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mjhawkins Try to find s studio below 2k. That requires proof of 80k income a year. It's not impossible if you have a spouse earning all the money, or live with 23 roommates.
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| no | Classification | 2,272 |
Leaders in western democracies would do well to think with an infinite mindset, beyond the battlefield. Ukraine is not just defending itself, it is fighting for a just cause - one that we all believe in. Ukraine's victory is the key that will unlock a better world, the knock-on effect bringing freedom to millions of people in different parts of the world who today are supressed by autocratic regimes.
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George Santos got away with his fraudulent campaign and sits there in his GOP-glory. Ronald Lauder was one of the contributors, and having read that, I can easily imagine where $700K might have come from to support this guy from wherever he came from. Wealthy individuals on the GOP side and no one vetting Santos. Comments from GOP folk who want to tarnish Biden and all and every Democrat are not the point in this sad saga about the relative ease with which Santos slid into his seat in Congress. Corporations and easy money, the loss of local newspapers and their influence, and the hollowing out of morals and ethics which has worsened perhaps to a very high level with the last person in the "White" House.
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"content": "George Santos got away with his fraudulent campaign and sits there in his GOP-glory. Ronald Lauder was one of the contributors, and having read that, I can easily imagine where $700K might have come from to support this guy from wherever he came from. Wealthy individuals on the GOP side and no one vetting Santos. Comments from GOP folk who want to tarnish Biden and all and every Democrat are not the point in this sad saga about the relative ease with which Santos slid into his seat in Congress. Corporations and easy money, the loss of local newspapers and their influence, and the hollowing out of morals and ethics which has worsened perhaps to a very high level with the last person in the \"White\" House.\n",
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To K HendersonAgreed and we could have started to cut military spending in the form of the 90 billion we have to Ukraine the past 11 months.
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"content": "To K HendersonAgreed and we could have started to cut military spending in the form of the 90 billion we have to Ukraine the past 11 months.\n",
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The photo of the open canal in Imperial Valley speaks volumes. Open irrigation canals lose significant amounts of water in evaporation. Piping them would save significant water. Moreover, farmers need to adjust their crops. Alfalfa and almonds take enormous amounts of water. Too difficult? Not as difficult as having zero water. The states impacted by climate change and seemingly long range permanent drought are fiddling while Rome burns.
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"content": "The photo of the open canal in Imperial Valley speaks volumes. Open irrigation canals lose significant amounts of water in evaporation. Piping them would save significant water. Moreover, farmers need to adjust their crops. Alfalfa and almonds take enormous amounts of water. Too difficult? Not as difficult as having zero water. The states impacted by climate change and seemingly long range permanent drought are fiddling while Rome burns.\n",
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Want to cut something? Bombs and bullets make up half of all discretionary spending, over $800 billion last year alone. Runaway war spending does not make us safer or more competitive, it only lines the pockets of parasitic lobbyists and “defense” contractors. Republicans are great at talk of “fiscal responsibility”, but watch them squirm when anyone dares propose even modest cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget. They would rather tank the global economy and put Social Security recipients on the street. 
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"content": "Want to cut something? Bombs and bullets make up half of all discretionary spending, over $800 billion last year alone. Runaway war spending does not make us safer or more competitive, it only lines the pockets of parasitic lobbyists and “defense” contractors. Republicans are great at talk of “fiscal responsibility”, but watch them squirm when anyone dares propose even modest cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget. They would rather tank the global economy and put Social Security recipients on the street. \n",
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The comments from Angel Perez are very telling. He says that we will lose “an entire generation of students of color.” However ig is well known that eliminating race based preferences will dramatically increase the number of students of East Asian, South Asian (Indian/Pakistani), South East Asian, and Middle Eastern (especially Iranian, Arab or Jewish) ancestry. Hispanic and black student enrollment will decline. Many white hispanics and West African (particularly Nigerian) applicants are the current beneficiaries of affirmative action (given that that they can satisfy claims of diversity without actually opening up opportunities to the descendants of people who were enslaved in the US or those dispossessed by US expansion). However Mr. Perez clearly considers one group POC or BIPOC in this instance (and it certainly isn’t Asians or Jews). In other instances the left’s priorities change. No wonder Asians and Latinos are changing their political affiliation. Sadly even Jews and Arabs are moving away from the left. Maybe real diversity and commitment to merit are achievable without the commitment to racial gerrymandering.
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"content": "The comments from Angel Perez are very telling. He says that we will lose “an entire generation of students of color.” However ig is well known that eliminating race based preferences will dramatically increase the number of students of East Asian, South Asian (Indian/Pakistani), South East Asian, and Middle Eastern (especially Iranian, Arab or Jewish) ancestry. Hispanic and black student enrollment will decline. Many white hispanics and West African (particularly Nigerian) applicants are the current beneficiaries of affirmative action (given that that they can satisfy claims of diversity without actually opening up opportunities to the descendants of people who were enslaved in the US or those dispossessed by US expansion). However Mr. Perez clearly considers one group POC or BIPOC in this instance (and it certainly isn’t Asians or Jews). In other instances the left’s priorities change. No wonder Asians and Latinos are changing their political affiliation. Sadly even Jews and Arabs are moving away from the left. Maybe real diversity and commitment to merit are achievable without the commitment to racial gerrymandering.\n",
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Israel doesn’t need the $3 billion we send them annually, where they want it or not. Divert those funds to Ukraine or more war material.
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"content": "Israel doesn’t need the $3 billion we send them annually, where they want it or not. Divert those funds to Ukraine or more war material.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,074 |
Maybe we have picked all the 'low lying fruits." One of he most elegant experiments in modern physics, the Michelson–Morley experiment, wes performed in the late 19th century with fairly basic tools. Now the budget for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN is estimated at 9 billion dollars.
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| no | Classification | 756 |
Look Ahead I'm in Germany and just checked online to see how much Humira costs here. It's a 10€ (11$) copay if you have public health insurance (about 90% of the population). If you are privately insured (the remaining 10% of the population), you pay about $3,000 upfront for 6 x 40ml - depending on the doctor's dosage recommendations, about a three-month supply. But the $3,000 gets reimbursed at 100%.Oh, and there's no such thing as Medicare here: you are either publicly or privately insured for your entire life, so you don't have to change your retirement plans due to concerns about affordable health care.
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Kevin Not true ! Try a pinotage (So Austrailai). The one named Petit is $9.99 at my wine store and is a great medium red that pairs well with anything. Also, there are many inexpensive New Zealand savignon blancs out there, some of which start at $10.99 that are great with chicken or fish, (Ask the person at your wine store where they are ) In addition, ther are some moderatley priced chiantis and nebbiolos that go great with meat. Again, just ask. Bon appetit !
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Charlotte No, you need $250 in cash first. We don't accept credit cards.
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Good, I’m glad Harvard reversed their decision. It was painfully obvious that Mr. Roth was qualified for the fellowship. Now let us turn to Mr. Roth’s assertion that Israel has failed to address Palestinian autonomy. If Israel can normalize relations with Bahrain, and the UAE, as they did when they signed the Abraham Accords in 2020, then why can’t they negotiate a deal with the Palestinians? The West Bank, once considered the eventual concession prize for the Palestinian people has become nothing more than a open air prison under continuous Israeli control. This too, is painfully obvious, and Mr. Roth is right to question Israeli intent. If Israel refuses a two-state solution then they must answer the inevitable human rights criticism that follows.
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"content": "Good, I’m glad Harvard reversed their decision. It was painfully obvious that Mr. Roth was qualified for the fellowship. Now let us turn to Mr. Roth’s assertion that Israel has failed to address Palestinian autonomy. If Israel can normalize relations with Bahrain, and the UAE, as they did when they signed the Abraham Accords in 2020, then why can’t they negotiate a deal with the Palestinians? The West Bank, once considered the eventual concession prize for the Palestinian people has become nothing more than a open air prison under continuous Israeli control. This too, is painfully obvious, and Mr. Roth is right to question Israeli intent. If Israel refuses a two-state solution then they must answer the inevitable human rights criticism that follows.\n",
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atb Apparently the company was founded by three NY women. From Wikipedia: Thinx was founded in 2011 by Antonia Saint Dunbar, Miki Agrawal, and Radha Agrawal. In 2018, Thinx released a new line called (BTWN), which offers period underwear for teens and tweens.In 2019, Kimberly Clark made a minority investment in Thinx, and in February 2022, it acquired a majority stake in the company. In May 2022, Maria Molland stepped down as CEO, and the company appointed Meghan Davis as its new CEO.
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"content": "atb Apparently the company was founded by three NY women. From Wikipedia: Thinx was founded in 2011 by Antonia Saint Dunbar, Miki Agrawal, and Radha Agrawal. In 2018, Thinx released a new line called (BTWN), which offers period underwear for teens and tweens.In 2019, Kimberly Clark made a minority investment in Thinx, and in February 2022, it acquired a majority stake in the company. In May 2022, Maria Molland stepped down as CEO, and the company appointed Meghan Davis as its new CEO.\n",
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this makes no sense - it's the large corporations that benefit most from NDAs, not small businesses. often, the large corporations will lock people out of being a bigger fish at a small business through noncompetes. they will enforce it via lawyers that are salaried on staff while you have to pay 5x more for outside counsel. smaller businesses often lack resources and manpower to enforce employment clauses or invest at the level of a large business. this benefits you, not harms you.know that for all of your cherished secrets, you are not that important. all your competitors have secrets too.
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"content": "this makes no sense - it's the large corporations that benefit most from NDAs, not small businesses. often, the large corporations will lock people out of being a bigger fish at a small business through noncompetes. they will enforce it via lawyers that are salaried on staff while you have to pay 5x more for outside counsel. smaller businesses often lack resources and manpower to enforce employment clauses or invest at the level of a large business. this benefits you, not harms you.know that for all of your cherished secrets, you are not that important. all your competitors have secrets too.\n",
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American 2023 our experience too! Covid-like mystery extended cough illness, all negative. Have heard several similar stories.
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I have a "doom pile" of books. It's been on my dining room floor since I moved from another apartment in the same complex almost three years ago. At the time I didn't have a dining room table or bookshelves because my previous apartment had flooded repeatedly--which was the reason for the move, as the management needed to more or less disassemble and reassemble the plumbing by excavating the ground under the floor. I suppose losing both furniture and possessions to flooding that was out of control was traumatic, and I let it stick.I didn't get new bookshelves for over a year, but even when I did, I didn't move the books from the "doom pile" to the bookshelves. Instead, they became convenient "clutter holders" (no dishes or glasses). I need to declutter those shelves first before I address the "doom pile". I do suffer from severe depression and the flooding (and pandemic) only made it worse, but I know I need to address the issue. As others have mentioned, having a friend intervene to help can make a big difference. I need to open up to my friends about it--"the first step is admitting I have a problem". I know I have it, and I'm afraid to admit it to my friends. In that sense, I'm letting the fear and anxiety in my own mind control me.If you've read this far, thanks. I'm glad I took the (small) step of putting this into writing for the first time.
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"content": "I have a \"doom pile\" of books. It's been on my dining room floor since I moved from another apartment in the same complex almost three years ago. At the time I didn't have a dining room table or bookshelves because my previous apartment had flooded repeatedly--which was the reason for the move, as the management needed to more or less disassemble and reassemble the plumbing by excavating the ground under the floor. I suppose losing both furniture and possessions to flooding that was out of control was traumatic, and I let it stick.I didn't get new bookshelves for over a year, but even when I did, I didn't move the books from the \"doom pile\" to the bookshelves. Instead, they became convenient \"clutter holders\" (no dishes or glasses). I need to declutter those shelves first before I address the \"doom pile\". I do suffer from severe depression and the flooding (and pandemic) only made it worse, but I know I need to address the issue. As others have mentioned, having a friend intervene to help can make a big difference. I need to open up to my friends about it--\"the first step is admitting I have a problem\". I know I have it, and I'm afraid to admit it to my friends. In that sense, I'm letting the fear and anxiety in my own mind control me.If you've read this far, thanks. I'm glad I took the (small) step of putting this into writing for the first time.\n",
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Jo Ann "People have the right to do as they please..."But that's not always true. According to my mom -- and she was right -- a person's right to do whatever they want ends at another person's nose.In other words, your right to do whatever you want is limited when that action would infringe on the rights of others.In US public health, there has always been a tension between individual rights, and the common good. Typically, we compromise.For instance, in most US states, you can smoke all you want in your home and out in the wide open air, but not in any circumstances where others are present. We're okay with those laws because the research and evidence is clear -- second-hand smoke has health impacts. And it's considered fair for people who smoke pay higher insurance premiums to offset their higher medical bills.When it came to helmet safety laws, helmet advocates pointed to the costs borne by society when a helmet-less rider gets hurt. Many states pushed for helmet laws. But later, as organ donations continued to decrease, and motorcycle riders fought to repeal laws requiring helmets, about half the country lost those laws. Motorcycle accident deaths immediately increased in those areas. Guess we decided we're okay with that fact.As far as covid vaccine and mask mandates go, we seem to be okay with our continuing deaths and rates of illness and the long-term effects of this pandemic on our economy. We're paying those costs, in the name of a weird "freedom".
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"content": "Jo Ann \"People have the right to do as they please...\"But that's not always true. According to my mom -- and she was right -- a person's right to do whatever they want ends at another person's nose.In other words, your right to do whatever you want is limited when that action would infringe on the rights of others.In US public health, there has always been a tension between individual rights, and the common good. Typically, we compromise.For instance, in most US states, you can smoke all you want in your home and out in the wide open air, but not in any circumstances where others are present. We're okay with those laws because the research and evidence is clear -- second-hand smoke has health impacts. And it's considered fair for people who smoke pay higher insurance premiums to offset their higher medical bills.When it came to helmet safety laws, helmet advocates pointed to the costs borne by society when a helmet-less rider gets hurt. Many states pushed for helmet laws. But later, as organ donations continued to decrease, and motorcycle riders fought to repeal laws requiring helmets, about half the country lost those laws. Motorcycle accident deaths immediately increased in those areas. Guess we decided we're okay with that fact.As far as covid vaccine and mask mandates go, we seem to be okay with our continuing deaths and rates of illness and the long-term effects of this pandemic on our economy. We're paying those costs, in the name of a weird \"freedom\".\n",
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Catherine I agree and don't forget the Biden administration pillaring the oil companies for not investing more in their own oil infrastructure and development when the oil companies know full well that Biden just wants to shut them down.
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As a moderate conservative, it's obvious that the ceiling must be raised. As a moderate conservative, it's obvious that steps must be implemented to get debt under control, steps that obviously have not been taken. MMT and printing endless dollars won't continue to bail us out of hard times. We've reached the point where the interest on the national debt is a danger. And with higher interest rates, refinancing debt will only add to this. I offer a sobering analysis:In late May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that annual net interest costs would total $399 billion in 2022 and nearly triple over the upcoming decade, soaring from $442 billion to $1.2 trillion and summing to $8.1 trillion over that period.Dec 14, 2022That's not a minor detail. That's the death knell of the American economy. So yes, short term, must be raised, long term, must be lowered.
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"content": "As a moderate conservative, it's obvious that the ceiling must be raised. As a moderate conservative, it's obvious that steps must be implemented to get debt under control, steps that obviously have not been taken. MMT and printing endless dollars won't continue to bail us out of hard times. We've reached the point where the interest on the national debt is a danger. And with higher interest rates, refinancing debt will only add to this. I offer a sobering analysis:In late May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that annual net interest costs would total $399 billion in 2022 and nearly triple over the upcoming decade, soaring from $442 billion to $1.2 trillion and summing to $8.1 trillion over that period.Dec 14, 2022That's not a minor detail. That's the death knell of the American economy. So yes, short term, must be raised, long term, must be lowered.\n",
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The main problem is Uber capitalism:1- Where we are all divided within our extended families. From the cult of individualism to the unavoidable and deep cracks created by media and social media-driven polarization, this resilience factor is becoming more and more inaccessible. Grandparents as pollinators are gone.2- Where over-excitation and violence are irresistible products to sell and to buy in our culture where the void left open by the global cancellation of any SUPER-EGO can only be witnessed again & again. Have you seen what porn is like nowadays? Utterly sickening and spine-chilling enough to have any right-minded (not this "Right") parent feel dreadful about how sexuality will be forced upon and experienced by their kids.In a nutshell, we parents are left alone trying to give the good stuff to our kids in an increasingly profoundly disturbed society that aggressively attacks families and the tenderness and vulnerability of children, who are constantly over-exposed to sex, violence, sensations, addictions (phones, screens, drugs - cannabis candies being a thing now, etc)And I'd like to go all Waldorf about this all, but they aren't better at allowing, in a digestible way, the crucial developmental task in kids of aggression integration. Plus you need your kids to perform academically ++ because the middle class will be over with within 20-30 y.- A lucid parent of young kids (who is not even depressed nor an anarchist - but who might be a bit of a socialist)
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"content": "The main problem is Uber capitalism:1- Where we are all divided within our extended families. From the cult of individualism to the unavoidable and deep cracks created by media and social media-driven polarization, this resilience factor is becoming more and more inaccessible. Grandparents as pollinators are gone.2- Where over-excitation and violence are irresistible products to sell and to buy in our culture where the void left open by the global cancellation of any SUPER-EGO can only be witnessed again & again. Have you seen what porn is like nowadays? Utterly sickening and spine-chilling enough to have any right-minded (not this \"Right\") parent feel dreadful about how sexuality will be forced upon and experienced by their kids.In a nutshell, we parents are left alone trying to give the good stuff to our kids in an increasingly profoundly disturbed society that aggressively attacks families and the tenderness and vulnerability of children, who are constantly over-exposed to sex, violence, sensations, addictions (phones, screens, drugs - cannabis candies being a thing now, etc)And I'd like to go all Waldorf about this all, but they aren't better at allowing, in a digestible way, the crucial developmental task in kids of aggression integration. Plus you need your kids to perform academically ++ because the middle class will be over with within 20-30 y.- A lucid parent of young kids (who is not even depressed nor an anarchist - but who might be a bit of a socialist)\n",
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From Timothy Snyder yesterday regarding Charles McGonigal, the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York Field Office from 2016 to 2018 and, before that, the section chief of the Cyber-Counterintelligence Coordination Section at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs:“In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why.”Now McCarthy has thrown Adam Schiff—who was key in chasing down Trump’s machinations over Ukraine—off the House intelligence committee. “Schiff is [an] expert on Russian influence operations,” Snyder wrote. “It exhibits carelessness about national security to exclude him. It is downright suspicious to exclude him now.” McGonigal is charged with working for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin. Deripaska was also a close associate of political operative Paul Manafort, who ran Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
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"content": "From Timothy Snyder yesterday regarding Charles McGonigal, the special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the FBI's New York Field Office from 2016 to 2018 and, before that, the section chief of the Cyber-Counterintelligence Coordination Section at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs:“In April 2016, I broke the story of Trump and Putin, using Russian open sources. Afterwards, I heard vague intimations that something was awry in the FBI in New York, specifically counter-intelligence and cyber. We now have a suggestion as to why.”Now McCarthy has thrown Adam Schiff—who was key in chasing down Trump’s machinations over Ukraine—off the House intelligence committee. “Schiff is [an] expert on Russian influence operations,” Snyder wrote. “It exhibits carelessness about national security to exclude him. It is downright suspicious to exclude him now.” McGonigal is charged with working for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin. Deripaska was also a close associate of political operative Paul Manafort, who ran Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.\n",
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| no | Classification | 273 |
kateB your son is either not making such salary, has crappy financial skills or has a very expensive lifestyle… you can live very comfortably in NYC making anything over 100k + health benefits. And thats partying, traveling and eating out. What I’ll never understand are the people complaining while at the same time spending upwards of 5k a month in rent… you don’t need to live in SoHo, Chelsea or a penthouse to live in NYC .
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Gigi As we've seen with Putin's Russia, a former great power in undeniable demographics-induced free fall, countries that feel their windows are limited are more aggressive. Japan in the 1930s, too. Contrary to popular belief (and publicly released numbers), China is spending a ridiculous amount on its military. The scale of its ship building and advances in missile technology should alarm everyone
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Politicians are fond of bragging about our strong military defense. But our defense is actually weak, not because we don't spend enough (now more than $2 billion a day) but because our resource allocation is disproportionately allocated to the wrong threats. Any military threat in the world is far outweighed by the threat of climate change, an insidious enemy that cannot be stopped with bombers or missiles.What we spend on military hardware should instead be spent on removing this country from fossil fuel dependence.
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"content": "Politicians are fond of bragging about our strong military defense. But our defense is actually weak, not because we don't spend enough (now more than $2 billion a day) but because our resource allocation is disproportionately allocated to the wrong threats. Any military threat in the world is far outweighed by the threat of climate change, an insidious enemy that cannot be stopped with bombers or missiles.What we spend on military hardware should instead be spent on removing this country from fossil fuel dependence.\n",
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| no | Classification | 378 |
Listen, hospital administrators have a loophole that they consistently utilize. They say that there are 500 unfilled nursing positions at their organization. They post job openings online and simply don't hire the applicants. They tell their staff and the world that there are no nurses to be hired and that there is a nursing shortage. "We are trying to hire nurses! We have 500 positions open!"
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| yes | Classification | 7,131 |
What is the debt amount where no country will purchase any more of our new debt? $50T, $75T, $100T? This may be even more dangerous than defaulting on the existing debt. It is time to stop deficit spending and renegotiate our existing debt.
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"content": "What is the debt amount where no country will purchase any more of our new debt? $50T, $75T, $100T? This may be even more dangerous than defaulting on the existing debt. It is time to stop deficit spending and renegotiate our existing debt.\n",
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Kirk C If the economy is runnng at full capacity and the money supply is expanded, then I will grant that you have a point - but a world where Americans face toilet paper shortages and there are 10 million jobs waiting to be filled is anything but normal times or an economy running at full capacity. Look at the way the American economy has absorbed record interest rate increases in the last 10 months while continuing to add millions of jobs. Also look at how high inflation continues to be a serious problem in Canada and Mexico and other countries overseas as the global economy still suffers from serious dislocatons caused by the COVID emergency now approaching it's 3rd year- are you saying that the FED also caused the global inflation?Monetary policy is interesting and all - but it isn't the be all and the end all. If you are going to talk about the economy, at some point you actually have to talk about the economy. This inflation bears similaity to the very high inflation that existed in the 1940s after World War II ended when the economy suffered serious dislocations returning to normal after, you guessed it, a multi-year global emergency. Funny how that works.
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"content": "Kirk C If the economy is runnng at full capacity and the money supply is expanded, then I will grant that you have a point - but a world where Americans face toilet paper shortages and there are 10 million jobs waiting to be filled is anything but normal times or an economy running at full capacity. Look at the way the American economy has absorbed record interest rate increases in the last 10 months while continuing to add millions of jobs. Also look at how high inflation continues to be a serious problem in Canada and Mexico and other countries overseas as the global economy still suffers from serious dislocatons caused by the COVID emergency now approaching it's 3rd year- are you saying that the FED also caused the global inflation?Monetary policy is interesting and all - but it isn't the be all and the end all. If you are going to talk about the economy, at some point you actually have to talk about the economy. This inflation bears similaity to the very high inflation that existed in the 1940s after World War II ended when the economy suffered serious dislocations returning to normal after, you guessed it, a multi-year global emergency. Funny how that works.\n",
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CRL Your acceptance of your sister's decision keeps the door open to your relationship. All the best.
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For all those cheering for Harry in the comments: "spare" me. If he really just wanted to tell his story he could have done it on YouTube or a blog or pbs. Instead, he sold his story to the highest bidder. And he did not desperately need the money. What was already settled on him by family was enough for a comfortable life. Several of them.As for $400k earners. Assuming the tax man takes half (which seems high even in NYC) that leaves $200K. Assume $7k rent/mo. Which I think gets a decent place even in a city. Leaves $116k. Put $30k away per year at 7% average return and after 18 years you can pay full freight for 3 kids at Harvard and still have a nest egg. And you've been living on something like $1,700 per week net of all that. Think you can do better than a Camry.
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Debt arguments can be rational or they can be irrational. About 45% of Americans have mortgages, which is debt and that debt is something like 25-30% of monthly (or yearly) income. Since I was 30 something, I have carried a mortgage on my house so that is 40+ years of being in debt. I raise this issue after reading a lot of people arguing that debt is just plain "bad". Debt is the single most important human invention for commerce and business. It allows us to build in the future without having to save for years thus making Capital (as in Capitalism).If there is a "sin" here it is lowering taxes for short term "boost" for business (CEO salaries and wealthy people playing "Investement") rather than putting it into reserves. We got caught with the pandemic which cost a lot to keep familes and small businesses afloat. Same thing with the Morgage Bust in 2008. It is misuse of debt that is most galling.
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"content": "Debt arguments can be rational or they can be irrational. About 45% of Americans have mortgages, which is debt and that debt is something like 25-30% of monthly (or yearly) income. Since I was 30 something, I have carried a mortgage on my house so that is 40+ years of being in debt. I raise this issue after reading a lot of people arguing that debt is just plain \"bad\". Debt is the single most important human invention for commerce and business. It allows us to build in the future without having to save for years thus making Capital (as in Capitalism).If there is a \"sin\" here it is lowering taxes for short term \"boost\" for business (CEO salaries and wealthy people playing \"Investement\") rather than putting it into reserves. We got caught with the pandemic which cost a lot to keep familes and small businesses afloat. Same thing with the Morgage Bust in 2008. It is misuse of debt that is most galling.\n",
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I don't think I'd be into wine but have open mind and curiosity. Probably I'd like something sweet but know that Duplin near me added fructose so now worry about quality of cheaper wine. Still I'd be open to tasting some type of sample pack . I'd be attracted to a dozen little 2-3oz tiny bottles or cans to do a tasting that had wide variety of types. I'd like to know what I'd like but also know there was no sulphur or fructose added.
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While decluttering/emptying a house, garage, and multiple family storage units, I am dealing with 2 major issues.1. EMOTIONAL LABOR: The emotions involved can be overwhelming. I open a dusty box and find a childhood toy that triggers memories of family fights from 40 years ago. Piles of unopened charity mail trigger guilt feelings. Involving a friend or paid helper to deal with this emotional labor is not an option for me. Solution: Practice "baby steps." Set a timer - 15/30/60 minutes. Start with small spaces (one shelf or box). Allow myself breaks, such as walking around the block to process negative energy. Good news: releasing items from the past and seeing progress is very therapeutic.2. WHERE TO TAKE THINGS. My partner tells me to just hire a dumpster and throw everything away. That would be the simplest and fastest option, but there are a LOT of things that are perfectly usable or recyclable. The problem is that there is no one-stop shop to take it all to. Every charity/thrift shop has a different list of acceptable/nonacceptable items. Recycling centers generally don't take styroform, etc. Solution: I made a spreadsheet showing where I can take more than 80 different categories of stuff. Crazy! Good news: This spreadsheet is a super effective tool to stop myself from acquiring more stuff. The labor / $$ involved in storage/disposal is a major drain on life I don't ever want myself (or my kid) to face again.
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I don’t agree with gold being a “pet rock.” Gold has been highly valued in civilization for 1000s of years. I calculated that in Nebuchadnezzar’s time you could buy for 1g of it 10 loves of bread, just like now. I have many examples where you get a good feeling of what historical persons earned, say in florin (eg Mozart). Gold’s physical properties make it intrinsically valuable. It is a mainstay of jewelry. Gold has a pretty good track record.
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Peter Rasmussen The right to possess, carry, and openly display deadly firearms has nothing to do with guaranteeing democracy whatsoever. There are vigorous democratic republics in the world where firearms are largely prohibited for ordinary citizens. Democracy is strengthened not by the proliferation of by guns throughout society but by a system of social relations of equality, freedom of speech, public assembly, and open political and religious diversity without fear of repression by the state. Where guns are ubiquitous so is fear, and with fear comes lack of trust and the deterioration of the kinds of social bonds that make the preservation of liberty possible.
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A restaurant pulling this 'switching bottles' trick on their patrons is skating on thin ice. I'd never accept a bottle that was already opened outside of my view - and if they show you an unopened bottle... then take it away and bring you back an opened bottle 5 minutes later, this is also a suspicious sign. The best thing to do is if you approve the unopened bottle then they start to walk away with it, shout for them to bring it back - then pen your initial (ideally with a colorful thick marker you carry with you to fancy restaurants for this purpose) largely on the front label to ensure that this is the same bottle they bring back to you afterwards...
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| no | Classification | 1,850 |
Deregulated electricity markets often fail to provide for peak power usage. In regulated markets, generators were required to meet projected peak power demands and received a rate of return on their investment. In the deregulated markets, the incentive is to build and deliver the cheapest energy, the low price gets you into the market, but for those brief periods when demand surges, building surge generation capacity gives investors little return. It’s good for low cost interruptible power generators such as wind and solar, but for secure sources, able to meet summer and winter peak loads, there is little return on investment. For those who want secure power, it’s necessary to build your own backup, hence the growth in home backup generation.
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Apnaqua I agree with this. But I don’t see spaces where radical ideas are debated producing well educated open minded adults. I just see monolithic factories stamping out either one side or another.
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I did not watch. I did not need to. But for the same reason the mother of Emmet Till decided to have an open coffin, I know it was important.Now we need to make this stop. That can only happen by changing the way we hire police, how they are trained, paid and their work details.
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Bohemian Sarah Sorry Sarah, I have checked the data, and I am right. Using the Soviet Union as any sort of yardstick for human progress kind of eliminates you from the conversation right at the start. More importantly, the numbers aren't there. Check China - they blow Russia right out of the water, and it happened right after they opened up limited free enterprise. I won't even bother getting into the socialist utopias of North Korea and Cuba. Cuba is so great, we have people swimming and trying to get to America from there every day. Free enterprise and democracy is a mixed bag, as you correctly point out. However, tens of thousands of southern and central American people are at our southern border right now trying to get access to the opportunities to a better life our system gives them.And last but not least, it was the treasure and manpower of America that went to Europe in WWIIto defeat Germany and free the people in Europe, like you, to be able to criticise us here. You're welcome.
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"content": "Bohemian Sarah Sorry Sarah, I have checked the data, and I am right. Using the Soviet Union as any sort of yardstick for human progress kind of eliminates you from the conversation right at the start. More importantly, the numbers aren't there. Check China - they blow Russia right out of the water, and it happened right after they opened up limited free enterprise. I won't even bother getting into the socialist utopias of North Korea and Cuba. Cuba is so great, we have people swimming and trying to get to America from there every day. Free enterprise and democracy is a mixed bag, as you correctly point out. However, tens of thousands of southern and central American people are at our southern border right now trying to get access to the opportunities to a better life our system gives them.And last but not least, it was the treasure and manpower of America that went to Europe in WWIIto defeat Germany and free the people in Europe, like you, to be able to criticise us here. You're welcome.\n",
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Kroger-Albertsons Merger Faces Long Road Before Approval Consumer advocates, unions and independent grocers are against a deal that would join Kroger and Albertsons, and be lucrative for investors. Ever since the pending megamerger between Kroger and Albertsons, the two largest grocery store chains in the country, was announced in October, the companies have argued that the marriage will be good for consumers, employees and communities. Consumer advocates, unions and independent grocers are against a deal that would join Kroger and Albertsons, and be lucrative for investors.
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Eddie B. "This can turn into a real mess, unless Pres. Biden deals with it immediately, openly, with utmost honestly."I fully expect Pres. Biden to do so. The problem is that the Republican Party and its propaganda wing, Fox News, holds things like "immediacy," "openness" and "honestly" in utmost contempt.
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Trump added $7.8 trillion to the national debt. He paid no taxes and as a pseudo billionaire, did not give one penny to charity. Democrats take care of the country’s needs from infrastructure to healthcare to technology.
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EL Better would be raising the cap on how much of earnings can be taxed for Social Security by a five or ten thousand dollars. By the way the life expectancy of Americans has dropped a few years due to covid and there is no sign that it and other diseases won't continue to claim us codgers. Of the million Americans who died from covid 750,000 were over 65. If each of those people were collecting 10k a year that would be a savings of 3/4 of a billion dollars per year so cut out the nonsense of about 80 years olds being so healthy they can work a deep fryer at the local grease shop and spread the wealth.
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"content": "EL Better would be raising the cap on how much of earnings can be taxed for Social Security by a five or ten thousand dollars. By the way the life expectancy of Americans has dropped a few years due to covid and there is no sign that it and other diseases won't continue to claim us codgers. Of the million Americans who died from covid 750,000 were over 65. If each of those people were collecting 10k a year that would be a savings of 3/4 of a billion dollars per year so cut out the nonsense of about 80 years olds being so healthy they can work a deep fryer at the local grease shop and spread the wealth.\n",
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Looks like all the oldies are weighing in, so I will too!!Sorry ... your coats fall short AND are overpriced. Before climate change speeded up, people had fall/spring coats as well as winter coats. They were workhorses. You're basically showing super pricey FALL coats ... I once owned the PERFECT winter coat ... 55 years ago ... I'd bought it in DC at Woodward & Lothrop and wore it through several Boston winters. I felt like Jackie Kennedy in it ... as this was a coat she would have worn. But it was more than pretty ... it WORKED.The variegated dark gray wool 3 x 3 twill did not show minor dirt. and draped beautifully. The top of your chest was covered and your neck was protected with a stand collar. It snapped down the left shoulder and side, so there were no air leaks. A serious, wide belt held in the heat of your torso. It was mid-calf length to cover your knees while avoiding the slush. With the side opening, you had no leaks as you walked. Function should precede form. All these coats fall short. The one with the attached scarf looks great until you catch it in a revolving door. That said, the inclusion of cashmere reduces the weight of the coat while increasing the warmth (a good idea, usually). Spend your money, however, on the quality of the wool for its warmth and water shedding characteristics. If you can get a silk lining, do, as it is warm, warm. You should be able to do that for under $2k ... just sayin' ...
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Someone, somewhere needs to make a VERY public list of all that this Republican led House does this term, starting with their effort to defund the IRS. That list needs to specifically show the effect their actions would have on the public, should they be successful. Using the IRS defunding proposal as an example, if allowed to go through could cost the government 180 billion dollars over 10 years. No doubt that would have a big impact on the average voter - but not the wealthy voters!
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Front of house folks make the majority of their income from tips so there is an incentive for us to keep our wages low. It wasn't unheard of me to make $1,000 in tips on a Sunday double. Our paychecks only helped to offset our taxes. Serving is one of the few "low skill" jobs were you can make a decent living if you hussle. So all you well meaning people focus on back of the house- that's where it might make a difference. Leave us servers out of your campaign.
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Biden and Trump again, something I desperately hope will not happen. I am not nearly as impressed with president Biden as some of my fellow liberals. Nor his handling of the Vice Presidents role in his administration. I’m no fan of Harris but that doesn’t change the fact that Biden and his staff of “loyalists” have failed to use her in a way that would enhance her credibility and influence. I believe this is deliberate and part of this ridiculous narrative that this old man is fit to run for a second term in office. I personally didn’t want him for president and find him mediocre at best. Now that the MAGA extremists are in charge of the House of Representatives the impact of Biden being a lame duck for the next two years is no longer an issue. This opens up the possibility of another viable candidate getting ready to confront either a weakened Trump or his likely successor DeSantis. The old people running the party leadership need to move on to the elder advisory role (& I say this as someone in his mid sixties) and let some fresh ideas and air into the political process. The years ahead are going to be challenging for the nation and the world, I’m not going to be part of it for much longer and neither are people like Biden. Sorry but that’s the truth and being angry with the messenger won’t change anything.
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expansion of NATO to Ukraine (after all the other expansions up to Russia's border) rather than a solution is one of the causes of the war. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 there was little problem until the west helped overthrow the elected pro-Russian government in Ukraine and install a regime that was OK with or wanted western domination and NATO membership. The most stable solution is to go back to the pre-2014 conditions - Russian withdrawal, Ukraine neutrality with the west agreeing to stop meddling and accepting that Russia's security interests are to keep NATO forces out of Ukraine (whose territory extends east of Moscow!)
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brooklyn - Thanks so much for your comment. Too many people incorrectly think the stock market is nothing but rich people. But 58% of Americans are normally invested in stocks. All of us face big losses when we make bad picks. But our capital, often hard earned through wages or modest inheritances, is what keeps American innovation and strength alive.I became a tech investor in 2008. The Fed fund rate was modest during the bull years but not so low that it fueled inflation until they went to the extreme of dropping it to near zero in the pandemic. The American Prospect has recently suggested that our government should fight inflation by unleashing regulations that are holding back productivity. Jeremy Siegel has criticized the Fed recently.As a tech investor, my gains and major 2022 losses are not about lazy wealth. I've been homeless several times when I was poor. I've studied the markets for 3 hours daily since 2008, especially tech, and was a market beating investor most of that time. But my main reason for being in the market is because I want to launch a tech company of my own as an inventor seeking patents soon. I could have easily done it if I had sold in November of 2021.Many investors were misled by Fed "guidance" suggesting at first that "unexpected" inflation was modest and would not require much pain to cure. They pioneered much pandemic inflation and now they're benefiting by reducing the deficit at everyone's expense, especially workers and investors.
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Oh the hypocrisy!Germans are happy to profit off war by selling arms & tanks to others to protect their freedom. Ask them to protect their own freedom my investing in their own defense & that is a bridge too far. We’re not asking them to spend the ridiculous amount the USA does, just their fair share.
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In an alternative world, it would have been encouraging to have several democrats vote for Mr. McCarthy in his bid for speakership, which would have disempowered factions on the far right and opened the door for Mr. Jeffries to work in a more bipartisan aspect for the good of our country over party loyalty. Unfortunately, too many opportunities have been squandered by both parties in an attempt to maintain an upper hand for their respective party, all at the expense of what would be best for the United States of America.
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PART IVEL• He couldn’t legally drink at 18 but was EL(8) for the draft. Go figure.GI• My colleague made a GI(4) about my tardiness, so I smilingly mentioned seeing an officer ticket her improperly parked car.• The crowd GI(5) the unpopular speaker, taunting him by yelling “LIAR!” every time he tried to continue talking.GL• After a month, people had learned not to believe the new hire’s GL(4) explanations as to why he failed to finish any task assigned to him.• “Sorry, honey, but you have a GL(4) of toothpaste on your chin.”• The GL(5) Theatre in London opened in 1599 and featured some of Shakespeare’s best-known plays; fire destroyed it in 1613.GO• My Trader Joe’s credit card machine chimes “GO(6) GO(6)” around Thanksgiving.• The children GO(7) their mom’s neighborhood famous spaghetti and meatballs and asked for more.IL & LE• My doctor’s handwriting on any prescription is IL(9) but oddly, her writing on the bill is quite LE(6). “Yeah, go figure.”LI• LI(5) is not the same as slander.• The newspaper that the politician claimed had LI(7) him refused to recant and so they went to court.• The LI(7) is the individual or company against whom a LI(5) is filed in court.• He ate three dozen oysters to bolster his LI(6).
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Harry is wealthy in his own right with inheritances from the Queen Mother and his own mother Princess Diana totaling approximately 24 MILLION pounds. Perhaps more from Prince Philip and The Queen.The Royal family are historical and there roles are steeped in tradition.Harry doesn't know the real world and it seems his order of birth doesn't sit right .Like all families they have issues. His need to spill the beans for huge amounts of cash is crass and makes Meghan and him look foolish.Lets hope this is the end and they do some real good with their wealth in the USA ~ that country needs help too .
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If Alameda had x from FTX, x + $4B capital in total, and lost $5B, then you could determine that some of FTX’s money has been lost. Given what happened, it’s probably not an unrealistic number.
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Chip Young You might want to add other universities:Other Ivy League colleges have raked in Chinese money, including Harvard, which got $75 million during the 2014-2019 period, and Yale, which received $43.5 million, records show.You did not note that the donations went to the university, not to the Penn Center. That is a crucial difference that the New York Post and you ignore.
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| no | Classification | 737 |
Despite any "Sexual Revolution" that may have taken place, and despite women continuing to object to being seen as "sex objects", they, women, continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on clothing and make up that has the sole purpose of making them sexually attractive.It's bizarre, counterproductive to the position they want to hold in society and enormously pleasing.
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Si Seulement Voltaire Really? Really? $2 billion front the Saudis and a bailout for the aptly named 666 property? Foreign licensing o products otherwise unknown save for sitting on the right side of a daughter at dinner. And a book that was a best seller - never mind that the buyers were the RNC. I remember when President Truman couldn’t get more than one gig for his daughter. (OK, she did lack the voice, but her books weren’t best sellers either.) There may not be ‘proof’ but would we ever have known them so well unless Daddy was in the White House? Has any other President “hired” their children to be top advisors? And Security Clearances? Hmmf? Who really needs them? There’s lots more too. It will all come out eventually. Truth has a way of doing that.
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"content": "Si Seulement Voltaire Really? Really? $2 billion front the Saudis and a bailout for the aptly named 666 property? Foreign licensing o products otherwise unknown save for sitting on the right side of a daughter at dinner. And a book that was a best seller - never mind that the buyers were the RNC. I remember when President Truman couldn’t get more than one gig for his daughter. (OK, she did lack the voice, but her books weren’t best sellers either.) There may not be ‘proof’ but would we ever have known them so well unless Daddy was in the White House? Has any other President “hired” their children to be top advisors? And Security Clearances? Hmmf? Who really needs them? There’s lots more too. It will all come out eventually. Truth has a way of doing that.\n",
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john Community and State Colleges where tuition is cheap are the way to go. In my area back in the 70's when the local community college opened it was to be a 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 split between the the local county/school districts, the state and the student. Take a guess on who has refused to keep their end of the bargain. THE STATE.The state of Pa. with it's politicians have failed primary and state level college. They have refused to alter the real estate based funding for K-12 which is notoriously unequal and refused to fund community college and Votec (Vocational Tech. Trades) schools. We have a shortage of 300k trades people and another 100k truck drivers.
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Microsoft needs to take a cue from Elon Musk and Twitter. Layoff half the workers and tell the remaining half to work twice as hard. Voila, instant doubling of profits as your personnel costs were just dropped by half.
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The author's definition of grits - milled dent (i.e., mature/hard) corn - isn't strictly accurate. To quote Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking" - now available on Kindle for $9.99 :"Dry-milled [corn] products are ground directly from the stored grain... These days they’re generally refined to exclude the hull and germ, an innovation from around 1900 that made large-scale milling practical. "The rarer whole-grain cornmeal and flour, sometimes ground between stone wheels, are richer in fiber, flavor, and nutrients, but also stale rapidly thanks to the oils and related substances in the germ, which become oxidized on contact with air."Grits are relatively coarse corn endosperm particles between 0.6 and 1.2 mm across."A variant, hominy grits, uses an intermediate process - nixtamalization, developed by Native Americans. The kernels are boiled in a calcium hydroxide solution, then dried. This process is also used to make masa harina for corn tortillas. Nixtamalization has several benefits: *Increased flavor + nutrition: niacin (Vit B3) is released from the cell walls. Pellagra - niacin deficiency- was common in Africa, where the local farmers had been introduced to corn (but not nixtamalization) by the Portuguese, * After milling, the dough holds together like wheat dough, though it lacks gluten, making tortillas possible. By contrast, dough made from plain cornmeal without sufficient added wheat flour falls apart.
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During the period covered by the recently disclosed personal tax returns of DJT, I paid more in federal taxes than him. His gross income over that same period was over 50 times greater than mine.His corporation clearly took many steps to avoid federal taxation and allow its executives to do the same. I suspect the total savings were greater than the $1.6M fine, so it is fair to ask, what is the point of all this?The GOP is all worried about the weaponization of federal institutions and cut the recent increases in the IRS budget, as well as others. All in the name of protecting the little people from an overbearing federal government. Yet what proposals have they made to reform the tax code to make it fair and less onerous on the middle class? None. Instead, they voted to slash taxes on the wealthy and corporations in 2017, creating greater inequities and a ballooning federal deficit which they can now use to illustrate why federal programs benefitting the low and middle class taxpayers have to be slashed. When will people get it and stop voting for these robber barons and sanctimonious con men?
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"content": "During the period covered by the recently disclosed personal tax returns of DJT, I paid more in federal taxes than him. His gross income over that same period was over 50 times greater than mine.His corporation clearly took many steps to avoid federal taxation and allow its executives to do the same. I suspect the total savings were greater than the $1.6M fine, so it is fair to ask, what is the point of all this?The GOP is all worried about the weaponization of federal institutions and cut the recent increases in the IRS budget, as well as others. All in the name of protecting the little people from an overbearing federal government. Yet what proposals have they made to reform the tax code to make it fair and less onerous on the middle class? None. Instead, they voted to slash taxes on the wealthy and corporations in 2017, creating greater inequities and a ballooning federal deficit which they can now use to illustrate why federal programs benefitting the low and middle class taxpayers have to be slashed. When will people get it and stop voting for these robber barons and sanctimonious con men?\n",
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We can always borrow some funds from George Santos. He seems to have plenty of secret money.
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"content": "We can always borrow some funds from George Santos. He seems to have plenty of secret money.\n",
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I am confused why most readers herein are pounding the table calling for lowering the fed rate before seeing solid data that inflation returns to 2.0% target with "full" employment.1. What did Professor Krugman opined on Sept. 10, 2021:Paul KrugmanWonking Out: I’m Still on Team TransitorySept. 10, 2021<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflation-covid-consumer-prices.html?searchResultPosition=2" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflation-covid-consumer-prices.html?searchResultPosition=2</a>2. The Fed is going to raise and normalize rates as long as the labor market is too hot (employees forced to work along side unqualified colleagues who could be violent, have side jobs working "from home," inexperienced contractors like those who deleted files at FAA... ) 3. Obviously we are not reliving the 1970s/1980s. We are not paying double digit mortgage rates now, but are adding hundreds of $billions annual to service the runaway national debt, $31.45T and counting.
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"content": "I am confused why most readers herein are pounding the table calling for lowering the fed rate before seeing solid data that inflation returns to 2.0% target with \"full\" employment.1. What did Professor Krugman opined on Sept. 10, 2021:Paul KrugmanWonking Out: I’m Still on Team TransitorySept. 10, 2021<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflation-covid-consumer-prices.html?searchResultPosition=2\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/10/opinion/transitory-inflation-covid-consumer-prices.html?searchResultPosition=2</a>2. The Fed is going to raise and normalize rates as long as the labor market is too hot (employees forced to work along side unqualified colleagues who could be violent, have side jobs working \"from home,\" inexperienced contractors like those who deleted files at FAA... ) 3. Obviously we are not reliving the 1970s/1980s. We are not paying double digit mortgage rates now, but are adding hundreds of $billions annual to service the runaway national debt, $31.45T and counting.\n",
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"The Menu," I now see was a documentary, not merely a parody. The only untruth in the movie is that the price was only $1200 per head. That experience described in the movie would cost no less than 5 grand a head.
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Rob H You are kidding, right?"Azure broke out from the growth of the other cloud providers with a 45% increase in 2022. Only Tencent Cloud performed better in terms of percentage growth, but not with the same volume as Azure." Source: <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-azure-shows-strong-q4-growth-as-shown-by-liftr-insights-data-301724194.html" target="_blank">https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/microsoft-azure-shows-strong-q4-growth-as-shown-by-liftr-insights-data-301724194.html</a>
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My father, Albert Taborn, was an extremely productive Black home builder in Cleveland, OH in the 1950s. In 1949, dad was the first president of CAREB (the Cleveland chapter of NAREB which is mention in this article). His company, Taborn Realty literally built hundreds of homes (yearly) for first time Black home buyers. Unlike most white realtors, dad accepted the war bonds from former Black servicemen for a win-win situation. Tragically, the story told in this article is nothing new. Although most of his homes were sold to Blacks, my father was open to selling to any interested buyers but he had to hire white salesmen to show his homes if the potential buyer was white. Home ownership is one of, if not the main way to gain access to wealth in the U.S. and many Black Americans have been restricted from this option leading to lives of struggle or even destitution. Thanks for the article. I hope it creates better understanding and compassion for those struggling with homelessness or caught in a never ending cycle of paying higher and higher rent
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hen3ry ..There are too many people being left behind or left out entirely when it comes to having decent lives.Paul Volcker noted thisPaul Volcker , at age 91, NY Times InterviewMr. Volcker is no great fan of the president, but he acknowledged that Mr. Trump had cannily recognized the economic worries of blue-collar workers. Mr. Trump “seized upon some issues that the elite had ignored,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question about that, in kind of an erratic way, but there it is.” He wondered how many lectures and presentations he had sat through with economists “telling us open markets are wonderful, everybody benefits from open markets.” ... concern was dismissed too easily, with talk of worker retraining or some other solution far easier said than done. NY Times Oct. 23, 2018 Foreign Policy Economists on the Run Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House? Foreign Policy October 22, 2019The cause is that part of the US population was put into competition with workers abroad willing to work for far less, and part profited from it. And the latter, via donations, controls politics - of both parties
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Absurd.Harry and Meghan live in a $14 million gated estate, have business deals of more than $100 million with Netflix, the book and other ventures.They have had Oprah and Gayle King (at CBS which seems like a conflict of interest) and other celebrities message for them.They are relentless monetizing their grievances – a bit like the Donald Trump approach. Meghan is also estranged from her father. Meghan did not think it was OK for her father to make public accusations – but she feels OK doing the same to her in-laws.BTW as timeline reminder – they met in 2016 and wed in 2018 – and left the UK in early 2020.Lots of people have had in-law issues or more serious problems for years – but don’t constantly complain.Prince Harry is wrong - and a hypocrite of the highest order.
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"content": "Absurd.Harry and Meghan live in a $14 million gated estate, have business deals of more than $100 million with Netflix, the book and other ventures.They have had Oprah and Gayle King (at CBS which seems like a conflict of interest) and other celebrities message for them.They are relentless monetizing their grievances – a bit like the Donald Trump approach. Meghan is also estranged from her father. Meghan did not think it was OK for her father to make public accusations – but she feels OK doing the same to her in-laws.BTW as timeline reminder – they met in 2016 and wed in 2018 – and left the UK in early 2020.Lots of people have had in-law issues or more serious problems for years – but don’t constantly complain.Prince Harry is wrong - and a hypocrite of the highest order.\n",
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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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Matt Warburg Yes, restaurant wine is a terrible value. Way too expensive.Plus, in part due to the myth that red wine should be served at "room temperature," you'll get an 80-degree 4-oz pour from a bottle that's been sitting open in the kitchen all evening.
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What is “tech as we know it”, really? All these “tech” layoffs are at companies whose sole purpose is tech. Meanwhile companies with some tether to the real world continue to look for skilled workers in those fields. I work for the IT division of a major retailer, where we maintain and redesign systems that billions in revenue and several hundred thousand jobs hinge upon. It’s obviously less glamorous than working for Microsoft or Twitter or Apple, but it desperately needs doing, and we’re never not hiring.
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I once was EVP at Moody’s Investors Service and was personally responsible for rating the credit of sovereign debt.I do not consider this a major problem today as measured against GNP and debt interest payments.Starting with Reagan, the Republican focus was to ‘starve the beast’ of social expenditures. This, in a Democratic administration, is again a Republican wail. Clearly they want to reduce ‘social expenditures,’ including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.This is not the basis for blackmail negotiations with nihilist Republicans.Raising the national debt limit to finance expenditure authorized by Congress should not be a political issue.President Biden should insist on raising the national debt limit and not submit to Republican blackmail which could jeopardize longstanding and essential social expenditures.
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NY Times Article Jan 10 -----Greece Opens Espionage Trial of Aid Workers Who Helped MigrantsSara Mardini, a Syrian refugee turned activist, is among 24 people facing charges. Amnesty International has called the case “farcical.”
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Here’s a long term investment idea: Buy up cheap land in the upper Midwest and hold onto it. Within 15-20 years, a big chunk of the US population living in the Southwest will be moving there in order to have access to more water and livable temperatures.
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"In the long run, the greatest hope we can have for China is its people. The greatest investment we can make in the coming decades of turbulence is to keep faith with them".This statement could apply to any country world-wide. It is an all too common mistake to conflate a nation's government and its policies with its ordinary citizens. When the powers-that-be actively suppress information regarding its wrongdoings, keeping their citizens in the dark, we should not conclude that most would cheer them on if they were to know the truth about their leaders' wrongful actions.I submit that the vast majority of Russians would be appalled if they were to become fully aware of Mr. Putin's unrelenting attacks on Ukraine; to wit, protests are already taking place as the news of the true extent of the devastation begins leaking in.When tempted to rush to judgment about a nation and its actions, particularly one under despotic rule, first place the blame on those in power and then vow to do whatever is possible to support the people in their desire to lead a reasonable life.
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China’s “one child” policy is also the Achilles Heal with respect to the country’s military based expansion. When our son was in middle school studying Mandarin, his class did an exchange program with a sister school in China. They visited the US living with their exchange buddy. And our son stayed with Danial’s family when he visited Shanghai. Among the things that struck me from all this was the how central to his family Danial is. To his parents he is their universe. Their everything. OK, so are our children to us. But in a country where near every child is an only child, that reality presents a different gravity when you send young people off to die in an unnecessary conflict.I still believe that the Russian soldiers who lost their lives in Ukraine will bring about some form of revolt and likely the exert the leverage necessary to end this senseless conflict. Sons and daughters coming home in body bags where the force behind ending Vietnam and Russia’s incursion into Afghanistan.If China where to engage in a bloody conflict in Taiwan, a country showing signs of fierce independence similar to Ukraine, I suspect the body count would be so painful it could break China. In the end, never underestimate the power of a grieving mother.
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"content": "China’s “one child” policy is also the Achilles Heal with respect to the country’s military based expansion. When our son was in middle school studying Mandarin, his class did an exchange program with a sister school in China. They visited the US living with their exchange buddy. And our son stayed with Danial’s family when he visited Shanghai. Among the things that struck me from all this was the how central to his family Danial is. To his parents he is their universe. Their everything. OK, so are our children to us. But in a country where near every child is an only child, that reality presents a different gravity when you send young people off to die in an unnecessary conflict.I still believe that the Russian soldiers who lost their lives in Ukraine will bring about some form of revolt and likely the exert the leverage necessary to end this senseless conflict. Sons and daughters coming home in body bags where the force behind ending Vietnam and Russia’s incursion into Afghanistan.If China where to engage in a bloody conflict in Taiwan, a country showing signs of fierce independence similar to Ukraine, I suspect the body count would be so painful it could break China. In the end, never underestimate the power of a grieving mother.\n",
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To some generic degree this is happening in most major cities and for all demographics. I have seen what the results are. I grew up in rural Tennessee and now live in California. When I moved away 20 years ago there wasn't much happening back home. But now? Whenever I go back there are now entire chunks of the area I grew up in that were filled with farms and fields now getting filled with housing. It used to be dirt cheap and one could buy a house on some land for $100k. Now its more like $350k. I was astounded to go to one of the smaller towns nearby and discover it now has a sizeable Russian and Hispanic population with many ethnic grocery stores. Sort of refreshing to see that. A lot of the people moving in are from the coasts. East and West coast where the costs of everything have gotten to be so extreme that you HAVE to make a 6 figure income just to eek out a middle class existence. And the way I look at it is that perhaps this is a good thing. In the future perhaps the South will not be the total monolithic white, conservative place its been known for. A good mixture of people from all over can help better align the region to the rest of the nation
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"content": "To some generic degree this is happening in most major cities and for all demographics. I have seen what the results are. I grew up in rural Tennessee and now live in California. When I moved away 20 years ago there wasn't much happening back home. But now? Whenever I go back there are now entire chunks of the area I grew up in that were filled with farms and fields now getting filled with housing. It used to be dirt cheap and one could buy a house on some land for $100k. Now its more like $350k. I was astounded to go to one of the smaller towns nearby and discover it now has a sizeable Russian and Hispanic population with many ethnic grocery stores. Sort of refreshing to see that. A lot of the people moving in are from the coasts. East and West coast where the costs of everything have gotten to be so extreme that you HAVE to make a 6 figure income just to eek out a middle class existence. And the way I look at it is that perhaps this is a good thing. In the future perhaps the South will not be the total monolithic white, conservative place its been known for. A good mixture of people from all over can help better align the region to the rest of the nation\n",
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This guy cannot be serious. $400,000 per year and wondering why eggs are so expensive? Not saying you get rich with that income, but plenty comfortable.
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"content": "This guy cannot be serious. $400,000 per year and wondering why eggs are so expensive? Not saying you get rich with that income, but plenty comfortable.\n",
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The idea here is to control what you can. Opening a business that is beholden to someone else who does not have a dog in your personal fight will lead to such things as what impending to Ms. Cianci. On a different note, NYT could do good journalists good public serve by telling us all of the holdings of Unleashed Brands, that I can make informed consumer decisions. It would also be good if the medical providers who are owned by private equity firms could be identified, as they are also to be avoided.
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"content": "The idea here is to control what you can. Opening a business that is beholden to someone else who does not have a dog in your personal fight will lead to such things as what impending to Ms. Cianci. On a different note, NYT could do good journalists good public serve by telling us all of the holdings of Unleashed Brands, that I can make informed consumer decisions. It would also be good if the medical providers who are owned by private equity firms could be identified, as they are also to be avoided.\n",
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As someone arrested by Google for protesting their lack of commitment to climate action, I sympathize with the writer. Just today we are told that despite the Paris Accords, the IRA, and increased installation of renewable energy, overall carbon emissions in the U.S. increased 1.3% last year. And this is probably under-reported, as the true extent of methane leakage from the extraction, delivery, and storage of natural gas is not known.While a majority of Americans now believe that Global warming/climate change is happening, this is soft knowledge; they don't know the science. From another recent report, K-12 students receive only 3-4 hours of climate change instruction per year in the U.S., if any at all. Political leaders aid in this by referring to an existential crisis--what most people interpret as something in the future--not serious now, if they know the meaning of the phrase at all. My guess is these same political leaders have not read the IPCC reports specifically meant for policy makers, which explain the science with the likelihood of catastrophic events. Congressmen don't even read legislation before voting on it.Google continues to offer L.C.D. cartoons on its web page, though they may have offered preventive information during the height of the pandemic, but still no button for climate change. And the fossil fuel industry, are betting that they can extend fossil fuel dominance forever, through misinformation in the media and controlling politicians.
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"content": "As someone arrested by Google for protesting their lack of commitment to climate action, I sympathize with the writer. Just today we are told that despite the Paris Accords, the IRA, and increased installation of renewable energy, overall carbon emissions in the U.S. increased 1.3% last year. And this is probably under-reported, as the true extent of methane leakage from the extraction, delivery, and storage of natural gas is not known.While a majority of Americans now believe that Global warming/climate change is happening, this is soft knowledge; they don't know the science. From another recent report, K-12 students receive only 3-4 hours of climate change instruction per year in the U.S., if any at all. Political leaders aid in this by referring to an existential crisis--what most people interpret as something in the future--not serious now, if they know the meaning of the phrase at all. My guess is these same political leaders have not read the IPCC reports specifically meant for policy makers, which explain the science with the likelihood of catastrophic events. Congressmen don't even read legislation before voting on it.Google continues to offer L.C.D. cartoons on its web page, though they may have offered preventive information during the height of the pandemic, but still no button for climate change. And the fossil fuel industry, are betting that they can extend fossil fuel dominance forever, through misinformation in the media and controlling politicians.\n",
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‘Weaponization of the Federal Government’ is a euphemism for revenge.Republicans have no designs to investigate their weaponization of government - Barr, trump’s sycophants and the Supreme Court, but want to punish democrats for seeking the truth and exposing how mendacious the previous administration truly was and how close we were to loosing our democracy.This is the second step on the road to totalitarianism: first were the open attempts to overthrow the government and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, second comes the covert methods by disparaging the opposition to one man rule.Register to vote and vote Democrat up and down the ticket!
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"content": "‘Weaponization of the Federal Government’ is a euphemism for revenge.Republicans have no designs to investigate their weaponization of government - Barr, trump’s sycophants and the Supreme Court, but want to punish democrats for seeking the truth and exposing how mendacious the previous administration truly was and how close we were to loosing our democracy.This is the second step on the road to totalitarianism: first were the open attempts to overthrow the government and prevent the peaceful transfer of power, second comes the covert methods by disparaging the opposition to one man rule.Register to vote and vote Democrat up and down the ticket!\n",
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Steve W Allowing money into our politics with Citizens United was a huge mistake that allows billionaires to spend millions on our supposed representatives. Now they're going after social security and anything else that helps the average wagged American citizen Their true colors are bursting out.
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"content": "Steve W Allowing money into our politics with Citizens United was a huge mistake that allows billionaires to spend millions on our supposed representatives. Now they're going after social security and anything else that helps the average wagged American citizen Their true colors are bursting out.\n",
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Mike S cut 10% from the military base operating budgets in Florida, Texas, and the rest of the red states and we can balance the budget in a very short time frame. We would have the added bonus of watching the governors of said states jump up and down both figuratively as well as actually.
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Steve O When the interstate highway system was planned in the Eisenhower era, I-75 was planned as a major north-south highway that cut between the hills of Cincinnati and across the Ohio River into Kentucky. It was locally called the Mill Creek Expressway because it ran parallel to the Mill Creek in the lowest part of the valley. That highway plan ran right through the West End, and was the beginning of the drastic changes to the West End. The new Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project will span eight miles between the Western Hills Viaduct in Ohio and Dixie Highway in Kentucky, so the area will likely undergo change once again. That project aims to address the second-worst truck bottleneck in the nation (aka Malfunction Junction) by improving safety and travel on the interstate connection that carries more than $700 billion worth of freight every year.
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David-It's much much worse, according to this USA Today columnist: “…What would they do this year if they could hold America hostage by instigating a shutdown or debt crisis? They've already told us: Gift the rich with inflationary tax cuts; raise prescription prices; take back the $80 billion the under-resourced IRS just received to audit the rich, answer the phones and catch up on its backlog; cut Social Security and Medicare; shrink aid to Ukraine; and ratchet back clean energy spending.”<a href="https://news.yahoo.com/mccarthy-speaker-spectacle-no-joke-184539019.html" target="_blank">https://news.yahoo.com/mccarthy-speaker-spectacle-no-joke-184539019.html</a>
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Eric B Wordle 586 4/6*⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Only one letter wasn't much to start with. The second, meant to place the opening yellow, also landed the first two letters, but added another yellow, which the third landed. Then the fourth brought it all home.Yesterday's words:STARE 45 words leftWAIVE 1 word leftMAIZE — words leftBack on Jan. 1, when the word was WHINE, I played CHIVE as my second try. The bot said that in addition to the solution, WAIVE and MAIZE were possible (NAIVE had been used by then.), so I laid them aside for future use. Yesterday was that day. Either could have gone second, and the wrong one did. The deadly coin toss. Gets me too many times. Today's four has got the fours starting to catch up with the threes again in my statistics. They're not quite there, but closing in.Since pronouns were mentioned earlier, I'll throw in that I'm a he—my actual name is Michael, which was a perfect pangram on 4-17-22. I'd love to talk more, but I have to take care of other things.See you all later.
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"content": "Eric B Wordle 586 4/6*⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Only one letter wasn't much to start with. The second, meant to place the opening yellow, also landed the first two letters, but added another yellow, which the third landed. Then the fourth brought it all home.Yesterday's words:STARE 45 words leftWAIVE 1 word leftMAIZE — words leftBack on Jan. 1, when the word was WHINE, I played CHIVE as my second try. The bot said that in addition to the solution, WAIVE and MAIZE were possible (NAIVE had been used by then.), so I laid them aside for future use. Yesterday was that day. Either could have gone second, and the wrong one did. The deadly coin toss. Gets me too many times. Today's four has got the fours starting to catch up with the threes again in my statistics. They're not quite there, but closing in.Since pronouns were mentioned earlier, I'll throw in that I'm a he—my actual name is Michael, which was a perfect pangram on 4-17-22. I'd love to talk more, but I have to take care of other things.See you all later.\n",
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If fuel cell and fusion labs are an example of green technology startups then don’t hold your breath for a breakthrough . They have been around for decades so they are not high flyers that will attract gluts of investment dollars at inflated valuations. In the meantime these aging enterprises may just produce results so long anticipated.
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Other Not sure where you're coming from here, I pay about 25% of my yearly income in taxes ($10K), which is by far my biggest expense. Thats on a $40k salary (yay self employment tax). I could care less about yachts and space adventures.
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My wife and I own a Tesla model 3. We never considered paying what was $10K at the time for what sounded like advanced beta self-driving software. We're delighted with the car otherwise. Even in normal mode, it proactively evaded what could have been a close encounter caused by another car, reacting faster than my wife could have. It also happens to be one of the safest cars on the road. No, I don't work for them.
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I am not a rabid partisan and was not a registered Democrat until 2015 after seeing that Trump had the country in the crosshairs. The country needed to be protected and the only realistic instrument for that protection was the Democratic Party. It is still true today as the GOP descends into open lies, conspiracy theories, racism, Christian nationalism, violence, misogyny, and fascism.Biden was given a horrible hand. He has done a great deal of repairing and I appreciate his steadiness, focus, and competence. He has had to deal with Putin, Covid, global economic jitters, and an authoritarian and unhinged political opposition at home. The one mark against him, Afghanistan, has been overblown - Pompeo and Trump negotiated the agreement and despite perceptions to the contrary the airlift to get as many people as possible out of Afghanistan was one of the most successful ever conducted. And his handling of the Ukraine has been outstanding given the danger and volatility of the situation.I'm not a cultist. If Biden were to break the law I'd want to see him tried before the appropriate court of law. But that's the difference between many of us and the GOP. Most of us I hope remain citizens who put the law above men - the GOP? Not!In short, he's not inspiring or glamorous. But he's steady, intelligent, competent, hardworking, thoughtful, and experienced. My vote for Biden is the best one I've cast in my 40 years of voting. Period.
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"content": "I am not a rabid partisan and was not a registered Democrat until 2015 after seeing that Trump had the country in the crosshairs. The country needed to be protected and the only realistic instrument for that protection was the Democratic Party. It is still true today as the GOP descends into open lies, conspiracy theories, racism, Christian nationalism, violence, misogyny, and fascism.Biden was given a horrible hand. He has done a great deal of repairing and I appreciate his steadiness, focus, and competence. He has had to deal with Putin, Covid, global economic jitters, and an authoritarian and unhinged political opposition at home. The one mark against him, Afghanistan, has been overblown - Pompeo and Trump negotiated the agreement and despite perceptions to the contrary the airlift to get as many people as possible out of Afghanistan was one of the most successful ever conducted. And his handling of the Ukraine has been outstanding given the danger and volatility of the situation.I'm not a cultist. If Biden were to break the law I'd want to see him tried before the appropriate court of law. But that's the difference between many of us and the GOP. Most of us I hope remain citizens who put the law above men - the GOP? Not!In short, he's not inspiring or glamorous. But he's steady, intelligent, competent, hardworking, thoughtful, and experienced. My vote for Biden is the best one I've cast in my 40 years of voting. Period.\n",
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Mr.Gory stated: " “I pay my insurance, I pay costs of repairs, oil change, brakes, carwash — it’s too much,” he said. “Way, way too much." But he is also making payments on a $51,000 car that is depreciating with each mile that he drives.. I drove for Uber for over 2 years until my area became saturated with drivers .I had a retirement income so this was extra money. I think that the reality is hitting drivers that uber has been selling a false dream.. You can focus on the hourly income but you're basically eating your capital investment.... Your car.
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| no | Classification | 802 |
The politicians that made decisions about the Middle East against the will of average American taxpayers, and the industry executives/ investors of companies that profited, should be the first in line to open their doors and take people in.
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"content": "The politicians that made decisions about the Middle East against the will of average American taxpayers, and the industry executives/ investors of companies that profited, should be the first in line to open their doors and take people in.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,626 |
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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"content": "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.\n",
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Good job Seth Kugel!$17,000 is a kot of money.Aurora Expeditions, Trip Mate Insurance and American Airlines behaved badly, hoping a wronged customer would surrender to corporate greed.A mitzvah!
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Bill "Partnerships used by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor helping to shape President Donald Trump’s trade policy, have a 31 percent stake in Navigator Holdings, which the New York Times said earns millions of dollars a year transporting gas for Russian petrochemical firm Sibur.Gennady Timchenko, a Russian oligarch and Putin associate subject to U.S. sanctions, and Putin’s son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, are Sibur stakeholders" Nov 2017
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"content": "Bill \"Partnerships used by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor helping to shape President Donald Trump’s trade policy, have a 31 percent stake in Navigator Holdings, which the New York Times said earns millions of dollars a year transporting gas for Russian petrochemical firm Sibur.Gennady Timchenko, a Russian oligarch and Putin associate subject to U.S. sanctions, and Putin’s son-in-law, Kirill Shamalov, are Sibur stakeholders\" Nov 2017\n",
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For Harry it seems the emotional floodgates have opened and he has to let it all out. He already has a job that he seems good at (can't remember name of the company) so after this he should be able to just get on with other things. I'm sorry for Charles: he's had enough what with being forced to marry a women he didn't love. William and Kate come across as ciphers although William sounds venomous in the fight. I wonder how they were with each other as kids. I suspect Harry was Diana's favourite. Finally, I'm coming to think this family bloodletting might actually be good for the monarchy in that it will allow Charles to slim down the number of family members on the public payroll.
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"content": "For Harry it seems the emotional floodgates have opened and he has to let it all out. He already has a job that he seems good at (can't remember name of the company) so after this he should be able to just get on with other things. I'm sorry for Charles: he's had enough what with being forced to marry a women he didn't love. William and Kate come across as ciphers although William sounds venomous in the fight. I wonder how they were with each other as kids. I suspect Harry was Diana's favourite. Finally, I'm coming to think this family bloodletting might actually be good for the monarchy in that it will allow Charles to slim down the number of family members on the public payroll.\n",
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No mention of ongoing failed antitrust enforcement? Or of private equity taking over our economy? They are often linked. From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/business/dealbook/kroger-albertsons-merger-private-equity-tactic.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/business/dealbook/kroger-albertsons-merger-private-equity-tactic.html</a> :“Albertsons wants to pay $4 billion to shareholders ahead of its proposed merger with Kroger, a move that would require the already debt-ridden company to borrow $1.5 billion.”And what do the distinguished economists think will happen to grocery prices after Kroger and Albertsons merge? Macro-economic data might be correlated between two periods of time but correlation is not causation. We haven’t seen concentration of wealth and ownership on this scale since the gilded age, and some of the robber barons back then were at least serious philanthropists.The threat of communism in the early 20th century was certainly part of what led to more reasonable policies. Not sure how we get out of this now.
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"content": "No mention of ongoing failed antitrust enforcement? Or of private equity taking over our economy? They are often linked. From <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/business/dealbook/kroger-albertsons-merger-private-equity-tactic.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/business/dealbook/kroger-albertsons-merger-private-equity-tactic.html</a> :“Albertsons wants to pay $4 billion to shareholders ahead of its proposed merger with Kroger, a move that would require the already debt-ridden company to borrow $1.5 billion.”And what do the distinguished economists think will happen to grocery prices after Kroger and Albertsons merge? Macro-economic data might be correlated between two periods of time but correlation is not causation. We haven’t seen concentration of wealth and ownership on this scale since the gilded age, and some of the robber barons back then were at least serious philanthropists.The threat of communism in the early 20th century was certainly part of what led to more reasonable policies. Not sure how we get out of this now.\n",
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So much of big pharmaceutical money grows out of publicly financed research and development.May be time to change strategies.Universities, private labs retain patent rights and license the product to the pharmaceutical industry.Universities benefit and if AbbVie can’t get by on less than $100,000,000 there will be a horde of less covetous companies happy to do to.
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"content": "So much of big pharmaceutical money grows out of publicly financed research and development.May be time to change strategies.Universities, private labs retain patent rights and license the product to the pharmaceutical industry.Universities benefit and if AbbVie can’t get by on less than $100,000,000 there will be a horde of less covetous companies happy to do to.\n",
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As a university professor, I see the situation somewhat differently. I definitely support equaling the playing field and making more jobs open to those without college degrees. But from the inside of the education system, the divide is not between those with degrees and those without; it's between those working in finance and tech and everyone else. As someone working in the humanities, we feel spat upon at every turn, told how worthless we are, and parents tell their kids to run from us because we are supposedly a waste of money. As a musician, I have seen my friends priced out of major cities around the country. There is a whole slew of educated people who are falling behind, too, because they picked the 'wrong' profession - just ask the thousands of adjunct professors working for less than minimum wage.The equality revolution must give more respect and money to artists and intellectuals, and not assume that everyone with a college education is doing fine. And we must give more respect to the intellect, not less - as has happened since everyone now seems to think college should only be about 'useful' skills like computer programming, not critical thinking, reading, and writing.
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"content": "As a university professor, I see the situation somewhat differently. I definitely support equaling the playing field and making more jobs open to those without college degrees. But from the inside of the education system, the divide is not between those with degrees and those without; it's between those working in finance and tech and everyone else. As someone working in the humanities, we feel spat upon at every turn, told how worthless we are, and parents tell their kids to run from us because we are supposedly a waste of money. As a musician, I have seen my friends priced out of major cities around the country. There is a whole slew of educated people who are falling behind, too, because they picked the 'wrong' profession - just ask the thousands of adjunct professors working for less than minimum wage.The equality revolution must give more respect and money to artists and intellectuals, and not assume that everyone with a college education is doing fine. And we must give more respect to the intellect, not less - as has happened since everyone now seems to think college should only be about 'useful' skills like computer programming, not critical thinking, reading, and writing.\n",
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