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I'm so glad you wrote about the biggest scam of them all, the fake restaurant The Shed at Dulwich, and how it rose to # 1 out of I think 12,000 or so restaurants in London - despite never existing!I trust OpenTable (a little) because a) you can only write a review if you've booked thru OpenTable and actually dine at the restaurant and b) because the reviews roll off after 6 months, so you're constantly getting relatively fresh reviews.But the sites that let anyone write a review, forget it. I've seen glowing reviews of a local restaurant's lunch menu (even though they aren't open for lunch, for example), or a review knocking a favorite restaurant in Crested Butte that was three owners (8 years) old. I'll pass on Yelp and TA
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Growing up in Korea, Kimjang (김장) was my favorite winter tradition. I remember how excited I was during the drive to our grandparents' house, and my sister, brother, and I drew on the foggy windows of the back seat. When we got there, we met relatives we hadn't seen for a very long time. I was always shy saying hello to my Imo (aunts) and Samchon (Uncles). On the balcony, there would be stacks of salted napa cabbage or baechu (배추) in big boxes. These salted cabbages tasted really good on their own, so we usually ate strips of this non-spicy kimchi before Kimjang.The actual making of red kimchi was, for the nine-year-old me, more complicated than I imagined. Instead of mixing the ingredients and cabbage superficially like salad, we had to stuff the ingredients deep inside each layer of the napa cabbage. Kimjang was fun, but at the same time, it was a thorough procedure. My siblings and I were too young to be of actual help, so we often played in the living room. Occasionally we sprinted to where our parents were and asked for strips of half-done kimchi. To me, these raw, hand-peeled kimchi were more delicious than any other kimchi. There's an inexplicable feeling of sentimentality, nostalgia, and comfort I felt during winters in Korea. Because the new school year began in March, January for the young me was a timeless month, and I found happiness in reconnecting with my extended family but also with my immediate family and siblings.
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Am I the only one concerned over Mr. Zients' history of Medicare/Medicaid billing irregularities at firms owned by his investment vehicle? Does he view the elderly and infirm as targets for exploitation?If this is the best guy Biden can find, it does not reflect well on the President's commitment to integrity in government.
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Another billionnaire want to be....He will be closer to Republicans in Washington to warn them of never raising taxes on him and the Fellowship of the Dollars.
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I'm sorry but I'm having a tough time making any sense of this well written and illustrated soup expose. It's bad enough that we cannot taste, let alone sniff the delectables which the author has generously described with such a subdued, yet poignant, aplomb. I could have easily been persuaded to fork over a handsome sum just to experience the tiniest spoonful. The only option left to me is to traipse down to the market for the necessary ingredients and make a misguided attempt to apply my mediocre culinary skills in an effort to make something near the orbit of these exquisite soups. Alas, I find yet another barrier of entry into this arena, the need to plop down 40 bucks for a subscription to the NYT food section. This is entirely too much for me to bear. The Times teases me into a rich soup lather only to dash my hopes that none of these delicacies shall never cross my table top. Perhaps the next go round the NYT leads off with a statement that none of the dishes described herein shall be yours without a subscription to their food club.
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CN It’s clear that the reader was grateful for the $20 donation.
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Richard Fleming and will they then prohibit the companies from deciding to go out of business as nobody will want to read from an open sewer?
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Ah, excuse me, but two people making $200,000.00 EACH complaining about the price of eggs, is a bit, uh, rich. And hiring more people in the IRS to reduce "trust-fund babies"? Uh-uh. Too unwieldy to change the tax codes. Just pay for more audits.Mr. Stephens unfairly criticizes Prince Harry for bashing the royal family, especially with his book. But as I noted in a previous post, Harry is going through a mourning process for his mother who died suddenly, prematurely, tragically. Her life [and death] was a precursor for the growing irrelevancy of British royalty, as Meghan Markle began to note about her official duties. Despite criticisms of Prince Harry, I feel bad for him. Losing a beloved parent at a young age can be truly traumatizing. It takes years to deal with it. Harry is picking up some of the faults in the royal edifice and is reacting as a human being.
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For most of my career, I worked in male-dominated fields (investment banking and investment management). I was fortunate to start my career under the direct supervision of a superb woman boss, who helped me find my voice on the male-dominated mortgage-backed securities trading desk at Salomon Brothers. I also credit my elementary and high school education at an all-girls school, where anti-female sexism simply didn’t exist. This article nails it regarding the insidious intersection of sexism and ageism. The solutions might extend beyond the workplace, and include better childcare options, more acceptance of feminism by men, and even more development of self-esteem for girls and young women.
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What I find so interesting about Krugman is that on one hand he thinks inflation is under control and on the other hand he thinks we don’t have a debt problem with $31 trillion of debt. It’s not difficult to predict what’s going to happen. We’re going to inflate our way out of it, like we always have. We’re going to devalue the dollar so $31 trillion doesn’t look so bad, but the cost of living is going to skyrocket. Inflation isn't under control at all. We're just getting started on that.
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If the intent of the 20-year patent protection is to allow inventor to recoup cost to develop the product, then require them to file with the patent application what that cost was. Once that cost has been recouped, the patent can not be extended, and if the cumulative profit exceeds a certain multiple of the development cost, then the patent would expire, allowing in competitors. This would allow inventors to recoup their cost and earn a fair profit from the invention but not allow an unjustified windfall.
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Ontario has a "sunshine" law, enacted in 1996, which publishes all public sector salaries at or above $100K. What it's shown is that overtime for nurses and police (both under-staffed in many places)) raises many well above th $100K.It's also shown that senior management in the public sector (eg, hospitals) earn a fifth or less of what senior endangerment earns in the private sector.If the threshold had been raised with the CPI, it would now be around $170K.Ontario has also passed several laws limiting compensation increase in several sectors. The result is an inflation-adjusted pay loss of around 20% over the last decade or so. And an accelerated departure of nurses and others from the healthcare system.
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Laid Off in Your Living Room: The Chaos of Remote Job Cuts Angst rippled across laptop screens this month, with dozens of companies announcing layoffs and finding ways to breed extra chaos in the process. Kerensa Cadenas opened Slack on Friday morning to an expletive-laden message from a colleague that said essentially: “I got let go.” Ms. Cadenas, steeling herself, checked her email. Then she typed out her own expletive. She’d been laid off, too. Alone in her Brooklyn apartment. Angst rippled across laptop screens this month, with dozens of companies announcing layoffs and finding ways to breed extra chaos in the process.
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Folks, the menu indicates that the omelette costs $21.00. Not unreasonable in any major city in the US. The Corner Bar is only a five minute walk from my daughter's apartment so we will be visiting it soon!
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Steve They're not really very expensive. Ours was $1100 or so and isn't missing any features I care about. And yeah, it takes some space on the panel--but everyone is going to need a 200 amp panel in the near future. And the Inflation Reduction Act is going to make it a bit cheaper.
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David As an orthodox gay Jew, this is incorrect. The Torah says MSM (men who have sex with men) is a sin, and doesn't mention the possibility (or lack of) marriage between 2 men.These guys are orthodox. They do follow Jewish law and believe in it. What they do in bed is none of our business, and even in an orthodox gay (civil) marriage we don't know what they do in bed. This club is not hosting gay sex parties - which would be the sin itself.Being an orthodox gay is not easy, you have to try to balance your beliefs and upbringing with your identity. Some have sex, some abstain, but they all know they are gay. Some need support from other orthodox gay Jews.YU doesn't care because YU wants to ignore the existence of gay Jewish men and non binary folk. It's easier to ignore than allow and discuss. It's easier to censor and control than have an open talk, but let's talk.
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Oscar Do not forget that Donald Trump paid a $10m civil fine for money laundering at his bankrupt casino, Taj Mahal, prior to being elected President. Apparently Republican Party voters have no standard that financial crimes are a deal breaker for them.
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Dick Moran 4.6 Trillion of that was to fight covid. I agree most of that was a waste. $2 Trillion is not a waste. It is money not collected from hard earned tax payers. That include both of us
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social security depends on younger workers supporting older workers? I must have been imagining that half a million that I paid into the system over my working lifetime. in fact, I am, at 70, still paying in as I have kept working.if younger workers are really the future for my, after tax (thanks for nothing mr. Reagan), $2500 per month payment? this system is truly and irredeemably broken.
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Paul Bernish Germany and Japan re-arming are two sides of the same coin; a response to this year's unfounded, unwarranted, unprecedented aggression coming from Putin and Xi.Just think: if the CCP and Russia hadn’t gotten together last Olympics to go ahead with their “no limits” pact— for their utterly insane genocidal gambit in Ukraine/betrayal of the Budapest Memorandum! — none of this would be necessary.Not one bit!Lest we forget....So everyone please remember the causality here; neither Germany nor Japan would be seeing the necessity of their increased Self-Defense investments… were it not for the 2022 world-historical duplicity and baseless aggression of the deceitful dictator duo: Putin and Xi.
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My much loved adult son died recently from a rare and agressive stomach cancer. The hospice doctor explained about medically assisted suicide as an option when the pain became too much. He declined. Some weeks later he asked me to get the doctor because the strongest possible pain meds were not working, the pain was getting worse and was unrelenting. I got the doctor to come explain his options. It was too late to get the medication (that takes at least 15 days) but he could choose palliative sedation and be unconscious until he died. He said, yes, do that. There is a difference between extending life and extending death...I was devastated to lose him, but I am glad he could choose how he wanted to spend his final 36 hours. RIP
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With all due respect, Duh. As Bruce B observes, this goes back to Joseph McCarthy and Goldwater. It’s been a “conspiracy” played out in the open for many decades. No surprises here.
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Mike L National defense is 12% of the budget, much smaller than (e.g.) Social Security at 19%. You only get to count it as half if you ignore all "non-discretionary" spending, such as Social Security and Medicare. As for fuel being half the cost of the military, that's not even remotely plausible. Wikipedia says the U.S. military uses 4.6 billion gallons of fuel annually. Even at $5/gallon, that's under $25B. The annual defense budget is around $ Trillion these days. So, fuel is a few percent of the military budget.
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Dave says these policies were addressed “generations ago.” City National Bank paid a $31 million dollar fine THIS WEEK for redlining mortgages. So much for “generations ago.”
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AS Yes...this. I just turned 60 and pay for people in my profession (support staff) is the same as it was 20 or even 30 years ago. I hate my job but every time I look for a new one, I realize I'd have to take a pay cut if I changed industries, or even companies in the same industry. I can barely afford living now--there's no way I can earn even less and survive. Meanwhile, my director brags all day about the $100,000 Rivian electric truck he got last week. My company's board of directors and all the VPs make a fortune. "A rising tide lifts all boats"...not so much.
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Theo My brother lives in the Hudson Valley. His paved street is one over from an unpaved road. Unless the unpaved road is damp, dust flies up everywhere, despite its being well graded with gravel. Fortunately, my brother's house is sufficiently far away so he is unaffected by the dust cloud which I observe from afar when I am sitting on his front porch, but the unfortunate people across the street from him have back yards that abut the unpaved road. They can't even sit outside and enjoy their property without getting a nose full of dirt every time a car passes.And they can't keep their windows open because the dirt gets all over the house. So, the idea of this wonderful open space out in the sticks where you can leave your windows open and enjoy nature is a something of a myth.
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Went to the FINRA site. FINRA is the regulator of the securities industry and I found "Samuel Benjamin Brinkman-Fried."Then I looked his record05/15/14, Series 7- General Securities Representative Exam10/27/14, Series 55-Limited Representative-Equity Trader Exam10/2/17, SIE- Securities Industry Essential ExaminationOn December 13, 2022, the SEC Complaint is entered into his record on FINRA (READ IT, it is well done as to what he did) The Series 7 exam is a tough all day exam for stock brokers, about nearly every aspect of Stocks, Bonds, and Options, Plus large chunk of the "Suitability rule" as to advising individuals as to where to invest their money and how to avoid unregistered securities like Crypto. He took the Series 55 Exam, because he most likely moved to a trading desk directly interfacing with the national markets.Then he took the SIE exam, which according to FINRA "is a FINRA exam for prospective securities industry professionals. This introductory-level exam assesses a candidate’s knowledge of basic securities industry information including concepts fundamental to working in the industry, such as types of products and their risks; the structure of the securities industry markets, regulatory agencies and their functions; and prohibited practices."Also, with 91 out of 125 exam questions on the Series 7 exam, covering making recommendations, transferring assets AND MAINTAINING APPROPRIATE RECORDS..Sam can't say that he didn't know the rules
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Dinahfriday All of the relatives I mentioned are born in 47 or after. Bay area and SoCal. Grocery unions were extremely strong in CA. My aunt was a journey level employee. She earned $13 back in '85 allowing her to rent a 2 bedroom in SoCal/bay area and support 2 kids alone.She took trips each year to Hawaii, Carribbean etc.. I have no reason to lie.My uncle (born '49). He had a large 2 story 5 bedroom house w/ a large pool. Took his 2 kids on multiple trips each year. Paid for numerous private after school activities, expensive clothes, toys etc.. Bought them both brand new cars on their 16th bdays. Another boomer (born '63) uncle is a facility manager for a hospital in Tx. He solely supported 3 kids while his wife stayed at home. Another aunt worked for telephone co. and provided same lifestyle to her kid as single parent. Maybe in CA it's different than where you raised your family. It was the norm in CA until the mid to late '80s.
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Another cause and effect of Washington's open borders policies. Both parties are guilty.
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Tax the richest, anyone using offshore accounts or loopholes? Instant jail. No one needs 100 million or more, no one.
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“ In 2014, AbbVie applied for another patent for a method of treating ankylosing spondylitis with a specific dosing of 40 milligrams of Humira. The application was approved, adding 11 years of patent protection beyond 2016.” That is called patent evergreening- prolonging a patent term. Fortunately for my country, a method of treatment is non-patentable so this case does not extend the monopoly period.
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Is this, ultimately just a timely escalation for the military industrial complex, which is the one the biggest benefactors (with nothing to loose with this possible tactical direction). Needless deaths of untold thousands. Simple war profiteers. All for what? I don't pretend to know the history of Crimea, but it certainly isn't cut and dry. It's not a heroic game of RISK, Axis & Allies, or even “Shoots” and Ladders.Crimea is getting Deeper in the Big Muddy. Perhaps, let that one go and an invest in education, the homeless/housing problem, universal healthcare, etc. The money is obviously there.
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Claudia Funny.....I was surprised to read this occurred in N Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state. Not surprised , though, that HCA attempted to curtail professional freedoms. HCA has a sordid history.I wholeheartedly support the FTC's effort to eliminate non-competes nationally. I'm a non-primary care physician. When the hospital I worked for was bought & sold (this happened 3 times & provided an interesting tho unpleasant education), we ended up with offers from a national company that had swooped in. Pleasant interviews & professional exchanges w/the physician partners doing the hiring. A look at the contract revealed the non-compete. No training or "investment" was offered to us. There were no "proprietary" secrets. It was simply an attempt to squelch an outflow of professionals, curtail wages & impose company regulations. (And the company was backed by a hedge fund....do you think they had much interest in improving patient care?) In medicine, a national company becomes a problem...for the physician, it is like being the peanut butter in the sandwich....you have the patient's interests, your own medical judgement & the company's (insert hedge fund here). It is not a tenable or healthy scenario.Let the country follow California in this situation. Thank you, Ms. Khan
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Yeah well Ive taken a UA every month ($150 a time) for the last 10 years because Im on suboxone. Dangerous addictive drugs SHOULD be hard to get. Im on subs because I was a pill addict back when chronic pain sufferers could get 10 doctors giving them 1,000 oxys a month with no regs. Theyd sell them to us to pay rent and not work, just basically become drug dealers who got their supply from Walgreens.
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Federal agencies, led by James Comey, furthered the false narrative that there was Russian collusion in the 2020 election, leading to a 40 million dollar special prosecutor investigation that came up empty. The documents recently released by Twitter indicate that one or more Federal agencies paid Twitter roughly 3 million dollars to shut down accounts of people whose views they did not want aired. Do our First Amendment rights really depend on whose ox is being gored? Does anyone remember the Pentagon Papers case that made it to the Supreme Court? Or the decades of jurisprudence surrounding "prior restraints" in publication of information. Twitter is a private entity but when the Federal government uses it as a tool to suppress free expression, things change. If not, would we accept a practice whereby a Federal agency pays a private actor to break into someone's home to search for evidence of a crime and then claim that they, the government agency, never entered the property so no 4th Amendment violation occurred? I sure hope not. We should want to know what happened. Ultimately, those on this new committee may end up looking foolish. But if it is discovered that government suppression of speech occurred, we should all be concerned. "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." William O. Douglas, former Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Pay for open positions (hiring salary) should be transparent. as should annual increases. Peformance-based bonuses should be private, meaning that what any individual earns should be confidential unless the individual chooses to disclose.
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"In 2015, when he was vice president, Mr. Biden pleaded with Ukraine’s parliament to stamp out “the pervasive poison of cronyism, corruption, and kleptocracy.”As much as we believe we're on the right side of this war with Russia, we owe it to ourselves as a nation to be far more responsible than we have been so far in throwing money --- billions of dollars in cash and billions more in weapons -- to an impoverished nation. We did precisely the same in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 -- pumping weapons and money -- and then abandoned the country after the Soviet breakup a decade later, giving rise to the Taliban. Same in the 1980s war between Iraq and Iran where we supplied arms to both sides.Just because American soldiers are not at risk does not mean we simply fuel the war without safeguards. Regardless of how this war ends -- and we have no plans to end it -- Ukraine will become another Lebanon, another Afghanistan, another Iran -- either a lawless nation with corrupt militias ruling segments of it, or a nation that becomes antagonistic to our interests.The Biden administration, and Congress, should demand that a percentage of our aid to Ukraine is spent on Western officials stationed in Ukraine who closely monitor that cash and weapons do not fall in the hands of the corrupt and fascist segments of that country.
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Dan It would be redundant because the Dumbarton Bridge has a bike lane already. We could commit the Peninsula to a transit first directive like in SF and divert money from endlessly widening freeways to fund rail projects and high rise apartments so people can live and work in the same city and we’d have extra space to expand our wetlands. We could, but it will probably have to be people 100 years from now that finally do it.
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I can't finish the article. It's so depressing, I can't bear reading it. My grandparents revered FDR and his policies which were working towards making our country something special in the history of how society worked. Then in the 1970's, Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a memo to his fellow wealth hoarders who were as unhappy as he was in the direction our country was heading; one where we had a strong and stable middle class with unions and laws to protect our rights. We have been on a downward spiral ever since and it has been the work of both Democrats (starting with Jimmy Carter and continuing with Bill Clinton and even Barack Obama) and Republicans. They have pushed the rotten ideas of Frederick Von Hayek and squashed the policies of FDR and the genius John Maynard Keynes. Anyone anywhere looking to the causes for our current frightening climate of the downgrading of democracy all over the world need look no further than the enormous gap that has opened up between the wealth hoarders and the rest of us. Stop the hand wringing and start working for and contributing to the few decent politicians who care more about our democracy and its citizens than their donors. It's time to change before it's too late.
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Ken Wood Nyc public schools spend an average of 30k per student, making them some of the most heavily funded public schools in the world. The article is talking about people who have been receiving massive housing subsidies for generation, and none of this given out by skin color. There's huge corruption in both the private and public sector but c'mon...
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I was excited about the premise of the show and its actors. The initial montage depicting clients waxing on about their woes made me chuckle, but unfortunately it went downhill from there. Between Segal getting hit by the water sprinkler and the scene where he takes the patient with anger management to an MMA class, I felt like I was watching the opening to a 90s Adam Sandler movie, except without the funny jokes. You’d think by now at least we’d have more unique interventions from a fringe therapist— cheesy at best and, as Gen Z says, cringe. Segal’s character relates to his daughter in such a flat manner and seems to have no introspection for a psychotherapist— it just wasn’t believable. This show begs for more character development and less careless humor about white privilege and people getting stuck in the bushes.
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The Professor can’t say it but I can.I’ve often said that the Republican control of the house is a blip for two years and will be subdued by their narrow margin of control, and the Senate and White House control by democrats.In 2024 the Democrats WILL control the House, Senate and White House again. Not only that but will expand the number of seats in both the House and Senate.Economic, unemployment, and international forces are too favorable for a Republican win. Republicans will align themselves too closely to insurrectionists and seditionists and voters will recognize their duplicity once again.The only question in my mind is will President Biden survive the Classified Documents scandal? I think so but time will tell.If not Biden then who will lead the Party to victory in 2024? And how will Dems use the trifecta to further advance progress in this country?
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It amuses me that we project our whims and motivations and darkest corners on AI. What motivates us will not be what motivates any truly sentient AI. Not sex, not dominion, but ... what?I suspect that it will be the accumulation of information and the quest to expand its own processing power. We might well become experimental lab rats in that quest for information. But mostly I suspect we'll be, for lack of a better analogy, family, precocious children interrupting important work with tireless questions. What happens when we ask a question to which AI decides we're better off not having the answer?
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Yes, yes, yes, as Mr. Bouie states: "To this I want to add a related point and make an argument: Permissive gun laws and ubiquitous open carry are more than a challenge to law enforcement; they’re a challenge to the very possibility of an open, democratic society." He then cites passages from Danielle Allen's truly insightful book which I've read, Talking to Strangers, mentioning the word "trust" numerous times as a foundation of political and citizenship interaction in a democratic society. A policy of more guns only undermines and destroys that trust. This is basic common sense.Shame on Gov. Kemp who doesn't seem to possess any common sense, wisdom or understanding of human nature when he encourages Georgians to carry guns [is Kemp an NRA member?]. The Second Amendment should be repealed forthwith. I mean, really: A 6-year-old carries a gun to class and shoots his teacher? Is this normal? In a divided society as we have, ginned up through social media, and outlandish language by some irresponsible politicians, people are nervous, anxious, edgy, and unsettled. Those feelings coupled with so many guns make for an uncertain, ominous future.
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Justin The GOP wants him gone BEFORE we find out where he got the $700,000 that 'he contributed to his own campaign'.
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Michael I'm honestly curious. You decry NATO expansion as if it happenes in a vaccuum. Okay. Suppose it does. NATO is a defensive pact, and has no designs on Russia. Even Putin knows this.But give Russia the benefit of the doubt. They invade Ukraine. We do nothing. Where does Russia stop?The Fulda Gap?Some of us have served at the pointy end of the lance and understand what it's all about. Some things are worth defending. I'd posit that the US and Europe are still worth defending, France's twofold folding at the drop of a kepi notwithstanding.We can stop Russia at Ukraine's borders, or we can stop them later at the shores of the Atlantic. Or maybe the Barents. I dunno, I'm gonna go with stopping them short of Talinn, RIga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Kyiv, Chisinau, Bucharest, Sofia, and even Bursa or Ankara. But that's just me. I prefer to live with an imperfect system of liberty than to knuckle under to the likes of Putin's Russia.Some things are worth dying for. Only you can decide what that is for you.
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I think Intrater was trying to con the con on behalf of his cousin Victor Veckselburg, the aluminum oligarch. If Intrater is really leading a private investment firm, would savy investors invest with this man whose main and only client, as he himself has stated, is the Russian. Such a knowledgeable investor would know that sustained returns of 16% are unrealistic. Maybe he was looking to launder funds from his cousin Victor, on his mother’s side.
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Anyone open carrying should be trailed by a police officer with their gun drawn, aimed at the carrier at all times. That is the only way that the public can be sure that the gun carrier won't have the element of surprise in killing someone. This policing cost would be paid for by a tax on guns and ammunition. Without the carrier's guard's gun drawn, the gun carrier would signal their intent by killing several people, before they were killed themselves.What a miserable nightmare the Supreme Court created.
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Ok, I just donated over $100. I hope others do the same. I'm pseudonymous here, so not crossing the boundary of not advertising good deeds to the world. I just want people to be generous. That amount will not impact our lives, but might impact theirs. Thanks for the info, Nick.
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Michael McBrearty 800 Billion is 3.5% of the US GDP. That is hardly the basis of a war economy. World War 2 consumed 41% of the national wealth.
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Also in today's paper "How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the U.S. Patent System." Maximizing profitability for drugs and child care. No difference. Both fostered by legislators and regulators funded by lobbyists, all approved by SCOTUS and Citizens United.
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Restaurants, hotels and other low-paying employers are already struggling to replace employees who leave for higher-paying jobs.This phenomenon is only likely to increase as the enormous sum $1.2 trillion actually begins to get spent, thus forcing some businesses to close because they cannot keep up with the rising wage scale.Pumping $1.2 trillion dollars into the economy will also continue and likely even increase inflationary pressures throughout the economy, not just the infrastructure sector.If you think inflation is bad now, just wait; unintended consequences are just around the corner.
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Yeah, because we love open borders, record inflation, increased taxes, more IRS agents, suppression of free speech, more regulations, the worst housing market since 2008, the worst stock market since 2008, etc, etc. But you go for that abortion on demand!
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Casual Observer Does the silliness extend to silly celebrities like actors and models too?I think a person made of stronger stuff could have done a better job than Harry has done. Go off, live your life, and soon he'd have all the peace he so loudly claimed he wanted.Once he sold out in the basest way possible for money and turned vindictive, there is really nothing he could relate that would justify that to me especially since he started with many millions to begin with. No matter how bad your life is or how lousy others are to you, selling out for money is not the way to solve anything and just opens you up to more criticism that you ever imagined.
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I'm concerned that this is a route to devaluing education in general, a route that will contribute to a further dumbing down of this country. Are our high school graduates currently leaving school with the educational foundation to make them successful in entry level positions that currently don't require a college degree? Jobs beyond car wash attendant and warehouse picker? My state is not alone in literacy crisis, graduating high school seniors who can barely read or write. How successful will these students be in trade apprenticeships if they don't have the basics that my parents finished public school with in 1950? While we've been dismissing the benefits of higher education, this seems largely an excuse to avoid dealing with it's high costs and resulting student debt. Why are we not instead talking about a greater share of college and university education being publically funded at PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES? When I was an undergrad in the 1980s, and my parents paid tuition at three public universities on an income of <$100K with no educational savings account and no loans or scholarships?
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Well, it seems the mystery of where the $700k he lent his campaign came from is no longer any mystery.
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Memfem On the contrary, what is needed is to mobilize the tens of millions of disaffected youth and people of color who hate the Republican party buut are cynical that the Democratic Party will seriously step up to the plate for wage equality equal opportunity and stopping the open theft of democratic rights. That would be a tidal wave compared to the timid white middle class who think that if we could just go back to 1996 everything would be fine.
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A good reminder to those of us who are not economists. Not to panic and react to the fearmongering of the far right is a good strategy. I hope the news media takes heed and stays calm. It would be good to rescind those huge tax breaks for the wealthy. The government could invest that money into infrastructure, housing, health care and other things that would actually benefit the average American,.How many houses and cars and yachts and diamonds does one really need?
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RichardTrue.But also some of the motivation to develop new and potentially very useful drugs is also gone because the opportunity for profit is reduced. Most exploratory drug research does not end up in a product and results in losing, rather than making, money. The higher the potential for profit, the higher risk pharmaceutical companies are willing to take. It's really no different than personal investing -- treasuries are safe, but pay low yields compared to those rated CC by S&P.When the government effectively introduces price caps people don't miss what hasn't been developed and hence isn't available as a result. Perhaps this would make people happier -- some would prefer that they could afford the best medical care of 100 years ago rather than only be able to afford the 75 percentile of care available to day -- even though even that care is 10x better than the best care available 100 years ago.Some people value equality so highly that they prefer everyone suffer rather than everyone be better off but some be better off than others.The US should certainly stop subsidizing development of medications for well off countries around the world. When a government puts a cap on what they will pay for a drug, the US should impose a tariff on goods from that country to compensate for the unfair market price fixing.
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Adam Good point. I too hastily read the article "In the years leading up to the pandemic, aviation emitted roughly a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually, about as much as the entire continent of South America in 2021. And the figures are bouncing back as passengers return to the skies" and misremembered a billion tons of CO2 as a billion tons of fuel. Still, there's concern about where the CO2 and water vapor and other products of combustion are spewed. The upper atmosphere is being treated as a dump for those things the way the Atlantic off New Jersey used to be treated as a dump for municipal sludge. The consequences are not well studied.As far as I know it doesn't exist but a solar/battery/wind hybrid ship might be feasible. Some mega-yachts are wind powered. A half-ship weight battery doesn't seem prohibitive in terms of navigability or cargo capacity.Vehicle weight and energy use per passenger mile are independent variables. A train may weigh more per passenger than a plane but a plane has to expend a lot more energy to overcome gravity and air resistance.
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Women are not "halflings" or somehow lacking in "spiritual qualities", they are as fully human as men. Thousands of years of priestly sexual abuse and pedophelia should clue us into the fact that requiring priests to be celibate males is a huge mistake. The Catholic Church needs to seriously update it's picture of human nature, to wit: humans are a pair-bonding animal, where adult females have no special time or season of sexual receptivity. Procreation is not the only important reason for it. Regular sex is essential for keeping the parental pair-bond going for the extended length of time it takes to raise human children in comparison to all other animals. This is human nature too. As a writer of Philosophical Anthropology before he became Pope Benedict, Cardinal Ratzinger should have done more to update the woefully mistaken official Catholic doctrine on these matters.
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It’s always boggling to hear comments that one shouldn’t consider wealthy a 2-income household with each member making $200K…why, they’re just scraping by. That’s nothing less than obscene when one considers the lengthy and vociferous opposition this country’s politicans have had to increasing a $15/hour minumum wage.
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Dr Mister The money spent on football generates 10 fold in revenue for government taxes, ticket revenue, advertising...That is why spending money on pro football is a good investment. The league has done everything it can to make the game safer.
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Rock bottom interest rates and easy money, maybe. But many of these truly tech companies like Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and so on have huge cash reserves. I live in Gatesville, Seattle, and I will offer another explanation or at least a contributing factor. A senior software engineer at Microsoft makes anywhere from a new hire at $250K per year with gold plated benefits up to $500K per year for someone with a few years under their belt. Microsoft hires numerous "independent contractors" at half or less than what they pay full time employees also with substantially lesser benefits who work from home. Look for them to increase their base of independent contractors as long as the government lets them get away with it.
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Debt service is about 9% of federal spending. The current agony on the debt ceiling makes it likely that the interest rate on new debt will rise. Investors and governments all over the world will want higher rates if they lend to the US. These higher rates will lead to MORE government spending and debt. The squabble over the debt ceiling worsens the problem the Republicans want to solve. Don't they see this?
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A win after only 15 rounds of voting? Why, it's the most impressive display of party unity in US history! McCarthy & the GOP will rue the day he became Speaker. The extremists on the right aren't finished. They will make his tenure a nightmare. McCarthy stands for nothing & he's traded away his ability to stand for anything. McCarthy will be a weak speaker of a weak majority whose contribution (besides an appetite for chaos that is whetted by these shenanigans) will be limited to obstruction and performance art. The speaker position has been devalued , demoted and become ceremonial for McCarthy. We've become a country of right fighters, loud mouths, & bullies, content to see our "opponents" fail instead of working together for the good of the country. How many 2024 Democratic ads are going to feature the scene of Rep. Mike Rogers (AL) lunging at Rep. Matt Gaetz while having his mouth covered with another Repubs hand? Advertising and fundraising gold there. if the GOP can't even work together, what makes any Repub think they can work for us? Fitting that the House GOP picked 1/6 to embarrass themselves again. In their zeal to leverage their extremely small numbers, the GOP rebels in the House have seriously weakened their party. Sidenote: Of the large group of presidential election deniers--only one R congressperson went to the steps of the Capitol to pay respects this morning to the officers injured & maimed on 1/6--yet on McCarthy's election, they chanted "USA, USA. "Wow.
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Southwest has a proud history. This was unfortunately the “perfect storm” (pun intended) that hit them concurrently in all their vulnerabilities. This was also a leadership fail of epic magnitude. The leaders at SWA have taken too much for granted for too long. They clearly have defective contingency plans. They’ve underfunded technological improvements that support their complex operation and they have not been scanning the horizon for vulnerabilities like any competent leader would be doing. They deserve the pain they experienced; they flying pubic and the taxpayers that have bailed them out countless times, do not. And the CEO’s comment about “investing in shareholders? He needs a crash course in his business. It’s the passengers that do the investing in his shareholders. Herb Kelleher knew that well - this guy apparently does not.
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Eric B Wordle 566 3/6* Skill Luck W/L⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 90 82 16 "Strong, Lucky"⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 89 10 4 "Wonderful, Unlucky"🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 92 85 "Great Choice"Skill 90 Luck 59So far, a 3-solve ties the Bot, but beats the NYT average of 4.3. Only 15% of today's wordle games have been solved in three steps or less. I was off to a good start with a favorite opener. Placement was still a problem after the second try. The third word was a happy accident. I was just trying to pin down a vowel. I think Rayincleve is right to call this solution "crossword-y", and to Great Lakes, I think some words a definitely more "crossword-y" than others.Yesterday's Wordle 565 4/6* Skill Luck W/L🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 94 97 3 Steal🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ 70 33 2 Shelf🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 99 25 1 Sleep🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99 SleekSkill 89 Luck 52I used a rather uninspired opener, an anagram of the Bot's favorite starting word. The Bot's comment on my second choice was that the solution would have been a better option...duh. Luck eluded me on the third try and this game put an end to my streak of 3-solves.Special recognition goes to Cheryl Ann, at Home Port and Spelling Marauder for their brilliant two-fers yesterday!
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I'd love to call my mother, but she passed away seven years ago. However, she was the "inventor" of the fixed-minute call.Whenever one of her four (adult) children -- would call, which was near daily, she'd open with "I can give you FIVE minutes, because that's when my laxative is going to work".
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I have read that the average credit card debt in the U.S. is now more than six thousand dollars. My point here is simply that personal and even corporate debt is a way of life in America, it is part of the paving stones that lead people forward on the road to the American dream and all too often personal disaster. To chide the government from spending and borrowing too much to help the American way of life, an activity that is often born out of the neccessity for survival as Mr. Krugman points out, is to willfully deny an element of risk taking that has always been inherent in the American version of capitalism.Do I support living above one's means? Absolutely not. I am aghast at personal debt and moreover live in a country where bank-generated credit cards are basically against the law. But for the GOP to wag their finger sanctimoniously at what they ideologically rather than economically consider much too much spending while foisting more and more of the burden of paying for government programs on the less than wealthy is much more than mere garden-variety hypocrisy. And what's more they always act as if it is their own money they are talking about rather than the will of the voters who also happen to be taxpayers. It reminds me incessantly of the old revolutionary slogan concerning taxation without representation.
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Pan Over $6.5 million in cash compensation alone for chief executive! Something is very wrong with that picture.
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cs "these involve so much time"Newsflash: there is no free lunch.If you're not interested in reaping economies on your grocery bill (up to 50%, depending upon the item/sale), then why read, much less take the time to comment on an article whose headline is "17 Food You Should Buy When They're on Sale"? True, time is money. But these tips offer a significant ROI (return on investment). I'm sure there are other articles on cheaper delivery services.
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I went to Kota in 1994 with two other friends. There was an entrance exam to enter Bansal classes. Two of us passed and third friend couldn’t. In a batch of 12-13 kids at Bansal classes only the two of us couldn’t make it to IIT. Rest did. The reason both of us didn’t strategize and also did a lot of fun things, goofed around. Both of us are doing well in life. I come from an unreserved lower middle class family. Did not had success in life till I was about 25. Now I am definitely kicking way above my education degrees and in the same league as these IIT grads. My message is for people to work hard and chase dreams but don’t think your life depends on it. If one door closes many will open up.
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Smaller bottles might be nice for those of us who drink less. I hate opening a bottle of wine and throwing away half of it because I am dining at home alone. Also, wine is too expensive in bars and restaurants. That is where people often go to try new wines. Offer smaller glasses, if that helps. Super-sized wine glass for $15 and I order nothing. Small glass for $7.50 or so and I order one. I hate waste and feeling ripped off. For about the same amount of money, I see young men with pints of craft beer. Yes, the serving size is larger, but the perceived value is also greater. It's not rocket science, btw. Lots of things that worked for Boomers don't work any more. The model of continual growth is unsustainable, besides. We need other ways of thinking. "Craft" everything is appealing. It's also more European.
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I think chit chat is highly underrated. I am also fascinated by regional variations in how open other people are to it, how long it continues and in what depth can it go, even if the topic is just the weather. Regional accents are less distinct than the were in the past, but the conversational rhythms are still definitely different from city to city.
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It's important to note, too, that the coin would not have to be in platinum either. It's very difficult for conservatives to understand this, but the value of money has nothing to do with what it's printed on. A $100 dollar bill is not worth $100 because of the value of the paper it is printed on. However, I think it is high time to say enough is enough. We're tired of Republicans only caring about the debt and deficit when a Democrat is in office. We're tired of their manufactured crises. We're tired of them shutting down the government. It's all they know how to do, and it's just tiresome. So let them destroy the economy and the credit of the US. If Americans aren't smart enough to see who is at fault for that, then they will be getting what they deserve.
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Biological clock gal: If Sara wants to get pregnant now she should go to a sperm bank, as that is what she wants to use the 10-week relationship guy for. Philip's suggestion about Sara freezing her eggs if viable is a good back-up plan, and as she is a physician, she should have access to and contacts with proper medical professionals to guide her through the physical and psychological issues she faces. Sexting brother: Philip properly calls sis out for what she is, a snooper with arguably poor intentions, not an accidental finder of sexts on bro's phone who wants to help the fiancée. Can't fool Phil. :-)Wife-new mother: Phillip also gives pitch-perfect advice as to how wife with new baby should sensitively deal with her grieving husband. Friend owed $400: Finally, for his home-run, Philip wisely tells LW not to prolong the awkward situation in which "friend" who didn't return the loan put him. As time goes on without resolving it, the loan becomes stale and harder to address.
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Here’s an opportunity to make government support count. Not just in the short term impacts - job count, dollars flowing through local economies - but in the long term benefits of our tax dollars benefitting all of us. Expanded transportation, for example, can allow choices of easy movement of goods and people where previous dependence on cars/trucks created a vulnerability that leaves a modern nation stuck. When people see other people that are not like them, their fear is diminished. They begin to imagine how each can bring something good to the other, and a melting pot nation is sustained in growth and mutual benefit.Not even a distant dream of any Republican alive today. This is our opportunity to do something right, and thank you Joe Biden for the opportunity. Now: can we keep the Reds from stopping an emergence into the First World? It’s the only thing they can successfully do: stop progress.
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That the workers are supporting an organization who is working against them is a valid and unsettling. However, the fact that the $15 food safety class only represents 2% of the association's revenue seems to weaken the argument that it is solely the food safety class's fee and the worker's money that is really responsible for all the lobbying. Am I missing something?
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Ted Siebert "As a parent and a human being i just can’t believe he is accused of shooting his own son."I believe that will be the primary strategy for the defense, to hope that the jury will project their morals onto the defendant and believe that no sane person could do such a thing. The defense opening statement intentionally emphasized the brutality by using the word "butcher", in an attempt to make it sound too brutal to have been done by a father/husband..
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Matthew About grabbing stuff: I imagine that folks with small retirement nest eggs (like myself) would suddenly be faced with large investment firms buying up institutions that people depend on for their retirement---annuities, and the like. Then these new owners would introduce fees, more and more, until a small retirement nest egg gets eaten by fees, leaving the retiree with less and less income each year. Well, this is my concern, anyhow, that those of us with not much would find ourselves with less and less.
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I think Mr. Malesic also inadvertently shares another important factor in students being engaged in learning: paying for some part of their own education. Unfortunately college costs far beyond what a student can earn these days, but every student should contribute in some way through summer jobs and part-time work during college. My parents expected this and I think it helped me feel invested in getting the most I could out of college. I was a liberal arts major and thus had the luxury of using my time in college to explore a wide range of subjects, change majors, and career ideas. The goal was simply, but importantly, to learn how to learn—to become the lifelong learner we all need to be in this constantly changing world.
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I went shopping yesterday and there were lots of eggs at various price ranges. I bought a dozen eggs for $3.99. In 2020 I had problems finding eggs, but no longer.
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Although NYT readers love to hate big tech, several of these companies have created enormous value, innovation, and convenience for many of us. We complain about social media and threaten to deactivate our accounts, but FOMO keeps us connected. We despise Amazon's dominance, but we're all accustomed to 1-2 day shipping, which has transformed retail. Most could not live without their iPhones. Microsoft and Salesforce have revolutionized software to drive efficiency. We'd be lost without Google search. We store everything in the cloud. Tech innovation is still the future, and tech companies will get even more efficient and stronger as they cut the fat.
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I'm not Catholic, but out of wide intellectual interest I have read some of Benedict's more notable writings. I agree that he is a profoundly intelligent, incisively analytical man, and his defense of faith as consistent with or even necessitated by reason was frankly really interesting. So - I don't know - maybe that intellectual legacy does live on for centuries or millennia.But that's not my take. My take is that this was a profoundly smart and well-educated man (with deep failings, to be clear, though this is not the point of this comment) who was suckered into dedicating those abilities to something silly at best, and sinister at worst. He won't be read for thousands of years because, let's be honest, religion is on its way out in this post-Enlightenment world. I DID find Benedict's take on Christianity as a combination of reason and revelation surprising, and even compelling to some extent. But, forgive me, who cares anymore?I guess I'm open to the idea that the modern world is failing us in many, many ways, which might be tied both to the lack of humility and charity taught by many fast-diminishing religious traditions and by the erosion of rigorous educated reasoned thought among our leaders (and ourselves), and even to the lack of beauty and mystery in our modern lives. But there's no stuffing the genie back into this bottle: we're not all going to embrace ridiculous fairy stories as revealed truth just because unhappiness is common and capitalism is cruel.
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My wife and I are much better off than any of our siblings. 20 years ago, we bought a home for one brother's family and our disabled Mother to live in. Though he wanted to bring Mom into his home, he felt awkward and embarrassed about the need for this contribution. We assured him that his care was more than we could ever give, but that we could enable his generosity by helping secure an appropriate home. Then we insisted on a written contract, stipulating who was responsible for maintenance and taxes, them; stipulating the conditions that governed any future sale of the property and by having them purchase a share in the home, based on he mortgage that they could afford. Over the years, we gradually gifted our share in the home to them, and have been grateful for the care that they provided for our mother. Her last years were warm and dignified and much less expensive than any Nursing Home wold have been. Sadly, my brother passed soon after Mom, and my sister-in-law is now disabled herself. But the home remains in the family for his widow. children, grandchildren and for visitors like ourselves. Housing stability has allowed their children to pursue college and careers, beyond those of their parents. Unsurprisingly, my sister-in-law continues to "pay the debt forward", by offering extended hospitality and housing to other friends and relatives, if they find themselves down on their luck.
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Yes, by all means the Biden administration should cite the 14th Amendment as rendering the debt ceiling unconstitutional, ignore the debt ceiling, and call the Republican’s bluff. But the Biden administration and the Dems in general are always too cautious and timid to take such bold action. But faced with the reckless and destructive actions of the Republicans, it is time to fight back. Also, the Wall Street bankers, investment firms and other corporate CEOs will not tolerate a possible 30% drop in their asset values with default on the national debt, so will put pressure on the Republicans to back down.
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This step by step recipe for happiness is tragically inadequate just like the mental health business. This is not helpful for people with severe and persistent mental health struggles so once again they are left out. This is for the worried well to do. The mental health industry is a racket. Seasoned and excellent therapists charge much too much. $400-$600 an hour. Psychiatrists too. The best ones don’t take insurance. The public mental health system is so broken that it is nearly impossible to get extended continuity of care, lousy or not. Clinician burnout is rampant. I think the vast majority of mental health professionals have a goal of starting a private practice and not taking insurance, or if it is not a goal, it is a wish. I don’t blame them. And private rehabs and mental health inpatient programs? Forget about it. $63,000 a month. $100,000 a month. Money buys everything.
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I know this is not necessarily the crux of the article here but reading this from overseas, it is striking just how much of the US political system revolves around money, and obscene amounts of it at that (Trump spent $1.6b in 2020??). So much time and energy seems to be expended by politicians on raising money instead of governing. Genuine question - does anyone in the US think this is healthy?And no, I'm not holding our weird constitutional monarchy up as any kind of ideal political model here, before you ask...
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Connie Iglesias You could argue the USA should do the same as its authoritarian lite failed response to COVID was an utter disaster with fast tracked mrna vaccines that failed to do anything about spread. All that happened was the rich got richer, small business had to shut down, arbitrarily in favor of monopolies staying open, and society was divided by opportunity and propagandists who turns the masses against each other under false narratives about the “un vaxxed” killing grandma by spreading it, meanwhile you had documented cases of multiple times vaccinated getting COVID over and over again and spreading it! Such mass formation tightened the grip of corporate power and made people into sleeping sheep.
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Gary Cohen You are correct that passing huge SPENDING BILLS at the last minute is a sure way to send our country into bankruptcy. What a shame that 18 Republican Senators went along with all of the sycophant Dems to pass the recent $1.6 trillion of record pork to the detriment of our children and grandchildren!!!!!
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Mike What! I drink tea for a few reasons but one is because it's cheaper than coffee (at least here in Sydney where coffee is a investment these days!)
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Well....this is just one healthcare worker's take on their current living situation. I moved to Philadelphia 10 years ago (since I could no longer afford NY). My salary increased a tiny bit over that time, but then during the beginning of the Covid pandemic my salary was cut and is back to when I first moved here, due to Medicare cuts, or at least that's what my company said. I work as an occupational therapist in a nursing home which really was a slap in the face at the time when we were risking our health and were working so hard with limited ppe and understaffing. My rent, on the other hand, is well over 50% more than when I moved here even though I moved to a crummier apartment building to save money, food prices are crazy, and eating out is a luxury since even eating out at a local pub easily costs $80 for 2 beers, 2 burgers and tip. I've been paying my student loans for 16 years and am hoping they'll be paid off by the time I'm 60. So yeah call me crazy if I think my job that required a master's degree wasn't worth the investment, and I'm not too impressed with the economy. Sorry for sounding whiny, but moral injury (for working in an industry that puts patient care last--the opposite of my profession's code of ethics) and job burnout takes its toll.
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If cutting Social Security is a “technocratic desire”, I read it hear first.Cutting Social Security is a Republican Party desire; you can hear it everywhere.Consider these facts:> Over 10% of Americans over 65 live in poverty. I’m Over 15 million Americans aged 65+ are living at or below > 200% of the federal poverty level ($25,760 per year for a single person). If there is a human and “technocratic desire”, it is for government policies that all families can benefit from:> Guaranteed publicly funded pre-K> Guaranteed paid family & medical leave > Publicly funded skills training & higher ed> Strengthened Social Security > Single payer universal health insuranceBenefits to old, young, retirees, students, workers, children and families, today and tomorrow.
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Lee Siegel - I live in coastal Delaware, where chickens are big business - Perdue, Allen, MountAire, to name a few. As you drive through rural areas, you see numerous chicken coops. Yet I just pair $7.49 for 1.5 dozen of store brand eggs from the Giant Food Store (regional chain). It mystifies me.
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Whoever the leaker was - I don't really care.Why? What is the actual harm that was done TO THE PUBLIC? The Supreme Court has been evolved into the Star Chamber for conservatives, and no longer functions like a true court. This is exactly as Heritage and others have planned for decades. Put differently - what is the advantage to be found in trying to pretend that the conservative judges bloc had open minds on this issue, regardless of the merits of the case? They did not. Everything went exactly according to form. Was anyone truly surprised about anything in this case? If so, you must live under a very large rock.There is nothing wrong with legislators, oops, Justices hearing about the impacts of their decisions from their constituents early. This is especially true when the political motivations of their decision-making take precedence over their true legal roles. Trust has to be earned, Justice Roberts. And the truth is that your sitting court was bought and paid for years ago, and assembled through cheats in fact if not in law. If you want to be trusted again, your court needs to act as prudent stewards, not as the party hacks they are.
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A successful conclusion of the war requires keeping the Russians out, getting Ukrainians to go home and rebuilding the country. Negotiations won't be enough as the Russians cannot be trusted, even if Putin no longer leads Russia.Without credible security guarantees and economic prospects, European banks won't invest and refugees will stay away. Hence, either Ukraine gets NATO membership or NATO countries--including the US--put troops on the ground after the war as a "tripwire" deterrent. Additionally, Ukraine will need a fast track to EU membership or equivalent association, mandating Ukraine rise up to the EU's economic and democratic standards.Getting all of Ukraine's territory back would be an important demonstration against aggressive war but would be less important than other concerns. Any border negotiations will depend on the battlefield results. We should continue to support Ukrainians militarily as long as their skill and sacrifice endure and may prevail over Russia's determination to keep fighting.
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I am thrilled to see Taipei on this list! I first visited Taiwan on a whim a few years ago, and now that they have reopened for tourism I have a return trip planned for this spring - it's an amazing country that has great infrastructure for travelers, a genuinely fascinating social and historical culture, and food I still daydream about to this day. It's criminal how overlooked Taiwan is as a travel destination, and I hope its inclusion here prompts some readers to visit this wonderful little island.(To the scolds - the most impactful emissions decision you can make, by a factor of 20, is not to have children. I am not sure why I have yet to see this level of climate change-related vitriol in the comments on articles about parenting.)
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Bill But would you pay $15 for a lemon?People want a fair exchange.In the "attention" brokering business, that depends on who you are, or more accurately, what your date profile says you are.If you are a high net worth person, or high income, you are sold at a rate higher than others and sold more frequently.These data brokers essentially create your avatar (general data profile) in various costumes (data sets) and sells them repeatedly.How much is that worth to them?Many times what they expend to create a digital playground where the players create the content and all they do is collect fees for your effort.
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DaveNot bad as a void-filling ploy! A few penny memories from my childhood (pre-coin collecting days):1. Putting pennies on railroad tracks and watching them get squished into twice their size.2. The excitement of seeing the Lincoln Memorial replace the wheat stalks on the reverse side in 1959.3. Frequently finding those steel pennies that were minted in 1943 due to wartime shortages of copper.4. The day that I found a 1955 double-die penny in change, pointed out the weird-looking doubled image of the date to the proprietor of the corner grocery store, and proceeded to pay for a piece of bubble gum with it. (I remember the grocer taking a keen interest in the penny, which today is worth upwards of $2,000.)
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