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CP Multiply 10,000 times $150K. Then realize payroll tax, insurance, 401K, etc means each employee probably costs $300K or more. That's a heck of a lot more that $54.9M. People don't seem to realize in massive companies like this, small percentages are huge amounts. Also, they don't have $18B just sitting in a bank, it's getting reinvested in R&D, distributed to shareholders, and used to pay current bills. NYT readers don't seem to understand basic business principles sometimes.
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Katherine Last thought. I'd ask him if he receives any public benefits. If not, put that in the ask for the local public provider. They are able to help with that. (Able, does not mean will.) But it is a long process and due to the seemingly endless requirements to keep public benefits, difficult to maintain them. In SC, SSI is critical because SC didn't expand access to Medicaid through the ACA. So if he doesn't have SSI he does not have access to Medicaid, which will place a gigantic barrier between him and help from the public MH services - and he won't have any money. (The public MH provider may be required to 'help' him but they won't get reimbursed from Medicaid if he doesn't have SSI/Medicaid.) I find that the amount of procedural hurdles to access to their help drastically increase when the person does not have SSI/Medicaid.If he has been denied access to public benefits, you can help him reach out to legal aid so they can review the situation to see if there is a way they can help (benefits appeals, for example) and if they have the resources to do so, or offer a referral or contact information for their community partners.It sounds like he has a valid ID as he was able to get the hotel room. That is a big help.
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Pentagon Will Increase Artillery Production Sixfold for Ukraine The Army’s top acquisition official says production of the 155-millimeter shells badly needed by Kyiv will rise to 90,000 a month in two years. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is racing to boost its production of artillery shells by 500 percent within two years, pushing conventional ammunition production to levels not seen since the Korean War as it invests billions of dollars to make up for shortfalls caused by the war in Ukraine and to build up stockpiles for future conflicts. The Army’s top acquisition official says production of the 155-millimeter shells badly needed by Kyiv will rise to 90,000 a month in two years.
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Santos, who has been flat broke all his life until he ran for Congress, miraculously loaned his own 2022 election campaign $700,000 on the way to Congress.What was the source of the Dark Billionaire Money who funded Santos ?The Republican Party does not want citizens to know what right-wing billionaires are running the United States government.Investigate this 0.1% puppet and eject him from Congress.
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dogglesshoebox Here is reporting from the national broadcaster, CBC: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-emergencies-act-ottawa-1.6648413" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-emergencies-act-ottawa-1.6648413</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-accounts-freedom-convoy-truckers-2022-2" target="_blank">https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-accounts-freedom-convoy-truckers-2022-2</a>Freezing bank accounts in the Canadian law means that they are de-facto rejected from all banking services and insurance services. That extends to anyone who has direct financial dealings with them, e.g. ex-spouses who need child support, etc. Removing these blocks doesn't remove the flag on their file that they were blocked because of suspected terrorist financing. Freeland also publicly lied to the press and parliament in her claims that the trucker protest had significant negative impact with crosss-border trade, blocking shipments, etc.Michelle Golberg was sent to cover the protest as an op-ed, and was forced to concede that these people were nothing like MAGA protests. They were peaceful, and yes noisy with loud honking of horns.
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After the blown up pipelines and the try to take Europe as a hostage by cutting off energy, we can see that Russia is not playing nice, to say at least. What do we have to expect from Russia? Let´s ask the east european countries that were forced members of the Warsaw pact for 45 years. Nothing but trouble, that´s why they got away from Russia as fast as possible when the soviet union and it´s system of lies, corruption, opression and injustice collapsed. Sadly, there is no unified and strong reaction from Europes gouverments. On paper, it´s so easy. There are 150 Million Russians. There are 400 Million Europeans. There are 400 Million Americans. If everyone gives 100 Euros or Dollars, this would yield 80 Billion Dollars. To match it, every Russian would have to give 550€, more than a tenth of the annual household income. If we would give this to Ukraine, in hardware, training and munitions, the war would be over fast. Done quarterly, 4 times a year, a quarter of a trillion would for sure grind the inefficient and ill trained russian military down. If not this, then next year. Maybe Europe is too weary to flex it´s military muscle, it could at least flex the well trained economic one.
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Placeholder Do give a thought to the 60 Trillion (in todays dollars) of loot from one colony alone that the serious achievements were built on. And don't forget the toll in lives and social ruin while you're at it.
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How about giving up on that destructive acquisition of Activision - $69 Billion - instead of firing engineers?"Do more with less" - meaning Microsoft needs USD $69 Billion for a pointless acquisition.Activision engineers: if the merger goes through, you know what's coming.
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The current CBO projections, which Krugman cites to approvingly, puts our annual debt servicing expenses at 7.2 percent of GDP by 2052 (and growing). Our entire federal discretionary budget is around 6 percent of GDP. Someone please explain to me how this is not an impending fiscal disaster (other than, “I’m over 70 and won’t live to see it”).
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Skepticism aside, it's way too late to stop or even realistically control A.I. The genie is literally out of the bottle, with more sophisticated iterations of A.I. to come. There's too much financial momentum behind it. OpenAI, the research lab behind the viral ChatGPT chatbot, is in talks to sell existing shares in a tender offer that would value the company at around $29 billion, making it one of the most valuable U.S. startups on paper. Microsoft Corp. has also been in advanced talks to increase its investment in OpenAI. In 2019, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and became its preferred partner for commercializing new technologies for services like the search engine Bing and the design app Microsoft Design. Other backers include Tesla CEO Elon Musk, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. There are over 100 AI companies developing various Machine learning tasks, new features coming daily. ChatGPT is a genuine productivity boost and a technological wonder. It can write code in Python, TypeScript, and many other languages at my command. It does have bugs in the code, but they are fixable. The possibilities are endless. I can't imagine what version 2.0 or 3.0 would look like. For better and/or worse, this is the future. It is incredible, even at this early stage. This technology is mind blowing and will unquestionably change the world. As Victor Hugo said " A force more powerful than all of the armies in the world is an idea whose time has come." Indeed it has.
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Richard I don't think this is a whose state is worse contest. Militias were mentioned and are nothing to trifle with. Although I'd bet that the pressure to conform to "norms" in general is much worse in Montana, however the whole point is that this open-carry, pro-gun, in your face ethos is virtually everywhere in most of the US now. This wasn't always the case. I traveled through Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado in the mid-1970s, and while you saw the occasional gun rack, guns were not flaunted, they were known to be a useful tool used on the ranch or for hunting. The NRA changed all that, and the SCOTUS too with the new interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Mr. Bouie said it best: "And in the absence of trust, democracy is a hard game to play" and too many people appear to want it that way.
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I married a New Yorker and I feel so bad for my 'second home town' (yes my wife hates it when I use that phrase). Anyway, it's terrible how Uber execs on the other side of the country have been able to exert their will on NYC and cause so much disruption that has resulted in bad, not good. Don't forget that Uber also backed the $15-$25 congestion fees (via a lobbying effort under some other name that I don'tremember) that have yet to go in place as it will net them even more in profits that every day New Yorkers will have to pay for.
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Dean, Republicans have done absolutely nothing to help Americans, zip. However, GOP fights to give the wealthy tax cuts and protect Big Oil! IF you know someone who uses insulin, thank Biden and the Democrats for capping the price at $35 per month! The McCarthy’s 118th Congress want p repeal this!
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When you go to the doctor, the receptionist no longer asks to see your Medicare Card. Instead he or she now ask for the card of your privatized insurance company that acquired you like livestock on a medieval fief. Taxpayers pay money into the Medicare system, but the money is no longer used exclusively to pay for medical care. A large percentage of the money now goes to the privatized bureaucracies that acquired these fiefs. So the taxpayer now has to not only pay for the government bureaucracy that manages the money, but also has to pay for the privatized bureaucracies that have received these medieval fiefs. The CEOs who manages the fief get the largest share. He is sort of like a duke or a count, but collectively more money goes to the investors who own the fief. We taxpayers now support two layers of bureaucracy, a vast network of advertising, campaign contributions, and the most complex incomprehensible billing system in the world. It is hard to imagine how Medicare could have been made more expensive, so this explains why our quarterly payments have risen so fast over the past few years. Actually the medical providers like doctors and nurses are more comparable to the medieval serfs. We patients are more like the livestock. This privatization of Medicare into medieval-like fiefs began under Trump and the Democrats have done nothing to stop it because both parties receive campaign contributions from the beneficiaries of the privatized companies.
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Ostensibly there's no more of a coup in Brasilia than in DC on Jan 6, 2021. The insurrectionists did not live in reality, so that even if they wanted to continue some sort of revolution, they were too incompetent.The parallels with Jan 6 are thus stark. The rioters are little more than narcissistic thugs of the man who they supported, whose involvement in this case is less open than in that of "the Great Divider" Trump. They wanted to send a message of intimidation and frustration that they didn't get their self-righteous desires, and so justified whatever means necessary to express their message--as inept and ineffective as this expression was.
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Richard Blaine Dogger Bank is a UK project, the international bit is building a power hub on an artificial island so that the power can be routed to Europe.40% of the UK energy market is renewable as of 2022, so the stuff yet to come on line can be exported. Dogger Bank could end up generating over 100GW -- or 50million houses.
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David Kiel The company had been quite profitable. $17.6 billion profit on $50 billion revenues - 35% margins there. They have the cloud business, and now possibly have the AI field. And interestingly enough, there is that gaming business (or entertainment). As for "wildcatter days" - that had been over long ago. What is more interesting is that Microsoft seem to have rebound decently from its acquisition of Nokia, which turned out to be a bit expensive. The layoffs seem to be less than 5%. Now maybe quiet firing will go on, but then again, quiet hiring, talent deployment and not so quiet hiring could go on (say like the acquisition of Activision Blizzard going through).
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Ken Aaron 10000000%.
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One of the best investments the world can make to tackle global warming is pay the people of the Amazon (not those raping the land and killing indigenous people) to not allow clearing and to expand the rainforest. Much better investment than covering the earth in solar panels and wind turbines.
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Here is my theory of inflation1 doz jumbo eggs at Trader Joe's in FLDec 2020 $2Jun 2021 $2.5Dec 2021 $3.50June 2022 $4Dec 1st 2022 $4.5Jan 3rd 2023 $5CPI that
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Andrew Intrater, at a minimum, should clawback the commissions Santos was paid on his investment. If it’s true that Santos made several million from swindling investors, he needs to be punished, severely, so it sends a message. How can McCarthy and the senior GOP members of Congress allow Santos to undermine their integrity.
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JanDespite the impressive figures, salaries in general in the US have not gone up nearly as quickly as housing prices have. That makes establishing a safety net rather difficult. That said, I find it hard to believe she was doing her personal computing on a work laptop. That's just screaming & begging for trouble. Older refurbished laptops with screens good enough for extended reading can be had for less than $300 and under $200 if you only need to do reading, emails, & web browsing. So perhaps there's something else going on.
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Oatmeal I'm in a fairly stable field but my cousins are in tech. This is what I've learned from them:1) Be your own brand. Sure, your LinkedIn profile might have your current workplace/ position but reinforce to others outside your unique proposition. If you collaborate with people outside your company, make sure they understand YOU (under the umbrella of X) and not X company is providing the service. 2) Be loyal to people but not companies. No need to backstab your co-workers, be mean to subordinates, trashtalk competitors, etc. The great people you meet along the way might be the same ones who get you your next job regardless of you current relationship to them. (Personally, I once ended up working on a prestigious project due to a verbal recommendation from a competing group. One of that group's employees had enjoyed working with me on another project. Only after the project had finished did the organizers tell me how I ended up on it.)3) Find mentors and colleagues outside of your workplace.
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A Ponzi scheme is when early investors (elderly) are paid with the investments of new investors (children). I expected that capitalism was one big Ponzi scheme. China is showing that almost all modern global society is a Ponzi scheme. At some point, they all collapse, and you are forced to accept your losses.
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The Russian Kh-22 missile with a 2,000-pound warhead that hit a sprawling residential apartment complex – home to some 1.700 people – in Ukraine’s fourth largest city, Dnipro, was launched on January 14, New Year’s day by the Julian calendar. The strike destroyed more than 70 apartments. The initial death toll was 46 and 80 were wounded. Some incinerated victims under the rubble may never be found. Apart from local residents, there were many people displaced from elsewhere. Dnipro was considered a relatively safe haven for those fleeing the country’s worst fighting and shelling in the east and south. Sadly, some just ended up being killed there. Having lost their loved ones and consumed with grief, Ukrainians are coping constantly with tragedies and new uncertainties. This report on the survivors of Putin's vengeful strike at 118 Victory Embankment shows that some of their smallest – at times most banal – decisions had made the difference between life and death: "Go to a shelter or stay home? Take the elevator or the stairs?"Their individual accounts have also laid bare some of the most terrifying realities of this brutal war: Safety is transient and the outcome of an airstrike can be unpredictable. Ukrainians’ resilience continues to be unwavering, despite a surge in attacks in recent months. The more Putin threatens to make winter intolerable, the more they seem to unite in their intent to drive the Russian invaders out of their coutnry.Glory to Ukraine.
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All healthcare systems, world-wide, are socialized and universal; some simply less efficient or equitable than others. Second, there are three levers in healthcare, all of which operate in lockstep: cost, access and quality. Used separately, they counter each other. In the American system, according to our own NIH, access comes way short, costs are astronomical, and quality ranks near the bottom in comparison to other first world countries. If you adjust access without considering cost or quality outcomes, as Obamacare did, you drive cost up and quality down. The same goes with the other two levers, taken individually. There is only one way to guarantee quality medical care for every American: give it to them, without conditions, insurance requirements, co-pays or pre-approval. Let the rich have their boutique, unregulated, insurance based healthcare system. Most Americans need publicly financed and operated clinics, hospitals, hospices, doctor and dental offices—medical service on demand, just like Canada, even if there is a wait. In the end, costs will go down, dramatically, and outcomes will improve, incrementally.The reimbursement system, both private and public, is the main obstacle to cost effective medical care. It gobbles up a third of the 3.3 trillion dollars this country expends, all to people who do not know how to operate a stethoscope. The solution is to eliminate the middleman, private insurance companies and government agencies.
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617to416 The problem is not "capitalism" per se, but American zero-sum plunder capitalism dedicated to funneling the nation's wealth into the wealthiest pockets. This form of capitalism makes life increasingly precarious for 99.99% of us as our wealth, income, and opportunity continually decrease, while the 0.01% hoard mind-boggling amounts of wealth. That 0.01% wisely invest some of that wealth in campaign donations to ensure that our elected officials exclusively represent their interests. They have purchased complete ownership of one of our political parties, whose agenda is to remove legislative and regulatory impediments to their owners' greed while eliminating government services that benefit non-wealthy Americans. They own enough of the other party to preclude effective opposition. The increasing level of inequality in this country testifies to the effectiveness of those policies. A well-developed propaganda apparatus keeps millions of people consistently and enthusiastically voting against their own interests. Culture wars sufficiently distract them from recognizing the real agenda of the party they so proudly support.The propaganda has most of us believing that anything other than zero-sum plunder capitalism is "socialism" or "communism." But in reality, capitalism with regulatory guardrails that are checks and balances to greed, offering opportunity to anyone willing to work hard, is the way to the "American dream" that plunder capitalism has demolished.
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There’s an intellectual disconnect. Savage argues sexual needs and emotional needs are separate, then says sex workers are paid for their time and listening. That’s an emotional need. He says his own and most relationships are transactional and lists how he “pays” for sex with his partner by doing loving things. Sex and love are not separate. That’s why the hook up culture is failing. That’s why cheating is so devastating. Perhaps in his open marriage he and his partner are satisfied with hookups or transactional sex with a third, but what about that third? What if he wants more? Sex is tricky to navigate precisely because it is so emotional. If it were just a physical need, we could all just go to restaurants or gyms.
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And raise the income cap, currently at around $150k. That should be a no brainer.
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Brett and David almost said it out loud.Current politics is not Conservatives vs Liberals, it's populism vs institutions and authoritarianism vs classic liberalism.The conservative movement no longer believes in free and fair elections.Brett and David have a natural party, the classic liberal Democratic party who still believe in open elections and institutions. There's a reason college grads are jumping ship from the GOP. Brett and David sense it, but can't move past decades of out-of-date orthodoxy.
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To paraphrase John Paul Jones, we have not yet begun to tax.Taxes peaked around 20% GDP under Clinton. Think of 1% GDP as $210 billion today. The Bush and Trump tax cuts take about 2% GDP revenue away total, about 40% of the annual deficit.1. Go back to the Clinton rates and then create a 45% bracket for income over $1 million, 50% over $10 million.2. Remove cap on payroll tax to cover 70% of Social Security shortfall for 75 years. This only impacts income over about $147,000, the top 6% or so.3. Billionaires pay 3% wealth tax per year. Put that in Social Security Trust Fund.4. Treat capital gains as ordinary income for amounts beyond $3,000 per year.
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Mike. No the article is not misleading, and strangely enough, neither are you. Contract workers like Onami-san can only get a monthly maximum of 65,000 yen, provided that they have paid into the public pension system for 40 years. Regular employees (medium/large corporations, public servants, etc) receive an additional pension in addition to their public pension which bumps up the monthly total to maybe 200,000-240,000 yen. The figure of 146,000 yen you quoted is most likely an average for these two groups. Unfortunately, all of these amounts are insufficient to live a good retirement. Hence the need to work.
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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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I sent a message to my cousin Carol, who has been like the big sister I wished I had. Carol was there to comfort me when my father died, there to host a party when I finally graduated from college in my forties and nobody else cared; there to march at Pride with me as the best-ever ally, when I came out (again) after being with a man for fourteen years (people had forgotten that I was Bisexual). I told Carol about this NYT project and that I had chosen her as the recipient of my living eulogy because I was so thankful for the ways that she had always loved me and celebrated me, with an open mind and deep empathy. She told me that she appreciated the "beautiful tribute."I also wrote the appreciation list for my wife, Lynn. She seemed very touched, and is planning to write her own list for me. There were many items on the list, which I divided into "little things," "big things," and "enormous things." One of the most monumental Enormous things was that my wife, Lynn, a life-long suburbanite, moved to Manhattan (and bought a co-op in Manhattan) so that this non-driving, native New Yorker could stay in the only home-town she has ever known, and passionately loves. That was a huge sacrifice of love on my wife's part. Though she really likes our Inwood apartment and neighborhood, she would never have chosen it just for herself, and I am so thankful, every day, that I get to keep living in my city, with my wonderful wife!
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With the added statement, regarding either of the above scenarios, that Russia’s offshore funds will all be employed to re-build Ukraine.
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eleven billion dollars. this city, this state, and the MTA are so vile. how are the criminals responsible for this misappropriation of funds not in jail?
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Why does an epipen cost $800?
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Well, one thing is for sure and that's that nothing is for sure. Even if in the short-run inflation moderates back down to 2-3%, sooner or later another series of shocks will send prices up again, or create a contraction, or both. That's what was on my mind as I read the opening color description of the man who had recently emerged from hard times. What caught my eye is that as soon as his circumstances improved, he up-graded his living situation, at greater cost to himself. (Don't be fooled by the "less per square foot" measure.) Obviously, this specific individual knows his business, and I do not, so as far as I know, this is a responsible decision on his part. However, the general point I'd emphasize is that, before a person with improving circumstances turns to increasing consumption (in living space, or car purchase for example) he or she should prepare for an uncertain future. That means save save save your money. This may be very challenging for some of us, but for most, not really. After all, we are the richest individuals to ever have lived. That's why the professor can clothe herself by buying other people's discarded stuff at a thrift shop.
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I wish this piece would have mentioned school curriculums and programs like we have in Wisconsin (Secure Futures) which gives young people a nice starter dose of Financial Literacy. They also have personal coaching and a new app to help kids "see the future" with their financial decisions and college choices. I send them about $100 a month because I believe in their mission:<a href="https://securefutures.org" target="_blank">https://securefutures.org</a>/For the record, I never saved a dime until I was 30 (I'm 64 and retired today with a pension from the world's largest paper company). Only at 30 did I wake up and start reading books (Your Money or Your Life, etc.) about saving and investing. Working-class kids like me in the 60s and 70s got close to zero coaching on money. But we had cheap, subsidized college and (overall) an abundance of jobs with decent pay and benefits. And in my case, an old-school pension that was halted by the time my own daughter joined my company. And yes, once she started there, I explained all this and more to her and got her to commit 20% of her salary into her 401k which she has never reduced. Today, she is 33 and her 401k is at $280k.
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Semi-retired you're right. Tesla just dropped the Model Y price by 13k, a gorgeous marvel of engineering. When you're ready to buy one they only accept American dollars. Or lease and pay with American dollars (or finance with American dollars). My point is that our cash still has value since you love the house you live in and are happy to pay the fixed mortgage on it. Taxes always go up and that's a given. Your bank won't take your gold as currency. (or bitcoin).
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Dee Many people, myself included, routinely buy trip insurance for big-ticket trips with high non-refundable costs (cruises, especially). But rarely for a simple plane ticket of a few hundred dollars. We just figure we'll eat that amount or maybe be able to reschedule. We don't anticipate some of the high costs of rerouting, getting stuck for days in a hotel, etc. like has happened to many people during this debacle. Time to rethink, maybe.
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I disagree. To your first point, please put on your Keynesian hat Paul: the government can issue bonds and deficit spend to provide benefits to the elderly until the working age population and retiree population stabilizes.To your second point, the current capital investment in China is at its highest level ever, and with less workers coming of age in the next few decades, wages will rise and jobs will be available. Also, the bloated real estate sector (which is a drag on the economy because it prevents young people from finding affordable housing and housing is always the biggest expense) will come down - a good thing for China. In a recent NYT article about Japan's falling population (01/03/23), the owner of a thriving business is giving away for free his business to a young man instead of being gobbled up by some private equity blowhard. That's a good thing. Now, debt free, this young man will be able to carry on the business. I know you know economic history and remember the Black Plague in the Middle Ages? What happened? After the plague was over it was the very best times for the remaining working folks of Europe. Remember that.
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I have read that interest on the debt over the next decade will exceed a trillion dollars a year.That number is around 1/2 our governments tax receipts and roughly equals the pentagon’s budget.I can’t see why that is not a serious economic problem when seen in the context of multiple other problems that USA taxpayers have to deal with.
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Elie Levine Hi, and welcome to the hive. I suggest that the opening legend be changed from its current, "How many words can you make with seven letters", to something that shows the limited extent of the search. Something like, "We made (number here) words using these seven letters. How many of those words can you find?"That one change, or some similar phrasing, would greatly reduce—though probably not eliminate—the number of comments about "missing" words.Can the Wordle-bees, the thread within this forum concerned with comments on the day's wordle game, please be given our own forum apart from this one? Many times we have been accused of cluttering the hive with our comments that do not relate to the Bee. A separately-placed forum, perhaps accessible from the wordle game area, as the bot is, would end the complaints about our little corner of the hive.The wordle-bees thread typically runs to at most, 50 posts or so, including replies, so it would not call for any large outlay of resources.What now is the hive was once a bunch of "squatters" in the crossword forum. We were given a home of our own and we flourish here. I am certain that we wordlle-bees can do the same. None of this would mean that we would turn our backs on the hive. We love our family here and would not forget to join them.Last May & June the occasional few would discuss wordle in the hive; now around a dozen and more gather daily as others join with us.We could use a place of our own.
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Fox Exactly. $15 trillion for wall street. No need to cut anything, just appropriately tax those who benefited from those bailouts. They are mainly very wealthy, even millionaires. Raise their taxes and cut their loopholes.
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Michael - The ACA has its roots in a republican think tank.Taxes are supposed to pay for the things we all use and need. Education, infrastructure are not handouts, they are an investment.Everyone benefits from having a healthy and well educated populace.
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"It’s true that U.S. debt is very large — $31 trillion (said in your best Dr. Evil voice)."Indeed, it's large. Will we every pay back those loans or do we borrow and spend endlessly?
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Tom Some more thoughts. The US government is a great bet for investors? For those investors wanting to invest in a government it is the best bet in the world, but that isn’t saying much. Anyone who bought US long term bonds in the last few years has suffered huge losses on that investment, because of Inflation and Fed actions to counter it. For investors wanting to invest in private enterprise the US economy may be a good bet, but that will depend on the actions of the US government. What is in the best interests of the country may well not be what is in the best interests of investors. An investors bet on the US economy may be based on the belief that the US government is dysfunctional and will not do what it should be doing, which is not an unreasonable belief to have.
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Ken Most of us don't make enough money to have enough extra money to invest to live off passive income. You need a minimum of $3M to live off the dividends alone.
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Media Start-Up Semafor Plans to Buy Out Sam Bankman-Fried’s Investment Semafor is one of several media companies that received money from Mr. Bankman-Fried or his affiliates before his cryptocurrency company fell apart and he was charged with crimes. The news start-up Semafor began operating late last year with big ambitions backed by deep-pocketed investors. But the company soon found itself in a pickle: how to handle its biggest outside investment, roughly $10 million, from Sam Bankman-Fried after his crypto company collapsed and the federal government accused him of fraud. Semafor is one of several media companies that received money from Mr. Bankman-Fried or his affiliates before his cryptocurrency company fell apart and he was charged with crimes.
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The Two Co-ops, they are not worth the money. If I had two million to invest I would live somewhere else. Only the desperate would waste their money. The Washington Co-op is a dump in my opinion. The house, while overpriced, is the best of the three listings, although the owner should have staged the bedrooms better. They looked cheap. Loved the kitchen.
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E Read this study -- it is eye opening. <a href="https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/nov/maternal-mortality-maternity-care-us-compared-10-countries" target="_blank">https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/nov/maternal-mortality-maternity-care-us-compared-10-countries</a>
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Probably some commenter has already said this, but as a person whose (mostly fixed) income is a small fraction of the $400,000 mark Mr. Stephens apparently feels isn't enough to live on, I couldn't be more disgusted. Hey, if you need to cheat the federal government to live and you make "north" of $400,000, maybe you should consider a different lifestyle. Most of us ordinary folks have little or no opportunity to cheat to make ends meet. I don't understand why people who have it made think they are the oppressed, and seem to care not a whit about people who really are struggling.
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fast/furious With what money?
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As long as they pay the $500 million thst is fine. Open twenty casinos and collect twenty billion . Free buffets will follow . Next year open 20 more collect another $20 billionThen watch the bankruptcies .
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How Long Does It Take to Save Up for a Down Payment? A new report gives us an idea, based on local income and housing prices. The biggest barrier to homeownership for many prospective buyers isn’t the monthly mortgage bill, but the steep down payment. The 20 percent required to qualify for a typical mortgage for a median-price home in the United States (roughly $455,000) comes to about $91,000 — a formidable stack of cash. A new report gives us an idea, based on local income and housing prices.
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I pay for a sports package and the tennis channel only to encounter ESPN+ this Aussie Open. What does the future hold? Welcome to the following charges: Tennis by the set, game and point with added charges for tie-breakers? Because I absolutely refuse to pay a third fee, I was prevented from watching Gauf and Pagula's final matches. Not one more penny will Verizon and ESPN get from me. I'd rather read.
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America was in the depths of a Depression before World War II broke out. Has anyone calculated the equivalent deficit spending the Government starting printing money to pay for the war effort, in today's dollars? War bonds couldn't begin to cover the cost of that war. Every major corporation stopped whatever they were making and began making planes (Ford) tanks (Chrysler). They were being financed and paid by a government that had to print money at a rate we may never had seen. I suppose running up a deficit has its limit, or maybe this is a new definition for "infinity". But maybe comparing personal, or even corporate deficits with a government's isn't a fair comparison. I'm 77 soon to be 78, hopefully, and I've been hearing this deficit /spending, U.S. debt cry for as long I can remember.
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I just love having my tax dollars wasted by Congress...it's rich isn't it, that the party that overlooked rampant corruption, blew off how many subpoenas, the party who supported a President who threw food and the White House china at a wall, the party who pretended Hillary spent her time in the nonexistent basement of a pizza parlor, the party that overlooked Russian spies and influencers, the party that didn't care if the Trump family's Secret Service protection cost our nation tens of millions more than ANY other first family, and profitted by charging the govt for jacked up hotel fees to boot... I could go on...and on. THAT party is now opening an investigation that will waste yet MORE money and time, in order to muddy the waters they have already heaped with slag themselves. And I am only listing things that are at the very tip of the utterly corrupt and shameless Trump iceberg...they have nerve these Republicans. They have nerve. And it WILL backfire. Mark my words.
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I recently waited in a 30 minute line at Utopia Bagels, and ended up spending $80+ for a dozen bagels (12, since the worker forgot one of the baker's dozen), a pound of lox cream cheese, a bacon egg & cheese bagel, two lox & cream cheese bagels (with whole slices of lox, different from lox cream cheese), and two coffees. I figured I might as well splurge if we were already waiting this long. It took an addition 15 minutes for the worker to finish the order. Everything was very good, and they did not skimp on the lox slices on the lox & cream cheese bagel (nor did they skimp on the loc pieces in the lox cream cheese). The bagels were also very good. On the other hand, I would never wait on that line every again. Instead of getting there for the 11am wait on a Sunday, I would get there at 7-7:30am before the sleepy crowd showed up. Hopefully the earlier line is at most 5-10 minutes (if not nonexistent).
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35% of all US counties are dominated by a Catholic hospital and their religious doctrine regarding reproductive health care. This extends to the lack of reproductive health care training that physicians will receive if they choose to complete their residency at a Catholic hospital. Six US Supreme Ct justices are Catholic including the last three appointments. However, Catholics only account for about 15% of the US population. Obviously Catholics and their religious doctrine have oversized influence on policy and the lives of millions of citizens who do not share their religious views. The cake baker who refused to bake a cake for the gay couple gets all the attention when it comes to religious freedom but that is small potatoes when you compare it to the millions of women and couples who should be able to safely access reproductive health care services.
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What is “tech as we know it”, really? All these “tech” layoffs are at companies whose sole purpose is tech. Meanwhile companies with some tether to the real world continue to look for skilled workers in those fields. I work for the IT division of a major retailer, where we maintain and redesign systems that billions in revenue and several hundred thousand jobs hinge upon. It’s obviously less glamorous than working for Microsoft or Twitter or Apple, but it desperately needs doing, and we’re never not hiring.
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CSL Moving from a city to a rural area opens up other expenses such as what to do for transportation to go to work, school, and shopping. NYC has one of the cheapest modes of transportation in which to get around. Where can can you spend $1.35 and go to anywhere in the city? We also know that once there is a price increase for services they stay permanent.
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In Wisconsin its simple. Non-competes have failed in or courts so many times that a non-compete now requires equal compensation. If you 're making $100k per year and the non-compete is for 1- year, then the contract requires a $100k payment for the former employee not to compete. And, any Wisconsin employer now trying to do non-competes in contracts is rare. Generally, just confidentiality clauses stand up.
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Krush You hit the nail on the head. After a couple more years of Meghan's constant whining, Harry will bolt back to the family fold and be welcome with open arms.
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Again, we try every single way we can not to provide universal healthcare for everyone, and again wind up with a grotesque patchwork of measures that dam up leaks here and there while opening up new holes elsewhere. How about we stop kidding ourselves that Republicans care at all about the general public? While they hold any power, nothing will ever get done for the majority of Americans. All the Republicans do is protect wealthy people from paying their fair share of taxes. And don’t give me that baloney about how the rich pay more taxes than anyone else. When they are paying at least thirty percent of their income from all sources—including passthroughs and offshored wealth and capital gains—in taxes every year, then maybe they will finally approach what the rest of us pay every damn year. Maybe then the rest of us will stop agitating for them to pay up!And instead of cutting the social safety net, which is already in tatters from decades of Republican attacks on it, let’s start chopping the military budget. Let’s put our money toward life, not death!
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California storm damage could top $1 billion. Major weather disasters have been striking the United States much more often in recent years as the global climate changes. The damage from weeks of storms and flooding in California could exceed a billion dollars, according to the state’s emergency agency and private weather forecasters. That toll comes on the heels of 2022, one of the worst on record for large-scale weather and climate disasters around the United States, according to data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Major weather disasters have been striking the United States much more often in recent years as the global climate changes.
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If you don’t find the idea of Noma appealing, move on. I can’t imagine spending more than $10k on a vehicle, and yet people some waste hundreds of thousands on them. An object that moves A-to-B, really. But I can accept that it’s a fetish that I just don’t get; I don’t need to belittle those who enjoy that which I do not. Some people spend thousands of dollars on first-class plane tickets; some spend thousands of dollars on sports, non-fungible tokens, antiques, and hotels. In a world where people drop thousands of dollars on all manner of obnoxious interests, $500 for a unique meal does not seem so outlandish that I must scorn it. Is this simply modern America, where one cannot abide another having a difference in opinion (or even a difference in delight, it seems!)
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Anyhow America gives things for free whereas China has built-in paybacks. Memos-of-Understanding between governments are not disclosed, but dangling $$ in front of politicans to spend is always grabbed up.Remember "The Mouse that Roared"; taking over a country without a war. (I am stretching it a bit) And remember the humor involving ignoring the paragraph about the first born male child.
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Candy Sullivan Okay, so if a fundraising campaign was launched by Mr Proudfoot and others, and they could raise 1, 2, or 10 millions dollars to rename that arena, then the uni will do the renaming? Slam dunk?
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While private equity has its place, its fundamental raison d’etra is to extract profits at any cost from consumers and in this situation, franchisees, then sell for a profit. So, too, voracious medical entities, corporations which have purchased veterinarian and dental practices, etc. My experience is that communication between consumers and these corporate providers is no longer personal but totally corporate and includes substantial increases in price and fees. I long for the good old days when personal relationships and confidence in the provider (or franchisee) were the bedrocks of the relationship.
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"The U.S. has experienced six significant economic depressions; each was preceded by a sustained period of budget balancing."~ Professor Fredrick ThayerFrom 1823-36 the U.S. debt was reduced by 99.7 percent, to $38,000. A depression began in 1837.Under great pressure from Republicans, FDR balanced the budget in 1936. The Great Depression came roaring back in 1937. WWII, a huge government spending and employment program, if you will, got us out of our dire economic problems.Our macroeconomic thinking is often haywire: We think the federal budget is like our household's or a state government's. It isn't; it's apples and oranges.Here's Thayer again: "The tragicomedy of economics is easily displayed: If someone borrows money to build a brewery, the money is officially listed as 'investment' in national income accounts. If government spends money to build a bridge that is needed by the brewery, these funds are not listed as investment because the bridgeis considered 'waste.' To think that this fallacious logic undergirds public policy is to experience pure fright."Government spending needs to be done judiciously, not thoughtlessly, investing in bridges to nowhere. If there's a valid need for a service or product, and businesses don't want to risk it, government should step in and make it happen as it did with the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Manhattan Project, and our space program. Government and business working together is the path taken by wealthy nations.
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it's not the price gouging that's causing inflation, it's those jerk Americans with their savings accounts... please. The ruling corporate class won't be happy until they suck every dollar out of every American that they can find, forcing us into debt and a new form of serfdom and the Federal government pretty much supports that. How about taxes on windfall profits? How about investigations into price fixing and cartel operations? Maybe we could break up some of these massive corporations and create a real market with actual competition. No? some poor banker might make 3.2 million a year instead of 3.5 million and the fed can't have that, got it.
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This seemed like a lobbying piece by the health care industry. They say it's up to the government to "incentivize" hospitals to create more quality care opportunities for pediatric patients by pouring more money into a system that rewards administrators and stockholders. They even make a pitch for specific legislation their lobbyist helped draft. "Non-profit" is not the answer--while focusing on Yale New Haven Hospital, the video fails to note this tax exempt "non profit" institution pays 19 executives over $1 million a year each, including two who make over $4 million per year. The 34 most highly compensated employees received $42 million in compensation in 2020. Unless and until our government decides that quality health care is a basic human right, the current system will continue to fail many, many Americans who are not in a position to profit from it.
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What about America's debt to the rest of the world? The BEA put the "U.S. net international investment position, the difference between U.S. residents’ foreign financial assets and liabilities" at around negative $17 trillion last year. It's well less than annual GDP, but bodes ill for our future.
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I had a career change in midlife, but I remember well my advertising years, when we had up to a 10% cut every winter, just before Christmas, and in the Spring. We also suffered through job cuts when we lost an account. I still recall the Burger King firings, when we lost the account and the company fired one person for every million dollars the account generated. At the time, that totaled close to 200 people. The creative director fired each staff member personally, going to their office. He walked around, like the angel of death, firing employees. I was spared but I lost a number of work friends. The moral of survivors was bad, and the agency bought everyone a potted plant with a note. Yes, it was brutal, but the company handled it in the best way possible. That's what companies owe employees. Those who see employees as disposable and can't even fire someone to their face, they are setting themselves up for longer term problems. I would never work for a corporation that would treat me in such a callous manner. And fyi, I would never date someone who broke up via text. Honestly, both represent a pretty low bar.
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Having worked on the MTA/NYCTransit No. 7 Subway Line Extension running from Times Square to Hudson Yards, a tiny simple job compared to East Side Access, got to tell how boondoggles fatten AEC participants, agencies and pols. Its done through almost endlessly prolonged advocacy, studies, more studies, consultations up the kazoo with near limitless "interest groups" who line up to claim a stake in the booty if not by direct handouts (never called bribes), then by indirect hirings, grants, conferences, and then repeat for a few years with interim declarations of progress, any day now actual field work will begin, with pro forma gatherings of goofballs wielding spades and wearing hardhats.While this Greatest City in the World (TM) charade is underway, technical hirelings take pleasant trips to worldwide examples of what might happen in The Apple with multiples of mark-ups of project costs in well managed efforts elesewhere.The long-time it takes to get something big built in NYC assures there will be changes in publicity, design, staffing, contracts, schedules, elections, firings, deaths, screw-ups, assurances all is going well, but there's need for bit more (lot more) funding due to delays, the economy, office holders, union fights, mysterious homicides and slothful job site injuries.Ta da, years out of original schedule, well over original budget, the project nears completion, then at the last minute, glitches are discovered, delay unfortunate but safety requires ...
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As others noted, the key environmental change is “easy access” to calories. While I don’t have Prader-Willi Syndrome, I am on the end of the scale in that direction. Had I not changed my ways, I could be obese like many of my genetic relatives. Growing up in the 1950 on a farm, we had no any processed or junk food in the house. There were apples from the orchard but that was it. Even when we moved to a small town in the 1960s, Mom still made stuff from scratch and we had no sodas or snacks in the house.In college, wrestling helped control my weight. In graduate school my waist expanded. A professor by 2000, I was withing 1# of obese according to the charts. I did two things. 1. We eliminated all snack foods from the house. I never liked sodas, so that was not an issue. 2. I made a spreadsheet to track calories consumed & expended. My goal was to expend 500 more per day, 3,500/wk. than consumed. I lost 50# that year.I’ve kept it off. I don’t spend my days craving food. If we had snacks in the house, I might backslide. A mental “trick” I use if I feel hungry when I know I should not is think about those hunters & gathers or farmers who had to wait an hour or more to satisfy their hunger. I tell myself to wait that hour. During that time the urge goes way. My wife is an excellent cook, I do lots of chopping. Our meals are from scratch, so time consuming. We rarely eat out. Life is good. At 74 I can get out of a chair without help.
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The federal debt increased by $7.8 trillion under the term of the last republican president… NOW they care about debt & deficits, and seem eager and willing to drive the US economy off a cliff.
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The US powers that be finally got scared enough of China to open the purse strings and spend some money on industrial technology. Good for them, I guess. At least we're not invading anyone for their oil or natural gas this time...
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"In the long run, the greatest hope we can have for China is its people. The greatest investment we can make in the coming decades of turbulence is to keep faith with them".This statement could apply to any country world-wide. It is an all too common mistake to conflate a nation's government and its policies with its ordinary citizens. When the powers-that-be actively suppress information regarding its wrongdoings, keeping their citizens in the dark, we should not conclude that most would cheer them on if they were to know the truth about their leaders' wrongful actions.I submit that the vast majority of Russians would be appalled if they were to become fully aware of Mr. Putin's unrelenting attacks on Ukraine; to wit, protests are already taking place as the news of the true extent of the devastation begins leaking in.When tempted to rush to judgment about a nation and its actions, particularly one under despotic rule, first place the blame on those in power and then vow to do whatever is possible to support the people in their desire to lead a reasonable life.
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Salim Durrani Yes, exactly.Blinken: "We do sincerely hope that Mr. Netanyahu, our great friend forever (despite his being under criminal investigation for corruption and doubling and tripling down on apartheid measures in order to keep the fanatical right wing in his camp in the Knesset) will kindly, please, but only if it's OK with him, start treating the native Palestinian population like human beings - but only because this is not a good look for either of us - not because we actually view the Palestinians as full human beings who deserve to have their dignity and human rights respected and upheld like everyone else in the world." Every taxpaying American everywhere is contributing to this brutal occupation day in and day out. Billions of dollars a year, every year, with no end in sight. Mr. Netanyahu should humbly thank the American taxpayers for working so hard at their jobs so that they can fund his illegal occupation, military incursions against civilians, home demolitions, illegal settlement construction, mass punishment, theft of natural resources, and other assorted apartheid policies, while also making it easier for Israel to fund its national health care system for every citizen. Meanwhile, those same Americans are denied that same benefit in the only advanced, industrialized country on the planet without a guaranteed right to health care.You're welcome, Mr. Netanyahu. By all means, carry on. You know this is never going to change.
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Instead of paying the head coach millions, split it with the team, and sponsorships go into a collective pot. There ain’t no “I” in team, but there are two “I”s over an S to make a $ sign.The no transfer rule should apply to anyone with an NIL without a clawback of half. Half for the player, half for his teammates who he is abandoning, or may have signed up to play with.Either way, Title IX will be the biggest loser.
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Aff The cost of eggs has jumped a $1.25 or so around here. Not sure how many times a week you eat eggs, but let’s say you are like my brother-in-law. A protein, lactose intolerant fanatic, he has eggs six days a week, three at a time. That’s two dozen eggs every two weeks, and added $65 a year. Please.
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Adrienne If you're serious about food waste and economizing, and have the cash and space for it, a separate freezer is your best investment. Failing that, it's all about making lists and food prepping for the week. Because in this country, we collectively throw out about 40% of the food we buy.
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It has never been more clear that the party of obstruction really does its "best work" as the minority. No ideas, no agenda, no notion of what statesmanship means. Making $170K a year throwing sand in gears. They'll get another shot at the minority in two years, thankfully.
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JPRP Agree, who know what the health effects are from the significant magnetic fields generator by the induction stoves. Also where I live in NJ radon gas is a significant problem. So I have a remediation system and open the windows and doors when ever I can. The last thing I need is a totally sealed house.
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Because children are easier to sell to, the infantilization of the American public has been a project of corporate America for decades. Don't believe me? Watch an hour of commercials, or look at tonite's TV lineup or the slate at the local movie theater.This childishness has bled into the investment and political worlds, and the ppl who benefit the most are scammers who understand it best, ppl like Trump and Tucker Carlson.Knowing something is no longer important. What's important is what you hope is true.
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The $10-20M insurance payout sounds like an extremely good reason not to come back. He's already too old to be seriously good, and has serious physical issues to overcome. If you subtract expenses, my guess is that the insurance payout is not far behind his expected payout of playing, and it comes without risk. He knows how well he can play now, and has probably decided it's not worth the risk.
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They had to come up with the $10B somehow that they are investing in OpenAI…
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I agree that the debt limit is unconstitutional. On the other hand, I think we need to be cognizant of the fact that a 30 trillion dollar debt, if interest rates hit 5%, would require $1.5 trillion in interest payments. That would be 25% of the federal budget just going to pay interest on the debt. And as the deficits continue, and the debt grows, the interest on the debt will be unsustainable. We should not con ourselves about where this is headed.
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Michael I'm on a budget.If you look across one brand, most have their inductions priced about 20% more than a comparable gas, so yes, more money (not anywhere near 4x more) my point is that they are not as new, getting better and cheaper all the time - comparatively - keep in mind all appliances are still quite expensive right now due to ongoing price gouging and steel tariffs.The major middle class brands GE, Frigidaire, Whirlpool have 30"-36" from $1000 to $1500. And most people have a variety of cookware, some aluminum, some stainless, some cast iron. And no one is saying you have to go out right now and change everything. In fact you can get a little counter top deal for $80, get one pan, try it out, get used to it.I am building a new home - absolutely on a budget - doing much of the work myself having taken a lot of time off from work - I most definitely do not have a lot of money to throw around. I'm getting the Frigidaire 36" for $1000. I had aluminum bottom Corningware that I'd had since high school, so I definitely saved money over time so I can afford a few new pots.
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Rural Farmer My in-laws did the exact thing you describe with a suitcase they could not open. My husband intervened and forced the lock before it went to the curb for trash removal. In the suitcase was a 12 piece sterling silver ware set. Sometimes it pays to look.
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La Rana - Some of the criticism is valid, seen by millions, so you can't claim "without merit". For example, angry with losing a point at the US open in 2020, Djokovic slammed a tennis ball toward one of the line judges, it struck her in the throat, resulting in his ousting of the tournament. And let's not forget the smashing (several times) of his racket on court at the Australian Open in 2021. There are many other displays of bad behavior over his career.
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Mike Reasonable Crypto is a solution looking for a problem it might actually solve. There is not one today, aside from accelerating our increasing rate of dumping greenhouse gasses into the air, thus warming the planet. Mining bitcoin is stunningly costly in energy and computation resources. There is an increasing cost to "mining" the next new bitcoin. Using bitcoin and blockchain technology for bitcoin transactions is very expensive. If credit-card processing used blockchain, transaction rates would be far longer, so the routine processing of these transactions would be far slower and far more expensive. As many have discovered, crypto is highly vulnerable to various forms of fraud and theft. (See "Mt. Gax" for an earlier example, and the recent FTX collapse, both causing their investors huge losses. The dollar is a much better savings vehicle--so is gold, for that matter.
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MattNg And in time to get to the theater and you're giving a half day and $20 to Cameron.If you must see, you can do so at home, with unlimited bathroom breaks.
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It’s funny to me that Paul, who has worked as a book reviewer for a long time, can with a straight face blame the wave of negative criticism of American Dirt on one reviewer, after which “others quickly jumped on board and a social media rampage ensued.” Doesn’t she recognize that this is exactly how the *positive response* to American Dirt also began? Publishers work very hard to get good early blurbs and favorable reviews for books. But that doesn’t mean they are more correct than negative ones. Getting good blurbs early on builds buzz, which then persuades more reviewers and readers to go along with the buzz. But the hype avalanche can go both ways. By any standards, this book and its author have been wildly successful. The publisher has made back its money. And I’m guessing that this article’s attempt to reshape the debate around American Dirt is actually the first salvo in what will be an enormous ($200,000 ) publicity and marketing campaign for Cummins’ second book.
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I believe your premise is true. She is held to a different standard. Yes.But to write this piece and not mention the roads (see the Insta page called "LATFS"), the garbage (as explained in another reply), the education system, any specifics on decisions made compounding the crime issue, the recent article written through Freedom of Information Act access showing how she goes days at a time without taking/making any calls or answering emails, the travel fiasco, the unused $194m in federal funds, and the specific corruption leading to the FBI investigation is an odd take. I do not hear folks comparing the current state as being anything close to the shenanigans of the past, hurricanes excluded. These events now are not the same as the other mayors to which you compare her.
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Gingrich lives in the toniest town in America; he’s worth at least $9 million due to his congressional salary and pension, “books” and speaking fees.
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Try writing a complex document (appellate brief) under a tight deadline that requires extremely focused concentration while fielding telephone calls from higher-up partners demanding immediate answers to complex legal issues for a judicial ruling in the middle of a major medical malpractice trial, reading and responding to incoming work (and personal) emails, trying to schedule a child’s dental appointment, worrying whether time will allow attendance at the PTA meeting that evening, all while two young associates hover in the doorway with an urgent legal issue that also needs an immediate answer. In a word: idiotic.
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