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Recent SEC filings show that Uber makes $29 BILLION in revenue every year despite having been around for more than a decade.But somehow they are STILL LOSING money. You have to wonder how such a business has been able to survive despite losing money the whole time.Potemkin village?
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Wow, for $4.5M I could walk to the Pederson Car Museum everyday. What a dream come true. And I used to like LACMA too before they expanded it so much as to become an exhausting ordeal to visit. Around there Canter’s Deli is still the only thing worth the walk.
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First in considering these ideas remember that the author pointed out that these are ideas about process not personality. Don’t think that the top down leadership approach is a problem consider one issue dear to my heart, financial conflicts of interest and self interest intent in the passage of laws and regulations. There was a serious effort to address the intersection of the personal financial interests of congress members and legislation that was tanked by the house leadership under Nancy Pelosi. Why, because her husband is in finance and so are many of her colleagues on both sides of the aisle. This is just one aspect of the corruption of congress by wealth. Also we need committees that function properly and have enough resources and influence to address legitimate concerns about legislation before it gets voted on. Time and again over my lifetime of government work and interest I have heard some politician remark about not knowing about some provision in a bill he or she voted on. Removing this excuse is good for democracy not bad. Finally there is the failure to expand the House of Representatives with the growth of population. As a liberal I believe this should matter to my fellow liberals. The failure to have representation grow with population has led to undue influence from lower population areas and reduced the number and effectiveness of representation for higher population areas that are often minority dominated communities. Can’t “bad” people have “good” ideas?
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I understand what is trying to be conveyed. Ambiance can make or break anything. I have trouble reading books now that I am older. My eyesight seems to waver in and out of focus, thus I have several eyeglasses with different prescriptions. Still, after about an hour, reading is no longer possible. Yet I love books and the doors they open.I am a BIG fan of Kindle because it enabled me to read books I would have never found here in France. I missed my culture although I love French culture. I'm doubly fortunate! But now, as my years hurry towards the end of my life, I love audible or any other of the same books. I can listen, without having a frustrating time while I finish all the little crafting projects I didn't finish in my younger years because reading was a demanding master. I began writing my name and reading when I was also learning how to crochet and knit, around 4 years old. I am betting audible or the like, will keep me well read and crochet & knitting will keep me busy well into my 90s or even my 100s!
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Chris Oh please that is such a specious argument. Of course the top wage earners pay the most tax because they earn FAR MORE than the bottom 50%. Be that as it may however, many of those same top wage earners dodge paying what they really owe by parking much of their income offshore. You were right about one thing, there ARE plenty of places to cut spending, first and foremost...the obscene Defense budget, now at well over $800 Billion, more than the next nine countries combined.
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"the nudges encouraging Kyiv to show openness to negotiation"S'pose Putin might be satisfied if we gave him Texas and Florida?Based on what I'm seeing in the social media and other chat threads, seems plenty of the residents of those states would be happier being Putin's people than Americans, so it could be a win-win-win-win!
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I live in Amsterdam, a city known for its bicycle culture. I think what people really don't appreciate is how much space cars take up. The roadway taken by a slow-moving car could fit 10 cyclists. One parking spot is space for 20 parked bicycles. With urban land prices what they are, the implicit subsidy of a two-lane city road is *staggering*. It is virtually impossible to pay back the opportunity cost in taxes and parking fees.But a feature of cars is that they make it extremely unpleasant to be a non-driver, so if you drive then I have to drive. And even with all the subsidies, cars are still crazy expensive.Let me describe my commute: I currently get around on a second-hand bicycle from the 1970s bought for 100 euros, plus another 100 euros in upkeep per year. I get everywhere as fast as a car, more healthily and with less hazard. Disabled people use electric scooters. The two times a year I need to move something bigger, I rent a sharecar or electric bakfiets. And after all that, compared to America the best part is that the streets are so *quiet*. There are simple physics behind why this is exponentially cheaper: I am not expending the material and energy to move 2 tons of steel everywhere I go. We imagine that the future must be glitzier and have more complicated technologies, but this is untrue. Simple solutions win. It's just that American urban planning decisions and interest groups have got the cities locked into a sub-optimal local equilibrium.
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Paresh Y Murudkar Hypothesis: Google wants it leaked. OpenAI has by being public acquired huge amount of attention. Although Google will likely achieve partity with OpenAI shortly, their immediate danger is to become the default definition of the technology. Microsoft found out years ago that even though Bing had reached technical parity with Google, the public had been convinced to search for something was to "Google It.'Thus, Google has to ghet out there with its own stuff, before the "GPT It" because the next generation term for search.
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If you want to reduce spending, have national healthcare. Healthcare is 1/6 of the economy. Medicare pays about 1/2 of all medical cost. The US spends twice as much on healthcare as every other country.National healthcare would reduce spending on Medicare by 1/2. That is, 1/2 of the cost of Medicare would be eliminated.Better outcomes, lower cost. Why aren't we doing this?
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$33.30 per hour before tips is more than I've ever earned with a graduate degree in government from a top university.Think about that.
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Kevin That's sad, and the reality. I am a tenured full professor and well paid personally (since part of my field is computing) but the grants we get are a struggle. The entire model rests on poorly paid grad students and postdocs (of which I was one). The largest grants won't allow high salaries and even if it did, it becomes an issue of having two grad students or one moderately well paid programmer for 100K. But this is my passion. I try not to take on any mentees who don't come with their own funding so my grant writing (responsibility) is minimal. In my view, 50%+ or more grants should be funded, but milestone driven. When people meet milestones, then the next tranche can be released. Right now the odds of getting a NIH grant is like 1/10.
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Everything Ms. Garcia-Navarro is mentioning about Miami here is accurate. I have lived here my entire life, and slowly but surely see how my hometown is becoming a place where I can’t afford to live. Miami has always been a place with a plastic culture, no reverence for its history and quick to demolish the few places left that tell our story and replace them with vacant luxury condos. I am still fortunate to be able to live in the community that I work in (public school teacher, in Florida, another comment for another day), but for how much longer as the cost of living continues to rise at a much higher rate than our salaries? There are people trying to make a positive impact in the community, trying to have cool places to hang out, eat or watch a band play, but the predatory nature of the real estate market, and the open invitation for the obscenely rich to come in and buy up everything we’ve built here will soon leave them wondering why they came down here to begin with.
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Douthat writes: "But the Francis era has certainly returned the church to a state of open theological division."Douthat seems to suffer from the delusion of the spiritual authoritarian, which is that if the expression of dissenting theological views is suppressed, that somehow the underlying theological division doesn't exist. Benedict, both as pope and as Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (a body formerly known as the Inquisition), was the perfect modern-day exemplar of this spiritual authoritarianism, and ruthlessly went about suppressing priests, nuns and theologians who failed to adhere to his rigid, doctrinaire view of what constituted orthodoxy.But the division does continue to exist. And sadly, the impulse towards spiritual authoritarianism seems to be endemic among a certain subset of Roman Catholic clergy and laity, and was the go-to response under the papacies of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. That impulse stands in contradiction to the Church's oft-repeated respect for individual conscience, and has, I believe, contributed mightily to the Church's inability to respond effectively to the global crisis of sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic clergy.
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Israel has never been a democracy, so there is no worry about its no longer being one. A theocracy cannot be a democracy. They are contradictory notions. And I think there are many who would be perfectly happy with this country's termination of the roughly $50-billion in military aid and grants it makes annually to Israel and, as one commenter puts it, accord it the right manage its own affairs. Of course, it would only be doing so for about six months. Here's a fact: he who pays the piper calls the tune.
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The Honorable Ken Buck of Colorado is whistling past the graveyard if he thinks this Republican House is actually going to accomplish anything. This is but the opening round of legislative anarchy even worse than when the Tea Party initially rose to prominence. And yes, the voters will notice.
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reaylward Yes, I just read an article by a Consumer Reports editor; if I buy a new gas range it will cost $600. If I buy an induction range & all the electrical hook-ups, it will cost $2-3,000 plus replacing 1/2 of our pots, all to get a flat stove-top that someone in this household will almost surely break--that's an added $300-800 to replace. No asthma in our entire extended family, that has been cooking with gas for 80 + years. I'll stick with gas.
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Next I expect Kevin will concede to 'open carry' on the House floor, and the suspension of all security at the entry points to get Boebert's vote.
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George Drastic Look to departing Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan rather than Marin Alsop for the financial problems of the BSO, clearly the orchestra to which you are alluding. Despite having the State Legislature provide funding, Hogan withheld $1.6 million from the BSO. As for her talent, she’s the first woman to win the Koussevitzky Prize for conducting.
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The appropriate combination of: Government, Labor, and Capital, cooperating is the answer. Call it socialism or whatever; but, each one acting independently in its own interest(s) dooms the economy to boom and bust scenarios and the waste that accompanies them. If Capital deems a factory should close for purely economic reasons, then the society that radiates outwards that includes small businesses, teachers, healthcare, etc is affected. Government incentives accompanied with Labor contributions can reimagine the factory and maintain the population demography. This is done in Europe. When a Volkswagen factory was trying to close and result in the layoff of 10,000 workers, the government and labor got together with capital and solutions were developed to maintain the workforce in place. Tax incentives, wage freezes, and retooling are far more doable than 10,000 workers laid off.
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What is the debt amount where no country will purchase any more of our new debt? $50T, $75T, $100T? This may be even more dangerous than defaulting on the existing debt. It is time to stop deficit spending and renegotiate our existing debt.
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Florida is built on the house of cards. Actually built on the House of the big bad federal government Repubs hate. 21 military bases in Florida along with the Kennedy Space center. Move these jobs to a blue state and see how well DeSantis does.Never forget DeSantis when in congress voted no for hurricane aid for NJ. But his state gets billions every year for either a hurricane or a condo complex falling in the ocean. Just think how many jobs are created with all these storms.The taxes are low because the fed and blue states fund this state with billions.
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This report says the sicker you seem to be on paper, the more money Medicare Advantage plans make money. When I retired in 2016, I enrolled my wife and me with Medicare Advantage of same insurance company I was with for decades while working. After looking at traditional Medicare and having to deal with its parts separately with different entities, I decided to try the one stop shop of Medicare Advantage. It was a case of KISS (keep it simple, stupid). Our insurance while I was working was supposed to be one of those "Cadillac" ones. Medicare Advantage has turned out to be even better on costs (thanks to Medicare limits on charges) but same quality of services. Though limited to "in network" medical services, there's plenty of them to choose from. There was one instance though of coverage denial involving close to $300 that I contested and got reversed. I would have replaced them otherwise. I'm bombarded by Medicare Advantage companies junk mail touting their expanded coverage but already matched by my current plan. The competition indicates Medicare Advantage must be profitable under current conditions. I like the extra benefits I get from Medicare Advantage but I would go to Traditional Medicare if those extra benefits for me that generates even more benefits to the insurer is at my expense as a taxpayer.
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BChad-Barr worked for top Washington D.C. law firm Kirkland-Ellis that had several Russian oligarchs in its portfolio. Barr had dealings with one who laundered money through NY real estate & Trump holdings; his association with Trump goes back decades. Barr kept $M in Deutsch Bank even while it was under investigation and dropped a DoJ case against sex trafficker Jeffrey … Check him out; pretty sordid story.
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L4: Ouch. That is one expensive lesson. You're out $400 bucks and you've lost a friend (although clearly not a great one). Moral being, get reimbursed Before the event.
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A Voice of Reason A couple of 'thumbnail' observations. First, if government spending in total (salaries for employees, purchases of goods and services, transfers like social security, etc.) are roughly 1/3 of our GNP, then it stands to reason that taxes rate to collectively support that would be about 33%. Which should not be a problem because collectively about 1/3 of our collective incomes are derived in one way or another from government spending. Same thing about medical expenses. If health care is about 1/6th of our economy, then collectively, it stand to reason we all are likely spending 1/6 of our income on healthcare. The issue then is how to make it more efficient which is where single-payer solution or even just make it part of the government would be an improvement. We are already paying (out the nose) for it, either by way of premiums and deductibles or also money our employers spend on our behalf that could otherwise be going to employees. Don't kid yourself... what your employer spends on healthcare they consider part of your compensation. So... lets just get the for-profit completely out of the system, get rid of a large part of the bureaucracy and just pay the 15% to the government in taxes and if you're sick, you just go to doctor and get treated. Like in other modern economies.
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Jeff "Climate change is just getting started?"Well, yes...that is, if you think 4.6 billion years is just getting started, of course.From the article: "Since opening two decades ago, Noma — the Copenhagen restaurant currently serving grilled reindeer heart on a bed of fresh pine, and saffron ice cream in a beeswax bowl — has transformed fine dining"If grilled reindeer heart on pine (oh excuse me..."fresh" pine) is fine dining, then bring on the comfort food immediately. That kind of pretentious silliness is similar to the NYT Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott's similarly pretentious choices for this year's Oscar categories. Nothing but a bunch of food nobody wants to eat along with a bunch of films nobody will see. Great company. :-)
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Catherine I agree and don't forget the Biden administration pillaring the oil companies for not investing more in their own oil infrastructure and development when the oil companies know full well that Biden just wants to shut them down.
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Out on walks with my dog, choosing not to engage in social activities with people trying to be social, say hii, ask if «our» dogs may play together, I wonder. I wonder if rejecting other people’s attempts to socialize with me makes me to a terrible person? Even though the socialization feels usually exhousting to me. « We» live after all in a world where being social is extremelly importent to « us». I wonder sometimes if instead of not saying anything and just pass people who want to engage in conversations out on walks, I should ask if I could take our conversation on video? To learn from the conversation? I wonder as well if clients and coworkers viewed me as a person with low emotional intelligence, having worked for a cooperation for 16 years with extended contact with coworkers and clients? I wonder how people coup being social at work AND on free time? I mean, apparently the Facebook and other social media are myself as well.
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Maybe Microsoft would be better placed to using some of those people to fix software that is broken or answering help desks etc?
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It's all pretty talk about shifting the focus of business schools to more green and social endeavors, but it all goes out the window with a price tag of 600 million dollars for a building where people have to pay a quarter of a million dollars for their education. Columbia and it's students are in it for the money. It's capitalism pure and simple at its shiniest new shrine. Beautiful building, though. Hats of for the architects.
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First off, how does someone (i.e., Mr Gory) "still owe about $51,000 on his 2022 Toyota Highlander"?? How much do those things cost (and why do so many Americans, Uber drivers or not) insist on owning so much more car than they need? It sounds like he may have made a bad decision in how or where he purchased that vehicle …perhaps a lease with a crazy interest rate?Either way, as I often say to my various Uber drivers, I would love to see them get together and form their own ride hailing platform, whereby all monies go directly to the drivers themselves (minus the bare minimum for the platform’s operational expenses). It is disgusting to consider all the money that Uber themselves are making off the backs of these drivers.
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I for one hope that the Jan 24 hearings report is made public. Among other reasons, it's important that the public have the opportunity to see the evidence uncovered by the Grand Jury without the cacophony of right wing media, emboldened by Elon Musk's decision to essentially allow those blocked for disinformation back on to Twitter, his gutting of the content moderation staffers.Based on public statements and actions, to my mind there are open and shut convictions coming for many people, the former president included. My "feel" doesn't matter for that though, and I'm looking forward to the next steps by District Attorney Willis. Whether or not convictions result, our democracy needs a full accounting of election tampering in George and across the country. Keep an eye out for A.G. Nessel's just opened investigation into the fake electors from Michigan next.
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We can always borrow some funds from George Santos. He seems to have plenty of secret money.
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I have to agree with several that Montana folks are often very friendly. I have traveled there many times and enjoyed the experience of the beautiful scenery and wide open spaces. My son worked on a ranch there for a spell and they treated him well. Unfortunately, when it comes to politics and religion they seem to be diving off the deep end.
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Jack Dalton Plus they opened the money spigots on our election system and enabled gerrymandering.
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Jack Lee Good for you,but living in an apartment in New York, clucking is prohibited,unless I do it. That said,I can still pick up eggs at the greenmarkets for $6.00 per dozen.
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Richardag - Yes; and part of the reasoning in returning to the open court hand-down is not only the egoism and drama, but preserving the appearance the Court isn't engaging in right wing agenda pushing. Not sure how many critics will be convinced by such live performances. The Court should be expanded to 13.
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The most prosperous economic era in the US in the past century was the 1950’s. The rate of economic growth was robust, the middle class expanded, and economic inequality decreased. Powerful labor unions were instrumental in providing members with benefits and wages which, in turn, provided workers with affordable housing and the ability to retire comfortably. Yet, the highest marginal tax rate was 90% and the government ran at a budget surplus despite financing the entire interstate Highway system. Republican icon Ronald Reagan took care of all that with deregulation, tax cuts, the destruction of unionized labor, and slashing discretionary spending. Racial minorities certainly did not share equally in the prosperity of the 50’s, and that is another story. But, Eisenhower in the 50’s and Clinton in the 90’s showed that progressive taxation could facilitate growth, while Nixon, the Bush’s and Trump cut taxes, increased income inequality, and precipitated recessions.
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Susan Fitzwater Indeed. Thank you, Ms. Chang. And thank you, Ms. Fitzwater, for so getting this wonderful work, Song of Solomon, and responding to it with such, what? What? Love. Only love can receive love. Ms. Olds' testimony opens and opens and opens. And you, Ms. Fitzwater, have picked the perfect rose: "[Joy] left no cranny of mind or body unsatisfied". What a pleasure, late on a Sunday night, late in a life, to happen upon such lovely companionship. Many thanks.
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sawduster Federer modest? In my opinion, he's always acted with lots of entitlement. Not to mention that he's one of the so-called "billion dollar athletes" like Michael Jordan, Lionel Messi and Lewis Hamilton. He has earned almost $1 billion in endorsements alone. Which part of it is modest?
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I bought a couple of hundred dollars worth of bitcoin through Coinbase several years ago. The next morning I had lost half the value, and the next morning before I could use up the balance I lost more.. This was beyond my appetite for risk, never mind its anonymity. I had a fraction of a bitcoin in the account and never looked it up for at least 7 years. Shockingly it was worth over $4k!. I decided to roll the dice and have not checked the account.The bitcoin stuff is way better than the NFT scam which is digital and modern day twist of famous artist/photographer rendering of a famous painting or photograph. They sell it as something unique...one of a limited series of 500, 1000 etc. People buy them in droves. What is it worth?Gold seems to be limited. People around the world invest in it in the form of jewelry. It still holds value for everybody while bitcoins, NFTs and Giclees etc are for a tiny group of people.The MAGAs are coming for the Fed/Treasury so is keeping savings in bonds safe? Maybe storing in a coffee can, under the mattress is better:)
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Wshere did the $700k come from???
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H. Clark It’s ok if you don’t want to look—i don’t want to either—but consider donating to and supporting those who are fighting the good fight for the vulnerable. Dr. Akhtar is a hero of mine for exactly this reason. It is hard for anyone with a conscience or heart to look at the Truth in the face. People like her put their feelings aside and charge into the darkness to try to stop the madness and cruelty of our species anyway. That takes guts that I don’t have. I don’t read about the horrors to protect my sanity but I do donate whenever I can to the Center for Contemporary Sciences, Mercy for Animals, Farm Sanctuary, and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Making them beneficiaries to your bank and retirement accounts is easy, and they *really* need the support. I also automate small charges of $10-20 per month so I don’t have to think about it.
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I hope Mr. Solomon is squeaking by on $39,500,000 a year pay. That's a mere $759,615.38 per week. On top of that i suspect he roams Central Park on a regular basis to hand out warm coffee to the homeless.
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Gavin Newsom's $200 million proposal for levies and flood protection are nothing but a down payment for what's needed. The lack of bold leadership is appalling. Everyone knows what's needed but there will be no grand plan brought by a leader who can rally all the parties. Just a bunch of bureaucrats shuffling paperwork between agencies.
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That’s a distinction between ChatGPT and other bots out there (like Siri). ChatGPT does not scrape the internet, it is a deep learning model that is trained on data. While the data used to train could have been scraped from the internet, the bot itself is not doing the scraping (as it only exists posterior to the data). A simple solution to your dilemma is to filter the data that is fed to the bot, which is what OpenAI already tries to do with violent information. Now they just need to do it for incorrect info as well.
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When Hochul first replaced Cuomo, I thought I would give her a chance. For awhile I thought she was a breathe of fresh air, after the bombastic, my way orbhighway former governor. But she has indeed proven to be his protege. With every decision she’s made, she refuses to even pretend that she’s open to hearing what the other side has to say. Many if her decisions are not only tone deaf but exactly the opposite of what NYC and NY state needs . Let’s start with the billion dollar tax payer funded stadium in Buffalo, . Then there is her refusal to rethink Penn South, which will not only destroy an intact neighborhood but add 10 glass towers to an already congested area, adding office space to a city which already has thousands of empty offices. Meanwhile it will do nothing to fix the abysmal Penn Station. She to continue with the misguided congestion pricing plan without even insuring that the necessary infrastructure, like more bus lanes, is in place. She also vetoed a proposal to stop the incessant tourist and comment helicopters from flying over the city.To even nominate this anti choice, anti union judge was a travesty. This is the opposite of what she campaigned on. It doesn’t surprise me though, given some of her other choices. It’s disappointing that NY is responsible for turning over the House of Representatives to the Republicans. We absolutely do not need a anti choice, anti worker judge as the highest judge inthe state.
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priceofcivilization You're in Texas. That might be part of your problem vis-a-vis Christianity.I'm an open, practicing pagan and have never run into a problem with discrimination of any kind, but I also live in one of America's least Christian cities, the kind of place where people will protest the opening of a Chick-fil-A.Might want to consider a move.
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I was equally skeptical when cryptocurrency came on the scene. I was baffled that so many could not see that investing in cryptocurrencies was just tulip mania. The only reason anyone was buying these assets was to just wait for them to appreciate. There seemed to be no real utility. It was a Greater Fools game.Recently, however, I needed to send some money overseas. The first time I did it, I did a wire transfer. It took many days, and cost hundreds of dollars. The second time I did it, I used crypto (a USD-backed stablecoin). It went through in minutes, and cost far less. This was demonstrative to me.I suspect that there is value in cryptocurrencies as younger generations conduct their lives more and more on the Internet, and have the desire to conduct their transactions free of national constraints.I am still skeptical about cryptocurrencies as an investment in itself. As a currency, I can definitely see the potential.
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Nothing sterile about the three houses this week; they are all charming. The Litchfield house is my favorite: beautifully appointed; tasteful decor; enough bedrooms & baths. The foyer floor is not tile, as stated; it is painted stencil over the hardwood floor, which is more in keeping than tile would have been. It's a large house, & the one acre lot supports it well. The patio is impeccable with a lovely pool. Wonderful house.The Craftsman house in Atlanta is larger than it seems from the street. The renovation is interesting. The kitchen has lots of light, so the black cabinets work here. I rather like the staircase in the kitchen, it's a quirky, but charming touch. The walled garden & koi pond are outstanding, making the patio equally inviting as the house.The Missoula Tudor is lovely from the street. The lack of bathrooms is a real drawback for me. The primary bedroom has to share its bath with the other bedroom on that level. The two bedrooms on the upper level also share a bath. This is a small house on a tiny lot, & the price seems too high for less than 3,000 square feet & only 2.5 baths. Also, a one-car garage would be a challenge in Montana's freezing, snowy winters; almost every family owns two vehicles. The open shelving in the kitchen is impractical & already dated, however the kitchen has lots of light.
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Christopher Lydon And thank you to Christopher Lydon for being such a beacon. Recommended to everyone, check out Lydon's podcast "Open Source"....you will not regret it! <a href="https://radioopensource.org" target="_blank">https://radioopensource.org</a>/
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I wound my way through this puzzle, repeatedly expecting to stall out, but always managing to suss out the next opening, ending with the magnificent 33A. The puzzle certainly did not serve up anything ONAPLATTER.Had OUTOFREACH before OUTOF TOUCH, and WHEREILIVE before THESEPARTS but somehow got PLASMATV from the S in SAX, and a couple of the other long entries from just two crossing letters.Which makes me feel vaguely like I've been doing too many crosswords.A delightful and entertaining puzzle, IMNSHO.
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Michael So ending qualified immunity is the answer, opening up the police to frivolous lawsuits (reason for the law) basically paralyzing law enforcement as cops hesitate in enforcement out of fear of being continually dragged into court? These Memphis (and other) cops were fired and under indictment. What more do you want? In today's litigious society would you expect anything other than the withdrawal of policing? That's what will be happen and you will be more responsible for ensuring your own safety. We're an armed nation with a lot of criminality with access to it in plain site of everyone. If qualified immunity is repealed I recommend you get yourself a gun
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Giving Zelenskyy the benefit of the doubt, which he has most surely earned, the Ukrainian resistance, which is made up mostly of civilians who are fighting to keep their families alive, is not even an organized force. How exactly would any group be able to track billions of dollars in weapons and aid flooding into the country? Of course there is corruption and theft. This is the real world. Billions in cash went missing from Iraqi banks. Afghan warlords fled their country with plane loads of our cash and weapons. This is what arming rebel forces around the world looks like. That doesn’t make Republicans who resist funding the Ukraine right, but it doesn’t help us to pretend this isn’t happening either.
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GRAFF Overlooks the obvious: That in the case of Biden, there was no criminal intent where the documents are concerned. In fact, some experts believe that Biden's behavior is exemplary. He was notified about the apparently oversight re the ultimate disposition of the documents, he acted with alacrity to correct the errors by returning the documents to the archives where they belong. Contrast that with Trump's clearly intentional obstruction: After 18 months of "negotiation" (i.e., obfuscation and delay), Trump still refused to release the documents, citing his infantile, grandiose, distorted and false belief that the documents magically became his because he was president. Trump is incapable of making mature decisions which are based on reality and mindful of the facts of the matter. For a decade, Fred Trump had to pay for Donald's failures to the tune of $1 billion. Now We The People have to pay for Trumps failures. God only knows how much that's going to cost the United States Government.
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"...the same document found to include a right to abortion suddenly is declared not to include that right, in the space of a few years."Exactly what SCOTUS did, after 50 years of precedent. Of course they'll do it on the state level. The flood gates are wide open.It's all about POWER. This is all it is. Power over women, based on a fanatical ideology.Read Jessica Valenti's excellent Abortion Every Day newsletter. Subscribe to her. She's documenting all of this, every day. Recent edition highlights a federal GOP bill proposal to create a website that collects data on pregnant women. We will be tracked, and questioned... it's coming.Even IF the GOP suddenly started caring about babies when they're born, and created social safety nets, that should *not* excuse the subjugation of women.This is about agency over our own bodies, our lives.
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AlNewman yes indeed. There are three words that give pause to the whole project of a self-driving automobile. Microsoft operating system. It's been around for 30 years and 40 years if you countDOA and they still haven't got it right.
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Evergrande has a cycle of borrowing from banks- starting “building houses”- taking money from customers- investing all money in other sectors (aka expanding)- partially paying the debts to the bank- borrowing more. Those actions, often welcomed by local governments (whose main cash source is renting land to real estate and factories, and they might be corrupted) as good investments. The cycle is also a reason why there are lots of ghost residential projects in China.Please bear in mind that the most influential banks in China are mostly state-owned, so the money they borrow ultimately comes from taxpayers. People like the management and major shareholders of Evergrande see the money they borrowed (and taken) from taxpayers as their private property, so they won’t use the money wisely. They corrupted not only politics in the mainland, but mainland’s soccer leagues and even societies of Hongkong. They held a lavish dinner for some H.K. officials in violation of Covid rules, almost certainly to bribe themWhen the unsustainable cycle finally breaks some people would simply take the money away to some tax havens or even the U.S., leaving taxpayers- who payed their projects at least once- impoverished and deceived. The government hoped to lead a soft landing in prediction of the real estate bubble’s final breakdown, and now they tried to regulate the market as they should have in the early 2000s. I am afraid that those actions might be too late.
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As a Met fan, I am glad that the Mets are not investing over $300 million in Carlos Correa. They already have a very talented roster & should be a strong contender for years to come even without him. The money saved by not signing Correa could be better spent upgrading areas more in need of improvement than third base. Correa is a great shortstop, but Francisco Lindor will occupy that position for another decade. When you put Correa at third base, his offensive numbers do not approach those of elite third basemen such as Manny Machado or Nolan Arenado. Furthermore, the Mets' farm system has better prospects playing third base than at any other position on the diamond. Brett Baty is likely to be ready to take over at third base by 2024, after Eduardo Escobar's contract expires. If not Baty, either Mark Vientos or Ronnie Mauricio could be the future Mets third baseman. So, the Mets are not in need of a third baseman. Amid the commotion mover Correa's contract, let's not forget that Eduardo Escobar was N.L. Player of the month in Sept. 2022. An infield of Alonso at 1st, McNeil at 2nd, Lindor at shortstop, & Escobar at 3rd is among the best in the game. Without a long-term commitment to Correa, look for them to acquire another outfielder & some additional bullpen help. They can begin 2023 more optimistic about their prospects than they have in many years.
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Eric B Day 4 of new strategy, where I use the previous day's next to last word as today's starter. Yesterday's starting word was TEACH, followed by SNORE, then today's word, then the answer ELUDE. I'm very lucky that today's word worked at all, let alone as well as it did. BaloneyBot was actually sort of nice about word 1, saying: "Bold choice! Not what I would have picked, but I admire your creativity. Less than 0.1% of players today opened with... And today it was a lucky choice: You've eliminated all but 159 words in my dictionary." Word 2 was good, but another word would have been "more efficient".Wordle 584 3/6*⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 44/77/159🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 79/64/13🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 72/95WordleBotSkill 76/99Luck 79/99Congratulations to Spelling Marauder and Eric B for their early morning charge into 2fer leadership! Happy Tuesday y'all!
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Harry is not "telling his story." He is selling, for a $20 Million book deal, private conversations he had with his family members; including what he told his dead Grandmother's body. He is casting aspersions on his Father, and on his brother, who also lost his Mother at a young age, knowing that their policy is to remain silent. The single time Anderson Cooper challenged him by remarking his attacks on his brother were "Pretty cutting," Harry arrogantly dismissed it. "I don't see it as cutting." Harry believes that the way he "sees it" and how it "feels" to him is the only way that matters.
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In the video game Skyblock hosted on the online Minecraft server Hypixel, speed is a convenient thing to have. However, in order to achieve high speed, you need good armor and artifacts which can cost millions of coins. That's why, for early-game players, you can invest in a grappling hook, which can cost around ten-thousand coins. The grappling hook provides a faster way to get around the world without having to spend too much money.
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Jake Wagner China is not a helpless victim, although individual citizens may be. The CCP's governance ethos, which discourages lower echelons from reporting bad news upwards and stifles/punishes any kind of free speech, is a huge reason why the virus leaked out into the world in the first place. Precious time was lost in late 2019 when accurate reporting of the virus to higher-level health authorities in China was quashed. But that's another story. Since then China has tried to prove to the world that its vaccines and its strategy for handling the virus are superior to other countries, especially Western countries. It invested huge amounts of money in its zero-covid strategy for almost three years and focused on homegrown vaccines and treatments including Chinese medicine. Recently, the Chinese government was unwilling to include Paxlovid in its national health insurance formulary because Pfizer didn't meet the Chinese government's low price demands. China has had lots of opportunity over the last three years to prepare its population for dropping the zero-covid policy, but it chose to waste that time and lots of money because of pride--effectively the pride of its emperor-like leader, whose word is the closest thing to law in China anymore.
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One of the easiest ways to cut US debt would be to reduce the military budget by 50%. Part of this debt discussion is paying military salaries. With a military budget of more than $800 billion per year, the US spends more than the combined budgets of China, India, Russia, UK, France, Germany, and several other nations whose totals are below our $800B. It makes absolutely no sense. Make this country safer and more debt free by investing in your local communities. Of course republicans would never step up to properly adjust this budget.
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The apparent diffidence of this column is written in an alternative universe than the one I am living in. In my universe our House of Representatives is in the hand of nihilists who are either markedly stupid or sycophants or both: Anything is possible, including budgeting $0.00 for the hated FBI, CIA, EPA, and Justice Department. For any decent legislation to pass the 212 Democrats need at least 6 Republicans to step up. But what six would do that when it is certain that voting on ANYTHING with Dems will immediately get them and their families hundreds of death threats? We are in grave peril, far worse than failure to expand the debt.
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Citizen "When Democrats agreed to treat Money as Speech only if the identity of the largest donors were made public, the GOP was for it...until it was against it."The choice to treat Money as Speech was made by the Supreme Court in Citizens United. And the unlimited amounts apply only to PACs and such, not money given to candidates. Buy, you're correct that some Republicans were for getting big money out of campaigns with public monies funding political campaigns, as was Sen. McCain was, before he wasn't, at the state level."Wealthy donors can now fund individual candidates if they file the right paperwork."Yes, even corporate CEOs can direct monies be taken from their corporate treasury and given to PACs, anonymously. This must stop.Americans should read, "Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It", by Prof. Lawrence Lessig to find how the mountains of money in US political campaigns is warping our politics.It should also be noted that Prof. Lessig tried to run for president, raised the required money to satisfy the demand by the Democratic Party to get onto the televised presidential debates, but the other requirement couldn't be fulfilled; pollsters refused to include him in their polls, so he could reach any threshold of 'voter interest'. This polling requirement needs to be fixed or jettisoned.His sole policy was to get money out of our campaign politics; he vowed to get Congress to create public finance campaign laws and resign.
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This is very interesting . Satya Nadella of Microsoft gave a talk ( its on you tube) last week, in India, on open AI, etc..he gave an example where he asked the machine to tell him which were the best South Indian breakfast dishes and why. The machine gave a nice summary, with a lot of language. He asked it more questions and it was quick to correct itself. See the video if u are interested BTW, I asked the machine to give me a marketing/ positioning statement for a material I was developing. .. I simply asked that it be targeted at auto companies, mention it was based on green technologies, and had third party testimonials .. I got back a 8 line paragraph, in under 15 seconds ,! So it can lead to a lot of jobs disappearing
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Biden and the Democrats can't give in to GOP spending curb demands. Doing so would set a dangerous precedent. If the GOP is serious about deficit reductions they'd agree to 1) fund the IRS expansion (so hundreds of billions of taxes can be recovered), 2) reverse TFG's massive tax cuts to the rich and corporations, and 3) the elimination of the income cap for individual social security contributions.
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Documentalista and final final note.By the time you have done all the scrolling and opening more comments will have been added, and when you refresh the page to see them... all your work has to be repeated.now about the comments system change....
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Let us start with what we do know. Close to 70% of all mass shootings involve a perpetrator (white male) with a domestic violence history. Cloaking all mass shootings under the umbrella of "deaths of despair" shifts the conversation away from an analysis of our society's continued support of a misogynistic hierarchy to a more gauzy "what is wrong with these guys" review. We know what is wrong and what factors point to the likelihood of someone becoming a mass shooter-let's focus on that. "In the paper published in Injury Epidemiology, Lisa Geller, MPH, lead author of the paper and state affairs manager of the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence (EFSGV), analyzed data from the Gun Violence Archive between 2014 and 2019 to reach two major conclusions. First, that in more than two-thirds (68.2%) of mass shootings analyzed, the perpetrator either killed family or intimate partners or the shooter had a history of domestic violence; and second, that DV-related mass shootings were associated with a greater fatality rate. On average, only one in six people survive a DV-related mass shooting compared to one in three people for non-DV mass shootings." New Study: Majority of Mass Shootings Linked to Domestic Violence
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John Russia was expending 60,000 a day!
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"Investors at Sequoia Capital wrote that generative A.I. had “the potential to generate trillions of dollars of economic value.” "This may or may not be the case, but Sequoia also invested in FTX....
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This story is personal to those of us who struggle to live close to our subsistence jobs in the city's service industry. Several years ago, as the low-income sections of the city core were being overcome by what was then thought to be over 4000 active illegal short term rentals (the city core is effectively one-story neighborhoods, this meant every block had one or more illegal hotels displacing a family), The state allocated 6 million dollars to enforce a newly enacted city law regulating STR's. Cantrell promptly reallocated 5.5 million of those dollars to other city departments, leaving the STR enforcement office with its same budget, approximately $500,000, and same staff: two people. The estimates of illegal STR's in the city core are now upwards of 6000. This is perhaps not criminal, but it is malfeasance in office. We don't care what color or what gender Mayor Cantrell is, we just want her gone.
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Sounds like you have also taught your children to vote Blue. Democrats are not perfect by any means but their core values still are for programs that benefit people - healthcare, retirement and social safety net. As a retiree (beg at 62) I had a heart attack at 65 and thankfully made it with a quadruple bypass - covered by Medicare. I’m blessed with a nice retirement income and still pay $20k in federal income taxes - but not complaining and able to give $4-5k to worthy charities each year.
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I have been contacted multiple times after an Amazon purchase to leave a 5 star review for a payment (up to a $50 amazon gift card) I have also been contacted to purchase a product on Amazon, get the purchase price refunded, and leave a 5 star review. I admit I've done this a few times. I have stopped doing it, except when I have purchased a product and find it worthy of a good review.
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Republican and Democratic leaders alike know the piece of the puzzle which will go a long way in solving our tax inequity. It's not hiring 87 thousand IRS agents to scrutinize small cash movements in and out of our bank accounts or rifling through the returns of small businesses. It’s about making the rich pay their fair share. The rich don’t claim income until they sell an asset. The problem is that most of the ultra-wealthy don’t sell assets, they use their assets as a collateral for loans which they take out and use to live on. A loan isn’t considered income so therefore it isn’t subject to tax. Those with tens of millions of dollars to their names and a decent investment portfolio through a family office can parlay increases in their asset base into an endless cycle of taking out and repaying business loans tax free. One might think it would be possible for the Congress to enact laws to prohibit such tax avoidance and it is. The curtain which Congress and the White House don’t want us to look behind is the one where wealthy individuals, who are the source of extremely large campaign contributions, live. Our “elected” officials know full well that the emperor wears no clothes but are committed to saying nothing.
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Classified documents found (planted) in non-open to the public locations Biden conducted business as Vice President were returned IMMEDIATELY. Trump stole classified documents and refused to return them even with a subpoena, to this day. People protested after the murders of unarmed black people like George Floyd and Trump and his Peanut Gallery called the protestors "thugs" and the marches "violent." But the murderous riot on the Capitol to overturn a fair election is considered a peaceful protest by Trump and Republicans. Open investigations on Trump's family finances because his children are doing VERY WELL financially. Buying expensive homes and properties and have various businesses overseas with connections made while Trump was president. Let's talk about that Republicans.Democrats and companions need to keep fighting and show the public how delusional Trump and the Republican Party are to compare involuntary with voluntary, protests for justice with a monstrous mob riot, and breaking the Emoluments Clause. I know it's all politics, but for the Republicans Party to blatantly ignore real criminal behavior to protect Trump, rioters, and some of their own congress people is extremely disturbing. Vote Democrat and bring this Republican tax dollars wasteful spending nonsense to an end.
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Commenter Girl Thank you. I plead guilty to Trump derangement syndrome. It started right after he came down an escalator. Sorry for the diversion. When he opened up that talk about "America carnage", I had visions of maybe a million dead Americans, and 4 years into his reign, sure enough, we quickly led the world with over a million dead, General Bleach even wiped wiped out a sizable portion of his own senior crowd of supporters, but hey, when you are laying the groundwork for a violent coup, the end justifies the means.Getting rid of the electoral college system would be the first place to start reform of elections. And then the financing, or both at the same time.
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Dalton B. Miller Sigh. The arrogance and elitism of this comment...Let's talk about your flat rate tax and the "bottom 50%"The bottom 50% of Americans account for 1.2% of the countries wealth. That's it. Feel free to tax it at 10%-25% but what does that actually net you in returns? One tenth of 1% of this countries wealth in taxes. Wow.Squeezing water from a rock. Not enough to run a country, that's for sure. The top 1% on the other hand control 35% of America's wealth.Furthermore, if a family makes 40,000 a year and you tax them 25%, that leaves them 30,000 to survive on for the year. Barely above the poverty line for a family of 4. How can you expect them to spend enough money to fund a consumer economy? (China has this issue).If a family makes 400,000 a year and is taxed at 25%, they have 300,000 a year to 'survive on'. That's plenty of spending money still left over.So what country do you think will do better financially in the long run? The country where taxes are collected from the poorest people, or a country where more taxes are collected from the richest people who hold all the wealth?The conclusion is logical. Progressive's aren't 'bleeding heart liberals' who just feel bad for the poor. They recognize sound fiscal policy when they see it. Progressive taxes create the opportunity for more people to spend more money and drive the economy, and it allows people to move up tax brackets faster.
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Same can be said for businesses on the right. How many of Trump's friends got PPP? Both sides got these funds. Some want to make it look like the left are the only guilty ones. Trump and his admin just handed out the $$ without any thoughts about it. Apparently no real proof was needed to get those funds. Just make up some records and send it in to apply.
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Caded What is good government? The Iraq war? Allowing China into the WTO so that now we can fight them? Or the meltdown of our economic system in 2008? Was it the Surge in Afghanistan or the war that destroyed Libya? Someone tell me what good government is. Jackson Mississippi has no good drinking water but $100 Billion to Ukraine?
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Murphy The old fridge dying and having to get a new one is one thing but this writer spoke about new furniture (often replaced because the owners get bored of it or just want a different look, not necessary), and VACATIONS. That's just not the same and sure sounds to me like the couple was taking advantage and didn'tt plan to pay back the money. It's possible they developed this attitude because nobody reminded them and asked for the payback.Some people are like that. They have this mindset that maybe it's not needed because it wasn't specifically asked for so far and the "loan period" can just be extended until they have no other use for the money, which will never happen.I certainly don't think that they will have a sudden feeling of remorse for not paying back this loan all this time.It's also possible that they just don't want to bring up the subject. They may try and save face by saying, "Oh , we forgot all about it." Let them, as long as it's brought up. Now they can pay it back. We'll see.
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DC Lawyer Surely you are not an attorney if you have not heard by now that the $250 million dollar number is nonsense. That is the amount to be forfeited if Bankman-Fried violates his bail conditions (is it still called jumped bail)?. The amount of cash/security that the parents/2 friends put up was much less.
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Kathy Yes! Totally right! So how do we change this?For example:Do you know what would happen to most legislators in Texas if they pushed laws controlling guns? ANY laws?They'd be looking at being "primaried" next election, because the gun lobby would cook up a new, polished & well-funded Republican candidate, and they'd be GONE in May, not November. That, and the highly motivated electorate here would be grabbing the keys to the truck and lining up to vote them out!Any particular issue aside, why can't the Dems duplicate this??? The Trump-crazy conservatives have gotten away with reversing Roe vs. Wade, and weren't seriously punished in the midterms. I'd really like to open the NYT and find a columnist with a road map that shows the Democratic party, who holds a narrow-but-widely-acknowledged-majority in the US, how to MOTIVATE poor/minority/middle-class voters to stop the Republicans.
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Oracle at Delphi Oh Oracle! look a bit deeper into the past and see that easy money did not start with Biden, but has been a joy ride for 20+ years encouraging vulture capitalism in all its glory to flourish. Voila! today's inflation and wage stagnation.
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Wordle 562 4/6* 85/48🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 89/72 WL 37🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 72/32 WL 7🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 86/15 WL 2🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 98/75I was just looking at words like this one on the Wardle list yesterday. Formidable.About 17,000 other solvers opened with my "themed" starter today, which was fairly lucky again. I knew there were two words left after my third guess, and picked the one I thought most likely. I should have thought harder and used it after my second guess.Wishing everyone good luck!Yesterday's Wordle 561 3/6* 90/71🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ NEWLY76/91 WL 18⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 SINEW81/48 WL 2🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WHINE99/75I am going to be guessing body parts as a knee-jerk reaction to the failure of my "themed" openers as long as Tracy remains editor. It's kind of therapeutic in an offbeat (passive-aggressive) way. TWINE didn't occur to me for my last guess.Congrats Cheryl Ann for the great two-fer!
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I expect to see more PB reports here. Very smooth puzzle, and a bit smaller than usual (14x15).Some wordplay fun fill: DEETS and CHEATS, the POLE is OPEN, IMO-IDO, [16A + 9D] ...
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I don't seek importance from a job, or aim at making a difference.I work for money and the only other thing I want from a job is a human relationship that's amiable and supportive. If I work at a supermarket deli and could feel the camaraderie than at a big company that offers more money but kills my spirit, I'd choose the deli. Luckily, money isn't the focus for me. Neither do I need to be recognized as the stardom, nor to get a big paycheck, I go to my work, feeling like part of something that's continuous and sustainable. It's like going to my old home, amid the familiar noises, opening the familiar drawers in the kitchen and starting to cook a familiar meal. There's no need to be reprogrammed over and over, with no higher expectations, and no worries. I don't want to be shaken to my core every once in a while, to be alarmed about something that's gonna happen. Just the same old tasks, same time passing by.
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'Mr. Biden is seeking to force Mr. McCarthy to specify which programs he would cut — a list that most likely includes some spending that is popular with the public'Such a rigged game and profoundly ugly behaviour of those who spend as if there is no tomorrow, mostly fake money. First, they splurge left and right, nonsensically and irresponsibly, and then they accuse the other side of wanting to 'cut' and 'harm' public. Those who who support the WH 'apres moi le deluge' frame of mind are encouraged to plan 50k in credit card bills for each of the next few months, and then if the partner or children accuse them of profligacy and mindlessness, fight back saying that spending less will 'harm the family' and wellbeing.
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I understand it is very difficult to meet people, especially if love is the hoped for result. I would still prefer to spend those "thousands of dollars, sometimes tens of thousands" on doing things I enjoy, during which I might bump into folks that enjoy the same and something further develops.And if it doesn't, instead of spending a few grand on a dating service, I can spend it on a trip with an encounter or two that might not lead to marriage, but certainly is a welcome jaunt.
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Eric B Wordle 572 3/6*⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩What a head-scratcher! But I got it. Congratulations to those who got it in two, hard to believe as that is. But if you have the right opener, maybe not.Yesterday's words:STARE 8 words leftSNEAK 1 W/LSEDAN — W/LNo time for lengthy commentary, but word two was just SNAKE modified to reflect the different placement of the A & the E. It worked.
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Dave I could not disagree with you more.Representative Gallego is no Marxist cocktail waitress from the Bronx. He is a proud vet and a Harvard grad. Meaning: he can get a million-dollar/yr job at any Fortune 100 in a NY minute.He never peddled any Marxist slogans to tax every working American so he could give more welfare to the PRicans voters who voted for him. He didn't jump on every TV station promoting himself peddling open borders, abolishing ICE, and defunding the police.Lest we forget, Rep Gallego did not move out of his district-aka the Bronx ghetto- after he got elected.
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I am a tech worker since racism caused me to leave my PhD program in the mid 90's from an Ivy.In the 90's boom, things were like as they are now. The crash into the 00's caused things to swing back. I worked for some of the largest websites during this time. We went from playing pool for meetings back to cubical farms.Then this last boom caused them to swing back towards perks again. Once again, out of the farms, like cattle, to WFH and beautiful open office plans with striking views of whatever city I was in that day.And here we are again with them retracting. It won't go back that much; it just never does. Some things retract, sure, but for most of us, the free food, free services, etc... never really mattered. What matters are the options! So guess what? Many of my peers also want changes in our employers to get the stock back in shape. The poor management of my employer cost me 400k in equity. That is unacceptable. The author seems to miss this connection.The ignorant (outsiders?) complain about free food, laundry, and the gym - give me options and run the company well to keep the valuation high and I can buy my food and membership and worry about my dry cleaning.Being older has some benefits; you know that world works in cycles.
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India produces amazing scientists, engineers, business leaders and cultural figures, people like Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft who’s investment in ChatGPT has been in the news recently. He attended Hyderabad Public School, and the Manipal Institute of Technology in Karnataka.It’s a dilemma. Competition for a small number of top universities will always be fierce, everywhere. And yet we haven’t found the perfect way to do this, either in India or the US.
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it made me physically recoil and feel sick when reading $800 for an Episode-pen....whereas I suspect Sen Manchin and his CEO daughter gets an endorphin rush when reading about costs of lifesaving medicine for Americans
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Bettina Exactly. If this is happening with Trump and Biden, what about Bush, Clinton, Reagan? I think we can all assume that they need to open a full and complete search of all docs and look at all past presidents now. Its clear this is a farce and we can't rely on the old system to work here.
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John O it did John, check out the stats on a .gov website. All levels of income revenue rose rapidly especially Corporate, payroll tax remained flat. Treasury income is at an all time time. The $2.1 trillion tax “cut” was over 10 years, which is $210 billion per year, chump change compared to the Biden spend.
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Upon meeting a patient being admitted to a unit, a nurse does a quick "look test" as the patient is rolled into the room. Do they appear to be in any kind of respiratory distress or pain? Is their mood, affect, eye contact, and speech appropriate for the situation? I cannot understand how major investors (and voters and the Republican Party) felt that George Santos passed the "look test". And that would be before he opened his mouth and spewed forth the most outlandish (and often easy to fact check) stories.
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Gorbachev was given assurances that in exchange for a peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union, NATO will not expand one inch eastward (in those times that meant stopping at East Germany!), but NATO continued to expand and expand, and expand... Moscow no longer believes any promises, assurances, agreements (remember Minsk?) coming out of the West. As such, Russia will not allow the "hedgehog" solution for Ukraine, as they will aim to destroy Ukraine as a state. The bottom line is - Russia doesn't want a Western puppet state armed to the teeth in their backyard, and it's army is well on their way to make sure it doesn't happen. Mind you, in order to achieve their goal, Russians don't have to have some overwhelming military victory over all of Ukraine. All they have to do is a slow roll of their military in their attritional war to deplete Ukraine of weapons and men, combined with the destruction of infrastructure, and, therefore, economy. Whatever military assistance we are giving Ukraine now is a drop in a bucket. It is just not enough, and nothing short of getting into an all out WW3 will never be enough. We lost this fight, when we went with half-measures. As it stands now, Russians have time, men, weapons, logistics, and (according to them) God on their side. And we have New York Times.
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Of course, by the time you have taken ten years to save the requisite 20% downpayment for a place like San Francisco, the home prices will have doubled in price yet again (and so the $265,000 that you have sacrificed for and saved will be meaningless). At least, that's how the RE game has played out here in SF for the past decade or so. Absurd.
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