they marketed fixer uppers and repurposed commercial space as artists lofts/studios. They attracted many young people in their early twenties. Such would be a great compliment to the youngest African American Mayor. Memphis was many young performing artists (small gigs) who would be interested in low cost housing. 2) The Netflix series or even a documentary about Mayor Smith and Earle definitely could bring in needed revenue. 3) Perhaps start a Go Fund Me campaign. I know I would contribute andwith more media attention I believe many people from all over the country would. 4) MARKET History Elton Mitchell knifed and hung for refusing to work for a while man for free…his widow & George Berry Washington built a monument The Angel in the Field in his honor. Parlay such with other African American historical sites eg National National Memorial Museum, Pettus Bridge -Travel Civil Rights Tour
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Peter Bret Stephens is one more rich white man who, just like the GOP, wants to ensure that rich white men continue to control and profit from this country. He, like the GOP, is a single issue voter in that regard, and the issue is white hegemony.I love Gail, but let's see the Times bring in a younger Black woman to engage in these dialogues with Bret. If he were called out on his true motives (and not treated with Gail's kid gloves), he would be afraid to open his mouth.
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Bret’s comment is“So I’m all for additional funding to make the I.R.S. more responsive. It’s when it comes to audits that people start getting worried. Inflation has already eaten into a lot of people’s incomes that are north of the $400,000-per-household threshold that Janet Yellen has suggested is the baseline for higher scrutiny. It’s a recipe for disaster.” Doesn’t this imply Brett thinks you should be able to cheat on your income tax because inflation is cutting into the lifestyle of a couple earning upper middle class income?This seems to be the Rep view of morality and citizenship. Totally incompatible with balancing the budget or paying down the Nation’s debt. This is not only a morally bankrupt argument it is predicated on the belief some Americans should be able to cheat on their taxes and this applies to Trump on down.IRS if you’re listening, we sure would like to see some Rep politicians tax returns.
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this makes no sense - it's the large corporations that benefit most from NDAs, not small businesses. often, the large corporations will lock people out of being a bigger fish at a small business through noncompetes. they will enforce it via lawyers that are salaried on staff while you have to pay 5x more for outside counsel. smaller businesses often lack resources and manpower to enforce employment clauses or invest at the level of a large business. this benefits you, not harms you.know that for all of your cherished secrets, you are not that important. all your competitors have secrets too.
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I have almost unreservedly agreed with and supported what Nancy Pelosi has represented and achieved...EXCEPT her belief that she and her colleagues should be allowed to "invest in the free market" while they are in office. Wrong. To ignore, or deny, the fact that it conflicts with the enormous power and influence they have, including their access to non-public information that we 'regular folk' do not, is disingenuous at best. You want to "invest in the free market?" Do it on your own time & dime...not ours.
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If you frequent a particular supermarket, know what items go on sale and NEVER buy them until then. Canned Tuna, jarred spaghetti sauce, peanut butter, canned soup, hot dogs, chicken breast, chop meat, sausage, rice, pasta. Moreover, know which supermarkets always have lower prices on their store brands. I only buy bread & chips & toilet paper at Aldi; only 2-lb packages of butter at Walmart; only Cafe Bustelo coffee at 4x10oz=$10 at Stop&Shop. COUPONS! Not just the ones in the circular, or requiring a "shopper card" or a "digital coupon" load. Keep & use REGISTER-RECEIPT coupons too! Paper plates were $0.30 cheaper per 100 at a discount store that had a $10-off-$40 receipt coupon, so I bought 13 pkgs which saved an additional $0.77 per 100. I have 100+ cans of Progresso soups, 40+ cans of Bumble Bee Tuna, and pounds & pounds of pasta & rice in my pantry. My freezer space is saved for frozen meats: chicken breast & chop meat & sausage & pork loins, all the stuff I only buy & freeze when they are on sale. My biggest tip? Skip the beer & wine & get 1.75liter bottles of generic vodka for $12.49, just make sure you use it with a mixer :-)
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The issue is not AP African American History but one of where do you draw the line on the raging liberal left. At what point do you say enough is enough!!!!! Should a biological male who identifies as female be allowed in a woman’s locker room? The liberal left will adamantly say yes!! Why are conservative speakers banned from college campuses because they offend a liberal viewpoint? What happened to open discourse? Why do snowflakes need safe zones?DeSantis and the Florida Legislature passed laws to prohibit the teaching gender identity to children in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Are third graders really emotionally and socially developed enough to understand gender identity?Isn’t that right of the parents to decide? Apparently, the liberal left believes otherwise!!Liberals flutter from one perceived slighting to the next achieving nothing but creating turmoil and dysfunction in their wake!!!
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John Elon is in business to make money and he's done quite from all stories and appearances. If he allowed open source for his charging units then I'd say he's doing something for the planet.
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My fifth Eulogy is about my generous and most kind American friend Joane Melwiski who enrolled into Erasmus University in 2002, when I was graduating from there at the age of 25. Well me and one of my friends JK Mirza loved the disco era. I noticed in one of the electronics shop they were selling disco lights, disco ball and laser lights. Yes I did go to some parties with Joane and I shared with her if I can bring some disco equipment to Pakistan, it would be real fun. Well Jonae said' I can give you a 1000 Euro from the 10,000 Euro bequeath I received from my grandmother. I hesitated and she just went to the shop and got me a disco ball and a disco light. Later in 2002, I received most loving email of concern from her that she has been following news from Pakistan post 911 and she is worried about me and has talked to her friends in the US and they have decided to send me an air ticket to come to US. Well I assured her that I am safe. Joane indeed had a most beautiful smile, and I would like to say to her keep smiling girl and conquer this world with your kindness.
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Scott The lawyers involved need to be disbarred for the first offense, not suspended. New York is incredibly lenient in its disciplinary practices. The bar in NY is a mutual aid society for the protection of other lawyers, not the public. Contrast Wisconsin where you will be disbarred for any felony. One lawyer I know in NY stole $2M from clients to finance his mistress's strip club. His license was only suspended for 5 years. Does this protect the public? Does it send the right message?
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All good, except that the drug Medicare spends the most on each year (the anticoagulant Eliquis, over $500 per month if you need it and $10 billion total cost to Medicare in 2020) will be off the list of drugs with price negotiation because in 2026 a generic approved in 2020 but blocked by Bristol Myers Squibb will finally be on the market. What a scam!
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Ron DeSantis epitomizes the ethos of the Billionaire--financed Radical Right. He is a mean-spirited, moody ideologue who will melt under the hot lights of a national campaign. His Florida is a tale of two states--the affluent Florida comprised overwhelmingly of well-heeled retirees flocking here to escape State income taxes & cold weather, & the struggling Florida, comprised of millions trapped in low-wage, dead-end jobs in retail, food & beverage, hospitality, tourism, farming, home services & similar industries. He despises the immigrants crucial to the State's economy & well-being, without whom the whole system would fall apart. These are the people doing the landscaping, roofing, painting, home remodeling, cooking, cleaning, personal care, food prep, hotel servicing, auto repairing, cashiering, healthcare patient servicing frontline financial services, & so much more. Demonizing them is ludicrous. Meanwhile Florida has a severe Property Insurance crisis threatening to diminish values & force people out of homes--for which he does nothing but throw tax dollars to insurance companies. Of course, he also ignores the huge fraud by unlicensed fly-by-night home services operators who rip the system off with promises of free kitchens & such by filing bogus property damage claims. After all, no self-respecting Red State will truly regulate businesses! Ron DeSantis is a Paper Tiger. What Trump doesn't tear apart, other GOP jackals-in-waiting will gladly absorb.
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I’m a retired engineer; worked in the field of microwave semiconductor technology for decades (1983-2017). For years I was one of those bunny-suited dweebs working in a clean room. So, yes, I understand what this all means.Fantastic to see Biden and the Dems pushing for this resurgence in US semiconductor technology and manufacturing. But, aside from just a handful of Republicans breaking with their party: vote was 243 to 187 in the House, with 24 Republicans voting in yeah. The same bill passed the Senate 64 to 33, with 17 Republican yeahs.The point is, a supermajority of Republicans opposed the CHIPS Act. Tell me again what sort of manufacturing—besides guns and oil and gas-drilling equipment—Republicans actively support?The education aspect of CHIPS cannot be overstated. I have a MS in Electrical Engineering. I did OK in my career, but tell me why anyone would want to jeopardize a budding career as a Wall Street “quant” making well into six figures for a lowly job in the semiconductor industry that may be scuttled if and when the GOP again controls the levers of government? And where will all the promising high-school grads come from when the GOP is dismantling our entire public-education system? THAT is what keeps me up at night. The payoff for investments in education, STEM, and high-tech manufacturing is measured in decades, not election cycles.
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Mike M. The USA is not spending "trillions" on Ukraine. Look to our flawed adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan for that. We are helping an independent nation with a democratically elected government fight for their right to exist. We are helping a people that want to be free and integrated into the EU and NATO. We are helping a country that is fighting against homicidal and freedom hating fascists that don't blink an eye when hospitals are blown up and children are killed. And we are doing this relatively on the cheap. As well, Ukrainians are only asking for the means to fight. They have not asked for any US boots on the ground. This sounds like a good deal to me. The issues you address are important. But, you can thank the GOP for many of them going unresolved.
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I am a liberal mother and a pro choice activist. Our family donates to liberal candidates, campaigns for our Georgia democrats, and we are devoted to building a more just and open society. We are totally appalled by this liberal agenda to encourage teens (and even younger) to question their identity as a salve to insecurity. Ridiculous. Georgia will never go blue if this madness continues. These teenagers are being pushed into this “solution” to gender questioning. It’s the rigidity of gender norms that makes any of this make any sense. What’s wrong with men wearing dresses? What’s wrong with girls being gay and into mechanics and eschewing “feminine” looks. Nothing. To say that this requires body modification is the ultimate gender policing. Stop it!
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Times: "Create a complex, unique password for every account."That's sound advice, but the article should mention *random* password generators.Apple's Mac OS has a Password Assistant that can create random passwords.*Microsoft Edge has a built-in Password Generator.**Linux has the "pwgen" command. A web search will find the manual page.Password managers may also have random password generators.* See "Tips for creating secure passwords on Mac" at the Apple web site.** See "Use Password Generator to create more secure passwords in Microsoft Edge" at the Microsoft web site.
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Republicans mostly and Democrats to a large extent have the mindset of a slave economy. that is why they are not for providing a decent safety net to Americans. even the Medicare is not a decent universal health care system. Medicare recipients still have to pay 20% of hospitalization costs and drugs and outpatient costs. No dental and vision coverage either. No ambulatory services covered either.If the US government (politicians and state governments too) don't provide the kind of social safety net as provided by the Western European nations then the economy will suffer and so will the nation.US is probably the only developed country that still runs on slave economy principles.
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MetroGirl123 Poor, poor Megan and Harry, they not only are paid $2 Million by The Firm per annum, while Harry already has a net worth of $50 Million. Nice job if you can get it......
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They both had a net worth of 35 million when they married ,more than enough money to have a comfortable life for themselves and their children . The only reason for this book and the Netflix series is greed, enough money to support a mansion in Montecito and private jets. This couple bemoaned their humble 1400 square foot Nottingham cottage while people live on the street in the U.K. And the U.S.A. One comment referred to a state of grace for this couple, that can only occur when you forgive and show mercy to your own families. Forgive as you yourself wish to be forgiven as the Beatitudes so rightly state.
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Labor market is booming? Based on what? Layoffs are rampant. Amazon, Google, Wayfair, Spotify, Microsoft… the list goes on.
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These industrial investments are good, but the US has to do a better job educating its own citizens, rather than always relying on recruiting the best people who received great education elsewhere. In the latest (2018) PISA international assessment of 15-year-old students, the US ranks 37th in math. Taiwan is 5th. China is #1.<a href="https://factsmaps.com/pisa-2018-worldwide-ranking-average-score-of-mathematics-science-reading" target="_blank">https://factsmaps.com/pisa-2018-worldwide-ranking-average-score-of-mathematics-science-reading</a>/
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And what is the most evil part of a brand name the dealership does guys are the scammers that should be put down like a rabid dawgs! A realife example is my 2003 chevy/gm longbed truck bought less than 4 years after its manufacture; it had an enormously powerful Isuzu engine from Japan, (that had 5 more cylinders than the internationally known 3 cylinder engine in my Iseki compact tractor), but rather than let the Japanese surly engineer out even the evaporative emission controls, Federally mandated, GM decided to use an aftermarket looking filter/emissions unit on top of this “duramax” (said like gm designed it... which they did NOT; engine made in Japan). Well within the 10 year federally mandated emissions standards some of these trucks had basically vapor lock problems with this aftermarket filter/emissions contraption that although it was installed at the factory it never was designed very well, and what these DEALERSHIPS would do is tell the customer/vehicle owner that they had to replace the injectors on eight cylinders! this operation, guaranteed by the manufacture GM cost $5000 approximately not including the $200 oil change, and you know what this was performed twice On my big long bed pick up truck, and after the last time the car stalled in my driveway and sits their, no longer covered by The scam artist dealership; and since he never worked on a diesel truck it took about a month and a half to do this job
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Michael Come on. The “free tuition” line is so worn out. Top D1 athletes in football and basketball make *billions* in revenue for schools, networks, advertisers, and the crooked NCAA. Should the Lakers be legally allowed to limit Lebron’s compensation $500k? After all, most people would be thrilled to make that much money! It’s plenty to live on. But they don’t and can’t pay him $500k, because he’s worth far more to them. Top NCAA athletes are worth way more than the cost of a college education. Their compensation should be adjusted accordingly.Also, the idea that you could afford tuition and housing at a D1 school in 2023 by working 20 hours a week is, sadly, laughable. It’s not 1975.
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For me, living in a century old miner's house, an extra freezer is quite reasonable, and would open up additional deals available in the rural west. Our town has a professional butcher shop and I can negotiate for the price of a partial or even multiple cows, should I choose. I'm not sure 600 or more pounds of beef is really useful, as it's just me and my wife most days and we're striving to eat healthier, but it's not impractical for me to dedicate space and electricity to an additional large freezer to hold game animals, bulk purchases, and the like. Having also lived in cramped NYC apartments where every inch of space has to be effectively used, and clutter kept to a minimum, often including the kitchen and diminutive fridges, I do wonder just how much many New Yorkers can stuff in an average apartment freezer. I do think dried beans and bulk rice (I buy both in 10 or 20 kilo sacks) make sense, even for Manhattan apartments: a slow cooker and a few spices, onions, tomatoes, can turn dried beans into a fragrant stew while one is out working or enjoying life. I'm just not sure how many urban dwellers can stuff weeks; worth of food into their freezers.
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Companies can protect their IP and training investments by becoming great places to work so no employee would agree to be “poached.” Employees invest their time and talent in their employers, and yet (in Texas at least) are at risk of being fired at any time for any reason or no reason, without severance or benefits, and the employer’s noncompete is in many cases enforceable, even under those circumstances. Totally lopsided. Yes, eliminating the noncompete creates risk for employers, but they’re in a lot better position to bear the risk than are individual employees with nothing to sell but their labor and with families to feed. The FTC may not have the authority to pull this off. Even if they lose, they will have made a big contribution towards showing how unfair noncompetes are and towards normalizing outlawing them. Then the states can follow. And maybe eventually all those Californians eyeing a move to low-rent Texas will start to add up the cost of noncompetes, lack of reproductive freedom, high property taxes, etc etc etc is not worth it and the current Texas boom will be over unless the state government is restored to sanity. A longshot, I know.
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Charlie For this cruelty, we have George Bush and Billy Tauzin to thank. Check the history of ther actions regarding Medicare drug pricing shenanigans in Congress in 2003. And in 2009, during ACA negotiations, Big Pharma's lobby spent almost $300 million dollars making sure it got its outsized piece of the pie.
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The Constitution actually has two places where it stipulates federal debt must be paid. In addition to the 14th Amendment, there is the original Article VI, which stipulated that the Revolutionary war debt be paid: "All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation."Paying our debts is literally a Foundational Principle, invoked AFTER our two most existential wars: the Revolution that allowed the country to come into existence, and the Civil War that nearly tore it apart.Compared to those crisis', today's Congress has it easy. Just pay the debt already incurred, and then, if Congress really wants to try it, pass bills limiting spending on Social Security, Medicare, or Defense - the biggest items after interest on the debt. It would be interesting to see Republicans try that, since the first two are the things much of their older base depends upon to survive.
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After partaking regularly in open water swimming, my understanding of the plastic-oceans issue has become more focused. In a place like NYC with so much coastline and sewer systems that overflow after heavy rains, a lot of plastic trash from the streets - or even overflowing trash cans - is washed into a sewer grate that then ultimately leads directly into the water. One of the most direct ways to avoid this is to not litter (obviously) but also don't handle plastics carelessly out in the street. Don't balance your plastic bottle on the top of an overfilled trash bin. Throw these things away securely into trash bags and bins, ideally at home. And, for the love of nature, just say no to the straws.
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617to416 "Real power" in a democracy means having the public's mandate to govern. The parliamentary system is second least democratic in this regard, next to outright dictatorships. In a parliamentary system, it's really only the voters in a person's riding who really get a vote. Once a person can win their riding (i.e. very often as little as 36K people in Canada for a nation of 33+ million), they can be Prime Minister if their party elects them as leaders and their party wins the most ridings. Internal party elections for the leadership are anything but democratic. That goes double for electing the party representative for any given riding; the leader of the party always has the power to override the votes and decide who the riding candidate will be for their party - as PM Trudeau has done during his tenure.The fact that parliamentary system also allows for the party in power to call elections when they feel like it and extend their mandate is also profoundly undemocratic. For example calling an election in the middle of a pandemic when schools are closed, and therefore eliminate half the locations where people normally go to vote - something also PM Trudeau has done.
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Guy "That is:$93,000 per US citizen$250,000 per US Household"This is fantasy thinking, Guy. No one is responsible for this money, it's not a real thing. Stop acting like it is.
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Unfortunately, the global community failed to meet the $18 billion target set for the 7th replenishment of the Global Fund. As a result, significant resource gaps remain for HIV/AIDS programs—as well as for malaria, which kills 600,000 people in Africa each year of which 80% are children under the age of 5. The costs and consequences of inflation and global supply chain disruptions are hurting vulnerable populations. This is something that can be easily addressed by developed countries, which are happy to provide huge amounts of military aid and which mobilized bottomless sums of money to combat COVID-19. However, it seems the political will just isn’t there.To be clear, I recognize that the US and many European and Asian countries are the largest donors to the Global Fund and programs like PEPFAR and the President’s Malaria Initiative have a huge impact. This is great.But we can also find the resources to close the remaining gaps if we wanted to.
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Imisswalter34 I am familiar with Tails. Using Tails is useful because there will be no record of the entry. But wouldn't you expect the drives to be encrypted? Some organizations used tar on USB ports. Of course, you also need to alarm the case covers. You are correct that he was a contractor since he was admin. But theoretically, everyone has to go through the same security protocols. I was just responding to the complaint about whether our government tries to protect us. It is my understanding that they actually keep some zero-day holes open for their own purposes. But nothing stays secret forever.Stuxnet is the perfect example. It was exquisitely crafted, but eventually it was discovered. It is my understanding that after the Iranians were tipped off by Siemons, the Iranians repurposed it on us.
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