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I shared an office with a business partner in the 00’s who was a foodie. He insisted all in office meals be the stuff of dreams. He’s spend over an hour every day pouring over delivery choices & menus chasing the perfect gastro dream lunch often from restaurants I’d only visit for a celebration. Cater in 5 course meals when we had a lunch guest. He was my culinary opposite. After a few months I had to speak up. Not every meal has to be an event. We’re so moored to all the amazing choices we have, every lunch delivery or dinner out (or in!) must come from a fabulous place and be a gastronomic delight. Yes it can be truly enjoyable, but food is fuel-most of the time a snack, soup or simple salad is all that’s needed. Conflating meals with entertainment can be dangerous in America. I learned at 21 (thanks to, of all things, a 1979 Cosmo article) to disassociate from food that delights at each and every meal. Much like the smoker who learns to stop craving a cig after meals, one must practice to lower expectations when hunger strikes and eat for the body, not the mind. Sure I love a gastro adventure but not unless I’ve made sure to super serve the needs of my body first. The first priority is nutrition, so no sugar until something healthy is eaten first. And like dessert, fat laden and multi course meals themselves should be your mind’s reward for feeding your body’s nutritional needs first. The only diet one needs is a healthy mind.
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Families will always place a high value on quality schools, safety, and quality of life. The blue link on the ethnic breakdown on the magnet school test takers was eye opening. The number of Asian test takers and offers of enrollment was astounding. If you place a high value on education and putt your money where your mouth is, education will be the great equalizer in one generation. I saw it with the second generation Vietnamese kids that I went to high school with in Philadelphia. Mom and dad came from Vietnam, spoke no English, worked in the food industry. Sent their kids to the best high school they could afford and in one generation, a lot of engineers, lawyers, CPAs, doctors and a ticket into the middle class. Education, Family, Work Ethic - excuses ='s sucess.
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"content": "Families will always place a high value on quality schools, safety, and quality of life. The blue link on the ethnic breakdown on the magnet school test takers was eye opening. The number of Asian test takers and offers of enrollment was astounding. If you place a high value on education and putt your money where your mouth is, education will be the great equalizer in one generation. I saw it with the second generation Vietnamese kids that I went to high school with in Philadelphia. Mom and dad came from Vietnam, spoke no English, worked in the food industry. Sent their kids to the best high school they could afford and in one generation, a lot of engineers, lawyers, CPAs, doctors and a ticket into the middle class. Education, Family, Work Ethic - excuses ='s sucess.\n",
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Cloves A couple things.First, I believe the data you suggest obscure the problem by lumping two very different groups together. The 1% is a combination of high wage earners (doctors and lawyers, for example) and those with income from different sources. The wage earners pay a progressive federal tax, as noted, while investment managers and those with passive income pay a much lower rate. Income inequality is a complaint to make against lawyers (as a group), but not low taxation… it’s the ones paying on an alternate taxation schedule.Second, the federal income tax is only one part of the overall tax burden. Add in sales taxes and Medicare/Social Security, and that imbalance shifts dramatically (especially if you include the employer contributions).Third, those are on the basis of adjusted gross income. Which is after some tax reporting shenanigans can happen.When we can clearly see that wealthy politicians pay very little in federal taxes (look at released tax returns from politicians who make their money in the private sector… Romney and Trump, especially), it’s very easy to question whether anyone at the top is actually paying their taxes.
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Biden is in this mess not because his offense is the same as Trump’s. It’s because of how he handled it. He’s sanctimonious, undisciplined and always political. All he had to say at the start of the Trump mess was, I don’t get involved with that. It’s not something I know anything about. Let Garland and DOJ do their jobs. Then when they found docs at his office and residence, all he had to say was, Mistakes happen. Nothing here was done on purpose. We’re cooperating and we’ll get to the bottom of this. Done. Period. Instead, he finger-wags Trump and then keeps insisting how anyone who knows him knows how careful he is with classified documents. We don’t know him. That’s why we need someone to investigate. Now, as for his no-show U Penn job for $1m+ a year or his massive Delaware home (for a guy who’s never had a real job), well, I’ve no advice. Joe made this bed. Now he lies in it.
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"content": "Biden is in this mess not because his offense is the same as Trump’s. It’s because of how he handled it. He’s sanctimonious, undisciplined and always political. All he had to say at the start of the Trump mess was, I don’t get involved with that. It’s not something I know anything about. Let Garland and DOJ do their jobs. Then when they found docs at his office and residence, all he had to say was, Mistakes happen. Nothing here was done on purpose. We’re cooperating and we’ll get to the bottom of this. Done. Period. Instead, he finger-wags Trump and then keeps insisting how anyone who knows him knows how careful he is with classified documents. We don’t know him. That’s why we need someone to investigate. Now, as for his no-show U Penn job for $1m+ a year or his massive Delaware home (for a guy who’s never had a real job), well, I’ve no advice. Joe made this bed. Now he lies in it.\n",
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Reading the article and several of the comments, one might conclude that opening an underground mine to extract much-needed, rare minerals near Kiruna, Sweden, could conceivably demolish the local, if not the entire arctic ecosystem. However, as the existent, long-standing iron ore mine nearby has failed to do so, I have to ponder what is the factual basis for this expressed environmental panic. It seemingly presumes that mining companies employing the latest technologies cannot extract minerals without destroying the environment, which is not at all necessarily true for many mines already sensibly exist in the high north. Of course, I also have to alternatively wonder, should this Swedish mine be blocked because of environmental concerns and the global move from fossil fuels to electric vehicles was as a result severely delayed, would the environmentalists be consequently far happier?
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| no | Classification | 2,147 |
Andrew That is the gospel truth. I was amazed how in the 80's the son of a Mexican politician could deposit $500,000 checks into his account every 2 weeks. The investment firm said it wa ok because it was a check.
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Shaun Narine That was a fulsome regurgitation of Russian propaganda, Shaun.Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, there's a screed written and published by none other than Vladimir Putin setting out his flaky rationale for expanding the Russian empire, starting with Ukraine. It's entitled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” and was published on July 12, 2021:<a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions" target="_blank">https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions</a>/The only one pushing anyone into a corner is Putin, pushing the Ukrainians into a war that he freely chose after repeatedly, publicly lying about his intentions.Putin's squawking about NATO expansion is a transparent pretext for his aggression. In fact, Putin was asked by British journalist David Frost in a 2000 interview, "Is it possible Russia could join NATO?" to which Putin replied, "I don't see why not."He then went on to say: "And when we talk about our opposition to NATO's expansion - mind you, we have never ever declared any region of the world a zone of our special interests, I prefer to talk about strategic partnership."<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/transcripts/putin5.mar.txt" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/transcripts/putin5.mar.txt</a>And then, in his 2021 screed about Ukraine, Putin very specifically and forcefully declared that country a zone of Russia's special interest, giving the lie to his comments in 2000.
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"content": "Shaun Narine That was a fulsome regurgitation of Russian propaganda, Shaun.Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, there's a screed written and published by none other than Vladimir Putin setting out his flaky rationale for expanding the Russian empire, starting with Ukraine. It's entitled “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” and was published on July 12, 2021:<a href=\"https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-new-ukraine-essay-reflects-imperial-ambitions</a>/The only one pushing anyone into a corner is Putin, pushing the Ukrainians into a war that he freely chose after repeatedly, publicly lying about his intentions.Putin's squawking about NATO expansion is a transparent pretext for his aggression. In fact, Putin was asked by British journalist David Frost in a 2000 interview, \"Is it possible Russia could join NATO?\" to which Putin replied, \"I don't see why not.\"He then went on to say: \"And when we talk about our opposition to NATO's expansion - mind you, we have never ever declared any region of the world a zone of our special interests, I prefer to talk about strategic partnership.\"<a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/transcripts/putin5.mar.txt\" target=\"_blank\">http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/transcripts/putin5.mar.txt</a>And then, in his 2021 screed about Ukraine, Putin very specifically and forcefully declared that country a zone of Russia's special interest, giving the lie to his comments in 2000.\n",
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Nancy Well, do a little research. The human cost is massive (996 for example) and it is the most polluted country to ever exist on earth. Then there's your basic authoritarianism, injustice, corruption, consumer safety, workplace recourse, and a suspicious amount of organ transplants. That's just the surface of what the CCP is up to
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| no | Classification | 376 |
alocksley Good advice except that LANTAM doesn't fly to Nashville. They do partner with DL, though they're better nonstop for FLL; AA is the better choice for MIA. In any event, the pax would have had to deal with the US carrier's frontline customer service. In Nashville, many of them would be hard pressed to find Chile on a map, much less understand the nuaces of international entry paperwork. I know — I live in BNA, and am EXP on AA.
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"content": "alocksley Good advice except that LANTAM doesn't fly to Nashville. They do partner with DL, though they're better nonstop for FLL; AA is the better choice for MIA. In any event, the pax would have had to deal with the US carrier's frontline customer service. In Nashville, many of them would be hard pressed to find Chile on a map, much less understand the nuaces of international entry paperwork. I know — I live in BNA, and am EXP on AA.\n",
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Joe From Boston The alternative and established view is that precedent establishes congressional procedure Since 1962 until 2011, the debt ceiling was raised 74 times, including 18 times under former President Ronald Reagan, eight times under former President Bill Clinton, seven times under former President George W. Bush, and five times under former President Barack Obama. From 2001, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 14 times from 2001 to 2016. The debt ceiling was raised roughly a total of $5.4 billion during President George W. Bush’s tenure, and it was raised roughly a total of $6.5 during President Obama’s tenure.I agree with you that a suit to determine that Congressional laws enacted to provide for a debt limit are unconstitutional would clarify the situation Until then , precedent sets procedureShould you set up a fund to finance such a suit I willhappy to donate to it,
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The corruption of men, and occasionally women, knows no bounds and has no conscience. Whatever aid given to victims of war, famine, plague, injury and abuse, there will be some man or men there to siphon off for themselves whatever they can. Maybe throwing money at problems isn’t the best answer. Maybe problems require actual physical investment of time and effort to be solved. Difficult question: of all of us who think Ukraine should now be supported by US money and weaponry, how many of us are willing to drop our work and families here, go to Ukraine, and help to, say, rebuild a children’s hospital for an open-ended period of time? And if we are willing, what’s prevented us from doing so up to now? Changing the dynamic of throwing money at problems in hope of solving them would change a lot of things for America, maybe for the world.
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"content": "The corruption of men, and occasionally women, knows no bounds and has no conscience. Whatever aid given to victims of war, famine, plague, injury and abuse, there will be some man or men there to siphon off for themselves whatever they can. Maybe throwing money at problems isn’t the best answer. Maybe problems require actual physical investment of time and effort to be solved. Difficult question: of all of us who think Ukraine should now be supported by US money and weaponry, how many of us are willing to drop our work and families here, go to Ukraine, and help to, say, rebuild a children’s hospital for an open-ended period of time? And if we are willing, what’s prevented us from doing so up to now? Changing the dynamic of throwing money at problems in hope of solving them would change a lot of things for America, maybe for the world.\n",
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Widening a 6-lane highway to a 10-lane highway doesn’t work because it doesn’t change human behavior toward driving. Drivers still want the feeling of power and self-determination that comes with a car, and they(we) want to reach our destinations immediately without dealing with other drivers. It’s definitely a product of our individualistic culture and consumerist focus that keeps rail and transit products on the far back burner, if on the table at all. If we can acknowledge our personal actions do contribute to a common end, I think we can make some better decisions available for the common-good. I just don’t expect them to come with the current transportation strategies that exist.
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"content": "Widening a 6-lane highway to a 10-lane highway doesn’t work because it doesn’t change human behavior toward driving. Drivers still want the feeling of power and self-determination that comes with a car, and they(we) want to reach our destinations immediately without dealing with other drivers. It’s definitely a product of our individualistic culture and consumerist focus that keeps rail and transit products on the far back burner, if on the table at all. If we can acknowledge our personal actions do contribute to a common end, I think we can make some better decisions available for the common-good. I just don’t expect them to come with the current transportation strategies that exist.\n",
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We know a deranged third of the country is lost to crackpot, conspiracy-laden lunacy (sorry, I can't sugarcoat it), and this cogent, compelling essay undergirds that chilling impression with the cold hard findings of the expert investigators and researchers who worked hard to feed a preponderance of facts into the final report of the January 6 Committee.It's easy to draw a line between this reality and the almost cartoonish demography of Trump's base: undereducated, unemployed aging and disenfranchised white guys who, as another former President observed early on, "cling to their religion and guns." The "undereducated" part of that description is the root cause and maybe the only path to redemption -- maybe not for all of the Deplorables, but hopefully for their offspring.But that won't happen if elected leaders in those red states continue their fervent assault on public education, which they are hellbent on destroying for the very reason that their appeal and their hold on public office demands a stupid electorate, unschooled in civics and in history.That's when I place my hope in the legion of Gen Z voters who are plugged in, globally aware, politically astute and attune to injustices, and less susceptible to the snake oil being peddled by political charlatans and instigators.Want to preserve democracy and prevent the next coups from succeeding? Invest in education and empower our youth.
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I get the impression that most pro athletes, especially the ones in solo sports (e.g. tennis and golf) are deeply unhappy people while they're competing. Read Andre Agassi's book "Open". I'm sure AK's story is very similar. Tyrannical father abusing his son to excel in sports. I don't think that insurance policy is keeping AK from golfing, but I'm sure it's making it a lot easier to find peace without it.
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Alex.Msk Not saying we should have even engaged in the Vietnam war at all/as we did; and we certainly should have left sooner. It was a tremendous tragedy for all involved....But the threat of Soviet totalitarianism (then as now!) was even greater, and "domino theory" was real; and the Vietnam war would have been won immediately, by the Americans, with none of that collateral damage you speak of... if Russia hadn't supported the North Vietnamese with fighters, pilots, and anti-aircraft crews.Russia made that fight into its proxy war/prolonged it. So you should look in the mirror if you're wondering who is culpable.
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"...and managerial acumen."When I was building my life I never understood what possibly could be the use of a manager. I have the throttle open and I'm in a racing crouch, and I'm thinking "Pray tell, manage what?!"Ah, that was a fun memory. The more I watch operations and businesses and institutions I interact with, the more I can see, unless you have the throttle open and are flying down the highway of life, almost everything rises and falls on the quality of management and managerial talent.Might cc this to Elon.
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"content": "\"...and managerial acumen.\"When I was building my life I never understood what possibly could be the use of a manager. I have the throttle open and I'm in a racing crouch, and I'm thinking \"Pray tell, manage what?!\"Ah, that was a fun memory. The more I watch operations and businesses and institutions I interact with, the more I can see, unless you have the throttle open and are flying down the highway of life, almost everything rises and falls on the quality of management and managerial talent.Might cc this to Elon.\n",
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Reading many comments here, I can only shake my head in wonder when residents of states like Tennessee purport to be ‘fiscal conservatives.’ Tennessee’s state government receives nearly 40% of its revenue in federal aid; which is why Tennessee also is able to keep state and local taxes low. At the same time, its residents pay far less in federal taxes, in total, than the state receives from the federal government. In short, Tennessee is a 'welfare queen'.Of late, Tennessee also has been the recipient of substantial federal largesse under programs its own politicians steadfastly opposed and now decry as 'far-left Democrat socialism'. For example, under the Biden administration’s CHIPS, Inflation Reduction and American Rescue legislation, over $15 billion has been invested in development of new manufacturing facilities in Tennessee. That will create tens of thousands of jobs, not only in the new industries, but in economic ripple effects in housing, retail, health care, education.But I guess Tennesseans believe they would be better off if none of that ever happened. They could always be content with a stagnant economy, an aging, uneducated and underemployed population… so long as they can lay their hands on Hunter Biden’s laptop and hunt down ‘criminals’ like Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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"content": "Reading many comments here, I can only shake my head in wonder when residents of states like Tennessee purport to be ‘fiscal conservatives.’ Tennessee’s state government receives nearly 40% of its revenue in federal aid; which is why Tennessee also is able to keep state and local taxes low. At the same time, its residents pay far less in federal taxes, in total, than the state receives from the federal government. In short, Tennessee is a 'welfare queen'.Of late, Tennessee also has been the recipient of substantial federal largesse under programs its own politicians steadfastly opposed and now decry as 'far-left Democrat socialism'. For example, under the Biden administration’s CHIPS, Inflation Reduction and American Rescue legislation, over $15 billion has been invested in development of new manufacturing facilities in Tennessee. That will create tens of thousands of jobs, not only in the new industries, but in economic ripple effects in housing, retail, health care, education.But I guess Tennesseans believe they would be better off if none of that ever happened. They could always be content with a stagnant economy, an aging, uneducated and underemployed population… so long as they can lay their hands on Hunter Biden’s laptop and hunt down ‘criminals’ like Dr. Anthony Fauci.\n",
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Again, we conflate Black with broke. This is about socioeconomics. Plenty of people from many background and races can’t afford to live in New York. Too often, we frame low income issues as Black issue and low-income benefits as Black benefits. Yes, a number of low income individuals are Black, but many are White and Asian and Latino and Native American, and so on. As a Black woman, I’m sick of issues that clearly affect low income or working class Americans as “Black issues” . If a Black person can buy their way out of it, it’s not a Black issue, it’s a low income issue. If all the money in the world can’t fix an issue affecting Black people (like racism, discrimination, profiling, etc) that’s a Black issue! Not being sold a house in a neighborhood you can afford because they don’t want “your kind” there - that’s a Black issue. Being stopped by cops on the street because you “fit a description of a perpetrator” - that’s a Black issue. Being passed over for a promotion because your dreadlocks look “unprofessional and would put off clients” - that’s a Black issue. Not being able to raise a family in NYC is a “you make less that $250k a year” issue - regardless of race.
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"content": "Again, we conflate Black with broke. This is about socioeconomics. Plenty of people from many background and races can’t afford to live in New York. Too often, we frame low income issues as Black issue and low-income benefits as Black benefits. Yes, a number of low income individuals are Black, but many are White and Asian and Latino and Native American, and so on. As a Black woman, I’m sick of issues that clearly affect low income or working class Americans as “Black issues” . If a Black person can buy their way out of it, it’s not a Black issue, it’s a low income issue. If all the money in the world can’t fix an issue affecting Black people (like racism, discrimination, profiling, etc) that’s a Black issue! Not being sold a house in a neighborhood you can afford because they don’t want “your kind” there - that’s a Black issue. Being stopped by cops on the street because you “fit a description of a perpetrator” - that’s a Black issue. Being passed over for a promotion because your dreadlocks look “unprofessional and would put off clients” - that’s a Black issue. Not being able to raise a family in NYC is a “you make less that $250k a year” issue - regardless of race.\n",
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It is, of course, so obvious as to be invisible. The one thing that is NEVER proposed in addressing the deficit by Republicans is raising taxes in any way. Not on the rich, not on corporations, nowhere, no how. Look what we built with Eisenhower era tax rates - and then ask why infrastructure is falling apart now.The subsidies that go to the fossil fuel industry, the other giveaways lovingly crafted and polished over time, the carried interest loophole - all untouchable. Those billionaires? Some of them are doubtless imagining all the money that would flow their way if Social Security was killed, and they could sell 'retirement' plans to soak up that money, along with all kinds of fees and charges. Raise the limit on income taxed for Social Security? Unpossible! And don't even think about Warren's wealth tax.Healthcare? Medicare and Medicaid are expensive because they are propping up a for-profit system. Medicare dis-Advantage shows how well letting the door to privatization slide open works.It's of a piece with the GOP drive to destroy public education. Not only would it eliminate teacher unions, all the money going to public education could be transformed into private gain. Just ask Betsy de Vos of the several yachts how that works. And just think of the indoctrination possibilities if every public university was transformed into a Hillsdale clone, as Ron De Santis is trying to do in Florida."Follow the money" will never not be good advice.
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"content": "It is, of course, so obvious as to be invisible. The one thing that is NEVER proposed in addressing the deficit by Republicans is raising taxes in any way. Not on the rich, not on corporations, nowhere, no how. Look what we built with Eisenhower era tax rates - and then ask why infrastructure is falling apart now.The subsidies that go to the fossil fuel industry, the other giveaways lovingly crafted and polished over time, the carried interest loophole - all untouchable. Those billionaires? Some of them are doubtless imagining all the money that would flow their way if Social Security was killed, and they could sell 'retirement' plans to soak up that money, along with all kinds of fees and charges. Raise the limit on income taxed for Social Security? Unpossible! And don't even think about Warren's wealth tax.Healthcare? Medicare and Medicaid are expensive because they are propping up a for-profit system. Medicare dis-Advantage shows how well letting the door to privatization slide open works.It's of a piece with the GOP drive to destroy public education. Not only would it eliminate teacher unions, all the money going to public education could be transformed into private gain. Just ask Betsy de Vos of the several yachts how that works. And just think of the indoctrination possibilities if every public university was transformed into a Hillsdale clone, as Ron De Santis is trying to do in Florida.\"Follow the money\" will never not be good advice.\n",
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MJ (Mountain Junky) Are you referring to the big breakthroughs made by Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Moderna and Pfizer which are being used by billions of people?
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John Dirlik "Sanctions backfired"?? No, my friend: the Russian economy is in free-fall... and contracting like a snowball under a heat-lamp. Ural crude is being sold to India/China for under $40! Gazprom just had its worst year. Etc...The Ukrainians are defending themselves and their families and country; they have a right to do this, as per basic morality and international law. Resisting Russia's genocidal aggression does not somehow "justify" Putin's brutality; since indeed it sounds an awful lot like you're blaming the victims here. As if people "deserve" what's coming to them; for having the temerity of not wanting to live under a brutal totalitarian dictatorship!You're simply recycling Kremlin propaganda here-- Kennan citation and all -- as if Putin had even the slightest justification for being in Ukraine. But Russia has lost in Afghanistan, in Chechnya... and they will also lose here. They will lose the Crimea and the Donbass together; and will go back home and retreat across the border. They may or may not be compelled to pay reparations then (after all, their fossil fuel infrastructure will become dead-in-the-water without Western aid/technocratic expertise); but whether or not the Ukrainians will want to formalize any sort of agreement with their erstwhile occupiers then will be up to them.After all: Putin betrayed the Budapest Memorandum, and all the diplomacy leading up to now... so his signature is clearly not worth the piece of paper it's written on.
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"content": "John Dirlik \"Sanctions backfired\"?? No, my friend: the Russian economy is in free-fall... and contracting like a snowball under a heat-lamp. Ural crude is being sold to India/China for under $40! Gazprom just had its worst year. Etc...The Ukrainians are defending themselves and their families and country; they have a right to do this, as per basic morality and international law. Resisting Russia's genocidal aggression does not somehow \"justify\" Putin's brutality; since indeed it sounds an awful lot like you're blaming the victims here. As if people \"deserve\" what's coming to them; for having the temerity of not wanting to live under a brutal totalitarian dictatorship!You're simply recycling Kremlin propaganda here-- Kennan citation and all -- as if Putin had even the slightest justification for being in Ukraine. But Russia has lost in Afghanistan, in Chechnya... and they will also lose here. They will lose the Crimea and the Donbass together; and will go back home and retreat across the border. They may or may not be compelled to pay reparations then (after all, their fossil fuel infrastructure will become dead-in-the-water without Western aid/technocratic expertise); but whether or not the Ukrainians will want to formalize any sort of agreement with their erstwhile occupiers then will be up to them.After all: Putin betrayed the Budapest Memorandum, and all the diplomacy leading up to now... so his signature is clearly not worth the piece of paper it's written on.\n",
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Mr. Krugman is correct on this. The desire to destroy Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security have been goals of the plutocratic Republican right wing since the time when the respective Congresses wrote the laws and they were enacted, back to FDR, then to Lyndon Johnson.True, the crazies among Republican House members are just that crazies. Zero substance whatsoever. Just grasping and shouting about whatever irrelevant event that they believe will serve as "redmeat" to the substantial group of like-minded crazies in the electorate, who support Republican officials, primarily lower-income, rural whites.The country-club set that has always supported Republicans only want to retain their upper-middle-class living. Any kind of income or property taxation is anathema to that social segment. Ergo, income tax cuts, property tax cuts - most of the property taxes doing to support public schools - are popular.The ueber-wealthy, ueber-high-income pays around 22% in federal income tax due to the absurd favoritism granted in the tax code to capital-gains and dividends, aka unearned income, that is taxed at 15%. That 22% always stuns me because the lowest-earning citizens pay a higher percentage of their wages, combining FICA (employee portion at 7.65%, but applied to gross income, not taxable income) and a 10% marginal federal income tax on their earnings. Not only that, but the earnings, are wages from doing something, not "clipping coupons " in the case of the ueber-wealthy.
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Carvana stock is down from a lifetime high, two years ago, of $360, to about $9.50. I get the feeling that things may not great there.
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Beth Grant-DeRoos In fact, 85% of the tax breaks that went to companies were used to buy back stock. Those buybacks did zilch for creating jobs, and just bumped the stock price (and lined the pockets of some of the fat cats who sold stock, and/or exercised stock options).Look it up.Link: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb</a>Quote:For the first three quarters of 2018, buybacks were $583.4 billion (up up 52.6% from 2017). In contrast, aggregate capital investment increased 8.8% over 2017, while R&D investment growth at US public companies increased 12.5% over 2017 growth.End quote
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"content": "Beth Grant-DeRoos In fact, 85% of the tax breaks that went to companies were used to buy back stock. Those buybacks did zilch for creating jobs, and just bumped the stock price (and lined the pockets of some of the fat cats who sold stock, and/or exercised stock options).Look it up.Link: <a href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.forbes.com/sites/annemarieknott/2019/02/21/why-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-tcja-led-to-buybacks-rather-than-investment/?sh=13a024c737fb</a>Quote:For the first three quarters of 2018, buybacks were $583.4 billion (up up 52.6% from 2017). In contrast, aggregate capital investment increased 8.8% over 2017, while R&D investment growth at US public companies increased 12.5% over 2017 growth.End quote\n",
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NYT Fan There can be degrees of "serious relationship". Some can be far more serious than others, and subjectivity is a factor.The boyfriend isn't a moral exemplar, but describing him as cruel may be unfair. At least he was honest. He could have gotten out of the relationship by making up other excuses, instead he left himself open to opprobrium.Sorry, but your description of what transpired, and your very negative outlook, don't speak particularly well of you, either.
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"content": "NYT Fan There can be degrees of \"serious relationship\". Some can be far more serious than others, and subjectivity is a factor.The boyfriend isn't a moral exemplar, but describing him as cruel may be unfair. At least he was honest. He could have gotten out of the relationship by making up other excuses, instead he left himself open to opprobrium.Sorry, but your description of what transpired, and your very negative outlook, don't speak particularly well of you, either.\n",
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Laura Right! I have no experience with this, but I think a distant family relation (sisters ex-husband's dad) very well off met his second wife, a doctor, through a dating service and they have been together for decades. So it works for some. I also have a neighbour who runs a dating service where they charge about 2,000 euros per person. Does the dating service application have medical disclosure questions? I would tend to doubt it. Probably more likely: "anything else you need to disclose" AND some questions about the importance of sexual relations (which is not specific enough to get to the point). So, no lying then it's up to her discretion. Where I live this stuff is confidential. Also, if it's a major deal breaker the other party could probably negotiate with the dating service to have one more date in the deal, if they felt betrayed. Since the fees are considerable the service presumably have some level of customer service, and deals. ALSO it seems the demographics is such that in the over 50 dating services there are more women signed up than men, so it might not be so hard to balance out in the case that doesn't work. Lots of people over 50 have health issues, now or will in the the next 10 years or so. It might not need to be the main deciding factor.
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"content": "Laura Right! I have no experience with this, but I think a distant family relation (sisters ex-husband's dad) very well off met his second wife, a doctor, through a dating service and they have been together for decades. So it works for some. I also have a neighbour who runs a dating service where they charge about 2,000 euros per person. Does the dating service application have medical disclosure questions? I would tend to doubt it. Probably more likely: \"anything else you need to disclose\" AND some questions about the importance of sexual relations (which is not specific enough to get to the point). So, no lying then it's up to her discretion. Where I live this stuff is confidential. Also, if it's a major deal breaker the other party could probably negotiate with the dating service to have one more date in the deal, if they felt betrayed. Since the fees are considerable the service presumably have some level of customer service, and deals. ALSO it seems the demographics is such that in the over 50 dating services there are more women signed up than men, so it might not be so hard to balance out in the case that doesn't work. Lots of people over 50 have health issues, now or will in the the next 10 years or so. It might not need to be the main deciding factor.\n",
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Raise revenue. Our society is so completely one sided, mega donors, mega corporations, mega yachts. Rebalance the income. Please tax the rich, meaning people who make over $500,000 per year as the rest of us are taxed. Do. It. Now.
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"content": "Raise revenue. Our society is so completely one sided, mega donors, mega corporations, mega yachts. Rebalance the income. Please tax the rich, meaning people who make over $500,000 per year as the rest of us are taxed. Do. It. Now.\n",
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One only look to Russia to see what a crumbling infrastructure looks like. And even when it invests in infrastructure it gets bilked and pilfered so many times down through its corrupt bureaucracy chain that the end result is a shell of itself. A prime example is Vlad’s only aircraft carrier is out of commission now because the bottom 1/3 of the hull is rusting at an alarming rate. Investing in infrastructure is a good good thing. Im all for it. Every time I travel abroad I ‘m reminded how wonderful our interstate highway system is. It’s just this debt we are incurring is bothersome. This is no small amount of money by any stretch. It simply cannot be understood how much debt this is. I went through my starving artist phase in my 20’s but since then I’ve been fiercely proud of rebuilding my credit rating in the 40 years since then. I would curious to know how our Federal Government would rate.
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"content": "One only look to Russia to see what a crumbling infrastructure looks like. And even when it invests in infrastructure it gets bilked and pilfered so many times down through its corrupt bureaucracy chain that the end result is a shell of itself. A prime example is Vlad’s only aircraft carrier is out of commission now because the bottom 1/3 of the hull is rusting at an alarming rate. Investing in infrastructure is a good good thing. Im all for it. Every time I travel abroad I ‘m reminded how wonderful our interstate highway system is. It’s just this debt we are incurring is bothersome. This is no small amount of money by any stretch. It simply cannot be understood how much debt this is. I went through my starving artist phase in my 20’s but since then I’ve been fiercely proud of rebuilding my credit rating in the 40 years since then. I would curious to know how our Federal Government would rate.\n",
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Pretty quick glossing over the 10% of the budget that goes to the military that frankly feels like mostly waste. The military has never been audited and it shows. I would imagine a 50% cut over a decade would hardly be felt. Beyond that, yes, raise the social security tax cap, yes, raise the marginal tax rates on the highest earners, but above all, for god's sake, simplify the tax code! The IRS can't hire enough agents to enforce it, Trump et al employ armies of accountants to exploit every loophole, and a shocking percentage of "normal" Americans pay storefront operations $500-$1000 to file their "simple" tax returns.
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"content": "Pretty quick glossing over the 10% of the budget that goes to the military that frankly feels like mostly waste. The military has never been audited and it shows. I would imagine a 50% cut over a decade would hardly be felt. Beyond that, yes, raise the social security tax cap, yes, raise the marginal tax rates on the highest earners, but above all, for god's sake, simplify the tax code! The IRS can't hire enough agents to enforce it, Trump et al employ armies of accountants to exploit every loophole, and a shocking percentage of \"normal\" Americans pay storefront operations $500-$1000 to file their \"simple\" tax returns.\n",
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So, Mr. Santos represents that he "loaned" his campaign $700,000. But does Mr. Santos have the 1040s that show the $700K came from declared and lawfully taxed income? If so, is he willing to release them to support his claimed "loan?"
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"content": "So, Mr. Santos represents that he \"loaned\" his campaign $700,000. But does Mr. Santos have the 1040s that show the $700K came from declared and lawfully taxed income? If so, is he willing to release them to support his claimed \"loan?\"\n",
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Wow! One point six million. They’ll have to replenish the coffee fund.
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"content": "Wow! One point six million. They’ll have to replenish the coffee fund.\n",
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Using citations is a reasonable metric for scientific advancement, but there is a problem with the interpretation of the metric used here. Citation indices sample the middle quadrants of a distribution of publications that has a tail of ultra-cited on one end and under-cited on the other end of the curve. Because obtaining funding and keeping a research job have grown to require staying within the boundaries of the middle quadrants of incremental advances, the true breakthroughs are in the two tails of the curve. Moving from being under-cited to ultra-cited requires that someone in a position of power, usually purse-strings-power, recognizes a breakthrough and opens doors.
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John You could throw the woman who scammed JP Morgan Chase out of $175 million with a phony college aid company in with them.
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We're new to EV ownership, having recently bought a Nissan LEAF. We still own an ICE AWD vehicle for longer trips and mountain driving. We have been very surprised by how versatile our EV is. I am now convinced that within the next 10 years, we will be an only-EV family. Some surprises for us:- The convenience of charging at home vs. needing to go to gas stations. In the past 6 months, we have used fast chargers only 3 times. All of the remaining charging has been done in our garage. Super convenient and inexpensive.- Cold weather: There is a dramatic drop in range at cold temps, but this has not been a problem for us. Vehicle started right up at -18 F recently. Climate control timer means it was already warm before we drove it.- Fun to drive!! We bought the least expensive EV model on the market ($19k after tax incentives), and it is by far the fanciest vehicle we have owned. It's great fun to drive. Almost silent, super smooth, and accelerates fast.My Colorado-centric wishlist to look forward to before replacing our ICE and becoming an only-EV family:- More affordable AWD EV SUVs. - Longer range to take away range anxiety for cold-weather backcountry mountain adventures (400 miles would be great).- More fast-charging infrastructure, particularly in the mountains and rural west.- More level-2 charging infrastructure in places people park for longer periods of time like apartment complexes, the airport, ski areas, trailheads.
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GABM w/Pangram in about 20 mins. Not bad for this old boomer. Thanks to the actor who played Agent Smith in 'The Matrix' for the pangram. Seventh GABM in a row, sixth w/Pangram. Just had to look at the hints for yesterday's pangram. Paintball. Oy. Also have a streak of 56 in Wordle. I was writing a longish post about depression, but the little grey cells are slowing down and going into neutral. I copied and pasted it in OpenOffice for later use. One thing, though, no more advice about exercise, please. It just ain't in the cards for me. OK?
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Eric B Wordle 572 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨92 62 56 "Strong"🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩93 89 1 "Terrific" 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩99 I expect that today will be a good one for deuces. A favorite opener was a good start. My second choice cleared the way for a 3-solve which is on par with the NYT average of 3.1. The smarty-pants bot, however, solved in just 2 steps.So far, congratulations are due to Mark and Cheryl Ann for their excellent deuces!Yesterday's Wordle 571 2/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 95 95 4 Learn🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 62 87 SedanSkill 62 Luck 87I was lucky yesterday. With the first guess, I could see that the misplaced "a" had to be in the fourth place. That gave me the " _e_an" pattern. I thought of the 4 words that could fit, "pecan, vegan, began, and sedan". I should have selected either "vegan" or "began" because that could have either have eliminated them both or left just one of them as the solution. Instead, I went with a gut instinct and chose "sedan" for the two-fer. Cheers and happy Thursday to all.
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Toni: Bubbling shrimp with dead ant dressing? Come on. This dish will not become a better way to feed the world. $1,265 for that plate.
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Benjamin Teral All of the jobs you've listed for this necessary migratory return are contracting or disappearing. Bus drivers? Heli-mom picks up and drops off the tots every day, in long bumper-to-bumper lines of idling, polluting SUVs in front of K-12s across the country. Cooks? The restaurant business is still reeling from Covid in most places. New restaurant openings (risky in the best of times) are pretty well frozen. Lots of newly empty office buildings means less potential-diner foot traffic in downtowns. Retail? Like at those thriving shopping malls? Items that are neither highly technical nor perishable can just be ordered online and delivered. Drones and self-driving vehicles will accelerate this trend. Personal trainers? The gym or spinning class is virtual now; fewer trainers are needed in discrete brick-and-mortar spaces. Real estate? Starting to level off, even in previously hot markets. There are only so many fantastically rich people buying places in SF or Seattle. Between AI and ever-intensifying wealth concentration, a massive jobs contraction is coming. There won't be that many in-person service jobs to return or downgrade to. All of those broken blue-collar workers who were deindustrialized in the 70s and 80s just drank themselves into a stupor in front of the TV until it was casket time -- but looking ahead I'm not so sure that all of the abruptly obsolete white collar folks of the mid-to-late 2020s are going to be so calm about about it.
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“…the Democrats passed a $1.7 trillion monstrosity of a bill that spent the American taxpayers’ money in all kinds of crazy ways,” Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, said Sunday…”Including the salaries of every Republican in Congress, Gym.
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I'm sorry, a model system? Universal pre-K in NYC was NEVER universal. IF you could get a spot I'm sure it was wonderful, but the vast, overwhelming majority of families had absolutely no shot at nabbing one of the very limited number of spots. Which means most kids in NYC either skipped pre-K or parents shelled out upwards of $25k a year.Please be realistic about this program. It is a farce to call it universal when it covers only a small fraction of the city's families.
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"content": "I'm sorry, a model system? Universal pre-K in NYC was NEVER universal. IF you could get a spot I'm sure it was wonderful, but the vast, overwhelming majority of families had absolutely no shot at nabbing one of the very limited number of spots. Which means most kids in NYC either skipped pre-K or parents shelled out upwards of $25k a year.Please be realistic about this program. It is a farce to call it universal when it covers only a small fraction of the city's families.\n",
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Eric B So my suggestion of opening the tab by itself and pasting the URL would avoid that, but of course there is still the Back to all comments link at the top. Ah the joys of technology.
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I've presented work in The Frigid Festival, and found that it was one of the best run, most professional situations I've worked in.I've also seen many shows in the festival and at their various venues over the years. The entire organization is one that presents a huge amount of wide-ranging work. They are one of the essentials of downtown and independent theater. They also treat artists fairly and with respect, and work to give us the best possible venue for our work.To all of the commentariat publicly bewailing this decision, and commenting on how you can't say ANYTHING these days, I'd like to ask how long you have supported independent theater? Which are your favorite venues? Who are some of your favorite performers?For that matter, a man who calls himself a feminist and reserves the right to define who is a woman is not someone I'd consider a feminist.Do you know how you get into fFigid? If you are one of the first submissions at midnight on the day that applications open, you are in. No questions asked. And for many years this has been a great process.I think that Erez and the rest of his staff made the correct decision.For those who are so upset that a voice they want to hear is being silenced, I recommend that you produce his show. That's what independent theater is all about.
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"content": "I've presented work in The Frigid Festival, and found that it was one of the best run, most professional situations I've worked in.I've also seen many shows in the festival and at their various venues over the years. The entire organization is one that presents a huge amount of wide-ranging work. They are one of the essentials of downtown and independent theater. They also treat artists fairly and with respect, and work to give us the best possible venue for our work.To all of the commentariat publicly bewailing this decision, and commenting on how you can't say ANYTHING these days, I'd like to ask how long you have supported independent theater? Which are your favorite venues? Who are some of your favorite performers?For that matter, a man who calls himself a feminist and reserves the right to define who is a woman is not someone I'd consider a feminist.Do you know how you get into fFigid? If you are one of the first submissions at midnight on the day that applications open, you are in. No questions asked. And for many years this has been a great process.I think that Erez and the rest of his staff made the correct decision.For those who are so upset that a voice they want to hear is being silenced, I recommend that you produce his show. That's what independent theater is all about.\n",
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Captain Nemo Not sure, but David sure wnats you to buy his "special" version oif the supplement he's been working on to extend life. :)
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Greg a Do you understand just how much debt the US has now? I wonder. Do you get that 4-6% rates on bond interest are going to put the budget intro catastrophic territory?MMT works until it doesn't. We have reached that point. The US can NOT continue to spend as if there were no limits. More and more of the budget is being eaten up interest.
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wallys smith Meanwhile the increased budget of the IRS will be used to audit people for their $600 Venmo payments from selling their garage junk. Because as all billionaire tax evaders know, the real secret to avoid paying tax is to use Venmo for your income.
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Peter The point is that, the system is not running such a huge deficit. It is, for the moment about 10 billion, which may appear like a lot of money but, in fact, it is almost nothing compared to the global budget of the government and the rest of the healthcare system deficit. Moreover, the COR (Conseil d'Orientation des Retraites - retirement guidance council) mandated by the government, actually planned a rather low increase in the deficit. There would be a lot of different ways to fill the gap but the actual governement need to strenghthen its position by reforming according to its ideology, even if most french people are opposed to such an action.
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We may want to figure out why the job of police officer attracts intimate partner abusers at a rate fifteen times greater than other chosen occupations in this country. And then how to build these individuals up from childhood to turn their backs on violence as an option to handling conflict and stress. That they protect their own makes sense to the fraternal order, much like how the military closes in to keep outsiders from having authority in their world. The systemic brokenness is firmly planted down through the roots and rises high and wide up to the sky. Reform through accountability will be met with closed arms and mistrust, but Jamelle Bouie's right. It's time.
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"content": "We may want to figure out why the job of police officer attracts intimate partner abusers at a rate fifteen times greater than other chosen occupations in this country. And then how to build these individuals up from childhood to turn their backs on violence as an option to handling conflict and stress. That they protect their own makes sense to the fraternal order, much like how the military closes in to keep outsiders from having authority in their world. The systemic brokenness is firmly planted down through the roots and rises high and wide up to the sky. Reform through accountability will be met with closed arms and mistrust, but Jamelle Bouie's right. It's time.\n",
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Casey :"If the majority of liberals were 1/10 as Machaievelli as the minority conservatives, "The refusal to hold allow a party's convention, which always at the behest of one party, was an opening Machaievellian move.Now the author is crying about it.
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Bill Barr was unethical from the get-go. But I am the most troubled by Mr Durham. Barr, Durham, Trump used the law and the Department of Justice in the pursue of revenge politics. But Durham was the designated executioner and spent unlimited amounts of tax payer dollars to finance their crusades. Even now, It is incredible that they keep blaiming the Clintons for anything and everything on interviews. President Clinton left Office 23 years ago and, whatever his personal failings, he was an EXCELLENT President. Mrs Clinton was an excellent NY Senator and Secretary of State. She has not been in Office since 2013 (10 years ago!). Enough! Will these men (e.g. Barr, Durham, Trump) be accountable for their actions I wonder…
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"content": "Bill Barr was unethical from the get-go. But I am the most troubled by Mr Durham. Barr, Durham, Trump used the law and the Department of Justice in the pursue of revenge politics. But Durham was the designated executioner and spent unlimited amounts of tax payer dollars to finance their crusades. Even now, It is incredible that they keep blaiming the Clintons for anything and everything on interviews. President Clinton left Office 23 years ago and, whatever his personal failings, he was an EXCELLENT President. Mrs Clinton was an excellent NY Senator and Secretary of State. She has not been in Office since 2013 (10 years ago!). Enough! Will these men (e.g. Barr, Durham, Trump) be accountable for their actions I wonder…\n",
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Age discrimination in hiring is a huge problem here in the US. When I started looking for a new job at 50 (displaced homemaker as of 2008) the only thing I could get was retail. With 2 graduate degrees and a certificate in bookkeeping, I was able to work as a bookkeeper/office manager for lawyers working solo, but when they moved to large practices there was no administrative position open to me. So I am a 65 year old grocery store cashier, standing in one place for my entire shifts, being disrespected by many people who seem to have suddenly realized that I am the only servant they are ever going to have. All of the hundreds of job applications I sent out asked this one question: What year did you graduate from high school? Uh, for me that would be 1973. I can't prove age discrimination in court, but what else am I to think when I matched all of the qualifications the employers were looking for and have years of customer service under my belt?
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Mark The article does open with ‘ teenage boys’…..so I wish males were not so eager to accuse females of using victimhood language when standing up for their expectation of equal consideration….
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Linda If you truly love this, I invite you to stop "trying" to build your life around it... and simply be in the life of your choosing.You need only shift your eyes, shift your attention to what you love, what you find important. For example, how can the media "keep you tethered" without your active participation? No one is forcing you to read any article.If you are finding yourself lost in a breathless, mindless rush.... stop rushing. Seriously. Just stop, if only for a moment. Is there a blade of grass near you, even just one? Look at it, really, really see it. Listen to a child laugh, notice the blue of the sky.I am not religious, but there verse 113 of the Gospel of Thomas has Jesus answering about when the kingdom of the Father will come.... and he answers "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of saying 'Here it is' or 'There it is'. Rather, the kingdom of the father is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it."I take that literally. I AM in heaven, right now.... I just have to open my eyes to see it.
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LW 1: His reticence is probably just a sign that you’ve only dated two months, and these conversations seem premature. I’d take it easy- these discussions could be a red flag for him! Just enjoy dating at a pace that’s good for you two, don’t worry about rushing it. If you really want to have a baby, there are options for that- with or without a partner.Consider listening to the Race to 35 podcast Bonus episode with Esther Perel. The two hosts, (Monica Padman and Liz Plank) discuss their fertility concerns and Esther shares about options for having a baby and having a baby outside of the nuclear family structure. You have more power in this than you think, and this episode might help ease some of your worries.Dating is hard enough without throwing a timeline and baby expectations on it. Enjoy who you’re with, where you’re at, and be open to the various possibilities that may lie ahead. LW 2:Talk to your brother first, try to understand what you saw. If he is cheating, he should come clean to his fiancé- give him that opportunity. It’s important she knows this information before possibly saying “I do.”
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"content": "LW 1: His reticence is probably just a sign that you’ve only dated two months, and these conversations seem premature. I’d take it easy- these discussions could be a red flag for him! Just enjoy dating at a pace that’s good for you two, don’t worry about rushing it. If you really want to have a baby, there are options for that- with or without a partner.Consider listening to the Race to 35 podcast Bonus episode with Esther Perel. The two hosts, (Monica Padman and Liz Plank) discuss their fertility concerns and Esther shares about options for having a baby and having a baby outside of the nuclear family structure. You have more power in this than you think, and this episode might help ease some of your worries.Dating is hard enough without throwing a timeline and baby expectations on it. Enjoy who you’re with, where you’re at, and be open to the various possibilities that may lie ahead. LW 2:Talk to your brother first, try to understand what you saw. If he is cheating, he should come clean to his fiancé- give him that opportunity. It’s important she knows this information before possibly saying “I do.”\n",
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Santos spends $14,000 at the Il Bacco restaurant, and the owner donates $6,500 to Santos campaign. Isn't that what we call a kickback? Per the Daily Beast, it gets much worse:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/nyregion/george-santos-donors-fund-raising.html#commentsContainer" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/nyregion/george-santos-donors-fund-raising.html#commentsContainer</a>
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Brooklyn Lady I too think legacy admissions and should be banned also. That is how mediocre students like GW Bush and Jared Kushner got into Harvard although in Kushner’s case, it might have been due more to the $5 million donation Kushner’s ex con father donated to the school before his son applied. Schools like Harvard get billions from alumni every year. Certainly they can afford to turn down unqualified students. I often wonder why the schools would even consider these students. Their parents evidently had a good education and most have high paying jobs, allowing them to give their children everything money can buy, such as homes in neighborhoods with good schools, tutors, travel, and time for volunteer opportunities since their children didn’t have to work. Yet in spite of that, these students weren’t really up to par. That should say something.
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"content": "Brooklyn Lady I too think legacy admissions and should be banned also. That is how mediocre students like GW Bush and Jared Kushner got into Harvard although in Kushner’s case, it might have been due more to the $5 million donation Kushner’s ex con father donated to the school before his son applied. Schools like Harvard get billions from alumni every year. Certainly they can afford to turn down unqualified students. I often wonder why the schools would even consider these students. Their parents evidently had a good education and most have high paying jobs, allowing them to give their children everything money can buy, such as homes in neighborhoods with good schools, tutors, travel, and time for volunteer opportunities since their children didn’t have to work. Yet in spite of that, these students weren’t really up to par. That should say something.\n",
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Many of the commenters reacting negatively are responding to a straw man understanding of the authors’ work—which is only summarized here and not fully explicated—and the research that grounds it. Dieting does not work long-term for the vast majority of people because of the difficulty of adherence and our own biological instincts. Emotional, vitriolic backlash to this sentiment makes the point that our cultural beliefs do not mesh with this empirical reality. I encourage everyone to read the full book, including the portion on gentle nutrition, and open their minds to another perspective.
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The entire family needs to be arrested immediately. SBF parents have over a hundred million dollars in real estate in their names. How would this be possible if they are not complicit. The brother, Gabriel was infiltrating the government with his pandemic non-profit and he also purchased a 3.2 Million dollar townhouse in DC. This whole cover-up is disgusting.
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I don't get why we, as a country, didn't borrow like crazy to spend on infrastructure when we were borrowing at essentially 0%. We're many trillions of dollars behind on needed maintenance and repairs. Oh, that's right, politicians need to complain about spending and Republicans, especially, can't "let the other side win."
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“The milestone of hitting the country’s $31.4 trillion debt cap is the product of decades of tax cuts”And also of the Republican deliberate underfunding of the IRS, resulting in the wealthiest successfully using dubious or illegal means to avoid paying what they owe, since the IRS lacks the means to pursue sophisticated tax cheats (Donald Trump and his family among them, many people are saying). It also reflects loopholes like the carried interest loophole that the wealthy via their lobbyists write into the law. This is a wealthy country. There is no excuse not to pay our debts.
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Awe?To be in awe is to be on edge of transcendence, to have one's entire system emotional/mental/physical pushed in the direction of development of natural capacities, to be something like a flower opening up in presence of rays of sun. To become wider awake than regular awakening from sleep. Super stimulation which brings forth all one's faculties. Something of being pushed to orgasm of body and mind without sex although there are sex traditions such as the tantric which seek to develop awe by a grounding in highly developed sex act. So awe can be spoken of as the preliminary state on which all higher education is to be founded and higher education without awe is a failure of higher development of person somewhat like cultivating a flower in every way but without providing sun is lackluster success if any in developing a flower.So awe is best achieved in a person by something of total and perfect and balanced stimulation of all the senses, to have the eyes pushed to point of exquisite appreciation and tracing of the most sophisticated and pleasurable physical movements, to have the ears exquisitely registering sound, to feel all body touched at once, hence goosebumps, to have the palate pushed to utter delicacy, to have the sense of smell registering all upon the wind, a keening state of one's entire being.In full blossom of one's self we have what's called inspiration, a profound sense of taking in and understanding entire surroundings, which we long to communicate.
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Loved the "wealth management" guy who, instead of answering the question said, "$160,000 - $200,000 salary goal"!
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Total US tax revenue is projected to be $4.71 Trillion in 2023. Total interest owed on the debt, $500Billion. There does not have to be any default. Ms. Yellen will just need to allocate the available funds to the highest priority. The interest payments on the $31.5Trillion of debt.Other expenditures will need to be reduced to accomodate that.
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To Writer #1: freeze your eggs or decide to be a single parent. Why the need for a partner? You have an amazing job, and as a neurosurgeon should probably be able to afford child care etc. Why pressure your very new boyfriend? 10 weeks? That’s far too soon to talk future. Take care of yourself Writer#2: you have no idea what your brother’s arrangements are with his fiancée. Maybe they have an open relationship. Stay out of it. If it troubles you, talk to him, not the fiancée. Writer#3: Sorry your friend has stiffed you for the tickets. I would ask her one more time and then forget it. Then you will need to decide if it is worth rupturing your friendship; maybe they are in difficult financial trouble. Talk to them
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Eric Outsourcing repression to private companies is anti-democratic. I thought progressives acknowledged this basic claim. If social media functions as a de facto public utility, it should be open to all.
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Since the advent of Uber and Lyft, I've never used either service once, and I'm vehemently opposed to ride-sharing businesses, because a quick look under the surface shows how terribly these companies treat their workforce.There's something inherently bad about a company that doesn't even grant its workforce employee status. Worse than that, if a driver has a flat tire or breakdown while working, Uber and Lyft don't care and do nothing to help the driver who is wearing out their car and depreciating its value to enrich venture capitalists in California. Uber and Lyft are a sign that there really aren't very many decent paying jobs in America anymore. 60% of working adults in the country make less than $40,000 a year, and that's not enough to support a decent or even respectable living. I hope these companies go belly up and business owners start remembering there was a time when companies had some sense of responsibility toward their workforce.
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The FDA is approving annual CoVID "best-projection" vaccines for conventional US medical care as the nation fails to unify on facts and end this danger. The USA has chosen a generational modus operandi that reflects a defeatism at best, a selfish elitism at worst - both financially and politically motivated.CoVID remains a deadly disease that should NOT be equivocated with influenza, despite the history of influenza early on.Lifetime long term effects of CoVID is accompanied by the fact that it remains significantly more contagious than the influenza virus. Despite this, reporting remains questionable in states where Republican politics takes precedence.Recently I had occasion to speak with a young Indian man. He stated that due to information coming from their border about a new Chinese CoV strain, they were under quarantine temporarily again. He told me he was proud of how his nation responded to pandemics, because to do otherwise would result in too many deaths.India is the second most populated nation in the world and by July 2022 had vaccinated over 98% of its population with at least a single dose, 90% with two doses. The US, a much wealthier public, is the third most populated single nation in the world, with a public today 79% vaccinated with a single dose and 65% vaccinated with at least a second dose.Like our response to gun control, the US response to CoVID shows once again a politically-motivated lack of concern for future generations.
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I, for one, don't care if it takes lawmakers three long days to sort out how they will conduct important business for next two years. That is a minor investment and no skin off our noses. It is the pundit class and simpletons who demand neat dramas while hypocritically at the same moment exploit for attention and ratings the "chaos" while clutching their pearls.This article uses McCarthy's campaign for speakership as its impetus to write, while in effect, it is a thoughtful, long due primer on how the House operates based on sclerotic habit and how it could be improved by dynamic agitation and some straight forward adjustments.
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jim hughes THIRTY years dates you quite a bit. Semiconductors - which make this possible have 'improved' by factor of 10 BILLION in 45 years.
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LaSalle was endorsed by the Partnership for New York, more justifiably known as the "Partnership to Pad our Pockets", the front organization of New York's plutocrats. As opposed to a phony oligarch like Trump, these grandees would prefer to remain in the shadows, working through that organization and flunkies like Hochul. That was sufficient disqualification for LaSalle.
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Zeke And as bad as that is, it's far worse for those who clock out of one job only to clock into another so they can make ends meet. Meanwhile, the top 10% of earners continue to earn 68% of earnings while the lowest 50% earn only 3.2% of the pie.Source: U.S. wealth distribution 2022 - Statista
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Responding to Northern D:There have been EXACTLY ZERO “successful medications” developed by Biogen or any of its “partners” — or anyone else for that matter.The pattern is clear: Studies (funded and conducted by the pharmaceutical companies) “appear” to show some minimal (subjectively assessed) effective results and all the stops are pulled to obtain FDA approvals.This is followed by accelerated approvals, questionable methodologies in processing applications, etc. and some method of oooozing a new drug into the arena is found. Aduhelm is the classical example. The only thing that prevented this drug from becoming a blockbuster (financial) success for Biogen is Medicare’s saner judgment. Approval for Medicare payment would have hastened the impending funding disaster for Medicare by years!It is sad - but true - that medical research for an effective Alzheimer’s treatment, thus far, has been a disappointing failure.Until scrupulous testing and approval processes can pronounce a new drug to be EFFECTIVE, no drug should be approved for general treatment of Alzheimer’s or, even more importantly, for Medicare reimbursement.
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"content": "Responding to Northern D:There have been EXACTLY ZERO “successful medications” developed by Biogen or any of its “partners” — or anyone else for that matter.The pattern is clear: Studies (funded and conducted by the pharmaceutical companies) “appear” to show some minimal (subjectively assessed) effective results and all the stops are pulled to obtain FDA approvals.This is followed by accelerated approvals, questionable methodologies in processing applications, etc. and some method of oooozing a new drug into the arena is found. Aduhelm is the classical example. The only thing that prevented this drug from becoming a blockbuster (financial) success for Biogen is Medicare’s saner judgment. Approval for Medicare payment would have hastened the impending funding disaster for Medicare by years!It is sad - but true - that medical research for an effective Alzheimer’s treatment, thus far, has been a disappointing failure.Until scrupulous testing and approval processes can pronounce a new drug to be EFFECTIVE, no drug should be approved for general treatment of Alzheimer’s or, even more importantly, for Medicare reimbursement.\n",
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I am willing to give up my gas stove as long as I can keep my gas water heater and gas house heater. I love my gas stove but the data is clear. The use of an open flame gas stove inside a living space is not good for your health. Even the air pollution from pilot lights running 24/7 adds up. Don't let the false comparisons to electric stoves obscure the fact that electric induction works fine and professional chefs eventually like them.
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In all of these, the expectation that the offending parties will identify and remedy their behavior seems overly optimistic. In the case of #1, I was surprised by the sister-in-law’s comment that she said nothing because the LW and ex-husband “deserved each other” (which was not commented on). I have personally had zero success in dealing with people who shout at their ill-behaved and/or untrained dogs, and I doubt that people are open to feedback on their negative parenting style. In that case, besides the suggestion to vaguely advocate family therapy, I think the conspiratorial tone of “I know parenting is hard, here are some things that have helped me” in a calm moment is the only possibly palatable way to open this conversation. For the dogs, nothing is likely to change if neither the neighbor nor the landlady think there’s a problem, so outside groups are the only option. Look into white noise machines and noise-cancelling headphones while you wait.
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I believe the Collegiate Sports & Athletic Powers That Be (Board of Trustees mostly) prefer eponymous stadiums and coliseums they imagine can bring in the requisite moola. I'm open to being corrected but that's what I believe. NCAA Division 11 Delta State University obviously can't imagine the name of the first Black woman inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame bringing in that endowment moola.Lusia “Lucy” Harris is not even listed as a distinguished alumnus on the DSU ABOUT page as are: Margaret Wade, American basketball player and coach, novelist John Grisham; NBA basketball player Jeremy Richardson, Viola B. Sanders, an American naval officer; pioneering photographer William Eggleston, Nigerian architect Felix Ibru and poet Natasha Trethewey.Nevertheless, I also sense that Oscar winning Director Ben Proudfoot will be relenteless dealing with the 'No Lucy Harris" decision. There is more than one way to skin a cat.GM: Cornell B-Ball Captain, Class of 68; first CU Black assistant basketball coach, '71-'72; Hall of Fame, 78 (working on a memoir)
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"content": "I believe the Collegiate Sports & Athletic Powers That Be (Board of Trustees mostly) prefer eponymous stadiums and coliseums they imagine can bring in the requisite moola. I'm open to being corrected but that's what I believe. NCAA Division 11 Delta State University obviously can't imagine the name of the first Black woman inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame bringing in that endowment moola.Lusia “Lucy” Harris is not even listed as a distinguished alumnus on the DSU ABOUT page as are: Margaret Wade, American basketball player and coach, novelist John Grisham; NBA basketball player Jeremy Richardson, Viola B. Sanders, an American naval officer; pioneering photographer William Eggleston, Nigerian architect Felix Ibru and poet Natasha Trethewey.Nevertheless, I also sense that Oscar winning Director Ben Proudfoot will be relenteless dealing with the 'No Lucy Harris\" decision. There is more than one way to skin a cat.GM: Cornell B-Ball Captain, Class of 68; first CU Black assistant basketball coach, '71-'72; Hall of Fame, 78 (working on a memoir)\n",
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I would like to know why almost every major project the MTA does always has to feel like a boondoggle. It's not just what they even opened right now such as Grand Centrla Madison, but also a few others as well. For example, the extension of the 7 train costed a big number and that was just for putting it one stop past Times Square. The same even went with the Second Avenue Subway assuming most of us will live long enough to see that completed. In all honesty, I never got why this is needed when those riding the LIRR wanting to get to GCT can just get off at Woodside and ride the 7 train as they have done for such a while. Maybe if the MTA did something similar like the bus to subway transfer with a two hour window for free transfer between city and commuter transit, there wouldn't be much of a need to be driving. Then again, this won't win the support of the anti-car fanatics because then they can't promote congestion pricing if that's the case. Unfortunately, knowing who is in charge, that will probably never happen.
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Tournachonadar Our system actual goes only back to 1948 and the Conseil National de la Resistance. We're not missing much to reach equilibrium, 10 billion a years. There is several ways to find those: make the people pay, or make their employers pays. I'm partial to the second. And yes, cake is delicious. Even more here.
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"content": "Tournachonadar Our system actual goes only back to 1948 and the Conseil National de la Resistance. We're not missing much to reach equilibrium, 10 billion a years. There is several ways to find those: make the people pay, or make their employers pays. I'm partial to the second. And yes, cake is delicious. Even more here.\n",
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Mary2493 should we open betting now on how long McCarthy will last? A month? A Truss-term?
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"content": "Mary2493 should we open betting now on how long McCarthy will last? A month? A Truss-term?\n",
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I left New York in 1966. Before that, I had visited many housing projects throughout New York City from the age of 16. I was selling a weekly socialist newspaper for 25 cents a copy or $1.00 for a year's subscription. It was dismal work that I was totally uncomfortable with. I hated asking people living in these filthy, dilapidated, urine-soaked buildings, elevators and hallways for money. (The urine was the result of children playing outside and needing to go to the bathroom and not making it to their apartments in time.) These buildings have been filthy and dilapidated even then and are, of course, much worse now. And the city is complaining about unpaid rent? How about compensation for being forced to live in sub-standard housing for decades? Housing is a human right, not a privilege!
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Bolsonaro was truly a Brazilian Trump, and as such both a menace and a threat to democracy. Good riddance they're gone.Lula on the other hand is more likely than not to be living in the world of Socialists of the 70s. He was able to throw money around during the commodities boom of his first presidency - and did much good with it - but never truly invested in the future of the country. Now he's dealing with another kettle of fish. Money is tight and he is likely to be spending too much of it to be popular, but to the detriment of the Brazilian economy. I don't think he has learned much in the intervening years.He is also likely to want to "stick it" to the US, playing "neutral", like India, whereby he both directly and indirectly enables the dirtiest regimes in the world.
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"content": "Bolsonaro was truly a Brazilian Trump, and as such both a menace and a threat to democracy. Good riddance they're gone.Lula on the other hand is more likely than not to be living in the world of Socialists of the 70s. He was able to throw money around during the commodities boom of his first presidency - and did much good with it - but never truly invested in the future of the country. Now he's dealing with another kettle of fish. Money is tight and he is likely to be spending too much of it to be popular, but to the detriment of the Brazilian economy. I don't think he has learned much in the intervening years.He is also likely to want to \"stick it\" to the US, playing \"neutral\", like India, whereby he both directly and indirectly enables the dirtiest regimes in the world.\n",
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Casual Observer "On January 1, 2016, the Texas open carry law House Bill 910 ("HB 910") went into effect. The law allows individuals to carry openly displayed, but holstered, handguns into public businesses, including banks"A few things here. Number one is that up until September 2021, only licensed individuals were allowed to carry handguns, either openly or concealed. Number two is that any business, especially banks, can utilize Texas Ordinances 30:06 and/or 30:07 to disallow anyone from entering with either a concealed or openly carried handgun.
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Don Spritzer I understand your sentiment. My husband, aged 73, died on our bedroom floor in May a week after open-heart surgery for an aortic valve replacement. The cause was a very rare post-op complication called aortic dissection. He was in excellent physical shape otherwise, never spent a day in bed in the 30+ years I knew him. Like you, he was more afraid of cognitive impairment (and the threat of congestive heart failure if he *didn't* have the surgery) -- of being a burden on me -- than dying. Indeed nothing lasts forever, but I miss him terribly.
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"content": "Don Spritzer I understand your sentiment. My husband, aged 73, died on our bedroom floor in May a week after open-heart surgery for an aortic valve replacement. The cause was a very rare post-op complication called aortic dissection. He was in excellent physical shape otherwise, never spent a day in bed in the 30+ years I knew him. Like you, he was more afraid of cognitive impairment (and the threat of congestive heart failure if he *didn't* have the surgery) -- of being a burden on me -- than dying. Indeed nothing lasts forever, but I miss him terribly.\n",
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Michael Barry - Exactly! And it is clear that the Founders wanted the internet to be free and open place for all types of discussions.
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"content": "Michael Barry - Exactly! And it is clear that the Founders wanted the internet to be free and open place for all types of discussions.\n",
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garsar It is unfortunate that Social Security Trust Fund surpluses are appropriated to be used by the US Treasury General Fund. The Dependency Ratio shifting has been anticipated for a long time, and an invested cushion of that funding back into Social Security might have helped carry us through the (hopefully) temporary deficits. I'd be interested in seeing a significant raising of the Social Security Wage Base, or otherwise seeing some funding from the new 15% international Corporate Minimum tax directed into the Fund or otherwise paying down the debt so the Fund can borrow as it needs from the Treasury without multiplying onto the growth of our national interest payments.
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Stock market greeted job cuts as good news.Stock is up sharply. Amazing that a company made $76 Billions in profit last year has to cut jobs. There arevery employers who care about their employees. Therest consider them expendable.
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Overton’s Window. The Democratic Party is conservative and the Republicans have simply fallen off a cliff on the extreme right. Both parties are controlled by wealthy donors. Forget pronouns. Progressives must embrace an immensely popular economic progressivism from a 15 dollar minimum wage to Medicare for all. The party that does that will win the hearts and votes of the masses.
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Remember, only the house wins. One more time - ONLY THE HOUSE WINS.I live near a whole “strip” of amenities and never use them. We have shows, a ferris wheel, restaurants, and a Wynn.Jobs are the lower tier service roles. Not many executive roles. The stores? The usual luxury places.Around here, “sweeteners” are called comps. You’ve spent a lot and we want you to keep spending but first, let’s get you something to eat, a place to stay, and tickets to a show. Butter you up because “you’ve earned it.”Every property that opens claims to offer something amazing and new. I think “jobs” are the developer’s buzzword to say “casino good!”Don’t do it NY.
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"content": "Remember, only the house wins. One more time - ONLY THE HOUSE WINS.I live near a whole “strip” of amenities and never use them. We have shows, a ferris wheel, restaurants, and a Wynn.Jobs are the lower tier service roles. Not many executive roles. The stores? The usual luxury places.Around here, “sweeteners” are called comps. You’ve spent a lot and we want you to keep spending but first, let’s get you something to eat, a place to stay, and tickets to a show. Butter you up because “you’ve earned it.”Every property that opens claims to offer something amazing and new. I think “jobs” are the developer’s buzzword to say “casino good!”Don’t do it NY.\n",
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It’s been a K shaped recovery. Most of those open jobs don’t pay squat, which is why they are open.
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I find it quite interesting that Mr. Stephens is an ardent supporter of broken window and stop-question-and-frisk policies employed by law enforcement and police and yet think that when the IRS audits those with income $400,000 above to weed out the tax cheats who break violates the tax laws it would be a "disaster". if indeed the IRS does get the additional funding to ramp up audits, does Mr. Stephens really believes that they would focus their still extremely limited resources on audits on those whose come start in the $400k range, and not those whose income are closer to the $4mil range? $400k is just a number that defines a boundary, and not useful to gauge the audit effort. Give me a break.
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Agreed. However, less so than taxation without representation, etc., it was the incorporation of Quebec into British North America at the conclusion of the Seven Years’ War that set off the American Revolution. The Quebec Act established religious freedom for Catholics and allowed them to hold public office. This infuriated the anti-Catholic Protestant majority who held power in the 13 colonies. The Act also barred the sale of lands west of the Appalachians by private land speculators, and the making of treaties with indigenous tribes, by anyone except the British Crown. This directly jeopardized the financial and expansionary interests of several “founding fathers.” See, for example, young George Washington’s Mississippi Land Company scheme.
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The Chinese drone company DJI has shown itself to be a more valuable tool of war than anything offered by the US - Industrial complex; all at the steal of a deal price of a few thousand dollars per unit. Makes you wonder what our out of touch House, Senate and President are spending $800 BILLION a year on?!
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anonymous A ductless exhaust fan may be a solution. They draw kitchen air through a carbon or charcoal filter that cleans the air of odors and smoke particles before cycling it back out into your kitchen. Another idea, or maybe in concert with a ductless range hood, is a HEPA air filtration system that constantly cleans and improves indoor air quality. Wesley offered a simple solution which is to open a window. Maybe use a two fan window box. They are very inexpensive with one fan drawing in fresh outdoor air while the other explells indoor air.
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krabapple The Fed created the pricing problem. And they still have 9 trillion$ on their balance sheet they shoved into the economy.
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Okay, not a good news...The former head of counterintelligence of FBI New York Field Office Charles McGonical was arrested over his ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska close friend of Putin. Allegations of money laundering and violations of Russia sanctions on behalf of this rich Putin's gangster.<a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/former-fbi-agent-charged-with-aiding-russian-oligarch" target="_blank">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/former-fbi-agent-charged-with-aiding-russian-oligarch</a>NATIONAL SECURITYEx-FBI official arrested for alleged money laundering, Russia sanctions, taking money from former foreign agent.Charles McGonigal allegedly took $225,000 in cash from a former foreign agent while still working for the FBI.Greed and betrayal goes hand in hand.
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"content": "Okay, not a good news...The former head of counterintelligence of FBI New York Field Office Charles McGonical was arrested over his ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska close friend of Putin. Allegations of money laundering and violations of Russia sanctions on behalf of this rich Putin's gangster.<a href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/former-fbi-agent-charged-with-aiding-russian-oligarch\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/former-fbi-agent-charged-with-aiding-russian-oligarch</a>NATIONAL SECURITYEx-FBI official arrested for alleged money laundering, Russia sanctions, taking money from former foreign agent.Charles McGonigal allegedly took $225,000 in cash from a former foreign agent while still working for the FBI.Greed and betrayal goes hand in hand.\n",
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I am writing this on a Dell Inspiron 1545. The Support "Expired 26 DEC 2010". I am running Linux and WIN10, depending on which I boot. This PC has a DVD and 8 Gig of RAM. I have run through 4 or 5 Android phones in the past 13 years but my dependable Dell keeps up OK. (My daughter has 4 or 5 iPhones in that period) I have newer (other brand) PCs but now the CPU is soldered in (not changeable anymore), there is no DVD, etc. Microsoft warns me that I am not WIN11 compatible..... so what! Linux is great if they get uppity.
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In NJ Gov. Murphy wants to widen the NJ Turnpike approach to Holland Tunnel, while decrying the idea of congestion pricing in NYC, and not investing in NJ Transit both trains and buses. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/holland-tunnel-turnpike-extension.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/holland-tunnel-turnpike-extension.html</a>
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The mutual admiration society continues between the US and Israel. It's clear the Israelis will continue to do whatever they want in the West Bank and the US will keep forking over the $3.8 billion in annual military aid with no questions asked. The one-sided relationship the US has with Israel might not be our biggest foreign policy blunder but it's certainly the longest. The Blinken talks? Just that.
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dem You said there was no light between the two parties. Guess which party wants to raise your taxes, increase your gas prices, increase your electricity and heating bill. Which party supports the fundamental transformation of our country, does things that help criminals, law-abiding and who is allowing our open border to flood us with fentanyl.
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thezaz - I would do the following.1. Remove Harris from the role and replace her with Mike Pompeo or Ron DeSantis.2. I would cap the number of asylum approvals at 5,000 per year to dissuade people from coming here.3. I would build a robust wall and use every electronic monitoring device possible.4. I would restrict traffic flow to three entry points and greatly expand them. Staff with inspectors, police, military, drug sniffing dogs, and detection device.5. I would lean on the Mexican government harder than ever including sanctions for their lax approach to border control and tolerance for drug lords.That is where i would start. What would you do?
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Not saying black rock / PE isn’t a problem, but there is most definitely a housing shortage. Most apartments are completely full and the overall occupancy rate is at a record high. We cut down forests and paved over wetlands to build endless cookie-cutter suburbs for boomers, and now that developers are building some compact if bland apartments for younger people in already built-up areas, boomers are having a fit and trying to claim there’s already enough housing. It’s pretty easy to claim there is no housing shortage when you have $700k of equity in your home and haven’t had to deal with the pain and frustration of scrambling to find a new apartment every year as your rent spikes
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Mary I wouldn't be surprised if most Americans know nothing about Gandhi, while most of the information circulating about him describes him as you and others do, as saintly.A few years ago in my book called, "To Care Enough: Essays on Self and Society," I had one titled "In the Eye of the Beholder: Gandhi." I had long doubted the version of Gandhi's philosophy as conveyed to millions in Richard Attenborough's 1983 bio-pic "Gandhi."If only for reasons like these: Gandhi advised Hindus not to defend themselves against marauding Moslems during the 1947 partition crisis, in which millions of lives were lost.Gandhi advised Jews that a non-violent response to Hitler's attacks on them would be a "sanctifying act" that would appeal to the conscience of the world and humble the dictator for the first time in his "dealings with men."During WW ll, Gandhi wrote an open letter to the British urging them to surrender to German aggression and thus show how morally empty the enemy's victory would be.Gandhi criticized Jews who actively struggled to survive during the Holocaust. When his well-known biographer Louis Fischer asked him directly, "You mean that the Jews should have committed collective suicide? Gandhi answered, "Yes, that would have been heroism."Gandhi's morality was such as to favor the ethical significance of death over the mere matter of human existence.m
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"content": "Mary I wouldn't be surprised if most Americans know nothing about Gandhi, while most of the information circulating about him describes him as you and others do, as saintly.A few years ago in my book called, \"To Care Enough: Essays on Self and Society,\" I had one titled \"In the Eye of the Beholder: Gandhi.\" I had long doubted the version of Gandhi's philosophy as conveyed to millions in Richard Attenborough's 1983 bio-pic \"Gandhi.\"If only for reasons like these: Gandhi advised Hindus not to defend themselves against marauding Moslems during the 1947 partition crisis, in which millions of lives were lost.Gandhi advised Jews that a non-violent response to Hitler's attacks on them would be a \"sanctifying act\" that would appeal to the conscience of the world and humble the dictator for the first time in his \"dealings with men.\"During WW ll, Gandhi wrote an open letter to the British urging them to surrender to German aggression and thus show how morally empty the enemy's victory would be.Gandhi criticized Jews who actively struggled to survive during the Holocaust. When his well-known biographer Louis Fischer asked him directly, \"You mean that the Jews should have committed collective suicide? Gandhi answered, \"Yes, that would have been heroism.\"Gandhi's morality was such as to favor the ethical significance of death over the mere matter of human existence.m\n",
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