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Seriously? $600 million dollars? That has to one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen.
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Citizen One of the problems is that the section of each bar that prosecutes disciplinary cases against lawyers is almost entirely complaint-driven. They have the authority to open an investigation on their own initiative, but rarely exercise it. They focus on the many complaints -- a large proportion of them frivolous -- that are filed by disgruntled clients.In the case of Rudy Giuliani, some lawyers circulated a petition demanding that he be disbarred. Before it was filed with the New York State bar, it had over 2000 lawyers' signatures on it. Sidney Powell and a few others have also been sanctioned, and there are pending investigations into several more, including Jeffrey Clark.But I think that many of these folks are not much dissuaded by bar discipline. Being suspended or disbarred means they could not appear in court or sign pleadings, but they could continue to provide their poisonous advice, give absurd "press conferences" and draft conspiracist pleadings that they get junior associates to sign.I think the best deterrent comes from the courts, not the bar. Right after a close-to-$1M fine was levied against Trump and Alina Habba, Trump withdrew one of his frivolous lawsuits. The bar can't impose monetary sanctions. The courts can, and should, continue to fine them heavily. That's something they actually care about.
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"content": "Citizen One of the problems is that the section of each bar that prosecutes disciplinary cases against lawyers is almost entirely complaint-driven. They have the authority to open an investigation on their own initiative, but rarely exercise it. They focus on the many complaints -- a large proportion of them frivolous -- that are filed by disgruntled clients.In the case of Rudy Giuliani, some lawyers circulated a petition demanding that he be disbarred. Before it was filed with the New York State bar, it had over 2000 lawyers' signatures on it. Sidney Powell and a few others have also been sanctioned, and there are pending investigations into several more, including Jeffrey Clark.But I think that many of these folks are not much dissuaded by bar discipline. Being suspended or disbarred means they could not appear in court or sign pleadings, but they could continue to provide their poisonous advice, give absurd \"press conferences\" and draft conspiracist pleadings that they get junior associates to sign.I think the best deterrent comes from the courts, not the bar. Right after a close-to-$1M fine was levied against Trump and Alina Habba, Trump withdrew one of his frivolous lawsuits. The bar can't impose monetary sanctions. The courts can, and should, continue to fine them heavily. That's something they actually care about.\n",
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all working people need to unite to tear down the bosses.Microsoft CEO gets a huge pay bonus, and then lays off 10,000 workers. The bonus he received could have paid their salaries for years!nobody seems to care.one man gets rewarded and then 10,000 get punished.it's all a matter of public record, no reporter has reported has noted the hypocrisy. nobody seems to care!unions are flawed, but they're the best we got. lots of stuff are flawed. But it doesn't mean we don't use them.
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"content": "all working people need to unite to tear down the bosses.Microsoft CEO gets a huge pay bonus, and then lays off 10,000 workers. The bonus he received could have paid their salaries for years!nobody seems to care.one man gets rewarded and then 10,000 get punished.it's all a matter of public record, no reporter has reported has noted the hypocrisy. nobody seems to care!unions are flawed, but they're the best we got. lots of stuff are flawed. But it doesn't mean we don't use them.\n",
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Woof - Any comparisons of Russian and American national debt are irrelevant.Who in their right mind would buy Russian debt, voluntarily?When was the last time Mr. Putin ever kept a promise to anyone (not including threats to put them in jail)?Would you buy a Russian government bond?That leaves Russian oligarchs to fund the $47 billion budget deficit, which would equal about 100 super yachts, give or take a few super dinghies.
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"content": "Woof - Any comparisons of Russian and American national debt are irrelevant.Who in their right mind would buy Russian debt, voluntarily?When was the last time Mr. Putin ever kept a promise to anyone (not including threats to put them in jail)?Would you buy a Russian government bond?That leaves Russian oligarchs to fund the $47 billion budget deficit, which would equal about 100 super yachts, give or take a few super dinghies.\n",
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This is such an inspiring story and so well written. My eyes brimming with tears too. I live in a small, rural community, where we have increasing numbers of homeless and “rough sleepers” in our midst. With Covid and VT’s harsh winters, our local sheriff took it upon himself to donate a house to be used as a homeless shelter/center and others joined in the cause. It’s woefully inadequate in size and open only in the winter. But it exists and is always full. Through the great efforts of it’s directors and support from various community organizations, the goal is a 365 day shelter. Now that Covid restrictions have eased, they reinstated a program where you can sign up to provide an evening meal. Finally retired at 70 and cooking being one my passions,I signed up. Won’t lie, I was a bit wary, but 2 meals in,with huge smiles that greet me and help to usher the dinner into the house,I plan to be a regular provider. On my last meal delivery, I asked, what would you like to have for dinner? Wowza,I had my menu ideas for several dinners. Dinner has always been sacred in our home and still is with just 2 of us,but what it means to someone who hasn’t had one perhaps in awhile is clear. Everyone deserves a home and food. These are first rung Maslow’s hierarchy of all human needs.I can’t solve the housing crisis in our community, but I can support those working to do just that and I can cook and look other opportunities to serve this community. Truth is, we all can and probably should.
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"content": "This is such an inspiring story and so well written. My eyes brimming with tears too. I live in a small, rural community, where we have increasing numbers of homeless and “rough sleepers” in our midst. With Covid and VT’s harsh winters, our local sheriff took it upon himself to donate a house to be used as a homeless shelter/center and others joined in the cause. It’s woefully inadequate in size and open only in the winter. But it exists and is always full. Through the great efforts of it’s directors and support from various community organizations, the goal is a 365 day shelter. Now that Covid restrictions have eased, they reinstated a program where you can sign up to provide an evening meal. Finally retired at 70 and cooking being one my passions,I signed up. Won’t lie, I was a bit wary, but 2 meals in,with huge smiles that greet me and help to usher the dinner into the house,I plan to be a regular provider. On my last meal delivery, I asked, what would you like to have for dinner? Wowza,I had my menu ideas for several dinners. Dinner has always been sacred in our home and still is with just 2 of us,but what it means to someone who hasn’t had one perhaps in awhile is clear. Everyone deserves a home and food. These are first rung Maslow’s hierarchy of all human needs.I can’t solve the housing crisis in our community, but I can support those working to do just that and I can cook and look other opportunities to serve this community. Truth is, we all can and probably should.\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,864 |
During my working life I was reasonably well paid and sometimes I would notice around November that my paycheck had gone up. I had reached the social security tax limit. It always seemed daft to me that I had now escaped a tax which my lesser paid colleagues were still paying.For the last fifteen years or so I have let a professional tax preparer do my return for me. Over three companies and three states one thing has been universal: the little box about allowing $3 to go to the government to aid the electoral process is by default unchecked and I have to remind them to check it and I do not recall ever being asked - they just assume that I don't want to do that. Note to the feds: if it were $100 and additional to my tax obligation, I'd still check that box. Cheaper in the long run.
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What was Lloyd George’s goal after WW1? It was to return Germany to prewar position as UK’s number 2 trade partner. Germany (historically a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) used trade with UK to to fund militarization. Europeans bought oil for years from Russia and were surprised to see Russia (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) use the profits to attack Europeans repeatedly (Crimea 2014, Ukraine 2020). USA sold oil and steel to Japan (a totalitarian militaristic dictatorship) up to the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack. Japanese aircraft carriers made of US steel - fueled by U.S. oil - steamed to Pearl Harbor. Today, trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. After spending trillions on its military with your money, will China let its investment sit idle?
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Tesla’s Profit Jumped 12% in Fourth Quarter The electric car company is facing intensifying competition, supply chain disruptions and concerns about the behavior of Elon Musk. Tesla reported a respectable jump in profit for the last quarter of 2022, but slipping profit margins and slowing sales growth underlined the challenges that have weighed on the carmaker’s stock. The electric car company is facing intensifying competition, supply chain disruptions and concerns about the behavior of Elon Musk.
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I teach Gen Zs. A year ago I talked to a group of them about investing. They really, really thought I was shortsighted to invest in stocks, bonds, and real estate. They preferred Crypto and loved investing in the urban-focused tech services they used. I told them I'd never used Uber, Lyft, or Air BnB and had no plans to invest in them.Most planned to work in Big Tech, cashing out in their 30s to go snow-boarding or trekking or some such. They said it was a new era. I told them to save money against layoffs, which they could not grasp with all the hiring and labor shortages. I said, in essence, "Good luck. I think that your urban-playground lifestyle is based on venture-capital funding that will peter out as soon as the capital is spent..."Poor kids. Welcome to reality. We thought we could build an economy based on going out to eat and using apps.Yeah right, says a Gen Xer.
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"Alabama spends less than the national average on Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance for the poor and vulnerable, and officials have declined to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act."Republican representation in the Alabama statehouse and in Congress. This is their medical plan: donations from generous people. And maybe your church. Good luck. You voted for this.
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"content": "\"Alabama spends less than the national average on Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance for the poor and vulnerable, and officials have declined to expand the program under the Affordable Care Act.\"Republican representation in the Alabama statehouse and in Congress. This is their medical plan: donations from generous people. And maybe your church. Good luck. You voted for this.\n",
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The debt ceiling is a false argument. Set the limit at 500 trillion and focus on actually doing something. All of the issues, debates, etc. will stay the same without depending on the threat of global economic collapse. Of course that demands negotiation, compromise, and a genuine commitment - from both sides - to focus on what's best for the nation rather than their own self-interest. That appears beyond reach.
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"content": "The debt ceiling is a false argument. Set the limit at 500 trillion and focus on actually doing something. All of the issues, debates, etc. will stay the same without depending on the threat of global economic collapse. Of course that demands negotiation, compromise, and a genuine commitment - from both sides - to focus on what's best for the nation rather than their own self-interest. That appears beyond reach.\n",
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Those same Congressmen voted THREE times to increase the debt limit under Trump, who rang up 8 trillion in debt. They only play these games when a Democrat is in the White House.
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"content": "Those same Congressmen voted THREE times to increase the debt limit under Trump, who rang up 8 trillion in debt. They only play these games when a Democrat is in the White House.\n",
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Cavalier57 Other than convicts moved to Wagner or forces made Russian from partner Nations, use of Russian Forces would be older reserves less fit for duty or unwilling draftees with limited training. Fresh forces of well-provisioned and well-trained forms are not all that much available. The problem with either tactical or strategic nukes is that the area is often made unworkable for either party, attacker or defender. Strategic nukes makes for contaminated land, ground water and extended periods of inhabitable land. Nuclear waste goes down the rivers into Russian land or the Black sea and causes environmental havoc. It is one thing using nuclear weapons at a distance- still not good, but on your immediate neighbor?Really?Tactical nuclear weapons are generally below 20 kilotons, perhaps below 1. Maybe anywhere from 1-5 miles of territory has immediate contamination, but if there is groundwater or other resources, contamination can travel. Aerosolized plumes can travel, though not as widely as Chernobyl, but they can still travel and Russian troops might be sacrificed if close enough, or at least sickened.Strategic nukes on a neighbor???Are you kidding? What territory would easily be worth the occupation for some time. Most nowadays are way more powerful than Fat Boy or Little Man and reclaiming the areas hit would be very difficult in any short time at all.
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"content": "Cavalier57 Other than convicts moved to Wagner or forces made Russian from partner Nations, use of Russian Forces would be older reserves less fit for duty or unwilling draftees with limited training. Fresh forces of well-provisioned and well-trained forms are not all that much available. The problem with either tactical or strategic nukes is that the area is often made unworkable for either party, attacker or defender. Strategic nukes makes for contaminated land, ground water and extended periods of inhabitable land. Nuclear waste goes down the rivers into Russian land or the Black sea and causes environmental havoc. It is one thing using nuclear weapons at a distance- still not good, but on your immediate neighbor?Really?Tactical nuclear weapons are generally below 20 kilotons, perhaps below 1. Maybe anywhere from 1-5 miles of territory has immediate contamination, but if there is groundwater or other resources, contamination can travel. Aerosolized plumes can travel, though not as widely as Chernobyl, but they can still travel and Russian troops might be sacrificed if close enough, or at least sickened.Strategic nukes on a neighbor???Are you kidding? What territory would easily be worth the occupation for some time. Most nowadays are way more powerful than Fat Boy or Little Man and reclaiming the areas hit would be very difficult in any short time at all.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,483 |
Once again the rich and infamous get deals no other person would get! Parents have a $4M house w/pool in Palo Alto. They do this on 2 professors salaries at Stanford??? Stanford must pay top dollar for them to live the high life. I expect Sam learned all he knows about scams and frauds from the people responsible for his demise. Shame on all of them!
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"content": "Once again the rich and infamous get deals no other person would get! Parents have a $4M house w/pool in Palo Alto. They do this on 2 professors salaries at Stanford??? Stanford must pay top dollar for them to live the high life. I expect Sam learned all he knows about scams and frauds from the people responsible for his demise. Shame on all of them!\n",
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A "Covid Deficit" that blew up in large part to pandemic deniers and mask shunners hobbling the economy and fillimg hospitals for an extended period of time.
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"content": "A \"Covid Deficit\" that blew up in large part to pandemic deniers and mask shunners hobbling the economy and fillimg hospitals for an extended period of time.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 9,049 |
Since Republicans appear to be so flippant about the debt ceiling, and convinced that no harm will be done to the US economy, why not use Kevin McCarthy's Congressional District as an emergency test case. Starting February 1st all federal activity would cease. For a period of one month no federal dollar would flow into the District. The FDIC would stop bank deposits, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would stop buying mortgages, the SBA would stop making loans, the Department of Agriculture would stop providing farm subsidies and stop funding 4H clubs and the farm extension service, student loans would be curtailed, there would be no food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security checks would be terminated, and the federal contribution to roads and bridges would be shut down. In addition, the offices of then FBI, the IRS, FDA, Customs, and Homeland Security would cease to function. The FAA would cease to operate traffic control, the Veterans Administration would cease to operate, the list goes on. If after a month, Kevin McCarthy's Congressional District continues to function smoothly and operate normally, then there should be a discussion about cutting back on federal government services. Of course, this is all a fantasy, but the point is that the Biden Administration needs to be proactive and show the American people how important the federal government is to their lives and their well being.
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So instead of streamlining to make a company profitable, investors should let these CEOs run them into the ground for the short term benefit of the 10 percent who should have been laid off now, and to the long term detriment of 100 percent of workers who will all lose their jobs when the company fails? Ace strategy.
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LW1 is in an awkward situation, if I read this right, because these are great-aunts, meaning their children (presumably including the LW’s parents) are the ones in collusion with N. I think the LW can inform their parents that they will not lie anymore to their grandparents if R is asked about (and that they really shouldn’t either). Frankly, if the one great aunt really is that fragile, her sisters might keep the secret too (though like many commentators, I imagine this is a bit overblown).LW2 is being very thoughtful. Still, the engagement is three weeks away, so the shock will have worn off a bit. And if things feel catastrophic still, you can delay making the announcement. Though if the LW realizes that part of what she wants is her parents/family to be able to focus on the good news more, asking the boyfriend to delay for six month is reasonable. In my experience, this process will tell you a lot about the brother’s character but three weeks or six months won’t affect how well he treats his sister.LW3 should focus on the friendship. Her concern has been expressed and any time the neighbor wants to talk more about it, she knows the door is open. Perhaps one final direct approach where the LW says something along the lines of “you know I’ve been worried about your cough but I am not going to pester you about it anymore, just know that I would be happy to accompany you if you decide to pursue a diagnosis.” Then talk about other things.
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"content": "LW1 is in an awkward situation, if I read this right, because these are great-aunts, meaning their children (presumably including the LW’s parents) are the ones in collusion with N. I think the LW can inform their parents that they will not lie anymore to their grandparents if R is asked about (and that they really shouldn’t either). Frankly, if the one great aunt really is that fragile, her sisters might keep the secret too (though like many commentators, I imagine this is a bit overblown).LW2 is being very thoughtful. Still, the engagement is three weeks away, so the shock will have worn off a bit. And if things feel catastrophic still, you can delay making the announcement. Though if the LW realizes that part of what she wants is her parents/family to be able to focus on the good news more, asking the boyfriend to delay for six month is reasonable. In my experience, this process will tell you a lot about the brother’s character but three weeks or six months won’t affect how well he treats his sister.LW3 should focus on the friendship. Her concern has been expressed and any time the neighbor wants to talk more about it, she knows the door is open. Perhaps one final direct approach where the LW says something along the lines of “you know I’ve been worried about your cough but I am not going to pester you about it anymore, just know that I would be happy to accompany you if you decide to pursue a diagnosis.” Then talk about other things.\n",
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Republicans in Tennessee refused to expand Medicaid in the state. This expansion would have provided health insurance coverage for 200,000 -- 300,000 poor Tennesseans, most of them in rural areas. The expansion would have saved lives and suffering as well as helped the Tennessee economy and helped keep rural hospitals afloat and operating. Almost all the funding would have been provided by the federal government through the Affordable Care Act. The Koch organization Americans for Prosperity lobbied against the expansion and won. In this past election, the Koch lobbyist who killed the expansion ran for Congress and carried the rural parts of the district by huge margins. It was a factor in his favor that he had squelched the ability of poor people to have health care. So when rural people think they don't get their share of the pie, they should look in the mirror to see why.
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"content": "Republicans in Tennessee refused to expand Medicaid in the state. This expansion would have provided health insurance coverage for 200,000 -- 300,000 poor Tennesseans, most of them in rural areas. The expansion would have saved lives and suffering as well as helped the Tennessee economy and helped keep rural hospitals afloat and operating. Almost all the funding would have been provided by the federal government through the Affordable Care Act. The Koch organization Americans for Prosperity lobbied against the expansion and won. In this past election, the Koch lobbyist who killed the expansion ran for Congress and carried the rural parts of the district by huge margins. It was a factor in his favor that he had squelched the ability of poor people to have health care. So when rural people think they don't get their share of the pie, they should look in the mirror to see why.\n",
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Sanctions work by weaponizing the dollar’s role as the primary reserve currency in international trade. Countries which run afoul of the US’s self-defined “rules-based international order” are not allowed to trade in dollars. This is supposed to cause them economic hardship.The problem is not just that sanctions may fail in their intended effect, as we see here in the case of Russia.It’s that, over time, sanctions and unilateral asset seizures such as the US’s “freezing” (or theft, in other words) of Russia’s USD reserves will have an *unintended* effect. Countries insisting on the right to pursue their own interests regardless of US wishes will seek to replace the dollar. Alternative mechanisms of trade and money transfer will be developed. This has already begun, a notable instance being Saudi Arabia’s threatening to ditch the dollar when trading oil with China.Here’s the thing. The dollar’s role in international trade is the only reason the US retains any credit at all, given that federal debt is $31 trillion while annual deficits and spending are ever increasing. Because of that role, the dollar is still considered a safe haven for investment.However, as the dollar is gradually replaced — “de-dollarization” — , it will become a less safe haven for investment. The US will find it more and more difficult to sell its debt. The potential consequences for the US economy and way of life are dire. Super inflation and austerity budgets are not inconceivable.
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I think we can agrree that too many gun owners are slipping through the system. Let’s start small and work from there. A federal law that prescribes mandatory background checks for everyone; these can take as along as they need to before selling a weapon to anyone. Anyone that sells a weapon without doing so gets hit with a $25K fine and a year in jail. Full stop. No leniency. If you fail to secure your weapon and a child (<16) has access to it and hurts anyone, the parent or gunowner gets locked up. Accountability has to start somewhere. If you want to own a gun, then you are accountable for securing it. If the states want to enact stricter laws, then let them do that. No more pandering to the NRA or lobbyists. Let’s agree on the basics first, then we can work our way towards more stricter laws that limit ownership to responsible operators.
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Bret's argument that lifestyle plays into audits of couples earning 400k + is irrelevant. Expanding the IRS is a business proposition. Seek out high earning tax cheats for the best return on investment. It doesn't matter if they drive a Camry or Rolls.
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Seth Plus the newly enacted rule that provides the critters a $30,000 per year allowance for “living” expenses.
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| no | Classification | 3,103 |
A suggested end to the conflict: Russia removes its military presence from Ukraine, ends its attacks on Ukraine, and pays Ukraine $10 trillion for the damage it caused.
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479 Tell that to my public schoolteacher friend who holds open houses for the parents, who can't be bothered to show up once or twice a year.
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| no | Classification | 259 |
This article waits until the end to deliver its punchline: owners or renters of units in these buildings are often more grateful (for whatever reasons) about having a place to live than to gripe about aesthetics.The article downplays the economic, cultural and legal imperatives underlying design. The challenging but meaningless guessing games of which-buildings-are-located-in-what-cities could be played (as the article itself suggests) with photos of 19th-C rowhouses in Boston, NYC, Cleveland or Chicago.If critics want a “better” look for urban environments, they should try embedding themselves in the design process of a typical multiuse/multifamily project— and see how that goes. There is little “room to move” due to external forces which come to play on the plan/section/elevation of a building.The way out of this may lie in more active participation of government in arranging the urban environment: flexible zoning with minimal “design guidelines,” real subsidy (a la Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town) of affordable middle-class housing, subsidies targeting niceties like street-facade detailing, improved street design (including trees, setbacks for planting/gardens, burial of utilities, meaningful parks/open space) and— the biggest ask of all— control of land values.
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The reality is that this is a permanent solution to a short term problem. An ADU for an aging parent is a wonderful solution, but once that parent is gone, the harsh truth is that the ADU suddenly becomes an investment property. In an ideal world, a tiny home or some sort of temporary living space could be moved in, and when the occupant passes, it could be passed along to another household in need of a temporary ADU. As noted, not all that many families have the luxury of having a property or the money to build living space that can accommodate a parent or caregiver, but making it temporary and re-purposable, would make it possible for others who could not afford to build a permanent structure but have the property, and open up more assisted living for families who have neither the property or money to build.The idea of keeping parents close by as they age is great, building a permanent structure whose purpose will inevitably change into something ill suited to the neighborhood is not.
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Tom Perhaps, they should have thought about that before launching two wars in the Middle East (one totally unjustified and the other that extended for at least 10 years too long), the Bush era tax cuts for oligarchy, followed by trump's tax cuts (also for his fellow oligarchs) - three of the main contributing factors to the deficit. Additionally, if the US were to adopt some of the policies that require its wealthiest citizens and corporations to actually pay some taxes, that would greatly increase revenues to be able to pay down debt.
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tombo Attacking DeSantis on a pragmatic basis will undermine his culture war and expose him as a fraud on the national stage. His extreme social positions--including abortion law--are open fodder for a moderate or left leaning opponent.
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MP what you are missing is that lost rabbit had a change of hands - it’s all filled actually and the developer is building 50 more home sites. That home shown has been well loved and the community is expanding to meet its population growth. Madison can’t keep up with the supply and yes there is a demand. Tons of relocation folks. The other ( which is both good and bad ) is out of state developers and VC’s have taken claim of it. They know that they have here and it’s exploded. I was lucky enough to buy an investment property early on which has since doubled. The crashes don’t affect here as much bc people have real money and guard it wisely. If you haven’t been here I encourage you to. It isn’t the same Mississippi you read about . I am pretty in the middle on politics and I am not white. This is a melting pot and i wish I left nyc years ago and discovered this place years ago. It’s the best of Franklin tn , Austin tx and North Carolina .
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"content": "MP what you are missing is that lost rabbit had a change of hands - it’s all filled actually and the developer is building 50 more home sites. That home shown has been well loved and the community is expanding to meet its population growth. Madison can’t keep up with the supply and yes there is a demand. Tons of relocation folks. The other ( which is both good and bad ) is out of state developers and VC’s have taken claim of it. They know that they have here and it’s exploded. I was lucky enough to buy an investment property early on which has since doubled. The crashes don’t affect here as much bc people have real money and guard it wisely. If you haven’t been here I encourage you to. It isn’t the same Mississippi you read about . I am pretty in the middle on politics and I am not white. This is a melting pot and i wish I left nyc years ago and discovered this place years ago. It’s the best of Franklin tn , Austin tx and North Carolina .\n",
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Hopefully, people will read the piece first before responding. My State, Utah, must love induced demand. Whether it's widening I-15 or making the Bangerter a true highway they are stuck in that 1960s concrete mindset. As noted in the piece it never works.The Legislature here balks at the thought of making mass transit free even though the $40M+ exit rebuild near my house is more than the free mass transit option.The other piece of the puzzle though is zoning. You need higher density for transit to really work.Maryland and Virginia, when you have a kiss and go lot, why not have housing there? I don't mean across the street.We can do better.
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"content": "Hopefully, people will read the piece first before responding. My State, Utah, must love induced demand. Whether it's widening I-15 or making the Bangerter a true highway they are stuck in that 1960s concrete mindset. As noted in the piece it never works.The Legislature here balks at the thought of making mass transit free even though the $40M+ exit rebuild near my house is more than the free mass transit option.The other piece of the puzzle though is zoning. You need higher density for transit to really work.Maryland and Virginia, when you have a kiss and go lot, why not have housing there? I don't mean across the street.We can do better.\n",
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| no | Classification | 3,881 |
IRS is a necessary evil. Honest taxpayers have nothing to worry about. Will be an open market for tac cheaters. Not a fan of the IRS, but the wealthiest will exploit this to the max
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JD Since April 2021, the United States has provided over half a billion dollars in assistance for the Palestinians/ It's been going on for years...and into the pockets of the so-called Palestinian leaders.
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Get ready for two years of the Committee to Investigate the Committee on January 6th, impeachment of any Biden administration official who might so much as give Donald Trump a speeding ticket, and volcaninc histrionics when it comes time to keep the government open or raise the national debt ceiling. But enough voters decided that they were perfectly fine with this that the rest of us are stuck.
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| no | Classification | 3,683 |
Health care is a business. Until workers are respected the quality of health care will continue to decline. As a 60 year old healthcare worker I've seen the slow and steady decline of services offered and staffing levels decrease. Where is the money? Insurance companies and multi million dollar compensation packages for hospital CEOs.
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Michael Indeed. I doubt that Microsoft relishes letting good people go. It costs a lot of money to bring people on, train them, and mentor them. But at some point, with an economic slowdown anticipated, you’ve got to do what’s needed to stay profitable and competitive.
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| yes | Classification | 5,445 |
Ken Wood Nyc public schools spend an average of 30k per student, making them some of the most heavily funded public schools in the world. The article is talking about people who have been receiving massive housing subsidies for generation, and none of this given out by skin color. There's huge corruption in both the private and public sector but c'mon...
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This is interesting stuff. This piece tells us that $800 million in goods pass through Laredo between Mexico and the US every day. Then it tells us that trade between the US and Mexico amounts to $660 billion per year. If you do the math in your head, and you have faith in the NYTs reporting, that means that around half of our trade with our second largest trading partner already passes through a city of 250,000. This will be be super interesting to watch.
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paul Actually, its about historic memory -- not deep history, but the expendable nature of labor since the 80s. These days, your resume looks substandard if you have not jumped around (you are thought to lack ambition and verve). Back in the 60s, jumping around was a red flag. People looked for long term job relationships and companies provided them. MBA programs stressed, in the 40s-60s that corporations had a social mission, as well as a money-making one. That compact changed -- and so no one should be surprised that, in a time of economic power, workers would use the skills they were forced to learn to take care of themselves. Its like sleeping together on an early date -- if you expect this is just a one or three night stand, you won't invest as much of yourself.
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Oh, please. This is the first time the Republicans have cared about limiting anyone buying a gun.Look, no one said that Hunter Biden was perfect, but the laptop was tampered with (per the WaPo independent investigation) and he didn't look the other way when a journalist was carved up by the Saudis in exchange for $2 billion. A journalist on Mastodon just said that the model of the Hunter laptop (analyzed by serial number, etc) wasn't even available until a few months after it was supposedly taken in for repair. Would be great if that could be explored, too.
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Not surprising that Bret wants to prohibit IRS audits of couples making over $400,000 a year. What's surprising is that he's now on record saying so.
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$17 billion in profits and employees with families to feed are reduced to the phrase "trim costs".
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While the common wisdom is that China may attack Taiwan to reclaim it, a much more realistic foreign adventure would be to enter Asian Russia. That is where a wealth of natural resources lie. With Putin struggling in Ukraine and a Russian military that looks ever weaker by the day, Russia may be a better way to increase the wealth China will need to offset its loss of western businesses that are now relocating outside of China.China will do what it has to do to survive. What that is at this point is anyone's guess and the US and our allies have to be open to any all possible moves Xi makes in the next few years.
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All of Roberta Smith's collection statistics here are worthy of the sports pages or an NFL halftime show, and worse yet they don't prove anything except that one pile of paintings over here has more paintings than the other pile of paintings over there. If someone is offering you 200 Guston paintings as a gift, isn't it a bit crazy to complain that there are no Joan Mitchells in the gift, or no Bob Thompsons, even if you'd like a few of the latter? She does make a decent point about the Met's aspirations for the future, acknowledging its recent wandering away from the usual glorification of various canons (I was mesmerized by the 2 massive Kent Monkman paintings installed in the Great Hall in 2020), but having so many Gustons now in the collection will not prevent the museum from furthering those new courses. And who's to say that taking care of 200 paintings will financially burden one of the richest museums in the world? There are, after all, those art-collection graveyards (you've seen the ads) that let you know you can store 24 Van Goghs for $192 per month (or something equally cheap). While wanting to expand the canon of art is commendable (everyone wins) and wishing it could be, in this case, sprinkled to many museums across the country (send some this way, west of the Mississippi, please), Smith's real beef is with the artist's estate for not doing the sprinkling in advance. But hey, the ten million bucks it included with the gift is probably a plus.
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"content": "All of Roberta Smith's collection statistics here are worthy of the sports pages or an NFL halftime show, and worse yet they don't prove anything except that one pile of paintings over here has more paintings than the other pile of paintings over there. If someone is offering you 200 Guston paintings as a gift, isn't it a bit crazy to complain that there are no Joan Mitchells in the gift, or no Bob Thompsons, even if you'd like a few of the latter? She does make a decent point about the Met's aspirations for the future, acknowledging its recent wandering away from the usual glorification of various canons (I was mesmerized by the 2 massive Kent Monkman paintings installed in the Great Hall in 2020), but having so many Gustons now in the collection will not prevent the museum from furthering those new courses. And who's to say that taking care of 200 paintings will financially burden one of the richest museums in the world? There are, after all, those art-collection graveyards (you've seen the ads) that let you know you can store 24 Van Goghs for $192 per month (or something equally cheap). While wanting to expand the canon of art is commendable (everyone wins) and wishing it could be, in this case, sprinkled to many museums across the country (send some this way, west of the Mississippi, please), Smith's real beef is with the artist's estate for not doing the sprinkling in advance. But hey, the ten million bucks it included with the gift is probably a plus.\n",
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The $1.6 million is like a speed bump for Trump. An inconvenience but no reason to change anything.
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Ms. Pea It's a question Republicans won't ever answer. Nearly $3t in accumulated wealth, and in actuarial reality, it's undervalued because our working-age population is on track to support retirees for at least the next decade.It's an entitlement in the same sense as our constitution entitles everyone the right to a trial by a jury.
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There is only so much money for any level of government to spend. This is a major problem on the federal level currently in play. As a member of a volunteer fire department for over 25 years we were dispatched to the same addresses over and over again for overdoses. The price of Narcan spiraled up from $20 to over $100 per dose very quickly. Everybody is a victim, a survivor, sufferers an addiction disease, or maybe they are just of little use to society. For this guy and all the others like him I couldn't care less.
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Sheila Blanchette Until I read your post, I was hesitant to mention Market Basket, as a proprietary brand. Its commitment to keeping prices down is remarkable. For years, a quart of milk was $1.39; it just recently went up, all the way to $1.49! I buy their bunches of excess aging basil for 50 cents, grind it up, and freeze.
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JB1 perhaps if more consumers told stores they refuse to shop where open carry is allowed, that might change things a bit. Not enough, but nudge the needle a bit.
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"content": "JB1 perhaps if more consumers told stores they refuse to shop where open carry is allowed, that might change things a bit. Not enough, but nudge the needle a bit.\n",
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This was a thoughtful, interesting, and original exploration of what this short bit of video does to the viewer. However, it will represent an abdication of the paper’s responsibilities to the public if it ends here.Things are getting wildly out of control in the retail space, and it isn’t some sort of spiritual malaise. Owners and CEOs are responsible for the decisions that people on the line like this. The decision to have a single cook on duty, at a restaurant known for late night visits after bouts of drinking, seems like the worst kind of irresponsible cost-cutting, almost guaranteed to escalate unpleasant interactions between employees and customers.A culture that centers the consumer as the definition of a citizen, at the expense of workers, breeds an ethos that equates being served with individual rights: whether it is a Black man throwing a chair or some white Call of Duty cosplayer open carrying semi-automatic rifles into a shop. The consequence is an escalation of inconvenience into a potentially dangerous conflict of perceived aggrievance.The list could go on – but you get the idea.At our stores in Brooklyn, we’ve had to offer, for the first time in nearly 20 years of operation, professional training in the de-escalation of potentially violent encounters. Something is wrong when you’re asking hourly retail employees to put their bodies in front of that kind of potential danger and it would be great if the Times looked into it.
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When I worked with Native Americans, supporting their efforts to build businesses on reservations in the West, I noticed how open they were to the possibilities of the moment. They often wanted to start another, or two businesses before getting one solidly established.Native people are simply not capitalist. It strongly goes against he grain of their being.No matter. It doesn't compare to the loss they still feel--the loss of their homeland, their families, and their communities of living things. How can you worship at the altar of the very force that leveraged you out of the world your forebearers first traversed and named? We still use those names today. But their magical meaning is gone. Except in the special places, in Indian Country, where the people are keeping the fires alive and the sacred relics safe.Everything changes, and the Earth abides.
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Jack Interesting. I just finished reading Chapter Four of Carol Anderson's book, "White Rage." As a Black woman and Senior Citizen who was a young woman during the Reagan Administration, I am absolutely astonished at the amount of American History I did not know. In that Chapter, Anderson uses solid historical facts to recount how the Reagan Administration actually assisted the Contras to form alliances with South and Central American Drug Cartels and Gangs and encouraged the sale of cocaine and crack in poor neighborhoods in the US to finance that Right Wing group in its rebellion against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Then, when the gangsters the Reagan Administration enabled flooded the inner cities with drugs and drained them of financial resources, the POTUS initiated a major anti-drug program that led to mass incarceration and the destruction of Black and Hispanic families. Anderson thoroughly outlines how US Intelligence agencies and the military were abused in this debacle.It was part of the racist movement to "kill two birds with one stone" by illegally financing the destabilization of Central America while at the same time destroying and handicapping American communities of color. This move to re-institute apartheid in the US set progress in Black communities back DECADES and is still affecting POC today. I see echoes of that very same thinking in the purpose and composition of these "investigative" committees. Nothing good will come of this.
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About the only things that Squeaker of House will be allowed to do is 1. open as many Bengazi-style house investigations as his new pals Green, Boebart and company will allow. 2. shut down the government in September and perhaps let the US default on debt3. bang his gavel with a grin on his face
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Sierra Morgan Sillers Colisieum is named for a former MS Speaker of the House. He authorized the sale of bonds to finance the construction of the basketball arena. He didn't donate anything.He was a racist, a white supremacist, and a segregationist. That our basketball teams are playing there while being majority Black young men and women, and also a few international students depending on recruiting, would have him angry and even now he is rolling in his grave.
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As a physician, LW1 is likely aware of the diminished returns of freezing eggs in her late 30s. Mr. Galanes should have researched the statistical probability of having a live birth using eggs frozen in one's late 30s. It is hardly a panacea that would give LW1 any "breathing room."This not a LW1 problem or even a doctor problem. This is a cultural problem - really, two problems. First, as a culture, we normalize the delay in starting families until certain, big professional milestones are achieved, making professional life so grueling prior to that point that having kids seems impossible. Unfortunately, this renders many women infertile once they reach the culturally-acceptable stage of career to reproduce. Second, as a culture, we support an extended male adolescence through men's 20s and even 30s, not expecting men to "grow up" and take on adult responsibilities like fatherhood until they are at an age when their female peers have declining fertility.In my work (high-end litigation), most women delay motherhood until after "making partner." As stressful as it was, I am grateful I took a different path and had kids while I was an associate. It was so, so hard, and it delayed my making partner considerably. But I avoided the heartbreak of infertility, and now I'm a partner with the family I always wanted. Of course, this was only possible because my husband and I found each other in our 20s, and, counter-culturally, he was already a "grownup" at that age.
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"content": "As a physician, LW1 is likely aware of the diminished returns of freezing eggs in her late 30s. Mr. Galanes should have researched the statistical probability of having a live birth using eggs frozen in one's late 30s. It is hardly a panacea that would give LW1 any \"breathing room.\"This not a LW1 problem or even a doctor problem. This is a cultural problem - really, two problems. First, as a culture, we normalize the delay in starting families until certain, big professional milestones are achieved, making professional life so grueling prior to that point that having kids seems impossible. Unfortunately, this renders many women infertile once they reach the culturally-acceptable stage of career to reproduce. Second, as a culture, we support an extended male adolescence through men's 20s and even 30s, not expecting men to \"grow up\" and take on adult responsibilities like fatherhood until they are at an age when their female peers have declining fertility.In my work (high-end litigation), most women delay motherhood until after \"making partner.\" As stressful as it was, I am grateful I took a different path and had kids while I was an associate. It was so, so hard, and it delayed my making partner considerably. But I avoided the heartbreak of infertility, and now I'm a partner with the family I always wanted. Of course, this was only possible because my husband and I found each other in our 20s, and, counter-culturally, he was already a \"grownup\" at that age.\n",
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I have high hopes for The Last of Us, and this is a good article about the potential for video game adaptations for TV, but NYT completely ignored Arcane when it released. The general public seems to shrug off anything animated without giving it a chance. NYT didn't even include Arcane in the annual Best-Of lists which is just objectively wrong. Arcane is one of the best TV shows made in the last decade (if not longer), and deserves to be talked about in the same way that Breaking Bad, Chernobyl, Band of Brothers, and other all-time great TV shows are discussed.This article should have been written a year ago called "Can 'Arcane' Unlock a Gaming Gold Mine for TV."Everything in Arcane is top-notch quality. The music and score, the dialogue, the flawed characters, the action, the ground-breaking animation techniques mixing 2D and 3D, the fantastical world-building, etc.The father figures, sister relationships, the brothers, mentors, scientists, politicians, the haves and have-nots, the poor working conditions leading to health problems, the opportunity for education and climbing the proverbial ladder, the role technology plays between improving lives and leading to dangerous weapons. So many important and potent themes discussed with no much nuance and care.I'm still a little bitter that NYT (and other great publications) didn't give Arcane the respect that it earned if you couldn't tell.There are three episodes in each arc for a total of nine episodes. Go watch it
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Paula 029 If you think that she was welcomed with open arms why weren't their statements from "the firm" in her defense about the racist and colonial language that was used to cover her? Why was there no statement to say that the media was lying about her supposed behavior? I will tell you why, because they were pretending to accept her openly, while planting the negative stories themselves. She was very willing to perform her duties but she wasn't supported at all. Whether its because she is American, bi-racial, previously married, her parents were divorced, whatever, they missed their chance to show that they could still be relevant in todays world and connect with the people today especially the people they colonized. She was their ticket and they instead threw her under the bus and blew it. But no, they only pretended to support her and people with blinders on fell for it like you did, while the rest of us could see the truth.
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Fire and security doors don’t work if tenants jamb the doors so they stay open. Landlords have responsibilities but so do tenants.
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Their self-serving narrative just doesn't ring true. I live in London, and as far as I remember there was never a moment when Meghan overshadowed anyone. Harry is worth 60million£. Is that not enough for them to live on? Do they really think trashing their family is worth the money? Or is this just revenge because Meghan wasn't in fact the star?Meanwhile, William and Kate are spurring innovation to combat climate change and supporting institutions that serve young children.These two can only talk about themselves.And, ps, the British tabloids are awful to all the women in the royal family. (Waity Katy doors to crosscheck, Camilla the Rottweiler) The rest of them are just adult enough to ignore it. And, pps, Britain is a far more diverse society than the US.
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"content": "Their self-serving narrative just doesn't ring true. I live in London, and as far as I remember there was never a moment when Meghan overshadowed anyone. Harry is worth 60million£. Is that not enough for them to live on? Do they really think trashing their family is worth the money? Or is this just revenge because Meghan wasn't in fact the star?Meanwhile, William and Kate are spurring innovation to combat climate change and supporting institutions that serve young children.These two can only talk about themselves.And, ps, the British tabloids are awful to all the women in the royal family. (Waity Katy doors to crosscheck, Camilla the Rottweiler) The rest of them are just adult enough to ignore it. And, pps, Britain is a far more diverse society than the US.\n",
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Dr. Juvenal Urbino How much of the debt was incurred by Yellen and the Biden administration, pushing through trillion dollar deficit spending, falsely labelled as inflation reduction?Of course, it was Yellen and other progressive economists who totally misunderstood the cause, extent and duration of the resulting inflation, as well.So maybe she should deal with her own mess?
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I had heard about Alex's concussion and was delighted that he was well and back in the show when I saw it for the third time on Friday night. He and the show were so fabulous that, while on the bus ride home, I jumped onto Ticketmaster and bought one of the last remaining seats for the final show.Wow! Was I glad I did! That 2-minute standing O that Alex got during the opening number set the stage for the evening's spectacular performance. There's nothing better than two and a half hours of gleeful exhuberance in a Broadway theater...when the love bounces around the stage, out to the audience, and back to the performers. Pure joy!
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For once i agree with you. As an Australian with a mainland chinese wife, who has spent considerable time in China and has considerable experience dealing with chinese companies (i also speak and read mandarin) i have long been infuriated by western businesses and governments who saw the opening up of china as just an opportunity to share in the CPC’s gross exploitation of the chinese people; basically putting the west’s greatest weapon against the CPC - the chinese people - offside and straight into the CPC’s hands.The emperor’s closed foreigners out of china because they and their officials understood the ‘contamination’ of western ideas meant the collapse of china’s dictators. The CPC understands this too. It is only reaching out to the chinese people that can end the CPC’s, or any country’s, dictatorship. That, or total war. Trading with countries under dictators only strengthens the dictator. It should therefore be a prime principal of all democratic countries that trade comes with conditions that guarantee the rights, including economic rights, of the dictator country’s people and increase their access to information and knowledge. Sadly, given how viciously exploitative it is of its own people. the USA, a country which does such a poor job at economic rights, freedoms, and protections, is not a country that is able to spread freedom around the world.
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"content": "For once i agree with you. As an Australian with a mainland chinese wife, who has spent considerable time in China and has considerable experience dealing with chinese companies (i also speak and read mandarin) i have long been infuriated by western businesses and governments who saw the opening up of china as just an opportunity to share in the CPC’s gross exploitation of the chinese people; basically putting the west’s greatest weapon against the CPC - the chinese people - offside and straight into the CPC’s hands.The emperor’s closed foreigners out of china because they and their officials understood the ‘contamination’ of western ideas meant the collapse of china’s dictators. The CPC understands this too. It is only reaching out to the chinese people that can end the CPC’s, or any country’s, dictatorship. That, or total war. Trading with countries under dictators only strengthens the dictator. It should therefore be a prime principal of all democratic countries that trade comes with conditions that guarantee the rights, including economic rights, of the dictator country’s people and increase their access to information and knowledge. Sadly, given how viciously exploitative it is of its own people. the USA, a country which does such a poor job at economic rights, freedoms, and protections, is not a country that is able to spread freedom around the world.\n",
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Bret We are already sending over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine. Then there are all the dead people, ruined lives, displaced families...If as you claim there are Trump supporters who want peace and cooperation with Russia. Then I would think that this peace and cooperation would be beneficial to Ukraine, Russia, The US and the world.Russia is a democracy. If US democracy means we have a bunch of misinformed, blood thirsty, misery loving socialists looking for their next government handout then we need to rethink how we implement that "democracy"
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"content": "Bret We are already sending over $100 billion in aid to Ukraine. Then there are all the dead people, ruined lives, displaced families...If as you claim there are Trump supporters who want peace and cooperation with Russia. Then I would think that this peace and cooperation would be beneficial to Ukraine, Russia, The US and the world.Russia is a democracy. If US democracy means we have a bunch of misinformed, blood thirsty, misery loving socialists looking for their next government handout then we need to rethink how we implement that \"democracy\"\n",
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LC We don't have an open border. It's a myth. The federal government is working under treaties that were signed by governments world wide, including ours, which guarantees a hearing for those fleeing persecution whose lives are in danger. Millions of those who enter but cannot prove they left because of persecution by their government are sent back by the U.S. government to the countries they left every year.
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Since you bring up "The Godfather", the Easter Egg is the orange. Just before someone dies or there is violence, an orange will be in the frame preceding. Also, while I learned a lot here (thank you) I also suggest the author dive into Ben Robinson's 2018 book (Paul Romhany Publisher, Vancouver 2018) HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. There, the author explains that 50% of what we see is...unseen. The book helped me enormously revel in his revelations because they are stark, clear and help me better negotiate my day when I am lost in the digital world of computer menus and ticket agents who seem unable to push a button to change a ticket based on some "law" or 'metric" that suddenly appears.The painting you offer in this article was included in at 1977 show at The NY Historical Society where master magician Milbourne Christopher (1914-1984) pointed out the "unusual use" of the magician in the top left window (a magician in that hat would never perform in such a place). This, Christopher offered, was the "chaos" represented in this painting--showing this for what they are not.Along the same lines, when MoMA reopened in 2019 just before the pandemic, a painting from 1956 was taken from their vast warehouse(s) and shown. It is displayed on the 5th floor in the largely surreal exhibit. To my knowledge, while the depiction is of a medieval conjuror in traveling wagon, not a single magic history reference notes this—why? Detective work.
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"content": "Since you bring up \"The Godfather\", the Easter Egg is the orange. Just before someone dies or there is violence, an orange will be in the frame preceding. Also, while I learned a lot here (thank you) I also suggest the author dive into Ben Robinson's 2018 book (Paul Romhany Publisher, Vancouver 2018) HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT. There, the author explains that 50% of what we see is...unseen. The book helped me enormously revel in his revelations because they are stark, clear and help me better negotiate my day when I am lost in the digital world of computer menus and ticket agents who seem unable to push a button to change a ticket based on some \"law\" or 'metric\" that suddenly appears.The painting you offer in this article was included in at 1977 show at The NY Historical Society where master magician Milbourne Christopher (1914-1984) pointed out the \"unusual use\" of the magician in the top left window (a magician in that hat would never perform in such a place). This, Christopher offered, was the \"chaos\" represented in this painting--showing this for what they are not.Along the same lines, when MoMA reopened in 2019 just before the pandemic, a painting from 1956 was taken from their vast warehouse(s) and shown. It is displayed on the 5th floor in the largely surreal exhibit. To my knowledge, while the depiction is of a medieval conjuror in traveling wagon, not a single magic history reference notes this—why? Detective work.\n",
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John Roosevelt: Thank you for sharing this. I agree that giving the disadvantaged a leg up is--by far--the more rational and sane way to approach the diversity question in admissions.Conversations and processes concerning diversity in the U.S. nearly always omit the class factor--and college admission practices assume that all whites are Asians are privileged. Within the Asian demographic, the current system conflates the experience of a child of two affluent professionals with a refugee because they fall under the same broad ethnic category that describes more than half of the Earth's population. Further, 43 percent of those under the poverty line (calibrated to a household of 3--two adults and one child--with a total income under $21,811 in 2021; so really, truly extremely poor) are white: <a href="https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/?dataView=1" target="_blank">https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/?dataView=1</a>¤tTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7DAnd the current system assumes that anyone of Black, Latino, and Native American descent is inherently underprivileged, which is absurd and insulting.
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Right now, Democrats could defend Government Medicare (as it is) against the aggressive ad campaigns to take it private and into the hands to Private Health Insurers.The "experts" you call are insurance agents, attacking current and future Gov't Medicare enrollees with vague and intentionally deceptive promises. They encourage them to surrender their contact information (Name, Zip Code, Phone #) so they can learn what they "might" qualify for.The advertisers who write the copy and structure these campaigns of deception are not experts in health insurance, but experts in use of the Conditional Tense. (May, Might, Could, and other descriptors of the hypothetical). The only concrete words in their various ads are in the finest print possible claiming they are not affiliated with the Federal Government, yet they use its Trademarks and Brand Identity with impunity, that in some cases, state outright that if they can't find you a better plan than you have they are free to put your contact information on the open market. Your phone will never stop ringing, even after you choose a plan.To sell this bill of goods, they employ over the hill Hacks, i.e. Joe Nameth, Jimmy Walker and Wm Shatner. The more reputable Insurance companies use charming actors who give you their names. But they are still actors.Where are the Progressives on this? This is here. Now. Medicare For All won't get much resistance from the Right once it's entirely privatized
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I thought the egg prices were bad enough but now its 70 Million for a duplex penthouse?Thanks Joe Biden
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I get emails from the Trump organization, and they have a lot of the same feel. No political content per se, more like platitudes ("Save America!"); no information at all; just huckstering. Incredible (literally) offers like:"70X IMPACT!!! If you respond in the next two hours, your donation will be be matched 70 times!", never mentioning who might be providing that match."I'm providing you with this confidential 10-second preview of my campaign ad, Kari, because you've always been one of my most loyal supporters. Send $5 now to show your support!""Exclusive for YOU, Kari, I'm offering this DOUBLE ENTRY. You can win this trip to Mar-a-Lago, we’ll cover your flight and hotel, and you can bring a guest of YOUR choice. Best of all, I may even show up, and you’ll get to meet me. There’s no one else I want to win this EPIC opportunity, CLICK HERE to UNLOCK THIS EXCLUSIVE DOUBLE ENTRY OFFER FOR YOU ONLY!!!""Because of your premium status, YOU have officially been chosen as Trump's PATRIOT OF THE MONTH. This is a HUGE HONOR because only ONE Patriot is given this title per month. CLICK HERE to claim your certificate."
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Sam Conversational search will be massive, but you're jumping the gun if you think ChatGPT has a competitive edge over Google. Their GPT-3 model is built on Google research, and Google has an interval version they haven't released yet. ChatGPT is out because there are fewer consequences to OpenAI releasing it with its bugs (disinformation, hate speech) than there would be to Google.
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Those interested in developing a mine near Kiruna Sweden may end up developing a strong relationship to the Komatsu Company, Harnischfeger Industries in Milwaukee. This firm has been building mining equipment for a hundred years. Their visitor center was open to the public during Open Doors Milwaukee. They had big screens of world-class mining equipment on display. It is interesting that something so far away can be related to something so near by. The new Komatsu manufacturing facilities are among the best in the world. Their engineering know how could contribute to limiting environmental damage. Having worked for that firm 60 years ago, it was impressive to visit the visitor center and be impressed by how mining equipment evolved over the last ten decades.
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Due to inflation, real wages for all Americans have dropped and will do so in 2023- that is real hardship. It was definitely caused by Federal bailouts and easy money policy. Corrective measures will definitely cause at least a 2% increase in unemployment from the current multi-decade low of around 3.5%.But the context should be: In the aftermath of COVID, without the abovementioned actions, unemployment would have risen to well north of 10%, foreclosures would have been commonplace and economic activity would have slumped by several per cent- easily the worst in modern era. Now, decide for yourself, if this two year inflationary bout was worth the cost.
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"content": "Due to inflation, real wages for all Americans have dropped and will do so in 2023- that is real hardship. It was definitely caused by Federal bailouts and easy money policy. Corrective measures will definitely cause at least a 2% increase in unemployment from the current multi-decade low of around 3.5%.But the context should be: In the aftermath of COVID, without the abovementioned actions, unemployment would have risen to well north of 10%, foreclosures would have been commonplace and economic activity would have slumped by several per cent- easily the worst in modern era. Now, decide for yourself, if this two year inflationary bout was worth the cost.\n",
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I feel a little sheepish about “claiming” that all Republicans want to gut the social safety net but then I remember how I’ve been saddled over the years with accusations that all Dems are “Coastal Elites” who want “Death Panels”, “Open Borders”, to “Defund the Police” and “Abortion on Demand”, none of which allows for nuance or even a fair assessment of motives. So, if turn about is fair play, bring on the apocalyptic wordplay of dead grandmas, higher copays and dwindling SS payments.
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in my observation, the way to have a long-lasting restaurant starts with one simple requirementown the building.my favourite Lebanese restaurant is grungy carpet and original laminex tables, but the food comes off the grill as delicious as when I first visited in 1977 - it's been open since 1968 and I don't think they've renovated - just bought next door for more space and added on bits at the back. A tourist walking past might ignore it as unattractive, but those of us who've eaten there for decades frequent there like a special kind of secret club.another favourite Chinese dumpling and handmade noodle place we take friends family to and they say it's the most delicious of all the places they go - again it's a hole in the wall, with newer renovated places on either side which attract more customers but where the food is not so good - they might be full, yet like the other day we typically walk into our place and it's empty - we sit at our favourite table and enjoy the best food - it does get busy with delivery bicycle orders so someone else knows about the food.contrast that with new restaurants with fancy new luxury surrounds, which I typically find are overpriced, and lo and behold I predict and typically also observe them to be out of business within a year.but maybe that's just Sydney.
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Here in northern Albania, I mostly shop at the open air markets (just like in France) where I examine and buy fresh vegetables, taste a sliver of sheeps cheese before purchasing, taste the olives and walnuts, befure buying 500gms. I stop at one of the many meat stores (segregated into beef/veal. or pork, or lamb) stores,- and haggle not over price-but the exact slice off the quartered carcass that I want-for a stew or soup, or chops, or to have ground. It's amzing how "lean" meat is outside of the US- mostly grass-fed without corn ,hormones and anti-biotic fuel feed lots. Then there re the local bread stores,less than a block apart where a large loaf of bread that would be $4.50USD at Costco or WholeFoods, is 50cents. Or when you buy a a pound of tomatoes and the seller throughs in one or 2 more so it registers on the scale-and walk off paying 50cents.How anyone could be so "pressed for time" , unless they are raising 3 young children and working as well, would choose to shop in a "super-market" , and fixiate on bizarre American comfort foods like-SPAM, Heinz Baked Beans, BIMBO white bread, NESCAFE powdered coffee, DelMonte Ketchup, Laughing Cow Cheese, and Franco-American gravy, Cheetos, Skippy peanut butter, Fluff-a-Nutter and the rest of the corporate garbage food of American find themselves looking wistfully looking at "away from home" is beyond me.
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If people age less and live to such high ages, it implies that they are able to work and be economically productive for longer periods of time. The major issue in that case is whether governments are willing to extend the retirement age or whether companies are willing to hire people 60 years old, particular for more physically demanding jobs.
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"I would gladly exchange raising the capital-gains tax, which is what House Democrats say they want, in exchange for raising the retirement age for Social Security benefits to reflect increased life expectancy." Really, Bret?! Because 70 years old isn't old enough for you? For goodness sakes, most people don't work cushy office jobs like you and even I do, they work hard jobs that require some level of physical demand. Don't you think by 70 years old they deserve a well earned break from work the rest of their lives? I'm going to 58 this year and am in a profession that allowed me to open my own business and sit for a living, but even that aggravates the collapsing discs in my lower spine (to the point were I have developed mild scoliosis). I don't always think as fast on my feet anymore, so to speak, and can't imagine how much worse I'll feel in 12 more years when I turn 70. You just can't let that old GOP mantra of work us to death because we don't "deserve" what our corporate paymasters do, can you?
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New Eyes In organizational psychology the way people let their feelings dismiss their reasonable decision making is presented. Once people are emotionally invested in a belief or system of beliefs, contradictory facts are dismissed as wrong. The NAZI leadership believed that as anti-communists they could forge alliances with the Western Allies against the U.S.S.R. despite the strong support of the U.S.A. and the U.K. for their Soviet Ally. Since the Bolsheviks took over Russia, the U.S.A, U.K, et al had fought to drive them from power but NAZI Germany was the immediate threat for the West not the U.S.S.R. but the Germans just did not see it. It was denial of reality at work.
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“Myth No. 5: Plant milk is healthier than dairy milk.”Not that this is not a myth but I believe many are moving away from so much dairy and meat in their diets not because of the myth but due to the inhumane conditions and lives dairy cows and most animals raised for consumption endure. It’s not like they live natural lives in the fresh air, direct sunlight, and open nature that the livestock of our ancestors would have experienced. I love half-and-half in my daily cup of coffee but I’m now reducing its use with a plant-based dairy substitute called “Nutpods” instead a few days a week; not a huge shift but a step, for me, in a more conscious direction.Better living conditions may not effect the actual molecules we consume but it does effect the spirit of the animal and ultimately ourselves. A society blind to the suffering of the least among us will only grow calloused to suffering throughout, as it seems American society has become. Laugh all you want at California but I wouldn’t trade living in a state that, at least, is trying to address a few of these atrocities like in mandating that egg-laying chickens not be crammed into cages for the entirety of their short and brutal lives. It’s a start…
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"content": "“Myth No. 5: Plant milk is healthier than dairy milk.”Not that this is not a myth but I believe many are moving away from so much dairy and meat in their diets not because of the myth but due to the inhumane conditions and lives dairy cows and most animals raised for consumption endure. It’s not like they live natural lives in the fresh air, direct sunlight, and open nature that the livestock of our ancestors would have experienced. I love half-and-half in my daily cup of coffee but I’m now reducing its use with a plant-based dairy substitute called “Nutpods” instead a few days a week; not a huge shift but a step, for me, in a more conscious direction.Better living conditions may not effect the actual molecules we consume but it does effect the spirit of the animal and ultimately ourselves. A society blind to the suffering of the least among us will only grow calloused to suffering throughout, as it seems American society has become. Laugh all you want at California but I wouldn’t trade living in a state that, at least, is trying to address a few of these atrocities like in mandating that egg-laying chickens not be crammed into cages for the entirety of their short and brutal lives. It’s a start…\n",
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I would have to wonder if any currency, like the dollar, the pound, the euro ricocheted in value as much as crypto did (or does?) why would you want to invest in it?Why would you want to collateralize loans with it?I can say for the stock market these are companies that are audited and their stock value has to have a reasonable expectation to match the financials submitted to shareholders. When ever I hear politicians calling for smaller government with less regulation, I have to wonder would they dismantle the SEC? If they did, we'd have real chaos in the financial markets.
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The MAGA Republicans are willing to burn down the country and bring us to economic chaos. It's past time that the sane Republicans, if there are any left, work with Democrats to avoid economic calamity. There is a need to bring spending in line with tax revenues, but don't do it by holding the debt ceiling hostage. The answer lies not in knee-jerk budget cuts but raising taxes. Start by reversing the $2 trillion tax cut Republicans passed with great pride in 2017. Close the plethora of tax loopholes. Increase IRS audits so we collect the estimated $600 billion that is owed but not paid by tax cheats. If Republicans want to cut spending for social programs, let them do it in the open when those programs come up for renewal. They want to do it cowardly by refusing to increase debt limit. The debt limit should be eliminated to avoid this political blackmail.
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"content": "The MAGA Republicans are willing to burn down the country and bring us to economic chaos. It's past time that the sane Republicans, if there are any left, work with Democrats to avoid economic calamity. There is a need to bring spending in line with tax revenues, but don't do it by holding the debt ceiling hostage. The answer lies not in knee-jerk budget cuts but raising taxes. Start by reversing the $2 trillion tax cut Republicans passed with great pride in 2017. Close the plethora of tax loopholes. Increase IRS audits so we collect the estimated $600 billion that is owed but not paid by tax cheats. If Republicans want to cut spending for social programs, let them do it in the open when those programs come up for renewal. They want to do it cowardly by refusing to increase debt limit. The debt limit should be eliminated to avoid this political blackmail.\n",
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I wonder how many other countries have this sort of divide. What is far more worrisome here is that people are shamed into hiding what they know or understand on a subject. America has a long tradition of anti-intellectualism. Many Americans resent anyone who is an expert in any field. It strains the meaning of the word elite to extend it to any person with a college degree. Furthermore, deciding and stating that being knowledgeable, using polysyllabic words, understanding science, etc., is an elitist "thing" is a disservice to the people who are, in fact, knowledgeable and at the leading edge of their field or experts. It takes a lot of hard work to become an expert. That hard work and expertise has plenty of mistakes behind it. How else does one become an expert?Until more Americans understand that we are all in this together no matter what place we occupy in America, we're going to see this ugly problem again and again. As long as some Americans can buy their way out of their civic obligations, dodge taxes, evade justice, or receive far more attention from our lawmakers because of their riches, there are going to be severe tensions between the richest and the rest of us. Someone wants it that way. Or, to be more accurate, the GOP likes it that way.To quote Socrates: Nice GOPeople.
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"content": "I wonder how many other countries have this sort of divide. What is far more worrisome here is that people are shamed into hiding what they know or understand on a subject. America has a long tradition of anti-intellectualism. Many Americans resent anyone who is an expert in any field. It strains the meaning of the word elite to extend it to any person with a college degree. Furthermore, deciding and stating that being knowledgeable, using polysyllabic words, understanding science, etc., is an elitist \"thing\" is a disservice to the people who are, in fact, knowledgeable and at the leading edge of their field or experts. It takes a lot of hard work to become an expert. That hard work and expertise has plenty of mistakes behind it. How else does one become an expert?Until more Americans understand that we are all in this together no matter what place we occupy in America, we're going to see this ugly problem again and again. As long as some Americans can buy their way out of their civic obligations, dodge taxes, evade justice, or receive far more attention from our lawmakers because of their riches, there are going to be severe tensions between the richest and the rest of us. Someone wants it that way. Or, to be more accurate, the GOP likes it that way.To quote Socrates: Nice GOPeople.\n",
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RJ A win after only 15 rounds of voting? Why it's the most impressive display of party unity in US history! McCarthy & the GOP will rue the day he became Speaker. The extremists on the right aren't finished. They will make his life a nightmare. McCarthy stands for nothing & he's traded away his ability to stand for anything. McCarthy will be a weak speaker of a weak majority whose contribution (besides an appetite for chaos that is whetted by these shenanigans) will be limited to obstruction & performance art. The speaker position has been devalued, demoted & become ceremonial for McCarthy. We've become a country of right fighters, loud mouths, & bullies, content to see our "opponents" fail instead of working together for the good of the country. How many 2024 Democratic ads are going to feature the scene of Rep. Mike Rogers (AL) lunging at Rep. Matt Gaetz while having his mouth covered with another Repubs hand? Advertising and fundraising gold there. if the GOP can't even work together, what makes any Repub think they can work for us? Fitting that the House GOP picked 1/6 to embarrass themselves again. In their zeal to leverage their extremely small numbers, the GOP rebels in the House have seriously weakened their party. Sidenote: Of the large group of presidential election deniers--only one R congressperson went to the steps of the Capitol to pay respects this morning to the officers injured & maimed on 1/6--yet on McCarthy's election, they chanted "USA, USA. "Wow.
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I looked up Earle, Arkansas on Wikipedia and saw that its only 3.25 sq miles in size. Like several commenters have said, I'd try to sell properties cheap and advertise them within a 100 mile radius of Earle, rather than tear them down (like Detroit and Youngstown did). I'd also contact some rich folks like MacKenzie Scott, and see if you can get some seed money to do placemaking features in town, to inject a sense that things are getting better. Good luck to you Mayor Smith! I'd also open a paypal account to accept donation for Earle,
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Eric B Wordle 579 5/6*⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WordleBotSkill 90/99Luck 30/99Join the crowded Bob-graced, Halls of Five - almost an Enid Blyton book. One misplaced letter after two words was not very inspiring but in trying for the vowels I found the group at least.My children were given a book with the word in the title by their English grandma, a testimony to the whiff of UK still lingering in the list (I am NOT complaining, just noticing).Did not take note of all the words yesterday, but second to last was SHARD (as in the famous London skyscraper alas a previous solution?) and from there CHARD.The latter is apparently an extremely perishable vegetable, so less likely to be found away from where it’s cultivated. I never bought it (I mistrust such broad-leaf vegs as a rule) but it used to come in the blind-bag of produce a local entrepreneur would sell every week during lockdown. I would buy online and go round to the light-warehouse estate nearby, where heavily masked young men and women would fill the boot of my car with the bags. (You have to slam it down with. two hands! I would mouth through the barely open window…Good times ? It already looks like ancient history. Anyways, Cheryl Ann NeedMoreCatsToday you just tore through Wordle, like an ATV! 😉 well done!
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DH "Basic Law was passed defining human and individual rights in Israel. The law was written as if it had priority over other laws."This is what a Basic Law a.k.a. "Constitution" is all about. It it wasn´t so this law would be useless. This debate is no ivory tower glass beads game. A Basic law in this sense/Constitution that could be changed by every single law can never work as a resilient constitution. There is a very infamous cautionary tale in constitutional history: The "Weimarer Reichsverfassung" - the most modern, even progressive constitution at it´s time. Because fundamental rights were not "legislation-proof" they could be changed or abandoned by any formal law based on any simple majority this constitution collapsed immediately after the right wing/Nazi coalition gained simple majority in the Reichstag for legislation. The resilience of this fundamental law that was formulated with strong words was 0 in effect from one second to the other then. Only one law - gone.If Basic Law was subject to any legislation based on a simple majority such complete undermining could happen to this Basic Law in the worst case too. No more effective legal obstacles far and wide left to stop it. It´s just a matter of such insufficient legal structures that are as open as a barn door in fact. Because many Israeli lawyers have ancestors from Germany and Austria who had worked in legal professions this issue is still very well known among them. Therefore they struggle so hard.
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MikeFee I suspect that $500 meal would cost closer to $5000 if all the labor were properly paid."The Menu" has it right, the "best" restaurants, who make it a habit of sending diners away hungry, are on the verge of immolation.
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It amazes me that nowhere in the article is it mentioned what Microsoft's headcount trend has been at fiscal year (June 30):2019: 135,0002020: 150,0002021: 166,0002022: 190,000Today, that workforce is 221,000. This means that even with 10,000 layoffs, Microsoft will be employing 76,000 more people than pre-pandemic. And that's for an already massive company.Funny how some people like to lose sight of facts that don't fit the narrative.
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I encourage the New York Times to survey Germany's economic interests in Russia. For Chancellor Scholz's caution about sending German tanks to Ukraine is not only due to his fear of the memories of the Second World War. More important is Germany's economic cooperation with Russia. German companies have for a long time invested in Russian raw material producers, and even after the embargo was introduced, there are still German companies back in Russia. Even today. We have to face it: German foreign policy is not only controlled from the Reichstag, but also out of consideration for the country's industrial companies.
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"content": "I encourage the New York Times to survey Germany's economic interests in Russia. For Chancellor Scholz's caution about sending German tanks to Ukraine is not only due to his fear of the memories of the Second World War. More important is Germany's economic cooperation with Russia. German companies have for a long time invested in Russian raw material producers, and even after the embargo was introduced, there are still German companies back in Russia. Even today. We have to face it: German foreign policy is not only controlled from the Reichstag, but also out of consideration for the country's industrial companies.\n",
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Why is there never a discussion about the easiest and fairest way to keep Social Security solvent: raise the wage cut-off limit for paying Social Security tax, which for 2023 is $160,200. All wages above $160,200 are not taxed for SS. A person making $160,200 pays $9,932 in SS taxes. A person making $20 million pays $9,932 in SS taxes. This doesn't make any sense. I bet if the wage cap was at least doubled SS would be solvent well into the future. And remember, we all have paid into this "insurance" all of our working lives. We earned this. SS is not a gift. It is an "entitlement" because we paid for it and are entitled to it.
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"content": "Why is there never a discussion about the easiest and fairest way to keep Social Security solvent: raise the wage cut-off limit for paying Social Security tax, which for 2023 is $160,200. All wages above $160,200 are not taxed for SS. A person making $160,200 pays $9,932 in SS taxes. A person making $20 million pays $9,932 in SS taxes. This doesn't make any sense. I bet if the wage cap was at least doubled SS would be solvent well into the future. And remember, we all have paid into this \"insurance\" all of our working lives. We earned this. SS is not a gift. It is an \"entitlement\" because we paid for it and are entitled to it.\n",
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How about asking the top 10 global businesses, for example, Amazon, Royal Dutch Shell, Volkswagen, Walmart, Unilever, Roche,Apple, Johnson &Johnson etc to charge just 1 cent extra for their products and to deposit that 1 cent from each product into a GLOBAL RESPONSE UNIT or GLOBAL CHARITY to respond to impending disaters such as these? 'He ain't heavy, he's my brother '. Just 1 cent could save a life. Come on Jeff et al! You can do this!
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In light of the trillions of productive tax dollars that have been stolen and plundered from US Tax Payers that's hiding in tax havens - why cannot the US seize those funds and use those stolen plundered funds to wipe out this debt so more public funds in the present can be utilized to invest in the quality of life of regular working citizens and can be properly invested to bolster US Infrastructure (public transpo, trains, education, health care, climate) and protecting the security of Democracies internationally against the type of low life oligarchs who exploit corporations and nation states to milk as their personal piggy banks to drain and conceal their stolen plunder in tax havens (caymans, Switzerland, etc)...
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"content": "In light of the trillions of productive tax dollars that have been stolen and plundered from US Tax Payers that's hiding in tax havens - why cannot the US seize those funds and use those stolen plundered funds to wipe out this debt so more public funds in the present can be utilized to invest in the quality of life of regular working citizens and can be properly invested to bolster US Infrastructure (public transpo, trains, education, health care, climate) and protecting the security of Democracies internationally against the type of low life oligarchs who exploit corporations and nation states to milk as their personal piggy banks to drain and conceal their stolen plunder in tax havens (caymans, Switzerland, etc)...\n",
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Sinema is a master manipulator whose primary motivation is self promotion and wealth. She uses a tactic of not publicly discussing anything related to policy. This is a strategy to avoid being held accountable for anything. By not telling her constituents what she is for, she is essentially not for anything except herself.Her stance on supporting the filibuster is similar. She doesn't want to be responsible for making big changes, so she supports a policy that prevents change. This way she can hide and maintain her pro Wall Street positions.Her net worth is now estimated at over 11 million dollars. How does a person get that rich on making $180,000 for a few years? She is obviously in it for herself and has found a pathway to extreme wealth.Sinema is for Sinema. The voters of Arizona need to be made to understand that. I hope Gallego gets the nomination. She can go to work for her Wall Street buddies.
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It was an open secret that, during the 20 year war waged against the Taliban by NATO, Islamist militants from Afghanistan would seek refuge in Pakistan while the Pakistani government turned a blind eye. Similarly, Osama bin Laden was found hiding out in Pakistan with the undoubted knowledge of the Pakistani military. You reap what you sow.
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The Republican Plan: Force spending cuts. Take whatever was cut, add $1 Trillion, then plead for a tax cut in that amount that overwhelmingly favors the top 1%. Then cry that we are spending too much.
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Practically the exact same words that we've read time and time again during extreme weather events driven by climate change. California is running a $28 billion budget reserve, monies set aside for economic uncertainties, yet for some reason the state can't find a way to direct some of this money to aid the homeless which live there. This is a very strange notion coming from a state which traditionally leans far left regarding social issues. So I guess we'll continue to just read about the pain of the homeless in California instead of any actions by the state to quell their plight.
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This is all well and fine that Google is concerned about its profits and the threat from a new competitor -- perhaps this is important news for investors and stockholders. But for the rest of society, these AI chatbots are already creating havoc -- CNET posted as "news" articles generated by AI, universities and high schools are scrambling to do away with term papers so students don't submit papers generated by ChatGPT -- these are canaries in the coal mine. The issue facing society is one of trust -- we best worry about the problems these new products create for society and worry less about the financial impacts on companies which already make billions in profits.
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"content": "This is all well and fine that Google is concerned about its profits and the threat from a new competitor -- perhaps this is important news for investors and stockholders. But for the rest of society, these AI chatbots are already creating havoc -- CNET posted as \"news\" articles generated by AI, universities and high schools are scrambling to do away with term papers so students don't submit papers generated by ChatGPT -- these are canaries in the coal mine. The issue facing society is one of trust -- we best worry about the problems these new products create for society and worry less about the financial impacts on companies which already make billions in profits.\n",
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So tell those in The House who admire Putin, to read the 14th Amendment and too abide by its’ codification into American Ideology, Policy and Reality…but what to do when we are dealing with those who claim the border is infested with terrorists, do not believe in the mass poisoning via Covid, hate those who wear masks, read books, question sexuality, abhor racism and its false idols, and who operate in the open under The Dome as a terrorist group, with vocifierous allegiances to the kremlin and white supremacy…they dont even read, they are not even Americans, they should just be given One Way flights to Moscow, Russia, not Idaho.
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"content": "So tell those in The House who admire Putin, to read the 14th Amendment and too abide by its’ codification into American Ideology, Policy and Reality…but what to do when we are dealing with those who claim the border is infested with terrorists, do not believe in the mass poisoning via Covid, hate those who wear masks, read books, question sexuality, abhor racism and its false idols, and who operate in the open under The Dome as a terrorist group, with vocifierous allegiances to the kremlin and white supremacy…they dont even read, they are not even Americans, they should just be given One Way flights to Moscow, Russia, not Idaho.\n",
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Well it's about time. For weeks we heard complaints that Democrats didn't do "oppo" research. Nonsense!The Nassau Republican Committee is exactly who should have known exactly who George Santos is. Did he drop out of the sky? Did he have the backing of a local municipality's chair?I'm a Dem town chair in a small town in Westchester County and I attend my county's monthly meetings. We know who runs for office. When Nita Lowey declined to run for reelection we have something like 9 candidates run in a Primary. And every single candidate was known to us, even the guy from California who's father founded Regeneron and moved back to NY to seek Lowey's seat. In the end Mondaire Jones won, and we knew exactly who he was, as he had worked in the Obama White House. He was vetted.The Nassau County Republican Comm. should be ashamed of themselves. They let this happen. There has to be more to this story, don't know if we'll ever hear it.Santos should resign. But he won't.In my opinion, Santos wanted to become rich. He had the perfect role model in Trump. After failing to win this in 2020, he found funding somewhere, Russia maybe?, and he hasn't reported it as he's required to do so.He claimed $40k in airline expenses. Sean Patrick Maloney, head of the DCCC in 2022, spent $8k on flights. Luxury living and fine dining are goals of Santos. So he spent campaign dollars on that stuff. Why not, there are no consequences for bad actions in DC. This is why Trump must go to jail.
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"content": "Well it's about time. For weeks we heard complaints that Democrats didn't do \"oppo\" research. Nonsense!The Nassau Republican Committee is exactly who should have known exactly who George Santos is. Did he drop out of the sky? Did he have the backing of a local municipality's chair?I'm a Dem town chair in a small town in Westchester County and I attend my county's monthly meetings. We know who runs for office. When Nita Lowey declined to run for reelection we have something like 9 candidates run in a Primary. And every single candidate was known to us, even the guy from California who's father founded Regeneron and moved back to NY to seek Lowey's seat. In the end Mondaire Jones won, and we knew exactly who he was, as he had worked in the Obama White House. He was vetted.The Nassau County Republican Comm. should be ashamed of themselves. They let this happen. There has to be more to this story, don't know if we'll ever hear it.Santos should resign. But he won't.In my opinion, Santos wanted to become rich. He had the perfect role model in Trump. After failing to win this in 2020, he found funding somewhere, Russia maybe?, and he hasn't reported it as he's required to do so.He claimed $40k in airline expenses. Sean Patrick Maloney, head of the DCCC in 2022, spent $8k on flights. Luxury living and fine dining are goals of Santos. So he spent campaign dollars on that stuff. Why not, there are no consequences for bad actions in DC. This is why Trump must go to jail.\n",
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The most startling fact is where Santos got $700k in funding. This really needs to be followed up vigorously.
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"content": "The most startling fact is where Santos got $700k in funding. This really needs to be followed up vigorously.\n",
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