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Reading comments below I see smarty pants naysayers are already picking the CHIPS initiative apart but it's a good investment that will advantage other seemingly unrelated industries and keep essential technologies moving forward. It may not happen immediately but the commitment is a commitment in The United States. I give it A+ for effort. Now we must make it work and in the long run it will work because it must. Although Biden prioritized this I want to see both political parties hold up their end of the flag on this one.
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Joe In Co You assume that the only way to handle this is the crash the economy. There are other ways to handle this - the best one is a slow measured approach to paying down the debt over an extended period of time coupled with a Congress that actually is willing to put the best interest of the country in front of its petty partisanship. Spending can be controlled without creating undue hardship IF all sides cooperate. Part of this cooperation involves taxpayers. As was pointed out elsewhere, economic stimulation or turning the US back toward a producer rather than just a consumer goes along way toward providing a more smoothed economic climate. But this means that US consumers need to stop shopping at COSTCO where they buy primarily foreign made goods by the boat load in favor of buying US made goods that cost more but generate jobs. In addition, its time to admit that we can all live with a lot less STUFF in our houses and lives so buying one nice TV made in the US rather than 3 cheap TV's made in China is better in the long run for the economy and the nation as a whole.
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"content": "Joe In Co You assume that the only way to handle this is the crash the economy. There are other ways to handle this - the best one is a slow measured approach to paying down the debt over an extended period of time coupled with a Congress that actually is willing to put the best interest of the country in front of its petty partisanship. Spending can be controlled without creating undue hardship IF all sides cooperate. Part of this cooperation involves taxpayers. As was pointed out elsewhere, economic stimulation or turning the US back toward a producer rather than just a consumer goes along way toward providing a more smoothed economic climate. But this means that US consumers need to stop shopping at COSTCO where they buy primarily foreign made goods by the boat load in favor of buying US made goods that cost more but generate jobs. In addition, its time to admit that we can all live with a lot less STUFF in our houses and lives so buying one nice TV made in the US rather than 3 cheap TV's made in China is better in the long run for the economy and the nation as a whole.\n",
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| no | Classification | 332 |
Ben Hubbard gives a useful if flawed analysis. Turkey's foreign policy is unlikely to change whoever is in power. The foreign ministry may have lost influence but it is not so much lost to Erdogan as to the defence ministry - the military has a large say in foreign policy, especially where it concerns Kurds, Syria, Greece, Cyprus and NATO. As for his economic policy, Erdogan is doing little different from any Western government about to face an election - spend, spend spend. Inflation is high but has always been higher than in the West. Britain had inflation at 1% pre-pandemic and is now above 10%. That's a ten-fold increase, ie. higher than the proportionate increase in Turkey. Erdogan has been criticised for his policy on interest rates but raising these by 1 or 2% is not going to make any sustainable difference to the international value of the Turkish lira and could well drive many small businesses to the wall. As for the opposition candidates, Imamoglu is a good potential candidate, but will not lead the party as long as Kilicdaroglu continues to head the opposition. So Erdogan should not waste effort on attacking Imamoglu. Erdogan's greatest asset is that the opposition is divided and has no coherent policy - it's all very well criticising the AK Party but CHP has nothing to offer in exchange except platitudes and empty rhetoric.
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"content": "Ben Hubbard gives a useful if flawed analysis. Turkey's foreign policy is unlikely to change whoever is in power. The foreign ministry may have lost influence but it is not so much lost to Erdogan as to the defence ministry - the military has a large say in foreign policy, especially where it concerns Kurds, Syria, Greece, Cyprus and NATO. As for his economic policy, Erdogan is doing little different from any Western government about to face an election - spend, spend spend. Inflation is high but has always been higher than in the West. Britain had inflation at 1% pre-pandemic and is now above 10%. That's a ten-fold increase, ie. higher than the proportionate increase in Turkey. Erdogan has been criticised for his policy on interest rates but raising these by 1 or 2% is not going to make any sustainable difference to the international value of the Turkish lira and could well drive many small businesses to the wall. As for the opposition candidates, Imamoglu is a good potential candidate, but will not lead the party as long as Kilicdaroglu continues to head the opposition. So Erdogan should not waste effort on attacking Imamoglu. Erdogan's greatest asset is that the opposition is divided and has no coherent policy - it's all very well criticising the AK Party but CHP has nothing to offer in exchange except platitudes and empty rhetoric.\n",
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Michael You're so wrong about so much, i'll have to provide a listing: considering that the primary benefit of the ACA was to provide much improved access to health care for 100million citizens, it seems that the really "common sense" was to support the legislation, and considering that the upshot elections allowed at least a brief Democratic control of the House and the Presidency w/ Obama, not too hard to judge that the country appreciated it, rather than the real conspiracy driven movement of MAGA, here in Michigan, in my district, the more left incumbent just got beaten by the less left redistricted Dem, and in NY at least two districts got new Repubs- so much for your primary theory, Sinema and Manchin may not be completely nuts, but check their donors; the Pharm guys and the coal industry, and you'll understand them better, question: does a "fairer tax system" include extended benefits for real estate developers and lower tax rates for those few who have capital gains? "good of the country" is a "beauty argument", based on the "eye-of-the-beholder."
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"content": "Michael You're so wrong about so much, i'll have to provide a listing: considering that the primary benefit of the ACA was to provide much improved access to health care for 100million citizens, it seems that the really \"common sense\" was to support the legislation, and considering that the upshot elections allowed at least a brief Democratic control of the House and the Presidency w/ Obama, not too hard to judge that the country appreciated it, rather than the real conspiracy driven movement of MAGA, here in Michigan, in my district, the more left incumbent just got beaten by the less left redistricted Dem, and in NY at least two districts got new Repubs- so much for your primary theory, Sinema and Manchin may not be completely nuts, but check their donors; the Pharm guys and the coal industry, and you'll understand them better, question: does a \"fairer tax system\" include extended benefits for real estate developers and lower tax rates for those few who have capital gains? \"good of the country\" is a \"beauty argument\", based on the \"eye-of-the-beholder.\"\n",
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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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"content": "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.\"\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,975 |
Gap's line of "modern" t shirts, which are a medium thickness modal/cotton blend and cost $20, $25, and $30 for sleeveless, short, and long, respectively (when not on frequent sale), are really quite excellent. They come in crew and v neck (plus scoop for the tanks and a boatneck long sleeve), and I wish they came in more colors. Plus, they come in tall and petite for those of us with above or below average length torsos.
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| yes | Classification | 6,105 |
Girish Kotwal Nonsense. There is literally not an industry of note that didn't rely on government investment, incentive and help in its early stages. I challenge you to name an exception. Aviation, rail, automaking, agriculture, shipping, hi tech, all benefited enormously from government involvement early on.
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| yes | Classification | 6,834 |
P This is supported by studies that indicate that student success is increased when students and faculty work together on projects of different types. A commitment to this route towards student success means the institution needs to invest more in faculty time. Unfortunately, faculty are always the last place most administrations - especially public university ones - are willing to invest in. On the contrary, faculty workloads are starting to reflect the extent to which universities rely on unpaid labor under the category of "service" ... labor law would describe the excess exploitation as "volunteerism." But nobody is looking. There is also a correlation between student success and faculty salaries.
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| no | Classification | 2,892 |
As others have pointed out, Weisselberg's sentence is laughable - 5 months (or less, with time off for good behavior) for guilty pleas to "scheming to defraud, grand larceny, conspiracy and tax fraud.” Also laughable is a fine of 1.6 million for the Trump Organization, which doubtless has scads of money stashed in tropic tax havens. These people are weasels. Weisselberg is sorry for his family and for the Trumps. Apparently he has no appreciation of the effect of his criminal activity on the public good. I hope the prosecutor does pressure him until he cooperates on the Stormy Daniels hush money business. Why should Weisselberg be given a pass on charges on insurance fraud if he participated in it? Can you imagine what kind of sentence a regular citizen would have gotten for the crimes he’s already acknowledged?
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"content": "As others have pointed out, Weisselberg's sentence is laughable - 5 months (or less, with time off for good behavior) for guilty pleas to \"scheming to defraud, grand larceny, conspiracy and tax fraud.” Also laughable is a fine of 1.6 million for the Trump Organization, which doubtless has scads of money stashed in tropic tax havens. These people are weasels. Weisselberg is sorry for his family and for the Trumps. Apparently he has no appreciation of the effect of his criminal activity on the public good. I hope the prosecutor does pressure him until he cooperates on the Stormy Daniels hush money business. Why should Weisselberg be given a pass on charges on insurance fraud if he participated in it? Can you imagine what kind of sentence a regular citizen would have gotten for the crimes he’s already acknowledged?\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,271 |
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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Dennis Some comments here imply that the federal share of the Medicaid expansion will run out. In 2020, the federal share of the Medicaid expansion is 90% with the state share 10%. As of now, there are no changes planned to reduce the federal percentage. <a href="https://www.macpac.gov/subtopic/state-and-federal-spending-under-the-aca" target="_blank">https://www.macpac.gov/subtopic/state-and-federal-spending-under-the-aca</a>/
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| yes | Classification | 5,923 |
Jer Actually, for water coming from CA's State Water Project (SWP) system, the users pay most of the cost; general taxpayers pay a small-ish portion. The SWP contracts are complicated; figuring out how much a user pays per acre-ft is not straightforward. Each year, they take all of that year's deliveries and add it to all the "expected" deliveries for the remaining years of the longest term SWP bond (renewed frequently!) -- that's the denominator. Numerator: costs for that year plus present value of all outstanding bonds (but with a user-friendly 0% interest rate! often extending out 30+ years --- super big discount). I've grossly simplified things here, but that's a rough approx.O'Connor wrote the definitive text on this in 1994 (<a href="https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/PCFFA&IGFR/PCFFA_23_SWPfin.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/PCFFA&IGFR/PCFFA_23_SWPfin.pdf</a>).
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"content": "Jer Actually, for water coming from CA's State Water Project (SWP) system, the users pay most of the cost; general taxpayers pay a small-ish portion. The SWP contracts are complicated; figuring out how much a user pays per acre-ft is not straightforward. Each year, they take all of that year's deliveries and add it to all the \"expected\" deliveries for the remaining years of the longest term SWP bond (renewed frequently!) -- that's the denominator. Numerator: costs for that year plus present value of all outstanding bonds (but with a user-friendly 0% interest rate! often extending out 30+ years --- super big discount). I've grossly simplified things here, but that's a rough approx.O'Connor wrote the definitive text on this in 1994 (<a href=\"https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/PCFFA&IGFR/PCFFA_23_SWPfin.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/california_waterfix/exhibits/docs/PCFFA&IGFR/PCFFA_23_SWPfin.pdf</a>).\n",
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A tax cut of $100 million and the spending of $100 million on government programs are not equal. Tax cuts allow people to keep more of their own money. Government programs are an attempt to engineer outcomes for favored groups, paid for by those outside those groups. The US Constitution clearly delineates the responsibilities of the federal government, leaving all else to the states. Revenue sharing, by any name, and wallet based coercion by the federal government should end. For instance, the only federal spending on higher education should be for funding the military service academies. The only federal spending on roads and highways should be that which it contributes to the Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Not on forcing street signs to be in uniform fonts and colors. Not on bridges on state routes. Medical care spending should be no more than the cost of the VA, strictly limited to confirmed service connected severe disability. It is outrageous that as a Cold War vet, I can access VA care if my income is at the poverty level. Don’t get me started on any GI Bill after WWII. And so on.
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"content": "A tax cut of $100 million and the spending of $100 million on government programs are not equal. Tax cuts allow people to keep more of their own money. Government programs are an attempt to engineer outcomes for favored groups, paid for by those outside those groups. The US Constitution clearly delineates the responsibilities of the federal government, leaving all else to the states. Revenue sharing, by any name, and wallet based coercion by the federal government should end. For instance, the only federal spending on higher education should be for funding the military service academies. The only federal spending on roads and highways should be that which it contributes to the Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Not on forcing street signs to be in uniform fonts and colors. Not on bridges on state routes. Medical care spending should be no more than the cost of the VA, strictly limited to confirmed service connected severe disability. It is outrageous that as a Cold War vet, I can access VA care if my income is at the poverty level. Don’t get me started on any GI Bill after WWII. And so on.\n",
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Dear Rachel,If Victor's X-ray Looks Clear, Don't Medicate.1 5 10 50 100 500 1000(I don't know if this is medically cromulent guidance, nor, if it is, whether it applies only to patients named Victor.)
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My favorite line in this piece: "Jones is making only $8.4 million (against the salary cap)...."As a Bengals fan, I can't imagine the discussions and planning going on by Mike Brown & co. to find all the money they're going to have to unearth for Joe Burrow :-)
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Interesting read, but article contains no mention of Gary Marcus or his critique of OpenAI, ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Sam Altman’s acknowledgment of the problems and blind spots Marcus confronts, problems that should trouble us all. The sobering issues he highlights (as guest on Ezra Klein’ podcast) are getting glossed over or completely missed in media reporting, as this article does.
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Oracle at Delphi If Chair Powell had not done his job, we'd still be on the road to ruin. Like it or not we have to keep the value of Treasury bonds high enough to attract investors such as the People's Republic of China. How long do you think nations like the PRC would hesitate to cash in as the value continues downward? If the PRC desired to cash in now, I think you have to forget about this once great country.
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Now over $100 Billion to Ukraine but zero dollars to defend our own border. We soon will have 4 Million illegal immigrants who are straining states and cities from the south to the northeast. This uneven policy is lunacy
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"content": "Now over $100 Billion to Ukraine but zero dollars to defend our own border. We soon will have 4 Million illegal immigrants who are straining states and cities from the south to the northeast. This uneven policy is lunacy\n",
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I'm afraid I am spoiled. I have a personal egg man who delivers and charges $2/dozen. Maybe he has 75 chickens. I order for myself and several neighbors, so I am a guaranteed customer every week. He also brings me free manure for my garden.
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| no | Classification | 3,282 |
That's less likely to happen now, because AI developers have been criticized for releasing AI-generated output that is considered objectionable by some people.In particular, the OpenAI Charter commits "to mak[ing] AGI safe" and "to avoid[ing] enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power." (openai.com)
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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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"content": "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.\n",
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While private equity has its place, its fundamental raison d’etra is to extract profits at any cost from consumers and in this situation, franchisees, then sell for a profit. So, too, voracious medical entities, corporations which have purchased veterinarian and dental practices, etc. My experience is that communication between consumers and these corporate providers is no longer personal but totally corporate and includes substantial increases in price and fees. I long for the good old days when personal relationships and confidence in the provider (or franchisee) were the bedrocks of the relationship.
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“‘If you want to live here,’ Karla Johnson, a chapter president of the Montana Federation of Republican Women, said, ‘be a Christian.’ Keith Regier, an influential state senator, said all laws should be based on Judeo-Christian principles…He was upset by what he perceived to be a censorious cultural moment — especially when it came to people speaking out against gay and transgender rights. ‘There is an open war on Christianity in this country.’”The lack of self-awareness or any sense of reflection of reality beyond their own intensely small-minded bigotry is stunning. Christians are the ones and pretty much the only ones who declared any kind of war in this nation and it’s on everyone else. Gays, women controlling their bodies, Native Americans clawing back their cultural heritage, those who value protecting God’s creation instead of corporate petroleum - the exemplar of godless mammon, and others. They just want to be left alone to live freely as they please but it is Christians like these two zealots who have declared war on the same rights for those groups as they claim for themselves. And they don’t even see that it is Christians who are the cultural warmongers. I want to thank the NYTimes for very occasionally covering the rise and spread of this insidious form of Christian nationalism but it’s not enough. There is deeply rooted widespread political, financial, corruption throughout the country from Christian nationalism that requires daily exposure and analysis.
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Poor kitchen/appliance design is an issue my wife and I have noticed recently while staying in my mothers "luxury" condo, which at first glance appears to be very well-outfitted, with marble countertops and a big "restaurant style" refrigerator and "duel fuel" (why?) gas/electric oven. The freezer slides out from the bottom third of the refrigerator, and to open it (particularly to start it moving) requires such effort that I wonder how my mother didn't injure her back doing it (or did she?). The oven pictured here looks like a great idea - to have to bend over and reach awkwardly down to get hot and heavy trays of food (some with liquid grease in them - don't spill it onto the heating element!) seems crazy, and why don't all stove doors open like cabinets?
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| no | Classification | 2,197 |
I can’t but wonder if all the layoffs from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are going to cause a middle-class recession.I was spared my job thankfully at Amazon. However, I am so hesitant to spend any money now. I’ve canceled all my major purchases and home renovation we were about to do. Our family vacation is now going to be a road trip.
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Simon Swain Huh? Maybe in NYC but you could live quite comfortably in Chicago on $100K as a single person. No roommate needed.
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For years, the only way to get a decent increase in salary was to move to another organization. This is what has been driving the great resignation post pandemic, people leaving their current positions for better opportunities at other companies. At least there are plenty of job openings available to move to. Staying at the same place is likely going to result in the same 2-4 percent annual raises, no matter what the inflation rate.
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Michael We bought an induction single burner that plugs into a wall socket and sits on a countertop. It's nice: it's fast and since it's a single burner (is that even the correct word for an induction cooktop?), you can put it away when not in use. It was $116 on amazon by a company named Duxtop. As for your pans, first test what cookware you have by seeing if a fridge magnet sticks. If it does, you're in business. If not, then, start with one induction non-stick pan like we did and work your way up.
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It is not just education, government investment, but also where Wall Street's money is at. There's a preference in software/internet over hardware because of the low capital requirement, fast turn around of money, and more commercial hype as they often directly face the mass consumers. Do you know about L5 auto driving? How about an EUV scanner that can print at the resolution of 10 nm?If the government is serious about promoting semiconductors, they shall consider this preference of software over hardware as an instance of "market failure" and help rebalance the playfield. Here is an real example:Google pays 300K+ (salary + stocks) for a new graduate with a master in CS while Intel pays 150K for a MIT PhD in EE. What do brainy STEM guys do? Well, they go get a CS master and then quit their job at Intel and join Google, unless they really LOVE Intel and take the 50% lower pay similar to those waiters in Hollywood who aspire to become movie stars.Except that they're often more realistic and better trained in statistics. So a lot of my colleagues and myself (all graduates from the best schools imaginable with hardcore STEM PhDs in Applied physics, EE, ChemE, etc. within the last 5 years) in semiconductor have either left it already or are contemplating leaving it for software.Your move, government.
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Mkm Why restrict it to billionaires? How about this. The top 10% of the wealthy own 90% of the 145 trillion in wealth in the US. Take just 25% of the wealth from the top 10% - then all the national debt can be paid back right away. Those people have plenty of money so even losing 25% will barely be noticeable for them.
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Every investment is speculative: dollars, Euros, real estate, stocks, bonds, gold, Bitcoin - it is all speculative. You can hide cash in a mattress and your cash is speculative - will it get burned up if the house catches fire? Will inflation cause it to be worth less in the future? You can buy US government bonds but it looks like Republicans will soon destroy the full faith and credit. You can buy Bitcoin and be assured that you hold an asset that will not be diluted in value by the inflationary creation of ever more Bitcoins. And Bitcoin is here to stay. The US government cannot shut down or even regulate Bitcoin any more than they can shutdown or regulate the flow of information. At its very essence, Bitcoin is information. Bitcoin is a public ledger that's protected by bunch of computers solving cryptographic codes. The genie is out of the bottle and there's no going back.
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Armand The automakers and airlines (SW especially in the SW- who would have thought?) have bought off the politicians to kill efficient public transportation. That, plus bureaucratic bungling and politics as usual (in the case of the California Clown Car Bullet Train to Nowhere. Original official ((as was)) estimate ((based on blue sky over promising, with no basis in reality) was $40 billion. Guess what? Now it's $105 billion and counting. Unofficial guesses put it at $150 billion...and that's probably wishful thinking at best. You know, a billion here and a billion there and you are starting to talk real money. You understand, the "planners" had no plan to exactly what exact route the train was going to be traveling, no idea of how much buying the land needed, or tunneling and track construction would cost. If they did they would not have been more than $60 billion short of the actual cost. Skeptics claim it was low balled just to sell it to the public. Who would have thought that was ever done?
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I worked in the restaurant industry from 13 years of age to my late twenties: dishwasher, busboy, kitchen gopher, sous chef, and finally a line cook. I love the industry and the insane people who make a career in it. Its one of the toughest ways to make a living you can imagine. So I'm very interested in making sure those individuals get paid well. I tip very well. But for those who want to ensure that workers make the kinds of hourly wages we all wish them to, consider a local place in LA which does just that.I got a short stack of blueberry pancakes and coffee. Truly some of the best pancakes I've ever had. By the time I had paid the required table fee, figured out that each refill (2) of coffee was $3, tax, and the actual cost of the pancakes, I was out nearly $40. $40 for a stack of pancakes. Sorry, but I just can't "sustain" that. Food and dining is important. Paying people right is too. I don't know the answer. I hope Ms. Howard figures it out.
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Defense wins championships. I think there are certain players that just change how the sport is played--and all of the big three have done this. Federer with exquisite shot making, all-court movement and racquet skills, Nadal with bruising intensity, speed and massive looping ground strokes--the buggy whip forehand--and Djokovic, who can do all of the above but has upped them one. His defense. No one has ever defended like Djokovic--with these unheard of stretches, splits and side to side lunges. It stretches his range on the court probably three or four feet greater than any other player--nobody else does this. That extra coverage makes it that much harder to get the ball past him and extends points that other players just concede.
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In 2017, the average price of Humira in the US was $4,480 but in the Netherlands it was only $780. If pressed, I expect AbVie and other drug makers will protest that price controls will stifle innovation. Let's give it a try and see if that's true.
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For years I've used one gmail address on serious websites that I have a real relationship with, and another gmail address for less serious, one-off, and temporary logins.Evan after years. the serious gmail address receives very little spam, whereas the frivolous gmail address receives a steady stream. I only see those if I open the IMAP view and click to the Spam folder. There are some pretty nasty scams in there.Incidentally, I never log into my Google account unless there is a specific reason to manage the account. (I access all my email via the Outlook client.) This is one level of tracking reduction that I have control of.
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I remember purchasing a Southern Cross ticket for ~$1500 and my father donated his TWA frequent flyer mileage for a second ticket and I brought a close friend along. We traveled on Quantas via TWA’s partner alliance. We traveled from San Francisco to Sidney to Auckland to Brisbane to Nadi in the Fiji Islands for 2 1/2 months on those tickets. I remember the 747 was packed for the flight to Honolulu, half the plane emptied out there. My partner and I went to the back of the plane, the middle row seats 5 across were empty. We each took a row put up the armrests, laid down went to sleep and we’re awoken on approach to Sydney. Those were the days!!!
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I encourage all readers to familiarize themselves with the Great Flood of 1862. The parallels are uncanny, and alarming. Following 20 years of drought, the Oregon, California and Nevada were subject to a string of atmospheric river storms that caused nearly 10 feet of rain to fall on california over a 43 day period (some areas received 15+ feet). The end result was massive flooding. The central valley turned into a lake, stretching from north of Sacramento to Bakersfield, and was 30 miles wide and up to 50 feet deep. The flood waters took 5 months (from the start of the storm) to fully recede. The USGS has confirmed, through geologic records, that these storms occur every 150 years or so, with the shortest interval being 51 years. On this timescale, we are overdue. Based on geologic records, the storm of 1605 was 50% more powerful than 1862, but the area was undeveloped so recorded first hand accounts of the extent of the flooding are non-existent. The USGS has dubbed these mega storms "the ARkStorm" (Atmospheric River Storm) and expects one to hit california within 25 years of 2010 (when the report was issued). In their modeling, the lake would encompass all lowlands from Shasta Lake to Bakersfield. All the dams and levees built over the last 200 years will mitigate the flooding for a brief time, but will ultimately prove to exacerbate the flooding when the floodwaters are unable to naturally flow back into rivers when the storm ends.
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Franco51 The "yacht" myth is overrated. It's not much of a yacht, plus it is his DC residence. Although it's insured for $750K, he bought it for about $220K, used. It cost far, far less than the houses and condos of his colleagues in DC.
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Ivan Trump was in power for 4 years. This year and last year's deficits combined are 4 trillion based on this article, for a mean of 2 trillion a year under Biden. So for Trump to have had 3 times as much deficit during his tenure that would have to be 2 trillion per year x 4 years x 3=24 trillion. This was clearly not the case.
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Since November 2020, all we've heard repeatedly from far-right Republicans is claims of "voter fraud." Well, Santos is a guy who voted from an address in Whitestone when he was living for months in Huntington (by his own admission), which also happens to be outside the 3rd Congressional District. THIS IS REAL VOTER FRAUD, not the fake stuff of the Trumpies. So where's the Republican outrage? The answer, obviously, is that Kevin McCarthy needed every single vote, including Santos', so they won't do or say anything. And when will we find out where Santos got the $700,000 he "loaned" to his campaign (at the same time he was stiffing his landlords on his rent)? As a resident of the 3rd Congressional District, I hope the local DA's and other state and federal authorities investigate Santos thoroughly and promptly and bring appropriate charges. It's a truly despicable situation-- not only Santos' behavior and the Republicans' outright hypocrisy, but the thought that my neighbors and I will effectively have no representation in Congress while this liar resists facing up to what he's done.
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JL -- if you're an engineer in product development, you clearly understand that customers will always pay the lowest possible cost for a product. So if you've designed in some amount of sustainability or repairability, that comes with cost. Maybe it's a compromise on the mechanical design, to give access to a replaceable battery. Maybe there's some way of making the screen trivially easy to replace. But you know this adds cost, and this cost shows up in the final price.Everyone complains that the things they buy can't be repaired (or repaired for a low cost), but when there are two otherwise identical products on the shelf, one priced $100 higher because it's "repairable," then we know what the consumer will choose. Every time.
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"content": "JL -- if you're an engineer in product development, you clearly understand that customers will always pay the lowest possible cost for a product. So if you've designed in some amount of sustainability or repairability, that comes with cost. Maybe it's a compromise on the mechanical design, to give access to a replaceable battery. Maybe there's some way of making the screen trivially easy to replace. But you know this adds cost, and this cost shows up in the final price.Everyone complains that the things they buy can't be repaired (or repaired for a low cost), but when there are two otherwise identical products on the shelf, one priced $100 higher because it's \"repairable,\" then we know what the consumer will choose. Every time.\n",
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Now lets talk about Restasis...patent was supposed to expire in 2014 but hey tweak it, file new patent and keep charging $500 a month for a drug not covered by any insurance I have ever had. Finally went generic in 2022 I think. Eye medicines are some of the worst!
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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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| no | Classification | 2,045 |
The current problem with this modernization is how long it is taking. I travel the Thruway between NYC and Albany almost every week and the Plattekill rest area (at about mile 70 northbound) has been closed and being constructed for what seems like almost 2 years. I mean how long does it take to knock down a simple building and construct a new one? How many years will travelers not be able to access rest areas (or bathrooms) on the Thruway? Why isn't the NYS Thruway Authority seemingly doing anything to expedite this work? Now, new rest areas are being closed for what seems likely to be additional years. I don't need artisanal cuisine at a rest stop -just want it to be open and have a bathroom.
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Financial systems like banking, currency need clear, fair, and robust regulation to avoid the high cost to others of magical thing…AI, Self-driving cars, crypto (well-named) tokens…and other forms of magical thinking can exist, and to a degree always will. So betting, risky investments like start-ups, your loan to your cousin…but here the risk is yours, your potential gain or loss. Sure you could waste a lot of money, and the one ‘big win’ story will keep people coming. But Enron and Madoff hurt people who were lied to, and this crosses what should be a clear line. And the organization of these ‘things’ should be accountable…and calling it block-chain or some other cover story, doesn’t stop people from being responsible…nor people from magical thinking!
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"content": "Financial systems like banking, currency need clear, fair, and robust regulation to avoid the high cost to others of magical thing…AI, Self-driving cars, crypto (well-named) tokens…and other forms of magical thinking can exist, and to a degree always will. So betting, risky investments like start-ups, your loan to your cousin…but here the risk is yours, your potential gain or loss. Sure you could waste a lot of money, and the one ‘big win’ story will keep people coming. But Enron and Madoff hurt people who were lied to, and this crosses what should be a clear line. And the organization of these ‘things’ should be accountable…and calling it block-chain or some other cover story, doesn’t stop people from being responsible…nor people from magical thinking!\n",
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Imagine how many people you could hire and pay with $54 million dollars!
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Despite the article's frame and the consequent posts in response, an investment of $200 billion into American infrastructure on a scale similar to the "space race" is NOT a negative.
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There is close to a zero percent chance that future close examinations of where US war assistance dollars to Ukraine have been and will be spent won’t uncover hideous displays of corruption. That $13 billion direct deposit into the Ukrainian treasury is surely getting picked apart as we speak. Ukraine’s well documented corruption culture has not vanished with the Russian invasion. I pray that our aid oversight process is viciously rigorous. We are a country already shouldering $30 trillion in debt and have little margin for error.
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"content": "There is close to a zero percent chance that future close examinations of where US war assistance dollars to Ukraine have been and will be spent won’t uncover hideous displays of corruption. That $13 billion direct deposit into the Ukrainian treasury is surely getting picked apart as we speak. Ukraine’s well documented corruption culture has not vanished with the Russian invasion. I pray that our aid oversight process is viciously rigorous. We are a country already shouldering $30 trillion in debt and have little margin for error.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,408 |
What has brought us to this point is the misguided belief that healthcare is a profit center, whereas we now are waking up to the fact that healthcare is actually an important infrastructure, and needs to be treated that way. While you we’re investing in healthcare 20 percent or more of healthcare dollars we’re sucked out the system to fuel Wall Street short term demands. Now you are saying that it’s the sick people’s fault..
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H Friedman Agree. And while campaign contributions should be limited to no more than $10,000, full disclosure should be made of its sources.Divest PACS of dark money.
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My understanding of why the federal government doesn't have to balance its budget is that states do and if they need help they can get it from the feds.I could be 100% wrong. But it makes sense to me.In this case, in 2023, calling for a balanced budget is a gimmick. Instead they could fix Social Security by eliminating the cap on how much of wages they collect. Right now only 6.2% of income (or $160,200) is taxed for ss. People who earn above $160,200 do not pay a penny more into ss. But they can reap the benefits when the time comes. It may not make the program completely sound, but it would go a long way towards solvency.Republicans simply can't stand the idea of Social Security. Since the 1950's SS and eliminating it have been the sole purpose of Republicans.Boot straps; we must all be able to pull them up and help ourselves. This concept ignores so much of what happens in life. The vast majority of people do pick themselves up. But they still might need help. And you never know when that's going to happen.A spouse dies young, without life insurance, leaves young children, what is this family supposed to do? Well, the children get survivor benefits until they're 18 or graduate high school (Reagan took away the benefits during college). The surviving spouse can receive benefits if they don't work.No one's getting rich doing this, as Reps would demonize. It's a helping hand from the gov't to make ends meet. And they hate it. I don't know why.
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"For what it’s worth, financial markets have basically declared the inflation threat over: They’re implicitly predicting roughly 2 percent inflation as far as the eye can see. They’re also willing to buy federal debt at interest rates that are up a bit but still low by historical standards, showing no hint of concerns about U.S. solvency."Prof Krugman, please tell your colleagues at the Fed to pause any further interest rate increases. The most aggressive rate hike cycle in 40 years is most assuredly slowing demand and curbing various aspects of our still-expanding economy. This Thursday's CPI report may indicate inflation continues to fall fast, hence I don't see a reason for the Fed to continue on the path of a 5-5.5% restrictive rate. I too believe we will see a soft landing but the prospect of that dims with hawkish talks of higher rates.
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The apparent diffidence of this column is written in an alternative universe than the one I am living in. In my universe our House of Representatives is in the hand of nihilists who are either markedly stupid or sycophants or both: Anything is possible, including budgeting $0.00 for the hated FBI, CIA, EPA, and Justice Department. For any decent legislation to pass the 212 Democrats need at least 6 Republicans to step up. But what six would do that when it is certain that voting on ANYTHING with Dems will immediately get them and their families hundreds of death threats? We are in grave peril, far worse than failure to expand the debt.
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Religious fanaticism and teachings lead to intolerance and hatred resulting in violence not just towards other religions but also towards sects within the same religion (Sunni, Shia, ahmadiyas, etc.).Pakistan was founded based on religion and continues to exist focused on enmity towards India. The military and the religious leaders own the country. So much energy and money is spent on military expenditure and military support for terrorists, including sending terrorists to Kashmir and India. Many minorities were oppressed and most have left Pakistan since independence. Recently a temple promised by the government was bombed because the religious leaders said that Pakistan is a Muslim country and cannot have temples. Minorities are targeted through blasphemy laws and minority girls are kidnapped.US also supported military dictator in Pakistan as an ally against terrorists while Pakistan was playing a double game and hiding terrorists.Eventually Pakistan will itself have to pay the price for its intolerance and for supporting terrorism.Without religious fanaticism there would be peace and prosperity in the region. Intolerance by one group only makes the other group intolerant.
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As a physician, I do find these excellent suggestions. And they are all enhanced by living a with a religious mentality and lifestyle. I'm going to be using traditional Judaism, especially orthodox, for the setting here, as I'm most familiar with it. 1) Kart besvar--responding to adversity with appreciation: this is essentially another way of emphasizing gratitude-a real appreciation for what one is blessed with and how to use it to help others. 2) Surrounding oneself with the young: with large multigenerational families and cohesive, supportive communities, the elderly contribute and benefit from their younger adults to infants--with true love and friendship. 3)And saying yes: you bet! In Judaism, it's called mitzvahs, of course. Actually seeking out ways to help others on a daily basis, anticipating the needs of people of all ages, races, nationalities with warmth and cheer. And giving a minimum--a minimum!--of 10% of one's income for tzedakah, usually, but not really accurately, translated as charity. I suspect that communities of other religions have their counterparts. So do the secular, but when one is doing these things as part of recognition and adherence to a higher Source instead of his/her own moods and very likely going to find more assured expression, less subject to personally and socially countering circumstance.
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Robbing Peter (native people/salmon) to pay Paul (mining company), only sounds good to Paul. How could anyone with a heart threaten a native people and species just for money.Open Rebuttal: There is a commercial fishing group that would like to talk about THEIR economic interests.
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Beth What this tells you is the Power of the perception of betrayal. The Democratic Party was a force for significant progressive change in this country. It can list Victory in Europe, Victory over Japan, the United Nations, a robust Middle Class, a civilization of opportunity, Medicare, Social Security, the Voting Rights Act, Civil Rights and many other accomplishments. It betrayed the American Experience starting with the Clinton Administration and its unholy alliance with Wall Street and China. Clinton policies have effectively immiserated millions of Americans. In addition, the creation of our militarized local police began under Clinton. Democrats wonder why they are despised by many millions of Americans. The reasons are plain to see. Hillary accepting speaking fees in the range of $500,000 a talk did not help. He portraying Trump supporters as "deplorables" solidified this discontent and turned it into out and out hatred. Once a red line is crossed some people would rather eat dirt than support a governing class that betrayed them. That is DeSantis' advantage and why he may very probably be the next President of the United States.
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eugene barron We can tell you from experience that you need to have a pickleball club. Which of course, means you need a group of people willing to put in the time and effort to establish, develop and maintain it. The "club" is the essential political force that can be used to work with, negotiate with, and if necessary, push local governments to adapt to what we all see, i.e. empty or near empty tennis courts and full and waiting pickleball courts. (Before you say it, we played tennis, I have nothing against tennis, and we fully support tennis. We just want our city to support the needs and actual usages of both sports.) That said, there is a very inexpensive SW program call CourtReserve to assist anyone developing a new club. (There are probably others as well.) Our local club has in the 2 years of existence transformed 4 (largely unused) tennis courts, to 2 tennis and 6 pickleball courts. Lined 4 additional courts for dual usage with portable nets. Worked with our Bay Area tri-valley city Parks and Rec departments to recognize the needs, open and maintain indoor courts, etc.
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With full respect to Hamlin and the whole situation: 220,000 pl donated over 7 million in a matter of days to a toy drive that sought 3k. Imagine if could stir emotions and direct resources toward persistent everyday ills, like those that create the need for toy drives.
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Novak and his wife through their foundation gave $1 million euros to hospitals in Serbia in 2020 to help in the fight against Covid but no mention of that in all of these comments. Comments?
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Andrew could not agree more. If all the commenters here can say with hand on heart that they do not give their $$ to any company that has explosive practices I applaud them!
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In my small Pacific Coast town, the local Kroger owned Fred Meyer store is still selling plain white eggs for $1.99 a dozen and extra large for $2.19 a dozen. They are $2.99 a dozen at Safeway right now. Other stores in the area are charging between $5 and $6 per dozen. Something fishy is going on. Are these two chains using eggs as a loss leader? Or are they simply not raking in huge profits on them?
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Mr Alter . Do you not wonder why $1000.00 an hour attorneys are moving boxes for Biden right before the election ? Could the boxes have contained incriminating evidence for the Big guy and his son Hunter ? If they did you can be sure that the incriminating documents met Mr Shredder . And then they made up the cover story .They then wait until after the election to mention a few documents found by accident . Both Trump and Biden need some time in Lock up
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Liz K I applaud the sentiment. Today I'm making a sculpture of discarded Christmas trees. Each year I gather up what suburbia freely gives me, 26 Dec. onward, and then assemble roadside into a pleasing formation. It lingers for days/weeks and then the town picks up the art and shreds it into woodchips for any citizen to use as mulch. I love the different meaning and value of the object d'art at the various nodes of it's passage. In early Dec we're looking at $500 of retail, tree lot value. In early Jan. they are free for the taking. Today the formation will bee: Art With Noh Clear Label, thanks for the inspiration and poetic delight
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Allan That is due to the general world issues. The trump policies were ineffective and the wall crumbles while some states waste time with containers of all things. Inflation is due to Covid and supply chain issues primarily. Hence it is global in nature. There is no support for the monetary view and if that were true inflation would have soared during the near decade of QE with the Fed dumping $80 billion dollars a month into the economy. There is also no intel or other material that supports the view that Putin attacked for that reason. Well there is Fox and other outlets that pander to less informed people. The Six Day war is not a relevant example if you study it. In that war Israel had geographic proximity to its opponents and could move armor against Syria, Jordan and Egypt. There is no corridor through which Israel could do the same with Iran and little likelihood they could maintain supply chains or achieve air superiority over the battlespace. Afghanistan is not even relevant. That was an asymetric conflict wherein US conventional advantages were countered with low level conflict. I await a fact based and substantive counter. Not simply talking points from questionable sources.
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"content": "Allan That is due to the general world issues. The trump policies were ineffective and the wall crumbles while some states waste time with containers of all things. Inflation is due to Covid and supply chain issues primarily. Hence it is global in nature. There is no support for the monetary view and if that were true inflation would have soared during the near decade of QE with the Fed dumping $80 billion dollars a month into the economy. There is also no intel or other material that supports the view that Putin attacked for that reason. Well there is Fox and other outlets that pander to less informed people. The Six Day war is not a relevant example if you study it. In that war Israel had geographic proximity to its opponents and could move armor against Syria, Jordan and Egypt. There is no corridor through which Israel could do the same with Iran and little likelihood they could maintain supply chains or achieve air superiority over the battlespace. Afghanistan is not even relevant. That was an asymetric conflict wherein US conventional advantages were countered with low level conflict. I await a fact based and substantive counter. Not simply talking points from questionable sources.\n",
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With $785 million in US aid going to Kenya last year, surely there must be some leverage that can be applied to encourage them to take effective steps to protect women/girls from such atrocities!
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ATL When we toured the factory in Everett, the tour guide specifically mentioned that the last items installed on an aircraft were the engines, as they cost a bazillion dollars, and Boeing didn’t want to have to pay for them one more day than necessary- “Just In Time” inventory management in action.
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Livonian Yes I have watched that male hierarchy at work. It's exhausting and demeaning. Women would do well to keep an eye on it to look for openings and allies.
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No onion, no eggMy initiation into the work world was as a waitesss at Marc’s Big Boy, a franchise of the chain known for inventing double-decker burgers–and for its chubby mascot with a pompadour, marching forward in red-and-white checked overalls. I was just out of high school, living in an unfamiliar city with a friend I’d persuaded to join me in what’s now called a ‘gap year’ adventure.My vision was to drive until we found a city we liked, find an apartment and jobs, and get a taste of adult life. We landed in Minneapolis–halfway across the country from each of our homes. Both of us were out of our element, eyes wide open. Big Boy was on a rundown strip downtown. I could walk there from our tiny apartment. Of all the challenges in that job, mastering its idiosyncratic ordering code topped the list. In a training meeting, the manager’s face was tight, his intonation dramatic, as he proceeded with what felt like a scripted oration: “There are two words I never want to hear you say in this restaurant. One of them is ONION and the other is EGG.” The code words were ‘with’ and ‘and.’ Orders shouted into the kitchen included: “Bacon AND over easy…” (eggs over easy with bacon) and “Big Boy WITH!” (onions on a burger). By coincidence, my husband worked at a Big Boy in his teens–so we both remember what a Diamond Jim was, and we can talk about breakfast and lunch in Big Boy code, whenever the urge hits.Jan. 27 Bee words: onion, initiation, into, intonation, oration.
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I would never suggest that the federal government should cut back on supporting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, infrastructure, child poverty, fighting global warming, etc., etc. Indeed, I think the government should devote more resources to these issues. Nevertheless, $31 Trillion is a lot of money to owe, even for a wealthy country like the US. At some point that debt has to stop growing and maybe even diminish. Why can't we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to lower that debt? I'm not talking about the average American who is earning less than $100,000 per year. There are thousands, probably millions, of Americans who earn well in excess of that figure each year. Yet they slide by paying very little of the earnings in taxes that this society allows them to take in. Isn't it time that they pay their fair share to contract the national debt? One other thing we can do is stop inflating the obscene Pentagon budget every year like we are the sheriff of the world. Time to get that budget number down to a reasonable number.
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PAN You are in luck!!!North Carolina is an open carry state.<a href="https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/what-is-open-carry-and-which-states-allow-it" target="_blank">https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/what-is-open-carry-and-which-states-allow-it</a>/So, please, the next time that you see someone carrying a gun please go ahead and initiate an assault against them. Should you survive you will discover that no, the law is NOT on your side. Whoever initiates violence is wrong. Aggression is wrong. Brandishing a gun is NOT open carry. Brandishing a gun is already illegal.But open carry is legal in most states, and has been so for quite some time.
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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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Donald Trump came to White House to make money, unlike Biden who has been in Public Service since 1969. Being in White House is a Public Service, not a platform to make money. Look at Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, a self-styled peace negotiator. He was working pro bono in White House and ended up getting $2 Billion investment by Saudis in his firm after leaving White House. Which makes him making $10 million a week. What he did for Saudis? When MBS's people dismembered journalist body in Istanbul in 2018 Trump administration refrained from any harsh comments about Saudis at the behest of Jared Kushner.
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Just when I thought Santos’ reputation couldn’t get any worse I read this morning that he ran a GoFundMe fund raiser for a wounded veteran who had to pay for an operation for his service dog; Santos raised $3,000 and kept the money for himself. The Vet had to pan handle to get funds for the dog’s surgery.They need a Congressional committee called the Santos Committee…..it will take two years to complete its investigation.
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Allan Cool. Charge them both. But since Biden is president based on Barr's unitary executive he cannot be charged until after he is out of office. Trump is not president and can be charged.Isn't that the law we follow now in the USA?And it should be proportion. Biden didn't obstruct justice and self-reported. The government didn't have to request the documents he just returned them when found.Trump on the other hand didn't return them and was engaged in nefarious actively likely selling off our secrets to enemies or even quasi-allies. That is what the republicans are not allowing us to find out by their obstruction.If you charge Biden with 1 year of prison per document or 1 million per document Trump also needs to be charged the same per document. And also charged for obstructing justice and investigated as to why such as selling off documents.If he did engage in espionage he should be dealt with as we have in the past with such people.Uphold the rule of law republicans. It's not that hard.
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"content": "Allan Cool. Charge them both. But since Biden is president based on Barr's unitary executive he cannot be charged until after he is out of office. Trump is not president and can be charged.Isn't that the law we follow now in the USA?And it should be proportion. Biden didn't obstruct justice and self-reported. The government didn't have to request the documents he just returned them when found.Trump on the other hand didn't return them and was engaged in nefarious actively likely selling off our secrets to enemies or even quasi-allies. That is what the republicans are not allowing us to find out by their obstruction.If you charge Biden with 1 year of prison per document or 1 million per document Trump also needs to be charged the same per document. And also charged for obstructing justice and investigated as to why such as selling off documents.If he did engage in espionage he should be dealt with as we have in the past with such people.Uphold the rule of law republicans. It's not that hard.\n",
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I have a solution to this problem….. Every male who causes an unwanted pregnancy must undergo a vasectomy and post a $100,000.00 bond to ensure child support for the baby they helped create……..What could be more anti-abortion than that?
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Let me see if I can contextualize this. We live in the wealthiest country in the world. The wealthiest country ever. The Supreme Court is about to, more than likely, ban affirmative action in universities. White people complain about 20 or 25 years of discrimination. What about the 400 years of discrimination of the cruelest sort for black people.Someone paid $228 million for one of the residences on top of one of the buildings on 58th St., billionaires row.You have to be deeply deeply blind or Christian to accept that this is a righteous world.
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While there seemed to be much promise at the outset of this debate in an honest reckoning with the catastrophe the Republican Party has wrought -on democracy itself, racial relations, environmental devastation, income inequality, demonization of the safety net, to name a few,it unfortunately descended into navel gazing as to why Bret and David were always right and continue to be so. There is much to criticize in their lack of insight and introspection, but two comments were particularly infuriating:1. Bret's comment equating VP Harris with scoflaw Sarah Palin. There seems to be an open season on Harris -without any real substance. I didn't vote for her in the primaries, and don't support her for the Presidency, but she is a serious politician who had a distinguished career as a prosecutor and in the Senate. Palin is a gaslighter who is trying to take the country down -and that's a kind description. To equate Palin with Harris is shameful misdirection.A clear indication this debate for Bret did not lead to any critical self examination.2. The feting of Ron DeSantis. One of the most despicable politicians I have ever seen- and that is saying something. He is an empty suit, whose stock in trade is cultural warrior-ism. He has taken on the poor, racial minorities, the LGBTQ community, public education,the health of his state's citizenry, all while ignoring the looming catastrophe of climate change and its related impact on Florida residents.I suggest these two try again.
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The health care industry in the US costs Americans, per capita, over twice as much as the people of twelve nations with significantly higher qualities of health care. The primary reason is that in these more evolved nations, health care is seen as a service, paid for through taxation and administered at a cost of 5% to 7% of health care costs. In the US our health care is treated as a consumer product, to be priced as high as the market will bear. The administration of the health care of Americans is done by the health care insurance industry, a for profit, parasitical approach that pays the CEOs of its major companies over $20 million each per year to insure that profits are as high as can be. There are over 1,200 health care insurance companies with close to million people working against the consumer and for profit. Americans are forced to pay twice as much for substandard quality of health care. Politicians on both sides of the aisle are bought and sold by the private, for profit, health care industry parasites. Americans are held hostage and costs of over twice as much is a never ending ransom. The American voter, both Republican and Democrat, needs leadership with the spine necessary to stop this. There is nothing free about the free market in health care.
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I’m in my early 40’s. I enjoy wine, particularly at home and with food. But going out I prefer a quality cocktail. Why pay someone else to pour me a glass of wine when the restaurant markup is so steep? Now if the restaurant is selling sangria or a champagne cocktail, that’s a different story (and you do see those in craft cocktail bars). The wine industry needs to accept that the kind of well rounded drinkers who will be into trying new wines are going to also be interested in trying new things in general. Also, price to quality is a thing. I almost never drink sparkling wine (my favorite) from the US because I can get better stuff from Europe at any price point. From a $8 Cava to a $14 Prosecco to the occasional $30-$40 bottle of Champagne, it’s just better. Similarly with whites, as someone who likes crisp, clean, bright whites where sweetness is balanced with acidity and no oak or creaminess, there are so few good ones and they are usually expensive.
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E Peterson You seem unaware that most politicians at city, county and state level have heavy campaign financing from the police benevolent brotherhoods, associations and unions and would stand little chance of competing against a police funded candidate. The cops own the pols and this is a lesson learned directly from the Al Capone and Michael Corleone style gangs.Just admit to yourself that you live in a very corrupt police state where cops can seize $2400 in Church donations from a reverend's car after Sunday worship simply for the purpose of re-felting the pool table and installing a new Slurpee machine in the local police detachment canteen and get away with no questions asked. You really think the elected DAs will ever try very hard to convince a jury that murdering a black kid in the toy aisle of WalMart is actually incorrect?A few more "dynamite" news reports and tell-all books will change exactly...nothing. Now, back to "The Wire" reruns...
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One difference not being discussed:Trump—Archive officials KNEW PRECISELY which dox were missing, so demanded their return and ultimately raided to get them.Biden—Apparently archive officials WERE UNAWARE that any dox were missing, and only became aware after a series of searches and discoveries.There is a significant difference between what was originally taken and what is found and recovered later. How can or will we ever know whether some dox originally taken by Biden were not stolen later by someone (with an agenda) during the last 6 years? The comparison between Trump’s 300 and Biden’s 20 is open to suspicion and challenge.
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| no | Classification | 2,478 |
“People love their gas stoves,” Mr. Sommers said."Researchers have increasingly documented significant indoor air pollution and negative health impacts from gas stoves."I am in my 70s and my husband is 10 years old than me. Both of us grew up in homes with gas stoves. That is all we have ever owned and operated. It's the comfort level of knowing what and how gas stoves work when it comes to cooking and baking is why we love our gas stove.We always cook with the transom window open, even in cold weather. We don't concern ourselves with whatever pollutants may or may not occur. Besides, at our age, whatever negative health impacts that there may be, we don't really care at this stage of our life.If anything, we are more concerned about the air and water pollution from all of the fumes from various vehicles on the roads.
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Get your Hody Childress out to maintain Live or Die America Medical Pharma & Hospitals Corp llc indecent amount of profits.Right now if I need an EpiPen 220 km north of Burlington VT, I'll walk out of the pharmacy after paying --- in my case, 35,70$.The Lord is a socialist.
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| no | Classification | 4,037 |
Follow the money...NBA rules have changed/slackened/disappeared...all for the goal of more field goals...which translates into more money. In a league (not unlike all pro sports) where an average player makes 10-12 million dollars a year, everyone from the owners to the concessionaires yearn for more cash. It's obscene how over-valued pro sports are in our culture and the latest casualty in the NBA is the rules...or the enforcement of them. Traveling is rarely called...fouls are called according to the number of years a player has played or what their salaries are. I recall the ludicrous celebration of how many games Lebron went without fouling out...ha! That was not reflective of his basketball prowess...it was reflective of how the league doesn't want their main attractions on the bench. The game is a shell of its former self...and then there's the announcers. The nationally televised games are handled by sports "personalities" who jockey for voice- and face-time like politicians. Talk during games is non-stop, as if we, the audience, wouldn't be able to truly appreciate was was happening before our very eyes without the often smarmy repartee that whines non-stop no matter the plays it overshadows. ENOUGH...I'm ready to retire altogether from this cash-based circus. It's embarrassing and annoying, not exciting and fun as it should be. But as long as money rules, none of the above will be addressed in a way that honors the actual game...none of it.
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We are conditioned for violence by our federal government. Considering that we Americans killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in 2003 without shedding a tear of remorse and we continue to support war as opposed to diplomacy to resolve conflicts. Our federal budget for 2023 reflects our priorities:Military $823 billion dollars, Department of State $60 billion dollars. Is our country going to use war or diplomacy to resolve conflicts? We are conditioned for violence it is acceptable as a method of resolving grievances or conflicts.
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It makes absolutely no sense to tie the pursuit of a true "life of the mind" liberal education to financial investment. The very reason that students wind up with the careerism mentality is that they know they will have to pay for their college debt. I love the idea of returning to a real liberal arts education, but that's not compatible with student debt.
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JR So if I read this paper hard enough, the Nasdaq will not have been down by 40% in 2022? And everyone's retirement and other investments with it? Inflation is decreasing because of soaring interest rates and depletion of the strategic reserve. Companies are implementing hiring freezes. The Biden admin needs to wake up
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phacops1 krabapple "The Fed created the pricing problem. And they still have 9 trillion$ on their balance sheet they shoved into the economy." Each monthly drawdown of the Fed's balance sheet as QT program to ease their heroin addiction to ZIRP, zero-interest-rate policies &/ yield curve control...
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If the franchisor profits are so awesome don’t you think other franchisors would open competing shops offering franchisees a better deal ?
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Jim Which cities are struggling? Your perception probably does not match reality there. Not everyone loses sleep over congressional seats. Water rationing out west along leaves me unconcerned about long term demographic trends. There are a handful of major investments in the state that bode well for the future too. 5 people out of a hundred is the difference between a red and blue state, not so different. Charlotte seems like a pretty nice place from what I hear. I'll have to check it out myself before I opine on how it is.
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| no | Classification | 2,697 |
“Take them white peoples money” That’s where we are now. Wow. I agree, if the Globes were foolish enough to try to buy diversity for 500k then by all means take it! What’s interesting is that anyplace that has had more white then black it needs to diversify but if it happens to be all black dominated it’s just how it is and doesn’t need diversity.
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| yes | Classification | 5,258 |
TJK The total number of all tech layoffs to date is so small as to be irrelevant in our economy. It falls waaayyy below the line of just normal job turnovers. And those people losing their employment have lots of other options open. My SIL works in tech, and his company is positively booming.
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"content": "TJK The total number of all tech layoffs to date is so small as to be irrelevant in our economy. It falls waaayyy below the line of just normal job turnovers. And those people losing their employment have lots of other options open. My SIL works in tech, and his company is positively booming.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,675 |
The article fails to mention a root cause of new highways becoming congested--human population growth. US population, now 336 million is up 54 million since 2000, and double that of 1954 (worldometer). Most of US population growth, for decades, is due to high rates of immigration and the higher birth rates of immigrants. World population is now 8 billion, and will be 9 billion in 15 years (UN).6000 acres of open space are lost every day in the US to development, mostly to accommodate a growing population. And still we have a housing crisis and congested highways.I have no children, and if other were like me in this country, and the world, we would be abandoning and tearing down highways rather than building more, as US and world population approached zero.
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"content": "The article fails to mention a root cause of new highways becoming congested--human population growth. US population, now 336 million is up 54 million since 2000, and double that of 1954 (worldometer). Most of US population growth, for decades, is due to high rates of immigration and the higher birth rates of immigrants. World population is now 8 billion, and will be 9 billion in 15 years (UN).6000 acres of open space are lost every day in the US to development, mostly to accommodate a growing population. And still we have a housing crisis and congested highways.I have no children, and if other were like me in this country, and the world, we would be abandoning and tearing down highways rather than building more, as US and world population approached zero.\n",
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BB No money for her except for her $30 million + over-the top wedding (evidently her second of that genre) and who knows how much for her wardrobe.
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"content": "BB No money for her except for her $30 million + over-the top wedding (evidently her second of that genre) and who knows how much for her wardrobe.\n",
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You can really tell that Stephens is out of touch with the working world when he is concerned about the poor folks who struggle with incomes about $400K/year. This is emblematic of "elite" Cons (Republ-cons). The rich don't experience the world the same way as others. And they usually lack empathy. Their looking glass is green: the green of the holy dollar rather than the green, say, of larger issues like the environment. (Note: Stephens has a history of denying climate change, probably because he spends all his days in an air conditioned cubicle.)
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Modern corporations do not need and do not want a large, permanent workforce. They days of joining a company after graduation and working there for decades to retire with a gold watch and a pension are long gone. A more equitably organized society would acknowledge the way we live now by decoupling survival from the need for nearly continuous lifelong labor.This could be done in various ways: a guaranteed national subsistence income, extended unemployment benefits, subsidized continuing lifelong education, and Medicare for all. (Obamacare doesn't fit the bill, since loss of employment means loss of the minimum income needed to qualify for a program whose premiums, deductibles and co-payments make it unaffordable to those without jobs).Salaries while working would also have to rise to offset idle time between projects, an objective that could be achieved by strictly limiting guest workers, thereby raising wages for American citizens.
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"content": "Modern corporations do not need and do not want a large, permanent workforce. They days of joining a company after graduation and working there for decades to retire with a gold watch and a pension are long gone. A more equitably organized society would acknowledge the way we live now by decoupling survival from the need for nearly continuous lifelong labor.This could be done in various ways: a guaranteed national subsistence income, extended unemployment benefits, subsidized continuing lifelong education, and Medicare for all. (Obamacare doesn't fit the bill, since loss of employment means loss of the minimum income needed to qualify for a program whose premiums, deductibles and co-payments make it unaffordable to those without jobs).Salaries while working would also have to rise to offset idle time between projects, an objective that could be achieved by strictly limiting guest workers, thereby raising wages for American citizens.\n",
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The disclosure of why classified documents were taken andnot redeemed is the real issue. This must be discovered.And a remedy for inadvertent keeping of classified documents must be administered promptly.The investigations of why Biden had such documents; versuswhy Trump had classified documents is also to be revealed.Biden cooperates; and Trump refuses to cooperate withany investigations. Biden is open to investigations; and Trump repeatedly. obstructs investigations.Hence: Biden abides by the law; Trump defies the law.The contrast of Biden's ethics vs Trump's ethics could notbe any clearer. Lux et Veritas!!!
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"content": "The disclosure of why classified documents were taken andnot redeemed is the real issue. This must be discovered.And a remedy for inadvertent keeping of classified documents must be administered promptly.The investigations of why Biden had such documents; versuswhy Trump had classified documents is also to be revealed.Biden cooperates; and Trump refuses to cooperate withany investigations. Biden is open to investigations; and Trump repeatedly. obstructs investigations.Hence: Biden abides by the law; Trump defies the law.The contrast of Biden's ethics vs Trump's ethics could notbe any clearer. Lux et Veritas!!!\n",
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