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My favorite story is the one about the 12 billion dollar investment in a new microchip plant. In Arizona. The single biggest requirement for production? Water. Did I mention the Arizona part? And what about all those high end techies moving in? Talk about a needy bunch.
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Mark Stanford closed down its Center for Integrated Systems -- a center for process development and equipment design. CIS used to work closely with the industry and produced a lot of the engineers for the chip equipment industry. The facilities were repurposed for something more Fed funding-friendly.U.S. academic research and thus graduate training is dominated by Federal government. It seems that the bureaucrats in DC have little understanding and appreciation of critical technologies in making R&D funding policy. Sometime in the 2000-2005 period, DARPA and NSF seem to have decided that CMOS technology was "mature" and reduced funding in many areas. Big mistake. We cannot fix a problem that is two to three decades in the making by throwing $50B to $100B now. It'll just be corporate welfare.
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Humphrey Claim many already are. Texas running back bison Robinson was offered $6mil in NIK money if he remained for one more season
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Regarding the last letter with the friend owing money for the concert ticket, I'm going to share my repayment request that has never failed to collect. This has to be at least your second request and well past the time they should have paid:I'm not someone who gets too worked up about money. I know when I lend money to someone that there's always the possibility that they won't pay me back. Can you let me know if you're going to pay me back the $400? The last time we talked about it, you said you were going to repay it. But if that's not the case, please just tell me now so I can just forget about it. I'd really prefer you just be honest about it. Thanks.
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Debt arguments can be rational or they can be irrational. About 45% of Americans have mortgages, which is debt and that debt is something like 25-30% of monthly (or yearly) income. Since I was 30 something, I have carried a mortgage on my house so that is 40+ years of being in debt. I raise this issue after reading a lot of people arguing that debt is just plain "bad". Debt is the single most important human invention for commerce and business. It allows us to build in the future without having to save for years thus making Capital (as in Capitalism).If there is a "sin" here it is lowering taxes for short term "boost" for business (CEO salaries and wealthy people playing "Investement") rather than putting it into reserves. We got caught with the pandemic which cost a lot to keep familes and small businesses afloat. Same thing with the Morgage Bust in 2008. It is misuse of debt that is most galling.
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This is fantastic. And not to take away from the story but ... $800 for an epi pen is criminal.
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The size of debt is important, but without substantial debt, our life will be near miserable.An average 30 year-old, middleclass American who has a job like that of teacher, which is stable with a salary of around $60,000 annually, who is married with two children aged five and three; spouse also has a (part-time) job, bringing around $30,000. If they own a house, with a mortgage debt of $200,000 and cars with $40,000-debt, we may see this substantial debt "acceptable." If this couple waits until they have saved up enough money to own a house or cars, they are putting themselves in close to unbearable strain and discomfort. There is a significant risk in incurring $240,000 debt when their income is only $90,000 a year. But if they are careful, as most people are, they can manage.And the size of our national debt is not that much different.A good way to tackle the $31 trillion debt is by taxing the very-well-off a "tiny bit" more, not as they would be paying in the Eisenhower-presidency, but a lot more than in the Reagan presidency, even a bit more than in the Clinton presidency:Those who make over $10 million annually ought to pay at 50% rate on their earnings over $10 million, with two more rates between 37% and 50%. Then a few other taxations on financial transactions, wealth tax but much lower than Elizabeth Warren recommended.
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Bret Stephens is entitled to his opinion , but if it comes to economicsI will go with Ambrose Evans Pritchard who has an impressive recordAnd this is how he sees China, economicallyChina's apparent return to the fold at Davos raises hopes of a quick economic rebound Vice-premier Liu He, the economic plenipotentiary of Xi Jinping’s China, told a gathering of business leaders and ministers in Davos that China is back inside the tent and eager to restore the money-making bonhomie of the golden years. “We must let the market play the fundamental role in the allocation of resources, and let the government play a better role. Some people say China will go for the planned economy. That’s by no means possible,” he said.The green shoots of the next Chinese economic boom are already emerging.China's vice-premier Liu He stressed that the country was open for business again after two years of disruption Credit: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg“The technology sector is moving full steam ahead. We’re seeing the inflows come back through our China Connect and have got a hundred tech companies lining up to go public,” said Nicolas Aguzin, head of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange The Telegraph, UK, Jan 17
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By the way—those egghead academical types some of y’all are so pleased to be sneering at?Well, they told you this was coming starting about two centuries ago. Marx told you that commodification and the resultant melting away of every cultural institution was inherent in the logic of capitalism.Walter Benjamin told you that the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction was built on copies, not originals. Orwell told you that bureaucracies tended to just rewrite everything, endlessly.McLuhan told you that print was going bye-bye; “post-modernists,” (they’re not really, but who cares) from Habermas to Debord to Lyotard to Derrida told you what was happening to the whole idea of, “knowledge.” Foucault told you that technologies rewrite knowledge and people. Folks like Delany and Haraway told you decades ago that we were cyborging ourselves, and a good thing too. And what was it that you thought the rise of the Total Right-Wing Phony meant?As for a college solution, try this: do what the NHRA does, and separate classes into top gas and top fuel categories. On the record.Top gas, no tech at all. You get to talk, discuss, argue, write, take exams, hit the library. The prof and TAs are engaged, helpful, accessible, demanding. You cheat, we kick you out.Top fuel, anything goes. There is no cheating. Your instructors are every bit as intelligent, honest, thoughful, hard-working as you are. Which is to say they ain’t gonna do jack, go talk to your chatbot.
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I don't think Krugman is off base by pointing out how much of Congress is owned by lobby influence and dark money.Why do you think Kirsten Sinema (D-AZ) voted to slice the impact of legislation that reduced drug costs? Her big pharma funders didn't like the idea of Medicare being able to negogiate lower drug costs. The GOP in Congress killed the section which would have lowered insulin costs for all Americans to $35. They only alloqed that provision for seniors.Right wing libertarian billionaire Charles Koch's political PAC, Americans For Prosperity which has chapters in 38 states, spent millions of dollars in 2019 & 2020 campaigning against Medicaid expansion in states. Missouri's voters passed a state constitutional amendment in 2020 to direct their state to expand access to healthcare/Medicaid with 53% of the vote. AFP lobbied against it, and the GOP dominated state legislature refused to fund the expansion in both chambers ignoring what the people mandated. In other words they gave the voters the finger. (That's not democracy folks, that's partisan despotism!)I think voter ignorance drives too much of the despotism we are seeing now in our body politic.So do outrageous rulings like Citizens United. And it is what gives the greedy and unscrupulous hard right wing billionaires like Koch so much sway. The GOP in the House will hold SS & Medicare hostage during the debt ceiling fight. They don't care how it will hurt there own constituents.
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David Henry I have an order in on a Chevy Bolt. After incentives, it's going to end up being $25K. Had I gone with a lower trim level, it could have been $18K. Those prices are comparable or lower than a Corolla or Civic.I plan on using it mostly for commuting, errand running, and other local driving. It can go about 250 miles on a charge. Most days (when I drive -- I have a hybrid work schedule now) I drive 50-60 miles. Since I have the ability to charge at home, it will start out every morning with a full battery. No trips required to gas stations, ever. It is supremely convenient.We already have two plug in hybrids. One is over 100K miles and is doing fine. If I need to take a road trip, another family member will use the Bolt and I'll use one of the plug in hybrids. I expect this might happen a handful of times a year.
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DennisMontefiore and Mount Sinai are expensive to run but they aren't for profit institutions. Also, you might have missed the part of the article that says the Montefiore system declared a $200 million loss last year. The problems are much more complex than you may want to believe.
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Kurt Pickard Do you realize that Trump added almost $8 trillion to the deficit during his one term? What I find strange is that very often we respond to "one shot and then run" comments from Trumpers. There is no debate, just theatrics and nonsense.
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I have to say the NJ Turnpike expansion between the PA Turnpike and 8A exit WAS successful - it has eliminated congestion. Since the 1970s, I’ve been getting stuck in traffic in that stretch. Since the opening of the expansion (aka, elimination of the shift from 6 lanes to 3) I haven’t been stuck once in years. I’d say the same is true for the Exit 14 expansion mentioned in this article. With the port/truck traffic expanding (and stealing business from LA), a lane for the trucks to get from the NJ Turnpike to the Bayonne exit is necessary. This is as much a business issue (I.e., trucks, port growth) as a residential commuter issue. Now if we can just get that train tunnel from Penn Station to NJ expanded, we could help the commuters. But we will likely wait until an accident and it cuts off ALL train traffic from the continental US to NYC.
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Jin Defang I dont think Chinese leaders consider this as aid, it is investment in strategic interests. Just like the false islands China build to secure its ridicouless claim over most of the South China sea.
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Stan I feel like we are seeing a repeat of the 5th century AD...an increasing Christian orthodoxy that wants to wipe away secular and open learning and plunge us into a second dark age. The Muslim world is already there.
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Dr. John way too much hay is being made about the national debt. While the national debt has risen to $31T the total wealth (not GDP) of the nation is approaching $300T
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Just one point to make here - even if China opened the doors to immigration it wouldn't resolve the issue of a shrinking and aging society for a number of reasons:- China would be competing with more attractive countries for immigrants (i.e. the West)- China is so huge that it wouldn't attract enough immigrants to offset natural population loss once that accelerates - There is ongoing emigration from China. Bottom Line: Immigration isn't likely to solve China's problems.
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If 6 in 10 Americans do not have $500. in savings how exactly has captalism 'lifted us out of poverty'?
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Why would "Russia’s elites conclude that it is as dangerous for Russia to leave Ukraine as to stay"? Would they believe giving up would give NATO, the EU and the U.S. an open invitation to invade? Or are they only concerned about humiliation in defeat? If any of the Russia decision makers (especially Putin, of course) was thinking rationally they'd realize they made a huge mistake by invading Ukraine, and should quietly seek a way out were they can save face, and get their $300 billion.
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God forbid these naive, inexperienced, non-reality living Youngz listen to people who experienced some of the same things when they were young.FYI; Youngz, your experiences are only contextually different, but the details are all the same as they were 20, 40, 50+ years ago! Rent is high! Always has been. Food costs too much. Always did. Amenities, and frivolities draining your income? Same. While the costs are now numerically higher, they were still high decades ago, when a than Young person was starting out. This is exactly why we Oldz scoff when a Youngz complains."When Ms. Fairless was living at home, she gave her mother $300 a month. Now, she gives her $200. She also saves about $160 a month for retirement in a 401(k) plan, puts $100 in a stock portfolio and tries to save $50 to $200 in a savings account."Are you kidding me!? When I was 25, I couldn't imagine making $65K, and having that sort of discretionary income. I bet she has health insurance too! I didnt! And I was working in a fairly risky industry. I think the underlying issue here, is that these Youngs, at least the first two featured females - expected the world to be their own pearl-filled oyster. Many of their parents (Boomers?) sold them a bill of goods, said they were special and would achieve great things. That had they been paying attention and not drilled into their social media, they would have noticed was not real.I knew life would be harder when I hit adulthood, why not these "adults"?
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Senior Citizen Don't forget the 2 billion dollar Saudi investment into Jarrod's thingamajig.
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Re: The likely answer is that Trump’s anti-globalism, his promise to Make America Great Again, had less to do with trade balances and job creation than with a sense that snooty foreigners considered us chumps. Paul Volcker , at age 91, NY Times InterviewMr. Volcker is no great fan of the president, but he acknowledged that Mr. Trump had cannily recognized the economic worries of blue-collar workers. Mr. Trump “seized upon some issues that the elite had ignored,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question about that, in kind of an erratic way, but there it is.” He wondered how many lectures and presentations he had sat through with economists “telling us open markets are wonderful, everybody benefits from open markets.” ... concern was dismissed too easily, with talk of worker retraining or some other solution far easier said than done. NY Times Oct. 23, 2018 I agree with Volcker . As did Foreign PolicyForeign Policy Economists on the Run Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House? Foreign Policy October 22, 2019It did hurt Americans far more than they thought... and Trump cannily tapped into it
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Kelly Grace Smith -- the question, of course, is what can be done about the impacts that rising costs have on you, personally. That's always the most important question. So, politically speaking, the question for who should you be voting for comes down to this: which party's policies will change your own, personal situation for the better? Will a 30% sales tax on your spending impact you less, when you spend every cent you take home, than your current tax load? Will privatizing your Social Security, with a little trim along the way, and cutting into your Medicare, and giving you the privilege of working two, three, or even more years longer before you can collect it benefit you personally? Whose policy proposals will bring the most beneficial prospects for you, personally? When I look at the proposals of both political parties - the "liberals" who want rich people to pay higher taxes, and want to spend more to improve the social safety net that catches struggling working and middle class people... and I look at the "conservatives" who want to cut, cut, cut -- and tell me how much better things will be for me, as they lie about everything else - well I have made my choice. Good luck with yours.
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(1) as WSB says to everyone - Welcome South, Brother. Come down here to a better world,(2) Please don't come down to the South and turn it into NYC - you left there for a reason, it works down here, please don't export your politics and turn our working societies into a mirror of NY's non working societies.As for the article - this really upset me: "Eric Adams, New York’s second Black mayor, has vowed to create a more affordable city to stem the “hemorrhaging of Black and brown families.” "Why not - "hemorrhaging of families.". Nope - doesn't care if white or asian families leave, he only wants to stop black and brown families from leaving. I am not surprised people are leaving. As a mentioned in another post, for a position paying $ 100,000 more than I earn in south Florida, my take home increased only $ 1,800 a month (when i factored in same style of living - similar apartment amenities, etc), so why put up with all that for $ 22,000 more a year? Not worth it when is 82 degrees here today on Jan 31. The South has issues, but boy is it better than NYC..
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How so? FOX was all in when the FED left interest rates at zero for all of Trumps term. And now under Biden, the scream about inflation? Inflation is big business getting its hands on our money. It's how business taxes the public. And the FED'S raising interest rates imagines that you and I don't just pay those increases, that they impact only investors. It's all nonsense. Republicans love to pretend the FED isn't its toy, but we should know better. Those of us who lived through the FED actions of the 1970s and watched Reagan raise taxes to stop inflation (it wasn't the FED). We know what works and what doesn't. Raising taxes on corporate investment and earnings will reduce taxes quickly. But it won't happen because Republican lies work better than anything. The FED is lying.
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Bluebirds for Democracy Go outside any of the larger towns and it’s like Appalachia. Just a mile or two outside of Palm Beach, it’s run down strip malls and people that have never been to a dentist. Not just poverty, but extreme poverty. With the major corporate monopolies today, government, has to provide some stimulus to the proletariat. No one is opening a hardware store next to a Home Depot. Healthcare everywhere is a ripoff but in depressed areas it’s worse. DeSantis, has only one thing to offer, no State Income tax. So he has no money, and nothing is going to change. Florida, could be like California, one of the greatest economies in the world. But, he’s hanging on to the edge of the pool, and doubling down on divisive conservative memes. On his re-election, he should have bumped up the State Tax on the wealthy, and hit the gas peddle on the economy. Rich people aren’t going to leave! No guts, no glory.
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This has probably been said already, but right now there's not much at stake having a stalled House. It's less inconvenient than a government shutdown, by far. We'll be fine without a Speaker, and all that implies, until there's a threat of default on the national debt. At which time, miraculously many intransigent House Republicans will be visited by representatives of wealthy Republican donors, and voila, there will be Republican Speaker. Possibly it will be Matt Gaetz who gets to the mic first to proclaim victory, that he and his mates got exactly what they wanted.The other possibility is that the circus just gets stale and nobody pays attention any more, meaning the Clown Caucus has to find another tactic to attract attention.
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Eric B Wordle 579 4/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜ 90 4 252 "Strong, Unlucky"⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 88 16 26 "Wonderful, Unlucky"⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ 88 55 2 "Solid"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 92 76 "Excellent"Skill 89 Luck 38After a rocky start, I was happy to solve this one in four steps and maintain my streak. With a null set after my opener, I went vowel hunting on my second guess. Consonants were the target on the third attempt which left me with just two words. With luck that had eluded me on the first two choices, I picked the right word and beat the Bot. So far, no one in our group has solved in three steps or less. I hope this one does not break anyone's streak.Yesterday's Wordle 578 3/6* Skill Luck W/L🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 95 11 231 Atone ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 95 73 4 Sharp🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 95 86 ChardSkill 95 Luck 57The second guess attempted to place the lone "a." "Sharp" worked out to be a great choice. I only thought of two words, "charm" and "chard", and remembered that "charm" had been a solution so "chard" had to be the answer. I did not think about "wharf" or "chary" until after the analysis. I didn't even know that "chary" was a word. BTW, I mistakenly typed in 2 for W/L at the second step confusing what I had thought with the results of the Bot analysis.Cheers. Have a great Thursday!
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Avatar I have no family, intentionally did not reproduce, and am very liberal, just returned from a local abortion rally in fact, at age 73, where the Raging Grannies sang in protest!i have been volunteering a lot for 24 years on Democratic campaigns and I have no biological future investment. A lot of my peers with children are clueless and a-political.One doesn't have to have genetic progeny to be concerned about future generations.
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Dan Amurica 2024 - after the borders are closed, farmers in the USA hire white latte suburbanites at $250 an hour to harvest purple kale in order to feed the bottomless appetite of Warren Buffet, who now eats -no, DEMANDS!- 60,000 tons of the purple wonder every day for breakfast as part of his new "live forever" scheme. Social Security balance is restored. Government debt is erased. Economy is now solved. Economists all quit, saying "we should have SEEN it!? Why didn't we SEE it?! So obvious! Much known! Right there, all along!"
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James Surgeons wear masks mainly to keep the operating room sterile to keep bacteria from infecting an open wound. Masks help a lot with bacteria and droplets. Not so much for tiny viruses that get into the air and into the patient's lungs.
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david - PhRMA companies also calculate how much $$ they will spend on promotional expenses for new drugs, including direct-to-consumer advertising, sales & marketing expenses, rebate $$ to PBMs, stock share buy-backs, CEO stock options, congressional lobbying, and creative patent-extending activities.For the record, many big PhRMA companies now buy newly developed drugs/biologicals from investor-funded start-up companies that cannot afford the clinical trials and FDA approval process. So, the R&D is generally not always fully paid by the big PhRMA company.
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The optimism about battery-only EVs in the USA is wildly misplaced. Yes, they make lots of sense for local.and regional fleets, some commuters and seniors who would otherwise drive a golf cart. But this is still the very early days. No one had any sense of how to make a public charger profitable in the way a gas station is, and the charging infrastructure is already behind in many areas even though only a few people have BEVs. When people face real crowding and hours of waiting at public chargers, it will ruin their summer vacation or Thanksgiving weekend. They will then go running to either a gasoline hybrid or hydrogen-powered car, because the refueling will be so much easier. Refueling is simply the biggest differentiator possible among cars, it just happens to have been a non-factor when every car ran on gasoline. BEVs are unlikely to ever go beyond niche status. Getting from one percent to ten percent of market share is certainly possible, but this is not evidence that there is a pathway to one hundred percent for this technology. Once it is clear that we will need some percentage of cars to run on hydrogen, the BEV chargers will go from "not yet profitable" to "no hope of profitability". Hydrogen will then grow a fueling network very similar to today's gas stations and displace most non-fleet BEV sales. It is all about refueling time and sustainable - that is, profitable - refueling infrastructure.
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Frank Purdy Investing in public transit is always smart, of course. But population is not dense enough to support public transit in most of the country, so there is a big role for EVs too. Our two-car family has only EVs. We charge both almost entirely at home. It's true that long trips are more challenging with an EV, but they are increasingly feasible. For example, max charge rate is only 50kW for our 2017 Bolt, vs. 260kW for our 2022 Hyundai Ioniq5. With the latter, I have actually gotten 230kW on several occasions -- fast enough to add 200 miles of range in 15 minutes. Still not as fast as filling a gas tank, but acceptable as far as my family is concerned.
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$20 million dollar is nothing. It should have been way more.
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As a neuropsychologist who evaluates and treats 500 dementia patients per year, a published researcher and test developer, now in my 45th year of practice, I welcome any new treatments that can improve outcomes. Having said that, I think that the most important comparison, the addition of lecunamab to patients currently being treated with cholinesterase inhibitors plus memantine (the current state of the art) has not been demonstrated, in my opinion. The current meds do work, not so much to improve cognition but to delay decline and have shown efficacy extending five years. So anything new, especially at high cost and with potential severe adverse effects, needs to answer the question, "how is this better?" I await this data before recommending it to my patients.
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“Gold has fluctuated between being a terrific investment and a terrible one.”The late Jack Bogle who founded Vanguard and the world’s first index fund once said, “Gold isn’t an investment AT ALL!” I agree with Mr. Bogle. Gold is just a thing. It’s a piece of rare metal. It differs from crypto, because it wasn’t invented and it’s something you can actually hold in your hand. It makes no more sense using it as a currency than any other precious item that can be easily divided. Salt, I heard, was once used as a currency, hence the saying, “Someone isn’t worth their salt.” Buying gold as an investment is pure speculation. It produces nothing and therefore pays nothing. It’s only similar to Bitcoin in that respect.
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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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Meanwhile the Government are going to spend a billion pounds on a coronation this May for a privileged family while fourteen million people are struggling to heat or eat this winter.
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susie Not sure we know why Santos ran (although this was his second effort), and we don't know where the $700k came from that he supposedly "lent" to his campaign... leaving aside the fact that he seems to have tried to run that loan through his own corporation as a straw donor, which is illegal. I'd like to know where the money came from. To whom is this guy beholden, anyway? We don't know who Santos really is, what he's about, whether he's just another grifter and con man or whether he's a compromised asset of some country that is not our friend. For sure he's a fraud. It can only be a matter of time before his campaign finance arrangements fetch him up against the law.Hope the NYT and other papers with the resources will keep digging. Meanwhile as far as I'm concerned, Santos is a millstone around the neck of every Republican in the House. He sullies their reputation and that of the GOP for as long as he remains a member of Congress. I hope the media make the Republican leadership feel like their clocks aren't even working... with each day another slow drip drip drip of shame and wonderment about what else will turn up today and the next day and the next day after that about their swell Republican congressman Mr. Santos from the NY03 district.
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America has the opportunity to fully reinvigorate NATO with the ascension of the Nordics, and eventually Ukraine. The Russians have been successful at spreading their influence in Italy, Hungary, Serbia, Moldova and other countries on NATO’s Southeast flank. Since they are now strategic partners with China, we cannot ignore a growing threat.There is little reason to keep the Abrams in America; they are difficult to move and are of limited use in the Indo-PAC competition with China. During earlier periods of Soviet threat we kept hundreds of our best tanks in Germany. We also had full repair facilities, which we should also rebuild. The Abrams is the right weapon system for Ukraine’s fight for survival.
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Mr Alter . Do you not wonder why $1000.00 an hour attorneys are moving boxes for Biden right before the election ? Could the boxes have contained incriminating evidence for the Big guy and his son Hunter ? If they did you can be sure that the incriminating documents met Mr Shredder . And then they made up the cover story .They then wait until after the election to mention a few documents found by accident . Both Trump and Biden need some time in Lock up
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Don’t you have an open-primary system where it’s conceivable Schiff and Porter could be the two candidates in November?
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AnObserver the world doesn't exist to serve everyone at every possible hour. you know even in NYC, the city that never sleeps, almost every single restaurant, we're talking over 99% of them, is closed by midnight? do you know most businesses that stay open 24 hours are forced to charge higher prices to offset the labor and utility costs when there are very few customers around?
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"The one" myth isn't inherently damaging. The reality is - " WE" have to be the ones we are waiting for FIRST before entering into a partnership and choosing to be with a partner every single day. It's a deliberate choice. Our relationship with ourself is the only " one" that lasts a lifetime. Solve and heal, love yourself and the right partner while come into your life and you can decide every day whether to choose the person as the one you are currently investing in. Secondly Dan Savage as oppossed to Ester Perel for example is lacking knowledge in the history of eros, desire and marriage. He also ignores attachment theory, and sex /love addiction which are prevalent issues in the both the LGBTQ community and straight. You CANNOT have an educated conversation on open marriages without understanding both attachment theory and sexual addiction/trauma.
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If I could get my own memo onto President Biden's desk about the new Israeli government, I would simply highlight that portion of George Washington's farewell address where he inveighs against entangling, foreign alliances:". . .a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite Nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite Nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the Nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained; and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation."Words of wisdom from one of the greatest men any country has produced.
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I teach at a leading public research university. Here are the challenges: We cannot move to handwritten final exams because 20-30% of our students have some form of academic accommodation - certified by a medical professional - that gives them more time on final exams or exempts them completely from handwritten work. Our classes are big, so holding individual oral exams is impossible. Banning the technology is futile - there are ways around every barrier we could impose at the university level. For most take-home assignments, the majority of students submit work that can easily written by an AI bot, often with greater clarity than the students can accomplish themselves.At the same time, the technology opens up new ways to write, but students need to learn how to write and craft an argument or solve problems themselves to make effective use of an AI bot. The "A" students will always be fine, but the "B" students can't do that. I can assure you that "detecting AI-generated work" is an arms race that cannot be won in the long run. And lastly, I wonder if what we teach is really worth our while when a majority of student work can be done by an AI model. The economy will need only one good writer working with AI where before it needed ten.
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worldsgreatest 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 You tax the incoming shirt. We need $5 shirts because a server at Applebee's can only afford a $5 one. The people making the $10 one can afford to buy the more expensive with higher wages. Very simple explanation. There is a happy medium naturally. Also -- the cost to the world in waste making a cheap $5 is huge.
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Per a February 7, 2007 article in The Guardian: The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.All credit goes to George Bush and Dick Cheney for a fiasco that cost the U.S. trillions of dollars, which pales in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of lives lost and living-for-life wounded soldiers and civilians.And now the Iraqis denude their own land.
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It’s easier to build strong children than it is to fix broken men(and women) —Frederick DouglassThis holds true for American children living in poverty or the many just getting by. This is a wealthy Country and it’s children are it’s greatest asset—all money spent on children’s heath, education and livelihood is the most solid investment any Country can make
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Don’t these royals have any shame? After the reported $100 million for the Netflix series we now get this. How much will be before it’s enough?
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It's pretty obvious where the $700k came from...Koch, Mercer, any number of that cult...maybe even Gingrich or Trump.Follow the money and you will learn exactly who knew he was a pathological liar, a priori.
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Prathap In Canada you would pay well less than 2k per month.Come to Canada. Repeat. Come to Canada. Your eyelids are getting heavy. Come to Canada ...
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While I didn’t like Trump, he had a valid point that European partners were not meeting their defence spending commitments (of 2% of GDP). During the Cold War era, the then West Germany was heavily militarised to halt a potential Soviet advance from the Iron Curtain. However, unlike the US which maintained high defence spending levels even in the post-Cold War period, Western European countries cut back on such spending as soon as the Iron Curtain fell and perceived threat emanating from those countries ceased to be. And unlike 1991, Germany is now heavily dependent on Russia for oil and gas (and both economies are more integrated). This raises the economic costs of Berlin taking a hard line against Moscow. Furthermore, neighbours like Poland might be opposed to German remilitarisation. Warsaw recently accused Berlin of planning the inception of a “Fourth Reich”. So historical memory and misgivings from neighbours prompt German officials to thread lightly around the issue of militarisation.Also, in another part of the world, Japan - a US ally - has finally committed to raising its defence spending to above its official threshold of 1% of GDP (in order to meet the China challenge).
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Not a good choice amongst any of them. That said, McDaniel spent some $75k on makeup and spa treatments during her resign. If you feel you can write off that much in party funds to make you look presentable and unstressed, perhaps you should find another line of work.
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FxQ I agree with you. Additionally, I am seeing more and more people driving around in $75,000 pick-up trucks. Where is the money coming from? I make a decent living, but am in no position to spend $75k on a vehicle. And I live by the King of Prussia mall. It is packed. All the time. So if 70% of America can not afford a $400 emergency, again, where is the money coming from?? This is definitely a house of cards scenario.
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PAN You are in luck!!!North Carolina is an open carry state.<a href="https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/what-is-open-carry-and-which-states-allow-it" target="_blank">https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/what-is-open-carry-and-which-states-allow-it</a>/So, please, the next time that you see someone carrying a gun please go ahead and initiate an assault against them. Should you survive you will discover that no, the law is NOT on your side. Whoever initiates violence is wrong. Aggression is wrong. Brandishing a gun is NOT open carry. Brandishing a gun is already illegal.But open carry is legal in most states, and has been so for quite some time.
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It's hard to believe the hospitals when they claim they can't afford more nurses. In a glaring example of how an obsession with profit can corrupt a health care organization, a NY Times investigation revealed that Oregon's largest health care systems was sitting on billions of dollars and actually set up a venture capital fund to invest it. Is it a Wall Street hedge fund disguised as a health care system? You can see what an organizations priorities are by following the money.
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Diane B Actually Netflix got ripped off. Nothing the couple has done so far is worth $100 million. Harry and Meghan are a one trick pony show.
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Jack P Trump's tax cuts added to the deficit. And he did them when the economy was going strong, which is counter intuitive. In fact, the whole idea was to inflate the economy. Remember, he was promising 5% GDP growth driven by capital investment. What he delivered was a money bath for the wealthy and a brief blip in GDP growth, even before COVID. And what did the VSP's say? Well even Rush Limbaugh admitted that the deficit concerns were alway bogus. And he got the Medal of Freedom.
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The debt is largely the result of four plus decades of collapsed tax rates on the wealthy, large corporations, rich estates and the gilded class designed, implemented and championed by the Republican party and its Dark Money owners and operators.To a lesser extent, there has been a bipartisan expansion of spending that has contributed to the debt.If Republicans were actually interested in reducing the debt or balancing the budget, they would raise taxes like responsible adults and perhaps slightly trim spending with very specific suggestions in areas of waste, such as in the Unites States Department of Defense.Naturally, the GOP will do nothing of that sort since their real interests lie in dividing, distracting and destroying rather than rolling up their sleeves to help the country.D to go forward; R for reverse...over the cliff.Nice GOPeople.
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We spend billions, yes, maybe even trillions of dollars for a vast number of medical modalities here in America and yet, we still have one of the worst medical care programs on the face of the earth. I forecast that this situation will only worsen over time due to a number of reasons: Greed on the part of the organizations trying to foster health-related programs which only line the pockets of those CEO'S ; the sad state of our physical and mental health of the US inhabitants; lack of a thoughtful approach in not treating disease but more importantly doing the right approach in avoiding a pernicious illness occurring from the onset. The list is endless but unless we, collectively do something, the situation will only become worse.
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10+ trillion wiped from the market and mass layoffs. Yes, resilience.
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Kelly Most kitchen shears have metal teeth grips inside the handles that can be used to open jars. Very handy!
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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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Usok I don't know anyone who is tired of supporting a country which has been invaded by its neighbor and is willing to fight to the death for its autonomy. We're spending roughly the equivalent of 5% of our annual military budget and the rewards have been orders of magnitude more effective. Our alliances with like-minded nations have been strengthened as we rally around our common ideals. We're watching a nuclear state go down the drain in real time like Twitter and for much the same reason. A single person in charge with a warped sense of morality and no accountability is wasting resources because their ego won't permit them to consider the error of their ways. It's simple, you either oppose fascists and dictators, or you don't.
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Wordle 563 4/6* 95/53⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 88/64 WL 77⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 88/64 WL 3⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 99/33 WL 1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99/—Over 16,500 solvers also opened with my "themed" starter, which was not as lucky today. I had no problem coming up with guesses that seemed A-OK to me, but I had no idea there were only three WL after my second guess. Not sure I would have changed anything if I had known.Yesterday's Wordle 562 4/6* 85/48🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 SOBER89/72 WL 37🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ SCRAM72/32 WL 7🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 SPURT86/15 WL 2🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SKIRT98/75I was thinking there were more words that begin with S than any other letter, but I confess I didn't count them. At any rate, I was surprised yesterday at all the two-fers (Outside Observer, MM, Suz) and three-fers. You guys make it look easy!The bot said there were seven words left after my second guess, but I had an RT ending in mind and came up with only three: SPURT (lalalala, I can't *hear* you...), SHIRT, and SKIRT. If I had really thought about it, I would have guessed SKIRT for my third guess, but I was thinking about trying the P, not the I. NO BIGGIE.
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hen3ry ..There are too many people being left behind or left out entirely when it comes to having decent lives.Paul Volcker noted thisPaul Volcker , at age 91, NY Times InterviewMr. Volcker is no great fan of the president, but he acknowledged that Mr. Trump had cannily recognized the economic worries of blue-collar workers. Mr. Trump “seized upon some issues that the elite had ignored,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any question about that, in kind of an erratic way, but there it is.” He wondered how many lectures and presentations he had sat through with economists “telling us open markets are wonderful, everybody benefits from open markets.” ... concern was dismissed too easily, with talk of worker retraining or some other solution far easier said than done. NY Times Oct. 23, 2018 Foreign Policy Economists on the Run Paul Krugman and other mainstream trade experts are now admitting that they were wrong about globalization: It hurt American workers far more than they thought it would. Did America’s free market economists help put a protectionist demagogue in the White House? Foreign Policy October 22, 2019The cause is that part of the US population was put into competition with workers abroad willing to work for far less, and part profited from it. And the latter, via donations, controls politics - of both parties
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I left my senior level job of 10 years recently in large part because I had zero down time during my work day the last 4 years with Microsoft Teams IM a required tool. Prior to Teams, I kept the more basic IM off as it wasn’t required and I found it distracting. Because I managed many people and ran a large program, I would be hunted down for approvals, input and more every hour despite trying to establish times I wasn’t available. The people above me were constantly scheduling last minute meetings and calls and coordinating work in Teams hourly. I left on excellent terms, but was clear I needed to break from this model to prioritize my health. It’s been wonderful and life-changing to be away from this mad way of living every work day - as much as I miss my lovely colleagues. This way of working is without a doubt unsustainable.
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Al The radio waves are not available to everyone with a transmitter. You need licenses and are bound by certain regulations.Anyone--literally anyone--can post online. You're doing it right now. The NYT shouldn't be responsible for you spreading misinformation, but under your ridiculous model, there's no difference between a completely open online forum and a highly restricted medium that only carries a limited number of networks broadcasting curated programs.
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While it's true that these "coaching institutes" are selling dreams, it's no different from a multitude of US universities which are doing the same thing and costing students 200,000 dollars or more which they can ill afford. At least these centers are preparing students for STEM careers, most of the US university courses are relatively fluffy in comparison and many US students don't even earn enough to be able to pay back the loans they took. Also, on the subject of inequality, the author failed to mention that around 49.5% of seats in all the target universities and institutes are reserved for historically and economically backward institutes.
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The association with someone close to a Russian oligarch is not even remotely surprising. It may be too late to uncover the complexities of the infiltration into the political and financial systems in this country. Before the identity of the "investor" was mentioned I found it interesting that once again we see that the wealthy are forever chasing schemes that promise massively greater returns than anyone else can get. Apparently, the more money one has, the more one needs. The acquisition of wealth and power are ends unto themselves. The power part can be bought in this country for relatively peanuts. All one need do is find a compliant candidate and pour money at him/her. The former administration was full of these sorts and rather obviously, now the US House has been bought. This country has a great future! See Peter Thiel/JD Vance for another recent example.
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AnilRajput Thank you for this profound, wise comment. These matters are extraordinarily complex, but if we are willing to go through life with open questions, subjective goals, and a longing for the good, these in themselves may bring a kind of happiness--not the "feel-good" kind of happiness, not the "always chipper" kind, but something closer to awe. Awe can't be forced, though. None of this can be reduced to formula, even if certain practices and rituals help along the way.
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Mike S. Gold was a luxury good long before it was used as money. Every paper currency devalues to zero, the real value of paper. The oldest currency, the British pound, bought one pound of silver when it was introduced but is now worth far less than 1% of its' initial value.
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Yes, yes, yes, but no. The recklessness of youth, their lack of experience and mindfulness, are part of the yin-yang that drives humanity to solve the problems of this and future generations. If we were all wise 50-year-olds, not only would life be endlessly dull, but ultimately, microbes and other adapting natural systems would eventually outsmart us. Dogecoin investors are just a casualty of this process, contributing to the randomness of the dynamic system that provides stability through chaos. Thank you, Dogecoin investors! You play an important role. And to Prof. Desai, start listening to what your students have to say. Imparting generational wisdom is essential to avoiding repeat mistakes, but don't dismiss the reckless young minds in front of you. True innovation often comes by deviating from the proven paths.
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I recently accepted a different academic appointment at another university, but for the last seven years I taught at Cornell. Many of my students were CS majors headed to six figure jobs at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. At the time, I felt that my chief function -- in a different department -- was to remind students of their humanity, that there was more to life than a high salary and whatever stability that represented (all the while noting with some irony that my students were soon to be making many times my own paycheck!). But now here I am worrying about my former students: will they be affected? Did they save for the future? How will they navigate this uncertainty? Hopefully they got something out of our work together -- some sense of self worth and resiliency -- that might help at this moment.I was in college during the 2008 recession, and watched the climate on campus go from blissful certainty to true trepidation about the future (recently graduated friends with huge salaries as consultants at investment banking firms suddenly laid off), even at one of the top universities in the country. I wonder how this most recent crisis will affect the climate on university campuses.
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Yet another Professor “ Also American eagle is a US legal tender”Yes, a 1 ounce American Eagle coin has a legal tender face value of $50. The current price of gold is $1926 per ounce. Not too many people are going to spend their American Eagles at the grocery store.
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Upper management contempt also helps open the exit. Burned out? Too bad. Doing the work of 3 colleagues? Too bad. Tired of 60+ hour work weeks, with no additional compensation? Too bad.Bye.
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Gap's line of "modern" t shirts, which are a medium thickness modal/cotton blend and cost $20, $25, and $30 for sleeveless, short, and long, respectively (when not on frequent sale), are really quite excellent. They come in crew and v neck (plus scoop for the tanks and a boatneck long sleeve), and I wish they came in more colors. Plus, they come in tall and petite for those of us with above or below average length torsos.
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This is a worthwhile read, and I thank Mr. Walther for his efforts in discussing the more subtle aspects of Pope Benedict XVI's theological thoughts, and by extension, the dogma of the Church. For the record, I am an atheist. However, I am well aware that 21st-century Roman Catholic theology is complex and sophisticated, and many of its theologians acknowledge the evolution of the natural world and the spiritual (cosmic) universe. This metaphysic of evolution bears no resemblance to the Church's popular folk religion image or thumbnail explanations of its rituals. Ignorance of a deeper understanding of Roman Catholic thought results in the intellectual impoverishment of all truth-seekers. Again, I thank Mr. Walther for bringing this to our attention.
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JusticeAmerica - Your “assessment” is specious. A closer look shows glaring inconsistencies as when the Fabulous Markle Twins all but called the Royals racist in the Oprah interview then walked it back in the more recent one, outright fabrications as when Meghan told bogus stories; the flight attendant one comes to mind but there are many.The Fabulous Markle Twins are a glaring example of the narcissistic culture that has spawned the Kardashians, Trump, Musk and about every other billionaire on the planet, to name but a few.Perhaps what you need to see most is how their narcissistic diatribes are using accusations racism in a way that give lie to the horror of prejudice. They, the struggling “C” list actor and a literal silver spoon prince Royal bemoan the struggle sitting on tens of millions of dollars in a $15(ish) million dollar home as the royalties from “their truth” pour in.
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I used an AED on a friend of mine who went into Cardic Arrest over 10 years ago. He survives to this day without any long term complications. I learned, as in Hamlin and my friend's case is that once your heart goes into Fibulation you will be unconcious within about 2 or 3 seconds! By providing quick assistance through CPR or (hopefully) AED you can save a life (about 90% of people die from this type of Cardic Arrest). For me, my friends slowing respiration (eventually stopping completely) without his chest actually expanding helped me understand he was in Cardic Arrest and render aid.
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I take issue with the author's apparent conflation of fragmentation and pluralism (see also his Dec 29 opinion piece on 'Why So Many Democracies Are Floundering'). The emergence of new political parties across Europe in the past decades should be seen as a good thing, offering increased chances for transparent governance, participation, and representation of marginalized groups. The battle against the fragmentation of society should be fought not by disparaging pluralism, but - on the contrary - by encouraging the distribution of power while at the same time strengthening the very fabric of democracy: invest in education, integration, and equal opportunity, fortify the independence of the judicial branch and the public broadcasting system, limit the influx of corporate money into the political system, curtail the spread of misinformation on social media, reinforce constitutional guardrails against extremism, etc etc.Fight pluralism in the name of "effective government" and you will find yourself aligned with the enemies of an open society pretty fast.
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Thinker It was a 500,000 dollar shower. And you're right, the claim they were prisoners is complete nonsense.
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"A recruiter at Amazon ... She had to mail back her company computer and doesn’t have a personal one, making it challenging to search for a new job." Difficult to be sympathetic here. As an employee, she certainly had an Amazon account. They have brand name new Windows computers available for $199 delivered next day to start her job search with.
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EJS It took hundreds of years for Rome to fall. USA? 40 years right before your eyes, starting in 2000 when Bill Clinton naively sponsored China into the WTO. Trade with China funds the greatest military expansion and spy network in world history. You paid for it
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Stanley This war will end, but Russia will not retain Crimea. Nor will Putin retreat. He would rather send ordinary Russians to their death in Ukraine for another 5 years than fail, because his failure here may have mortal personal consequences.Putin invaded Crimea because he feared that Ukraine would not extend the lease on the port of Sevastopol.The reason Khrushchev returned Crimea in 1954 was because it was an impoverished, isolated part of Russia. It is at the end of the Ukrainian steppes. It water supply comes from Ukraine. It cannot exist as part of Russia going forward. The lease will be null and void when this war ends.Kaliningrad might become the next bargaining chip. The big problem is what next for Russia? Another pariah state, but this one armed to its back teeth with nuclear weapons and not much else?
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I've been studying the U.S. defense industrial base for over 40 years now. It has become hollow. THe industrial base we have now is NOT the industrial base we used to "win" the Cold War. It is certainly not the industrial base that we used to defeat Hitler.The major contractors are driven by the need to reduce risks, in order to improve their appeal to shareholders (since returns are largely capped.) The legacy contractors have become "ATMs," focused on generating cash and returning it to investors so they can invest it outside the defense industry.Investors see this. The complete set of publicly traded defense companies in the US -- added together -- is worth less than Facebook.Meanwhile, we are trying to attract tech companies to support DoD. But for most, DoD is a small, difficult-to-serve, niche market. The regulations -- most recently CUI -- drive away companies who have better options. Example: iRobot, which built robots used in the first Gulf War, would rather build vacuum cleaners for Chinese consumers. It exited the defense business, selling it to private equity investors. None of this will change until we develop an acquisition model that can embrace risk, as opposed to just using SBIRs, OTAs, etc. to try to circumvent the current acquisition process.Putin has done us a huge favor. He is demonstrated the failure of our defense industrial base. A sense of urgency has emerged. Now the question is whether we will see the leadership in DoD to drive change.
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I broke open an old box of love letters recently I hadn't looked at in decades. How innocent and fun and passionate the infatuation stage was, of those nascent heterosexual relationships were in the early 1990s. I contrast it with chat logs from the mid 2010s where my fellow locutors of same age relate a dreadful undercurrent of suspicion and anomie: "Boys are sweet, Men are scary" she wrote. I climbed the bowery of those texts to attain sexual congress via words and sentences, aka "sexting". She lived 600 miles away. It as the best I could do. Whatever "progress" has occurred, it has achieved nothing. Everyone is miserable, the holloyweird media is a funfouse mirror, and kids are serious mental trouble. I visited my Alzheimer's addled mother in the big polluted city last week. She asks me multiple times a day, every day, "Do you have a girlfriend?" The answer has been "No" for five years, and I lie and say, "I haven't found the right one yet". She then relates how she really didn't find anyone she liked until the ripe old age of 27 when she married my dad and 4 kids with him, largely on the strength of a shared religious lifestyle and his job, good enough for a single-income throughout the 70s and 80s. Relationships today are unromantic affairs, and if you scratch the surface what you usually find is something more business-like than love. There is no magic, instead a sense of mutual service/work exchange. Its weird and sad and stupid, imo. But what do I know?
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A New Look for the Empire State Building and Its Workers The employees have new uniforms, part of a $165 million “reimagination” that includes a new entrance and an interactive museum. Good morning. It’s Tuesday. We’ll get a look at a new look at the Empire State Building. We’ll also find out about the former F.B.I. counterintelligence chief in New York who, prosecutors say, secretly worked for one Russian oligarch to investigate another. The employees have new uniforms, part of a $165 million “reimagination” that includes a new entrance and an interactive museum.
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Every company mentioned in this article can afford to keep these people for a full year. Lyft700 layoffs$40-78k average salary 78k x 700 = $54.6m Profits 2022 Q3 = $1B Profits 2021 = $3 billionGoogle (Alphabet)12,000 layoffs$100 - 200k salary average200k x 12k = $2.4B2022 Q3 profits = $69bLyft700 layoffsMedian salary $40-66k66k x 700 = $46.2MProfits 2022 Q3 = $1B Profits 2021 = $3 billionMicrosoft10,000 layoffs$40 - 160k average salary160k x 10k = $1.6b$105B Profits 2022Meta11,000 layoffs$35 - 200k average salary11k x 200k = $2.2B $40B in the bank2022 Q3 profits = $27.4b 2022 estimated profits $111b AppleActually hasn't done major layoffs yet. However, they added 17k jobs between 2020-2022. Those might be on the chopping block. Nvidia360 layoffs$46k - 240k average salary $240k x 360 = $86m2022 Profits $5.9b (actually down but coming off of crypto surge) Salesforce8,000 layoffs$55k - 180k average salary $180k x 8k = $1.44b2022 Q3 profits = $7.8b2022 estimated profits $28bMicrosoft10,000 layoffs$40 - 160k salary160k x 10k = $1.6b$105B Profits 2022Meta11,000 layoffs$35 - 200k average salary11k x 200k = $2.2B $40B in the bank2022 Q3 profits = $27.4b 2022 estimated profits $111b Nvidia360 layoffs$46k - 240k$240k x 360 = $86m2022 Profits $5.9b (actually down but coming off of crypto surge) Salesforce8,000 layoffs$55k - 180k $180k x 8k = $1.44b2022 Q3 profits = $7.8b2022 estimated profits $28b
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Jason McDonald Not every recipient or potential recipient of Social Security and Medicare get an infinite amount of care in return. Many die before they even reach retirement age; many more die soon afterwards, and many don't use more than they put in.Social Security pays 1 percent interest on money invested. That's awful! Inflation eats away at that money for 40 or 50 years; but it is much better than nothing. Many of us, for good reasons, can't or don't invest. Without Social Security and Medicare, we'd live in a Third World country, flocks of beggars, whole families, on virtually every major street corner in America.Social Security is one of the most successful and effective government programs in our long history.Churches, charities, and communities cannot help all those Americans who need help, so government, where the buck always stops, must step in. Not even large corporations can or will step up to the plate big-time, and if they do, it's a tax write-off.
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617to416 Because the Republican politicians raise campaign funds on it -- just like abortion and continuation of fossil fuels and tax cuts for the 1%.We could have the country we want if everyone would vote in every election.
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I was in NATO and I do not respect the capabilities of Ukraine or it’s Western “partners”. Russia viewed this issue as existential and setting aside a few missteps early on has prosecuted the war as if it were existential. They will win. It’s up to the US to determine exactly how much of Ukraine will be lost.
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Mike T. Yes, would love to know how much the CEO and board’s wealth increased by the stock buyback. Please report on that.
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“When they leave their deep freeze, the heat from the sun erodes their surfaces, and they start spewing gases and dust until they host a glowing core, known as the coma, and a flamelike tail that can stretch for millions of miles.”This doesn’t sound right regarding the “heat from the sun”, given the fact the temperature in space is 3K (-270 degrees Celsius). I always thought the glow was caused by solar wind?
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Crypto is a paper investment like stocks, if you will. Both stock and crypto have a market value and a book value. The book value of crypto is all the cash that was paid to buy the coins. The market value is the last price someone paid for a crypto coin multiplied by all the coins that exist. Like a stock, the book value and the market value can be drastically different. For crypto, the book value can fall drastically if someone steals the cash. The market value can fall drastically if crypto stops being popular. What we have now is crypto is falling in popularity and it is falling toward a reduced book value because people stole the underlying cash.
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