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You may want to consider that the price of tomatoes fluctuates over a period of six months because it is a seasonal product. It shouldn’t be so surprising that tomatoes are more expensive in winter in Austria… Anyway it is not environmentally responsible to eat summer fruits and vegetables in winter as they require transportation (=oil) from warmer countries or heating greenhouses (=oil). It is all the more surprising that veganism is often thought to be associated with a greater environmental awareness, isn’t it?Then, 250€ a month averaged over the whole year including summertime to heat a single room is hardly believable. I heat my entire house during a winter month for less than that in the Alps.There is obviously something wrong, either with you post, or with you bill, or with Vienna.
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Roboman Trump is well known for his frivolous lawsuits, and for using or threatening to use litigation to get his way or to prolong a simple matter to the point that (he and his attorneys hope) his opponent either runs out of money or gives up. This is a blatant abuse of our court system -- don't fall for his fairy tales about his "right" to keep on endlessly appealing to higher courts. Where did that get him in his election fraud suits? He had no evidence of election fraud anywhere; lower courts kept on saying so but his lawyers kept on appealing until the Supreme Court had to finally shoot him down. What a waste of the court system's time and our taxpayer dollars! This week a judge fined him almost a million dollars for his baseless suit against Hillary Clinton; today he withdrew his equally groundless nuisance suit against the NY State A.G. That wasn't about some poor oppressed underdog finally getting his rightful day in court; it was about a spoiled egotist using the courts to try to get revenge on the public servant who's holding him accountable for his massive past dishonesty.As for Trump's "legal dispute" (your overly generous characterization) with NARA, he prolonged it for over a year while basically not having a leg to stand on, any more than you would if you stole records that belong to your employer. Trump had plenty of opportunities to cooperate and he blew every one. NARA and DOJ gave Trump rope and he hung himself. That's on him, not them.
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This is untrue. Microsoft is cutting overhead costs to keep stock value high while they take revenue hits during product development. While they might have a strategy, the reality is these layoffs are protecting shareholder value. It’s important to acknowledge that it’s not about AI. It’s about stock price.
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In the short term, please tip at least 20%, preferably in cash. Also, think about the worst experience you have had in a general public situation. Perhaps a busy Walmart on the eve of a holiday. Now make it worse and direct it to one person. Many customers are just really mean. And they seem to view their tip as something to earn not based on effort and politeness, but on obsequiousness and the vagaries of the diner's emotional experience during their meal.Despite my best efforts, I was not a good server. But no matter my failures, it is still not ok to stand up in the middle of a packed restaurant and yell/berate a teenage girl because - well it isn't ok at all.My plea: People who haven't worked as servers but who do respect the work and the people who do it, please tip at least 20% (people who have worked as servers almost across the board make sure to tip decently), even if they aren't great and also please extend basic courtesy. You have no idea what other customers have or will do during that shift. And you have no idea the circumstances in that person's life that led them to a difficult job with no security of any kind, low pay, and historically abusive culture.
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The Webster Apartments aspect of the article reminded me that a guy, too, had to find a place to lay his head upon arriving in New York City, and the search was not easy. That's how I ended up at the Sloane House YMCA, a block or so east of the Webster ApartmentsI came from Scandinavia, by way of ship from England (cheap youth fare), as a transfer student to Columbia. I had three immediate needs: to meet a sibling who was coming to New York from New England; to call my father 400 miles west of NYC and arrange some financial assistance for the fall semester (he was “thrilled”...to hear my pleas, and didn’t fail me); and find a place to stay. For three weeks I went from the Sloane House to classes at 116th and Broadway by subway (the ride was a daily baptism by fire in a crumbling system), then to the off-campus housing office at Columbia, and back to W. 34th. Luck was with me, though, I found a share with two grad students several blocks up Broadway in a half-decent building. The apt. was rent controlled, and my share of the $225 rent was $75/month (no typo here). One roommate eventually took over the apt with his partner...and is probably still there years later.
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"Millennials and Generation Z, born between 1981 and 2012, started tech careers during a decade-long expansion when jobs multiplied as fast as iPhone sales."Um, that is a time span of 31 years....can reporters please stop conflating Millennials and Gen-Z'ers as being the same thing!? Our lived experiences are way more different than boomers or Gen X'ers appear to assume. At 35, I'm pretty sure well over a decade ago my old millennial peers and I all graduated during the hellacious Great Recession, where we often worked for free or paltry wages to get experience for what felt like YEARS, not to mention had a near impossible time finding entry level full-time jobs that didn't require mom and dad to help contribute to rent (if you didn't have to stay at home). The struggle was real well through 2013. I know for a fact that I would be much further along financially and career-wise had I not graduated when I did. I have friends who are aged 23-25 who got to have white collar starting salaries $20k higher than I did, and overall had a much easier starting point which accelerated their career trajectory.
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He did it for $20 million. Ditto -- much more -- for Netflix. This meant quietly hoarding a cache of goods on his family for the big pay outs. Pretending the resultant spectacle is socially motivated makes it smell even worse-- like a bad melon.
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We offer complete daycare services for our entire community at a cost of 100f. (5 U.S.D.) per day. Medical care is included, including all family members. No franchising, no conniving, no investor profit hoarding. We subscribe to the "Do the right things" philosophy of citizenship.
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A few comments:Rotisserie chickens, whether $4.99 or $8.99, are very salty. If we’re willing to sacrifice convenience for price, as this article predicates, then maybe buy a whole raw chicken, often on sale.Given the cost of the products of cows, whether dairy or meat, both in dollars and to the planet, maybe don’t buy these products so much. Cheese is so delicious, but for health’s sake, I’d rather eat it less often and when it’s fresh (or at least not thawed from frozen).
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Out comes the flat rate for all taxpayers from Bret. Seems easy and fair except that in terms of impact on the spectrum of taxpayers there is a big difference. At say 10% a person earning $60,000 pays $6,000 leaving $54,000; a person earning $600,000 pays $60,000 leaving $540,000. To the person on the lower end it feels like a bigger hit. Tax rates should be progressive. The larger your earnings the higher your rate. No flat tax easy solutions that benefit the wealthy please.
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1.6 million in penalties tells me one of two things; A, the Republicans are right and democrats are really just looking for any excuse to bury trump, or B, there is no justice for true criminals in this world. Years of investigation probably cost taxpayers more than 1.6 million. it couldn't have been an economically viable hunt. Yet another example of our governments failures, on one or both sides. That's really what this exemplifies.
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And yet the electorate will go Tory over and over again. Putin's investment in Brexit has paid off handsomely. And Britain's neo-Nazis have nothing to worry about as they put one buffoon after another into 10 Downing St. going back to David Cameron and all the fools who have succeeded him.
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Here's a thought: Overturn the ruling on Citizens United. Get dark money, including foreign influence, out of the coffers of our elected officials. France limits presidential candidates' spending to $25 million, and requires that only half of campaign money can come from private donors; the rest is funded by the State. Corporate and trade union donations are illegal. But wait, there's more at the link. In other words, there are better ways to achieve democracy. <a href="https://thefulcrum.us/Elections/Campaign-Finance/money-in-politics" target="_blank">https://thefulcrum.us/Elections/Campaign-Finance/money-in-politics</a>
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Liz T Well said. I agree with most of this. I was SO HAPPY when she was elected to see a black woman finally become mayor. We all had such hopes and support for her but she's betrayed every campaign promise and created more problems for herself. The first red flag was less than 30 days into her term she invited a known felon to a city council meeting. I disagree, though, about the pandemic. She had epidemiology and virology data at her disposal in February of 2020 and should have canceled Mardi Gras that year, but that's water under the covid19 bridge. I was born and raised there and Cantrell is no queen, she's a peasant who I inherited a well established landscape of relationships and revenue for the city's budget and care. I'm no fan of the previous Mayor Landrieu but he did the job far better for New Orleanians of every color. I would go to St. Roch and other neighborhoods in NO East and outside of the Quarter for a black New Orleans perspective. Ask them about safety, gang violence, city sanitation, non-hospitality jobs paying more then 30K a year. --from a generational citizen perspective. The 90s held FAR more $ in the city, with $ still coming in from non-hospitality industry like oil and gas than it does now with far fewer potholes, crime, and sanitation problems. Bottom line- her legacy is one of disappointment, corruption, and blight. The city that care forgot is now the city that the mayor ignores by her own incompetence. It's time for a new mayor.
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AlanB. My own view is that Musk is good in the “visionary role”, setting up a company essentially from the start, announcing goals and recruiting a team of talented individuals to accomplish these. SpaceX for example is run by Gwen Shotwell and her experienced senior management team. Not widely appreciated now, but SpaceX had a “near death” experience early on with initial failures of its Falcon 1 rocket. In the case of Twitter, he walked into an existing company and tried to handle it as yet another startup. He fired way too many individuals in way too short a time frame, before understanding what the issues were with the company. And he spent $40 billion to get himself into this mess. Best reading to do on Twitter, its social media ilk (Facebook, YouTube) and the enormous problems in the way they are set up to operate is Max Fisher’s “The Chaos Machine”.
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Pottree - nice attempt - but no, unless you've built a business and had to fight through much larger and entrenched market leaders, the vulnerabilities of smaller scrappier companies is not well understood (especially by someone like Linda Khan - a 33 year old, yale academic without any actual company building experience). Individuals in start up and smaller competitors can wreak huge damage so that the 99% are hurt by the actions of the 1%. This plays completely into the hands of the oligarchs and hurts the innovator.
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Whether intended or not, it effectively called their bluff because in their fanatical obsession with denying him any cooperation at all, they chose total obstruction and achieved their priority of perpetual grievance, vs. actual legislation.And in any case, blaming the guy who has been out of office for 6 years is a bit of a stretch.
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ShannonSolution: use a composting company, if one is available. I use Impact Earth. Deposit of $10 gets you a 5 gallon bucket with a lid. They have a curbside service (they pick up) or a swap option (you take to a designated location). I do the swap every couple of weeks. Works great.
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Filming Eugene O’Neill When the Elements (and Investors) Don’t Cooperate Starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, Jonathan Kent’s adaptation of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” started production, only to lose key financing. WICKLOW, Ireland — “Strong winds, gradually subsiding” read the call sheet. Starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, Jonathan Kent’s adaptation of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” started production, only to lose key financing.
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“Inflation is fundamentally the outcome of the distributional conflict, between firms, workers, and taxpayers,”The Economist UK, Jan 2021, disagrees"A natural question to ask, then, is whether the proposal (of Biden), might overheat the economy if implemented. The most prominent figure to warn that this may happen is Larry Summers of Harvard University. His criticisms are notable both because he was an adviser to Mr Obama and because he was hitherto perhaps the world’s foremost advocate of deficit spending. “If we get covid behind us, we will have an economy that is on fire,” he said on January 14th. 2021“Jason Furman, another former Obama adviser, calculates that the combined impact of the December package and the Biden plan would be about $300bn per month for the nine months in 2021 for which the measures will be in effect. By comparison, the shortfall in GDP, compared with its pre-crisis trend, was only about $80bn in November. Typically, Keynesians argue that fiscal stimulus boosts the economy because of a sizeable “multiplier” effect. But the case for the stimulus to be as large as Mr Biden’s proposal “has to be that you think the multiplier in 2021 is really small”, says Mr Furman. Otherwise, it seems destined to take total spending in the economy beyond what it can produce next year, resulting in a burst of inflation.” The Economist Jan 19 2021And it did produce a burst of inflation in 2022Jason Furman was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
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China gained more than $189 billion in direct foreign investments in 2022. Worrying about losing a disappointed crypto guy is entirely ridiculous.
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JDJ , Coney Island does not need a casino. Governor Hochul has a development plan that will enhance Coney Island as an attraction for tourists and locals.A casino brings crime and litter, and does not benefit the neighborhood coffers as much as it does city/state coffers. That's always been the case whenever the first casino opens in an area.Go to A.C., go to Foxwoods, walk around, look at the neighboring communities. Is this what we want. No!
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This game has definitely expanded my vocabulary. Not in any useful way, but expanded nonetheless. (Although who knows? Maybe one day I'll go on Jeopardy! and the clue will be "this is an open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves." Boom! I'll be all over it)
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It’s a natural cycle that any industry goes through.First the new companies are on top and spending money like Banshees with their very high margin products generating large cash flows and free reserves, and as a result they give employees luxury benefits and income and investors fantastic returns.Then as competition stiffens and markets become saturated and Wall Street expects greater returns, these companies turn over control to professional business and money managers; employee perks and benefits are cut, incomes lowered, layoffs occur, and margins reduced. Cash dries up and pennies are pinched.This is capitalism folks and nothing you and I could do will change it; and I’m not so certain we want to change it.Eventually these once new technology companies are replaced by newer technology and the cycle repeats. Experts call this ‘creative destruction’: a process through which something new brings about the demise of whatever existed before itThis is what keeps the wheels moving and the U.S. in the catbird seat of the global economy.
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Just a few days ago the Times reported that the debt ceiling issue would not arise until this summer. And now, 11 days into a Republican-led House, the matter arises six months earlier than anticipated? It appears that this is a pre-emptive "strike" in order to flush out McCarthy and his ilk. While this may be a good move for now, the debt ceiling matter should have been dealt with in the lame duck session of Congress. I may be wrong, but couldn't the Senate have passed the measure based on "reconciliation" because it dealt with a budgetary issue? A 50-50 tie would have been broken by Harris. Then again, may one or two Republican senators would have voted in favor of a significant extension of the debt ceiling. This appears to be a strategic move at this time.
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A.I. was, is, and always will be a bad idea. A computer that thinks without any morals or ethics is an extremely dangerous experiment. I realize A.I. will continue to develop despite my grave concerns but I truly believe mankind is opening a Pandora’s box.
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yes bob gottleib the guy who ever positions himself to be more famous than the authors. lol. Has gone on for years, nothing new there. The Caro fist book on LBJ is an excellent insight about how the temperament and dreams and rank racisms brought about stealing Texas from the indigenous and the Spanish. For that reason alone, with all its crowing and positioning theft and murders as heroic of some texans, it is an eye opener for marginalized Latino/Mexica/ y otros tribes and ancianos from Mexican lands that were once theirs. Without meaning to, it seems, the works play to a White audience of readers, which is ok but the opening scenes of book 1 LBJ also expose the rot in Tejas' past governance and trying to hold onto slavery that one sees in current state admin now. The books, given all that has occured under the table, are a mixed bag re the many truths that stand as fact, much of which is not in the seriesm for it was writte toward a cerrtai readership. Like the books, fine. But they are more revelagtory about the deep greeds and hatreds of Indians and others that brought about modern Texas. I just wanted to comment without adoration.
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DB I'll take "Citations for That?" for $400, Alex.You can't just make blanket statements and not bother to at least say what you're basing them on. In reality, you're basing it on hysterical misinformation, not on scientific literature.
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"The Greeks have made no showing that they will care for these treasures"I don't know about that. I think building a near $200 million museum with a separate gallery just for the Parthenon marbles seems like quite a showing to me. And as Anna mentioned, the British DID damage them, they even removed 3cm of marble off the face in the process.Also, they belong to Greece. Anything else is irrelevant. The notion that they shouldn't be returned because apparently the Greeks can't look after their own property is just neo-colonialism at its finest.
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TeresaGuess you like playing with fire and taking chances, huh?Even in Oregon, I’d imagine it’s a pretty good idea to pay the few thousand dollars it costs to hire a lawyer to review and, if necessary shape, a purchase agreement so that your investment (or sale) is protected.In NYC, buying and selling property is a whole other beast, especially if you’re talking about a coop. I assume your comment means you don’t actually know what that is. When you “buy” an apartment in a coop, you’re actually buying the right to live there, not the physical property itself. The physical property is owned collectively by all the other residents in the form of shares. These shares entitle the owners to reside in the property and to have a voice in any decisions affecting the property, from repairs to the buying and selling of shares. I don’t know anyone who’s be crazy enough to take than on alone, especially when millions of dollars are at stake.
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Joe Talking about Russophobia is extremely naive. Russia is an aggressive country bound to rebuild its Soviet-time sphere of influence and openly challenging the current world order. Russia used its economic ties to Europe (especially Germany) to use them as a political leverage and blackmail the countries on thr receiving end of its oil and gas deals (that was evident this winter). Germany and France had their own reasons to maintain close ties with Moscow (cheap natural gas fuelling German export-oriented economy and French anti-American obsession with hopes of pushing the US out of Europe) to uphold their dominance in the EU. That has proved to be an incredibly short-sighted policy and these countries struggle to cope with the new situation when their hesitance to help a democratic and pro-European country fighting brutal and unjustified aggression makes them lose their credibility and moral leadership and diminishes their strategic importance. That is the price of delusional thinking about partnership with Russian regime.
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Inequality, as Thomas Pickety shows, is the inevitable result of regressive taxation. It is baked into the sharply unequal ratio of capital return to economic growth, which can only be evened out by progressive taxation. Until a significant majority of voters can see through Republican misdirection on taxes, the wealthy will continue to protect their grotesque advantages through the politicians they influence with campaign funding. Progressive taxation, aside from restoring a balance among economic classes, will enable America to invest in much needed social, environmental, educational, and other public goods and services. Will this restore faith in government? Maybe, or maybe not, but everything short of a reversal of inequality is window dressing.
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Stephan European level taxes may be closer to you than you think. My effective tax rate when I include state, property and municipal taxes approaches 40%, whereas a comparable middle-class tax rate in Europe might well be within striking distance of that.There are some big differences: taxes on savings and investments, taxes on owning a car and surcharges on gas, for example. But then, of course, you WOULD get better healthcare, infrastructure, schools, public transport and so on.
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n 2016, at $171,000, the net worth of a typical white family is nearly ten times greater than that of a Black family, $17,150.“Why? After all, it’s not 250 years ago or 120 years ago. Discrimination is over.”Homes (1945-1965 continuing today) The GI Bill, VA loans, etc Redlining, refusal to lend, etc resulting in minorities not being able to build home equity (ie asset value).Education (1945-1965) The GI Bill provided veteran with federal funds for skilled trades and university; state college banned minorities from entry, resulting in lack of economic opportunities.The consequences did not vanish with the end of discrimination. So, of course, there is “division”, in the case, of asset value, a 10X difference.
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China gained more than $189 billion in direct foreign investments in 2022. Almost all for technology intensive production. Worrying about losing a disappointed crypto guy is entirely ridiculous.
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James Igoe My husband, & I live in one of the premier high-rises south of the GWB on Palisade Avenue for 30 years. Respectfully stated, I disagree with you about the walkability factor. I walk to & from(1) Cafasso's Fairway Market, a fantastic, family-owned fresh produce & fine butcher alternative, (2) our local voting spot, steps away from a fun restaurant, It's Greek to Me, (3) Abbott Blvd, a two-way street wider & greener than NYC Park Avenue, minus the high rises, perfect for power walks. We own 2 cars.Yes, the GWB traffic can be nightmarish. Options? The NY Waterway commuter ferry into town is a civilized option for folks like me who have a hybrid full-time professional working life.We live in a 3 bed, 3 bath hi-rise coop apartment, 2400 square feet w/majestic floor-to-ceiling views of NYC out to JFK facing east & south & the Ramapo Mountains, Giants Stadium to the west. 3 apartments to a floor.Of related interest to Ms. Lynn's Ft. Lee review? A couple recently moved from their tony UPPER EAST SIDE, PARK AVENUE, NYC coop to our building because the traffic, garbage, & crime "In-town," is uncivilized. They own 1 car. They Uber to & from their 2300 sq ft apartment into town for culture, dining, & best-in-class medical care at world-class teaching hospitals.A drive to Newark airport vs LaGuardia or JFK? We prefer the 20-minute taxi ride to EWR.Secure concierge living with a gym, pool, & 2 underground parking for under $1 million? A comfortable compromise.
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Good luck.It's tough to change peoples conceptions. Great restaurants are hard to find. Good food well prepared, attractive, with reasonable portions and at a reasonable price doesn't exist.I just returned from a dinner for 2 that cost $160. It was a pleasant experience because of the people we were with but since the pandemic the restaurant had closed for a while and had been redecorated and that money had to be recovered.Unfortunately the redecoration and closing changed a good menu to a great one but a slip in the quality of the food, Tough veal (first time I have had veal in 3 or 4 years). Great looking food but poor quality. If you cut up asparagus into 4 pieces, the 3 to 1 ratio causes an unbalance in the flavor of a spear. Mashed potatoes should not be whipped up into the consistency of farina.
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Emme Interesting. I can only assume they've corrected that problem, or perhaps over-corrected is the proper term: at least via their "virtual" (online) estimator, last year they valued my car at only $500 more than CarMax's appallingly low offer.I ended up selling it privately – for $7,000 more. Just in the nick of time, it seems.
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That was pretty funny. If Trump had been President in 2022, he would have held the door to Ukraine open for Putin and said, “Help yourself.”
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Alright already --I've got another New Year's Resolution:The other day I found myself on the checkout line behind a man with a powerful gun on his hip holster, and political tattoos on on his biceps.I've seen this many times before while shopping, and it made me nervous. From now on, when I see a person carrying a weapon, I am abandoning my shopping cart in the store and walking out. Pronto!Is this person going to open fire? Probably not. But the increasingly incessant tattoo of mass shooting makes me nervous, and with good reason. There was a mass shooting in a supermarket in my town. I have heard what sounded like gunfire (or was it firecrackers) around town, then read about killings, sometimes on the street in broad daylight, in the press the next day. Look at the board of directors of these corporate chains: most of them are predominantly Republican, and some extremely so.Maybe it's time the folks running these stores did something more to protect the lives of their customers and employees than placing wreaths in front after the shootings. We need real gun control legislation. The GOP and NRA are standing in the way.Until then, I am not going to wait around in the store to see if the guy with the gun opens fire.
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Nick Nick, a lot of economists have used "surrogate data" to loosely verify the broad accuracy of key economic figures provided by the CCP for years. With such a "well oil and all pervasive propaganda machine in place" you assertion is very well founded. Investing in anything to do with China is now increasingly problematic.
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Democrats have offered money for the border wall as well as border security in exchange for DACA and other immigration reforms. Time and time again, the Republicans refused to budge. Democrats offered 25 Billion to Trump, but the Freedom Caucus pressured him to refuse. Even now, Republicans rejected Biden's offer of border security funding in the last bill, cutting it from 4 billion to 2 billion.
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I'm an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary interest in science and public policy. I see two trends. Decades ago, going back to the 19th century, one person or a small team, with drive and genus and access to some resources, could build a lab and make discoveries. As science advanced the problems became deeper and deeper, requiring more minds involved, more equipment and more money. Now the mysteries are enormous, as are the teams, the gigantic and/or staggeringly complex instruments, and the gigantic budgets. I think this would naturally slow progress, just the bureaucracy alone to get it all done.Second is the trend towards application science and the expectations of return on investment rather than pure science.The public, our governments, absolutely need to fund pure no-strings-attached science. This is the well from which springs forth the great insights, that eventually lead to applications. You can't skip this first step, this investment.
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Steve Bolger Yes. Now, for later developments in electronics, the internet, GPS, etc you might like to read "The Entrepreneurial State", by Mariana Mazzucato. It has lots of details on just how much the US and other governments were involved in guiding and funding the private sector in developing most everything we call Tech these days. And that continued a long tradition going back to the days when the development of transportation canals, the railroads, and commercial and military aviation were similarly spurred into existence and development by the government. Then there is also the billions the government puts into pharmaceutical research every year. The private sector has played an essential role in getting all those things to market but it is by no means the whole story.
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Beyond even shadow of a doubt our boomer generation evolved the best music of 20th century and beyond. So many fine and extra-ordinary musicians hit their stride, soaring high into the blue skies of all our young lives taking us along. Fearless, helpless, surrendered and transcendent, we leaped from the windows behind blue blue stars out into the majestic compassionate cosmos floating free, clear and formless. These truths embedded in our bones, our dna, our opened hearts and made of us vulnerable warriors for peace and love, knowing there is neither good nor bad, happy in any company, any circumstance. No matter what happens to us, we are the fortunate ones who learned to change ourselves, leaving the outer world to be what it is. Kindness and altruism emerged as the open paths to authentic happiness, hiding in plain sight. May all beings live long and happy!
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Perhaps you need to be a federal appellate attorney with 20+ years experience to understand how clever Douthat is in pretending to write about one thing, here the Brazilian insurrection, while actually arguing in defense of the GOP.Douthat only pretends to distinguish what happened in Brazil and the US. He argues that both were doomed from the start so are in fundamental ways the same. Watch Douthat's left hand, not the right he's waving in your face.This is about Brazil only as far as Douthat exploits it. It's a companion piece to his previous editorial arguing that the GOP is now as it was before Trump. He misdirected readers from the reality of a radical Hard-Right GOP acting exactly the same as Trump, how Trumpism fully consumed the GOP, and how everything the GOP does is a direct extension of the January 6th insurrection.Douthat confines the January 6th insurrection to Trump and a tiny group of his closest cohorts alone, which is untrue. He writes: "The ambition, which belonged to Donald Trump and his shrunken inner circle, aimed to provoke a constitutional crisis." As to Trump's insurrectionists, we get this: "The futility belonged to the rioters, whose violence and vandalism was an expression of dreampolitik rather than a coup — its plan for success nonexistent, its end in mass arrests and imprisonment foreordained." The findings of January 6th Commission show an attempted coup, not "dreampolitik", yet Douthat calls them: "Empty and grifting and fantastical".
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There is precious little bite to the FEC’s bark, by design. I think I would rather know how much Devolver or Santos personally paid in income taxes for the miraculous $700k in assets available to loan to his campaign. There’s serious jail time to be found there.
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Are you willing to pay Facebook $250/$500 per year for their services to you and your friends? They aren’t a charity.
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People plant the wrong trees in the wrong places and give them the wrong treatment and poor or no maintenance. Add drought and exotic new pests, like the Goldspotted Oak Borer, and they fall. An enormous 60'x60' Italian stone pine died in our neighborhood this autumn because the homeowners had half the root system removed to renovate their pool. Now they have a $20K tree removal bill.
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The comparison with the early days of the internet can go further. Will this technology change our lives again, in many unexpected ways. Almost certainly. Will people who invest massively now reap all the benefits and become the new robber barons? Well, just think of the internet and of all those people blinded by dollar signs who crashed into the dotcom crisis.
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Perhaps true scientific breakthroughs have declined because of the push for everything to be monetized to earn millions or billions. Is scientific research being limited somewhat by an evaluation of what would be most profitable versus what may not have immediate rewards but offers the possibility of unlocking one of those eureka moments? Research scientists need to be supported financially through those times when their research isn’t providing breakthrough technology, but in our era of demand for instant results—and demand for quick profits—we may no longer be funding that basic research.
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So, California wants up to $100 billion for a high speed train, but can't come up with the funds to fix catastrophic flooding? They raise taxes but then ask residents to not leave for more tax friendly areas? Sorry, not a lot of sympathy.
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What this piece leaves out is that major financial backers of these movements have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to install a Congress and Supreme Court whose real agenda is to dismantle the New Deal. This effort dates back to the 1950s, is aided by the Chicago Schools (economics and law), the Federalist Society, etc.Look at some recent SCOTUS cases that have started to dismantle the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, weaken worker and union rights (with another case on the right to strike in front of them now), weaken the Executive's ability to promulgate regulations. And, using courts, such as in TX, they are now being fed what they need.While much focus is placed on issues like abortion and prayer in school, this is the real end-game. There are cases moving through the system set on accomplishing this. And, against the will of the majority they are getting too close for comfort and may just succeed.
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Software is the real culprit here.Repairing your own hardware only makes sense so long as the software you run still supports it and the operating system used continues to get security patches as needed/preferred. As an electrical engineer working in industry for the last 30 years and employed by a major US semiconductor manufacturer, I can say that what is driving obsolescence these days are two things, a) software code bloat and b) security.The incremental improvements in computing power have slowed in recent years, with new chips being introduced at a slower rate. The cost to design and tool these devices for manufacturing is staggering, and companies do as much as they can to make the chip designs in their portfolio last as long as possible.Software is a different story. There is a tradeoff between ease and speed of development, and code size and efficiency of execution. Software companies want to build products as quickly as possible, reuse libraries, and minimize bugs and expensive support fixes, but this results in bloated size and slow execution, necessitating ever faster hardware for a good user experience.On the security side, this is all driven by the software and operating systems such as Windows 10, etc... when an operating system is no longer supported and security patches no longer released, this renders perfectly good hardware vulnerable. You can keep running it, but you're on your own for security.
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Nick Silicon Valley is a completely different example of how employees are typically treated. Money was plentiful, and as long as you could tell a good story was easy to get $10 or 50 Million to fund your start up. It is the equivalent of going to Vegas and putting all of your money on one number on the Roulette wheel for the investors. All it took was one hit and you came out ahead- the only difference is that some of the money actually went to lower level employees instead of the casino.Those days are over, as they should be. When investment money is restricted, it has to go to better ideas that a get rich quick scheme, which most of it is.
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The "adults" retire to the drawing room to sip 12-year-old scotch and ruminate on the terrible state of the world while telling the rest at the party that the punchbowl is too expensive.These guys with their private jets, $50,000 Rolex's $25,000 suits have no clue about the real world. Private schools, Ivy League colleges & investment banking jobs give them a firm belief that they know what's best for the hoi-polloi.
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My son and another friend were invited to a sleep over at the house of his friend, the son of a single mother with a tattooed motorcycle riding leathered up boyfriend. They were all around 10 years old. The parents of the other young man and we agreed to keep in touch and let the sleepover go forward. The kids knew how to get in touch. The next morning, early we got a call asking to pick them up, which we did. The kids were shaken as they had never experienced a home that was unkempt, they had not been fed dinner and had been allowed to stay up all night. They were hungry and tired and wanted to come home. It was an eye opening experience for them and educational. They are now grown responsible parents. Raising your kid in a bubble with people in lock step is poor preparation for the real world. If your kid is raised properly, with common sense and good values you need to let them out of the bubble periodically.
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When the new "weaponization of the federal government" committee, chaired by Jim Jordan, begins its work, the obscenely corrupt and partisan Durham probe should give them something to work with. When committee members make opening remarks, one of the minority members should read the NY Times article about the Durham probe into the record.
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There have been billions of dollars of investment into both Californias and Texas electrical infrastructure that would never have happened without deregulation. Both Texas and California saw coal and inefficient oil- and gas-burning plants close over the last few decades because deregulation and only deregulation has allowed more efficient gas, wind, and solar plants to compete. Before deregulation, both California and Texas were supplied by dinosaur boiler plants that were designed to burn as much gas as possible without regards to efficiency, because they were built when gas was considered a waste product of oil refining. Does anyone believe Texas would have retired almost all of its coal and old gas plants if the decision was up to a public body elected by Texans? Ha! Or that Texas would be a leader in wind of it was up to their voters??Texas should follow the California ISOs lead and do what they did after the early-00s blackouts: Pay peaker gas plants to be available for emergencies when the market wouldn’t justify it on its own.
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As a moderate conservative, it's obvious that the ceiling must be raised. As a moderate conservative, it's obvious that steps must be implemented to get debt under control, steps that obviously have not been taken. MMT and printing endless dollars won't continue to bail us out of hard times. We've reached the point where the interest on the national debt is a danger. And with higher interest rates, refinancing debt will only add to this. I offer a sobering analysis:In late May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that annual net interest costs would total $399 billion in 2022 and nearly triple over the upcoming decade, soaring from $442 billion to $1.2 trillion and summing to $8.1 trillion over that period.Dec 14, 2022That's not a minor detail. That's the death knell of the American economy. So yes, short term, must be raised, long term, must be lowered.
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I live in Santa Barbara (no, I haven’t floated away, but the creek 200 yards from me is roaring under its bridges). I can walk to the sea cliffs or bike to UCSB in ten minutes. My three bedroom, two bath tract house, with a beautiful big yard, bought in 1980 for $123,000 was recent assessed at $1.2 million. I still pay taxes on the purchase price of $123,000, due to Prop 13. Yes, as a retired person I know I have a great deal in a great town!
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Minn Veggies: I'm glad you mentioned this. I bake with flax eggs all the time, and I sat down to do the math after reading this article. The least expensive carton of twelve large eggs at my supermarket right now is $5.79 or $0.48 per egg. A pound package of ground flax seed is $4.49 or $0.05 per TBSP. Mixed with 1/8 cup of water, a tablespoon of ground flax seed is the equivalent of one large egg. That's a pretty significant cost savings!For those who would like to try baking with flax eggs, mix two TBSP of ground flax seed with 1/4 cup water and allow set aside until it forms a gel (about ten minutes). Use in place of two large eggs. I've had great success using flax "eggs" when making muffins, which are a breakfast staple in my house.
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Daniel MacGowan This is the patient, posting under her husband’s name. I give Dr. Nowacek huge credit. Unmentioned in the story, likely for space reasons, is the fact that I actually saw two other neurologists at Bronson first. They were both completely stumped but thought maybe it was an atypical Guillain-Barre Syndrome. I saw Nowacek a week later by chance — I had run out of pain meds, needed to see a doc in person to renew the script and he was the doc with an opening in his schedule. He could have just refilled the prescription and figured the other neurologists were on the case. Instead, he did an examination, listened to my story and said, “I think this is something we’re not thinking about yet” and ordered a slew of blood tests. (So many, in fact, that the person at the blood lab said she’d never seen an order so long.) I remember that Nowacek told me that four of the 40-some test results were abnormal, those indicated an autoimmune issue and he made sure that I had an appointment with a rheumatologist ASAP.So should he have guessed it was Churg-Strauss? I had a whole bunch of symptoms, of which asthma was only one. It’s a rare condition. I was the first case that either Dr. Nowacek and Dr. Kocharla had even seen in person. Rare enough that Kocharla’s fellow rheumatologists at Bronson were initially skeptical of her diagnosis. Rare enough that the Mayo folks were impressed I was diagnosed so quickly; they see EPGA patients who go undiagnosed for years.
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The model just doesn't work. Counting on your patrons to tip your "employees" who you pay less than minimum hourly wage is ridiculous. Trying to sell $25 hamburger platters to offset your overhead doesn't work either.Trying to have waiters come in before opening and set up and stay after closing and clean up while only paying them $4-$5 an hour (with no access to tips in the before/after hours) is both insulting and unfair.Trying to predict how much food to purchase, what demand will be, what to do with the aging food that wasn't sold is a fruitless exercise.Having expensive long leases and high fixed overhead is terrible too.Other than that - great model.
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"Clean, abundant energy is the foundation on which a more equal, just and humane world can be built."You're being completely ridiculous. We've unlocked so many vast sources of energy over the last 100 years or so and we're STILL fighting wars over natural resources and STILL exporting jobs to low-wage countries to take advantage of other humans. Nothing much has really changed. In fact, what did those Chinese girls who soldered your solar panels together make in an hour of work? 50 Cents? Or are they up to a dollar an hour now these days? Yes, solar and wind can help replace coal, but we're kidding ourselves if we think new energy sources are going to solve all of our problems.
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One huge oversight in this piece is that Microsoft moved from a traditional PTO plan to an unlimited PTO plan TWO days ago! What does this mean for those caught up in this layoff? It means that Microsoft does not have to pay out laid off employees for any unused PTO they may have accrued. Pure evil!
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I have significant asthma, and im open to the idea that indoor gas might contribute. But…the power goes out at my house at least 10x per year. Without gas we’d have no heat, hot water, or hot food during those times.Gas is MUCH more essential as reliable backup heat and energy than as “better than induction” or “cheaper than upgrading to a heat pump”. Until I have rooftop solar and battery backup, I wouldn’t even consider giving up gas.
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PhilO ah-ha! You've solved the mystery of how he got the $700,000 to finance his campaign. Good work!
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Once again there is a false equivalence that both parties are to blame for the coming Debt Ceiling crisis. This is a Republican problem & a stupid fight they have started. In October of 2021 all 206 members of the House GOP ( Neo-Libertarian Nationalist Party) caucus voted against raising the debt ceiling. All the House Democrats voted for raising the debt ceiling. The MAGAist party has been very open about not raising the debt ceiling. These bright minds even think that by opposing paying our bills places the blame for the overall debt squarely on the Democrats. They think they will own the Libs. Even on Fox News & Hate Radio they spin this myth and exploit their libertarian fanatical fantasies of stripping out the safety net, social programs, government agencies & crashing the system then redirecting that spending into the pockets of the one percent & corporations by way of tax-give-aways. The GOP does not hide this plan. Even McCarthy has been saying this for the last two years. Heck, the MAGAist ran on it. There’s no bullying by the so-called fringe party of the party. Its the ENTIRE Republican Party in the House and beyond that is all-in. Dont count on them to wise-up and fly right.The defenders of the public system and the responsible lawmakers who believe in paying the bills on time are the Democrats. Full stop. Quit with the false equivalnce. Stop with the story telling and outright distortion of the facts. This is another ugly crisis created by & for Republicans.
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This article fails to answer the question: Why? For profit pharmaceutical companies are in the business of making profits for their shareholders. The securities laws of the United States require company officers to act in the best interests of the shareholders. This imperative compels these companies to seek profits and to use all available technical and regulatory tools available to maximize those profits. A superficial analysis of the workings of the investment markets reveals that nearly $35 trillion is invested in US based investment funds. 61% of this money is invested in the stock market. Three firms, Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street, together control approximately 25% of the shares of the S&P 500 The capital invested in equities demands profit, and as pharma is the most profitable of industry sectors it is the profit seeking of capital that is behind high and ever increasing pharmaceutical prices, prices which are supported by the gaming of the patent system described in your article. Forty seven point four percent of American households hold shares in funds This toxic profit seeking is endorsed by the tax laws of America in that capital gains are taxed at a much lower rate than are wage income. Thus, WE are the problem, our retirement investments, our 401k’s and our stock portfolios, or at least those of us who hold such assets. All are preferentially taxed are thereby driving the inequities in medical care that bring misery to so many.
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jack Not my experience. My company's H1b workers are the cream of the crop. I learned most of what I know from them, not from my MIS degree. We pay them just as much as our US workers: 100-130K. Yes, they're originally from India, but we mostly lure them from London.
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I would think AA wold have been glad to pay $17K just to avoid this bad publicity.But, then again, everybody already knows this about AA and many other huge companies in our increasingly alienating world where no individual is responsible for anything.And another thing: why do we, the taxpayers, repeatedly bail the airlines out when they get into financial trouble?
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International Business Times:'Koch Brothers Could Be $1 Billion Richer Each Year From GOP Tax Bill'
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John Not sure about "some exaggeration here" on the weakening of Germany and France but it seems to me this article is certainly missing a much bigger picture, being still locked inside the old mindset of Europe (West/old or new East Europe or not) vs. Russia. This Ukraine war should be understood as a foreshadow of looming end game between liberal democracies in East Asia and Europe in general vs. a coalition of totalitarian/authoritarian military states like Russia/China/Iran/North Korea . Considering who are providing drones and ammunition to Russia now, the obvious rogues states, North Korea and Iran. AND Nobody knows the extent of how China is helping Russia now secretly not only through financing this Russia war machine by purchasing Russian gas but also through other covert operations. In this context, it is worthwhile to reflect on the significance of the recent series of gigantic purchase of S.Korean weaponry systems by Norway, Finland and the Baltic nations and the Eastern block of Europe including Poland. This tectonic shift in military hardware procurement from the West to the East is a well thought out long term strategic coalition executed between the East Asian military industrial complex and NATO. Not many people know that the economy of scale of the production capability of South Korean military industrial complex alone surpass the entire NATO in current state.
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After working in hospitality for over a decade and getting out after college, this article makes my blood boil. I took that class every year. That industry abuses people and families. Servsafe has perpetually destroyed the opportunity for wage expansion based on greed. This is disgusting and this lobby needs to be broken up. Pretty clear conflict of interest. Some states server wages are less than $8 an hour. Formula is 13$ a container. Clearly that’s an issue. If the US capitalistic system continues to put profits over people, we will end up like China. Way too many old people and no children. We can’t afford to have them. Do better America.
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Biden is in this mess not because his offense is the same as Trump’s. It’s because of how he handled it. He’s sanctimonious, undisciplined and always political. All he had to say at the start of the Trump mess was, I don’t get involved with that. It’s not something I know anything about. Let Garland and DOJ do their jobs. Then when they found docs at his office and residence, all he had to say was, Mistakes happen. Nothing here was done on purpose. We’re cooperating and we’ll get to the bottom of this. Done. Period. Instead, he finger-wags Trump and then keeps insisting how anyone who knows him knows how careful he is with classified documents. We don’t know him. That’s why we need someone to investigate. Now, as for his no-show U Penn job for $1m+ a year or his massive Delaware home (for a guy who’s never had a real job), well, I’ve no advice. Joe made this bed. Now he lies in it.
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ivyworldy Agree. EXCEPT I see 75pct of the VC funds tanking.
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If this comes pass, Gaetz, Boebert and partners will get their wish and they will blame Democrats for bankrupting the nation. They know that not enough of their constituents understand what the debt ceiling is. President Biden has to get on the air and address the nation. He must explain in plain language what Republicans are trying to do in order to make a point. And he must stress in no uncertain terms what default will mean to the average American, Democrat and Republican.
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That's right, you can't put Humpty Dumpty together again after a default as Bill Dudley said. I give absolutely no credenece to anyone who talks about mitigation measures. A US default is not a 9/11 occurrence. It is the largest nuclear bomb in existence being dropped on Manhattan. You can't mitigate or predict the affects of that mass casualty except that it will be a different world afterwards. I was a corporate bankruptcy partner in the NY office of one of the largest law firms in the world in 2007 and 2008. I worked on Lehman Bros. whose bankruptcy almost brought down the financial system of the world. It had about $500 billion in assets. The US saved the world financial system by massive and urgent bailouts of many financial institutions. The US debt is about 31 trillion dollars and a bankrupt US in default will not have the capacity to bail anyone out. It might actually convince more people who need to be convinced of the seriousness of the problem by telling them the truth rather than playing prediction and mitigation games.
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Jefflz Hard to fathom that the same media that hounded Hart from political life for the crime of adultery allowed... no, led the way and held open the door to the White House to... a twice divorced, credibly accused rapist and serial fraudster to almost end the republic.
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Interesting take. Aside from the fact that Mr. Desai offers little in explaining crypto's collapse, excessive use of the first person personal program, or including the fact that actual collapse was some 9 months prior to his insights, the level he attributes Bitcoin current trading level is about 23% off the market. It seems the difference between Mr. Desai's thoughts and reality are indeed, illiquid.
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J you can make your point without exaggerating. Daily lift tickets are in the $180-200 range... not $300. Far from a deal, but still cheaper than a lot of the fancier resorts.
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I am observing all this from faraway Singapore. In this part of the world, China has been making great inroads and its influence is steadily rising even as the US contends with political - and economic - dysfunction. My advice to my American friends is simple: please get your house in order or you will soon find yourselves surpassed. While it is easier to focus on events closer to home, I must point out that China has quietly surpassed the US as the largest trading partner of the Southeast Asian region. Chinese trade with Southeast Asia is now 1.4x US trade with the region and is only increasing. The US is no longer the partner of preferred choice in this region, let alone the dominant economic power.And instead of coming up with a strategy to reengage this pivotal region, the US is grappling with severe, partisan-inflicted problems at home.I am now starting to think that China may actually replace the US as the dominant power in Asia. It has no divided senate or congress to contend with. Its policies don't change with a new administration every four years. It has a steady commitment, discipline and diligence. Most importantly, it thinks and acts long-term..
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Thank you for this article. I started getting my health and physical fitness back after retiring 15 years ago. I am now 75 and I am in very good condition. I am now able to complete 2 mile open water swims after learning how to swim 7 years ago. I am a believer in dynamic warm-ups helping to keep me injury free.
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The past is haunting the Democrats and NYT pundits. They misused the process to discredit Trump. Now, they are getting it back. Based on the report yesterday in NY Post, it appears that Hunter was actually using the classified information to rake in millions from foreign countries and Joe was getting 10% of the deals. This may be the reason why NYT pundits say "there is no comparison" between Trump and Biden cases, though their purpose is to minimise Biden's case as an innocent mishandling, not an attempt to sell nuclear secrets to Russia. Joe also says that he has no idea why and how the documents landed where they are! Of course, honest Joe is not lying, that is the sphere of Trump!
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I like Amazon. Great selection online. Mostly good prices. Safe, easy, secure pickup at Whole Foods. Friendly helpful assistance at the pickup counter if needed. Otherwise, just access the pickup locker with the code on your phone. Thirty day refund privilege, no questions asked. If you return merchandise at Kohl’s, you get an additional $5 Kohl’s discount coupon just for using Kohl’s. So, you actually make $5 for returning unwanted merchandise. Win Win.
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KJ Not with 3 bedrooms on the 2nd floor sharing a single bath. Not for $500K.
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JackThey could probably increase the price to $2000 per head and still be sold out every night for the next six months. I just think that's not what the chef has in mind. He mentioned that he isn't tempted by oil money from the Middle East.Sure the interns are unpaid, but they do it voluntarily to gain experience in one of the best restaurants in the world. Hard to speak of exploitation here with a straight face.
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Congress provided $190 billion in the American Rescue Plan to fund schools "doing more". No magic required, just spending that money responsibly.
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Here is an idea. Let's end this ridiculous support of an ever damaged state and send the four billion every year to Ukraine. Now that would be an investment with some actual returns for America. We have been losing our shirts in Israel for about 70 years now.
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Richard Brown I disagree. You and I had a better life because of the national debt but our grandchildren won't. $30 trillion at 5% interest = $1.5 trillion. That 1.5 trillion could be used for schools. We could tack the 1.5 onto the national debt but at some point it won't work to do that. You simply can't keep going into debt forever. My question was "what if the U.S. never went into debt in the first place?
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Michael Tague I hope you're right, but a quick Google search will show you that millennials / gen z'ers earn far less than their parents did at same age, have far less employment stability, far less chance of owning a home etc... Also we're well underway into Earth's 6th mass extinction event, on track for a catastrophic 2.9+ degrees global temp increase, over 40% of world population lives on less than $5.50 a day.I'm not anti-tech by any stretch, but it's worth questioning how much "progress" there has really been over the past 30ish years.I wish the incentives existed for our brightest young ones to develop new technologies for the sake of true human well being and preserving the environment we depend on, rather than for it's own sake.
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Michael Major beneficiaries of the subsidies include Intel, IBM, Texas Instruments, US based companies.
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This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. But, then again, back when Wall Street last melted down our economy with their reckless, unregulated CDO's, fraudulent evaluations of "securitized" high-risk mortgages, shorting of investments they were pushing on their customers and all the rest, our government decided that the "sanctity of contract" required that we permit companies like AIG to pay multimillion dollar bonuses & for elaborate parties out of taxpayer bailout money, so maybe it's not so crazy for them to make such a demand now.
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Cert Wages are high in California. Groups have passed laws called "Right to work". When an employer has a job open which is part-time, the current employee has a legal right to ask for those additional hours (to become full-time). The law does not prevent the employer from proceeding and hiring a temp/part-time person. San Jose, California's people voted upon it. Then the city Council approved it.Alex, please - not condescendingly, study law - civil and federal and eventually because there are so many PEOPLE v. cases (appeals), criminal.In the US, is a standard for doing business is GOOD FAITH AND FAIR DEALING. This is a legal phrase which is present in our laws and in particular case law. Jack and Alex. But we don't have it anymore. That was killed during the Reagan Governorship and during his presidency. Good faith was replaced with non-compete and at-will termination contract terms (at will is state law). However, There are approx. 14 states which have Good Faith and Fair Dealing.Now, for the malice. You need a valid reason to quit. You can't just quit and collect UI. If you can claim some bad environment or event, the former worker might get succeed. I see workers in the most fragmented retail shops doing this actively. They don't want their jobs. They want their customers TO COMPLAIN about them. They harass a customer with intent. That's malice. Employers use employees like rags. They bring them in, and throw them away.
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Two points. The cases of Trump and Biden "misusing" classifed documents are not "fine--grained distinctions." The news media contribute to the craziness by breathlessly reporting. The CBS anchor said that Biden "refused" to answer questions about what was in the documents. If they're classified secret, he couldn't. She knows that, but people love the titillation of scandal. It would be helpful if Biden would do as Bret suggests and gives us a glimpse into the "secrets." His lawyers seem to be telling him not to do that, not to even find out what the documents might be. That's where it gets crazy.Secondly, taxes. Everyone hates taxes and Republicans have exploited that to get to where they are today. Yes, it would be good to rein in the transfers of wealth, but Republicans argue that it's "your money" and you have a right to give it to your heirs. And if the heirs own "family farms" worth millions, they might have to sell them to settle the estate. Tragic? I believe that reducing taxes and regulation are the motives behind the big mess our politics have become. Arguing that a family in NY with an income of $400,000 is vulnerable is another excuse for not taxing the rich. It's a diversion.
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Marvin Mitchell because the Bahamas is part of the UK, I'm part of a Health plan that utilizes these strategies for our employers. We have save our members $8000 a month.It makes me crazy today this happens, but if you look at the history of who is behind it, you will understand. For example, former USDA Scott Gottleib left his position to become a board member at Pfizer and a partner at a Private equity firm. Pfizer is doing similar things with a breast cancer drug called Ibrance.Fox guarding hen house
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Count me as jaded and unphased.I first started working for corporations in the early nineties, as the tech world changed, and many people were being let go. I worked as a contractor then, until a company hired me. I was there for 7 years. When I was later let go in 2002 during a merger that also coincided with an economic downturn, I was ready to go, with my resume ready and open to opportunities. I got back on my feet as a contractor, and then spent more than 10 years as a tech migrant, spending anywhere from 6 months to several years at each gig, but always ready for the next role.At 63, working as a software developer, my employer recently went through a 'reduction-in-force', and even though I am safely employed - a manager recently, without cynicism, described me as a rockstar - I still was ready to hit the ground running, with my LinkedIn profile up to date and ready to hang my sign out to say I was looking for work.I do sympathize though, it can be tough, and I plan on helping those that have been affected by these changes as much as I can, even if it only means writing a recommendation on LinkedIn.
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And it’s cyclical, right? The justification for investing in transit is always based on fare collection, which needs riders. When govs can acknowledge transit as a public service there could be some better investment. Right now our governments do not seem too keen on social investment as much as individual returns.
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I do not know what to say; I do not know what to do. The violence perpetrated in this nation toward innocent people of color, to immigrant workers of my neighbor city of Half Moon Bay, to children, to women, to men, is beyond epidemic. It is a cancer metastasizing to every corner of our nation, every street, and building. I forced myself to watch the videos on the front page of Paul Pelosi and Tyre Nichols. I didn't do it for any macabre, perverse reason. No, I did it to escape my bubble of self-centeredness, to open my eyes to reality. And this nation's reality is poisonous. What on earth does it take to change this culture of hate manifested not just by the unstable but even by thuggery in our law enforcement agencies? This has got to change. We have no other choice. Our biggest sin would be becoming defeatists and perhaps worse yet silent and complacent.
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