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Wow. What a feat (foot?) to have a 13D puzzle published on a 13D date! That took some whale-oiled planning.The only thing that made me happier than solving this beautifully orca-strated puzzle was the fairly shameless Constructor's notes which had me blubbering in no time flat. That only happens when everything's done Wright.And speaking of SEAL ADDERS<a href="https://images.app.goo.gl/ZFUtz9Vbdn1hkToq7" target="_blank">https://images.app.goo.gl/ZFUtz9Vbdn1hkToq7</a>I tried to find a SEAL using an abacus, but this is as close as I came. The one on the left could be a malformed pinniped, but I would swear. Also, they're carved in ivory, sadly not in amber gree.....n[Excuse that, I had to try working that in; hope nobody will harp oon it]Now that we're all done with cracked MIR//RORs and BLACK CATs WALKing under LADDERs, can someone lend me a spill of salt?.................................PS: Deb, love your mechanical spoon. I have a friend who wanted a partner for his electric knife, and made the first electric fork.
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Charles open your eyes. Trump was always a means to end not an end in itself.Read Fred C Koch wikipedia entry. Koch who co-founded the John Birch Society. All I hear is Nixon threw him out but history tells us the rest of the story.Nixon lost California and Reagan welcomed them back in and what's the matter with Kansas is the matter with all of America.The Right to work is the right to own slaves.
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Kurt Pickard Yes, but this decline hasn't happened in 40 years and it is the beginning of a negative exponential decline. If it continues, manufacturing investments in China will decline quickly because labor costs will no longer be low.
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I've been spending 5 or more dollars on a dozen eggs for years because I don't buy the eggs from awful factory farms. I have little sympathy for people whining that they can't get eggs for 11 cents an egg anymore. It was never sustainable.
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Every piece of fundamental tech in your iPhone was developed over decades funded by tax payers.Most scientific breakthroughs are developed over decades & decades of research, failure, more research, a bit of luck, more testing, more research, more failure, more testing etc etcAll funded by tax payers.We (through our gathering together of our tax funds) provide the resources needed for the very, very high risk research (for-profit companies will not and cannot do) necessary to eventually become a "break through."Tax payers' ROI (return on our investment) comes through the innovations produced &through the tax revenue these private companies (that rely on out tax funded efforts) pay back to us.Their return to us via tax revenue (& reasonably priced products & services) is pooled with our tax payments to continue this very, very high risk research cycle.But some execs have forgotten that the taxes their companies (& they) pay are, in part, a return to us as investors (ie tax payers). They call their ROI (tax payments) to us, their funders, a "burden." & convince themselves,their successors, & the public that taxes are a drain, not a source of investment that they, & we, rely on to function.Ex. The "Moderna" vaccine is really the NIH-Moderna vaccine.It was development based on decades of taxpayer funded univ research & then developed in partnership with our NIH. By not acknowledging tax payers as vital investors in fundamental R&D, execs are playing jenga.
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Elon slashed Tesla prices. Model 3 is actually now $45K still higher than $35K “he promised.” I canceled my Model Y reservation. No Maga Y or extremist Elon for me. FSD really is a fraud. It’s was offered 2 years ago at $15K and recently available now. Elon faked the FSD prototype on 2016 video. The cameras have 3D mapping limitations. So phantom breaking, lane changing as well as FSD major issues are still prevalent. I don’t care for the poor fit/finish, spartan interior and plastic seats. I’m willing to wait for a near future EV.
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ESP it would depend on whether the hearings are closed door or open to the general public. If they're conducted in a closed hearing, the senate won't be privy to any reports until they're released at the conclusion of the process, but working documents likely won't ever be released. If they're open to the public, then any senators can sit in and take detailed notes, or delegate such task to a staffer/intern. I doubt the hearings will be a scripted affair that's broadcast live on national television.
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When I walk down the street or into a store, I always wonder, who in the crowds around me has a gun? What might trigger them to use it? Being jostled? An argument? A few nasty words? Or just sudden fear?A society saturated with guns cannot claim to be a civil society. A skein of fear lies on every public place. In the cynical majesty of its wisdom, the Supreme Court has enabled states to pass laws allowing anyone to tout a gun, but bars weapons from its chambers. Guns for thee, but not for me, seems to be their motto.The Second Amendment was written to provide states with a ready militia to put down slave revolts. Now that we have no slavery, it has no purpose. It is as antiquated as the amendment that forbids the government from quartering soldiers in private homes.The Court should have eviscerated it. Instead, bowing to the mob of killers and the gun industry, it has opened it up till there are almost no restrictions on guns. And so people die, every day, in publicized mass shootings or invisibly, at home, at the hands of an enraged partner or drunk visitor. Who’s next?
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mary bardmess If Zelensky had any true allies in the US, he wouldn't be spending tens of millions of dollars on K street lobbying firms and PR.
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Lewis Dalven Hmmm. Did you read the article? "Mr. McGonigal, while working for the bureau and after he retired, concealed from the F.B.I. a relationship with a former Albanian intelligence officer from whom he received $225,000 in cash. That person became an F.B.I. source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying that Mr. McGonigal supervised, the Justice Department said in a statement." 200.000 greenbacks is a lot for "by association only."
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A Canuck Excellent comment that perfectly encapsulates what I was thinking.Would like to add that the waste of resources to produce some of the junk coming out of China is a shame.The microwave I bought last year was nothing but a disaster and I hear so many saying the same. That little short window for warranties is really a warranty for the company's continued protection for building such trash.Bottom line, so many of their small appliances fail that I consider it a business model and decided to buy an older, gently used appliance, that had a good reputation.I wonder if we will ever again value and produce the excellent build quality we've had in the past. It was always a capitalist abberation to make China the manufacturing floor of the world. What a failure our leaders have been just as it is now apparent to the world that China's leaders are failures too and that China will never be a reliable trading partner nor a partner in keeping the international peace.It's long past time to reveal the true face of China as controlled by the CCP and stop fantasizing about cheap labor and huge markets as if the world were on one ideological page.
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I'm surprised that "Six" was overlooked, if only for the unusual recording of the NY cast. Perhaps because it was a 2021 show (though the album was not released until 2022)? For some reason, the producers of "Six" decided to record the opening night performance in NY live rather than record the album in a studio. And the recording has all the flaws you find in live performances. While you may hear these flaws when attending in person, they are fleeting moments; many in the audience don't notice or don't care.But with a recording, the flaws are there forever. I still cringe when I hear a clinker in the opening number of the OBC album for "Company." The NY recording of "Six" does not compare favorably with its West End cousin, I'm afraid, due to these flaws.
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I'm sure that the kid driving an $80,000 Audi, and earning 500k a year in sponsorship deals, and waiting to make mega-millions in the NBA is studying hard to pass his classes. Not. Tutors doing their homework, joke classes, professors (nudge nudge, wink wink) giving unwarranted Cs so that the star can play the next game.How is that fair to the college kid who got a scholarship and has to work his tail off to get a good grade, just because he is an average player on a college team that is not so prominent?Paying college kids to play sports defeats the entire spirit of 'amateur athlete'. A scholarship, when one's peers are paying a ton of money to get their 4-year degree, is enough compensation for playing college sports. Otherwise, colleges should select 'players' to represent the school, and everyone (schools and elite players) can cash in, but then let's quit pretending that there's 'education' in the mix.
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Will Hogan Indeed, this was the goal of the Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (commonly known as the Hatch-Waxman Act). The idea was to create incentives for makers of biosimilars and non-infringing substitute drugs to do the necessary FDA approval work (bioequivalence tests) in exchange for some exclusivity (as the first generic producer) in the market. The patent terms of the original drug manufacturers were also extended to compensate them for time lost while the patent was valid, but the FDA approval not obtained.
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In my experience, Columbia Business School is unwilling to invest the resources to make public interest careers viable. I took a leave of absence from international development to get an MBA. I didn't get a penny in scholarships. After I graduated, I was denied loan forgiveness by the Tamer Center even while my employer was listed in recruiting brochures. The Tamer Center also chose to deny me mentoring when I sought to start my own social enterprise and had achieved some traction. I missed the fine print in the admissions brochure that may have said social enterprise is only for people married to a hedge fund magnate.
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The Prime Directive in America is to "make money!" Or, as they said in the 1920's, "The Business of America is business!" For those in a position to make real money, the Secondary Directive becomes "Funnel the profits up to the top of the food chain, do not pass GO, do not trickle up or down."For those not in a possession to make real money, the mass majority of people who have to trade their time and labor to live each month (the working class without rents to keep their bank accounts afloat), it's humiliating to be caught in early morning traffic while the sun is rising on America. For 150 years, in 16 industrialized countries, those with stocks, bonds, and real estate have been enjoying an average 6.6% return on investments while their economies have grown on average 3.3.%. Wages always lag everything. This according to a recent SF Federal Reserve Bank study. The magic of compound interest, rich marrying rich, and the power that money brings to promote favorable laws, we now have an overbearing oligarchy that runs everything. Is it no wonder that the system is exploding under the weight of "internal contradictions."The game is simple in America, like Monopoly (a game invented to illustrate the ravaged of real estate monopoly): Let's see who ends up with all the money (the top 0.001$) and let's see who ends up poorest (the bottom 80%). Oligarchies still need relatively well-paid servants in the upper middle class and the upper working class.
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I have this uneasy feeling about all this Tec-by-the-train-loads. Seems to me buyers like you 'n me are beginning to get overwhelmed by all new and fancy technology that few really understand and possibly half the population deemed as buyers never really needed to deal with. I think we are seeing a massive revaluation that is now exposed because of rising scarcity of extra 'just for kicks' money'. Much of TV advertising and store openings is not guaranteed to result in rewarding sales when cash get tight. Just go back to where we were 10-20 years ago and you'll find the world will not sink. That appears to be a major reason for new spending with money that was not really available in the first instance.
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A Dreamy Place of Refuge Turns Into Another Spasm of American Violence Officials are still releasing the names of the 11 people killed at a Los Angeles dance club. LOS ANGELES — In the more than two decades since they left China and landed in the vast Southern California suburbs, Jeff and Nancy Liu did almost everything together. That’s where they were on Saturday night as a gunman opened fire on the ballroom dance floor where they were celebrating the new year and enjoying one of their favorite pastimes. Officials are still releasing the names of the 11 people killed at a Los Angeles dance club.
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blackLight True, but we'd pay 10x more for it.
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Bascom Hill What happened to it? That's easy. It didn't trickle! Instead the wealthy held on to the gains gifted to them by Reagan and Thatcher.
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Fabulous, but I'm prejudiced. I don't think any kid in America should graduate high school without being able to swim.For survival, fitness, good looks -- there's no better exercise.Why isn't it happening?Not enough pools and people to run them.They take money, but it's only a pittance.My island has a base serving more than 100 growler jets, loudest plane in the world, which disrupt life for 100 miles around and cost 100 million a piece, then more than $20,000 an hour to operate.Never been used in combat!We can't use them, because we can't afford a hostage situation, like what happened when their predecessor, an A-6, was shot down over Lebanon in, I think, the eighties. It became an international embarrassment and we had to do a lot of groveling before we got the pilots back.A man with a deer rifle can shoot a growler down.One plane costs the equivalent of 100 pools.Converting just a portion of our growler fleet, say 100, (we've mothballed more) we could have, in my old head, 10,000 pools serving 100,000,000 people.Remember when, good Republican president Dwight Eisenhower, winning general in World War 2, warned us that every dollar spent on the military-industrial complex was a dollar stolen from hospitals, schools, parks, etc?I must stop. It's time to swim laps.So many of us, older than Eisenhower ever got, are doing it to stay alive.They say I'm a dreamer, but Imagine how much stronger America would be, with fewer warplanes and more pools.
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If you give me your money, I will give you a piece of paper -- nicely printed and embossed with, gold lettering and perhaps a red seal. I will take that money you gave me, and after paying certain expenses, I will invest it in more paper printed by the government and after paying other expenses, I will return a small amount of the profits of this investment as your remuneration. I will always keep your principal amount so that I can safely return it to you at the end of the investment period. All perfectly safe -- sort of like a bank. You give me money and I give you numbers printed on an electronic leger -- which might disappear sometime in the future. It's all a Ponzi Scheme -- a way of separating a sucker from his money. But if it is authorized and made legal by greedy politicians then who cares about ponzi.
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The cost of the tRump tax cuts was budgeted for $1.5 trillion, but coming in closer to almost $2 trillion.
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I realize this might be a fantastic movie, but I just can't bear watching animals suffer, even in a fiction film.I am a wildlife conservationist, but I can only endure seeing photos or film of suffering or dying animals very sparingly, and only when it's absolutely necessary to understand a certain issue.Otherwise, powerlessness, desperation, anger and depression overwhelm me and compromise my ability to really help these animals.By the way, real donkeys - unlike the fictional one in EO as described by Ms. Dargis' wonderful reviews - would not feel "free" alone in a forest. In reality, they should never live alone (which isn't considered humane), but in a donkey group, and should hardly ever walk on wet ground, because their hooves are made for dry soils like deserts or savanna or plains, and they would also be quite scared in a forest - they like the wide open spaces.And by the way, they should at most carry about 20% of their weight (so a 400lb donkey could carry 80lb in weight - so they should never carry a person heavier than a child).And while we're on the subject, one of the greatest threats to donkeys worldwide is Chinese demand for E Jiao (阿膠, donkey gelatin) for Chinese Medicine, which decimates both domestic and wild donkeys, mainly in Africa, by millions each year, and robs people there of their often beloved pets and pack animals, so that several wild donkey species are already extinct or vulnerable.
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abj slant I don't know what they're saying because no proposal has been put out yet.In any event, I do think we should take stock of our debt when we run up against the ceiling and take some action to put us on a more sustainable path. It also doesn't have to be just a partisan fight. Shouldn't both sides be interested in keeping our debt manageable? It's at 130% of GDP right now, the highest it has ever been, even higher than the WWII high, and unlike the end of WWII with no drop off in spending in sight.I thought the Sequester was a good bipartisan solution that should have forced both parties to the table to agree on less draconian spending and taxing alternatives. I thought Obama's bipartisan deficit commission had some good recommendations.As much as I agree that Republicans will make some unreasonable demands, is it any more reasonable for Democrats to refuse to even have a negotiation?
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Discovered in 1922 by Banting and Best who then sold to the patent to the university of Toronto for they felt costs must be kept low. Nearly 100 years later insulin caravans headed north to buy it at $35.00 Cdn, with no doctors script needed. Of course they voided local inventories so that now one must have a Canadian health card to buy it. US big pharma has toyed with the original formula to get patents for themselves thus the higher, obscene costs in the States
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Interesting moment. Small firm (think restaurants) owners face softer demand and harder employees. They raise prices, hike pay, and lose money. Landlords aren't flexible, banks don't make loans.In a faceless, anonymous economy, businesses close. Owners invest their assets elsewhere. Employees suffer, consumers lack choice. Economists draw lines on chart that show it's an equilibrium.But we're not anonymous. Firms have faces. They belong to communities. Politics matters. Things never equilibrate.Metro gov'ts can restrict commercial rent hikes. They can close streets for special events, provide free advertising. Employees can join to buyout businesses. Local banks can extend loans.Soft landings are hard work.
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RiffRalf I doubt it. Community College can be 12K a year.Should these kids want college, help them complete the universal financial aid form & apply for student loans. Review how much repayment will be everyMonth for 10- 20 years. Pay their loans off 1 year After Graduation. By the they’ll have realized the cost. Suggest read some of the posts at reddit.com r/StudentLoans.The error many years ago was not sitting down with this couple & the 4 of you agreeing to a written contract. Wouldn’t have to belegalize. It would have been a clear understanding of each person’s expectations & responsibilities. When I lived with 3 roommates we did it with chores, shared bills & overnight guests. 30 years later we remain friends.
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Space Needle They had a large round of huge tech acquisitions in 2020, one of them $24B+ for Slack. Likely many of these layoffs are peeling off inherent redundancies.
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Lovetravelling0820NY, NYMy husband, & I live in one of the premier high-rises south of the GWB on Palisade Avenue for 30 years. The walkability factor, as a former NYC gal, is not the NYC minute dash out of my apartment, down the elevator, and around the corner, I agree. I now walk to & from(1) Cafasso's Fairway Market, a fantastic, family-owned fresh produce & fine butcher, (2) steps away from a fun restaurant, It's Greek to Me, &(3) Abbott Blvd, a two-way street wider & greener than NYC Park Avenue, minus the high rises, perfect for power walks. Yes, the GWB traffic can be nightmarish. Options? NY Waterway commuter ferry into town is a civilized option for folks like me who have a hybrid full-time professional working life; & we own 2 cars.We live in a 3 bed, 3 bath hi-rise coop apartment, 2400 square feet w/majestic floor-to-ceiling views of NYC out to JFK facing east & south & the Ramapo Mountains, Giants Stadium to the west. 3 apartments to a floor.Related: A couple recently moved from their UES, PARK AVENUE, NYC coop to our building because the traffic, garbage, & crime "In-town," is uncivilized. They own 1 car. They Uber to & from their 2300 sq ft apartment into town for culture, dining, & best-in-class medical care at world-class teaching hospitals.Air travel? Newark airport vs LaGuardia or JFK? We prefer the 20-minute taxi ride to EWR. Concierge living with a gym, pool, & 2 underground parking spots for under $1 million? A comfortable compromise.
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So long the Montana I know. Hello open carry, unveiled hostility, relentless dark money fueling these political hacks. Take state monies away from public schools and fund 'christian' charter schools. It is the dumbing down of America and coming to your town via the Republicans in office. Pay attention to the House of Representatives. The mantra of the republicans is defund the government (probably until their personal federal entitlements are taken away from them).
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Chris Like making it illegal for Zuckerberg to give $400 million to influence voters? That money?
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I like my tea in leisurely sips, and that’s how I approached this puzzle. I ambled through it, catching sights along the way, like the lovely answers PASS A MILESTONE, BASK, AZURE, and TOO LONG DIDN’T READ (which wasn’t and I did). There was also the EDGE on the low border, and a sizeable animal presence: WAGS and WOOFER, EQUUS, CLAW AT, BABAR, BAT, KOALA, SEAL, and, to hint at all these animals together, FLOOD.Afterward, a leisurely scan caught a backward ALES to go with STEIN, a DIP in the middle to go with a backward SAG, and, with the theme triggering “leaves”, KALE and that eucalyptus-eating KOALA popped out.So, for me, a smooth outing, with lovely sidelights – a tasty Tuesday, and thank you for this, gentlemen!
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Mr. Levin likes to see something good in even quite dangerous situations. I agree, when democracy is under threat, it is better that those arrayed to destroy it do some good along the way than not. But looming over all the details that Mr. Levin appreciates is the fact that the House GOP, as the world-class scholar on tyranny has recently observed, is now clearly a force to end American democracy in favor of an authoritarian regime.I am not sure who is choosing Sam Houston's statue for Opinion pieces in the NY Times on this House GOP, but it remains an apt choice. Mr. Houston was a leader in the violent invasion of a sovereign neighboring nation, taking about 25% of Mexico to become Texas, all towards expanding not just an authoritarian regime, but a slave regime! The House GOP, the entire group, may not be trying to expand slavery like Sam Houston, but they surely are openly committed to classic authoritarian goals: gumming understanding a classic tyrannical coup to end democracy, promoting suppression of voting, an open agenda to end national support for social insurance programs, open support of leading authoritarian regimes (from Putin to Bolsinaro).Our democracy was saved during the Capitol coup, and the recent mid-terms. but those who yearn to kill it remain in power in the US House, our House. It does not good to be grateful for some crumbs of good ideas that come along with their deadly hazards.
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RN here and former Einstein employee-there is no nursing shortage. That’s the propaganda hospital corporations, equity firms and admin have lied about for over 8 years to suck profits back to their shareholders and administration. Nurses have FOR YEARS tried every avenue to make these corporations realize our patients are suffering and that we were too (add in ancillary staff). Instead we see more “managers”, more profits, new buildings, expanded technology, less positive outcomes and MINIMAL competent bedside help. So we left. “Profit” is not a dirty word but “greed” is. And it’s all greed. By the way readers, equity firms are the worst especially in nursing homes. Suggest everyone look at where your IRA money is going and get out of any of those because you are supporting short term greed that will fail financially AND humanity. Nurses demand decent pay (my plumber makes $150/hr and I made $33/hr-more power to the plumber though-and being a mostly male profession isn’t missed on me), mandatory staffing (looking at you CA!), and active participation in policies affecting patients (and getting rid of Medicare’s bloated bureaucratic demands that mandate hiring people on the ground just to justify Medicare jobs such as the Press Ganey). These are demands that can be met right now. Just pay the CEO “only” $3,000,000 a year vs $13,000,000 per annum.
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JorgeBesides the ethical depravity of believing investment income is sacrosanct whereas earned income is not, your comment exposes a myth widely held by relatively trivial investors who watch CNBC and imagine themselves 'players' because they have an Ameritrade account. That myth is that they have a real share of the of the US economy because they own a few equities or bonds either directly or in mutual funds. While I don't have the figure available, the vast majority of such instruments are owned by a handful of plutocrats.
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Much ado about nothing is being made of the fact that the documents were accidentally discovered (and no one was missing them or asking for their return unlike in Trump's case where he was asked for their return for almost a year to no avail) on November second and for two months this was not made public. I seem to remember an obscure law or custom in the DOJ where there is a tacit agreement that no news that could affect the outcome of an impending election will be publicized. Thus, Republican Mr. Comey keept quiet regarding his DOJ's investigation of Mr. Trump so that it would not interfere with his election chances in 2016 while a few days before same election he announced the reopening the investigation on Hillary Clinto-- after he had earlier exonerated her and declined to indict her. Talk about consistency and partisanship!
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Some financial analysts see a return of the bulls, eventually they will be vindicated at some point. Some financial analysts are seeing an extended bear run as markets adjust to a, hopefully, post pandemic world. Extended bear markets also show up from time to time. All analysts are to some extent, fortune tellers, invest accordingly.
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As Garrett M. Graff obscures truth while attempting to discredit a false equivalency, he travels down the usual media woke rabbit hole of disinformation. In going the expected route, the back door swings open to reveal other information.Joe Biden had classified documents in his possession for over six years after holding the office of Vice President. As VP, he had no right to classified documents. He committed a serious crime. A President does have rights to possess classified documents as he is the sole individual who may declassify said documents. Classified documents found at the University of Pennsylvania think tank were discovered and handed over to the National Archives in October without public disclosure until two months after the election in November in obvious collusion with national media directly impacting the election. The extent of the classified material is yet to be revealed. No reason is yet provided for these documents being in the Biden family possession.Further classified documents were uncovered at the Biden residence in Wilmington, Delaware in an unsecured manner in a garage. Again, no mention of the document material or reason for holding them in the garage. Cooperation by Biden was not forthcoming as the classified documents possessed were not voluntarily revealed by President Biden. They were discovered and revealed by staff, otherwise the classified documents would have remained unlawfully in the former Vice President’s possession.
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These firms should never have over-hired in the first place. It's crazy to me that they think they can hire and fire so many people in such a short period of time without a significant negative impact on prospective applicants' views of the firm in the future.I hope the likes of Facebook, which is facing far costlier regulation in the UK, EU, and US crunched their numbers well, because I expect folks burned by this poor management will be hesitant to bother applying to work at these places again.A few high profile "big" law firms are still licking their wounds recruitment-wise from cut-throat layoffs during the great recession. Cooley's recent mass layoffs are likely to have a similar impact on the firm's long-term recruitment prospects.Unlike investment banking, where Goldman Sachs is still the biggest fish, there will be more/new great tech opportunities in the not too distant future. If folks don't think these kinds of mass layoffs, brought on by poor management of over-hiring during a boom time when the bust was readily predictable, will make workers less inclined to work their assess off, employers are in for a rude awakening. Folks 22-35 have already shown themselves unwilling to put up with practices their parents endured. These mass lay-offs will have plenty of consequences for productivity and effort down the line. The prospect of making less money might be better than culling the workers firms will rely in a few years.
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Max Deitenbeck If you knew the emails showed that Hunter got 10's millions, would you opinion change?You will have to go to conservative media, independent media or foreign media to see the paper trail but it's been disclosed to the US Senate. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11361141/Hunter-Biden-uncle-pocketed-huge-sums-11M-venture-Chinese-oil-giant-docs-show.html" target="_blank">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11361141/Hunter-Biden-uncle-pocketed-huge-sums-11M-venture-Chinese-oil-giant-docs-show.html</a>
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Dale In whole-hearted agreement.Commentary on this thread, in its unironic sanctimony, should offer some explanation for the amount of discarded offal in their kitchens. I, for one, have not ever dined in a restaurant of this caliber, but I do not take for granted that the preparation of something so eccentric can simply be done in any corner TGI Friday’s, where unmitigated waste and complete lack of creativity drives eco-crises, not to mention the way they poison their diners, with salt, lard, and sugar..a crime in and of itself (nevermind their efforts to cut costs by using caged, low-cost, mass-agri for the dishes). Oh, and, as someone who’s worked in cheap restaurants, I don’t recall any of them winning awards for their elevated workplace values or treatment of personnel. As far as I can glean, and contrary to the faux -outrage on this thread, it’s not the bussers and dishwashers levying complaints, it’s the entitled, ostensible next-generation of haute cuisine chefs in a rush to open their own Noma. Sorry, not sorry.
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Pippa Does not work if the Fed decides to pursue zero-interest policies for extended periods, as it has over the past 20 years. So savers have had to take on significant risk, not simply "watch compound interest." Cutting actual consumption, foregoing expensive habits, taking jobs even when the salary or wage is less than what you used to earn - all of those things have been required to keep head above water, and even so, not enough in this increasingly not-first-world country we live in.
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Consumer debt stands at $4.7 trillion, the highest amount in history. Corporate balance sheets are in shambles, consumer confidence is at an all time low and the price of a dozen eggs is $7. All sleepy Joe can do is spend money we don't have, and the Democratic controlled Congress avoided doing anything about the looming debt ceiling crisis, instead leaving it for the Republicans to fight over and clean up.
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Mike M. Again, there's plenty of talk about how to generate the necessary electricity to replace fossil fuels by lots of very smart people. If you're legitimately interested, you could check out "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster" by Bill Gates where he addresses a lot of this. Solar and Wind turbines can in theory supply all the power we need. The US already gets 20% of its electricity from renewables. Admittedly, there are problems with renewables, namely intermittency (the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow), and also that places with demand for energy aren't always favorable locations for renewables. There are solutions to these problems, like battery storage (companies like "Form Energy" are working on that) and green hydrogen for long term storage, use as a fuel, and as an energy carrier that can be transported long distances via pipeline from places with lots of sun and wind, to places who need more energy than they can produce (Western Europe). Nuclear power should also be on the table as a carbon neutral alternative, and Bill Gates has invested in "SMR" technology to try to make nuclear safer and easier to deploy. The bottom line is the technology exists to net-zero, it's just a matter of getting to scale, and finding ways to change an economy with a whole lot of inertia for doing things with fossil fuels.
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Had the misfortune of stopping at the newly renovated thruway rest stop at Indian Castle. It is a huge disappointment. There were only 6 stalls in the women's room and fewer in the men's. Barely enough space to even get to the stalls. Lines snaked into the common area. There is little room for the lines waiting for take out food as well. The limited number of tables are immediately as you come into the building, so you have to weave between diners to get to the rest rooms and convenience store beyond. Really really awful. I can't even imagine how long the wait will be when a tour bus or two pull up to use the facilities.So poorly conceived. The buildings being torn down had ample wide open spaces for tables and rows and rows of stalls in the rest rooms. It's the opposite of progress and improvement.
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The story fails to discuss the actual cost of these raspberry shakes seismometers. I looked at their website and the cheapest is about $300 and the most expensive is about $800, although there is a $125 discount for home users and educational users.
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It isn't merely the waiting for her father-in-law to die that makes her life absurd. What exactly is the point of royalty in the 21st century? Does anybody really believe the Windsors are the gene pool that should be any nation's head of state?It then devolves into dressing her up like a Barbie doll, complete with hat and gloves and veil (and those absurd high heels every fashionista has to live in to OPEN A HOSPITAL WING!!!! VISIT A SENIOR CENTER!!! RECITE THE ABCs AT PRESCHOOL!!!! Her future is 50 years of pointless appearances, mountains of unwanted bouquets, and waving inanely as she walks about in stilettos.Ugh.Hilary Mantel got it right about them: they're an exotic species, like pandas kept in the zoo so we can gawk at them.
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I have a small business and some of my best-selling products show up frequently on fake websites.The wholesale costs (what I pay per unit) of the different models can range from $475.00 to over $800.00 each.I laugh out loud at these fake sites when I see them, because the fraud is so obvious—the images of products on the sites are accompanied by pricing that only a greedy fool would believe. Products that routinely sell in the $700.00 to $1,200.00 range are all priced the same at $99.00 per model— free shipping, too!I can sympathize with people wanting a deal, but come on, people! Use your heads!Legitimate sellers will discount, but cannot afford to give their products away. Be suspicious of sales that advertise a 90% discount off of the regular price.And check the site for any customer service information—legitimate sellers will often give you more than one way to contact them.If the deal seems too good to be true, it’s probably a fake.
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Scott E Your definition of AI is totally wrong. Alan Turing himself did NOT support the idea that the Turing Test was a measure of intelligence, and a prevalent criticism is that it is really just a test of how easy it is to fool a human. What you've stated is a watered-down half-truth pushed by 1st-semester Intro to CS professors to make students interested in the Eliza homework assignment (I know this as I TA'ed these classes long ago).The term AI is applied to all sorts of methods well outside of a Turing Test's capabilities, many stated in this very essay by Rep Lieu (eg facial recognition), and many others which he misses, like the IBM Smart City which created its own problems, such as the over-policing of minority neighborhoods.You seem to have missed the whole point of my post being about regulatory bodies. I work actively with both crypto and AI and many other headline technologies as a professional SE, so I am quite well informed - my point was that the society-wide effects of all software is much more important than focusing in on just one sub-sector's methods du jour.And I'm not really sure what your point regarding Microsoft is about, Linux is plenty buggy as are Apple's OSes, but may I suggest reading some EULAs and T&Cs. Software vendors have been avoiding legal liability for decades, which is exactly one of the reasons a regulatory body should exist to establish better standards.
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SC Can anyone control these two? Clearly not. What some will do, or not, for a few $100 million.
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I became a programmer in 1988. There was no email really at the time but it was still chaotic. (Email definitely made it more so.) Administrative staff efficiency was boosted 10x by things like spreadsheets and word processing so they individually became more responsible for a larger number of tasks. BUT each output still had to be verified by hand either by proofreading or checking the math with a hand calculator before it went up the chain to the director. There were way more things to worry about for the average clerk... instead of having one set of numbers with their name on it a day, they had 10... each represented an opportunity for mistakes or failure. Programmers became blue collar workers with production quotas. I went from working on a single project at a time to 4 or 5 simultaneously. In addition to becoming support for all the projects I had completed that were in their implementation phase. The social atmosphere in offices evaporated overnight... there was just more work to do, ironically. Water cooler gab sessions disappeared. People started breaking down on the job and getting clinically symptomatic. One poor woman started obsessively cleaning her work area with bleach any time some stood near her desk. It became an anti-social, zombie world of wide eyed stress victims. Truly horrible. There was no oversight by management as their jobs had not changed that much, remaining outside the digital production loop.
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The Best Plan Ever To Pay The National Debt To 0. Each citizen dig deep and don’t give up till you come up with $100,000 ( garage sales work)( kids as well- lemonade stands)Send the money to Washington D.C. and we’ll all be celebrating a national holiday with fireworks galore.National Debt no more because 300,000,000 x 100,000= 3,000,000,000,000.
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Uh, Trump actually signed a slightly larger relief Bill than Joe Biden did. The two TOGETHER added up to about $4 tril.And I always wonder the same thing: would you have preferred to have a whole lot of people homeless, jobless and hungry? Including very possibly you?
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Kenneth Albert as kids we daily tested the local ice... in our minds, an inch and a half was good enough so long as we roped ourselves together for safety's sake. by the time ice fishermen appeared we knew we'd be playing hockey til spring.western connecticut, c 500' elevation, sometimes had ice by thanksgiving. as i write today there's open water everywhere. disappearing pond ice may not be our climate's most obvious red flag, but surely it's a sign of trouble ahead.
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Bobby Windows 7 is super buggy and has numerous security holes. In this day and age I wouldn't recommend anyone use it for anything - especially not their livelihood. Windows is one of the better companies at providing backward support, or you can consider one of the open Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Rocky, Redhat, Suse, etc).
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It’s not surprising Santos received donations that have little to no paper trail. Since the Citizens United decision the doors have been wide open to dark money and the store to buy political candidates runs 24/7/365. Nor is it surprising that Trump and Biden both mismanaged and had possession of classified documents. Congress provides limited oversight of such matters as it’s too busy playing partisan politics, and raising campaign funds. The entire system is corrupted by money and special interests. Meanwhile the public remains divided by party and the media, and are too distracted or disgusted to do anything about the corruption. It’s a sad state. But it needs to be addressed, which is challenging because the corrupted hold the keys to the jail cell.
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Trader Bob, that's what ALEC's for. It's kind of like financial advisors for household name brand investment firms....they're just "relationship builders" tasked with drawing in clients & their funds. None of those politicians are actually in charge of the meat-grinding details. They just do what the donors want through the real number crunchers--probably with legal degrees as well.
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Al Kilo The FY 2023 Budget for DHS includes $17.5B for border security. That's a lot more than "zero borders." I do find it striking that you are equating desperate migrants seeking a better life with a criminal invasion that has tried to install a puppet regime for Moscow. Russia has bombed apartment buildings, killed many thousands of civilians, tortured captives--and you think that is similar to the situation at our southern border?
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Swimmer While correct on the relationship of refinance appraisal and broker opinions, you are seriously miss-informed on taxable value. Fairly easy in most jurisdictions to compare actual sales price with taxable value in the year of sale. Taxable is usually 15% to 25% lower than actual sales price. Given that the assessor uses sales data from 2021 to calculate assessments in 2022 for taxable values payable in 2023, the assessment nearly always has to lag current values. The real scandal in assessed values is that the tax values for lower value properties is usually closer to reality (due to more transactions) than for higher valued properties (fewer transactions of comparable properties and more willingness of higher net worth owners to challenge the assessment).
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A restaurant pulling this 'switching bottles' trick on their patrons is skating on thin ice. I'd never accept a bottle that was already opened outside of my view - and if they show you an unopened bottle... then take it away and bring you back an opened bottle 5 minutes later, this is also a suspicious sign. The best thing to do is if you approve the unopened bottle then they start to walk away with it, shout for them to bring it back - then pen your initial (ideally with a colorful thick marker you carry with you to fancy restaurants for this purpose) largely on the front label to ensure that this is the same bottle they bring back to you afterwards...
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In some ways management has been hoping for a recession, they don't like job markets where employees actually have power and they have to compete when hiring good employees. For years, management was in control, with wages going up typically 2%. Suddenly labor markets became tight, and businesses had to compete for workers. Places that thought min wage would last forever, suddenly had to pay more. Working from home in most companies either was something you could do occasionally or maybe 1 day a week. The pandemic proved you could work remotely, but management wasn't happy, I can guarantee you that. The thing the people who thought they could work in a cabin or in some small city forgot is that they can hire the same people in India for like 30% of the salary, so if it is remote only, why hire here? They are using this to get people into the office, that is not speculation, it is fact.One of the reasons the GOP is looking to slash SS and Medicare isn't budget reduction, it is that businesses want people working longer, so they have a bigger pool of labor. This isn't so much skilled jobs, but rather it is in the service sector, where older workers could help provide a large labor pool they can use to keep down wages, if you can't retire until 70 or more.The days of employee power are swinging back towards management, and of course the scummy "activist investors" who have no care except 20% returns.
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John Actually, the fact that foreigners own about $10 Triillion of the $31.4 Trillion debt (about 32%) says to me that those foreigners want to be sure the US dollar is an international standard, and remains so, in order to make sure their assets represented by the debt that they own remains valuable.If the dollar went to mush, that $10 Trillion would be worth a lot less on the open market.By internationalizing ownership of the debt, we STRENGTHEN the value of the dollar, because nobody would want to be paid back in Monopoly dollars (specially the pink and the orange ones), right?In addition, if you own a trillion in US debt, you are not going to be able to dump it all without harming the value of your asset in the process.
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Glider $31 Trillion is approximately $100,000 per capita, which includes children and nonworking adults.
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Blue Moon I agree. Laws need to be upheld in order to have a productive society. We cannot choose laws like items on an all you can eat buffet, based off what flavor we like. Our boarders should be open, to those willing to come here legally. We cannot enforce our laws, if a large portion of our population does not have a legal identity. We do no favors to immigrants when we allow them to come illegally, they will have fewer opportunities for education and meaningful employment, and never able to fully assimilate into our culture. We also commit a great disservice to those who have travailed to come here legally, putting there efforts at naught.I'm all for reforming the process of citizenship, but not for abandoning it all together.
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Christopher Wray and the FBI is taking the right approach on this disturbing matter.. the fact that harassment charges have been laid against Chinese operatives working out of these police "service centres" clearly demonstrates the ulterior motives behind them. Western democracies allowing these so-called "service centres" within their own borders are in effect compromising their own sovereignty while enabling the CCP to extend its influence and oppression beyond Sino borders. These "service centres" should be shut down immediately and any such "services" restricted to that provided by conventional embassies/consulates as per internationally recognized norms.
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Did he sell them to the Saudis for $2b?
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Tobi Move east ... we have many and covid opened spaces. I have an older friend who was able to have his pick and get it early do to openings and income
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As a researcher, I've worked with different models using different approaches. I've dealt with conflicting euthanasia ways that did not seem humane then. However, as students we are shown no other alternative. The majority of the research community appears to be desensitized, as I was, like in any other profession. Personally, I hope for newer technologies that can substitute the use of mammals of any kind, but that's not our reality. Our reality seems to be the need to catch up with Nature's fast evolution of organisms and other harmful sources to our fragile simplistic human ways. Perhaps if we learned to better predict the reaction to our actions, but instead, we are continuously developing new ways in which we do not understand the consequences. Then Nature strikes again. In a ripple effect of unknown factors, humans are failing themselves and (for a long time) other species. I'm just glad I no longer work with mammalian research. Because as fascinating as it was, I never forgot opening the double doors to the basement floor of a renowed University and hearing for the first time barks, meows, and other types of living cries for help.It is a very difficult conversation. Where animal rights should be applied, in a society of endless consumption of animal products? If animal rights are to be applied in one area, why not in all?! Against the exploitation of meat, and by products, in pet stores... I say go against the big guys too! Research is only part a BIG issue.
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There is a simple way to cure this... but first Congress needs a spine transplant and to remember that it works *for* citizens, not *on* citizens.Patent reform would work like this:- Manufacturing patents continue to enjoy 20 years of non-extendable, non-variable protection.- Drug patents get 10 years of protection with an additional 10 years available at a 50% excise tax rate based on the sale price. No loopholes, no deductions.- Software and design patents would get 5 years with an additional 5 available at the 50% excise tax rate. Value would be determined by a 3rd party.IP abuse is rampant and drains capital from society. The system is working against society's interests. It may kill off a few global pharmaceutical companies, but frankly that has value by itself.
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I see it all the time - these people get laid off from the big software companies and they expect to get $350,000 per year just to be a UI developer and no company in the real world is paying 1/2 that right now. These people are in for a long period of unemployment because of the fantasy wages that took hold in the pandemic.
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Lurking at the bottom of all these problems are the uppity women who won't settle for what Ross thinks is their ideal role in society. The fact is, there is no longer room for a large middle class in our economy. Meritocracy, which opened the door to people who had not been allowed in professional jobs, has become a cruel means of culling the herd. Now, one's "merit" is no longer settled by credentials and achievements. One has to continually prove that they are worthy. The cut throat competition falls on recent arrivals (women and minorities) a lot harder, but everyone except the the 1% is adversely affected. And the effect will trickle down to all jobs eventually, except those that manage to unionize as many young people working for Starbucks and Amazon have realized.And now, there's the Dobbs decision, which is designed to impose the Vatican's view of personal autonomy for women: no birth control, no abortion exceptions (there may be nominal exceptions for life and health of the mother, but good luck if nave a miscarriage). Attacks on reproductive freedom used to affect mostly poor and minority women. Dobbs is designed to force all women to breed and give up their economic independence. Millions of young women are now dropping out of the fight with the anti choicers altogether. They are opting for sterilization.In a way, we should be in awe. Between them, exploitative employers and the clergy have managed to ensure that we never see the replacement rate again.
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Boreal I just started Metformin about 6 weeks ago, though I had to pause because of a bout of Covid. I'm definitely less hungry. It just doesn't occur to me to eat. I already ate low carb. It just wasn't low enough and my genetics are terrible. Even slim relatives on my mother's side ended up with diabetes eventually.And cheap is an understatement. $1 a month with my insurance. Actually, I'm not even sure if the insurance is paying anything. Sure beats the hundreds of dollars a month on the new drugs.
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If you look at population growth, the three leading states for population growth are Florida, Texas and South Carolina. At least in Texas, we're getting young professionals, with an average age of 32. They are attracted by affordable housing, public schools that are open and low taxes. New York and California are wonderful if you are very wealthy or a civil servant. The benefits for the poor are more generous. It is just a problem if you are middle class.
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Sorry in advance if this sounds like something from the Bronze Age, but in the mid-1980s I worked in the semiconductor industry. The company had an extended contraction in orders and we had to tighten our belts. We had an all-hands meeting and were offered these options: a ten percent cut in personnel or a 10% cut in our wages. It was a no brainer; we took the wage cut.
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You write --- "Much of the state's economy is powered by agriculture in the Central Valley.." You didn't do your research. Or you have a unique view of the word "much".Agriculture in California contributes roughly $50 billion per year to California's GDP.California's total GDP is $3,500 billion.Agriculture is only 1.5% of the California economy. Hardly "much" of the state's economy.By the way, 80% of California's water is used for agriculture. Largely to grow alfalfa, which is used for dairy cows to make milk that is subsidized by the federal government. This is done on industrial farms that have herds that are ten times the size of the average US dairy farm.So 80% of our water is used to generate a tiny 1.5% of our economy.Go figure.
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California spent its infrastructure money on a 1.7 mile, two billion dollar, subway to nowhere in San Francisco and a $200 billion high speed rail boondoggle when drainage would have been a smarter investment.
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This story assumes as truth the narratives provided by Hunter Biden's family and friends and lawyers. At every juncture, it gives Hunter and the president the benefit of the doubt. Why didn't the story look more closely into the $2 million loan Hunter got from a friend? Not many people hand out millions of dollars to a guy who says he is in recovery from crack and alcohol addiction. How is Hunter Biden paying for his very expensive lawyers?
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The last time they did this and just got near the default date, the global markets crashed and the banks permanently raised the interest rates they charged the US government. Those rate increases were permanent and they have cost the taxpayers $19 Billion a year in increased interest risk costs that they otherwise would not have to pay. A second visit to default land will create an even greater premium in interest that the tax payers will have to pay. And of course these additional costs are from situations where a default never occurred. If the country defaults, even for one day, the global financial system will crash as all debt instruments will have to be restructured. The economy will go into a depression, unemployment will skyrocket, and the government will be blocked in taking corrective measures since they would all increase the debt ceiling. While this calamity will create an apocalypse that will cripple the economy for a decade, the Freedom Caucus, which is funded by dark money, will be dancing in the streets. They will blame the pain on the Democrats and get even more votes to do even more damage. These guys are revolutionaries who know how to play the game.
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The title of this article misleadingly uses the word "robots." In fact, no robots make an appearance in this article. Only "bots."Robots sense their environments and perform physical actions, to move themselves or change the state of the world. "Bots," like the ones discussed in this article, face none of the sensing, actuation, and control challenges of robots. The problem of embodied intelligence is much harder than text or image generation, and we have a long way to go to approach human flexibility and capability along nearly every dimension. OpenAI actually once worked on robotics before abandoning it for easier projects like ChatGPT and DALL-E.
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Capturing images that can't be controlled is one way to make certain our future, prospective employers will be able to see our juvenile selves. There is very little we will be able to conceal, from a time when we were incapable of regulating our forward-facing behaviors. This is a new way of marginalizing ordinary, peripheral people and ensuring they will say in their class and status lanes, forever. With no more anonymous internet presence, we will not be permitted by our digital dossier to change ourselves for the better.These technologies are a form of addictive, psychological warfare on us by Wall Street. They sail through a gaping loophole in our laws. While we can regulate cigarettes because they cause cancer and death, the surge in suicides and mental illness attributable to these technologies is a problem we cannot regulate under our present legal system. They are a significant national security weakness as well. Wall Street is grinding up people and feeding them into a profit machine, no less dangerous than two billion cigarettes rolling off the assembly line every day in 1975. we lose our precious time forever, all we have to invest, while Wall Street rakes in hundreds of billions of dollars from our content.
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Bought myself an Elektra and a ceramic grinder. Expensive but a couple of decades later with all my coffee ( Americanos made with fair trade locally roasted espresso) made at home, except when travelling: I know I have saved a fortune. It's a privilege to be able to buy good equipment, and I know I am fortunate, but having invested I can now support small farmers ( the stewardship of their land) , the local roaster who works directly with cooperatives. I'm not drinking inferior coffee or consuming packaging. No coffee on the run requires some organization, but the taste is so much better, enhanced (in my enjoyment) knowing I am closer to the producer not a middleman. By my calculations, each cup of coffee costs me less than 50 cents. At 3-4 cups per day, I am spending between $550 and $700/year ( plus electricity). If I had gone to Starbucks or an independent, that Americano would be between $2.50 and $3. I would have spent around $2700 ($2.50) for only 3 cups per day. The Elektra has paid for itself many times over!
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Bill White While I agree the US needs to incentivize more STEM study and curricula, you seem not to be aware that mainland China has the least number of college and high-school graduates as a percentage of the population than any other major developed country. It's actually quite the problem over there; how wildly uneducated the majority of the populace is!In fact, it's why many economists are sure China is condemned to a systemic "middle income trap", regardless of what they do now to course-correct. For the CCP never invested in widespread education... and now they won't have a populace able to engage in the "critical-thinking" necessary for wide-scale complex innovations; especially now that Biden has pulled the rug out from their free-riding on the american and western IP underlying their semiconductor value chains. Check out "Invisible China" by Scott Rozelle if you doubt the scope and scale of the problem I'm suggesting here.600 million rural Chinese make less than $140 a month... and there's no conceivable growth model that will ever pull them out of their poverty, now, unfortunately.It's quite possible that China's best days are already behind them.
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I'm sure Liberty University, Notre Dame etc. (Not to mention the MILLIONS Joel Osteen received in PPP Loans) don't take, nor request, a dime of Public Money. Sure....
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The US has the highest incarceration rate in the world ,by far.8 times superior to the EU average.8 times more US citizens in jail.For one prison in the EU there are 8 prisons with same population in the USA .And the USA has also 8 times more violent crime per capita .All the results of the US economy distribution.But what is avoided in the analysis also is that this extremely high social control and incarceration costs 200 biliion dollars per year .1/4th of the US military budget .The US has 750 citizens in jail per 100 000.By comparison the average in the EU : France, Italy or Germany is 80/ 100 K pop in jail.And 350 to 400 / 100 K pop in Russia.If this money was invested in Education and social services instead of jails and crime ,the result in social evolution would be extremely decisive.
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vishmael Nice find~ My grandmother hid $10,000 in small bills in her accordion, which wasn't noticed until my mother and brother were arguing over who would take it, and it dropped to the floor with bills spilling out all over.
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This penetrates the depths of my heart. I recently met a "rough sleeper" at my PT sessions. He is a lovely man and we had some interesting conversations. I realized that as the weather began to get cold, he didn't have adequate clothing. I bought everything I could think that he might need ("blanket-coat", warm jacket, hat, socks, rubber boots, gloves -- and what he dearly wanted: an umbrella. I would never have thought of that.) I knew we would reach 5 degrees counting the windchill factor over the days before, during, and after Christmas. My daughter was uncomfortable with a strange man staying with us, so I got him a room at a (surprisingly) immaculate Extended Stay hotel. It had a full kitchen so we went grocery shopping. He was in heaven! I bought him two bags of oranges. He's still there -- and just bought himself a third! I don't know what to do, once he has to leave the hotel. I am not well, can't drive, and don't know where to turn. He has two sisters, but they have no contact with him. He only became homeless after his parents died 2-1/2 years ago. We can share an occasional lunch. But he LONGS for a "QUIET" place to stay. He told me yesterday that "solitude is the best part of this whole thing." Knowing someone personally who is in his position has opened my eyes. I have bought gloves and socks for 48 people; and "blanket-coats" + thermos bottles for five. But it's not enough. I don't know what else to do.
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I am absolutely shocked at these prices. I knew about the extreme cost of housing in NYC. But $7 for a gallon of milk? $10 for a carton of eggs? There are a lot of lovely places to live in this country that are much, much more affordable.
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I don't claim to have the answers on how to fix this or rein it in, but I do know that it will not end well. The term "student-athlete" has always been a misnomer but now it's out in the open and there is a bridge salary for elite athletes that used to attend these schools simply because it upped their chances of cashing a huge check 2-3 years down the road. No mention of academics or anything. While I did find the comparison to the field hockey player very interesting, you could've also investigated how some of the female athletes have to become sex symbols/influencers for their NIL checks. One LSU gymnast comes to mind. It's not lost on me that I would have no idea who she was if I didn't read an article about how her "fans" disrupted one of her meets and the school had to hire extra security.
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A-List & Companion Pass level stranded over Christmas- 4 days at a Marriott, a rental car to another city and last minute tickets on American Airlines to finally get home. Add in meals & about 10 wasted Uber rides to & from the airport and we're well into the $1,000s at this point.We shall see what Southwest wants to do to keep this customer.
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Some professors may orient their teaching to the highest performing students but not all do. I didn’t. The essay captured something really true, I think. Inquisitiveness and openness to new ideas are essential ingredients to a rewarding college education. Happily, no matter what their skills, ambitions or preoccupations, many college students possess these qualities. It is part of what makes teaching them such a pleasure.
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Nigel Gould-Davies editorializes from the points of view of the rulers rather than the people with lives and welfare at risk.Expanding and intesifying the Ukraine War increases risk. We have already read about more violence with the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, releasing a large methane cloud, an equivalent of 7.5 million tons of CO2 -- global heating as a weapon. Investigators narrowed perpetrators to state terrorists, government sabotaging humanity.This theme, evident in history, is obvious in the worsening food crisis.This war is a dispute over 'who rules who,' the same conflict of the Mexican-American War, the Israeli-Arab wars, the Vietnam War, two world wars, etc.In his Third Temptation, Jesus rejected the lure of evil, rejecting ruling others. This evil is difficult to resist for many, and some spend their whole lives seeking it.The evil-doers gave humanity wars and conflicts that cost hundreds of millions of lives, and, we rationally expect, will take more lives until we firmly, forcefully and effectively persuade would be rulers to accept running their own lives, while leaving others to run theirs as they believe best for them.Equality can be so difficult for rulers to accept, especially once accustomed to their superior position, hobnobbing with the one-percenters; when alternatives are a never-ending serials of wars, possibly thermo-nuclear, we cannot afford to indulge the rulers and must not do so if we are to end government sabotaging humanity.
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I take your point. But if the data show that Teslas on AP or FSD are less likely to crash, then the conclusion must be that the non-consenting public is still safer as a result of the beta testing, mustn’t it?This very disappointing article would never pass scientific peer review because it preferences narrative over objective evidence. For example, when trying to dismiss Tesla’s data showing 10x lower risk of accident, the article falls back on a vague ‘less safer’ argument (ie., results are biased by differences in driver experience, highway vs non-highway, etc) which leaves the door open to interpretation as anything from more dangerous to only 2 or 5 times safer (a deliberate semantic trick when trying to prosecute an argument). If the author has the quantitative data, it should have been presented so that the reader can make an informed decision based on personal risk tolerance.
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The comments from Angel Perez are very telling. He says that we will lose “an entire generation of students of color.” However ig is well known that eliminating race based preferences will dramatically increase the number of students of East Asian, South Asian (Indian/Pakistani), South East Asian, and Middle Eastern (especially Iranian, Arab or Jewish) ancestry. Hispanic and black student enrollment will decline. Many white hispanics and West African (particularly Nigerian) applicants are the current beneficiaries of affirmative action (given that that they can satisfy claims of diversity without actually opening up opportunities to the descendants of people who were enslaved in the US or those dispossessed by US expansion). However Mr. Perez clearly considers one group POC or BIPOC in this instance (and it certainly isn’t Asians or Jews). In other instances the left’s priorities change. No wonder Asians and Latinos are changing their political affiliation. Sadly even Jews and Arabs are moving away from the left. Maybe real diversity and commitment to merit are achievable without the commitment to racial gerrymandering.
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no
| 969 |
It would help, before embarking on a long-winded discussion about income and wealth, to actually establish the distribution spread of net worth in this country as well as yearly income. They are two different things. One statistic has the top 10% owning 75% of the wealth, the next 10% with about 10% of the wealth, the bottom 40% with zero net worth, and the remaining middle class with only about 15% of the wealth.Also, there is a great moral difference between trading labor, time, and skills for compensation (and even trade) with living off rents from accrued wealth (stocks, bonds, real estate) that is protected by laws and the society as a whole. And there is a great moral difference between how we tax these things. There are also problems relating to what workers must bring to the table before they can show up for work to start earning compensation, like housing, transportation, feeding themselves, being clean and presentable, health care, education, skills, and even the cost of finding the job in the first place.Basically, the present system heavily favors those already wealthy and punished those who have to exchange their lives for money to live on (the working class). This needs to change and be reversed to some extent. This is what Democrats need to focus on.
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yes
| 8,148 |
Questions:- why were lawyers needed to do a clerical/custodian task like opening a closet, closing an office, etc?- what firm provided the lawyers/custodians?- why wasn’t the initial document discovery in November made public immediately?- once the practice of retaining classified documents was uncovered, why weren’t all possible repositories scoured for similar unwarranted retentions?- have they yet been scoured?- why is the existence of the next set of retained documents - obviously not triggered by a November scouring - been leaked instead of forthrightly announced?
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yes
| 6,357 |
Incognito One week before the midterms also. But Biden's playing it smart either way. He's making sure a Trump-appointed investigator is overseeing the case AND he waited until now to tell everyone about it, because he knew the GOP would distort the optics unfairly.Biden didn't know these docs existed at this location, Trump KNEW and KNOWINGLY withheld - an important distinction. But, try convincing right-wing media of that distinction...And lastly, very odd that an old office Biden once worked in still contained classified material that, very conveniently, ONE WEEK before midterms was mysteriously "discovered". If Tucker Carlson can ask open-ended questions, why can't we?
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yes
| 8,784 |
Details! Like the details on their infrastructure plan, health plan, vague border policy, spiritual immigration plan, expansion of mental health plans etc?Come on.....Republicans in the House are going to try and tank the economy because it is making them look bad. The debt was increased $7.8 trillion during Trump’s time in office. In the words of MAGA, biggly. Republicans are focusing on crucial issues like "critical race theory", African American history in AP classes, laptops from plumbers, and consonants added to the word Latin. If they do come up with a plan, you can bet Texas House members will torpedo it. My 2 cents.
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yes
| 8,332 |
Thank you for this comprehensive, clear and accurate picture of what has happened in my state. I will send it far and wide. Growing up in the state and now living in a small town named after a fish body part I know that many of us still think that our political independence and reverence for open country and wildlife aligns with religions and political believers we try to respect despite their growing power to codify respect for us only if we deny the evidence all around us in Montana verifying evolution, tell our neighbors whom to love and how to have sex, restrict our reading, gag our teachers, revere money, and openly carry guns. Most of us know that we have much to regret and more to work for.
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yes
| 5,336 |
The dollar is the world's reserve currency because its safety is considered unimpeachable -- a trust that has been built up over hundreds of years. The US can make dollars out of the air because of this and have them recognized as dollars around the world.Default and that trust is gone and never coming back. Our creditors will come for us hard. We'll lose trillions in hard assets. Never mind the opening for China or some other country to usurp our position as a financial safe harbor.This is madness.
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yes
| 6,915 |
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