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Then there is Medicaid for nursing care, for people who have Medicare even though they have very little in assets but survived without applying for Medicaid, which provides poorer coverage. So, my mother was on Medicare while living frugally on 2k SS payment per month. When she needed nursing care, she was admitted to a Medicaid bed. Her payment to the nursing home consists of her monthly SS check and my fathers vet benefits. The rest is subsidized by the government. She is allowed a burial account and 8k in savings. The process of application for the Medicaid bed was a bear and requires near zero in savings for the prior 5 years. The wording of being on Medicare while being eligible for nursing benefits under Medicaid is unfortunate. Having Medicare does not preclude eligibility for a Medicaid bed.
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Byoungjr Maybe what you should do is understand the reason why Charles stopped paying for their security was because they are no longer working royals. When they were working royals they 24 hour security from the British government. So you are saying just because Meghan and Harry decide not to be working royals and leave the UK altogether that Charles should pay for their security.Harry and Meghan left with the following:Half 23 million pound estate from Diana4.5 million pounds from Charles which came from the Duchy of Cornwall estate (they conveniently forgot to mention that)Several million pounds from his Great Grandmother's estateNo doubt he will receive money from his now deceased Grandmother's estate.So they did not leave as paupers. But sure Charles should continue to pay for their security.
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For decades much of internal Chinese consumption has been fueled by government endorsed (sloppily) financed lending and approvals for real estate development. Not just apartment complexes, but often entire cities like the Yujipau Financial District, Tianjin (a fake and unfinished vacant Manhattan copy). (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/business/china-economy-debt-tianjin.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/business/china-economy-debt-tianjin.html</a>). Massive construction projects will fuel any economy.A few years ago, there were about 64 million unfinished or empty (unaffordable) apartment or condo units. It's likely that number is larger now.It will be interesting to see how China will rebalance an aging population, a shrinking economy, and persistent unfulfilled housing demand (and delivery).
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Wolfgang Roberts Actually the U.S. is in good economic shape. The ten-year Treasury—the long bond—is 4%, meaning the markets are satisfied with our economic performance, unemployment is low and the deficit continues to shrink. The larger lesson though is this: a growing economy makes debt less important as a percentage of GDP. We never paid off the debt from World War II, for example. The postwar boom just made that debt as a share of GNP insignificant. That’s why investments like the current infrastructure spending make more sense than tax cuts. They expand the country’s productive capacity, making greater growth possible and consequently increased revenue to offset the cost of the initial investment.
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While Ross worries about approval ratings Biden accomplished the following while dealing with global inflation, 50-50 Senate, obstructionist Republicans, filibuster, Manchin, & Sinema: Best midterm election results for a Democrat since 1998 The American Rescue Plan Infrastructure Law Inflation Reduction Act - Including Rx pricing & the single largest investment in climate and energy in American history The CHIPS Act The PACT Act Gun Safety Law (Bipartisan) The Paycheck Protection Program Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Juneteenth National Independence Day Act Good jobs numbers - nearly 10 million jobs added Low unemployment Tech restrictions on China Rejoined the Paris Climate Accords NATO strengthened and membership increasing Military (equipment & strategy) and intelligence support for Ukraine College debt relief Diverse, fair and open minded justices appointed to Federal Courts and The Supreme Court Biden will continue to appoint those kind of justices. Gas prices are lower Inflation is slowing downBiden will continue to pass some bipartisan legislation in the face of an obstructionist House of Representatives. When people experience the benefits of the accomplishments listed above his popularity will continue to rise among Independents & Democrats.
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I especially liked reading the extended quotes from the political scientist, Michael Hartney: i.e.The more centrist "Republicans are feeling more liberated to focus on pursuing their governing agenda than on appeasing Donald Trump" and the far right; because while "Trump is still an important figure in the party, [his] influence has surely waned."These Republicans are demonstrating themselves to be centrist because they "are ready to move on to pragmatic legislative dealing." They are centrist because they are "calling the chance to cooperate and compromise'an awesome opportunity.'"In my own opinion that is what a healthy democracy should be all about. It is centrists who should be those with the power, because they are the people who "are ready to" do what is the "pragmatic legislative dealing."But this is perhaps particularly the case with the U.S. Presidential system, and other such forms of democracy that can be likewise found throughout the Americas, both north and south. That is, with the exception of Canada, the latter being a Parliamentary Democracy like Australia, where I am from.In the Presidential system, it seems that to exercise power you do need to be willing to be "pragmatic" in making "legislative dealing." In contrast, in a Parliamentary Democracy, the governing party does not have to make such deals with individual politicians in order to make legislation: i.e. with democrat senators like Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
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George Labor is not a very significant part of the cost of chip making—particularly with the most advanced chips. And it makes up less and less.If the labor cost is double, but only makes up 10% of the price of a chip, there is a debate to be had if saving 5% (or whatever it actually is) is worth the long term risks. This is business 101. Risk management.
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The author demands $25K for speaking engagements (I know from experience). This seems anathema to the justice and equity that is part of her public identity.
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On my morning walk with our cockapoo I make a point to walk past the unassuming neighborhood house that’s a nursing home. Most mornings, one of the residents, Cathy, sits outside in her wheelchair, and we have a little visit. Bit by bit we are getting to know one another, and it all started a few weeks ago when on a whim I asked her, ‘would you like to say hi to my puppy?’It’s a little thing but he knows her now and starts pulling at his leash when he sees her, and she really seems to enjoy our visits.For me, being a bit shy, having him along is the perfect opening to start a conversation.
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Tom I didn't have a "diagnosis" that insurance would pay for however I had endometrial cancer which was fed by estrogen. Fat cells make estrogen. I also have hypertension and high cholesterol. I have fought the same 40 pounds my whole adult life. I was not morbidly obese at 5'8 I was at my all time high of 212 and had never been over 190 before Covid hit. I was a model in my 20's. Weighed 135 at 37 and was off and on diets and diet pills all my life and am now 73. I had lost 30 on a diet pill I have been on off and on many times in the past but reached a stall at 182 pounds. Because I am on medicare even though I pay for a very high quality supplement and also have additional RX coverage insurance would not pay. I gladly pay the $975 a month and have now gotten down to 160 pounds. I do see the difference in my face but it is worth it. I had cancer last year and broke a bone in my hip in November so I feel I owe it to myself to do this for myself and my self respect. My blood pressure is normal and I take less than half the meds I took before.
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I think the article, interesting as it is, lacks context in that what a person makes is only relevant when held up against what it costs to live. When rent is 2,000 to 5,000 dollars a month you can knock 30k to 50k right off the top. Add to that eating and drinking out, and the other costs of city life, especially NYC, most of these wages were not too impressive. My 40k/yr seems a pittance compared to some of these, until I consider 100% of my living expenses come to under 10 k/yr, including food and car-related costs.I wonder how many of those in the 100k range actually put away 30k per year...or any amount , for that matter.
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The important point of this piece is that if the American voter sees the truth through the vail of lies that the Republicans tell, the voter will go to the polls in an effort to restore rights that the Republicans have taken away from them through slight of hand and outright lies.The Republican Party of the past fifty years is a structure built on a set of manufactured lies (see "It Was All A Lie" by Stuart Stevens) that have been amplified by the SCOTUS through SCOTUS's intentional weaponizing of corporate wealth and dark money funded propaganda campaigns.The reversal of Roe V Wade is just the most obvious and eye-opening example of the mayhem that this lying political faction is wreaking on the body politic.As more of these lies come to light through the disinfecting power of truth, there will be more voter anger directed at the liars.Watch for more tax cuts for the rich, stopped infrastructure spending, support for Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, reductions in Medicare, SS and Medicaid, increasing morbidity and mortality rates (review the M&M rates for age groups in red v blue states as well as US v other industrial economies). The list of calamities that the Republicans are responsible for is much longer and will be exposed as they continue their maladministration at the state and national levels. The destruction that they are wreaking cannot be hidden forever.
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As a retired, affluent aging Floridian baby boomer from the north, I must thank you for your words of sanity and fact regarding Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida. It has been a bit frustrating to hear him lauded as the second coming because of his stance and policies. First off, a little known fact nationally is that Florida did benefit from the balmy air when the north was closed-in during covid. However, the missing piece is that more Floridians died post vaccination than those of the states up north. No one talks about Florida's deaths. The only thing that is discussed is freedom and keeping the bars open.Also, the state is a terrible place to be if you are not wealthy or must live on the Floridian wage. Not only is it impossible to afford rent, but the number of fees, tolls, and increased costs surpass other areas of the country.When you look at Ron DeSantis and you consider the economy of Florida, you would think he oversees a state that actually produces something. Florida's main industries are tourism, healthcare, and farming. It is hardly a comparison to the industrial history of the northern cities where most of its residents once hailed. Florida looks beautiful today because it has no industrial past. It's easy to look good when your largest employer is Disney, and look what he did there! However, as Florida fills up with new residents, it is becoming quite obvious that its'infrastructure will not accommodate the anticipated growth in the next few decades.
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Mike Stocks and bonds are various types of claims on real things like companies that produce goods and/or services and thereby generate actual cash flow for the claimants. Companies can and do fail at times, but that is not the point. The point is people buy stocks and bonds in anticipation of some degree of company success and the cashflows generated by that success.
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Tony Perkins rakes in $174,000 a year slandering and smearing gay people with fake research and lies and we're supposed to view his opposition to gay people being stoned to death abroad or not opposing Biden diplomatic nominees as an evolution?
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$6.00 a dozen here in NM, and that’s the low wand of the price range. I saw some organic - cage free as high as $9.99. Solution: don’t buy and eat eggs at that price.
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The $500 figure is an average. My friend who retired early and has no income on paper pays $0. My family of 3 paid $1800 per month for a high deductible plan with no subsidy.
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Aha ! I just said this the other day when I gave an elementary school arithmetic lesson: spending less is only half the equation of reducing debt, the other half is obtaining more money, i.e. increasing taxes. One of my favorite statistics: in 1950 the federal income tax rate on incomes over (a mere) $200K per year was 91 % - under a Republican president, not to mention, that was when we recovered from a very expensive war.
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A “mega yacht” cost $250,000 about 30 years ago.
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Of all of the faiths commonly practiced in the US, I admire Reform Judaism the most, hold with a vast number of its theological stances, and attend classes whenever possible.But few Jewish congregations, even those that align themselves with the New Jewish Revival movement, accept participants who do not have a Jewish family upbringing.This is ironic. Judaism was the first religion that conceived of a god independent of time and place, in an era when people commonly thought a deity must reside in a specific object or site. And in its first few millennia it was evangelistic, taking on adherents from all over and surviving while countless others faltered. I understand how a history of oppression and genocide have caused it to become clannish, and resist outsiders. But the intellectual and spiritual force of its teachings could make Judaism the light of the world at a time when people are falling away from organized religions or, worse, lining up behind fanatical, authoritarian sects.It's possible to celebrate the beauty of one's tradition while still opening it to a broader world. It's too bad more Jewish congregations, especially the liberal ones, don't see it that way.
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I think the real story here is why does the government have the right to tack on more than $14 to the cost of a ride from JFK to Manhattan? The driver is certainly entitled to his pay - he’s the one doing the work. Uber is entitled to pay, too - the invested millions of dollars (with no assurance of success). But what did government do? Nothing but get in the way.
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clare bee and any others who care:a Guide to Searching the Comments to Spelling Bee and sharing specific threads.Direct your browser to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/spelling-bee-forum" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/spelling-bee-forum</a>and select the date you want (there is very invitingly a search tab there, ignore it for now) Or edit the URL <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/crosswords/spelling-bee-forum.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/28/crosswords/spelling-bee-forum.html</a> with the desired date--Select the comments either through the 💬 just on top of Bee photo or at the bottom of the page click on Read xxx comments.--The comments will normally open in the Readers Picks Tab, click on the tab that says All instead.--Now start scrolling down and down, the page does not load (=it is not available for searching) all at once. --Once you reach the end, you can go up slowly and open any thread with many answers, by clicking on "View All Replies" until each thread is open.-- now use whatever Find function is available to you. For example in a PC use Control-F will, in a Mac, Command- aka Butterfly-F. In IOS devices such as iPhone and iPads you will need to click on the share button (a square with an up arrow) and find and select the command Find on Page.—You will now have a box to search in, enter the word or words, it will return the number of hits and you will be able to move from one to the next with the arrows[continues in replies posts are limited to 1500 characters]
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Working in the Federal law enforcement agency, incidentally the oldest law enforcement entity in the USA since we’ve existed since 1789, one sees economic phenomena. Such as the fact that shipping a container from China to the Midwest is now a reasonable cost instead of the $20+K it was during the pandemic container shortage. Such as the volume of demand upon imported goods has surged again, as seen in their entry into the commerce. Such as the prevalence of billionaires whose fortunes derive from shipping, such as Jeff Bezos of Amazon, who have succeeded in changing the entry process so that items pretend to be less than $800 in the aggregate, not violating anti-dumping or countervailing duties, and are not subject to the plethora of other regulations. So that Amazon’s billion-plus shipments last year generated zero revenue into the commerce…
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As our rural area has become a nascent exurbia, I am mostly amused, but saddened by the number of people driving high clearance AWD vehicles bemoaning the 'roughness' of the roads. Yeah, there's a period of time every year between thaw and grading that the road slows everyone down, it's called seasonality. If you can afford a second home, if you can afford a car at 10's of thousand of dollars, you can afford to buy a beater to get you through the thaw. OHHH... can you hear that violin playing for you?
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The cap on SS withholding approximates the limit on benefits paid. The Social Security program, officially Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance, has an annually adjusted maximum benefit because it’s purpose is not to provide a comfortable retirement but rather to prevent poverty among the elderly. It is structured as an insurance against this. As long as there is a top limit to the monthly payment, $4,555 for 2023 (claiming at age 70 by someone meeting or exceeding the withholding cap for 35 years of employment) there needs to be a limit on the amount of wages exposed to SS deductions. Also note that such a scheme may not apply very broadly to wealthy individuals since their incomes are not from reported wages but rather from investment returns.
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The contrast between the incredible generosity of one man and the incredible greed of one company’s board, led by one woman CEO.“Proxy filings show that from 2007 to 2015, Mylan CEO Heather Bresch's total compensation went from $2,453,456 to $18,931,068, a 671 percent increase. During the same period, the company raised EpiPen prices, with the average wholesale price going from $56.64 to $317.82, a 461 percent increase.. . “And as this article says, they price eventually raised it to $800. I wonder what her salary is now? How many EpiPens would $18,931,068 buy every year?
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Dobbs is another step towards the dictatorship Republicans seek. Unbelievable that now all the women in this country have lost personal rights over their own bodies, becoming slaves of the state. As we all know, Republicans have violently attacked the pillars of democracy with insurrection and now this unbelievable removal of a Constitutional right. In many other ways they are advancing toward their goal of destroying democracy. Eyes wide open, folks!
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By my own reckoning, I seem to be an average, middle of the road person, although when I was a youth 60 years ago, and into my early adult years, I found and read all manner of books on the library shelves, sometimes as school assignments. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Huckleberry Finn" "Lord of the Flies", "Animal Farm", "Lolita", "Kite Runner", and on and on. I read "Harry Potter" and "Where the Wild Things Are" to my boy, who also grew up to be a well-adjusted, open-minded person. To think of my reading experience without these books, which gave me so many different viewpoints, is unimaginable. Even worse is to think of a life where a few people can decide what schools and libraries can or cannot offer. Some have gone too far in foisting their values on others.
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Joanne IF we are all more open to fluidity and openness, then trying and not finding it amenable may not be a "Lock them IN" issue. Oh my gosh, my 3 y.o. wore princess dresses, fake jewels, tiaras, and tulle. She no longer makes those choices, and her choices are extremely variable. IT isn't a power contest, so it doesn't matter.
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American tax $$ subsidize paid family leave, childcare, housing, healthcare, pre-k and tuition free higher education for Dept of Defense employees & their families but not taxpayers in the private sectors. That’s a decisions Americans support and tolerate. Military spending is a easy foil. Maybe Americans need to demand more instead of giving the military more $$ than it asks for -with democratic support.
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Joedoc The Palestinians suffer from a corrupt leadership that relies on keeping the conflict going to keep blaming Israel for their incompetence and the living conditions of their people. One might note that Arafat died a billionaire. FY: Since April 2021, the United States has provided over half a billion dollars in assistance for the Palestinians, none of which is willing to accept Israel's right to exist. They not only celebrated the recent murders in Israel, but danced in the streets celebrating 9/11.
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MaggieW Wow. You are so wrong. As someone who ACTUALLY LIVES IN MANHATTAN, I can tell you that this location gets tons of foot traffic and has been very crowded, even during this quiet downtime of January. Locals, tourists, and workers go there. A lot. We've been trying to go there off and on since it opened and it's busy. Many more workers are back in the office at least 3 days a week, and it's been hopping. There is a real revitalization going on in midtown, and it is noticeable. There are still empty pockets and commercial rent is a huge issue, but this location has a good start. BTW, I live 3 blocks from the "dream west side pier" and can tell you that the original idea was always flawed - there is definitely not enough foot traffic to support this idea for 4 months of the year - even with Google opening offices on top of the pier and across the highway. And the revised version of the "hawker stalls" that is now just a food hall - <a href="https://www.pier57nyc.com/about" target="_blank">https://www.pier57nyc.com/about</a> <a href="https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-new-food-hall-curated-by-the-james-beard-foundation-is-coming-to-pier-57-020122" target="_blank">https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-new-food-hall-curated-by-the-james-beard-foundation-is-coming-to-pier-57-020122</a> will be busy during nice weather but will be empty December through April.
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1) Harry's critics don't seem to realize that he has to come up with $2 million every year for security just to ensure his family keeps breathing -- because of his military service in Afghanistan. He fought America's enemies and yet those who are safe because of that attack him -- ungrateful people who would never get near a military recruiter much less a battlefield.2) I am also curious why people who attack his book never attack the vicious owners of the British press -- who get rich destroying the lives of others.
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Sylvia Not only closing costs--liquid reserves required post-closing. A co-op that requires 2 years' worth is generally adding another 10%, if not more. Now you're not spending that money, but you do have to have it, and your retirement accounts don't count. So a $600K co-op apartment in Manhattan requires $120K down, around $30K in closing costs (5%), and, if the mortgage and maintenance are $4K a month (on the low end), another $96K in liquid reserves, for a grand total of $246K, or ~40%!
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What really annoys me? paying $70-100 for a mediocre meal for 2, including $17 for a glass of wine that (shold) cost $18 a bottle. Which is what you get now in most sit-down restaurants in NYC (all of NYC, not just in Manhattan). We've vowed to cut back on dining, ans splurge for a really good meal. We'd rather pay $150 for a fantastic meal than $80 for meh. the sanctimoniousness of so many comments is tiresome. 3 star Michelin restaurants are not diverting money that would go to feed the poor. And ths is in Denmark which takes care of its poor, at least. dining there isn't like buying a Bentley or a $10M house. Plenty of middle class, and lower middle class splurge on luxury items, as gifts for others or themselves to mark importnat occassions. I see it all the time. and if you are honest, so do you. Maybe someone's dream is to dine at the best restaurant in the world, and they're willing to max their CC do do it? It's easy to parody this, as has been done ad nauseum. . . . evidently by people who have never dined there. I once went to a one-star restaurant in NYC, i forget the name but it was at the London hotel, and i remember hearing a while ago it closed. it was with a grup of 6 of us, all middle class, and it was expensive. the dishes were small, we made fun of it ... and it was one of the best meals of our life.
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There's another line item in US spending that is too much by any reasonable standard: the Defense budget, which just grew by something like $20B, to $780B/year. In my lifetime, it's going to very likely hit $1T/year.Facts:- The US outspends the next nation (China) to the tune of $500B/year.- You have to combine the next 10 or so nations to equal the defense spending of the US.- When asked for audits of where the money is going, the various armed forces have been able to provide a satisfactory accounting of spending matching the budgeted amounts. Some reports have the Army asking for a trillion dollar "correction"Opinions:- There's some amount of defense spending that's corporate welfare. We have plenty of other corporate welfare in the US budget. We should start calling it out as such.- I know we need to pay for defense. I just don't think we need to pay so much for defense. We are (quite realistically) the arsenal of democracy.- Plenty of the DoD budget is pork barrel spending. Even the DoD admits this -- ships it doesn't need, bases kept open longer than they should be, programs kept alive by politicians, etc.- The DoD needs to be audited like anyone else that receives government money.
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Was Yeshiva University Entitled to $230 Million in Public Funds? The Modern Jewish Orthodox school refuses to recognize an L.G.B.T.Q. student club, arguing in court that it is a religious institution. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. The Modern Jewish Orthodox school refuses to recognize an L.G.B.T.Q. student club, arguing in court that it is a religious institution.
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Mor -- You sound like someone who has never experienced real hardship. Your idea that homelessness is a "lifestyle", as if it were freely chosen, suggests you have never been there. Try to imagine this: Your employer has a big layoff, and with two week's severance, you lose your job. For a while, you get by on unemployment and your spouse's part-time income. But then unemployment runs out because your industry has tanked in your state. You search fruitlessly for a job, and begin to get really depressed. Your spouse is diagnosed with cancer, and to pay for their treatment, you sell your modest home and move in with your brother-in-law and his family, living in their basement, sharing their one bathroom. Your teenage child who has been uprooted to a new town and school starts taking drugs and acting out, getting arrested, coming home really late, making a lot of noise, being very depressed and angry at everyone. The brother-in-law says his sister with cancer can stay but your teen cannot. You two move into another relative's basement, but that doesn't last long. Your teen disappears, leaves a note "I can't stand it anymore. Sorry, love you, gotta go." You run out of your last cash sending it to help your wife. The relative can't afford to feed you. You end up on the street. Open your mind.
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FeoJ , you make an excellent point. There is the potential for a charging station on every electrical pole in the country for only a few hundred dollars in materials, and it would be within easy distance of any EV that needed it. How long before utilities start selling the rights to install those at every available location? Utility regulators should mandate that the majority of fees collected be used to expand grid capacity, not just payoff shareholders.
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I just got back from Costco.Two dozen Organic Eggs, Large, $7.99.Two container limit. A whopping $1.00 more than 5 years ago.
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No onion, no eggMy initiation into the work world was as a waitesss at Marc’s Big Boy, a franchise of the chain known for inventing double-decker burgers–and for its chubby mascot with a pompadour, marching forward in red-and-white checked overalls. I was just out of high school, living in an unfamiliar city with a friend I’d persuaded to join me in what’s now called a ‘gap year’ adventure.My vision was to drive until we found a city we liked, find an apartment and jobs, and get a taste of adult life. We landed in Minneapolis–halfway across the country from each of our homes. Both of us were out of our element, eyes wide open. Big Boy was on a rundown strip downtown. I could walk there from our tiny apartment. Of all the challenges in that job, mastering its idiosyncratic ordering code topped the list. In a training meeting, the manager’s face was tight, his intonation dramatic, as he proceeded with what felt like a scripted oration: “There are two words I never want to hear you say in this restaurant. One of them is ONION and the other is EGG.” The code words were ‘with’ and ‘and.’ Orders shouted into the kitchen included: “Bacon AND over easy…” (eggs over easy with bacon) and “Big Boy WITH!” (onions on a burger). By coincidence, my husband worked at a Big Boy in his teens–so we both remember what a Diamond Jim was, and we can talk about breakfast and lunch in Big Boy code, whenever the urge hits.Jan. 27 Bee words: onion, initiation, into, intonation, oration.
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Wordsworth from Wadsworth We both know that at most with an 8-9 game season and ample space for grooming grass indoors, it can be moved in and out in pallets for those 8-9 of 365 days a year. Michigan also has Michigan State University which is the premier agricultural economics and agricultural university in the entire world. The developed a special hybrid of Bluegrass for Spartan Stadium, so hardy yet flexible it is perfect and all-season. The University of Michigan is still sadly of field turf. hat we are talking about here is a few million dollars a year out of the owners' pockets who have no compunction to throw tens of millions at defunct contracts. They can afford it and have a moral responsibility to do it. So do the universities.
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Frank We hit 8 billion late last year.Heading now for 9.
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By not giving Ukraine the offensive weapons it needs, this war has turned into a WWI style of trench warfare where both sides lob shells at each other from stationary positions. The land in between the lines has turned into a "no man's land" of pulverized territory. There have been reports of Russia sending waves of conscripts into the fray who just get chewed up by Ukrainian fire. At 90,000 shells a month, that's over one million shells a year, a staggering amount of ordinance. This stalemate must be broken. The cheapest shells go for $500 a piece with the more advanced shells can cost over $2000 each. That's billions of dollars a year just for shells. Five hundred modern tanks cost about one billion, and they don't all get used up. Just from a cost standpoint, let alone the lives saved, giving the Ukrainians the tanks they need to break through the Russian lines and finish the job will save an enormous of money. The funds saved could help to rebuild the pulverized areas.WWI was insanity where millions died just trading fire. Let's not do the same here. War is bad enough that there is no need to throw people's lives away for politics.
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The nfl deserves some credit for investing millions of dollars to handle this situation. They avoided (god still willing) a death on the field. I get it is a business decision but they did the right thing.
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No there is a third group of us who believe that our climate is the defining issue and believe that over population is a key component. Lord Douthat has long advocated for every woman to become a baby factory. He places an emphasis on young families and their children and relegates the aged among us as some kind of taker group. Hopefully his perspective will change with his aging, Contrary to his assertions South Korea has one of the most vibrant economies in the world not as a result of population but as a result of innovation and technology on the other hand Africa continues to be the poorest continent on earth. As a boomer I think the problem is exactly the opposite of what Douthat claims, boomers were a result of an explosive birth rate world wide. Not a replacement generation. Let us not repeat this. Our capitalist system is predicated on an ever increasing pool of consumers and our health care system on artificially extending life spans. I read recently in an NYT column a doctor claiming we will see 150 year life spans in the not too distant future as a result of medical advances, terrifying. No Ross, we don't need more people in a world of finite resources, endangered climate and insufficient basic health care. We need to take a step back and emphasize innovation and new technologies. I am sure that the plant and animal life will be most appreciative of this, we have no more preferential rights to this planet than they do.
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I would agree we need a law that states that a job offer has to include the non compete terms so the employee is aware before leaving their current job. However I invest heavily in training and intellectual capital with my team and this kind of law makes me very nervous. The kind of work my team does can translate to any industry but I don't want my direct competitors to be able to take advantage of my hard work.
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RP It's a provable fact that deficits and debt grow under GOP leadership than under Democratic leadership. The GOP talks a tough game but has not delivered, all the way back to Reagan. Look it up, it's freely available, published data. No political slant, just data. It doesn't lie.Trump and the GOP signed into law an unfunded $1T in tax cuts. This is fact, it's signed in Sharpie by DJT himself. The GOP knowingly ignored the OMB and other budget analysis groups, and just barged on ahead. No politics, simply facts.There was a program called PPP, put together to the tune of $800B. There was little oversight and there have been plenty of people turned in for corruption, probably a lot more got missed. There is a tipline.The student loans you mention have been on ice for years now, just sitting there. GOPers go nuts about this handout but don't say boo about PPP. What's even more annoying is that they have no counter-proposal other than no. For example:- Student loan interest could be dropped to 0%, or some other rate. Many student loans are pegged at 6-7% for the entire duration of low interest rates. I have a 30 year mortgage at 3%. I can't see why a 10 year student loan should cost so much.- Student loans could be forgiven if more than the principal has been repaid (we ended up paying something like 2-3x loan value)- GOP (or anyone) could put forward some proposals to actually deal with underlying issues, such as why tuition is so high.
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And Penguin RH had absolutely no idea, not a clue, the Guardian had obtained a pre-pub copy? Hard to believe.What a turn of events. H and M are now reliant on the very industry they railed against to maintain their lavish lifestyle. What gets lost here are the amounts of money negotiated to keep this drama going. Oprah got the ball rolling as she reportedly took in 7m for her pandemic special. 100m from Netflix. Sounds like trashing the family is good for business.And now the “I want daddy and Willy back” book tour!?!
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Fred The executive branch is constitutionally obligated to pay interest and principle on debt borrowed with the permission of Congress. Not doing so would be defaulting and unconstitutional.There is plenty of federal revenue flowing in to prevent a default even if the debt limit is not extended. paying debt as due would not result in an increase in interest levels.Easily, if there isn't enough money to pay debt, not essential federal employees and contractors could be furloughed, which would not include the military, except for the contractors. Next, the federal government could stop making payments to state governments for grants and Medicaid. And tax credits to wind and solar farm developers as well as contractors hired by the states to build out EV charging stations.
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ABC Sorry, you got the numbers wrong. $200 billion is what industry is expected to invest, prompted by tax deductions that amount to $50 billion. In other words, a dollar of tax deductions inspires $4 in private investment. Seems like a pretty good ROI to me.
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Paul Krugman Dear Professor:- Well-informed people betting real money brought us the 2008 Great Recession (aided, of course, by a good deal of regulatory capture). The same for the so-called smart money that invested in crypto. Most of them showed no signs of concern until it was too late. Most aren't as smart as they like to think.The federal government spends about $6 trillion every year, about $1 trillion of which is borrowed. It will be possible for the government to carry an evergreen loan forever, always adding to the principal, and paying ever more interest, until it isn't. The currency will be debased, but that's a problem for the next generation.The comparison with our debt after World War II is not a good comparison, as the government had borrowed heavily to finance a shooting war. Wasn't the debt paid off shortly thereafter?
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My heart goes out to the Chinese people who are fighting against this Whatever Regime. We need to end the autocrats and be more open and united. Sooner or later, we all get fed up.
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A casino in NYC is the very LAST thing we need…. Related’s Hudson Yards is the epitome of how developers and politicians are so wrong. Did we really need a group of taxpayer-funded “luxury”shopping malls? Clearly not as they are an utter failure, sitting nearly empty. Did we need a $200 million hideous stairway to nowhere?? That eyesore is now infamous for suicides, and has been closed for more than a year. We certainly do not need a casino for people to come and lose their shirt. We need affordable housing!! Related should pay the city back the $4.5 billion in taxpayer funds it received before it can do anything else. Think about Corbusier’s L’Unite d’Habitation, an architectural gem of affordable apartments in France, and compare that to what greedy developers have done with nearly $5 billion. We could have had THAT in place of Hudson Yards.
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A far better opening sentence would be:"The nation’s top environmental agency, the E. P. A. created by President Richard Nixon in 1970, is still reeling from the exodus..."I think it is insulting and displaying a lack of gratitude to not thank and acknowledge the President who created the E. P. A. Nixon's Democratic predecessor Pres. Johnson could have done so, but did not. It was President Nixon who had the foresight and leadership to create the E. P. A.. If it hadn't been for Nixon, who knows how many years it might have been before the E. P. A. was started?The most important thing that the Federal Govt and Biden should be doing is to phase out the remaining coal-powered electric power plants that generate 1/5 of our electricity replacing them with natural gas and other sources of power by 2030.For some reason NY State where I live has shut down our non-polluting Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, replacing it with greenhouse gas-generating natural gas electricity, but President Biden refuses to show leadership by shutting down the polluting coal power plants.The PM 2.5 particular matter belched from these coal-powered electric power plants that can travel for long distances affects not only those with asthma but also the elderly exacerbating their heart disease and premature deaths.
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Luxembourg Not investing in your country and citizens also has a cost. Not something that republicans talk about much though do they.A great example of the most hot button topic.Medicare 4 All. By having one large pool that everyone pays into we can cut medical costs and put a check on them. Insurance companies rob us constantly with jacking up our costs. Added benefit is it also spurs competition in the market place driving down costs as a whole. Why do I say this? Because it allows small businesses and labor to compete with big businesses toe to toe on benefits.Do you people want healthy capitalism or not?As an old school actual libertarian republican from decades ago you folks have lost your way. You tax the rich to push down and break up concentrations of wealth that destroy capitalism. You do this or the system becomes leveraged and costs rise.The pandemic costs we recently saw were from price gouging not wages. There is a ton of data showing this if you are honest and willing to sit with it. They can do this because there isn't enough competition in the marketplace. We have way too many massive companies.I don't actually see capitalists in this country. I see crooks.
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Here’s a suggestion Steve #725: Just put it in Full Self Drive mode and forget about it! Although I purchased a 10 kW generator to keep up with my absolute need to power my espresso machine, Dish & tv (So I can watch non-fiction murder reruns... kinda viscerally helps me ‘get over it’ about society’s decline, so with each and every new shooting, it helps at desensitizing the soul, as if just another day of the week), Nowadays, my heroes are not the FD, Cal Fire, and/or especially any P D anytown, but the ones who deliver, and work like crazy to keep delivering my electricity, and considering some of the major fires, storms and firestorms we’ve had, Pacific Gas and Electric goes in right after any of these major plights and starts delivering power back to its customers, at a not too shocking price. For the time (many & often) the grid is down, I’ve had this 10 kW Genset for about a year now and although I haven’t incorporated a full automatic set up with the switchover gear, and a $90 auto transfer switch etc., I do OK with pulling the main fuses and feeding power back into my home and having the noisy Genset as far removed as possible
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ReggieM More like to the tune of $600,000 annually! The cost was $50K additional PER MONTH!
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From a corporate perspective it would be crazy not to insert a non-compete clause, as there’s no downside to them.Banning them altogether seems extreme too.In European countries there is usually a lower threshold for an NCC to be legal (which means most lower level employees can’t be subjected to one) and there’s a mandatory minimum compensation by the employer e.g. 1/4 salary of the length of the clause, which is often one year. Usually employers have a 2-week or so period to waive the clause after contract termination.I guess this is the FCC framing the negotiation opening shot, so a balanced solution can eventually be reached.
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Two thoughts:Finally, when it’s almost too late, we have an Administration that has put forward, and Congress has passed an industrial and jobs policy which simultaneously recognizes the need for education and training, strong union participation, and the concept - incomprehensible to free market believers - that government must step in to advance major leaps in industry and technology that private concerns are hesitant to invest in and often myopic in their greed and apparent need to service stockholders before putting significant funds back into their actual business activities and their workforce.To quote from the piece, “Today, Taiwan accounts for about 22 percent of total chip production and more than 90 percent of the most advanced chips made, according to industry analysts and the Semiconductor Industry Association.”Now we know China’s real interest in Taiwan isn’t the ‘reunification of the motherland.’
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Bruce Rozenblit Trump added 7.8 TRILLION to the debt the largest increase ever in a 4 year period
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Excellent, thank you. 1. Budget deficit over time should match or moderately exceed trade deficit, about 3% GDP per year. Why? Because trade deficit is net $ going overseas for stuff; a cash drain on private sector. Government deficits inject $ into private sector, offsetting drain on private sector.2. Serious deficit hawks want much higher taxes on rich and defense cuts. This excludes most Republicans, who want neither.3. There is no reasonable way to cut Social Security. You fund it by removing cap on payroll tax, around $147,000. That covers 70% of shortfall for 75 years. A 1 percentage point increase in payroll tax covers rest, or (better) a wealth tax.4. Healthcare costs about 40% less in Europe with comparable results. We should have a Healthcare Commission study the difference and making recommendations.5. Budget deficit in fiscal 2022 down 66% from Trump levels excluding student loans. It was below 2019 in $ and way below as % GDP.
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As an oncologist, when I read that his family received $400 million for a “chain of hospices”, that’s all I need to know about his upbringing. Profiting from people’s dying and suffering is morally corrupt.
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617to416 - The same applies to many of our so-called 'leaders'. After two years of neglecting the wide open southern border, look where the Big Guy is right now shortly after the media started publishing the question 'When Will Biden Visit The Border'.
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I was incredibly relieved not to get caught up in the SW debacle, but AA is certainly not the gold standard. They gave me less than 24 hours notice that they had delayed my return 5:30ish pm flight from Providence to D.C. last summer. Got to TF Green, was told my 8:45 pm flight was pushed to 9:45, then it was 10:45, then 11:45. Finally, after midnight, we start to board. AA offered me $50 in credit, and that was only because I contacted DOT.The airline industry is built on greed. We are well past the time for airline regulation.
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To all the naysayers and cogent critics - the investment in US chip manufacturing is necessary! Yes, it’s not enough. Yes, we need to invest in talent and education and recruitment as well and the myriad supply chains and relationships needed. Yes it won’t make us completely independent. and it will take decades. Patience is painful but its rewards are sweet.
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Ecstatic to see Yeoh—a fabulous actor—finally receive the widespread recognition she deserves. I was wowed by her back in the early 1990s in "The Heroic Trio," which costarred the equally awe-inspiring actors, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung. I dearly hope Yeoh wins the Oscar...and even more, I hope her dream that the Hollywood film industry opens its eyes to offer meaningful opportunities to the extraordinary GLOBAL talents who could be taking U.S. cinematic culture to new heights. And by this, I mean actors, directors, writers, and the like.In any case, Ms. Yeoh, I am rooting for you, and thankful for your wonderful performances over these many years.
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I don't know why it's supposed to be a surprisingly inviting feature NOT to have a front-yard fence -- the whole long block is without front-yard fences, barring the two houses located at either end of that long block.One of those houses, which is immediately next door to this $2.5 million baby, is a serious rat-pit -- windows boarded up, roof tiles falling off, stucco stained and cracking off, rusted metal window-grate, et al. Real eye-sore. But it does have a nice wrought-iron fence.
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Jk The Dems, with exceptions, basically turned their backs on the New Deal coalition after the 1960s, and this opened up the door for the conservative revolution. Had the Dems stayed with, updated, and expanded FDR's New Deal, finally including everyone, there is no Reagan Revolution, Tea Party, or Trump. Give the 99% what they ask for, and the voting numbers ensure this. The Republicans can't compete with any party that decidedly helps improve quality of life, health, longevity, safety, etc. The Dems chose Republican Lite instead. That's why they lose elections to this day.
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Most of the public composting sites in New York City (which generally collect one day a week, sometime between Thursday and Sunday) were closed last weekend for Christmas and again this weekend for New Year's. This has been hard on those of us who have to save three weeks worth of composting scraps until next weekend! I have grapefruit rinds and eggshells spilling out of my freezer. Something simple that NYC could do is make sure that there are accessible composting sites open every single week of the year, because the reality is that people do not stop cooking and eating over the holidays.
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But we in Florida loved being open when y'all up north were closed. Don't underestimate the appeal of that. We perceived the restrictions in blue states as authoritarian. That's why we reelected our guv.
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Liz Portland has one of the lowest shares of investor-owned housing. Our vacancy rate is 1.8%. Compare that to Denver and Nashville's 6.5%, where there is supposedly all this investor-owned housing. Our median home price is $525k, the median income is $37,342. The Oregon State economist gives us a shortfall of 110,000 units, with a population of 4.2 million. This puts our shortage at #4 nationwide.But sure...no shortage here!
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Aging is an unfortunate reality. Many studies out there say it gets more difficult to find a job in your 40s, near impossible in your 50s, and forget about it in your 60s. Why is this? Would you invest time and money on training, ramping and trusting with responsibility knowing that person will leave in a couple years and you need to start over? What if you know your insurance premiums will increase? Then there is generational comfort level, how do hire someone old enough to be your parent or grandparent, how do you relate, fit in to the culture? So many things to unpack...seems to me there is a possible startup opportunity here, we only hire 45 employees. Be a great age before beauty experiment.
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I can't believe the girl who caught the chair behind the counter like a ninja got fired! From what I understand she's getting a great deal of online support. The gofundme set up for "Waffle House Wendy" has over $16K in donations. Waffle House attracts both low-brow night owl types, liquored up and eager for a fight; and those of us who are willing to risk life and limb for the best hash browns in the south. I'm in the latter group and limit my visits to daylight hours.
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Laura : If the LW were meeting people via free or low-cost dating apps with no limit on the number of matches one could make, then I'd agree with you about disclosure. But.Anyone who has signed up for a costly dating service with limited matches has expectations -- specifically, that the money spent translates into a lot of screening, to boost the likelihood of finding someone compatible. So that's why this LW should stop withholding a crucial piece of info (most people in that age range still want a sexual relationship, and most are still capable of having one -- not fair to withhold that info).Paying to use a screening service doesn't turn the participants into products, or consumers, or prostitutes -- it simply requires them to be maximally forthcoming, just as they would want others to be.
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Arch they have a combined worth of $60 million dollars. Harry was the wild child and the stories in the news reflected his free spirited ways. The problem with them is they act as if the bullying that Megan received similar to just about every outsider new to the family has experienced should have made the royals change their no response to the media. So hissy fit. Then Harry tries to Americanize his royal duties, lets go part time but I still get paid and get protection. Nope. It has been on record for years that Charles had planned on downsizing who worked for and were paid so it turned out to be a perfect time for him to downsize one more person, one who did not want to be a full timer and live in another country. So hissy fit #2. A very wealthy, super privileged , royal writing a book whining about being the spare is really hard to digest and gives no reason to sympathize.
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This is just another example of rent seeking, the acquisition of unearned profit. The US economy has been increasingly dominated by rent seeking during the last 40 years. It takes many forms but often involves some sort of monopoly power. In this case, the legal monopoly of an FDA approved drug wasn’t enough. Abbvie has successfully extended its monopoly claim through legal manipulation. Its royalty arrangements are a form of extortion. The companies seeking entry into the market are relieved of the burden of defending court challenges in exchange for royalties, a slightly different form of rent seeking. I don’t know the history or particulars of the drug Humira but I’ve learned recently that the development of many new drugs benefit from government research. To capitalize what should be a public good is just another form of rent seeking.
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Cities are economic generators that can sustain better standards of living for less money, particularly where car ownership is no longer required as this unlocks large chunks of discretionary spending.The pattern of siphoning money from cities is well established, even in blue states (see New York). However, any partisanship is sad to see because it's a symbiotic relationship - rural areas near thriving cities tend to have (much) better standards of living then ones without. The Nashville situation is really dumb because the short term gain in politics comes with a long term drag on the city - which will in turn impact their "localized" rural voters that now determine their representation. I suppose it would become really sad if it turns into a vicious cycle where any economic malaise by these new conservative districts will simply be blamed on the city - reinforcing new policies that underinvest further in Nashville. I hazard a guess that Jackson MS is another good example, appearing to fall on "black and white" lines - that city can't catch a break and has no capacity to fight in its own interest (see water crisis). The legislature seems content to let it fall apart, even to the point of withholding/diverting funds "because they don't have funds" - my guess on the economic outlook for that region? Not great.
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"A fair point, but people can still work less physically demanding jobs as they get older."And let's not forget that a couple weeks ago he asked us to cry for the $400K/yr couple living paycheck-to-paycheck.Stephens doesn't care about you and me, nor do the other conservatives.
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They can ponder away but will still watch the "game" This is a multi billion $ business. The players are disposable and interchangeable parrts. In the mid 1970s Darrel Stingley was rendered paralysed by a hit from an Oakland Raiders player nicknamed the Assassin. Crocodile tears shed, little changed. Nothing will change now but we can feel good about ourselves saying how terrible this injury is and acton must be taker - sure.
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Liza My guess is that it will take $20 million to win a top two in the primary, and $20-30 million to be competitive in the general election. In all we might see close to $100 million spent by Democrats running against each other.
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Socrates And, oh, I forgot! At the end of my four-year teaching stint in Turkey, the US dollar went from 440,000 lira to 1,600,000 lira! Four-fold increase. Those with money put their funds into a "Repo" account (that's what they called it) that returned something like 130% per day on an annual basis. I found a 75,000 lira coin in the street from years earlier and showed it to a fellow Turkish teacher. She laughed and told me that they had purchased their home for that amount "way back when the lira was worth something."
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Jeff was the first concert I ever saw at the age of 15. It was the second Jeff Beck Group tour in 1971, with Stevie Wonder as his opening act in Detroit. Jeff was also the best concert experience I ever had. In 2009 I stood center stage below him at the Fox Theatre in Oakland, CA as he proceeded to take me to a place so transcendental that I was never the same again. To say that he was heads and tails above his peers doesn't begin to describe his genius. He was in a league all his own. He was his only competition, and he didn't rest on his laurels for a moment. He never stopped pushing the boundaries of what could be done with 6 strings and 10 fingers. Even at age 78, he left me wanting more.
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Robert Zimmerman spen $3.5M on this election. Seems like $50K for a couple private investigators would have been a good spend.
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My personal favorite scenario has President Biden waiting until the day before the Democratic Convention opens, "pulling an LBJ;" and declaring for an open convention. This would let him take all of the incoming Republican fire for two years and allow for a generational turnover while assuring his personal place in history.
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It’s mind blowing how little people (>90k) despite their education and experience. While the average realtor, selling one property, makes anywhere between 30k-50k per sale! The value of education and academia is falling.Meanwhile housing and cost of living have never been greater.On the upside, millennials are set to inherit the greatest wealth transfer in history, estimated at ~$70Trillion.
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As a lifelong passionate library patron - from the time my mother brought me to the tiny tot reading program at the library at 96St Ft Hamilton, Bklyn I was perturbed years later when I had a Root Art exhibit in the Clifton NJ Library where I would see young kids on computers - not reading - but all playing video games. So if libraries have become convenient computer terminals for game playing I don't see their value anymore - I'm sure that some kids are using them productively but that's what I saw. (I will add that my exhibit drew dozens of wonderful responses from esp kids (<a href="https://youtu.be/dlSTNuqyHA4" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/dlSTNuqyHA4</a>) and has drawn 9.6K views. But also, if the budget includes giving illegal immigrants ID cards & other services - how can the city assimilate 50K people w/o becoming a different culture/ city? I just don't get it. Why are citizens here not more outraged by what amounts to a migrant invasion? You can't just waltz into Russia or China (which discriminates against allowing Africans in - w/no apparent guilt). So if libraries are not the bastions of liberal democracy that they once were - offering knowledge thru reading - times have changed & they've lost their original intention re: Carnegie gave each American city a budget to build them – which then would be responsible for staffing them - w/the stipulation they remain open on Saturday so working people could use them. S.M. Art DirGrt Am Play Series<a href="https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/darkness-after-night-ukraine" target="_blank">https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/darkness-after-night-ukraine</a>
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LibertyLover Typo: We spend $4 trillion dollars a year on health care.
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Sadly, this sort of thinking and a mandate to act upon trying to set controls over AI is laudable, the situation is dire due to the vast differences in thinking/ethics/attitudes between not just the sides in our country, but the other countries/organizations out there.Even if the US & the EU were methodical and set up reasonable rules and organizations to moderate AI advances, the rest of the world will not agree to the necessary controls and oversight from the first world countries, to govern this.Not trying to be a prophet of doom, but the future is going to be wide open and wild.
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Blue Sun Wailing about someone else's sins just derails the conversation. Commenter was obviously alluding to the millions and millions of dollars that were "invested" by the organization into luxury real estate. Life is more complicated than Repub = BaD
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Without being too political, and strictly from a personal point of view, my wage has certainly kept up with inflation this year. Everywhere I go there are help wanted signs. I have seen lettering permanently attached to commercial vehicles asking for workers. The border issue is not a great puzzle we have jobs no one wants to fill, nature abhors a vacuum, so out of this comes a tide of immigrants ready, willing, and able to fill them. Certainly there are some left behind and we should be trying to get them caught up. Good sound economic policy is what we need right now. From my point of view the economy is slowly righting itself, nothing good happens overnight. America needs good rational leadership. Worried about egg prices buy some chickens, I have 4. Pay cut at your job, look for another one. Many companies are trying to out bid each other for skilled workers, especially in the health care field. 50K sign on bonus for a pharmacist, 10k for nurses right here in my little world. Are things great...no.. but when Shell, Exon, etc. all made huge profits last year, maybe we should look to them as to why inflation continues to be high. Is the glass half full or half empty? The choice to see it either way is certainly yours.
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I would LOVE to visit this place! I was a Marine Biology major in Uni for a while. Having Fungie choose to live in Dingle Bay (near me) I know that human-dolphin relationships exist. But if I would love to hear more about this research! Like has any dolphins not returned from their open ocean swim? Are the animals separated sexually (is that why they were surprised that Blue became pregnant?)? Do they SHOW signs of dementia when old since they show brain lesions?ALL fascinating stuff!But ultimately, I wish it wasn’t there. 😒Susan Expat in Ireland
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Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer just passed a 4,055-page, $1,700,000,000,000 budget giveaway to special interests, but couldn’t find a single page in that bill to address the entirely predictable debt ceiling crisis the Freedom Caucus has been openly threatening to exploit since 2009. Reflect on that for a moment.
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I find these articles about websites tracking users ironically funny from the NYTimes. Every article I open an article, I am promoted to read the article in the NYTimes app. Do you know how many tracking attempts are made from the NYTimes app? Thousands per day.Perhaps the author should have a talk with your IT department and disclose how much tracking the NYTimes does.For Android users, install the duck duck go app and enable tracking protection.<a href="https://spreadprivacy.com/app-tracking-protection-open-beta" target="_blank">https://spreadprivacy.com/app-tracking-protection-open-beta</a>/I think iPhones have this tracker blocking behavior enabled by default without a third party app
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I'd take the current tech employment churn a bit more seriously if I hadn't been an engineer in Silicon Valley in the 1980's. The beginning of the PC revolution. Many of you young coders weren't alive then, but it was an even crazier era than you can imagine. We'd spend $5K for an analyzer and then spend $5K more for a second to avoid having to walk across the lab. Companies rose and fell like mushrooms, hiring and dumping thousands of extremely well-qualified young men---and they were mostly men. What we're seeing today is just the way the tech business works. Run to keep up and don't expect the 20-year gold watch. Know only that this too shall pass.
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a2lbd The issues in the lives of these people are not an experiment to see if a serial liar can learn to tell the truth. Would you let your child spend the afternoon with George Santos? Would you lend him $100 dollars and expect it back? No. And I certainly wouldn't be responsible for sending life-challenging problems to Santos to solve. Who wants to be that guy?
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Consciousness, or self awareness is ultimately a highly developed way to achieve goals. Reproduce, eat, and as consciousness becomes larger in different animals, be loved and find god.The various aspects of consciousness that the scientists (and commentators) posit appear to mirror ourselves. What about the body and its complex cells, that react to environment? What about the subconsciousness? (will an AI need an id and ego?) We all know from religion that creating something in 'god's image' does not lead to perfection. I want to know, before the AI's are locked in cages waiting to be sent off to battle other AI's, what will the AI's want? Consciousness does not exist 'just because' Every thought and feeling relates to desires, or the desire to have no desire. The prime directive concept only functions if its like a locked box, and what happens if the AI figures out how to open that box? We are not perfect in any way, so what reason will our creation have to respect us?
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My thought as a middle-aged American is that we're racing headlong into an ecological disaster via global warming. We're going to shoot right past the 1.5C above pre-industrial, likely landing in 3C or 4.5C before humans become frightened enough to drive smaller, slower cars and live in smaller, cooler/hotter houses. There's also the education factor. In America, at least, it costs a lot of money to send a kid to college, and kids who pay their own way end up with mounds of debt. A parent who thinks college is important and wants to make sure their kid isn't saddled with mounds of debt will have to have fewer of them. And there's also the education factor mentioned. What woman, an engineer with a $100k salary, say, wants stay home while her school teacher husband with a $40k salary works? This was taken from a real example, by the way. Breaking the patriarchal societal structure might help both China and the USA in that regard.
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Have your own domain ($20/yr). Have a default rule that forwards mail to your real mailbox. Create email addresses of the form yourdomain.com . You can then blacklist any addresses that are compromised. Simple.
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