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A.I. was, is, and always will be a bad idea. A computer that thinks without any morals or ethics is an extremely dangerous experiment. I realize A.I. will continue to develop despite my grave concerns but I truly believe mankind is opening a Pandora’s box.
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| no | Classification | 2,350 |
Funny, ha ha. The left believes they can excuse Biden's misbehavior, incompetence and dishonesty by pointing at Trump. That may be a low bar according to some, but one which Biden can't reach. Evaluate Joe objectively, not relative to Trump, or actually, not Trump, but the left wing ant-Trump version of Trump. Simply ask yourself is this the type of person you want leading the country -- a mental lightweight on his best day, in all likelihood a corrupt politician who we know has enriched himself during his long years of public "service." Someone who has opened our southern border, been divisive as possible, mismanaged foreign affairs and relationships, appointed people to his administration based on identity, not competence, eroded our energy independence and produced the greatest surge in inflation in 50 years.Yeap, that's the kind of person I don't think should ever lead this country.
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"content": "Funny, ha ha. The left believes they can excuse Biden's misbehavior, incompetence and dishonesty by pointing at Trump. That may be a low bar according to some, but one which Biden can't reach. Evaluate Joe objectively, not relative to Trump, or actually, not Trump, but the left wing ant-Trump version of Trump. Simply ask yourself is this the type of person you want leading the country -- a mental lightweight on his best day, in all likelihood a corrupt politician who we know has enriched himself during his long years of public \"service.\" Someone who has opened our southern border, been divisive as possible, mismanaged foreign affairs and relationships, appointed people to his administration based on identity, not competence, eroded our energy independence and produced the greatest surge in inflation in 50 years.Yeap, that's the kind of person I don't think should ever lead this country.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 6,778 |
Mike M. The USA is not spending "trillions" on Ukraine. Look to our flawed adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan for that. We are helping an independent nation with a democratically elected government fight for their right to exist. We are helping a people that want to be free and integrated into the EU and NATO. We are helping a country that is fighting against homicidal and freedom hating fascists that don't blink an eye when hospitals are blown up and children are killed. And we are doing this relatively on the cheap. As well, Ukrainians are only asking for the means to fight. They have not asked for any US boots on the ground. This sounds like a good deal to me. The issues you address are important. But, you can thank the GOP for many of them going unresolved.
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"content": "Mike M. The USA is not spending \"trillions\" on Ukraine. Look to our flawed adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan for that. We are helping an independent nation with a democratically elected government fight for their right to exist. We are helping a people that want to be free and integrated into the EU and NATO. We are helping a country that is fighting against homicidal and freedom hating fascists that don't blink an eye when hospitals are blown up and children are killed. And we are doing this relatively on the cheap. As well, Ukrainians are only asking for the means to fight. They have not asked for any US boots on the ground. This sounds like a good deal to me. The issues you address are important. But, you can thank the GOP for many of them going unresolved.\n",
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| no | Classification | 439 |
JoeA -- as a former Tesla Model 3 owner who bought at 47k and watched him cut the price by 9k not long after --- it's a feeling of being cheated. I was chastised for feeling this way because Tesla isn't a car company, but a "tech company," and should expect that to happen. Ugh.
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Dan-O My 78s, 33s, open reel tapes, and CDs still play just fine. All my digital downloads still work just fine.The only repeat purchases are digital re-releases of 1950s-1960s Mercury Living Presence recordings made on special low noise three track tape recorders and properly remastered.A few of my recordings are shellac physically pressed in the 19th century. They still play fine (and probably sounded just as awful when new.)
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"content": "Dan-O My 78s, 33s, open reel tapes, and CDs still play just fine. All my digital downloads still work just fine.The only repeat purchases are digital re-releases of 1950s-1960s Mercury Living Presence recordings made on special low noise three track tape recorders and properly remastered.A few of my recordings are shellac physically pressed in the 19th century. They still play fine (and probably sounded just as awful when new.)\n",
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| no | Classification | 555 |
BL: Thanks for reminding me—Elvis was really good—the editing of the opening sequence alone was mind-blowing (there’s some serious competition in the editing category this year). And Butler carries the weight of this enormous production with such panache, as if playing Elvis were no big deal!
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"content": "BL: Thanks for reminding me—Elvis was really good—the editing of the opening sequence alone was mind-blowing (there’s some serious competition in the editing category this year). And Butler carries the weight of this enormous production with such panache, as if playing Elvis were no big deal!\n",
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| no | Classification | 1,176 |
I once read an eye-opening article about rape. It was about healthcare workers and concerned community leaders persuading local/ traditional shamans, healers, "witch" doctors to put out a malevolent curse on anyone who engaged in rape in the local area. It worked to decrease rates significantly. It made me realize that - whether one believes in traditional folklore or not - the local people may. And they may believe it more than any rational talk or legal threat. Other than traditional beliefs, a large swath of Africa is very religious and believes in Christianity. If churches, especially Catholic organizations, want to do good, they should work with local groups to change the culture of how females/ children are viewed and treated, especially by men, in these countries. Another eye-opening article I once read detailed the high incidence of rape in children and babies in Africa. Some of it was not sexual pleasure per se but also beliefs about how sex with children was "purer" or "safer" (fear of STDs).
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| yes | Classification | 9,887 |
If you're miserable in your job, quit. Then you'll be so miserable from being broke and possibly homeless that you'll forget all about how miserable you were at your job!All joking aside, it does behoove one to ensure that the job really is the source of their misery. When I worked in an absolute gulag of an open-plan office with constant surveillance by management (both overt in the cameras-everywhere sense and covert in the "you can't read the NYT on your break without someone remarking on it and sending you a copy of the company Internet use policy" sense), I finally decided that "I don't care if I end up losing my place to live, I would literally rather be homeless than do this job."On the way out, I quoted Martin Luther King at the top of my lungs: "Free at last, free at last, THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I AM FREE AT LAST!" (and, luckily, found another job and made rent.)Conversely, a few years prior, when I thought my job was the source of my trouble but ended up more miserable when I got laid off (Great Recession!), it turned out it was my marriage that was going sour and I hadn't really confronted just how much it was bleeding into other parts of my life. In that case, it was less Martin Luther King and more Motley Crue: "Girl, don't go away mad...just go away!"
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| no | Classification | 4,009 |
MSYou got that right! Our healthcare system does suck. They profit on our diseases and on our medication and our pain . the whole system needs to be reworked.I don't think this will happen in our lifetime. For every dollar Big Pharma uses to lobby a person in Congress, they get seven dollars back in real action. We the people are up against it. Our sustained outrage about this matter will probably never have a solution. We don't have to live like this but the powers that be wanted this way. This is a very large subject.Thank you for your insightful comment. Good luck with our sick care system. We wish you the best.
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| no | Classification | 3,624 |
At most large universities, the football and basketball coaches are paid more than the president and more than the president of the United States. At these universities, administrators are paid more than professors, and millions are wasted on computer programs that exhaust the staff hired to run them. These universities suffer a net loss on NCAA sports of at least $20 billion annually. The cost of the top-heavy administrations and the latest computer programs probably exceeds $100 billion annually.Meanwhile we spend over $1.3 trillion annually on weapons, spies and “intelligence.”Let’s cut these stupid costs and give a four-year college education to everyone — make college like high school: free and public.
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"content": "At most large universities, the football and basketball coaches are paid more than the president and more than the president of the United States. At these universities, administrators are paid more than professors, and millions are wasted on computer programs that exhaust the staff hired to run them. These universities suffer a net loss on NCAA sports of at least $20 billion annually. The cost of the top-heavy administrations and the latest computer programs probably exceeds $100 billion annually.Meanwhile we spend over $1.3 trillion annually on weapons, spies and “intelligence.”Let’s cut these stupid costs and give a four-year college education to everyone — make college like high school: free and public.\n",
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This operating plan won’t work unless the employees are willing to risk lower paychecks in rough times. It’s a great way to get everyone invested in the company’s success. Sounds like a wonderful place to work but it requires willingness to sacrifice a bit when necessary. Many people simply are not willing to do that.
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Chef Boyardee - Back in reality, “the Democrats” did not “defund the police.” However, President Biden and “the Democrats” did: More than double the amount spent on the COPS hiring program Add funding to hire more than 300 agents, investigators, and personnel at the ATF In the American Rescue Plan funded $350 billion in state and local funding, and $122 billion in K-12 funding to invest in hiring officers for accountable community policing, as well as crime prevention and intervention Add $554 million to bolster federal law enforcement capacity, and an additional $126 million for the COPS Office At DOJ, the budget adds $20.6 billion in funding for federal law enforcement and state and local law enforcement and crime prevention programs, an increase of 11% over FY22 enacted ($18.6 billion) and 18% over FY21 enacted ($17.5 billion)The truth does not line up with your “alternative facts.”
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Incorporeal Being the article says that 50% of his proposed units would have been affordable (aka income restricted) - the councilwoman just decided that they weren't "affordable enough". It was not a matter of 87% market rate.
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Bill This reads eerily like eugenics and is wildly detached from reality. The 7th replenishment of the Global Fund last September sought to mobilize $18 billion. Accounting for various factors, the global community fell about $4 billion short of this target. These resources would provide essential, life-saving services to combat HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. $4 billion is not trillions and it will have a significant impact. For example, did you know that these types of investments have reduce malaria mortality by 61% since 2000?Moreover, you focus heavily on the fact that there are 1.2 billion people in Africa and want to prioritize limiting the number of people living on this planet. This is only a step away from arguing that people dying from disease could be a good thing.I’m sure that you’re focused on the issue of climate change. This is also an issue very important to hundreds of millions of Africans living in regions that are among the most likely to be affected. However, they are not at fault. The greatest carbon emitters (per capita) are not sick children in Africa. They are not the problem. In fact, the largest carbon emitters per capita are the US, Canada and Australia. By comparison, many African countries have carbon emissions per capita 1/160 those of the US. If you look at a heat map of carbon emissions, you’ll see that Africa contributes the least to this crisis.
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Greg - What has mostly helped reduce smoking is the huge increase in the price of cigarettes over the past 10-15 years and the availability of vaping alternatives.Cigs here in CA sell for around $9-$12/pack. I see people go in to buy a carton and have to put down a credit card that gets charged numbers like $90 to $120!
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I ask my teenage students all the time, are you controlling your phone or is it controlling you? Phrasing it that way seems to be the only way to get them to think about what is going on with their attention. I was only slightly better than them at managing my smartphone addiction, so I decided to go no social media; it's been about a month. It took about 10 days to stop unconsciously trying to open the apps on my phone - that really shook me - that I truly was not in control. And, I've had notifications off for several years. Returning to my students - so many of them are not engaging with their real lives (bad grades, low understanding, anxiety, etc.) and instead immersing themselves in this digital dopamine jungle to check out of it all. I have the maturity (and benefit of reaching adulthood without all this) to self-correct and detox - so many of our youth do not. Kudos to Seattle Public Schools for their recent lawsuit to big tech in the name of our youth.
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YES it matters, because many of those plain glass cubes replace affordable housing. I live in New Hope, PA, an historic river town that draws tourists enraptured by its funky charms. In a relatively short time, developers tore down buildings – blocks full of buildings – to replace them with high-priced condos. Entrepreneurs who realized a dream by opening a restaurant or store are being pushed out by exorbitant rents, replaced by investment firms snatching buildings up 2 and 3 at a time. Government officials appear to be more driven by the higher taxes bazillionaires can afford to pay than by historic or cultural preservation. A few months ago I walked down River Road, lined with a patchwork of lovely homes, to see ginormous, boring, expensive condos rising up where a string of houses once stood. The people who’ve long lived and worked here increasingly can no longer afford to. It’s sad, outrageous, out of control – and being played out in cities across America, some of which have indeed sensibly revitalized their downtowns without razing buildings or driving out residents. There is a middle ground – but more and more that ground is being littered with those boring glass and steel boxes.
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By not giving Ukraine the offensive weapons it needs, this war has turned into a WWI style of trench warfare where both sides lob shells at each other from stationary positions. The land in between the lines has turned into a "no man's land" of pulverized territory. There have been reports of Russia sending waves of conscripts into the fray who just get chewed up by Ukrainian fire. At 90,000 shells a month, that's over one million shells a year, a staggering amount of ordinance. This stalemate must be broken. The cheapest shells go for $500 a piece with the more advanced shells can cost over $2000 each. That's billions of dollars a year just for shells. Five hundred modern tanks cost about one billion, and they don't all get used up. Just from a cost standpoint, let alone the lives saved, giving the Ukrainians the tanks they need to break through the Russian lines and finish the job will save an enormous of money. The funds saved could help to rebuild the pulverized areas.WWI was insanity where millions died just trading fire. Let's not do the same here. War is bad enough that there is no need to throw people's lives away for politics.
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"content": "By not giving Ukraine the offensive weapons it needs, this war has turned into a WWI style of trench warfare where both sides lob shells at each other from stationary positions. The land in between the lines has turned into a \"no man's land\" of pulverized territory. There have been reports of Russia sending waves of conscripts into the fray who just get chewed up by Ukrainian fire. At 90,000 shells a month, that's over one million shells a year, a staggering amount of ordinance. This stalemate must be broken. The cheapest shells go for $500 a piece with the more advanced shells can cost over $2000 each. That's billions of dollars a year just for shells. Five hundred modern tanks cost about one billion, and they don't all get used up. Just from a cost standpoint, let alone the lives saved, giving the Ukrainians the tanks they need to break through the Russian lines and finish the job will save an enormous of money. The funds saved could help to rebuild the pulverized areas.WWI was insanity where millions died just trading fire. Let's not do the same here. War is bad enough that there is no need to throw people's lives away for politics.\n",
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I am hopeful this also spells the end of non-tech companies, particularly non-profits, from acting like they are some sort of start-up tech outfit and adopt all the silliness and millennial self-obsession that has corrupted so many business. Guess what? It doesn’t work when you eschew hierarchy while at the same time craving it. Let’s get away from the open-concept offices, the obsessive need for titles, rewards for showing up and actually do the work.
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| no | Classification | 3,705 |
IBM has 2 nm technology as of 2021. Also they first implementation of 7 and 5 nm technology on microchips. Commercialized in Taiwan? Yes, invented there hmm, no not really. Taiwan's 1 nm technology is collaborative effort with MIT. So why all the negativity about US innovation. Was a profitability spreadsheet or investment portfolio consulted before writing the article?
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I was at a staff meeting last year when one of the executives in the room stated that it was against company policy for individuals to share our salaries with each other. When i questioned that policy, and only after I questioned it, did HR speak up and say, no, it is not really company policy. As I knew, that would be illegal. But just one more way companies can maintain the wall of silence.For the record: ~$200K, lots of experience, master's degree, machine learning.
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Alex Prop. 13 limits local property taxes to 1% of assessed value. So $30K to $50K in local property tax corresponds to a house valuation of $3million to $5 million. If one can afford a $3 to $5 million home, such level of taxation cannot be called a hardship. Long-time residents in their same home (with lower house valuations due to Prop 13 constraints on increase in valuation over time with same owner) are not likely Facebook employees in their 20s and 30s and are less likely to have their high salaries). Details matter.
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Your analysis is pretty close. Your insightful characterization, "most Republicans in Congress aren’t culture-war zealots. Instead, they’re careerists who depend, both for campaign contributions and for post-Congress career prospects, on the same billionaires who have supported right-wing economic ideology for decades." was confirmed by the vote on the impeachment of the Defeated Former President for his role in the planning the violent overthrow of Democracy that culminated in the violent attempt to prevent the peaceful transition of power, where on 10 Republicans in the House and 7 Senators had the integrity (and courage) to vote to impeach the former President.So through gerrymandering, and huge donations to unqualified candidates. the GOP gained the majority in the House to essentially carry out their theatrics and messaging to the satisfaction of their donors, for two years. They know the game for capturing the eyes, ears, ink, clicks, and ratings of their donors.Fortunately, the historic strategy passed by Biden and the Democratic Congressional majority is working and the economy is recovering with a strong job market, and the deficit is being reduced much faster than I ever predicted but just in the last year, it was reduced by half by 1 Trillion plus in receipts over the outlays.The 2024 campaign curtain has been opened, and the enlightened media will need to keep describing solutions to the issues that will make the lives of American families better.
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"content": "Your analysis is pretty close. Your insightful characterization, \"most Republicans in Congress aren’t culture-war zealots. Instead, they’re careerists who depend, both for campaign contributions and for post-Congress career prospects, on the same billionaires who have supported right-wing economic ideology for decades.\" was confirmed by the vote on the impeachment of the Defeated Former President for his role in the planning the violent overthrow of Democracy that culminated in the violent attempt to prevent the peaceful transition of power, where on 10 Republicans in the House and 7 Senators had the integrity (and courage) to vote to impeach the former President.So through gerrymandering, and huge donations to unqualified candidates. the GOP gained the majority in the House to essentially carry out their theatrics and messaging to the satisfaction of their donors, for two years. They know the game for capturing the eyes, ears, ink, clicks, and ratings of their donors.Fortunately, the historic strategy passed by Biden and the Democratic Congressional majority is working and the economy is recovering with a strong job market, and the deficit is being reduced much faster than I ever predicted but just in the last year, it was reduced by half by 1 Trillion plus in receipts over the outlays.The 2024 campaign curtain has been opened, and the enlightened media will need to keep describing solutions to the issues that will make the lives of American families better.\n",
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Pschlage That's the $64,000 question the article doesn't answer.
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This is mind boggling - after 50 years, and in 2023, this is still an issue. Freedom for all, the GOP says, oh and by the way - except for women. Guns? Sure thing. Open carry of such guns? Of course. What a country. I hope doctors like this one keep fighting .
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To clarify in the last paragraph I meant to say "The 30 year drought in the 1500's was much worse than this one and cost exactly $0....Cheers.
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I'm not opposed to standardization of commercial law across the various states--in a way, it makes interstate business easier to manage. However, most states already regulate non-competes to a reasonableness standard so the new proposed rules are out-of-step with a century of state law.If the FTC is going to prohibit non-competes, without specific Congressional delegation and ignoring a century of state law developments, I think the new proposed rules need to be re-worked to permit:short non-competes that match the duration of employee severance for involuntary termination (perhaps not to exceed 6 months or 1 year): this is a simple bright line rule. If a company wants a 6 month non-compete, it must offer 6-months of severance. akin to garden leavenon-competes entered into in connection with a business sale (and not just 25% holders, which is absurd, but 5% holders or anyone getting over $500,000 in proceeds). I expect to see something like this in the final rules in any event.exemptions for highly compensated executive officers-- anyone with the bargaining power to negotiate their own employment agreement can negotiate their own non-compete arrangement.
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Davide your beliefs sound way too simplistic but I am NOT doubting you since you reside in Italy. Living in a house or an apartment doesn't end there. You still have to pay to keep the lights on (electrcity bill), gas to heat and bath, and put food on the table even if it's just you and your spouse. These 3 years have been quite expensive and I know for a fact that once the price of food goes up it never hardly ever comes down. Here in NYC it $5 for a gallon of milk, or a dozen eggs, or even a loaf of bread. A pound of the cheapest beef (stew meat for example) averages $12/pound. I'm on Medicare and the last 5 years I've had medical bills in excess of $5k when you count my monthly premiums, meds, deductibles and then you have to multiply that by 2 since it's me and the wife. I read all the heartbreaking stories of the indigent and what drives people to crime when all hope is lost. We should pray for our sons and daughters having to live in these current times!
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"content": "Davide your beliefs sound way too simplistic but I am NOT doubting you since you reside in Italy. Living in a house or an apartment doesn't end there. You still have to pay to keep the lights on (electrcity bill), gas to heat and bath, and put food on the table even if it's just you and your spouse. These 3 years have been quite expensive and I know for a fact that once the price of food goes up it never hardly ever comes down. Here in NYC it $5 for a gallon of milk, or a dozen eggs, or even a loaf of bread. A pound of the cheapest beef (stew meat for example) averages $12/pound. I'm on Medicare and the last 5 years I've had medical bills in excess of $5k when you count my monthly premiums, meds, deductibles and then you have to multiply that by 2 since it's me and the wife. I read all the heartbreaking stories of the indigent and what drives people to crime when all hope is lost. We should pray for our sons and daughters having to live in these current times!\n",
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J Hagen You really ought to use accurate figures. According to the LAT, Californians making more than $1 million per year represent about 0.5% of tax returns, earn about 20% of the state income, and pay about 40% of state personal income taxes. The article was from 2022.<a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-04-15/california-politics-tax-day-is-a-big-deal-in-the-state-capitol-ca-politics" target="_blank">https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-04-15/california-politics-tax-day-is-a-big-deal-in-the-state-capitol-ca-politics</a>
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Nadal is a great player but age and recent injuries have diminished his skills. It is surprising that he is seeded number one in the Australian Open. I will be amazed if he makes it to the Semis. This in no way is meant to diminish his body of work over almost two decades. Just the reality of aging.
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Michael I'm honestly curious. You decry NATO expansion as if it happenes in a vaccuum. Okay. Suppose it does. NATO is a defensive pact, and has no designs on Russia. Even Putin knows this.But give Russia the benefit of the doubt. They invade Ukraine. We do nothing. Where does Russia stop?The Fulda Gap?Some of us have served at the pointy end of the lance and understand what it's all about. Some things are worth defending. I'd posit that the US and Europe are still worth defending, France's twofold folding at the drop of a kepi notwithstanding.We can stop Russia at Ukraine's borders, or we can stop them later at the shores of the Atlantic. Or maybe the Barents. I dunno, I'm gonna go with stopping them short of Talinn, RIga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Kyiv, Chisinau, Bucharest, Sofia, and even Bursa or Ankara. But that's just me. I prefer to live with an imperfect system of liberty than to knuckle under to the likes of Putin's Russia.Some things are worth dying for. Only you can decide what that is for you.
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"content": "Michael I'm honestly curious. You decry NATO expansion as if it happenes in a vaccuum. Okay. Suppose it does. NATO is a defensive pact, and has no designs on Russia. Even Putin knows this.But give Russia the benefit of the doubt. They invade Ukraine. We do nothing. Where does Russia stop?The Fulda Gap?Some of us have served at the pointy end of the lance and understand what it's all about. Some things are worth defending. I'd posit that the US and Europe are still worth defending, France's twofold folding at the drop of a kepi notwithstanding.We can stop Russia at Ukraine's borders, or we can stop them later at the shores of the Atlantic. Or maybe the Barents. I dunno, I'm gonna go with stopping them short of Talinn, RIga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Kyiv, Chisinau, Bucharest, Sofia, and even Bursa or Ankara. But that's just me. I prefer to live with an imperfect system of liberty than to knuckle under to the likes of Putin's Russia.Some things are worth dying for. Only you can decide what that is for you.\n",
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ecu1: investment in infrastructure-- Democratic policy -- increases our capacity to pay for things. Tax cuts for the wealthy and mindless wars do not. It's not a "both sides" issue here, either.
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I just finished a year of a Non-Compete contract, which was with a company that has gross revenues of over $800,000. million USD. My company was a part of this company and they were to purchase my shares after my 5 year contract, at a pre-determined formula and when the final buyout came they used their sledge hammer against me and literally stole my company and my retirement, and paid me less then a years salary. I was not in the position to legally take this company on, as my attorney told me they would bleed me to death with legal fees and would not care. To make matters worse I had a non-compete that would not allow me to even earn a living in my industry, which I have been in for over 50 years. I knew that if I attempted to do any of the business, prohibited in my non-compete that the would come after me. Non-Competes are absolutely unfair to the individual and only good for the large companies or so called 800 pound gorillas! I signed the non-compete, so I can only blame myself, but unfortunately when I signed it, 5 years ago, I assumed that no matter what happened this company would do the right thing, but they did not and that is a lesson to be learned.
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At a time when theories of openness lay tattered for reasons too many to name here, this decision bolsters a key remaining cornerstone --the ability to acknowledge and correct mistakes. Policy making, we can be grateful, is tending toward "evidence-based policy," and away from op-eds, or the calcified views of "leadership" overinvested in their personal correctness.
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it's really how how "tech" has been redefined. Zillow is a real estate investment/holding company, as its is partner, Opendoor. Carvana is a car dealer with a gimmick. And we can look for other examples like WeWork (commercial real-estate rental) and AirBnB (non-commercial real-estate rental). Meta and Alphabet are marketing/data-mining businesses. Twitter is an ad delivery business, tooAmazon is an exception, of sorts, in that its real business is Amazon Web Services; the online marketplace is the Sears catalog business for the new millennium, and Whole Foods is just an expensive grocery store.I can think of a few businesses which are actually technology based, but somehow are excluded from our new definition of "tech" businesses: the automobile industry, for starters. I guess that mechanical engineering and building physical products doesn't count as "tech" any more.And this could be one reason why these "tech" companies had grossly-inflated valuations and why those valuations are now back to Earth. The so-called Sophisticated Investors, with money to burn, wanted: new and shiny, not old and stodgy, so they bid up "tech" without a care about whether the businesses were sustainable or even reasonable. Everyone should realize that the products were never what the public-facing part of these businesses offered. The products were the eyeballs and wallets of the users; the customers were the marketers who wanted access to user data and wallets. That ain't tech. Nope.
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"content": "it's really how how \"tech\" has been redefined. Zillow is a real estate investment/holding company, as its is partner, Opendoor. Carvana is a car dealer with a gimmick. And we can look for other examples like WeWork (commercial real-estate rental) and AirBnB (non-commercial real-estate rental). Meta and Alphabet are marketing/data-mining businesses. Twitter is an ad delivery business, tooAmazon is an exception, of sorts, in that its real business is Amazon Web Services; the online marketplace is the Sears catalog business for the new millennium, and Whole Foods is just an expensive grocery store.I can think of a few businesses which are actually technology based, but somehow are excluded from our new definition of \"tech\" businesses: the automobile industry, for starters. I guess that mechanical engineering and building physical products doesn't count as \"tech\" any more.And this could be one reason why these \"tech\" companies had grossly-inflated valuations and why those valuations are now back to Earth. The so-called Sophisticated Investors, with money to burn, wanted: new and shiny, not old and stodgy, so they bid up \"tech\" without a care about whether the businesses were sustainable or even reasonable. Everyone should realize that the products were never what the public-facing part of these businesses offered. The products were the eyeballs and wallets of the users; the customers were the marketers who wanted access to user data and wallets. That ain't tech. Nope.\n",
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Bret, you make the assumption that a universal, single payer system would be terrible. Having lived overseas in an advanced nation with practically free universal medical care, I can tell you it was top notch, accessible and far better than the mess we have here. We are already breaking up into a two-tiered system with the wealthy paying anywhere from $2000 to above $50,000 per year for "concierge" doctors. Everyone else stands in line to get appointments with too few family practitioners or internists and has to wait an eternity to get into specialists for critical issues. Give me universal health care any day.
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Does anyone remember the article revealing the weathiest (millionaires/billionaires) in local communities across the US? Most of them were car dealerships. I don't think it matters what the supply/demand really is. These guys make money on the sale, the trade in, the financing, and then they sell you a bogus "extended warranty" just for good measure. Whenever I get the chance, I try to buy from a guy down the street. He might be a little high on his price, but he won't rip you off like a car dealer.
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Whitney The Sunday Times of May 6, 2001, published my letter, "Keeping Eyes Open," on page 59 in the Arts and Leisure section.<a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/2001/05/06/issue.html" target="_blank">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/2001/05/06/issue.html</a>The subject was the importance of visual thinking in understanding the classical thermodynamic analysis of J. Willard Gibbs from the 1870s. A paper based on the dissertation of my doctoral graduate, Daniel Coy (PhD, Chem. Engr., Iowa State Univ., 1993), entitled "Visual-izing the Gibbs Models" appeared in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2008, 47, 4973.The explosion of an overheated liquid at the Second-Law-induced "Superheat Limit Temperature" (not an uncommon event with today's microwave ovens) can be traced to distinct features on the 3-D graph of thermodynamic free energy vs. temperature and pressure for the liquid (Fig.7(a) in our paper). Legions of science students have gone unaware of the impor-tance of these dramatic visualizations of Gibbs's treat-ment of the Thermodynamic Laws, even though they have existed -- at least in concept -- for over a century.Kenneth Jolls, Prof. Emeritus, Chem. Engr., Iowa State University (<a href="mailto:Jollsiastate.edu">Jollsiastate.edu</a>).
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"content": "Whitney The Sunday Times of May 6, 2001, published my letter, \"Keeping Eyes Open,\" on page 59 in the Arts and Leisure section.<a href=\"https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/2001/05/06/issue.html\" target=\"_blank\">https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/2001/05/06/issue.html</a>The subject was the importance of visual thinking in understanding the classical thermodynamic analysis of J. Willard Gibbs from the 1870s. A paper based on the dissertation of my doctoral graduate, Daniel Coy (PhD, Chem. Engr., Iowa State Univ., 1993), entitled \"Visual-izing the Gibbs Models\" appeared in Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2008, 47, 4973.The explosion of an overheated liquid at the Second-Law-induced \"Superheat Limit Temperature\" (not an uncommon event with today's microwave ovens) can be traced to distinct features on the 3-D graph of thermodynamic free energy vs. temperature and pressure for the liquid (Fig.7(a) in our paper). Legions of science students have gone unaware of the impor-tance of these dramatic visualizations of Gibbs's treat-ment of the Thermodynamic Laws, even though they have existed -- at least in concept -- for over a century.Kenneth Jolls, Prof. Emeritus, Chem. Engr., Iowa State University (<a href=\"mailto:Jollsiastate.edu\">Jollsiastate.edu</a>).\n",
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The only concern fo US solvency is the House Republicans who seem ready to force the US to default on all its obligations. These fantasists do not seem to realize that if the US defaults on its stated debt obligations (which would be equivalent to dropping a nuclear bomb on the financial system of the world) it will not be just the $31 billion in stated debt instruments which will be in default. Since the US went off the gold system, all currency in circulation in the world and all dollars in banks around the world will be in default, too. They are all nothing but unsecured obligations of what would actually be a bankrupt US. Can you imagine the fall in the dollar versus the Euro and the yen, to name only a few, and how difficult if not impossible it will be to withdraw dollars from banks around the world? We have to stop sugar coating the truth so maybe the US citizenry will wake up in time to tell their representatives to pass a clean debt ceiling increase or eliminate the nonsensical ceiling once and for all.
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"content": "The only concern fo US solvency is the House Republicans who seem ready to force the US to default on all its obligations. These fantasists do not seem to realize that if the US defaults on its stated debt obligations (which would be equivalent to dropping a nuclear bomb on the financial system of the world) it will not be just the $31 billion in stated debt instruments which will be in default. Since the US went off the gold system, all currency in circulation in the world and all dollars in banks around the world will be in default, too. They are all nothing but unsecured obligations of what would actually be a bankrupt US. Can you imagine the fall in the dollar versus the Euro and the yen, to name only a few, and how difficult if not impossible it will be to withdraw dollars from banks around the world? We have to stop sugar coating the truth so maybe the US citizenry will wake up in time to tell their representatives to pass a clean debt ceiling increase or eliminate the nonsensical ceiling once and for all.\n",
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This so-called "high barrier to entry" is a key reason why much of pharma has moved into biologicals (mainly antibody-based treatments, or proteins like recombinant insulin or Botox) with a vengeance. The other is the price they can charge for those, but even small molecule drugs that are synthesized chemically can command very high prices. So, why the turn towards biologicals? For one, they allow targeting mechanisms that previously couldn't be targeted - that's a great reason, and nobody objects to that. But, biologicals have that other, very attractive, property: After the exclusivity period granted with an FDA's approval has expired, making a generic version is of a biological is difficult, very expensive, and, if patents are piled on after the approval, also legally very risky. Any company would think hard before putting not tens, but hundreds of millions of dollars into trying to make one of these so-called biosimilars just to be told by a court to immediately seize and desist. The only way to change that would be to mandate by law that any and all intellectual property (patents) required to make the biological either to be in place (granted US patents) at the time of submission to FDA for approval, or to be included in full and published (on FDA's website) by the time an approval is granted. But, I doubt our current House or Senate have the stones for that! Would be nice to be surprised, though.
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Paul Lavin Yes. In Europe it takes a taxpayer about 15 minutes to file their taxes. The government has almost all of the data needed.When my wife and I were working, we had what seemed good incomes, each of us making a little above $100,000 a year. What is this about 'ordinary people' making $400,000 a year as a couple? I think the median household income in the U.S. is somewhere around $60,000 dollars a year. Additionally, according to the NY Times, the top 0.1 percent of earners pay 3.8% in Federal income tax. We paid (counting payroll taxes) about 40% each year.We live now on our Social Security and quite modest pensions, an income of about $67,000 a year. We take some care with our purchases, but it certainly suffices for our needs.Who in tarnation are these 'poor people' making $400,000 a year?Michael
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One might argue that debate in matters of belief is a good thing, but that's never been the way with conservative Catholics. Their way or the highway is the operative theological principle. One might argue that Francis's liberalizing moves, back and forth as they are, are way of keeping the window of Vatican II open, but that is not the conservative way. Oh well. In the end, I have to echo a theme in these comments: why does the NYT continue to give such a prominent place to a debate within a church? This is not the National Catholic Register--not even the National Catholic Reporter.
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I will not get caught up in the old snare of saying that we've discovered just about all there is to find in nature, and that there are no hidden treasures yet to be found.Unlike what appears to be an overzealous investment grad student's hope for a technology breakthrough trying to inspire scientists to work harder to find 'that new thing,' a bit of wishful thinking, I look to see the enormous power of the scientific community focused on what we have now, and where hints of discovery lead us.Look at the number of physicists alone (1000s at CERN) say nothing of the engineers and support specialists working at that project. Look to the work being done by astrophysicists to affirm dark matter and dark energy existence. Look to engineering advancements in biology, medicine (CRISPR so far has been around for awhile and no real important widespread application of megabillions being made off from that discovery, as of yet), so one must think that despite some extremely smart and innovative people, the biggies of science discovery have pretty much been found, and incremental is about all we can expect for awhile.Even the decades search for productive fusion with all the knowledge about the process has not been able to achieve the desired power cell in every car or home, despite the hoopla in the media in the past months.Be excited over the new images from JWST, the medical advances and know that we'll get there, but avoid too many pressures of start-up money.
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To pick up on a point made by Vincent of CT, while I agree completely with the article, one cannot overlook the immense cost of the US health care ‘system’ for governments at all levels.As of 2020, the US spent approximately $12,000 per capita on health care; Switzerland was next with around $7,100; Germany next with around $6,700; and the Netherlands fourth with about $6,300 (figures PPP adjusted). Counting tax breaks for health insurance (revenue not collected on income in kind), Federal, state and local governments cover close to 2/3’s of the US total. This means that US government health care spending equals or exceeds total spending per capita of the next highest country, Switzerland. Yet the US is the only industrialized country without universal health insurance coverage.By no means is all of US health care spending wasteful, but our health care outcomes are poor nevertheless. Attacking this problem is no easier than raising taxes. Both require fighting economic forces that are close to invincible. But as Nelson Mandela famously said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
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I agree with the comments on the GOP's reducing taxes for the wealthy and how 30 years of that has brought us to where we are. Corporations and wealthy individuals should pay a minimum tax of (lets just say) 15%. Also the $850 billion defense budget needs a serious review. There is tons of waste there. I'd say a 20% cut with no impact to our national defense posture. But the problem is, big donors and major corporations have captured the legislative branch of government. So major changes to the status quo are just about impossible.
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The fine is the maximum amount permitted by law.It’s a mosquito bite for trump.Nonetheless, having been convicted of a felony, some banks may be reluctant to conduct business with trump entities and some loan agreements may have defaults triggered by the conviction requiring accelerated repayment. That would make this more interesting. Since his businesses lose money, interest rates are high, trump might have to start a fire sale on his properties to raise the required cash to meet obligations.He won’t pass GO. He won’t collect $200.
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Yes, a definite step in the right direction. But one of the big investments always touted is the one near Phoenix,Az. How smart was it to locate this Water hogging industry in a place with NO water, instead of located in a wetter part of the country ? Not too intelligent, but I guess the cities Bribes to bring it there out bid common sense.Kind of like when you drive around the corner & there are vast Cotton fields near Yuma. How much sense does that make ?
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Nice Cartier watch he's wearing, I bet he pocketed much more than $700k for someone that was recently behind on rent. GOP needs to police their ranks.
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Decades ago, I was driving in Barrington, IL, which was somewhat rural back then, although the roads were paved. I saw several cars pulled to the side of the road and people standing watching a long, sloping, open field. A blanket of mist hung low over the grass. I pulled over too, and asked a man what was happening."Just watch," he said. "It'll be worth it."Minutes later, I heard the baying of dogs, and a pack of hounds surged over the hill, followed by the 'master of the hounds' in a red jacket on a galloping gray horse, followed by two dozen other riders in formal gear. It gave me goose bumps. It was a fox hunt, only there were no foxes involved, the man said. Somebody would have gone out that morning, dragging a pot roast behind a dirt bike, and that's what the hounds were following. I pictured that when I read this. I hope Chatham keeps its dirt roads.
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IF ONLY....I could get paid bug bucks to write an open tell-all about my vicious, dysfunctional family, I would sign the contract tomorrow! Or even today!.... I say, "Cash in, kids!...While the topic is till hot!" ..Harry's family has been stabbing everybody in the back for generations!
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Democrats have offered money for the border wall as well as border security in exchange for DACA and other immigration reforms. Time and time again, the Republicans refused to budge. Democrats offered 25 Billion to Trump, but the Freedom Caucus pressured him to refuse. Even now, Republicans rejected Biden's offer of border security funding in the last bill, cutting it from 4 billion to 2 billion.
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eheck My personal belief is that Libs of TikTok and some other lesser known and more blatantly political sites are enabling some folks deeply in denial to witness things that they deem naughty. I am aware of one video of a boy performing gymnastics in drag (at a charity open stage), posted by a proud mom, that was spread by haters for political gain. The Mom immediately took the video down, shut down the FB presence and so forth. The video, however, remains online--courtesy of a right-wing site that has been fighting "pornography" in schools (they consider any education related to human sexuality to be pornographic) for decades. The video appears to be the most popular part of their site--lots of hits. Apparently giving cover to some drooling and nasty voyeurs.
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"content": "eheck My personal belief is that Libs of TikTok and some other lesser known and more blatantly political sites are enabling some folks deeply in denial to witness things that they deem naughty. I am aware of one video of a boy performing gymnastics in drag (at a charity open stage), posted by a proud mom, that was spread by haters for political gain. The Mom immediately took the video down, shut down the FB presence and so forth. The video, however, remains online--courtesy of a right-wing site that has been fighting \"pornography\" in schools (they consider any education related to human sexuality to be pornographic) for decades. The video appears to be the most popular part of their site--lots of hits. Apparently giving cover to some drooling and nasty voyeurs.\n",
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Nicholas Kristof Local school finances in SC are in trouble, mostly because Republicans want to offer private school vouchers paid for with taxpayer money instead of using public money to improve public schools. They installed a state superintendent of education who had a special master's of education program developed for her by a private university that could be finished in 6 months, starting after her nomination. She has no experience and I would add, a poor quality degree, but she will cooperate in turning taxpayer money over to private schools. The state also returned up to $800 to each taxpayer who paid that much in income taxes, at an estimated cost of $750,000 in processing costs this year. Those who paid no taxes, usually the poorest folks, got nothing. That money plus the processing costs could have been used to improve education in the poorest communities, mostly found along I-95. As long as politicians play such games, education will suffer and so will the long-term prospects of our students.
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"content": "Nicholas Kristof Local school finances in SC are in trouble, mostly because Republicans want to offer private school vouchers paid for with taxpayer money instead of using public money to improve public schools. They installed a state superintendent of education who had a special master's of education program developed for her by a private university that could be finished in 6 months, starting after her nomination. She has no experience and I would add, a poor quality degree, but she will cooperate in turning taxpayer money over to private schools. The state also returned up to $800 to each taxpayer who paid that much in income taxes, at an estimated cost of $750,000 in processing costs this year. Those who paid no taxes, usually the poorest folks, got nothing. That money plus the processing costs could have been used to improve education in the poorest communities, mostly found along I-95. As long as politicians play such games, education will suffer and so will the long-term prospects of our students.\n",
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i expected more financial literacy from Bret at least….his understanding of wealth transfer taxes is straight out of the 1950’s. And no a family from the NY area making $400k a year doesn’t have nor will have a higher rate of audit. I as one of the families would love to see the IRS go after really big fish out there that I know exist, since I’ve worked with them for over 25 years. Here’s a hint of the problem…in the NYC metro area there are over 15,000 CPAs, want to guess how many IRS agents there are in the area? Not15,, 10,5 or even 1,000/fini
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Matt Was that Jama study you're referring to this from UK researchers? <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790520" target="_blank">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790520</a>This is from the abstract results: " light alcohol intake was associated with minimal increases in cardiovascular risk, whereas heavier consumption was associated with exponential increases in risk of both clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease." where light intake was defined as ">0-8.4 drinks/wk". So I think your timeframe is wrong, it's 2 drinks/day not week. For the record I occasionally drink socially but stopped drinking at home many years ago (I live by myself, and go months it seems these days between times that I consume alcohol.)
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"content": "Matt Was that Jama study you're referring to this from UK researchers? <a href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790520\" target=\"_blank\">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790520</a>This is from the abstract results: \" light alcohol intake was associated with minimal increases in cardiovascular risk, whereas heavier consumption was associated with exponential increases in risk of both clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease.\" where light intake was defined as \">0-8.4 drinks/wk\". So I think your timeframe is wrong, it's 2 drinks/day not week. For the record I occasionally drink socially but stopped drinking at home many years ago (I live by myself, and go months it seems these days between times that I consume alcohol.)\n",
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mark Oh, you are so wrong! It is only too long if the politician is lazy, venal, or incompetent! Senator Stabenow worked hard and got so much done for all her constituents in Michigan, and for that matter in the whole Great Lakes Region. Only those who want an ineffective government, like those that elected the clowns and entertainers who now make up the Republican Caucus in the House of Representatives can justify your type of remarks. In fact, to make government more effective and less dependent on lobbyists making policy, we just extended the lengh of service our elected State Government officials can serve! We are tired of know nothing legislators dancing into and then right back out of Lansing, accomplishing nothing but what the lobbyists tell them should be done.
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JohnH A device that did almost everything that Amazon Echo does and did not upload the audio to a could server, but a local server, would not be difficult or expensive to build. We could easily have voice integration and privacy.Why don't we? The answer is because the products are supposedized by surveillance of us and this makes them dramatically cheaper. Furthermore, it creates ongoing revenue streams, or at least the potential for them, by taking key functionality of your device and making it a service.Fortunately, enthusiast and hobbiest have developed free, safe, and secure alternatives using open source software to do much of this.
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This article should be posted in every one of the myriads of South Pacific Island chains that compromise much of the vast ocean expanse in that corner of the world. No doubt the Solomon Islands are merely the opening act of China`s huge appetite in dominating that entire region in the years to come. Beware the dragon that seeks to devour with little questions asked or answered.
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CarolinaJoe Great idea. In fact, a 2021 government report put the figure at $600 billion per year in taxes owed but uncollected - or $7 trillion for the next decade!!
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Isn't inflation a measurement of entropy flow, catching it and losing it over a short time. Isn't that a interface between the sun and the leaf. You need both. Post GFC, the banks killed the leaf to hoard capital for the NPL's. Today corporations expand their leaf to catch more & shortly they will insist on removing the fruit of trees and eating that? (household wealth transfer via immigration to reduce labor costs). Look at consumer loans post GFC, why not do that? <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/H8B1029NCBCMG" target="_blank">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/H8B1029NCBCMG</a>Look at the deposit swings in the '70's. <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/H8B1058NCBCMG" target="_blank">https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/H8B1058NCBCMG</a>
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gregolio What specific influence does "the extreme right branch of federal legislators" have on this extreme far left part of California?With Democrats owning the state and $100 billion banked during the pandemic, California is quite capable of doing whatever it and county residents deem necessary with Santa Cruz County.
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"content": "gregolio What specific influence does \"the extreme right branch of federal legislators\" have on this extreme far left part of California?With Democrats owning the state and $100 billion banked during the pandemic, California is quite capable of doing whatever it and county residents deem necessary with Santa Cruz County.\n",
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Lem You seem to skim over the facts that:Reagan doubled the national debtGHW Bush ran up as much debt as Reagan, in half the timeDubya, Inheriting what Dubya himself called “surpluses as far as the eye can see,” managed to run up 86% as much debt as had been run up by All Previous Presidents Combined. Thank goodness for the safety nets of SS and Medicare. My late brother had views much like yours. He made a good living, and carried on about the “waste, Freeloaders, lazy people, leeches”, etcHe never did anything to take care if his health, and over the last several years if his life, his health spiraled downward. He also had frequently quit jobs or been let go because he always thought he knew better than anyone else, about any topic. He ended up using emergency rooms as his health care, never of course paying a cent of the costs. He became what he loathed, a freeloader. He squeaked by on Social Security, and couldn’t afford Medigap coverage, dying at age 65, shortly after qualifying for Medicare. He never stopped saying SS and Medicare/Medicaid were wrong, even though without them, he’d have been living in a cardboardbox. He too thought if he’d been able to keep that money he’d put into SS and Medicare taxes, he’d have been fine. Of course, he’d had savings, and a good income, but he’d frittered them away or invested them foolishly. That’s why they call SS and Medicare safety nets, because they give safety even to foolish, arrogant people.
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PC Indeed, but with the current climate of public education. Where we have folks on the Right more worried about waging endless culture war battles over nonexistent issues. Than backing desperately needed STEM classes that focuses on over the horizon technology that will transform our economy for the better. We need to invest in our young people, so they can compete in a 21st century economy. So, we won't be at the mercy of China's digital economy. We will have to spend at least a trillion dollars a year just to level the battlefield.
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"content": "PC Indeed, but with the current climate of public education. Where we have folks on the Right more worried about waging endless culture war battles over nonexistent issues. Than backing desperately needed STEM classes that focuses on over the horizon technology that will transform our economy for the better. We need to invest in our young people, so they can compete in a 21st century economy. So, we won't be at the mercy of China's digital economy. We will have to spend at least a trillion dollars a year just to level the battlefield.\n",
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Brianna I am with you in wanting to build systems and trade in worker power... but you have to start by recognizing your powerlessness in the game as currently played. Corporations and C-suites did this because they can. They did it because their fear inverted from "missing out" on a feeding frenzy to margin calls and capital inversions. The one and only good thing unions could have done here is stop the wanton firings, forcing the companies to implode instead of the golden parachutes to open. I would have liked to see some tech companies suffer instead of just their workers.
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Jk The Dems, with exceptions, basically turned their backs on the New Deal coalition after the 1960s, and this opened up the door for the conservative revolution. Had the Dems stayed with, updated, and expanded FDR's New Deal, finally including everyone, there is no Reagan Revolution, Tea Party, or Trump. Give the 99% what they ask for, and the voting numbers ensure this. The Republicans can't compete with any party that decidedly helps improve quality of life, health, longevity, safety, etc. The Dems chose Republican Lite instead. That's why they lose elections to this day.
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MS, I have a mild case of that, too. I just found this webinar about cooking with arthritis, from a very reputable source: <a href="https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/daily-living/life-hacks-tips/webinar-arthritis-kitchen-hacks" target="_blank">https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/daily-living/life-hacks-tips/webinar-arthritis-kitchen-hacks</a>Here are a few of there cooking tips, including how to peel vegetables: <a href="https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/daily-living/life-hacks-tips/10-arthritis-friendly-cooking-tips" target="_blank">https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/healthy-living/daily-living/life-hacks-tips/10-arthritis-friendly-cooking-tips</a>[You might find potatoes easier to peel if you microwave or parboil them for a few minutes and allow them to cool. I love Yukon gold potatoes and those little red potatoes mashed, including the skin. Even Russet potato skins taste good. But you probably wouldn't include the skins in a fancy gratin....]My main challenge is opening jar lids, so I'm going to finally buy a jar opener. Happy cooking!
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I spent some formative years at Jeffress’ church while he was a teenager, so I know firsthand how that system works and how he was formed. Those who put him in power are fervently committed to the status quo, creating a bunker shielded from critical thinking and the actual instructions given by their version of Jesus.From that upbringing, Jeffress traveled through an insulated pipeline of church “education” that kept him safe from the sort of hard questions actual theologians must grapple with. And it kept him from learning the basic skills of how to think and reason. So now he can wave his black book in the air and say whatever comes into his head while prefacing it with “God says…”Is he culpable? I believe there was a time when I was not culpable, since that swirl of ideas and practices was all I knew. I became culpable when I began to ask those hard questions and found Jeffress’ answers sadly inadequate. The brainwashed become culpable for spreading lies when they refuse any help from outside the bunker.There are countless brilliant, open, curious people from various faith traditions who are seeking to understand and live into the truth. Jeffress was trained to hold in contempt anyone who does not share his distortions of his own tradition. When he calls other traditions “false religions,” the congregation applauds. He and Pence should get along quite well.
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$9 for organic eggs yesterday at Whole Foods on Cape Cod (Pete and Jerry brand). I made sure to be extra careful when bagging them and bringing them home. Precious commodity.
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et.al.nyc ...I don't think raising the cap to $250K wpould "solve the problem for the next 75 years"...we need to eliminate the cap...
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Cheryl ACA, Infrastructure funding, Investment in green energy that will protect the planet for future generations, protection for Social Security and Medicare, increased funding for EPA to better enforce our environmental regulations land IRA so that the fact cats pay taxes too...how about keeping the government running and funded? There has been only one party that has invested in the people of this country - the Democrats.
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Paul Bernish 'Japan, ... investing in upgrading and expanding its military capabilities.' - at the urging of Joe Biden.No one was pushing Japan to remilitarize, nor any one was pushing for German tanks rolling across Europe, until Joe Biden.'But WWII is long ago and far away', so is slavery, the inquisition, the trail of tears and the comfort women in Asia. Should we just forget about all that 'cos so long ago?
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Tom Q Due to a treaty with Canada, Great Lakes water cannot be directly exported outside the Great Lakes watershed. Significant amounts of white and soy beans, beet sugar, and fruit, all of which include at least some water, is exported from the Great Lakes region.However, most midwestern land owners are allowed to pump, filter and bottle as much ground water as they wish, provided the state authorities agree it will not affect the water table and surface streams/rivers that drain into the Great Lakes. Nestle in Michigan has already increased their bottled water production twice since opening their water bottling plant here.
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John C You could offer me $ 1 M and I would still reject pregnancy. Thankfully it's now becoming more acceptable for a person - man or woman - to admit we don't want children.
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These reps., largely from deep red districts, believe they have nothing to lose. They are dead wrong. If we don’t raise the debt ceiling, 401k’s, property values, all forms of “investment” will tank. Trillions of dollars in wealth will be lost. And, as with Nixon getting rid of the Gold Standard, America will lose more of it’s prestige and power. Oversees markets will take over. A fiscal apocalypse for us to be sure. The people of Matt Gaetz’s Florida district 1 (Pensacola), Chip Roy’s Texas district 22 (San Antonio), Lauren Boebert’s Colorado district 3 (Grand Junction) DO NOT have the right to make you and your loved ones paupers. If they want to run their bars and grills, their (alleged) trafficking services into the ground, so be it. But leave the rest of us out of it.
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"content": "These reps., largely from deep red districts, believe they have nothing to lose. They are dead wrong. If we don’t raise the debt ceiling, 401k’s, property values, all forms of “investment” will tank. Trillions of dollars in wealth will be lost. And, as with Nixon getting rid of the Gold Standard, America will lose more of it’s prestige and power. Oversees markets will take over. A fiscal apocalypse for us to be sure. The people of Matt Gaetz’s Florida district 1 (Pensacola), Chip Roy’s Texas district 22 (San Antonio), Lauren Boebert’s Colorado district 3 (Grand Junction) DO NOT have the right to make you and your loved ones paupers. If they want to run their bars and grills, their (alleged) trafficking services into the ground, so be it. But leave the rest of us out of it.\n",
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The markets tell us one thing one day and another the next. Government economic policy should not be led by what the collective psychology of the investor class tells it.Contrary to what the market is telling you, indiscriminate spending is simply not sustainable in the long run - and we’ve been doing it for a long long time already. The only two things that have been saving us over and over are (1) the USD is the world’s reserve currency and, by far, the most common trade currency, (2) we’re often the least dirty shirt in the dirty laundry basket. But how long will these two tail winds help us? China has been for years making progress in pushing the RMB on the world. Its reinvention of the “Silk Road” to the west as well as its lending to smaller nations is all in support of promoting its currency. Unless something unexpected happens, the RMB might become an alternative to the USD in the next 10 years.Once the USD is no longer required in world trade, the US’s absurd spending/debt levels will begin to have much more of an inflationary impact.We don’t have to agree, of course. But I’d rather depend on logic than be a ‘market-ones-best’ whisperer.
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"content": "The markets tell us one thing one day and another the next. Government economic policy should not be led by what the collective psychology of the investor class tells it.Contrary to what the market is telling you, indiscriminate spending is simply not sustainable in the long run - and we’ve been doing it for a long long time already. The only two things that have been saving us over and over are (1) the USD is the world’s reserve currency and, by far, the most common trade currency, (2) we’re often the least dirty shirt in the dirty laundry basket. But how long will these two tail winds help us? China has been for years making progress in pushing the RMB on the world. Its reinvention of the “Silk Road” to the west as well as its lending to smaller nations is all in support of promoting its currency. Unless something unexpected happens, the RMB might become an alternative to the USD in the next 10 years.Once the USD is no longer required in world trade, the US’s absurd spending/debt levels will begin to have much more of an inflationary impact.We don’t have to agree, of course. But I’d rather depend on logic than be a ‘market-ones-best’ whisperer.\n",
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Women are not "halflings" or somehow lacking in "spiritual qualities", they are as fully human as men. Thousands of years of priestly sexual abuse and pedophelia should clue us into the fact that requiring priests to be celibate males is a huge mistake. The Catholic Church needs to seriously update it's picture of human nature, to wit: humans are a pair-bonding animal, where adult females have no special time or season of sexual receptivity. Procreation is not the only important reason for it. Regular sex is essential for keeping the parental pair-bond going for the extended length of time it takes to raise human children in comparison to all other animals. This is human nature too. As a writer of Philosophical Anthropology before he became Pope Benedict, Cardinal Ratzinger should have done more to update the woefully mistaken official Catholic doctrine on these matters.
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"content": "Women are not \"halflings\" or somehow lacking in \"spiritual qualities\", they are as fully human as men. Thousands of years of priestly sexual abuse and pedophelia should clue us into the fact that requiring priests to be celibate males is a huge mistake. The Catholic Church needs to seriously update it's picture of human nature, to wit: humans are a pair-bonding animal, where adult females have no special time or season of sexual receptivity. Procreation is not the only important reason for it. Regular sex is essential for keeping the parental pair-bond going for the extended length of time it takes to raise human children in comparison to all other animals. This is human nature too. As a writer of Philosophical Anthropology before he became Pope Benedict, Cardinal Ratzinger should have done more to update the woefully mistaken official Catholic doctrine on these matters.\n",
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Eric Cosh There are no winners in war, only losers, AND EVEN BIGGER LOSERS.The first few lines from the opening speech by George C. Scott as Lieutenant General George S. Patton in the movie Patton say it all: "Now, I want you to remember that no [expletive] ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb [expletive] die for his country."
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Israel is doing exactly what they want with the officials that they elected to power. We would not believe for minute that the Supreme Court or the averge Israel is concerned about Palestinian rights, Palestinian land or the future negotiations for a permanent settlement to the Palestinian State. They hoodwinked the Palestinians with Camp David and Oslo with the complicit American Partnership behind closed doors.They hoodwinked American presidents directly into agreements on Jerusalem, Golan and Normalization of Relations with Arab states. They will hoodwink Biden again as they have done all of his political life. It is all in the open now. Nothing to hide. Let the world know their true intentions.
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"content": "Israel is doing exactly what they want with the officials that they elected to power. We would not believe for minute that the Supreme Court or the averge Israel is concerned about Palestinian rights, Palestinian land or the future negotiations for a permanent settlement to the Palestinian State. They hoodwinked the Palestinians with Camp David and Oslo with the complicit American Partnership behind closed doors.They hoodwinked American presidents directly into agreements on Jerusalem, Golan and Normalization of Relations with Arab states. They will hoodwink Biden again as they have done all of his political life. It is all in the open now. Nothing to hide. Let the world know their true intentions.\n",
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Yes - this. I find the single pane, rounded corner windows really bothersome. Do they open? They drew my eye instantly in every photo and bothered me a lot, like an itch I couldn’t reach.
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| no | Classification | 313 |
I would tend to believe you, Mr. Krugman, except I challenge you to name any of these wonderful policies that Biden enacted that could plausibly have worked so quickly that they directly led to the improved economy he largely inherited.There's just no there there.You could, however, easily, point to a lot of policies he's enacted and make the case they've exacerbated rather than helped the situation.The 1.9T unnecessary extra stimulus plan is, in large part, responsible for the inflation mess we're experiencing (along with the 4T Trump spent). But when Trump spent it (and I make no apology for Trump) I didn't hear a chorus of Democrat voices disagreeing with his spending glut. When Biden passed the extra 2T, it was primarily to keep the momentum on a lot of left-leaning progressive policy dreams (no rent! UBI! free healthcare!) that could only pass in an "emergency" because otherwise they would never fly.And you can't help sympathizing with people, who despite seeing relatively moderate inflation the past 6 months (as you correctly point out), look at $3.75/gal of gas and realize (also correctly) that's almost twice what it was when Biden took office; or paying $4 for a dozen eggs and remembering how for the better part of 30 years they cost 99c. Why give credit to a guy who routinely gives speeches laden with such easily verifiable inaccuracies (0% inflation! rich people only pay 2-3% income tax!) that one is not even sure he knows what an economy is?
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"content": "I would tend to believe you, Mr. Krugman, except I challenge you to name any of these wonderful policies that Biden enacted that could plausibly have worked so quickly that they directly led to the improved economy he largely inherited.There's just no there there.You could, however, easily, point to a lot of policies he's enacted and make the case they've exacerbated rather than helped the situation.The 1.9T unnecessary extra stimulus plan is, in large part, responsible for the inflation mess we're experiencing (along with the 4T Trump spent). But when Trump spent it (and I make no apology for Trump) I didn't hear a chorus of Democrat voices disagreeing with his spending glut. When Biden passed the extra 2T, it was primarily to keep the momentum on a lot of left-leaning progressive policy dreams (no rent! UBI! free healthcare!) that could only pass in an \"emergency\" because otherwise they would never fly.And you can't help sympathizing with people, who despite seeing relatively moderate inflation the past 6 months (as you correctly point out), look at $3.75/gal of gas and realize (also correctly) that's almost twice what it was when Biden took office; or paying $4 for a dozen eggs and remembering how for the better part of 30 years they cost 99c. Why give credit to a guy who routinely gives speeches laden with such easily verifiable inaccuracies (0% inflation! rich people only pay 2-3% income tax!) that one is not even sure he knows what an economy is?\n",
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I have worked my whole 33 year career in semiconductor capital equipment and in semiconductor process development. The push to onshore our semiconductor industry and build it up is a golden opportunity for U.S. manufacturing, but we have some issues that need to be addressed. Number One in this regard is a cultural obstacle that we have grown and nurtured since about 1985, when we refocused our efforts from building great things to building a billionaire class. The results are seen in reduced taxes for the wealth accumulators while forcing the wealth creators to compete with relatively unregulated foreign companies that are free to pay lower wages, ignore worker safety, and pollute. We need to rewrite our tax laws to incentivize long term domestic investment. We need to not incentivize the enrichment of shareholders over all else. In other words, we need five and ten year federal plans that can survive political rollover, that have meaningful cascading effects on tax law, worker rights, and education.
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"content": "I have worked my whole 33 year career in semiconductor capital equipment and in semiconductor process development. The push to onshore our semiconductor industry and build it up is a golden opportunity for U.S. manufacturing, but we have some issues that need to be addressed. Number One in this regard is a cultural obstacle that we have grown and nurtured since about 1985, when we refocused our efforts from building great things to building a billionaire class. The results are seen in reduced taxes for the wealth accumulators while forcing the wealth creators to compete with relatively unregulated foreign companies that are free to pay lower wages, ignore worker safety, and pollute. We need to rewrite our tax laws to incentivize long term domestic investment. We need to not incentivize the enrichment of shareholders over all else. In other words, we need five and ten year federal plans that can survive political rollover, that have meaningful cascading effects on tax law, worker rights, and education.\n",
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| yes | Classification | 8,048 |
Allowing the Democrats to force George Santos out of Congress would be a terrible mistake for Republicans because their party would lose it's most ethical, honest, and transcendent leader, forcing Republicans to seek moral guidance from a man who was fined $25 million for defrauding his fellow citizens by establishing a fake university.
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"content": "Allowing the Democrats to force George Santos out of Congress would be a terrible mistake for Republicans because their party would lose it's most ethical, honest, and transcendent leader, forcing Republicans to seek moral guidance from a man who was fined $25 million for defrauding his fellow citizens by establishing a fake university.\n",
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Lewis Dalven Hmmm. Did you read the article? "Mr. McGonigal, while working for the bureau and after he retired, concealed from the F.B.I. a relationship with a former Albanian intelligence officer from whom he received $225,000 in cash. That person became an F.B.I. source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying that Mr. McGonigal supervised, the Justice Department said in a statement." 200.000 greenbacks is a lot for "by association only."
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"content": "Lewis Dalven Hmmm. Did you read the article? \"Mr. McGonigal, while working for the bureau and after he retired, concealed from the F.B.I. a relationship with a former Albanian intelligence officer from whom he received $225,000 in cash. That person became an F.B.I. source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying that Mr. McGonigal supervised, the Justice Department said in a statement.\" 200.000 greenbacks is a lot for \"by association only.\"\n",
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Out comes the flat rate for all taxpayers from Bret. Seems easy and fair except that in terms of impact on the spectrum of taxpayers there is a big difference. At say 10% a person earning $60,000 pays $6,000 leaving $54,000; a person earning $600,000 pays $60,000 leaving $540,000. To the person on the lower end it feels like a bigger hit. Tax rates should be progressive. The larger your earnings the higher your rate. No flat tax easy solutions that benefit the wealthy please.
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"content": "Out comes the flat rate for all taxpayers from Bret. Seems easy and fair except that in terms of impact on the spectrum of taxpayers there is a big difference. At say 10% a person earning $60,000 pays $6,000 leaving $54,000; a person earning $600,000 pays $60,000 leaving $540,000. To the person on the lower end it feels like a bigger hit. Tax rates should be progressive. The larger your earnings the higher your rate. No flat tax easy solutions that benefit the wealthy please.\n",
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Rae I am the same way, I'm an open book when it comes to my five closest friends. I do the same thing, sometimes I tell my friends things even if I don't want advice or a solution, I just need to rant sometimes. I don't share as much when it comes to new people, but once they gain my trust I have no problems telling them everything.
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| no | Classification | 158 |
The abortion fight is about control and power. Control and power is, at bottom, about economics. While we are distracted by the myriad small issues in contention, the larger structures of power are moving towards economic bondage for all. These disputes are moving towards the larger proposition of personal, physical rule of the individual at the behest of the state and, by extension, the legislators that were emplaced by economic interests that bought and paid for this control.
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Mike A. Your focused on cave shadows…Medicare/Medicaid, social security & defense = 87% of federal spending.
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"content": "Mike A. Your focused on cave shadows…Medicare/Medicaid, social security & defense = 87% of federal spending.\n",
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Sirlar Do not forget that it is far from a level playing field. Many of these companies have only been succesful with massive investment from their local governments, making it especially impossible for any other company or any other locale to compete without matching subsidies. As a case in point, when the Biden administration announced their $50-billion (ish) investments, the Chinese government announced new investments of over $100B. In addition to incentives, the US will have to start enforcing export control and IP rules on nations that are not competing fairly. I fear this might get ugly fairly quickly...
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"content": "Sirlar Do not forget that it is far from a level playing field. Many of these companies have only been succesful with massive investment from their local governments, making it especially impossible for any other company or any other locale to compete without matching subsidies. As a case in point, when the Biden administration announced their $50-billion (ish) investments, the Chinese government announced new investments of over $100B. In addition to incentives, the US will have to start enforcing export control and IP rules on nations that are not competing fairly. I fear this might get ugly fairly quickly...\n",
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Carvana is not a technology company. Carvana is an online used car dealer.Zillow is not a technology company. Zillow is an online real estate broker.Technology companies, by definition, invent new things. That's how they survive and thrive.Therein lies the problem. Some businesses believe that copying-and-pasting the word "tech" - or derivatives thereof - to their name or mission statement magically transforms their otherwise mundane and old business model into some Magical New Thing, full of untold and unlimited riches. It doesn't. A used car dealer is still a used car dealer.In final analysis, Slack is still a glorified IRC server, and Salesforce paid USD $28 Billion for it.
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"content": "Carvana is not a technology company. Carvana is an online used car dealer.Zillow is not a technology company. Zillow is an online real estate broker.Technology companies, by definition, invent new things. That's how they survive and thrive.Therein lies the problem. Some businesses believe that copying-and-pasting the word \"tech\" - or derivatives thereof - to their name or mission statement magically transforms their otherwise mundane and old business model into some Magical New Thing, full of untold and unlimited riches. It doesn't. A used car dealer is still a used car dealer.In final analysis, Slack is still a glorified IRC server, and Salesforce paid USD $28 Billion for it.\n",
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RLW The law hasn't been updated to allow stiffer penalties. There was a time, not long ago, where 1.6 million dollars could crush a company.
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This brings to mind Chris Christie's stunningly imbecilic decision to cancel the Access to the Region's Core project in the name of "cost containment." The ARC would have constructed 2 new high-speed rail tunnels under the Hudson from NJ to Penn Station as well as renovating the existing 2 tunnels, and the construction of a new NY station. The approximate cost of 11 billion (in 2009) was fully funded and yes he was probably right that there would have been cost overruns - which would have been shared by NJ, NY, and the Port Authority - but the benefits would have been enormous: higher capacity for passengers and freight, shorter transit times, and yes revenue from the toll portion of ticket prices. Big projects cost big dollars but can reap enormous benefits that justify the time and expense. However, they require enlightened leadership to be implemented. The ARC, had it gone forward, would have been finished 5 years ago.The current Hudson Tunnel project is estimated to cost 30 billion, and take 10 years to complete once started.In the meantime, the disastrously inadequate tunnels that are used by NJ Transit and Amtrak are all we have.Thanks again, Chris.
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American businesses sold us short. Instead of continuing to train and hire Americans to do the jobs, they outsourced to other countries. What did they think would happen? This is not limited to IT or chip manufacturing. The focus on quarterly results as a substitute for long term results has put us in this situation. So has the practice of hiring long term temps. Investing isn't going to solve the problems here. If companies want skilled workers they have to be willing to pay them a decent wage. They have to offer better benefits. Two to three weeks vacation time is nothing compared to what our peer countries allow. Our health care benefits are worthless because of high deductibles, narrow networks, co-pays, the constant turnover of physicians in networks, and the difficulties involved in getting care, period. We need a national plan. We need a better education system. It's not enough to know how to read, to do simple arithmetic, or to fill out an application. High school graduates should be able to understand 12th grade level material. This country needs do better on teaching critical thinking skills. Businesses need to truly value their employees instead of saying they do. Most people do not feel valued at work. We feel exploited, abused, and underpaid.
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Disinformation: "Fact: US spending over $100 billion on a war we have no interest in and the US Congress refused to add tracking of the where the last $45Billion will be spent."Fact: United States and the rest of the free world have a monumental interest in the war happening in Ukraine.
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If an investigator goes into an investigation with the assumption that a Justice or their spouse could not have done it; they are not going to see any lead which points in that direction as credible.But it is not surprising as this Supreme Court is not known for having an open mind going into a case.
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I've been out of the workforce since 2007 but am always interested in how things have changed. I was lucky to retire at 55 and "live" my life. I was, over the course of 34 years fired twice, passed over for promotion once and made the mistake of accepting a position I instantly hated once. So, all in all I did pretty well in "the rat race". Being fired was no picnic but it always lead to better things. It just stung (badly) in the moment. Applying today's standards, I could have sued one of my employers for harassment but we hadn't progressed to that level of awareness yet. (I had spurned the advances of my female boss and was let go on the pretext of being a "bad fit".) The other time I was fired I ended up using my time to change careers, take a new position with less pay but solid training and loved the career choice I ended up making and wished I'd done it sooner. Today it seems like the current generation(s) understand that beibng "let go" comes with the job, and wisely plan accordingly, give just enough to succeed and don't invest their entire being in the "place". It always hurts to be let go but I think the current workforce is more attuned and accepts the possibility of being cast aside, and accepts positions knowing nothing is ever permanent.
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Americans have no clue how the border actually works. It’s not a column of migrants — it’s a column of industry. Do you like your car? Do you want another one? How about your TV? Do you know that the AMERICAN jobs depend on Mexican assembly? The parts stream back and forth multiple times before delivery with workers on both sides of that border and the northern one. ‘Shutting the border” cannot work because it’s not 1900. And we cannot onshore all of this work because we literally do not have the human beings for all of this work. And if you think this will solve the opioid crisis you’re incorrect, too, because it’s about demand. The simplicity of MORE GUNS! Shoot them! Shut the border! Unfortunately will not solve these complex issues. What will? Actual investment in the economy of Mexico and exceptionally long-term investment in our own rehabilitation culture to prevent addiction; solve it when it’s endemic, and far more open discussion about the pipeline from pain meds for an acute injury to illegal opiate use.
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This is the same clown that declared no link between Trump and Russia in 2016. $10 says he was in Putin's back pocket the whole time.
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"content": "This is the same clown that declared no link between Trump and Russia in 2016. $10 says he was in Putin's back pocket the whole time.\n",
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And what is the most evil part of a brand name the dealership does guys are the scammers that should be put down like a rabid dawgs! A realife example is my 2003 chevy/gm longbed truck bought less than 4 years after its manufacture; it had an enormously powerful Isuzu engine from Japan, (that had 5 more cylinders than the internationally known 3 cylinder engine in my Iseki compact tractor), but rather than let the Japanese surly engineer out even the evaporative emission controls, Federally mandated, GM decided to use an aftermarket looking filter/emissions unit on top of this “duramax” (said like gm designed it... which they did NOT; engine made in Japan). Well within the 10 year federally mandated emissions standards some of these trucks had basically vapor lock problems with this aftermarket filter/emissions contraption that although it was installed at the factory it never was designed very well, and what these DEALERSHIPS would do is tell the customer/vehicle owner that they had to replace the injectors on eight cylinders! this operation, guaranteed by the manufacture GM cost $5000 approximately not including the $200 oil change, and you know what this was performed twice On my big long bed pick up truck, and after the last time the car stalled in my driveway and sits their, no longer covered by The scam artist dealership; and since he never worked on a diesel truck it took about a month and a half to do this job
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When we bought our house, we had a real estate lawyer on the closing to make sure that all the paperwork was correctly done and properly filed. It was a very minor cost and one that we felt was worthwhile.If you want to take your chances, that's your decision and, in most cases, you can certainly opt out of having legal oversight. We were putting a lot of money into this investment and wanted to make sure that everything was properly done.
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"content": "When we bought our house, we had a real estate lawyer on the closing to make sure that all the paperwork was correctly done and properly filed. It was a very minor cost and one that we felt was worthwhile.If you want to take your chances, that's your decision and, in most cases, you can certainly opt out of having legal oversight. We were putting a lot of money into this investment and wanted to make sure that everything was properly done.\n",
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