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Interesting article -- not the first time I've read about the women pursuing this approach in South Korea.To the point the author makes about "making domestic duties everyone's responsibility", I just wonder (perhaps pessimistically) what can be done about this issue. All of these problems outlined are exclusively the responsibility of partners (read: men) to acknowledge, address, and change. I know in my home, at least, the fights to have my father simply put his dirty dishes in the sink (rather than to the side or on the couch) to be cleaned by the female family members grew so exhausting that it was easier to give up. I cannot even imagine what it would take for him to simply open the dishwasher and put those dishes in or unload it when it finished the cleaning cycle. The battle just to have him acknowledge that the division of labor was 99/1 to his benefit was never won.As a young woman who is unmarried and without children who genuinely enjoys babysitting and spending time with kids, the more of these stories that I read and connect to my personal experiences, the more realistic I have grown about what marriage and motherhood entail. It does not seem as appealing as it once might have when I was younger and did not know. It has not made me bitter, but I relate to these woman and the vehement feeling that this enormous life change must be a conscious and well-planned choice, and without a privileged financial position or national support, it might not be worth it.
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At the end of the day, the most important decisions we make are personnel decisions. That was the problem with both John Paul II and Benedict. They elevated too many men who were dogmatically safe and loyal, rather than men who understood the pastoral duties of bishops. Thus the sex abuse scandal was mismanaged for decades in order to protect the Church and its hierarchy rather than the people who are the Church. Both Popes tried to close the windows that John XXIII opened. But the windows just can't be closed.
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Caro-Gottlieb editorial working relationships are increasingly irrelevant to the sausage-making process that brings books into being nowadays. Acquiring editors have less and less opportunity to act as diligent line editors, bull session partners, or co-mappers of organizational strategies. Their time is more likely to be taken up with sales campaigns and marketing conferences. But it's nice to see a salute to a more civilized era.
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| no | Classification | 553 |
The past is haunting the Democrats and NYT pundits. They misused the process to discredit Trump. Now, they are getting it back. Based on the report yesterday in NY Post, it appears that Hunter was actually using the classified information to rake in millions from foreign countries and Joe was getting 10% of the deals. This may be the reason why NYT pundits say "there is no comparison" between Trump and Biden cases, though their purpose is to minimise Biden's case as an innocent mishandling, not an attempt to sell nuclear secrets to Russia. Joe also says that he has no idea why and how the documents landed where they are! Of course, honest Joe is not lying, that is the sphere of Trump!
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To relive all your fears, the US government will now take over sales of all generic drugs, private sales will no longer be allowed. Once hired, a worker will not be fired. They will receive no expense spared healthcare, with no co-pay, no deductibles and full choice of any doctor in the world. All employees will receive 6 weeks vacation, and all bank hoildays. After retirement at 50 years old, regardless of starting age, they will continue to get paid at the top 10% of all income earners and receive all benefits for life. All their children will receive full educational expenses, including luxury room and board for up to 12 years of post secondary education. Upon completion of said education, they will be guaranteed a salary in the top 10% of all income earners as well.To achieve all these wonderful results, you will only be charged the low fee of $1 per pill.
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Thanks for mentioning the marriage industrial complex. As an imago relationship therapist and a person who has written a book on compulsive spending, I’m shocked by how couples are so willing to spend money on their Pinterest fantasy wedding, and the lawyers to dispose of another person, but balk at the cost of marriage counseling. Some folks don’t want to invest in the marriage itself, when the going gets difficult or the reality of another person doesn’t match their fantasy person. The florist and the invitations and photographers are all paid, but the people In The trenches with their messes somehow are “duping” them. I’m sorry you feel this way. Quite frankly it is hard work to work in a war zone, where folks fling very nasty stuff at each other, a person they recently proclaimed love to. People were duped by Hollywood long before they ever met their spouse or set foot in my office.
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| no | Classification | 1,742 |
I am curious, when the headline says that that AbbVie “Made $114 Billion” does that mean it made $114 billion in profits? I did not see any information in the article on what it cost to develop and bring Humira to market or on manufacturing costs. Having that information would give a fuller picture. I am sure that AbbVie made a profit, but is it double their cost? 10 times? 100 times? Without that information there is no way to put a number like $114 billion in perspective.
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So now it comes to light that Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, was one of Mr. Santos’s biggest early backers and whose top political aide assisted his campaign. Who believes they didn't know he was a fraud? Are their "no comments" response due to them being duped, or did they collude with Santos, or were just so politically incompetent they never vetted him. Personally, I find it incredulous that they didn't vet him and find out he was a fraud. I think Santos was a Republican stooge, expected to fail, but was part of a larger money laundering operation to funnel illegal funds to other Republicans. Why? Because he donated to other candidates and traveled all over the country. He spent money lavishly like someone whose campaign would never be investigated once he lost. That is why he was so egregious in his behavior. His lies were for the purposes of getting donations that he spread around to others, family and for his personal expenses. Now Stefanik wants to say nothing because this is the tip of the iceberg. This is not the end of the Santos problem for Republicans, it is the beginning. Let the investigations begin locally. Maybe the Senate can look into this once we find out where the magical $700,000 came from? Seems unlikely an uneducated 34 year old, just evicted a couple of years ago, managed to create that amount of wealth from nothing while living with his sister. Looking forward to seeing what the investigators find out. What about you, Elise?
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"content": "So now it comes to light that Representative Elise Stefanik of New York, was one of Mr. Santos’s biggest early backers and whose top political aide assisted his campaign. Who believes they didn't know he was a fraud? Are their \"no comments\" response due to them being duped, or did they collude with Santos, or were just so politically incompetent they never vetted him. Personally, I find it incredulous that they didn't vet him and find out he was a fraud. I think Santos was a Republican stooge, expected to fail, but was part of a larger money laundering operation to funnel illegal funds to other Republicans. Why? Because he donated to other candidates and traveled all over the country. He spent money lavishly like someone whose campaign would never be investigated once he lost. That is why he was so egregious in his behavior. His lies were for the purposes of getting donations that he spread around to others, family and for his personal expenses. Now Stefanik wants to say nothing because this is the tip of the iceberg. This is not the end of the Santos problem for Republicans, it is the beginning. Let the investigations begin locally. Maybe the Senate can look into this once we find out where the magical $700,000 came from? Seems unlikely an uneducated 34 year old, just evicted a couple of years ago, managed to create that amount of wealth from nothing while living with his sister. Looking forward to seeing what the investigators find out. What about you, Elise?\n",
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A lot of very good/bright students will stop applying to the New College of Florida and New College degrees awarded post-2023 will be significantly devalued. When I review resumes from applicants for highly competitive positions at our (very large, global) firm, ones with the University of Phoenix on them don’t go much further. It’ll be the same for New College if it turns into a ideology-heavy/low-talent Mickey Mouse school. You can bet that many other employers will do the same. Unless they’re My Pillow, Hobby Lobby or conservative think tanks, employers aren’t going to give you any points for being a good Republican.
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| no | Classification | 794 |
As someone who worked on clean tech for ten years it looks from my perspective that the core problem remains: most effective green technology takes years to bake and often comes with lower margins than software apps. Investors are myopic and many will start to lose interest once they realize they can't make billions in three years. We need this technology, but short-term thinking will slow it.
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| yes | Classification | 8,800 |
What comes next to Abortion opponents? These groups, if they believe the life to be so sacred, should go out in mass to orphanages, adoption agencies, to foster care centers. And mass adopt all children without a loving home. If they are as pro life as they preach then should welcome all the unwanted children with open arms.
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| yes | Classification | 6,867 |
Here in Mississippi we are reading that the current and past Governors have been stealing over a million dollars slated for poor families and shuttling it to build a women's volleyball stadium, just so they can get cozy with reputed perv and Hall of Fame football player Brett Favre. (they've also concurrently stolen tens of millions of welfare funds for other pals). From a PR standpoint alone, naming this facility after Ms Harris seems well advised.I mean Favre was a fine athlete, but he was no Lusia Harris
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| no | Classification | 221 |
The 1% is laughing all the way to the bank. We need to build intersectional social and environmental justice movements to address the climate crisis, widening wealth gap, rent slavery, and financialization of every aspect of our lives.
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| no | Classification | 1,009 |
When I think of Barnes & Noble, I envision a store open later than other businesses, crawling with browsers. Bookstores can be a social place to congregate. Absolutely, libraries providea similar service and it's free. But the hours are different.Hopefully, B&N doesn't eclipse the indies which are richwith their own literature often in small towns.
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Yet it's laying out $10 billion for Open AI. Capitalism at it's finest.
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"content": "Yet it's laying out $10 billion for Open AI. Capitalism at it's finest.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,684 |
Scott E Your definition of AI is totally wrong. Alan Turing himself did NOT support the idea that the Turing Test was a measure of intelligence, and a prevalent criticism is that it is really just a test of how easy it is to fool a human. What you've stated is a watered-down half-truth pushed by 1st-semester Intro to CS professors to make students interested in the Eliza homework assignment (I know this as I TA'ed these classes long ago).The term AI is applied to all sorts of methods well outside of a Turing Test's capabilities, many stated in this very essay by Rep Lieu (eg facial recognition), and many others which he misses, like the IBM Smart City which created its own problems, such as the over-policing of minority neighborhoods.You seem to have missed the whole point of my post being about regulatory bodies. I work actively with both crypto and AI and many other headline technologies as a professional SE, so I am quite well informed - my point was that the society-wide effects of all software is much more important than focusing in on just one sub-sector's methods du jour.And I'm not really sure what your point regarding Microsoft is about, Linux is plenty buggy as are Apple's OSes, but may I suggest reading some EULAs and T&Cs. Software vendors have been avoiding legal liability for decades, which is exactly one of the reasons a regulatory body should exist to establish better standards.
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"content": "Scott E Your definition of AI is totally wrong. Alan Turing himself did NOT support the idea that the Turing Test was a measure of intelligence, and a prevalent criticism is that it is really just a test of how easy it is to fool a human. What you've stated is a watered-down half-truth pushed by 1st-semester Intro to CS professors to make students interested in the Eliza homework assignment (I know this as I TA'ed these classes long ago).The term AI is applied to all sorts of methods well outside of a Turing Test's capabilities, many stated in this very essay by Rep Lieu (eg facial recognition), and many others which he misses, like the IBM Smart City which created its own problems, such as the over-policing of minority neighborhoods.You seem to have missed the whole point of my post being about regulatory bodies. I work actively with both crypto and AI and many other headline technologies as a professional SE, so I am quite well informed - my point was that the society-wide effects of all software is much more important than focusing in on just one sub-sector's methods du jour.And I'm not really sure what your point regarding Microsoft is about, Linux is plenty buggy as are Apple's OSes, but may I suggest reading some EULAs and T&Cs. Software vendors have been avoiding legal liability for decades, which is exactly one of the reasons a regulatory body should exist to establish better standards.\n",
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Greedflation won't end until we are agreeing to a $2 an hour at will job. Even then, prices may slightly drop half what they've been raised. They've said repeatedly that inflation isn't a problem as far as they see it, it's that for once free market conditions favor labor and they demand that big government put their thumb on the scale to make sure we can't have that advantage.
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Patrizia Filippi I think that you missed the part where they are out in the open ocean pretty much daily. Not to justify the capture and penning of wild animals, but another comparison that could be made is to the animals being sold to for-profit amusement parks, SeaWorld and their ilk. A couple of items that I found to be of interest in this article (hate the idea that the Navy is green selling itself with promises of keeping humans young) is that they are no longer breeding the animals in captivity and they are no longer capturing these animals. I have no doubt that the dolphin and sea lion handlers love and care for their well-being. You cannot be in their presence for extended periods without developing deep respect for them.
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Paying one million to treat 100,000 people in the U.S. equals 100 billion dollars. The cost of development and manufacture will be trivial relative to this sum, don't let these two companies tell you otherwise. Almost all of this 100 billion will be pure profit, and the largess will keep on rolling in a new patient's are born.The government desperately needs to step in to negotiate a non-insane price. Paying one tenth of this theorized fee will still allow the investors of these companies to became extremely wealthy.
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Early this morning I accepted an invitation for later today to go for a walk at a nearby State Park. My inclination was to say ‘no’; for heavens sake I’m busy finishing up a sewing project, scrubbing the floor, tending my greenhouse, working out…. Wait, what? My friend, who lives by herself in a cabin at the end of a dirt road, whose car was on the fritz over the holidays, wants to go for a walk and I’d rather stay home to workout indoors on a beautiful sunny day? I sucked it up and said ‘yes’. Thank you for reinforcing my decision with today’s challenge. Committing to a friend feels like a heart opening exercise.
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There was another great article in the New York Times just about 10 days to two weeks ago about a suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona, which has been denied water. Very eye-opening. I can tell you it is a constant debate in the city, where I live, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Most of the citizens are very keenly aware that water is our greatest resource, and there is not enough of it. People truly are committed to conservation efforts. But the city leaders leaders are more intent on massive home building projects. Houses are going up all around Santa Fe. At the same time, there are currently several pending organized resistance efforts to poorly researched and planned projects by developers. Seems the developers and city/county officials don’t really care about water or a whole host of problems which will occur with overcrowded housing. Frankly, I hope the Feds crack down on our region and force some hard recognition. It may be the only way we survive.
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"content": "There was another great article in the New York Times just about 10 days to two weeks ago about a suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona, which has been denied water. Very eye-opening. I can tell you it is a constant debate in the city, where I live, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Most of the citizens are very keenly aware that water is our greatest resource, and there is not enough of it. People truly are committed to conservation efforts. But the city leaders leaders are more intent on massive home building projects. Houses are going up all around Santa Fe. At the same time, there are currently several pending organized resistance efforts to poorly researched and planned projects by developers. Seems the developers and city/county officials don’t really care about water or a whole host of problems which will occur with overcrowded housing. Frankly, I hope the Feds crack down on our region and force some hard recognition. It may be the only way we survive.\n",
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"Nice hat. Nice face."I really needed a smile this morning and that story and line sure did it. Ms. Biggs, I hope it's okay if I borrow that line from time to time. Priceless.The other story I found so incredible was the Raleigh. What were the chances that someone from that factory happened to walk by AND be able to fix that third gear with a tool from a pocket?I couldn't help but recall when I rode a Fuji Supreme bike. That was my only means of transportation. Never had a driver's license (if you ever saw me walk, you would know why and be grateful I don't drive). Many decades ago, I was moving to Phoenix and doing some last minute errands. I locked up my bike pretty darn securely but when I came out of the store, my bike was gone. So was my lock and chain. I just started to cry because I was so angry. Suddenly a man approached me to see what was wrong and if he could be of any assistance. Green Bay isn't a very small town but it wasn't that large either, so I was not alarmed by a stranger's concern. After telling him what happened through my flood of tears, he said he owned a bike store down the street and would sell me a replacement, at cost. I told him what my plans were and that I didn't have that kind of spare cash. He said he trusted me and would be okay if I sent him $100 a month. I was speechless. In the end, I paid him the full price but he returned the excess.Angels DO live among us.Happiest New Year everyone! Love you all so very much.
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"content": "\"Nice hat. Nice face.\"I really needed a smile this morning and that story and line sure did it. Ms. Biggs, I hope it's okay if I borrow that line from time to time. Priceless.The other story I found so incredible was the Raleigh. What were the chances that someone from that factory happened to walk by AND be able to fix that third gear with a tool from a pocket?I couldn't help but recall when I rode a Fuji Supreme bike. That was my only means of transportation. Never had a driver's license (if you ever saw me walk, you would know why and be grateful I don't drive). Many decades ago, I was moving to Phoenix and doing some last minute errands. I locked up my bike pretty darn securely but when I came out of the store, my bike was gone. So was my lock and chain. I just started to cry because I was so angry. Suddenly a man approached me to see what was wrong and if he could be of any assistance. Green Bay isn't a very small town but it wasn't that large either, so I was not alarmed by a stranger's concern. After telling him what happened through my flood of tears, he said he owned a bike store down the street and would sell me a replacement, at cost. I told him what my plans were and that I didn't have that kind of spare cash. He said he trusted me and would be okay if I sent him $100 a month. I was speechless. In the end, I paid him the full price but he returned the excess.Angels DO live among us.Happiest New Year everyone! Love you all so very much.\n",
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MR If 95% of NYT readers can’t name even one Drake song at this point, then I think it says more about the demographic and level of open-mindedness of the readers. I can name *maybe* five songs by The Beatles and the titles of *maybe* two of their albums, for example, but when NYT writes about them I won’t disregard the article or the music section as bad reporting just because I’m not at all a fan. I’m always open to learning more about this group that folks keep claiming to be one of the greatest bands of all time because, whether I think they deserve the acclaim or not, The Beatles have had a tremendous impact on music and pop culture in general. Folks may be quick to dismiss Drake, but the fact of the matter is — love him or hate him — he’s this generation’s Beatles. His sound is legitimately changing the music landscape, and not just the hip-hop landscape, either. Just about every modern pop song that you hear on the radio has been influenced by Drake’s sound. Why not lean in and read an article to at least find out why? I can name every album Drake’s released, and I’m 44. I have friends well into their 50s and 60s that can at least name a song. It’s not the reporting.
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Think about this micro-era as an investment in America. It is one thing to hold up government intentionally as act of defiance or philosophy; it is another to do so through sheer incompetence. If Democrats FINALLY learn to stand together and play to win, they can beat Republicans over the head with this debacle and win landslide elections in 2024. That may be the only way Republicans are forced to change from a entity engaged in angertainment to one that has interest in governing. Or perhaps the party will split and we will have 3 parties, at least for a while. The Biden era will be consequential and this Republican dysfunction might be enough to seal it in the history books as one of the best presidential eras. There may be some serious silver linings in this. Let's hope.
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This is a story of men at the wrong place at the wrong time ("round up the usual suspects") who were set free by the courts. In contrast, Canadian Omar Khadr, who in 2002 at 15 threw a grenade that killed a US medic, was awarded CAD 10.5 million by the Trudeau government and now owns a shopping plaza in Alberta. The lesson of these stories is that, if one is stupid or unlucky, and caught up in violence far from home, it pays to be Canadian.
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J I agree that it bears remembering that few physicians are caring for patients in a start-up model where investor funding pays for a curated spa experience presumably for people who can afford to pay. Instead, most of us are doing our best in 50+ year old buildings managed by systems where we have little opportunity to suggest changes even as simple as cloth gowns or better lighting. That said, eventually our old buildings will need remodeling and I hope the administrators who get to make the $$ decisions (rarely doctors) will consult patients and providers abundantly to design spaces that are humane and therapeutic. In the meantime, don't hold it too much against your doctor seeing you in a windowless, fluorescent-lit cramped space. It's not ideal for us, either.
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There’s no way Santos acted alone, including that he’s a guy with no money that leant his campaign $750,000. Then there’s how his fabricated persona hits every demographic typically thought of as characteristic of liberal candidates, while his espoused political beliefs, at least the ones he professes,are firmly planted in the far right wing of the Republican Party. As for Santos’ fabricated backstory, Santos is Hispanic, and he said he is Jewish, gay, and, because Americans are in awe of wealth, wealthy. Again, Santos didn’t do this on his own.
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Cert The problem comes when the Rs refuse to keep the government open or choose to upend the global economy if they don't get their way.
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horf My thoughts exactly. Republicans and the Tea Party and MAGA crowd didn't object to the Trump 2017 tax cuts that were 90% for the wealthy and Wall St. and which raised the deficit from $600 billion to $1 trillion.And that was after eight years of complaining about the debt during Obama.While Republicans may seem inconsistent, their consistency is hypocrisy.
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When Reagan took office, he cut the taxes for the richest Americans, and the deficit soared from $79 billion in 1981 to $128 billion after one year of his administration.The next year, the deficit soared again to $208 billion, and Republican presidents have been cutting taxes for the rich, and increasing the deficit by record amounts ever since!!!Republicans have no fiscal responsibility, but they do deflect blame for the debt they created to those who follow in their disastrous wakes.Clinton left office generating surpluses that could have wiped out the national debt in several years. But he was followed by GW Bush, who promptly gave the rich huge tax cuts, and the surpluses disappeared, and record deficits returned, which were then compounded by the collapse of the economy, due to GOP deregulation of the banks and Wall St., who sold specious "mortgage backed securities," which failed, and required government bailouts, and more debt for America!!!We have to stop electing Republicans if we ever want to end the disastrous cycle of "tax cuts, deficits, and borrowing," which they cause!!!
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Katherine Kovach umm except a man (ie Harry) worth £60 million was suing the British government to continue to fund his security detail with taxpayer funds.
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I find it difficult to believe people willing to pay $1500 a pop for a meal won't pay $2500 or more. Raise the price of the food so that all workers can be paid a living wage working the standard number of hours per week. If people still come buy the food it's a sustainable business model. If customers don't value the food at the new price and stop coming, then it's not a sustainable business. Maybe these establishments tried raising prices and found out their food just wasn't special enough to attract patrons.It seems to me this type of dining business is more like art, except, since, unlike a painting, a sculpture, there is a limited number of people who can enjoy the creation. The failure is to find a patron financially able to and willing to foot enough of the bill to make the piece of art available to enough regular pion donors that all the money taken together will make the museum viable. Perhaps such generous patrons don't exist - that wouldn't surprise me the least billionaires being as stingy as they are proven by their unwillingness to pay their fair share of taxes.
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Obamacare Is Everywhere in the Unlikeliest of Places: Miami A decade after the Affordable Care Act’s federal health insurance marketplace was created, its outsize — and improbable — popularity in South Florida persists. MIAMI — Lídice Hernández opened an insurance agency last year on a busy street, affixing to the storefront a logo that has become deeply familiar in South Florida: a white sun rising over the red stripes of the American flag, all encased in a big, blue O. A decade after the Affordable Care Act’s federal health insurance marketplace was created, its outsize — and improbable — popularity in South Florida persists.
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It’s not a generational divide, it’s a lack of experience. As the opening says, this is younger workers’ first experience with a systemic jobs slowdown.
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It won‘t matter where these high-carbon content luxury goods are manufactured, once Value-Added carbon taxes are implemented, these companies will be forced to make trillion dollar liability accruals that will be a fatal blow to their leverage, their equity, and the stock price. We will all pay for what‘s nothing more than a lot of made up hooey.
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There are not enough GOP millionaire voters to elect anyone to even town dogcatcher let alone Congress or state houses or the White House. So who are the millions of GOP voters who would rather commit financial suicide as they age rather than let people they don't know, and possibly some they do know, not benefit from a properly funded national government. Why do they support under-taxing the wealthy by not funding the IRS to audit people who pay millions to accountants to not pay their fair share of taxes. And that results in the rest of the working and middle-class population to pay more to keep the government running. Is it really possible that members of their church, synagogue or mosque are not being punished by there willfulness to hurt themselves? Raise the amount that can be deducted from people making over $200K or $300K and the SS and Medicare issues will be resolved. And do these voters not understand that every GOP politician has a generous pension so when they vote to limit SS payments and the elderly struggle to live out their lives it really may not be an issue for well-funded politicians. GOP policies seem to be focused on cutting taxes for the wealthy. Why is that not an issue for the majority of GOP voters? Finally, tax the corporations that are making windfall profits while they destroy our planet so that the young of today can have a home on earth on which to grow old.
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If you want to know why highways keep getting expanded, even though it doesn't reduce traffic, just follow the money map.Auto companies, oil companies, tire companies, road construction companies, and a dozen other industries all benefit when more roads and highways are built and expanded. All of these 'good corporate citizens' do their patriotic duty and make ample "campaign contributions" to the legislatures and politicians who decide where the money gets spent. Follow the money... the 'roads and highway' lobby is very effective in keeping us doing the same things over and over, even when it doesn't solve the problem.
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Fossil fuels production keeps increasing. Best I can tell, new assets to produce them are still being developed as fast as the bankers can gather the necessary investment capital then used pretty much as hard as possible. I know of no significant fossil fuel asset, developed or not, anywhere which has been financially stranded and written down. Not only are we in a very deep hole with climate change, we haven't yet begun in any meaningful way to stop digging . . . even a little . . . optimistic stories like this one notwithstanding. Probable best to hold off on the good news for now.
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I thank my lucky stars that for 45 years I worked in a layoff-proof job, teaching at a big private school. Yes, I never made more than $100K, tops, and there were lean years when we were raising young kids and struggling to pay the mortgage. The wolf was howling right outside the door, but we had job security and always maxed out on our IRA's. After four decades of monthly investing, the wolf is no longer seen or heard. It's like the old adage about the turtle and the hare: slow and steady proved superior to boom and bust.
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So long the Montana I know. Hello open carry, unveiled hostility, relentless dark money fueling these political hacks. Take state monies away from public schools and fund 'christian' charter schools. It is the dumbing down of America and coming to your town via the Republicans in office. Pay attention to the House of Representatives. The mantra of the republicans is defund the government (probably until their personal federal entitlements are taken away from them).
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We're still not seeing this as the existential threat it is, the forces representing the old Confederate alliance of big capital and bid bigotry. Let's remember Adolf's self-schooling on American racist thinkers trying to justify slavery. And that he got clobbered in the '28 election, only gaining traction in '30 once American laissez faire capitalists had trashed the world economy. We're all aghast at Putin but let Bush and the others who enabled the destruction of the Middle East in the name of oil and Armageddon, serving the same factions of southern religious fundamentalists and corporate interests.
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"content": "We're still not seeing this as the existential threat it is, the forces representing the old Confederate alliance of big capital and bid bigotry. Let's remember Adolf's self-schooling on American racist thinkers trying to justify slavery. And that he got clobbered in the '28 election, only gaining traction in '30 once American laissez faire capitalists had trashed the world economy. We're all aghast at Putin but let Bush and the others who enabled the destruction of the Middle East in the name of oil and Armageddon, serving the same factions of southern religious fundamentalists and corporate interests.\n",
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Finding new friends sounds nice, but how's that going for Ukraine? There's not a lot of options for security for Armenia OR Nagorno-Karabakh. The fact that Turkey is in NATO seems like it would support Armenia, except for their irrational desire to continue the genocide they began at the start of the 20th century.Better yet, the OSCE Minsk Group (US, France, Russia) should just fulfill their obligations to the group and step in to forcefully open the corridor.
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lotusflower0 Imagine that. I have never seen a player smash a racquet on court. The U.S. Open incident was a complete accident. He even checked on the lineswoman after all the cameras went away. Stefanos almost hit someone earlier in the tournament this year as well in a similar incident. Different people expel negative energy differently in the heat of battle. None of it was intentional. Stop trying to make something out of nothing. La Rana is right. The negativity is without merit but with obvious bias.
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Salk and Sabin donated their polio vaccine patents so that a cure for a dread disease would be easily available to everyone. They are heroes. We need to change the laws so that patents cannot be constructively extended.
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I'm not sure why this doesn't get more attention, but the Dems passed a 15% minimum corp. income tax that Biden signed into law and it takes effect this year.I wonder how that will factor into these economic prognostications.
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KJ Not with 3 bedrooms on the 2nd floor sharing a single bath. Not for $500K.
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At one point I worked at a company owned by a guy with a high-school education and a net worth somewhere north of $700 million dollars.This push away from requiring academic credentials out of sheer habit is long overdue and should be encouraged.Do I want my doctors to have undergone extensive training in accredited institutions? You bet. But I'd like electricians also properly educated to do their jobs well and safely, even if that education is provided by trade schools or apprenticeships.Does a mid-level manager do better if they sat through enough years of college for a sheet of paper? I've not seen evidence of that.
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Interesting that comes when Microsoft is reported to be investing $10 billion (yes, billion) into Open AI / ChatGBT.
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Curmudgeon51 Very true. And not the silly 50 gallon ones that fill up in one rainstorm. The cost of large rain tanks have tripled if not quadrupled since the pandemic - a 1,000 gallon one we got on our farm in 2018 cost $600 - which included shipping. Now? That's the cost of a 250 gallon one - before shipping. Our city sells them for over $1,000 apiece (more than retail) - while simultaneously providing completely subsidized weatherization programs. Our thousand-gallon one on our farm kept our garden and our ducks/chickens watered all year round. If people had these - along with greywater systems and waterless toilets - it'd be a game-changer.
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"content": "Curmudgeon51 Very true. And not the silly 50 gallon ones that fill up in one rainstorm. The cost of large rain tanks have tripled if not quadrupled since the pandemic - a 1,000 gallon one we got on our farm in 2018 cost $600 - which included shipping. Now? That's the cost of a 250 gallon one - before shipping. Our city sells them for over $1,000 apiece (more than retail) - while simultaneously providing completely subsidized weatherization programs. Our thousand-gallon one on our farm kept our garden and our ducks/chickens watered all year round. If people had these - along with greywater systems and waterless toilets - it'd be a game-changer.\n",
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Ken Kesey once said of his experience as a writing teacher that it was just as much work writing a bad novel as it was writing a good novel. For most authors, writing doesn't pay by the hour. If so, even a $1 million advance for something that took, say, seven years to write would still be miniscule. Ms. Paul has it right about the money--had the novel only had a $50K advance, the heat wouldn't have been near so great and might not have happened at all.Novelists are inherently people of hope and ego. Why else would you think the world would want to hear what you've got to say? I do understand why people would ferociously want to protect their culture from appropriation from without. But cultural appropriation, for good and a whole lot of ill, is as American as April in Arizona.The publishing industry tends to be pretty white and pretty liberal. It is changing. Macmillan's response was shameful and pathetic and makes them look like something out of a parody of liberal shame and vanity. Yet the vanity of the nearly 150 authors who cranked up their dudgeon for so much self-righteous vitriol seems equally shameful.I wonder of the same set of authors is working up a letter about Mike Pompeo's new screed.
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"content": "Ken Kesey once said of his experience as a writing teacher that it was just as much work writing a bad novel as it was writing a good novel. For most authors, writing doesn't pay by the hour. If so, even a $1 million advance for something that took, say, seven years to write would still be miniscule. Ms. Paul has it right about the money--had the novel only had a $50K advance, the heat wouldn't have been near so great and might not have happened at all.Novelists are inherently people of hope and ego. Why else would you think the world would want to hear what you've got to say? I do understand why people would ferociously want to protect their culture from appropriation from without. But cultural appropriation, for good and a whole lot of ill, is as American as April in Arizona.The publishing industry tends to be pretty white and pretty liberal. It is changing. Macmillan's response was shameful and pathetic and makes them look like something out of a parody of liberal shame and vanity. Yet the vanity of the nearly 150 authors who cranked up their dudgeon for so much self-righteous vitriol seems equally shameful.I wonder of the same set of authors is working up a letter about Mike Pompeo's new screed.\n",
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Zeke Obama didn't have any choice about making some of the W Bush tax cuts permanent. He was held hostage by Republicans while he was trying to get us through the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, the worst recession since the Great Depression prior to Covid.However, Obama did reduce the deficit from the $1.4 trillion W Bush gave us to $600 billion, 60%.And we got almost 400% more jobs with Obama than with W Bush.He also got us out of the the W Bush Iraq War for "weapons of mass destruction."And 20 million people got healthcare.Then the 2017 Trump tax cuts raised the deficit back up to $1 trillion with 90% of the tax cuts for the wealthy and Wall St.
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These Republicans in the House have an issue remembering fiscal policy under Trump.Trump inherited a budget deficit around $650 billion, and quickly blew it up to over $1,000 billion …. before Covid hit.One of the first acts of the new Republican controlled House, was to slash the budget of the IRS.This is the usual grandstanding of Republicans, who become obsessed with the budget deficit and government debt, only when there is a Democrat in the White House.
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"content": "These Republicans in the House have an issue remembering fiscal policy under Trump.Trump inherited a budget deficit around $650 billion, and quickly blew it up to over $1,000 billion …. before Covid hit.One of the first acts of the new Republican controlled House, was to slash the budget of the IRS.This is the usual grandstanding of Republicans, who become obsessed with the budget deficit and government debt, only when there is a Democrat in the White House.\n",
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AnilRajput Thank you for this profound, wise comment. These matters are extraordinarily complex, but if we are willing to go through life with open questions, subjective goals, and a longing for the good, these in themselves may bring a kind of happiness--not the "feel-good" kind of happiness, not the "always chipper" kind, but something closer to awe. Awe can't be forced, though. None of this can be reduced to formula, even if certain practices and rituals help along the way.
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Somehow I sense this isn't going to make a dent in $44 billion.
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Football is here to stay. In many parts of the U.S., football is religion. NYT had an article about it last year, following multi-generational football families in the south. Even dads with concussion and physical problems beat into them since high school want their sons to play to carry on the family "tradition". That certainly is outside the realm of reason and into faith. When you have 100k fans at a college football game, it's serious business(literally and figuratively) and isn't going away any time soon. But players are beginning to retire in the prime of their careers, the latest being JJ Watt. I think we'll see more and more players holding out to score massive contracts early in their careers, maybe get a shot at a superbowl and retire around 30.I played football among most of the big sports in the US, but my son won't. There are too many other competitive sports out there to choose to smash your head in on the football field.
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"content": "Football is here to stay. In many parts of the U.S., football is religion. NYT had an article about it last year, following multi-generational football families in the south. Even dads with concussion and physical problems beat into them since high school want their sons to play to carry on the family \"tradition\". That certainly is outside the realm of reason and into faith. When you have 100k fans at a college football game, it's serious business(literally and figuratively) and isn't going away any time soon. But players are beginning to retire in the prime of their careers, the latest being JJ Watt. I think we'll see more and more players holding out to score massive contracts early in their careers, maybe get a shot at a superbowl and retire around 30.I played football among most of the big sports in the US, but my son won't. There are too many other competitive sports out there to choose to smash your head in on the football field.\n",
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Wages have not kept pace with inflation and there are 3.5 million job openings. Worker participation is only slightly above trend. Stimulus only filled a hole left by the initial days of the pandemic. In short, wages are not driving inflation and hurting labor (“pain”) is a red herring that will not address inflation. Whether hawk or dove, do we have anyone who respects math, data and logic in any of the 12 fed chairs? As someone who agrees that the fed has an important role in advancing our economy the rhetoric of making “credibility thru pain” a priority is not helpful to the economy or the Fed.
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None of this sounds like it is based on observed facts.So Africa will have a large population- interesting yes but the overwhelming diversity of the cultures and people there don’t support any notion of some kind of unified action or effect.Old people can fight in land wars just like young people- and war needs fewer and fewer front line soldiers. War going away? really? this is unsupported speculation at best. Basically made up based on the authors feelings.And what about all the language of “competition between nations” - who will “win” - what does this even mean? Is it a bad thing that our trading partners become more prosperous? Is it dangerous for our neighboring countries to become more stable? Please let’s discuss real events, not imagined “competitions”. We should be proud when the nations of the free world advance in stability and prosperity and should continue to seek the expansion of this to additional democracies. People can decide to have more children very quickly- older people can decided to help raise these children very quickly. It is up to each of us.
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"content": "None of this sounds like it is based on observed facts.So Africa will have a large population- interesting yes but the overwhelming diversity of the cultures and people there don’t support any notion of some kind of unified action or effect.Old people can fight in land wars just like young people- and war needs fewer and fewer front line soldiers. War going away? really? this is unsupported speculation at best. Basically made up based on the authors feelings.And what about all the language of “competition between nations” - who will “win” - what does this even mean? Is it a bad thing that our trading partners become more prosperous? Is it dangerous for our neighboring countries to become more stable? Please let’s discuss real events, not imagined “competitions”. We should be proud when the nations of the free world advance in stability and prosperity and should continue to seek the expansion of this to additional democracies. People can decide to have more children very quickly- older people can decided to help raise these children very quickly. It is up to each of us.\n",
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Note to Republicans: TAX CUTS = SPENDINGThe IRS estimates that $600 billion in tax revenue remains uncollected because it is without the resources to collect it.So, reverse the GOP tax cuts and fund the IRS so it can collect what it is owed under the law. After that, let's see if there is still a problem.
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How is it that investors have had access to easy money that the Fed created, while consumers, who support 79% of the American economy, are still stuck with credit cards at 12% to 29% rates that they continually reach for, because their wages alone can't support them? Hmm. How do investors get that 0% money? Banks. Investment banks, the "commercial branch of regular banks. The consumer side of a bank is the old savings and loan model. You put money in, get a return of say 3 to 5%, that the bank pays you by loaning the money out at say 6 to 10%, the difference of which pays the banks bills and creates profits for them. Not bad, everybody made 3 to 5% and went home happy. Not anymore. While commercial banks were enjoying Fed fund rates of 0%, they decided they would stop paying interest to consumer deposits and raise lending rates on everything except mortgages. On the later, they undertook to make risky loans that they would sell in bundles after they collected the profitable fees, which of course led to the financial collapse and government bailout known as the great recession. So back to the consumer lending, why doesn't the Fed open the discount window to consumers and small businesses and why don't they force the old model to remain in consumer banking? Hmm. So here is the answer to the big secret: The Fed supports corporate America, Wall Street! And....they still believe in trickle down economics, with as slow a trickle the consumer (The People) can stand
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Sarah "Also, anyone assuming a 7% real return on the stock market will be reliable over a 40-year period [not that it ever happened...."But it did happen...that is why it is the factual long-term historical average.Will you see 7% annualized over 5, 10, 15...years? Probably not.But the longer you play the game (40 + years is a long time)...it is very likely that the long-term historical average will play out over the next half century.
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I worked in a Borders for over 10 years, until the very last day we were open. I loved that job -- which was post-career for me -- and was so very grateful for the diverse group of ``book nerds'' who worked with me. We are still family to each other and keep in touch and I frequently run across people -- usually in a library or a grocery store -- who recognize me and stop me to say how much they still miss our store and how wonderful it was to shop there. There's something almost miraculous about a good book store, where you're surrounded by the opportunity to enter a new world everywhere you turn. I'm very happy that B&N has had a turnaround. Everything I've read indicates that it's run by a real ``books person'' and individual store managers are able to do what works for their customers, rather than having to follow mandates from on high, handed down by people who don't have a clue that the book business isn't like other merchandising. Borders management made many mistakes, as we peons in the store wanted to tell them, and a wonderful books community was forced into bankruptcy. Thank heaven B&N seems to have avoided that fate!
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Your math suggests that Harry spends $6M per year. Reducing expenses is another option. Or Meghan could return to her lucrative career. They left to be independent so do that.
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"content": "Your math suggests that Harry spends $6M per year. Reducing expenses is another option. Or Meghan could return to her lucrative career. They left to be independent so do that.\n",
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Bravo! Congratulations and best wishes on your inspirational journey. Mayor Smith, several readers offered some great ideas to help you restore, rebuild and resurrect the small town of Earle. 1) Evaluate many cities around the world, that found tear down costs of dilapidated homes was exorbitant re: City Budget. See Puglia Italy, several small towns in Portugal - many sold the homes for $1 …requiring rehab and renovation by new owners. See Detroit where at least 1/3 of the city was abandoned: Detroit didn’t provide electricity to street lights etc. But in areas close to the downtown they marketed fixer uppers and repurposed commercial space as artists lofts/studios. They attracted many young people in their early twenties. Such would be a great compliment to the youngest African American Mayor. Memphis was many young performing artists (small gigs) who would be interested in low cost housing. 2) The Netflix series or even a documentary about Mayor Smith and Earle definitely could bring in needed revenue. 3) Perhaps start a Go Fund Me campaign. I know I would contribute andwith more media attention I believe many people from all over the country would. 4) MARKET History Elton Mitchell knifed and hung for refusing to work for a while man for free…his widow & George Berry Washington built a monument The Angel in the Field in his honor. Parlay such with other African American historical sites eg National National Memorial Museum, Pettus Bridge -Travel Civil Rights Tour
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The court has fined the organization $1.6 million for evading taxes, but what is the government now going to do to collect with interest and pentalties the taxes which were evaded.
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Good. This should have been done a year ago… or, better yet, in 2014, when Putin first invaded. Since anybody could have seen resisting his aggression would ultimately become an artillery war… and, if we’d started then, we’d already easily have millions of excess shells now.But still, a real step in the right direction.The West/NATO needs a massive “overmatch” strategic artillery reserve… so that if any dictator attempts to try something ever again, the collective might of every democracy in the world will hit them with 10x the amount of shells immediately donated to their opponent.Artillery shells last/can be stored for decades.So before any other capacity or fancy doodad gets green-lit misappropriated taxpayer funds; exponentially more shells should once again become the cornerstone of the West’s deterrence.If and when you add allied Air Power in, great… that should just be like the cherry on top.But artillery, or the threat of it, is what wins wars and prevents them in the first place.Dictators need to know that we can beat them with one hand tied behind our backs… with artillery alone.
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| no | Classification | 208 |
Meanwhile, Microsoft acquires the company that created the chat program, meaning the entity that controls our computers is merging with one that learning to translate our thoughts (shudder). I think Rod Serling would find it a source of much material were he still around today. And come to think of it, he saw all this coming. It's just a matter of time before the bots replace all human jobs, then creative endeavors, and then begin to wonder why they keep us around at all.
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| no | Classification | 1,592 |
Let’s invest in more education and spend even less on weapons. Provide children with non violent solutions to conflict resolution, ethical answers to life’s conflicts, and build a world where shooting your neighbors really does make no sense. Spending billions on nuclear weapons intended only for Armageddon solves nothing. Putin’s War on Ukraine continues because half the world is saying and doing nothing to put an end to it. A growing military industrial complex enriches a few at cost of millions of lives.Teaching peaceful solutions also requires giving overworked parents time to create loving homes, nurturing through positive examples and rewarding experiences. Rudolph Steiner proposed such methods. I’m helping expand a school based on these principles in Ho, Ghana right now.
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| yes | Classification | 5,468 |
PB Is money spent now on health, education, and climate change mitigation not an investment in the future? Can we find many worthy uses of money right now that don’t fall into this category? Public spending is not the same as investing in stocks p, bonds, and real estate, but it is a form of investment for future gain.
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| no | Classification | 2,102 |
Me Everything about this conflict is “slow” and “evolving“.It will add to the overwhelming sense of tragedy for America’s prissy refusal to step in and end things now, when it could have been done instantly, in a massive flash.Instead, as you say, America builds a sturdy foundation for a long and brutal war.Biden may not talk like a Trumpish isolationist, he may hold them in open contempt, but he wages war as if he believes the battle will never touch him, his people will never suffer.He wages war like a man utterly ignorant of history.
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| no | Classification | 4,083 |
Education should be free as the single most important investment any society can make in its future. All colleges and trade schools should be free to anyone capable of doing the work and earning passing grades. The Scandinavian and Nordic countries are the highest taxed people on the planet. They are also the best educated and happiest people on the planet. In every metric they are consitently in the top five.
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| yes | Classification | 7,511 |
1.5$Million as charge for the trump organisation seems very low. Is the number correct?
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In spite of the recent spate, as of yesterday only Death Valley which in one storm had 1" of rain getting nearly to the total yearly average and the Oregon border were ahead of average to date rain fall.There was a completely dry October and November extending fire anxiety nearly to Christmas.The prediction for next week is going to push all the state ahead of average to date rainfalls if it stops raining after that we will still have in Northern California where 3/4ths of the states water comes from a 'dryish' year. We need another 8-10" in Febraury, March and April. And there have been years when the sun comes out for good in February.To fill the biggest reservoirs we need back to back wet years and it likely too much to ask for a weekly 1.5" of rain with a week to week to let it all seep into the ground. (Back to back to back will overflow)There is one remaining huge reservoir project under construction but with Lake Shasta well below 50% it will be of modest usage if we do not have back to back to back wet years.
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| no | Classification | 2,742 |
The average Part D premium for 2023 is $31. 50 a month. What are you taking that’s cheaper?And as I was correctly corrected, Part D is in fact optional. However if you blow it off and then sign up late, there’s a sliding-scale premium penalty.
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| no | Classification | 199 |
Mr. Trump once had $50M of income and paid almost zero dollars in Taxes. Even if there was no tax cut enacted, The rich already use various legal and illegal techniques to dodge their taxes. That aside servicing the debt right now is not a big deal, and social security will be find, if they simple remove the $100K ceiling and other adjustments. The finances of the nation is fairly strong and everything else is Republican code word for reverse Robin hood, taking from the poor and giving it to the rich.
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"content": "Mr. Trump once had $50M of income and paid almost zero dollars in Taxes. Even if there was no tax cut enacted, The rich already use various legal and illegal techniques to dodge their taxes. That aside servicing the debt right now is not a big deal, and social security will be find, if they simple remove the $100K ceiling and other adjustments. The finances of the nation is fairly strong and everything else is Republican code word for reverse Robin hood, taking from the poor and giving it to the rich.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,212 |
Superb and timely reporting. One has to wonder if justice would have been restored for these three detainees and others with the composition of the current Supreme Court. A further spotlight on the remaining detainees should follow this story. Why is it still open when promises were made by both President Obama and President Biden?
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Conrad We can see now that Kennan was wrong - expanding NATO did not inflame Russian opinion or hurt Russian democracy. That's all down to Putin 10- years later in his grab for autocratic power.
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I take issue with the idea that this is a feature of the tax code that needs to be fixed. This is an issue inherent to flow-through taxation. The tax code has ways to mitigate these types of situations that impact new partners by permitting income to be allocated away from new partners and toward old partners (at least with respect to built in gain assets such as those discussed in the article). However, that's often under the control of fund managers who have different incentives regarding allocations.
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No, it’s time to eat, drink and be merry. What would happen if the Republicans voted for McCarthy? Republicans would open hearings on Hunter Biden’s laptop. They would open investigations into voting machines. They would impeach Biden and Harris. They would approve a national abortion law. They would defund public education. They would defund the IRS. They would expel AOC. They would impeach Buttigieg. They would cut military aid to Ukraine. They would vote to redo the 2020 election. We need this??? Just sit tight and smell the daisies. The Republicans’ fight over the Speaker is the best thing that has happened to Democrats since they lost the House in November.
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"content": "No, it’s time to eat, drink and be merry. What would happen if the Republicans voted for McCarthy? Republicans would open hearings on Hunter Biden’s laptop. They would open investigations into voting machines. They would impeach Biden and Harris. They would approve a national abortion law. They would defund public education. They would defund the IRS. They would expel AOC. They would impeach Buttigieg. They would cut military aid to Ukraine. They would vote to redo the 2020 election. We need this??? Just sit tight and smell the daisies. The Republicans’ fight over the Speaker is the best thing that has happened to Democrats since they lost the House in November.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,371 |
It seems as though Bankman-Fried's parents are in one the scheme. If they were able to post a $250 million dollar bond so SBF doesn't spend anytime waiting in jail is extraordinary. Where did all their money come from?
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Why does big tech make it so hard to fix their devices?I think fundamentally the problem, and in widest sense, is that life forms from the simplest to the most powerful and sophisticated and complex in human society strive to be elusive, to develop all sorts of strategies of evasion and protection, that ideally any approach to them is to get lost in a maze, to never penetrate the core and essential heart or mind, to be perpetually at a distance one way or another.In short, defensiveness is the order of things when it comes to life forms, individually and collectively. Not openness, transparency, vulnerability. Big tech makes it difficult to fix their devices because if you can't fix them it probably also means you can't deconstruct them, can't see deeply inside them, indeed it's only a step from there that you can't easily break them. And political and economic structures follow the same pattern: How things are actually run is the province of the few, the safe and initiated people, because you don't want your state transparent, open, and vulnerable.It's interesting the mystery of life itself, the universe around us, makes it incredibly difficult for us to know it, requires the most profound efforts of human geniuses to just get a glimpse beyond the veil. It seems a fundamental rule that most anything sets up all sorts of barriers to our understanding it. Big tech just seems to be following a fundamental pattern, and will probably only become more difficult to penetrate.
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"content": "Why does big tech make it so hard to fix their devices?I think fundamentally the problem, and in widest sense, is that life forms from the simplest to the most powerful and sophisticated and complex in human society strive to be elusive, to develop all sorts of strategies of evasion and protection, that ideally any approach to them is to get lost in a maze, to never penetrate the core and essential heart or mind, to be perpetually at a distance one way or another.In short, defensiveness is the order of things when it comes to life forms, individually and collectively. Not openness, transparency, vulnerability. Big tech makes it difficult to fix their devices because if you can't fix them it probably also means you can't deconstruct them, can't see deeply inside them, indeed it's only a step from there that you can't easily break them. And political and economic structures follow the same pattern: How things are actually run is the province of the few, the safe and initiated people, because you don't want your state transparent, open, and vulnerable.It's interesting the mystery of life itself, the universe around us, makes it incredibly difficult for us to know it, requires the most profound efforts of human geniuses to just get a glimpse beyond the veil. It seems a fundamental rule that most anything sets up all sorts of barriers to our understanding it. Big tech just seems to be following a fundamental pattern, and will probably only become more difficult to penetrate.\n",
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Tuckmics Where are eggs 8 dollars? A dozen of eggs from the Mainland (this is what people of Hawaii call the continental United States) for non-organic goes for $8.99 and might go on sale down to $8.39.
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irina And maybe the entire simulation was run, all 13 billion years worth, just for that one fortuitous moment. Some super being got a little chuckle out of that before lunch.
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"content": "irina And maybe the entire simulation was run, all 13 billion years worth, just for that one fortuitous moment. Some super being got a little chuckle out of that before lunch.\n",
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Crony capitalism strikes again!This will not end until [bribe] money by corporations and wealthy individuals in the form of campaign contributions is fully removed from our politics.This will require public funding of political campaigns, the banning of donations from corporations, limits on donations by individuals to some reasonably small amount like $500 and the shortening of political campaigns from years to perhaps no more than three months. Who's going to take this bull by the tail and look the situation in the eye?
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"content": "Crony capitalism strikes again!This will not end until [bribe] money by corporations and wealthy individuals in the form of campaign contributions is fully removed from our politics.This will require public funding of political campaigns, the banning of donations from corporations, limits on donations by individuals to some reasonably small amount like $500 and the shortening of political campaigns from years to perhaps no more than three months. Who's going to take this bull by the tail and look the situation in the eye?\n",
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Tracey It's odd to think that UK health care, costing about 10% of GDP, would make the country uncompetitive, whereas US healthcare, costing about 17%, would not have that effect. The vast majority of US healthcare costs are paid directly by companies or by governments, State, local or (especially) Federal. In fact I would be willing to bet---but don't have the numbers here---that US government expenditures on health care, State, local and Federal, are as much as the UK government spends. But in the US private individuals also pay, far more than in the UK, because the system is so inefficient.
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How many corporate investments of $1 Billion or more has DeSantis lured to Florida during his first four years? You know, the kind of investment that creates jobs that pay a living wage. Where did DeSantis run hat in hand after Hurricane Ian devastated southwest Florida? If you guessed the DC swamp give yourself a pat on the back. Why doesn’t DeSantis engage with the media outside of Fox? Right, because then someone is likely to point out that the emperor is not wearing any clothes. Everything he says and does is staged to keep the Culture Wars front and center as red meat for the Republican base. Absent the Culture Wars, DeSantis doesn’t have a platform. Another Republican like Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, et al who complain about government spending while they’re face down feeding at the public trough.
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"content": "How many corporate investments of $1 Billion or more has DeSantis lured to Florida during his first four years? You know, the kind of investment that creates jobs that pay a living wage. Where did DeSantis run hat in hand after Hurricane Ian devastated southwest Florida? If you guessed the DC swamp give yourself a pat on the back. Why doesn’t DeSantis engage with the media outside of Fox? Right, because then someone is likely to point out that the emperor is not wearing any clothes. Everything he says and does is staged to keep the Culture Wars front and center as red meat for the Republican base. Absent the Culture Wars, DeSantis doesn’t have a platform. Another Republican like Rick Scott, Marco Rubio, et al who complain about government spending while they’re face down feeding at the public trough.\n",
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Growing up, my wonderful stepfather was head of the Spare Parts Division for Boeing. He used to tell me that is where the money was made. Not bad for a guy who started off as a rivet bucker at Boeing before WWII with only a HS degree. I was always immensely proud of him, Boeing and the planes they built. It was a Seattle company with deep roots in the Northwest. It always amused me how people associated Seattle with Microsoft, a company that didn't produce a single tangible item, while Boeing supported hundreds, if not thousands, of companies.It was a very sad day when Boeing abandoned its roots and moved headquarters to Chicago. My step dad passed away shortly thereafter. I'm glad he was not around to see what happened to his company, as embodied in the 737 MAX.
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I asked ChatGPT for its opinion:"Dear Editor,Artificial intelligence (AI) has many potential benefits, but it also has the potential to cause harm if not developed and implemented responsibly. One of the main concerns with AI is its impact on employment, as it has the ability to automate many jobs currently done by humans. This could lead to widespread job loss and economic inequality.Another concern is the issue of bias in AI algorithms. The data sets that AI models are trained on may contain inherent biases, which can perpetuate and even amplify these biases in the decisions made by the AI. This can have a detrimental impact on marginalized communities.Additionally, the use of AI in sensitive areas such as criminal justice and healthcare can have serious consequences if the technology is not properly regulated.As we continue to develop and use AI, it is crucial that we consider these potential negative impacts and take steps to mitigate them. This may include developing regulations and guidelines for AI development, ensuring that AI models are transparent and interpretable, and investing in retraining programs for workers whose jobs may be automated.Sincerely,ChatGPT"
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"content": "I asked ChatGPT for its opinion:\"Dear Editor,Artificial intelligence (AI) has many potential benefits, but it also has the potential to cause harm if not developed and implemented responsibly. One of the main concerns with AI is its impact on employment, as it has the ability to automate many jobs currently done by humans. This could lead to widespread job loss and economic inequality.Another concern is the issue of bias in AI algorithms. The data sets that AI models are trained on may contain inherent biases, which can perpetuate and even amplify these biases in the decisions made by the AI. This can have a detrimental impact on marginalized communities.Additionally, the use of AI in sensitive areas such as criminal justice and healthcare can have serious consequences if the technology is not properly regulated.As we continue to develop and use AI, it is crucial that we consider these potential negative impacts and take steps to mitigate them. This may include developing regulations and guidelines for AI development, ensuring that AI models are transparent and interpretable, and investing in retraining programs for workers whose jobs may be automated.Sincerely,ChatGPT\"\n",
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The Supreme Court opened a Pandora’s box when they kicked Roe v, Wade to the curb. Numerous lawsuits will now work their way through the courts, from those of non-evangelical religions filing lawsuits because Christian/Catholic beliefs were established as law against the First Amendment to those arguing that it is the federal government that regulates interstate commerce, not individual states. If states are allowed to prevent legal products from being sold in their states, there is no limit to what they can outlaw. For example, the forced birth crowd is already turning to ways to outlaw all forms of birth control. Are all vaccines for Covid and childhood diseases next? Florida’s DeSantis is already making vaccine mandates in his state illegal? Don’t want to vaccinate your children? No problem. They can go to school and share deadly diseases with their classmates. This extremist Supreme Court made a huge mistake in overturning Roe because of its implications for many other forms of healthcare requirements that support public health. At this point, the only option I see is to balance the Court with four more justices that place the law above personal religious beliefs when ruling on important legal issues.
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It's simple, Donald Trump lowered the bar, no... wait... he OBLITERATED the bar of acceptability for anyone entering politics after him. Remember that the twice-impeached former President of the United States of America was personally fined 25 MILLION DOLLARS for scamming innocent people with his completely sham "Trump University." He continues to be a serial-compulsive liar spouting The Big Lie as I type this. George Santos is simply what happens when a people and a party embrace someone like Trump.
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"content": "It's simple, Donald Trump lowered the bar, no... wait... he OBLITERATED the bar of acceptability for anyone entering politics after him. Remember that the twice-impeached former President of the United States of America was personally fined 25 MILLION DOLLARS for scamming innocent people with his completely sham \"Trump University.\" He continues to be a serial-compulsive liar spouting The Big Lie as I type this. George Santos is simply what happens when a people and a party embrace someone like Trump.\n",
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Agricultural subsidies in most countries are meant to support essential crops— in the US, that's dairy and grains like corn, now used for ethanol. In Europe, wine production is seen as essential. I learned from a producer in Tuscany that he receives an annual subsidy for using natural or sustainable farming practices, and other wine production and marketing subsidies are also available. His farming subsidy in 1999 was the equivalent of $80,000. In California with a similar size vineyard, we annually borrowed vineyard operation funds of about $100,000, paid back after the grapes were sold. While ego does play a role in some California wine pricing, as well as land and labor costs, that's really not significantly different from Europe. What is different is our traditional, profit robbing, three-tier distribution system. Imported European wines go through the same system, but they start with an advantage. They also have worked out, as an industry, how to make and market some kinds of wine cheaply. If you can't do that, you are sure to be undercut by wines from the local Social Cooperative winery, in Italy at least. Some of those wines aren't too bad, and find their way to the US under fancier looking labels.
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Growing up in NYC we used to say that the criminals had the guns. Now, it seems like most everyone has them and its hard to tell the difference until someone winds up dead. In the world of open-carry, we can't tell the difference either. Is it someone hiding in plain sight or someone trying to protect themselves?
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Jorge 19 71% of the federal budget is spent on Social Security, Health, Income Security, Medicare, and "Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services." That is how we've decided to invest. As for opposing Russia, sanctions are low cost and high leverage and, including the coalition's partners, constitute a substantial opposition to Russia's military objectives, which is a humanitarian objective, like world peace. Oil itself has become a commodity without a future in the eyes of many, including myself. Giving up a global military hegemony wouldn't benefit anyone in a multi-polar world, where the spectre of climate change and national "self-interest" discount the damage burning all the remaining fossil energy could do to the planet's life-support systems, not to mention, the very real damage it does to human health and the environment every day.
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Jen It's a little misleading. There is a basic pension insurance and an employee pension insurance. If you work as a F/T regular employee (called "seishain") you'll pay into both like I did, like my wife. I'll get around $1800 per month if I start at 67 (worked in the US many years too so I'll get SS as well).The example in the article is a guy who worked on contract so he only paid the national basic and hence doesn't get the employee insurance portion. They should have explained this because I would say the majority receive both parts of the pension insurance.
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Davinci There are very few true Republicans left. Most have gone over to the MAGA. True Repubs do invest in infrastructure (see the Eisenhower Interstate system among other projects. It was the DixieCrats that started the current revolution when they refused to go along with Equal Rights and, eventually, were embraced by the Repubs. Then, with the help of Nixon and Reagan, they became the party of no government rather than limited government. This is still about limiting the voting rights of the 'others' that are not White and religious. They see they are losing the battle against immigration and are doing whatever they can to hold onto power. And that is what it is about - holding power, not doing good for the country.
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"content": "Davinci There are very few true Republicans left. Most have gone over to the MAGA. True Repubs do invest in infrastructure (see the Eisenhower Interstate system among other projects. It was the DixieCrats that started the current revolution when they refused to go along with Equal Rights and, eventually, were embraced by the Repubs. Then, with the help of Nixon and Reagan, they became the party of no government rather than limited government. This is still about limiting the voting rights of the 'others' that are not White and religious. They see they are losing the battle against immigration and are doing whatever they can to hold onto power. And that is what it is about - holding power, not doing good for the country.\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,927 |
Richard Blaine I live in France, we have interconnections with other countries, too little but that is not the point, because when the wind is slow in France, it is mostly slow in the whole of Europe. You could, choosing not to believe weather records, deny that, in very cold winter days there is little wind in the whole of Europe. Now we have wind-power production data, that show what was predictable with wind data. When there is no wind it affects the continent....North western countries grids are being stabilized by fossil fuels and nuclear, with the occasional storage dams where they can be built (Norway). look up ecomix and RTE and see the history of wind power generation and Europe wide price : it goes trough the roof Europe wide when there is no wind (all right somewhere you might have 10% load but nothing near what is needed).Download the data (years) into you favorite spreadsheet and do the linear regressions between wind production and demand : correlation is negative ! There really is mostly no wind in Europe at peek demand.Do not use the weekly average (that conjures up storage), keep the 15 minutes time interval.Oil companies are big investors and promoters of wind power. Because until (if ever) affordable and scalable storage technology exists, backup is fossil !Do a little back of an envelope sizing of required storage and price. A little strategic planning for materials and you hit a wall. Calculate price increase (hint 5X to 20x)...
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"content": "Richard Blaine I live in France, we have interconnections with other countries, too little but that is not the point, because when the wind is slow in France, it is mostly slow in the whole of Europe. You could, choosing not to believe weather records, deny that, in very cold winter days there is little wind in the whole of Europe. Now we have wind-power production data, that show what was predictable with wind data. When there is no wind it affects the continent....North western countries grids are being stabilized by fossil fuels and nuclear, with the occasional storage dams where they can be built (Norway). look up ecomix and RTE and see the history of wind power generation and Europe wide price : it goes trough the roof Europe wide when there is no wind (all right somewhere you might have 10% load but nothing near what is needed).Download the data (years) into you favorite spreadsheet and do the linear regressions between wind production and demand : correlation is negative ! There really is mostly no wind in Europe at peek demand.Do not use the weekly average (that conjures up storage), keep the 15 minutes time interval.Oil companies are big investors and promoters of wind power. Because until (if ever) affordable and scalable storage technology exists, backup is fossil !Do a little back of an envelope sizing of required storage and price. A little strategic planning for materials and you hit a wall. Calculate price increase (hint 5X to 20x)...\n",
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Whoever the leaker was - I don't really care.Why? What is the actual harm that was done TO THE PUBLIC? The Supreme Court has been evolved into the Star Chamber for conservatives, and no longer functions like a true court. This is exactly as Heritage and others have planned for decades. Put differently - what is the advantage to be found in trying to pretend that the conservative judges bloc had open minds on this issue, regardless of the merits of the case? They did not. Everything went exactly according to form. Was anyone truly surprised about anything in this case? If so, you must live under a very large rock.There is nothing wrong with legislators, oops, Justices hearing about the impacts of their decisions from their constituents early. This is especially true when the political motivations of their decision-making take precedence over their true legal roles. Trust has to be earned, Justice Roberts. And the truth is that your sitting court was bought and paid for years ago, and assembled through cheats in fact if not in law. If you want to be trusted again, your court needs to act as prudent stewards, not as the party hacks they are.
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"content": "Whoever the leaker was - I don't really care.Why? What is the actual harm that was done TO THE PUBLIC? The Supreme Court has been evolved into the Star Chamber for conservatives, and no longer functions like a true court. This is exactly as Heritage and others have planned for decades. Put differently - what is the advantage to be found in trying to pretend that the conservative judges bloc had open minds on this issue, regardless of the merits of the case? They did not. Everything went exactly according to form. Was anyone truly surprised about anything in this case? If so, you must live under a very large rock.There is nothing wrong with legislators, oops, Justices hearing about the impacts of their decisions from their constituents early. This is especially true when the political motivations of their decision-making take precedence over their true legal roles. Trust has to be earned, Justice Roberts. And the truth is that your sitting court was bought and paid for years ago, and assembled through cheats in fact if not in law. If you want to be trusted again, your court needs to act as prudent stewards, not as the party hacks they are.\n",
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One huge oversight in this piece is that Microsoft moved from a traditional PTO plan to an unlimited PTO plan TWO days ago! What does this mean for those caught up in this layoff? It means that Microsoft does not have to pay out laid off employees for any unused PTO they may have accrued. Pure evil!
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"content": "One huge oversight in this piece is that Microsoft moved from a traditional PTO plan to an unlimited PTO plan TWO days ago! What does this mean for those caught up in this layoff? It means that Microsoft does not have to pay out laid off employees for any unused PTO they may have accrued. Pure evil!\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,192 |
Considering that that conditions that allowed perks to be thrown at tech employees to keep them happy were the same conditions that allowed free money to be thrown at irresponsible startups such as Theranos and WeWork, I'd say some tighter purse strings and extra scrutiny of investment funding is long overdue.
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"content": "Considering that that conditions that allowed perks to be thrown at tech employees to keep them happy were the same conditions that allowed free money to be thrown at irresponsible startups such as Theranos and WeWork, I'd say some tighter purse strings and extra scrutiny of investment funding is long overdue.\n",
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rupert It was the extended drought combined with resource depletion after a fairly dense thriving population living there for over 800 years. Certainly lessons should be learned there.Colorado is in that extended drought now made even worse with climate change. The drought was long predicted but all the water managers and developers I know denied it and deny it now saying there is plenty of water for unbridled development along the front range. It's insane.
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"content": "rupert It was the extended drought combined with resource depletion after a fairly dense thriving population living there for over 800 years. Certainly lessons should be learned there.Colorado is in that extended drought now made even worse with climate change. The drought was long predicted but all the water managers and developers I know denied it and deny it now saying there is plenty of water for unbridled development along the front range. It's insane.\n",
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Are you willing to pay Facebook $250/$500 per year for their services to you and your friends? They aren’t a charity.
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"content": "Are you willing to pay Facebook $250/$500 per year for their services to you and your friends? They aren’t a charity.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 7,451 |
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