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Novak Djokovic Captures His 10th Australian Open Men’s Singles Title After missing last year’s tournament when he was deported for being unvaccinated for Covid-19, the Serb beat Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in straight sets to win his 22nd Grand Slam title. MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic came to Australia with a mission, or, really, a series of them. After missing last year’s tournament when he was deported for being unvaccinated for Covid-19, the Serb beat Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece in straight sets to win his 22nd Grand Slam title.
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| no | Classification | 877 |
Ithaca Reader In my home state (GA), we supposedly have similar protections. Despite our lax open carry rules, private businesses can post signs forbidding guns on their property. The problem with this is enforcement. If the grocery store forbids guns on their premises, but a 2A absolutist refuses to comply, how does the grocery store enforce their rule? The police won’t enforce the policy because no law is being broken.
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"content": "Ithaca Reader In my home state (GA), we supposedly have similar protections. Despite our lax open carry rules, private businesses can post signs forbidding guns on their property. The problem with this is enforcement. If the grocery store forbids guns on their premises, but a 2A absolutist refuses to comply, how does the grocery store enforce their rule? The police won’t enforce the policy because no law is being broken.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,656 |
John D Warnock really? Trumps family’s time will come? What about those Chinese patents? What about the $2 billion for kushners from the Saudi’s? Who knows what else? Nothing ever happens to them
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"content": "John D Warnock really? Trumps family’s time will come? What about those Chinese patents? What about the $2 billion for kushners from the Saudi’s? Who knows what else? Nothing ever happens to them\n",
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| no | Classification | 596 |
While Princess Diana was an incredible woman at so many different levels including as a mother to her young children and with her charitable work I think she caused irreparable harm to the royal family by opening the royal family to attack by the media and turning them into spetacles for no holds bar attack with her very public private life after her divorce. That continues to this day.It works much better in other European royal families and Japan and elsewhere where the royal families stay out of hte press and are beyond approach.
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"content": "While Princess Diana was an incredible woman at so many different levels including as a mother to her young children and with her charitable work I think she caused irreparable harm to the royal family by opening the royal family to attack by the media and turning them into spetacles for no holds bar attack with her very public private life after her divorce. That continues to this day.It works much better in other European royal families and Japan and elsewhere where the royal families stay out of hte press and are beyond approach.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,174 |
Since April 15, 2021, my 61 year old brother has been at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester NY. He initially suffered a stroke, then had three open heart surgeries, now has a pacemaker and a LVAD device. CDIFF, pneumonia, changing blood pressure, bedsores, infection, pain, sepsis, immobility, depression, anxiety, no appetite, are only a few of the things he deals with daily. All because of a stroke! Hoyer lift needed, he is getting minimal physical therapy at the areas "best hospital" I send him special meals with UBER EATS and the meals are not delivered.All he wants to do is GO HOME. O, also, he was a dentist and his insurance is running out. I need help figuring out what to do...
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"content": "Since April 15, 2021, my 61 year old brother has been at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester NY. He initially suffered a stroke, then had three open heart surgeries, now has a pacemaker and a LVAD device. CDIFF, pneumonia, changing blood pressure, bedsores, infection, pain, sepsis, immobility, depression, anxiety, no appetite, are only a few of the things he deals with daily. All because of a stroke! Hoyer lift needed, he is getting minimal physical therapy at the areas \"best hospital\" I send him special meals with UBER EATS and the meals are not delivered.All he wants to do is GO HOME. O, also, he was a dentist and his insurance is running out. I need help figuring out what to do...\n",
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China’s Via Technologies recruited chinese high school students and pointed them to Stanford and Berkeley electrical engineering. Then VT steered them to work by day for Intel. By night, they sent secrets to back to China. This 10 year plan was exposed when Intel sued. Chinese use your openness — as their weapon. Trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions with your money do you think China will let its investment sit idle?
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"content": "China’s Via Technologies recruited chinese high school students and pointed them to Stanford and Berkeley electrical engineering. Then VT steered them to work by day for Intel. By night, they sent secrets to back to China. This 10 year plan was exposed when Intel sued. Chinese use your openness — as their weapon. Trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions with your money do you think China will let its investment sit idle?\n",
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DuckSoup Try $5-6k in San Francisco. $2000 will rent you a mailbox here.
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"content": "DuckSoup Try $5-6k in San Francisco. $2000 will rent you a mailbox here.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,864 |
Just as Trump was investigated for having classified documents, so too should Biden. Trump is not/was not a politician, so he protested handing them over. Biden is a "seasoned" politician, so he knows to hand them over without protest. It's sad that Trump & Biden were the only two candidates in ALL of America that we were given a choice to vote for. Perhaps we should "re-think" the way primaries are run and open them up to ALL voters to participate in, not just party affiliates.
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"content": "Just as Trump was investigated for having classified documents, so too should Biden. Trump is not/was not a politician, so he protested handing them over. Biden is a \"seasoned\" politician, so he knows to hand them over without protest. It's sad that Trump & Biden were the only two candidates in ALL of America that we were given a choice to vote for. Perhaps we should \"re-think\" the way primaries are run and open them up to ALL voters to participate in, not just party affiliates.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,948 |
I would go so far as to say that any american company still invested with or investing in China -- while China supports Putin in his genocidal war of aggression-- is a borderline traitor.There, I said it.
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"content": "I would go so far as to say that any american company still invested with or investing in China -- while China supports Putin in his genocidal war of aggression-- is a borderline traitor.There, I said it.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,918 |
Ricard Peircè The investigation of the Trump Foundation discovered that Trump operated it through "a shocking pattern of criminality." The final case documents include a rap sheet of the financial crimes Trump committed through his foundation. Trump had to pay a $2 million penalty. Trump was barred from working for tax exempt organizations.The Trump Foundation was legally compelled to close.Because Trump was laundering money through a tax exempt organization, and using it for his private businesses, tax free, Trump was stealing from tax payers.The investigation produced very good results. It was absolutely worthwhile. And conversely, leaving Trump to continue committing crimes through the Trump Foundation would have been unthinkable.
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| no | Classification | 1,967 |
Stan Continople I'm more interested in 'serendipity' than miracles. For example, just now I was watching Jeopardy and the contestant lost $ 6,000 on a Double Jeopardy bet forwhich the answer was -- Constantinople. Then I scrolleddown exactly one comment, to your screen name.
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| yes | Classification | 8,059 |
social security depends on younger workers supporting older workers? I must have been imagining that half a million that I paid into the system over my working lifetime. in fact, I am, at 70, still paying in as I have kept working.if younger workers are really the future for my, after tax (thanks for nothing mr. Reagan), $2500 per month payment? this system is truly and irredeemably broken.
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| no | Classification | 2,895 |
Very disappointed here, but completely understand. The level of misogynistic vitriol that accompanied any mention of one of the best prime ministers we've had has astonished me.Kiwis, but also many overseas right wing commentators, commenting on her looks, misrepresenting every move she made, and blaming every little issue in their lives on her personally. High interest rates? Jacinda's to blame. Inflation? Yep. Covid? Should have opened earlier/later and on it goes. And no tweet without some derogatory photo/meme attacking her as a woman.My guess is she will leave New Zealand behind and who could blame her? We don't deserve her ability.
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"content": "Very disappointed here, but completely understand. The level of misogynistic vitriol that accompanied any mention of one of the best prime ministers we've had has astonished me.Kiwis, but also many overseas right wing commentators, commenting on her looks, misrepresenting every move she made, and blaming every little issue in their lives on her personally. High interest rates? Jacinda's to blame. Inflation? Yep. Covid? Should have opened earlier/later and on it goes. And no tweet without some derogatory photo/meme attacking her as a woman.My guess is she will leave New Zealand behind and who could blame her? We don't deserve her ability.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,104 |
DL I've shared this point of view for awhile but was reluctant to comment in the past fearing it might appear too cynical. The "motive" is irrelevant because nothing will change. You don't need a sermon from a northern neighbour but as a frequent visitor to the U.S. I have a stake in this. Take a look at a few Canadian gun retailer websites to see what is required to purchase firearms. When you click on handguns they are virtually impossible to acquire. Open carry/conceal carry; good luck with that.
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"content": "DL I've shared this point of view for awhile but was reluctant to comment in the past fearing it might appear too cynical. The \"motive\" is irrelevant because nothing will change. You don't need a sermon from a northern neighbour but as a frequent visitor to the U.S. I have a stake in this. Take a look at a few Canadian gun retailer websites to see what is required to purchase firearms. When you click on handguns they are virtually impossible to acquire. Open carry/conceal carry; good luck with that.\n",
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MORE SUCCINCT HINTSAC Pimples(4)AE A lifetime(4)AL Genes(6) Children's reward for doing chores(9) Succulent plant(4) By self(5)AN Begin again(4) Temper metal(6)CA Scrap plans(6) Walking stick(4) Paddle your own ______(5)CE Small prison room(4) Bass instrument (violin)(5)CL Unsoiled(5) Identical copy(5)CO Irish lass(7) High ranking army officer(7) Hide(7) Holds ice cream(4)EL Enthusiasm(4)EN Entwine(6)LA Open fabric(4) Spear(5) Narrow road(4)LE Slim(4)LO Where something happens(6) By self(4)NE Rare goose from Hawaii(4) Political conservative(6) Fluorescent light(4) Column, pillar(5)NO Christmas carol(4) Single occasion(5) Not any(4)OC Large sea(5)OL Margarine(4)ON One time only(4)WA Ridge on corduroy(4) Decrease in power(4)WE Welt or wound(4) Accustom infant to food other than mother's milk(4) Healthy, skillfully(4)WO Made from sheep’s coat(6)
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MidtownATL If the Repubs actually cared about deficits, the national debt, or fiscal responsibility, they would be applauding the $80 billion in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act to modernize and improve the function of the IRS. Instead, getting rid of that allocation is at the top of their wish list. Their idol is Trump, whose biggest business success has been dodging taxes. They want to gut Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid. Further evidence that their real constituency is the wealthy. What I don't understand are the working class folks that cheer them on.
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“Our average check hovered around $60 a person.”The food you’re describing isn’t available for double that price anywhere I’ve been. You’re not charging enough.
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My husband has a chronic lung disease that requires him to alternate between home infusions of antibiotics 2x a day for several months each year and taking oral meds when he is not infusing. Medicare does not cover the type of home infusion therapy he receives, because the drugs are not delivered in a durable medical equipment (the only type that Medicare covers). There is no choice in the delivery system. The company that specializes in infusions, charges $1500/mo to monitor his care and shipping supplies and drugs every week. This is a cost that Medicare simply won't cover no matter how much you spend in a year. The drugs themselves (which Medicare does cover) cost another $1700-$1200 a month. When he is not infusing, he has to take oral meds, one of which costs $2750 before reaching catastrophic phase and $807+ once he reaches it. Additionally, he spends another $200+ monthly to treat other conditions he has. As of now, we've been able to pay for these from our savings but it is not tenable over the long term. Perhaps we will at some point become impoverished enough to qualify for Medicaid, which I am told does cover home infusion costs.
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Walter You nailed it,loopholes.Corps and very wealth individuals should pay their fair share.Why on this earth do middle class and the poor pay 15 to 30% of their income and Mil's and bil's pay 1.6%.So the truth is, this country is allowing the filthy rich to live in luxury while the less that 1% pay all the bills.My father sold his factories in 64.The tax rate was 92 cents on the dollar between 1960 and 64..He had to buy losing company's to get write offs which gave him a tax rate around 60%.After his death he had a 1.5 mil tax credit.My mother went to collect on it and the IRS said you are 1 day too late.UNBELIEVABLE!!!My father paid his share and even mine today.
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"content": "Walter You nailed it,loopholes.Corps and very wealth individuals should pay their fair share.Why on this earth do middle class and the poor pay 15 to 30% of their income and Mil's and bil's pay 1.6%.So the truth is, this country is allowing the filthy rich to live in luxury while the less that 1% pay all the bills.My father sold his factories in 64.The tax rate was 92 cents on the dollar between 1960 and 64..He had to buy losing company's to get write offs which gave him a tax rate around 60%.After his death he had a 1.5 mil tax credit.My mother went to collect on it and the IRS said you are 1 day too late.UNBELIEVABLE!!!My father paid his share and even mine today.\n",
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I have a lot of reasonable, kind people I know. I call some of them very good friends. Like me, they really don't like being labeled as liberal, conservative or anything else. We think, we consider. We work hard and do what we can to help others, particularly those who are disadvantaged, or who have had some kind of setback or tragedy. We are what I'd call caring, considerate and reasoned. This article lays out how some very nasty people have latched onto something that I have seen in my own circles of reasonable people: a backlash against all the whatever you want to call it - wokeness, ultra-sensitivity, cancelling and all the other terms being cast around and at people because of anything they might have done or said that has supposedly offended someone. That has got to the point where it's as bad as some of the far-right's nastiness. And that's what these guys like DeSantis have tapped into. They know that a large number of people in this country are turned off by the idea that you have to self edit and not express what you think around people you don't know. Civil conversation has ended in this country. Now, one fringe trying to stick it to the other fringe and vice versa has the rest of us caught in the middle. The left and right fringe wars are sucking the quality of life right out of the most important things - freedom of speech, education, the open exchange of ideas in a civil manner. The country is awash in guns and anger permeates everything. Sick.
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Scott Having elected to Congress Mr.Santos thought that he has won the game. He has failed to understand that Truth will always triumph in the end. Now his untruths about his education and finances are in the open. Now investigations will begin and he might have to resign his seat in Congress as a result of it. Most Republicans are not wedded to integrity and somehow they want to get elected .American public should support candidates who have integrity and prepared to serve the country rather than themselves Besides the voting record of people in nerica is very poor compared to other democracies. Then only there is hope for deserving Congressmen arrive on the political scene.
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"content": "Scott Having elected to Congress Mr.Santos thought that he has won the game. He has failed to understand that Truth will always triumph in the end. Now his untruths about his education and finances are in the open. Now investigations will begin and he might have to resign his seat in Congress as a result of it. Most Republicans are not wedded to integrity and somehow they want to get elected .American public should support candidates who have integrity and prepared to serve the country rather than themselves Besides the voting record of people in nerica is very poor compared to other democracies. Then only there is hope for deserving Congressmen arrive on the political scene.\n",
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Lyndsey Marie Shanley I've been telling friends who have been complaining about egg prices to go to Aldis! They were around $3. a dozen the other day. They also have excellent inexpensive (by comparison to other major groceries) produce prices.
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Zoey Grey Santos was a good enough "communicator" to get himself elected to the US Congress.The fact that Trump has a diploma on his wall does not impress me, notwithstanding that it's from Penn. He needed a significant amount of family "help" from what I've read to even get in there.And I'm supposed to be impressed by the fact that he was a reality tv star? Really? And he's "an adult human being" with a family? Wow, what an impressive point, I should just give up now.If you start out with 400 million dollars, it can't be all that hard to build a network of "powerful, influential friends".Your arguments are laughable. What Santos did is much more impressive on a relative basis. He started from zero and now occupies one of the most coveted positions that this country has to offer.
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This is a worthwhile read, and I thank Mr. Walther for his efforts in discussing the more subtle aspects of Pope Benedict XVI's theological thoughts, and by extension, the dogma of the Church. For the record, I am an atheist. However, I am well aware that 21st-century Roman Catholic theology is complex and sophisticated, and many of its theologians acknowledge the evolution of the natural world and the spiritual (cosmic) universe. This metaphysic of evolution bears no resemblance to the Church's popular folk religion image or thumbnail explanations of its rituals. Ignorance of a deeper understanding of Roman Catholic thought results in the intellectual impoverishment of all truth-seekers. Again, I thank Mr. Walther for bringing this to our attention.
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We should support more local papers like The North Shore Leader (owned by a Republican), who first broke the story of George Santos as a “fake”. A democracy can only flourish if, at the very least, newspapers are given the financial ability to stay viable. Although NYT does exceptional reporting, it is often the local papers who feel the pulse of their community. The North Shore Leader warned about the fraud George Santos was perpetrating on the constituents of NY-3rd CD, as did the Daily Beast & Newsday. However, elitist papers like NYT often snub the goings-on of local communities, unless it rises to the level of sensationalism. I encourage everyone in communities across the U.S. to either donate or “subscribe” to the many papers that are often distributed as “free” to the local libraries or community centers. They might cover “fluff articles” like a local business opening (or closing), parade events , or community activities, but these local papers are the heart & soul of our communities, who every once in a while, expose wrongdoing that rises to a national level.
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A $500 million Capital investment then a $ 500 million license fee and its not going to be about casinos?
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I believe your premise is true. She is held to a different standard. Yes.But to write this piece and not mention the roads (see the Insta page called "LATFS"), the garbage (as explained in another reply), the education system, any specifics on decisions made compounding the crime issue, the recent article written through Freedom of Information Act access showing how she goes days at a time without taking/making any calls or answering emails, the travel fiasco, the unused $194m in federal funds, and the specific corruption leading to the FBI investigation is an odd take. I do not hear folks comparing the current state as being anything close to the shenanigans of the past, hurricanes excluded. These events now are not the same as the other mayors to which you compare her.
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Eric B Wordle 584 2/6*⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩I have some go-to words for when I get a one-out-of-five situation, like today's opener. A few days ago I discovered that some of them were on the used solution list. The one I would have used today was one of those—a good vowel-fishing word too—but with its first letter changed, it's back in action. The result was a deuce, which is more than I expected, but I'll take it. I'd be willing to take a few more, in fact.Yesterday's words:STARE 106 words leftGLOVE 7 words leftFLUKE 2 words leftPLUME 1 word leftELUDE —words leftIn answer to my third word, the bot suggested FLUME, a previous solution, and scored my word lower. I protest: A word that cannot be a solution again—at least not yet—should have been scored at zero, far below the score for my word. I see nothing "more efficient" about using words that won't solve the puzzle in hard mode. As it is, my word differed by only one letter, and I still got the solve. What does it know?Congratulations to Spelling Marauder, Great Lakes, and Eric B (& any others, since) on their deuces as well. Woo-hoo to you all. I still await a replay of that day last October when at least eleven of us solved in three or fewer steps. (Oct. 28, '22; here's the link: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/crosswords/spelling-bee-forum.html#permid=121179596" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/crosswords/spelling-bee-forum.html#permid=121179596</a>Wherever you are, I hope you're warmer than here: it's 31 degrees outside. Not that I'm complaining or anything.
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Dan Azerbijan (Aliyev) has been th agressor since 2020. He is selling Russian oil to Europe, so there is no sanction on Russian oil. Europe is closing their eyes as long as they have heat. Artsakh is the Armenian name of Nagorno-Karaback (Russo- Turkish name for black mountain). If anyone read the Pandora Papers, they will see how corrupt Aliyev is with money laundering and stashing the country's wealth from oil into his private assets around the world.
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While this is a fascinating idea there is a flaw in the logic that, if our reality is a computer construct , we could actually effect changes to the program.This thesis presupposes that said computer works in the same way as computers work in what we experience as reality. Who is to say this is so? The "computer" in this theory may be based upon principles that we would have no way to understand, much less change as easily as is implied.For instance, all computers in our reality are based on a binary logic of 1's and 0's. The combination of this very basic foundation is the underpinning of every computer on the planet. However, it is entirely possible to create computer logic based upon an entirely different methodology. It could, for instance, require the perception of a 4th dimension which we can theorize, but not perceive. Computer logic could be designed upon a combination of colors that we cannot see or sounds beyond our perception.Is our reality a computer simulation? Since it cannot be disproved, it remains possible. Far less possible is our ability to change that programThe ultimate flaw in this theory is that the "Programmer" worked for Microsoft .
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Don’t you have an open-primary system where it’s conceivable Schiff and Porter could be the two candidates in November?
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Steve: I respectfully disagree. People in the bottom half of the income spectrum spend virtually every penny they make, and therefore would end up paying 30% on their entire income, with no deductions or exemptions - a big tax increase for those who can least afford it. Meanwhile, wealthy people bank the vast majority of their income and would therefore pay a miniscule %. You favor a system where the poor pay 30% and the rich pay perhaps 2% just so those who barely afford food have "skin in the game"?
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JHM I'm 75, my spouse 86. Unable to get timely appointments with primary, pulmonary and derm, paying over $700/mon for my antidepressant until I hit catastrophic then it is $100. Things may be better here, but they ain't good.
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I would expect the majority of Americans do not support "Permissive gun laws." So... why don't the Democrats propose legislation next week banning "open carry?" If the Republicans vote it down (and they likely will), then the Democrats must publicly list the name of every Republican who voted it down. And command significant media attention. The Democrats have nothing to lose by proposing majority favored legislation. And it demonstrates to Americans that the Democrats care about gun violence, and are actively trying to address it. Complacency gets us nowhere.
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"content": "I would expect the majority of Americans do not support \"Permissive gun laws.\" So... why don't the Democrats propose legislation next week banning \"open carry?\" If the Republicans vote it down (and they likely will), then the Democrats must publicly list the name of every Republican who voted it down. And command significant media attention. The Democrats have nothing to lose by proposing majority favored legislation. And it demonstrates to Americans that the Democrats care about gun violence, and are actively trying to address it. Complacency gets us nowhere.\n",
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Lovely story of one person, helping save lives and fighting off big business. The price-gouging by the American pharmaceutical industry is appalling and anti-democratic. We need drug price-control legislation along with universal health care.Alabama refuses to extend Medicaid, which for Alabama is over 70% federally funded. That tells you all you need to know about Republican priorities: Scoring political points comes first, while fellow human beings in need are a distant second, if they count at all.
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Gsry Ostroff It is an investment in the future when it is spent on a capital project that will last longer than the time to repay the debt or will produce value greater than the debt, such as roads or good quality pure research. Lots of the federal spending financed by debt is not spent that way, so in a lot of ways it is like a giant household budget. Borrowing to buy a house is usually good, long term borrowing to buy football tickets is not.
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Laura "Why does it matter?"When we all opened our accounts with the NYTs we agreed to their Terms of Service, including section 5."5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; INDEMNIFICATION; LIMITATION OF LIABILITIES5.1 You represent, warrant and covenant (a) that no materials of any kind submitted through your account will (i) violate, plagiarize, or infringe upon the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary rights; or (ii) contain libelous or otherwise unlawful material; (b) that you are at least thirteen years old if you are in the USA and the UK, and sixteen years old anywhere else; and (c) if you are under eighteen years old, your parent or legal guardian has read these Terms of Service and agreed to them and your use of the Service. "<a href="https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service" target="_blank">https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service</a><a href="https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service#5" target="_blank">https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014893428-Terms-of-Service#5</a>
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That's like a $3 parking ticket. He can bilk that out of his supporters in 10 minutes over a single tweet begging for campaign money.
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Len I can't imagine anyone earning millions of dollars annually when it takes most people decades to earn a simple one million. These CEO's you defend make the world less equal. Their off-spring (often numerous -- just look at Musk, Trump and now so many celebrities who have 5 or more children) are pampered and supported for the rest of their lives often. I am all for a 10 to 1 earning ratio for all workers. Some people work risky and difficult jobs and should be compensated for them. Others have relatively easy jobs, but the notion that one person's contribution is more than 10 times another's turns money into a weapon rather than a means of exchange. We all have to work together to make our society function. Using money as a weapon creates conflict and inefficiencies. Perhaps the younger generations, many of whom have been sidelined, will be the catalyst of change in values, which will change our work compensation ratios to something sensible.
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"content": "Len I can't imagine anyone earning millions of dollars annually when it takes most people decades to earn a simple one million. These CEO's you defend make the world less equal. Their off-spring (often numerous -- just look at Musk, Trump and now so many celebrities who have 5 or more children) are pampered and supported for the rest of their lives often. I am all for a 10 to 1 earning ratio for all workers. Some people work risky and difficult jobs and should be compensated for them. Others have relatively easy jobs, but the notion that one person's contribution is more than 10 times another's turns money into a weapon rather than a means of exchange. We all have to work together to make our society function. Using money as a weapon creates conflict and inefficiencies. Perhaps the younger generations, many of whom have been sidelined, will be the catalyst of change in values, which will change our work compensation ratios to something sensible.\n",
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Do we really want to compare our debt levels to Britain's in the past? During the first period, the Brits ran debt levels > 200% of GDP, they were expanding their empire and pillaging wealth from the rest of the world. During the second period, they were fighting WWII where they lost their preeminence and empire. The Fed has facilitated our debt binge with QE. We have reached a point where paying interest on our debt will start competing with our defense spending. Another way, we are looking at a debt spiral. Interest payments on debt do not contribute to economic growth.
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"content": "Do we really want to compare our debt levels to Britain's in the past? During the first period, the Brits ran debt levels > 200% of GDP, they were expanding their empire and pillaging wealth from the rest of the world. During the second period, they were fighting WWII where they lost their preeminence and empire. The Fed has facilitated our debt binge with QE. We have reached a point where paying interest on our debt will start competing with our defense spending. Another way, we are looking at a debt spiral. Interest payments on debt do not contribute to economic growth.\n",
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Cynthia $858,000,000,000 or $2600 per person ($10400 for a family of four) for fiscal 2023 for the Department of Defense. That doesn't include the DHS. Mr. Appelbaum for some reason does not put that under discretionary spending. It is quite different from Social Security, Medicare, and interest payments, which are payments already promised for as far as the eye can see, isn't it? Did the Congress promise to keep 1,358,500 active duty servicemen and women until the year 2100, and I missed it? Did they make a promise to keep building $13,000,000,000 aircraft carriers forever? Not disagreeing with the writer's conclusion, just wondering if he isn't focusing on just one side of the issue because he doesn't want to give those who suggest spending cuts the slightest opening, even when it comes to the Pentagon.
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"content": "Cynthia $858,000,000,000 or $2600 per person ($10400 for a family of four) for fiscal 2023 for the Department of Defense. That doesn't include the DHS. Mr. Appelbaum for some reason does not put that under discretionary spending. It is quite different from Social Security, Medicare, and interest payments, which are payments already promised for as far as the eye can see, isn't it? Did the Congress promise to keep 1,358,500 active duty servicemen and women until the year 2100, and I missed it? Did they make a promise to keep building $13,000,000,000 aircraft carriers forever? Not disagreeing with the writer's conclusion, just wondering if he isn't focusing on just one side of the issue because he doesn't want to give those who suggest spending cuts the slightest opening, even when it comes to the Pentagon.\n",
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I am more afraid of Musk than Biden, Microsoft than the CIA, Exxon vs. the EPA, on and on. I don't see regulation of pollution, guns, land development etc. as a restriciton of my freedom but rather as protection from the byproducts of toxic businesses and their effort to make a profit without covering the cost of their operations.The Fedral Government has offered me protection from Big Business and farmers who spray poison. Its only threat to me has been the draft to support a war supported by big intrenational business and an effort to continue the colonization of South East Asia. DeSantis tries to get us to look away from these facts so that the drepredations can continue
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There’s been a lot of water under our bridges since 1945. The 1991 breakup of the USSR was one tidal wave. Putin’s trajectory within the old Communist system was smoked. He adapted and rose to power in less than 10 years. He knows how to build loyalty in his political circle. He knows how to deal with disloyalty and opposition as well; often with the finality of deaths other than his own; occasional high windows and rooftops involved. Like waste water monitoring for disease markers look at the names on the Putin global hit list. They are clues to Putin’s Palace Politics. He’s pruning grumbles and redirecting both wealth and power for higher returns.Without knowledge of the known knowns and known unknowns I don’t know how to judge the best strategy or tactics that would enable a Putin loss, withdrawal or capitulation without a nuclear event. Is he bluffing? If I had to guess I’d say he’s bluffing. Should the world’s future be made on a guess? It usually is.From my position placing longer range artillery into the Ukraine arsenal makes humanitarian sense. A Ukrainian agreement on Rules of Use assumed. We certainly know how far the artillery need to reach. Keep it surgically military inside Russia. There is no amount of Russian blood that can comfort Ukraine. A cessation of infrastructure destruction by Russians will bring greater public safety to Ukrainians. Is it a “red line” for Putin? Who cares, it’s the right thing to do and that is not a guess.
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David Cohen Jordan received $1.65 billion from the US in 2021, not $165 billion as you mentioned.
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We just haven’t seen anything like this in almost a century. The casualties on the front lines are on par with individual nation losses for some allies during WWII. Estimated Russian KIAs are 120k and Ukraine similar. But it’s not just casualties on the field.I’ve been watching WWI documentaries recently and one thing I started thinking about is how a war like this reverberates down through the generations. It’s a a mass trauma that’s going to affect every Ukrainian there for a long time.I lived in Russia from 2010-2016. The thing that floored me was how much WWII was still a huge part of the National identity. Everyone had a grandfather or grandmother who served or a relative who died. They put on huge parades and even used colloidal silver on Victory Day to literally blow the clouds away to ensure a sunny day. Millions of dollars were spent repairing the main roads that tanks tore up for the parades.Something so traumatic made the population poor and miserable for decades. I just am stunned, as someone who spent so much time as a young man in Moscow and many trips to Ukraine.
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In my home state, Missouri, school is open only four days a week in many rural districts. Rurals are so greedy and short sighted that that they won't even invest in their children!I don't know how rurals expect to ever improve their economic situation given the direction they are going. Guns, BBQ and beer will only take you so far.
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Closing tax loopholes for the very wealthy and fully enforcing tax laws already on the books would increase government revenue by up to 160 billion dollars a year.This astounding fact is from a Treasury Department report in 2021.Deficit hawks, there's your target, if you are really serious.
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Lagniappe Cost of 10k people being paid $100k each is $1.0 million. Double their pay and you're right, it's still a drop in the bucket. What are the operational costs of these teams, though? What are the products they are working on? Businesses make massive capital investments in parallel with investments in labor. If those capital investments are no longer viable or have proven to be too costly, the hired labor no longer has a place in the organization. Many of these cuts were likely being pushed for a long time. The recent economic pressures probably just gave the factions interested in making them the upper hand.
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Davos is a weird cross between a tradeshow and the Academy Awards. The ultra-rich and political elites gather to pretend they are deciding our fates. People have to pay $250,000 for a ticket to smooze and feel important.
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My wife and I are both serious Foodies. But we rarely dine out anymore. Instead, on a Saturday evening, we will open up some wine and cheese, put on some music and cook up a fantastic meal. It can take a few hours, but we enjoy the experience together, and the better we get as cooks, the harder it is to find a public venue that we really feel like we can't do as well or better at home. In the end, it also costs at most about 25% of what we might pay out. We have a beautiful kitchen (that we actually use), and the atmosphere for dining in our home isn't lacking in any way. If you love fine dining, learn to do it yourself!!
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| yes | Classification | 9,727 |
"It’s true that U.S. debt is very large — $31 trillion (said in your best Dr. Evil voice)."Indeed, it's large. Will we every pay back those loans or do we borrow and spend endlessly?
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G. Hertz "No gain"? 99 percent of the profit ends up in the pockets of the stockholders. Pennies drift down to the people doing the actual work. Don't try to suggest that percentage couldn't shift a little in the workers' favor without bankrupting the poor rich folks.
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The Republicans keep conflating raising the debt limit with spending cuts. Raising the debt limit has to do with money already spent. One has nothing to do with the other. The government can’t then decide we will pay this and won’t pay that.The next time you go into a bank and see your deposits are guaranteed up to $250,000. It is because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
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Bos To anyone who still thinks this is a NIMBY issue I beg you - get up the curve. Get the facts. The mining industry and Big Wind conglomerates, and all the other private equity investors, are profiting and destroying using the convenient excuse that anyone who is opposed does so for NIMBY reasons. They are using our tax dollars to fund their expected massive windfalls, and they are leaving us with sacred spaces destroyed and an enormous future tax bill to fund their decommissioning when they have failed our environment and laughed all the way to the bank. I am a Dem who wants genuine climate solutions, not this carried interest loophole ruse.
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"content": "Bos To anyone who still thinks this is a NIMBY issue I beg you - get up the curve. Get the facts. The mining industry and Big Wind conglomerates, and all the other private equity investors, are profiting and destroying using the convenient excuse that anyone who is opposed does so for NIMBY reasons. They are using our tax dollars to fund their expected massive windfalls, and they are leaving us with sacred spaces destroyed and an enormous future tax bill to fund their decommissioning when they have failed our environment and laughed all the way to the bank. I am a Dem who wants genuine climate solutions, not this carried interest loophole ruse.\n",
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northlander No problem the same Repubs that hate the federal government low their low taxes in Florida because the fed and blue states keep bailing Florida out with billions every year due to hurricanes or condo complexes falling into the ocean. FEMA gave every home owner a minimum of $40,000 from the last hurricane.
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"content": "northlander No problem the same Repubs that hate the federal government low their low taxes in Florida because the fed and blue states keep bailing Florida out with billions every year due to hurricanes or condo complexes falling into the ocean. FEMA gave every home owner a minimum of $40,000 from the last hurricane.\n",
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I had a nice little IT company back in 2000. I had three employees who were good at their jobs. I was turning away clients. Then 2003 happened. All of a sudden there were bunches of software engineers, network engineers, and sys. Admins on the streets. Within one year I had lost of my clients. I had $100K of new equipment that I sold at rock bottom prices. I had to let my workers go. I walked away. Lucky for me my old employer called me back to aerospace. I'll never forget that period. You could buy almost new office furniture for ten cents on the dollar and if you waited long enough you could find it in the trash. Then on top of that companies started to pull all their data centers back to corporate offices. Even more CS engineers were out of jobs.It's only going to get worse. With A.I. applications starting to come out. It won't be long before people will be let go for good. A.I. and robots are coming.
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What was all that talk about open transparency the Republicans kept spouting during their nearly incessant nominations of McCarthy, and now the proposed rules package is being guarded like the nation's top secrets. How many ways can you say crooked, corrupt, lying politician, just one, Kevin McCarthy.
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"content": "What was all that talk about open transparency the Republicans kept spouting during their nearly incessant nominations of McCarthy, and now the proposed rules package is being guarded like the nation's top secrets. How many ways can you say crooked, corrupt, lying politician, just one, Kevin McCarthy.\n",
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TJ My father worked at the same large corporation for over 30 years, his entire career apart from a summer or starter job or two. He did retire with a gold watch. However, in the 1980s the company forced him into a pension plan buyout. They did put money into a 401K for him, but not nearly as much as the pension would have been worth. He continued to work for them, but suffered from increasing ageism (he was an engineer). My point is, even the Silent Generation didn't have total security. Also, my mother also had a professional career, which was unusual for middle-class wives at the time. She was paid less than my father, but her salary went into their stock market investments. Those investments enabled my father to retire in comfort--but he certainly did not get a pension.
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"content": "TJ My father worked at the same large corporation for over 30 years, his entire career apart from a summer or starter job or two. He did retire with a gold watch. However, in the 1980s the company forced him into a pension plan buyout. They did put money into a 401K for him, but not nearly as much as the pension would have been worth. He continued to work for them, but suffered from increasing ageism (he was an engineer). My point is, even the Silent Generation didn't have total security. Also, my mother also had a professional career, which was unusual for middle-class wives at the time. She was paid less than my father, but her salary went into their stock market investments. Those investments enabled my father to retire in comfort--but he certainly did not get a pension.\n",
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Ms Renkl: Our backyard birds include wrens, cardinals, blue jays, finches, nuthatches— that we take much joy in watching at the edge of our heated bird bath. And I will never ever forget that, indeed, they do line it like a rosary with mismatched beads. When I had a little place on a rural farm in Western Massachusetts, bluebird boxes sheltered them, and, sometimes, barn swallows who would zoom in to deter me if I wanted to get even a bit closer. I don't have enough land, I think, to attract bluebirds—but my next door neighbor has a long and wide swath of open grass. I’m going to ask Chaz if I can appropriate just one little part of it to put up a bluebird box. And, I love your book.
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About 6 million Americans have serious drug habits. Between hard core and casual users the revenue is $60 billion dollars a year. $60 billion. Until the users stop purchasing, all the horrors associated with drug use will continue to grow.
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John O it did John, check out the stats on a .gov website. All levels of income revenue rose rapidly especially Corporate, payroll tax remained flat. Treasury income is at an all time time. The $2.1 trillion tax “cut” was over 10 years, which is $210 billion per year, chump change compared to the Biden spend.
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One more person finding a way to be conscious to the impact they have on the planet - wonderful. I loved the remark, "it's not about perfection, it's about progress." When my grandchild entered their first year of college they were required to read, No Impact Man. It is the story of a guy and his family who lived a year off the grid, it's compelling. My partner and I decided to try it on. It was difficult. First we collected all the garbage and recycling we generated for two weeks - that was eye-opening. Grocery shopping was a bust. The first time we bought nothing outside the produce department.Fast food was off the menu, along with eating out, only coffee in our reusable glass cup, and no meat or deli products. We agreed to limit our use of electricity and reduced our travel. We did not live within walking distance of our work, so we did drive. Snack food was a big no.For ten months we produced no garbage, reduced our recycling and learned ways to live with less impact. At the end of our agreed time, we resumed some thing, though most of our practices are with us years later. The expert was right, "It's about progress, not perfection." The amount of garbage and recycling we have prevented from entering a landfill is significant. We decided not to wait for large corporations or the government to do the right thing - We can do the right thing, as hard as it was, we did it and still do. Thanks for the article - remember it's progress, not perfection.
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I’d be interested to know how many people at Microsoft are working 50 and 60 or more hour work weeks, while others are being laid off. This country and its obsession with working is insane. Why can’t we do 35 hour work weeks, and give more people jobs?
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I'm waiting for the situation when "open carry" laws run headlong into "stand your ground" laws. In that, I fear the same thing that the American Right probably yearns for--a society where the person with the fastest draw, the highest caliber, the largest ammo magazine, and the best aim wins both the argument and the court case.
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Dan M Actually, an H1B visa is for specialty fields, where a degree is required: From WikipediaThe H-1B is a visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(15)(H) that allows U.S. employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. A specialty occupation requires the application of specialized knowledge and a bachelor's degree or the equivalent of work experience. The duration of stay is three years, extendable to six years; after which the visa holder may need to reapply. Laws limit the number of H-1B visas that are issued each year: 188,100 new and initial H-1B visas were issued in 2019.[1] Employers must generally withhold Social Security and Medicare taxes from the wages paid to employees in H-1B status.The H-1B visa has its roots in the H1 visa of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952; the split between H-1A (for nurses) and H-1B was created by the Immigration Act of 1990. 65,000 H-1B visas were made available each fiscal year, out of which employers could apply through Labor Condition Applications. Additional modifications to H-1B rules were made by legislation in 1998, 2000, in 2003 for Singapore and Chile, in the H-1B Visa Reform Act of 2004, 2008, and 2009. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has modified the rules in the years since then.
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Ken The solution to this problem is to buy hardware with an unlocked bootloader and good support from a free and open source OS. This sometimes means compromising on user friendliness in exchange for user freedom, such as foregoing an iPad for a Surface with Linux.Most computers from the last 10 years remain usable when the baggage of macOS or Windows is lifted. To a lesser extent, some older Android devices can be kept up to date with lightweight, de-Googled Android distributions like LineageOS.- A proud user of a 12-year-old laptop and a 5-year-old phone
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OK, I'm a degreed, white collar professional who takes the occasional road trip.I'm not buying the whole "this is what customers want." I don't want or need blonde wood or "artisan" (read: overpriced) food. I take this maneuver to be in the same vein as the $800 million Hochul administration gift to the Buffalo Bills. I'd be happy if they kept McDonald's and simply cleaned the places up a little, and have employees that move faster than the speed of Jello and who are capable of saying "thank you."I won't eat at Chick Fil A because in addition to their awful political/social positions, their food is simply gross in my opinion. As well as Shake Shack's fries and shakes which give me the runs.
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Eric B Well count me in the unimpressive but made it camp !Wordle 564 5/6*⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ 89. 40 166 ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 81 24 22 ⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 97 29 13 🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 35 83 2 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 71 — WordleBotSkill 78/99Luck 49/99Bob the Bot had exceptional Luck in its own game 91% but in the side by side comparison did just as well as me, with my steady funnel. Today’s game (in hard mode) split three ways it seems, the truly adept did it in 2-3 (woo-hoo! in particular to Ari & JacBNimble who beat the Bot on luck even while tying in steps), a substantial proportion missed out (still counting 12% at this time) and the rest lolloped to a 5 or 6 with ‘ze trap opening its greedy maw. Well more like plodded, but lolloped is more hopeful sounding 😀Yesterday’s mini story, playing with the set up by ending with a twist, an alternative meaning of the wordle.With a CREAK of the LATCH, the ATTIC door opened, revealing the dusty pile of ANTIC magazines, a true find for the Atari fan.Christy I agree on ending sounds having an influence on the likability of words. The main reason I have for disliking INCENT, other than its VI4 HR use, lies in that clipped, unfinished NT sound, which I know should continue with something else. Even the naked CENT is somewhat unpleasant and i always use PENNY instead!
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Monika we spend 19% of our GDP ($4.3 trillion a year) on healthcare. The highest of any industrialized country. The next highest country spends 11%. If we spent 11% of our GDP on healthcare, we would spend $2.42 trillion - a savings of $1.88 trillion a year to plow back into education, infrastructure, childcare, small business support, environmental protection, public health (vaccines, antibiotics - i.e. the medical advances that are responsible for almost all of our longevity), combatting climate change, etc. Remember Biden was beat up for asking for $1.6 trillion over TEN years while right sizing healthcare would release almost $12 trillion over a ten year period without raising taxes on the middle class. Right sizing healthcare would save so many American lives. Our life expectancy has been decreasing since 2016. We have the highest infant and maternal mortality rates in the high income countries and the lowest life expectancy. Healthcare costs are wrecking our economy and Congress does nothing. Until we take the profit out of healthcare our economy will continue to decline and so will our longevity. Biden and the Democrats should be on the media everyday saying we can't spend 19% of our GDP - $4.3 trillion - on healthcare and BTW we have the worst life expectancy. The U.S. medical machine is utterly broken and is destroying our economy along with our health. Universal healthcare is the only hope we have.
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Great coverage! “Polite and useless” is spot on to describe my recent experience trying to get American to refund downgrading my international honeymoon trip from premium economy to basic economy. They wouldn’t offer a thing and tried to blame codeshare partners. Please keep mistreatment like this in the headlines in the hopes American and other airlines get their comeuppance soon.
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Clear Thinker So true. I am classed as morbidly obese, I weigh 290 lbs and I'm 5'10" with a size 48 waist. Back in my 30s when I ran and pushed weights, I weighed 225. I eat less than my 140 lb wife but still the weight stays. At my PCP's suggestion, I had a vertical sleeve gastric bypass operation in spring 2016 and I'm now maybe 20 lbs lighter. My PCP prescribed Saxenda; the first month's prescription cost me $832 but then I hit my max out of pocket and paid almost nothing for it. I took it for 5 months and lost about 15 pounds but then I turned 65 and went on Medicare; I have an AARP Part D but there are zero Part D policies that cover Saxenda (or Ozempic or Wegovy) and it would cost me over $1,300 per month to fill the prescriptions so I don't take it and now I'm back to 290 lbs.Clear Thinker is right, most doctors I meet with all seem to think that an obese person must eat more than a 'normal' weight person, that we can't drive past a McDonalds or BK without going through the drive through for a Whopper, fries, and a shake, or that, at family gatherings, we must pile our plates high - none of those things describe me. I take no sugar, I avoid butter and fat, I eat very little bread or pastries, I drink in moderation, I try to exercise (walk) regularly. I have zero heart issues, my BP is close to 120/80, my cholesterol is slightly high (I take statins).I think there's something in the US food chain that's contributing to around 50% of us being overweight.
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"content": "Clear Thinker So true. I am classed as morbidly obese, I weigh 290 lbs and I'm 5'10\" with a size 48 waist. Back in my 30s when I ran and pushed weights, I weighed 225. I eat less than my 140 lb wife but still the weight stays. At my PCP's suggestion, I had a vertical sleeve gastric bypass operation in spring 2016 and I'm now maybe 20 lbs lighter. My PCP prescribed Saxenda; the first month's prescription cost me $832 but then I hit my max out of pocket and paid almost nothing for it. I took it for 5 months and lost about 15 pounds but then I turned 65 and went on Medicare; I have an AARP Part D but there are zero Part D policies that cover Saxenda (or Ozempic or Wegovy) and it would cost me over $1,300 per month to fill the prescriptions so I don't take it and now I'm back to 290 lbs.Clear Thinker is right, most doctors I meet with all seem to think that an obese person must eat more than a 'normal' weight person, that we can't drive past a McDonalds or BK without going through the drive through for a Whopper, fries, and a shake, or that, at family gatherings, we must pile our plates high - none of those things describe me. I take no sugar, I avoid butter and fat, I eat very little bread or pastries, I drink in moderation, I try to exercise (walk) regularly. I have zero heart issues, my BP is close to 120/80, my cholesterol is slightly high (I take statins).I think there's something in the US food chain that's contributing to around 50% of us being overweight.\n",
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Stephan European level taxes may be closer to you than you think. My effective tax rate when I include state, property and municipal taxes approaches 40%, whereas a comparable middle-class tax rate in Europe might well be within striking distance of that.There are some big differences: taxes on savings and investments, taxes on owning a car and surcharges on gas, for example. But then, of course, you WOULD get better healthcare, infrastructure, schools, public transport and so on.
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There is a very intelligent school of thought that partners should never be totally surprised by a marriage proposal. Instead, they should know it’s likely and be prepared to accept based on open communications they’ve had about their intentions for each other. If it’s done properly the asking becomes a romantic formality which serves to mark the point at which their commitment became official. Being ready is a good sign.
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Rocko World Yes, exactly. And Obama inherited two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which cost trillions of dollars.
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"content": "Rocko World Yes, exactly. And Obama inherited two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which cost trillions of dollars.\n",
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The contrast with Ms. Pelosi's tenure (and with a unified Democratic caucus) could not be more stark and revealing. The 18 Republicans who won in districts that Biden carried in 2020 are now on notice that their tenure will probably extend no longer than 2 years. The 2024 campaign ads (for Dems) will write themselves.
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I don't think Krugman is off base by pointing out how much of Congress is owned by lobby influence and dark money.Why do you think Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ) voted to slice the impact of legislation that reduced drug costs? Her big pharma funders didn't like the idea of Medicare being able to negogiate lower drug costs. The GOP in Congress killed the section which would have lowered insulin costs for all Americans to $35. They only alloqed that provision for seniors.Right wing libertarian billionaire Charles Koch's political PAC, Americans For Prosperity which has chapters in 38 states, spent millions of dollars in 2019 & 2020 campaigning against Medicaid expansion in states. Missouri's voters passed a state constitutional amendment in 2020 to direct their state to expand access to healthcare/Medicaid with 53% of the vote. AFP lobbied against it, and the GOP dominated state legislature refused to fund the expansion in both chambers ignoring what the people mandated. In other words they gave the voters the finger. (That's not democracy folks, that's partisan despotism!)I think voter ignorance drives too much of the despotism we are seeing now in our body politic.So do outrageous rulings like Citizens United. And it is what gives the greedy and unscrupulous hard right wing billionaires like Koch so much sway. The GOP in the House will hold SS & Medicare hostage during the debt ceiling fight. They don't care how it will hurt there own constituents.
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"content": "I don't think Krugman is off base by pointing out how much of Congress is owned by lobby influence and dark money.Why do you think Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ) voted to slice the impact of legislation that reduced drug costs? Her big pharma funders didn't like the idea of Medicare being able to negogiate lower drug costs. The GOP in Congress killed the section which would have lowered insulin costs for all Americans to $35. They only alloqed that provision for seniors.Right wing libertarian billionaire Charles Koch's political PAC, Americans For Prosperity which has chapters in 38 states, spent millions of dollars in 2019 & 2020 campaigning against Medicaid expansion in states. Missouri's voters passed a state constitutional amendment in 2020 to direct their state to expand access to healthcare/Medicaid with 53% of the vote. AFP lobbied against it, and the GOP dominated state legislature refused to fund the expansion in both chambers ignoring what the people mandated. In other words they gave the voters the finger. (That's not democracy folks, that's partisan despotism!)I think voter ignorance drives too much of the despotism we are seeing now in our body politic.So do outrageous rulings like Citizens United. And it is what gives the greedy and unscrupulous hard right wing billionaires like Koch so much sway. The GOP in the House will hold SS & Medicare hostage during the debt ceiling fight. They don't care how it will hurt there own constituents.\n",
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Bookstores and museums are important. My first book purchase was "USA" a trilogy by John Dos Passos. It was $10 circa 1950 for the three books: Big Money, 1919, and U.S.A. under one binding. The second was Louis Fischer's Biography of Mahatma Gandhi. $8. Eash was equivalent to what I earned on the weekends selling women's shoes at a main street store in Greensboro, N.C. only a few storefronts away from Woolworth's where in 1960 four African American college students from AT&T University staged a "sit-in" at the segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service. I wasn't present because I had already graduated from Chapel Hill '59 and was Navy Officer on a ship in the Pacific. In those days there was no TV on ships or newspapers, You could only read reports that came in by message or in magazines and books that were received when the ship's mail was delivered. I really learned about the Woolworth's protest when I visited the opening of an exhibit at the Smithsonian's American History museum, where the lunch counter and stools had been installed and there was a movie showing the event.I was then a U.S. Senate staffer and I was so moved by it, I went back to the office and asked my boss, the Chairman of Appropriations to go with me to see this exhibit. He did and as we watched the film, we both had tears rolling from our eyes.Now, I know that the protest was inspired by the Bio of Gandhi, which was also read by MLK.
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"content": "Bookstores and museums are important. My first book purchase was \"USA\" a trilogy by John Dos Passos. It was $10 circa 1950 for the three books: Big Money, 1919, and U.S.A. under one binding. The second was Louis Fischer's Biography of Mahatma Gandhi. $8. Eash was equivalent to what I earned on the weekends selling women's shoes at a main street store in Greensboro, N.C. only a few storefronts away from Woolworth's where in 1960 four African American college students from AT&T University staged a \"sit-in\" at the segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service. I wasn't present because I had already graduated from Chapel Hill '59 and was Navy Officer on a ship in the Pacific. In those days there was no TV on ships or newspapers, You could only read reports that came in by message or in magazines and books that were received when the ship's mail was delivered. I really learned about the Woolworth's protest when I visited the opening of an exhibit at the Smithsonian's American History museum, where the lunch counter and stools had been installed and there was a movie showing the event.I was then a U.S. Senate staffer and I was so moved by it, I went back to the office and asked my boss, the Chairman of Appropriations to go with me to see this exhibit. He did and as we watched the film, we both had tears rolling from our eyes.Now, I know that the protest was inspired by the Bio of Gandhi, which was also read by MLK.\n",
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I agree with much of what Ezra says about books, reading, and bookstores in general. I just don't trust this article, and am surprised that Ezra, a journalist, is so "trusting" of Daunt and his optimistic reporting about how well Barnes and Noble is doing. I worked at a Barnes and Noble in Houston, TX and most of the time, staff had to be sent home because the store was not making enough money for payroll. Moreover, most of the product sold was non-book items such as games, candles, journals, cards and other assorted tchotchkes. And the stress of working there made it a real drag for most of the employees given how little we made. (I'm sure latte sipping Ezra and his "kind" just thought this place was heaven.) Most of the stores inside the loop in Houston have closed. But Daunt says they're planning to open 30 new stores. Interesting. I love bookstores, but would like to see more smaller, independently owned stores open if that is possible. Barnes and Noble needs to go away!
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The one thing always missing from these arguments over the debt ceiling is the revenue side of the equation. If we returned to Eisenhower era levels of taxation on the higher brackets, that would be a good start.The perennial concern that Social Security is running out of money would be greatly alleviated by lifting the ceiling on the amount of income that can be subject to withholding, currently $160,200. Anything above that is untouched. Make a billion dollars a year, you won't pay any more into the Social Security system once you get past that limit.Senator Warren's wealth tax is another idea that seldom gets brought up in these periodic fights over the debt.• A 2% annual tax on the net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion• A 1% annual surtax (3% tax overall) on the net worth of households and trusts above $1 billionAs estimated, The Ultra-Millionaire Tax would bring in at least $3 trillion in revenue over 10 years - without raising taxes on the 99.95% of American households that have net worth below $50 million.Of course, the .05% who would be affected are the people who have no trouble getting Congress to return their calls - or accept their checks.
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"content": "The one thing always missing from these arguments over the debt ceiling is the revenue side of the equation. If we returned to Eisenhower era levels of taxation on the higher brackets, that would be a good start.The perennial concern that Social Security is running out of money would be greatly alleviated by lifting the ceiling on the amount of income that can be subject to withholding, currently $160,200. Anything above that is untouched. Make a billion dollars a year, you won't pay any more into the Social Security system once you get past that limit.Senator Warren's wealth tax is another idea that seldom gets brought up in these periodic fights over the debt.• A 2% annual tax on the net worth of households and trusts between $50 million and $1 billion• A 1% annual surtax (3% tax overall) on the net worth of households and trusts above $1 billionAs estimated, The Ultra-Millionaire Tax would bring in at least $3 trillion in revenue over 10 years - without raising taxes on the 99.95% of American households that have net worth below $50 million.Of course, the .05% who would be affected are the people who have no trouble getting Congress to return their calls - or accept their checks.\n",
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Stephen You can look a summaries of his campaign finance filings with the FEC at their website, or download the detail in an Excel file.Yes, he is his biggest donor/lender - the $705,000.The next in line are various committees in his or the Devolder name. Lots of PACs and congress types trading $1000 contribution.A contender for largest single source is WinRed the grass roots fundraising platform developed in response to ActBlu. About $500,000 but tons of little period donations show up, some of the names to WinRed donations. Plus there tons of different funding types. If I was getting paid I'd do a better analysis.
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Matt Many of these hypocrites subscribe to he "prosperity gospel", where Jesus rewards your faith by giving you a big house and several expensive cars. They attend these spectacles in garish mega-churches that more closely resemble the Roman Colosseum, where Christian were thrown to the lions, than a place of quiet reverie, and support pastors in $5000 suits that fly around in private jets. No wonder Trump appeals to them.
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"content": "Matt Many of these hypocrites subscribe to he \"prosperity gospel\", where Jesus rewards your faith by giving you a big house and several expensive cars. They attend these spectacles in garish mega-churches that more closely resemble the Roman Colosseum, where Christian were thrown to the lions, than a place of quiet reverie, and support pastors in $5000 suits that fly around in private jets. No wonder Trump appeals to them.\n",
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Michael The 1% have more money than 99% of us. We already knew that.
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So fiendishly clever, so wildly original, so devilishly challenging that this might well be my nominee for Puzzle of the Year. It has LATE SHIFT to compete with, but still... I had to work much harder on this one. I was tearing my hair out in the NW and had to go elsewhere to find out what the theme was. Now if I'd known GROWLERS -- but I've never in my life heard of them. I know my kegs, my steins, my vats, my taps, even my simple glasses -- but what on earth is a GROWLER? Without GROWLERS, the theme cannot be figured out in this section. All you know is that you have a rebus of some sort.I moved to the NE corner where I was stymied as well. So I went directly to the revealer, filled it in patiently, and then went back to the NE where FORCEPS (I had the EPS) broke it open for me. There was, you see, no other surgical instrument ending in EPS.My mouth fell open at RO? for the place in the 1947 news. ROSWELL, of course!!!! SWELL!!!! So in this one I took the development in the other direction -- going from SWELL to SWEL to SWE to SW to S.And now, finally, I was ready for my challenge in the NW. As I went from G to GR to GRO to GROW, I saw that my answer at 4D was GROWLERS -- whatever the heck they are. And, tada, finished!!!!!!Just wonderful, Dan and Quiera! You challenged me, you baffled me, and ultimately you made me feel really smart. I loved this puzzle!!! It's a real BEAUT. Kudos!
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"_...but the average cost of eggs has nearly doubled._"Don't know where you live but would you buy me some eggs?Here, Kroger store sold Kroger Extra Large Eggs for $1.79/ dozen all the time just a few years ago. Large were $1.59, but there were reasonably often sales at $1.00/dozen. They are now $5.09 and $4.89, respectively. The other stores in town charge more, BTW.The only thing that has "nearly doubled" are the wallets of the fat cats gouging people for the last source of good protein at what was an affordable price.I love (chicken) eggs any way they are cooked, and have consumed a dozen a week for many, many years, but will not pay $5 for a dozen bird eggs. I may be crazy but not THAT crazy.
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"content": "\"_...but the average cost of eggs has nearly doubled._\"Don't know where you live but would you buy me some eggs?Here, Kroger store sold Kroger Extra Large Eggs for $1.79/ dozen all the time just a few years ago. Large were $1.59, but there were reasonably often sales at $1.00/dozen. They are now $5.09 and $4.89, respectively. The other stores in town charge more, BTW.The only thing that has \"nearly doubled\" are the wallets of the fat cats gouging people for the last source of good protein at what was an affordable price.I love (chicken) eggs any way they are cooked, and have consumed a dozen a week for many, many years, but will not pay $5 for a dozen bird eggs. I may be crazy but not THAT crazy.\n",
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Ned YES! The Fairness Doctrine - bring it back in a big way. This was essential and gave FOX (and others the open door).
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Debt grew by $8 Trillion under Trump. Spending is one of the rare bi-partisan areas of agreement.
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| no | Classification | 1,809 |
Dan This places Amazon in 98th place out of 27,872 spots in terms of largest donors, OpenSecrets data shows.
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| no | Classification | 3,729 |
Charles...I so fervently wish I could agree with you...but I can't ...Trump continues to rule his party with an iron fist. Look at a lead NYT headline I just read:"Republicans plan to create a special subcommittee, led by a Trump ally, with a mandate to scrutinize open criminal investigations and classified intelligence."His minions are beginning to create havoc...all because he says so.
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The Republican concept of education parallels that of the Third Reich, in that the politicians and their psuedo-intellectual consultants design the curriculum and educators must deliver it as written. Today Republicans could probably replace educators with robots given how rigidly lessons must be delivered. Robots would also protect human teachers from those $5,000 fines for teaching something against a child's religious belief.
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FunkyIrishman, I agree. It's offensive that someone making millions if not billions per year pays a much smaller percentage than those who sell their labor. 25% of $40k is a much higher burden to a taxpayer than say 10% of $1 million.
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Nonsense. Israel is a full fledged democracy with open elections participated in by all citizens and an independent judiciary. The right wing tilt is a concern but is the Result of open and fair elections and reflects the views of a majority of voters. We need to be careful about attacking the internal policies of other countries until such time that they openly violate basic freedoms, which so far hasn’t happened.
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I support President Biden in agreeing to send Ukraine the Abrams tanks. Yes, at $10 Million a piece, they are expensive, but what is democracy worth!!
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"content": "I support President Biden in agreeing to send Ukraine the Abrams tanks. Yes, at $10 Million a piece, they are expensive, but what is democracy worth!!\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,050 |
Honoraria If you have worked in social care and welfare, it seems unlikely that you lack empathy or that you cannot acknowledge people as individuals. It can be difficult to connect with others--and it gets more difficult as we get older! You can do small things to build your comfort in this area: tell someone you admire their scarf, ask the counter person at the shop which cheese they recommend, wave at a bus driver you see every day; such tiny interactions may never lead to 'real' friendships, but they could! And if they don't, the practice of these behaviors can still help you to build friendships later, with others. If you pretend that you are friendly and open and unafraid, eventually, it will be true. --As an aside, it is a thousand times easier to talk to people when you have a dog, but this is not a solution that will work for everyone. :)
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"content": "Honoraria If you have worked in social care and welfare, it seems unlikely that you lack empathy or that you cannot acknowledge people as individuals. It can be difficult to connect with others--and it gets more difficult as we get older! You can do small things to build your comfort in this area: tell someone you admire their scarf, ask the counter person at the shop which cheese they recommend, wave at a bus driver you see every day; such tiny interactions may never lead to 'real' friendships, but they could! And if they don't, the practice of these behaviors can still help you to build friendships later, with others. If you pretend that you are friendly and open and unafraid, eventually, it will be true. --As an aside, it is a thousand times easier to talk to people when you have a dog, but this is not a solution that will work for everyone. :)\n",
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| no | Classification | 602 |
Ellen Part of the problem is the media's determination to prove their "open-mindedness" by saying both sides are guilty.
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Socrates Don't forget the late Sheldon Adelson. Miriam is now in charge of the effort. Then, there are other Jewish oligarchs who've been funding the think tank that came up with the plan to makeover the Israeli Supreme Court. Americans, Arthur Dantchik and Jeffrey S. Yass are Jewish-American multi-billionaires, who, together with their partner Joel Greenberg, fund The Kohelet Forum, the think tank that wrote the legislation. Haaretz newspaper published an investigative article about this last week.The Adelsons, however, had been fertilizing the ground for this scenario for years.
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Thinking of all my former Film Forum co-workers today. The article doesn't mention if the $6 million a year budget included therapy bills, but I'm guessing not.
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"content": "Thinking of all my former Film Forum co-workers today. The article doesn't mention if the $6 million a year budget included therapy bills, but I'm guessing not.\n",
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| no | Classification | 286 |
So if I understand this correctly, luxury brands want us to donate cashmere to them for free so they can turn around and sell $3000 sweaters to the extremely wealthy. Capitalism is extraordinary
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"content": "So if I understand this correctly, luxury brands want us to donate cashmere to them for free so they can turn around and sell $3000 sweaters to the extremely wealthy. Capitalism is extraordinary\n",
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A BIDET. Get a Bidet. You can buy one on Amazon for $40-$50. They are easy to install (as long as you don't get the heated water version, which requires an outlet nearby usually)--and will make prep so much more comfortable.Plus, you'll love it after.Also, ask about split prep using OTC stuff like Miralax mixed with Gatorade, if you find (as I did) that your co-pay on the newer preps are too much.
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Stealing $600,000 is "pilfering"? Only in New York, I guess.
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"content": "Stealing $600,000 is \"pilfering\"? Only in New York, I guess.\n",
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| no | Classification | 567 |
I grew up in La Habra and ate at El Cholo many times with my family. My favorite dish was the chili relleno. Fluffy like an omelet. And the Carmen's Nacho's!Would love one of those great grandkids to open an outpost here in Sacramento.
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"content": "I grew up in La Habra and ate at El Cholo many times with my family. My favorite dish was the chili relleno. Fluffy like an omelet. And the Carmen's Nacho's!Would love one of those great grandkids to open an outpost here in Sacramento.\n",
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