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MoxiereproIt sounds like you're blaming landlords.These landlords seem to find enough voluntary demand for their properties to continue to do business as you describe.If you sell your house do you take the highest offer or do you take a lower offer that returns you only a "reasonable" return of 3% a year on your investment? When you sell a stock, do you offer it for what the market will bear or do you sell it at a price that only gives you a "reasonable" ROI? In both cases almost everyone seeks the highest profit alternative -- why should commercial landlords be different (esp. since they take the risk of sitting on an empty property during a recession while still owing property tax and servicing debt)?
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Why do you think the bio similar is a gamble? If there is such an universal assistance program, how did the company make over $200 Billion on treating a condition suffered by relatively few?
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| no | Classification | 2,129 |
The people of the United States and other Western and Eastern nations should be grateful for Ukraine's résistance. It is a proxy war for sure. The US is spending a trillion dollars a year on military hardware and personnel as well as a vast intelligence operation. No US lives are currently at risk. Thank you Ukraine.
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| yes | Classification | 7,543 |
That’s great - obviously there are lots of different kinds of restaurants and there are waiters who are highly skilled and highly paid and the unicorns like Danny Meyer who can even become billionaires in the restaurant business. A fine dining captain is an example of a job with high on-the-job skill but little required formal education and one that can lead to an upper middle class income. Those jobs are terrific. In general the restaurant industry is an example of more or less successful capitalism. The barriers to entry aren’t very high for most restaurants and as a result here are not extraordinary returns on capital. That’s why a lot of restaurants fail. But if they are well run, offering good service and food at prices that are attractive to customers they can make it and generate a return for the entrepreneurs and investors who finance their creation with intellectual and financial capital, not to mention sweat equity. It’s a very competitive and efficient sector with many different niches. There are some problematic endemic practices too - such as low cost off the books labor - but that exists in other industries like agriculture and construction as well.
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"content": "That’s great - obviously there are lots of different kinds of restaurants and there are waiters who are highly skilled and highly paid and the unicorns like Danny Meyer who can even become billionaires in the restaurant business. A fine dining captain is an example of a job with high on-the-job skill but little required formal education and one that can lead to an upper middle class income. Those jobs are terrific. In general the restaurant industry is an example of more or less successful capitalism. The barriers to entry aren’t very high for most restaurants and as a result here are not extraordinary returns on capital. That’s why a lot of restaurants fail. But if they are well run, offering good service and food at prices that are attractive to customers they can make it and generate a return for the entrepreneurs and investors who finance their creation with intellectual and financial capital, not to mention sweat equity. It’s a very competitive and efficient sector with many different niches. There are some problematic endemic practices too - such as low cost off the books labor - but that exists in other industries like agriculture and construction as well.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,184 |
A building will not change the current attitude that rapacious capitalism is good. What is needed is a rejection of the teachings of Friedman economics that gave license for shareholders to demand more and more for them and nothing for anyone else, including workers and consumers. The CEO and top management bonus system also needs an overhaul, if not outright elimination. It has always amazed me that wealthy investors believe that top executives who are already being paid enormous salaries need additional financial incentives to do their jobs well while average workers are expected not only to do their jobs well but often to go above and beyond their jobs to help a business deliver profits for shareholders. Why do CEOs need bonuses to guarantee their performance when workers do not? Are CEOs less interested in doing a good job? As a retired senior corporate executive, I have benefitted from the bonus system, but I also came to see how it corrupts business decisions and causes CEOs to make decisions for short-term gains instead of improving a company for the long term. Southwest Airlines just exemplified this attitude that put dividends and bonuses over investment in operational capability. Stock buybacks need to be illegal again, and if bonuses are given to management, then the employees who delivered the profits for those bonuses also need to share in bonuses. That’s the only fair thing to do, and it would help raise worker pay that has fallen behind.
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"content": "A building will not change the current attitude that rapacious capitalism is good. What is needed is a rejection of the teachings of Friedman economics that gave license for shareholders to demand more and more for them and nothing for anyone else, including workers and consumers. The CEO and top management bonus system also needs an overhaul, if not outright elimination. It has always amazed me that wealthy investors believe that top executives who are already being paid enormous salaries need additional financial incentives to do their jobs well while average workers are expected not only to do their jobs well but often to go above and beyond their jobs to help a business deliver profits for shareholders. Why do CEOs need bonuses to guarantee their performance when workers do not? Are CEOs less interested in doing a good job? As a retired senior corporate executive, I have benefitted from the bonus system, but I also came to see how it corrupts business decisions and causes CEOs to make decisions for short-term gains instead of improving a company for the long term. Southwest Airlines just exemplified this attitude that put dividends and bonuses over investment in operational capability. Stock buybacks need to be illegal again, and if bonuses are given to management, then the employees who delivered the profits for those bonuses also need to share in bonuses. That’s the only fair thing to do, and it would help raise worker pay that has fallen behind.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,573 |
The gold standard was abandoned by government in 1971. In 1971, Gold was $40/Oz. And Dow was 1000. Gold did 50x in the last 50 years. Dow couldn't beat Gold. That is without any counterparty risk. Paper currency and trillion dollar coins can be created as much as needed by the Government. Don't underestimate the counterparty risk in the fractional reserve banking system. Collapse starts slowly and then happens suddenly.
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"content": "The gold standard was abandoned by government in 1971. In 1971, Gold was $40/Oz. And Dow was 1000. Gold did 50x in the last 50 years. Dow couldn't beat Gold. That is without any counterparty risk. Paper currency and trillion dollar coins can be created as much as needed by the Government. Don't underestimate the counterparty risk in the fractional reserve banking system. Collapse starts slowly and then happens suddenly.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,247 |
Richard Blaine Agreed completely with everything you say. Japan and Europe, and enclaves like New York, are indeed much more efficient in many ways: energy, space, emissions, quality of life.But when a large fraction of our housing exists in areas which would be completely impractical to reach by train - by design, then we have a problem.We should indeed invest in rail. But we don't have the 50-100 years it would take to undo and redo all of the last 100 years of infrastructure. We have 10-20.And for that, we have EVs.
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"content": "Richard Blaine Agreed completely with everything you say. Japan and Europe, and enclaves like New York, are indeed much more efficient in many ways: energy, space, emissions, quality of life.But when a large fraction of our housing exists in areas which would be completely impractical to reach by train - by design, then we have a problem.We should indeed invest in rail. But we don't have the 50-100 years it would take to undo and redo all of the last 100 years of infrastructure. We have 10-20.And for that, we have EVs.\n",
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One rarely understood point about ER overcrowding is that a major cause is usually a packed hospital. Patients can’t leave the ER if there is no open bed in the hospital, so they crowd the hallways on stretchers. Addressing this mean’s shortened length of stays and that means efficient 7 day a week care, social service availability to make discharge safe, and good outpatient follow up. An overcrowded ER is often a sign of a hospital that isn’t working well.
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spud Huge profits and multi-million dollar compensation packages for the C-suite
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Kathy : If The poor were as financially savvy as the rich, they could get rich too. I started with nothing 48 years ago and only a high school education. I just retired with 12 million dollars. Even though I had rough times when I got foreclosed on in the mid 1980's and lost 300K in 2001 dot com crash. You never give up in America. If you do, you lose. and only you are to blame.
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| yes | Classification | 7,052 |
I have to agree with several that Montana folks are often very friendly. I have traveled there many times and enjoyed the experience of the beautiful scenery and wide open spaces. My son worked on a ranch there for a spell and they treated him well. Unfortunately, when it comes to politics and religion they seem to be diving off the deep end.
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Charles E Flynn The stoves are currently available only in the Bay Area and cost $6-8 thousand dollars. Its great tech, but years away from being universally available and affordable. The podcast Volts had an episode on it just a few weeks ago.
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When Elvis died, he was deeply in debt. Pricilla turned his whole operation around by opening up Graceland, negotiating deals on his music and turned his estate around to being worth millions. She did this for her daughter. Great women. I learned all this years ago from the Memphis law firm that handled the estate.
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The farmers interviewed for this article grow broccoli and cabbage. There are already robots available for sowing, weed control, harrowing, and harvesting these and other vegetables. The web site International Industrial Vehicle Technology has an article titled "Autonomous broccoli harvesting robot wins Silver Agritechnica Innovation Award" which says that a person can harvest only 300 to 360 broccolis per hour; whereas the robot can harvest about 2,400 per hour.<a href="https://www.ivtinternational.com/news/awards/autonomous-broccoli-harvesting-robot-wins-silver-agritechnica-innovation-award.html" target="_blank">https://www.ivtinternational.com/news/awards/autonomous-broccoli-harvesting-robot-wins-silver-agritechnica-innovation-award.html</a>Another site has an article titled "Milton Keyes company develops world’s first cabbage-picking robots to help farmers all over the world: Cabbage, broccoli and brussels sprout-picking robots are proving a boon to farmers everywhere –thanks to a company from MK. It says, "The automated harvester used three robots to pick brassica crops. It’s capable of harvesting a massive 3,600 crops per hour.""The machine has the potential to significantly reduce manual labour as it is designed to be operated by one person and can run for up to 24 hours per day”<a href="https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/people/milton-keynes-company-develops-worlds-first-cabbage-picking-robots-to-help-farmers-all-over-the-world-3840782" target="_blank">https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/people/milton-keynes-company-develops-worlds-first-cabbage-picking-robots-to-help-farmers-all-over-the-world-3840782</a>There are also robots that pick soft fruits.Perhaps the government could help individual farmers join together in cooperatives to purchase and share such equipment.
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"content": "The farmers interviewed for this article grow broccoli and cabbage. There are already robots available for sowing, weed control, harrowing, and harvesting these and other vegetables. The web site International Industrial Vehicle Technology has an article titled \"Autonomous broccoli harvesting robot wins Silver Agritechnica Innovation Award\" which says that a person can harvest only 300 to 360 broccolis per hour; whereas the robot can harvest about 2,400 per hour.<a href=\"https://www.ivtinternational.com/news/awards/autonomous-broccoli-harvesting-robot-wins-silver-agritechnica-innovation-award.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.ivtinternational.com/news/awards/autonomous-broccoli-harvesting-robot-wins-silver-agritechnica-innovation-award.html</a>Another site has an article titled \"Milton Keyes company develops world’s first cabbage-picking robots to help farmers all over the world: Cabbage, broccoli and brussels sprout-picking robots are proving a boon to farmers everywhere –thanks to a company from MK. It says, \"The automated harvester used three robots to pick brassica crops. It’s capable of harvesting a massive 3,600 crops per hour.\"\"The machine has the potential to significantly reduce manual labour as it is designed to be operated by one person and can run for up to 24 hours per day”<a href=\"https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/people/milton-keynes-company-develops-worlds-first-cabbage-picking-robots-to-help-farmers-all-over-the-world-3840782\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/people/milton-keynes-company-develops-worlds-first-cabbage-picking-robots-to-help-farmers-all-over-the-world-3840782</a>There are also robots that pick soft fruits.Perhaps the government could help individual farmers join together in cooperatives to purchase and share such equipment.\n",
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james And one of the most egregious things is the fact tfg received an $80 million tax refund over 10 years ago. The IRS disputes he was entitled to that and has been negotiating with him for 10 years. Why hasn´t this gone to Court to be decided?
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"content": "james And one of the most egregious things is the fact tfg received an $80 million tax refund over 10 years ago. The IRS disputes he was entitled to that and has been negotiating with him for 10 years. Why hasn´t this gone to Court to be decided?\n",
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| no | Classification | 800 |
Mark Lindamood Don't forget, before she was elected, there's a video showing she followed David Hogg a who was a Parkland student meeting with Senators about gun control, and Greene was harassing him about gun rights and claiming his activism was funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Greene called Hogg, "little Hitler" and told him/threated him that she carried a gun. Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress.McCarthy is dealing with a mentally deranged woman to help his career? There are probably Republicans who are horrified, about the McCarty-Greene relationship but won't open their mouths about it.
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"content": "Mark Lindamood Don't forget, before she was elected, there's a video showing she followed David Hogg a who was a Parkland student meeting with Senators about gun control, and Greene was harassing him about gun rights and claiming his activism was funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. Greene called Hogg, \"little Hitler\" and told him/threated him that she carried a gun. Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress.McCarthy is dealing with a mentally deranged woman to help his career? There are probably Republicans who are horrified, about the McCarty-Greene relationship but won't open their mouths about it.\n",
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Has anyone bothered to do the math to see what percentage of the avoided taxes this $1.6M represents?Not much of a deterrent if the Trump Organization still came out ahead of the game.
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"content": "Has anyone bothered to do the math to see what percentage of the avoided taxes this $1.6M represents?Not much of a deterrent if the Trump Organization still came out ahead of the game.\n",
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The great thing about stretching is it is always relative to what's going on in the muscles in that moment - it gets the brain to focus on details and how every little thing feels. When we make those feelings the goal during practice (rather than making a certain shape or measurement the goal), we can open up our available range of motion and feel more stable and flexible. I add muscle contractions/flexes to keep my muscles working.Here's a quick video routine if you're interested in the approach <a href="https://youtu.be/SBmCGSpwZC4" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/SBmCGSpwZC4</a>
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So an FBI agent key to the Trump/Russia investigation was on the take of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian working very closely with Paul Manafort (amongst other things Manafort received a $10 million loan from Deripaska). Does that about sum it up?
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It sounds like Santos used Redstone to get the $700k he "donated" to his campaign, and he used Red Stone money to pay his rent, travel and go out to eat. He has no profession, no education. He is a scam artist. Is there not anything he's done that is prosecutable? Santos is a conniving, immoral, pathological liar. He should not be in Congress. He was not elected; his fabrication was.
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"content": "It sounds like Santos used Redstone to get the $700k he \"donated\" to his campaign, and he used Red Stone money to pay his rent, travel and go out to eat. He has no profession, no education. He is a scam artist. Is there not anything he's done that is prosecutable? Santos is a conniving, immoral, pathological liar. He should not be in Congress. He was not elected; his fabrication was.\n",
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Mike S. what happens if the USA/nato gets to have the Ukraine they think they want? A nation they can use to block the black sea access for Russia , all its resources poured on the open market and conventional and nuclear forces on the border with russia and belarus?World is safer then? I guess we will see. Its not like anyone here , you or I know the outcome.
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Cue the "wah"-bulance for people complaining about not having $4.5 million on hand.
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"content": "Cue the \"wah\"-bulance for people complaining about not having $4.5 million on hand.\n",
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Switzerland has a high number of privately-owned firearms per capita (albeit not as high as the US). The difference is that open carry is subject to a cantonal licence that must be renewed yearly, and conceal carry, while also cantonal, is a lot rarer, and subject to stringent tests. The number of total gun deaths (all types) has halved since the mid-90s. The number of gun murders has also gone down, to around 10 a year. Most murders are committed with knives, but murder remains low in Switzerland.
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The Prime Directive in America is to "make money!" Or, as they said in the 1920's, "The Business of America is business!" For those in a position to make real money, the Secondary Directive becomes "Funnel the profits up to the top of the food chain, do not pass GO, do not trickle up or down."For those not in a possession to make real money, the mass majority of people who have to trade their time and labor to live each month (the working class without rents to keep their bank accounts afloat), it's humiliating to be caught in early morning traffic while the sun is rising on America. For 150 years, in 16 industrialized countries, those with stocks, bonds, and real estate have been enjoying an average 6.6% return on investments while their economies have grown on average 3.3.%. Wages always lag everything. This according to a recent SF Federal Reserve Bank study. The magic of compound interest, rich marrying rich, and the power that money brings to promote favorable laws, we now have an overbearing oligarchy that runs everything. Is it no wonder that the system is exploding under the weight of "internal contradictions."The game is simple in America, like Monopoly (a game invented to illustrate the ravaged of real estate monopoly): Let's see who ends up with all the money (the top 0.001$) and let's see who ends up poorest (the bottom 80%). Oligarchies still need relatively well-paid servants in the upper middle class and the upper working class.
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"content": "The Prime Directive in America is to \"make money!\" Or, as they said in the 1920's, \"The Business of America is business!\" For those in a position to make real money, the Secondary Directive becomes \"Funnel the profits up to the top of the food chain, do not pass GO, do not trickle up or down.\"For those not in a possession to make real money, the mass majority of people who have to trade their time and labor to live each month (the working class without rents to keep their bank accounts afloat), it's humiliating to be caught in early morning traffic while the sun is rising on America. For 150 years, in 16 industrialized countries, those with stocks, bonds, and real estate have been enjoying an average 6.6% return on investments while their economies have grown on average 3.3.%. Wages always lag everything. This according to a recent SF Federal Reserve Bank study. The magic of compound interest, rich marrying rich, and the power that money brings to promote favorable laws, we now have an overbearing oligarchy that runs everything. Is it no wonder that the system is exploding under the weight of \"internal contradictions.\"The game is simple in America, like Monopoly (a game invented to illustrate the ravaged of real estate monopoly): Let's see who ends up with all the money (the top 0.001$) and let's see who ends up poorest (the bottom 80%). Oligarchies still need relatively well-paid servants in the upper middle class and the upper working class.\n",
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EdManhattan’s BB&B stores in Chelsea and on the Upper West Side (on Broadway opposite Lincoln Center) were fantastic when they opened! New Yorkers shopped there all the time. Especially when the greatest houseware store in all Manhattan closed. We all mourned the loss of our beloved GRACIOUS HOME, especially when it was a superbly run family owned business. Nothing in Manhattan came close. BB&B successfully grabbed many of Gracious Home’s high end customers when they closed. That is until the stores discontinued having friendly check-out counter employees, who were replaced by Do-It-Yourself-Checkout stations…expecting customers to do their own lifting and scanning! Like you see at a CVS or Walgreens. But deodorant and toothpaste are easy to scan. Not a BB&B item like a heavy home appliance box or a cumbersome hallway runner.What a dumb customer UN-friendly idea that was!
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"content": "EdManhattan’s BB&B stores in Chelsea and on the Upper West Side (on Broadway opposite Lincoln Center) were fantastic when they opened! New Yorkers shopped there all the time. Especially when the greatest houseware store in all Manhattan closed. We all mourned the loss of our beloved GRACIOUS HOME, especially when it was a superbly run family owned business. Nothing in Manhattan came close. BB&B successfully grabbed many of Gracious Home’s high end customers when they closed. That is until the stores discontinued having friendly check-out counter employees, who were replaced by Do-It-Yourself-Checkout stations…expecting customers to do their own lifting and scanning! Like you see at a CVS or Walgreens. But deodorant and toothpaste are easy to scan. Not a BB&B item like a heavy home appliance box or a cumbersome hallway runner.What a dumb customer UN-friendly idea that was!\n",
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Citizen "When Democrats agreed to treat Money as Speech only if the identity of the largest donors were made public, the GOP was for it...until it was against it."The choice to treat Money as Speech was made by the Supreme Court in Citizens United. And the unlimited amounts apply only to PACs and such, not money given to candidates. Buy, you're correct that some Republicans were for getting big money out of campaigns with public monies funding political campaigns, as was Sen. McCain was, before he wasn't, at the state level."Wealthy donors can now fund individual candidates if they file the right paperwork."Yes, even corporate CEOs can direct monies be taken from their corporate treasury and given to PACs, anonymously. This must stop.Americans should read, "Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It", by Prof. Lawrence Lessig to find how the mountains of money in US political campaigns is warping our politics.It should also be noted that Prof. Lessig tried to run for president, raised the required money to satisfy the demand by the Democratic Party to get onto the televised presidential debates, but the other requirement couldn't be fulfilled; pollsters refused to include him in their polls, so he could reach any threshold of 'voter interest'. This polling requirement needs to be fixed or jettisoned.His sole policy was to get money out of our campaign politics; he vowed to get Congress to create public finance campaign laws and resign.
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"content": "Citizen \"When Democrats agreed to treat Money as Speech only if the identity of the largest donors were made public, the GOP was for it...until it was against it.\"The choice to treat Money as Speech was made by the Supreme Court in Citizens United. And the unlimited amounts apply only to PACs and such, not money given to candidates. Buy, you're correct that some Republicans were for getting big money out of campaigns with public monies funding political campaigns, as was Sen. McCain was, before he wasn't, at the state level.\"Wealthy donors can now fund individual candidates if they file the right paperwork.\"Yes, even corporate CEOs can direct monies be taken from their corporate treasury and given to PACs, anonymously. This must stop.Americans should read, \"Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It\", by Prof. Lawrence Lessig to find how the mountains of money in US political campaigns is warping our politics.It should also be noted that Prof. Lessig tried to run for president, raised the required money to satisfy the demand by the Democratic Party to get onto the televised presidential debates, but the other requirement couldn't be fulfilled; pollsters refused to include him in their polls, so he could reach any threshold of 'voter interest'. This polling requirement needs to be fixed or jettisoned.His sole policy was to get money out of our campaign politics; he vowed to get Congress to create public finance campaign laws and resign.\n",
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Karl Weber I agree totally with you about the actual censorious power DeSantis is exercising. Equally, I agree about the danger he and his ilk pose nationally.But I disagree with you that the PC ideologues can more or less be absolved.The reason is that on-line mob attacks, shaped by the sweepingly reductive categories of PC group think, usually have the purpose to suppress intellectual or artistic expression which does not conform to PC imperatives. The cudgel employed is to threaten or deprive those targeted of both peace of mind and/or livelihood. Therefore, unlike you, I cannot absolve the PC ideologues by pointing out the cowardice of easily cowed publishers or of university administrators, culpable and co-opted as both are. It is the PC ideologues who target publications, art and intellectual discourse through on-line vigilantism, and through campus mob actions. Therefore the PC ideologues are no less totalitarian in spirit than the repressive actions of right wing authoritarians.All who value open intellectual discourse should recognize the danger posed by left wing intellectual censorship. This danger arises from its inherent totalitarian quality and from the fact that the PC ideologues are clearly, if stupidly, playing into the hands of powerful Trumpist pols who manifestly intend to establish a right wing autocracy in the U.S
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China's remarkable growth has always been heavily reliant on everyone else apathetically relying on them for products. The pandemic flipped everything upside down and sideways.Everyone had to and is still seeking alternative sources, many of them domestic. Which involves creating them outright or new partnerships. We're on the threshold of what could likely be some dynamic economic shifts, if the West and burgeoning economies can sustain the movements away from China. Consumption habits have also shifted. And we're not yet hearing how the Chinese consumers have or are in the process of their own priority shifts. The last 3 years must have caused them to reevaluate their needs and consumption behaviors. Esp. among their youth. We're not hearing about whats going on on the ground in China....for various reasons, not the least of which is the Gov't censorship. Pandemics and their impacts always create major changes. Nothing will return to pre Covid times. Nothing.
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"content": "China's remarkable growth has always been heavily reliant on everyone else apathetically relying on them for products. The pandemic flipped everything upside down and sideways.Everyone had to and is still seeking alternative sources, many of them domestic. Which involves creating them outright or new partnerships. We're on the threshold of what could likely be some dynamic economic shifts, if the West and burgeoning economies can sustain the movements away from China. Consumption habits have also shifted. And we're not yet hearing how the Chinese consumers have or are in the process of their own priority shifts. The last 3 years must have caused them to reevaluate their needs and consumption behaviors. Esp. among their youth. We're not hearing about whats going on on the ground in China....for various reasons, not the least of which is the Gov't censorship. Pandemics and their impacts always create major changes. Nothing will return to pre Covid times. Nothing.\n",
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At some point, more will realize that this is a policy choice. Consolidation, lack of oversight, "money=free speech," corporations are people with constitutional rights (except the going to jail part), lack of accountability, deference to the wealthy, defunding of governmental oversight agencies (FTC in 1980 had 1800 staff;FTC in 2022 has 1200 - while our economy has grown 8x), billion dollar tax give aways to the wealthy and corporations - all of these are policy choices. Lack of healthcare for our children is a policy choice.We don't have a free market. There's no such thing. Markets are governed by laws (contract, ownership, liability etc etc). Laws are put in place based through policies.Policies are put in place by those we choose to hire (elect) as our employees (officials) to manage our economy for us.If we want better healthcare for our children - start questioning, start looking at voting records, stop thinking the battle is between left and right, blue and red. It's not. It's between individuals and small businesses -and the ultrawealthy and corporations.Note: if free speech = money, and I have 100 dollars and you have 1, I have 100 times more free speech than you. If you don't know what Citizens United is, find out.This is not a game.
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"content": "At some point, more will realize that this is a policy choice. Consolidation, lack of oversight, \"money=free speech,\" corporations are people with constitutional rights (except the going to jail part), lack of accountability, deference to the wealthy, defunding of governmental oversight agencies (FTC in 1980 had 1800 staff;FTC in 2022 has 1200 - while our economy has grown 8x), billion dollar tax give aways to the wealthy and corporations - all of these are policy choices. Lack of healthcare for our children is a policy choice.We don't have a free market. There's no such thing. Markets are governed by laws (contract, ownership, liability etc etc). Laws are put in place based through policies.Policies are put in place by those we choose to hire (elect) as our employees (officials) to manage our economy for us.If we want better healthcare for our children - start questioning, start looking at voting records, stop thinking the battle is between left and right, blue and red. It's not. It's between individuals and small businesses -and the ultrawealthy and corporations.Note: if free speech = money, and I have 100 dollars and you have 1, I have 100 times more free speech than you. If you don't know what Citizens United is, find out.This is not a game.\n",
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Katherine Look at what is now possible! This isn't simple, but access to clean, safe, quiet housing with nutritious food and appropriate clothing can make all the difference. I would encourage him to let you reach out to his sisters. Often the family is grateful to be back in contact. Misunderstandings tend to abound.He is primed for longer term housing. The sisters may be more open than he thinks. Perhaps he could welcome them to visit his hotel room. Even if they aren't able to pay for anything longer-term, they may be able to help in the short term. One month in the extended hotel. Pay directly for food and necessity deliveries. Etc. A simultaneous path is to find out if he has names or contacts for any caseworkers who have helped him in the past. You can also reach out to the local public provider and housing advocates. Get him on a list for a housing voucher and/or housing. Housing vouchers are gold. Again, while he is in that hotel, he can demonstrate he has the ability, with supports, to live independently. You could make a video of him in his place. (If possible) send it to the sisters and also have it as proof of his success to provide to a caseworker or provider. With your help he can demonstrate that, with supports, he can do it. I recommend identifying how you have helped/the supports he needs to maintain housing. Write it out. Exactly what he needs. Including things like - help getting the food I need. Help to pay bills. That information is critical.
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Now everyone watching or thinking about football will have to wonder on every play if someone if going to die. Just like people who serve in the military who end up with ptsd, now it's an equal opportunity possibility with the NFL. Really glad Bob Kraft got that $26,000,000 condo. He sure earned every cent. What would we do without football?
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He owes no one an explanation. I think his story is wonderful. More should do it, particularly in the current golf world environment co-opted as it is by Saudi blood money. Golf is after all, a completely meaningless thing that contributes virtually nothing as an organized high dollar rewards event, to the greater good.
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This is an eye-opener. It shows the real world of animals, for long unknown and unseen. It shows more cooperation and collaboration than we have long thought was possible among different animal species. Animal scientists have gotten it wrong, too. Maybe we humans can observe and learn.
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Meanwhile, I have an excellent action/drama screenplay which received excellent coverage from ICM and a unique rap-musical comedy and I can't even catch a cold in this town. Hollywood just keeps giving shows, regardless if they're good or not, to the haves while the have-nots keep toiling away and knocking on doors that most likely will never open for us.
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Michael McBrearty 800 Billion is 3.5% of the US GDP. That is hardly the basis of a war economy. World War 2 consumed 41% of the national wealth.
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Rising interest rates over the last 13 or so months likely caused the debt-ceiling breach date to arrive sooner since those higher interest rates on government paper increase the amount of interest the Treasury has to pay out to its bond and note holders.Consistent and uninterrupted payment of interest due and payable on government debt--the full faith and credit of the United States--is the reason every mutual fund, pension fund, retirement program and investment fund holds government debt and why when supplies of such debt are scarce outside market purchases, there is an outcry from managers of those funds. Even the threat of an interruption of interest payment causes interest rates on that paper to rise. If the Republicans who control the House had any fiscal and monetary sense at all, they would find a way to ease into increasing the debt ceiling without prolonged controversy to avoid rattling the money markets. Even though Ms. Yellen has extraordinary measures to smooth out a debt ceiling breach, those measures, too, increase costs to the Treasury, too, since those IOUs are borrowed money. By acting the way it acts, the GOP seems determined to exacerbate the problem.
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"content": "Rising interest rates over the last 13 or so months likely caused the debt-ceiling breach date to arrive sooner since those higher interest rates on government paper increase the amount of interest the Treasury has to pay out to its bond and note holders.Consistent and uninterrupted payment of interest due and payable on government debt--the full faith and credit of the United States--is the reason every mutual fund, pension fund, retirement program and investment fund holds government debt and why when supplies of such debt are scarce outside market purchases, there is an outcry from managers of those funds. Even the threat of an interruption of interest payment causes interest rates on that paper to rise. If the Republicans who control the House had any fiscal and monetary sense at all, they would find a way to ease into increasing the debt ceiling without prolonged controversy to avoid rattling the money markets. Even though Ms. Yellen has extraordinary measures to smooth out a debt ceiling breach, those measures, too, increase costs to the Treasury, too, since those IOUs are borrowed money. By acting the way it acts, the GOP seems determined to exacerbate the problem.\n",
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Clever article. But, please be fair. The Beyond Meat executive who bit someone's nose came from the meat industry, specifically - as one Google search will show - he was previously an executive at the meat conglomerate Tyson Foods which invested in Beyond Meat. Can you see how the meat industry committed an act of sabotage on the vegan company? That should have been mentioned. Also, it should be noted that the most effective thing individuals can do to reduce their carbon footprint is to eat a low-carbon-price-tag meal 3xs a day. What is the highest carbon-footprint diet? Meat/dairy. What is the lowest? Vegan. News alert: We can actually reverse climate change with a global shift to a plant-based diet. We cannot prevent the approaching climate apocalypse without addressing diet. The reason you only hear about fossil fuels in the news media is... look at the TV commercials: fast food and pharmaceuticals, the 2 industries that would crater if society went vegan.
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"content": "Clever article. But, please be fair. The Beyond Meat executive who bit someone's nose came from the meat industry, specifically - as one Google search will show - he was previously an executive at the meat conglomerate Tyson Foods which invested in Beyond Meat. Can you see how the meat industry committed an act of sabotage on the vegan company? That should have been mentioned. Also, it should be noted that the most effective thing individuals can do to reduce their carbon footprint is to eat a low-carbon-price-tag meal 3xs a day. What is the highest carbon-footprint diet? Meat/dairy. What is the lowest? Vegan. News alert: We can actually reverse climate change with a global shift to a plant-based diet. We cannot prevent the approaching climate apocalypse without addressing diet. The reason you only hear about fossil fuels in the news media is... look at the TV commercials: fast food and pharmaceuticals, the 2 industries that would crater if society went vegan.\n",
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Miner with a Soul Yes. I have a cheap Dilongo expresso maker. ost about $80. I buy store beans from ethical producers. Not quite the same relationship with producers and roasters, but decent. I live in Portugal, where the availability of great coffee is a given - in every store and every street corner cafe. But the coffee I brew up on my DiLongi, using high quality beans, is superior. A 250 ml bag of beanbs costs 2.50 and promises to produce 30 cups. Well round off to 25 cups and its a dime a cup.
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Well the good news about Trump is, even if the case against Trump were dropped because of the new revelations about Biden's handling of classified documents, there are still 4 other criminal cases and 18 civil cases still open against Trump. That gives us a good cushion that something will eventually stick against Trump.
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It is true that we will be unable to supply the engineers and technicians for the domestic chip industry. Our educational system is broken with reading levels of our high school students hovering at the fourth grade level, if that high, in some places. The bright students go for the big bucks in finance or working for Google, Apple etc. The rest see their way to wealth being “influencers” on TikTok (ironically a Chinese company). The rest of the snowflakes don’t have the drive to work hard. Who wants to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on higher education to become an engineer or scientist, take on massive debt, only to watch their peers make bags full of money selling bags full of legal marijuana?So we are left to import our scientists and engineers from India or other such countries. What is pathetic is that these valuable people are forced to endure onerous visa restrictions and other obstacles to their entry, while the rest of us are left to watch a swarm of millions of migrants pour across our open border. We don’t need them. We allow millions of our own able-bodied citizens the luxury of sitting at home collecting public assistance and scamming the government handout system - all well-documented in these pages and elsewhere.
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Si Seulement Voltaire; No, investigating Hunter Biden is absolutely not equivalent to investigating Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner was an employee of the U.S. Government and had numerous and meaningful contacts with the Saudi Government that eventually gave him $2 Billion to invest. Despite the recommendation from the oversight board for those Saudi investments that the money not be given to Jared because of exceptionally high service fees and a poor record of investments, MBS stepped in and ordered the money be given to Kushner. You remember MBS, the killer of Khashoggi, which murder was completely glossed over by the Trump Administration, much to the pleasure of Mr. bin Salman. Hunter Biden used his father's name to influence Chinese and Ukrainian corporations into putting him on corporate boards and paying him undeserved amounts of money. While it is distressing to hear of such matters, he is not the first nor will he be the last to use a relative's name to profit from and there is nothing illegal about it. He is not a Government employee and never has been and there is not a shred of credible nor admissible evidence of his father having encouraged Hunter to do this or having profited from it.
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"content": "Si Seulement Voltaire; No, investigating Hunter Biden is absolutely not equivalent to investigating Jared Kushner. Jared Kushner was an employee of the U.S. Government and had numerous and meaningful contacts with the Saudi Government that eventually gave him $2 Billion to invest. Despite the recommendation from the oversight board for those Saudi investments that the money not be given to Jared because of exceptionally high service fees and a poor record of investments, MBS stepped in and ordered the money be given to Kushner. You remember MBS, the killer of Khashoggi, which murder was completely glossed over by the Trump Administration, much to the pleasure of Mr. bin Salman. Hunter Biden used his father's name to influence Chinese and Ukrainian corporations into putting him on corporate boards and paying him undeserved amounts of money. While it is distressing to hear of such matters, he is not the first nor will he be the last to use a relative's name to profit from and there is nothing illegal about it. He is not a Government employee and never has been and there is not a shred of credible nor admissible evidence of his father having encouraged Hunter to do this or having profited from it.\n",
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Moe You're being disingenuous. Nothing is ever "free" and misusing the term is simply a dog whistle for the GOP. And "vast network of freebies"??? Since when haven't Americans paid taxes to fund Medicaid/Medicare, Social Security, etc.? And it is true that we pay the most in taxes for the least in benefits, another stark contrast with every other "developed" nation. Mr. Applebaum rightly insists that taxes need to be raised--and collected!--on the *wealthiest* citizens. Underfunding--or defunding--the IRS will benefit only the top 1% or 3% or 5% since the taxes they should have been paying all along remain in their bank accounts or for investments that pay dividends, making them richer still. We must go after corporations as well.
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"content": "Moe You're being disingenuous. Nothing is ever \"free\" and misusing the term is simply a dog whistle for the GOP. And \"vast network of freebies\"??? Since when haven't Americans paid taxes to fund Medicaid/Medicare, Social Security, etc.? And it is true that we pay the most in taxes for the least in benefits, another stark contrast with every other \"developed\" nation. Mr. Applebaum rightly insists that taxes need to be raised--and collected!--on the *wealthiest* citizens. Underfunding--or defunding--the IRS will benefit only the top 1% or 3% or 5% since the taxes they should have been paying all along remain in their bank accounts or for investments that pay dividends, making them richer still. We must go after corporations as well.\n",
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Michael Czarnomski Yes, more or less. CA has is a 'modified open primary' and a top-two system.(Note that the POTUS election is not.)THE problem is one party having multiple candidates for one office splits/dilutes the votes. There are six(6) political parties in CA that can have candidates on the ballots. So it is entirely possible that the opposite could occur and neither Democrat would proceed. ...
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But which part is the “small government” party? What has been the real cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars——4 trillion about? Democrats have also created debt related policies that benefit a broader basis of US citizens.
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| no | Classification | 269 |
Sarah Best Buy has electric induction ovens on sale for $2,500. $5,000 would be high-end, not middle-priced at all. Best Buy also hauls away and installs usually for $100. I don't work for them and I'm keeping my gas stove, but the costs you list here don't seem accurate.
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When only one party is open to governing like adults, and the other makes them pay a political price for every unpopular, but necessary, change, we will never get anything fixed until it completely breaks first.
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Mark Uh, no. She didn't roll down the window -- jeeps are open -- she got OUT of the vehicle to take a picture, and no, the guide did not tell her it was ok. She got killed because she was a fool.
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SPOILER do not open the link if you’re still working on the Bee! I really appreciate the Bee for expanding my vocabulary — this term (related to amniotic sac) appeared in another recent Bee, and if the word was also unfamiliar to you, you might enjoy delving a bit deeper with this reference:<a href="https://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-sailors-charm.html" target="_blank">https://england.prm.ox.ac.uk/englishness-sailors-charm.html</a>
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Prof Ron This is silly. At this point, the quality of Microsoft's software is virtually identical to the quality of what Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, etc. are producing. Same technology, same programmers who have the same stellar records from the same highly selective schools.
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| yes | Classification | 9,490 |
Being laid off can be very bad or very good or somewhere between. Its very bad if you live paycheck to paycheck and receive no severance or health care benefit extension. But these tech layoffs likely are the opposite, for workers who are mostly highly employable. For them, the issue is psychological. Having worked in an industry that is highly cyclical, I have seen a lot of staff cutbacks up close, usually during broader economic recessions like in the early 1980s, with double digit unemployment. We quit our jobs then to do some traveling, and it was harder to re-enter the workforce than expected. We literally spent our last dollar at one point. There can actually be a longer term benefit to unemployment, especially being prepared for the unexpected, spending less, saving more and having contingency plans (ours was an improvised pickup camper). Of course, you don’t have to experience unexpected unemployment to be prepared for it. Live your life like you don’t know what’s around the next corner… because you don’t.
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"content": "Being laid off can be very bad or very good or somewhere between. Its very bad if you live paycheck to paycheck and receive no severance or health care benefit extension. But these tech layoffs likely are the opposite, for workers who are mostly highly employable. For them, the issue is psychological. Having worked in an industry that is highly cyclical, I have seen a lot of staff cutbacks up close, usually during broader economic recessions like in the early 1980s, with double digit unemployment. We quit our jobs then to do some traveling, and it was harder to re-enter the workforce than expected. We literally spent our last dollar at one point. There can actually be a longer term benefit to unemployment, especially being prepared for the unexpected, spending less, saving more and having contingency plans (ours was an improvised pickup camper). Of course, you don’t have to experience unexpected unemployment to be prepared for it. Live your life like you don’t know what’s around the next corner… because you don’t.\n",
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The left offers what seem to be what they believe are clearly necessary public policies to establish a more perfect union. They see no reason that any reasonable people would disagree except to preserve unjust advantages which benefit themselves. Thus any who challenge their public policies are not honest partners in governance but people who are determined to preserve their advantages. What might any say to such heartless people?And the never listen to any who disagree for long because they see them to be wrongheaded or selfish.The Republicans have different priorities and they are just as recalcitrant and the leftist Democrats because they see themselves to be right and reasonable. No basis for discussion let alone negotiations.
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"content": "The left offers what seem to be what they believe are clearly necessary public policies to establish a more perfect union. They see no reason that any reasonable people would disagree except to preserve unjust advantages which benefit themselves. Thus any who challenge their public policies are not honest partners in governance but people who are determined to preserve their advantages. What might any say to such heartless people?And the never listen to any who disagree for long because they see them to be wrongheaded or selfish.The Republicans have different priorities and they are just as recalcitrant and the leftist Democrats because they see themselves to be right and reasonable. No basis for discussion let alone negotiations.\n",
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Anyone in big tech who’s been reading the news since last summer probably already anticipated the risk of layoffs and if they were smart have started looking at other jobs. When I look at job boards every company - small and large - has open engineering roles, it’s definitely still a very high demand role when you look at companies at large.
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Jesus said:“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”He also said:“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."Paul wrote in his letter to Timothy:"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." Robert Jeffress's net worth is estimated to be over $17 million.I can only wonder what kind of Christians make donations to this guy and vote for a venal swindler like Donald Trump. Which Bible are they reading?
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"content": "Jesus said:“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”He also said:“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.\"Paul wrote in his letter to Timothy:\"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.\" Robert Jeffress's net worth is estimated to be over $17 million.I can only wonder what kind of Christians make donations to this guy and vote for a venal swindler like Donald Trump. Which Bible are they reading?\n",
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Sam Yeah, it's hard to keep up with that guy. I remember seeing Iggy in about '86-'87 on the Brick by Brick tour, in Royal Oak Mich. Iggy and the boys were a power wall of slam. The opener was an upstart band everyone was hearing about, Jane's Addiction. Unlike some concertgoers, I always liked to check out the opening (especially if unknown) bands. I thought Jane's was pretty good, especially the drummer, but Perry Farrell was about....50% of Iggy.
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"content": "Sam Yeah, it's hard to keep up with that guy. I remember seeing Iggy in about '86-'87 on the Brick by Brick tour, in Royal Oak Mich. Iggy and the boys were a power wall of slam. The opener was an upstart band everyone was hearing about, Jane's Addiction. Unlike some concertgoers, I always liked to check out the opening (especially if unknown) bands. I thought Jane's was pretty good, especially the drummer, but Perry Farrell was about....50% of Iggy.\n",
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Hal - One must always be aware of regional colloquialisms. Years ago, I was working as a contract mechanical designer at a large rocket testing facility in the Wasatch mountains outside of Brigham City, Utah.In need of a relatively common office supply item, I began opening filing cabinet drawers when a nearby middle-aged woman employee asked me if she could be of assistance. I asked her if she had a binder. While I meant a rubber band, she understood the word "binder" to be a slang word for a "bra". Whoa, instant faux pas there!Luckily another passing male employee defused this rather embarrassing moment by explaining to her what I had meant and managed to save the day. What’s in a word, eh?
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r kress If knowing Harry were a comment requirement, there wouldn’t be comments.We think we know, and it’s open season. Many have several shared experiences with Harry: loss of a mother when young, therapy, parental alienation and the rest. We weren’t born Royal, and those who do know the players, upstairs and below stairs, are a small group. My favorites so far are William ever being called Harold, and the commenter certain that Harry was Diana’s son by James Hewitt because of his hair color.Harry’s given name is Henry. He’s never been called Harold. He was born in 1994, two years before the affair. She loved her sons, and I doubt she had time.As for the hair, red and ginger runs in Diana’s family, the Spencers. But of course, we know.
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"content": "r kress If knowing Harry were a comment requirement, there wouldn’t be comments.We think we know, and it’s open season. Many have several shared experiences with Harry: loss of a mother when young, therapy, parental alienation and the rest. We weren’t born Royal, and those who do know the players, upstairs and below stairs, are a small group. My favorites so far are William ever being called Harold, and the commenter certain that Harry was Diana’s son by James Hewitt because of his hair color.Harry’s given name is Henry. He’s never been called Harold. He was born in 1994, two years before the affair. She loved her sons, and I doubt she had time.As for the hair, red and ginger runs in Diana’s family, the Spencers. But of course, we know.\n",
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Many people have a hard childhood, grow up and don't throw their family under the bus. He did it for the money. Magan married him with open eyes and is now so shocked?
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desandis is a one trick pony. all culture wars all the time. he personally has done NOTHING to expand the Florida economy. he did not invent perfect weather or endless coastline. he inherited a seat where tourism fees replace income tax in the revenue mix.
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This is one of Michele Goldberg's best columns. The opening paragraph and the final sentence are gold! Also, kudos to the editor who came up with the title. This made my week, and it's only Wednesday!
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Open Synapses I may have lost a day, I thought this was Tuesday, January 10. I checked the puzzle and there is no 55 across today. Are we talking about the New York Times? If I’m wrong I’ll have to call a neurologist !
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I remember when Paul Ryan wanted cuts to Social Security.I imagine a lot of the Fox News audience is on Social Security and Medicare.And Bernie Sanders and others have said for some time to get rid of the $144K limit on paying Social Security tax and that would go a long way to making Social Security solvent.But the Fox News audience will never know any of this.The wealthy and Wall St. thank them for voting for Republicans and Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and they are laughing all the way to the bank.
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Black mom here. We were lucky. Bought a home for under 400k before Brooklyn blew up. Sent our kids to neighborhood school that we invested in. We would love to downsize and cash out (home is worth 3.5 million)... but kids could never live in NYC again.So many new buildings popping up... yet more homeless on the street. Let's hope the mayor and governor follow through on their promises to build more affordable housing.
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"content": "Black mom here. We were lucky. Bought a home for under 400k before Brooklyn blew up. Sent our kids to neighborhood school that we invested in. We would love to downsize and cash out (home is worth 3.5 million)... but kids could never live in NYC again.So many new buildings popping up... yet more homeless on the street. Let's hope the mayor and governor follow through on their promises to build more affordable housing.\n",
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Well said. Being open to the marvel of being alive, even thriving in spite of the little we really know, is a miracle of sorts. A miracle of miracles being that we may understand this flow withing and without ourselves. and of course, no awe is as magnum than when we commune and become one with nature...and lose our ego in the process.
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"content": "Well said. Being open to the marvel of being alive, even thriving in spite of the little we really know, is a miracle of sorts. A miracle of miracles being that we may understand this flow withing and without ourselves. and of course, no awe is as magnum than when we commune and become one with nature...and lose our ego in the process.\n",
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bill Colleges taking money from bookmaking operations is really, really unseemly. Going way back, gambling associated with college sports has been verboten because of all the scandals associated with college basketball.However, college gambling is a here to stay. This fact underscores that a University athletic department is a money grubbing, $ billion dollar business.Should student athletes, the centers of attention who do most of the labor get a cut of the action? Yes, it's only fair.Meanwhile, legions of undergraduates are dithering away gambling on their phone, and getting into financial trouble.The student is now a customer, a transactional hedonist with no real interest in the arts & sciences.Such is life in a bottom-line, strictly pecuniary, ugly American society with no values. Coach Paul Brown used to say, "The eternal verities will always prevail." But with no values of any stripe, society degrades by entropy and vice.
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"content": "bill Colleges taking money from bookmaking operations is really, really unseemly. Going way back, gambling associated with college sports has been verboten because of all the scandals associated with college basketball.However, college gambling is a here to stay. This fact underscores that a University athletic department is a money grubbing, $ billion dollar business.Should student athletes, the centers of attention who do most of the labor get a cut of the action? Yes, it's only fair.Meanwhile, legions of undergraduates are dithering away gambling on their phone, and getting into financial trouble.The student is now a customer, a transactional hedonist with no real interest in the arts & sciences.Such is life in a bottom-line, strictly pecuniary, ugly American society with no values. Coach Paul Brown used to say, \"The eternal verities will always prevail.\" But with no values of any stripe, society degrades by entropy and vice.\n",
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While the press does tons of good, there are times when it creates havoc. Giving Trump millions of dollars worth of free neon for many years has been one of its failings. It is my hope that the media will not destroy President Biden's successful run by equating the president with Trump. We should all know the differences between the two errors, but people now days only take time to hear headlines and not explanations. The press can be informers without creating chaos. I hope they will choose sanity over sensationalism.
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"content": "While the press does tons of good, there are times when it creates havoc. Giving Trump millions of dollars worth of free neon for many years has been one of its failings. It is my hope that the media will not destroy President Biden's successful run by equating the president with Trump. We should all know the differences between the two errors, but people now days only take time to hear headlines and not explanations. The press can be informers without creating chaos. I hope they will choose sanity over sensationalism.\n",
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Take the budget for NASA and transfer it to Lawrence Livermore, and vice versa. Fusion has exponentially greater benefit.
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"content": "Take the budget for NASA and transfer it to Lawrence Livermore, and vice versa. Fusion has exponentially greater benefit.\n",
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Dean, Republicans have done absolutely nothing to help Americans, zip. However, GOP fights to give the wealthy tax cuts and protect Big Oil! IF you know someone who uses insulin, thank Biden and the Democrats for capping the price at $35 per month! The McCarthy’s 118th Congress want p repeal this!
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Gerard ...if you look at the numbers, tech companies over -hired during the pandemic to keep up with demand...I think it was Microsoft that hired 75,000 people...so companies laying off 10,000-20,000 people doesn't look like a crisis...and while your "retirement fund is still a lot lower than it has been", how much higher is it than, say, 10 years ago?...aren't you supposed to hold it for the long term and not worry about the inevitable downturns?...
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Thank you so very much for this opinion piece! As someone said before, I am 56 and this has opened my eyes and given me a name for who and what I am.I learned to read at an extremely young age, and was always years ahead in my English skills. I was placed in Algebra 1 in seventh grade and flunked miserably. As a punishment, my books were taken away by my parents for a full semester. (I was an avid reader that disappeared into books. I preferred them to television, as the landscapes that I created in my mind were far more intricate and colorful.) I never understood algebra, and had gotten by on a mathematical process that I had developed while playing Yahtzee, by visualizing dots on written numbers that I tapped out while counting. Meanwhile, geometry made perfect sense.I was in honors courses in high school, journalism being my specialty. There was no college money set aside for me and I am fortunate that I was funneled into cosmetology school at the age of sixteen. I rode the wave of the last crest of hands on learning in California.As a hairdresser of 37 years, I love going to work every day. My work has also enabled me to follow other passions, such as theatre, journalism, music, radio and developing nonprofits, as well as running successful businesses while never earning a diploma. I hope that children can be celebrated for their unique contributions in the future, and that the word “deficit” can be erased from their description.
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| no | Classification | 3,337 |
One thing to look out for in this upcoming Congress: national security issues regarding Elon Musk. His flirtation with Medvedev, even as he is supplying Starlink Internet satellites to Ukraine, could severely compromise Ukraine’s defense. Remember a Russian businessman and Saudi investor provided money for him to acquire Twitter. NASA is having serious reservations about Musk’s harsh management of SpaceX and his lack of expertise in aerospace. He is increasingly displaying labile and manic behaviors that could make him a target for Russian and Chinese spies; his use of controlled substances further indicates he could release classified information, especially now that he is losing money and piling up debt. His right turn under the guise of free speech, considered next to the GOP’s affinity for Russia, creates a delicate situation and potential security risk. If the new House wines and dines Musk, promises him tax breaks and entree into high ranking positions with Space Force, Musk’s once noble ambitions to advance green energy and colonize the moon and Mars could give way to more mundane ambitions to collude with the conservative movement here on Earth. I would pay special attention to how Musk might defect to foreign or domestic political movements that would undermine American tech and sell advanced technologies to the highest bidder to offload his debt and maintain his status. He was pictured in Qatar with Kushner and Arab moguls eager for tech transfer.
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The times require creative housing for keeping people safely sheltered. Beyond that, particular need is seen as people age for providing housing suitable to what are frequently the needs created by the often lowered flexibility and balance issues encountered.Small houses, even perhaps tiny houses, may be easier for those who age. Open floor plans with limited climbing, if any, can find a good benefit. Kitchens need not be large if cooking for one or two and multipurpose rooms can work well for sleeping and entertaining with minor adaptions.It is easier for families to allow independent living for an elder relative in proximity, but with privacy. Creativity in placement and in form can allow for facilitated outreach in bad weather or in some instance of missed communication suspected as representing a problem.Suitable options are limited with Assisted Living facilities often too expensive and impersonal and with many unable to adequately meet the needs for socialization with supervision in an era where staffing has become often unreliable.If areas can get congested with such housing, it is still better than alternatives which see unmanageable distances all too often between a senior and their nearest relatives.
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It’s not “generosity” it’s transactional. Reread the letter and focus on the part about creating an extended family relationship based on money (transactional) and the idea of generosity becomes self serving rationalization.
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As Klein states, the Republican Party is led by private corporations and business institutions like the Chamber of Commerce, Americans for Prosperity and others. For this business elite, an efficient supply chain is essential to production and wealth. Workers are "parts" in the supply chain that must be constantly available, and often imported. That is why the CEO faction of the Republican party is pro-immigration. Assessing human workers as "replaceable parts" in the supply chain, means that safety net programs like Medicaid, Social Security, and the Affordable Care Act are unnecessary business expenses that must be eliminated in order to maximize profits. Enter the "you will not replace us" nationalists. They and their sympathizers represent the enormous backlash against the open immigration policies, paired with entitlement cuts, so dear to CEOs. As usual, with the Republican Party, their base is right that they are being played and dehumanized, but their rage is totally misdirected.
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Thank you again President Biden for siding with the American consumer. Big insurance companies and big pharma have been allowed to prey on the American taxpayer for too long. Yes, these companies will scream, kick and double down on lobbying efforts, especially with their Republican allies but their price gouging and fraud must come to an end.As one who has recently enrolled in Medicare and an advantage plan PPO I was disappointed to learn that United Healthcare and other insurers have been ripping off Medicare. Seniors can be a powerful force for change. Let's make our voices heard
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Longtime Film Forum Director to Step Down After 50 Years Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step down in July after five decades. When Karen Cooper took over Film Forum in 1972, the theater was a projector and 50 folding chairs in a loft on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, showing what were then known as underground films. The annual budget was $19,000. Cooper projected the films — sometimes herself — on a single 16-millimeter machine no larger than a microwave. Karen Cooper, who took over the nonprofit cinema in 1972 and transformed it into a $6 million-a-year operation, will step down in July after five decades.
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“…The companies have already spent more than $2 billion on exploratory work and to prepare for the project. They have the support of many local and state elected officials.”I’m not surprised that the mining companies have the support of “many local and state officials”. An article in the Washington Post this morning reported: “…Arizona Republicans shielded legislators from the state’s open-records law this week — a move that comes months after the release of thousands of documents detailing extensive efforts to undermine Joe Biden’s victory here in the 2020 presidential election.”“…The new rules will greatly limit the public release of lawmakers’ communications. State senators will not have to disclose any text messages sent on personal devices, even when dealing with state business.”This new ruling that also permits the deletion of those messages and no one will ever know what deals they have cut and how the legislators will cash in on their support.“…State senators will not have to disclose any text messages sent on personal devices, even when dealing with state business.”I AM surprised at the number of opinions expressed in favor of the mine and downplaying the wishes of the people for whom the land is sacred. If the Copper or Lithium had been discovered under the National Cathedral, Central Park...or under the grotto in Lourdes, France, what are the chances it would be mined? It seems the question is not whether the land is sacred, but for whom it is sacred to.
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I saw eggs at Walmart where I live up on Puget Sound, and they aren’t any more expensive than normal. I think they were about $2.49 a dozen.
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The continued push for housing and commercial development is all about tax revenues? How about that real estate, construction, banking, and investment interests pretty much have control of every local, regional and state entity regarding planning and development, because there’s money to be made. California’s supposedly pro-environmentalism is a fraud. When push comes to shove, people win and nature loses. Environmental wins are little victories in a losing war of continual population growth and development.
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The collapse of "tech" is happening because "tech" is really garbage like Twitter and Amazon. That's not technology. It's marketing, social media, and hyping of a billion-dollar totally unnecessary business that erodes social skills and people's brains. Even Microsoft and Apple, once the very heart and soul or every personal computer made is now nothing but repackaging, rebranding, price increasing and foisting of new models and features that nobody really needs. When your entire business model is selling expensive, non-essential services and products that you have to hype people into believing they need, sooner or later, that model has to hit the fan.
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Having no shame makes everything easier, particularly shameless acts. Santos has that one talent, and uses it masterfully. Yet even this act, which was clearly ordered from above, is done with the lowliest gesture. Greene can call it bold, that's just lipstick on a pig. Santos, Spanish for 'saints' (the irony is lost on no one), will stay until directed to resign, by McCarthy. That day is coming, once campaign finance allegations are announced. Until then The Shameless will continue to be captured for eleven-second intervals in hallways and awaiting elevator doors to open. I have observed Santos' increasingly combative hit-and-run retorts he get in as the elevator doors close. His latest one is calling reporters dishonest.
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Steve Well, they have been going up of late. And lets face it, the Middle Class is overwhelmed with living beyond their means.Far too many Youngz feel they should be living as they lived under Mom and Dad...with free WiFi, free cable, free food and a well running car at the ready. That their lifestyle should not change from living at home, to living on their own. I recently helped a friend remodel a mother daughter set-up to rent. Really nice, clean, modern set-up, far better than I had when I was renting in my youth. I was there finishing up some work, for several of the walk-thrus...and everyone one of the Young prospective renters asked if, Cable, WiFi, electric and water were included. Shocked that they were not, that they would have to pay for such necessities. That the fair priced rent, didn't include what would likely amount to another $500+ a month shocked them all."Why not?," 24yo asked. "Uh, because they cost money." The agent said, "and the landlord already pays for his own children."When I (24yo)moved out on my own, into a house share with a friend, we didn't eat like Kings. We didnt have a TV for nearly a year. We shared the landline for a year. We scrimped and found short-cuts for all sorts of expenses. I got a second job at a deli, so I could eat there,often bringing home "end of day" food stuffs that couldn't be sold the next day. Living paycheck to paycheck is not new, and these Youngz, need to listen to those who went thru it and learned how.
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We need the following:1.) Expand the US House of Representatives. There are too few people representing too many people. This leads to corruption and partisanship. More, smaller districts will lead to better representatives who are more connected to their constituents.2.) Ban out of district fundraising and spending. I don't need millionaires living in CA or NY giving money to fund campaigns in ID. Representatives should only be able to raise funds from their constituents. And campaign expenditures should only happen within the district. 3.) Keep contribution caps so prominent rich individuals or businesses don't have more financial influence than regular folks. 4.) Tax political contributions and spending. Not only would this encourage actual charitable giving, but those revenues should be able to assist relatively poorer districts. At least it's a start.
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Santos is a poster boy for the Republican Party. His grifts and lies track perfectly with the Party's overall arrogant, hypocritical and callous approach to our realities. Of course the new Speaker of the House welcomes him with open arms and committee assignments.Is it striking that Mr. Intrater is a "wealthy investor" handling the assets of his cousin, a Russian oligarch under US sanctions, but is allowed by the Treasury Department to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to various Republican causes?
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For reasons best known to herself, Frances Fisher really went into overdrive pushing for this nomination, even promulgating the lie that Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler were "locked" as nominees, so "let's make room for Andrea Riseborough". She even included the number of votes necessary in the Academy' s ranked voting system. But this campaign was spearheaded by the director's wife Mary McCormack, and Riseborough's agency, which represents many of the A listers who signal-boosted this effort on social media with cut-and-paste retweets. So Riseborough's "little ol' me" response is disingenuous at best. To Leslie has been out for some time, yet it and Riseborough's performance garnered very little attention before Oscar voting season, unlike the widely-acclaimed performances of Davis and Deadwyler, in films that earned a lot more than $27,000. The optics are not subtle - the spector of a Best Actress category with majority minority nominees was too much for Hollywood, so the white actress cavalry rode to the rescue.
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AndyW I left one job during pandemic due to commute and open plan. The open plan was killing me, and the thought of returning after the relative peace if WFH was too much.
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L : I mostly agree with your comments, but I would add that it's unwise to think the uncles should continue to pay for everything simply bc they can afford to do so.They have, unfortunately, enabled this couple -- nothing, such as the need to pay one's own bills, has forced the agoraphobic SIL to seek treatment and build a life for herself (plus, her agoraphobia is having a bad effect on her kids and her marriage).I'm not suggesting that the modest-income family would necessarily have fared well had the uncles not set up this arrangement. One income for a family of four is nuts, and this country has no safety net (could sh have found the help she needs?), and about half of the country is struggling bc of ruinous GOP economic policies that, since 1980, have funneled $47 trillion upward while cutting wages for the $75K-or-less crowd by about 40% over the past 40 years. I *am* saying that I've seen, with a close relatives, that one person's attempt to help a struggling relative by paying bills (but not insisting on therapy) essentially stunted the struggler's growth -- the struggler has never been self-supporting, is now over 65, and inherited very little (bc the enabler blew so much money on the struggler for 30 years). There has to be a balance. Provide housing but with the proviso that the agoraphobic get help.
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"content": "L : I mostly agree with your comments, but I would add that it's unwise to think the uncles should continue to pay for everything simply bc they can afford to do so.They have, unfortunately, enabled this couple -- nothing, such as the need to pay one's own bills, has forced the agoraphobic SIL to seek treatment and build a life for herself (plus, her agoraphobia is having a bad effect on her kids and her marriage).I'm not suggesting that the modest-income family would necessarily have fared well had the uncles not set up this arrangement. One income for a family of four is nuts, and this country has no safety net (could sh have found the help she needs?), and about half of the country is struggling bc of ruinous GOP economic policies that, since 1980, have funneled $47 trillion upward while cutting wages for the $75K-or-less crowd by about 40% over the past 40 years. I *am* saying that I've seen, with a close relatives, that one person's attempt to help a struggling relative by paying bills (but not insisting on therapy) essentially stunted the struggler's growth -- the struggler has never been self-supporting, is now over 65, and inherited very little (bc the enabler blew so much money on the struggler for 30 years). There has to be a balance. Provide housing but with the proviso that the agoraphobic get help.\n",
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Ever had a Tesla pull up next to you on the freeway and look over to find the driver dead asleep? I have. Did someone with the same make a model deemed asleep in their Tesla a mile from where you saw them die a few weeks later? Yes. Ever been to those road/intersections in Laguna, Fresno, and the 91 where the freeway signs that say end freeway run across the entire freeway? Oddly, I have. Ever met or know people who work for EM and find none of this article out of character? Tell, me, those of you who think this is a hit piece, what is your relationship or personal knowledge of EM? I am appalled. This product is far worse than I thought. The tw statement of funding at $420 a share was straight up SEC illegal. However, I had no idea the product was this bad. All auto driving should be disabled immediately until an independent oversight can deem it safe.
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"content": "Ever had a Tesla pull up next to you on the freeway and look over to find the driver dead asleep? I have. Did someone with the same make a model deemed asleep in their Tesla a mile from where you saw them die a few weeks later? Yes. Ever been to those road/intersections in Laguna, Fresno, and the 91 where the freeway signs that say end freeway run across the entire freeway? Oddly, I have. Ever met or know people who work for EM and find none of this article out of character? Tell, me, those of you who think this is a hit piece, what is your relationship or personal knowledge of EM? I am appalled. This product is far worse than I thought. The tw statement of funding at $420 a share was straight up SEC illegal. However, I had no idea the product was this bad. All auto driving should be disabled immediately until an independent oversight can deem it safe.\n",
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The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war. This lust for war is dangerous, pushing us into a potential war with Russia and, perhaps later, with China — each a nuclear power. It is also economically ruinous. The monopolization of capital by the military has driven U.S. debt to over $30 trillion, $6 trillion more than the U.S. GDP of $24 trillion. Servicing this debt costs $300 billion a year. We spend more on the military than the next nine countries, including China and Russia, combined. Congress is also on track to provide an extra $21.7 billion to the Pentagon — above the already expanded annual budget — to resupply Ukraine. Since the end of the Second World War, the federal government has spent more than half its discretionary budget on past, current and future military operations. It is the largest single sustaining activity of the government. The military-industrial establishment is nothing more than gilded corporate welfare. Military systems are sold before they are produced. Military industries are permitted to charge the federal government for huge cost overruns. Massive profits are guaranteed. For example, this November, the Army awarded Raytheon Technologies alone more than $2 billion in contracts, on top of over $190 million awarded in August …<a href="https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/25/chris-hedges-the-democrats-are-now-the-war-party" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/25/chris-hedges-the-democrats-are-now-the-war-party</a>/
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RoyThis may be true for me. I obtained BTC about 15 years ago by mining it, and while I spent most of it when it was (in my opinion severely overvalued) at $10,000, I still have a few pennies in BTC. My losses are paper, imaginary, and largely an amusing anecdote.Anyone who bought Bitcoin high and was forced to sell low, or is hiding it desperately now, however, lost real money they could have spent on other investments or consumer goods.
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"content": "RoyThis may be true for me. I obtained BTC about 15 years ago by mining it, and while I spent most of it when it was (in my opinion severely overvalued) at $10,000, I still have a few pennies in BTC. My losses are paper, imaginary, and largely an amusing anecdote.Anyone who bought Bitcoin high and was forced to sell low, or is hiding it desperately now, however, lost real money they could have spent on other investments or consumer goods.\n",
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The share of older people, that are still working, lifted significantly AFTER the government raised the retirement threshold to 67 (over a period of 16 years) in Germany. The concerns of the unions back these days („Pension with 67 will just increase poverty of the elderly as there are simply no jobs for them.“), have all been proofed as wrong.Same will happen in France as there will be not enough young employees to fill the open jobs due to demographic changes and the changed threshold will make sure that elderly people will stay longer on the job. At the end of the day, lifting the retirement threshold will help the french economy: less pensioners, less pension payments, less debt thereof, more working people, more GDP, more taxes.And finally, the elderly should also do their share in overcoming current problems and not pass them on to the following generations. Be it in the form of debts, because the comfortable retirement regulation‘s should be kept, be it the continued climate change, because people want to keep their consumption habits.
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"content": "The share of older people, that are still working, lifted significantly AFTER the government raised the retirement threshold to 67 (over a period of 16 years) in Germany. The concerns of the unions back these days („Pension with 67 will just increase poverty of the elderly as there are simply no jobs for them.“), have all been proofed as wrong.Same will happen in France as there will be not enough young employees to fill the open jobs due to demographic changes and the changed threshold will make sure that elderly people will stay longer on the job. At the end of the day, lifting the retirement threshold will help the french economy: less pensioners, less pension payments, less debt thereof, more working people, more GDP, more taxes.And finally, the elderly should also do their share in overcoming current problems and not pass them on to the following generations. Be it in the form of debts, because the comfortable retirement regulation‘s should be kept, be it the continued climate change, because people want to keep their consumption habits.\n",
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$ $ $ Follow the $who owns this faker? How did they really think they could get away with buying a Congressman? Because they almost did.The end is near Mr. Santos.Be smart :resign and get a made for TV movie deal- your best bet. But you are arrogant and not smart. It will end badly for the Rs and him.very badly
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"content": "$ $ $ Follow the $who owns this faker? How did they really think they could get away with buying a Congressman? Because they almost did.The end is near Mr. Santos.Be smart :resign and get a made for TV movie deal- your best bet. But you are arrogant and not smart. It will end badly for the Rs and him.very badly\n",
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Memes I think you have a very common- sense approach and valid viewpoint. Keeping the lines of communication open to the extent possible is key.
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Leninzen At the risk of sounding like I work for Zillow, that site tells you the monthly cost of each option to make comparing easier. For example, a 2 BR 2 BA condo in Fort Lee is presently listed at $4888 per month (the number assumes a mortgage) and a comparable 2 BR 2 BA coop is listed at $3163 per month (also assuming a mortgage). Typically, the purchase price of a coop is lower but the maintenance is higher, usually because coop maintenance includes an underlying mortgage, as well as taxes and utilities, while condo owners cover these costs themselves. There are other important differences between condos and coops so prospective purchasers be sure to do your homework!
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Kickstart affordable housing: minimum 800sq ft for 1bdr and +200sq ft for each additional room minimum. $18/year/sq. ft. lease maximum and the units immediately join rent stabilization program. Program covers Manhattan and Brooklyn initially.Every sq. ft. built this way releases 4sq ft. of vouchers to build new market-rate housing. Every new project absolutely requires these vouchers - or your project cannot be approved. Period. These vouchers may be sold on open market and are kept track of centrally by the city, which takes a 10% sales fee for each transfer (avoid churn; self-fund the program). Cheaters have their units immediately converted to $18/sq. ft./year starting rent stabilized units and join the program at a penalty rate of 2:1 (ie: if you cheat and build an extra 100,000 sq. feet of market rate units without the proper vouchers, 200,000 sq. ft. of your units are permanently converted to stabilized.).
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"content": "Kickstart affordable housing: minimum 800sq ft for 1bdr and +200sq ft for each additional room minimum. $18/year/sq. ft. lease maximum and the units immediately join rent stabilization program. Program covers Manhattan and Brooklyn initially.Every sq. ft. built this way releases 4sq ft. of vouchers to build new market-rate housing. Every new project absolutely requires these vouchers - or your project cannot be approved. Period. These vouchers may be sold on open market and are kept track of centrally by the city, which takes a 10% sales fee for each transfer (avoid churn; self-fund the program). Cheaters have their units immediately converted to $18/sq. ft./year starting rent stabilized units and join the program at a penalty rate of 2:1 (ie: if you cheat and build an extra 100,000 sq. feet of market rate units without the proper vouchers, 200,000 sq. ft. of your units are permanently converted to stabilized.).\n",
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| no | Classification | 370 |
Just to be clear, when a company builds warehouse, it's investing. When a person upgrades the kitchen in their home, it's investing. When our government upgrades our infrastructure and reduces the cost insulin to $35 a dose, it is investing.We are not "spending" our tax revenue. We are making investments in ourselves and our country.Even if profiteers and Wall Street want us to believe we're "spending" away! How else can they convince us to privatize our assets so they can charge us for using what was ours to begin with?
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"content": "Just to be clear, when a company builds warehouse, it's investing. When a person upgrades the kitchen in their home, it's investing. When our government upgrades our infrastructure and reduces the cost insulin to $35 a dose, it is investing.We are not \"spending\" our tax revenue. We are making investments in ourselves and our country.Even if profiteers and Wall Street want us to believe we're \"spending\" away! How else can they convince us to privatize our assets so they can charge us for using what was ours to begin with?\n",
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10,000 is ridiculous. Doesn't that bankrupt people?Healthcare insurance is mandatory in NL btw I think that also helps to reduce cost.
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"content": "10,000 is ridiculous. Doesn't that bankrupt people?Healthcare insurance is mandatory in NL btw I think that also helps to reduce cost.\n",
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How much more evidence do we need about the religious bigotry of the Modi government? This is a BBC documentary about a major event in recent Indian history and the Modi government won't let anyone watch it. This is a far bigger issue than students watching it or not -- this is about whether we, the United States, consider the Modi government an ally when it is practicing open and outright discrimination against Muslims and Christians. Our government looks the other way, as it does regarding the new Israeli government which has similar discriminatory and oppressive policies.And of course, Google is cooperating, as the article says: "Without banning the documentary officially, India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting blocked segments of “The Modi Question” from appearing on YouTube, with the cooperation of the site’s parent company, Alphabet."Shame on Modi and shame on Alphabet/Google/YouTube.
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"content": "How much more evidence do we need about the religious bigotry of the Modi government? This is a BBC documentary about a major event in recent Indian history and the Modi government won't let anyone watch it. This is a far bigger issue than students watching it or not -- this is about whether we, the United States, consider the Modi government an ally when it is practicing open and outright discrimination against Muslims and Christians. Our government looks the other way, as it does regarding the new Israeli government which has similar discriminatory and oppressive policies.And of course, Google is cooperating, as the article says: \"Without banning the documentary officially, India’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting blocked segments of “The Modi Question” from appearing on YouTube, with the cooperation of the site’s parent company, Alphabet.\"Shame on Modi and shame on Alphabet/Google/YouTube.\n",
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Adam Good point. I too hastily read the article "In the years leading up to the pandemic, aviation emitted roughly a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, about as much as the entire continent of South America in 2021. And the figures are bouncing back as passengers return to the skies" and misremembered a billion tons of CO2 as a billion tons of fuel. Still, there's concern about where the CO2 and water vapor and other products of combustion are spewed. The upper atmosphere is being treated as a dump for those things the way the Atlantic off New Jersey used to be treated as a dump for municipal sludge. The consequences are not well studied.As far as I know it doesn't exist but a solar/battery/wind hybrid ship might be feasible. Some mega-yachts are wind powered. A half-ship weight battery doesn't seem prohibitive in terms of navigability or cargo capacity.Vehicle weight and energy use per passenger mile are independent variables. A train may weigh more per passenger than a plane but a plane has to expend a lot more energy to overcome gravity and air resistance.
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"content": "Adam Good point. I too hastily read the article \"In the years leading up to the pandemic, aviation emitted roughly a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, about as much as the entire continent of South America in 2021. And the figures are bouncing back as passengers return to the skies\" and misremembered a billion tons of CO2 as a billion tons of fuel. Still, there's concern about where the CO2 and water vapor and other products of combustion are spewed. The upper atmosphere is being treated as a dump for those things the way the Atlantic off New Jersey used to be treated as a dump for municipal sludge. The consequences are not well studied.As far as I know it doesn't exist but a solar/battery/wind hybrid ship might be feasible. Some mega-yachts are wind powered. A half-ship weight battery doesn't seem prohibitive in terms of navigability or cargo capacity.Vehicle weight and energy use per passenger mile are independent variables. A train may weigh more per passenger than a plane but a plane has to expend a lot more energy to overcome gravity and air resistance.\n",
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Khan has some things right and wrong:Right: Workers without strategic or technologic proprietary knowledge should not be subject to non-competes. Makes no sense and is being used to hurt their competitors with the "janitor" being the casualty. Wrong: Applied correctly, non-competes do not hurt innovation or the economy. I would argue just the opposite. Khan cites lots of studies supporting her point of view but what about when companies specifically target their competitors proprietary knowledge? Anthony Levandowski was at the heart of a $45M settlement related to proprietary theft -- and Google knew exactly what they were doing?Non-competes do not prevent from starting your own company or building a better mouse trap -- provided it is based on your work and ideas and not someone else's. Non-competes also can't be used to prevent someone from earning living and it would be extremely rare for a highly skilled knowledge worker not to be able to find a valuable position that would not violate their non-compete.By the way, I was sued by my former employer when I started my first company. The suit was baseless and we went on to great success but not without the judge fumbling this way through to this conclusion. Judges should do a better job in dismissing nuisance lawsuits from company's that are trying to stifle legitimate innovation -- try innovating there.
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"content": "Khan has some things right and wrong:Right: Workers without strategic or technologic proprietary knowledge should not be subject to non-competes. Makes no sense and is being used to hurt their competitors with the \"janitor\" being the casualty. Wrong: Applied correctly, non-competes do not hurt innovation or the economy. I would argue just the opposite. Khan cites lots of studies supporting her point of view but what about when companies specifically target their competitors proprietary knowledge? Anthony Levandowski was at the heart of a $45M settlement related to proprietary theft -- and Google knew exactly what they were doing?Non-competes do not prevent from starting your own company or building a better mouse trap -- provided it is based on your work and ideas and not someone else's. Non-competes also can't be used to prevent someone from earning living and it would be extremely rare for a highly skilled knowledge worker not to be able to find a valuable position that would not violate their non-compete.By the way, I was sued by my former employer when I started my first company. The suit was baseless and we went on to great success but not without the judge fumbling this way through to this conclusion. Judges should do a better job in dismissing nuisance lawsuits from company's that are trying to stifle legitimate innovation -- try innovating there.\n",
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Stu Probably not doctors, but many so-called "essential workers"-- the nurses, truck drivers, and particularly teachers-- are paid very poorly to work long, grueling hours. Yes, some of those jobs are paid in some kind of "psychic gratification" for "serving" society. But few are willing to accept that form of payment. So they burn out and quit, leaving shortages because their potential replacements don't hear the "calling" and aren't eager to accept a demanding but low-paying job. The CEOs and private equity partners, of course, refuse to recognize that reality (or to give up any of their entitled wealth). It's the fault of "lazy workers" or "Big Government" disincentives to work; so they invest in Republican politicians who will fix the problem by destroying what's left of our threadbare social safety net. The so-called Free Market is perverse indeed. It sets the minimum value on so many essential jobs, but exalts otherwise-useless jobs selling products people really don't need or shuffling paper and money. And it assigns the highest value to people who make wealthy investors richer through mass layoffs, stock buybacks, and purely financial transactions that produce no goods or services and contribute nothing to the overall economy. By any definition that market is dysfunctional because it fails so many people. But because it does such a great job of siphoning the nation's wealth to the wealthiest persons (individual and corporate), it's working perfectly.
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"content": "Stu Probably not doctors, but many so-called \"essential workers\"-- the nurses, truck drivers, and particularly teachers-- are paid very poorly to work long, grueling hours. Yes, some of those jobs are paid in some kind of \"psychic gratification\" for \"serving\" society. But few are willing to accept that form of payment. So they burn out and quit, leaving shortages because their potential replacements don't hear the \"calling\" and aren't eager to accept a demanding but low-paying job. The CEOs and private equity partners, of course, refuse to recognize that reality (or to give up any of their entitled wealth). It's the fault of \"lazy workers\" or \"Big Government\" disincentives to work; so they invest in Republican politicians who will fix the problem by destroying what's left of our threadbare social safety net. The so-called Free Market is perverse indeed. It sets the minimum value on so many essential jobs, but exalts otherwise-useless jobs selling products people really don't need or shuffling paper and money. And it assigns the highest value to people who make wealthy investors richer through mass layoffs, stock buybacks, and purely financial transactions that produce no goods or services and contribute nothing to the overall economy. By any definition that market is dysfunctional because it fails so many people. But because it does such a great job of siphoning the nation's wealth to the wealthiest persons (individual and corporate), it's working perfectly.\n",
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