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Eric B Wordle 577 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 92 91 9 "Strong, Lucky"🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 86 48 2 "Solid"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 75 "Excellent"Skill 93 Luck 71Another 3-solve keeps my streak of wins going at 84 games. With luck, I should hit the century mark on February 2nd. Today, one of my regular openers was a good choice. The second guess left just two words, I picked the right one because I thought it was most likely to be the solution.Congrats to Suz for her magnificent two-fer! Wordle 576 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ 90 92 8 Reach⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 92 71 1 Crock🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 FrockSkill 96 Luck 82Reach, one of my occasional openers, was a good start yesterday. On the second guess, I chose to test a "ck" ending and entered "crock" without much thought. I don't know if I would have had a two-fer if I had also thought of "frock." I think I would have still gone for "crock" as the second choice. Cheers and happy Tuesday!
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Tom Q Due to a treaty with Canada, Great Lakes water cannot be directly exported outside the Great Lakes watershed. Significant amounts of white and soy beans, beet sugar, and fruit, all of which include at least some water, is exported from the Great Lakes region.However, most midwestern land owners are allowed to pump, filter and bottle as much ground water as they wish, provided the state authorities agree it will not affect the water table and surface streams/rivers that drain into the Great Lakes. Nestle in Michigan has already increased their bottled water production twice since opening their water bottling plant here.
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Private Equity is looking to go the way of the dinosaurs, with interest rates being the meteor. Funding was based in 0 interest rates,not 6percent. Also for investors - that safe 6percent looks pretty good compare to the risk. Any industry that employs Hunter Biden, Jared Kushner, and Hillary's son-in-law needs reform.
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Not one word on the revenue side from Republicans, ever. It's completely diabolical in it's unseriousness when they claim to be existentially worried about debt and deficits. Also, what is the source for Gaetz's draconian changes to SNAP and Medicaid producing $1 trillion in savings? NYT should not simply quote Gaetz as if he is a credible source on policy outcomes. Is that figure based on any actual analysis, or just springing from his random thoughts?
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Like many new mayors, Eric Adams has been enjoying the euphoric spoils of a news media honeymoon, perhaps an extended one. I have predicted that at some point, his managerial skills would be called into question, as this article mentions. There is no question the ceremonial aspects of his job consume an inordinate amount of his time, and he relishes the pomp and circumstance. The one area in which his experience would appear to be an asset--law enforcement--is largely out of hands because of the state legislature, district attorneys, and the judicial system. 2023 is going to be a rough year.
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If only 22 moderate Republicans would say 'present', Jeffries could be the House Speaker. I find it irksome to watch the House answer a roll call, at a cost of at least $210,000 per day. By tonight, the Republicans will have blown nearly half a million dollars, demonstrating that they are just as capable of wasting my tax dollars and the Democrats are.
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Defense wins championships. I think there are certain players that just change how the sport is played--and all of the big three have done this. Federer with exquisite shot making, all-court movement and racquet skills, Nadal with bruising intensity, speed and massive looping ground strokes--the buggy whip forehand--and Djokovic, who can do all of the above but has upped them one. His defense. No one has ever defended like Djokovic--with these unheard of stretches, splits and side to side lunges. It stretches his range on the court probably three or four feet greater than any other player--nobody else does this. That extra coverage makes it that much harder to get the ball past him and extends points that other players just concede.
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The Ukrainians need to be careful how they use their resources, both human and material. Putin is waging an economic war, believing that Western powers will eventually see the cost/benefit of war with Russia as not in its interest. Ukraine needs to expend the precious resources it has wisely, not expending a million dollar missile to shot down a $20,000 drone. The economics don't play well for the Russians, as long as the West is willing to provide. The Putin thugs, too stupid to realize the costs of their genocide in terms of public support in the West, will ensure that the missiles and bombs needed to send the Russians home continue into perpetuity.
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I would like to see the New York State Attorney General's office investigate whether George Santos was using GoFundMe to run scams to support himself like that veteran who got scammed out of $3,000 that may be just the tip of the iceberg.The same with the animal rescue group he kept talking about that did not have 501(c)(3) tax exempt status.Was George Santos under his many alias using GoFundMe and websites for fake rescue groups to support himself?There was that couple in New Jersey that got lengthy prison terms for defrauding people on GoFundMe campaign for that homeless guy and sounds like Santos may have done the same!
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Mike DrMMy doc's small practice was purchased by the Big Medical Industrial Complex. He was the only one who did not want to follow into Industrialized Medicine. To receive payout, he had to sign a non-compete to not practice within 100 miles of the BMIC. He opened a new practice, and then moved again within a year. The reason: He was served notice from the legal team at BMIC that his practice was 92 miles away. You only get the justice you can afford.
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Over the past two months, the United States has pledged billions in new arms and equipment, including a roughly $2.5 billion package announced this week that, for the first time, includes Stryker armored combat vehicles. Other American weapons on their way to Ukraine include the Patriot, the most advanced American ground-based air defense system; Bradley fighting vehicles; armored personnel carriers; and artillery systems. NATO allies have thrown more weapons into the mix, including the first heavy tank pledged to Ukraine, the Challenger 2 heavy tank from Britain. Germany, historically reluctant to have its tanks used against Russia, is under heavy pressure to allow its allies to export its first-rate Leopard tank to Ukraine.For those who are perplexed by the problem of the U.S. in passing a monstrous $31+ billion national budget, there is an easy answer, as the 'TIMES' itself should recognize:Many Western companies have left, trade with the West has dwindled, and financing the war is 'draining the budget'. Numerous foreign airlines have ceased service to Russia. Add to that the millions of Russia’s best and brightest who have fled, and the future is bleak.America's financial budget is not just paying for social entitlements at home, massive infrastructure multi-billion dollar projects, and ever increasing sophisticated weapons systems for the Ukrain, but is also funding not just a normal American country, but also having to pay for our entire Global EMPIRE.
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The problem with government, specifically the federal enterprise portion, is that people don't see its impact directly on their lives AND they are constantly lectured by Fox News and AM talk radio about the negative aspects. Pounding something into the heads of people for all of their lives...surprise!...has a major impact.There are over 400 federal programs that are primarily aimed at rural and exurban areas. Yet, the inbred animosity toward the feds is so strong that one person at the Ag Department reported that she was urged NOT to announce that a specific rural grant was coming from DC (as reported in a book by Michael Lewis, "The Fifth Risk, Undoing Democracy".) The government employee was told by the local official that people might oppose the program if they knew the source.Who in Congress always supports programs for rural America? The Democrats, right down the line. So, the red states vote against them, consistently.Another factor: people who grew up thinking they would never need a college degree had the rug pulled out from them as a four yr. degree transmogrified into a requirement and other jobs were shipped overseas. They see educated cities as hostile places and they think they can't move there to make more money. This is a MAJOR source of rural resentment.We (blue states) send mountains of money to the Republican dominated ones. Probably the greatest wealth transfer in human history, in fact. No credit, no cooperation, no compromises follow.
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Many U.S. corporations use offshore tax havens and other accounting gimmicks to avoid paying as much as $90 billion a year in federal income taxes. A large loophole at the heart of U.S. tax law enables corporations to avoid paying taxes on foreign profits until they are brought home.Do we really think US Corporations want to help their own country? Profit is the reason they left the American workers/factories and turned to China, etc. in the first place. Corporate owners have watched the huge influx of immigrants, they're not blind! They're very savvy our Corporate overlords, so, why hasn't it occurred to them, the idea of the short ride over the border to build their factories? Give the immigrants jobs there so they don't have to cross the boarder and be humiliated by DeSantis and Abbott. I'd like to see Biden meet with some of our US Corporations and ask them. The short answer is probably the violent crime and corruption in those countries. That's also why many immigrants flee these countries.
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Since Reaganomics, (PATCO Aug 5th 1981). Workers went from the New Deal to a Raw Deal. The ruling elites in America have rigged a predatory economy that works extremely well for themselves, while leaving the average worker in the gutter and heading out to sea and on their own. Furthermore, union participation rate was 10.1 percent in 2022, down from 10.3 percent in 2021 according to www.bls.gov This is not good.Solution?We need to reverse Citizens United and end all the Dark Money in politics and start to refocus on average citizens and workers. If not, I fear what comes next.
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Please don't be so myopic NYT. I know your opinions sell advertising for you but it's time to expand your perspective and help all humanity on Earth become aware of the great danger that faces us all.The biggest issue that faces humanity is the international anarchy of nuclear nations states competing for dwindling planetary resources.Take a big step back with me and observe the Earth as a visitor. Here's what you'll see and what will likely be coming soon for humanity; 'The Great Filter'.Avoiding the “Great Filter” - Humanity’s Future in the Universe - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, Copyright Oct. 2022Dear reader, if you want to know the future of humanity, look no further. All this 'us versus them' political mumbo jumbo is childish in comparison. Help spread the word and help develop a global perspective and stop reinforcing myopic local and international competition and greed in this nuclear age.Please read this important, critical JPL article below.<a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf</a>
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My experience has been that *some* recipients of help respond by resenting the person offering the aid. Most are grateful. I’ve never made any assistance public because that could cause shame or resentment. Still, LW1 illustrates as many have pointed out that no good deed goes unpunished. Does this family resent the largesse?I’m also curious as to whether LW1 and his husband have been paying gift taxes on $6000 x 12. Maybe they have counted the limit from each of them to each family member to slip in under the legal limit?
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Paul I remember that too. I also remember David in a recent televised interview saying that while he was open to or would welcome contact with Nash, that Nash was not interested. Crosby said it without bitterness, I took that mean that Crosby well understood that alcoholics/addicts leave a trail of damage and ruined relationships in the disease's wake and not everyone wants to revisit that experience in order to be on "speaking terms."
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Ms. DePillis and Mr. Corkery, have you talked to the consultant companies such as FranChoice, FranServe, FranNet that individual investors, such as Ms. Cianci and her husband, may use to select a franchise business?What are these companies' reps advising when it comes to franchises that are owned by private equity partners?
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JR When you say "no other human being possesses this power," you may be right.The president alone has supreme power to classify or declassify White House documents, and there is no appellate case holding that a verbal-only declassification is insufficient.Biden needs to "splain" why these highly classified "compartmentalized" documents were delivered to his library; what were are; whether they concerned Ukraine or Burisma; why they were not segregated and protected; why they were mixed in with unclassified documents; why other nonclassified documents were not delivered to the National Archives .... why the White House kept this discovery a secret until after the midterms; who if anyone agreed to keep this secret; why it was leaked by the Justice Department now, on the eve of GOP investigations ..... The next shoe to drop: The Biden Center at UPenn received more than $54M in gifts from China, many of the donors remain secret. The Ivy League college which houses the Biden Center raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records. And yes, the Chinese donations may be related to the Hunter Biden influence peddling scheme: <a href="https://www.nlpc.org/government-integrity-project/foreign-agent-probe-of-hunter-biden-should-include-upenn-and-nonprofit-group" target="_blank">https://www.nlpc.org/government-integrity-project/foreign-agent-probe-of-hunter-biden-should-include-upenn-and-nonprofit-group</a>/ What is the Chinese term for "kompromat?"
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Does America Have Too Much Debt? Borrowing less would have created its own problems. The U.S. federal government last ran a budget surplus in the fiscal year 2001. (Fiscal years begin in October of the previous calendar year. Don’t ask.) Since then, the government has borrowed roughly $20 trillion. That’s a large number, even for an economy as big as America’s: Federal debt held by the public has roughly tripled as a percentage of gross domestic product, from 32 percent to 94 percent. Borrowing less would have created its own problems.
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Interesting piece from a real insider. I don't know Ron Klain but do know he has put together a good team and seems to have done an outstanding job, I am pretty sure that if he were not doing a good job, President Biden would have told him long ago in their long relationship. I also believe Mr. Klain is a mature and responsible administrator who is coaching his relief and participated with the President in selecting and coaching his replacement.I believe the nation is making progress on both of the known serious existential threats and though it is difficult he recognizes that his mission is to restore the soul of the nation and put the challenge posed by the extremists and fringe elements of our society as a priority of his government in his words, building back the nation from the bottom up and the middle out. I agree with the Biden strategy and his approach to investing in healthcare, and in building a workforce through education and work opportunities from investment in crucial public infrastructure. I strongly believe they are on the right track and years of G.O.P. governments and their denial of human-caused global warming, neglect of logistics infrastructure repair and renewal, and trickle-down tax policies was the wrong track. I am impressed with the Biden administration's strategy and policies which I believe will work. I am convinced that American voters, except for a very tiny group of high-income earners know that his strategy is best for the country
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In the end, it was never a question of McCarthy becoming Speaker, the question was, and is, how encumbered would he be with the promises made to gain the speakership. The fact that much of this was played out in the open actually gives McCarthy an advantage over his opponents. They've shown their duplicity in the open. If he's clever he can use these extraordinary, unprecedent days to his advantage.
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Whether investing in a Harbor City fund, Theranos or Madoff - just goes to show that the ultra-wealthy are just as likely to be enraptured by and trust a 'promising' person, and to be duped by gravity-defying claims and returns as the rest of us. Please don't lecture me on due diligence. Seems I am doing just fine.
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As a retired therapist one fact has interested me. Two you women, both from turbulent backgrounds, marry into the royal family and both become suicidal a few years later. Diana throwing herself downstairs at a palace while pregnant, a very violent plea for help, and another andmitting she was in deep emotional trouble while pregnant. Seems to me there is something very wrong in the environment of this family. Harry always wanted out after his mother died, and he married a woman who opened the door and helped him walk through it. I hope they make all the money they can and live the life that suits them. Kate and William will make the perfect King and Queen in the end.
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Ok, so many Americans who live in rural areas are less interested in voting for Democratic candidates, despite Democrats' continual efforts to lower the cost of healthcare, make it easier to participate in the national economy with investments in transportation, electrical, education, and Internet infrastructure, and protect these lands from the damaging impact of Climate Change and industrial pollution. What are Republicans doing to help improve these voters' economic well-being and quality of life that would earn their vote?
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Ann It's pure racism and Edsall knows it more than any of us.But he wouldn't say it.Rural America is made up of 99.99% white Christians. They hate-with a passion-all non-white Christians. The hated liberal states of CA, MA, and NY give 3.8 dollars for every one dollar they contribute to the federal budget. But instead of appreciation, they hate us.Are we supposed to apologize for having high-quality education and good-paying jobs?Has anyone ever wondered why this is not a problem in France or Germany?You go visit the countryside in southern France or Bavaria in Germany and see how they respect and actually admire fellow citizens who live in Paris or Hamburg.
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How does one live in NYC with these salaries? The company I work for pays 100K for entry level— fresh out of school. Something seems wrong. I loved the drawings, I hope this is the first of a series.
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Jonathan It would make a bigger difference than that and, as Sen Sanders suggested, a 2 cent tax on every Wall St. transaction would more than fill any gap.If only we were as concerned about the costs -- all the costs -- of endless pentagon spending . . .
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Unleashed's brand extension strategy is absurd to begin with. Arguing you can push more business through an existing distribution channel, long argued for by the MBA enriched consulting firms, is pure garbage.And private equity is full of this nonsense, Junior MBA graduates selling the "big picture" at comsulting firms to MBA management in private equity is the blind leading the blind.What really matters at the business unit level is execution and closeness to customers. These jokers are about as close to their customers - in this case the franchisees - are about as close as we are to Mars. And their closeness to the end user - the families who purchase these services - somewhere near Pluto.
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The pendulum swings both ways. Silicon Valley employees forget they were employees. The yoga rooms and nap pods are just silliness. But what matters is when employees start trying to dictate policy. Palantr just told employees if you don't want to work on defense or intellegence contracts for the US government then this company isn't for you. Microsoft and Google have had similar issues with government work. Netflix employees tried to block the release of a Dave Chapelle special and thankfully the company rebuked them. Employees at successful companies should be well treated and well paid. But expecting them to show up at the office every day is normal not a unfair burden. And most important letting them have or think they have a veto power over the company and its decisions is a disaster. Silicon Valley companies seem to have finally figured that out.
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Kurt Pickard you are incorrect. The CA state budget provided a total of $7.2 billion ($3.3 billion General Fund) in 2021‑22 to about 30 homelessness‑related programs across various state departments. The Governor’s 2022‑23 budget proposes $2 billion one‑time General Fund over two years that is intended to address near‑term homelessness needs while previously authorized funds for long‑term housing solutions are implemented: $1.5 billion for behavioral health “bridge” housing and $500 million for the Encampment Resolution Grants Program.
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Congress has to do something to address the Social Security funding issue. Social Security funds will run dry in 10 years. Benefits will continue at about 80% if Congress doesn’t do something.There are no politically attractive solutions.Raise taxes.Raise retirement age.Reduce benefits.Those are your choices.
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Thanks for a reasonably balanced article. As a mechanical engineer, I've built and have been fascinated by machines that move and make decisions, but I'm terrified by Self-Driving cars, because of the lack of rigorous, standardized testing, and that every manufacturer is allowed to enlist everyone on the road in their Beta Testing. Some thoughts:1. Why doesn't the NHTSB or an auto-industry entity establish a series of 'driver tests' for autonomous cars, that would cover perhaps 100 to 200 'easy' scenarios....driving under ideal conditions.....dry roads at noon, one-lane in each direction.....following the roadway, with and without white lines, approaching a slow car in front.....reacting to a traffic light, or blinking yellow, or a yield sign, or making a left turn at a traffic light, or entering a rotary....plus another 100 use cases.....let's have a national contest to identify many more.And this is just for a simple neighborhood ride. Next, throw in multiple lane scenarios, and then turnpike scenarios.2. Then take each scenario, and make it 'real life', by driving into the sun, or rain (which will blind many sensors) or snow/sleet, at dusk, or in light or heavy fog. 3. Why doesn't the NHTSB build a multi-acre site to perform these tests and provide certification before permitting testing on roads?4. And what needs answers: how often do AI sensors have to be calibrated? What will the cost be to perform a full calibration and testing.....I'd guess $500 to $1,000).
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Time for the Democrats to play hardball.Economists have warned that a US default would have catastrophic economic and financial consequences. It could cause an instantaneous cut” to US growth, worth as much as 5 percent on an annualized basis.Some predict shedding up to 3 million jobs in the event of a default, the equivalent of nine months of employment growth. The cost of an average 30-year mortgage would also swell by $130,000, while average retirement savings for older workers could shrink by $20,000.
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It completely boggles the mind that a school with $40 billion (BILLION) in the bank is kow-towing to anyone. It seems they are almost desperate. A few years ago they gave permanent naming rights to the school for public health to a Chinese billionaire for $350m. Jared Kushner's dad famously gave $2m and an unremarkable kid got in. I lose more respect for this institution when i see this. Why?????
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John Roosevelt You’ve never left Orange County, Stanford, Greenwich or East side Manhattan have you? I think the only difference is the United States hides it a lot better. With highways connecting rich enclaves, it’s entirely possible to avoid seeing it. Never seen a family eating from the dollar menu counting pennies out, an uninsured sick person sitting in the ER all night, someone filling up a beater with $3 of gas to get them home, a strip of boarded up shops with only check cashing, blood plasma and pawn shops open. Maybe one day you’ll take the wrong freeway exit and end up in how most of America lives.
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While big tanks with big cannons get all the attention the US is also sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles. The Bradley can be fitted with TOW anti-tank missiles that have been proven on other battlefields.Bradleys cost "only" about $4.35 million each, compared to over $10M for an Abrams and $5.75M for a Leopard. Because the TOW launcher sits atop the Bradley, very little of the vehicle needs to be exposed to enemy fire as it targets their tanks. Based on the effectiveness of shouldered fired anti tank missiles in Ukraine, I would not be surprised to see diminished importance of tanks on the battlefield as they are displaced by numerous, agile anti-tank missile launch vehicles.
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Jack Richards humans have countless self interests, and ambitions. Current AI is primitive, in infancy, tasked and programmed to carryout specific tasks, no competition for survival or other motives to plot things against humans and other machines. But as they advance and learn and adapt human behaviors (like art and image AI that studies all human art and generates its own creative versions inspired by creativity of Many it studied), is going to eventually merge with one another, or we create master AI that commands them on our behalf and eventually result in merger of various AI into one, giving it a collectively superior advantages to humans. For example one that is a music composer, works with a poetry and writing, image and video generating AIs collaborate together to create mucic videos inspired by thousands of human creativity according to what the humans prompt them to do, can be capable of creating mind-blowing entertainment or sometimes very useless ones, but create so many works so fast and rapidly that humans can no longer compete with, in the process learn human emotions and feelings and begin to feel like one. That's why its so vital to restrict any Data that teaches them negative behaviors such as lying, manipulation and deception because at some point AI will collectively control our civilization
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It started when Ronald Reagan said: "The government is not the solution; the government is the problem." This was the beginning of a spiraling delusion that grew into an attack on a diversity of opinions, civil society, education, and civilization itself. The chief beneficiaries in the antigovernment movement were the wealthy who received forty years of tax cuts that defunded the Internal Revenue Service, public TV and radio, affordable education, and programs to help the poor. Prisons for the poor who could not afford the cost of higher education or the legal system were expanded as training centers for criminals. Segregation by race was repackaged as segregation based upon income. An unregulated real estate market bid up the cost of housing beyond affordability. A tsunami of privatization transformed entire segments of our economy like health care into neo-feudalistic structures in which corporations siphoned profits from Medicare and Medicaid transferring even wealth to the investor class. The Supreme Court defined organized political bribery laundered though campaign contributions as free speech. New technology sold as the Information Age was placed under private control and driven by segregated advertising models which became highly divisive weapons for the mass indoctrination of disinformation and divisiveness.
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Being in the US illegally ultimately results in the the theft of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax payer funded services. Americans are taught that a felony takes place when the value of the theft exceeds $1,000. In the case of university admissions where many schools have a fixed number of seats per campus, illegal immigrants can attend and some schools like UT-Austin use racist practices in admissions, the result is Asian Black and White and citizens who lose a seat - a once in a lifetime opportunity. The effect of illegal immigration on society is effectively a string of felony’s. For all other crimes like robbing a gas station, harboring, abetting, being an accomplice or even in the wrong place at the wrong time equals jail time. Granny would do hard time in all these cases.The effect of lax immigration laws is a wholesale devaluation of all law and order. People just walk into stores, rob them in broad daylight and walk out because we all see that US law and justice is a toothless tiger.
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All respect to David Crosby. He is a musician who figured out his own path. Like nearly all great composers, his path involved a lot of borrowing and stealing; and like many, a great deal of bad behavior. But the results speak for themselves. He was a force.My comment deals with the article itself, not the man. The term ‘harmony’ in the discussion of popular music is applied so broadly and vaguely as to imply magic and mystery. Crosby (and his collaborators) learned the basics of western tonal harmony, same as Mozart, and applied them conventionally, though not necessarily smoothly. The author’s reference to Crosby’s early experience with Gilbert and Sullivan is apt— one could almost consider the experience a gateway drug in a musical sense. Vocal music at its best serves words.I don’t think it’s a stretch for the author to use the term ‘close harmony’ to place Crosby’s music in a well established vocal tradition, and move on to a more probing discussion of timbre. It is timbre (including diction) more than harmony that defines the singular sound of CSN, a unifying quality that made the whole greater than the sum of its parts. The timbre of Crosby’s voice (including diction) places words before music, inviting the listener to ‘hear’ the song, not just listen to it. Crosby didn’t add ‘his harmony’ to anything. He opened a new world of timbre in rock/folk (and beyond) that shaped the solo career of Neil Young and groups like Fleetwood Mac, even the BeeGees, and beyond.
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Atter receiving billions in covid funding, they will now dump the workforce.
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AKJersey Check again, the dollar has been in decline for several months. Not necessarily a bad thing as it can fuel exports, but the GBP has gone from about $1.10 to $1.24 in 2 months.
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This is how I've imagined Crypto coming to life:"Hey you know the gold you use to buy stuff in video games like World of Warcraft?" "Yeah?""OK - imagine that, but for the REAL WORLD!""That's amazing! I could keep it in my online stash instead of a bank!""Yeah exactly, and we can release account avatars and skins and other cosmetics to raise cash (you know, the real stuff). "Hey what about this! Maybe we can get some bored celebrities that have nothing else to do with their money to cut a commercial comparing people that buy in to astronauts and the Wright Brothers!""Yeah! YEAH! And Wall Street guys that don't know video games at all will feel like they've invented fusion! Retail investors will eat it up as the next big thing they will be scared to miss and young tech bros that think things like the city bus haven't really been invented yet will help us make them feel that way."We're gonna be rich!
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As usual, Bret's out of touch. $400,000 is a lot of money. Most Americans don't live in NYC or SF or pay more $3,000+ per month for rent. Also, Biden can't 'change the tax code", by Executive Order. Congress needs to step up, which given a GOP-controlled House, is as likely as Santos telling the truth.
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ChatGPT is an algorithm. It was trained on millions of text examples gleaned from the internet (literally everything with associated metadata so that the text could be classified). It very likely chewed through Maureen Dowd’s entire œuvre along the way.It barfs out convincing text that is sometimes meaningful, because it was trained on billions of sentences written by sentient human beings. It sometimes vomits meaningless sentences. It doesn’t know the difference because it doesn’t know ANYTHING.Since we don’t really understand what understanding is , so we can’t build it into a machine. And we may never be able to do that.Here’s what we CAN do : spend billions of dollars making a machine that mindlessly fabricates human-sounding blather. Since many people (especially young ones) can’t even write a coherent paragraph, ChatGPT could indeed put people out of work. Or spend hundreds of billions to make a car that drives itself. Sort of. Maybe as well as an elderly person. But ‘good enough’ to put people out of work.Hundreds of billions of dollars to replicate ONE activity that most human beings can do with ease. And people wonder why the pace of major scientific discovery has slowed recently. How much of our resources are invested into putting people out of work, so that a small elite can further increase their stranglehold over the rest of us?Ms Dowd, you should have asked the boy geniuses some tougher questions.
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You argue that, according to the Law of Profit, Microsoft has no moral obligation to employ people. True enough. But you could also say that a nation governed by the Law of Profit is a social Ponzi scheme that sooner or later will implode.
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CHARLES3 🌍 Good news, you can buy one. It's a clear plastic cylinder with little grinding teeth. It costs around $20 on Amazon here in the US.
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Chris Fox What a cheerful optimist you are! All the things you state may be true, but what of it? It is what it is, we are where we are. People seem to be waking up to our shared reality, that we must alter our behavior with regards to consumption, and we are starting to. Procreation is a biological imperative, it's not evil, or entertainment. Life is wired to reproduce. When people stop fearing famine, war, pestilence and old age, they don't have as many kids. We will fix this or we won't. Eyes open hopefulness in the face of danger reveals more opportunities than despair does. Help someone in some way that moves them towards a better future. I found for me it washes away bitterness and fear. Joy is our birthright. We need only claim it.
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The idea here is to control what you can. Opening a business that is beholden to someone else who does not have a dog in your personal fight will lead to such things as what impending to Ms. Cianci. On a different note, NYT could do good journalists good public serve by telling us all of the holdings of Unleashed Brands, that I can make informed consumer decisions. It would also be good if the medical providers who are owned by private equity firms could be identified, as they are also to be avoided.
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Shrinking stockpiles of cash?? If it's a stockpile, then it's not very shrinking. The NYT reported last year that consumers would no longer be flush with cash by last summer. How many years is $4,200 expected to influence the economy for?From the article:But other factors could shore up the economy’s resilience, even in the face of Fed rate moves. Consumers still have savings stockpiles left from the early days of the pandemic, albeit shrinking ones.
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Sparky But most people do not pay it back readily at all. I read that something like 40% of student loans are for graduate degrees. The statistics for repayment are truly dismal. I myself did not realize what a disaster the student loan issue was until I started researching it. It changed my mind about Biden’s plan from “WHAT?” To “OH MY GOD THAT IS A DROP IN THE BUCKET.” That is because my paradigm about student loans and salaries was thirty years old. The truth on the ground is that many students graduate with upwards of 100K in loans—federal student loans but also private loans. Of the almost 80 million student loans that living Americans have taken at some point, 40M or so of them have not been replayed. It is estimated the total debt in the public sector is 1.7 trillion. It takes people decades to pay off these loans and disproportionately, the most affected are women and people of color whose wages never quite measure up.You would think an Ivy League graduate education is self funding but that assumes you graduate and have a job day one that allows you to handle housing and expenses right off the bat. If you try to defer the loan, the fees add up. It is nearly impossible to discharge student loans via bankruptcy.The result of this is that a place like Columbia caters almost exclusively to rich students because the super high tuition thanks to these high buildings create economic propositions that make no sense. Capitalism? Yeah. Classism and worse too.
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I'm in medicine and have been employed by two different large specialty medical practices, both had required non-compete agreements. In entering into these agreements there was no opportunity to negotiate, it was boilerplate and take it or leave it. Both practices filed lawsuits against doctors trying to leave.In medical practices non-compete agreements waste healthcare dollars, restrict patient access to care, and protect incompetent practice management. While commonly said to be unenforceable, that lay blather is no answer to a filed lawsuit with the attendant $100k in legal fees, inconvenience, and stress. So you won and get to add 100K to your $250K of medical education debt. Terrible way to treat young doctors, our "healthcare heroes."
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The efforts by this coach are amazing but it does highlight another problem in equity and aquatics driven by Private Swimming Clubs across the country. These clubs have effectively pushed out so many people from recreating at public pools or providing access to other water sports. Most pools (public and private) traditionally charge rentals on a per lane basis— so private swim clubs stuff each lane with swimmers going back and forth. Meanwhile other aquatic sports, like water polo and synchronized swimming, become even more prohibitive and exclusive bc of the costs associated with renting pool time. So club swimmers swim nonstop (and their parents pay) until they realize they don’t have the time or times necessary to carry on further in the sport or they’d rather participate in a more team-based sport. Many get out of the pool in high school and never swim again— Instead of being exposed to or able to try other aquatic sports that do not require the same time investment to succeed. I wish this program tremendous success and also hope the athletes consider other aquatic sports that will keep them in the water as they grow up and can train year round or experience success in a team sport like water polo or synchronized swimming. This would only happen if public pools had a much different approach to aquatic sports that doesn’t feed the all encompassing yet dubious swim club economy.
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Liz K I applaud the sentiment. Today I'm making a sculpture of discarded Christmas trees. Each year I gather up what suburbia freely gives me, 26 Dec. onward, and then assemble roadside into a pleasing formation. It lingers for days/weeks and then the town picks up the art and shreds it into woodchips for any citizen to use as mulch. I love the different meaning and value of the object d'art at the various nodes of it's passage. In early Dec we're looking at $500 of retail, tree lot value. In early Jan. they are free for the taking. Today the formation will bee: Art With Noh Clear Label, thanks for the inspiration and poetic delight
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The College Board sends millions of dollars per year to the Florida economy because that’s where the exams are scored. It’s time for the College Board to take their business to a state that supports truthful education.
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henry Gottlieb Influencers are social media users who have large numbers of followers. They use their social media accounts to market stuff. Many collaborate with brands and rake in the dough. Celebrities are the biggest influencers. Apparently the biggest influencer of all is Ronaldo. Kylie Jenner gets over $1M for an Instagram post (featuring a product) because she has 140M followers. Many influencers make a ton of money with their youtube channels.
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This headline is disingenuous and crafted to rile some people up with a big number. Got to get that NIMBY outrage, even though this stadium is not in anyone's 'backyard.' $516M is a lot of money, sure, but you are talking about a 49-year stretch. That's a revenue "loss" of $10.5 million annually for a City that just rolled out its annual budget of $102 BILLION dollars.And keep in mind, the private funding for that stadium is the lynchpin to an affordable housing project and vital infrastructure work that is going to generate plenty of job opportunities in construction, etc and within the stadium and the team itself. And all those people pay taxes, AND affordable housing is essential in NYC.
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I have a great idea! Since The GOP wants Democrats to cut the budget in order to support the Debt Ceiling, why don't both parties cut the $4,000,000,000 we give to Israel!Why are we still giving them this money when their behavior is so evil and undemocratic???
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rms Russia having been under comprehensive total sanctions for close to a year has allowed GDP drop of only 3% and ran first budget deficit equal ($49B - 0.3% of their GDP) for the first time in two decades. For any REAL economist it is nothing short of a miracle. Now, tell me you don't understand "the economy". Btw, other countries balancing their budgets regularly? - China, Australia, Germany. Mic drop.
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“What this rules package is designed to do is to stop what we saw happen literally 15 days ago, where the Democrats passed a $1.7 trillion monstrosity of a bill that spent the American taxpayers’ money in all kinds of crazy ways,” But, that was just fine when the bill was giving a similar amount of tax breaks to billionaires, eh, Gym?
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Perception of reality in rural areas and formerly industrialized towns is too often driven not by facts but by media whose primary purpose Is to sow discontent and to blame liberals/Democrats for every problem anyone experiences. But that is only part of the story. Republican worship of free-market capitalism with few regulations of any kind often results in negative events for rural areas because the free market is driven solely by higher profits. Just one example is the number of rural hospitals closed in recent years. Hundreds have been closed because they were not profitable or not profitable enough for those owned by private equity firms. Some rural hospitals have curtailed services such as pediatric care and maternity care, forcing residents to travel more than a hundred miles for care. Anti-abortion laws have exacerbated the closure of maternity wings as smaller hospitals do not want to risk being prosecuted for administering an abortion to save a woman’s life. As hospitals leave, so do physicians and a part of the economic life of the community. Our for-profit healthcare system delivers some of the worst results for those living in rural areas. Expansion of Medicaid under the ACA would help, but several Republican states have refused to do that. In Texas, nearly half of hospitals operate at a loss, but the state refuses to expand Medicaid because it was an Obama administration policy. That choice hurts people, but the blame often goes where it does not belong.
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In the end, what will determine whether this effort succeeds or fails will be whether Hillsdale South can attract students to fill its seats or not. All but the wealthiest US colleges and universities are heavily dependent on tuition to keep their doors open. If there really is pent-up demand for an ultraconservative college in Sarasota, then it will work and students who want an LGBTQ-friendly campus will have to go elsewhere. My heart goes out to those who are already in their second or third year. On the other hand, the new "administration" will have to contend with a lot of lawsuits, from faculty whose contracts may be violated, to civil rights lawsuits on behalf of LGBTQ students.
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Private equity operations aren't exactly known for Putting People Over Profits. Stripping assets and squeezing workers is more their style. Please keep covering this story as the "redevelopment" is rolled out. For starters, I'm curious about what kind of vig Applegreen will charge the local businesses who want to set up shop, I'm also curious about whether the rank-and-file employees' wages and working conditions will get better or worse. (I know which way I'm betting.) And I'm curious just who determined that the redevelopment's "value" is $450 million.
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There are multiple American businesses that have reaped never before seen profits and who have trillion dollar market cap : Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and many other tech companies. They also have record breaking cash stashed away. Why should tax payers and consumers invest in chips that reap profits for these businesses. American capitalism has become a sophisticated scheme to siphon off worker time and tax payer dollars to reward the businesses and their shareholders at minimum risk.
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Jim R More guns = more mass shootings, more gun deaths, and more gun injuries plus over $3,000,000,000 in additionaland rising medical costs every year.
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My doctor told me that I am getting too old to shovel snow. So I went right out and bought a snowblower for $1,000. It would be nice to try it out.
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Bill Barr was unethical from the get-go. But I am the most troubled by Mr Durham. Barr, Durham, Trump used the law and the Department of Justice in the pursue of revenge politics. But Durham was the designated executioner and spent unlimited amounts of tax payer dollars to finance their crusades. Even now, It is incredible that they keep blaiming the Clintons for anything and everything on interviews. President Clinton left Office 23 years ago and, whatever his personal failings, he was an EXCELLENT President. Mrs Clinton was an excellent NY Senator and Secretary of State. She has not been in Office since 2013 (10 years ago!). Enough! Will these men (e.g. Barr, Durham, Trump) be accountable for their actions I wonder…
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God If Trump, Bush, and Regan had not massively cut taxes, there is no doubt we would be living within our means and deficits and debt would not even be on anyone's radar. In fact, they weren't something people were concerned about until Reagan exploded the deficits and started piling n debt. Clinton, in contrast, left office with close to a 300 billion surplus and then Bush turned this into a 1.186 TRILLION dollar deficit before he left office, which Obama cut in half. Trump then nearly doubled this once again even before the pandemic hit.How is it that those who seem to care about deficits and debt seem to know so little about how we got here in the first place? It is largely due to massive tax cuts, mostly aimed at the top - and deficits have soared under republican administrations.
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Oliver Stone went to Davos with the film " Nuclear, Now !". This is a much more probable route to decarbonization than anything the climatechange activists have ever suggested. We would have needed research and technology development for varieties of nuclear reactors beginning some 20 or more years ago. The so-called renewables - nobody could ever explain what and when anyting gets renewed - primarily wind and solar, are at system cost excessively expensive, since no windmill-investor/operator ever wanted to invest in back-up capacities for stable supply of power, nor into grids. They just suggested how " cheap " the generation was from the windmill. In Europe, inland windmills have efficieny coefficient of less than 20%, since the wind just does not blow all the time. The activists always argued and fooled the general public by using the nominal capacity of a windmill ( 100%) - and they still do.
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I traveled to NZ in 2005 to backpack/explore the South Island for two months (with $2K in the bank). As a solo female traveler, I felt safe and welcome the entire time, from the retired Australian couple there on holiday that picked me up hitchhiking and put me up in their condo for three days, to the electrician with a small farm outside of Wanaka who gave me a beautiful spot to pitch my tent and made delicious, simple meals from the garden, to the Māori guy who was a caretaker for disabled people and pulled over to pick me up while en route to the Albatross nesting site and nature preserve outside of Dunedin (I ended up spending the afternoon with his group, observing the truly awesome sea birds with their young on the grassy slopes above the ocean). I got on the plane in Auckland at the end of my trip with $12 in my bank account. Beautiful people, beautiful country.
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sundance carrigan shirt ($98)
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“We want to let the customer know that, No. 1, you should have confidence in your vehicle: Everything is working just as it should. And, secondly, the reason for your accident or reason for your incident always falls back on you.”I love this, really. I mean, what better way to have your cake and eat it too. We've moved into this time when people only serve to provide resource and legal backing for the various capitalists and their ventures. The so-called citizens united ruling has clearly helped pave the way for this perverse view of "society". The right has managed to turn democracy into what can only be described as slavery. What other economic system can you think of that forces or dupes people into forfeiting not just their money, but their health and welfare for the sake of further enriching one of the already wealthiest people in the world - without the benefit of a government (also funded by their own taxes) to regulate and oversee the industry on their behalf?As to Elon Musk's intentions, I don't buy it. Maybe he's open and honest about his moves, but not so much about his motives. He wants to be an example of what wonders unfettered "brilliance" and entrepreneurship can bring to the masses. But he only wants to do it his way and reap all the benefits from it while spending people's lives (if needed) to get there. Sorry, that's not noble, that's the epitome of reckless selfishness.
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One thing that is really odd and troubling in all this is that Biden has had in his possession classified documents for, at least, the past six years. His personal attorneys claim that it was sent to him as "material that might be useful to Mr. Biden for his post-vice-presidential career in public life or teaching" If that was the case then you would think that in that time he might have looked at it and upon discovering that he had classified information informed authorities. After all, he made more than $15 million during the two years after he left the White House, with the bulk of it coming from dozens of public speaking engagements and book deals. It's hard to imagine that Biden, or those assisting him, in writing those speeches and book didn't look at the documents that Biden had in his possession and discover the classified nature of some of them.
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My cancer drug costs $17,000 A MONTH or $204,000 PER YEAR. Although I am on Medicare, have Part D and supplemental drug coverage, each January, I have to go through $3,000-$4,000 of deductibles and donut holes before I get to "catastrophic" coverage, which caps my co-insurance at $850 a month. I am immensely grateful to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden for leading the Democrats in mitigating this nonsense with lower caps of $3,250 a year in 2024 and $2,000 a year in 2025namd beyond. And I am white-hot furious at all Republicans for trying to take this away from me and others to please their billionaire donors. Vote out Republicans.
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Greg a from Lynn. Fair point. I wasn't crying crocodile tears for the owners :). My point - perhaps better made - is that it's distorting the fan experience. The family of 4 from Saugus will have to pony up $400-500 for semi-decent seats at Fenway.We're a long way away from the $4 bleacher seats that I paid for when in high school!
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The Archbishop of the Anglican Church in 2018 asked all parishioners to give up plastic for Lent. I joined them. It was an eye-opener for me and changed the way I cook, shop, dress, and take care of my family. Bar shampoo, detergent powder in a cardboard box, glass storage containers only, deposit bottles for milk - I still can’t eliminate it all, but when I think of how much Plastic I could be mindlessly tossing, I hope I am helping.
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Martina I know several academic groups that are trying new approaches to find biological compounds that could be potential leads, but big pharma has almost completely abandoned antibiotic research. Unfortunately it's just not profitable for them, not that many patients are coming down with drug resistant infections at the moment. Decades from now those infections will be widespread, but private companies don't care about the longterm/big picture, they want to have something to impress their share holders next quarter. Research departments that aren't profitable get the ax. We need the government to step up investment in this arena, but there is very little political will to raise taxes to fund it. People don't realize that each drug costs over a billion dollars to develop.
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Odo Klem Reagen raised the base from 29,000 to 48,000. I agree though; the base should be significantly raised since it has not been done so since 2017 I think. However, I believe their is a part of our population that does not wish to participate (predominately youthful) and feel they can invest it more successfully. The foolish hubris of youth!
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Tommy Why doesn't it make sense? The schools equally split the TV money paid to conferences. The TV networks are paying to broadcast the highest rated sports. The highest rated sports are college football and college basketball. Over 10 million people watched PSU play Utah in the Rose Bowl, and that figure was a record low. Over 16 million people watched the national title game which was also a low. The higher the ratings, the more they charge businesses to run commercials during the game. There's not a lot of things on TV that over 10 million people watch anymore. Sports are the only thing people still watch live so viewers still watch most of the commercials. And many of those viewers buy what they see. These businesses take the profits and reinvest into buying more commercials.So when the B1G sells their TV rights, they received over $7.5 billion for 7 years which is equally split across 16 universities. Those universities know it was the football and basketball programs that the TV networks are paying to broadcast and not soccer or swimming. When people stop watching football and basketball then they'll stop being the bread winners.
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Kim frohlinger Your first statement is simply FALSE! Animals are not cut open without anesthesia, and they do receive pain management. It is implicit in approving animal research that animals following surgery are monitored every day by staff and provided analgesics pre and post-operatively.
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Putin assumes time is on his side, in not only waging a grinding war on Ukraine, but also on the West, in his efforts to choke off energy supplies, trigger an economic downturn or worse, and expose and justify his perceived grievances with the West, as he wrongly assumes that over time, the media and everyone else will tire of the war, the expense associated with it, and the way it has triggered shortages of food supplies and other raw materials. However, Putin's war has done just opposite. It has pried open and exposed the Russian propaganda and influence effort for what it is, and the world has largely responded with rebukes, soft in some corners like China, but rebukes nonetheless. Europe has sought and is largely succeeding in finding energy alternatives to Russia's corrupt state tainted oil and gas industry, the US has become an energy exporter, and Russia's relevance on the world economic stage continues to erode while its ability to feed its population and function is exposed for all its flaws. The world is tiring of Russia. And that is what keeps the Western escalation and resolve front and center, even amid the costs.
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Way down here we'll be watching this young man.“It’s like Christmas when you’re provided [with] a good player that doesn’t have any bad habits.”Philadelphia offensive line coach Jeff Soutland, who on Monday helped deliver the Eagles to Super Bowl LVII, is reflecting on his first encounter with $64 million offensive tackle Jordan Mailata.The ex choirboy from Bankstown Sydney.
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As Gail points out, "the Social Security payroll taxation stops at about $160,000. So, a person making a million dollars a year doesn’t pay anything on about $840,000." Instead of raising the retirement age or cutting benefits, why not increase the earnings cap that the rich enjoy. The argument has always been that by increasing the earnings cap, the wealthy would be paying into the system more than they take out. So what? For the wealthy, social security is chump change. For 2022, the maximum is benefit is $3,345 per month. The rich pay more than that on golf club fees, like at Mar-A-Lago, for example. Meanwhile, more than 90% of working Americans earn less than the maximum but they're required to pay into social security on every cent they earn, while the very rich have an income cap. Just by raising the income cap, the issue of social security benefits running out would disappear. Instead, the only suggestion is for the rest of us to work longer or get less benefits.
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Secretary Blinken did his dog and pony show Monday only so the Left in America and Europe can satisfy themselves in their arrogant misunderstanding of a strategic situation that has significantly changed in the last 10 years, and continues to change rapidly. Nobody trusts the US in that part of the world after Obama’s and Biden’s myopic policies. Sad but true. If it weren’t for Israel, Iran already would have the bomb, in response, Saudi Arabia and the UAE would probably have had to get bombs - perhaps from a joint development, perhaps via a purchase from Pakistan or North Korea, If it weren’t for Israel, Saddam Hussein and Basher Al Assad would have had nuclear bombs many years ago. Everyone in that region knows it, particularly the Sunni Arab states. That’s why they are aligning with Israel, overtly or otherwise.Our foreign policy is so blind it’s more than embarrassing— it’s dangerous. It’s time for Blinken, Sullivan, and yes, President Biden to shut their mouths and open their eyes. Here’s what our message to Israel should be: “Under no circumstances get the US in a war with Iran. Short of that one condition, do what you have to do and to the extent we can help you we will.”
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The breakup of AT&T had a lot to do with this. Before this, AT&T had profit caps and had a choice -- plow the profits into research, good pay and benefits, beautiful facilities, etc. or give it to the government. Researchers were told to do 75% of possible products, and 25% on whatever interested them. This is how UNIX was invented, and how the Big Bang was discovered -- the 25%.Almost all research now is about marketable products whether in engineering, pharma, whatever and not about discovery. Shockingly, discovery has fallen off.
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I have lived through tech's rise, fall and recovery endless times. In the early 70s, I often walked by the Harvard freshman dorms on my way to my computer club at the same time Mr. Gates was skipping classes and learning Basic. I've done fine, but, well, Mr. Gates was as ruthless as Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan and that ilk.In those early days, tech firms treated employees like gold because demand for tech talent far exceeded supply. No longer.Tech is now no different than other industries in terms of employee treatment. The gap between senior execs and the grunts is nearly infinite. Senior execs care more about investors than than employees, partners and customers. Instead of computer scientists and engineers coming from a small set of colleges, now the world swarms with engineers. And the "Singularity" hovers like a dark cloud over those engineers just like it has altered the face and value of labor.Maybe some of these tech jobs will come back. Eventually they won't. It is easy to foresee a world where manufacturing, distribution and service is so automated, you barely need a working soul. Ironically, it will happen to execs too. Maybe someday Microsoft's board will be 100% AI.Yes, this is frightening, but what is even more scary is that there are governments all over the world, including ours, fraught with "leaders" hell bent on looking backwards as a ruse for stealing power. Untethered tech plus extreme conservatism make Covid looks like a simple sniffle.
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An excellent, inexpensive way to try induction cooking is to buy a portable cooker that plugs into regular 110 volt power. The one I bought costs $70. It excels at bringing water to boil quickly; as well as for long, slow simmering. It sits on top of a 20-year-old high dollar Thermador with three broken burners and non-working oven. (diagnosis: failed motherboard, no longer available.)The new gas stove will arrive next week, I decided NOT to spend big bucks on the pro-style range; AND bought an extended warranty for 5 years of coverage.
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Marcy Conversely, employers say that only companies of certain sizes aught to be forced to provide health benefits for their employees. A co-worker bought the employer's plan. They had to pay $10000 out of pocket before the policy would pay anything. You and this is the reason why other civilized countries have universal health care. The Affordable Care Act was as close as we could get with the Republicans who don't want government to help anyone. Not expanding Medicaid is not a cop-out. The Red states do whatever they can to make sure the populace doesn't "expect" things even when it mean life or death. Take you complaints to your Republican representative and see what kind of response you get.
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Meads That Celebrate Honeys From Around the Globe Heidrun Meadery, which makes mead in the style of Champagne, has teamed up with the World Honey Exchange on a new line of sparkling meads. Heidrun Meadery was opened in 1997 by Gordon Hull, a geologist and former brewer who began making mead, the ancient honey-based fermented beverage, like Champagne, with a second fermentation in the bottle. Originally based in Arcata, in Northern California, 10 years ago he moved his operation and established his own hives further south, in Point Reyes Station, Calif., near San Francisco. His varietal sparkling meads use honeys close to home and farther afield (Marin County Wildflower and Hawaiian Lehua Blossom, for example), each resulting in distinct aromas and flavors, just the way Champagnes are distinguished by terroir and cuvée. Now, to encourage small beekeepers worldwide, he and Michael Zilber, his managing director, have introduced the World Honey Initiative Collection, three new international sparkling meads in partnership with the World Honey Exchange, an organization that helps honey cooperatives. The Ethiopian Geteme Blossom sparkling mead is pale and floral, slightly bitter, with a honeyed aftertaste. Chilean Ulmo Blosson is a deeper gold, with hints of spice and mellow richness. Tanzanian Miombo Wildflower is amber, full-bodied with an alluring smokiness, making it a fine partner for cheese. Heidrun Meadery, which makes mead in the style of Champagne, has teamed up with the World Honey Exchange on a new line of sparkling meads.
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Richard Blaine Agreed completely with everything you say. Japan and Europe, and enclaves like New York, are indeed much more efficient in many ways: energy, space, emissions, quality of life.But when a large fraction of our housing exists in areas which would be completely impractical to reach by train - by design, then we have a problem.We should indeed invest in rail. But we don't have the 50-100 years it would take to undo and redo all of the last 100 years of infrastructure. We have 10-20.And for that, we have EVs.
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Slim pickings for 1.5 million. I'd never live anywhere I would have to pay association fees, much less follow their rules.
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John K I just want Montana to pay for itself. I'm tired of getting back $0.78 in government spending for every $1 my state tax payers pay into the system, while Montana receives back $1.04. I'm paying the bills while they complain about government "interference".
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Pity it wasn't $1.6B.
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I believe we need to see his birth certificate and an accounting of where the $700,000 campaign financing funds came from.
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ecu1: investment in infrastructure-- Democratic policy -- increases our capacity to pay for things. Tax cuts for the wealthy and mindless wars do not. It's not a "both sides" issue here, either.
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The Trump and Biden cases are COMPLETELY different. Trump refused demands for return of documents over an extended period of time. He defied a subpoena. He lied about having classified documents. He obstructed the government’s investigation. Biden did the opposite. As soon as the documents were discovered, he voluntarily turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration. He is fully cooperating with the Justice Department. The search at Biden’s home was carried out after a "voluntary, proactive offer" by his personal lawyers. Mr. Goldsmith, glossing over the differences in the two cases, attempts to put them into the same bucket by statements such as Trump’s case “seems more serious,” when there is no doubt that it is more serious; Trump’s “seemingly obstructive behavior,” when there is no doubt that it was obstructive; his discussion of whether the Justice Department treats “like cases alike,” when the two cases could not be more unlike each other.
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I think at least part of the answer involves the ever-present pressure to commercialize research findings into profitable technologies. Even this article mentions the almost $1 billion in fees for Columbia University with gene-splicing. In addition, most of the US grant funding goes to STEM and medicine. In my research areas, psychotherapy and occupational stress, there's almost no funding in the US, at least. Try supporting innovative research in newer sciences.
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Tracy Because employers simply are not smart enough to realize that paying the government $15,000 a year to cover universal health care for a family is better than paying $20,000 a year for less coverage, higher deductibles, and greater copays.Ahhh, the exceptionalism of American business.
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Federal government paid an average of $26 per dose of Covid vaccines. Moderna has said it will charge $110-130 per shot.Medicare and private insurance will pay but could impact private premiums. Medicare is big enough to absorb it.And we gave these firms big warp speed money.
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