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Not sure why anybody wouldn't want the taste, price-point and ingredient control that comes with make at home pizza. You can get a BBQ ready stone for $40 and oven pans for a small fraction of that. Make your own dough or buy a fresh bag that makes two large pizzas for $2 at Winnco. We raised four kids who adored Make Your Own Pizza nights so much, this year (as adults) they bought us a propane powered oven. Pizza in 60 seconds cooked and topped just the way you like!!
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| no | Classification | 703 |
I believe Harvard was wrong in rescinding the fellowship to Roth. I do believe in academic freedom. Roth should have the position. Would be nice to see academic involvement and support for those who expose the extreme murderous corruption of Hamas who use the per person highest chartable grants per person to build tunnels and buy armaments rather than feed, educate and provide health care for their people. And maybe some discussion of how Arafat went back on his word, thus dashing a real chance at a two state solution.PLEASE have speakers and researchers expose Israel’s many flaws and human tights violations.But let us also look clearly at the corrupt necrotizing leaders of Gaza and the West Bank who in their charters essentially call for end of all Jews in Israel, and never would agree to any reasonable settlement BEFORE the extreme expansionism of the current Israeli government.
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"content": "I believe Harvard was wrong in rescinding the fellowship to Roth. I do believe in academic freedom. Roth should have the position. Would be nice to see academic involvement and support for those who expose the extreme murderous corruption of Hamas who use the per person highest chartable grants per person to build tunnels and buy armaments rather than feed, educate and provide health care for their people. And maybe some discussion of how Arafat went back on his word, thus dashing a real chance at a two state solution.PLEASE have speakers and researchers expose Israel’s many flaws and human tights violations.But let us also look clearly at the corrupt necrotizing leaders of Gaza and the West Bank who in their charters essentially call for end of all Jews in Israel, and never would agree to any reasonable settlement BEFORE the extreme expansionism of the current Israeli government.\n",
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1 unfair, unequal door for the well off closed. Leaving ~87,429 still open. I suppose it's better than nothing. But, not by much.
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"content": "1 unfair, unequal door for the well off closed. Leaving ~87,429 still open. I suppose it's better than nothing. But, not by much.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,137 |
This is like something out of a Marx Brothers movie.We start with the ridiculous proposition that social media platforms are anything other than massive advertising forums, and that the algorithms driving users is intended to educate, inform, enlighten, rather than just generate clicks that boost advertising rates and revenues.From there we move on to the reality that because these platforms have ZERO incentive to control anything that's posted, as long it drives clicks, rates, and revenue, they provide an open forum for anybody to say anything they want.And we conclude with a stern faced Constitutional question being brought before the Court about whether these platforms are shielded by 1st Amendment rights, or whether they should be held accountable.Groucho would have had a field day with this, casting himself as the Chief Justice, Chico as the lawyer defending the social platforms with zany circuitous logic, Zeppo his foil as the prosecutor presenting sober arguments about rights and other such nonsense. Any questions about who Harpo would play? (hint: He's the silent one with the horn, sitting to the right of Groucho on the bench.)I realize this is serious business, but there is a strong component of the absurd in trying to find the constitutional basis for either protecting or indicting a business that traffics in toxic waste for the purpose of generating ad revenue. Only in Freedonia.
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"content": "This is like something out of a Marx Brothers movie.We start with the ridiculous proposition that social media platforms are anything other than massive advertising forums, and that the algorithms driving users is intended to educate, inform, enlighten, rather than just generate clicks that boost advertising rates and revenues.From there we move on to the reality that because these platforms have ZERO incentive to control anything that's posted, as long it drives clicks, rates, and revenue, they provide an open forum for anybody to say anything they want.And we conclude with a stern faced Constitutional question being brought before the Court about whether these platforms are shielded by 1st Amendment rights, or whether they should be held accountable.Groucho would have had a field day with this, casting himself as the Chief Justice, Chico as the lawyer defending the social platforms with zany circuitous logic, Zeppo his foil as the prosecutor presenting sober arguments about rights and other such nonsense. Any questions about who Harpo would play? (hint: He's the silent one with the horn, sitting to the right of Groucho on the bench.)I realize this is serious business, but there is a strong component of the absurd in trying to find the constitutional basis for either protecting or indicting a business that traffics in toxic waste for the purpose of generating ad revenue. Only in Freedonia.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,227 |
DAN I get tired of this Republican talking point. There are numerous articles discussing the effect of the stimulus on inflation including this one: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/10/09/inflation-economy-biden-covid" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/10/09/inflation-economy-biden-covid</a>/. " An October 2021 analysis by other economists at the San Francisco Fed, for example, which relied on a labor market measure of economic slack, concluded that the rescue plan was responsible for just 0.3 percentage points of added inflation." Another analysis put it at 3% at its peak. Meanwhile, for many unemployed people it was a lifeline and it raised many children out of poverty. Better than doing nothing. Much of the other spending for the IRA and infrastructure is over 10 years and has just barely been spent. Personally, we could have gotten along without the stimulus but we used it to pay down debt and I'm guessing that's what a lot of people did.
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"content": "DAN I get tired of this Republican talking point. There are numerous articles discussing the effect of the stimulus on inflation including this one: <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/10/09/inflation-economy-biden-covid\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/10/09/inflation-economy-biden-covid</a>/. \" An October 2021 analysis by other economists at the San Francisco Fed, for example, which relied on a labor market measure of economic slack, concluded that the rescue plan was responsible for just 0.3 percentage points of added inflation.\" Another analysis put it at 3% at its peak. Meanwhile, for many unemployed people it was a lifeline and it raised many children out of poverty. Better than doing nothing. Much of the other spending for the IRA and infrastructure is over 10 years and has just barely been spent. Personally, we could have gotten along without the stimulus but we used it to pay down debt and I'm guessing that's what a lot of people did.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,957 |
Dr M Kirby Please, New York Times, do an investigation of Pearson, which forced me to re-take the Math text at $250 a pop, to certify for Early Childhood. They gave out wrong test, very difficult, which I couldn't pass, and then told me to "use the previous test" I used for General Ed Certification. They kept the $250.
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| no | Classification | 438 |
Do you imagine that the Iranians are incapable of figuring out who was behind this attack? They are far from unsophisticated, even if they cannot respond in kind. That is why their targets are primarily civilian not military. Israel has shown its deep infiltration of Iran and this fact alone leads to Iranian caution. The US, on the other hand, leaves itself open to Iranian intimidation precisely because we send mixed signals, the sub rosa JCPOA negotiations and our failure to take any action against Iranian exports of drones and missiles to Russia are but two examples.
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"content": "Do you imagine that the Iranians are incapable of figuring out who was behind this attack? They are far from unsophisticated, even if they cannot respond in kind. That is why their targets are primarily civilian not military. Israel has shown its deep infiltration of Iran and this fact alone leads to Iranian caution. The US, on the other hand, leaves itself open to Iranian intimidation precisely because we send mixed signals, the sub rosa JCPOA negotiations and our failure to take any action against Iranian exports of drones and missiles to Russia are but two examples.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,808 |
Think of it this way -- LastPass is like a safe that's been found to be not as secure as it should be, as compared to no safe at all.I'm currently working on changing passwords, but thanks to LastPass, I've been protected by my unique, long passwords in at least five data breeches.In the end, the hackers won't be able to crack my reasonably strong master password before I can change my important passwords and debit and credit cards. They'll get nothing out of this.If you used a password like MushroomBridge123, I feel sorry for you, but even so, you can almost certainly take action in time -- report your credit and debit cards lost and stolen, change critical passwords like Google, Microsoft, and your bank, and you won't lose a dime.
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"content": "Think of it this way -- LastPass is like a safe that's been found to be not as secure as it should be, as compared to no safe at all.I'm currently working on changing passwords, but thanks to LastPass, I've been protected by my unique, long passwords in at least five data breeches.In the end, the hackers won't be able to crack my reasonably strong master password before I can change my important passwords and debit and credit cards. They'll get nothing out of this.If you used a password like MushroomBridge123, I feel sorry for you, but even so, you can almost certainly take action in time -- report your credit and debit cards lost and stolen, change critical passwords like Google, Microsoft, and your bank, and you won't lose a dime.\n",
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I can’t help but compare this story to your book, “Tightrope.” In detailing the struggles of young people in Yamhill County in Oregon, you present an interesting contrast to the situation in Kenyan refugee camps. There, the problem is how do we make education and resources accessible to young people. Here, both are by and large accessible, and many young people use the schools to pull themselves out of poverty; nevertheless, we are left with all too many who do not. I was impressed in both cases, that you found local (“grassroots”) leadership key in helping people find their way. In Kiberia, it was Kennedy Odede. In Yamhill County, it was people like Reverend Diane Reynolds, a local evangelical religious leader who used her influence to help people get on, and stay on a positive path. But I also found your discussion of responsibility very interesting. In Kenabi I assumed that SHOFCO student had taken personal, individual responsibility for bettering themselves, which largely why they are in the article. In Yamhill County, you suggest that we need to extend responsibility into the collective realm, into what Professor Chen of VCU describes as “a morality of grace.” Could it be that this morality of grace is stronger in Kenabi than in Yamhill County. If this is so, why is it so? Or am I comparing apples to oranges?
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It depends on your definition of making ends meet. NYC is a very expensive place and $100k, while a very good income in many parts of the country, is not a lot in NYC.
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"content": "It depends on your definition of making ends meet. NYC is a very expensive place and $100k, while a very good income in many parts of the country, is not a lot in NYC.\n",
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Barbara The story refers to stock brokers, not moguls and barons. The true Masters of the Universe are Investment Bankers. We learned this from Tom Wolfe in "Bonfire of the Vanities." It's likely, though, these self-absorbed guys would probably get stuck both in a revolving door and an escalator during a blackout.
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Steve - I agree completely. Have you heard the right wing argument that the poor should pay, because there are more of them? It's the same one they use to say, "we can afford to pay the CEO another ten million, but a fifty cent raise is too much for the serfs, they are too numerous.
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Are these people smart enough to know that if you balance the budget by either cutting spending or raising taxes- especially by cutting spending- it will tank the economy?Does Tucker Carlson actually think in that situation he will still be cashing $30 or $40 Million paychecks?If the Chinese Yuan becomes the preferred currency for global trading, the entire nation will be impoverished within 10 or 20 years. Do we think that our local titans of business will be able to adapt to that situation once all of the evil government restraints are removed. Someone like Gaetz will be sitting on the beach in a 3rd world country wondering what happened.
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"content": "Are these people smart enough to know that if you balance the budget by either cutting spending or raising taxes- especially by cutting spending- it will tank the economy?Does Tucker Carlson actually think in that situation he will still be cashing $30 or $40 Million paychecks?If the Chinese Yuan becomes the preferred currency for global trading, the entire nation will be impoverished within 10 or 20 years. Do we think that our local titans of business will be able to adapt to that situation once all of the evil government restraints are removed. Someone like Gaetz will be sitting on the beach in a 3rd world country wondering what happened.\n",
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Regarding Kafka's The Trial: I am a Certified Financial Planner. A colleague, a woman, who was prominent in the South Florida CFP community, found herself athwart a regulatory requirement having to do with RIA's. ("RIA" stands for "Registered Investment Adviser"). Hers was a minor and inadvertent violation. The State of Florida turned her life upside down; in effect it persecuted her, or so she felt. She is honest as the day is long--I have known her for many years. The regulatory authorities, in their wisdom, put her under the supervision of a CFP whom I personally know to be not perfectly honest. I gave her a copy of The Trial. She read it with incredulity and bitter interest, and was so taken with the novel she insisted that her lawyer read it as well.I have never read any reviewer or critic who has perceived that The Trial is, in one aspect, about abusive bureaucracy. There is more to it than that; but readers who have been abused by bureaucracies, municipal, corporate, state or federal, especially such as can coerce or threaten you (unresponsive ones are bad enough), may want to give it a second look.
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Tax wealth. Balancing the budget in 10 years would be easy.
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"content": "Tax wealth. Balancing the budget in 10 years would be easy.\n",
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Moonshine Excellent. Pass Go. Collect ₤200.
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I see it all the time - these people get laid off from the big software companies and they expect to get $350,000 per year just to be a UI developer and no company in the real world is paying 1/2 that right now. These people are in for a long period of unemployment because of the fantasy wages that took hold in the pandemic.
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"content": "I see it all the time - these people get laid off from the big software companies and they expect to get $350,000 per year just to be a UI developer and no company in the real world is paying 1/2 that right now. These people are in for a long period of unemployment because of the fantasy wages that took hold in the pandemic.\n",
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Amazing, Governor DeSantis wanted to shut down Government spending to the A.C.A and cut $250 billion from Social Security and Medicare while a previous Governor turn Senator from Florida (Rick Scott) had a Company Columbia/HCA that had settled allegedly "the largest Government health care fraud in U.S. History with two fines totaling $1.8 billion. What a Roller Coaster ride the people of the State of Florida are being subjected to and there is no stopping it.
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"content": "Amazing, Governor DeSantis wanted to shut down Government spending to the A.C.A and cut $250 billion from Social Security and Medicare while a previous Governor turn Senator from Florida (Rick Scott) had a Company Columbia/HCA that had settled allegedly \"the largest Government health care fraud in U.S. History with two fines totaling $1.8 billion. What a Roller Coaster ride the people of the State of Florida are being subjected to and there is no stopping it.\n",
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Matt "the main conflict is not person vs person, but person vs government"This was the reason for the 2A, although many obviously think it anachronistic."any Georgian eligible or licensed to carry...is permitted to carry both handguns and long guns...concealed or...open"Carrying openly has been legal in most states for years. Concealed, permitless handgun carry is now legal in 25 states, not just in Georgia."There is a saying...“armed society is a polite society”An "armed society is a polite government" is more accurate :-)"guns do more to resolve disputes than escalate them...But even if that were true, which it manifestly isn’t"This is an excerpt from a linked study in a NYT Editorial Board piece titled "America’s Toxic Gun Culture""The survey further finds that approximately a third of gun owners (31.1%) have used a firearm to defend themselves or their property, often on more than one occasion, and it estimates that guns are used defensively by firearms owners in approximately 1.67 million incidents per year""The reason is that democracy rests on a measure of trust and respect"I trust that most will act respectfully and within the law, but am prepared for any who choose not to."an armed society is a fearful society"The most fearful here are probably the "hoplophobes." :-P"and go about our lives with an eye on the nearest exit"There's another kind of "exit" that involves a passport. Use it and live elsewhere, as I did for 13 years abroad.
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Developers are incentivized to build 5/1 boxes by cities, government, investors and banks. If people want better architecture, demand it from the city councils and planning boards. No one can raise 40MM on their own to build an unprofitable building - the math has to work. Cities greenlight horrible, cookie cutter buildings if the developer will slap on fake plastic decoration because it "keeps with the character of the neighborhood' - from 100 years ago that can't be recreated. And communities activists want free or highly subsidized housing - also not feasible. To boot, everyone wants tons of space for cars - preferably within 10 feet of their house and of course, free. And every house has a minimum of 3 cars (more likely 5 plus recreational vehicles). Lazy articles like this demonize developers who in fact, have to build what they are told to build by people who have never built anything in their life but somehow know everything about development, city planning, traffic patterns, commuters, retail stores, raising capital and of course, are experts in all forms of architecture.
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"content": "Developers are incentivized to build 5/1 boxes by cities, government, investors and banks. If people want better architecture, demand it from the city councils and planning boards. No one can raise 40MM on their own to build an unprofitable building - the math has to work. Cities greenlight horrible, cookie cutter buildings if the developer will slap on fake plastic decoration because it \"keeps with the character of the neighborhood' - from 100 years ago that can't be recreated. And communities activists want free or highly subsidized housing - also not feasible. To boot, everyone wants tons of space for cars - preferably within 10 feet of their house and of course, free. And every house has a minimum of 3 cars (more likely 5 plus recreational vehicles). Lazy articles like this demonize developers who in fact, have to build what they are told to build by people who have never built anything in their life but somehow know everything about development, city planning, traffic patterns, commuters, retail stores, raising capital and of course, are experts in all forms of architecture.\n",
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Me Agreed. I've used these paints before, and they are well worth the expense. I think they run around $50-$60 per quart.
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"content": "Me Agreed. I've used these paints before, and they are well worth the expense. I think they run around $50-$60 per quart.\n",
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I do not think earners trying to get a bigger piece of the pie is the problem. I think the already have more than they need and refusing to let go of a crumb is the problem. Tax policy needs to make excessive profit, well, unprofitable. That would incentivise holding prices down, while also promoting higher wages. If you take/keep too much, we the people will take it and redistribute it. Don't like that Mr Industrialist, fine, redistribute it yourself through higher wages and lower prices. This is essentially what we did back in the bad old days when that socialist Eisenhower was president and the highest marginal tax rate was over 90%, CEOs earned less than 40 times what the janitor made, and wages were rising dramatically. Oh, and the economy was booming.I find it wildly improbable, and certainly against capitalist orthodoxy to believe that the whole thing will grind to a halt if we dare to limit an investors profit margin. A good capitalist will take a nickle, or less, for a dollar spent. She will also gladly rig the system and take fifty cents, or more, if she can, which is the America of today.
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I would caution about the tendency to talk about "the Republicans" when we are really talking about 20 people who are driving the other 90% of the members of the Republican caucus out of their heads. It is still possible, I suppose, that this will still be a cohesive group at some point, but this looks like an egg that will be hard to unscramble. Having said that, I am still struggling to understand exactly what these people want. As far as I can tell, it amounts to increasing demands to undermine whatever parts of government they personally object to independent of the views of the other 400 elected representatives. One of the saddest parts of this spectacle is that the "monsters" these people keep trying to unsheathe their mighty swords against are the elected representatives of the people and, by extension, the American people who elected them. Very patriotic. If I were a Democratic representative, I would have to start wondering if a point will come when it is time to get involved. If McCarthy is not extreme enough for these people, would it be in the Democrats' interest to allow Republicans to elect a Speaker who is? Democrats plus seven Republicans could elect McCarthy and get it over with. What an awful spectacle to watch.
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Attorney Lance Weil Google did $70 billion in stock buybacks last year. Cutting the CEOs salary wouldn’t be enough to pay all those people, but reducing the stock buybacks even a little would more than cover it.They did $70 billion in stock buybacks last year, a process that used to be illegal and is meant to prop up the stock (but didn’t work).For reference in 2021 they did $50 billion in buybacks. If they just kept that level instead of increasing it to $70 bil in 2022 they could have paid those 12k people for 10 years.But even with the buybacks none of this is “necessary”. They were still are making record revenues with the 12k people and near-record profits even after the buybacks, none of this has anything to do with necessary. It’s corporate greed plain and simple. Big tech is likely in essence colluding (something they’ve been caught and charged for before) to bring down their workers salaries when they were afraid people would be demanding at least inflation level cost of living adjustments which they don’t want to give because inflation is high.
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“And a severe shortage in skills may undercut the boom”Well, then, instead of pouring $100 billion into Ukraine in the name of national defense, maybe we should pour it into the U.S. education system.Just a thought.
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Vestigial One San Francisco (and most other major CA cities) have dramatically increased the amount of money spent on the homeless over the past decade. Billions of dollars. Maybe it’s time to ask what has changed by throwing money at the problem. Seems to me that most of that money goes towards small non profits (with a well paid executives) that offer small services the homeless to feel better - but very little is spent on long term solutions. And we continue to fight housing density required to drive down housing costs. Nor do we look for cheaper solutions to move many of the homeless to residential programs outside of cities. Republicans aren’t to blame - our ultra progressive Democratic policy makers have done a very effective job of spending tons of money without making much of a material difference to the problem.
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The press needs to publish pictures of the splayed, bloodied, murdered bodies of children, women, and men who are the victims of gun violence in the US.It took courage for Mamie Till to insist on an open casket for her son, Emmitt Till - she wanted the world to see what they did to "her baby".The sight of Till's body shocked the conscience of the nation - advancing the cause of civil rights and opposition to lynching and racist violence.During the Viet Nam war, scenes of bloodshed and the results of bombing were routinely broadcast on TV and in photos - contributing to the opposition to that war.But when a madman killed 20 young children and 6 adults at Sandy Hook, we were "spared" seeing the horror he caused. And Alex Jones raised millions denying it ever happened.It's time we see exactly what these weapons do - daily - all over America.We need to be shocked, sickened, repulsed, and driven to action to end the disease plaguing our benighted nation.We have grown immune to the daily carnage - just numbers and places unless it's near and dear to us. We need to know - intimately - through pictures - of the human devastation the cost of our addiction to uncontrolled gun violence.Otherwise, it remains a headline - and someone else's tragedy.
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| no | Classification | 478 |
As a small business owner I have invested to become a specialist and develop a new market in my community. No compete clauses protect my business investment of training other clinicians to be specialist and perform in this market I created. Without a no-compete my clinicians would be free to work for the large health networks in my area. Without no-competes my business would not grow and I would have a waiting list of months. No-competes protect small business owners who have invented and developed markets. If the employee under the clause wants to truly develop a new market, they won’t be a competitor.
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EZE Agreed. The whole approach to learning, teaching and assessment will have to change. Generative AI is here to stay and billions of dollars are being invested by the world's largest corporations to develop it.Devices to 'detect' or otherwise seek to deter the use of Gen AI will only drive business to the contract cheating companies who will become experts on how to circumvent any controls, or indeed develop their own (inferior) systems.Higher education as we have known it has gone. We need to adapt to the future - long predicted - that has arrived sooner than we might have expected!
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Consider me a Luddite. The point of AI is to take people's jobs and increase value for shareholders. Under capitalism, it will never be used to alleviate drudgery or extend leisure. AI advances are anti-human and perpetuated by the most arrogant people we have
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There is nothing surprising about Kevin McCarthy genuflecting to Greene. Like every other Republican, he has no political platform or policy agenda other than (1) to grab power at any price- including protecting a President that has attempted a violent coup or rigging state election laws in their favor, and; (2) serving the needs of corporations and the wealthy while blocking any legislation directed at the wrong beneficiaries- the bottom 95%. Any enacted or proposed laws whose costs are so high that they may threaten their exemption from paying taxes are opposed. It does not matter how low Republicans are willing to sell their souls as long as it achieves their main directives. As long as they have the seal of approval by privilege, the unlimited bags of campaign cash will continue to flow. Their constituents keep returning them to Washington again and again even though they do not represent their interests. That is truly the most astounding part.
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Really? Did you look at the efficiency of centralised use versus a stove? Is the transmission loss of electricity major? Renewable energy is growing fast and will increase faster still with the new investment. We have an induction hob and electric oven fuelled by renewable electricity. Works fine, easy to clean. Wouldn't go back to gas
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I don't seek importance from a job, or aim at making a difference.I work for money and the only other thing I want from a job is a human relationship that's amiable and supportive. If I work at a supermarket deli and could feel the camaraderie than at a big company that offers more money but kills my spirit, I'd choose the deli. Luckily, money isn't the focus for me. Neither do I need to be recognized as the stardom, nor to get a big paycheck, I go to my work, feeling like part of something that's continuous and sustainable. It's like going to my old home, amid the familiar noises, opening the familiar drawers in the kitchen and starting to cook a familiar meal. There's no need to be reprogrammed over and over, with no higher expectations, and no worries. I don't want to be shaken to my core every once in a while, to be alarmed about something that's gonna happen. Just the same old tasks, same time passing by.
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This is an amazing project, I am so moved by what he is doing and it brings a fresh perspective. The opening paragraphs made me think of some of the scenes in the first Avatar film (made 12 years ago so hopefully no spoilers but if you haven’t seen it, be forewarned), where precious ties to ancestors and memories are destroyed by bulldozers, unthinkingly. Bravo and thanks for this beautiful article so we can learn about this.
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Larry The next sentence or so intrigued/horrified me. For the Giants, their options with Jones were to tag him for $45 million or to give him a guaranteed contract longer term for $30 million per. That is what the NFL is now. Every starting QB, even the 22nd best out of 32, gets $30 million once they are in the league long enough. Nobody except the journeymen will take less.
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It is past time for secondary sanctions for countries assisting Russia.Georgia is not yet in NATO, but is part of the “partnership for peace” and has been promised nato partnership in the future. NATO better set up a meeting and do some arm twisting. But hitting them with full sanctions, as a lesson for others, would be ideal.Ditto for Armenia and Azerbaijan (who is in NATO). If the initial sanctions haven’t worked, its simply because we haven’t been tough enough.I begin to doubt the Biden Administration’s incremental approach to both providing weapons and sanctions. Not enough of either.Biden will wake up one morning to the realization that his “fine calibration” has simply been a botched strategy of too little, too timidly, too slowly, too late (despite Zelensky’s clear pleas and the strong support from American voters).It’s the same team who bungled the Afghan exit, after all…
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🌸🌸🌸 Same letter list, with mnemonics1/12/23an4al, annalIt takes an AN4AL scribe to keep adding “Nothing of import happened this year” to the ANNAL.atonal, tonal, talonThere is no such thing as an owl without a TALON and an (A)TONAL voice.atonally, tonally Early computer-generated voices spoke (A)TONALLY.baboon, nabobThe alpha BABOON is the NABOB of his tribe.baton, nanobotBender the robot hopes that the Singularity will pass the BATON of world dominion to a NANOBOT army.bonbon, bonobo, boon, noobHe was such a NOOB, he thought it a BOON to feed a BONBON to a BONOBO.bonny, bonyThat BONY lass is nae BONNY!lantana, natalMy grandma grows LANTANA flowers in my NATAL village.llano, loanThe developer took out a LOAN to fund paving the LLANO.loony, nylon, onlyThat LOONY tailor ONLY uses NYLON zippers.naan, nanaMy NANA loves to bake fresh NAAN.onto, toonJessica Rabbit turned him ONTO the, um, pleasures of TOON Town.Finding ways to link words sharing letters helps me remember them. I aim for drama and the bizarre, to make an emotional impact. Hope they help you. Good Bees 🐝🐝🐝to all!
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MrC The additional $100,000 came via my Rep, the Dishonorable Elise Stefanik, NY21, Q. She endorsed him & raised the 100k during a single lunch date, or so she claims. Now she is silent as the grave about this.What did she know, when did she know it, & what is her connection to Russian payola?
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Once seen as a Cold War relic backed by the CIA, today Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has become a vital tool in a battle against pervasive disinformation and authoritarian regimes’ propaganda machine, especially since Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.As an international, public broadcaster in 28 languages, RFE/RL offers independent journalism – accurate, uncensored news and investigative reports in countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East, where freedom of press either doesn’t exist or is under attack. Russia’s multibillion dollar effort to spin Putin’s narratives on Ukraine, has given RFE/RL a new life. Its Cold-War-era mission was to promote democracy and counter communist propaganda. CEO Jamie Fly said some 40 million listeners from 23 countries tune in, including 11 million inside Russia.Funded by the US Congress, REF/RL beams and streams into many of the same former Soviet republics they targeted in the 1950s. After the 1991 Soviet breakup, President Boris Yeltsin invited RFE/RL to open an office in Russia.The outlet was based in Munich, Germany from 1949 to 1995. It then moved to Prague in the Czech Republic. European operations had been significantly reduced since the end of the Cold War, regaining traction since Putin became more authoritarian after returning as president in 2012. RFE/RL was heavily fined for – in Moscow’s eyes – its repeated failure to label itself as "a foreign agent". Today its Russian service operates from Prague.
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It seems that most reader comments equate rare earths with automobiles and planes, but they are also used extensively for medical purposes, communication, electronics, radar, military purposes, etc. Most homes in the US are likely dependent upon some forms of rare earths in order to use their tvs, electronics, operate their automobiles, etc. I didn't see any mention of the Mountain Pass Mine in CA. Until it closed in 2002 (due to prohibitive costs in adhering to strict environmental regulations in the US), it was the major source of rare earths in the world. The mine was later purchased by the Molycorp group, with a Chinese-owned company, Neo Materials, as a major partner - and supplier of the Molycorp's CEO. All existing labs were sent, in total, to China and from that point on, all the rare earths mined at Mountain Pass were sent to China.
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Why is determining the source of his $700k loan to his campaign so difficult. The other puffery is small stuff compared with that.
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You know what amazes me? The triumph of the human spirit. I amaze myself sometimes. Music is amazing. The sunshine is amazing. People who recover from trauma are amazing. People who suffer for years and years but don’t give up awe me. They’re awesome. I think the ability to relax amid maelstroms and torrential skullduggery is quite fascinating. I think honest people are awesome, people without hidden agendas. Open minded people are rare but are enough to put one in a state of grace when you meet them. Humble people are freaks of nature and must be marveled at. Non-liars and non-greedy people have always inspired awe in me. People who aren’t afraid of authority and manipulation are true gems. You run into anything like this and you’ve gotta soak it all in and thank God you’re alive.
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MonsP Actually, that's not correct. Time value of money means that every dollar invested in your 20s is worth exponentially more than every dollar invested in your 30s and later on.I have a rollover IRA that is effectively the money that I put into my 401(k) plans at the jobs I had in my 20s during the 2000s. That rollover IRA (entirely composed of vanilla index funds) is worth nearly 700% more today than my original contributions... and note that those contributions were *before* the stock market crash in the 2008 financial crisis and take into account the pullback of the stock market over the past year (so that account didn't just have unimpeded bull market gains every year). If I had waited until my 30s to start investing, it would have taken me twice as much time with twice as many contributions to get to the same place as that smaller amount of money that I invested in my 20s.The most powerful wealth creator is TIME. Compound interest is why the ability to invest in your 20s has a exponentially powerful effect on lifetime wealth compared to waiting until your 30s or later.
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Baffling that your conclusions to the “slow, mediocre, and loud” public option isn’t re-entrenching investment in that option but to improve infrastructure to accommodate your automobile. As someone who used to live in the Bay Area, have you considered living closer to your location of work?
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I'm still confused why the agent's mistaken extra requirements to enter Chile weren't resolved right there at the counter? I mean there must have been tons of other passengers for the flight, and did the ticket agent apply the same requirements to all passengers? Wouldn't there have been a large group of angry passengers who were denied boarding if these documents are only for some isolated island? Wouldn't a supervisor be able to quickly clear up this type of document problem?American Airlines and the useless travel insurance Trip Mate seem almost criminal to me. Just wearing down a customer until they give up. Shameless. I will never buy from either. What a scam. I have had to fly between Europe & the US 6 times in the last 9 months due to a family illness and was lucky not to have any problems. I did however always buy a ticket that let me change flights (usually only for about $75+/- more) and I used that feature about 10 times and it was surprisingly easy with both United and Lufthansa (of course this is not the same situation I realize).European carriers have strict laws and when we've had problems in Europe, even if the weather, there is no haggling. The airline has buses waiting, they whisk the entire plane of passengers to a hotel, give meal vouchers, rebook your flight and have a bus waiting at the hotel to bring you back. Can't see that ever happening in the States were they squeeze every penny out of you even if it means not honoring their contract.
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I just want to inform you, Brett, that the little people suffer from the under staffed, money starved IRS. I’m just your average middle class slob, and I have been waiting for an $18,000 refund check for over two years. My CPA managed to get through to them a year ago, and they said they have the paperwork, and I’ll get the check, with interest. So I wait. I want the rich audited, too, but the problems at IRS need to be addressed, including adequate funding.
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Our GOP have spent trillions of American dollars in China . They built nuclear weapons and nasty military all of which will be used against us. I am retired Army and love my country why are the GOP anti American. Don’t pay taxes want permit less gun and don’t need health care. Their leaders and millions of rich don’t pay taxes and without them paying also a country ceases to exist.
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| no | Classification | 3,309 |
Janice Cooper -- Superb commentary. I,too, worked in the House in the 1970s and then in the Senate from 2004-2012. Why can't we get back to regular order?? Bills going to mark-up in Committees, subcommittees, and on the floor under an open rule. This was designed to encourage compromise all along the way. Now leadership in both houses want all the power to "make deals." And what ever happened to conference Committees??
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Finally. After 40 years of race to the bottom dollar, a re-investment in the United States. At least I lived to see it, though it's too late for me.
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| yes | Classification | 5,808 |
Tech workers aren’t overpaid. One designer or engineer can design/build a product which could be used by thousands/millions/even billions of users. A designer paid $200-$300k at a tier 1 company could then make then company millions in gross profit. Companies realize this value and many are willing to pay for it and thus a market rate develops.
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Steve It is $17.6 billion profit for just 1 quarter.
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$6 for a dozen jumbo eggs at my Trader Joe's is still a great price that I'm willing to pay until prices stabilize or come down in the future. 99 cents for a dozen regular eggs probably won't happen again in our lifetimes though which is a shame.
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| no | Classification | 1,577 |
Well…we can always invest in tulips, buy the Eiffel Tower, buy the Brooklyn Bridge, give away all our money to the messiah (he’s probably walking around somewhere), invest in the millions of dollars of Florida swampland, make oodles in the untapped timber of Panama…If you missed out on crypto, history says a new way to get rich is just round the corner.
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| yes | Classification | 7,271 |
Don't IPOs work in a similar way? You get Goldman Sachs (or Morgan Stanley or ...) to back you. They, and the other underwriters, get the shares for cheap. Everybody else goes "oooh hot startup, oooh VCs invested a lot, oooh IPO, oooh GS is underwriting the IPO" and buys the shares with little true insight. GS then slowly sells more shares at a profit. I think the dot.com bubble worked basically in the same way.... and to this day, the valuations of several companies have been inflated in ways not much different from the coins.
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"content": "Don't IPOs work in a similar way? You get Goldman Sachs (or Morgan Stanley or ...) to back you. They, and the other underwriters, get the shares for cheap. Everybody else goes \"oooh hot startup, oooh VCs invested a lot, oooh IPO, oooh GS is underwriting the IPO\" and buys the shares with little true insight. GS then slowly sells more shares at a profit. I think the dot.com bubble worked basically in the same way.... and to this day, the valuations of several companies have been inflated in ways not much different from the coins.\n",
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Chris Reid About 26 years ago I became divorced and suddenly found myself in the dating world at age 49. I was stunned to say the least. In the beginning I used the Jewish Chat Room on AOL. The first thing I learned is that lots of dates were "Not as Advertised". Sometimes I traveled to Brooklyn, Baltimore and Philadelphia to find this out. So, I wasted my time and money just to be very disappointed. In September 2000 I was at Temple on Rosh Hashanah and I was standing in an atrium talking with my son when the doors opened and in walked a beautiful woman with a warm, smiling face. She said "Hi Jay"...and I said "Hi Sandy!" We started dating and got engaged in December and married in June 2001. We've been happily married since then. We had known each other since junior high school. When I was 16 and she was 15 I took this beautiful young woman on about 3 dates. Many years later after lots of disappointment with AOL we bumped into each other at temple. In 1964 the first time we went out as I sat next to her in my car, I said to myself "Wouldn't it be wonderful to marry a beautiful girl like her someday!" Thirty some years later, after four years of disappointment with AOL I was sitting in temple and at the end of the service I looked up and said "God, could you please send me a nice Jewish girl?" Rosh Hashanah prayers are sometimes answered. Now, I'm 75, she's 74 and we're living happily ever after. Thank you god! And she's still beautiful!
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Michael I'm on a budget.If you look across one brand, most have their inductions priced about 20% more than a comparable gas, so yes, more money (not anywhere near 4x more) my point is that they are not as new, getting better and cheaper all the time - comparatively - keep in mind all appliances are still quite expensive right now due to ongoing price gouging and steel tariffs.The major middle class brands GE, Frigidaire, Whirlpool have 30"-36" from $1000 to $1500. And most people have a variety of cookware, some aluminum, some stainless, some cast iron. And no one is saying you have to go out right now and change everything. In fact you can get a little counter top deal for $80, get one pan, try it out, get used to it.I am building a new home - absolutely on a budget - doing much of the work myself having taken a lot of time off from work - I most definitely do not have a lot of money to throw around. I'm getting the Frigidaire 36" for $1000. I had aluminum bottom Corningware that I'd had since high school, so I definitely saved money over time so I can afford a few new pots.
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I love those CA bruisers but one thing we agree on is that prices are too high. My generation (x) and late boomers brought their late 90’s silicon valley options to Napa and drove up land prices. I recall a seismic shift when around 2010, Coppola paid $375K/acre for the Cohn estate. Every property in Napa/Sonoma followed suit, and it wasn’t long after that tech money headed south driving up land prices in central California.Wine prices won’t come down from with those kinds of capital investments.The industry is in for a rude awakening when boomers and Xer’s stop buying. Millennials generally value travel over olfactory experience. They aren’t going to spend the equivalent of an airline ticket and Air BnB on a case of premium wine.
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Once I saw the $125 for the omelet, I closed out of the story. I'm a professional with decades of work under my belt but that is simply beyond my ken, or my wallet. I have to imagine that's true of most people.
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Pottree Nope. This house probably cost $5 million to build. Value today is probably around $8 million. Building custom to one’s very personal preferences tends to lower resale value and prolong the listing period.
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Trump already made $40 mil buying the house next door and then flipping it to a Russian oligarch who never even set foot in the place.
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"content": "Trump already made $40 mil buying the house next door and then flipping it to a Russian oligarch who never even set foot in the place.\n",
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Vip Vip, its not healthy and I detest it. We used to have some checks against how much $ was spent on a campaign, but our Supreme Court struck them down in two decisions Citizens United and Arizona Free Enterprise Club in 2010 and 2011. Both on Free Speech grounds, so $$= Speech in the USA.
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Oh *c'mon* with the bot's (more than suspicious) two-fer.Wordle 578 4/6* 99/54🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 90/96 WL 5🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 99/26 WL 3🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 99/28 WL 2🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99/65A trap I could not avoid in hard mode, but there were only four WL after my first guess. I almost led with ABIDE. =)Yesterday's Wordle 577 2/6* 65/93🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 ASCOT84/97 WL 4🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADOPT65/86Now I can retire ASCOT for a while. I kept thinking there'd be a word beginning with a vowel, and must have opened with that word 3-4 times in the last week. It served me well, overall.The bot said there were four WL, but there were three: ABORT and ABOUT were the other two. ALOFT was a previous solution. I *know* why the bot slammed my second guess — I should have gone with a B word, but I liked ADOPT.Congrats to Suz for the great two-fer!
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"content": "Oh *c'mon* with the bot's (more than suspicious) two-fer.Wordle 578 4/6* 99/54🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 90/96 WL 5🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 99/26 WL 3🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 99/28 WL 2🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99/65A trap I could not avoid in hard mode, but there were only four WL after my first guess. I almost led with ABIDE. =)Yesterday's Wordle 577 2/6* 65/93🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 ASCOT84/97 WL 4🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADOPT65/86Now I can retire ASCOT for a while. I kept thinking there'd be a word beginning with a vowel, and must have opened with that word 3-4 times in the last week. It served me well, overall.The bot said there were four WL, but there were three: ABORT and ABOUT were the other two. ALOFT was a previous solution. I *know* why the bot slammed my second guess — I should have gone with a B word, but I liked ADOPT.Congrats to Suz for the great two-fer!\n",
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Jim R and it doesn’t hurt that you get a check for 174k plus a year. Not bad work if you can get it.
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10K for the program is what should be illegal. And passing a background check? This limits the field to the kind of person I wouldn't want to trip with by far.
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Yes. Good thing Biden has opened up the border to over 5,000,000 illegals in just two years. That should help calm things down.
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"content": "Yes. Good thing Biden has opened up the border to over 5,000,000 illegals in just two years. That should help calm things down.\n",
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| no | Classification | 209 |
The AG should give the Special Counsels total freedom to investigate and to indict or not. Let them be responsible for explaining their actions to the American people and Congress. And make that clear to all. This is the only way that DOJ can convey to those with open minds that it has operated fairly and with the best interests of the nation in mind.
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The dilemma Xi is facing in China is not unique and is similar to other authoritarian governments i.e. Soviets. The China's economy under state control has grown immensely over the past 3 decades and now is number two in the world surpassing Japan and Germany. The true internal driver of their economy however is through individual and creative efforts by entrepreneurs like Jack Ma with the state government providing a platform and initial investment. These successes however over the past 5-6 years has been squashed by Xi re-exerting autocratic control over tech and real estate investments. As with COVID restrictions, Xi has recognized this too late. As the article points out, it will take more years to rebuild the trust and drive of entrepreneurship to regain the dramatic growth China has experienced. The US is in the midst of "re-shoring" its supply chains to some extent and this will further prolong the timeframe for China to re-energize its economy.
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"content": "The dilemma Xi is facing in China is not unique and is similar to other authoritarian governments i.e. Soviets. The China's economy under state control has grown immensely over the past 3 decades and now is number two in the world surpassing Japan and Germany. The true internal driver of their economy however is through individual and creative efforts by entrepreneurs like Jack Ma with the state government providing a platform and initial investment. These successes however over the past 5-6 years has been squashed by Xi re-exerting autocratic control over tech and real estate investments. As with COVID restrictions, Xi has recognized this too late. As the article points out, it will take more years to rebuild the trust and drive of entrepreneurship to regain the dramatic growth China has experienced. The US is in the midst of \"re-shoring\" its supply chains to some extent and this will further prolong the timeframe for China to re-energize its economy.\n",
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The stock market is not a US government policy initiative, and the Federal Reserve has autonomy from the Executive branch of government, so Joe Biden has nothing to do with your investments.
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| no | Classification | 4,428 |
I bought a domain name and use fastmail as my mail service. It costs about $50 a year and only I read my emails. It also allows for creating email aliases so I can created and delete emails at will. Small money for privacy
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| no | Classification | 2,746 |
High prices in some parts of the country? I paid over $9 for a dozen regular size eggs today, $6 a pound for 80% lean chop meat, and $3.55 a gallon to fill my gas tank. Yesterday I took a delivery of home heating oil that cost me $5.50 a gallon, a full 40% more than I paid before Biden took office two short years ago. Don't tell me, or any common sense Americans, that inflation is only 6.5% year over year. You can fool us once or twice with this mainstream media spin, but you can't fool us after two years into the failed presidency of Joe Biden.
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SPWMS3 Yes as Eric said need to scroll down to the end and if you are looking for a post inside a thread open all the threads as well
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617to416 "Real power" in a democracy means having the public's mandate to govern. The parliamentary system is second least democratic in this regard, next to outright dictatorships. In a parliamentary system, it's really only the voters in a person's riding who really get a vote. Once a person can win their riding (i.e. very often as little as 36K people in Canada for a nation of 33+ million), they can be Prime Minister if their party elects them as leaders and their party wins the most ridings. Internal party elections for the leadership are anything but democratic. That goes double for electing the party representative for any given riding; the leader of the party always has the power to override the votes and decide who the riding candidate will be for their party - as PM Trudeau has done during his tenure.The fact that parliamentary system also allows for the party in power to call elections when they feel like it and extend their mandate is also profoundly undemocratic. For example calling an election in the middle of a pandemic when schools are closed, and therefore eliminate half the locations where people normally go to vote - something also PM Trudeau has done.
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AlNewman currently the US's debt of $31 TRILLION is about 123% of its GDP. Compared to other industrialized countries that is actually quite high (of all the major countries, only Japan's debt ratio is higher). It is not the deficit that is concerning, it is the debt. The US's debt is becoming so high, the interest payments alone (at around $400b/year) are nearly half the size of the entire Federal budget! Simply printing more money to cover the debt may work for awhile, but eventually inflation will rise. If debt is paid from the budget, services need to be cut unless the budget gets increased. The only way to do that is via increased taxation.
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FunkyIrishman Of our current $31 trillion government debt, more than $5 trillion was added because of the wars in the middle east and Afghanistan. We spent more than $2 trillion alone in Afghanistan. And for what? President Biden made the correct decision to end our involvement there even considering the chaos that ensued when we did.
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Trump said over and over again that everything would be great when he was president. You will have so much winning, you'll get tired for winning. Because many wanted to believe so deeply in Trump, and because they had assigned their life's disappointments to others, they accepted what DJT proclaimed as gospel truth.During his long and very tiring presidency, I read a quote from a man in a modest size town in Ohio. We've got a new pizza place, the man said. Things are really looking up under Trump! Really? Trump delivered pizza for you? What a guy.Trump's act included a constant stream of jumping into situations to claim victory for himself, following his lifelong pattern of "I did it!". Coming into the presidency, he said he saw video of himself promising to bring auto manufacturing jobs back and then, with renewed information about his own campaign promise, leapt in to an effort to get an old auto plant reopened. Did he succeed? To most people, it didn't matter. He made it look like he was doing something and that conclusion stayed with them.Things are going too well under Biden for the die hard right wing to even consider the facts. Lower inflation, steady employment, infrastructure bill passed. Gasoline could go to 50 cents a gallon and they wouldn't credit Biden or any Democrat, but they were eager to blame him as the prices went up.If you wake up unhappy on any day of your life, it isn't that difficult to convince yourself you are having a horrid day.
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"content": "Trump said over and over again that everything would be great when he was president. You will have so much winning, you'll get tired for winning. Because many wanted to believe so deeply in Trump, and because they had assigned their life's disappointments to others, they accepted what DJT proclaimed as gospel truth.During his long and very tiring presidency, I read a quote from a man in a modest size town in Ohio. We've got a new pizza place, the man said. Things are really looking up under Trump! Really? Trump delivered pizza for you? What a guy.Trump's act included a constant stream of jumping into situations to claim victory for himself, following his lifelong pattern of \"I did it!\". Coming into the presidency, he said he saw video of himself promising to bring auto manufacturing jobs back and then, with renewed information about his own campaign promise, leapt in to an effort to get an old auto plant reopened. Did he succeed? To most people, it didn't matter. He made it look like he was doing something and that conclusion stayed with them.Things are going too well under Biden for the die hard right wing to even consider the facts. Lower inflation, steady employment, infrastructure bill passed. Gasoline could go to 50 cents a gallon and they wouldn't credit Biden or any Democrat, but they were eager to blame him as the prices went up.If you wake up unhappy on any day of your life, it isn't that difficult to convince yourself you are having a horrid day.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 5,169 |
It is all richly deserved. Carvana at an $80 billion market cap? Says it all. A lot of people walked out with a lot of money, but far, far more got fleeced by having their hard-earned retirement funds put into stocks like Carvana, Peloton and so many others by lazy mutual fund managers who do not do their jobs.It was all a free ride for those people. They bought these hollow stocks in the millions of shares, drove up the share prices so it all looked like major gains across their portfolios, received huge bonus checks by doing this and they did it all by taking money belonging to other people and mismanaging it into nothingness. I would name some of the names of the BIG mutual funds that did this, but I want to see this comment printed. It really is a scandal.
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"content": "It is all richly deserved. Carvana at an $80 billion market cap? Says it all. A lot of people walked out with a lot of money, but far, far more got fleeced by having their hard-earned retirement funds put into stocks like Carvana, Peloton and so many others by lazy mutual fund managers who do not do their jobs.It was all a free ride for those people. They bought these hollow stocks in the millions of shares, drove up the share prices so it all looked like major gains across their portfolios, received huge bonus checks by doing this and they did it all by taking money belonging to other people and mismanaging it into nothingness. I would name some of the names of the BIG mutual funds that did this, but I want to see this comment printed. It really is a scandal.\n",
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Wendy M I honestly believe that colleges could decrease their DI men's basketball and football coaches' salaries by 90% and nearly all of the current coaches would stay (even though they'd complain bitterly and threaten to leave). Because, other than a small number who could become NFL or NBA coaches, where else could earn base salaries of several hundred thousand to over 1 million dollars per year (plus compensation from camps, promotions, radio shows and television shows)? The colleges would have to collude, which may be lllegal, but the coaches are ridiculously overpaid. Almost all of the monetary value from these sports is derived, first, from affiliation with the schools, and a distant second, from the players. Coaches, not so much.
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Ms.Renkl does a nice job here, yet only hints at the decimation to public schools, libraries, governance, and healthcare by Bill Lee and the Red Legislators .Tennessee has a $50 B per year budget, $25B 0f this comes from federal government. It is a wealthy state ranking in the top 16 economically and 3rd in fiscal stability ( USNews).The stability comes from the egregious, wrongheaded use of federal monies earmarked for public schools and healthcare,Governor controls all Federal school and healthcare dollars rather than decimating to citizens. The US tax payer is subsidizing this state as the Governor and legislators deny ACA low cost insurance to WORKING poor and the Governor used for unrelated purposes. . Federal public school monies are used to subsidize private schools and Lee’s pet project:private DeVos/Hillsdale religious charter schools. US tax payers should be made aware of the mishandling of our tax dollars in support of the ultra conservative regime.
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Christopher McHale Not so simple. The amount of money we have to invest in public transit is limited. Some projects are better than others. I live in an area which just spent billions on a SMART train that has unbelievably low ridership numbers because it doesn't go anywhere useful. That money could have been used on worthwhile projects - ones that are actually used.
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Anesthesiology “isn’t intellectually stimulating”?? Sounds like you don’t know squat about anesthesiology. My practice involves taking care of patients from infancy to very old age with a variety of medical conditions. We do nerve blocks for post op pain, epidurals for childbirth if requested by the patient as well as general anesthetics for a variety surgical procedures. I have given anesthesia to a very ill unstable patient for an open heart in the morning and then done anesthesia for an ACL repair on a healthy 18 y.o. in the afternoon. Continuing medical education is required to keep my license and my certification. Vigilance is required when delivering an anesthetic of any sort from mild sedation to a general anesthetic. This anesthesiologist failed miserably at his job.
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Bingo. I froze all three of my credit accounts years ago after a minor $15 fraud charge appeared on my checking account. I rarely apply for new credit so it’s no hassle at all to temporarily unfreeze them. You can even ask the company in question which credit bureau they’re checking and only unfreeze the one they need. It’s simple to do and I believe most states are not allowed to charge a fee for freezing/unfreezing. Frozen credit bureau accounts should be the default.
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"content": "Bingo. I froze all three of my credit accounts years ago after a minor $15 fraud charge appeared on my checking account. I rarely apply for new credit so it’s no hassle at all to temporarily unfreeze them. You can even ask the company in question which credit bureau they’re checking and only unfreeze the one they need. It’s simple to do and I believe most states are not allowed to charge a fee for freezing/unfreezing. Frozen credit bureau accounts should be the default.\n",
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Come on, this and Ted Lasso for $5/month! And cancel when you’re through. Worth the complication.
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"content": "Come on, this and Ted Lasso for $5/month! And cancel when you’re through. Worth the complication.\n",
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Maybe it’s their consistent policy of treating customers like they don’t matter. I have had the worst shopping experience ever with BBB. I bought and quickly returned a bathrobe three months ago (a bday gift for my wife) and still have not received a refund and they are acting like it’s my fault, but they got the robe back and insist they refunded me. Haven’t seen it hit my bank account. Should I hurry up and sue them for the $59 before they shut down? Lol. It just shows how you have build a company from the bottom up and remember what drives your profits.
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"content": "Maybe it’s their consistent policy of treating customers like they don’t matter. I have had the worst shopping experience ever with BBB. I bought and quickly returned a bathrobe three months ago (a bday gift for my wife) and still have not received a refund and they are acting like it’s my fault, but they got the robe back and insist they refunded me. Haven’t seen it hit my bank account. Should I hurry up and sue them for the $59 before they shut down? Lol. It just shows how you have build a company from the bottom up and remember what drives your profits.\n",
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Kitt Richards If only-- the New York Times and its editor of the Beewould stop using the misleading heading -FIND AS MANY WORDS AS YOU CAN- at the opening of the puzzle -without an immedite clarifification that in fact that is not what the puzzle is about, there would be fewer complaints.Experienced players know that many valid words will be rejected. Novice players read the invitation and think they are invited to FIND AS MANY WORDS AS YOU CAN. Why is it so hard for so many to acknowledge that the invitation is misleading? Isn't it clear that the Times and its editor keep it this way because it hooks people. A true heading "FIND AS MANY WORDS AS YOU CAN THAT OUR EDITOR HAS SELECTED TODAY OUT OF ALL THE POSSIBLE WORDS" would be far less sexy wouldn't it? Have some patience for the mislead. Ask the Times to be more open, clear, and honest.
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Sparky no, I'm not "unaware" of that. She got caught up in the culture war between Team Blue and Team Red. Team Red, which controls UNC, doesn't like the 1619 Project. If she'd been at a university controlled by Team Blue, which likes the 1619 Project, then she'd have been welcomed with open arms and granted tenure.The difference with criticism of Israel is that the condemnation by institutions is often bipartisan, and the situation that occurred at Harvard, which is largely liberal, could just as easily have happened at a conservative institution.
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"content": "Sparky no, I'm not \"unaware\" of that. She got caught up in the culture war between Team Blue and Team Red. Team Red, which controls UNC, doesn't like the 1619 Project. If she'd been at a university controlled by Team Blue, which likes the 1619 Project, then she'd have been welcomed with open arms and granted tenure.The difference with criticism of Israel is that the condemnation by institutions is often bipartisan, and the situation that occurred at Harvard, which is largely liberal, could just as easily have happened at a conservative institution.\n",
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Certified appraiser here. The "two respected sociologists" reviewed census data to determine if there was racism in appraisals. Sorry, but that is not how reviews work. It takes the actual reviewing of individual appraisal reports by other appraisers to determine if there were valuation errors. Appraisers look for sales that are in closest proximity to the subject property. A similar house next door to the subject property is the best comparable sale. A similar house one mile away in a different census tract is not a good comparable sale. So if you are appraising a two-family rowhouse on 115th Street and Madison, you don't use a "model-match" rowhouse sale on 95th Street and Madison. It's called location, location location. The same goes for the appraisals of properties where in one instance the appraiser is greeted by a black owner and the other appraiser is greeted by a white owner. Again, no reviews of appraisals, just the automatic assumption that the low appraiser was a racist. No Licensing Board would penalize the low appraiser without several outside reviews. As for the $472,000 and $750,000 appraisals, one (or perhaps both) appraiser is totally incompetent. Which one? We don't know.Finally, why in the world would an appraiser knowingly jeopardize his/her license by low-balling a black homeowner? Answer: 99%+ don't.
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"content": "Certified appraiser here. The \"two respected sociologists\" reviewed census data to determine if there was racism in appraisals. Sorry, but that is not how reviews work. It takes the actual reviewing of individual appraisal reports by other appraisers to determine if there were valuation errors. Appraisers look for sales that are in closest proximity to the subject property. A similar house next door to the subject property is the best comparable sale. A similar house one mile away in a different census tract is not a good comparable sale. So if you are appraising a two-family rowhouse on 115th Street and Madison, you don't use a \"model-match\" rowhouse sale on 95th Street and Madison. It's called location, location location. The same goes for the appraisals of properties where in one instance the appraiser is greeted by a black owner and the other appraiser is greeted by a white owner. Again, no reviews of appraisals, just the automatic assumption that the low appraiser was a racist. No Licensing Board would penalize the low appraiser without several outside reviews. As for the $472,000 and $750,000 appraisals, one (or perhaps both) appraiser is totally incompetent. Which one? We don't know.Finally, why in the world would an appraiser knowingly jeopardize his/her license by low-balling a black homeowner? Answer: 99%+ don't.\n",
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I worry that private equity is going to be a big player in the next great recession.
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"content": "I worry that private equity is going to be a big player in the next great recession.\n",
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God Republicans attacking NATO, extorting Ukraine and printing Russia strategically opened the door for the Ukraine invasion. Energy price inflation was your fault for enabling that.Republicans also protect concentrations of wealth by moving all taxes locally that makes it impossible for small businesses to compete with big businesses. And big businesses that fund republicans can play politics.If you like being robbed keep voting Republican. If you want to stop being robbed vote in people who will end citizens United and properly tax the big boys and help competition from the bottom compete with them to drive down costs where we can.
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"content": "God Republicans attacking NATO, extorting Ukraine and printing Russia strategically opened the door for the Ukraine invasion. Energy price inflation was your fault for enabling that.Republicans also protect concentrations of wealth by moving all taxes locally that makes it impossible for small businesses to compete with big businesses. And big businesses that fund republicans can play politics.If you like being robbed keep voting Republican. If you want to stop being robbed vote in people who will end citizens United and properly tax the big boys and help competition from the bottom compete with them to drive down costs where we can.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,987 |
H. Clark It’s ok if you don’t want to look—i don’t want to either—but consider donating to and supporting those who are fighting the good fight for the vulnerable. Dr. Akhtar is a hero of mine for exactly this reason. It is hard for anyone with a conscience or heart to look at the Truth in the face. People like her put their feelings aside and charge into the darkness to try to stop the madness and cruelty of our species anyway. That takes guts that I don’t have. I don’t read about the horrors to protect my sanity but I do donate whenever I can to the Center for Contemporary Sciences, Mercy for Animals, Farm Sanctuary, and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Making them beneficiaries to your bank and retirement accounts is easy, and they *really* need the support. I also automate small charges of $10-20 per month so I don’t have to think about it.
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| no | Classification | 4,378 |
I share a ton with my friends, to them I am practically an open book. While there are some things that I keep to my self, most things I share with them, there isn’t much that I do not trust to tell them. There are some stories that are filtered to an extent due to it being more personal. Though I love telling them things because they can be able to relate with it or just have a laugh about it when I don’t want it to be serious. I truly cherish my friends especially on those days where I seem off according to them, sometimes I am off other times I just didn’t get enough sleep. I usually just talk to my friends of certain things just to get it off my chest and really don’t want a solution for my problem or comfort, it’s more to talk bout what’s on my mind and to see if they could relate to the situation and hopefully get a laugh about it. I have experienced “oversharing” because I tend to over share or more like dump things onto people that wouldn’t usually expect it to be said in conversation, though I never share more personal things because it makes me feel exposed and I do not like that feeling so usually I keep it close to my chest. Though sometimes I share something and I make a new friend or have an acquaintance who also experienced something similar and then we go to each-other if ever needed, because it a quiet agreement that we are both there for each other and we cant tell anyone else about what we told each other. Ranting to people is easier when you dont know them.
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Chetan Saiya Because we have a revenue problem due to tax cuts. The US has a $21 trillion economy. We should revoke those and invest. Not lay the burden on the poor and middle class.
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| no | Classification | 1,706 |
I am not surprised that finding classified documents in Joe Biden's possession is no Big Deal as far as the left is concerned. Any wrongdoing or suspected wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his family is a big deal according to Biden's supporters. Wrongdoing or suspected is only a Big Deal according to the left or Biden supporters when his political opponents do it. No, I am not giving specific examples because there is no need to. Just keep your eyes and mind open and remember what you see and hear, and you will understand. It happens every day.
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"content": "I am not surprised that finding classified documents in Joe Biden's possession is no Big Deal as far as the left is concerned. Any wrongdoing or suspected wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his family is a big deal according to Biden's supporters. Wrongdoing or suspected is only a Big Deal according to the left or Biden supporters when his political opponents do it. No, I am not giving specific examples because there is no need to. Just keep your eyes and mind open and remember what you see and hear, and you will understand. It happens every day.\n",
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Robert M, PS: I agree that further limiting the number of visa holders would be beneficial to the average American worker. It would be interesting to know whether Microsoft lays off any of their H1-B visa holders, though I think I know the answer.
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Balderdash. “Republican” states like Tennessee and Alabama freely spend federal money. They would implode without federal money, unless they immediately imposed a draconian emergency surtax to continue funding state government operations, disaster relief, police departments, schools, roads, hospitals, water and sewage systems.Tennessee takes in $3 in federal funding for every $1 its residents pay in federal taxes. Alabama is right there with Tennessee. What “Republicans” are really saying is “it’s OK to spend federal money on ME, but it’s not OK to spend federal money on ‘those people.’ What they’re also saying is “tax those people, don’t tax me.’What they’re really saying is ‘we’re a bunch of spoiled, bratty, ungrateful overgrown children.’
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"content": "Balderdash. “Republican” states like Tennessee and Alabama freely spend federal money. They would implode without federal money, unless they immediately imposed a draconian emergency surtax to continue funding state government operations, disaster relief, police departments, schools, roads, hospitals, water and sewage systems.Tennessee takes in $3 in federal funding for every $1 its residents pay in federal taxes. Alabama is right there with Tennessee. What “Republicans” are really saying is “it’s OK to spend federal money on ME, but it’s not OK to spend federal money on ‘those people.’ What they’re also saying is “tax those people, don’t tax me.’What they’re really saying is ‘we’re a bunch of spoiled, bratty, ungrateful overgrown children.’\n",
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As an urban designer working on projects in many parts of the country, it always comes down to the numbers.Pricey land is only afforded by investor grade developer money and therefore monster blocks of bland, bulky mid-rise buildings are the norm to achieve their ROI. Yes, I hate that style too...but talk to any local planning board, small villages near cities and NIMBY groups about how they've down-zoned swaths of this country to ONLY single-family homes of a certain size to firewall any density, even townhomes or granny-flats over garages. Their bucolic serenity is more important to them than the greater need, and that they 'earned' the right to not be bothered by the proletariat. Also, there are many 'new urbanist' style developments of close-knit, mixed-use blocks and unique homes, but the specialty nature of these projects and the high quality they offer has made just another segment of the the high-end market. Take for instance, the communities of Norton Commons near Louisville and West Haven near Nashville.Both have homes that are lovely, tight together, uniquely styled but are priced at 30-50% more than standard in their region. Seaside in the FL panhandle, the original vision of this idea, is today an enclave for the very wealthy with many homes going for $2-3 million.There's no easy answer, but we really need local communities to stop the incessant downzoning and hatred of even modest in-fill housing so that we can bring more variety to the market.
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Dan Why would they need to declare a "code red" if they already had products in the pipeline? They have been caught sleeping. Innovation has long departed and if they are to attract the talent needed to reestablish themselves as a tech force it's going to require a very different CEO at the helm. I wonder if we will see Sergey or Larry back or they will leave the company to flounder a la Microsofts Balmer years.
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I smiled when I read Tom Ziegler’s story about the Mr. Softee truck nearby as he Zoomed. A few years ago I was in an online meeting with my boss in Berlin and my virtual office mate in Connecticut. It was a beautiful spring day and I had the windows open. Five or six helicopters flew by to Redstone Arsenal, just a few miles from my house. My boss asked “what was that?” and I explained my location. After a few seconds of silence, I said “I’ll close the window.”
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Eric B Same here. On days like today that’s the only community page I tend to leave open 😀Not “incented” to open much else, at the weekend although I have been honing my proper nouns post and I noticed TI5 and Titian should be added…
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"content": "Eric B Same here. On days like today that’s the only community page I tend to leave open 😀Not “incented” to open much else, at the weekend although I have been honing my proper nouns post and I noticed TI5 and Titian should be added…\n",
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This article underscores just how woefully the Chinese government has mis-prioritized what truly matters.Maybe the leaders of China should spend last time threatening the peaceful Taiwanese with imminent destruction -- or fueling their sociopathic buddy Putin's genocidal war of aggression in Ukraine, right now, by supporting it diplomatically, propagandistically... and refusing to condemn the invasion on the UN Security Council (which would end the war overnight!) -- and maybe they should instead invest more time, energy, and focus into actually taking care of and supporting their own People....Is that such a crazy thought??It's so easy to destroy; it's so hard to create. The creation of a peaceful wealthy China, with true 'common prosperity', spread all around, will require that the CCP leadership finally learns how not to lie compulsively to their own long-suffering People....Here's hoping.
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"content": "This article underscores just how woefully the Chinese government has mis-prioritized what truly matters.Maybe the leaders of China should spend last time threatening the peaceful Taiwanese with imminent destruction -- or fueling their sociopathic buddy Putin's genocidal war of aggression in Ukraine, right now, by supporting it diplomatically, propagandistically... and refusing to condemn the invasion on the UN Security Council (which would end the war overnight!) -- and maybe they should instead invest more time, energy, and focus into actually taking care of and supporting their own People....Is that such a crazy thought??It's so easy to destroy; it's so hard to create. The creation of a peaceful wealthy China, with true 'common prosperity', spread all around, will require that the CCP leadership finally learns how not to lie compulsively to their own long-suffering People....Here's hoping.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,839 |
I followed the National Ignition Facility's quest for fusion for about 10 years, and although their recent news about achieving one milestone in fusion was exciting and gratifying, it was disappointing over the years to read about its strict government oversight, bureaucracy and cuts to funding.If the US took fusion as seriously as fission, as it did with the Manhattan Project, we may have had a working prototype fusion reactor or at least own the majority of the underlying technology, today. The Manhattan project cost $24B in 2021 dollars and employed a literal army of scientists and engineers and shifted global power to the US until Soviet sympathizers took the technology to the USSR. Imagine if the US owned the secret to fusion and the retrenchment of our country's power by solving any and all energy problems.Besides fusion, we're building innovations in quantum computing, discovering tantalizing breakthroughs in experimental physics (Remember that QM experiment last month? Where they "simulated" a wormhole?), and so much more but let's not forget these are not national goals. Other countries have made these types of technologies and sciences their national priority with the funding and resources to match. Why are we not doing the same?While we still can, the US must fund another billion dollar Manhattan Project to leap us into the future.
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"content": "I followed the National Ignition Facility's quest for fusion for about 10 years, and although their recent news about achieving one milestone in fusion was exciting and gratifying, it was disappointing over the years to read about its strict government oversight, bureaucracy and cuts to funding.If the US took fusion as seriously as fission, as it did with the Manhattan Project, we may have had a working prototype fusion reactor or at least own the majority of the underlying technology, today. The Manhattan project cost $24B in 2021 dollars and employed a literal army of scientists and engineers and shifted global power to the US until Soviet sympathizers took the technology to the USSR. Imagine if the US owned the secret to fusion and the retrenchment of our country's power by solving any and all energy problems.Besides fusion, we're building innovations in quantum computing, discovering tantalizing breakthroughs in experimental physics (Remember that QM experiment last month? Where they \"simulated\" a wormhole?), and so much more but let's not forget these are not national goals. Other countries have made these types of technologies and sciences their national priority with the funding and resources to match. Why are we not doing the same?While we still can, the US must fund another billion dollar Manhattan Project to leap us into the future.\n",
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