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Gordon "I would think AA wold have been glad to pay $17K just to avoid this bad publicity."I was thinking the same thing, only about this trip mate, so i took a very quick google and this popped right up. Imo the insurer should have paid the customer and if had legal recourse to do so should have gone after the airline for committing the error which resulted in the lost trip. But that's my own thinking, certainly might be off base. "Trip Mate is an expensive insurance sold by Viking Cruise Line and has very poor customer serviceReview of Viking CruisesReviewed January 12, 2022 via mobile"<a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1939161-d10813724-r824728656-Viking_Cruises-Lignan_De_Bordeaux_Gironde_Nouvelle_Aquitaine.html" target="_blank">https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g1939161-d10813724-r824728656-Viking_Cruises-Lignan_De_Bordeaux_Gironde_Nouvelle_Aquitaine.html</a>
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How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. From “A Strange Loop” to “Funny Girl,” most Broadway musicals of 2022 were recorded, offering listeners a chance to love or hate them again. Last year was a pretty good one for Broadway musicals, if by “pretty good” you mean “not as dreadful as usual.” Of the 15 that opened, just a handful were outright disasters both critically and financially. And though only six are still running, that’s not a bad number these days. From “A Strange Loop” to “Funny Girl,” most Broadway musicals of 2022 were recorded, offering listeners a chance to love or hate them again.
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Bethany Pheneger in ny you can still buy a one bedroom apartment with a 20 minute commute to Grand Central for 300k. if you have 60k for a down payment (a big if, yes) your housing costs will be around 2,000 a month, even with today's high mortgage rates. that means anybody who makes 80k a year could easily afford that and still have money left for movies, bowling, or a night out.and these are individual salaries. the costume designer could easily afford this apartment if her partner made 60k a year. this includes real estate taxes and building maintenance, and you don't really need a car, which is a pretty big expense.and then of course, you could rent a place with roommates, which is pretty common here. but my point is that even buying is not really as hard as it seems in nyc. paying 300k for housing is not really unusual in a random suburb in a random American city.
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Robert It is not "your" money, it's pooled risk. The average person will get far more out than they put in. Medicare is functionally bankrupt. Why? Because the outgo far exceeds the income. Most citizens in the US will pay $3000 a year of under to Medicare, or maybe $90k-$120k in their life. That does not begin to cover the medical costs that most people will have from age 65 to death.I recently had an operation, and glad that I could have it.It would have cost $750k, but I'm on medicare, so it cost me $300. It allowed me to be functional after a spinal injury. That far, far exceeded the amount I paid into medicare starting in 1962.
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I work on a -3 year cycle. When the Apple iPhone 13 came out, I bought a recycled iPhone 10XS on Amazon for about $250. It works beautifully and the OS updates will work for at least 3 years after I bought it. When the iPhone 16 comes out, I will upgrade to a recycled iPhone 12 unless of course the 10XS still works well in which case I will skip a year. Apple is more expensive but their products last and work perfectly (for me anyway).
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According to the American Bar Association , ethics rules do not allow non-competition clauses in partnership, member, shareholder, or employment agreements among attorneys.And yet, attorneys craft and enforce them on other professions. While lawyers who are proponents of noncompetes have well crafted elevator speeches outlining the virtues of noncompetes, instead of the lawyer 'splaining , why don't they lead by example and join the fight to abolish them so we are allfairly given the same freedom to leave a job that the ABA endorses.
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I always use Google for search.Alphabet stock holds a prominent place in my stock portfolio.Most pension plan investments include this companys stock as well.I am a retired man who leans Left and will continue in that direction.But there thery've gone and done it again!The Dems are trying to break up a big tech company that echoes their shot at Microsoft years ago.It did not work then and hurt them politically.Garland is afraid to go after Trump, so what does he do?He goes affer one of the truly innovative companys in our history while the Republicans cheer and Trump still can not believe his good luck.Garland is Bidens big mistake.
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Heysus - Absolutely! The other day Safeway in my area of CA had pint size Sorbet on offer at "Buy1 Get 1 Free". The price was $5.79. At 2 for 1, that means the single unit price would be $2.85.However the regular price for this sorbet is $4.29 before the 2 for 1 offer.I've complained to the FTC a coupe of times about this blatant practice but nothing ever gets done. Given how difficult and onerous the FTC makes it to file a complaint, I doubt they get many complaints. Which is what a corporate friendly government agency wants.
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Pottree Nope. This house probably cost $5 million to build. Value today is probably around $8 million. Building custom to one’s very personal preferences tends to lower resale value and prolong the listing period.
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Dan presents an eye opening viewpoint on monogamy in relationships. Thought provoking points are made in this conversation and I believe everyone could benefit from listening to it.
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jrsherrard The US has achieved most of its pledged 2030 goals regarding greenhouse gas reductions from the 2005 maximum via 100% voluntary efforts, most of which were accomplished by corporations.
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Tal Barzilai No tax money is going to the stadium, and that number they throw around is not even real. I pay my NYC taxes.In an imaginary world, where the NYC budget NEVER increases and there is NO inflation, a totally implausible stead-state, the City will have spent $5 TRILLION over the lease period.
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Mark $1.6M is the penalty. Article doesn’t say how this maximum is calculated. Doesn’t say how much they ax was avoided. Doesn’t say how much tax, fees and interest is owed back. Doesn’t say if the benefitting employees are being investigated and how much back taxes they will owe (which would be a lot higher than what the company owes). This is at best sloppy journalism, and at worse a deliberate omission of facts designed to promote a specific agenda. In either case it’s a sad statement of how far the NYT has fallen.
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A true Sauna is an experience much different that the hot wooden room in the gym. Growing up my family had a camp at a lake with a Sauna and on the weekends the extended family got together there, had cookouts, heated the sauna, and took turns sauna-ing, swimming, boating and generally enjoying the day. In the winter it was a roll in the snow, which I never tried. (Yes we are of Finnish heritage). Last summer my family including adult children went to Helsinki and the lake county of Finland and the sauna was the highlight of both locales for all of us. It's very relaxing and rejuvenating. It is a ritual to heat the fire and wait for it to be ready, and then one goes in and out, cooling off and then returning to heat up again. It can be a social occasion and a way to spend an afternoon or evening. We were lucky enough to try a smoke sauna which are also making a comeback in Finland. They are the most traditional.
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The tech industry quietly lays off around 100,000 workers, most well-educated, highly compensated, relatively young people whose unemployment likely will have ripple effects throughout the economy. Those 100,000 newly unemployed workers represent twice the total U.S. employment in the mining industry. So what’s the battle cry that drives voters wild? ‘Bring back beautiful clean coal! Open up the mines! Millions of jobs!’Talk about distraction and misdirection. Unbelievable.
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Al Mostonest The short answer is yes. The benefit of being the best of the worst, is the exalted position of being the world's reserve currency. Yes, its just paper money that gets printed through arcane and convoluted processes between the Treasury and the Fed, but its paper money that holds more valu and is useful in more places and more easily convertible than the Euro, the British Pound and currencies issued by China and Japan. So as long as we hold this position, and trillions of dollars are stuffed into mattresses and public reserve accounts we never have to repay the original amount borrowed with taxpayer money. We can just issue more debt to refinance the old and the future interest payments on the new. The low rates on newly issued Treasury debt is an indicator that there seems to be a large demand for our paper, as there has been for decades and decades.
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SBF seems to define "stealing" as taking money directly out of customer accounts and putting it into his. Period. So the reports of SBF using company funds to invest in his other companies in violation of deposit agreements, pay for lavish parties, air travel, beachfront housing, and so on are not "stealing" since the money was first filtered thru the company instead of going directly to him. I hope that doesn't hold up in court.
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Thirty plus years ago we moved into our current home. My mother-in-law helped pack up our home. Let's just leave it at saying my mother-in-law wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Several years after moving in (my wife and I were very busy at the time) I opened some of the boxes and found things like user manuals for appliances from our previous home. The point is that until it is determined that Biden knew what was in the boxes when they were shipped, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. The National Archives and Records Administration ("NARA") didn't come after him, he contacted them and has cooperated at every turn. And as to the criticism of Biden for not being "transparent", let's not forget the damage that was done by James Comey serving up a transparent nothing burger. I'm perfectly OK with waiting for a complete investigation to reveal the facts.
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Beowful Spot on. A “fun” prediction: teachers will retool their courses and find ways to lean into the disruption. Their pay will go south, because automated prompts and grading will further devalue their work. Soon, writing instructors will be invited to pay to teach or replaced by robots — who are, frankly, much more apt instructors for the new era. With all the money saved on instruction payroll, campuses will be able to invest in the things students actually care about: comfier couches in the student centers. These changes will be steered by admin, who will of course protect their jobs from disruption and AI outsourcing. For what else is the purpose of a university, but to employ deans and provide restorative places for students to recharge between all that learning? The last human job at the last university will be the Dean of Equitable AI Learning and Change Management Protocols.
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DLNYC There is also the matter of Deripaska's aluminum mill for Kentucky. Remember that? Thanks to the Republican-majority Senate, it almost slipped through. <a href="https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/mitch-mcconnell-russia-sanctions-and-rusals-investment-in-kentucky/index.html" target="_blank">https://themoscowproject.org/dispatch/mitch-mcconnell-russia-sanctions-and-rusals-investment-in-kentucky/index.html</a>Gee, I wonder how many of the "Moscow Eight," six months after their Fourth of July junket, voted down a bipartisan effort to block that deal?<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/u-s-house-backs-sanctions-on-russias-rusal-in-symbolic-vote-idUSKCN1PB2D5" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/u-s-house-backs-sanctions-on-russias-rusal-in-symbolic-vote-idUSKCN1PB2D5</a>
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Paul Johnson This isn't about taking fewer and shorter showers. About 80% of Colorado River water goes to agricultural uses. Relative to residential use, agricultural use is profligate. California's Imperial Valley is irrigated with more Colorado River water than all of Arizona and Nevada combined. Naturally, that valley is a desert but they are growing lettuce, celery, alfalfa, etc. there. Water is conveyed in unlined, open canals where vast quantities are lost to ground infiltration and evaporation. It's insanity.
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Krista The actual non-sense is your argument. First, the credit card analogy is misleading, unless you happen to have a printing press in your garage that can lawfully print money. The United States does, and so long as the dollar is recognized as the reserve currency, we are spending OPM. If, as these fools threaten to do, we reneg on our obligations, then that debt will become real in a very painful way. Second, the notion that the government simply needs to reduce spending everything will be fine is completely false. If the entire “discretionary” budget (i.e. the Defense Department, the EPA, etc. - EVERYTHING the federal government does) were eliminated, we would still be $200bn in the hole. Third, you are not paying more for eggs because the currency has been devalued. Inflation is a global problem. In fact the dollar is trading at record levels. Roughly 60% of the national debt has been run up under Republican administration - 25% under Trump alone. They only care about it when they think they can dupe people like you into voting for them. As soon as they regain full power, they will go right back to tax cuts that never actually pay for themselves and unfunded wars. The last time we had a balanced budget was under Bill Clinton, the last time we were even moving in that direction was under Barack Obama.
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curious And before that the GOP spent a trillion in Afghanistan and the Dems wanted to end that quagmire.
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Cynthia $858,000,000,000 or $2600 per person ($10400 for a family of four) for fiscal 2023 for the Department of Defense. That doesn't include the DHS. Mr. Appelbaum for some reason does not put that under discretionary spending. It is quite different from Social Security, Medicare, and interest payments, which are payments already promised for as far as the eye can see, isn't it? Did the Congress promise to keep 1,358,500 active duty servicemen and women until the year 2100, and I missed it? Did they make a promise to keep building $13,000,000,000 aircraft carriers forever? Not disagreeing with the writer's conclusion, just wondering if he isn't focusing on just one side of the issue because he doesn't want to give those who suggest spending cuts the slightest opening, even when it comes to the Pentagon.
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Wow far be it from me to complain about a puzzle with musicals and rebuses (rebi?) both of which I love. But I really think the northwest will be a bit of a stretch for most folks and was a total Hail Mary for me that just came in a flash. Too many missing letters. IN—BLE seems pretty wide open (you can at least guess it ends in an A) and L—TE is tough ESPECIALLY since the cross could be RAY instead of RAE—actually should be—so that clue in fairness needed to be tighter. The rest came pretty fast for me. A great well constructed puzzle otherwise which I enjoyed, I just predict that corner is going to have lot of people flummoxed. I hope it doesn’t seeM A MEss to everyone. I bet it definitely puzzLES MISERABLE Solvers. Perhaps to some it CAME LOTs faster. I guess it’s never too late tO LIVE Recklessly!
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Djokovic is the Australian Open winner but Nadal, Borg, Federer, Laver, Sampras are champions on the court and off.
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Oh the hypocrisy!Germans are happy to profit off war by selling arms & tanks to others to protect their freedom. Ask them to protect their own freedom my investing in their own defense & that is a bridge too far. We’re not asking them to spend the ridiculous amount the USA does, just their fair share.
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Edgar I voted for Biden, but I wouldn’t call a $1.4 trillion deficit good news.
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Wesley Brooks Your comment reflects the "conventional wisdom", agreed; but if MAGA truly is intransigently stonewalling, then it actually does open up the space for a major pivot from the moderates: since "tie-breaking" leverage would swing to them (provided they really were willing to go down the bipartisan path). This phenomenon has happened many times before, in many other countries (usually when a political party is imploding/fracturing). Not saying it's a regular occurrence... just that if we are witnessing the splintering of MAGA within the GOP, then things like this could, theoretically, happen fast.Once a few moderate centrists start "defecting" the whole calculus changes, the paradigm shifts, and the once-unthinkable (such as "compromise") can become the new norm. After all, most moderate Republicans (at least behind closed doors) have far more in common with their center-left counterparts... than they do with the hostage-taking insurrectionist lunacy that is MTG and MAGA. A few moderate Republicans crossing the aisle to pick a mutually-acceptable Speaker, would mean that in one fell stroke Trump is forever neutered (at least in purple districts) and MAGA as a national movement become a relegated-to-the-fringe lame-duck.
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Will This Be Morning in Joe Biden's America?The correct answer: No, it will not.The overwhelming perception among my extended network of professional colleagues and personal friends, both Democrat and Republican, is Biden's cognitive skills have diminished substantially from just a few years ago. He can't complete a thought or an entire sentence without a teleprompter and the entire world is aware of this. In a 2024 pre-election debate, he clearly will not be capable of competing.
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SMB A more correct is that Biden has reduced the deficit by that amount, but the deficit still contributed to the national debt...just less so under Biden than under Trump.This reminds me of 2 facts: 1) Trump's tax cut to the wealthy added a projected $1.45-2T to the debt, the largest amount going to the wealthy (zombie supply side baloney once again and 2) GW Bush wrecked the economy by another huge tax cut for the wealthy AND a major war with IRAQ which was started under false pretenses. Republicans are only budget hawks when Democrats are in the white house.
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Gordon Silverman Your response has absolutely nothing to do with my comment. Obviously my 15 year old is not planning a long commitment to McDonald's. My response is solely about the increase in wages lately and the low unemployment rate which obviously increases the amount paid into social security and Medicare since it is solely based on a percentage of earnings at the levels below 160,000.00 which is the majority of where wages increased. For the last decade we have been told social security is going to run out of money in the 2030's. That estimate was based on traditional unemployment and wage increases. But wage increases are reminiscent of decades ago when Unions became a thing. So their current formula is way off. Not to mention the untimely death of seniors due to covid and a lowering of life expectancy.
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This is a great story about a very generous person. Sadly people are turned away most of the time they can't afford medicines. That should never happen in a wealthy nation, especially one that spends a $trillion dollars on defense.
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General Chaos I knew coyotes were in the area but we're in a built up suburban area. I wasn't sure they travelled this far into suburbia given there are lots of easy pickings just a tiny bit farther out. Then one night our spotlight camera caught a pair of them going between our's & the neighbor's house. The camera announced "you are being recorded" which caused them to look directly at it. Awesome! I much prefer having these guys keeping control of rodents & other pests. We could have used them during the Covid restaurant shut downs when the rats came into the development looking for the food they used to get from the restaurant dumpsters. I had to stop feeding the birds & I'm still too afraid to restart feeding them. I haven't seen a rat since the restaurants reopened but... It was a horrid affair which I'd wish on no one.I'm one who would welcome back the cougars. I was lucky enough to see one gracefully cross the road up by Grand Canyon just before dawn. It was misty, eerie & magical. I love seeing all wildlife but we have way too many deer. We need these top predators. Education is critical. Cougar attacks against humans are extremely rare. Fatal ones even rarer. Car accidents (some fatal) caused by deer in the road are frequent. My hubby scoffed at my warnings. He believed driving at the posted speed limit meant he was safe. Thankfully, his 35mph collision only resulted in car damage. Deer are a much greater threat. We live with bears. We can live with cougars.
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Perhaps the Senate should set up a committee to investigate Jared Kushner. And the $2 billion from Saudi Arabia. And the "loan" from Qatar to bail out his failed investment in the 666 building in Manhattan. And so forth.
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SJ LW1 is neither a borrower nor a lender. LW1 said “We will give you a house worth $6K per month.” And the sister is saying “You have to give us more.”This has nothing to do with expectations.
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There's more to art than the current high-end investment collecting frenzy. 'The Price of Everything', Nathanial Kahn's excellent 2018 documentary about the stratospheric heights of the art market - and its effect on artists - is superb.
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As usual, the NYT has nothing interesting to say about how Asians fit into this. I am Asian, born and raised in New York City, and a lifelong progressive. But liberals have failed again and again to account for the "Asian question"-- in this case, sloppily lumping Asians in with "Whites," so that they can keep the issue binary (Black vs White). This perpetuates an appallingly racist idea- which supporters of affirmative action tacitly subscribe to- that Asians are "White-adjacent" or privileged in some way. Has the author actually met any Asian people? The way she stealthily implies that Asians and Whites are on one side, pitted against Blacks and Latinos, is a craven dogwhistle to the worst excesses of modern "progressivism." And now anybody who tries to point out basic realities-- like the fact that so many Asian kids here come from poor immigrant families, and are ANYTHING but "privileged"-- gets ignored or treated like a right-wing reactionary. We need to have a serious discussion about how to improve outcomes and diversity, but don't pretend that affirmative action doesn't punish Asians. It does, and the more you lie about it, the more Asian American voters will abandon the Left. And it will be completely self-inflicted. Open your eyes: it's already happening.Are Asians "POC", or not? Nobody seems to know. #StopAsianHate one day, "White-adjacent" the next. How dare you elide the status of White people with the status of Asian people. Totally incoherent. Out of touch.
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We have a 2017 Volt and so far love it. It’s a plug in hybrid and as we are retired we rarely use the gas engine. Very low maintenance required too. The electrical source here is hydro at a low rate of 9.5 cents per kilowatt hour, so it beats buying gas at the current price of $1.69/litre by more than 8 to 1. The only downside is in the winter season, if you have to use the heater, or defog the windows, which does reduce your electric range a fair bit (or you have to hit the “hold” button so it switches to gas).
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LW2: Like your sister, I also have used a somewhat negative and critical parenting style. I’m not proud of it, and it’s part of my overall nature to focus on flaws and areas for improvement. My husband has a similar style. My poor children! Thankfully, I did eventually realize that it’s a terrible parenting style when I saw how my son thrived when surrounded by more positive influences (his aunts and uncles, who frequently heap praise on him because he’s a great kid and also probably as an antidote to his parents!). My husband and I have since evolved our approach considerably, and it’s helped our children tremendously.As a close family member, I’d suggest leading by example as much as you can. Point out your nephew’s wonderful qualities and “catch him” doing good things in earshot of his parents. If you have time and bandwidth, consider being a more significant part of his life, inviting him spend time with you and your family - if possible for extended periods of time (like during vacations or summertime). Your nephew will feel loved and valued, and your deeper relationship with him may give you an opportunity to speak more candidly to your sister and BIL about different parenting tactics. Also, sometimes giving the whole family a little break from a fraught dynamic can open to door to reflection and change.
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"Her Humira was costing the company well over $70,000 a year — more than Ms. Andersen’s salary."Therein lies the problem with profiteering by Big Pharma.Furthermore, much of the research that fuels the development of these drugs is based on government grants. Rather than private money the companies themselves put at risk.
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"Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used." <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432?lang=en" target="_blank">https://mobile.twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432?lang=en</a>
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Investments are risky, thats the whole point, otherwise it would just be free money. However free money seems to be the unabashed goal of the 1% so they make requests like this and try to shape american government policy to garuntee them this free money. This is analogous to the mortgage crisis in 2008 where those banks made risky mortgages and then they got bailed out by the US Government. And even analgous to land lords who want softer regulations and the ability to evict instantly so their investment will have a garunteed high return. Turns out their wealth isn’t so ‘self-made’ after all when we really look at whats going on.
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So, the 1.6 million is the fine.What about all the taxes the company did not pay over the years?
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Nan from CT with $60 million amd many many more coming from book + netflix why can't Harry cover his own security himself? If he left the royal family, he should also leave the perks (and drawbacks) as well.
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ACA Yes, Mueller found out that the Russians spent $100,000 on Facebook ads. Obviously that is a huge national security risk, one that certainly overshadows the fact the Mueller ignored all the facts uncovered and published by the FBI's own IG that the FBI was running a hit job on Trump.
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In 2020, the cost of a dozen jumbo eggs was 50 cents. Just 2 years later the cost has gone up 100- 200%. Well it is not all due to the one or two reasons given here but just because of hyper inflation everything has gone up since J20, 2021.
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J. IMO the security detail is not a royal perk. It’s an essential requirement for a person born as a grandchild to a reigning monarch and son of a future monarch. Plus he’s Princess Diana’s kid to boot. Leaving the royal family did not decrease his security risk. He could not simply walk from that risk. The security detail reportedly costs $5M a year. Even if it was half the cost, at some point in the very real future, their inheritance would have been depleted. And that’s assuming all of the inheritance went to cover security, and not actual living costs Not sure how you can argue that.
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The deaths of Jeff Beck and David Crosby over the last few weeks sent me down the YouTube video rabbit holes to bathe in musical genius. Tears actually came to my eyes as I watched CSN play "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" at Woodstock. I would not have been able to get this incredible access to such wonders even 20 years ago. We are in an incredible age where we can conjure up great moments in human history, explore geological wonders to get a glimpse of sublime existence, or immerse ourselves in artistic wonders most before us never even knew existed. This does not call me to stay on the couch, but to get out to see, hear, and feel the real thing. Yes, AI is troubling when we think of it as a replacement of us. However, what if it is an augmentation of good that can be? New technology can, as it has been, a partner to human ingenuity and insight despite the worst impulses of some. The harmonies of CSN or guitar stylings of Jeff Beck are brief brilliant moments that cannot be replicated by any machine because they have been. We have access to so much. Fearing the unknown has been a constant human obsession since we first harnessed fire. Meanwhile, the wonders of technological epiphany have made fantasy into a wonderous reality inspire of us.
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Michael The 1% have more money than 99% of us. We already knew that.
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Israel is doing exactly what they want with the officials that they elected to power. We would not believe for minute that the Supreme Court or the averge Israel is concerned about Palestinian rights, Palestinian land or the future negotiations for a permanent settlement to the Palestinian State. They hoodwinked the Palestinians with Camp David and Oslo with the complicit American Partnership behind closed doors.They hoodwinked American presidents directly into agreements on Jerusalem, Golan and Normalization of Relations with Arab states. They will hoodwink Biden again as they have done all of his political life. It is all in the open now. Nothing to hide. Let the world know their true intentions.
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mark Russia has over $500 billion in assets still frozen and held by Western banks. This sum must and will go into a reparations pool; and will be a sizable chunk of it/go a long way toward rebuilding all the death and destruction Russia has wantonly and lawlessly caused in Ukraine.
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One potential solution to reduce congestion on highways is to invest in an American scientist-invented superconducting Maglev technology, which is a form of transportation that uses powerful, very energy-efficient, superconducting magnets to levitate and propel both passenger and highway freight truck-carrying vehicles on guideways. Both the passenger and freight carriers can be operated and maintained cheaper than driving on the highway. The reduced ton mile and passenger mile costs can save Americans per person about $1,000 per year in reduced cost of goods and travel for a lifetime. This technology has the potential to greatly increase the capacity of existing highways, and reduce the wear and tear on our highways as a Maglev system running at an average speed of 325 mph is the equivalent of adding 12 lanes of highway.Additionally, Maglev systems can be built at a lower cost than traditional highway expansion projects. While there may be barriers to implementing this technology, such as resistance from vested interests, it is worth considering as a potential solution to congestion on our highways. The Biden Administration could potentially play a role in testing and certifying this technology, which could allow it to compete with other transportation alternatives and potentially be adopted as a complementary solution to the transportation challenges not just in the US, but also globally, as we shift away from fossil fuels to electric power for transportation.
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Diane wilson It is right that people live now longer but it is false to consider it as a universal rule. In France, at the age of 62, 1 out of 4 people among the 5% poorest is already dead. Living longer shouldn't mean you have to work longer because you may not be equally healthy if you were a manual worker in chemical industry as if you worked in an open space.
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"For sensitive accounts, like financial ones, I use a password that is derived from the name and location of an object that is personal and unique to me."That is not a secure method for creating passwords. For financial accounts a *long*, *random* password should be used.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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Rae I am the same way, I'm an open book when it comes to my five closest friends. I do the same thing, sometimes I tell my friends things even if I don't want advice or a solution, I just need to rant sometimes. I don't share as much when it comes to new people, but once they gain my trust I have no problems telling them everything.
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Yesterday while walking I saw a Lufthansa 747 on approach to JFK.Such a beautiful site.I flew on 747’s many times including one flown by Peoples Express ($99) to Los Angeles from NY and on a 747-SP, a smaller version flown by United from the West Coast to Hawaii. The only other plane back in the 70/80’s that even came close to the Queen in terms of style and smooth flight was the Lockheed L-1011 which Delta flew from LGA to Florida.
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So was Trump. Didn’t stop him from getting elected, after we all deemed him a joke. Don’t fool yourself; being inane is no longer a hindrance to the top elected seat. DeSantis is coming to a presidency near you and I blame the Pandora’s box opened by his mentor, as well as the tens of thousands of midwesterners who have settled here since Covid. This man has a grip on far more than Florida. Open your eyes.
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How much for a giant freezer?
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Joinery Piling Up unless you are going on a budget 3 day cruise, there is no way the lower middle class is going on the above mentioned cruise.Pricing out the budget basement for that specific, two per cabin fare starts at $7K. It's more for a solo traveler. For two people that's a minimum $14K. That does not include all the other things the cruise tacks on for the final cost. It doesn't include airfare to get to the departure port, or if you are smart, the hotel the night before.Lower middle class is around $50K in the US. Someone earning that is not blowing it on a $20K+ cruise,I'm not a fan of the cruise industry, but your stereotypes and uninformeness are showing.
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“The milestone of hitting the country’s $31.4 trillion debt cap is the product of decades of tax cuts and increased government spending by both Republicans and Democrats.”Ah yes, of course, “both sides.” We wouldn’t want to point out the reality that deficits have consistently decreased under Dems, while the opposite is true of Republicans. It would be biased to mention that, right?
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In a clinical trial, companies are required to share the data publicly. The same should be true of any AI test on a public road. All of the self driving company should be required to submit their software for open public inspection. If it is actually innovative, they can submit a patent to protect it but we should not have black box is killing people
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"Current US immigration policies are the opposite and will ultimately be detrimental."The legal immigration system in the US has done a pretty good job of attracting the "best and brightest" from around the world for decades. We should welcome these hard-working, skilled Chinese entrepreneurs with open arms.In contrast, the illegal immigration at the southern border of the US is a disaster. Rather than attract the "best and brightest" it attracts pretty much exclusively the "least skilled and poorest" of failed Central American countries.
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DuckSoup Try $5-6k in San Francisco. $2000 will rent you a mailbox here.
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There are several US goals surrounding this conflict:1. To see Russia's military degraded. Lloyd Austin said this publicly right at the start of the war.2. To strengthen NATO. This is a goal with several sub-goals:2a. Convince the Western European nations to take the concerns of the Eastern European NATO nations seriously.2b. To convince the Western European nations to finally meet their agreed upon arms commitments, and to actually and effectively re-arm.2c. To buy time for 2a and 2b to occur - This is the main reason for gradual escalation!3. To see Russia defeated in Ukraine without direct US troop involvement.4. To convince the Asian Democracies of the threat of China and North Korea, and to increase their arms.5. To test US and NATO weapons systems in real world conditions.6. To demonstrate to India that money spent on Russian equipment is poorly spent.7. Finally, to present China with a strengthened, successful, well armed NATO, effectively mentored by the US and with the US forces free to respond elsewhere.
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Housing is wildly overpriced and this was going to happen at some point to address that problem. A home is a place you live and if you treat it as your primary investment vehicle that’s on you.Nobody should have expected a low interest environment to continue forever.
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Ms.Renkl does a nice job here, yet only hints at the decimation to public schools, libraries, governance, and healthcare by Bill Lee and the Red Legislators .Tennessee has a $50 B per year budget, $25B 0f this comes from federal government. It is a wealthy state ranking in the top 16 economically and 3rd in fiscal stability ( USNews).The stability comes from the egregious, wrongheaded use of federal monies earmarked for public schools and healthcare,Governor controls all Federal school and healthcare dollars rather than decimating to citizens. The US tax payer is subsidizing this state as the Governor and legislators deny ACA low cost insurance to WORKING poor and the Governor used for unrelated purposes. . Federal public school monies are used to subsidize private schools and Lee’s pet project:private DeVos/Hillsdale religious charter schools. US tax payers should be made aware of the mishandling of our tax dollars in support of the ultra conservative regime.
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Indian prof, as of now our the intrastate borders are open and easy to cross. Due to California’s size and geography, daily back and forth is not as common as say Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Michigan and Indiana, New York and Connecticut. However, it is a necessity. In the United States, this is by design. And will continue per the Commerce Clause.
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Obviously the deficit is a result of spending being higher than revenue , to reduce the deficit we can increase revenue or reduce expenditure or preferably a combination of the two .The first place to start is to ensure that everyone pays their fair share , those who don’t are not cheating the Government they are cheating their fellow Americans.Following the Trump tax cut the share of Corporate tax dropped to a miserable 4 percent of total revenues , the average effective tax rate is less than 10 percent. The starting point of any deficit reduction plan should be every Corporation pays at least 21 percent , likewise all tax breaks for individuals should be eliminated. I remember Trump boasting he would reduce the tax code to a single page of course he did quite the opposite . If we did simplify the tax code maybe we could save money on the IRS.McCarthy seems to like forming investigative commissions, how about one on a fair tax code, another on why do we pay a 40 percent premium for prescription drugs compared to other countries which costs the Federal Government billions ,likewise Corporations who provide health care benefits this will help improve competition vis a vis China. Of course it will help all Americans .No chance of this happening , it reeks of common sense something McCarthy, Jordan et Al do not have.
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Jon He allegedly deducted the 130,000K as a legal expense for tax purposes. That's illegal.
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oscar jr Trump raised the debt by $7.8 trillion dollars to give tax cuts to the rich, and the Republicans thought it was great. The budget was approved by - guess who - Congress. Biden has nothing to do with it. It is his Constitutional responsibility to make sure our debt payments are made. That has been the law since the Civil War - which the South lost by the way.
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Jason I agree that we need more fiscal responsibility in Washington. In reality that would mean both higher taxes and spending cuts.However, a "balanced budget" is a canard. It is not necessary (or even desirable). And long-term investments, such as infrastructure, are worthy of deficit spending. Most economists agree on this.On the other hand, I am not a believer in Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), and the view that deficits don't matter.
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The top photo is of Beltway 8/Katy Freeway (I-10) in Houston. Just north of that is Highway 290. At the beginning of this century, the people voted to put in a train system along 290. The city started construction. Then a newly elected local government obstructed and bla bla bla, and the project stalled. Then, they took out the infrastructure they built for the train and started widening the highway instead. Meanwhile, people that work and live along 290 in the city (outside the inner loop but inside the beltway) endured decades of delays and construction. It took - for example - 40 minutes to get the 4 miles from my workplace to my apartment. I like to trot out this story whenever we talk about the people and what the people want and what our local Texas government gives us. And do not reflexively blame Republicans, as Houston has been and still is a Democratically-controlled city. There is enough disfunction to go around. The only thing that these raised highway interchanges accomplish is freeing up plenty of land as drainage and flood management. That I-10 and Beltway 8 interchange pictured, for example, is just east of the Addicks Reservoir and just north of Buffalo Bayou. It needs to be undeveloped, and there is not that much concrete on the ground under than interchange. But I am sure we can get creative and preserve that benefit and get rid of car dependence as well - if the people get a say.
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Deirdre Indeed. NYT told us about a rule change in Dec that changed how members of Congress are reimbursed in a way that amounts to as much as a $34,000 tax-free pay raise. It's called the Members Representational Allowance.
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The only problem? I bet AA are getting their lawyers to change the part that left them open to liability as we speak.
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George : That's just as much a fantasy as what the Republicans claim to believe. Reagan took the annual deficit from $70b to $175b. Bush 41 increased it to $300b. Clinton took it to zero! Bush 43 increased it to $1.2 trillion. Obama reduced it to $600 million. Trump increased it to $3.3 trillion. In his first year, Biden reduced it by $300m. See a pattern? Republican talk a good game, but the FACT is that spending is increased during Republican administrations. And in addition, there has always been more job creation during Democratic administrations.
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HamSolo I'll just say the director I report to has openly said he will only hire H1b visa holders (and only ones from his area in India). It's not a good business plan.
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The 20 hard-right fanatics are playing to their base. They must get re-elected in perpetuity. None of them could make $174K a year anywhere else. Wrecking the country is icing on the cake.
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Saying Harvard can offer 42 varsity sports because it doesn't offer athletic scholarships is more than a little disingenuous. It has one of the nation's largest endowments, somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 BILLION dollars. According to the school itself (<a href="https://www.harvard.edu/about/endowment" target="_blank">https://www.harvard.edu/about/endowment</a>/), it used those funds to provide **$677 million** in aid and scholarships in the 2022 fiscal year, and plenty of that goes to those athletes. Students coming from families earning less than $75,000/year also pay nothing (<a href="https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordability" target="_blank">https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordability</a>) and again you can be sure athletes make up a good portion of that. With a $50 billion endowment there are plenty of funds to underwrite the costs of a Division I athletic program.
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Rob D wrote, "...if they merely wanted the info to be correct they could have just sent their records and research to the DoD... ."The Barkers DID try to correct the info, repeatedly; from the article: "The brothers say they emailed the Defense Department repeatedly to offer their services, but the department was largely unresponsive." So, the brothers offered their help and correct data, but were turned down.Also, the Bakers didn't just suspect that DOD had 'probed' their website and research, but that it "might be paying people to vacuum up their decades of research, rather than engaging directly with them." Software exists that crawls through websites to scour (& can take) data, view a site's architecture/structure, see pages that aren't designated for others to view, access private and confidential material (like mailing lists, donors, etc.), etc. It sounds like the DOD -- which has vast spying capabilities -- may have done that, rather than later adding the Barkers to the project. If so, the DOD -- part of an almost $trillion/year agency -- broke into their website and stole not only their data, but also the time and effort they expended researching, gathering, proofreading, editing, and uploading all that info -- all those carefully researched and corrected names, stories from the war volunteered by surviving veterans, family members, friends, etc. The Barkers' time and resources were stolen even though they had offered to help with the memorial.
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What the average American doesn't know..."Medicare ain't free." Between what is taken put of our SS checks for Part B, what we pay to private insurance companies for a Part B Supplement policy, a Part D drug policy (our's is the minimum because we don't need any prescription drugs yet), and a very basic dental policy which pays for most of two cleanings per year...our total monthly cash outlay is almost $800, and that includes nothing for eye glasses, hearing aids, or any real dental work...all three things of which are expensive and which most seniors need.
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We had a desktop computer in an open loft above our living room when the kids were young. One day I heard our 11 y/o son exclaim, "Man, that lady is HOT!" A friend of his had shown him how to find porn online. The interest is there, and they are going to investigate. A conversation about how sex should be loving and consensual, and parental controls are in order, but let's face it. It's one of the strongest drives known to humans, and kids are curious.I'm much more worried when it comes to all the gratuitous violence in the media. And now 6 y/os are shooting teachers!
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$525 a night for Canal and Allen?I guess that's the norm if sushi costs $650 on the Bowery.Manhattan has turned into the Bizarro world.
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So many people citing guns as a reason not to go to Houston or Texas. 46 states allow open carry and nay 10 require permits (data from wisevoter.com), so guns can be a problem anywhere. You’d think this article was called “everyone should move to Houston” instead of 36 hours in Houston. Every city has pros and cons and everyone has preferences for weather, amenities, etc for a place they’d like to live. If you hate humidity, maybe Houston isn’t for you, but some people hate cold weather just as much. In addition, if we limit our travels to places where we agree with the politicians running the state we will miss out on a lot. I’m a liberal who’s been to the Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, and Anchorage. All were red states at the time. 36 hours in X is just a jumping off point for people who may find themselves in a particular city for whatever reason it’s not meant to be a referendum on that city or cover everything about it. This article didn’t mention the thriving and nationally respected performing arts groups in Houston.
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This "situation" certainly presents a contrast. No one (except Republican allies) looked into Mr. Santos's background and now everyone is shocked at what a liar he is. In contrast, anyone who was paying attention to a voluminous public record knew that tfg was a degenerate and a loser at everything he did, for decades prior to running for office. And he is "tfg," once elected president of the United States -- and an open dupe for Putin. Go figure.
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My first sauna experience was on a chilly November afternoon in New Hampshire about 10 years ago on a yoga retreat. The sauna was wood-fired, and home-made by a very clever man from recycled and found materials (the bright and gorgeous porch/anti-room was made entirely of old French doors cobbled together, and the giant old wood stove, which blasted heat into a space big enough for a dozen people, might have actually been an old coal furnace.) It was fed from outside. and the whole thing took about 6 hours to heat up. 30 yards away, across a stretch of chillly lawn, was a farm pond, with a dock and a ladder for the cold plunge. I was with folks who'd been sauna-ing for decades, and in good hands. As soon as my body got intensely hot, I was told to quickly open the door, shoelessly run across the frozen ground to the dock, plunge into the pond, count to ten, and then run back into the sauna. And to do it again at least one more time, too. And then see what happened. I duly complied - thrice - and each time the plunge into the cold water became easier and easier.Though I was born here, I'd been someone who'd suffer in the raw cold of New England winters - and struggle with the humidity of our summers, too. But something shifted in me that day: the extremes of heat and cold worked on something misaligned, deep inside. When I left the sauna for the last time, I walked barefoot back to my room, far across the farm. I felt alive - and permanently recalibrated.
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Willie: In 2002 I was booked on an Aer Lingus flight from Paris to Boston via Dublin.The law required that my rollator (mobility device) be carried for free on the plane. However, the gate agent at CDG wanted to charge me a hefty amount (I forget exactly how much) to take the rollator on the plane, whether in the cabin or below.By time the gate agent and I had finished our rather vehement discussion, he said it was too late for me to board the plane. I had to pay roughly $1,000 for a different return flight (for which there was no problem taking my rollator).I won't fly Aer Lingus again.
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Our society has introduced many chemicals as beneficial before any research was done to examine side effects, like phalates in vinyl, or PFAS to weatherproof clothing. We then go through years of secrecy and denial until lawsuits uncover evidence of damage hidden from the public. But here in Oregon we had years of open public discussion of the proposal before it was voted on, followed by two years of intensive structuring of the therapy program, also open to the public. I believe we made a responsible choice. As a public process, we can modify the rules based on experience and outcomes.
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LSE is part of LAHP (London Arts and Humanities Partnership), which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.Tuition is 25,272 GBP = $31,166.LSE is a public research institution. and receives public funding.Columbia is totally private, depends on fund raising and tuition which is $63,530. LSE and Columbia are two very different types of institutions but then I assume that Columbia's Board was aware of that.
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I love those CA bruisers but one thing we agree on is that prices are too high. My generation (x) and late boomers brought their late 90’s silicon valley options to Napa and drove up land prices. I recall a seismic shift when around 2010, Coppola paid $375K/acre for the Cohn estate. Every property in Napa/Sonoma followed suit, and it wasn’t long after that tech money headed south driving up land prices in central California.Wine prices won’t come down from with those kinds of capital investments.The industry is in for a rude awakening when boomers and Xer’s stop buying. Millennials generally value travel over olfactory experience. They aren’t going to spend the equivalent of an airline ticket and Air BnB on a case of premium wine.
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Unlimited energy, whether by fusion or other means, will always be limited by the unlimited avarice of the few profiteers who will inevitably gain monopolistic control/ownership and sell that energy to the rest of us at the highest possible cost they can to maximize their wealth hoards held in off-planet tax shelters and adding to the size of their interplanetary super-space-yachts.As always, private profiteers will be the tax free financial beneficiaries (to put it kindly) of taxpayer paid for investments in research, infrastructure, a well educated and trained population, and a legal system that protects the right to ungodly profits for a tiny few that evade taxes at all cost - including a spare billion dollar investment last year on dark PAC forces to control taxpayer's politics and government. It happens routinely now - pharma, defense and other industries exploiting for profit taxpayer invested in research.Unlimited energy will also promote unlimited population growth to sustain the unlimited avarice of parasites at the top - to what end?
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Three reasons for America’s debt:1 Military spending. Iraq invasions (several, all failures); Syria, Libya (failures); Afghanistan invasion & eighteen-year occupation (failure); Global-wide deployments (continuing, expanding in Asia & Africa).Military spending is one half the annual budget.2 Corporate bailouts. Billions. Franklin national bank $ 78 billion Chrysler $ 4 billion Continental Illinois national Bank and trust $ 9.5 billion savings and loan industry $ 293 billion Bear Stearns $ 30 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $ 400 billion American international group AIG 180 billion auto industry $ 25000,000,000 Citicorp $ 280, billion Bank of America $ 142 billion Auto industry bailouts. WBush/Obama bailouts of Wall Street, while Main Street was left behind. Trump “loans” to profitable companies that we’re not required to repay them.3 Tax cuts aimed primarily at corporations and the most wealthy. These tax cuts contribute mightily to the debt, but we’re made permanent with the intention of paying for them by cutting Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure, education.These are the primary reasons for America’s debt. What benefits did the middle class derive from them? They went to corporations - military industrial and financial and real estate primarily - and to the most wealthy., who should now pay for them.
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After years of urging our 30ish single daughters to execute wills, POAs, etc., without success, we finally resorted to bribery. We offered each $5000 to be paid upon our receipt of a fully executed complete set. One wrapped it up in 2 months and the other in 6. I know not everyone can use this approach but the peace of mind it gave us was invaluable. BTW, each used LegalZoom to get through the process very effectively.
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The layoffs started in the spring of 2021....so very quietly,,,1000 here, a few months later 3,000 here and 2,500 here ...little blips no one was paying much attention but they were occurring. Talking to a co worker about a month ago and stated that layoffs were coming even if other indicators are/were not present openly...they are opening much more and faster now...and it doesn't matter which industry, but the effects for workers and the markets and how the investors withdraw and change their spending habits and investments. Once again the spiral is going down, how fast and hard is the question and how we all end up again...every 10-14 years cycle. Last one was 2007/08, and we blamed the housing industry, today Tech...who is to blame really, think about the one industry that never is blamed, but funds the program.
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johnw I’m not surprised he’s going hard right. I’m sure that was the plan and that’s where he received the $700k in question.
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It isn't only the obscenely wealthy who hold Treasury debt. I'm retired federal civil service and disabled Vietnam vet who took what little savings my husband and I have left and bought Treasury Bills. This we did simply to protect (we thought) the money. The Bills turn over every month at auction and we ride the coat tails of the big investment companies and accept the auction results. Not only secure, but the return is 10 times the return on a commercial bank savings account. Lately, the return has soared as money has flowed into Bills. Inflation still eats up our savings, but at a reduced rate. If Treasury defaults on its obligations, I just hope our principle will be safe. But, who knows? Uncharted waters may contain monsters.
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A rarely discussed central fact is that GOP debt-funded tax cuts continue to add to the debt in perpetuity, whereas a spending program has a limited lifespan without reappropriation. So the debt-funded tax cuts of GW Bush have added to the debt each year since they passed in 2002. And the debt-funded tax cuts of Donald Trump have continued to add to the debt in 2021 and 2022.Debt-funded tax cuts are a damaging practice that should be exposed. Elsewhere in this edition, we see that Wall Street banks are pressuring the Treasury Secretary to prioritize interest on the debt in the event of default. Why? Because so much of U.S. debt is owed to the wealthy investors who benefitted most from those debt-funded tax cuts. For more on this deceitful circle, read Thomas Piketty, the economist who documents it all brilliantly.
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Brian he had another account with $65 billion
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Joseph Katz There are certainly global threats. And we certainly have borders on two sides of a great continent. But from what I've read, neither Russia nor China have a military that is nearly as large or sophisticated as ours. I seems like "DEFENSE" is a shibboleth that avoids any spending scrutiny whatsoever. I certainly would like the country to be able to defend itself, and I even understand why the price tag would be higher for us than every other country in the world - just not orders of magnitude higher. Where is this money going? Is all the spending necessary? How many domestic "bases" are just unnecessary pork? I'd like to see more reporting on it. And I still don't see how ending something with a $300 million per day price tag (!) would not at least net out spending for a few years. I hardly think we are spending over $300 million per day (on top of whatever we were already spending) to be ready for a Russia/China attack. But again, I don't know because it's hard for lay people to see how the money is spent beyond meaningless DOD pie charts and unintelligible in-speak descriptions. It's the government - I have no trust whatsoever that there is not enormous waste going on there. There's proof enough merely in the great host of obscenely-wealthy "defense contractors" who receive their largess from this "budget." For something with that price tag, there should be way more transparency and accountability.
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Of course it’s not a slush fund. The discretionary funds I was referring to are the budget appropriations which are spending limits for government programs. For example, Biden requested and received a defense appropriation for $817 billion. That doesn’t mean he is obligated to spend that much on defense. It’s an upper limit. There is nothing to prevent him from spending only $700 billion thereby reducing the deficit by $117 billion. By reducing spending in other budgetary appropriations Biden could eliminate much if not all of the deficit which would eliminate the debt ceiling problem.
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