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Jorge Not Prozac. It's generic and too cheap now, although the numbers are huge. Big Pharma would prefer the name brands.These are 2022 Walmart prices:Prozac generic: 90 day supply, 180 capsules, 40 mg cash price $20.08Latuda: 30 day supply, 30 tablets, 1200 mg cash price $2,429.17
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Ben Goodness, so many assumptions make it so simple to construct an open and shut case!Baldwin was the producer. He was responsible for the entire production, yet he didn't check a potentially dangerous prop he was using himself.There's your first mistake.
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chrisinroch when Diana died, the monetary part of her estate was valued at about £13 million. By he time the boys were of age it had grown to about £20 million or £10 each. That is a lot of money, but Harry lives in house that cost $15 million. They have a nanny, private security, extensive grounds at the house that need a maintenance, and many other expenses. He could not afford his life style without the money his is making by selling his story.
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My full retirement age for SS is already 67, and I started paying in with my first job at age 16. So let's see, I pay a 6.2% tax and my employer also pays 6.2% (which is part of my compensation and would otherwise go to me) and this will have gone on for 51 years by the time I reach full retirement age. The total amount of taxes I will contribute over that period will be a substantial sum, likely between $500k and $1mm. The benefits I receive will be "one leg of the stool" in terms of funding my retirement but not enough to securely fund even a modest retirement on their own. It's basically a poverty stipend. Not a good deal for me personally, I would almost certainly be better off keeping my money and investing it myself for retirement, but it's a passable deal for the average taxpayer and provides a safety net for the elderly and the vulnerable, especially those who live way longer than expected.But you propose to shift that another 4-5 years? Give me a break. The tax rate had better be dropping accordingly. I am supposed to work and pay significant taxes into the program for 55 years so that I can get a poverty-level stipend when I'm in my 70's? What a terrible deal that would be.
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Well, Ms Howard confesses that she could pay her salaried staff only from the profits she could make on the sale of alcohol to her patrons. Unfortunately, it may be a fair guess that most of the customers who could afford dining at such expensive eateries which charge as much as $500 per head may be under their doctors' orders to avoid all sorts of culinary items and also alcoholic beverages. In fact, a few days ago, there was a report emanating from Canada which warns against imbibing even a little alcohol if one wishes to live longer. From my own experience, during my childhood, I loved to taste icecream but there was no one to buy me one but when I could afford it in plenty now, I am under strict medical prohibition with regard to sugar intake!
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THE MONEY!!! Follow the money! Where did he get the $700,000 he gave his campaign? The lies are chaff and distraction. The crime is in the source of the money.
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My mother was dying in the Atlanta area. I’d just had my credit card changed due to fraud. So I reserved a rental car at Hertz’s airport site but used a debit card. The manage insisted on a $200 cash deposit. I had $180. By this time I was crying. Even my bank manager assured them—yes we called. Overhearing that I was there to see my mother for the last weeks of her life, a lovely gentleman from Dallas—hat, boots, huge belt buckle and 6’5”—gave me $20 to secure the rental car and wouldn’t give me contact info to repay him. Maybe he just wanted the line to move faster. But to this day, 9 years later, I still avoid Hertz.
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Eric B Wordle 562 3/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜🟨🟩🟨🟩 90 99 2 "Strong, Lucky"🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 99 25 1 Wrong Choice🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99Skill 99 Luck 62A new starter, a result of a recent experience, was extraordinarily lucky. It left just 2 words, but I picked the wrong one and nixed my chance for a two-fer. Still, a 3-solve beats the Bot by one step so I am satisfied with it.Congrats to Outside Observer with an outstanding deuce! Wordle 561 3/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 79 96 3 Renew⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩 99 33 1 Twine🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 WhineSkill 99 Luck 66On the first day of the new year, I thought of "renewal" which suggested my opener. On the second guess, I had no idea that there were only three words left. I was just looking for the "ine" ending and "twine" came to mind. That left just one possibility for the 3-solve. As it did today, a 3-solve beat the Bot by one step. I agree with my fellow wordlers that "whine" seemed to be a peculiar way to begin the new year. Cheers and happy Monday to all!
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Bill Exactly!University employees who develop or invent anything only see about 10% or less of the revenue of any discovery if that, regardless of how much or how little the university invests in the development. Usually its little if nothing. Basically they provide a building with electricity and water while the researchers pay for most if not everything else from grants and other revenue generation. Yet in athletics apparently the employed student athletes who would otherwise be limited to competing for pro leagues or playing in an intramural league or park game are allowed to benefit from their work as a university employee without any such repayment of the universities investment in training, name recognition, facilities, tuition, room and board etc.
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Cheryl Ann Excellent 2fer!AllThanks for the kind words! I got a LOT of sleep last night and today I burned off some of the residual bad news angst cleaning the kitchen and reorganizing my extensive spice collection that my husband, who does most of the cooking now, had used into a bit of a shambolic mess. Why we had 5 separate jars of ground ginger, I may never know! ☺️The surprise cousin is inheriting a very large extended family, with 8 aunts and uncles, plus their spouses, and at least 16 first cousins + spouses, and many many more 1st cousins once or twice removed. I think that we're going to try to organize a reunion of sorts sometime this year, so that should be fun.As for the distressing news, this quote from Julian of Norwich keeps coming to mind:"All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."
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I don't know, $22,000 discrepancy doesn't seem exceptionally alarming. Who knows how much loan baggage college graduates must carry including interest. That needs to be factored into the gap. College should be free, I went back to community college recently and teachers at that level are magnificent, nothing again high school teachers, but it's not the same.
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August West Nope. Wrong. The IRS law mandating that anyone making over $600 in online transactions gets a 1099 was passed during the Trump administration, and signed by Trump.
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V. Sloan re-read what you are responding to before hitting submit. If you had read carefully, you would realize that the original post talked about spending 35 dollars per family, not per person in the family. Personally, I’m sick of the smugness of younger generations assuming that older generations lived a life of Riley and didn’t have to scrape out an existence, hustle for money for food and other living expenses, share rooms (not whole apartments), and go without.
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I think a part of the problem is that college is just incredibly expensive now compared to 40 years ago. When students are spending over $100,000 and going deeply into dept to attend college it becomes an investment and the stakes feel too high to learn just to learn
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Marcy I completely agree with you, and I have years of online dating experience (now in my early 50s). First of all, we’re not talking about making new friends and backgammon buddies here, we’re talking about people who are paying thousands of dollars to meet a person who can be their friend, partner and, in most cases, lover. Sex is *very* important to some people, to others, not so much. The information about limited sexual function could be a dealbreaker from the get go, and it wouldn’t mean the person declining the connection is judgmental or superficial. Secondly, if a person is paying thousands of dollars and is given a llimited number of matches, the lack of disclosure of something that could of an immediate dealbreaker could (literally) cost them, either money or another introduction that could be “the one” for them. It’s not fair to withhold the information. Disclosing it could help in the matchmaking process too. I personally don’t a man with erectile issues, but he could be perfect for a woman who can’t tolerate penetration.
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Putin and his supporters in Russia deserve a multipronged approach to finally ending the irrational, unjustifiable attack that the mad dog in the Kremlin started. Chechens and Tatars and all other ethnic groups in Asia should open their own fronts against Russia and teach Putin and his supporters in Russia a lesson they won't soon forget. Putin is now struggling with his attack on Ukraine. What will he do with multipronged guerilla attacks from other borders?
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rupert It was the extended drought combined with resource depletion after a fairly dense thriving population living there for over 800 years. Certainly lessons should be learned there.Colorado is in that extended drought now made even worse with climate change. The drought was long predicted but all the water managers and developers I know denied it and deny it now saying there is plenty of water for unbridled development along the front range. It's insane.
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I've heard only one side of this story and am unwilling to accept, as fact, Harry and Meghan's version. in my long life I always have found there are two distinct sides to every story. Revealing the sordid practices of the tabloids and adding a little light on that tacky business is one thing. However, taking down your family while your at it is another. The couple have been well paid from the reviled media for their "tell all" with their 100 million from Netflix and 20 million advance for Spare. How about organizing a few private, personal and painful meetings with family to try to restore some trust and affection and leave the public at the curbside.
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*I liked the puzzle.* ROSWELL kind of gave the theme away, then grid symmetry indicated where the other two theme areas must be; the rebus was pretty obvious. Had a little trouble in the SE (trussed morphed into TRAPPED), but after that the area filled in. Right on my average Thursday time. So I agree with the constructors that this is a great puzzle idea! I would also say that after some years of doing these NYT crosswords, I feel like I am "tuned into" how the editors think. I don't get stumped anymore. I can finish all the puzzles (although sometimes with copious "look-ups"). That said, I still can have trouble with crosswords from other sources (non-NYT) - where the answers and cluing are significantly different. So apparently I have managed to become accustomed to NYT crosswords - after many years. For what that's worth. You know, that and $5 will get me a cup of coffee, right? ;-)
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I’d be interested to know how many people at Microsoft are working 50 and 60 or more hour work weeks, while others are being laid off. This country and its obsession with working is insane. Why can’t we do 35 hour work weeks, and give more people jobs?
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Football as it currently stands is made possible by the oceans of tax dollars.Taxpayers fund billions of dollars worth of fields, facilities, staff and equipment for elementary, middle and high schools across the country. Public universities and colleges receive more billions in direct funding, and hundreds of thousands of fans deduct the large "donations" that is the real price of admission to better seats, parking and access to players and staff. Backroom deals between the NFL, owners and politicians deliver more billions in taxpayer money to build stadiums and related facilities. Corporations grab more billions in tax relief for everything from self-serving partnerships to corporate skyboxes. The NFL itself, in the ultimate irony, is "non profit".Without this money the NFL could not exist in its current form. If it had to fund its own farm system, as baseball does, or if it had to pay for the facilities reserved for its players, if it bought its own stadii and corporations had to use post-tax money to attend games, if the NFL had to guarantee pension and health benefits for all players with a fund for those injured while playing at the college and lower levels, the organization would have to have a reckoning. If taxpayers were given a true accounting of the cost, if parents were given the facts about the dangers, if spectators given the facts about the severity of each injury they witness in real time, the backlash would force change.It's long overdue.
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"Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about “economic anxiety”? I think the rise of the current lunacy began as economic anxiety & for many Americans, the loss of jobs, the loss of dignity and community standing, evolved into depression & drug use splitting & destroying families & communities. Anger, grievance, resentment & fear are the result...at anyone & everyone. It's easy for a Trumpian to tap into that anxiety.I agree it has evolved into a real ugly hatred but I think it began with ordinary folks losing good paying jobs because of corporate greed.I once worked for a group in DC that commented on proposed tax legislation. One proposed piece of legislation would have penalized corporations for sending jobs abroad. I remember a colleague who had once worked at Treasury saying that we don't want those manufacturing jobs anyway in the USA. I was horrified to hear such an elitist view (a Republican view BTW) since not everyone it the USA is a rocket scientist or a tech genius.This is the attitude that underlies the current political divide. US corporations sent jobs abroad, were forced to accept a Chinese partner and what followed were R&D jobs, transfer of know-how & intellectual property. Yes, we were chumps but it was the Republicans AND the Democrats at fault. Even I could see that sending our US jobs abroad was not a good idea for the average American. I think when you gut the jobs, you gut America.
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In The Millionaire Next Door, one of the points made is to simply get into the habit of saving, even if it is small amounts. The FIRE movement is interesting in that most try to live on very lean amounts. One of the leading proponents, MMM, lives on about $24k/year with a paid off house.
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paul Yeah, absolutely true. The real tragedy is how a lack of housing really amped up the residential real estate market, which attracted more investors, which amped up the market even more, attracting more investors. To add insult to the would-be homeowners, that investment game is played with leveraged money, and our tax code combined with low interest rates lets the show go on. At least the interest rates are going up, but that pushes investors into a holding pattern, since that also slows construction, and existing homeowners also are in a poor position to switch houses so values will remain stable. An investor holding has renters to cover their low interest leverage, or to trickle back their cash if they're playing the speculation game. The tax code should be tweaked to make owning more that one single family home a luxury, not a livelihood, and certainly not an investment cash flow.
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Joe Arena My tech company hires brand new CS grads fresh out of college at $140k, and it's not even a huge San Francisco firm. Most people outside this industry don't realize exactly how high the comp is, and the industry likes it this way, truthfully.
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KeninDFW Schools are not fortresses. Militarizing them or making them prisons is extremely expensive, morally depraved and a testament to the failure of conservatism in its current form.The 2nd amendment costs us a fortune. How can we afford this insanity?Don’t the other rights like life and liberty matter? And the founders weren’t even absolutist with the 2nd. Open carry wasn’t even a thing until the slave owners were losing slaves to the north.
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Socrates Hang in there? I went to Istanbul in 1999 to teach English. The US dollar = 440,000 Turkish lira. I had a small class of really nice seniors ready to graduate. A reading passage brought up savings and the "magic of compound interest." I went on a positive "mini-lecture" on saving money. I was surprised at their laughter as they dismissed my premises. I hadn't realized, new to the country, what they had gone through. 30% of my salary was paid in local cash and the rest sent to my U.S. bank. We would get our pay in cash and put it into dollars right away and then cash them back into lira as we needed it for pocket money. I hung in there. My last paycheck four years later gave me 1.3 billion lira (!) in cash, in newly-minted 20 million lira notes. Lesson? Reality trumps (no pun) rosy intellectual idealism.
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There is a small piece of context missing from this article.Agriculture contributes around 11.5 Billion pounds to the UK's GDP (0.5% of the UK's economy). Unharvested fruit and veg accounts for 22 Million pounds. That is two parts per thousand, or a correction in the fourth significant decimal place. In terms of the overall economy it is 10 parts in 1 million.Perhaps that explains why "[i]n Boston, where residents strongly supported Brexit, there is little evidence that attitudes have changed toward the European Union."
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Here in NJ 32% of out $52 Billion state budget goes to debt service. NJ has a constitutional requirement for a balanced budget, which keeps some aspects of government in line. Yet despite the balanced budget requirement, the state pension system is about 55% funded and is routinely nipped and tucked by politicians that have gamed the system. Hey Paul, unless you think the answer is mergers and acquisitions of other countries to solidify our fiscal responsibilities, much like German economists in 1939, you best get to work on your '5-year' plan comrade.
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Krugman presents a negative to the importance of 'gold' in the monetary system, writing, "It turns out, however, that there are, and perhaps always will be, enough financial barbarians out there to sustain substantial demand for gold as a store of value even though it hasn’t served any monetary purpose for a very long time."If Krugman is correct, we may ask, "Who has the best ethical claims on all that gold at Fort Knox?"The government's victims are many, and after more than decades, victims of its ferociously brutal slave laws, and also its unconsionable "Jim Crow" laws, haven't received full restitution. Evidently this should take primacy.The propenents of full restitution should secure all the gold in Fort Knox, before the rulers can run away with it, sell it to the goldbugs, and sent $7 trillion checks as a first down payment for slavery restitution.Since the idea arises from Krugman's analysis of gold vs money, we can call it "the Krugman Plan."
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G. Hertz "No gain"? 99 percent of the profit ends up in the pockets of the stockholders. Pennies drift down to the people doing the actual work. Don't try to suggest that percentage couldn't shift a little in the workers' favor without bankrupting the poor rich folks.
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Jack It would be the same as everyone paying taxes for the military. Everyone pays into a pool, and everyone dips in when needed. If you treat an illness before it becomes serious the outcome is better for the person and the cost is less in the treatment. People go to the E.R. when they do not have a PCP who monitors them yearly. A trip to the ER? 1000s of dollars compared to the 100s when taken care of by a PCP through prevention and early detection. I lived in a poorer European country for over a decade with kids and NEVER was I not treated for any problem that came up. I was never put off for more than a month for a specialist or denied treatment. ER visits were covered. I admit a private room was considered a luxury you could opt to pay for from your pocket. The fear of "Universal healthcare" instilled by conservative Republicans as socialism to a gullible, fearful following is deplorable.
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Linda hoquist At least the proud Brits don't have some bureacrat in Brussels telling them they have to open their countries to unlimited numbers of "asylum seekers" or making other decisions for the Brits from afar. And I love how all the commentators here attacking Brexit don't seem to care that it was a democratic decision.
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There are zero reasons tech companies need to layoff employees. Microsoft makes tens of billions of dollars in profits (that’s profit not revenue) every quarter. <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-21-Q3/press-release-webcast" target="_blank">https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-21-Q3/press-release-webcast</a>
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"Work should be a joy."Good God, grow up. If you like your life, with the things that make it easy, like washing machines and cell phones, then depend on it there are people who slog through their days on assembly lines.Usually in countries in which capitalism is a dirty word. I agree that our corporations need to bring their manufacturing back home. And I'll be glad then to pay $1500 for a cellphone every 5-6 years instead of $300.
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In the past,the need for a new train tunnel was important but not crucial. Now,it is and the big financial firms like Goldman,Fidelity,Vanguard and Banks like Morgan-Chase,etc. need to be part of funding the Gateway Tunnel project this year so digging can begin by end of 2024 or early '25 and get this completed sooner than 2035 with incentive project bonuses for the lead contracting firm or group of construction managers. The Private-Public consortium is vital as Amtrak alone is not capable of managing this in a cost effective way. Forget who gets the credit but make this happen for the sake of commuters and maybe even freight movement.
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I would like to make a couple of points.One: democrats need to stop being so defensive. Biden should apologize for his sloppiness once the Robert Hur investigation comes to an end, and not be on defensive on that issue from that point on. And democrats should rally to Biden's defense because that is what republicans would do (and are doing even more for Trump).Two: Biden has been a great president, almost a transformational one. Were Russia to lose the war in Ukraine, and re-emerge as a parliamentarian republic, Biden would have turned a nuclear-armed rival into a potential ally, and weekend and isolated China considerably, and would have ushered in an extended era of peace in Europe. Domestically, too, the signature legislations he helped pass, from the Infrastucture Bill, to the CHIPS and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act should continue to pay dividends for a decade. Give the above, Biden should run for re-election if he feels he is healthy enough to run and serve the four-year term - he has earned this much. Democrats should be willing to support any decision he makes.
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Leigh President John F. Kennedy cleared the way for closure of the psych hospitals. I am no Reagan fan, but he and the governors in all states, from all political parties, jumped on the same bandwagon.Until the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passes new involuntary commitment laws, and uses SOME of the $668m to build a psych hospital, San Francisco will continue to implode. The assessed value of taxable properties will plummet.
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And a few years later, the expanding, profiteering University of Vermont medical center ramped up its attacks on our exemplary patient-centered free-choice midwifery providers who offered the healthiest, most fun, natural organic birthing experiences that were exemplary in outcomes and patient approval; we had independent privately-trained midwives backed by a few good independent docs who supported both patients and midwives, - with continuity of care, which means knowing the patient well - who’d be on call in case the patient required transfer to hospital - as I did with my first-born, who became a face-presentation at the onset of labor, & my midwife said “We’re going to the hospital NOW!” and our backup doc coached me through the surgical birth - inviting my babydaddy amd midwife into the lovely warm OR amd explaining every step as if I were in training - it was the best hospital birth I ever imagined. But the hospital OBGYN manarchy later banned independent midwives and blocked home births and even independent birth centers; and Vermont’s surgical-birth rates and worsening outcomes soared, with record revenues for a corporate management cult whose ‘compensation’ includes multi-million-dollar salaries in a state with under a million people whose median household income is in the $50,000 range only because of the gross dysfunctional overcompensating inflation at the top.
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Wondering why the normally cheapest, caged, non-organic eggs at my local Key Food (typically the most affordable store in the neighborhood) were $8.59/dozen, while at Trader Joes and Whole Foods they were one-third to half that price.
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A New Area of A.I. Booms, Even Amid the Tech Gloom An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination. Five weeks ago, OpenAI, a San Francisco artificial intelligence lab, released ChatGPT, a chatbot that answers questions in clear, concise prose. The A.I.-powered tool immediately caused a sensation, with more than a million people using it to create everything from poetry to high school term papers to rewrites of Queen songs. An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination.
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Greg Both party constituents believe abortion should be allowed under certain circumstances. With the money now involved in politics (19 billion in the last off year election) pols work for votes then legislate for their donors after election.As I remember, in the 2020 election, the GOP had no policy. And then there is Santos — fully embraced by the House GOP —do we even know his real name?
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A lot of very good/bright students will stop applying to the New College of Florida and New College degrees awarded post-2023 will be significantly devalued. When I review resumes from applicants for highly competitive positions at our (very large, global) firm, ones with the University of Phoenix on them don’t go much further. It’ll be the same for New College if it turns into a ideology-heavy/low-talent Mickey Mouse school. You can bet that many other employers will do the same. Unless they’re My Pillow, Hobby Lobby or conservative think tanks, employers aren’t going to give you any points for being a good Republican.
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Good article but two points. 1) I would have liked to hear a bit more about other countries. China seems like a ticking demographic time bomb to me. 2) Article doesn't mention (but alludes to) the Employee Pension Insurance. If you work for a company as a F/T regular staff, you'll likely pay into an EPI which combined with the National Basic might provide more like 2M JPY per year in benefits. Still there are a lot of challenges. The retirement age moved from 60 to 65 and I have no doubt they will move it again maybe to 67 or so in the next several years. Also the consumption tax has been raised to 10% which is regressive on seniors. And the young people do not want children. The government is trying with multiple incentives but to get scale, they really need to consider getting serious on immigration as a source of population - but this is a problem too because the country is so homogenous and doesn't speak English. It's a tough spot.
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The author hardly has made "the case that Harry and Meghan have gotten a raw deal."The world is full of folks who have been dealt a difficult hand. Most don't end up with a $15million dollar oceanside mansion that they had not earned. Harry has chosen to never work a day in his life; has never lacked for food, clothing or shelter. That he and his spouse have chosen to obsess about all the media coverage you list is by design. A vast number of Brits choose not to read or otherwise waste time on the papers the author documents. Why not read the Economist, the FT or the Independent ? Why the dwelling on these papers? Is this some new revelation that a large portion of the media is corrupt? As stated by Louis : “I'm shocked, shocked..."Why ignore the inherent hypocrisy of Harry and Meghan. To line their pockets, they chose to resort to the same media they point fingers at. Why not go to Kenya or Bangladesh or any other country that was once part of the British Empire and reveal their truth there? Could it be the American cash cow they so much desire? Wouldnt security be so much less costly if they chose to reside north of Aberdeen....or west of Cardiff. Victimhood is hardly what this is about.
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Raising taxes on >$400k of income would cover the increase in costs for social programs. Better yet, it is time to look at how we tax people. Republican states like Texas, Tennessee, and Florida do not have income taxes but have huge surpluses because of substantial tax increases. For example, Texas is running a $33 billion surplus. They don't have to call it a tax increase because the rates have not gone up, but inflation and the housing boom are creating unprecedented increases in sales and property tax revenues. People are moving around and giving up their homestead exemptions on their old houses. I just moved away from Texas, and my taxes are going way down even though I have to pay state income taxes. Not to mention a significant decrease in auto and homeowners insurance, which have ballooned in Texas over the past 25 years. Medicare should be able to cover its losses just like regulated private home/auto insurers do with premium hikes.The republican lawmakers from these states who condemn tax hikes are a bunch of hypocrites!
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Bernard Lowe Player of and big fan of the game, and I noticed the video game’s goal-focused approach as well — the inevitable “fetch-quests” — and found them a little needless. (We need to go and get the battery to start the car / There’s no battery - we need to help the Fireflies so we can get a working car.) I hope those are few and far between. Not to spoil it but the Last of Us is not open world - it’s a very linear always-moving-forward-no-going-back journey. But it looks like the show has some extensive diversions, which will be welcome. I’m looking forward to seeing how it goes - it’s off to a great start.
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Oh please. For starters the concept of a monarchy is absurd. Blood lineage? It’s obscene and if the British thinks it helps marketing the country, well surprise, people will still go to London.Of course the press went way too far and is partially responsible for chasing Diana and ultimately her death, but she also enjoyed a lot of the press attention. It’s a mixed bag.In terms of Harry, he and Meghan will never admit this is all about $100 million from Netflix and the publishers. These are the same people who hate intrusion, but love self intrusion for money. Big money. They are both so self obsessed. They did not like their apartment in England compared to William. Think how ridiculous that is. Meghan gets a text from Beyoncé and goes wild. Does any sane person realize how absurd that is. Who cares. They are offended by everyone and everything. They only are “friends” with other famous people. Why was Oprah invited to their wedding? Because she’s famous. Of course he was traumatized by his mothers death and glad he got therapy. Harry, writing about his personal thoughts is one thing, but he constantly reveals private conversations and private family episodes. Would you want a relationship with such an untrustworthy person? Meghan disowns a long term friend over one event, does not invite her closest other friend, cousin, to her wedding and her father, yes wrongly made a deal,with the press but was generally a decent father, she disowns him as well.
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Let me just point out that the LDP has been in power in Japan for 61 or the past 67 years since 1955. China is rightly called a single-party state. And it is so by design. But Japan is practically a single-party state by reality.Both Japan and USA have a self-imposed "one-China" policy. I just hope that Taiwan realizes that Japan/US are more about anti-China than pro-Taiwan.If the US really were committed to defending Taiwan from a Chinese invasion, then TSMC would not have been pressured into opening a plant in Arizona. "Sure, Taiwan, we'll defend you. But why don't you move your most valuable corporate asset to the US. For safekeeping."
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Try the Henckles knives in Bed Bath and Beyond. Excellent knives and only $1.99.
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MB I would be curious when the $705,000 loan was made along the time line of his candidacy? Was it after this study was done on his fake life?
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MSH I would love for the nyt to do a story to understand who is getting covered for this drug and who is not. I would be willing to share my access details with a reporter anonymously - I was only recently approved by my insurer and was previously on $25/month coupons from the manufacturer (ozempic then wegovy then mounjaro) . I suspect there is enough data showing the positive health effects of this drug that insurers would want to cover it at this point. And now we have the build back better plan, some questions around drug pricing are cleared up...are more people getting covered now? I think we all want to know how this will work going forward, I can't go off the meds now, I gain like mad when I do. But many more need access and supply is limited.
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Marshall It is not certain, whatsoever. Campaigns raise lots of $$ and if there is one thing Sinema likes it's money. Whether that destroys the progressive movement in the state of AZ or the US makes no difference to Sinema. She's sold out her constituents like Trump and learned how to lie from Santos. She learned nothing from McCain.
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$31 Trillion dollars....what a joke. Most people have no idea how much that is and the FACT that it is NEVER going to be paid off. US GDP is only $23 trillion. How about taking all but $10 million dollars from each household in the 1%? The top 1% controls $41 trillion, so taking all but $10 million pays off the entire US debt with $1 trillion left over. This will still leave the 1% in the 1%. 99% of the benefit from this scenario....who's with me?
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Tommy Paul and American Tennis Are Having a Moment Paul, the first American man to reach an Australian Open singles semifinal since Andy Roddick in 2009, must now face Novak Djokovic. MELBOURNE, Australia — The tennis breakthroughs keep coming for Tommy Paul and his American friends. Paul, the first American man to reach an Australian Open singles semifinal since Andy Roddick in 2009, must now face Novak Djokovic.
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If there’s one thing that is clear about Santos, it’s that he’d “tilt” hard right, hard left, up, down, or diagonally if he believed that doing so would help him. The fact that he apparently sees the most personal gain in aligning with the far right extremists says a lot. The fact that they are welcoming him with open arms says even more.
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After last week's lament for the poor couples struggling to get by on more than $400,000 a year, Bret suggests older workers just pick up less physically demanding jobs while they wait a few more years to get Social Security. Does any NYT columnist exude out-of-touch privilege any more than Bret "Let Them Eat Cake" Stephens?
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Investor123 To get to the top federal rate you have to make at least $539,000, but the standard deduction is worth $12,950. So it's about $550,000 to reach the top. What will you pay total in taxes at that point if you are a New York City resident? $230,000 including federal, NYS, NYC, Social Security, and Medicare. That represents 43% of your wages, or what's called the effective tax rate. You're left with a mere $308,000 to live on, which is $843/day. Poor baby.
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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there was never a better time to organize unions and collectively bargain with employers. Unions are really the only secondary institution have to amass some power to fight this kind of callousness, where executives will say to you: “Oh, it’s just business.”The younger generations generally know nothing about labor unions and have been taught to view themselves as something better than just “labor.” It ain’t so and the sooner they realize this and become a political force, the better— there are already signs of workers in the service industry organizing, partly because of the presence of radicalized underemployed college graduates.The longer employers get away with perpetrating this kind of heartless action against their employees, the worse it will get. They convince themselves that dehumanizing the process makes the best and safest solution, but they piece is correct: it is the act of cowards.The European social democracies do a far better job of mitigating these kinds of abuses of labor, tilting the playing field a little more in favor of the workers. Eventually, the US could follow suit, but it will take an extended fight and tactical strategies to overcome adverse lobbying by employers who, correctly, will see some of their power and independence threatened.
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GDP is way up, great. Then please explain what sectors of the booming economy is reaping the windfalls.I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's the financial, energy & corporate owned residential real-estate to name a few. And the big corporations and the "investor class" as well, etc etc..And inflation is easing, great again.Which means that there's a little bit less price gouging going on. So, in a nutshell the already wealthy tax avoiders & tax cheats keep getting richer and the rest of America is getting bent over on a more orthopedicaly appropriate sawhorse.Gee thanks for the update.
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President Trump had the power to declassify documents, Vice President Biden did not. The Penn Biden Center received $30 million from Chinese Donors. Leaving these facts out of the story shows that this is biased journalism.
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Landgirl Love Exit 30 rest stop. The coffee machine used to be run by a local outfit in Plattsburgh; the brew was fine but machines were faulty- I'd put in the coins and sadly watch as the coffee came through sans cup. It got to where I'd bring my own cup and shove it under the dispenser. I decided to drop the company a line, saying they owed me, as a lark. Two weeks later an envelope arrived in the mail with a $5.00 bill tucked inside! It was so sweet. About a year ago Exit 30 changed the machines- they work, but I really wish Plattsburgh could've kept that concession stop.
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Charge 10-20X the current price-which anyone jetting in can well afford-and pay your people!
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I just hope some of the big corporations that have relocated to open carry states in recent years to take advantage of low taxes will reconsider their decisions. Maybe they will have trouble recruiting top talent to live in states, like Texas, with open carry laws. Not to mention draconian abortion laws. Economic punishment seems to be the only possibility of reversing this trend. I'm not optimistic.
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If rabid House Republicans demand steep spending cuts start with the bloated defense budget in facilities located in their districts! At $742 billion or one-sixth of the current budget, it's time to get the fat and pork out and let the rabble rousers howl. Those who wish to inflict pain have to be willing to endure it.
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The golfer Rory Mcllroy won 4 majors by the time he was 24, the golf world anointed him as the next great one, then Nike gave him 100 million dollars, he hasn’t won another major since, if Kim had not purchased the insurance policy that made him wealthy he would still be golfing. Money works as a great motivator , that’s all it can offer the athlete. Guaranteed contracts have ruined many a career in baseball and they are beginning to do the same in the NFL. A guaranteed paycheck in the millions takes away all other incentives.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's statement is an interesting development in the ongoing saga that has been his downfall. Although the allegations against him are serious, his contention that the majority of his assets remain available to backstop FTX customers is encouraging. Nonetheless, his attempts to shift the blame to Binance and the market crash are not convincing. His explanation of the role he played in Alameda's management also does not answer questions about his personal responsibility in the situation. Furthermore, the recent guilty pleas from two of his former top executives cast doubt on the veracity of his statements. Regardless, the news that FTX has recovered over $5 billion in funds is an encouraging development that should give hope to customers that they may get some of their money back.
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I see so many Times readers are using this as a chance to bash the N.Y. FBI field office and push the old conspiracy theory that they were in cahoots with Giuliani and out to get Hillary. Allow me to debunk this nonsense.Here's a recap of what happened in fall 2016:NYPD arrests Anthony Weiner for sexting with underage girls. NYPD discovers tens of thousands of Hillary Clinton's government emails on Weiner's laptop he shares with wife Huma Abedin, many marked classified.NYPD turns over the laptop to N.Y. FBI, which turns it over to D.C. FBI headquarters. Yes, countless thousands of Hillary's government emails end up in the laptop of a convicted child sex offender. Spare me the whining. She should have been prosecuted for that.As if Comey had any choice but to announce the reopening of the investigation. There was no conspiracy. It all happened thanks to Hillary's negligence with classified material.
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LW 4. there is no reason someone cant re-pay $400. exchanges of moneyhave meaning - this is not a healthy friendship. the dynamic will repeat itself.
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People like me who are old had more job security, more unions, and more helpful government regulation. It was possible to earn a great living in corporate America, without worrying about being arbitrarily fired some Friday morning. Occasionally I reflect on wlhat I'd do differently based on today's conditions that would be different.Self-employment is the answer. I tried it at the end of my career, and it worked remarkably well in pre-retirement. Creating your own job through a business of your own (whatever that might be) is a great alternative to the cog-in-the-wheel stay-in-the-chatbot-queue of today's world. There are many business sectors where a small operator can thrive. The abject stupidity of today's corporate service businesses also creates openings for entrepreneurs. Even if you start out small and begin a collection of strip malls, it can beat punching a time clock at Boeing. Two of my fellow students from grad school--both with Ph.D's in Electrical Engineering, forged careers owning 7-11 stores. For them it was a very smart move.
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I hope the government folks in Ontario get to read this article and particularly the comments from readers. Now that Doug Ford. our conservative premier, has a majority government, he's advancing proposals to increase privatization.I'm surprised to see so many people who should know better touting these moves as "innovations" (Justin Trudeau) and dismissing those that are against opening that door as irrational scaredy cats (the CBC).It's very clear to many of us that allowing more privatization in health care is not the solution to our healthcare problems. Resources will be diverted from public to private and profit maximization will result in poor health outcomes. Ford may insist that the costs (and therefore the profits to the providers) will all be paid out of the government health envelope, one can be reasonably doubtful about the long term sustainability of such a claim. The strategy to get the public's approval for such reforms is always the same: it's only be for minor interventions, will shorten wait times, and will increase services quality and availability. Nothing could be further from the truth, as the American experience shows.Hopefully we won't go down that road.
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I worked in restaurants from 1996-2007 on both coasts and somewhere in between. Well-regarded, midpriced restaurants with market produce driven menus. For much of that time I fantasized at owning and running my own place. So glad I grew up and realized that the emotional costs were not worth it--constant stress of trying to keep things going on razor thin margins when each day could bring a fresh catastrophe--a sick dishwasher is a worst case scenario; never having a day off much less a vacation. People still ask me why I don't open a restaurant--besides being too arthritic now, I just raise my eyebrows and laugh.
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China’s Via Technologies recruited chinese high school students and pointed them to Stanford and Berkeley electrical engineering. Then VT steered them to work by day for Intel. By night, they sent secrets to back to China. This 10 year plan was exposed when Intel sued. Chinese use your openness — as their weapon. Trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions with your money do you think China will let its investment sit idle?
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I have little doubt that historians will proclaim the Trump presidency as the biggest long con perpetrated on the nation...Number Two possibly only to the wealth transfer that is borrowing money to run the gov't rather than collecting it in taxes! The RNC failed to protect their debate stage and, by extension the republic, when they easily could have and as a result an unfit tax cheat was allowed to hold the Oval Office in a very dangerous time. As a result, at least $6T more than otherwise has been added to the national debt; 700K more Americans are dead from a respiratory virus than otherwise; (competent, non-aligned decisions to contain the outbreak could have delivered infection rate and deaths per millions of population closer to Canada's - Instead, USA is Number 1!) and Trump attempted an authoritarian coup rather than concede defeat...No mater that his plan never hatched. The GOP has a lot of forgiveness to beg, 'mea culpas' to deliver. When does that start?
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Susan Here, here. We pray for Ukraine at our student center here and raised almost $70,000 that was sent urgently to Poland when the UA refugees left after the invasion.I think President Volodymyr is right too. Before the Russians start building a big navy to claim the North Pole as they now say "belongs to Russia" And then Greenland and Alaska or such.As a resource nation they want more routes to dispense their resources and probably less issues selling them. And more boats.....they stole a 13 million dollar ship at Mariopolis already and all the steel in it valued at 9 million. (Made a fake offer to the UA to "buy" it for a million.) Plus they detonated silos in the UA spoiling the grains stored for shipping. It never ends what the RF will stoop too, and then for what? Just pirating I guess. And also why they won't negotiate anything, they only see themselves in the mirror. They want buyers and to get a great deal on their resource trades. Now they are sanctioned by the UK and USA who won't buy their gold any longer. Hopefully a new gen of Russians will see that resources are traded, not pirated. Plus they will do well when the arctic and subarctic melts more. They have some ice breakers already, and can ship out more easily with global warming. They will do well and don't need the "grab it" mentality. Putin studied mining as his graduate work, but the world has changed. Wake up call. Stop with the Klondike mentality of "Stake it. It's mine."
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It won‘t matter where these high-carbon content luxury goods are manufactured, once Value-Added carbon taxes are implemented, these companies will be forced to make trillion dollar liability accruals that will be a fatal blow to their leverage, their equity, and the stock price. We will all pay for what‘s nothing more than a lot of made up hooey.
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While I'm sure Mr. Levin has some great academic credentials, his prescriptions for Congressional reform would not produce more consensus, but rather more chaos. Allowing members of the Rules Committee to permit more open-rules and amendments is a prescription for mischief. The budget, authorization and appropriations process' are not broken so much as not enforced. And all of this with an expanded House? As expanded body would be appropriate- with the opposite of what Mr. Levin suggests - much stronger and centralized leadership. Over decades the party's leadership has been usurped by PACs, media sirens and abdication of leadership tools, like earmarks. Those have been the real source of congressional dysfunction. More of it will result in perpetual gridlock. Mr. Levin assumes that factions of members will negotiate agreements. I submit that that requires an attentive leadership that will forge those factions into party policy.
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Many things can be true at once. Is Mayor Cantrell experiencing quite a bit of misgynoir? Absolutely. Is the infrastructure here crumbling? Yep. Did Mayor Cantrell have a successful 1st term? Totally. Are the potholes and trash pickup never-ending issues? For a long long time now. Were crime and violence bad before? Yes. Is it bad now? Yes. After 2.5 years of not really leaving NOLA, my travels to St Louis, Atlanta, NYC, LA, San Antonio and other US cities in the last few months have been eye-opening. It’s a big surprise to see wealth, growth, and opportunity…qualities not readily found in NOLA. Do I miss the food, culture, beauty, and “hey bebe” of NOLA when I’m out of town? Definitely. But I do not miss the other stuff that comes with living here. But I can’t fault Mayor Cantrell for all of this decline. The issues in NOLA are generationally old, as entrenched and protected as Mardi Gras. It’s easy to tell who benefits from the ineptitude here…they live in giant houses on Audubon Park and St Charles Ave.
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I've purchased three homes during my life (1993, 2004 and 2018), but not once did an appraiser visit any of them to conduct a visual inspection. The mortgage company officer for the first house told me that was pretty typical in what she saw, often being called a "drive-by" appraisal, even with the VA loan I was using. The appraisals for the first and second homes came in to the penny of my offer price on the real estate contract. The third home's appraisal was a surprise when it came in $10,000 higher than my offer price--which had already been accepted by the seller.Interestingly enough, Allstate, my insurer for the second house, sent the local agent to inspect the interior and exterior of the home using a corporate checklist prior to their underwriting and issuance of a homeowner's policy. Obviously an on-site visit was not a cost problem to Allstate. I salute these three African-American women who are trying to change the appraisal industry's treatment of African-American property owners. They need to also hammer home to their peers the "drive-by" or no-show appraisal reports are also part of the valuation problem with that industry's ethics.
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Viv And so far a good investment. The Ruble is up, yr to yr against the dollarOne of the few currencies to do so
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krabapple The Fed created the pricing problem. And they still have 9 trillion$ on their balance sheet they shoved into the economy.
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Ironically, when the Christchurch attacks happened, her Coalition partner was a rabidly anti-immigrant party NZ First with a long record of making anti-Asian and anti-Muslim speeches. After becoming Prime Minister in 2017 she also refused to change racist refugee law that put restraints on refugees from Africa and the Middle East. So, it’s a stretch to paint her as a pro-Muslim or pro-immigrant leader. This image was projected later in the aftermath of Christchurch attacks when NZ was under international media spotlight.Changing gun laws in NZ was no big deal (as it would be in the United States). There never was a strong call either for or against the gun laws. No one was bothered either way. Changing the gun laws after the terrorist attacks was a win-win move politically speaking. That’s what was expected. It wasn’t a “radical” move as it is portrayed.
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Hi folks -if you read the judgement, it's not really a "fine" - every cent of that $937,989.39 is to re-pay defendant legal costs.Which just goes to show how much a "frivolous" lawsuit can cost someone else - and why there should be a fine of at least double the damages ! And for a serial offender, triple that again for chronically vexatious use of court time/resources..
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ValleyReader I live in another area that has seen a huge increase in the number of ADUs. As someone who really appreciates older homes - I live in a 1927 Tutor, I see ADUs as one of the few investments that can help both increase density within the city - and make housing more affordable AND preserve some of the beautiful historic homes that were truly built by masons, bricklayers, stucco and carpenters who knew their trade. We were lucky to have had a large 2 car garage AND a 2 car parking pad - and being a 1 car family, it provides us a great opportunity. Our garage had beautiful hard wood floors - in the attic. We were able to create a lofted ADU without changing any of the exterior of our garage. I get it not everyone has that opportunity and some of the building styles of the new ADUs don't exactly match the existing homes. But without some level of compromise, these old craftsman would be ripped up and replaced by multiple box houses.NIMBYism has to stop if we're going to create cities that can continue to grow - otherwise they will end up like many of the midwestern capitals/larger metros that are disappearing right before our eyes.
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Was racial discrimination implicated in Manhattan Beach's 1924 public taking (for $14,500) of the property that the Bruce family had purchased in 1912 to 1920 (for $1,235)? Did the family's legal attempt to "reclaim" the property (the story is silent on when this was) assert that race influenced the price at which the town took the property -- or did the value of the property merely increase after the taking but before the action to reclaim it? The events detailed in the story may be more an indictment of the injustice of the government taking process than of the injustice of racism.
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sawduster My understanding is that they didn't even buy the land in Arizona. They are leasing it for $25 an acre with unlimited ability to pump water out of the ground (no regulation ore metering of what they use at all).
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Woof - Any comparisons of Russian and American national debt are irrelevant.Who in their right mind would buy Russian debt, voluntarily?When was the last time Mr. Putin ever kept a promise to anyone (not including threats to put them in jail)?Would you buy a Russian government bond?That leaves Russian oligarchs to fund the $47 billion budget deficit, which would equal about 100 super yachts, give or take a few super dinghies.
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My wife started spending lots of time at bars and met a bartender she just had to keep visiting. One day she told me that he made her feel sexy and she wanted an open relationship. We tried an to open things, but let me tell you, only a few women are dying to date a married man. But many a man would love to sleep with the married women out late flirting at the bar. I kissed a few women and was smitten with them and my love for my wife died. I cried a lot, then realized I was in an abusive relationship.To those non monogamous people. Please be straight up about who and what you are because when you are not, you are abusive. Just don't come crying to me when you wonder why you can't foster lasting and meaningful relationships.
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I'm a longtime lover of Crosby's music. He's written and performed so many great songs, and I think much of his latest work is outstanding -- rare for someone who had tremendous hits in his early career. I had the good fortune of actually sharing a meal with him (complete happenstance) about eight years ago. I was visiting the area near his home in Santa Ynez on business, and I decided to check out the Hitching Post restaurant. I sat at the bar. After about ten minutes, a scruffy, older gentleman in a knit cap sat down next to me and ordered a Margarita. Didn't get a good look at him at first. The barkeep delivered his drink and said, "Here you go Mr. Crosby."Once I realized who he was, I wanted so much to talk with him, but I also didn't want to invade his private time. Eventually, I took out my iPhone, opened Spotify to one of his albums, set it on the bar between us and said, "You're not by any chance this 'Mr. Crosby?'" As it turned out, he was very engaging, and we had a terrific conversation about music, guitar playing, and the history of folk/rock music. He asked what I do for a living, with a judgmental point of view about "legitimate" and "illegitimate" occupations. He said mine (architect) could be respectable. When I told him the most influential musician for me is Paul Simon, he said, "Paul is like Neil. Geniuses who never stop pioneering." I was disappointed when he left without a word, but he ambled to the door, stopped, & came back to say "Enjoyed our chat."
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Pat According to pro publica reporting, Elon musk paid half a billion in taxes between 2014 and 2018 for a reported income of 1.5 billion. So, he paid his fair share as he paid taxes on his income and capital gains. You cannot tax unrealized capital gain. Many middle class families have stock options, indexed fund investments and I would be opposed to taxing unrealized capital gains. If the government did that, will it return money when stock prices fall?
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KC - perhaps that European vacation gave the underrepresented children some mind opening cultural exposure and life / critical thinking skills that allowed them to present themselves to admissions officers differently. Not every transformational educational experience is gleaned from a book.
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Do yourself a favor and buy a fitness tracker. I bought one for $50 and it keeps track of my steps and even vibrates when the hour mark is approaching and I haven’t moved enough. Even if you can’t make it to the gym, you can walk up and down stairs and run in place for 5 minutes. Go shopping to one of those big box stores and park far from the entrance. Take a brisk walk around the block. Reaching 10,000 steps is easy enough when I get to the gym, but it’s a challenge I enjoy on those days when I’m too busy.
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Apple computer has a long history of preventing owners from fixing their apple products. Case in point, when the first Mac was introduced it only had a floppy drive. A company based in Boston, Hyperdrive, introduced an internal 20 megabyte drive. To open the Mac required a special screw driver and once opened the warranty was voided. Why people buy apple products today remains a mystery to me.
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MonsP Your so-called shock value is naive and dangerous, for a number of reasons. So-called extraordinary moves to keep government running include raiding the government employee Thrift Savins Plan (TSP) program--it's like a 401K-which is money employees voluntarily contribute to the TSP from paychecks each pay period, with a small matching funds component. The entire TSP is basically raided. The last time this happened (in recent memory), it took many months for the government to reimburse the TSP.Also on the line are discretionary funds and programs, many government agencies and programs are considered "discretionary," such as the USEPA, science, environment, and energy, domestic and international programs outside of defense. In 2019 these totaled 14 percent of federal budget, and of that science, environment, and energy programs totaled 11 percent ($75 billion).When the USEPA and other programs cannot pay their contract obligations their contracts go into default, and the government is obligated to pay triple damages, even if no goods or work was received. In the USEPA, we spent many months trying to straighten the mess out after the fact after government shutdowns. Plus, the extra money paid out for defaulted contracts goes against the current budget, thus a vicious cycle. Most often the defaulted work still needs to be completed at yet more waste and expense.This is NOT a prudent way to run our government. It's an un- mitigated mess.
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"1,000 more $1 billion so-called climate unicorns were on the way."LOL. Sure, in 5 years there will be new behemoths with a $1T+ valuation saving the day with code, and not actual investment in energy production.
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Jim A couple who live in Manhattan or San Francisco who together earn $400,000 annually are working long days with demanding bosses.They will fret about the price of eggs.Trust me on this.
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Fromjersey Don't forget that one of the constraints of being a British minor royal is that it appears you are never actually prepared for "real" life - just one of a minor celebrity from a bygone area wheeled out to some obscure factory opening or charity day. Or, you can go into the military (or perhaps go into showjumping).I've said this before but it bears repeating - none of the royals ever got decent marks in their high school exams (either they know they never had to try, or they really are, as they say here, thick). Anderson Cooper, for all his wealth, may have at least been expected or had a freer hand to choose his path in life.
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Dave -- "many people are already choking on high taxes". Check out the amount many poor people pay in taxes in proportion to their total income. The check out, using the newly available figures, the amount Trump paid in taxes in proportion to his income.The statement "many people are already choking on high taxes" is true, but incomplete. Many poor and middle-class people are "choking on high taxes" -- but the very wealthy are doing just fine with the taxes they pay.The Republican proposals, of course, call for cutting benefits and government spending on the poor and middle class, and doing nothing to increase the proportional amount of taxes the very wealthy pay. And Dave, you're all on board with that... are you a very wealthy 'coupon clipper', paying a fraction of the proportion of your income in taxes like the very wealthy? If you're just 'middle class' like me, why are you on the side of someone whose gross income is $10 million who pays .02% of it in taxes, when I pay 15% on my $100K? Proportionate, Dave, that's all I want. I want people making $10 million a years, from whatever origins, to pay their 15%, the same as me. And Dave, I'll bet they keep working and earning the $10 million even if they have to pay 15% of it in taxes instead of a fraction of 1%... "discouraging work" is propaganda. Ask anyone making $10 million if they'd quit if they only got to keep $8.5 million of it.
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The driver of the "Biden economy " is debt not outstanding fiscal management! This article is yet one more example of an economist being called out by real numbers.During the Biden administration current dollar GDP increased by $4.4 trillion ($21.7 to $26.1. T) while our national debt, that feeds the economy, increased by $8.2 ($23.2 to $31.4 T). Hardly an achievement to be proud of—especially when inflation added to GDP.Our economy isn’t growing organically —it is just getting larger from debt dollars. Here is a way to test this – stop borrowing and watch what happens to our economy.The professor neglected to mention the role debt contributes to the Biden economy in his opinion article. And yes, there is a disconnect between economic perception and realty, as the professor notes.The reality is your national debt is driving our economy not the Biden Administration. But why let real numbers get in the way of a partisan opinion piece?
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Using a little imagination here. Unlike medical records, which are typically kept on centralized computer systems with detailed logs of access and downloads, think of justices or clerks having copies of a work in progress on thumb drives for convenient access away from their Supreme Court offices. More than likely, they'd work on these drafts via MS Word or some similar editor. Would all Justices and clerks be aware that those editors make and keep a backup copy on a local drive every time they open the file? Open the file on a shared laptop, and viola a backup is made. Any other person with access to that laptop could make a copy of the backup file. One could guess that in a culture of mutual trust and respect, security takes a backseat to convenience.
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