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I’ve witnessed parents send their children to expensive private schools, and spend $100/hr tutoring in math, and chemistry, then thousands more on SAT preparedness, and placement experts, and most times to no avail. College isn’t for everyone. People need to fill jobs that require other skills. Plumbers and electricians for example. Need something fixed in your house? The prices are astounding, and the wait is frustrating. Young people aren’t interested in those fields that require manual labor, or seem beneath them, but you could live very nicely in either professions. Today a college education in the liberal arts is comparable to a GED. At least as far as hiring goes. If it isn’t filling a necessary gap between high school and professional school it really doesn’t qualify one for anything, sad to say. A certificate course from an online tech school would be more helpful. Government can only hire so many people to do make-work desk jobs that could be performed better by a well programmed website or app.
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Big D Yep, I knew someone was going to blame it on politics.Are you claiming that the Trump administration had an "open borders policy"? Certainly there is no such policy today; it's a right-wing fiction.If you bother to read the article, you will learn what anyone actually familiar with the issue knows: these people, and their drugs, just drive in through regular ports of entry, where it is a practical impossibility to search every vehicle. How the cartel members elude detection I don't know (but their cartel affiliation is most certainly not in their documentation), and for the drugs, they use mules. The ones who get caught are just the cost of doing business.The idea that either party in Washington is just throwing open the doors to the cartels is absurd.
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From an accompanying article: "In one of their first legislative moves, (the GOP) will seek to cut funding for the Internal Revenue Service, as conservative lawmakers try to kneecap President Biden’s $80 billion overhaul of the beleaguered agency."Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. The last time the GOP controlled the House under Trump all they managed in terms of significant legislation was the 2017 Tax Cut. That, after all the election saber rattling about immigration and other America First agenda items, they got 1 thing done. A Tax Cut for their donors. Surprise!Defunding the IRS is basically a backdoor to the same outcome. Crippling an agency and allowing their donor class to rip-off the government.
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What about the stress of building a house that's 50% over budget and six months behind schedule? Public approval hearings where neighbors lie openly in an attempt to sabotage your project, being forced to get the state Department of Health involved, only being able to have septic because the previous property owner miraculously discovered a 60-year old piece of paper from said DoH declaring a right to a "cesspool" on the property like I'm in the movie National Treasure. Architect charging 10x their original estimate. And all for a 1,300 sq/ft one-story building. That's real stress. Welcome to my current building project.
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| yes | Classification | 9,057 |
Corporations and the rich funnel $billions of dollars to the Republican Party. This makes sense. The Republicans have delivered three huge tax cuts to them since Reagan, not to mention defunding regulatory agencies. It makes sense.Corporations and the rich funnel $billions of dollars to the Democratic Party as well. This doesn't make sense unless you really believe that big corporations and rich oligarchs care about the social programs of the Democratic Party, which, by the way, the Democrats are having trouble getting passed. Of course, nobody is accusing the Democratic Party of being against money, corporations, the rich or anything resembling the concentration of power in the hands of a few. In this sense, giving money to the Democrats makes sense. Democrats are paid to go easy and to be feckless. Let the Republicans take the blame.In the meantime, this gives us a strange bipartisan order called Neoliberalism that has been with us since Reagan. Military-Industrial Complex (funded). Tax cuts, weak regulations (green light). International trade agreements (of course). Foreign military intervention (that's what we've always done). Support of corporations and monopolistic Capitalism (no discussion).There is no real conflict in Congress except in the press.
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"content": "Corporations and the rich funnel $billions of dollars to the Republican Party. This makes sense. The Republicans have delivered three huge tax cuts to them since Reagan, not to mention defunding regulatory agencies. It makes sense.Corporations and the rich funnel $billions of dollars to the Democratic Party as well. This doesn't make sense unless you really believe that big corporations and rich oligarchs care about the social programs of the Democratic Party, which, by the way, the Democrats are having trouble getting passed. Of course, nobody is accusing the Democratic Party of being against money, corporations, the rich or anything resembling the concentration of power in the hands of a few. In this sense, giving money to the Democrats makes sense. Democrats are paid to go easy and to be feckless. Let the Republicans take the blame.In the meantime, this gives us a strange bipartisan order called Neoliberalism that has been with us since Reagan. Military-Industrial Complex (funded). Tax cuts, weak regulations (green light). International trade agreements (of course). Foreign military intervention (that's what we've always done). Support of corporations and monopolistic Capitalism (no discussion).There is no real conflict in Congress except in the press.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,706 |
It would help, before embarking on a long-winded discussion about income and wealth, to actually establish the distribution spread of net worth in this country as well as yearly income. They are two different things. One statistic has the top 10% owning 75% of the wealth, the next 10% with about 10% of the wealth, the bottom 40% with zero net worth, and the remaining middle class with only about 15% of the wealth.Also, there is a great moral difference between trading labor, time, and skills for compensation (and even trade) with living off rents from accrued wealth (stocks, bonds, real estate) that is protected by laws and the society as a whole. And there is a great moral difference between how we tax these things. There are also problems relating to what workers must bring to the table before they can show up for work to start earning compensation, like housing, transportation, feeding themselves, being clean and presentable, health care, education, skills, and even the cost of finding the job in the first place.Basically, the present system heavily favors those already wealthy and punished those who have to exchange their lives for money to live on (the working class). This needs to change and be reversed to some extent. This is what Democrats need to focus on.
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Wow! Great re-start if their program. I swim a lot in my late 50s and got a 3KM open-water swim in Lake Ilopongo in El Salvador just over a week ago. I was the only one swimming in the big lake as far as I could discern. Such a pity. There’s no swim culture and hence almost nobody swims in much of Latin America, where there’s always disbelief that I’d have a boat drop me 3KM from shore, people telling me: “It is very deep, be careful.”How can one not want to know how to swim in such a beautiful, tropical place? If I get elected president - I’ll push for everyone to learn to swim in high school…lives saved and vastly enriched. I learnt at the YMCA circa 1971, but it was not until I took an advanced swim course in summer ‘88 at UH - my friends thought it folly, but 34 years on, now recognise my summer of three Phys. Ed courses as genius - that I learnt to love swimming, training for the Waikiki Rough Water Swim that summer, far offshore in a state of euphoria. My UH roommate (German, who grew up in Italy) was visiting me in September and remarked that the swim culture in Italy was minimal. He said a friend was sucked down by the whirlpool in the middle of Lake Como and drowned. I had a long swim at Bellagio in ‘96 and survived.
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You know people make money off those bonds. In LA, the banker who sold the HHH bonds made over $30 million in commission on the bond. He was generous with it. Political donations galore. Same with the bullet train. CALIFORNIA is corrupt.
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| yes | Classification | 6,919 |
Tell the matchmaking service. These men are paying a lot to make a life partnership. They should know what they are getting into.These freeloaders should have repaid their debt before purchasing expensive furniture. Ask for repayment in full. Tell them you are glad their lives have improved. Now you need to think about your retirement. Here's the total. We'd like to receive a check within the week.
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"content": "Tell the matchmaking service. These men are paying a lot to make a life partnership. They should know what they are getting into.These freeloaders should have repaid their debt before purchasing expensive furniture. Ask for repayment in full. Tell them you are glad their lives have improved. Now you need to think about your retirement. Here's the total. We'd like to receive a check within the week.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,926 |
I’m a fan of low budget horror and I had high hopes for Skinamarink, but all I got from it was a headache from squinting at the screen trying to figure out what I was supposed to be seeing. The best part of this film was the font in the opening credits. Then the long, repetitive underlit shots of walls, carpets and children’s feet began and at first I was thinking, “okay the filmmaker is establishing a tone, I’m sure the whole film isn’t like this” But I was wrong. The whole film, all hour and forty five minutes of it, are the same slow, dark procession of barely anything happening. There were one or two jump scares but I spent so long anticipating them that when they finally arrived they didn’t make me flinch. There’s the kernel of something interesting there, but after seeing the same shot of a wall with things stuck to it for the seventeenth time, I realized that that kernel was never, ever going to germinate and I sat there, growing increasingly restless and irritated, until the end credits brought blessed relief.
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| no | Classification | 3,485 |
I dunno. Everyone should be a short order cook for a year. Or better yet, work in an ER. You sure CAN multitask, and it's sink or swim. Anyone that can't manage a computer screen with a few open windows, a few active emails, a text message and a phone call all pretty much at the same time is doomed. Stop making a big deal out of it.
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| yes | Classification | 9,848 |
Many of my American friends believe the swift firing was driven by the race of the officers, and have seen that pattern before. That white officers see repercussions much more slowly. Do you have a report of the killing of black people over the past 5 years, the race(s) of each officer, and the speed at which investigations were open and consequences were felt?
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| yes | Classification | 7,574 |
Making the military budget off-limits to cuts is insane. We're paying $75 million apiece for 3,000 F-35s, $13 billion apiece for 10 new aircraft carriers (no other country has more than two) and support a Pentagon bureaucracy second to none for waste, redundancy and inefficiency. If anything, the DoD should be at the top of the list.
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| yes | Classification | 8,202 |
Not necessarily. I live in Minnesota, nestled next to abortion-restricting Iowa & the Dakotas. Should those states enact laws similar to that of Texas, I have proposed to a MN legislator that should Kristi Noem’s South Dakota enact such a law enabling suit against anyone who enabled travel for an abortion in Minnesota, Minnesota should enact a law enabling any citizen of the state to file a counter-suit against anyone who had filed such a suit pursuant to the SD law, with damages set at 10x whatever had been the damages sought in the original suit.I suspect SD would follow by allowing its citizens to file counter-countersuits against any MN resident who had filed a MN countersuit against an original SD suit. To which, of course, MN could respond by allowing counter-countercountersuits. . . until the utter absurdity of the whole thing becomes unavoidably obvious, with the absurdity rooted in the original SD law. And SCOTUS can then decide whether it wants American jurisprudence to pertain to the real world or to Alice’s Wonderland.However this plays out, it’s the response of adjacent blue states to litigious red states that will determine whether Ms. Greenhouse is right. If blue states fight fire with fire, I think it’s probable that she is.
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And now we have Kevin McCarthy; Lord of The Flies.and the outcome of his quest to rule....The Flies will fight to survive the immoral battle...and like all revolutions by those they attempt to dominatewill eventually be defeated.The exposure of the quest for overturning our democracywas never more apparent than the exposure of TheHouse Republicans debacle last Saturday; gaining onlythe worst open display of overturning the will of the people.The cameras were rolling all throughout and the 2020 deniers so vocal with their greedy demands.I think they deserve to be exposed over and over again.
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I have to say the NJ Turnpike expansion between the PA Turnpike and 8A exit WAS successful - it has eliminated congestion. Since the 1970s, I’ve been getting stuck in traffic in that stretch. Since the opening of the expansion (aka, elimination of the shift from 6 lanes to 3) I haven’t been stuck once in years. I’d say the same is true for the Exit 14 expansion mentioned in this article. With the port/truck traffic expanding (and stealing business from LA), a lane for the trucks to get from the NJ Turnpike to the Bayonne exit is necessary. This is as much a business issue (I.e., trucks, port growth) as a residential commuter issue. Now if we can just get that train tunnel from Penn Station to NJ expanded, we could help the commuters. But we will likely wait until an accident and it cuts off ALL train traffic from the continental US to NYC.
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It is amazing how the chat.openai.com can be used to program simple Perl and Python scripts. I tried one last night was surprised at the result.
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I'm a structural engineer and have lived in Houston since 1978, Since then TXDOT has worked on patching/expanding the highway system in this place while spending over $20B during that time. They have underestimated the growth of the area and the related traffic volume. They have, mostly for political reasons, not supported rail transport as it would resemble the northeast "commie" solutions. As we speak they are constructing the redesign of the most congested intersection of TX, that at I-69/610 West Loop. But the solution does nothing to fix the major problem which is to allow multiple lanes to feed I-69 from the 610 Loop! Amazing pork barrel project that lines the pockets of politicians and business while stiffing the taxpayer.
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"content": "I'm a structural engineer and have lived in Houston since 1978, Since then TXDOT has worked on patching/expanding the highway system in this place while spending over $20B during that time. They have underestimated the growth of the area and the related traffic volume. They have, mostly for political reasons, not supported rail transport as it would resemble the northeast \"commie\" solutions. As we speak they are constructing the redesign of the most congested intersection of TX, that at I-69/610 West Loop. But the solution does nothing to fix the major problem which is to allow multiple lanes to feed I-69 from the 610 Loop! Amazing pork barrel project that lines the pockets of politicians and business while stiffing the taxpayer.\n",
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UK is stopping vax and Boosters for under 50y, driven by 2022 data. The data at the bottom of the report is eye openning, but gets no press in the USA.
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MamaDoc For my parent on hospice, I bought two recliners that lift her. One from a medical supply re-seller and the other from a furniture store. Best investment ever. The amount that hospice bills Medicare is staggering given the level of care they provide. The Medicare description of charges came yesterday. For $1400/week, they send 1 nurse and 1 aide each week for an hour.
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Check out California's efforts to have universal health care for the state. The CA accountants found:Cost of universal health care for CA: $400 billion/yearCost of CA government: $200 billion/year (all government - gov, legislature, schools, all employees, state law enforcement, etc. So CA could have universal health care but no government. That bill died w/o a vote. CA tried again:"Still, debate about the bill had been dominated by costs. A study of a 2017 proposal in California estimated it would cost $331 billion, which is about $356 billion today when adjusted for inflation."But California is on pace to spend about $517 billion on health care in 2022, according to an analysis by a commission established by Gov. Gavin Newsom to study universal health care. The largest chunk of that is from employers and households, followed by the federal government."California's total operating budget — which pays for public schools, courts, roads and bridges and other important services — is roughly $262 billion this year."Some of the difference could be found in the 60 Minutes show with an RN in OB/GYN in a hospital and a letter carrier, both in San Diego. The nurse (protected by her union, thus no mask) tells about Mexican women having babies there and MediCal paying the bills. The letter carrier tells of delivering hundreds of welfare checks to one address, picked up once a month. The letter carrier was masked and his voice was changed to protect his job
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J you can make your point without exaggerating. Daily lift tickets are in the $180-200 range... not $300. Far from a deal, but still cheaper than a lot of the fancier resorts.
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If you have a Ph.D., a few respectable publications, and a bunch of big ideas good luck getting any of them funded. Funding agencies have been infected with a capitalist philosophy of a return on investment. You can't get a grant without demonstrating the project will work so you spend all your time getting something simple to work just to get the grant. In brief, modern science punishes creativity and big thinking and rewards incremental tiny ideas, and paradoxically, people with tiny brains. Few wonder if Francis Crick were alive today whether he would be a successful scientist.The economist Tyler Cowen has some good data on this problem. He found that 78% of researchers would change their research program “a lot” if they could work on anything they wanted to. In his words, "Scientists are in the paradoxical position of being deemed the very best people to fund in order to make important discoveries but not so trustworthy that they should be able to decide what work would actually make the most sense!"
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ansuwanee " the cost of servicing the debt is trivial."Per the website statista, interest on the national debt was $724 Billion in 2022. This is roughly the same size as the Defense budget ($813 billion, or $752 billion plus war aid to Ukraine).If that is trivial, then defense spending, by extension, must be trivial too!
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Germany needs to ‘free the leopards’ ASAP.Otherwise— among other reasons— nobody will ever look at them as a responsible, trustable, honorable arms supplier and weapons exporter ever again; tarnishing their reputation there permanently….Because the time to grab the fire-extinguisher is when the fire is still in the kitchen; not when it spreads to the living room and the rest of the home. Europe— but especially Eastern Europe… which has lived under the Iron Curtain, known the nihilistic violence of Russia firsthand, and rightly identifies the threat of Putin’s neo-Soviet revanchist aggression for what it is — now wants to send in some of their own Leopards, to Ukraine… because in doing so they feel like they are protecting and investing in their own Security, too.So Germany is now preventing their OWN partners from protecting themselves, in other words…. (Thus making everyone beg the question: what’s the good of purchasing a Leopard, if you can’t use it?!)If Germany tries to prevent this indefinitely, eventually everyone will end up sending them anyways; but Germany will have lost its position at the center of Europe, as a responsible leader of the EU and stakeholder in European security.Now is the time to show a united front, and support the solidarity of Allies against the largest totalitarian aggression since WW2. If Germany doesn’t want to send their own Leopards in, fine; but don’t try to prevent your allies from sending theirs, too.
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First off, how does someone (i.e., Mr Gory) "still owe about $51,000 on his 2022 Toyota Highlander"?? How much do those things cost (and why do so many Americans, Uber drivers or not) insist on owning so much more car than they need? It sounds like he may have made a bad decision in how or where he purchased that vehicle …perhaps a lease with a crazy interest rate?Either way, as I often say to my various Uber drivers, I would love to see them get together and form their own ride hailing platform, whereby all monies go directly to the drivers themselves (minus the bare minimum for the platform’s operational expenses). It is disgusting to consider all the money that Uber themselves are making off the backs of these drivers.
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at least desantis recognizes that we have a serious illegal immigration problem and he's willing to ship people back to where they came from or somewhere else. he's not welcoming them with open arms and giving them places to live food etc. at least he's doing something not ignoring it like the Biden administration who's allowing these immigrants to come in and eat us and our country from the inside out.
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Harry isn't "telling his story" he is Selling his Story; reportedly receiving upwards of $20 million for this book and a reported $100 million from Netflix.
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Wow to commentators to the breast feeding LW. Some women have to express regularly in addition to breast feeding the baby. Plus, the baby can only drink so much and some women produce a lot. So much that they have freezers full and sell and donate it. Also, to the women who are like I did and it was no big deal, good for you and fortunately your kids came out unscathed. LW, follow your gut and make the decision best for the baby and you as you recover and figure out motherhood. As for the surgeon, move on. If he can’t talk maturely about his visions of a family and future life (with you or anyone) especially in his late 30s, that is a red flag. I’m in my early 40s, was married for 12 years and recently divorced. I’d still like another child if I am so blessed (but I’m so incredibly grateful and blessed with having my son). I have dated several men since divorcing and I can say that the more mature men have no problem talking about what they hope to get out of dating (whether they want to marry/remarry, have kids, casual relationship, etc.) Also, at this age, it’s easier to recognize if a relationship has potential or not and if your goals are the same. For the LW with the shady friend, be direct. Get your money! $400 isn’t chump change and it’s also the principle of it.
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"content": "Wow to commentators to the breast feeding LW. Some women have to express regularly in addition to breast feeding the baby. Plus, the baby can only drink so much and some women produce a lot. So much that they have freezers full and sell and donate it. Also, to the women who are like I did and it was no big deal, good for you and fortunately your kids came out unscathed. LW, follow your gut and make the decision best for the baby and you as you recover and figure out motherhood. As for the surgeon, move on. If he can’t talk maturely about his visions of a family and future life (with you or anyone) especially in his late 30s, that is a red flag. I’m in my early 40s, was married for 12 years and recently divorced. I’d still like another child if I am so blessed (but I’m so incredibly grateful and blessed with having my son). I have dated several men since divorcing and I can say that the more mature men have no problem talking about what they hope to get out of dating (whether they want to marry/remarry, have kids, casual relationship, etc.) Also, at this age, it’s easier to recognize if a relationship has potential or not and if your goals are the same. For the LW with the shady friend, be direct. Get your money! $400 isn’t chump change and it’s also the principle of it.\n",
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Less than a month under Republican House rule and what do we see: chaos. And, this is simply the opening act by these radical Republicans who have no real interest in governing but ruling regardless of the collateral damage to the country and its people. Granted, there is a critical need to address the deficits and the national debt but it cannot be rationally accomplished with a gun to our collective heads. I hope Biden holds firm as he said he would. Secretary Yellen may be able to buy enough time to resolve the problems but we still could be in technical default on our debt regardless. And once we have defaulted, all the kings and all the kings men will never be able to repair the damage done to what has been the gold standard for 240 years of honoring all of debts.
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J Hagen Most Americans can't afford a surprise expense of $500--I highly doubt "many people" lost a "small fortune" last year. The stock market is not the economy. Maybe if the extremely wealthy were forced to pay their fair share in taxes they wouldn't be gambling on the stock market (when stock prices are entirely divorced from actual company value, it's gambling not investing).
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Kjartan Canadian here but grew up in Scotland and was exposed to good coffee at an early age.My husband and I go through about 20kg of coffee a year, 10kg of regular for mornings and 10kg of decaf for evenings.We use regular bog standard coffee but take care in making it and like it strong. Black for him, heavy cream for me. Absolutely no sugar or any sort of flavours.
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"content": "Kjartan Canadian here but grew up in Scotland and was exposed to good coffee at an early age.My husband and I go through about 20kg of coffee a year, 10kg of regular for mornings and 10kg of decaf for evenings.We use regular bog standard coffee but take care in making it and like it strong. Black for him, heavy cream for me. Absolutely no sugar or any sort of flavours.\n",
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“I made a lot of money on unemployment during Covid. And now I’m back to $27,000 a year. I wish I wouldn’t struggle so much. I wish I would get paid more for my value.”- this is the problem with our current economy. touting and taking advantage of unemployment money!!
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"content": "“I made a lot of money on unemployment during Covid. And now I’m back to $27,000 a year. I wish I wouldn’t struggle so much. I wish I would get paid more for my value.”- this is the problem with our current economy. touting and taking advantage of unemployment money!!\n",
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Beyond tiresome. Why is it these two insist on dumping on the world over and over again? Oh I get it — $$$. They lost me when in the middle of a pandemic, mind you, and people losing their loved ones, they sat in Oprah’s Shangri-la to whine about royal life. They’ve parlayed Megxit into a money making enterprise at the expense of *his* family. They will keep doing so because they know that his family will not respond. Why should they. Not to mention there’s media companies ready to transact on his birthright.The palace could always revoke the NDAs so that the royal aides can sit down with the Brit version of Oprah (whoever that is), and recount the alleged bullying inflicted on them by MM.SPARE us!
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"content": "Beyond tiresome. Why is it these two insist on dumping on the world over and over again? Oh I get it — $$$. They lost me when in the middle of a pandemic, mind you, and people losing their loved ones, they sat in Oprah’s Shangri-la to whine about royal life. They’ve parlayed Megxit into a money making enterprise at the expense of *his* family. They will keep doing so because they know that his family will not respond. Why should they. Not to mention there’s media companies ready to transact on his birthright.The palace could always revoke the NDAs so that the royal aides can sit down with the Brit version of Oprah (whoever that is), and recount the alleged bullying inflicted on them by MM.SPARE us!\n",
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Patricia, most of us could probably live very nicely, for the rest of our lives, on $100m.
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INbm The Iraq Wars cost more than 2 trillion. Thanks, Bush family, by the way—all the way back to Prescott. You've been so helpful.At any rate. We sustained that. And the 2008 crash. This setback would at least be worth it.
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Covid cases are dropping worldwide.It is finally going away.Currently their are 3,200 people in the new york hospitals with covid.One year ago today 10,000 people in new york were in the hospital.The media said the cases would go up after christmas.The cases went down after Christmas.The media and that includes this paper said "that China was going to start opening up and might spread the virus everywhere".It did not happen.The media should be calling for celebrations.The media only reports bad news.The spanish flu went away after 3 years.Covid is now doing the same thing.I had five shots.However,I do not believe the last booster has caused the illness to go away.The majority of Americans did not get the last booster.It is dying off like the swine flu,sars and mers.
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"content": "Covid cases are dropping worldwide.It is finally going away.Currently their are 3,200 people in the new york hospitals with covid.One year ago today 10,000 people in new york were in the hospital.The media said the cases would go up after christmas.The cases went down after Christmas.The media and that includes this paper said \"that China was going to start opening up and might spread the virus everywhere\".It did not happen.The media should be calling for celebrations.The media only reports bad news.The spanish flu went away after 3 years.Covid is now doing the same thing.I had five shots.However,I do not believe the last booster has caused the illness to go away.The majority of Americans did not get the last booster.It is dying off like the swine flu,sars and mers.\n",
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I agree with the managing partner of Lawrence Wine Estates. A decline in young people not drinking $15 wines is not an indicator of future buyers of more expensive wines. As a collector, prices for collectibles have increased significantly. It’s not just 60 seniors driving the market. If anything, that age group will generally buy the $15 wines (or the sub-$35). After the twenties crowd mature and have more disposable income, they’ll gravitate to the collectible wines. I’m writing from experience. The problem with the $15 wines is with companies like Diageo, Constelllation, and Fosters which are putting out mediocre product. The world can do with less millions of acres of mass-produced wines.
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I am a Humira user and have an Wharton MBA -- and I can only describe the pricing strategy of AbbieVie as rapacious. But it is not just AbbieVie. It is virtually the entire patented drugs market. It is not a market in any sense but is instead an untrammeled monopoly. Which can only be broken by given the government the right to regulate both drug prices and investor returns, similar to the era of price and return regulation that prevailed in US utilities.
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It is disheartening to read the many comments that devalue innovation and art as wasteful. Without places like NOMA pushing the envelope and fomenting foraging and sourcing locally, multinationals will make decisions about our food supply that benefit their short-term balance sheets at the expense of beauty and excellence. To frame my thesis, let us use Tesla as an example. Tesla produces luxury, innovative test beds marketed to well-heeled buyers.Humanity has subsidized over 2.5 billion dollars in Tesla innovations. I believe that was money well spent by making Tesla a transformative force in the auto industry.NOMA renewed our focus on eating local and "sobremesa" by providing an aspirational and extreme luxury dining experience. The audience of workers and diners NOMA has created will enable it to continue to innovate into the future.My hope is these innovations slowly filter down to all of us.
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"content": "It is disheartening to read the many comments that devalue innovation and art as wasteful. Without places like NOMA pushing the envelope and fomenting foraging and sourcing locally, multinationals will make decisions about our food supply that benefit their short-term balance sheets at the expense of beauty and excellence. To frame my thesis, let us use Tesla as an example. Tesla produces luxury, innovative test beds marketed to well-heeled buyers.Humanity has subsidized over 2.5 billion dollars in Tesla innovations. I believe that was money well spent by making Tesla a transformative force in the auto industry.NOMA renewed our focus on eating local and \"sobremesa\" by providing an aspirational and extreme luxury dining experience. The audience of workers and diners NOMA has created will enable it to continue to innovate into the future.My hope is these innovations slowly filter down to all of us.\n",
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On the gun side, two things. First when I lived in England I had to have background checks, mental health certificates and a police inspected gun safe to have a shotgun for bird hunting. No instruction course on hunter safety. When I moved back to the US I needed nothing really to buy a new shotgun or assault rifle and open up fire anywhere, but I had to take a 1 day training course to get a license to shoot ducks. So we make harder to hunt animals than to hunt people.Second, my solution in the country that loves tax breaks is tax changes for guns. A small national sales tax on shotguns, and big taxes on handguns and assault rifles. Make it too expensive to own. Then offer a $2000 or more tax credit against any handgun or assault rifle handed over to law enforcement and destroyed
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LW2: Like your sister, I also have used a somewhat negative and critical parenting style. I’m not proud of it, and it’s part of my overall nature to focus on flaws and areas for improvement. My husband has a similar style. My poor children! Thankfully, I did eventually realize that it’s a terrible parenting style when I saw how my son thrived when surrounded by more positive influences (his aunts and uncles, who frequently heap praise on him because he’s a great kid and also probably as an antidote to his parents!). My husband and I have since evolved our approach considerably, and it’s helped our children tremendously.As a close family member, I’d suggest leading by example as much as you can. Point out your nephew’s wonderful qualities and “catch him” doing good things in earshot of his parents. If you have time and bandwidth, consider being a more significant part of his life, inviting him spend time with you and your family - if possible for extended periods of time (like during vacations or summertime). Your nephew will feel loved and valued, and your deeper relationship with him may give you an opportunity to speak more candidly to your sister and BIL about different parenting tactics. Also, sometimes giving the whole family a little break from a fraught dynamic can open to door to reflection and change.
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Excellent point! I’m all for reducing our carbon footprint in reasonable ways, but it seems like many of these suggestions seem to overlook the realities and risks of living in the Midwest and Northeast. I can remember a few times growing up with a natural gas stove when the power would go out during a snow storm (or even some harsh summer thunderstorms), and, no matter what, at least we could still cook dinner. Today, I have a gas-top range in addition to a gas hot water heater and furnace, as well as an open (wood) fireplace. Anecdotally, the house smells a heck of a lot worse after burning a wood fire than cooking on the stove, so I would imagine the particulates of the smoke from that - fairly infrequent but traditional winter pastime - is a lot more harmful than some oven range fumes. As much as I would like to, I can’t fathom converting my home to “all electric” until there is a reliable way to store 3 to 4 days worth of electric power in the home in case of an emergency power outage.
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Jessa No we are not. The problem is priorities. Individual taxpayers like you and I pay in around 84% of the federal government's total revenue, and corporations only 9%. And yet, out of this year's $1.6 trillion budget, over half ($858 billion) is for 'defense.' We spend more on defense than the next 8 countries combined and it is sick. We should spend some of that money instead subsidizing childcare, K-12, and free college at state schools. An educated kid is much more valuable to society than a missile. And Congress has 'borrowed' $2.9 trillion from the Social Security Trust fund and NOT PAID IT BACK. Now the R's are making mouth noises about cutting Social Security. We'd be fine if they paid the Trust Fund back and you wouldn't have to worry about it.No, you are allowing the Wall Street greed-heads to pound a nice little wedge - if you hate me and I you, then they hope we won't notice them picking our pockets.Priorities of a corrupt Congress and policy fleecing us for the benefit of the very rich. Both affect you and both affect me. Not my fault - not your fault. But, hey, Wall Street is doing great!
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| no | Classification | 52 |
David Let me guess? $4.50 for admission? Not a fan of Rod the mod but White Bird still resonates and Spirit were way ahead of their time. Peace.
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"content": "David Let me guess? $4.50 for admission? Not a fan of Rod the mod but White Bird still resonates and Spirit were way ahead of their time. Peace.\n",
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“The bulk of the roughly $1 billion collected from Los Angeles County taxpayers over the past four years to store more water has gone largely unspent.”And there you have it.
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It has become near impossible to imagine a GOP dedicated to little more than open hand combat with their enemies, real and imagined. DeSantis might not be as essentially incompetent as Trump but right now he offers little to the rest of American more than calculated brand of pugilism for its own sake.Most Americans are tired of being pitted against each other and seeing friendships, acquaintances and familial ties disintegrate over the GOPs appetite for feeding red meat to the country. It never ends. If it's not Sharia law it's cheeseburgers or CRT or gas stoves. We have real issues that cry out for leadership. Who thinks that the guy busing unwitting immigrants or fighting with Disney over protecting some of their employees is serious about any them?Go ahead and nominate him GOP. He probably would win. Then what? More defense of the status quo on school shootings? More made up nonsense about sex ed for kindergartners? More Herschel Walker nominations? More George Santos'? This party has lost its mind.
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"content": "It has become near impossible to imagine a GOP dedicated to little more than open hand combat with their enemies, real and imagined. DeSantis might not be as essentially incompetent as Trump but right now he offers little to the rest of American more than calculated brand of pugilism for its own sake.Most Americans are tired of being pitted against each other and seeing friendships, acquaintances and familial ties disintegrate over the GOPs appetite for feeding red meat to the country. It never ends. If it's not Sharia law it's cheeseburgers or CRT or gas stoves. We have real issues that cry out for leadership. Who thinks that the guy busing unwitting immigrants or fighting with Disney over protecting some of their employees is serious about any them?Go ahead and nominate him GOP. He probably would win. Then what? More defense of the status quo on school shootings? More made up nonsense about sex ed for kindergartners? More Herschel Walker nominations? More George Santos'? This party has lost its mind.\n",
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The usual esoteric piece by The NY Times.I am not saying they may be some good advice in it but I prefer straight bullet points and not convoluted talk.It says say yes whenever possible. That is a open invitation for abuse from any number of people.Surround yourself with the young. I got news for the author most young people don't want to be around old people.
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"content": "The usual esoteric piece by The NY Times.I am not saying they may be some good advice in it but I prefer straight bullet points and not convoluted talk.It says say yes whenever possible. That is a open invitation for abuse from any number of people.Surround yourself with the young. I got news for the author most young people don't want to be around old people.\n",
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Northerner Harry received $35 to $40 million for a four-book deal, including Spare; he and Meghan earned $100 million on their Netflix tell-all. This is not important to history. This is about money, which is very clearly important to Harry and Meghan. Here's hoping they give a good bit of it away.
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Bethany Pheneger in ny you can still buy a one bedroom apartment with a 20 minute commute to Grand Central for 300k. if you have 60k for a down payment (a big if, yes) your housing costs will be around 2,000 a month, even with today's high mortgage rates. that means anybody who makes 80k a year could easily afford that and still have money left for movies, bowling, or a night out.and these are individual salaries. the costume designer could easily afford this apartment if her partner made 60k a year. this includes real estate taxes and building maintenance, and you don't really need a car, which is a pretty big expense.and then of course, you could rent a place with roommates, which is pretty common here. but my point is that even buying is not really as hard as it seems in nyc. paying 300k for housing is not really unusual in a random suburb in a random American city.
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"content": "Bethany Pheneger in ny you can still buy a one bedroom apartment with a 20 minute commute to Grand Central for 300k. if you have 60k for a down payment (a big if, yes) your housing costs will be around 2,000 a month, even with today's high mortgage rates. that means anybody who makes 80k a year could easily afford that and still have money left for movies, bowling, or a night out.and these are individual salaries. the costume designer could easily afford this apartment if her partner made 60k a year. this includes real estate taxes and building maintenance, and you don't really need a car, which is a pretty big expense.and then of course, you could rent a place with roommates, which is pretty common here. but my point is that even buying is not really as hard as it seems in nyc. paying 300k for housing is not really unusual in a random suburb in a random American city.\n",
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Agree Prof Doom. Biggest? Compared to the external cost subsidies imposed by the fossil fuels industry that every person on the entire planet pays, those subsidies you mentioned are relatively small. Where are we now? $50 billion/year in the US alone, ore more, and growing.
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Aydin Torun Anyone who knowledgeable about the Middle East realizes that there has been no squandering of the resources sent to Israel. One, the weaponry the funds purchase must, by agreement, be purchased from UScompanies--the money some back. Two, Israel is on the front line in keeping in check--as much as possible--Iran, Syia, Hezbollah, and Hamas, reducing our need to do so, and without ever asking for American troops. Three, as Ashton Carter, Obama's former Secretary of Defense pointed out, Israeli technology saves American lives. Fourth, American investment in Israel's astounding technology industry, provides not only huge returns for Americans, but benefit to Americans and others around the world. And there is much more. Only ignorance of what Israel has accomplished and perhaps a good sprinkling of hatred toward the country, could generate the claim of "billions of dollars squandered to date." Please--do a little research.
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"content": "Aydin Torun Anyone who knowledgeable about the Middle East realizes that there has been no squandering of the resources sent to Israel. One, the weaponry the funds purchase must, by agreement, be purchased from UScompanies--the money some back. Two, Israel is on the front line in keeping in check--as much as possible--Iran, Syia, Hezbollah, and Hamas, reducing our need to do so, and without ever asking for American troops. Three, as Ashton Carter, Obama's former Secretary of Defense pointed out, Israeli technology saves American lives. Fourth, American investment in Israel's astounding technology industry, provides not only huge returns for Americans, but benefit to Americans and others around the world. And there is much more. Only ignorance of what Israel has accomplished and perhaps a good sprinkling of hatred toward the country, could generate the claim of \"billions of dollars squandered to date.\" Please--do a little research.\n",
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Hi Janet- yea this is an unfortunate conflict of interest here, but there is more to the story. Yes institutes receive royalties and these are mostly funneled back into research. I believe fauci received $40k royalty from a discovery he was involved in and he donated it all to charity because he thought the royalty was innapropriate.
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The governor's spokesman got it exactly backward when he called Florida a "haven of sanity in a sea of madness." Florida's economy has always been about the booms and busts of real estate, and around Palm Beach the current boom in residential transactions is beyond insanity. Houses and condos that went for $5 million ten years ago, sold for $10 million five years ago, and now sell for $20 million. A vacant lot (about 10,000 sq feet) near Worth Avenue with no views is priced at $8 million. Across the Intracoastal in West Palm Beach, a condo recently changed hands for over $3,000. a square foot. Meanwhile the lack of help means slower and slower restaurant service, nobody in Whole Foods to steer you to the granola, and half-built high-rise eyesores on the increasingly congested skyline.
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"content": "The governor's spokesman got it exactly backward when he called Florida a \"haven of sanity in a sea of madness.\" Florida's economy has always been about the booms and busts of real estate, and around Palm Beach the current boom in residential transactions is beyond insanity. Houses and condos that went for $5 million ten years ago, sold for $10 million five years ago, and now sell for $20 million. A vacant lot (about 10,000 sq feet) near Worth Avenue with no views is priced at $8 million. Across the Intracoastal in West Palm Beach, a condo recently changed hands for over $3,000. a square foot. Meanwhile the lack of help means slower and slower restaurant service, nobody in Whole Foods to steer you to the granola, and half-built high-rise eyesores on the increasingly congested skyline.\n",
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I surely can donate much more than $55. However, my concern is how it will get to the poor children. Like the author said it was so difficult to travel outside the safe zone, how can it be safe to deliver the aid to people in need? In that 1.3b, how much was used to help poor family and how much did it fund the corrupt government or the on going war? To me, this matter is not just money, but peace. Any solution to help stop the war, and help those poor children get the basic needs, I haven't seen it mentioned in the article. While I will wait for a suggestion (not any time soon I guess), I will donate to those poor children and mothers.
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"content": "I surely can donate much more than $55. However, my concern is how it will get to the poor children. Like the author said it was so difficult to travel outside the safe zone, how can it be safe to deliver the aid to people in need? In that 1.3b, how much was used to help poor family and how much did it fund the corrupt government or the on going war? To me, this matter is not just money, but peace. Any solution to help stop the war, and help those poor children get the basic needs, I haven't seen it mentioned in the article. While I will wait for a suggestion (not any time soon I guess), I will donate to those poor children and mothers.\n",
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I often wonder when the wealthy take flights into outer space that cost hundreds of millions and come back awe struck by the beauty of the earth visible from space why they continue to do all they can to destroy the planet. Do they really think their profits from industries polluting the earth are more valuable than their children and their friends or relatives children? Do they really care so little about the species that are already showing decline from their habitats being destroyed that they would rather keep investing in companies that are openly endangering the environment. What benefit do they gain by looking at photos from their journey into space as the world around them crumbles? Is any amount of money more beautiful than a rain forest alive with animal life, a mountain stream overflowing with an abundance of fish, an ocean not choking on plastic? Trump's indifference to the health of the planet is sadly part of the tragedy of his being about as connected to nature as the concrete that holds up the towers he's built. His tragic indifference to the planet is a challenge but to survive his actions must be dismissed as ignorant efforts to prove how powerful he was as president. An error we must never again make if the world is to be protected from America's political negligence that still seems a top priority of many GOP politicians.
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"content": "I often wonder when the wealthy take flights into outer space that cost hundreds of millions and come back awe struck by the beauty of the earth visible from space why they continue to do all they can to destroy the planet. Do they really think their profits from industries polluting the earth are more valuable than their children and their friends or relatives children? Do they really care so little about the species that are already showing decline from their habitats being destroyed that they would rather keep investing in companies that are openly endangering the environment. What benefit do they gain by looking at photos from their journey into space as the world around them crumbles? Is any amount of money more beautiful than a rain forest alive with animal life, a mountain stream overflowing with an abundance of fish, an ocean not choking on plastic? Trump's indifference to the health of the planet is sadly part of the tragedy of his being about as connected to nature as the concrete that holds up the towers he's built. His tragic indifference to the planet is a challenge but to survive his actions must be dismissed as ignorant efforts to prove how powerful he was as president. An error we must never again make if the world is to be protected from America's political negligence that still seems a top priority of many GOP politicians.\n",
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This is all shadow boxing! People are signaling in a fog!So far we have no knowledge what the GOP wants to actually cut beyond a cut to the IRS budget which amounts to about $8B in the next 23/4 Budget Year along with Defense Dpt, expenditure on "woke programs" that has yet to be defined.At some point Biden will publish a Budget proposal and we will then have a frame work of the Fiscal outlook fo 23/4 and later years. At that time the GOP can legitimately and practically make known its proposals and impacts thereof.In the meantime there will be a lot of posing and broad outline suggestions. Jim Jordan has said he wants to reduce the Defense Dpt. budget. OK where and how much. How will these effect his district?
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"content": "This is all shadow boxing! People are signaling in a fog!So far we have no knowledge what the GOP wants to actually cut beyond a cut to the IRS budget which amounts to about $8B in the next 23/4 Budget Year along with Defense Dpt, expenditure on \"woke programs\" that has yet to be defined.At some point Biden will publish a Budget proposal and we will then have a frame work of the Fiscal outlook fo 23/4 and later years. At that time the GOP can legitimately and practically make known its proposals and impacts thereof.In the meantime there will be a lot of posing and broad outline suggestions. Jim Jordan has said he wants to reduce the Defense Dpt. budget. OK where and how much. How will these effect his district?\n",
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If you open a window, you let in cold air and then have to burn more fuel for heating. That doesn't pollute the indoors, but it does add to our overall burden of pollution. This is also true if your electric heat pump is powered by gas or coal somewhere else ...
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The Social Security maximum taxable income in 2023 is $160,200, taxed at $9,933. This means the Republican billionaires/millionaires & Republican PACs are lobbying to avoid paying $9,933? I guess they would claim slippery slope and where does it end and whine about being over taxed elsewhere. SAD! Even sadder is that Democrats can't create a consistent message to make this a winning issue for their party.
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"content": "The Social Security maximum taxable income in 2023 is $160,200, taxed at $9,933. This means the Republican billionaires/millionaires & Republican PACs are lobbying to avoid paying $9,933? I guess they would claim slippery slope and where does it end and whine about being over taxed elsewhere. SAD! Even sadder is that Democrats can't create a consistent message to make this a winning issue for their party.\n",
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🌸🌸🌸 Same letter list, with mnemonics1/1/23acne, caneBetween not wanting ACNE and not wanting a CANE, that’s life!anew, wane, weanWhen the moon begins to WANE, I’ll try ANEW to WEAN the baby.anneal, elan, lane, leanWith ELAN, the LEAN glassblower quickly heated and slowly cooled the blob to ANNEAL glass balls that would mark a swimming LANE.cancel, clean, enlace, lanceCANCEL that order for a new covering to ENLACE that LANCE. It’s not CLEAN.canoe, oceanA CANOE is too small to cross the OCEAN.clone, colleen, colonelThe scifi thriller starts when the young COLLEEN finds out she is a CLONE of the COLONEL.cone, neocon, nonce, onceEven a NEOCON will taste a bacon ice cream CONE ONCE for the NONCE.lone, noelA LONE caroler is singing NOEL on the snowy corner.neon, noneNONE of the old San Diego drive-ins could match the impact of the giant NEON majorette on the Campus drive-in.wale, wealThe tight wide WALE corduroys left a WEAL on my leg.Finding ways to link words sharing letters helps me remember them. I aim for drama and the bizarre, to make an emotional impact. Hope they help you. Good Bees 🐝🐝🐝to all!
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Rruffpaw Saw another all one word consideration: openwi(4)now!! A definite end of the day command for many.
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Maya . . . Please "splain" what "codified equality" is and how it specifically relates to theatrical representation at $200/ticket.
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"content": "Maya . . . Please \"splain\" what \"codified equality\" is and how it specifically relates to theatrical representation at $200/ticket.\n",
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I listen to The Daily every day, and I find it informative and enjoyable. But I found this particular story misleading and biased. I have worked in healthcare for 30 years, both inside large health systems and outside, and this story missed one important reality for not-for-profit healthcare systems - most operate on margins between 1-2%. Not-for-profit does not mean no-profit; it means any profits go back into the health system, not into investors' pockets. Hospitals must generate large amounts of revenue to operate. An important omission from the story is the total amount of indigent care that is provided and the cost to the hospital, which, depending on the size of the system, is hundreds of millions of unreimbursed care annually. Also missing from the story was context around the 340B pharmacy program. The program allows qualified hospitals to purchase pharmaceuticals at a lower cost for outpatient-only. The manufacturers negotiate the ceiling price with the administrator of the program, not the hospitals directly. You reported correctly that the hospital is allowed to collect the entire reimbursement for 340B scripts, but hospitals purchase millions of dollars of pharmaceuticals for inpatient that are not reimbursed. The 340B program is essential to hospital pharmacy departments not losing money. I'm not able to defend any CEO making $10M a year, but that is a separate issue that deserves its own research and reporting.
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"content": "I listen to The Daily every day, and I find it informative and enjoyable. But I found this particular story misleading and biased. I have worked in healthcare for 30 years, both inside large health systems and outside, and this story missed one important reality for not-for-profit healthcare systems - most operate on margins between 1-2%. Not-for-profit does not mean no-profit; it means any profits go back into the health system, not into investors' pockets. Hospitals must generate large amounts of revenue to operate. An important omission from the story is the total amount of indigent care that is provided and the cost to the hospital, which, depending on the size of the system, is hundreds of millions of unreimbursed care annually. Also missing from the story was context around the 340B pharmacy program. The program allows qualified hospitals to purchase pharmaceuticals at a lower cost for outpatient-only. The manufacturers negotiate the ceiling price with the administrator of the program, not the hospitals directly. You reported correctly that the hospital is allowed to collect the entire reimbursement for 340B scripts, but hospitals purchase millions of dollars of pharmaceuticals for inpatient that are not reimbursed. The 340B program is essential to hospital pharmacy departments not losing money. I'm not able to defend any CEO making $10M a year, but that is a separate issue that deserves its own research and reporting.\n",
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I fistinctly recall the Presidential debates between Bush and Gore. The hot topic? ‘What will you do with the federal government budget surplus?’Bush won a questionable victory. The rest, as they say, is history. We became entangled in fruitless, futile military adventures that drained trillions of tax dollars and exploded the deficit. The national debt blew up like a balloon. Then overheated, highly speculative securities, banking, real estate and insurance company investments — possible only because of lax regulation beloved of conservative, ‘fiscally responsible’ Republicans — imploded and brought the global economy to the brink.Bush handed this mess to Barack Obama, who had limited tools at his disposal to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Nevertheless, Obama presided over the longest economic expansion since WW II, in the face of relentless Republican obstructionism.Bring on Donald Trump, whose signature ‘accomplishment’ was to sign a huge tax cut package for the rich. Cue the exploding deficit again — because no, Virginia, the tax cuts don’t ‘pay for themselves.’So here we go again. A Democratic President and Congressional Democrats kickstart a moribund economy handed to them by the prior Republican administration. Over 10 million jobs in two years; infrastructure and domestic manufacturing investment. And Congressional Republicans once again hellbent on blocking progress every step of the way.Why can’t American voters learn? Collective amnesia?
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"content": "I fistinctly recall the Presidential debates between Bush and Gore. The hot topic? ‘What will you do with the federal government budget surplus?’Bush won a questionable victory. The rest, as they say, is history. We became entangled in fruitless, futile military adventures that drained trillions of tax dollars and exploded the deficit. The national debt blew up like a balloon. Then overheated, highly speculative securities, banking, real estate and insurance company investments — possible only because of lax regulation beloved of conservative, ‘fiscally responsible’ Republicans — imploded and brought the global economy to the brink.Bush handed this mess to Barack Obama, who had limited tools at his disposal to put Humpty Dumpty together again. Nevertheless, Obama presided over the longest economic expansion since WW II, in the face of relentless Republican obstructionism.Bring on Donald Trump, whose signature ‘accomplishment’ was to sign a huge tax cut package for the rich. Cue the exploding deficit again — because no, Virginia, the tax cuts don’t ‘pay for themselves.’So here we go again. A Democratic President and Congressional Democrats kickstart a moribund economy handed to them by the prior Republican administration. Over 10 million jobs in two years; infrastructure and domestic manufacturing investment. And Congressional Republicans once again hellbent on blocking progress every step of the way.Why can’t American voters learn? Collective amnesia?\n",
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Eric B Wordle 565 4/6⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Skill 76 Luck 54 Eliminate enough letters, it’s got to show up. As for my opener, Bot said it was played by less than 0.1% of players. Lucky still to have power. Almost 100K were knocked out here in the atmospheric river storm last night.
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I had open heart surgery with complications in August. The doctor prescribed low dose opioids while I was in hospital and gave me 15 pills to take home. I was going through MyChart a week ago and saw that my GP (not the surgeon who prescribed them) had ordered a drug abuse test. I was in disbelief. Apparently it a government requirement here in Michigan. I’m not going to do it and I find it ridiculous. I didn’t ask for more pills, just took what was prescribed, as prescribed, after a major surgery. I won’t play this game. I’m not an addict, just someone who used opioids as prescribed and moved to Tylenol when I was done, as intended.
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Michael Skadden and if you can't get the opium, try meth which is also popular in the vast open spaces.
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Jason McDonald Recent study: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2</a>“Long COVID (sometimes referred to as ‘post-acute sequelae of COVID-19’) is a multisystemic condition comprising often severe symptoms that follow a SARS-CoV-2 infection. At least 65 million individuals around the world have long COVID, based on a conservative estimated incidence of 10% of infected people and more than 651 million documented COVID-19 cases worldwide. Long COVID is associated with all ages and acute phase disease severities, with the highest percentage of diagnoses between the ages of 36 and 50 years, and most long COVID cases are in non-hospitalized patients with a mild acute illness.Hundreds of biomedical findings have been documented, with many patients experiencing dozens of symptoms across multiple organ systems. Long COVID encompasses multiple adverse outcomes, with common new-onset conditions including cardiovascular, thrombotic and cerebrovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and dysautonomia, especially postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Symptoms can last for years, and particularly in cases of new-onset ME/CFS and dysautonomia are expected to be lifelong. With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages. There are currently no validated effective treatments.”
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Socrates ...It's 'better' --sure-- than what we had. A lousy standard. We want to protect a bad system, from GOP repeal. But where is media coverage of a crucial question:Why do dozens of world democracies have universal, guaranteed, affordable health care for all, no matter income or job status--- already for decades and generations? How do they do it, why is it well supported by voters and parties? Canada since 1960s. But the US is blocked from what's centrist in modern countries. We just let insurance vary by state/zip code. Corporate profit is all. Medical industry donations to elections are huge, and the public is inundated with paid drug ads on TV.We still have medical bankruptcies--- in the 21st Century. American health care is the world's most expensive and profitable. NYT article --2021:"Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion--A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded."Clip re health insurance: "....it’s not just to insure your health,” she said. “It’s actually to protect you economically in the event of poor health.”For US citizens, a sudden illness or accident needing hospital care, can ruin an entire family's financial security for the future.
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"content": "Socrates ...It's 'better' --sure-- than what we had. A lousy standard. We want to protect a bad system, from GOP repeal. But where is media coverage of a crucial question:Why do dozens of world democracies have universal, guaranteed, affordable health care for all, no matter income or job status--- already for decades and generations? How do they do it, why is it well supported by voters and parties? Canada since 1960s. But the US is blocked from what's centrist in modern countries. We just let insurance vary by state/zip code. Corporate profit is all. Medical industry donations to elections are huge, and the public is inundated with paid drug ads on TV.We still have medical bankruptcies--- in the 21st Century. American health care is the world's most expensive and profitable. NYT article --2021:\"Americans’ Medical Debts Are Bigger Than Was Known, Totaling $140 Billion--A new study finds that health care has become the country’s largest source of debt in collections. Those debts are largest where Medicaid wasn’t expanded.\"Clip re health insurance: \"....it’s not just to insure your health,” she said. “It’s actually to protect you economically in the event of poor health.”For US citizens, a sudden illness or accident needing hospital care, can ruin an entire family's financial security for the future.\n",
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"[Biden] organized a global coalition to support Ukraine and set Vladimir Putin back on his heels." Said Brooks.Quite the opposite.He ignored the warnings of dozens of diplomats and tried to expand NATO to include Ukraine, provoking the Russian bear -- just as those same diplomats predicted.He unleashed the warmongering neoconservatives to crank up still another war before the ashes of Afghanistan had even begun to cool -- much to the applause of the "defense" industry who are now rolling in profits.The sanctions have failed, the ruble is up and Europeans are facing a cold winter with sky high fuel bills. And the west, if not the entire planet, is facing massive inflation, brought about in large part by the Ukraine debacle.Worse yet, the Saudi's have begun selling oil for a variety of currencies which will ultimately crash the dollar as the reserve currency.The empire is teetering and so is Joe Biden. Where Brooks sees "Biden’s cheerful confidence," I see a shaky step and befuddled thinking. And the sunglasses don't help. We haven't forgotten he was the corporate Dem's desperate choice to block the Sanders candidacy. It's long past time to retire.
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"content": "\"[Biden] organized a global coalition to support Ukraine and set Vladimir Putin back on his heels.\" Said Brooks.Quite the opposite.He ignored the warnings of dozens of diplomats and tried to expand NATO to include Ukraine, provoking the Russian bear -- just as those same diplomats predicted.He unleashed the warmongering neoconservatives to crank up still another war before the ashes of Afghanistan had even begun to cool -- much to the applause of the \"defense\" industry who are now rolling in profits.The sanctions have failed, the ruble is up and Europeans are facing a cold winter with sky high fuel bills. And the west, if not the entire planet, is facing massive inflation, brought about in large part by the Ukraine debacle.Worse yet, the Saudi's have begun selling oil for a variety of currencies which will ultimately crash the dollar as the reserve currency.The empire is teetering and so is Joe Biden. Where Brooks sees \"Biden’s cheerful confidence,\" I see a shaky step and befuddled thinking. And the sunglasses don't help. We haven't forgotten he was the corporate Dem's desperate choice to block the Sanders candidacy. It's long past time to retire.\n",
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We've been folllowing all the mainstream media coverage of this story since the beginning, and that's not how I remember it. Intially, Meghan was welcomed here with open arms; very warmly. No 'racism'; it's illegal here and we didn't know her background or anything about her. The media were onside; a Royal Romance! Beloved of (some) of us Brits.Short story. All was well until Meghan acquired the title 'Duchess Difficult'. Problems with staff who kept leaving. Princesses in tears. Rifts between brothers, fathers, relations - and the media. Tsunamis on the placid-ish waters of the palace - who don't comment, but there is a media protocol. But what really got us was 'The Pitch'. In 2017 Harry was made Captain General of the British Royal Marines. In 2019 he and Meghan attended the premier of the Lion King movie, where they talked to Disney's Bob Iger about a part for Meghan. On the same day, the Royal Marines held a 30th Anniversary memorial concert for Marine musicians killed in a terrorist bomb attack. But their Captain General was at a movie premier...From there on it was downhill all the way. 'Harry's Truth' seems to involve unapologetic substance abuse and all the associated distortions and fantasies. However, the truth of Diana's death is out there and it is, utterly tragic. Yes; good luck to him. I hope he enjoys the sunshine - and gets clear. Brexit; just a thought. Would the US be happy to have their laws made in say, Argentina? (posted by gp)
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Caded What is good government? The Iraq war? Allowing China into the WTO so that now we can fight them? Or the meltdown of our economic system in 2008? Was it the Surge in Afghanistan or the war that destroyed Libya? Someone tell me what good government is. Jackson Mississippi has no good drinking water but $100 Billion to Ukraine?
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I worked in cancer research for 6 years. It was grant funded research. This was back in the 1980s after the government cut the funding for most basic research. That led to some very interesting problems, some of them circular in nature. Scientists had a hard time starting a new line of research. The grant committees wanted proof before they'd fund it. That meant that the scientists had to do the research on the research using current grants for the new applications. They ran the risk of losing the old grants and not getting any new ones. It made it much more difficult for "new" scientists to get funded. Then the costs of doing research were increasing as the institutions took their cut, personnel had to be paid, and the cost of supplies increased. That large grant wasn't so large after everything was accounted for. Many researchers left their fields and gave their services to pharmaceutical companies which could pay them and supply them. The ills attendant upon that are numerous. One is the secrecy surrounding most discoveries. Another is that the companies themselves are not inclined to encourage fringe research. While it's understandable that governments and companies want a return on their investments, it's hard to know in advance which research will provide the returns. Certainty, profit, and research are not always partners.
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"content": "I worked in cancer research for 6 years. It was grant funded research. This was back in the 1980s after the government cut the funding for most basic research. That led to some very interesting problems, some of them circular in nature. Scientists had a hard time starting a new line of research. The grant committees wanted proof before they'd fund it. That meant that the scientists had to do the research on the research using current grants for the new applications. They ran the risk of losing the old grants and not getting any new ones. It made it much more difficult for \"new\" scientists to get funded. Then the costs of doing research were increasing as the institutions took their cut, personnel had to be paid, and the cost of supplies increased. That large grant wasn't so large after everything was accounted for. Many researchers left their fields and gave their services to pharmaceutical companies which could pay them and supply them. The ills attendant upon that are numerous. One is the secrecy surrounding most discoveries. Another is that the companies themselves are not inclined to encourage fringe research. While it's understandable that governments and companies want a return on their investments, it's hard to know in advance which research will provide the returns. Certainty, profit, and research are not always partners.\n",
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Ian R. By the time the Ethics Committee got around to Santos, he'll be out of office in the next election.Far more likely he'll be indicted by federal and/or state for financial fraud as at some time he'll have to explain where that $700,000 he donated to his campaign magically originated from.
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"content": "Ian R. By the time the Ethics Committee got around to Santos, he'll be out of office in the next election.Far more likely he'll be indicted by federal and/or state for financial fraud as at some time he'll have to explain where that $700,000 he donated to his campaign magically originated from.\n",
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A. Guy Like Dems everywhere we are waiting for the Trump spell to break. I retired to Two Rivers from Madison in 2020. Let's just say there is far more angst here than I could have imagined. I had to fire my Republican investment advisor, Doug Devries (Edward Jones), for being unprofessional and over-emotional. We got past the "Big Lie" in some sort of uncomfortable agreement. He then became very annoyed at Dems once he became convinced that Biden caused all the inflation later in 2021 He would go on ranting and blaming me if I suggested the problem was his business model. That went on for as year. Then I asked him to move my investments into an indexed fund and he refused to do it. I asked why? He said he could not make any money this way. So it definitely is affecting the business community here. Good to know there are many Americans who are sympathetic to the long slog through the Republican morass occurring here.
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"content": "A. Guy Like Dems everywhere we are waiting for the Trump spell to break. I retired to Two Rivers from Madison in 2020. Let's just say there is far more angst here than I could have imagined. I had to fire my Republican investment advisor, Doug Devries (Edward Jones), for being unprofessional and over-emotional. We got past the \"Big Lie\" in some sort of uncomfortable agreement. He then became very annoyed at Dems once he became convinced that Biden caused all the inflation later in 2021 He would go on ranting and blaming me if I suggested the problem was his business model. That went on for as year. Then I asked him to move my investments into an indexed fund and he refused to do it. I asked why? He said he could not make any money this way. So it definitely is affecting the business community here. Good to know there are many Americans who are sympathetic to the long slog through the Republican morass occurring here.\n",
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Scott Roane: I have to laugh when seniors say they put in all those years for Medicare and it's not a government give away. I am 72, my husband is 76, when we retired we received a report from social security and medicare showing what we would get from social security and how much we put into medicare during our entire working years. I didn't work outside of the home much; I worked part time jobs at minimum wages while raising 3 children (one of which is disabled) so the amount I put into Medicare over the years was minimal. My husband, however, always had a good paying job since he was 35 or so. I was shocked when I saw how much money he actually put into medicare; (in the neighborhood of $50.000 and his company matched that.) Well, fast forward, my husband had a gall bladder surgery: cost $30,000 hospital bill and I had a major heart attack: cost $75,000 hospital bill. Not to mention the thousands it cost for my cardiac rehab and the thousands it cost for my cataract surgery a few years ago. . I will eventually need a heart valve replacement. We both see cardiologists, he sees a doctor for his diabetes, and I also have kidney disease. One good heart attack, stroke or major surgery will eat up all the money you and your employer put into medicare. Furthermore, if (God forbid) you need rehab in a nursing home for anything, medicare will pay for up to 100 days. And I won't even get into what it costs for cancer treatments if you need it.
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As I recall the Tea Party thwarted economic recovery extending the slow growth into 2014. Scalise, McCarthy, and Jordan were that rabble rousing faction. Tell me in all this time, what have they proposed to solve problems?UK tried austerity with the growth fairies never arriving. To this day UK, lags the US and Europe in growth. Republicans will try to sell it here to release the growth. Hah!Republicans under Trump passed tax cuts but only closed loopholes for individuals and never closed loopholes for businesses. Talk about having your cake and eating, too?With the Freedom caucus firmly in charge, the acceleration towards facism will occur degrading democracy. We will have more messaging of hate government by the very officials in government rather than legislation to fix the problems.
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"content": "As I recall the Tea Party thwarted economic recovery extending the slow growth into 2014. Scalise, McCarthy, and Jordan were that rabble rousing faction. Tell me in all this time, what have they proposed to solve problems?UK tried austerity with the growth fairies never arriving. To this day UK, lags the US and Europe in growth. Republicans will try to sell it here to release the growth. Hah!Republicans under Trump passed tax cuts but only closed loopholes for individuals and never closed loopholes for businesses. Talk about having your cake and eating, too?With the Freedom caucus firmly in charge, the acceleration towards facism will occur degrading democracy. We will have more messaging of hate government by the very officials in government rather than legislation to fix the problems.\n",
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KC - He's his own worst enemy with bad behavior on the court (see US Open 2020 and Australian Open 2021).
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There are three main reasons for America’s debt, and the middle class benefited little from any of them:1 Military spending. Iraq invasions (several, all failures); Syria, Libya (failures); Afghanistan invasion & eighteen-year occupation (failure); Global-wide deployments (continuing, expanding in Asia & Africa).Military spending is one half the annual budget.2 Corporate bailouts. Billions. Franklin national bank $ 78 billion Chrysler $ 4 billion Continental Illinois national Bank and trust $ 9.5 billion savings and loan industry $ 293 billion Bear Stearns $ 30 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $ 400 billion American international group AIG 180 billion auto industry $ 25000,000,000 Citicorp $ 280, billion Bank of America $ 142 billion Auto industry bailouts. WBush/Obama bailouts of Wall Street, while Main Street was left behind. Trump “loans” to profitable companies that we’re not required to repay them.3 Tax cuts aimed primarily at corporations and the most wealthy. These tax cuts contribute mightily to the debt, but we’re made permanent with the intention of paying for them by cutting Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure, education.Since these drove the debt and benefited primarily corporations - military industrial and financial and real estate primarily - and to the most wealthy, they should now pay for them.
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| no | Classification | 958 |
Robin - Aurora gets $17,000,00 MM worth of bad publicity for the low low price of $17,000. You can bet I'll never purchase one of their cruises. I wouldn't take one if offered for free. Reap what you sow, Aurora.
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| no | Classification | 3,410 |
Hmm. Take a look at Mr. Krugman's column from yesterday. In 2011 the CBO projected the cost of servicing debt would be 4.5% of GDP by 2021. The actual figure: 1.5%.They don't know, you don't know and I don't know Mr. Appelbaum. And recent history of CBO estimates do nothing to undermine my statement.
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| yes | Classification | 7,537 |
Paraphrasing - "A house that received an appraisal of $472k in early 2021 appraised for $750k later that year". There was an explosion in real estate values in 2021 and there were many suburban homes that saw this level of appreciation, mine included. Seems like a pretty weak example with a number of variables that are being ignored. Given that both owners are respected professionals I'm going to assume that it's a fairly nice home. I have a hard time believing that an appraiser wrote an estimate that was 40% lower than fair market value just because.
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"content": "Paraphrasing - \"A house that received an appraisal of $472k in early 2021 appraised for $750k later that year\". There was an explosion in real estate values in 2021 and there were many suburban homes that saw this level of appreciation, mine included. Seems like a pretty weak example with a number of variables that are being ignored. Given that both owners are respected professionals I'm going to assume that it's a fairly nice home. I have a hard time believing that an appraiser wrote an estimate that was 40% lower than fair market value just because.\n",
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Too many employees, including at executive levels, sign non-competes, not when leaving a job, but when taking one. Many don’t take time to read the onboarding paperwork, other than provisions relating to salary, benefits, stock options and severance. Any document referenced in your employment contract or offer letter is included by reference in whatever other document you’re signing. You would be surprised at what people earning $400K per year, plus stock options, don’t read, when signing on to a desirable new job.Always have an attorney review any documents you are asked to sign, and don’t wait until your first day to ask for “any paperwork I will need to sign while on-boarding.” Attorneys spend more time undoing what an over-eager client has done, than they do negotiating new deals. Also, getting rid of or renegotiating a non-compete often requires giving up something else that you might otherwise have gotten; i.e., you will have given the employer leverage on the way in that you can be sure that employer will use on the way out. Lawyers are expensive. Mistakes are even more expensive. Don’t sign until you know what you’re signing - all of it.
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"Salesforce’s shares rose more than 4 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday."What a ridiculous way to run an economy
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| no | Classification | 1,068 |
Suz Eyed Blackens That's easy to answer. Deep pockets carefully scrutinize potential candidates whose campaigns they fund if the candidate "shares their corporate beliefs". IOW, if a candidate agrees to advocate for their benefactor, the purse strings open and the money rolls out. Therefore, corporations have something we only dream about which is known as "representation".Trump was the perfect stooge and his benefactors included people from the very same country we're shipping weapons to Ukraine to defend against.
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"content": "Suz Eyed Blackens That's easy to answer. Deep pockets carefully scrutinize potential candidates whose campaigns they fund if the candidate \"shares their corporate beliefs\". IOW, if a candidate agrees to advocate for their benefactor, the purse strings open and the money rolls out. Therefore, corporations have something we only dream about which is known as \"representation\".Trump was the perfect stooge and his benefactors included people from the very same country we're shipping weapons to Ukraine to defend against.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,964 |
I don't fully understand the reluctance of Nashville to host the Republican convention--the positive publicity for, and tax dollars to, both city and state, and the dollars spent in the Nashville hospitality industry argue strongly in favor of Nashville hosting the event, regardless of how Democratic the city may be. And greater Nashville is more than the city of Nashville. However, Ms. Renkl, I think this is one of your finest essays. And the problem you describe extends much further than the South. Good work.
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| no | Classification | 861 |
GvN Restaurants, hotels and other low-paying employers are already struggling to replace employees who leave for higher-paying jobs.This phenomenon is only likely to increase as the trillions of dollars actually begin to get spent, thus forcing some businesses to close because they cannot keep up with the rising wage scale.Pumping trillions of dollars into the economy will also continue and likely even increase inflationary pressures throughout the economy, not just the infrastructure sector.If you think inflation is bad now, just wait; unintended consequences are just around the corner.
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It’s the hype around these industries, the epicenter of which is NYC. Big tech will pay you 200k total comp (112k base, 70k stock, 20 k signing bonus) as a 22 yo. The bubble is starting to collapse though
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My personal favorite scenario has President Biden waiting until the day before the Democratic Convention opens, "pulling an LBJ;" and declaring for an open convention. This would let him take all of the incoming Republican fire for two years and allow for a generational turnover while assuring his personal place in history.
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Mike M. I share all your concerns here... but let's not set up some false-dichotomy, either. If you don't like the war on the social safety net, don't vote for Republicans.But we're not spending "trillions" on Ukraine, first off. And if we didn't defend it, the principle of sovereign borders/international law, or the concept of diplomatic agreement as enshrined in the Budapest Memorandum (which Putin so perfidiously betrayed!)... then nuke proliferation would skyrocket, wars of aggression by tinpot dictators would become a dime a dozen, world trade would be threatened with massive inflationary effects felt by everyone... and all the problems you enumerated above would become EVEN HARDER to solve, not less.Ukraine must win. It's an investment in our own peace and security... which underwrites all our lifestyles/standards of living and is the bedrock upon which sits all other 'kitchen-table' issues....
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Murphy The old fridge dying and having to get a new one is one thing but this writer spoke about new furniture (often replaced because the owners get bored of it or just want a different look, not necessary), and VACATIONS. That's just not the same and sure sounds to me like the couple was taking advantage and didn'tt plan to pay back the money. It's possible they developed this attitude because nobody reminded them and asked for the payback.Some people are like that. They have this mindset that maybe it's not needed because it wasn't specifically asked for so far and the "loan period" can just be extended until they have no other use for the money, which will never happen.I certainly don't think that they will have a sudden feeling of remorse for not paying back this loan all this time.It's also possible that they just don't want to bring up the subject. They may try and save face by saying, "Oh , we forgot all about it." Let them, as long as it's brought up. Now they can pay it back. We'll see.
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"content": "Murphy The old fridge dying and having to get a new one is one thing but this writer spoke about new furniture (often replaced because the owners get bored of it or just want a different look, not necessary), and VACATIONS. That's just not the same and sure sounds to me like the couple was taking advantage and didn'tt plan to pay back the money. It's possible they developed this attitude because nobody reminded them and asked for the payback.Some people are like that. They have this mindset that maybe it's not needed because it wasn't specifically asked for so far and the \"loan period\" can just be extended until they have no other use for the money, which will never happen.I certainly don't think that they will have a sudden feeling of remorse for not paying back this loan all this time.It's also possible that they just don't want to bring up the subject. They may try and save face by saying, \"Oh , we forgot all about it.\" Let them, as long as it's brought up. Now they can pay it back. We'll see.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,637 |
Marianne P. What a beautiful act of kindness, that you would place a $10 bill in handbags you've donated. Just a thought, it might be nice for the recipient to see a note from you along with the bill, to show that you performed a random act of kindness. That could inspire the recipient to likewise do something to help others.
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"content": "Marianne P. What a beautiful act of kindness, that you would place a $10 bill in handbags you've donated. Just a thought, it might be nice for the recipient to see a note from you along with the bill, to show that you performed a random act of kindness. That could inspire the recipient to likewise do something to help others.\n",
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Tom The actuarial facts support the solution of Erik Fredrickson. Due to the plethora of guns, the rate of gun deaths and gun injuries in the U.S. far exceed those in any other advanced country. Indeed, our gun death rate approaches those of dystopias like Guatemala and El Salvador. In short, more guns = more gun deaths and gun injuries and thus more gun medical costs, now in excess of $3,000,000,000 per year.
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"content": "Tom The actuarial facts support the solution of Erik Fredrickson. Due to the plethora of guns, the rate of gun deaths and gun injuries in the U.S. far exceed those in any other advanced country. Indeed, our gun death rate approaches those of dystopias like Guatemala and El Salvador. In short, more guns = more gun deaths and gun injuries and thus more gun medical costs, now in excess of $3,000,000,000 per year.\n",
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dlinovaz -- there are several problems. 1. You should never use the same password twice. Yes, everyone has too many online accounts; that can't be helped. But if you use the same username as a log-in for your accounts, and if you use the same password, then once a hacker gets one of your log-ins, he's got all of them.2. Some people try to do a cheat on the single-password, by making slight variations on it for each web site. That's slightly more secure than having the same password everywhere but still it can be broken.3. Most people choose a password that's a dictionary word or some variation. These are easily guessed, especially if the hacker has some other personal information (dog's name?).The "best" passwords are random strings of characters. Nobody can remember these, which is the point. You use a password manager to generate the random strings and then store them in an encrypted vault. When you need to enter a password, you open the vault and copy the password to the web site's form. Even better, most password managers (Apple's Keychain, 1Password, etc) have an autofill function which does exactly that.The only password you need to remember is that of the vault.I have a couple hundred web site passwords in my Keychain. There's no way to deal with this without a proper password manager.
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"content": "dlinovaz -- there are several problems. 1. You should never use the same password twice. Yes, everyone has too many online accounts; that can't be helped. But if you use the same username as a log-in for your accounts, and if you use the same password, then once a hacker gets one of your log-ins, he's got all of them.2. Some people try to do a cheat on the single-password, by making slight variations on it for each web site. That's slightly more secure than having the same password everywhere but still it can be broken.3. Most people choose a password that's a dictionary word or some variation. These are easily guessed, especially if the hacker has some other personal information (dog's name?).The \"best\" passwords are random strings of characters. Nobody can remember these, which is the point. You use a password manager to generate the random strings and then store them in an encrypted vault. When you need to enter a password, you open the vault and copy the password to the web site's form. Even better, most password managers (Apple's Keychain, 1Password, etc) have an autofill function which does exactly that.The only password you need to remember is that of the vault.I have a couple hundred web site passwords in my Keychain. There's no way to deal with this without a proper password manager.\n",
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I only recently used Uber. I don’t like that they make me keep a minimum with them. You have my credit card, charge it when I use your services. I set up an account while on vacation and it was the only way to get where I was going. I paid the $50 minimum and only used $25 of it. I ordered $23 dollars worth of food and found that they reloaded my account. There is no way to turn off the reload. I dislike that they keep my money for free.
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Dan Weisselberg got 5 months for several million in hidden income.Santos? A weekend of supervised release.
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TFD they will thank you later….unless they are dead. I’m that case your heirs will enjoy the fruits of your….incorrect prescience. You are right, $2.3M isn’t very much, but then neither is $200K.
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"content": "TFD they will thank you later….unless they are dead. I’m that case your heirs will enjoy the fruits of your….incorrect prescience. You are right, $2.3M isn’t very much, but then neither is $200K.\n",
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The Central Arizona Project and Phoenix deserve the largest scrutiny. The CAP is a shallow, open conduit that has large losses to evaporation. I was in Tuscon went it went online and our faucet aerators clogged within 3 weeks. Phoenix has not taken the steps that Las Vegas/Tucson has as far a water conservation Also unsaid in this article is the 1.5 million acre-feet allocation to Mexico. Where the Colorado River crosses into Mexico is a dry river bed for a good portion of the year. No way are we meeting our treaty obligations.<a href="https://raisetheriver.org/water-again-to-flow-across-u-s-mexico-border-in-2022" target="_blank">https://raisetheriver.org/water-again-to-flow-across-u-s-mexico-border-in-2022</a>/
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Ro Khanna IRS plan would capture at a minimum of 1 trillion YOY and likely more. Pass it. Fund the IRS properly. If you worked for a company and some employees came in and sabotaged your billing department so their buddies didn't have to pay their bills you would fire them.End the Tax cuts and raise taxes on the wealthy to create a healthier capitalist system. We must break up concentrations of wealth to create more competition, push down on price gouging and protect our democracy. You do that by taxing the big boys the most and the little folks the least. This allows the average folks to compete with the big boys.That's the way a healthy capitalist system works. Simply reverse the tax cuts.We would reverse the deficit and pay down the debt by doing so.There is no issue. It is manufactured by republicans. They did this.
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"content": "Ro Khanna IRS plan would capture at a minimum of 1 trillion YOY and likely more. Pass it. Fund the IRS properly. If you worked for a company and some employees came in and sabotaged your billing department so their buddies didn't have to pay their bills you would fire them.End the Tax cuts and raise taxes on the wealthy to create a healthier capitalist system. We must break up concentrations of wealth to create more competition, push down on price gouging and protect our democracy. You do that by taxing the big boys the most and the little folks the least. This allows the average folks to compete with the big boys.That's the way a healthy capitalist system works. Simply reverse the tax cuts.We would reverse the deficit and pay down the debt by doing so.There is no issue. It is manufactured by republicans. They did this.\n",
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In a clinical trial, companies are required to share the data publicly. The same should be true of any AI test on a public road. All of the self driving company should be required to submit their software for open public inspection. If it is actually innovative, they can submit a patent to protect it but we should not have black box is killing people
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