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Woal I am no expert on the bail protocol, but, as far as I know, there was no cash transfer, nor is there any interest paid by anyone. It's not a real "bond". In a nutshell, his parents pledged their house (worth $4-5mm minus the mortgage, if there is any) to guarantee that he will show up for the court proceedings. And if he does not, they forfeit the house (not easy since it's really Stanford property). Nobody is on the hook for the other $245mm+.
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Proof positive that Keynesian Economics works and that Trickle Down Economics is a failure.The government investing in infrastructure, technology and people always lifts a country out of recession and depression and even a world wide pandemic. Just two years ago at this time 4,000 people were dying every day, 9 million were unemployed and vaccines had not been distributed. Joe Biden and the Democrats should be quite proud of this historic achievement.
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My mother died of cancer when I was seven and my father became permanently disabled and no longer functional as a parent when I was 12. I am now 41 years old. Recently, psilocybin and 5-meo-dmt have helped open the door to the full expression of that grief for the first time in my life. I'm currently working with a three therapy modalities: Bodynamic, Biodynamic Craniosacral, and PSIP - a psychedelic model that primarily uses cannabis and ketamine to resolve trauma. Having access to the huge feelings that my child self unconsciously repressed for so long has been a profound gift and continues to bring me back to life and closer to God. "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, wears yet a precious jewel in his head." - Shakespeare
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If you enjoy staring at under lit, grainy video images of walls, carpet, children’s feet and unidentified murky nothingness that seem to linger forever, then this is the film for you! And subtitles! Even though the film is in English, there are English subtitles, because not only is it under lit, the audio is inexplicably impossible to hear. The best part of this film was the font in the opening credits. It all goes downhill from there. The looooong, tedious shots of walls, etc., begin, and at first you’re thinking, okay the filmmaker is establishing a tone, I’m sure the whole film isn’t like this. But you’d be wrong. The whole film, all one hundred and fifteen excruciating minutes of it, are the same slow, dark, dull ordeal of barely anything happening. Even the jump scares aren’t scary. There’s the kernel of something interesting there, but after seeing the same shot of a wall with things stuck to it for the seventeenth time, you realize that that kernel is never, ever going to germinate and you sit there, growing increasingly bored, restless and irritated, until the end credits bring blessed relief.
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The government should implement a minimum universal income for everyone of at least 100 thousand dollars. That way people don't have to worry about housing, food, healthcare, childcare and transportation. Layoffs are shocking and anxiety-provoking. We shouldn't be celebrating it.
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As a heterosexual, college-educated white male with no children, the oldest of two siblings, a member of Generation X, whose parents were Jewish and Protestant, but having not been brought up religious myself, while born in the South, and later having lived in New York City, and now living in Atlanta, and identifying as a liberal Democrat, while having flirted briefly with Libertarian politics in my 20s, but still respecting thoughtful conservatives like George Will, and being married, but having never been a homeowner, while fortunate to be in the top of the 12% tax bracket, and having been self-employed for most of my life, and being the son of parents who were small business owners, and the grandson of small business owners on both sides, and now teaching at a university, while taking care of two cats, and walking to work each day, despite having grown up in the car culture, and having a direct ancestor who signed the Declaration of Independence, whose descendants ended up poor dirt farmers, but remained literate, with a grandfather from a broken home who was baptized by being dunked in a creek, but escaped from that life through education and merit, and having other ancestors who immigrated from eastern Europe to the Lower East Side through Ellis Island in the 19th century, and moved to the South to open a grocery story as Jewish immigrants in a Black neighborhood, but sent their four daughters to college in the 1930s, ...Oh, wait. I forgot what I was going to say.
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Carvana is not a technology company. Carvana is an online used car dealer.Zillow is not a technology company. Zillow is an online real estate broker.Technology companies, by definition, invent new things. That's how they survive and thrive.Therein lies the problem. Some businesses believe that copying-and-pasting the word "tech" - or derivatives thereof - to their name or mission statement magically transforms their otherwise mundane and old business model into some Magical New Thing, full of untold and unlimited riches. It doesn't. A used car dealer is still a used car dealer.In final analysis, Slack is still a glorified IRC server, and Salesforce paid USD $28 Billion for it.
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I'm compelled to note that the additional documents uncovered at President Biden's home were discovered by investigators *invited* in by Mr. Biden. No stalling, no delays, no court fights, not subpoenas, no lies, no search warrants needed. That alone makes the two events very, very different. Trump is trying to hide and cover up taking hundreds of secret documents. President Biden has invited in investigators; has voluntarily and promptly returned documents found; and has been open and cooperative about the whole process. Trump? Not so much... to the extent of actual, obvious, criminal obstruction.
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So some Silicon Valley programmer ends up taking all the money and credit for the content created by millions of artists and scientists? OpenAI will surely discourage the free availability of quality data on the internet from here on. ChatGPT in 2025: why did the internet become interwall?
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James True, these are not affordable by a household income around $71k. But, do those on lower incomes really need granite countertops, wood floors and stainless steel appliances? They do not, but with HGTV, too many have come to expect it.
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It's amazing to me that no one here or in government is discussing the cause of a majority of deteriorating bridges and thousands of overpasses in over half of the states. The primary cause is the salt used incessantly on our roads at the slightest hint of a trace of snow in the forecast. Not only does the salt corrode the exposed steel beams that we can see, it seeps into the concrete and corrodes the reinforcing bars - eventually making the concrete much weaker. New York was recently "treated" to a replacement of the Tappanzee Bridge at the price tag of $4 billion. This could have been avoided if salt was not used within a few miles of the bridge. Eliminate salt from the roads and you save the cost of the salt, the cost of replacing bridges and overpasses, and our cars will last a lot longer as well. Use sand instead, and install snow tires on your car if necessary.
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“An ambulance pulled up to the scene more than 25 minutes after the police officers had stopped beating Mr. Nichols. Medical response times have been a problem in many cities, including Memphis…”This slow & deadly response is due to a poor & inefficient medical service provided by the FOR-PROFIT American healthcare system, which is worth $4.1 trillion ($4,100,000,000,000).
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This is heart-rending. And we shouldn’t forget the children starving in Afghanistan because the US refuses to return over 7 billion dollars belonging to that country where we fought 20 years of war for the benefit of America’s weapons industry, or the children starving in Yemen where the US sends weapons and support to the Saudis in order to keep a murderous civil war with children as its most tragic victims raging.
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Robert I lent my brother money a couple of times, totalling about $2000 about 30 years ago. He never paid it back but would spend frivolously on things for himself afterward and often talked about his trips and nights out, while I was still struggling with paying my expenses. 20 years ago, he asked for another loan and I said no.I sometimes lend a small amount of money to someone who always pays back but otherwise I don't lend money.
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The last time I took a self portrait (1980s), here's what I had to do:1. Buy camera.2. Buy tripod.3. Buy film. 4. Set up tripod with camera.5. Set timer on front of camera and then press shutter button.6. Run to location of self-portrait.7. Guess when the shutter is going to open and cross your fingers, then smile.8. After finally taking the 24 or 36 photos (could take days, weeks or months), go to Fotomat to get the film processed.9. Go back to Fotomat to pick up film.10. Open envelope with photos and either (A) rejoice that your eyes were open during the self-portrait or (B) curse because you'll need to go back to Step 4 above.
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Still waiting to see the illegal source for the hundreds of thousands Santos donated to fund his campaign, considering he was a nearly broke, rent dodger, who only recently got this $50k a year job as a Ponzi scheme fraudster. Santos may well have gotten a piece of this guy's money - hard to understand why it's taking so long to figure it out though.
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Most of the commenters to this article seem to agree that football is no longer worth the human cost, and that we should give it up. I agree, but I don't see that happening. It has become a national drug addiction. There are too many dollars and too much human engagement invested. The difficulty of kicking this habit would be just too great.My Packers are in a decisive game tonight. Is this my chance to go cold turkey and stage a one fan boycott? Have to think about this.
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CPA here. The 2017 tax law was advertised as a way to simplify taxes and "put" more money in taxpayer pockets through the savings from decreased tax rates. Both measures - simplification and savings - were a ruse. Without going into too much detail, a few highlights of how UN-simple things ended up for businesses include: insane interest expense deduction rules, dozens of additional forms, and state tax pass-through entity deductions to "work around" the state tax deduction cap of $10k.The savings evaporated when major companies simply repurchased their own stock. What this means is significant shareholders - who already are well off - grew richer. As for individuals, say those making $90k, comparing the tax rate savings from pre and post rate changes - maybe, saved you $2.5k. Divided across 26 paychecks, that's about $96 every 2 weeks. By the way the 2017 tax law was passed via reconciliation - meaning it didn't have enough votes to pass the senate. For contrast, the last major overhaul of the tax law was in 1986 and was a 2 year bi-partisan effort.
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Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Brightens Up Berlin The vivid characters and the infectious melodies of the 1983 musical prove remarkably durable in Barrie Kosky’s madcap production at Komische Oper Berlin. BERLIN — In Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein’s “La Cage aux Folles,” the habitués of the show’s titular nightclub are enumerated as a “girl who needs a shave,” “both the riffraff and the royalty,” “eccentric couples” and “a nun with a Marine.” That description seemed to fit the fashionable and eclectic opening night audience of the Komische Oper Berlin’s new production of the Tony Award-winning 1983 musical. The vivid characters and the infectious melodies of the 1983 musical prove remarkably durable in Barrie Kosky’s madcap production at Komische Oper Berlin.
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Monetizing complaining to the degree they have; $100,000,00. From Netflix are you kidding??? And then to continue with talk shows a book or by an overly privileged couple, is beyond my tolerance. Why they didn’t realize their enormous abilities that would come from staying in the family, do good work all over the world show that the royal family can modernize and remain courteous and respectful not bicker and fight in the press would have been the high road and the vastly more popular path the public would have liked. But no they took the low road of the money first. It was all too obvious with their first purchase of a mega mansion in Santa Barbara. One does wonder how they hatched this plan of the leaving leverage by the GBLs.
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Ahhhh…. JP Morgan Chase… the largest bank in America. The bank that didn’t file a single FinCEN report (required for bank transactions of $10,000 or more) on the infamous Madoff Ponzi scheme account. No one at Chase went to jail but they paid a $2 billion fine & kept on conducting business as usual. $11 billion profit for one quarter? That’s not profit, it’s arbitrage.
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If Elon Musk really believes there's only a one in a billion chance we live in a "base reality", why did he spend 44 billion simulated dollars to get a simulated Donald Trump and his merry band back on a simulated platform called Twitter?Or why did he try mightily to *not* spend $44 billion so as to not accomplish the same purpose?And what's the point of self-driving cars in a simulation? And "pedo-guy"? Who in the simulation invented that indispensable notion and what prompted Musk to use it to describe a rescuer of children in a Thai cave?
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"In the early part of the 20th century, Fort Lee became the home of an exciting new industry, as film companies — including Universal and Fox — began opening studios in the borough."Yes, one of those fun facts. Those exciting outdoor adventure scenes in silent films -- woods, cliffs, gorges -- really were filmed in Fort Lee (and in Ithaca, New York). A more natural world in those days, right across the river.
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Whatever Yes, it comes from a POLITICO article titled, "Bidens earned $15 million in 2 years after Obama administration"<a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/09/bidens-earned-15-million-after-obama-administration-1404153" target="_blank">https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/09/bidens-earned-15-million-after-obama-administration-1404153</a>
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Let me just start with Biden's speech before all the questions.Biden achievements are astonishing:Unemployment is the lowest it's been in 50 years, half a Century, 11 million new jobs created, including 750,000 manufacturing jobsInflation at lowest level since Oct.2021More Americans have health insurance today than ever in the history of our country, fewer families are facing foreclosure today, supply of insulin with Medicare is $35 a month and so many other accomplishments it is hard to list it all.Infrastructure is no more a laughing joke.As the main targets of the QAnon party remained the same: cutting our mandatory SS and MedicareYes, President Biden downplayed the issues of the documents in his garage, but overall he repeated his constant cooperation with the DOJ investigation.Huge contrast against:"They all mine" orTrump resisted requests to return a stash of documents at Mar-a-Lago, saying 'it's not theirs, it's mine.'Anyway Robert Hur appointed special counsel seems like a perfect choice, that both sides can agree on & he was trump's cabinet choice.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/12/us/biden-classified-documents#special-counsel-biden-documents" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/12/us/biden-classified-documents#special-counsel-biden-documents</a>
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Mt. Sinai pays its executives millions of dollars each year (CEO Ken Davis took home almost $6million in 2019, the last year the company's tax forms are available for).They would now rather pay scab nurses $300 an hour than hire additional nurses to fully staff their wards.They are behaving like any other giant corporation - exploit and extract labor to maximize the bottom line. Don't believe the "non-profit" label.
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Fascinating article and book--it goes on my list. But I quibble with the opening paragraph, stating that the impossibility of myths is part of their appeal, citing as an example that few would examine the physics of Icarus's wings. I think the drive to prove one's myths is actually quite common, a product of the human tendency to find patterns where none actually exist. One recent very funny (if frivolous) example: Apparently, there are legions of fans of the film Titanic, who argue with passion that Jack could have survived had he jumped on the piece of door with Rose. They have so driven James Cameron crazy with this nonsense that, in connection with the big anniversary of the film, he commissioned a technical study to prove that both would have drowned had Jack jumped on board. These are fictional characters, mind you--it's just a movie, albeit one that has arisen to near-myth status in popular culture. And yet here we are, testing Icarus's wings, as it were.
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Now that MIcrosoft is a partner in the firm that makes ChatGPT, we have no reason at all to worry, because ChatGPT will soon work as well as Microsoft's other products -- which is to say barely and only with constant failures for "unknown reasons." That phrase of course refers to the consequences of a multitude of deeply embedded glitches and quirks in Microsoft's software, which apparently Microsoft has not the least clue about and certainly no interest in fixing.Example: In my Word program, typing in a phrase like "of a certain kind" becomes "of. certain kind." This annoying bug is of no apparent concern to Microsoft, which has bigger things -- like running our lives through AI -- in mind. And as far as Microsoft is concerned, WYSIWYG belongs in the dust bin of history right next to the WHIGS.Like General Motors in the 1970s, Microsoft has today established an uncontestable record as the kiss of death for quality and reliability. Of course they are the ideal partners to usher in the brave new world of extremely artificial "intelligence."
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First of all, there really is no such thing as US Government debt. The government issues Treasury securities for anachronistic reasons. There was a time when the dollar was convertable to gold, so we needed to worry the quantity of money (reserves) that was floating around the world, because theroretically the holders of those reserves could demand gold in exchange, of which we had a fixed amount. In those days we could actually default.But once we went off the gold standard in 1971, that risk was no longer in place. There is really no operational reason to issue securities anymore. The government can finance itself entirely by creating money when it spends (as we do today) and destroying money when we tax (as we do today) with no need to issue securities should we create more money than we destroy in any given year. The notion that we "borrow" money and incur "debt" is completely absurd. It makes no sense at all. Think of it this way. When we "pay off" debt to today, which simply means we retire securities when they come due, all we do operationally is move funds from bank securities accounts at the Fed to their reserve accounts at the Fed. It is the functional equivalent of moving money from you savings account to you checking account. The government could tonite, while we are all sleeping, move everyone's money out of their security accounts and into their reserve accounts, and the entire $31 trillion in so-called debt would be paid off all at once. Easy right?
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My husband has worked at uber, facebook, Microsoft etc the meals were always delicious (but Microsoft we had to pay for) I loved going to meet him at the office for lunch- he has been working from home the last 3 years and I miss those days! I also used to load up my purse with plenty of snacks to take home.
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Bed, Bath and Beyond has been sorely mismanaged for many years, burdened by nonsensical decision making and an unwillingness to know their regional markets. They have been extremely understocked and have done away with basics and many of the home goods they were known for. Our local location has given up about 25% of its floor space to drugstore and personal care items stationed directly at the front entrance. This is NOT their market nor should it be a focus. Even sadder, its a company wide initiative.Service, which used to be their trademark, has disappeared. No wonder no one wants to shop there anymore.
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Silicon Valley investors, who re-invest almost exclusively in tech unicorn hunts, have been satisfied with 5% of their bets paying off. The big hit pays for the 95% strike-outs, they say. This lack of a) diversification, b) social responsibility and c) common sense has resulted in wasted fortunes that could have been useful to the world - I mean really, not like their overstated promises to change the world for the better. Instead, they solve few actual problems, under-deliver with technology that often just doesn’t work (Salesforce implementation? Meta/Facebook positive contributions? The distraction industry of Google, FB, social media?)Comeuppance is a Darwinian force, and these adjustments might, just might cause one or two tech wizard rich folks to pause and re-adjust their evaluation of themselves.Naaa. We’re too easy a target for them to change anything at all.
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Kathy That's too iffy. How about : We are planning on retiring in the next couple of years and would like to set up a payment schedule for that $5,000 ( or whatever amount it was) that we lent you when you needed it 5 years ago .
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Jeff Fohl The average bitcoin transaction takes around $6 worth of electricity. Credit card companies can process a transaction for about 2 cents.Yes, traditional wire transfers are a joke. But crypto isn't exactly efficient either.
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Robert David South I see similarities to the years preceding the Great Depression. Many imagine that the Great Crash of ‘29 caused it. No. It was a nasty symptom, but not the cause. So, what did?I believe it was a consequence of the great naval arms race between Great Britain and Wilhelmine Germany between 1907-1915. I think Britain was determined to outbuild Germany, to protect its North Sea invasion route from Germany. I think Britain built something like forty-four dreadnoughts (battleships and battlecruisers) in ten years. I’m guessing. Plus other war vessels.How many factories do you think it takes to build and maintain a forty-four battleship fleet in just six years? And what was the size of the workforce? I’m guessing again. 200,000?Fast forward to 1922. The Great War is now over; Germany is defeated; its battlefleet surrendered, interned and later scuttled. The invasion threat? Gone. So Britain no longer needs its enormous expensive navy. It agrees to scrap most of it and limit the size of future vessels. Its huge shipyard workforce is mostly let go, just as Britain demobilizes its huge army. Millions of men are suddenly unemployed. Hundreds of factories must close; no UK government orders. No ready civilian jobs for most. It hits the economy like a tsunami.The blow takes awhile to work its way through the financial system, but the value of pre-WW-1 capital investment suddenly disappears. One result is the Great Depression.I see similarities now.
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If you want to actually control the debt, JusticeForAll, then you either raise taxes (revenues) or lower expenses.The debt limit is merely the open barn door that's been open for ages long after the horses ran off.Republicans have been cutting taxes for four decades while consistently ignoring expenses; they are the main champions of the US national debt.
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David It should also be remembered that "the man Putin helped get elected" blocked payment of a congressionally mandated $400 million military aid package extorting Zelenskyy to get dirt on then candidate Biden. This resulted in his first impeachment and is yet another example why he and the R’s that have backed him almost always act in self interest and cannot be trusted to govern.
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The difference before the law makes no difference in the 'crime' committed i.e. the removal of classified information from secure premises. Imagine two traffic stops made by police for a non--functioning taillight or the like. One car has a stolen goods to the tune of over 100K in value, The other has 10 library stolen Public Library Books.Sentencing might be different but prosecution shouldn't be, yes?
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Arenas are usually named for the Big Dollar benefactors who kick in a few $million for construction.
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The true threat towards the pursuit of happiness and our very survival is that there are now 8 billion of us and we keep using more and more stuff. I can't even stop relatives from buying me tacky Christmas mugs from China, which would be no more prized if they were unbreakable. We obviously should welcome that reduces our polluting trash which poisons the earth to make, then poisons it again to dispose of, but big appliance and electronic purchases should also require reasonably long warrantees or environmental taxes charged to the manufacturers for the environmental costs of their disposal. The most poisonous products that aren't expensive, like batteries, should carry a heavy deposit that the supplier has to make easy to collect (such as by an annual Amazon pick-up).
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AI is not a "tool" for artists! It is a tool to replace artists after being sufficiently trained by them. The database "Laion-5b" consists of 5.8 billion images that are used for commercial purposes without the consent or compensation of the copyright holders!! I find it frightening how uncritically AI is reported on and how unreflectively it is dealt with! I recommend watching the following video of the Artist Steven Zapata:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&t=8s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjSxFAGP9Ss&t=8s</a>And if you want to check if your own images are in the world's biggest pirate database, you can opt out image by image here - I know artists who have spent weeks deactivating their images there:<a href="https://haveibeentrained.com" target="_blank">https://haveibeentrained.com</a>/But especially Midjourney is not giving any access or insight into its huge database of pirated images.It was only allowed to use the internet images for scientific research purposes, but the real financial backers are the current commercial AI companies (behind them Google, Elon Musk and others...)At stake is the income and future of millions of artists whose works were copied to build the illegal database. If you are happy about beautiful images, you should first ask where they come from and what is the price we all pay. The narrative that it is pure AI is part of the corporations' legal smoke screen tactics. Currently, lawsuits are being filed against it in courts around the world.
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What this constituent wants next from Hochul is for her upcoming proposed budget to throw in a billion or two for her husband's client Delaware North. Nothing like the warm nostalgic feeling that not much changes over time regardless of name, gender, or other factors.
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I flew much further than Paris with a 7 month old and a 2 1/2 year old. Latter had an ear infection and I spent hours on that onerous journey covered in sticky pink amoxicillin. What made it easier was that I was nursing the infant; bottle feeding doesn’t get the same suction level that helps keep tiny Eustachian tubes open. And I guess meds worked, so neither child spent the flights crying and screaming, thank goodness. Made the return journey alone without my husband, and again, breast feeding was my friend. People who were appalled to see a young mother alone with two young children board the flight thanked me when we got off, as there was not a peep out ot the two of them the whole way. So commenters who note that breast feeding makes air travel with infants much easier are correct, based on my experience. But would I have done it with a newborn? No way in heck! you are yourself healing from an ordeal at that point in motherhood. I note that many commenters are concerned about the infant’s health, but what about the mother? Consider the risk to a breast-feeding newborn whose mother becomes ill and cannot nurse and care for her child.
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Aaron, be aware that McG has also been implicated in opening Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Trump. Doubt this guy has any ideology.
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Mr. Bouie does a wonderful job describing the social consequences of unfettered open carry, as well as the disadvantaged position of the unarmed person in this world. It seems to me that to suggest to those who feel threatened that they should just toughen up and join the armed gang is to double down on the accidental shootings, the acts of vigilantes, and the episodes of mass shootings that are already proliferating. And I wonder, in thinking about the fellow in an Atlanta supermarket carrying SIX firearms cited by Bouie, does open carry actually mean that you can have as many guns as you can carry on your person? You can't be legally limited in that respect either? Do we really want to live in a world in which going to shop for food also might mean preparing to engage in a firefight while weighing out our vegetables or selecting just the right cut of meat for a family dinner?
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Kiki Very nice.We have a local county beekeeper’s group that offers swarm /colony removal. If it’s in the open their service is free. If a colony has taken up residence inside a structure that requires a cutout, then you pay. Twice we’ve had a colony take up residence in a utility service cover. Finding them was not enjoyable - they really don’t like lawn mowers, or the people attached.to them.
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Anyone who would invest without due diligence, hire Michael cohen for a million bucks and still have 200k left over for political donations gets no sympathy from me. Or anyone I’m guessing.
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"Chatham went through nearly 14,000 tons of gravel to fix ruts and potholes, at a cost of nearly $100,000", but how much money was saved by not paving? An unkept paved road can be just as dangerous and costly to maintain. Up where I live, I have to avoid certain streets, even in good weather they are so full of potholes.
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Les “On Wednesday, a bankruptcy lawyer for FTX told a federal judge that the exchange had recovered more than $5 billion of cash and crypto assets.” If untrue, the lawyer could lose his/her license for lying to a federal judge.”
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David $5.21 here and I'm going use it to purchase a Red Bull Dragonfruit and enjoy it with an opioid painkiller.
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Diogenes OK, let's raise everyone's taxes by 1000% to start paring down the $33 trillion dollar debt.
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Where is the mention about the CAUSE of people's distrust of "judges, members of congress and law enforcement agencies, the so called political elites"? How about the nonstop push from far right media and even from members of the GOP who have supported these conspiracy theories and distrust of all of the above, for the purpose of expanding their base and winning more votes? They DON'T CARE about the damage to the country, the security of our elections or the safety of all those people in that group. Not if it makes conservatives more paranoid and if it makes even ONE MORE PERSON distrust Democrats and decide to vote for a Republican. Poor Ashli Babbitt left her home in San Diego and traveled to DC for Jan 6th because she was convinced that the election had been stolen from Trump. She believed many of the things mentioned in this article. Her beliefs led to her death. It is easy enough to disprove these lies, however conservative media is working so hard to earn clicks and $$ that they don't care about the damage to our country. The only thing that'll make them stop is loss of $ or the court. When Dominion sued them, THEY STOPPED. No one is suing so they don't stop. And our country just becomes more divided and people just think that the gov't is out to get them. (EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT).Interesting to note that even though there are people on the left that don't trust congress, etc, they aren't leading a seditious attack against our gov't.
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The Federal Debt rose $7.8 Trillion during the Trump presidency. The only two presidents who performed worse: George W. Bush, and President Lincoln - who had a Civil War to pay for. All three Republicans. The ongoing trope that the Democrats drive up the deficit and debt is simply false. For FY 2022, the federal deficit under Joe Biden declined by $1.4 Trillion from the previous year.
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A point that's rarely made when we read reports of the immigration "problem" at the southern border is that these people want to work--but they can't. The largest 50 cities in the US each have thousands of job openings for restaurant line cooks and dishwashers, hotel housekeepers, child-care workers, etc. And in farming communities, there is a desperate need for agricultural workers. Pick any industry and it could use these potential workers in a variety of tasks.These migrants would be willing to do this work (eschewed by so many Americans today) so that their children can grow up to be teachers, doctors, computer programmers, etc. With declining birthrates, where do opponents of immigration think our essential workers 20 years hence will come from?It makes no sense to behave as if Texas can handle this problem alone. And yes, the cruel stunt of flying migrants to Martha's Vineyard actually conveyed a valid message.Humanity's superpower--that people have a knack for producing more than they consume--has allowed us to dominate the planet. And so yes, economic investment in current migrants will be necessary. But why not focus instead on the long-term wealth this influx of highly motivated humans will eventually produce?
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TobyFinn I am a refugee from NY myself.As far as the illegal migrant problem. Adams claims he needs to $2 billion for the 36,000 migrants. Lat year lone, 2.76 migrants crossed the border. A simple interpolation means that border states should receive in excess of $1.53 trillion for the migration disaster. And that does not include desperately needed funds to address the death and torment that illegal immigrants face before they reach the border. Precipitated by lax border enforcementIf you want to see the real horror of progressive policies come to the Southern Border.
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Well, the city spends nearly $6 BILLION on the NYPD each year…
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Joe Manchin, who saved us from an even more disastrous economic situation by putting a curb on the progressive plan to spend an additional $3,000,000,000,000 in 2021 (yes, you read that number correctly), is now perhaps the person to save us from the Democratic decision in December not to raise the debt ceiling.
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BillSometimes it’s wasteful, buy sometimes it’s crucial.Remember when President Trump told us that he talks to a lot of people and they tell him things. One thing people in the military were telling him was that they had lots of guns, but they were completely out of ammunition.“No bullets, Don. We got no ammo. If Canada attacks, we’re toast. We need bullets.”So Don suggested that we raise defense spending from the $550 specified in the budget Obama left him, to $888 billion.“To buy bullets for those U.S. forces without any.”The cognatively challenged GOP settled on an increase that pushed defense spending to more than $750 billion. For bullets.Do you feel safer? This was the GOP in action about seven years ago. And they haven’t learned anything since.
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Rather than focusing on MAGAfreude, we should be encouraging the Democratic leadership to quietly approach moderate Republicans and peel off 5 or 10 to make a deal on a coalition government that will prevent the charade from continuing to our complete embarrassment.
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Something is dreadfully wrong when you read that the Federal Reserve frets about if investors understand their policies. It shows that the Fed believes the investing world is important to the (Main Street) economy. Should it be? Certainly the Fed is important to the investing world. The Feds easy money policy since the 'Great Recession' fueled the exponential growth of the S&P. Well, the Fed had two mandates: full employment and keeping annual inflation below 2%. But it turns out they had three mandates, with the first one being: keep Wall Street happy at all costs!
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Lanny R Middings overpaid? A college instructor makes between $2-7k a course. Less than the tuition paid for that course by ONE student.
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Paul,Capitalism unchecked allows anyone who accumulates money to gain power.Most investment is in the secondary securities market. That's buying into ownership and sharing in profits without doing any work.One can dress that up with nice words. They all come down to greed.
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Ideas and suggestions from readers are a welcome way of telling Mayor Adams what we think. One thing I'd like to address, again, is the shelter that was built on Randall's Island. Given homelessness and the incoming migrants, I don't understand at all why it is not being kept open. Money to run this shelter can be saved by having its residents be trained to be responsible for the upkeep and some of this training and experience may perhaps lead to paid employment in their future.
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When judges and the court system accepts police officer lies to cover up their criminal behaviors, you have a system that encourages the abuse and dishonesty. I had an officer follow me, pull me over, wrote a false ticket, came to court and told more falsehoods to the judge while under oath. The judge said, “I’m uncomfortable with the discrepancies in the officers report, but I still believe you are guilty.” I filed a complaint with the police department and appealed that decision to the higher court. The same officer came in and immediately asked to exclude the witnesses. Then proceeded to tell a second set of lies in front of the judge while under oath. He continued his new lies after the witnesses were brought back. The witnesses under oath contradicted his new lies and after it was clear the officer was lying, the judge found me “innocent”! I filed a second complaint with the second set of lies with the chief of police. Both officer reports could not be true. The chief took no action against the lying officer and said, “I don’t want to ruin a good officer’s career over ONE mistake.” If the officer would lie under oath about an $80 dollar ticket, what would they do if they kill a man, tell the truth?? This problem is so systemic that I was warned by a police officer that if anything happened to me, it would not be an accident, it would be the police. He said they hated me because I tried to hold them accountable.
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Mel Shafer. You ask how anyone can save and invest when neither wages nor wages have risen in the past few decades but it’s simple. Spend less than you earn. Invest those savings in low cost, low risk ETFs and sit back and watch your net worth grow over time. Because wages did not grow, it’s up to the individual to look out for his or her own future. What’s your alternative?Also, vote for a party which promotes pension reform to enable all residents to retire with dignity, like Norway did during its resources boom. This means not voting for the scandal-ridden LDP which instead wasted public money on costly public infrastructure projects, to the benefit of its benefactors in the local construction industry, during Japan’s golden years.
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B D Duncan It's true; worker loyalty is for unhealthy companies. Microsoft could reverse itself and go on a hiring spree tomorrow and there still would be no emergency.
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Rima RegasSoCal3h agoI think the question should be "Does America Have Insufficient Corporate Taxation?"A complex question But you CAN make the point , with validity , the US does not tax sufficiently those corporations who made record profits from the war in the Ukraine and InnflationCA Democrats tried to H.R.7061 — 117th Congress (2021-2022)Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax ActThis bill imposes an excise tax on the windfall profits of crude oil on taxpayers who extracted and imported more than 300,000 barrels (a barrel equals 42 U.S. gallons) of taxable crude oil (i.e., crude oil, crude oil condensates, and natural gasoline) in 2019, or who extracted and imported that amount in the current calendar quarter.The bill requires rebates of the tax collected to be paid to individual taxpayers. The bill establishes the Protect Consumers from Gas Hikes Fund to finance such rebates.Latest Action: House - 03/11/2022 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. (All Actions)This bill has the status IntroducedThe bill has still has the status introduced and has not moved out of the D controlled H&M H.R.9246 - Stop Wall Street Landlords Act of 2022 -This bill denies certain tax and other benefits to large investors whose assets exceed $100 million in a taxable year for investment in single-family housing Status Introduced : October 2022. Both bills , introduced by Democrats when Democrats were in charge of the House and Senate, failed
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Eric S agreed! And I think we need to start by taxing hedge fund earnings at a MUCH higher rate. What do they pay now? 12 or 15% on billions of dollars? Seems like that should be at least what the top rate is if not more. FYI - top rate is 37%
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I bought a little Norfolk pine for $7.99 5 years ago. It is now about 4 ft high and maybe 3 ft wide. It is my holiday tree all year long. It requires some light near a window and appropriate watering. At Christmas we put on little lights and some decorations. We avoid killing trees, spending extra money on a tree and avoid plastic with a fake tree. It is a delightful little tree to add to any home. No carbon worries. Try it.
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When you elect people on a platform of obstructionism, contrarianism, and anti-intellectualism, don't be surprised when you get obstructionists, contrarians, and anti-intellectuals. This leaves the 'liberal establishment' with a dilemma: find the votes to avoid catastrophe, making the contrarians ever more ungrateful and angry, or let the contrarians win, having the ensuing economic and humanitarian disaster show them the error of their ways. A deal would solve the immediate problem, and Wall Street, an enterprise centered around negotiations, expects it. This contrarianism is the manifestation of something darker: a world and worldview shaped by fear and power rather than one amenable to reason, negotiation, and compromise.Matt Gaetz' goal with the speaker debacle was not to earn specific policy concessions; it was to humiliate McCarthy, bring attention to himself, and grind the government to a halt. As long as Congress was not passing legislation or making deals, Gaetz was winning.When the insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, their policy goals were ill-defined and irrelevant as long as they were angry and they made someone else angry. Even if they had somehow overturned the election, would they have just turned around and gone home?When Putin invades Ukraine screeching about NATO biolabs, a 'Russian World', and nuclear apocalypse, is he really open to appeasement? We can't solve any problems if half the country only wants to cause problems for 'the other side.'
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I once was EVP at Moody’s Investors Service and was personally responsible for rating the credit of sovereign debt.I do not consider this a major problem today as measured against GNP and debt interest payments.Starting with Reagan, the Republican focus was to ‘starve the beast’ of social expenditures. This, in a Democratic administration, is again a Republican wail. Clearly they want to reduce ‘social expenditures,’ including Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.This is not the basis for blackmail negotiations with nihilist Republicans.Raising the national debt limit to finance expenditure authorized by Congress should not be a political issue.President Biden should insist on raising the national debt limit and not submit to Republican blackmail which could jeopardize longstanding and essential social expenditures.
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Bert Gold The actual issue which was never properly repoerted in the 2008 recession was that banks allover the world were in danger of going under. In Europe banks paid negative interest rates. I had a bank in which I owned stock go under.. This was related to the subprime mortgage crisis and prob. also to the stupid irresponsible NYTime s supported and implemented war in Iraq (there were no weapons of mass destruction - y'all -- wars are very expensive.. IMO Powell should have raised the interest rates in 2016 but then came the Covid crisis and the stock market briefly crashed.. but then the free money began to flow and the taxpayer was defrauded by the big corporations and thousands of private individuals a few of whom emerged as billionaires because of the privatization policy. By which I mean the government agencies were not doing the work they should have been doing.. and it was outsourced at huge expense. I have put my money into several 3.4% penalty free withdrawal CDs at Citibank..
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Sane citizen I wish the NYT, WSJ or the Economist would do an analysis of the potential revenue from various proposals to raise taxes, including your proposals. CBO estimated the Trump tax cuts cost about $1.9T, and a sept. 2021 treasury dept. report estimated about $7T lost to underreported/unpaid income taxes (both numbers over ten years, as is standard). at current levels, a rough estimate of the next ten years' deficits is about $15T. That leaves about $6.1T to be raised from your income tax and SS proposals (assuming IRS collects all of the $7T it believes is being lost). Not impossible, but it's a large number.
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Len I can't imagine anyone earning millions of dollars annually when it takes most people decades to earn a simple one million. These CEO's you defend make the world less equal. Their off-spring (often numerous -- just look at Musk, Trump and now so many celebrities who have 5 or more children) are pampered and supported for the rest of their lives often. I am all for a 10 to 1 earning ratio for all workers. Some people work risky and difficult jobs and should be compensated for them. Others have relatively easy jobs, but the notion that one person's contribution is more than 10 times another's turns money into a weapon rather than a means of exchange. We all have to work together to make our society function. Using money as a weapon creates conflict and inefficiencies. Perhaps the younger generations, many of whom have been sidelined, will be the catalyst of change in values, which will change our work compensation ratios to something sensible.
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I think it is a bad idea to open too many gambling casinos. After my mother passed away, my dad and his live in were always in Atlantic City, They lost a great deal. My brother and I took joint power of attorney and put them on a budget and let them have no more than $125.00 per month to have an outing there and a nice meal in RESORTS INTERNATIONAL, aS A RESULT MY DAD DIED WITH MONEY IN THE BANK AND A SATISFACTORY CREDIT RATING.
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A different pathway is needed for development and manufacturing of drugs for rare diseases. Currently, the drug companies have the cake and eat it too. First, most of the science going into the drug development is funded by the taxpayers. Second, since the disease is rare, the drug companies are excused from doing large (and expensive) clinical trials. However, cornering the market through intellectual property exclusivity allows the drug companies to charge exorbitant costs. One solution is to create a government non-profit that develops and manufactures drugs for rare diseases with its own regulatory pathway. Drug companies are welcome to participate, but forced to compete. I am 100% confident that plenty of scientists will not be dissuaded from investing their time and effort into this work because they are motivated by something other than the potential of megabucks. An agency like this could also be a pill of health for the collapse of ethics and morality brought on by the naked profit-driven capitalism.
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He was a hero when I was learning to play guitar and learning about open tunings. He could really play, and he was a friend and promoter of Joni Mitchell. I’m happy to say I saw him perform twice. He had such an outsized impact on his generation. RIP David Crosby, you’ll be missed.
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Bob McBobbybob In fairness, she did reference Jan 6th.As for covid deaths, if you remember, during the time that Trump was minimising the virus, decisions were made both in the UK and US to empty hospitals and release elderly to care homes without first testing negative for covid. These decisions were made by Democrats as well as Republicans. The first year of the Pandemic, at least half of deaths were in nursing homes. As far as 'saving' the lives of nursing home residents, this cohort has a very limited life expectancy in any case. Care homes are liminal spaces, occupying that zone between the quick and the dead. And no one wants their care home days extended anyway. What for? To die of dementia? I despise Trump, just to be clear.
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You can blame Apple for making this much worse. Unlike Microsoft who at least make some attempt to allow backwards compatible, Apple does not even try thereby forcing ppl to upgrade at great expense. But fanboys continue to praise them.
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In the midst of this battle for the soul of our nation and the future of democracy, some real talk: The reason Greene got elected is because there are millions of Americans who do not trust government. Greene is wrong about a panoply of issues (Israel is not using space lasers on anyone) but she’s right to be skeptical about the government story about what happened on 9/11. The absolute media ostracism of anyone who questions the Bush administration’s narrative and ensuing war on terror reinforced among skeptics that government was at least using the event to justify nation building and prior geopolitical goals. It turned Glenn Greenwald from a lawyer to an investigative journalist and it turned me paranoid. I get it, Dems weren’t in power from 2001-2009 and no one has accused Obama or Biden of what people have alleged the Bush administration to have done. But to understand why Greene appeals to people, and to eventually have both smarter representatives and better governance, the media has to explore the full story of a full decade of the politics of fear: how neocon groups like the Project for a New American Century called for a “new Pearl Harbor” to extend American influence abroad and command oil resources; how credible reporters like David Cay Johnston, James Bamford, Steve Coll and Sy Hersh have all questioned Bush’s connections to dark groups; and how the silence about it only makes Americans more paranoid and encourages Republicans to do worse actions in the future.
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Not necessarily. I live in Minnesota, nestled next to abortion-restricting Iowa & the Dakotas. Should those states enact laws similar to that of Texas, I have proposed to a MN legislator that should Kristi Noem’s South Dakota enact such a law enabling suit against anyone who enabled travel for an abortion in Minnesota, Minnesota should enact a law enabling any citizen of the state to file a counter-suit against anyone who had filed such a suit pursuant to the SD law, with damages set at 10x whatever had been the damages sought in the original suit.I suspect SD would follow by allowing its citizens to file counter-countersuits against any MN resident who had filed a MN countersuit against an original SD suit. To which, of course, MN could respond by allowing counter-countercountersuits. . . until the utter absurdity of the whole thing becomes unavoidably obvious, with the absurdity rooted in the original SD law. And SCOTUS can then decide whether it wants American jurisprudence to pertain to the real world or to Alice’s Wonderland.However this plays out, it’s the response of adjacent blue states to litigious red states that will determine whether Ms. Greenhouse is right. If blue states fight fire with fire, I think it’s probable that she is.
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Missing from this article is any mention of the pernicious issue of price-gouging --Many neighborhood supermarkets use all these supply-chain problems as a reason to artificially raise the retail price of certain items - including eggs - to increase their profits -At my local Key Food Supermarket - one dozen of Eggland's Best brand grade A large eggs costs about $6.49 -At my local BJ's Wholesale Club - a ten minute drive away - two dozen of the exact same eggs - packaged as a unit - costs $7.99 --We were at the Key Food recently -standing by their well-stocked egg shelves - looking at the ridiculous prices - when I overheard a woman standing nearby exclaim - "Wee, I guess we won't be eating eggs for a while" - as she walked away -Yes - eggs are expensive now - but at that same Key Food - Edy's Ice Cream is "On Sale" this week - two for $8.00 - when is was literally half that much about a year ago -There are a number of items which regularly appeared on my supermarket shopping list which I simply do without now -My wife loves grapes -This week green seedless grapes are $4.99 a pound --!!!Is there a version of "Avian Flu" for grapes and produce ...?
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I continue to be baffled about why low and middle income Americans vote republican. Most don’t stay informed? Or restrict to faux news? Or only read beginnings of articles, thinking the importance diminishes. Maybe such crucial punchlines as you end these articles with should be the opening salvos.
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I am an early retired software architect and yes, I knew this would happen 28 years ago. It was obvious but my friends who constantly get hacked on FB or worse, have their ID comprised, still havent caught on. Despite my trying to educate them, its fallen on deaf ears. I still have my Netscape, Yahoo and Aol addresses, which are my depository for countless advertisers to dump their trash and now have between 30 and 50 addresses, many retired as they outlived their usage. The majority of them do not have any part of my name in them and I do not have to remember them simply because I've used 1Password for 10+ and prior a proprietary algorithm for generating user names and passwords.When my children were born and named - I scooped up a number of email variations of their names and created gmail accounts for their use when they became of age. 4 to 6 is more than sufficient if you plan it well.I occasionally purge my name and my childrens addresses/info from the myriad of sites that have misinformation or worse, really accurate. Lastly, as another person noted, your phone number is the key - I NEVER give it out unless I really need to but have on occassion used a VOIP number. In the past when I store aksed for one, I made it up. Now if I could just change my Social Secuirty Number which has been been disclosed over 10 times in the past 30 years due to massive data breaches from healthcare, employers, banking and worse the credit agencies.
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“The investigation did not establish that Manafort otherwise coordinated with the Russian government on its election-interference efforts.” The Mueller report Pg 131 The ‘otherwise’ in this sentence is carrying a whole lot of weight and means that the investigation did indeed find Manafort coordinated with the Russian government in its election-interference efforts. He passed critical campaign strategy and polling data to a the same Russian spy he’d been working with for a decade in Ukraine, also as a commisar, er, I mean political consultant advantaging Putin’s candidate of choice.It is absurd Mr Manafort walks free today with this finding and absurd this finding exists but was not acted upon. Given the chief counterintelligence official of the FBI NY Field Office was just arrested earlier this week, the Trump-Russia investigation must be re-opened. <a href="https://radmod.substack.com/p/manaforts-collusion-post-soviet-machinations" target="_blank">https://radmod.substack.com/p/manaforts-collusion-post-soviet-machinations</a>
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Ken F There are 400 billionnaires in the country, most if not all of whom are routinely audited. You think that the Ds are adding 217 additional IRS agents per billionnaire? They're adding them for you and me.
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As a vocational counselor who primarily works with individuals with ID/DD I can say that the biggest obstacles to finding competitive employment is the business community, and individuals being able to maintain their disability benefits which in turn limits how much they work and are able to earn. It's all well and good to shut down 14c workshops and make employment the first choice for people, but the government never thinks to educate or incentivize the businesses to hire people with disabilities. They put that burden back on the shoulders of non profits that are underfunded and currently dangerously understaffed. It's incredibly hard to find new opportunities in competitive employment for individuals (even with people who have years of legitimate work experience). I spend appealing to employers and trying to form partnerships to make it easier to provide an array of employment options for the people on my caseload. As for the 14c workshops, people are also forgetting a voice in that debate. The voice of the individuals who work there. What is it that they want? What it comes down to is choice, and allowing individuals to make whatever choice suits them best. That includes giving them options.
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10 dollars a dozen in ND. We have 6 chickens as a hobby and we get 6 beautiful eggs A-day. For the 2 of us that is more than enough and we share with everyone for free. We did hear of some zoo animals in Nebraska dying of avian flu when hunters donated their wild game to the zoo to feed carnivores. Sad.
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Where are these guys getting the idea that the republican party is the party of the working class and the democrats are the party of elites? Biden won among voters making less than $50,000 and among voters making $50,000 - $100,000 by significant margins. Trump, however, won among those making over $100,000. In fact the largest policy concern of the current republican party seems to be cutting taxes for the ultra-wealthy.
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Blockchain, the software upon which crypto is based, has some actual use. But in the end, the value of crypto - like all currency - has to be agreed upon by everyone, and it hasn't been and probably won't be. Thus the ability of the average investor to convert their bitcoin to actual usable money will remain limited until it fades into the ether. But the death process will be slow and painful to those who have mistimed their foray into this magical realm.
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Because McCarthy, and the far right freedom caucus he made promises to so he could get the Speaker position, said they wouldn’t raise the debt ceiling without steep spending cuts (I.e. we will let the US default on its debts that we already approved if you don’t cut spending). So both sides have basically said they are not negotiating. Obviously this can’t stand, so Biden, very reasonably opens negotiations with “What do you want?”, and McCarthy replies with “I’m. It going to tell you”. This means 1 of two things. 1) He doesn’t know what he wants and has no concrete plans (see repeal and replace for the affordable care act years back), or 2) the cuts are extremely unpopular (Social Security, Medicare, Pensions) and McCarthy doesn’t want it on paper. My guess os a little bit of both. McCarthy already knows what Biden wants (the debt ceiling raised, which again, only says we can pay for money we have ALREADY approved to spend), so only one party’s endgame is unknown.
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Mathilda One friend of mine lived in Queens for years on $12-20K a year. She didn't dress well or eat much, and she had some nasty roommate situations. No car. No pets. No vices. No non work travel.That's how. She's finally got a decent job last year, which is wonderful!
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We need the following:1.) Expand the US House of Representatives. There are too few people representing too many people. This leads to corruption and partisanship. More, smaller districts will lead to better representatives who are more connected to their constituents.2.) Ban out of district fundraising and spending. I don't need millionaires living in CA or NY giving money to fund campaigns in ID. Representatives should only be able to raise funds from their constituents. And campaign expenditures should only happen within the district. 3.) Keep contribution caps so prominent rich individuals or businesses don't have more financial influence than regular folks. 4.) Tax political contributions and spending. Not only would this encourage actual charitable giving, but those revenues should be able to assist relatively poorer districts. At least it's a start.
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Your newsletter is encouraging. We must electrify transportation, home, and business heating and cooling, hundreds of industrial processes like concrete, steel, and aluminum; and a huge increase in non-fossil electric power generation: a formidable challenge to meet the quality of life aspirations of a population projected to be 9 Billion by mid-century.I have been working on the energy challenges since the 1970s in the Navy, as a U.S. Senate staffer, and as a technology entrepreneur and I have concluded that this is the toughest problem that humankind and governments have ever faced.We are in a race to bring the atmosphere to a climate-stable state before a self-sustaining and exponential release of greenhouse gases currently trapped in the Arctic Permafrost are released. President Biden came up with a brilliant strategy in his tasking question sent to his science advisors, “How can breakthroughs in science and technology create powerful new solutions to address climate change—propelling market-driven change, jump-starting economic growth, improving health, and growing jobs, especially in communities that have been left behind?”I believe this is the only strategy that will work. I recommend the market-based transformation could be accelerated by government-funded competitions to improve the confidence of investors, media, and the public in the performance and costs of new technologies. I suggest American-invented superconducting Maglev transport technology,
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Curran I am a cancer survivor who had a stem cell transplant in 2011. I am now on Imbruvica, which has finally destroyed the last tumors. But Imbruvica costs $14,000 per month. The company has recouped its investment, and it is time to lower the price. Hopefully, the government will use its recently gained power to negotiate Rx costs for ten drugs (why 10? The drug lobby is strong)
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Good analysis of an increasing diffiult problem A possible solution: In Wisconsin nursing leaders help create The Center for Nursing. Their mission to address Wisconsin nurse workforce issues. As the R.N. senator, with the help of WNA I was able to pass legislation to fund the Wi Center for Nursing with a $2 increase in the R.N. license fee.The legislation also requires the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development to survey all nurses on their employment issues, such as job satisfaction, and problems, projections on their future employment and education, where they work, hours etc. The data is then reviewed by the Center to identify current and future nursing workforce problems. and to publish their findings. One problem identified was the increasing scarcity of nursing faculty which was identified as the "Bottleneck". Hundreds of qualified applicants were denied admission to nursing colleges because of the scarcity of faculty. This alarming data was then pitched by WNA and others to the governor and legislature. The good news was passage of a 5 million dollar nurse faculty loan forgiveness program. The program began in 2022 and is administered by the Higher Education Board. The loans are 100% forgivenwicenterfor nursing.org Senator Judy Robson, R.N. MSN ( retired)
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It seems as though Bankman-Fried's parents are in one the scheme. If they were able to post a $250 million dollar bond so SBF doesn't spend anytime waiting in jail is extraordinary. Where did all their money come from?
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Jason W after all these years, I still can't copy a ranges of cells from an Excel spreadsheet and paste it into an Outlook email without all the currency amounts receiving seven extra spaces that cause the figures to wrap. If Microsoft engineers can't fix that, they deserve to be laid off,
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Tech does not know everything yet investors were chasing crazy ideas be it Carvana or Zillow. I read somewhere that the median salary in Google was $300k. That's a lot to pay this was bound to happen
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Dr M Kirby Please, New York Times, do an investigation of Pearson, which forced me to re-take the Math text at $250 a pop, to certify for Early Childhood. They gave out wrong test, very difficult, which I couldn't pass, and then told me to "use the previous test" I used for General Ed Certification. They kept the $250.
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