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Many fear Artificial Intelligence (AI) but another perspective gives a different and fascinating look into its connection with the world. This look makes one wonder more deeply about it. The book "Ways of Being" by James Bridle "deals with the ways in which the digital, networked world reaches into the physical, offline one" and offers a whole new approach of mental examination attached to AI.As it atricultes non-human intelligence, ecology, biological computing, more-than-human relations, it certainly opened my eyes to a multitude of previously unconsidered possibilities. Anyone in the field of AI or fearful of it would find the information absolutely compelling as it offers new observations that fascinate.
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Laura This is a rich text! Laying blame upon a dead woman and her family. Maybe not your intent, but that part reads clear as day. So if pain is the result of fear, do you also embrace the philosophy that the uterus wanders around the body causing other various “feminine” ailments? Pain couldn’t be the result of stretching, pulling, tearing, compression, and other mechanical means? This idea that the human childbirth process would have a single perfect outcome *if only* we never intervened and if only the laboring person opened their 10,000 leaf lotus first is absolutely outrageous. Would you say this to women around the world who labor alone, who labor as teenagers, who have no idea how the process even works? What of their fear? Is it also unnecessary? The truth as I see it is that human beings barely survived as a species due to the fact our upright, laboring mechanics are so absolutely fraught. What an entitled piece of prose.
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"content": "Laura This is a rich text! Laying blame upon a dead woman and her family. Maybe not your intent, but that part reads clear as day. So if pain is the result of fear, do you also embrace the philosophy that the uterus wanders around the body causing other various “feminine” ailments? Pain couldn’t be the result of stretching, pulling, tearing, compression, and other mechanical means? This idea that the human childbirth process would have a single perfect outcome *if only* we never intervened and if only the laboring person opened their 10,000 leaf lotus first is absolutely outrageous. Would you say this to women around the world who labor alone, who labor as teenagers, who have no idea how the process even works? What of their fear? Is it also unnecessary? The truth as I see it is that human beings barely survived as a species due to the fact our upright, laboring mechanics are so absolutely fraught. What an entitled piece of prose.\n",
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Disparity is another word for uneven economy. Small businesses should never have been shut down for extended periods of time by some of the governors during the pandemic. Labor shortages should not have been caused by paying people more wages not to work than when they worked. Competing for skilled workers is tough in the USA. On the one hand politicians like to say small businesses are the engine of growth on the other hand the budgets for small business innovation research does not keep pace with the weapons aid for unending foreign wars that cause only loss of lives and destruction of property. More resources need to be made available to small business startups, especially where there is an unmet need. more small businesses are needed for home care and care of the increasing number of homeless and poor not elsewhere but in the USA. Hopefully the infrastructure spending will provide stimulus to small businesses while funding more bridges and roads. A few hours ago Biden and McConnell were on the banks of the Ohio river in Kentucky for a ceremony for yet another bridge across the Ohio river. Sure more the merrier but is it as necessary as the other unmet needs of the low income families struggling to survive through hyper inflation and the rising cost of rent for housing?
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Billy Remind me. What was it Jared did to earn that $2 billion?
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"content": "Billy Remind me. What was it Jared did to earn that $2 billion?\n",
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Here ya goDefense budget 857 BillionNASA budget 25 BillionWhy ?We need to save our planet, not go to Mars.We certainly have enough to defend ourselves already.Case closed.
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"content": "Here ya goDefense budget 857 BillionNASA budget 25 BillionWhy ?We need to save our planet, not go to Mars.We certainly have enough to defend ourselves already.Case closed.\n",
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Large institutional investors want integrity, incorruptibility, and competence when it comes to dealing with the debt limit so that the economy can recover to pre-pandemic levels, and no one is better qualified to balance all the alternatives than a political party led by former Goldman Sachs CEO George Santos, who can consult with a man who inherited great wealth and was found guilty of defrauding his fellow citizens for $25 million. We can be certain that Republicans in Congress will do all in their power to manage the economy in ways that benefit all Americans.
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I understand what is trying to be conveyed. Ambiance can make or break anything. I have trouble reading books now that I am older. My eyesight seems to waver in and out of focus, thus I have several eyeglasses with different prescriptions. Still, after about an hour, reading is no longer possible. Yet I love books and the doors they open.I am a BIG fan of Kindle because it enabled me to read books I would have never found here in France. I missed my culture although I love French culture. I'm doubly fortunate! But now, as my years hurry towards the end of my life, I love audible or any other of the same books. I can listen, without having a frustrating time while I finish all the little crafting projects I didn't finish in my younger years because reading was a demanding master. I began writing my name and reading when I was also learning how to crochet and knit, around 4 years old. I am betting audible or the like, will keep me well read and crochet & knitting will keep me busy well into my 90s or even my 100s!
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This has been going on for, well, forever. Minor changes to a drug are allowed to extend patents. For example, formulating the same drug so it's extended release instead of every 12 hours. It's been a racket that has fattened the wallets of drug companies who rely heavily on government funded research to develop them. They lie when they say they spend billions in research. Many probably spend more on advertising and marketing than actual research. This is America's FOR PROFIT "health" care.
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I definitely feel that my parents (who fell on the leading edge of the baby boom) centered the message in my teen and young adult years that academic and professional success were more important. Is this the main reason I am now in my 40s and single with no children? No, I would not say that. But I wouldn't say it had no effect, either. Now I see some commenters firmly defending this outlook for their own children, but I wonder whether they are thinking about not just the medium-term future but the much longer-term one -- when they aren't here, who WILL be here for their kids?Obviously people shouldn't only have children so they have caregivers in their old age -- that's actually a pretty bad idea. But if you DON'T have kids, then you do need to think more creatively and open-mindedly about your support structure as you age. I don't have siblings, and while I do have fond relationships with many of my cousins, some live a considerable distance from me and we don't have the kind of daily interactions that keep those ties extremely strong. Instead, my "chosen family" (close friends of as much as 40-plus years' standing) is of paramount importance to me, and part of the reason for that is that I know we may be leaning on each other as we get older. I suspect this is true for more and more Americans -- the shape of family will look different and the social context will feel different, but it will still exist and constitute ties that can be counted on.
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"Are there any pundits left who still believe that it was largely about “economic anxiety”? I think the rise of the current lunacy began as economic anxiety & for many Americans, the loss of jobs, the loss of dignity and community standing, evolved into depression & drug use splitting & destroying families & communities. Anger, grievance, resentment & fear are the result...at anyone & everyone. It's easy for a Trumpian to tap into that anxiety.I agree it has evolved into a real ugly hatred but I think it began with ordinary folks losing good paying jobs because of corporate greed.I once worked for a group in DC that commented on proposed tax legislation. One proposed piece of legislation would have penalized corporations for sending jobs abroad. I remember a colleague who had once worked at Treasury saying that we don't want those manufacturing jobs anyway in the USA. I was horrified to hear such an elitist view (a Republican view BTW) since not everyone it the USA is a rocket scientist or a tech genius.This is the attitude that underlies the current political divide. US corporations sent jobs abroad, were forced to accept a Chinese partner and what followed were R&D jobs, transfer of know-how & intellectual property. Yes, we were chumps but it was the Republicans AND the Democrats at fault. Even I could see that sending our US jobs abroad was not a good idea for the average American. I think when you gut the jobs, you gut America.
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| no | Classification | 866 |
Jonathan I've seen video of sleeping drivers careening up and down the 101 in the Bay Area. One guy has done this more than once and is quite notorious, and keeps insisting it's safe. If you don't think there aren't more than a few tech-bros out there pushing the self-driving envelope, you need to open your eyes.
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It is just incomprehensible to me that supposedly pro-America "business leaders" of every political stripe remain so averse to raising prices that they are blind to the long-term benefits of returning manufacturing to these shores.Yes, it would require following more stringent American environmental protections. And investment in new American manufacturing infrastructure. And paying living wages to American workers. But now that it is universally accepted that the climate is at a tipping point and our legacy manufacturing infrastructure is toast, I had hoped these "leaders" would see that higher prices are actually a small price to pay for a cleaner environment, in which we produce American products, and sell them to well-paid American workers who take pride in making and buying them.Am I missing something, or aren't these the very which politicians of all stripes regularly espouse to voters on the campaign trail - only to cave on them when elected, so their corporate benefactors can continue doing business as usual?
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The pharm industry in the US is broken. It charges outrageous prices for drugs and advertises these drugs on evening news programs. But prospective patients don't choose drugs on their own. The drugs they take are usually chosen by physicians. So why all the expenditure on advertising on television?Patents are important because they incentivize research. This is important. New techniques using messenger RNA led to a rapid development of vaccines for COVID that were had higher efficacy than vaccines created with the old approach. This was done by Moderna and Biontech in collaboration with Pfizer. This new approach promises medicines in a variety of areas. Prior to COVID, BIontech was trying to develop vaccines for cancer. These new drugs have the potential to revolutionize medicine in the long run.Much of the spending occurs up front. Investors want to be repaid for the development of new drugs. Yet we need a realistic payment system as well.So there is a balance that needs to be struck. I guess what I am saying is that we want the research to flourish, and we want researchers who develop something truly new to be rewarded. But we also need to make sure pharma companies don't rely on past successes and make money by preventing competition.I wish I had more confidence that Congress had the ability to strike the right balance. Our Congress is dysfunctional and accepts too much in payments from lobbyists.Americans are paying for government dysfunction.
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Pay attention to the price per ounce listed on the shelf and to stealth increases when they charge the same amount for a smaller package. One store tried to hold the line on its jarred pasta sauce but then made the jars two ounces smaller. So the price went from 67 cents an ounce to 75 cents an ounce. Then the price on the smaller jar jumped 20 cents, making it 83 cents an ounce. About a 23% jump over the original price.Recognize when you're paying extra for convenience. I can get a pound of ground beef for five dollars. For 40 percent more, I can get that same pound of beef pre-formed into patties. Chicken thighs are two bucks a pound, but for eleven dollars a pound you can get a precooked chicken breast with balsamic vinegar and rosemary.All snack foods are a hard pass for economic reasons and for health reasons.I do have to get more consistent about making a thermos of tea at home (13¢) instead of paying for coffee on the street ($4).
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Surprised Gov. Hochul didn’t involve her husband, the concessionaire, in the revamp of NY rest stops. I guess he already has his hands full feeding at the trough of the Buffalo Bills after she gave the billionaire owners $850 million in taxpayer money for a new stadium while vital state programs go begging.
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Meanwhile California is being battered by once in a lifetime storms; the Colorado River is a trickle and the Great Salt Lake has about five years left. The hits keep coming.Remains to be seen if a certain religious organization based in Utah will encourage smaller families and reduced consumption. Not taking any bets.Eight billion. And counting.
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"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."-Ronald ReaganFor me, this oft repeated comment by Reagan was the start of open season on the virulent strain of anti-government paranoia that is so firmly rooted in the GOP. Establishment GOP'ers like Books and Stephens continue to worship Reagan, but let's make sure that he gets his due for the current mess of the right wing.
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Cynthiana Perhaps both sides have stupid policies. Democrats with open borders and Republicans with 2nd Amendment fanaticism.
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"content": "Cynthiana Perhaps both sides have stupid policies. Democrats with open borders and Republicans with 2nd Amendment fanaticism.\n",
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Mainecairn £350m a week. And it’s has received a much bigger increase than that.
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"content": "Mainecairn £350m a week. And it’s has received a much bigger increase than that.\n",
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The U.S. is willing to spend billions to keep Ukraine free and Taiwan part of the international community, but we wont spend to keep the Amazon ‘alive’ and offsetting climate collapse?Give me a break!
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BarbaraAnn - good point, and a fix would be to make the door with a soft hold on it when it is open, like an automobile door.
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| yes | Classification | 7,996 |
Be this it may, Iam more inyerested in where our last mayor's wife's "Thrive program" mpney went and to whom it benefited,that's nearly 800 million dollars to help....who?
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"content": "Be this it may, Iam more inyerested in where our last mayor's wife's \"Thrive program\" mpney went and to whom it benefited,that's nearly 800 million dollars to help....who?\n",
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Excellent, absolutely excellent piece.'Permissive gun laws and ubiquitous open carry are more than a challenge to law enforcement; they’re a challenge to the very possibility of an open, democratic society."When distrust “pervades democratic relations,” Allen writes, “it paralyzes democracy; "I feel like I'm quoting every paragraph of this column, it is just so powerful.Living in fear is no living at all.How humans can submit to that, as far as we know we only have one life to live.So before we try to figure out why so many UFOS couldn't be identified, let's find the solutions to live our life without persistent fear for your family, for your grandkids, for the people you love.Fear is really poisonous for your life.
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Kenneth Albert as kids we daily tested the local ice... in our minds, an inch and a half was good enough so long as we roped ourselves together for safety's sake. by the time ice fishermen appeared we knew we'd be playing hockey til spring.western connecticut, c 500' elevation, sometimes had ice by thanksgiving. as i write today there's open water everywhere. disappearing pond ice may not be our climate's most obvious red flag, but surely it's a sign of trouble ahead.
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MK The other question is how Harry can trust his family. He clearly said, every time he tried to talk this situation privately, it all ended up in the press anyway. So, now he controls what gets to the press because he is being open. And he's not just speaking to the press.
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"content": "MK The other question is how Harry can trust his family. He clearly said, every time he tried to talk this situation privately, it all ended up in the press anyway. So, now he controls what gets to the press because he is being open. And he's not just speaking to the press.\n",
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The split of the Republican started 27 years agoThe NY TimesThe Republicans: Unified No More"The solution was to balance the budget and give middle-class Americans a $500-per-child tax credit. This would not only give families more money in their pockets, they argued, but also encourage job-producing investments. Before long, the economy would be growing fast enough to insure a rising standard of living for everyone.All but one candidate seemed to agree that these were the key issues. But that one, Mr. Buchanan, won the first primary, in New Hampshire, and almost at once the Republican unanimity showed signs of stress.Mr. Buchanan has consistently -- and directly -- tried to appeal to workers displaced by economic change. In his speeches, he links middle-class anxieties to the rise of a global economy and trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement.Even as Mr. Buchanan appears to be turning into a protest candidate in the wake of Mr. Dole's eight-primary sweep on Tuesday and his victory yesterday in New York, the rifts he has exposed in the Republican Party are potentially lasting, Times March 8, 1996, Section A, Page 1<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/us/the-politics-of-layoffs-in-search-of-a-message.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/us/the-politics-of-layoffs-in-search-of-a-message.html</a>They turned out to be lasting .
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"content": "The split of the Republican started 27 years agoThe NY TimesThe Republicans: Unified No More\"The solution was to balance the budget and give middle-class Americans a $500-per-child tax credit. This would not only give families more money in their pockets, they argued, but also encourage job-producing investments. Before long, the economy would be growing fast enough to insure a rising standard of living for everyone.All but one candidate seemed to agree that these were the key issues. But that one, Mr. Buchanan, won the first primary, in New Hampshire, and almost at once the Republican unanimity showed signs of stress.Mr. Buchanan has consistently -- and directly -- tried to appeal to workers displaced by economic change. In his speeches, he links middle-class anxieties to the rise of a global economy and trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement.Even as Mr. Buchanan appears to be turning into a protest candidate in the wake of Mr. Dole's eight-primary sweep on Tuesday and his victory yesterday in New York, the rifts he has exposed in the Republican Party are potentially lasting, Times March 8, 1996, Section A, Page 1<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/us/the-politics-of-layoffs-in-search-of-a-message.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/08/us/the-politics-of-layoffs-in-search-of-a-message.html</a>They turned out to be lasting .\n",
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Mr. Teitelbaum is clearly vengeful, and hate-filled developer and having his project stymied by one council member has enraged him to the point where he finds it necessary to do more damage than good. I was born and raised in the Bronx at 353 Cypress Ave. Just after WWII there was little affordable housing in the City and the rush to Long Island and New Jersey was just beginning. A little Cape Cod home on Long Island sold from about $5,000 to as much as $10,000 and were readily affordable to the thousands who bought those homes. There was no talk or fear of gentrification. Of course that was a different world.Now we have a single minded council woman, Kristin Richardson Jordan, whose personal beliefs and fears have totally wrecked what could have easily been a new project of affordable housing for hundreds of families. There are no winners in this fiasco. The council needs to meet and make some critical decisions and they should also discuss how to end a practice that lets one loner destroy a well intentioned project that would have benefited a community desperately in need of decent housing. Mr. Teitelbaum also needs to calm down and sit down with council to bring the project to fruition. I also believe that his requests for financing assistance from the City are too steep. If City taxes are used to help Mr. Teitelbaum then he needs to reconsider how to make certain that low wage earners can have affordable housing. There are too many people at odds right now.
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I can’t imagine that any millennial is even flinching…our entire existence has been one economic crash after the next. I think I would be more surprised if the economy actually grew sustainably. Don’t believe me? Our childhood was colored by the dotcom bubble bursting. As I left high school, the Great Recession was just starting and people were getting laid off en masse. We spent the next decade sluggishly recovering with millennials struggling to find work. Just as we start to invest and purchase houses COVID causes another crash. Now we are at the start of a recession to tame inflation just a couple of years later. When in our lifetimes has the economy been stable? Sorry this is a very limited scope article. Sure maybe tech workers are confused, but most of us have been living in this reality our entire lives.
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The chief problem with ESG is that it's utter nonsense. Can you think of a company that causes more unnecessary damage to the environment than Coca Cola whose primary, if not sole, business is to truck liquids across vast distances to places that already have local water infrastructure in place? Yes the coward CEO of Coca Cola, James Quincey, is ever so deeply concerned with the Jim Crow 2.0 expanded voter access here in Atlanta; much less so in other parts of the US or his home country of Britain - and yes, that scores him and Coke ESG points - but really the whole concept of Coke is about the most anti environment business proposition out there. So I ask you very seriously if ESG index funds reward a company like Coke - can't you not see idiocy, duplicity, and outright fraud that ESG funds are?
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"content": "The chief problem with ESG is that it's utter nonsense. Can you think of a company that causes more unnecessary damage to the environment than Coca Cola whose primary, if not sole, business is to truck liquids across vast distances to places that already have local water infrastructure in place? Yes the coward CEO of Coca Cola, James Quincey, is ever so deeply concerned with the Jim Crow 2.0 expanded voter access here in Atlanta; much less so in other parts of the US or his home country of Britain - and yes, that scores him and Coke ESG points - but really the whole concept of Coke is about the most anti environment business proposition out there. So I ask you very seriously if ESG index funds reward a company like Coke - can't you not see idiocy, duplicity, and outright fraud that ESG funds are?\n",
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Jacklyn unfortunately has it right. I keep telling myself that despite our political failures, collapse of societal unity driven by moral deficits across the board, and inherent violence, my kid still has the most and best opportunities for his future in this country. Health wise he lucked out and Obama care kicked in just after he was born to cover him and the family as I lost my job and prior to ACA, we could not get insurance due to pregnancy being a “pre-existing condition”. Ironically for his birth we found a program for foreigners having babies in the US that was cheaper than what many Americans who had insurance paid out of pocket for births! But this article makes it clear that luck, and the ACA aren’t enough. And as the kid gets older doubts creep in. Nearby a teenager was shot and killed and an 8 year old shot in the past week. We are an amazing, industrious wealthy country and resilient people. Why we refuse to invest in the collective good when we have the means to is mind boggling. There are tipping points everywhere for human and natural systems. Each day I wonder if today mine will come. It’s no way to live. But my kid has the best opportunities here if he makes it through this gauntlet we continue to fortify against him and his peers.
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"content": "Jacklyn unfortunately has it right. I keep telling myself that despite our political failures, collapse of societal unity driven by moral deficits across the board, and inherent violence, my kid still has the most and best opportunities for his future in this country. Health wise he lucked out and Obama care kicked in just after he was born to cover him and the family as I lost my job and prior to ACA, we could not get insurance due to pregnancy being a “pre-existing condition”. Ironically for his birth we found a program for foreigners having babies in the US that was cheaper than what many Americans who had insurance paid out of pocket for births! But this article makes it clear that luck, and the ACA aren’t enough. And as the kid gets older doubts creep in. Nearby a teenager was shot and killed and an 8 year old shot in the past week. We are an amazing, industrious wealthy country and resilient people. Why we refuse to invest in the collective good when we have the means to is mind boggling. There are tipping points everywhere for human and natural systems. Each day I wonder if today mine will come. It’s no way to live. But my kid has the best opportunities here if he makes it through this gauntlet we continue to fortify against him and his peers.\n",
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It's to wonder whether Yellen's seemingly sudden announcement that the debt limit is being reached on Thursday isn't part political posturing. Surely Prez Biden wants to engage his obstructionist opponents in the House on this issue as soon as possible for political advantage, as the general public is on his side.The debt limit serves little useful purpose in an era where one party increasingly attacks democratic norms. There should be some institutional way to discourage the federal gov't from spending too much more than it takes in, but I can't see what that might be. The best way to address issues of debt and deficit is fiscal discipline, as well as recognition that both parties use anything they can label as an emergency to justify adding to the $500 billion/yr the we're spending on servicing our national debt--the biggest danger I see.There's plenty of room for using taxes from rich non-taxpayers to create fair debt solutions. Republicans won't allow it, but then they almost never support the best public policy options. Dems need to make voters tempted to vote Republican see that they're not voting in their own interests. Hopefully the coming public confrontation over the debt limit will help.
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Calm Blue Ocean The Kool-Aid being served around the boardrooms is that high growth is 'out' and 'profitability' is now king. Never mind the fact that many of the companies laying off workers are already fantastically profitable. There is only so much investor money to go around so public companies have to all 'virtue signal' to investors that they have 'shareholder value' as a continued single priority. Private companies are jumping on the bandwagon parroting back what the 'big boys' are doing. "They must know something we don't." Problem is, as you point out, layoffs typically cause mass confusion, significant drop in morale, and burn-out for those left thus ultimately resulting in the most valuable intellectual capital and knowledge walking out the door.
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JimmySerious they were given a wedding thar cost $32 million, William was his best man and Charles walked her down the aisle. What part of that says non acceptance to you?
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As far as I'm concerned, the committees can investigate whatever they want. My greatest worry is that this continuing charade dilutes the impact of whatever comes out of these committees.Take the January 6 committee. That was an open and shut case, because Trump was on National television, inciting open insurrection. A single day of committee meeting should have been enough to determine that formally and cart him off to Leavenworth. Or better yet, SuperMax. The fact that after all these months NOTHING of consequence came out of the January 6 committee means I will tune out of all these meetings in the future. They are just now worth the time of anyone with an IQ >100.
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Our society seems to champion the open sharing with the rest of the world whatever seems to be on their mind. Stop hiding behind phrases such as - "Just being honest" or "I just feel..." or "If you ask me" - and learn a bit of reticence. If you want to tick someone off, then by all means let fly. Yet if you want to not offend someone, then keep your mouth/keyboard shut. Learn to regret things again. Learn to keep your thoughts to yourself again. Learn to think to the next two steps. Use the screensaver tattoo of No Regerts on your phone.
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"content": "Our society seems to champion the open sharing with the rest of the world whatever seems to be on their mind. Stop hiding behind phrases such as - \"Just being honest\" or \"I just feel...\" or \"If you ask me\" - and learn a bit of reticence. If you want to tick someone off, then by all means let fly. Yet if you want to not offend someone, then keep your mouth/keyboard shut. Learn to regret things again. Learn to keep your thoughts to yourself again. Learn to think to the next two steps. Use the screensaver tattoo of No Regerts on your phone.\n",
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A Different Chicago Guy Leaving a job is a big pain and nobody wants to do it for a trivial increase in salary. If you're treating your employees well, as it sounds like you are -- investing in their skills, paying them a lucrative salary and benefits package, and providing them with a good working environment -- then they shouldn't want to leave.People mostly leave jobs for either a huge bump in salary or because their current job is dreadful, not for minor advantages in salary.
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"content": "A Different Chicago Guy Leaving a job is a big pain and nobody wants to do it for a trivial increase in salary. If you're treating your employees well, as it sounds like you are -- investing in their skills, paying them a lucrative salary and benefits package, and providing them with a good working environment -- then they shouldn't want to leave.People mostly leave jobs for either a huge bump in salary or because their current job is dreadful, not for minor advantages in salary.\n",
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John Not sure about "some exaggeration here" on the weakening of Germany and France but it seems to me this article is certainly missing a much bigger picture, being still locked inside the old mindset of Europe (West/old or new East Europe or not) vs. Russia. This Ukraine war should be understood as a foreshadow of looming end game between liberal democracies in East Asia and Europe in general vs. a coalition of totalitarian/authoritarian military states like Russia/China/Iran/North Korea . Considering who are providing drones and ammunition to Russia now, the obvious rogues states, North Korea and Iran. AND Nobody knows the extent of how China is helping Russia now secretly not only through financing this Russia war machine by purchasing Russian gas but also through other covert operations. In this context, it is worthwhile to reflect on the significance of the recent series of gigantic purchase of S.Korean weaponry systems by Norway, Finland and the Baltic nations and the Eastern block of Europe including Poland. This tectonic shift in military hardware procurement from the West to the East is a well thought out long term strategic coalition executed between the East Asian military industrial complex and NATO. Not many people know that the economy of scale of the production capability of South Korean military industrial complex alone surpass the entire NATO in current state.
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Sane citizen I wish the NYT, WSJ or the Economist would do an analysis of the potential revenue from various proposals to raise taxes, including your proposals. CBO estimated the Trump tax cuts cost about $1.9T, and a sept. 2021 treasury dept. report estimated about $7T lost to underreported/unpaid income taxes (both numbers over ten years, as is standard). at current levels, a rough estimate of the next ten years' deficits is about $15T. That leaves about $6.1T to be raised from your income tax and SS proposals (assuming IRS collects all of the $7T it believes is being lost). Not impossible, but it's a large number.
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"content": "Sane citizen I wish the NYT, WSJ or the Economist would do an analysis of the potential revenue from various proposals to raise taxes, including your proposals. CBO estimated the Trump tax cuts cost about $1.9T, and a sept. 2021 treasury dept. report estimated about $7T lost to underreported/unpaid income taxes (both numbers over ten years, as is standard). at current levels, a rough estimate of the next ten years' deficits is about $15T. That leaves about $6.1T to be raised from your income tax and SS proposals (assuming IRS collects all of the $7T it believes is being lost). Not impossible, but it's a large number.\n",
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Anticipating a move overseas, my step-son recently needed to sell his Tesla. Despite a Blue book estimate of $36K, Carvana would only offer $24K. Fortunately he had enough time to sell it privately for $31K.This suggests Carvana is anticipating a major drop in used-car prices and/or low-balling people who desperately need the money. This is not a promising business model going forward.
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"content": "Anticipating a move overseas, my step-son recently needed to sell his Tesla. Despite a Blue book estimate of $36K, Carvana would only offer $24K. Fortunately he had enough time to sell it privately for $31K.This suggests Carvana is anticipating a major drop in used-car prices and/or low-balling people who desperately need the money. This is not a promising business model going forward.\n",
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Strand Such sarcasm is refreshing. President Obama once remarked that Russia was a gas station masquerading as a nation. While no one believes that, the ineptitude of the Russian military to fight a conventional war against a small country in wide open fairly flat terrain should alarm the ex-KGB master.
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"You worry that the adoption would be bad for your sister and brother-in-law, but the basic issue here is the welfare of a vulnerable child".And a word to those couples who are able to conceive but are perpetually at odds with one another and who somehow come to believe that having a child will save their marriage.It won't and your child will suffer the collateral damage which is a product of parents who are in a conflicted relationship which, absence of intervention, shows little to no prospect of resolving. Bringing a baby into the world will not heal a dysfunctional partnership and it is the height of cruelty for parents to be placing that kind of burden on the child, be it consciously deliberate or otherwise.Couples need to get their act together before deciding to have kids.
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"content": "\"You worry that the adoption would be bad for your sister and brother-in-law, but the basic issue here is the welfare of a vulnerable child\".And a word to those couples who are able to conceive but are perpetually at odds with one another and who somehow come to believe that having a child will save their marriage.It won't and your child will suffer the collateral damage which is a product of parents who are in a conflicted relationship which, absence of intervention, shows little to no prospect of resolving. Bringing a baby into the world will not heal a dysfunctional partnership and it is the height of cruelty for parents to be placing that kind of burden on the child, be it consciously deliberate or otherwise.Couples need to get their act together before deciding to have kids.\n",
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All students are so much more than their GPA and SAT: artistry, compassion, empathy, athleticism, innovation, ambition, conscience, leadership, agility, persistence, positivity, charisma, generosity, sacrifice, commitment, courage, passion, dedication, grit, energy, joy, flexibility, openness, and more. One higher ed enrollment consultant currently tracks 150 metrics for each student, made possible by the student’s daily smart phone use. It’s not just GPA and SAT anymore. The technology is already ahead of the Supreme Court.
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Matthew Holt The DEA has directly caused some of the worst drug problems we have today. Fentanyl wouldn't even be a "thing" on the streets if not for the persecution of oxycodone and heroin. And heroin wouldn't be a "thing" if not for the same persecution of morphine. When you make something illegal, you develop a strong incentive to refine/purify the product because the costs of illegal drugs are almost all "delivery charges". If I can smuggle in 1KG of product, if that product is morphine it's X doses. If it's heroin, it's 3X doses. If it's fentanyl, it's 100X doses. If my cost to move 1KG 10,000 dollars regardless of the drug, what do you think I'm going to focus on? During prohibition, beer was rare and 190 proof/moonshine was everywhere. Same reason, shipping was expensive, a keg of beer would get 100 people drunk, the same volume of moonshine would get 2000 people drunk. We just can't learn from the past, I don't know why, but we can't.
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Famous Intel CEO Andy Grove (book: "Only the Paranoid Survive") wanted of sending jobs overseas and how the US could lose leadership to other nations:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warning-to-silicon-valley.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warning-to-silicon-valley.html</a>'But in his view, those lower Asian costs masked the high price of offshoring as measured by lost jobs and lost expertise. Silicon Valley misjudged the severity of those losses, he wrote, because of a “misplaced faith in the power of start-ups to create U.S. jobs.”'I feel that it is wrong for US taxpayers to be spending billions subsidizing TSMC without getting the most advanced processes built here.Intel had leadership until it changed from engineering leadership like Grove to finance and non-engineers who for example, had a $100 billion stock buyback instead of investing in ASML EUV machines for advanced processes, losing leadership to TSMC which did.Another problem is that the fabs need highly qualified engineers who are often underpaid for the value that they offer, in large part because the industry is dominated by just a few firms that have monopsony power to hold down wages.Yet another problem is that these engineers want to live in exciting places like NYC, Boston, ..., certainly not Arizona, Ohio, or upstate NYS. These plants are located for political/financial reasons (eg, subsidies) but not considering that you have to locate where people want to work.
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"content": "Famous Intel CEO Andy Grove (book: \"Only the Paranoid Survive\") wanted of sending jobs overseas and how the US could lose leadership to other nations:<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warning-to-silicon-valley.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/opinion/andy-groves-warning-to-silicon-valley.html</a>'But in his view, those lower Asian costs masked the high price of offshoring as measured by lost jobs and lost expertise. Silicon Valley misjudged the severity of those losses, he wrote, because of a “misplaced faith in the power of start-ups to create U.S. jobs.”'I feel that it is wrong for US taxpayers to be spending billions subsidizing TSMC without getting the most advanced processes built here.Intel had leadership until it changed from engineering leadership like Grove to finance and non-engineers who for example, had a $100 billion stock buyback instead of investing in ASML EUV machines for advanced processes, losing leadership to TSMC which did.Another problem is that the fabs need highly qualified engineers who are often underpaid for the value that they offer, in large part because the industry is dominated by just a few firms that have monopsony power to hold down wages.Yet another problem is that these engineers want to live in exciting places like NYC, Boston, ..., certainly not Arizona, Ohio, or upstate NYS. These plants are located for political/financial reasons (eg, subsidies) but not considering that you have to locate where people want to work.\n",
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Perhaps Biden should have initiated student debt relief specific to nurses (and teachers) rather than across the board to those who make $125k (individual) or $250k (couples)
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Tammi It is not that so much as the complete disappearance in NYC of almost every corner diner, coffee shop and breakfast/lunch counter. That special was still under ten dollars at The Odessa in the East Village before it too closed a few years back. Restaurants in NYC are now only chasing the tourist and tech bro dollars these days. I doubt there are many ordinary locals that eat out anymore on a regular basis.
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Doing great if you don’t mind sky high gas prices, soaring inflation, an open border and trillions of printed dollars with uncertain homes.
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Biden and the Democrats can't give in to GOP spending curb demands. Doing so would set a dangerous precedent. If the GOP is serious about deficit reductions they'd agree to 1) fund the IRS expansion (so hundreds of billions of taxes can be recovered), 2) reverse TFG's massive tax cuts to the rich and corporations, and 3) the elimination of the income cap for individual social security contributions.
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I left LastPass after this event for Bitwarden, and that migration only took a few minutes. Bitwarden is open source, self-protected by an army of enhusiasts who use <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden</a>/ as their primary communication channel. That doesn't make it foolproof, but it has never been hacked. What I like most about Bitwarden is the mobile app that uses touch and facial recognition, just like Apple. As soon as I close the app it is locked. Or you can use settings to lock it after one minute. Same controls exist for my Mac app and the cloud, where I require two-factor authentication instead.
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That $700K 'loan' Santos gave to his campaign stinks to high heaven. He apparently never in his life has had that kind of money. One or more entities provided those dollars, illegally I might add. And since it's supposedly his money, he never had to report it as outside campaign donations, another illegality. And here's the kicker, he can reimburse himself from later actual campaign donations and come out $700K richer. It's a money laundering scheme worthy of gangsters, drug dealers, Russian oligarchs, or, not surprisingly, the Trump family business.
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Dr. K, Your essay is about the folly of crypto and gold. You are in good company (Dimon at Davos) and understand you can't buy anything with crypto but gold has an industrial and fashion market because of its properties. I like your hypothesis. Your roll-out reminded me of George Bernard Shaw's work. My undergraduate college professor who taught partial differential equations was also the official biographer of GBS, I read the book so I could discuss something other than partial differential equations. Anyhow, as a young newly married father of two boys struggling with family challenges. In 1968, I became aware of economics. I was up the river a piece from you but I was exposed to a book of charts called Horsey's Guide by a fellow but wealthier student. It was expensive to subscribe so I used his charts to take his course on how to invest by watching the behavior of corporate insiders who sold their stock to drive the price down when they were aware of future unannounced earnings. My student-teacher friend showed me how to look for the characteristic "notch". So, reading this riff, "Even where outright fraud wasn’t taking place, there were strong pump-and-dump aspects to the whole thing. We now know, for example, that even as Peter Thiel was proclaiming “the end of the fiat currency regime” and suggesting that the price of Bitcoin could rise by a factor of 100, his venture capital fund was selling off almost all of its Bitcoin holdings." blew my mind. BZ
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Presumably those who spend thousands of dollars on matchmaking services are primarily looking for partners wealthy enough spend lots of money on a search most people manage for free. So mention, without dwelling on, your medical issues while subtly focusing on your healthy finances - maybe mentioning your love of your vacation home or your philanthropy.
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The irony is that the #1 predictor of the victor in a general election is which candidate is perceived as the least radical whereas the #1 predictor of victory in a party election (primary) is which candidate is perceived as the most radical.The outcome of this conflict is a disillusioned electorate and a dysfunctional government structure.In 2016, before we knew him, Trump was considered less radical than Hilary Clinton (remember, he was a pro-choice Republican, he wanted a better health plan, he wanted to bring jobs to America for those left behind, etc. i.e. a Democrat).In 2020, Biden was no one's idea of a "great candidate", but through good grace he won and avoid the disaster of a Bernie-Donald election that would have likely returned Trump to office for a second term. The Democratic Party's system of delegate allocation allowed more moderate voters to overcome the hard core radicals on the left.Until the primary system is restructured so it doesn't reward the extreme candidates, we will be stuck in this cycle. Open Primaries such as they have in California is a good model, but difficult in the one national election (Presidential). It may be necessary to bring back the "smoke filled room" to eliminate the risk of both parties selecting radicals to run for President.
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1) Harry's critics don't seem to realize that he has to come up with $2 million every year for security just to ensure his family keeps breathing -- because of his military service in Afghanistan. He fought America's enemies and yet those who are safe because of that attack him -- ungrateful people who would never get near a military recruiter much less a battlefield.2) I am also curious why people who attack his book never attack the vicious owners of the British press -- who get rich destroying the lives of others.
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"content": "1) Harry's critics don't seem to realize that he has to come up with $2 million every year for security just to ensure his family keeps breathing -- because of his military service in Afghanistan. He fought America's enemies and yet those who are safe because of that attack him -- ungrateful people who would never get near a military recruiter much less a battlefield.2) I am also curious why people who attack his book never attack the vicious owners of the British press -- who get rich destroying the lives of others.\n",
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Paul I appreciate your passion. But SS and Medicare are not poverty reduction, they're poverty and death prevention. Old people used to end up begging; they died at home from preventable illness. SS and Medicare prevent that, as do similar programs in most countries - all the way down to those with 1/10 the GDP per capita of the U.S.. Food stamps are part of the 11%, though also ag subsidies. According to OECD, U.S. tax revenue/GDP oscillated between 23% and 28% over the past 2 decades. OECD-wide, the average is 34%. The U.S. is 32 out of 38 countries, behind ALL higher-income countries.ALL such countries SPEND MORE than they collect. "Normal" countries (EU, Scandanavia, Canada) have spending excess of 10% to 30%. The U.S. this year spent 46% more. That big deficit percentage is because WE SPEND LESS than most of those countries. Norway taxes 38% and spends 50%, a bigger absolute difference than the U.S., but that's 31.5% more, not 46%. Because the U.S. spends little, it's absolute difference generates a bigger deficit!The U.S. really has a revenue problem, not a spending problem. I invest & understand that good times are not linked to my tax level.
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"content": "Paul I appreciate your passion. But SS and Medicare are not poverty reduction, they're poverty and death prevention. Old people used to end up begging; they died at home from preventable illness. SS and Medicare prevent that, as do similar programs in most countries - all the way down to those with 1/10 the GDP per capita of the U.S.. Food stamps are part of the 11%, though also ag subsidies. According to OECD, U.S. tax revenue/GDP oscillated between 23% and 28% over the past 2 decades. OECD-wide, the average is 34%. The U.S. is 32 out of 38 countries, behind ALL higher-income countries.ALL such countries SPEND MORE than they collect. \"Normal\" countries (EU, Scandanavia, Canada) have spending excess of 10% to 30%. The U.S. this year spent 46% more. That big deficit percentage is because WE SPEND LESS than most of those countries. Norway taxes 38% and spends 50%, a bigger absolute difference than the U.S., but that's 31.5% more, not 46%. Because the U.S. spends little, it's absolute difference generates a bigger deficit!The U.S. really has a revenue problem, not a spending problem. I invest & understand that good times are not linked to my tax level.\n",
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R Ripped from the headlines:“Governor Hochul Announces Completion of Transformative $739 Million Kew Gardens Interchange Project in Queens”“The revamped Kew Gardens Interchange allows for faster travel times, safer merging and exiting, and more reliable connections for the hundreds of thousands of commuters, travelers and local businesses who use it daily to reach the John F. Kennedy International Airport and other key destinations throughout the region. It features 22 new bridges, three rehabilitated bridges, wider travel lanes, new lane configurations, updated signage, upgraded stormwater drainage, and a new dedicated shared use path for pedestrians and bicyclists.”Source: <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-completion-transformative-739-million-kew-gardens-interchange" target="_blank">https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-announces-completion-transformative-739-million-kew-gardens-interchange</a>3/4 billion here and 3/4 billion there and soon we’ll pay more taxes than anybody.
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Nick While I don't disagree that most execs think and manage in the way you describe I really don't think this applies here.The severance packages these employees are getting are worth more than an entire years salary for most US workers.It's not about the money here. This is just another typical lazy method of the CEO class. Because they don't need to think hard to succeed (or get paid). So if you want to be so lazy at your job and yet still manage to hire thousands of good workers how do you do it? Hire 50,000 then layoff 10,000. Easy peasy, now hand me my bonus!
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Cat Did you know: that in the time and with the money Putin is currently spending to commit an International Law-breaking genocide in Ukraine... he could buy every SINGLE citizen of his own country of Russia their VERY own indoor toilet?Amazing-- I know!Because, indeed: almost 1 out of 4 Russians (22.6%!) STILL have to go outside, toilet-lessly, and use an outhouse -- like it's still the 1800's... and they're an old prospector -- despite Russia having rich natural resources that should ensure every resident there a wealthy lifestyle, with basic welfare necessities duly provided for... by State petro-dollars!(It's almost as if some kleptocrat-leaches were skimming all the People's money off the top, right??)Well, this is a huge missed opportunity, here.Invest in your own people -- not in killing others -- Dictator Stupid!It really is the best Deal around.And it will make everyone richer far more effectively than banging on the drums of War....Which only bring Poverty and Loss, Famine and Regret in their wake.
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"content": "Cat Did you know: that in the time and with the money Putin is currently spending to commit an International Law-breaking genocide in Ukraine... he could buy every SINGLE citizen of his own country of Russia their VERY own indoor toilet?Amazing-- I know!Because, indeed: almost 1 out of 4 Russians (22.6%!) STILL have to go outside, toilet-lessly, and use an outhouse -- like it's still the 1800's... and they're an old prospector -- despite Russia having rich natural resources that should ensure every resident there a wealthy lifestyle, with basic welfare necessities duly provided for... by State petro-dollars!(It's almost as if some kleptocrat-leaches were skimming all the People's money off the top, right??)Well, this is a huge missed opportunity, here.Invest in your own people -- not in killing others -- Dictator Stupid!It really is the best Deal around.And it will make everyone richer far more effectively than banging on the drums of War....Which only bring Poverty and Loss, Famine and Regret in their wake.\n",
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Jen in Astoria : "He always paid me back after each time, in short order once he got paid -- but now I'm sitting here waiting for a little under $300 back for over a year. ... the next time he asks, the answer is no."You have the right to say "no," but I'm asking you to do a reality check before you think ill of this friend.1. He seems to live hand to mouth, and that's probably not his fault: Wages have stagnated over the past 40 years, such that people earning 75K or less are earning only abt 60% what they would be earning had the econ. policies of 1945-75 been kept in place. (Pls see Robert Reich's 11-14-20 column in The Guardian for RAND stats about this.)2. During that same period, rents rose faster than inflation, because population growth far exceeded housing-stock growth. I used spend 25% of my salary on a cheap apt.; by 2019 that sum was 38%.3. Landlords have price-gouging over the past two years; my current one, who in 2019 promised me annual increases of about 5%, has raised my rent by 36% over the past 3 years (more than 2.5x the rate of inflation).4. Groceries, even the cheapest-possible, are up abt 20%. I used to spend $4/day (beans, oats, rice, frozen veg, a little fruit, a little tofu, a little canned fish) -- now I can't do it for less than $5. I'm not suggesting that you lend him money again; I *am* suggesting that you get real about what the past several years, esp. the past 3, have been like for many of us.
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I tried to save my insurance company money… I travel a lot and can purchase humira abroad at up to 20-30% below the cost in my home market, but they like didn’t that.I also tried to take biosimilar, did for many years and it worked, also once a month dose, more convenient for me. Until they audited my treatment (which they do regularly, at least once a year) and decided it humira or stellara only. Delaying all pay outs and leaving me carrying three months of the cost on my credit card. Now I open my mail every day, waiting for another letter of rejection and trying to be a good, most expensive version of a patient I can be.
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| no | Classification | 792 |
PattyDeVille This one's confusing. The listing here says $120 (I assume monthly), but the listing on Compass (not the listing real estate company) lists the HOA fees as $720. There are two adjacent buildings here - for what looks like 4 units or is it 6 units ($120x6--$720???). $720 per month each seems more like it (city utilities, insurance, exterior maintenance?) Who knows for sure?
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| yes | Classification | 8,563 |
I wake up at 5am daily to get my workouts in the early morning. I start with stretching as I drink my tea, then an hour of HIIT, then a 45-minute swim. I'm done by 8:30, with the whole day ahead of me, and everything is quieter while I do so. This also allows me to get hikes and bikes in before 10am in the summer (post workout), before it gets too hot; and to ski the opening bell in the winter, to enjoy the powder or the groomers depending on conditions.
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Kurt Pickard Do you realize that Trump added almost $8 trillion to the deficit during his one term? What I find strange is that very often we respond to "one shot and then run" comments from Trumpers. There is no debate, just theatrics and nonsense.
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ChristineWithRegence Exactly. Not to mention interest, taxes, and maintenance and repairs. Plus, if you reside in a coop or condo - potential for assessments (which are not uncommon) for repairs to the building (for example, an acquaintance was hit with a $10K assessment right at Christmas for repairs to the elevators). If the real estate owner is a salaried employee there are limits as to how much can be deducted on annual tax returns, thus taking away a major past advantage to ownership. Even with building equity, you will always have to pay taxes and maintenance even after the mortgage is satisfied.A comparable apartment to where I live in NYC would be double the rent I am now paying monthly.
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"content": "ChristineWithRegence Exactly. Not to mention interest, taxes, and maintenance and repairs. Plus, if you reside in a coop or condo - potential for assessments (which are not uncommon) for repairs to the building (for example, an acquaintance was hit with a $10K assessment right at Christmas for repairs to the elevators). If the real estate owner is a salaried employee there are limits as to how much can be deducted on annual tax returns, thus taking away a major past advantage to ownership. Even with building equity, you will always have to pay taxes and maintenance even after the mortgage is satisfied.A comparable apartment to where I live in NYC would be double the rent I am now paying monthly.\n",
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Blackmamba True, but simplistic and confusing. The discovery of insulin as a cure for type 1 diabetes (T1DM), and the refinement of insulin for use as a medication happened almost exactly 100 years ago. Previous to that a diagnosis of T1DM was a death sentence. This discovery was unique and important enough to receive a patent as a new discovery. As mentioned in the article the patent holders sold the patent for $1.00. The rest is only one of the worst instances of the deceit, secrecy, and profiteering of pharmaceutical giants and PBM's. Millions of people have had their lives and bodies disrupted and destroyed by these practices. Executives of these companies and stockholders do quite nicely, thank you.There was a story recently that California was considering having insulin manufactured by a state run non-profit. Please.
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Thomas Carpenter Lenovo bought IBM's server and PC/Laptop division.After that they used IBM for years as a front end in server/storage support cases. Lenovo still use the IBM way of support, which is way superior compared to other HW vendors.It is an example possible to download drivers and firmware to servers +10 years old.There was a period where IBM owned approx 38% of Lenovo.Btw. Lenovo also owns Motorola.
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"content": "Thomas Carpenter Lenovo bought IBM's server and PC/Laptop division.After that they used IBM for years as a front end in server/storage support cases. Lenovo still use the IBM way of support, which is way superior compared to other HW vendors.It is an example possible to download drivers and firmware to servers +10 years old.There was a period where IBM owned approx 38% of Lenovo.Btw. Lenovo also owns Motorola.\n",
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Emily Hey, New York Times! Do an article on the "continuing service certificate" racket in all professions. The way Microsoft Office now operates on a subscription model, workers and staff are required to "log in"and get 're-certified' in their areas. This is the new normal.
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The 20 hard-right fanatics are playing to their base. They must get re-elected in perpetuity. None of them could make $174K a year anywhere else. Wrecking the country is icing on the cake.
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Ms. DePillis and Mr. Corkery, have you talked to the consultant companies such as FranChoice, FranServe, FranNet that individual investors, such as Ms. Cianci and her husband, may use to select a franchise business?What are these companies' reps advising when it comes to franchises that are owned by private equity partners?
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35% of all US counties are dominated by a Catholic hospital and their religious doctrine regarding reproductive health care. This extends to the lack of reproductive health care training that physicians will receive if they choose to complete their residency at a Catholic hospital. Six US Supreme Ct justices are Catholic including the last three appointments. However, Catholics only account for about 15% of the US population. Obviously Catholics and their religious doctrine have oversized influence on policy and the lives of millions of citizens who do not share their religious views. The cake baker who refused to bake a cake for the gay couple gets all the attention when it comes to religious freedom but that is small potatoes when you compare it to the millions of women and couples who should be able to safely access reproductive health care services.
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"content": "35% of all US counties are dominated by a Catholic hospital and their religious doctrine regarding reproductive health care. This extends to the lack of reproductive health care training that physicians will receive if they choose to complete their residency at a Catholic hospital. Six US Supreme Ct justices are Catholic including the last three appointments. However, Catholics only account for about 15% of the US population. Obviously Catholics and their religious doctrine have oversized influence on policy and the lives of millions of citizens who do not share their religious views. The cake baker who refused to bake a cake for the gay couple gets all the attention when it comes to religious freedom but that is small potatoes when you compare it to the millions of women and couples who should be able to safely access reproductive health care services.\n",
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Dale Maybe it’s all their small minds can come up with?Meanwhile they protect Santos for the price of his vote. Where did he get that $700K?
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John I would never go to a CFP who lectured me condescendingly and acted like there was nothing to live for except saving for retirement.(Also, anyone assuming a 7% real return on the stock market will be reliable over a 40-year period [not that it ever happened, but it can be the basis for your life plans] is selling their clients snowflakes. Just saying.)
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Once again, US businesses seek ways to avoid hiring US citizens and pad CEO bonuses and shareholder returns by moving jobs to another country—a country that happens to be the biggest supplier of fentanyl that is leading to record drug overdoses. Much of this drug is smuggled through the ports of Laredo and other border cities. Expanding these ports because US companies refuse to pay living wages means more and more drugs on the street—drugs that cost we taxpayers billions of dollars every year for DEA enforcement and cause local and state police to spend an inordinate amount of time on drug busts, some of which get innocent people killed. In 2022 the black unemployment rate was over 80% higher than for white people. How about companies hire people in the US and move their manufacturing facilities to the small towns and rural areas that are dying as their young people move to get work? Win-win for the supply chain, win-win for workers. Maybe bonuses and dividends decline by a bit, but shouldn’t US businesses that get enormous tax perks from federal government pay a bit also?
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"content": "Once again, US businesses seek ways to avoid hiring US citizens and pad CEO bonuses and shareholder returns by moving jobs to another country—a country that happens to be the biggest supplier of fentanyl that is leading to record drug overdoses. Much of this drug is smuggled through the ports of Laredo and other border cities. Expanding these ports because US companies refuse to pay living wages means more and more drugs on the street—drugs that cost we taxpayers billions of dollars every year for DEA enforcement and cause local and state police to spend an inordinate amount of time on drug busts, some of which get innocent people killed. In 2022 the black unemployment rate was over 80% higher than for white people. How about companies hire people in the US and move their manufacturing facilities to the small towns and rural areas that are dying as their young people move to get work? Win-win for the supply chain, win-win for workers. Maybe bonuses and dividends decline by a bit, but shouldn’t US businesses that get enormous tax perks from federal government pay a bit also?\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,313 |
The US and its allies must stop giving Ukraine just enough so they don't lose. It's time to give them what they need to win. There must be a way to negotiate with EU countries to supply Leopard tanks. And 50 Bradley vehicles is not sufficient. They need 5X-10X that number. Finally, they need to be able to return fire from where ever it originates including Russia and Belarus. If we think the risk of giving them these weapons is high, rest assured the risk of not giving them these weapons is higher. Finally the best way to insure China thinks twice about invading Taiwan is to make sure they see Russia fail their invasion of Ukraine.
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"content": "The US and its allies must stop giving Ukraine just enough so they don't lose. It's time to give them what they need to win. There must be a way to negotiate with EU countries to supply Leopard tanks. And 50 Bradley vehicles is not sufficient. They need 5X-10X that number. Finally, they need to be able to return fire from where ever it originates including Russia and Belarus. If we think the risk of giving them these weapons is high, rest assured the risk of not giving them these weapons is higher. Finally the best way to insure China thinks twice about invading Taiwan is to make sure they see Russia fail their invasion of Ukraine.\n",
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| no | Classification | 535 |
M. Using excess solar energy for desalinization is an interesting idea. But how often is there an excess? Is battery storage or other storage of the excess a better investment? Is the grid built to supply a desalinization plant, and would the investment in grid be better spent on distributing the excess solar to where it is needed? (Part of the problem of "Excess" is simply that the grid does not currently have capacity to deliver the electricity to where it could be used). Desalinization is not necessary the most economical or practical use of the occasional surplus of solar generated electricity.
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"content": "M. Using excess solar energy for desalinization is an interesting idea. But how often is there an excess? Is battery storage or other storage of the excess a better investment? Is the grid built to supply a desalinization plant, and would the investment in grid be better spent on distributing the excess solar to where it is needed? (Part of the problem of \"Excess\" is simply that the grid does not currently have capacity to deliver the electricity to where it could be used). Desalinization is not necessary the most economical or practical use of the occasional surplus of solar generated electricity.\n",
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MXMitchell Great point.Large hospitals and nursing unions should be opening up their own nursing programs.They know the body of knowledge and have a vested interest in developing more skilled nurses.For a hospital system it could be as simple as a 4 year commitment in exchange for the education.For the union, it would gain more membership. Many technical trades already do this.
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Huh.So Trump’s head accountant is in the clink today just for funsies? And Lazard, Freres dumped his businesses for no reason? And D-bank made brilliant investments in Trump Enterprises? And Javanka took a couple bil from the Saudis and Kuwaitis because they were redecorating?
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This begs the question that our society has always ignored: social costs. These new alternative technologies seem expensive. However, we do not currently measure the real cost of the existing technologies because everyone bears the cost of global warming and air pollution and those costs are not paid by the offender. If air travelers paid the true cost to society, a plane flight might be 10x as much and new technology would be ushered in much more quickly.
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JA The value that decentralized currencies provide is that they allow institutional investors to invest in criminal enterprises. Strip away the speculative value, and crypto is simply a vehicle for money laundering to facilitate wide scale crime like drug trafficing, and cybercrime. Crypto investment then is a way to profit from that.
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The USA has rebounded better than any other G-7 nation from the Covid Pandemic.What President Biden has done in his first 2 years:10.7 new jobsLowest unemployment rate in 50 years.Lowest poverty/uninsured rate ever.Elevated wage gains/real earnings up in 22.Reduced deficit in both years/ After it going up all for years by his predecessor and $8 trillion dollars.Chips Act and IRA. Biggest investment in climate change ever/ Largest investment in good paying factory jobs in decades.Biggest investment in infrastructure in 2 generations.Truly a remarkable job.
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David China's military expenditure has been increasing steadily during the last decade. China can also spend it without the existing external commitments of, say, the US military. (People will inevitably bring up US military spending if you mention China's, without any consideration of the far more extensive stabilising international role the US military plays.)Personally, I think that internal disruption in China is likely to increase their military ambitions rather than stop them.
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"content": "David China's military expenditure has been increasing steadily during the last decade. China can also spend it without the existing external commitments of, say, the US military. (People will inevitably bring up US military spending if you mention China's, without any consideration of the far more extensive stabilising international role the US military plays.)Personally, I think that internal disruption in China is likely to increase their military ambitions rather than stop them.\n",
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AC Doing a quick calculation, the Sussexes could probably get 24 hour protection for 365 days per year with 6 security guards for around $5 million. Plenty left over from the $120 million they got from Netflix.
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"content": "AC Doing a quick calculation, the Sussexes could probably get 24 hour protection for 365 days per year with 6 security guards for around $5 million. Plenty left over from the $120 million they got from Netflix.\n",
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AlNewman U.S. GDP in 2022 was $25 trillion. The U.S. deficit in 2022 was $1.4 trillion, which means our debt drew by that same amount. $1.4 trillion is 5.6% of our GDP, so even if the economy grows by 3% every year, we are adding debt at a much faster rate. We ABSOLUTELY have a debt problem. The only reason the interest rates on our debt are so low is because there are no good alternative investments when it comes to sovereign debt. That situation could change at any time. Despite the low interest rates, the U.S. government paid $800+ billion in interest payments in 2022. Democrats and liberals would do well to learn these numbers and the math behind them before commenting that debt is not a problem. When your national debt is 120% of your national GDP in a time of peace, it is absolutely a problem.
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"content": "AlNewman U.S. GDP in 2022 was $25 trillion. The U.S. deficit in 2022 was $1.4 trillion, which means our debt drew by that same amount. $1.4 trillion is 5.6% of our GDP, so even if the economy grows by 3% every year, we are adding debt at a much faster rate. We ABSOLUTELY have a debt problem. The only reason the interest rates on our debt are so low is because there are no good alternative investments when it comes to sovereign debt. That situation could change at any time. Despite the low interest rates, the U.S. government paid $800+ billion in interest payments in 2022. Democrats and liberals would do well to learn these numbers and the math behind them before commenting that debt is not a problem. When your national debt is 120% of your national GDP in a time of peace, it is absolutely a problem.\n",
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I sent a message to my cousin Carol, who has been like the big sister I wished I had. Carol was there to comfort me when my father died, there to host a party when I finally graduated from college in my forties and nobody else cared; there to march at Pride with me as the best-ever ally, when I came out (again) after being with a man for fourteen years (people had forgotten that I was Bisexual). I told Carol about this NYT project and that I had chosen her as the recipient of my living eulogy because I was so thankful for the ways that she had always loved me and celebrated me, with an open mind and deep empathy. She told me that she appreciated the "beautiful tribute."I also wrote the appreciation list for my wife, Lynn. She seemed very touched, and is planning to write her own list for me. There were many items on the list, which I divided into "little things," "big things," and "enormous things." One of the most monumental Enormous things was that my wife, Lynn, a life-long suburbanite, moved to Manhattan (and bought a co-op in Manhattan) so that this non-driving, native New Yorker could stay in the only home-town she has ever known, and passionately loves. That was a huge sacrifice of love on my wife's part. Though she really likes our Inwood apartment and neighborhood, she would never have chosen it just for herself, and I am so thankful, every day, that I get to keep living in my city, with my wonderful wife!
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Alexis: You don’t ‘get this straight.’ If you look at the numbers, numerous ‘conservative Republican’ states, Alabama and Tennessee are prime examples, survive from one year to the next only because a large chunk of their budgets — on the order of 40% — is federally funded. And those same states take in $2 or $3 of federal money for every $1 their resident individuals and corporations pay in federal taxes. That money comes from taxpayers in ‘blue states’ who get back less than they pay into the kitty. In short, those 'fiscally conservative Republican states' are actually welfare queens.Without massive federal subsidy, every one of those states would either have to raise local and state taxes dramatically or face bankruptcy. Their 'fiscal conservatism' is an illusion. They are 'fiscally conservative' only in their Republican fever dreams.
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"content": "Alexis: You don’t ‘get this straight.’ If you look at the numbers, numerous ‘conservative Republican’ states, Alabama and Tennessee are prime examples, survive from one year to the next only because a large chunk of their budgets — on the order of 40% — is federally funded. And those same states take in $2 or $3 of federal money for every $1 their resident individuals and corporations pay in federal taxes. That money comes from taxpayers in ‘blue states’ who get back less than they pay into the kitty. In short, those 'fiscally conservative Republican states' are actually welfare queens.Without massive federal subsidy, every one of those states would either have to raise local and state taxes dramatically or face bankruptcy. Their 'fiscal conservatism' is an illusion. They are 'fiscally conservative' only in their Republican fever dreams.\n",
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This isn't a "conversation," it's an interview. Gail asks Bret, "What's your opinion?" And Bret pontificates, spouting the same Fox News propaganda over and over. Oh, the couple in New York making $400,000 a year, "scrimping" and agonizing over the cost of eggs. How dare the government audit them.The rich are the "job creators." (Forget about the poor; they don't vote or provide campaign contributions.)This reminds me of any Republican appearing on MSNBC. They talk and talk nonstop - steamrolling the host. Roll the tape!
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"content": "This isn't a \"conversation,\" it's an interview. Gail asks Bret, \"What's your opinion?\" And Bret pontificates, spouting the same Fox News propaganda over and over. Oh, the couple in New York making $400,000 a year, \"scrimping\" and agonizing over the cost of eggs. How dare the government audit them.The rich are the \"job creators.\" (Forget about the poor; they don't vote or provide campaign contributions.)This reminds me of any Republican appearing on MSNBC. They talk and talk nonstop - steamrolling the host. Roll the tape!\n",
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| no | Classification | 4,109 |
Many of the most pressing threats to democracy cannot be solved through a competitive framework: climate change, white nationalism and xenophobia, pandemics, and economic inequality. Instead of betting that conflict with China and Russia will invigorate the West, the United States and its partners should promote institutions of regional and global governance to mitigate the damage to democracy that great-power competition will invariably inflict.Americans are looking for U.S. foreign policy to align with democratic expectations and public opinion. A truly great power would do its utmost to tackle the unresolved issues heightened by the pandemic: racial and economic inequality, a public health crisis, and runaway environmental degradation. Geopolitical rivalry will do none of that.
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"content": "Many of the most pressing threats to democracy cannot be solved through a competitive framework: climate change, white nationalism and xenophobia, pandemics, and economic inequality. Instead of betting that conflict with China and Russia will invigorate the West, the United States and its partners should promote institutions of regional and global governance to mitigate the damage to democracy that great-power competition will invariably inflict.Americans are looking for U.S. foreign policy to align with democratic expectations and public opinion. A truly great power would do its utmost to tackle the unresolved issues heightened by the pandemic: racial and economic inequality, a public health crisis, and runaway environmental degradation. Geopolitical rivalry will do none of that.\n",
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Mike I suspect if you go beyond the US, the number would easily exceed a billion.
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Two thoughts:1. The debt contemplated by those who enacted the Fourteenth Amendment was for the Civil War, not to fund a worldwide military empire, trillions in pork barrel projects, and trillions more in vote-buying transfer payments. For US debt to have "validity", it must have been accrued for "valid" purposes. For the most part, our current $31 trillion has not been, nor is the debt contemplated by the current fiscal year's budget.2. The tri-metal standard (not a true "gold standard", as the original Coinage Act denominated money based on silver and copper in addition to gold, so as to facilitate transactions of lesser value, i.e. "penny candy") had previously instilled discipline on federal spending. Again, the Civil War provided an excuse to temporarily go off that standard, but it was re-established - along with balanced budgets - soon after. Save for some creative accounting in the Clinton era, the last balanced budget was in 1969, just prior to the "Nixon Shock" that ended any vestiges of a metal standard. Since then the Federal Reserve has monetized our deficits and debt, and that 5 cent Hershey bar is now a dollar, and an eight cent stamp is now more than 50 cents. Meanwhile the minimum wage, whose purchasing power peaked in 1968 even though the wage was only $1.25/hr, has seen its value halved.The fiscal and monetary discipline of a balanced budget and a monetary policy tied to GDP go hand in hand and will obviate the need for endless debt ceiling debates.
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"content": "Two thoughts:1. The debt contemplated by those who enacted the Fourteenth Amendment was for the Civil War, not to fund a worldwide military empire, trillions in pork barrel projects, and trillions more in vote-buying transfer payments. For US debt to have \"validity\", it must have been accrued for \"valid\" purposes. For the most part, our current $31 trillion has not been, nor is the debt contemplated by the current fiscal year's budget.2. The tri-metal standard (not a true \"gold standard\", as the original Coinage Act denominated money based on silver and copper in addition to gold, so as to facilitate transactions of lesser value, i.e. \"penny candy\") had previously instilled discipline on federal spending. Again, the Civil War provided an excuse to temporarily go off that standard, but it was re-established - along with balanced budgets - soon after. Save for some creative accounting in the Clinton era, the last balanced budget was in 1969, just prior to the \"Nixon Shock\" that ended any vestiges of a metal standard. Since then the Federal Reserve has monetized our deficits and debt, and that 5 cent Hershey bar is now a dollar, and an eight cent stamp is now more than 50 cents. Meanwhile the minimum wage, whose purchasing power peaked in 1968 even though the wage was only $1.25/hr, has seen its value halved.The fiscal and monetary discipline of a balanced budget and a monetary policy tied to GDP go hand in hand and will obviate the need for endless debt ceiling debates.\n",
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“Someone has to pay” how about just charging what it costs. If it costs 10k to serve reindeer heart and nobody will pay it… maybe you don’t serve that. Why do the workers need to subsidize the rich? Obscene
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What I find quite hilarious is how, specially young entrepreneurs, brag about starting a billion dollar business all by themselves, and even write books about how they got so rich so fast. There are even movies that glorify this point of view, like The Intern, in which Anne Hathaway plays a young entrepreneur who started a million dollar business in her kitchen … and then later in the movie she is basically asked to abdicate the throne because the company is not making the profits that investors hoped for. And that’s the rub right there. She did not create a million dollar company, she conned a bunch of investors into throwing her millions with the hope her company would turn a dime some day. All the buildings, her cars, her mortgage, her kid’s school and everything else was paid by investor money, not by profits from her company. She never made a profit, it was all money lent to her by investors. At the end they wish to remove her so a CEO can maybe turn her company around.And this is what happens in reality. Elizabeth Holmes is the poster child for this.It was about time investors started looking at who they throw money at. And maybe , just maybe, time for companies to start making a profit other than by selling stock.
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"content": "What I find quite hilarious is how, specially young entrepreneurs, brag about starting a billion dollar business all by themselves, and even write books about how they got so rich so fast. There are even movies that glorify this point of view, like The Intern, in which Anne Hathaway plays a young entrepreneur who started a million dollar business in her kitchen … and then later in the movie she is basically asked to abdicate the throne because the company is not making the profits that investors hoped for. And that’s the rub right there. She did not create a million dollar company, she conned a bunch of investors into throwing her millions with the hope her company would turn a dime some day. All the buildings, her cars, her mortgage, her kid’s school and everything else was paid by investor money, not by profits from her company. She never made a profit, it was all money lent to her by investors. At the end they wish to remove her so a CEO can maybe turn her company around.And this is what happens in reality. Elizabeth Holmes is the poster child for this.It was about time investors started looking at who they throw money at. And maybe , just maybe, time for companies to start making a profit other than by selling stock.\n",
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"Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut"In the past, Ukrainians were hesitating to go toe-to-toe with Russians because they were skeptical of the Western support. In fact, at one point, Pres. Zelenskyy openly agonized over the possibility that western powers may negotiate with Russia an end to the war without Ukraine's participation (à la Trump negotiating with Taliban in the absence of Kabul's government). Then Ukrainians heard the US officials making statements such as: "we want to make Russia weak". Those statements were not helpful in building Ukrainians' trust. They implied that some western powers are using the war to improve their position in the on-going global chess game, and, in reality, liberation of Ukraine and Ukrainians was secondary to their objectives. Now with the US providing advanced weapons to Ukraine, US Senate approving $45 Billion for assisting Ukraine's war effort in future, and the US facilitating the flow of volunteers into Ukraine to join the war, Ukrainians know that are not fighting this war alone; hence, they are ready to go toe-to-toe against Russia, as long as a single Russian soldier is on their land.
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"content": "\"Without Hesitation, Ukraine Goes Toe to Toe With Russia in Bakhmut\"In the past, Ukrainians were hesitating to go toe-to-toe with Russians because they were skeptical of the Western support. In fact, at one point, Pres. Zelenskyy openly agonized over the possibility that western powers may negotiate with Russia an end to the war without Ukraine's participation (à la Trump negotiating with Taliban in the absence of Kabul's government). Then Ukrainians heard the US officials making statements such as: \"we want to make Russia weak\". Those statements were not helpful in building Ukrainians' trust. They implied that some western powers are using the war to improve their position in the on-going global chess game, and, in reality, liberation of Ukraine and Ukrainians was secondary to their objectives. Now with the US providing advanced weapons to Ukraine, US Senate approving $45 Billion for assisting Ukraine's war effort in future, and the US facilitating the flow of volunteers into Ukraine to join the war, Ukrainians know that are not fighting this war alone; hence, they are ready to go toe-to-toe against Russia, as long as a single Russian soldier is on their land.\n",
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This is at least a reasonable discussion. Yesterday there was an article complaining about “fat shaming”, which seemed to prefer cutting open children and putting steel straps on their stomachs. With so much talk about the myth of calories in calories out, that’s all the steel straps do, reduce calories in.How about some research into processed foods, the deep, deep influence of GMO foods, which Monsanto has so far is squelched, and the simple fact that we need to exercise more. Slicing open your child to install hardware on his innards seems to me far, more destructive, then verbal criticism. It isn’t all “shaming” anyway, often it’s just caring.
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Richard Fleming and will they then prohibit the companies from deciding to go out of business as nobody will want to read from an open sewer?
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"content": "Richard Fleming and will they then prohibit the companies from deciding to go out of business as nobody will want to read from an open sewer?\n",
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I am curious about some of the details of this study, specifically, what are the small tasks at hand? Are the same small tasks being performed in the early test and in the later test? What are the global, larger tasks being performed? Has the quantity and quality of work in the larger sense declined or has it stayed about the same? Can some of this be attributed to better multitasking tools, improved work-flows, or improved multitasking skills? Obviously, switching to consuming media content, or viewing personal communication is a distraction and isn't task-oriented, but some of the missing details make me wonder about the general conclusion that this is due to decreased attention spans (though other studies have confirmed that this is a problem). One example would be a worker that has a spreadsheet, email communications app, and a text editor open at the same time. Switching between those three could easily be explained as working on one unified task involving researching, report writing, and communicating. The recommendations for improving ones attention span are great though - everyone should want to be more in the present and more skilled at focusing. For the record, my devices are always silenced and I never use "vibrate". The only time I have a ring enabled is if I am expecting a call, or if I might be needed for an emergency. Life is too short to spend it waiting for dings, or scrolling through useless updates. Check them at your pace, not everyone else's.
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"content": "I am curious about some of the details of this study, specifically, what are the small tasks at hand? Are the same small tasks being performed in the early test and in the later test? What are the global, larger tasks being performed? Has the quantity and quality of work in the larger sense declined or has it stayed about the same? Can some of this be attributed to better multitasking tools, improved work-flows, or improved multitasking skills? Obviously, switching to consuming media content, or viewing personal communication is a distraction and isn't task-oriented, but some of the missing details make me wonder about the general conclusion that this is due to decreased attention spans (though other studies have confirmed that this is a problem). One example would be a worker that has a spreadsheet, email communications app, and a text editor open at the same time. Switching between those three could easily be explained as working on one unified task involving researching, report writing, and communicating. The recommendations for improving ones attention span are great though - everyone should want to be more in the present and more skilled at focusing. For the record, my devices are always silenced and I never use \"vibrate\". The only time I have a ring enabled is if I am expecting a call, or if I might be needed for an emergency. Life is too short to spend it waiting for dings, or scrolling through useless updates. Check them at your pace, not everyone else's.\n",
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Mike If the US is supposed to have no say in what‘s going on over there, it then should also stop funding Israel with billions.
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"content": "Mike If the US is supposed to have no say in what‘s going on over there, it then should also stop funding Israel with billions.\n",
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"While that spending could eventually lead to savings and a more reliable grid, it will probably drive up rates in the short term.Even though I do not have the exact figures in front of me from our last electricity bill, my husband and I are now receiving a return on our investment. Over ten years ago, we purchased ten solar panels in a community solar garden. Finally we are earning a little bit each month in our investment in renewable energy.
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"content": "\"While that spending could eventually lead to savings and a more reliable grid, it will probably drive up rates in the short term.Even though I do not have the exact figures in front of me from our last electricity bill, my husband and I are now receiving a return on our investment. Over ten years ago, we purchased ten solar panels in a community solar garden. Finally we are earning a little bit each month in our investment in renewable energy.\n",
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| no | Classification | 2,266 |
Labienus If Harry is no longer being supported by royal funds, then they have to make fast money to survive and nothing will do this better then tell-all books/films. Ones that put the couple in a sympathetic light also help them build a "sellable" image that will open up more projects for them going forward. Quietly fading away won't bring in any income which they most likely need.
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"content": "Labienus If Harry is no longer being supported by royal funds, then they have to make fast money to survive and nothing will do this better then tell-all books/films. Ones that put the couple in a sympathetic light also help them build a \"sellable\" image that will open up more projects for them going forward. Quietly fading away won't bring in any income which they most likely need.\n",
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David Henry I have an order in on a Chevy Bolt. After incentives, it's going to end up being $25K. Had I gone with a lower trim level, it could have been $18K. Those prices are comparable or lower than a Corolla or Civic.I plan on using it mostly for commuting, errand running, and other local driving. It can go about 250 miles on a charge. Most days (when I drive -- I have a hybrid work schedule now) I drive 50-60 miles. Since I have the ability to charge at home, it will start out every morning with a full battery. No trips required to gas stations, ever. It is supremely convenient.We already have two plug in hybrids. One is over 100K miles and is doing fine. If I need to take a road trip, another family member will use the Bolt and I'll use one of the plug in hybrids. I expect this might happen a handful of times a year.
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"content": "David Henry I have an order in on a Chevy Bolt. After incentives, it's going to end up being $25K. Had I gone with a lower trim level, it could have been $18K. Those prices are comparable or lower than a Corolla or Civic.I plan on using it mostly for commuting, errand running, and other local driving. It can go about 250 miles on a charge. Most days (when I drive -- I have a hybrid work schedule now) I drive 50-60 miles. Since I have the ability to charge at home, it will start out every morning with a full battery. No trips required to gas stations, ever. It is supremely convenient.We already have two plug in hybrids. One is over 100K miles and is doing fine. If I need to take a road trip, another family member will use the Bolt and I'll use one of the plug in hybrids. I expect this might happen a handful of times a year.\n",
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rkappius Pew research shows otherwise.45% are democrat. 40% are republican. 15% are non-affiliated and totally detached from politics.With a large portion of very left leaning democrats not voting which is about half that number. Meaning they are to the left of the party. The most engaged voters are those aligned with progressives like Ro Khanna, Katie Porter and also AOC but are a smaller block than those that actually vote aligned with them.This is why republicans are attacking education to indoctrinate and groom with lies all over the country. They have lost the citizens and are only winning through mechanizations of archaic systems and MSM protecting the powerful concentrations.Republicans are also violating the constitution and so are democrats. We are supposed to be a democratic republic. In article 1, section 2, clause 3.You shall have one rep per 30,000 persons counted. Proportional representation to dilute power and mitigate concentrations that allow capture of the legislature.The solution to pollution is dilution. This is true in political corruption as well. That clause was not amended. It is being ignored by the wealthy and powerful so they can consolidate power and rob us.In the federalist papers the design was such that they wanted the common citizen to come in and do the service and then return back to the people. You are supposed to know your rep personally.
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"content": "rkappius Pew research shows otherwise.45% are democrat. 40% are republican. 15% are non-affiliated and totally detached from politics.With a large portion of very left leaning democrats not voting which is about half that number. Meaning they are to the left of the party. The most engaged voters are those aligned with progressives like Ro Khanna, Katie Porter and also AOC but are a smaller block than those that actually vote aligned with them.This is why republicans are attacking education to indoctrinate and groom with lies all over the country. They have lost the citizens and are only winning through mechanizations of archaic systems and MSM protecting the powerful concentrations.Republicans are also violating the constitution and so are democrats. We are supposed to be a democratic republic. In article 1, section 2, clause 3.You shall have one rep per 30,000 persons counted. Proportional representation to dilute power and mitigate concentrations that allow capture of the legislature.The solution to pollution is dilution. This is true in political corruption as well. That clause was not amended. It is being ignored by the wealthy and powerful so they can consolidate power and rob us.In the federalist papers the design was such that they wanted the common citizen to come in and do the service and then return back to the people. You are supposed to know your rep personally.\n",
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