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It’s not surprising Santos received donations that have little to no paper trail. Since the Citizens United decision the doors have been wide open to dark money and the store to buy political candidates runs 24/7/365. Nor is it surprising that Trump and Biden both mismanaged and had possession of classified documents. Congress provides limited oversight of such matters as it’s too busy playing partisan politics, and raising campaign funds. The entire system is corrupted by money and special interests. Meanwhile the public remains divided by party and the media, and are too distracted or disgusted to do anything about the corruption. It’s a sad state. But it needs to be addressed, which is challenging because the corrupted hold the keys to the jail cell.
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Charlie For this cruelty, we have George Bush and Billy Tauzin to thank. Check the history of ther actions regarding Medicare drug pricing shenanigans in Congress in 2003. And in 2009, during ACA negotiations, Big Pharma's lobby spent almost $300 million dollars making sure it got its outsized piece of the pie.
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"content": "Charlie For this cruelty, we have George Bush and Billy Tauzin to thank. Check the history of ther actions regarding Medicare drug pricing shenanigans in Congress in 2003. And in 2009, during ACA negotiations, Big Pharma's lobby spent almost $300 million dollars making sure it got its outsized piece of the pie.\n",
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Not ok in LA $0 haha
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Eric B Wordle 565 4/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 94 97 3 "Strong, Lucky"🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 70 33 2 "Better Options"🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 99 25 1 "Wrong Choice"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99Skill 89 Luck 52A bogey ends my streak of 3-solves. I started well and learned from the analysis that there were only 3 words left in the Bot's dictionary. On the second try, the Bot's comment was that the solution would have been a "better option"...duh. The solution did not occur to me until after I made the wrong choice of the 2 remaining words on the third guess. Yesterday's Wordle 564 3/6* Skill Luck W/L 🟨🟨⬜🟩🟨 90 93 7 Ariel🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 99 29 4 Later🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 86 LayerSkill 99 Luck 69This was the last of my short, six times streak of 3-solves. I began with a vowel heavy opener that sometimes leaves me searching for consonants. This time, it yielded four of the letters. Nevertheless, it could easily have been 4-, 5-, or 6-solve game, but I was lucky to pick the right word on the third choice. It just seemed like a better bet than any of the other possibilities. The Bot pulled a two-fer, making what seems like an unlikely jump from "least" to "layer."Cheers and happy Thursday to all!
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"content": "Eric B Wordle 565 4/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 94 97 3 \"Strong, Lucky\"🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 70 33 2 \"Better Options\"🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 99 25 1 \"Wrong Choice\"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99Skill 89 Luck 52A bogey ends my streak of 3-solves. I started well and learned from the analysis that there were only 3 words left in the Bot's dictionary. On the second try, the Bot's comment was that the solution would have been a \"better option\"...duh. The solution did not occur to me until after I made the wrong choice of the 2 remaining words on the third guess. Yesterday's Wordle 564 3/6* Skill Luck W/L 🟨🟨⬜🟩🟨 90 93 7 Ariel🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 99 29 4 Later🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 86 LayerSkill 99 Luck 69This was the last of my short, six times streak of 3-solves. I began with a vowel heavy opener that sometimes leaves me searching for consonants. This time, it yielded four of the letters. Nevertheless, it could easily have been 4-, 5-, or 6-solve game, but I was lucky to pick the right word on the third choice. It just seemed like a better bet than any of the other possibilities. The Bot pulled a two-fer, making what seems like an unlikely jump from \"least\" to \"layer.\"Cheers and happy Thursday to all!\n",
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When all the tools in Congress are rich every problem is a rich guy’s problem.I say we trim their salary to $40,000 and have them trundled about town in used Yugos.It would be good for their crusty souls and likely solve the problem of term limits.
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"content": "When all the tools in Congress are rich every problem is a rich guy’s problem.I say we trim their salary to $40,000 and have them trundled about town in used Yugos.It would be good for their crusty souls and likely solve the problem of term limits.\n",
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You are blaming Biden for a declining workforce? Try asking those in their 20s and 30s why they choose not to have kids - they look around and see the growing idiocy. Why introduce a child to that environment. If you looked at the balance sheet of the US - it has more than 115T in net worth. A number that has continued to grow decade in and out, even adjusted for inflation. The US Government is not a personal kitchen table and if it is thought of that way, the economy will stagnate. The primary role of government spending is to invest in ourselves - and a substantial portion of the debt is held domestically- by US citizens, other federal institutions, banks and companies. And yes, while a substantial portion of that debt is held by foreign governments- that is actually a good thing. Countries who dont get along will think twice about attacking anyone where they have tied up a substantial portion of their wealth. The countries with the largest US investment include Japan, the UK, China, Ireland, Belgium and Saudi Arabia (not in that order)If you really want to tank the economy, keep putting up laws that tell women and POC they are second class citizens, move to a national sales tax on workers and eliminate taxes on the wealthy, pass a balanced budget amendment and while you’re at it - the gold standard. The country would see a depression that will make the 1930s look timid as it hemorrhages wealth:
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"content": "You are blaming Biden for a declining workforce? Try asking those in their 20s and 30s why they choose not to have kids - they look around and see the growing idiocy. Why introduce a child to that environment. If you looked at the balance sheet of the US - it has more than 115T in net worth. A number that has continued to grow decade in and out, even adjusted for inflation. The US Government is not a personal kitchen table and if it is thought of that way, the economy will stagnate. The primary role of government spending is to invest in ourselves - and a substantial portion of the debt is held domestically- by US citizens, other federal institutions, banks and companies. And yes, while a substantial portion of that debt is held by foreign governments- that is actually a good thing. Countries who dont get along will think twice about attacking anyone where they have tied up a substantial portion of their wealth. The countries with the largest US investment include Japan, the UK, China, Ireland, Belgium and Saudi Arabia (not in that order)If you really want to tank the economy, keep putting up laws that tell women and POC they are second class citizens, move to a national sales tax on workers and eliminate taxes on the wealthy, pass a balanced budget amendment and while you’re at it - the gold standard. The country would see a depression that will make the 1930s look timid as it hemorrhages wealth:\n",
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A commenter to a Washington Post article made the interesting observation that while the 2nd Amendment use the words "to keep and bear arms" it says nothing about buying or selling them. Since the originalists are so hung up on the exact wording, they cannot object to banning of the right to a sell a gun; or to make one or import one for that matter. The same goes for ammunition; it can be banned or just taxed so heavily that no one could buy it. How many people would amass thousands of rounds if a single bullet cost $1000 to buy?
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"content": "A commenter to a Washington Post article made the interesting observation that while the 2nd Amendment use the words \"to keep and bear arms\" it says nothing about buying or selling them. Since the originalists are so hung up on the exact wording, they cannot object to banning of the right to a sell a gun; or to make one or import one for that matter. The same goes for ammunition; it can be banned or just taxed so heavily that no one could buy it. How many people would amass thousands of rounds if a single bullet cost $1000 to buy?\n",
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You mention "The distrust of the government and resentment of “elites” by the majority of residents in Red states, but don't mention the effect uncontrolled migration has on cities and states...and the majority of those cities and states are South of the Mason Dixon line. Recently, with Border States and their neighbors overrun by millions of illegal migrants, with millions of residents and their governors begging for help from VP Harris, President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas, governors decided they must act to get the attention needed to address this problem. Our "leaders" tell us the borders are not open - but NBC News reports undocumented migrant crossings of our SW border for fiscal year 2022 topped 2.76 million, That's the 'known' count. So one governor put illegal migrants on buses and sent them to Martha's Vineyard - a location with several thousand vacant houses during the winter. The island has about 17K year-round residents, but the population increases to 200K during the summer. Surely those closed houses or hotels could accommodate a few hundred illegals, right?Nope. Sending illegal migrants to cities North of the Mason-Dixon line caused howls heard across every square foot of the USA. Mayors and governors of the states that received the bussed-in migrants demanded the buses and planes must stop and the Feds must give them millions to care for the illegals.The distrust of government and resentment of elites has a firm foundation!
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Fred Duvall Ironically, in today's NYTimes article about China's future in the face of its falling birth rate, we read this:"The societal issues run deep. After Tuesday’s data release, some on the Chinese internet said that despite government promises of a fairer deal for women, many employers did not want to employ women in better, steady jobs, because they did not want to deal with maternity leave and child care.“In the job market, they worry that if you’re 23-30, you’ll get married and have a kid, that if you’re 30-35 you’ll have a second or third one, and if you’re over 35, then sorry,” read one comment. “This kind of social setting is already the best form of contraception. All those policies to encourage births and open up will amount to nothing.”"Contrary to what you wrote, China still has plenty of societal barriers keeping women at home, rather than in the work place. India seems to be much more oppressive overall toward women, however, something that I have noticed in my travels in India and China and in discussions with my Indian in-laws, colleagues, and friends, vs. Chinese colleagues and friends.
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"content": "Fred Duvall Ironically, in today's NYTimes article about China's future in the face of its falling birth rate, we read this:\"The societal issues run deep. After Tuesday’s data release, some on the Chinese internet said that despite government promises of a fairer deal for women, many employers did not want to employ women in better, steady jobs, because they did not want to deal with maternity leave and child care.“In the job market, they worry that if you’re 23-30, you’ll get married and have a kid, that if you’re 30-35 you’ll have a second or third one, and if you’re over 35, then sorry,” read one comment. “This kind of social setting is already the best form of contraception. All those policies to encourage births and open up will amount to nothing.”\"Contrary to what you wrote, China still has plenty of societal barriers keeping women at home, rather than in the work place. India seems to be much more oppressive overall toward women, however, something that I have noticed in my travels in India and China and in discussions with my Indian in-laws, colleagues, and friends, vs. Chinese colleagues and friends.\n",
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The gaslighting of gas lighting and the war on education is typical gamesmanship to create outrage for its own sake. The gop scorched earth campaign on research and science may ultimately prove to be our tragic flaw. If we are to understand, much less solve the problems of our age we will need every bit of evidence based research to help us. Sadly, there is money and power in the denial business and it seems to have anointed the so called governor of Florida to keep the stunts coming portraying a liberal arts education as an enemy of the state. To paraphrase the old ad: 'an open mind is a terrible thing to waste.'
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"content": "The gaslighting of gas lighting and the war on education is typical gamesmanship to create outrage for its own sake. The gop scorched earth campaign on research and science may ultimately prove to be our tragic flaw. If we are to understand, much less solve the problems of our age we will need every bit of evidence based research to help us. Sadly, there is money and power in the denial business and it seems to have anointed the so called governor of Florida to keep the stunts coming portraying a liberal arts education as an enemy of the state. To paraphrase the old ad: 'an open mind is a terrible thing to waste.'\n",
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It would be a public service if the NYT did a regular feature on people with amounts of money ranging from modest to extravagant, all of whom aspire to reflect sustainability values in their homes. Instead of “What does $1.5 million buy in…” how about the things you could do for free, or $5000, and up that might advance habitat or save energy or reduce light pollution? I’ll tell you one thing I’d advise Gupta to do for next to no cost: lost the topiary shaved shrubs and plant some natives to save water and help pollinators. I did love that study though!
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P Reed Have you looked at the game "Blossom" on M-W? That's only 12 words per game, and the solution set is pretty open, so might be just right for a younger player.
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"content": "P Reed Have you looked at the game \"Blossom\" on M-W? That's only 12 words per game, and the solution set is pretty open, so might be just right for a younger player.\n",
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KellyNYC - Masochist that I am, I went back and read Judge Middlebrooks' Order on Sanctions. I'm a non-lawyer, but it was sort of a fun read. In any event, the almost $1 million sanction was 100% for legal fees and expenses for the defendants. Both TFG and his attorney (Alina Haba & her firm) are jointly and severally liable. I'd bet he's going to make her pay it all. That's how he works.
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"content": "KellyNYC - Masochist that I am, I went back and read Judge Middlebrooks' Order on Sanctions. I'm a non-lawyer, but it was sort of a fun read. In any event, the almost $1 million sanction was 100% for legal fees and expenses for the defendants. Both TFG and his attorney (Alina Haba & her firm) are jointly and severally liable. I'd bet he's going to make her pay it all. That's how he works.\n",
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Well, one thing is for sure and that's that nothing is for sure. Even if in the short-run inflation moderates back down to 2-3%, sooner or later another series of shocks will send prices up again, or create a contraction, or both. That's what was on my mind as I read the opening color description of the man who had recently emerged from hard times. What caught my eye is that as soon as his circumstances improved, he up-graded his living situation, at greater cost to himself. (Don't be fooled by the "less per square foot" measure.) Obviously, this specific individual knows his business, and I do not, so as far as I know, this is a responsible decision on his part. However, the general point I'd emphasize is that, before a person with improving circumstances turns to increasing consumption (in living space, or car purchase for example) he or she should prepare for an uncertain future. That means save save save your money. This may be very challenging for some of us, but for most, not really. After all, we are the richest individuals to ever have lived. That's why the professor can clothe herself by buying other people's discarded stuff at a thrift shop.
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"content": "Well, one thing is for sure and that's that nothing is for sure. Even if in the short-run inflation moderates back down to 2-3%, sooner or later another series of shocks will send prices up again, or create a contraction, or both. That's what was on my mind as I read the opening color description of the man who had recently emerged from hard times. What caught my eye is that as soon as his circumstances improved, he up-graded his living situation, at greater cost to himself. (Don't be fooled by the \"less per square foot\" measure.) Obviously, this specific individual knows his business, and I do not, so as far as I know, this is a responsible decision on his part. However, the general point I'd emphasize is that, before a person with improving circumstances turns to increasing consumption (in living space, or car purchase for example) he or she should prepare for an uncertain future. That means save save save your money. This may be very challenging for some of us, but for most, not really. After all, we are the richest individuals to ever have lived. That's why the professor can clothe herself by buying other people's discarded stuff at a thrift shop.\n",
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The Red Cross estimates that nearly half of American adults have less than the minimum level of skills needed to swim safely in a pool. They can't save themselves, much less a child in trouble. The YMCA gives adult swimming lessons that are open to non-members. Also, many fitness clubs offer classes. Swimming is a great way to increase one's fitness. Even if you rarely have the chance to get in the water, knowing you have the skills to do so opens up opportunities for fun. Let's do it, outdated kids! Learn to swim! You'll feel proud of yourself.
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"content": "The Red Cross estimates that nearly half of American adults have less than the minimum level of skills needed to swim safely in a pool. They can't save themselves, much less a child in trouble. The YMCA gives adult swimming lessons that are open to non-members. Also, many fitness clubs offer classes. Swimming is a great way to increase one's fitness. Even if you rarely have the chance to get in the water, knowing you have the skills to do so opens up opportunities for fun. Let's do it, outdated kids! Learn to swim! You'll feel proud of yourself.\n",
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The boom/bust this time is fundamentally pretty different from the 2000 bust. That time about every other "tech" company was money losing and obviously not going to make it. This time quite a lot of very profitable companies (Facebook, Google, apple, MSFT, NVDA, Amazon...) decided their super profits during the pandemic (when everyone was locked at home) were going to last a long time and hired accordingly, expanding into completely fanciful areas. The fake money losing businesses were also there but not the same high percentage (mostly crypto ponzi related business and Fintech founded on cheap money from the Fed). However the common factors to both were extended periods of easy money leading to a suspension of normal rules of reality and skepticism on the part of investors (whose money is ultimately at risk). All such booms have always ended the same way. The laid off workers have mostly high demand skills that are well compensated. They should not just choose something based on perceived stability and income but on it's likelihood of positive impact on the world. Going from something like FB or Uber to a clean energy, biotech or insurance analytics firm's tech or data science division would be a gift if I were in that situation. There's a lot of challenges to help solve in this world and many ways to do well while doing good.
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"content": "The boom/bust this time is fundamentally pretty different from the 2000 bust. That time about every other \"tech\" company was money losing and obviously not going to make it. This time quite a lot of very profitable companies (Facebook, Google, apple, MSFT, NVDA, Amazon...) decided their super profits during the pandemic (when everyone was locked at home) were going to last a long time and hired accordingly, expanding into completely fanciful areas. The fake money losing businesses were also there but not the same high percentage (mostly crypto ponzi related business and Fintech founded on cheap money from the Fed). However the common factors to both were extended periods of easy money leading to a suspension of normal rules of reality and skepticism on the part of investors (whose money is ultimately at risk). All such booms have always ended the same way. The laid off workers have mostly high demand skills that are well compensated. They should not just choose something based on perceived stability and income but on it's likelihood of positive impact on the world. Going from something like FB or Uber to a clean energy, biotech or insurance analytics firm's tech or data science division would be a gift if I were in that situation. There's a lot of challenges to help solve in this world and many ways to do well while doing good.\n",
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Burrito Thoroughly false! Where did you read this? It is fantastic. Even in 5th grade, we learned about the Stamp Act of 1765, which was one of many efforts by Britain to impose taxes to further exploit their colonies. By 1773's Tea Party, it was out in the open that they were intent on destroying Massachusetts's democratic self-governing ways. By 1773, Boston and the many towns of Massachusetts were in regular discussion about their sentiments regarding all this and how to resist it. The tax on tea was just one of many acts by Britain, less important than some. That tea, btw, belonged to the East India Company, the most notorious corporation in history, responsible for the deaths of millions in India just a few years before the Tea Party. There are so many informative books relying on a vast collection of town records of Massachusetts Town Meetings, its legislature, letters among its many leaders, and the various Committees of Correspondence - especially Boston's, all of which are inspirational to any patriot, republican or democrat. Check with any librarian.
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"content": "Burrito Thoroughly false! Where did you read this? It is fantastic. Even in 5th grade, we learned about the Stamp Act of 1765, which was one of many efforts by Britain to impose taxes to further exploit their colonies. By 1773's Tea Party, it was out in the open that they were intent on destroying Massachusetts's democratic self-governing ways. By 1773, Boston and the many towns of Massachusetts were in regular discussion about their sentiments regarding all this and how to resist it. The tax on tea was just one of many acts by Britain, less important than some. That tea, btw, belonged to the East India Company, the most notorious corporation in history, responsible for the deaths of millions in India just a few years before the Tea Party. There are so many informative books relying on a vast collection of town records of Massachusetts Town Meetings, its legislature, letters among its many leaders, and the various Committees of Correspondence - especially Boston's, all of which are inspirational to any patriot, republican or democrat. Check with any librarian.\n",
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Living in the city, I paid so much in taxes and can barely afford my shoe-box apartment but while being a legal intern, I found so many cases where non-productive people literally live in floor to ceiling window spacious apartments in the middle of Manhattan and pay like $50/month for rents. Everybody lie and barely anyone got caught in these public housing cases. I know grown-up adult living in their parents' rent-controlled two bed-room apartment with balcony and park view while making six figures. For those buildings where the developers are required to set aside a number of rent-stabilized units, please don't be naive about this. Although they get RE tax benefits for that, they also jack up the non-stabilized units to compensate for the stabilized ones. Because market rate is determined by the rents of the near-by units, over time, the hiked price of the non-stabilized ones became the true market rate, increasing the price of all units in the nearby neighborhood. After the RE benefit lapse, the now crazy market rate kick in. Don't just blame developers. They'll always prioritize their bottom line but things could have been so much better and fairer had it not been for stupid policies, bureaucracy in housing regulation agencies, insufficient housing supply, and byzantine building codes. I'm willing to pitch in my tax to pay for the public's education and health care cost, but housing and employment benefits are ripe for frauds and red tape. The madness must stop.
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Mastodon Instead of the either/or scenario you pose, why not simply increase the server's hourly pay, while allowing them to also receive tips? Did you read that number - a miserly $2.13 an hour? That's what it was when I waited tables for almost a year of my life.You mean to tell me restaurant owners can't pay their servers $3.50/hr? or even $5/hr? Not to mention when I worked, we were told to show up 1 hour before our shift to help setup our areas, and that meant preparing the silverware and napkins, pulling the chairs down (if it was an opening shift), etc. During that hour, which I was paid $2.13, there was NO chance of receiving tips because we weren't yet serving customers.How is that fair?
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This is why a true education is at the same time so risky and so essential. The desire to learn is based on the willingness and the excitement of keeping an open mind. This can be a very risky business, as it allows for the uncomfortable realization that one may discover that one is wrong, even on one's basic assumptions. But without the willingness to accept that risk, no real learning may take place. This is why the whole Republican 'thing' about not making students uncomfortable about our history is a direct assault on the central meaning of education. This willingness to learn, even at the cost of sometimes discovering one was wrong was at the heart of the first 'university' in the world - within the circle of Socrates in the Athenian agora, and it remains at the heart of education today. Further, as the old poster noted, "If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance". That ignorance, deliberate or otherwise, is at the heart of so much of our political craziness today, and it is costing us dearly as, for one example, it did during the pandemic.
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"content": "This is why a true education is at the same time so risky and so essential. The desire to learn is based on the willingness and the excitement of keeping an open mind. This can be a very risky business, as it allows for the uncomfortable realization that one may discover that one is wrong, even on one's basic assumptions. But without the willingness to accept that risk, no real learning may take place. This is why the whole Republican 'thing' about not making students uncomfortable about our history is a direct assault on the central meaning of education. This willingness to learn, even at the cost of sometimes discovering one was wrong was at the heart of the first 'university' in the world - within the circle of Socrates in the Athenian agora, and it remains at the heart of education today. Further, as the old poster noted, \"If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance\". That ignorance, deliberate or otherwise, is at the heart of so much of our political craziness today, and it is costing us dearly as, for one example, it did during the pandemic.\n",
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While I agree that layoffs via email is cruel, what has gone unsaid is the generous benefits of Tech firms. Most are giving weeks and even months of severance in addition to extended medical coverage. In the non-digital workforce you're simply shown the exit.
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Folks, it isn't just "wealthy investors" and multi billion dollar corporations and hedge funds, all of us have money in the stock market in the form of 401(k), 529 plans for our kids to go to college, as well as the sad part deniable fact that Our economy is tied to the performance of equities. It's not "us against them," because in this experiment, "we" are them and "they" are us. Peace. 
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Funny they couldn't find the leakers which was deliberately done to maximize the left leaning MSM to extend their slanted opinions towards swaying the upcoming 2020 elections. Every time these people point fingers accusing Alito or Roberts, we can be more than certain it was leaked by one of the three opposing justices who could care less about our constitution and always voting with an ideological agenda on every case. By the way, SCOTUS just returned the power of women's rights to individual states to decide where they rightly belong.
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what do you expect from a company by any fake name that started as a crime they were never held accountable for. just like microsoft and the criminal who stole code from ibm.
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"content": "what do you expect from a company by any fake name that started as a crime they were never held accountable for. just like microsoft and the criminal who stole code from ibm.\n",
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Perfect. Voters soundly rejected Trump and the extreme MAGA types in 2020 and 2022, and yet, here they are, with powers way in excess of their numbers.Hopefully people will finally open their eyes to the rot in the Republican Party and throw them out on their kiester in 2024.
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V. Sloan. I don’t think it is smugness. Rather, criticism of the greed and bloat that have distorted the price of so many things, including college tuition. I matriculated at Stanford in fall 1969, when the tuition for the year was $2000. In today’s dollars, that is $16,174, not $57,693, which Stanford lists on its website. In 1952, my parents purchased a starter home in Los Angeles for $12,000, in today’s dollars $135,000. I dare you to find such a home for that price anywhere in Los Angeles. No amount of grit will make it possible for today’s 20-somethings to have the same opportunity as their forebears. And that disturbs this 71-year-old, not intergenerational smugness.
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"content": "V. Sloan. I don’t think it is smugness. Rather, criticism of the greed and bloat that have distorted the price of so many things, including college tuition. I matriculated at Stanford in fall 1969, when the tuition for the year was $2000. In today’s dollars, that is $16,174, not $57,693, which Stanford lists on its website. In 1952, my parents purchased a starter home in Los Angeles for $12,000, in today’s dollars $135,000. I dare you to find such a home for that price anywhere in Los Angeles. No amount of grit will make it possible for today’s 20-somethings to have the same opportunity as their forebears. And that disturbs this 71-year-old, not intergenerational smugness.\n",
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Like many others who have commented on this OpEd piece, I personally don't think Biden needs a "comeback". He's accomplished a fair amount of good change and legislation. And certainly the results of the November election were enough of a comeback in terms of legacy. However, the current revelations about the classified documents compound the questions which already existed regarding his age. These two major vulnerabilities may not make Biden the best candidate for the Dems in 2024. I supported him in 2020, and I will support him again if he is the party's nominee. But I am really open to having him step aside with grace in order to allow another person to enter the fray. I do hope he'll consider that.
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Three points, Bret:1. Deficit reduction - How about we take a close and impartial look at our big ag donations. Tens of billions going to 1% of our workforce. Especially with so much land now getting bought by foreign investors.2. Raising the retirement age - I'm over 60, and have worked white collar for 40 of those years. Non stop. Not only am I fighting burnout, companies don't want me, and I'm pivoting on the decision to retire at all vs. allowing myself to die. Sad.3. What will your kids call the R party? Confederates, if they don't purge themselves of the current way of thinking.
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Ah, president 47. The gift that keeps on destroying American life in so many ways. He added over $7 TRILLION in US government debt. He rammed in three new SCOTUS justices who lied about stare decisis and drop kicked Roe. He nearly fomented a successful coup. (Or, in actuality, trained foot soldiers for the next one.)He stole highly sensitive secret government documents and separated some of them from their folders. (It remains to be seen if Biden’s missteps are of any significance or more akin to the nothing burgers on Hillary’s email server.) He weakened NATO and the trust any of our worldwide allies might have in the stability of our government and its commitments.And just for yuks, he tried to cripple the EPA which protects our air and water. I’m betting we’ll still be adding up the consequences from his reign of error for decades to come. If he gets in again, he’ll make Caligula look good.
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"content": "Ah, president 47. The gift that keeps on destroying American life in so many ways. He added over $7 TRILLION in US government debt. He rammed in three new SCOTUS justices who lied about stare decisis and drop kicked Roe. He nearly fomented a successful coup. (Or, in actuality, trained foot soldiers for the next one.)He stole highly sensitive secret government documents and separated some of them from their folders. (It remains to be seen if Biden’s missteps are of any significance or more akin to the nothing burgers on Hillary’s email server.) He weakened NATO and the trust any of our worldwide allies might have in the stability of our government and its commitments.And just for yuks, he tried to cripple the EPA which protects our air and water. I’m betting we’ll still be adding up the consequences from his reign of error for decades to come. If he gets in again, he’ll make Caligula look good.\n",
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My husband and I married 35 years ago when the both of us were living on minimum wage ($2.50/hr) salaries. We would grocery shop together. Planning meals, menus, and putting together a shopping list were critical strategies. My husband was involved in the menu planning. He had meal time “favorites” too! Reading the weekly supermarket ads was important. And that $5.99 Costco chicken provided more than enough for at least 5 meals (Chicken soup, chicken à la king, chicken and biscuits, etc.). We have moved far beyond those minimum wage salaries. Yet those meal time planning and grocery shopping strategies continue. 35 years ago we had a stand alone refrigerator with a small “top of the refrigerator” freezer. We made good us of those spaces. We now have 2 large refrigerator freezers and, most assuredly we continue to make good use of the space. Food shopping excursions are reduced, we continue to “cash in” on supermarket sales, etc..This “17 Foods …” feature is excellent as are the reader comments.
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With traditional investments, huge drops in value are considered acceptable as long as things recover in a decade or two.Just as important as important as people's willingness to believe in the next "disruptive" thing, is the observation that in the conventional business world, the model of earning more each quarter than the previous quarter--forever--does not make sense. It seems, old or new, capitalism is based on the presumption that everything always goes up.
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I watched open-mouthed at a commercial for gambling here in Tampa. One person won a car, the other several hundred thousand dollars. Why are those nauseous ubiquitous drug commercials forced to tell us about all the risky side-effects, but casinos are allowed to falsely imply everyone is a winner?
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"content": "I watched open-mouthed at a commercial for gambling here in Tampa. One person won a car, the other several hundred thousand dollars. Why are those nauseous ubiquitous drug commercials forced to tell us about all the risky side-effects, but casinos are allowed to falsely imply everyone is a winner?\n",
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Not to be overly cynical here, but if the GOP is calling for his ousting, they know more than they’re saying and they want to get in front of the news cycle. I suspect it has something to do with that ~3M windfall and the 750k “donation” he made to his campaign. In the meantime we’ll continue to watch the stunning demise of the Republican Party.
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The American conservative movement is stronger than ever because the GOP leadership has finally been able to unite such disparate groups as anti-expertise, anti-science, anti-environment, anti-culture, anti-education, anti-tolerance, misogynists, homophobes, white supremacists, and anti-semites under the moral, ethical, and spiritual guidance of a man convicted of defrauding his fellow citizens and fined $25 million. Even if the former Goldman Sachs chairman George Santos is not chosen, the House Speakership will be resolved, and Republicans will continue to propose NO legislation to address, Public Safety, Infrastructure, Poverty, Climate Change, Income & Wealth inequality, Future Pandemic Preparation and Response, Healthcare, Gun Violence and on and on. The GOP will continue to offer the American public NOTHING just chaos.
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"content": "The American conservative movement is stronger than ever because the GOP leadership has finally been able to unite such disparate groups as anti-expertise, anti-science, anti-environment, anti-culture, anti-education, anti-tolerance, misogynists, homophobes, white supremacists, and anti-semites under the moral, ethical, and spiritual guidance of a man convicted of defrauding his fellow citizens and fined $25 million. Even if the former Goldman Sachs chairman George Santos is not chosen, the House Speakership will be resolved, and Republicans will continue to propose NO legislation to address, Public Safety, Infrastructure, Poverty, Climate Change, Income & Wealth inequality, Future Pandemic Preparation and Response, Healthcare, Gun Violence and on and on. The GOP will continue to offer the American public NOTHING just chaos.\n",
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JoeD Look in the bills the Democrats passed in the last two years for all the very specific forms of investment in infrastructure and human services that benefit rural areas (as well as urban and suburban). Quite beating an old horse and support the changes that Democrats are trying to make.
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"content": "JoeD Look in the bills the Democrats passed in the last two years for all the very specific forms of investment in infrastructure and human services that benefit rural areas (as well as urban and suburban). Quite beating an old horse and support the changes that Democrats are trying to make.\n",
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Anonymous Well he did receive a $20 million advance on the book.
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Hoo boy! I understand Bret a lot better now if he thinks that even in NYC or San Francisco a family making $400k is barely scraping by. Allocating 25% of pretax income to housing allows that family to spend $8k per month on rent or mortgage. That will more than cover a million dollar home, and there are a quite a few "bargains" below that price in both cities. As for tax policy, we all know that a flat 10% on all earnings above the first $50k for both individuals and businesses would more than balance the budget, but companies and the rich can pay almost nothing as things stand today, and both parties are so comfortable with running the country on borrowed money that it will take a financial disaster to move either of them to hold the wealthy accountable.
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"content": "Hoo boy! I understand Bret a lot better now if he thinks that even in NYC or San Francisco a family making $400k is barely scraping by. Allocating 25% of pretax income to housing allows that family to spend $8k per month on rent or mortgage. That will more than cover a million dollar home, and there are a quite a few \"bargains\" below that price in both cities. As for tax policy, we all know that a flat 10% on all earnings above the first $50k for both individuals and businesses would more than balance the budget, but companies and the rich can pay almost nothing as things stand today, and both parties are so comfortable with running the country on borrowed money that it will take a financial disaster to move either of them to hold the wealthy accountable.\n",
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Also in today's paper "How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System." Maximizing profitability for drugs and child care. No difference. Both fostered by legislators and regulators funded by lobbyists, all approved by SCOTUS and Citizens United.
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"content": "Also in today's paper \"How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System.\" Maximizing profitability for drugs and child care. No difference. Both fostered by legislators and regulators funded by lobbyists, all approved by SCOTUS and Citizens United.\n",
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I’d love to own an EV, but it’s completely impractical for me and anyone else in my situation. I rent—and not a house. My car resides in an open-air carport. Other renters have slots in outdoor parking spaces or parking garages, which may be multi-story. Some people have to park on the street (that applies to some homeowners too). In every story I’ve read about EVs, apartment renters are mentioned briefly, as an aside, if at all. I’ve read through the top 20 or so reader comments so far, and every commenter seems to be a home owner who can plug their car into their house wiring and let it charge, unattended, overnight. Where is the plan for building—and paying for—the enormous number of charging stations for the millions of us who rent? And is it safe to leave an unattended car charging in a parking space accessible to everyone? Surely criminals will find a new niche with that arrangement. I’m all for the elimination of gas-powered vehicles, but I don’t see any evidence that the needs of renters are being seriously considered, or that any plans are in the making to support them in an all-EV world. That is where the transition is likely to fall apart.
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"content": "I’d love to own an EV, but it’s completely impractical for me and anyone else in my situation. I rent—and not a house. My car resides in an open-air carport. Other renters have slots in outdoor parking spaces or parking garages, which may be multi-story. Some people have to park on the street (that applies to some homeowners too). In every story I’ve read about EVs, apartment renters are mentioned briefly, as an aside, if at all. I’ve read through the top 20 or so reader comments so far, and every commenter seems to be a home owner who can plug their car into their house wiring and let it charge, unattended, overnight. Where is the plan for building—and paying for—the enormous number of charging stations for the millions of us who rent? And is it safe to leave an unattended car charging in a parking space accessible to everyone? Surely criminals will find a new niche with that arrangement. I’m all for the elimination of gas-powered vehicles, but I don’t see any evidence that the needs of renters are being seriously considered, or that any plans are in the making to support them in an all-EV world. That is where the transition is likely to fall apart.\n",
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I was told by the head of an agricultural extension at a university that while the bird flu has certainly been a factor, the main reason prices are so high is because many producers are trying to move away from keeping birds in close cages. While seemingly more humane, chickens are extremely aggressive with each other (“pecking order”). The word he used was “cannibalistic.” With more space to move around, chickens attack each other. Any eggs that are laid on the floor and not on racks have to be disposed of for sanitary reasons. Can anyone comment on this? All of the press about high egg prices has been centered around avian flu and not this.
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Dear NYT:President Biden has long bloviated about his commitment to civil rights and the legacy of Dr. King, claiming -- falsely -- that he attended Black church as a young man, fought apartheid and was detained in South Africa trying to free Nelson Mandela, marched for civil rights alongside MLK and worked to desegregate our public schools.The facts are starkly different. Biden is a career politician, an opportunist who has has always raced to the front of any victory parade, exhibiting a Zelig-like ability to exploit whatever message is winning the day. As his own vice president pointed out, in her famous "girl on the bus" attack, Biden gained political power while sponsoring anti-busing legislation and was chummy with segregationists like Strom Thurmond. Biden championed the 1994 crime bill, that provided for 100,000 new police officers and $9.7 billion in funding for prisons, which led to the arrest and incarceration of millions of Black men serving crimes for drug offenses.Lately, Biden has adopted the divisive "Jim Crow II" rhetoric of the Marxist race theorists, who reject MLK's most famous plea -- for color blind equality. Where do we go from here?For Joe Biden, it all depends on which way the wind is blowing.
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"content": "Dear NYT:President Biden has long bloviated about his commitment to civil rights and the legacy of Dr. King, claiming -- falsely -- that he attended Black church as a young man, fought apartheid and was detained in South Africa trying to free Nelson Mandela, marched for civil rights alongside MLK and worked to desegregate our public schools.The facts are starkly different. Biden is a career politician, an opportunist who has has always raced to the front of any victory parade, exhibiting a Zelig-like ability to exploit whatever message is winning the day. As his own vice president pointed out, in her famous \"girl on the bus\" attack, Biden gained political power while sponsoring anti-busing legislation and was chummy with segregationists like Strom Thurmond. Biden championed the 1994 crime bill, that provided for 100,000 new police officers and $9.7 billion in funding for prisons, which led to the arrest and incarceration of millions of Black men serving crimes for drug offenses.Lately, Biden has adopted the divisive \"Jim Crow II\" rhetoric of the Marxist race theorists, who reject MLK's most famous plea -- for color blind equality. Where do we go from here?For Joe Biden, it all depends on which way the wind is blowing.\n",
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ISR I like your boxing analogy about "The UKpunched above its weight...." Such a fighter can look good in the opening rounds and may even get a quick knckout of the opponent, but as the fight goes on it's harder to win. Britian added the extra weight of Brexit to the ongong baggage of the Crown , its history of colonization, and oppression of Ireland ,etc. It is no longer "Great Britain " and never was.
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"content": "ISR I like your boxing analogy about \"The UKpunched above its weight....\" Such a fighter can look good in the opening rounds and may even get a quick knckout of the opponent, but as the fight goes on it's harder to win. Britian added the extra weight of Brexit to the ongong baggage of the Crown , its history of colonization, and oppression of Ireland ,etc. It is no longer \"Great Britain \" and never was.\n",
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Again, this piece reads as though it was created by the White House communications staff. When talking economics, objective facts are more important than spin for political points. When families are hurting, nebulous and theoretical data for charts and graphs count little.Let’s look at some of those facts. Energy and food prices often do not go into governmental calculations for inflation. And yet in each real and significant category, Americans were paying over 10 % more for each in December 2022 than they were in December 2021. The US Realtors association reported this month that middle class Americans are priced out of new home purchases in the largest percentage since 1980. That is a big deal and it’s full impact TBD. The US automobile manufacturers association reported that the declines in new car sales in 2022 were largely due to many Americans being unable to buy cars given the huge inflationary price increases due to supply chain issues.Credit card debt is at record levels in US households. It is believed that in order to keep up spending to counter inflation, households are taking on additional debt to stay afloat.The average US holder of a 401 K account lost 17.1 % of their retirement savings in CY 2022 in the worst collective year for equity and bond losses in 50 years.In real terms, many of the facts are not pretty. Many households are experiencing a direct reduction in wealth and liquidity over the past 15 months. Facts matter.
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"content": "Again, this piece reads as though it was created by the White House communications staff. When talking economics, objective facts are more important than spin for political points. When families are hurting, nebulous and theoretical data for charts and graphs count little.Let’s look at some of those facts. Energy and food prices often do not go into governmental calculations for inflation. And yet in each real and significant category, Americans were paying over 10 % more for each in December 2022 than they were in December 2021. The US Realtors association reported this month that middle class Americans are priced out of new home purchases in the largest percentage since 1980. That is a big deal and it’s full impact TBD. The US automobile manufacturers association reported that the declines in new car sales in 2022 were largely due to many Americans being unable to buy cars given the huge inflationary price increases due to supply chain issues.Credit card debt is at record levels in US households. It is believed that in order to keep up spending to counter inflation, households are taking on additional debt to stay afloat.The average US holder of a 401 K account lost 17.1 % of their retirement savings in CY 2022 in the worst collective year for equity and bond losses in 50 years.In real terms, many of the facts are not pretty. Many households are experiencing a direct reduction in wealth and liquidity over the past 15 months. Facts matter.\n",
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Carlos Correa Completes Deal With Twins, Leaving the Mets Behind On Dec. 21, the shortstop agreed to a $315 million contract with the Mets. Three weeks later, he signed a $200 million deal with Minnesota. What happened? On Dec. 21, the Mets were declared by many as the winners of the off-season after they agreed to terms with Carlos Correa, one of the top infielders in baseball, on a 12-year, $315 million contract. The Mets, who won 101 games in 2022, were adding an all-around superstar in what they hoped was the final piece in the team owner Steven A. Cohen’s championship puzzle. On Dec. 21, the shortstop agreed to a $315 million contract with the Mets. Three weeks later, he signed a $200 million deal with Minnesota. What happened?
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"content": "Carlos Correa Completes Deal With Twins, Leaving the Mets Behind On Dec. 21, the shortstop agreed to a $315 million contract with the Mets. Three weeks later, he signed a $200 million deal with Minnesota. What happened? On Dec. 21, the Mets were declared by many as the winners of the off-season after they agreed to terms with Carlos Correa, one of the top infielders in baseball, on a 12-year, $315 million contract. The Mets, who won 101 games in 2022, were adding an all-around superstar in what they hoped was the final piece in the team owner Steven A. Cohen’s championship puzzle. On Dec. 21, the shortstop agreed to a $315 million contract with the Mets. Three weeks later, he signed a $200 million deal with Minnesota. What happened?\n",
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Blockchain, the software upon which crypto is based, has some actual use. But in the end, the value of crypto - like all currency - has to be agreed upon by everyone, and it hasn't been and probably won't be. Thus the ability of the average investor to convert their bitcoin to actual usable money will remain limited until it fades into the ether. But the death process will be slow and painful to those who have mistimed their foray into this magical realm.
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So my partner and I watched the released videos of the Tyre Nichols beating/murder. And I wondered.... When will it come to pass that police can use deep-fake AI to generate bodycam footage to suit their narrative? One disturbing part of the videos was the conversation the cops had at the end, constructing the narrative of the (false) events that they would report. One of them even said words to the effect of, "Yeah, we'll go with that story." What happens when they can simply feed the story into a prompt for an AI program to crank out video to support their story, body-cam style?
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Dadof2 Japan, for example, has a 2.5% unemployment rate. There are a couple of holes in your comment:1) If there were truly labor shortages real wages would not be falling2) Rather than importing workers from failed economies, we should be serving as an example and partner to them, so that they do not risk and often lose their lives trying to come here. Instead we are emulating their failed model.3) The Trump policies brought unemployment to historical lows and saw real wages for formerly marginalized groups climb. 4) A lot of these hazardous and low-paying jobs can simply be automated. Everyone can participate in the American dream, if we lose defeatist and envy-inspired policies and rhetoric. What the Democrats actually wants is a perpetually marginalized cadre of dependent supporters. And the abusive elite is happy to foster the false narrative is Socialism
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Just wait until Biden announces that he will not run in 2024. The Democrats will advance the nuttiest of their party's ideas-reparations being the sine qua non of the far left. Divided we are and divided we will remain. Most Americans just want to raise their families in safety, enjoy friends and till their plot of land (figuratively and literally.) If DeSantis secures the nomination, look to him to sprint toward the middle as will the Democrats' candidate. We are in this pickle of candidates appealing to the far left and far right because of our primary system which almost exclusively encourages extremist positions. Open primaries might reduce our partisan bickering. As the parties present themselves now, we labor to watch the likes of MTG or AOC advance their "Expert" opinions on matters of grave national import. It is a sight that churns stomachs.
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BillSometimes it’s wasteful, buy sometimes it’s crucial.Remember when President Trump told us that he talks to a lot of people and they tell him things. One thing people in the military were telling him was that they had lots of guns, but they were completely out of ammunition.“No bullets, Don. We got no ammo. If Canada attacks, we’re toast. We need bullets.”So Don suggested that we raise defense spending from the $550 specified in the budget Obama left him, to $888 billion.“To buy bullets for those U.S. forces without any.”The cognatively challenged GOP settled on an increase that pushed defense spending to more than $750 billion. For bullets.Do you feel safer? This was the GOP in action about seven years ago. And they haven’t learned anything since.
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"content": "BillSometimes it’s wasteful, buy sometimes it’s crucial.Remember when President Trump told us that he talks to a lot of people and they tell him things. One thing people in the military were telling him was that they had lots of guns, but they were completely out of ammunition.“No bullets, Don. We got no ammo. If Canada attacks, we’re toast. We need bullets.”So Don suggested that we raise defense spending from the $550 specified in the budget Obama left him, to $888 billion.“To buy bullets for those U.S. forces without any.”The cognatively challenged GOP settled on an increase that pushed defense spending to more than $750 billion. For bullets.Do you feel safer? This was the GOP in action about seven years ago. And they haven’t learned anything since.\n",
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The biggest loser will appeal ,but while he's late with the payments charge him 10-15% interest and I know he spent more on his own lawyers trying to stay out of jail
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"content": "The biggest loser will appeal ,but while he's late with the payments charge him 10-15% interest and I know he spent more on his own lawyers trying to stay out of jail\n",
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There is a simple answer to AbbVie and monopolies like Teva Pharmaceutical who buy up every single generic maker and then 10x the price. 50x is what Teva did.Buy Pills like Bullets.Like we do with National Security for Weapons, to provide for the Common Defense, we can do for the Common Welfare.A. FDA is the single purchaser of all drugsB. FDA contracts under DoD FARS rules, competitive bids as either Cost Plus or FFP, Firm Fixed Pricing.C. We taxpayers fund tons of Pharmaceutical research like we fund Weapons research.Benefits- dramatically lower costs. Eliminates drug companies marketing and aiding drug abuse. Total control over dispensing.
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"content": "There is a simple answer to AbbVie and monopolies like Teva Pharmaceutical who buy up every single generic maker and then 10x the price. 50x is what Teva did.Buy Pills like Bullets.Like we do with National Security for Weapons, to provide for the Common Defense, we can do for the Common Welfare.A. FDA is the single purchaser of all drugsB. FDA contracts under DoD FARS rules, competitive bids as either Cost Plus or FFP, Firm Fixed Pricing.C. We taxpayers fund tons of Pharmaceutical research like we fund Weapons research.Benefits- dramatically lower costs. Eliminates drug companies marketing and aiding drug abuse. Total control over dispensing.\n",
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Crypto has been here for more than a decade and came into the public consciousness more than 8 years ago. There is already quite a hefty sum invested in it and it is clearly not just a fad. The author conveniently elides the fact that the crypto markets have already been through a few boom and bust cycles (summers and winters) yet consumer investment remains and more important, institutional investment has increased. I am cautious about promoting the inevitability of crypto becoming a proper asset class but I know one thing: if institutions are able to develop risk models that tell them more about the crypto markets than all but the most sophisticated individual investors, they will jump in with both feet. The wider financial markets will adjust and respond to a new first class instrument for making profit.
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"content": "Crypto has been here for more than a decade and came into the public consciousness more than 8 years ago. There is already quite a hefty sum invested in it and it is clearly not just a fad. The author conveniently elides the fact that the crypto markets have already been through a few boom and bust cycles (summers and winters) yet consumer investment remains and more important, institutional investment has increased. I am cautious about promoting the inevitability of crypto becoming a proper asset class but I know one thing: if institutions are able to develop risk models that tell them more about the crypto markets than all but the most sophisticated individual investors, they will jump in with both feet. The wider financial markets will adjust and respond to a new first class instrument for making profit.\n",
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Ghostwriters are the print equivalent of celebrity impressionists, like Rich Little (remember him?), Dana Carvey, James Austin Johnson and numerous other SNL cast members, Jordan Peele as Obama, etc. It takes a good ear minus the physical performance of gestures, tics and other idiosyncrasies to capture the voice of their subject. When I ghostwrote some years ago, I knew of but never actually met any of my subjects and relied solely on hours and hours of recordings of them speaking. It worked out especially well, since without the distraction/challenge of typing, hand-writing or hiring an assistant to record their words, their stories unraveled in a stream-of-consciousness fashion. Kudos to Moehringer whose Tender Bar and Open I greatly enjoyed. Sorry, but I will pass on Spare since I have zero interest in the airing of personal laundry and wish he chose to write instead about the Invictus Games or something more worthy of attention.
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"content": "Ghostwriters are the print equivalent of celebrity impressionists, like Rich Little (remember him?), Dana Carvey, James Austin Johnson and numerous other SNL cast members, Jordan Peele as Obama, etc. It takes a good ear minus the physical performance of gestures, tics and other idiosyncrasies to capture the voice of their subject. When I ghostwrote some years ago, I knew of but never actually met any of my subjects and relied solely on hours and hours of recordings of them speaking. It worked out especially well, since without the distraction/challenge of typing, hand-writing or hiring an assistant to record their words, their stories unraveled in a stream-of-consciousness fashion. Kudos to Moehringer whose Tender Bar and Open I greatly enjoyed. Sorry, but I will pass on Spare since I have zero interest in the airing of personal laundry and wish he chose to write instead about the Invictus Games or something more worthy of attention.\n",
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Documentalista In order to direct someone to a particular thread:—go to the Original post, click on Share , let the page or box that comes up and says Permalink:; Copy that link so that it is in the clipboard and close the page by using the X. Now you can paste the Permalink to open a new web page with the whole thread (you can refresh just that page to see what happens (replies, recommendations, deletions…) or paste in a message as I am doing here.This thread is at Permalink: <a href="https://nyti.ms/3wDwQwA#permid=122855033" target="_blank">https://nyti.ms/3wDwQwA#permid=122855033</a>You can share a single reply, but the results can vary, sharing the Original post id is safer.and that's all until the comments platform is changed and we shall have to learn it all over again.happy searching.
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"content": "Documentalista In order to direct someone to a particular thread:—go to the Original post, click on Share , let the page or box that comes up and says Permalink:; Copy that link so that it is in the clipboard and close the page by using the X. Now you can paste the Permalink to open a new web page with the whole thread (you can refresh just that page to see what happens (replies, recommendations, deletions…) or paste in a message as I am doing here.This thread is at Permalink: <a href=\"https://nyti.ms/3wDwQwA#permid=122855033\" target=\"_blank\">https://nyti.ms/3wDwQwA#permid=122855033</a>You can share a single reply, but the results can vary, sharing the Original post id is safer.and that's all until the comments platform is changed and we shall have to learn it all over again.happy searching.\n",
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A national debt of more than $31 TRILLION is not sustainable, and both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party share equal blame. While the Democratic Party and its economic and journalist supporters like to point out that annual deficits have shrunk under Clinton, Obama and Biden, they are still annual deficits adding to the national debt. (I think Clinton had one year of an actual budget surplus.). And while the Republican Party and its economic and journalist supporters decry annual deficit spending (and never deficit-causing tax cuts), they blithely ignore that fact the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 45 and Tantrum Trump have involved large annual deficits and large additions to the national debt……. The American addiction to annual deficit spending and increasing the national debt must come to an end because at some point they will cause the US to fall off the economic cliff - with very dire results. The obvious solution to this lurking catastrophe is to raise taxes and reduce spending. Taxes can easily be raised by going to a flat tax that eliminates all deductions, many of which are abused by businesses large and small. And although a reduction in spending may be painful to some who feed at the public trough, belt-tightening would force the reduction in wasted, frivolous and unneeded spending…….. But all this takes the political courage that has been sorely lacking for decades, and this makes me quite pessimistic about our economic future.
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"content": "A national debt of more than $31 TRILLION is not sustainable, and both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party share equal blame. While the Democratic Party and its economic and journalist supporters like to point out that annual deficits have shrunk under Clinton, Obama and Biden, they are still annual deficits adding to the national debt. (I think Clinton had one year of an actual budget surplus.). And while the Republican Party and its economic and journalist supporters decry annual deficit spending (and never deficit-causing tax cuts), they blithely ignore that fact the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, Bush 41, Bush 45 and Tantrum Trump have involved large annual deficits and large additions to the national debt……. The American addiction to annual deficit spending and increasing the national debt must come to an end because at some point they will cause the US to fall off the economic cliff - with very dire results. The obvious solution to this lurking catastrophe is to raise taxes and reduce spending. Taxes can easily be raised by going to a flat tax that eliminates all deductions, many of which are abused by businesses large and small. And although a reduction in spending may be painful to some who feed at the public trough, belt-tightening would force the reduction in wasted, frivolous and unneeded spending…….. But all this takes the political courage that has been sorely lacking for decades, and this makes me quite pessimistic about our economic future.\n",
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There’s an intellectual disconnect. Savage argues sexual needs and emotional needs are separate, then says sex workers are paid for their time and listening. That’s an emotional need. He says his own and most relationships are transactional and lists how he “pays” for sex with his partner by doing loving things. Sex and love are not separate. That’s why the hook up culture is failing. That’s why cheating is so devastating. Perhaps in his open marriage he and his partner are satisfied with hookups or transactional sex with a third, but what about that third? What if he wants more? Sex is tricky to navigate precisely because it is so emotional. If it were just a physical need, we could all just go to restaurants or gyms.
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"content": "There’s an intellectual disconnect. Savage argues sexual needs and emotional needs are separate, then says sex workers are paid for their time and listening. That’s an emotional need. He says his own and most relationships are transactional and lists how he “pays” for sex with his partner by doing loving things. Sex and love are not separate. That’s why the hook up culture is failing. That’s why cheating is so devastating. Perhaps in his open marriage he and his partner are satisfied with hookups or transactional sex with a third, but what about that third? What if he wants more? Sex is tricky to navigate precisely because it is so emotional. If it were just a physical need, we could all just go to restaurants or gyms.\n",
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There isn't a good US airline choice. We took flights on Delta late last year because pretty much everyone said don't take American, and after having our supposedly selected seats moved apart from each other on all flights, on the next to last flight I was put in a seat that was damp and smelled of urine. Since the flight was full, I had to stay there long enough for it to be soaking into my clothes, over 15-20 minutes. Then I was moved to a small seat at the back of the plane, which for some reason had an empty full size seat with cell phones in it right next to it. During all of this several flight attendants asked for my contact information and proclaimed loudly enough for nearby passengers to hear how they would 'make this right'. We had to run to the connecting flight since I had to wait to get off from the very back of the plane (already forgotten about I guess), and I didn't have time to change clothes. The 'making it right' by Delta? A $25 discount on a future flight sent from a no-reply email address. I might as well go with the cheapest carrier possible next time, since even the expensive, supposedly good airlines are terrible now.
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Republicans, Thy Name Is Corporatocracy Alaska very successfully implemented ranked choice votingthis year (thanks to a successful citizen initiative putting it on the ballot in 2020). This was challenging because the very first RCV was to fill Don Young's seat for a brief time. We were holding 'special' and 'regular' elections simultaneously and it was a bit confusing. But the State provided good information and assistance to voters, andin general (Miss Sarah Palin excepted) people are happywith the results. It turned out to be not that complicated,and there were options for mail-in and early-in-person voting as well. RCV, necessarily combined with open primaries,should be adopted nationwide ASAP.
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‘The Last of Us’ Series Premiere Recap: Fungus Among Us It’s too soon to say whether HBO’s big-budget video game adaptation will become a zombie classic. But it delivers one heck of an opening catastrophe. Every great post-apocalyptic saga should begin with a killer “here’s where everything went wrong” sequence. It’s too soon to say whether HBO’s big-budget video game adaptation will become a zombie classic. But it delivers one heck of an opening catastrophe.
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"content": "‘The Last of Us’ Series Premiere Recap: Fungus Among Us It’s too soon to say whether HBO’s big-budget video game adaptation will become a zombie classic. But it delivers one heck of an opening catastrophe. Every great post-apocalyptic saga should begin with a killer “here’s where everything went wrong” sequence. It’s too soon to say whether HBO’s big-budget video game adaptation will become a zombie classic. But it delivers one heck of an opening catastrophe.\n",
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I was in NATO and I do not respect the capabilities of Ukraine or it’s Western “partners”. Russia viewed this issue as existential and setting aside a few missteps early on has prosecuted the war as if it were existential. They will win. It’s up to the US to determine exactly how much of Ukraine will be lost.
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The real issue with employee injuries are safety equipment .As a Union member the mantra became safety , safety , safety !OSHA 10 , OSHA30 courses were required. How this extends to football , is safety of equipment , they improved the helmet lining so the skull would not be jolted as much. Now maybe the experts should focus their expertise on the exterior of the helmet? Possibly instead of the other player being hit by a hard thermoplastic object at 30 miles per hour , the outer layer of helmit materal can be somewhat cushioned also , so as to mitigate the impact to someones chest . Remember when football was invented , they used leather helmits , with little cushioning , I dont know how many injuries there were , but probably numerous. The new helmit would still have the logo , and not neccessarly look too much different , but think of the injuries it could prevent. Note rules have recently been modified as per other rules of play , why cant they look at equipment . Now the issue of compensation . Share the wealth , if BILLION$are being made in this big business , there certainly is enough wealth to at least pay medical claims for those unfortunate enough to be paralized , and maimed. Something has to be done!
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"content": "The real issue with employee injuries are safety equipment .As a Union member the mantra became safety , safety , safety !OSHA 10 , OSHA30 courses were required. How this extends to football , is safety of equipment , they improved the helmet lining so the skull would not be jolted as much. Now maybe the experts should focus their expertise on the exterior of the helmet? Possibly instead of the other player being hit by a hard thermoplastic object at 30 miles per hour , the outer layer of helmit materal can be somewhat cushioned also , so as to mitigate the impact to someones chest . Remember when football was invented , they used leather helmits , with little cushioning , I dont know how many injuries there were , but probably numerous. The new helmit would still have the logo , and not neccessarly look too much different , but think of the injuries it could prevent. Note rules have recently been modified as per other rules of play , why cant they look at equipment . Now the issue of compensation . Share the wealth , if BILLION$are being made in this big business , there certainly is enough wealth to at least pay medical claims for those unfortunate enough to be paralized , and maimed. Something has to be done!\n",
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What the "Varsity Blues" scandal has revealed is not merely Rick Singer's scheme to get his wealthy clients' children into selective colleges through an athletic admission "side door". The scandal has illustrated that the whole point of being admitted to a selective college is about joining a select group, being able to say "I went to Harvard, USC, Yale, Stanford, etc.", not about getting an education. The reality, hidden by "Varsity Blues" and the current US Supreme Court case about affirmative action admission decisions at Harvard and the UNC at Chapel Hill, is that if education were the real point of these institutions, they would eliminate legacy applicants, donor applicants (I'm looking at you, Jared), athletic and "special" talent applicants, set aside a random number of open admissions and institute "pass/fail" in place of the already inflated marks system (e.g, Harvard's average of "A -").
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"content": "What the \"Varsity Blues\" scandal has revealed is not merely Rick Singer's scheme to get his wealthy clients' children into selective colleges through an athletic admission \"side door\". The scandal has illustrated that the whole point of being admitted to a selective college is about joining a select group, being able to say \"I went to Harvard, USC, Yale, Stanford, etc.\", not about getting an education. The reality, hidden by \"Varsity Blues\" and the current US Supreme Court case about affirmative action admission decisions at Harvard and the UNC at Chapel Hill, is that if education were the real point of these institutions, they would eliminate legacy applicants, donor applicants (I'm looking at you, Jared), athletic and \"special\" talent applicants, set aside a random number of open admissions and institute \"pass/fail\" in place of the already inflated marks system (e.g, Harvard's average of \"A -\").\n",
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"His political action committee cut a deal with the Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group that has opposed Mr. McCarthy’s bid for speaker, agreeing not to spend money to support candidates in open primaries in safe Republican seats."We're seeing the results of 12 years of Citizens United as the ultimate arbiter of lost values, empty agendas, and power grabs. The pernicious influence of big money that determines the ever-growing divide between rich and poor, allowing self-aggrandizing, poorly educated office holders to dictate what's good for them, not their constituents.What are Americans going to do about this? At what point can we pronouce the GOP dead, and will it before the US itself is dead?
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"content": "\"His political action committee cut a deal with the Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group that has opposed Mr. McCarthy’s bid for speaker, agreeing not to spend money to support candidates in open primaries in safe Republican seats.\"We're seeing the results of 12 years of Citizens United as the ultimate arbiter of lost values, empty agendas, and power grabs. The pernicious influence of big money that determines the ever-growing divide between rich and poor, allowing self-aggrandizing, poorly educated office holders to dictate what's good for them, not their constituents.What are Americans going to do about this? At what point can we pronouce the GOP dead, and will it before the US itself is dead?\n",
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A 13 year deal that extends from age 28 to 41 seem ill-conceived anyway. Most aging models show material decline after age 36 with few exceptions - some of which are rumored to be steroid related.Better to pay a higher average annual salary for a far shorter term. Still, $200 million versus $315 million makes him a centi-millionaire either way. As an impact player, that is the market rate.
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"content": "A 13 year deal that extends from age 28 to 41 seem ill-conceived anyway. Most aging models show material decline after age 36 with few exceptions - some of which are rumored to be steroid related.Better to pay a higher average annual salary for a far shorter term. Still, $200 million versus $315 million makes him a centi-millionaire either way. As an impact player, that is the market rate.\n",
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This article offers a paradoxical analysis as escalation is seen as a means to encourage de-escalation. And what if it goes the other way-escalation leads to more escalation. Will the U.S. and our NATO allies send in their troops to fight along the Ukrainian soldiers. Already the U.S. military is training Ukrainian soldiers at Russia's door step. Didn't the U.S. first send advisors to Viet Nam only to escalate that war by bringing in our troops. And didn't these actions further escalate the resistance and the destruction. One also has to examine the BIRCS alliance which is never mentioned. Brazil, India, Russia China and now South Africa partners in this alliance with Turkey our NATO ally, Saudi Arabia our major oil supplier and Indonesia asking to join this alliance. They apparently do not see Putin as this evil force like the West does. How do our leaders explain this visionary paradox, our supposed partners clamoring to join this alliance. Escalation could lead to our own downfall and economic ruin.
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"content": "This article offers a paradoxical analysis as escalation is seen as a means to encourage de-escalation. And what if it goes the other way-escalation leads to more escalation. Will the U.S. and our NATO allies send in their troops to fight along the Ukrainian soldiers. Already the U.S. military is training Ukrainian soldiers at Russia's door step. Didn't the U.S. first send advisors to Viet Nam only to escalate that war by bringing in our troops. And didn't these actions further escalate the resistance and the destruction. One also has to examine the BIRCS alliance which is never mentioned. Brazil, India, Russia China and now South Africa partners in this alliance with Turkey our NATO ally, Saudi Arabia our major oil supplier and Indonesia asking to join this alliance. They apparently do not see Putin as this evil force like the West does. How do our leaders explain this visionary paradox, our supposed partners clamoring to join this alliance. Escalation could lead to our own downfall and economic ruin.\n",
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I would suppose that prosecuting this case cost the City of New York about $5M....Was it worth it, for the little slap on the hands. I also suppose everyone who does business with the Trump Organization knows they are very slippery and unethical, and deals with it. Not right, but he has gotten away with his crooked lifestyle for years, so he expects to continue to do so forever. I think that not only Trump, but his sons and Ivanka, should be criminally prosecuted as they are the Trump Organization and perpetuated this fraud, etc.
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"content": "I would suppose that prosecuting this case cost the City of New York about $5M....Was it worth it, for the little slap on the hands. I also suppose everyone who does business with the Trump Organization knows they are very slippery and unethical, and deals with it. Not right, but he has gotten away with his crooked lifestyle for years, so he expects to continue to do so forever. I think that not only Trump, but his sons and Ivanka, should be criminally prosecuted as they are the Trump Organization and perpetuated this fraud, etc.\n",
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Will well maybe you should not have "tied" your retirement to the stock market.there are other more stable returns. but i am sure you feel that if your not getting at least 10 percent a year, then you think "the economy is not great".
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"content": "Will well maybe you should not have \"tied\" your retirement to the stock market.there are other more stable returns. but i am sure you feel that if your not getting at least 10 percent a year, then you think \"the economy is not great\".\n",
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I want to come home to America to stay, but your healthcare costs and drug prices make it a very high bar to clear. But I fear that it may nonetheless become necessary. This is because the Ontario, Canadian single payer system is in collapse because of the Conservative government of Premier Ford. Note that healthcare in Canada is not national, it is managed and delivered by the Provinces.Sure, drugs are virtually free here, but you will never find a GP; a clinic is the best you’ll do. If you depend on smaller regional hospitals you will find emergency rooms closing; in cities it’s ambulances that are scarce. Epic waits in the emergency rooms that are open. Massive delays for non-lifesaving surgery. Plus, the government is introducing “private” healthcare, which will further bleed the public system. Canada is drifting into a two-tiered system and Trudeau is asleep at the wheel, as always.
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"content": "I want to come home to America to stay, but your healthcare costs and drug prices make it a very high bar to clear. But I fear that it may nonetheless become necessary. This is because the Ontario, Canadian single payer system is in collapse because of the Conservative government of Premier Ford. Note that healthcare in Canada is not national, it is managed and delivered by the Provinces.Sure, drugs are virtually free here, but you will never find a GP; a clinic is the best you’ll do. If you depend on smaller regional hospitals you will find emergency rooms closing; in cities it’s ambulances that are scarce. Epic waits in the emergency rooms that are open. Massive delays for non-lifesaving surgery. Plus, the government is introducing “private” healthcare, which will further bleed the public system. Canada is drifting into a two-tiered system and Trudeau is asleep at the wheel, as always.\n",
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Open borders are an ultimate bogeyman waved in the face of right wing America. Like everything else, the reality is far more complex than simplistic propaganda. There is no room here to provide a detailed argument, so I will make a few points. 1) The service economy in America would disintegrate without immigrants, documented or not. Watch the movie A Day Without Mexicans for a fanciful presentation. 2) Social Security would also fall apart without the FICA contributions of this cohort who pay in vast quantities, but will likely never get their money back, something that should be pointed out to elderly xenophobes. 3) The vast majority of Mexicans have no interest in moving to the US, leaving behind their families, friends, culture, food etc. to make a difficult and dangerous journey to a place where they don’t speak the language and are too often feared and despised. And more return south than go north every year. 4) instead of worrying about immigrants, think about the vast economic and entrepreneurial opportunities in Mexico a country replete with natural and human resources. 5) Consider the enormous savings that could be realized if we stopped trying to close a border that cannot be closed, along with the benefits of a single currency such as the Euro.
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"content": "Open borders are an ultimate bogeyman waved in the face of right wing America. Like everything else, the reality is far more complex than simplistic propaganda. There is no room here to provide a detailed argument, so I will make a few points. 1) The service economy in America would disintegrate without immigrants, documented or not. Watch the movie A Day Without Mexicans for a fanciful presentation. 2) Social Security would also fall apart without the FICA contributions of this cohort who pay in vast quantities, but will likely never get their money back, something that should be pointed out to elderly xenophobes. 3) The vast majority of Mexicans have no interest in moving to the US, leaving behind their families, friends, culture, food etc. to make a difficult and dangerous journey to a place where they don’t speak the language and are too often feared and despised. And more return south than go north every year. 4) instead of worrying about immigrants, think about the vast economic and entrepreneurial opportunities in Mexico a country replete with natural and human resources. 5) Consider the enormous savings that could be realized if we stopped trying to close a border that cannot be closed, along with the benefits of a single currency such as the Euro.\n",
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Reading through the comments, I identify fully with those advocating giving Ukraine all it needs to end the war on the battlefield, end the bloodshed as quickly as possible, and be restored to its internationally recognized borders. It is sad that there seems to be no possibility to end the war by negotiation, because it has been made clear that Russia's opening position is that first Ukraine and the free world must recognize it's illegal annexation of regions in Ukraine, not only carrying out terrible crimes against humanity, but also pillaging Ukraine's cultural heritage, looting its museums, libraries, etc. The Western position of not allowing Ukraine a level playing field, where they can only defend their soil, but not take the war into Russia, even as Russia attacks it, is absurd and lets Russia continue to be confident of victory. In addition to the US, the position of Germany as regards German made tanks is also incomprehensible. The bloodshed needs to end as soon as possible and only Ukraine's military victory has a chance of doing that.
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"content": "Reading through the comments, I identify fully with those advocating giving Ukraine all it needs to end the war on the battlefield, end the bloodshed as quickly as possible, and be restored to its internationally recognized borders. It is sad that there seems to be no possibility to end the war by negotiation, because it has been made clear that Russia's opening position is that first Ukraine and the free world must recognize it's illegal annexation of regions in Ukraine, not only carrying out terrible crimes against humanity, but also pillaging Ukraine's cultural heritage, looting its museums, libraries, etc. The Western position of not allowing Ukraine a level playing field, where they can only defend their soil, but not take the war into Russia, even as Russia attacks it, is absurd and lets Russia continue to be confident of victory. In addition to the US, the position of Germany as regards German made tanks is also incomprehensible. The bloodshed needs to end as soon as possible and only Ukraine's military victory has a chance of doing that.\n",
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Give Harry some credit for being public with his mental health struggles. This article doesn’t mention his combat experiences which are a major driver of his PTSD. The data on psychedelic impact on underlying behavioral states is pretty conclusive. No less a personality than Jordan Peterson has talked extensively about the ability of psychedelics to improve openness by a standard deviation. There is information on microdosing psychedelic use during the Kennedy administration by a number of high-ranking officials. It’s quite clear these are beneficial agents when used in a therapeutic setting.
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"content": "Give Harry some credit for being public with his mental health struggles. This article doesn’t mention his combat experiences which are a major driver of his PTSD. The data on psychedelic impact on underlying behavioral states is pretty conclusive. No less a personality than Jordan Peterson has talked extensively about the ability of psychedelics to improve openness by a standard deviation. There is information on microdosing psychedelic use during the Kennedy administration by a number of high-ranking officials. It’s quite clear these are beneficial agents when used in a therapeutic setting.\n",
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Have GERD cough, which has been mistakenly diagnosed as COPD...but my MDs make sure to do all the needed tests, including Chest CT, as I also have an autoimmune problem. A friend has had a worsening cough for years; she's a dedicated supporter of health care, particularly for lung disorders (her spouse died of one). She was open to whatever her diagnostician recommended - but that MD kept putting off anything that would really rule out serious pathology (and still balks at more tests). I told her more than once of my concerns; she accepted them graciously knowing it was concern for her health/longevity - not simple 'pushiness'. I'm relieved that she now knows there is no malignancy (though wishing her MD was more proactive, one doesn't interfere in long-standing trust relationships).As to Chris C.: an elderly relative (90s) had abdominal surgery, revealing a slow-growing but malignant tumor. Her MD advised family caretakers not inform her of the diagnosis. I was appalled, but remained silent. I still have trouble understanding how/why one's MD and DPOA can decide to keep a mentally intact, self-maintaining person in the dark about their diagnosis-while the patient keeps wondering about those minor persistent symptoms.
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"content": "Have GERD cough, which has been mistakenly diagnosed as COPD...but my MDs make sure to do all the needed tests, including Chest CT, as I also have an autoimmune problem. A friend has had a worsening cough for years; she's a dedicated supporter of health care, particularly for lung disorders (her spouse died of one). She was open to whatever her diagnostician recommended - but that MD kept putting off anything that would really rule out serious pathology (and still balks at more tests). I told her more than once of my concerns; she accepted them graciously knowing it was concern for her health/longevity - not simple 'pushiness'. I'm relieved that she now knows there is no malignancy (though wishing her MD was more proactive, one doesn't interfere in long-standing trust relationships).As to Chris C.: an elderly relative (90s) had abdominal surgery, revealing a slow-growing but malignant tumor. Her MD advised family caretakers not inform her of the diagnosis. I was appalled, but remained silent. I still have trouble understanding how/why one's MD and DPOA can decide to keep a mentally intact, self-maintaining person in the dark about their diagnosis-while the patient keeps wondering about those minor persistent symptoms.\n",
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We figured out from the fine print in a Trump gold coin TV informercial that the $50 coin contained about $3 worth of gold--just enough to cover its worthless pot metal core. How fitting.
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"content": "We figured out from the fine print in a Trump gold coin TV informercial that the $50 coin contained about $3 worth of gold--just enough to cover its worthless pot metal core. How fitting.\n",
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Hi Natasha, if the example of having a single apple in your luggage by mistake is your own, as an resident of Australia you should be aware of the following;In 1999, a population of painted apple moth was discovered in West Auckland. It was found on nearly 100 different species of plants. It cost $65 million to eradicate this pest. We declared it successfully eradicated in 2006 and don't want it back.This is an Australian species which would ruin NZs apple exports.Likewise the formerly pristine Fiordland sounds now have an invasive seaweed species, brought in on fouled boat hulls. They don't want any more.
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J. Martin Apparently candidates who run for Federal office are required to have a Treasurer to keep the books on contributions. This is not the flashiest lie but the one that can get him in serious trouble, along with the real likelihood that the $700,000 loan was illegally obtained.
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"content": "J. Martin Apparently candidates who run for Federal office are required to have a Treasurer to keep the books on contributions. This is not the flashiest lie but the one that can get him in serious trouble, along with the real likelihood that the $700,000 loan was illegally obtained.\n",
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CJS Facebook is a platform to sell ad space. And maybe someday it will monetize its AI investment. But neither of those things makes it in any way "secure."
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"content": "CJS Facebook is a platform to sell ad space. And maybe someday it will monetize its AI investment. But neither of those things makes it in any way \"secure.\"\n",
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Not just a tech problem. Coffee makers are great example. Most recently bought a $300 Capresso which lasted a little over a year. Opened it up to find the same water heater found in a $20 Black and Decker had rusted out - now wondering what manner the of heavy metals where ingested. Of course, no way to replace or fix and wouldn’t want to anyway with sub standard parts meant to become obsolete. Searched and found a coffeemaker made in Netherlands of all copper parts which should last a decade or more. Our Global Economy is predicated on a baste waste stream. Consumer diligence is a must to counteract and transform.
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"content": "Not just a tech problem. Coffee makers are great example. Most recently bought a $300 Capresso which lasted a little over a year. Opened it up to find the same water heater found in a $20 Black and Decker had rusted out - now wondering what manner the of heavy metals where ingested. Of course, no way to replace or fix and wouldn’t want to anyway with sub standard parts meant to become obsolete. Searched and found a coffeemaker made in Netherlands of all copper parts which should last a decade or more. Our Global Economy is predicated on a baste waste stream. Consumer diligence is a must to counteract and transform.\n",
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John Median income in the US is $31K (2019). The 50% you reference make that or less. There's not much you can make off that group without leaving them utterly destitute.
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"content": "John Median income in the US is $31K (2019). The 50% you reference make that or less. There's not much you can make off that group without leaving them utterly destitute.\n",
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Over the years I've found it dazzlingly ironic and hypocritical that every rabidly anti-choice, "pro-life" person I know are also equally pro-gun and think every man, woman and child should be fully armed and ready to open fire and be trained to ensure they never miss their target, because "protection".My first serious thoughts about abortion were to wonder why men who engage in the biggest exercise in mass murder, war, and are really good at wholesale slaughter are rewarded with medals and have statues of themselves erected in public places, celebrating their acts as "self defense ". Conversely, if a woman who's been impregnated by a man feels her life and future threatened by the impending rigors/danger of pregnancy/birth and the lifelong care and expense of raising, educating the human result and engages in her own "self defense" by preventing a POTENTIAL life from causing the threat, she's forced to expose herself to the danger and is threatened with incarceration or worse.
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"content": "Over the years I've found it dazzlingly ironic and hypocritical that every rabidly anti-choice, \"pro-life\" person I know are also equally pro-gun and think every man, woman and child should be fully armed and ready to open fire and be trained to ensure they never miss their target, because \"protection\".My first serious thoughts about abortion were to wonder why men who engage in the biggest exercise in mass murder, war, and are really good at wholesale slaughter are rewarded with medals and have statues of themselves erected in public places, celebrating their acts as \"self defense \". Conversely, if a woman who's been impregnated by a man feels her life and future threatened by the impending rigors/danger of pregnancy/birth and the lifelong care and expense of raising, educating the human result and engages in her own \"self defense\" by preventing a POTENTIAL life from causing the threat, she's forced to expose herself to the danger and is threatened with incarceration or worse.\n",
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Over on the Washington Post today Jennifer Rubin has what seems like a direct refutation of Edsall’s article here. Her point? While some Republicans are often portrayed as “moderate” by a gullible press, those so-called moderates nearly always specifically vote in a way that directly helps the far right MAGA cause. Every. Single. Time. The title of her column? “There Are No Moderate Republican.” I think she’d agree when I say that what should appear when readers open an article like this one titled “Meet The Republicans Who Are Facing Down The Hard Right” is a blank page.
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Bee Line There's a smaller version opening on the UES. The old one was too big. It just screamed "corporate behemoth." They likely made more off the in-house Starbucks than from book sales. Cheers to the new strategy; they might have to hire actual readers😊
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"content": "Bee Line There's a smaller version opening on the UES. The old one was too big. It just screamed \"corporate behemoth.\" They likely made more off the in-house Starbucks than from book sales. Cheers to the new strategy; they might have to hire actual readers😊\n",
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"That $25 million represented about 2 percent of the National Restaurant Association’s total revenues over that same period, but more than half of the amount its members paid in dues."Nuh-uh. Since the profits of the restaurants come from the labor of the workers, it's the workers who have paid each restaurant's dues. So it's upwards of 6% of the National Restaurant Association's revenues that the workers are paying for.
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Henry S I spent my career in Silicon Valley working for companies big and small. I hired many people: I was a VP at a Fortune 500 company and General Manager of a smaller 70-person company. In my career, I can't recall a single conversation where we were concerned about our inability to enforce non-compete clauses (non-disclosure agreements were universal). On the other hand, in the early 2000's, when I moved to Washington state for a few years, where non-compete agreements *are* enforceable, I was quite surprised by the relative lack of smaller companies. I had thought Microsoft's presence would have seeded many more smaller companies, but that's not what I found. I moved back to California. Their unwillingness to enforce non-compete agreements was a significant factor in my decision. I'm still here.
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"content": "Henry S I spent my career in Silicon Valley working for companies big and small. I hired many people: I was a VP at a Fortune 500 company and General Manager of a smaller 70-person company. In my career, I can't recall a single conversation where we were concerned about our inability to enforce non-compete clauses (non-disclosure agreements were universal). On the other hand, in the early 2000's, when I moved to Washington state for a few years, where non-compete agreements *are* enforceable, I was quite surprised by the relative lack of smaller companies. I had thought Microsoft's presence would have seeded many more smaller companies, but that's not what I found. I moved back to California. Their unwillingness to enforce non-compete agreements was a significant factor in my decision. I'm still here.\n",
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"Her Humira was costing the company well over $70,000 a year — more than Ms. Andersen’s salary."Therein lies the problem with profiteering by Big Pharma.Furthermore, much of the research that fuels the development of these drugs is based on government grants. Rather than private money the companies themselves put at risk.
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Mr. Bouie does a wonderful job describing the social consequences of unfettered open carry, as well as the disadvantaged position of the unarmed person in this world. It seems to me that to suggest to those who feel threatened that they should just toughen up and join the armed gang is to double down on the accidental shootings, the acts of vigilantes, and the episodes of mass shootings that are already proliferating. And I wonder, in thinking about the fellow in an Atlanta supermarket carrying SIX firearms cited by Bouie, does open carry actually mean that you can have as many guns as you can carry on your person? You can't be legally limited in that respect either? Do we really want to live in a world in which going to shop for food also might mean preparing to engage in a firefight while weighing out our vegetables or selecting just the right cut of meat for a family dinner?
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"content": "Mr. Bouie does a wonderful job describing the social consequences of unfettered open carry, as well as the disadvantaged position of the unarmed person in this world. It seems to me that to suggest to those who feel threatened that they should just toughen up and join the armed gang is to double down on the accidental shootings, the acts of vigilantes, and the episodes of mass shootings that are already proliferating. And I wonder, in thinking about the fellow in an Atlanta supermarket carrying SIX firearms cited by Bouie, does open carry actually mean that you can have as many guns as you can carry on your person? You can't be legally limited in that respect either? Do we really want to live in a world in which going to shop for food also might mean preparing to engage in a firefight while weighing out our vegetables or selecting just the right cut of meat for a family dinner?\n",
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Felipe . . .and that silly idea is precisely how wars expand. It's never been any other way. Witness the USA's WW2 aid to the USSR amounting to $180B in 2022 dollars. We supported Russia, who at the time and before WW2 was 'less than cordial' to the USA. Why? The silly idea you put forth. Now, my friend, did our relationship with the USSR and now Russia change?Are they still our 'friends'?
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"content": "Felipe . . .and that silly idea is precisely how wars expand. It's never been any other way. Witness the USA's WW2 aid to the USSR amounting to $180B in 2022 dollars. We supported Russia, who at the time and before WW2 was 'less than cordial' to the USA. Why? The silly idea you put forth. Now, my friend, did our relationship with the USSR and now Russia change?Are they still our 'friends'?\n",
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Dan Pont Thanks Dan. I too feel awe and joy at the mystery of existence. And I appreciate the delicate and well stated poignancy of your comment.Can I ask again, though? Do you know Socrates? Not the ancient Greek philosopher but one of the most highly recommended commenters in the New York times.He is quite eloquent, but I'm noticing more and more often someone among the 50-100 people who reply to his comments say something like, 'Yes, but all you do is complain, Socrates - do you have any solutions?"Well, I imagine that if you tried to tell EITHER Socrates or the complaining commenters something like: "Folks, do you think it at all possible that it is the very absence of joy and delight at the utter mystery of beauty of simply existing that may be at the root of all problems - from human contributions to climate change to poverty, war, hatred, etc?"Imagine their response. I don't think it would be welcoming.What could we possibly say to Socrates, Orion Clemens, Kathy Lollock (she'd be open, I think, along with her friends Phyllis and Marge - notice all 4, except Socrates, are women) that would not necessarily compel agreement, but might inspire a pause, a consideration that just possibly, since nothing else has ever seemed work, perhaps opening up to the unfathomable mystery of - as you put it - just existing - instead of letting fear of that void mystery send us running away in terror to get lost in our enjoyments or fix-it schemes - what if?
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"content": "Dan Pont Thanks Dan. I too feel awe and joy at the mystery of existence. And I appreciate the delicate and well stated poignancy of your comment.Can I ask again, though? Do you know Socrates? Not the ancient Greek philosopher but one of the most highly recommended commenters in the New York times.He is quite eloquent, but I'm noticing more and more often someone among the 50-100 people who reply to his comments say something like, 'Yes, but all you do is complain, Socrates - do you have any solutions?\"Well, I imagine that if you tried to tell EITHER Socrates or the complaining commenters something like: \"Folks, do you think it at all possible that it is the very absence of joy and delight at the utter mystery of beauty of simply existing that may be at the root of all problems - from human contributions to climate change to poverty, war, hatred, etc?\"Imagine their response. I don't think it would be welcoming.What could we possibly say to Socrates, Orion Clemens, Kathy Lollock (she'd be open, I think, along with her friends Phyllis and Marge - notice all 4, except Socrates, are women) that would not necessarily compel agreement, but might inspire a pause, a consideration that just possibly, since nothing else has ever seemed work, perhaps opening up to the unfathomable mystery of - as you put it - just existing - instead of letting fear of that void mystery send us running away in terror to get lost in our enjoyments or fix-it schemes - what if?\n",
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We're surprised at what the parade of craven politicians do in Florida to stay in power? Take Rick Scott for instance. His claim to fame? He ran a hospitcal system that kept 2 sets of books and defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history. The Department of Justice won 14 FELONY convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time. His reward? As opposed to jail - the people of FL elected him governor and senator. FL doesn't know how to sink any lower. The only good thing about climate change is at some point at lot of this state will be gone.
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"content": "We're surprised at what the parade of craven politicians do in Florida to stay in power? Take Rick Scott for instance. His claim to fame? He ran a hospitcal system that kept 2 sets of books and defrauded Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal programs in the largest healthcare fraud settlement in U.S. history. The Department of Justice won 14 FELONY convictions against the company, which was fined $1.7 billion in what was at the time. His reward? As opposed to jail - the people of FL elected him governor and senator. FL doesn't know how to sink any lower. The only good thing about climate change is at some point at lot of this state will be gone.\n",
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Well, considering that Obama gave these very same folks about 100 billion dollars of free money in 2008, and virtually none of them did one second of time in a federal prison . . . of course they would think they can just do it again. Why wouldn't they?
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A few weeks after I bought some generic printer toner on Amazon the seller sent ome a postcard offering a $15 Amazon gift card if I left a review. So I did, a one star review, saying that they pay for reviews. And Amazon rejected it and refused to publish it.
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A “mega yacht” cost $250,000 about 30 years ago.
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Yes but in a global digitally connected 'chip' economy, China has the natural resource advantage of the rare earths that are essential to chips. State sponsored nationalist populist protectionism has doesn't work for long. Along with cheap human labor and a rogue province aka Taiwan is the center of chip making for the world.When Donald Trump withdrew America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he ceded the world to China's Belt and Road Initiative.Technological expertise and knowledge can't be concealed nor cornered by either capitalist competition nor national defense Intelligence espionage security strategic agency threatsl confiscation aka theft.
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"content": "Yes but in a global digitally connected 'chip' economy, China has the natural resource advantage of the rare earths that are essential to chips. State sponsored nationalist populist protectionism has doesn't work for long. Along with cheap human labor and a rogue province aka Taiwan is the center of chip making for the world.When Donald Trump withdrew America from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he ceded the world to China's Belt and Road Initiative.Technological expertise and knowledge can't be concealed nor cornered by either capitalist competition nor national defense Intelligence espionage security strategic agency threatsl confiscation aka theft.\n",
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Baruch There's a certain satisfaction in seeing McCarthy getting his comeuppance. Long overdue. McCarthy consistently lacks a moral compass. He always tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing & then heads that way. No wonder some don't trust him. The radicals on the right have no desire to govern, only to cause chaos & jam their way into more power. The nation is against them, & Republicans should be as well. The GOP needs to find a more courageous moderate to be their speaker who will force the radicals to fall in line. Even if it means threatening to fund challengers against them in 2 years. Having said that, there's something to be said for spending curbs in exchange for raising the federal debt. Will we ever fix the ballooning deficit, or will we watch it spiral out of control? Earmarks to direct federal money to individual projects are out of control. They vanished for a decade after 2011 following the “bridge to nowhere” & other embarrassments. Last year's $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill contained no fewer than 367 pages of pet projects that lawmakers earmarked for their home state or district. Congress brought home the bacon for some 5,000 separate earmarks at the cost of $9.7 billion. Insane. The GOP group of 20 is also seeking to heavily fortify the U.S. border with Mexico. Are we ever going to repair our broken immigration system, or is the plan to keep accepting more illegals until we are overwhelmed? These legitimate issues have to be addressed.
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"content": "Baruch There's a certain satisfaction in seeing McCarthy getting his comeuppance. Long overdue. McCarthy consistently lacks a moral compass. He always tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing & then heads that way. No wonder some don't trust him. The radicals on the right have no desire to govern, only to cause chaos & jam their way into more power. The nation is against them, & Republicans should be as well. The GOP needs to find a more courageous moderate to be their speaker who will force the radicals to fall in line. Even if it means threatening to fund challengers against them in 2 years. Having said that, there's something to be said for spending curbs in exchange for raising the federal debt. Will we ever fix the ballooning deficit, or will we watch it spiral out of control? Earmarks to direct federal money to individual projects are out of control. They vanished for a decade after 2011 following the “bridge to nowhere” & other embarrassments. Last year's $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill contained no fewer than 367 pages of pet projects that lawmakers earmarked for their home state or district. Congress brought home the bacon for some 5,000 separate earmarks at the cost of $9.7 billion. Insane. The GOP group of 20 is also seeking to heavily fortify the U.S. border with Mexico. Are we ever going to repair our broken immigration system, or is the plan to keep accepting more illegals until we are overwhelmed? These legitimate issues have to be addressed.\n",
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Judging by quite a few comments, most people react viscerally or emotionally to debt. The large numbers are scary and people subconsciously think of their own financial situation, their level of credit card debt, for example, and immediately assume that taking on more would not only wreck themselves but will take down the economy. However, if people truly believe in the free market, they’d look at the long bond, or the Treasury note, which is at 3.5 percent. That rate tells you the financial markets aren’t concerned. If they were, those concerns would be priced into the rate. As Professor Krugman said, the real issue is what you do with that debt. If it expands the productive capacity of the economy, like the infrastructure bill will, then debt as a percentage of GDP will fall over time. After all, we never repaid the debt. It just became a smaller percentage of GNP during the postwar boom. If you’re still concerned, support raising the top marginal rate on the highest earners. That will bring in much-needed revenue and will not be much of a drag on the economy since the rich usually bank a marginal dollar. In any case, the U.S. dollar will always be a safe haven. You can take that to the bank.
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Mr. Santos, if that is his real name, has a steady job with good pay and benefits for 2 years. I suspect this may be a first for him.I also suspect he will be just fine with "phoning it in" for 2 years while figuring out what to do next. Write a book, with a ghost writer of course, and go on the motivational speaker circuit, be the opening act for Trump rallies?I'm sure even his inexperienced staff can figure out how to get constituents tickets for White House tours. Besides, it's not like the House is going to get anything worthwhile or good done for anyone, well, except the 1%, the next two years.He is no different than Trump except his father didn't give him hundreds of millions of dollars as well as the many other conservative Republicans who are just fine with lying and cheating as evidenced by all their fully documented lying and cheating.If you're worried about George bringing shame to the GOP name, don't; that ship sailed long ago. The good news for conservatives is almost half of Americans are okay with lying and cheating as long as it is done by Republicans.
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"content": "Mr. Santos, if that is his real name, has a steady job with good pay and benefits for 2 years. I suspect this may be a first for him.I also suspect he will be just fine with \"phoning it in\" for 2 years while figuring out what to do next. Write a book, with a ghost writer of course, and go on the motivational speaker circuit, be the opening act for Trump rallies?I'm sure even his inexperienced staff can figure out how to get constituents tickets for White House tours. Besides, it's not like the House is going to get anything worthwhile or good done for anyone, well, except the 1%, the next two years.He is no different than Trump except his father didn't give him hundreds of millions of dollars as well as the many other conservative Republicans who are just fine with lying and cheating as evidenced by all their fully documented lying and cheating.If you're worried about George bringing shame to the GOP name, don't; that ship sailed long ago. The good news for conservatives is almost half of Americans are okay with lying and cheating as long as it is done by Republicans.\n",
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Pete Here’s the thing though…in the the early part of 2022 when things were really starting to open up, many COUNTRIES were requiring proof of travel insurance, that included a COVID clause, to even get into their country. Chile in January of 2022 when we flew there for our Aurora expedition to Antarctica had an extensive procedure for verifying COVID status prior to approving our entry.
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"content": "Pete Here’s the thing though…in the the early part of 2022 when things were really starting to open up, many COUNTRIES were requiring proof of travel insurance, that included a COVID clause, to even get into their country. Chile in January of 2022 when we flew there for our Aurora expedition to Antarctica had an extensive procedure for verifying COVID status prior to approving our entry.\n",
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This is a deep and difficult area from a legal standpoint, so i appreciate the Court taking on this issue. States like California have built support for illegal immigrants into our budget and statutes--they can get free driver's licenses, free healthcare, CalFresh (food stamps), and even priority for admission and scholarships to our finest universities. That's not hidden--it's on our State agencies' webpages. Unraveling "support" for illegal immigrants starts with defining the issue and the law. Enforcing policies like E-Verify, which is basically illegal here because of equity concerns, cannot be done without Federal threat against a state that very much supports our open southern border.
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"content": "This is a deep and difficult area from a legal standpoint, so i appreciate the Court taking on this issue. States like California have built support for illegal immigrants into our budget and statutes--they can get free driver's licenses, free healthcare, CalFresh (food stamps), and even priority for admission and scholarships to our finest universities. That's not hidden--it's on our State agencies' webpages. Unraveling \"support\" for illegal immigrants starts with defining the issue and the law. Enforcing policies like E-Verify, which is basically illegal here because of equity concerns, cannot be done without Federal threat against a state that very much supports our open southern border.\n",
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ManhattanWilliam This question is regularly raised by persons who are systemically anti-Israel and anti-Zionists. The answer to this question as been repeatedly communicated, but it has been consistently ignored by persons of that ilk. Billions of dollars of aid are given to Israel yearly. The majority of this money is invested in projects in which Israel and the US cooperate. Good examples of this are the Iron Dome and the protective systems that have been added to the US tanks and armored personnel carriers. In addition, the companies granted these monies purchase goods and services from the US with these funds. So, these billions in grants would be more accurately labelled as investments. I hope this closes this issue once and for all.
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"content": "ManhattanWilliam This question is regularly raised by persons who are systemically anti-Israel and anti-Zionists. The answer to this question as been repeatedly communicated, but it has been consistently ignored by persons of that ilk. Billions of dollars of aid are given to Israel yearly. The majority of this money is invested in projects in which Israel and the US cooperate. Good examples of this are the Iron Dome and the protective systems that have been added to the US tanks and armored personnel carriers. In addition, the companies granted these monies purchase goods and services from the US with these funds. So, these billions in grants would be more accurately labelled as investments. I hope this closes this issue once and for all.\n",
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Of course Brett thinks it's OK to raise the age for collecting social security benefits. After acknowledging it might be hard for a person in their 70s who does physically demanding jobs , he blithely suggests they can easy switch to easier jobs.OK Brett, most of us do not make in excess of $300K pper year. 40% of current retirees subsist solely on social security. Most folks in the working half of " the middle class" do not have huge amounts to invest. I am not fond of a lot of Democratic issues, but from an economic standpoint, I can't image voting Republican. Two unfunded wars. Numerous unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy. And the rest of us working ourselves to I'll health for scraps.
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"content": "Of course Brett thinks it's OK to raise the age for collecting social security benefits. After acknowledging it might be hard for a person in their 70s who does physically demanding jobs , he blithely suggests they can easy switch to easier jobs.OK Brett, most of us do not make in excess of $300K pper year. 40% of current retirees subsist solely on social security. Most folks in the working half of \" the middle class\" do not have huge amounts to invest. I am not fond of a lot of Democratic issues, but from an economic standpoint, I can't image voting Republican. Two unfunded wars. Numerous unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy. And the rest of us working ourselves to I'll health for scraps.\n",
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transitory Ah....paid for by government (us) but not built by government...but point taken. One of the first public housing projects here in Chicago, the Lathrop Homes, dates to the early 1940's, and the complex was devised as a combination of low-rise and medium 3-4 story rise brick apartments set within fairly open space where there was plenty of room for greenery and play-space for children. It still exists and is currently undergoing rehabilitation. I would live there, no problem. That is countered by later 60's style high-rise public housing which started with the same promise of offering a 'livable' environment with accessible outdoor space. Sadly, we all know the ultimate fate of the Cabrini-Green and Robert Taylor Homes complexes. Interestingly, though, the culprit of the latter's failure was not so much the design aspects as originally conceived, because when new, residents looked forward to the chance to move in there, but the lack of continuing funding for inevitable ongoing maintenance needs. Expecting poor residents to be the source of their own building maintenance funding was a recipe for disaster - just as it is today. We still haven't come to grips with that.
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"content": "transitory Ah....paid for by government (us) but not built by government...but point taken. One of the first public housing projects here in Chicago, the Lathrop Homes, dates to the early 1940's, and the complex was devised as a combination of low-rise and medium 3-4 story rise brick apartments set within fairly open space where there was plenty of room for greenery and play-space for children. It still exists and is currently undergoing rehabilitation. I would live there, no problem. That is countered by later 60's style high-rise public housing which started with the same promise of offering a 'livable' environment with accessible outdoor space. Sadly, we all know the ultimate fate of the Cabrini-Green and Robert Taylor Homes complexes. Interestingly, though, the culprit of the latter's failure was not so much the design aspects as originally conceived, because when new, residents looked forward to the chance to move in there, but the lack of continuing funding for inevitable ongoing maintenance needs. Expecting poor residents to be the source of their own building maintenance funding was a recipe for disaster - just as it is today. We still haven't come to grips with that.\n",
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