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The calculations don't include closing costs. In NY, those costs add over $10k at very least to the pile of money you need to save to be able to buy anything. And the runaway cost of real estate in NYC means that by the time you do save up a down payment plus closing costs, the goalposts will have moved and you won't be able to afford what you were saving for originally. 18 years ago I could have afforded a small two bedroom apartment in the neighborhood I was renting in, if I had had a down payment. Now my income is almost 8 times as much and I could still only afford a small 2 bedroom apartment in the exact same neighborhood. Where I still live, renting. And my rent is going up by another few hundred dollars a month. Tell me again how I'm supposed to save?
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America was in the depths of a Depression before World War II broke out. Has anyone calculated the equivalent deficit spending the Government starting printing money to pay for the war effort, in today's dollars? War bonds couldn't begin to cover the cost of that war. Every major corporation stopped whatever they were making and began making planes (Ford) tanks (Chrysler). They were being financed and paid by a government that had to print money at a rate we may never had seen. I suppose running up a deficit has its limit, or maybe this is a new definition for "infinity". But maybe comparing personal, or even corporate deficits with a government's isn't a fair comparison. I'm 77 soon to be 78, hopefully, and I've been hearing this deficit /spending, U.S. debt cry for as long I can remember.
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"content": "America was in the depths of a Depression before World War II broke out. Has anyone calculated the equivalent deficit spending the Government starting printing money to pay for the war effort, in today's dollars? War bonds couldn't begin to cover the cost of that war. Every major corporation stopped whatever they were making and began making planes (Ford) tanks (Chrysler). They were being financed and paid by a government that had to print money at a rate we may never had seen. I suppose running up a deficit has its limit, or maybe this is a new definition for \"infinity\". But maybe comparing personal, or even corporate deficits with a government's isn't a fair comparison. I'm 77 soon to be 78, hopefully, and I've been hearing this deficit /spending, U.S. debt cry for as long I can remember.\n",
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Regarding KT's letter about being offended by clerks' gestures: I once read a column on nut allergies and school children's lunches. Being the parent of a child with a nut allergy, I agreed whole-heartedly with the columnist's opinion that high allergen foods like peanut butter should saved for home and not brought to school. Then I read the opinion of a mom of an autistic child who said peanut butter is often the only thing she can get her child to eat. I thought: Huh. I never thought of that perspective, and I'm glad she shared it because it opened up my mind to other people's experiences. I was reminded how complex most things are in this world that wants to see everything in black and white, right and wrong. I wish commenters who believe KT should not be offended by the gesture, would take time to just take in the perspective, and realize that while they may not agree, that doesn't mean KT's perspective is wrong. Maybe this share is an opportunity learn something you were never aware of, and to see things differently. I, for one, am glad that it was shared.
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OMG. Republicans are blocking a bill to for the IRS to recover $180 BILLION from tax cheats, which will also add 100 BILLION to budget deficits over the next 10 years and, IN THE SAME BILL, cut taxes outright for the wealthy by .. and cut funding. We need wealthy AMERICANS to stand up — and not stand with Republican greed.
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"content": "OMG. Republicans are blocking a bill to for the IRS to recover $180 BILLION from tax cheats, which will also add 100 BILLION to budget deficits over the next 10 years and, IN THE SAME BILL, cut taxes outright for the wealthy by .. and cut funding. We need wealthy AMERICANS to stand up — and not stand with Republican greed.\n",
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Alex K Biden didn't force you to buy a variable rate home equity loan. Doing so assumed that historically low interest rates would stay that way.
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stale fry bread. You are so right, from your recommendations to LW1 to your reaction to Dr. Appiah’s response. Not infrequently I find myself disagreeing with Dr. Appiah’s recommendations and assessments, especially when he gets condescending, which happens frequently. I’m an abuse survivor myself. Appiah’s column’s mix of insensitivity/condescension and being out of his depth making recommendations to abuse survivors leaves me just really disappointed in this newspaper. For anything relating to sexual abuse he needs another columnist who’s a clinical psychologist to hand it off to. In cases like these he’s a mere layperson. When a layperson has a platform this large from which to dispense advice, and when the topic is something as important as the sexual abuse of children, this paper gets into irresponsible territory. Those of us who have been abused know that hearing bad advice about this topic combined with the lasting such abuse produces can take the bad advice and move forward without getting good help and support or taking real constructive action for healing. Many such opportunities of opening up become lost opportunities and it can take years to try again, therefore delaying healing and perhaps putting others at risk. This column has an impact. Do better NYT.
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"content": "stale fry bread. You are so right, from your recommendations to LW1 to your reaction to Dr. Appiah’s response. Not infrequently I find myself disagreeing with Dr. Appiah’s recommendations and assessments, especially when he gets condescending, which happens frequently. I’m an abuse survivor myself. Appiah’s column’s mix of insensitivity/condescension and being out of his depth making recommendations to abuse survivors leaves me just really disappointed in this newspaper. For anything relating to sexual abuse he needs another columnist who’s a clinical psychologist to hand it off to. In cases like these he’s a mere layperson. When a layperson has a platform this large from which to dispense advice, and when the topic is something as important as the sexual abuse of children, this paper gets into irresponsible territory. Those of us who have been abused know that hearing bad advice about this topic combined with the lasting such abuse produces can take the bad advice and move forward without getting good help and support or taking real constructive action for healing. Many such opportunities of opening up become lost opportunities and it can take years to try again, therefore delaying healing and perhaps putting others at risk. This column has an impact. Do better NYT.\n",
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There was a benefit at MSG to raise funds and awareness for Ronnie Lane. Jeff Beck opened.Then Jimmy Page. Followed by Clapton.Clearly, Beck was the best that night.Caught him on a BB King package tour and he came out to jam with Mr. King. It was blues for the gods.But one show in NJ had Jeff Beck open for Brian Wilson with Al Jardine and band. They brought out Jeff Beck who played an instrumental "Surf's Up" while Brian and the other 10 guys harmonized the melody
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Perhaps you need to be a federal appellate attorney with 20+ years experience to understand how clever Douthat is in pretending to write about one thing, here the Brazilian insurrection, while actually arguing in defense of the GOP.Douthat only pretends to distinguish what happened in Brazil and the US. He argues that both were doomed from the start so are in fundamental ways the same. Watch Douthat's left hand, not the right he's waving in your face.This is about Brazil only the extent that Douthat exploits it. It's a companion piece to his previous editorial arguing that the GOP is now as it was before Trump so as to misdirect readers from the reality of a radical Hard-Right GOP acting exactly the same as Trump, how Trumpism fully consumed the GOP, and how everything the GOP does is a direct extension of the January 6th insurrection.Douthat confines the January 6th insurrection to Trump and a tiny group of his closest cohorts alone, which is untrue. He writes: "The ambition, which belonged to Donald Trump and his shrunken inner circle, aimed to provoke a constitutional crisis." As to Trump's insurrectionists, we get this: "The futility belonged to the rioters, whose violence and vandalism was an expression of dreampolitik rather than a coup — its plan for success nonexistent, its end in mass arrests and imprisonment foreordained." As to the findings about the January 6th insurrection, we're told they're: "Empty and grifting and fantastical".I didn't miss a thing.
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Bill H "What about the existing new businesses that invest in creating qualified workers only to have them turn into competitors?"If an employee leaves a company for higher compensation or other reasons, then they weren't being paid enough. Or the work culture wasn't good. Or they hate their manager. Etc. All problems that the company can solve, but it's a heck of a lot cheaper and easier to just forbid them from moving to another job.
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LW #1: Your daughter and son in law are confident in their daughter's ability to walk home from her bus stop without adult supervision in what you describe as a relatively safe suburb. If it will help to alleviate your concerns, speak with your daughter regarding what discussions she has had with her daughter about safety precautions while walking alone. When I was about your granddaughter's age, my Army Ranger dad taught me some basics of self defense, they stayed with me my entire life. I was physically attacked once in my life and those lessons kicked in (literally) and I left my attacker on the ground writhing in pain.LW #2: Please refrain from following the advice offered. Yes, it's gross to have to clean up your guest's misses. Invest in a pair of rubber gloves, some bathroom cleaner and a long handled brush.LW #3: You are both adamant in your choices regarding children. As heartbreaking as it may be initially, you are best off breaking all contact. You will never meet someone who shares your desire to be a parent while you continue to pursue a romance with someone who does not share this goal. In the long term, you will both be better off.
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"content": "LW #1: Your daughter and son in law are confident in their daughter's ability to walk home from her bus stop without adult supervision in what you describe as a relatively safe suburb. If it will help to alleviate your concerns, speak with your daughter regarding what discussions she has had with her daughter about safety precautions while walking alone. When I was about your granddaughter's age, my Army Ranger dad taught me some basics of self defense, they stayed with me my entire life. I was physically attacked once in my life and those lessons kicked in (literally) and I left my attacker on the ground writhing in pain.LW #2: Please refrain from following the advice offered. Yes, it's gross to have to clean up your guest's misses. Invest in a pair of rubber gloves, some bathroom cleaner and a long handled brush.LW #3: You are both adamant in your choices regarding children. As heartbreaking as it may be initially, you are best off breaking all contact. You will never meet someone who shares your desire to be a parent while you continue to pursue a romance with someone who does not share this goal. In the long term, you will both be better off.\n",
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It's hard to take Brooks and Stephens seriously when they continue to tout the Republican pantheon of Reagan, Kemp and Ryan. All three of these men supported the wholly discredited "supply side" economics theory, and none of the three heroes gave evidence of genuine morality Brooks and Stephens claim to prize. Reagan flat-out lied about negotiating with theocratic Iran to provide arms to right wing murderers combatting the Sandinistas, all the while tripling the federal debt. Kemp and Ryan fully embraced Reaganomics while pushing for massive cuts in social programs and sharp reductions in corporate and personal taxes that overwhelmingly benefited the nations's richest. Ryan, for Pete's sake, wanted to privatize Social Security, end the capital gains tax and turn Medicaid into a block grant program so that states could use the grants to build more roads and balance their budgets. The poor be damned.If you're looking for the origin of the appalling economic disparity wracking the middle class and the nation's poorest citizens, look no further. Reagan and the Bushes, backed by Ryan, are to blame for the massive transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent to the top 10 percent. The two columnists offer no new ideas. They are stuck in the same old GOP rut of massive defense spending, massive tax cuts and killing "burdensom" federal regulations to make it easier for their their Fortune 500 buddies to rape the land and steal anything that isn't nailed down.
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This is good news for mid-term-future, as long as the choice to actually process the ores nearby stays in effect - Europe's currently dealing with dependence on a critical energy source with Putin's gamesmanship with fossil gas.Here in the US there are options to shipping our ores to China, too, but there will be a polluting industry to be managed. The good news is there's also a polluting industry here already that requires lots of expensive cleanup - coal mine spoils are all over in Appalachia and also elsewhere. Turns out there might be recoverable quantities of rare earth minerals in the abandoned spoil piles.So cleanup becomes easier to pay for since the waste contains value now. If done right (there's a caveat!) it could help areas stuck with toxic coal waste get that remediated without hitting the locals with the costs.Here's a review paper examining the concept of rare earths in coal waste and options for separating the minerals out - paper is open-access on the site if you click the PDF link on the page "Rare earth elements from coal and coal discard – A review"Minerals Engineering, Volume 173, 1 November 2021<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2021.107187" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2021.107187</a>And here's an article about a company looking to start this in West Virginia<a href="https://www.wvva.com/2022/11/17/unearthing-legacy-west-virginia-company-plans-make-billions-off-coal-waste" target="_blank">https://www.wvva.com/2022/11/17/unearthing-legacy-west-virginia-company-plans-make-billions-off-coal-waste</a>/Residents there paid heavily to provide us energy - they should push to make sure they get something back if this works.
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"content": "This is good news for mid-term-future, as long as the choice to actually process the ores nearby stays in effect - Europe's currently dealing with dependence on a critical energy source with Putin's gamesmanship with fossil gas.Here in the US there are options to shipping our ores to China, too, but there will be a polluting industry to be managed. The good news is there's also a polluting industry here already that requires lots of expensive cleanup - coal mine spoils are all over in Appalachia and also elsewhere. Turns out there might be recoverable quantities of rare earth minerals in the abandoned spoil piles.So cleanup becomes easier to pay for since the waste contains value now. If done right (there's a caveat!) it could help areas stuck with toxic coal waste get that remediated without hitting the locals with the costs.Here's a review paper examining the concept of rare earths in coal waste and options for separating the minerals out - paper is open-access on the site if you click the PDF link on the page \"Rare earth elements from coal and coal discard – A review\"Minerals Engineering, Volume 173, 1 November 2021<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2021.107187\" target=\"_blank\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2021.107187</a>And here's an article about a company looking to start this in West Virginia<a href=\"https://www.wvva.com/2022/11/17/unearthing-legacy-west-virginia-company-plans-make-billions-off-coal-waste\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.wvva.com/2022/11/17/unearthing-legacy-west-virginia-company-plans-make-billions-off-coal-waste</a>/Residents there paid heavily to provide us energy - they should push to make sure they get something back if this works.\n",
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Boreal I just started Metformin about 6 weeks ago, though I had to pause because of a bout of Covid. I'm definitely less hungry. It just doesn't occur to me to eat. I already ate low carb. It just wasn't low enough and my genetics are terrible. Even slim relatives on my mother's side ended up with diabetes eventually.And cheap is an understatement. $1 a month with my insurance. Actually, I'm not even sure if the insurance is paying anything. Sure beats the hundreds of dollars a month on the new drugs.
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As usual, Bret's out of touch. $400,000 is a lot of money. Most Americans don't live in NYC or SF or pay more $3,000+ per month for rent. Also, Biden can't 'change the tax code", by Executive Order. Congress needs to step up, which given a GOP-controlled House, is as likely as Santos telling the truth.
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The far right extremist party are pathological liars. They never,repeat never, cared about federal deficits. We can go back to Ronald Reagan. Jimmy Carter handed him a small deficit of maybe 60 billion-not at all large given the size of the US economy at the time, and Reagan ran up massive deficits with tax cuts that almost entirely went to the ultrawealthy party donors. White blue collar workers,as Prof. Krugman noted before, ended up earning less than they did in 1980,at the beginning of Reagan's first term, but have continued to fall prey to delusions and lies fed by the far right extremist party. Reagan slashed education and other benefits massively. The benefits were worth much more than any small tax cut the average American received. Two Bushes, and Trump have continued to cause the deficit to go up and up with one huge tax cut after another for the ultrawealthy donors. Trump alone passed a 2T tax cut for the party's billionaire donors, and benefiting himself and his family, and ran up the deficit ever higher. The far right extremist party has for decades now shed crocodile tears for deficits,predictably making a lot of noise about spending only when the democrats are in the white house each time-as they are doing now.The economy has been on a tear, only being restrained by the fed rate hikes. I think the fed should have raised rates by 0.75 percent in december,not 0.5 pct. Joblessness is down to 3.5 pct.Jobs and economy are solid.The stock market is going up.
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A Scientist A potential Russian attack on Israel is the ultimate straw man argument. Not a risk, will never happen ever. Israel benefits from billions of US aid, largely based on the argument that it is a besieged democracy in an unfriendly environment, but its appalling treatment of Palestinian rights (so reminiscent of the treatment of black activists by the white South African government prior to the end of all-white rule) and cozy relationship with sociopath Putin is sick and appalling. Israel should fund the full cost of its own defense it it chooses to abandon its allies and the cause of democracy.
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Gandhian A bag of potato chips is $0.79. A carton of eggs is $9.
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There is clear campaign finance fraud here. He could not have earned or gotten through dividends even a small fraction of what he claims that he "gave and loaned himself" for the campaign. Someone or some group illegally poured money into his campaign. Talk of "ethics" is soft and subjective; wantonly violating campaign finance laws is not.
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Bee :"Broad government investment in education is always a positive. The G.I. Bill proves that," Good point.I utilized the GI Bill and the good news is that it's still available! As they used to say: Go for it!
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"content": "Bee :\"Broad government investment in education is always a positive. The G.I. Bill proves that,\" Good point.I utilized the GI Bill and the good news is that it's still available! As they used to say: Go for it!\n",
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Sue G Nixon was trying to assure his proto-MAGAt base that the money wasn't going into his pocket. It was.Now days there is no pretense of propriety when it comes to payoffs for the far right.Thanks to the endemic Gerrymandering, their need for financial support to campaign is limited to their primaries. Everyone knows that most of the money is a retirement slush fund.
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| no | Classification | 32 |
JeffM My kids enjoyed VR games, but when the cable for our VR headset broke I have been very very slow to replace it and they haven't had a hard time finding fun games to play, using the keyboard and mouse.Improving voice interaction with computers is something that I'm very interested in. I'm a fast typer, but I use my phone for a lot of communication and I can't stand typing on the little keyboard so I use dictation software. I also heavily use my voice assistant software that my phone comes with.Using voice interaction for smart tech is great, in fact it's one of the only real uses of voice that's a killer app. Being able to say "ok computer, open the garage bay door" is useful. The problem I have is the way it works if I want Alexa to do it. I issue the command, my audio is uploaded to Amazon where it is reviewed by a server, and then it decides what to do. There's no reason to do this, my Motorola razr phone from 2000 what not could process audio just fine without uploading anything to the cloud.
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An MBA level business class on profitability and sustainability and how difficult the two are to achieve.What the article did not touch on was onerous lease/rent payments and real estate "investors" that jack up lease renewal rates because a strip mall or coffee chain will pay the higher monthly costs to be there. It's destroying small independent shops, restaurants, stores.One thing I will add, when you're eating at a local restaurant, you're "Buying American" rather than the off the shelf Wal-Mart product where the country of origin is unknown.I prefer to tip well, not because I'm opulently wealthy, but rather because I'm deeply appreciative for being able to have a nice dining experience, have the meal prepared/served to me and not have to clean up afterwards. When someone is a stingy tipper (and there are more these days), I feel I'm making up for them a little. If you can't afford to provide a decent tip, you can't afford to be out dining. It should be factored in the cost of dining.As far as the Euro model on dining costs, we can debate all day if they're receiving a fair wage, so tipping isn't necessary. I'd still tip them for kind, attentive service.Frankly, Ms. Howards editorial saddens me. We're slowly drifting into the model she's describing. The local book store, hardware store or appliance shop faded into the ether. We all know why, but a decent dining experience? That's upsetting.
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No wonder the GOP loves Santos, he’s a better con man than the Conman-der in Chief Trump. Santos actually got Russian money..no hoax there! You can’t say Intrader is a naive retiree looking to stretch his retirement income…and Santos owned him!McCarthy must be thinking about the campaign funds Santos can raise….
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Over the past twenty years, the US has provided more than $32 billion in direct support to the people of Pakistan. But our investments began well before that.<a href="https://pk.usembassy.gov" target="_blank">https://pk.usembassy.gov</a> › us-assist...U.S. Assistance to Pakistan - U.S. Embassy & Consulates in PakistanWhere is the governments’ accountability protecting its citizens from terrorism?
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We keep making the same mistakes because most of the people in power have never experienced anything other than doing every task with a car no matter how small, and they live in environments where getting around by any means other than a car is looked down on. I know how impossible it is to imagine other means of transport, having grown up in the LA suburbs and living in a city now.Looking back on where I grew up now, I can see that 99% of the trips I did by car could have so easily been done by bike if bike routes existed. Or by bus if the bus came more than once an hour, trains were not even an option. It would have been unsafe to bike on the extremely wide, 50-60 mph roads and people would try to run me off the road and yell at me I’m certain, as they do whenever I try to bike around the suburbs now. Just thinking about how much money my family put into car maintenance and gas just go get to and from school blows my mind looking back. It’s such an unnecessary drain on family finances and increases poverty.There’s definitely a generational shift happening on this, not everyone of course but just the proportion who are open to other modes is increasing, but it’s slow and will take many more years sadly. When the culture is hostile to anyone not in a car, the only solution to traffic is more car capacity.
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I witnessed this from insider c-suite perspective back when all of this corporate consolidation and globalization started. The now-comfortably-retired corporate executive I know boasted about how he laid off 10k employees after number crunchers at a board meeting determined they could increase profits/ share value by eliminating those positions/ labor expenditures. They offshored the entire department to cheap labor in a third world. Shareholders and executives received enormous bonuses that year as a reward for their little corporate manipulations in the business of short-term profiteering. Capitalism is a disease that encourages fennel vision (profits above all else) and sociopathic outcomes.
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I guess Brazilians have enough experience in the subject to state that the stelar international reputation of a leader is not a guarantee that mundane domestic challenges - i.e. inequality, cost of living, violence and child poverty - will be resolved. It's important to keep in mind that NZ is a net exporter of commodities and an importer of manufacturing goods albeit its high standard of living and that its political system is not composed of only two parties, but several, so coalition is required. As in most countries, there is a feeling among part of the electorate that democracy is under threat in NZ. The reason is that Ms. Jacinda's government wants to hand over management of parts of NZ, called co-governance system, where large chunks of the country would be governed, not by elected majority, but by a body made up of 50% unelected indigenous people. That's huge! For much less Jair Bolsonaro was crucified in Brazil, for trying to legalize mineral exploration in indigenous land.
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Conservatives in every domain are undoubtedly the most unabashed, enthusiastic practitioners of the zero sum game. How is integration, whether across political or theological divides (that often overlap) possible, when one side embraces their position with an absolutism that admits no discussion or exploration?We have to acknowledge that no side or position has a monopoly on truth, but beyond that, that our epistemological position is inherently precarious. Outside of mathematics and logic we never really know anything, but conservatives - by a large margin in 🥬my admittedly unscientific judgement - tend to think they do.As other replies suggest, the "will to power" always fills this conversational void, and it never ends well - for either or any side.Just as marriage therapists speak of "fighting fairly" - real engagement begins with respecting each other - with reasonableness and independently verifiable facts.But this requires a willingness to set ideological commitments and belief aside. While acknowledging that we on the left have challenges to making dialog possible, few conservatives seem open to even recognizing this as a problem.
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mkc " If the 30% Buffet rule had applied to them..."That "if" is a big one! All these proposed rules use statements like "... on everyone making over $xx million, ..." but the issue lies in what the term "making" actually means! Super-rich just don't "make" anything (or very little) but can continue to borrow against their assets indefinitely to spend big. How do you propose applying the "Buffett rule" to them?Basic challenge is that very poor pay nothing and the very rich pay very little (as percentage). It's the folks with W2 and 1099INT and 1099DIV that get smacked! If anyone really wants to fix this, remove all the loopholes and deductions... which *neither* party seems to want to do.
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"content": "mkc \" If the 30% Buffet rule had applied to them...\"That \"if\" is a big one! All these proposed rules use statements like \"... on everyone making over $xx million, ...\" but the issue lies in what the term \"making\" actually means! Super-rich just don't \"make\" anything (or very little) but can continue to borrow against their assets indefinitely to spend big. How do you propose applying the \"Buffett rule\" to them?Basic challenge is that very poor pay nothing and the very rich pay very little (as percentage). It's the folks with W2 and 1099INT and 1099DIV that get smacked! If anyone really wants to fix this, remove all the loopholes and deductions... which *neither* party seems to want to do.\n",
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It’s something of paradox that a nation that acts so tribal and one sided in recent times can, slowly but surely, now enact new laws and policies of open thought with wider open eyes!Now, young lives will no longer be destroyed, in such high numbers, by archaic and draconian laws that sapped the revenues and time of law enforcement as well as the courts and incarceration system. Let’s now put that revenue and police time to better use.
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$1.6 Million? What a joke.
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Minneapolis Mom there is no evidence of that, in fact the PPI has been consistently 2 points ahead of the CPI, in what you state is true, that would not be the case. The ‘17 tax reform is $2.1 trillion over 10 years, which is $210 billion per year. Which pales in comparison to the Biden spend. C-corps are taxed twice, cutting the rate was long overdue, all other companies pay the personal rate, just as you do. Furthermore, corporate tax revenue has increased substantially with the rate cut. Overall treasury revenue has increased from $4.09 trillion to $4.9 trillion last year. The $10k SALT cap that the Dems wanted to repeal brings in $85 billion a year. Most people are misinformed when it comes to the tax code, and yes it is complex and compliance is very costly.
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AMLCle Yes, but for them children are also seen as a financial resource. 15 years go by pretty quickly, at which time their kids are expected to get menial jobs and contribute to the family finances. That's not something that families expect of kids they send to baseball practice, etc. They do it with the understanding that investing in sports is a good way to get sports scholarships to college.
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We need to appreciate Mr. Kristof for writing so movingly about the terrible violence against women and children in Kenya, and the heroic action of the Rev. terry Gobanga to help by founding Kara Olmurani. But he could have been talking about most countries around the world, including the United States. Our own statistics are grim, indeed, with an estimated 734,630 rapes annually according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). According to the same organization, 81% of women in our country have been sexually harassed at some point in their lives.Mr. Kristof states that the International Violence Against Women Act "has languished in Congress", but in fact it was the Republicans who refused to reauthorize the act in 2012 because it included same sex couples and immigrants.In addition to the terrible toll on victims, many of whom suffer PTSD after rape, the children pay a terrible price as well, often affecting their relationships for their entire lives.And there is an enormous economic cost which the Intimate Partner Violence group estimates to be 1.7 $billion to 10 $billion from the loss of 8 million days of paid work annually--which equals 32,000 fulll-time jobs.This problem is huge, and desperately needs action!
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"content": "We need to appreciate Mr. Kristof for writing so movingly about the terrible violence against women and children in Kenya, and the heroic action of the Rev. terry Gobanga to help by founding Kara Olmurani. But he could have been talking about most countries around the world, including the United States. Our own statistics are grim, indeed, with an estimated 734,630 rapes annually according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). According to the same organization, 81% of women in our country have been sexually harassed at some point in their lives.Mr. Kristof states that the International Violence Against Women Act \"has languished in Congress\", but in fact it was the Republicans who refused to reauthorize the act in 2012 because it included same sex couples and immigrants.In addition to the terrible toll on victims, many of whom suffer PTSD after rape, the children pay a terrible price as well, often affecting their relationships for their entire lives.And there is an enormous economic cost which the Intimate Partner Violence group estimates to be 1.7 $billion to 10 $billion from the loss of 8 million days of paid work annually--which equals 32,000 fulll-time jobs.This problem is huge, and desperately needs action!\n",
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Me too! What an easy way to make money! I’d even offer to share the windfall with my friends and family afterwards. If it were $100 million, surely they’d forgive me and we could all laugh our way to the bank.
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Mary Not everyone went to private schools or were from upper class/caste. I came here from India to US in the 80's and my family was middle class. I went to public schools, but managed to get into IIT (by preparing for the entrance exams by myself). And that opened up possibilities of coming to US as a grad student with full scholarship/tuition waiver. I borrowed money for the flight/initial expenses but quickly paid it back. There were many other of my classmates similar to my story. It is such a broad mischaracterization to say we were all privileged.
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$20 in Grant's time would be about $600 in today's dollars....
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You haven’t actually described why a non compete clause is necessary at all in this scenario.If the salon isn’t paying enough to retain their staff, that is their problem. This hypothetical person opening a new salon would increase competition and drive down prices for consumers. Starting businesses isn’t easy or cheap. Employers can keep their talent if they treat them well, and *gasp* perhaps even offer equity to their most talented people
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The Biden strategy seems to have been to screw up the economy royally and then start taking victory laps when it inflation remains at a 4 decade non Biden high. Having spent $4T Biden got the unemployment rate back to where it was under Trump despite having a million fewer workers which understates the current rate on a comparable basis. Those outside the cult see things for what they are, a struggling economy, and get really annoyed when people try to tell us how great it is with cherry picked data and fortuitous choices of baselines.
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"content": "The Biden strategy seems to have been to screw up the economy royally and then start taking victory laps when it inflation remains at a 4 decade non Biden high. Having spent $4T Biden got the unemployment rate back to where it was under Trump despite having a million fewer workers which understates the current rate on a comparable basis. Those outside the cult see things for what they are, a struggling economy, and get really annoyed when people try to tell us how great it is with cherry picked data and fortuitous choices of baselines.\n",
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Having lived out there for many years driving big trucks there have been enormous changes at travel centers on the turnpikes in the east. covid was the instigator and everything that went with it. The travel centers restrooms were never clean ,except maybe in Ohio ,yet there were employees and all the food courts were open . After covid nearly all the food providers closed down ,on the PA turnpike they still are and help is impossible now to this day. Imagine getting to work 5 to 7 days with gas prices and paying tolls for minimum wage.I guarantee there's no sign on bonus or 20.$ per hr. like some fast food providers pay in resorts but there should be for turnpike food and maintenance workers.
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Bret should perhaps read the New York Times. A couple writers for the Business section stopped New Yorkers on the street and asked them what they made. None made close to $400k a year. Only a couple made $200k. Most made less than $100k. HIs notion that Janet Yellen is wrong about auditing people with an income of almost a half-million dollars a year is somehow misguided shows how completely out of touch Bret is.Gail is is spot on re: Toledo. I am from there and still in touch with family and friends. I visit often. Anybody making $100k or even half that is doing quite well.$400,000 a year would be considered quite wealthy. Most people in Toledo would suspect that if you're making that much, you're probably cheating on your taxes or have lawyers and advisers in place to help you pay next to nothing. And they'd be right.How much longer will we have to hear from Bret about this super-fair flat tax? With some analysis and imagination (it's called empathy), it's easy to see a flat tax would wound low earners grievously and make the rich, richer.Rich people enjoy the fruits of freedom in America to a greater degree than the poor. They should pay a grater share. Nothing could be more obvious, or fair than that.We're all greedy. But only a greed-monster (or defender of same) would argue that rich people, making $400k, anywhere, should not live under the threat that they will be audited to pay their fair share.
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SW Because they can't. Money wasn't spent on public transportation options it was spent on widening the road. So as the article said more people started driving or moved further away. Once someone makes major life changes like that it is very difficult to go back when traffic congestion returns. But if more public transportation is available that's an easy change to make. And people do consume less of a good with inflation.
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$1,000/sq-ft at the median salary of 50K/year for 1,200 sq ft means 1,200/50 = 60 years of 100% salary.For a small place built 110 years ago.THAT's how badly people want to live in Berkeley or Santa Monica, or the very few other pockets that are NOT the rest of the U.S. -- with all their traffic, record homelessness within 10 miles, Oakland PD too busy with violent crime to investigate property crimes, etc.Small problem: these are funded by switching from other inflated houses and investments. Only without jobs or tech stocks at 50-100X valuations, there won't be anyone to buy all these houses, and you can't retire to a house with $20K/year in taxes.
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I've been spending 5 or more dollars on a dozen eggs for years because I don't buy the eggs from awful factory farms. I have little sympathy for people whining that they can't get eggs for 11 cents an egg anymore. It was never sustainable.
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This is a complete overreach designed by a 30-something academic (Ms. Khan) with no actual experience. The proposal by the FTC is not in keeping with the California version (which allows for non-competes with compensation tied to their enforceability, e.g., options, senior management, etc.) but a wholesale elimination of the concept. This literally plays into the hands of large companies. I have been involved with dozens of earlier-stage companies. Without non-competes, it substantially reduces the ability to build transparent cultures and involve employees and senior people in the inner workings of companies, much less key customer relationships, contract terms, etc. In 30 years of company building with tens of thousands of employees and many companies, we've enforced non-competes twice. In one case, a senior management person is in possession of key customer relationships and knowledge of key contract terms, including the terms of a pending acquisition to a competitor to bid against the company in real time. What it has allowed us to do is to involve the broadest group of employees to be partners in the business. To be central in decision-making, to expose these folks to proprietary information without concern that it can be used against the company. The idea that this one can pay people more is intellectually dishonest. 99% of people are well-meaning and ethical. The non-ethical people are held in abeyance by these kinds of agreements.
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EaglesPDX The main problem with football (and hockey) is CTE, not commotio cordis. Therefore, you're right that Hamlin's injury does not exemplify the problems inherent in the sport. That said, the Hamlin incident has now lead to a general evaluation of the sport in light of CTE and related issues. You are an avid football fan so you know this conversation isn't new. Hamlin's injury only reminded the general public and more thoughtful football fans of the inherent dangers and moral ambiguity of American football. As for the NFL's generous retirement fund, does it extend to the countless number of former amateur players who suffered numerous subconcussive blows while their brains were still developing? Die-hard football fans should just openly admit that their passionate devotion to this *game* trumps any moral consideration for the consequences of CTE. That would at least be honest.
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This is how Paul Volcker, at age 91 saw it:Paul 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 The working class split in those who suffered from globalizaton and those who profited from it by working for the owners of capital , from building luxury homes to doing fancy hair does, to making designer clothes for the rich
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The real power behind the GOP. Call the GOP what ever faction you want toHouse to vote on bill to abolish IRS and replace income tax with 'Fair Tax'[WashingtonExaminer]THE SECRET ORIGINS OF THE TEA PARTY [TIME]How Big Oil and Big Tobacco Partnered with the Koch Brothers to take over the GOP Kochs spent a billion dollars of dark money to purchase the republicans and put them into office--David Koch’s 1980 vice- presidential campaign platform AND today’s GOP TO-DO list“Abolish all taxation”“Abolish Medicare and Medicaid”“Abolish the Social Security system”“Abolish welfare, relief projects, aid to children and ‘aid to the poor”“Abolish government regulated schools and compulsory education”“Abolish compulsory insurance/tax-supported health and abortion services” “Abolish the regulation of the medical insurance industry”“Abolish minimum wage laws”“Abolish the Postal Service”“Abolish the Federal Aviation Administration”“Abolish the Consumer Product Safety Commission”“Abolish the Federal Election Commission”“Abolish the Food and Drug Administration”“Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency”“Abolish the Department of Energy”“Abolish the Department of Transportation”“Abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Act”“Abolish all public roads and national highways”“Abolish requiring safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets”“Abolish all lending laws”“Abolish all branches of the service except the Army”“Privatization inland waterways & control of all water”
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Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I. As a new chatbot wows the world with its conversational talents, a resurgent tech giant is poised to reap the benefits while doubling down on a relationship with the start-up OpenAI. When a chatbot called ChatGPT hit the internet late last year, executives at a number of Silicon Valley companies worried they were suddenly dealing with new artificial intelligence technology that could disrupt their businesses. As a new chatbot wows the world with its conversational talents, a resurgent tech giant is poised to reap the benefits while doubling down on a relationship with the start-up OpenAI.
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David You can keep shouting at the rain all you would like. No modern 1st world industrial society can exist at a 10% flat tax. A 10% flat tax would bring in a total of $1.3T as opposed to $2.6T in income taxes. Discretionary spending for the entire federal govt is ~1.3T, and military spending is $800B of that. You think that we have inflation now, cut taxes by $1.3T a year and see what inflation would look like. Once you understand the the federal govt is basically just a pension plan/insurance company with a really large military it puts things in perspective.I stopped whining about taxes a long time ago, I just keep improving my skills and making more $$ instead of being resentful.
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The response to the first letter ignores a critical fact: the freeloading relatives do not own that house or any of the appliances or plumbing fixtures needing repair. Why should they pay to repair and maintain things they do not own? The (bitter) letter writer points out that the property could be rented out for $6k a month, and says there was an “understanding” the couple would “maintain the house” while being allowed to live there rent-free. But what qualifies as maintenance? Keeping it clean, and the yard tidy? You should have put an agreement in writing, if you were attaching conditions to this deal. This arrangement may have started with good intentions, but it’s been detrimental to everyone, especially the couple’s children. They have been taught, by example, to take no responsibility for themselves, and to expect things to be given to them becsue they deserve that. Not good.
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The author demands $25K for speaking engagements (I know from experience). This seems anathema to the justice and equity that is part of her public identity.
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School is over rated. You’re encouraged to go because ostensibly you’ll realize higher earnings but all sustainable wealth comes from business and investment. The founder of Whole Foods dropped out 6x and the other examples are too numerous to name. You don’t need a degree to form a business and if you start investing early, compound interest will make you wealthier than those spending that time in class. Much of the knowledge is available free online.
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David it is unbecoming for a man of your intellectual standard to use the epithet "crazy" to describe China's Xi. Actually, Xi is a wily, foxy mind with a vision of leading China to global hegemony. Those who prognosticate a declining China are engaging in wishful thinking. That said, Xi and the current leadership make a grave mistake to close China to involvement with the world and the benefits that accrue to science and technology by membership in a free and open global society. I do admire you and your thinking and writing. Keep up the good work.
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eddie B It's common sense that military bases are not closed until everyone is evacuated. This has been the standard policy in American entanglements since forever. Evacuation via civilian airports is never done.As for those Afghans that you think are going to be saved quietly? Less than half of the people promised visas have been granted visas in the US, Canada and other partner nations. Those approvals are never going to happen because we cannot literally depopulate an entire country of its people to only have the Taliban left - especially when you create additional refugees by prolonging the conflict in Ukraine.
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It's only worth $23,000 if they sell it.
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Guns per 100 peopleUS: 120.5Canada: 34.7Germany: 19.6Gun murderers per 100000 peopleUS 3.4Canada 0.6Germany 0.1from Small Arms survey 2017, published in NYT May last year.Germany: Practically no carriage (open or concealed) allowed outside of your private, fenced, propertyAndre
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The industry has been trying to move away from passwords for a long time. Microsoft has supported passwordless sign-ins for a few years now for both the corporate 365 tenants and personal Microsoft accounts. If you're not using them yet, ask your IT team why not.Basically, you create a very complex password, then configure the authenticator app on your phone. To sign in, you enter your account name (email address) and you're given a simple code that you match on your phone. Use your phone's biometric authentication and you're signed in. Quick, easy, secure, and no complex password to remember.Now that you have the authenticator app installed, throw in every other system that supports 2FA/MFA - Amazon, Facebook, whatever.FWIW, we're been using KeePass for years stored on OneDrive. I've always been a little leary of a system where they manage the password database for you.
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Amie Reisinger I am sure that this article produced for just 26:44 only sketches the big picture of what the Earth is undergoing. 'Buzz' by Thor Hansen seems to be a good resource. I would like to know more about why this was not considered important for the US to join in and it does seem to be a political battle; even though Biden's representative was in attendance and was trying to negotiate. The gentleman who accuses the US of taking advantage of other nations' biospheres and, yet, we aren't making attempts to help rejuvenate those areas is what I think was a most important takeaway.Presently, the trending topic seems to be AI, I thought this article was very well timed and I hope that your insight opens up more conversation and action in your community and that it pollinates other communities as well.I will follow Ms. Einhorn...but not on social media!
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"content": "Amie Reisinger I am sure that this article produced for just 26:44 only sketches the big picture of what the Earth is undergoing. 'Buzz' by Thor Hansen seems to be a good resource. I would like to know more about why this was not considered important for the US to join in and it does seem to be a political battle; even though Biden's representative was in attendance and was trying to negotiate. The gentleman who accuses the US of taking advantage of other nations' biospheres and, yet, we aren't making attempts to help rejuvenate those areas is what I think was a most important takeaway.Presently, the trending topic seems to be AI, I thought this article was very well timed and I hope that your insight opens up more conversation and action in your community and that it pollinates other communities as well.I will follow Ms. Einhorn...but not on social media!\n",
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Ms. Pelosi really missed the mark when she opposed reforming Congressional investment practices. This was a perfect demonstration of how the Democratic party has left its old working class constituency behind. The Democrats are now the home for the old Republican white shoe liberals. The advice to local politicians to focus on local issues is spot-on. If somebody running for local office is opining on hot-button national issues, don't vote for that person even if running under the auspices of your preferred party. That person is not going to deliver in office, and anybody who divides a population is bad news as far as I'm concerned. I also think people should stop interfering with elections in other jurisdictions. Sitting here in California I do not need to donate campaign funds to somebody running for Governor or Senator in another state. Whatever short-term advantage I might be giving to "the good guy (or gal)" will be offset by alienation of that other state's voters. I understand. I don't want Texans butting in on my elections here.
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"content": "Ms. Pelosi really missed the mark when she opposed reforming Congressional investment practices. This was a perfect demonstration of how the Democratic party has left its old working class constituency behind. The Democrats are now the home for the old Republican white shoe liberals. The advice to local politicians to focus on local issues is spot-on. If somebody running for local office is opining on hot-button national issues, don't vote for that person even if running under the auspices of your preferred party. That person is not going to deliver in office, and anybody who divides a population is bad news as far as I'm concerned. I also think people should stop interfering with elections in other jurisdictions. Sitting here in California I do not need to donate campaign funds to somebody running for Governor or Senator in another state. Whatever short-term advantage I might be giving to \"the good guy (or gal)\" will be offset by alienation of that other state's voters. I understand. I don't want Texans butting in on my elections here.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,398 |
reader I concur, it is baffling. That folks are urging young adults in their early 20s to start saving posthaste for retirement is an insane symptom of false consciousness. And so, in that light, it isn't so baffling. It is an intentional grinding away by capital of opportunities for younger people who want to secure their lives by achieving a modicum of independence if they only exercise initiative and prudence. A $10,000 emergency fund? These days, good luck. It will help you survive some, but not all, emergencies. This is an appalling circumstance and, frankly, to my mind, sick. I myself hope for fairly extreme change, but I don't expect it in my lifetime. Perhaps in my kids'.
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"content": "reader I concur, it is baffling. That folks are urging young adults in their early 20s to start saving posthaste for retirement is an insane symptom of false consciousness. And so, in that light, it isn't so baffling. It is an intentional grinding away by capital of opportunities for younger people who want to secure their lives by achieving a modicum of independence if they only exercise initiative and prudence. A $10,000 emergency fund? These days, good luck. It will help you survive some, but not all, emergencies. This is an appalling circumstance and, frankly, to my mind, sick. I myself hope for fairly extreme change, but I don't expect it in my lifetime. Perhaps in my kids'.\n",
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If you want to actually control the debt, JusticeForAll, then you either raise taxes (revenues) or lower expenses.The debt limit is merely the open barn door that's been open for ages long after the horses ran off.Republicans have been cutting taxes for four decades while consistently ignoring expenses; they are the main champions of the US national debt.
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Paul OK, seems like 800,000,000 x 365 = 292B roughly 44% of 660 B. To say 'around half of our trade' isn't that far off
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| yes | Classification | 7,455 |
Private schools, private universities are such under payers - ( for adjuncts at least). Friends I know who teach at Friends - Quaker schools - social justice - don’t pay their teachers enough, they get at least 40k a year from each kid.
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| no | Classification | 394 |
You really lost me at the opening paragraph. The Republican Party has a solid 50 year record of lies, fraudulent wars, electoral cheating, court stacking, union crushing, corruption, god-bothering hypocrisy, and of course, racism for fun and profit. It’s sole purpose has been the transfer of wealth to the wealthy.During the last 8 years, problems have arisen as voters began to recognize that the Democratic Party has the same fundamental purpose.
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| no | Classification | 2,719 |
Where is an employer's willingness to accept reponsibility for a employee's mistakes? It sounds like a rookie checkin clerk misread the traveler's documentation requirements and then refused either to acknowledge their error or to call in a supervisor. Some people are inflicted with an inflated sense of their pride or their stature. American airlines is directly responsible for training and supervising its employees. The consequences of the employee's mistake should have been obvious at the outset. The employee should have had the humility and good sense to regognize the magnitude of the issue, apologize for the confusion and call in a supervisor to resolve it rather than insist that they were in charge and attempt to save face.American Airlines is directly responsible for training and supervising its employees. They are responsible for this fiasco, not the traveler. Had American accepted its responsibility immediately, i.e. had the employee upgraded the issue to higher authority as they should have, it would have been resolved immediately by an experienced and more knowledgeable supervisor. The traveler would have had her experiece of a lifetime and neither, the airline, nor the insurance carrier, nor the traveler would be out $17,000 and the vacation experience of a lifetime.
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"content": "Where is an employer's willingness to accept reponsibility for a employee's mistakes? It sounds like a rookie checkin clerk misread the traveler's documentation requirements and then refused either to acknowledge their error or to call in a supervisor. Some people are inflicted with an inflated sense of their pride or their stature. American airlines is directly responsible for training and supervising its employees. The consequences of the employee's mistake should have been obvious at the outset. The employee should have had the humility and good sense to regognize the magnitude of the issue, apologize for the confusion and call in a supervisor to resolve it rather than insist that they were in charge and attempt to save face.American Airlines is directly responsible for training and supervising its employees. They are responsible for this fiasco, not the traveler. Had American accepted its responsibility immediately, i.e. had the employee upgraded the issue to higher authority as they should have, it would have been resolved immediately by an experienced and more knowledgeable supervisor. The traveler would have had her experiece of a lifetime and neither, the airline, nor the insurance carrier, nor the traveler would be out $17,000 and the vacation experience of a lifetime.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,366 |
From far away what puzzles me most is what motivates a person to give $25,000 to an organization he/she clearly did no due diligence on. Probably a case of easy-come-easy-go wealth : inherited? Are these payments tax deductible? If not it becomes a $40,000 effective donation.
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John Smithson We have tremendous national interests in the outcome of this war. A Russian victory will directly threaten our economic security, our political stability, and our national security. It will also replace one of the world's largest democracies with an ascendant authoritarianism. This will empower China in Taiwan and other authoritarian governments. Rising authoritarianism is terrible for us and terrible for the world. And I am fairly certain that the summit in Helsinki is the one where Trump told Putin in front of the entire world that he trusts him over US Intelligence. Look, I understand. that people feel connected to Trump. But we cannot continue talking about him as if he was working for our best interests. Donald Trump was not in good faith with the US American people. He had more to gain from appeasing Putin than from fulfilling his oath of office and he had no scruples about making that choice. He lied to us about Covid. He lied to us about the election. He told the Russian ambassador classified information the day after he fired James Comey. His campaign manager was on the payroll of a Russian oligarch. He would not have solved anything.Laslty, Ukraine doesn't want to join NATO because we pressured it. Ukraine wants to join NATO because Russia committed one of the most egregious acts of genocide in world history against the Ukrainian people and Russia also has a habit of being ruled by unstable sociopathic expansionist autocrats.
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"content": "John Smithson We have tremendous national interests in the outcome of this war. A Russian victory will directly threaten our economic security, our political stability, and our national security. It will also replace one of the world's largest democracies with an ascendant authoritarianism. This will empower China in Taiwan and other authoritarian governments. Rising authoritarianism is terrible for us and terrible for the world. And I am fairly certain that the summit in Helsinki is the one where Trump told Putin in front of the entire world that he trusts him over US Intelligence. Look, I understand. that people feel connected to Trump. But we cannot continue talking about him as if he was working for our best interests. Donald Trump was not in good faith with the US American people. He had more to gain from appeasing Putin than from fulfilling his oath of office and he had no scruples about making that choice. He lied to us about Covid. He lied to us about the election. He told the Russian ambassador classified information the day after he fired James Comey. His campaign manager was on the payroll of a Russian oligarch. He would not have solved anything.Laslty, Ukraine doesn't want to join NATO because we pressured it. Ukraine wants to join NATO because Russia committed one of the most egregious acts of genocide in world history against the Ukrainian people and Russia also has a habit of being ruled by unstable sociopathic expansionist autocrats.\n",
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This report says the sicker you seem to be on paper, the more money Medicare Advantage plans make money. When I retired in 2016, I enrolled my wife and me with Medicare Advantage of same insurance company I was with for decades while working. After looking at traditional Medicare and having to deal with its parts separately with different entities, I decided to try the one stop shop of Medicare Advantage. It was a case of KISS (keep it simple, stupid). Our insurance while I was working was supposed to be one of those "Cadillac" ones. Medicare Advantage has turned out to be even better on costs (thanks to Medicare limits on charges) but same quality of services. Though limited to "in network" medical services, there's plenty of them to choose from. There was one instance though of coverage denial involving close to $300 that I contested and got reversed. I would have replaced them otherwise. I'm bombarded by Medicare Advantage companies junk mail touting their expanded coverage but already matched by my current plan. The competition indicates Medicare Advantage must be profitable under current conditions. I like the extra benefits I get from Medicare Advantage but I would go to Traditional Medicare if those extra benefits for me that generates even more benefits to the insurer is at my expense as a taxpayer.
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I'm curious, how does it look if you disaggregate energy supply and transmission? Here in California, T&D is 2/3 of the bill. Something tells me costs in this fraction have grown faster than energy supply. And the California Public Utilities Commission, showing itself to be a sock puppet for the three investor owned utilities in the state, has approved a Net Energy Metering rate plan which will discourage rooftop solar and thus result in greater need for expensive (to build and maintain) T&D infrastructure, the IOUs' last guaranteed monopoly.
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Socrates Part of his economic program seems to be to reduce the standard of living of workers by keeping their wage increases below inflation. Two consecutive years of that. An enabler of that goal is his open borders program. Let in low wage refugees.
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Dr. Krugman: Please, for the love of sanity, publish a column on what those of us who want to protect our investments should do before the Chaos Caucus destroys the US and global economy. Switzerland: Tough to do. Gold? Seems clunky. We’re already diversified but if we’re talking global financial meltdown when the loons tank the economy, foreign investments aren’t the answer. IS the answer that Biden will do what it takes preserve the economy? I grew up in extreme poverty and have no wish to return there because of Lauren Boebert.
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"content": "Dr. Krugman: Please, for the love of sanity, publish a column on what those of us who want to protect our investments should do before the Chaos Caucus destroys the US and global economy. Switzerland: Tough to do. Gold? Seems clunky. We’re already diversified but if we’re talking global financial meltdown when the loons tank the economy, foreign investments aren’t the answer. IS the answer that Biden will do what it takes preserve the economy? I grew up in extreme poverty and have no wish to return there because of Lauren Boebert.\n",
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Are the members of the Republican Party the only people who didn’t see this lunacy coming? Trump and his policies really are the unwanted gift that keeps on giving. You especially have three do-nothing House representatives – Gaetz, Boebert, and Perry – who contribute nothing to the American people and American society. They are simply cashing a $174,000 per year paycheck. What all of this chaos tells us is that Republicans are mindless idealogues first and irresponsible citizens second. I hope Trump does run in 2024. It will guarantee what the United States needs: continued sane, responsible, and adult Democratic leadership. Honestly, I think I could beat Trump.
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"content": "Are the members of the Republican Party the only people who didn’t see this lunacy coming? Trump and his policies really are the unwanted gift that keeps on giving. You especially have three do-nothing House representatives – Gaetz, Boebert, and Perry – who contribute nothing to the American people and American society. They are simply cashing a $174,000 per year paycheck. What all of this chaos tells us is that Republicans are mindless idealogues first and irresponsible citizens second. I hope Trump does run in 2024. It will guarantee what the United States needs: continued sane, responsible, and adult Democratic leadership. Honestly, I think I could beat Trump.\n",
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My wife started spending lots of time at bars and met a bartender she just had to keep visiting. One day she told me that he made her feel sexy and she wanted an open relationship. We tried an to open things, but let me tell you, only a few women are dying to date a married man. But many a man would love to sleep with the married women out late flirting at the bar. I kissed a few women and was smitten with them and my love for my wife died. I cried a lot, then realized I was in an abusive relationship.To those non monogamous people. Please be straight up about who and what you are because when you are not, you are abusive. Just don't come crying to me when you wonder why you can't foster lasting and meaningful relationships.
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"content": "My wife started spending lots of time at bars and met a bartender she just had to keep visiting. One day she told me that he made her feel sexy and she wanted an open relationship. We tried an to open things, but let me tell you, only a few women are dying to date a married man. But many a man would love to sleep with the married women out late flirting at the bar. I kissed a few women and was smitten with them and my love for my wife died. I cried a lot, then realized I was in an abusive relationship.To those non monogamous people. Please be straight up about who and what you are because when you are not, you are abusive. Just don't come crying to me when you wonder why you can't foster lasting and meaningful relationships.\n",
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If rabid House Republicans demand steep spending cuts start with the bloated defense budget in facilities located in their districts! At $742 billion or one-sixth of the current budget, it's time to get the fat and pork out and let the rabble rousers howl. Those who wish to inflict pain have to be willing to endure it.
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Any arrangement that requires trusting Russia is not a solution. Putin’s made that clear. And the global costs of this war make clear that any arrangement that leaves the door open to renewed Russian aggression is too costly. NATO membership would be the easiest way to prevent another war, because of the credibility of the commitment and the overwhelming strength of the alliance. And Ukraine would be a valuable addition to the alliance. If NATO membership is not possible, we should offer a bilateral alliance that puts American troops on the Ukrainian-Russian border. Some Republicans suggested this in 2014. The case for it has only gotten stronger.
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"content": "Any arrangement that requires trusting Russia is not a solution. Putin’s made that clear. And the global costs of this war make clear that any arrangement that leaves the door open to renewed Russian aggression is too costly. NATO membership would be the easiest way to prevent another war, because of the credibility of the commitment and the overwhelming strength of the alliance. And Ukraine would be a valuable addition to the alliance. If NATO membership is not possible, we should offer a bilateral alliance that puts American troops on the Ukrainian-Russian border. Some Republicans suggested this in 2014. The case for it has only gotten stronger.\n",
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Legato7 Cook didn't take a pay cut. His *salary* was decreased and his stock options increased. His lawyers negotiated that because it's a far more lucrative deal, and he gets to pay less in income taxes. Let's stop pretending that a company that uses slave labor in China to make $1500 phones and has at least 25% profit margins on them is in any way ethical. Neither Steve Jobs or Apple the company have made any significant charitable contributions, least not a fraction of what Bill Gates and Microsoft have.
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"content": "Legato7 Cook didn't take a pay cut. His *salary* was decreased and his stock options increased. His lawyers negotiated that because it's a far more lucrative deal, and he gets to pay less in income taxes. Let's stop pretending that a company that uses slave labor in China to make $1500 phones and has at least 25% profit margins on them is in any way ethical. Neither Steve Jobs or Apple the company have made any significant charitable contributions, least not a fraction of what Bill Gates and Microsoft have.\n",
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atb I agree, especially as Microsoft is a particularly bad tax evader. Without some way to hold their offshore assets if they leave the United States, however, or some other globally-enforced mechanism, they and other companies may decide to leave — and get away with it. Corporate taxation is a tough problem, because these companies largely know they have more power than the governments they operate "under".
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At this point, it seems classified documents could be found in my home... This reporting is problematic because the lack of specificity makes these discoveries lie on the same flat ground. The types of documents make all the difference. Not the number, the type. Are there numerous degrees of classified?Also, I want to know who is moving these documents. I imagine moving staff are doing it at the direction of WH staff...I doubt these men did the moving themselves. This is just plain frustrating. Lots of regular people are disastrous with their record keeping. But we just don't expect it from the country's leaders and their staff. Maybe Marie Kondo and her staff should swoop in do some organizing?Until a distinction or system can be made to assess the threat of these documents being in the open, it is difficult to know how much or how little to care.
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"content": "At this point, it seems classified documents could be found in my home... This reporting is problematic because the lack of specificity makes these discoveries lie on the same flat ground. The types of documents make all the difference. Not the number, the type. Are there numerous degrees of classified?Also, I want to know who is moving these documents. I imagine moving staff are doing it at the direction of WH staff...I doubt these men did the moving themselves. This is just plain frustrating. Lots of regular people are disastrous with their record keeping. But we just don't expect it from the country's leaders and their staff. Maybe Marie Kondo and her staff should swoop in do some organizing?Until a distinction or system can be made to assess the threat of these documents being in the open, it is difficult to know how much or how little to care.\n",
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Eddie Tom Suozzi would not have challenged Cuomo in a primary. He would have run for his congressional seat as an incumbent and likely would have been re elected. The democrats would have hung on to that seat, making the republican majority even slimmer.Interesting how the progressives zeal to get Cuomo out of office lead to this. The progressives in the ny legislature who said they would vote to impeach Cuomo before a hearing was ever held, before Cuomo could defend himself.Well, there were consequences to forcing Cuomo out of office. Notice the state projects that are now delayed and not opening on time. Tom Suozzi's congressional seat going to Santos is just more damage. I do believe Suozzi was a good congressman who really wanted to help his constituents.
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"content": "Eddie Tom Suozzi would not have challenged Cuomo in a primary. He would have run for his congressional seat as an incumbent and likely would have been re elected. The democrats would have hung on to that seat, making the republican majority even slimmer.Interesting how the progressives zeal to get Cuomo out of office lead to this. The progressives in the ny legislature who said they would vote to impeach Cuomo before a hearing was ever held, before Cuomo could defend himself.Well, there were consequences to forcing Cuomo out of office. Notice the state projects that are now delayed and not opening on time. Tom Suozzi's congressional seat going to Santos is just more damage. I do believe Suozzi was a good congressman who really wanted to help his constituents.\n",
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The Russians, and not just Putin, see this war with NATO as existential one. They cannot afford to lose it no matter the cost, so they will never back down. This is a war to the end. If anyone thinks Russia will simply disengage, you clearly don't understand the Russians. The US/NATO cannot back down either as they have invested over $150B in just 10 months and the very credibility of NATO alliance is on stake. If Russia wins, then there's good chance that NATO will cease to exist which will be death knell for US global hegemony as well.With both sides determined to fight to the end, further escalation is given until we reach the point of direct NATO-Russia confrontation. At that point, we're all doomed.
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"'What a weakened position they have put themselves in,' marveled Representative Rosa Delauro, a senior Democrat from Connecticut."I love Rosa, but this is a serious misreading of the situation. THE CHAOS IS THE POINT. Since House Republicans only have a 222 to 212 majority, it only takes 5 renegades to gum up the works (and it seems the rebels are far more numerous than that). Memo to Democrats: unless Republicans cross the aisle and elect Democrat minority leader Hakeem Jeffries to the Speakership, THERE WILL NEVER BE A HOUSE SPEAKER THIS SESSION. And that's the goal. These right-wing nuts have vowed to "burn the house down," and this is what they are now in a position to do. How can the U.S. gov't conduct business without a functioning House of Representatives? It can't. As far as the right-wingers are concerned, this is their sweet spot. If the House doesn't vote to extend the so-called "debt-limit," the U.S. defaults on its economic obligations and the world economy comes crashing down.It's childish for Democrats to be smirking at today's fiasco. They need to start figuring out how this crisis can be resolved.
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The identity politics of the far left are divisive and have harmed the Democratic Party. I am convinced the only reason Democrats do not control all branches --I do not think the country loves Trumpism,and a vast majority support Democrat policies--is the overreach of a small minority in our country who come across as extremely difficult to please. Instead of solidifying support for basic human rights, they are demanding change with no consultation. Our English grammar rules are altered, this, after discussing it with no one outside of themselves. Anyone who questions anything is yelled at. This has led to an open gate for fascism, which uses anger to their advantage. , predominantly white men (If I transition, then
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Having worked on the MTA/NYCTransit No. 7 Subway Line Extension running from Times Square to Hudson Yards, a tiny simple job compared to East Side Access, got to tell how boondoggles fatten AEC participants, agencies and pols. Its done through almost endlessly prolonged advocacy, studies, more studies, consultations up the kazoo with near limitless "interest groups" who line up to claim a stake in the booty if not by direct handouts (never called bribes), then by indirect hirings, grants, conferences, and then repeat for a few years with interim declarations of progress, any day now actual field work will begin, with pro forma gatherings of goofballs wielding spades and wearing hardhats.While this Greatest City in the World (TM) charade is underway, technical hirelings take pleasant trips to worldwide examples of what might happen in The Apple with multiples of mark-ups of project costs in well managed efforts elesewhere.The long-time it takes to get something big built in NYC assures there will be changes in publicity, design, staffing, contracts, schedules, elections, firings, deaths, screw-ups, assurances all is going well, but there's need for bit more (lot more) funding due to delays, the economy, office holders, union fights, mysterious homicides and slothful job site injuries.Ta da, years out of original schedule, well over original budget, the project nears completion, then at the last minute, glitches are discovered, delay unfortunate but safety requires ...
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Dip your toe into Plato. Openness to new ideas, to what language can't describe, that's kind of his jam.
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| no | Classification | 2,526 |
Incorporeal Being are they still open? I saw an excellent documentary on them a few years back.
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Excellent piece, and thanks for making me laugh about it, and for making all of that effort to enlighten us on how impossible it truly is! I've tried to go single-use plastic free--you are much braver--and even that's almost impossible. I've found that bringing my own bags and containers, and shopping in bulk eliminates a big chunk of SUP. It's a little bit more work, but all of those glass containers look really awesome in my pantry. And of course reusable bottles make a big dent. (all those Starbucks cups are lined with plastic). One of the best things I did was divest from my bank--it was one of the top investors in fracking and the fossil fuel industry, and their shareholders recently voted to continue doing this. I switched to First Republic--they don't invest in the fossil fuel industry and have better customer service. If a lot of us did this maybe these banks would take notice and stop investing in the plastic (ie oil) industry.
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SJW51 “If you are willing to pay another $10,000 to $15,000 (above what your paying now) a year in taxes then let’s have universal health care, otherwise stop sounding off.”Please show us your work here.
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I’m glad to see an emphasis on pay transparency. A few states have prohibited employers from asking a candidate about current salary. Others have required employers to post a salary range (which may too wide to be useful). Neither of these approaches will be as effective as transparency. I work for the state of California, and my salary, searchable by my name and title is available in a web accessible database. It’s very easy to learn what my coworkers are paid and a new candidate would know exactly what people with a job title earn.Yes, there is a difference, in that we are state employees and the taxpayers have a right to know what they’re paying us. You could argue that no such right exists where it comes to private firms. I’d start with the H1b. Simply require that any firm that applies for this visa - which allows a firm to bestow US work and residency rights on the grounds that there is a shortage of workers with a particular skill - to comply with the same pay transparency as the university of California or other state agency. This would open up pay at almost every tech company.
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Rather than focus research dollars on extending life, I would much prefer to see them spent on curing or improving the quality of life of children and teens with disabilities (visible or invisible) or painful chronic illnesses. My son is one of them. I am in my mid-50's, have had a career, family, and traveled the world. I would trade any years ahead of me for better years for him. The amount of money spent by the NIH and industry on pediatric research is appallingly low, almost negligible in comparison to the budgets allocated to the diseases affecting the oldest among us. How much selfishness is enough? Let's focus on exiting gracefully and with dignity and on improving the lives of our children, grandchildren, and the less fortunate.
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As a vocational counselor who primarily works with individuals with ID/DD I can say that the biggest obstacles to finding competitive employment is the business community, and individuals being able to maintain their disability benefits which in turn limits how much they work and are able to earn. It's all well and good to shut down 14c workshops and make employment the first choice for people, but the government never thinks to educate or incentivize the businesses to hire people with disabilities. They put that burden back on the shoulders of non profits that are underfunded and currently dangerously understaffed. It's incredibly hard to find new opportunities in competitive employment for individuals (even with people who have years of legitimate work experience). I spend appealing to employers and trying to form partnerships to make it easier to provide an array of employment options for the people on my caseload. As for the 14c workshops, people are also forgetting a voice in that debate. The voice of the individuals who work there. What is it that they want? What it comes down to is choice, and allowing individuals to make whatever choice suits them best. That includes giving them options.
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“Austerity.” As though the only thing standing between great Britain and prosperity was shoveling even more money to the incompetent twits on Downing Street and borrowing even more money to paper over the difference.Here in the real world, Britain appears to be struggling because it has found itself in an unhappy no-man’s-land where it receives neither the benefits of globalization nor the benefits of independence.Brexit, as it was originally conceived, was supposed to make up for the more limited access to Europe’s markets with a loosening of regulations in Britain itself. The EU, the thinking went, was hobbling itself with ridiculous amounts of environmental and regionally protectionist red tape, and an independent Britain could cast aside those shackles. Needless to say that is not what happened.Britain has not taken advantage of Brexit to reduce regulation on its financial and manufacturing sector. It has tightened restrictions on speech, and, despite an energy crisis, has not reopened offshore drilling. Prosperity is available all around, but Britain’s leaders seem determined not to seize it.
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“We should not be borrowing $4 billion a day, an apparent debt addiction that is harmful to the economy and the budget,” said Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “We hear a lot of talk about fiscal responsibility, but very little action.”Actually, Ms. MacGuineas must have a selective memory. We heard nothing about fiscal responsibility when Reagan was tripling the deficit or W was doubling it or when Trump increased it by 40% in 4 years. Two-thirds ($18 trillion) of the $27 trillion added to the debt since Reagan took office was added under Republican administrations.
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Mike. Agree. I’ve been noticing the MBA syndrome for decades, the pattern of expansion which lead to cookie cutter retails from coast to coast. Soul crushing indeed. Over the years I have seen around me in NYC many successful small businesses at their peak clearly MBA advised expansion to their eventual demise.
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Maybe there are just too many restaurants? I found this OpEd interesting and appreciated her candidness. But we know that 60% of Americans have no money set aside for an emergency; they are living paycheck to paycheck. A $60/person dinner is out of their reach. Then you have another segment of Americans who, when choosing a restaurant for a celebration, are perfectly happy at Outback Steakhouse or another chain restaurant. And then you have others, like me, who will go out and splurge on a nice dinner but are increasingly put off by the additional service fees added to a bill and the very obvious hint that a 20% tip is no longer adequate. Add in the enormous increase in the cost of a bottle of wine or cocktail and I also have significantly reduced my dining out budget. So these aspiring restauranteurs are catering to a smaller and smaller audience. Major cities can support fine dining but then again its the newly opened restaurants that get the buzz and the seats filled. Think about the mainstay restaurants in your town; I remember the Odeon, Danny Meyer's restaurants, why have they survived when others failed? What magic do they have that others don't?
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Gary Cohen You are correct that passing huge SPENDING BILLS at the last minute is a sure way to send our country into bankruptcy. What a shame that 18 Republican Senators went along with all of the sycophant Dems to pass the recent $1.6 trillion of record pork to the detriment of our children and grandchildren!!!!!
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$400k a year is scrimping to get by? Sorry, that’s a “no” from me, dawg.
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HINTSAM4) MunitionsAT4) Smallest unit of matter, coined by John Dalton 18086) At fundamental particle level ⚛AX5) Postulate (see 👇)9) Postulated & accepted w/out proof - e.g. Euclid's a line can be drawn between 2 pointsCA4) Short sleeveless4) Hunter fatiguesCO4) Extended unconscious5) Cartoon book5) "Do, you, feel, lucky, Punc-tuation?" asked Dirty Harry's editor6) DO a crime or CONFINE TO ASYLUMIM4) Mosque honchoMA4) Injure4) Ma5) Ma4) Add -MUM to get the largest (hug evah baby!)5) Pithy proverb, or mag for the lads6) Latin plural of the (-MUM ) largest thingsMI4) Flaking silica5) Ape4) Baseball gloveMO4) Ditch circling castle5) C'mon Ma, how many ways we gotta spell you?4) Irrelevant point or law school mock trial5) Guiding Expression of France is "liberté, égalité, fraternité"OM4) Leave outTA6) Japanese matTO6) Beefsteak, cherry, heirloom fruit6) Male feline6) Bee songbird - Actor Cruise boob?👇See Replies for more
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Read the NYT Food section comments. Foodies can be simply silly. We live in an Emperor’s New Clothes universe now, from Kardashians to Mar-a-lago to art, music, and restaurants. Let’s not forget Goop. Pretty soon we’ll all just put tip jars outside our doors for thanks for opening them and make our livings on Go Fund Me. Why not let the little guy grift too?
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1) Nearly all mail systems (including GMail and Outlook) allow use of "Plus Addressing", where a plus sign and a suffix are added to the "local part label" (the 'user mailbox'). So, if yor address is "<a href="mailto:LabelExample.Com">LabelExample.Com</a>", tell others that your address is "<a href="mailto:Label+Suffix1Example.Com">Label+Suffix1Example.Com</a>" and so on for multiple suffixes. This allows later delineation of the sources of email (especially spam). However, soms websites or other systems asking for an email address (e.g. to create an internal user name) may not accept a plus sign embedded in the username.2) Most systems also allow the creation of email aliases, thereby obscuring the main user label. So, <a href="mailto:LabelExample.Com">LabelExample.Com</a> might also receive mail as <a href="mailto:AliasExample.Com">AliasExample.Com</a>.3) The trouble with 1 and 2 above is that it is difficult, or impossible, to _send_ mail using solely the Plus Address or the Alias. Therecore, one method is to own a domain name "Example.Net", obtain _one_ email user license of Microsoft365 (<a href="mailto:LabelExample.Net">LabelExample.Net</a>), and then set up multilple Shared Mailboxes as needed (<a href="mailto:SharedMailbox1Example.Net">SharedMailbox1Example.Net</a>, <a href="mailto:SharedMailbox2Example.Net">SharedMailbox2Example.Net</a>, etc). The underlying username is granted Read and Send As permissions to each box. To ease notification (rather than continually monitoring dozens of mailboxes), each Shared Mailbox is set up to forward (but retain original) copies of emails received by the Shared Mailbox to the underlying main account. The main account can either "drop down" the From: address, or "Open Another Mailbox" to send.
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"content": "1) Nearly all mail systems (including GMail and Outlook) allow use of \"Plus Addressing\", where a plus sign and a suffix are added to the \"local part label\" (the 'user mailbox'). So, if yor address is \"<a href=\"mailto:LabelExample.Com\">LabelExample.Com</a>\", tell others that your address is \"<a href=\"mailto:Label+Suffix1Example.Com\">Label+Suffix1Example.Com</a>\" and so on for multiple suffixes. This allows later delineation of the sources of email (especially spam). However, soms websites or other systems asking for an email address (e.g. to create an internal user name) may not accept a plus sign embedded in the username.2) Most systems also allow the creation of email aliases, thereby obscuring the main user label. So, <a href=\"mailto:LabelExample.Com\">LabelExample.Com</a> might also receive mail as <a href=\"mailto:AliasExample.Com\">AliasExample.Com</a>.3) The trouble with 1 and 2 above is that it is difficult, or impossible, to _send_ mail using solely the Plus Address or the Alias. Therecore, one method is to own a domain name \"Example.Net\", obtain _one_ email user license of Microsoft365 (<a href=\"mailto:LabelExample.Net\">LabelExample.Net</a>), and then set up multilple Shared Mailboxes as needed (<a href=\"mailto:SharedMailbox1Example.Net\">SharedMailbox1Example.Net</a>, <a href=\"mailto:SharedMailbox2Example.Net\">SharedMailbox2Example.Net</a>, etc). The underlying username is granted Read and Send As permissions to each box. To ease notification (rather than continually monitoring dozens of mailboxes), each Shared Mailbox is set up to forward (but retain original) copies of emails received by the Shared Mailbox to the underlying main account. The main account can either \"drop down\" the From: address, or \"Open Another Mailbox\" to send.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,403 |
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