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National debt is $31 trillion with no end in sight. Trump added $8.4 trillion to this debt in his single flailing term, the largest addition in the Republic’s history. A lot of this deficit was caused by the third installment in unfunded tax cuts since Reagan.The first bill that MAGA crew want to pass is to defund the IRS which would cost $114 billion. Seeing a pattern yet ? The political donors that financed Tea Party / MAGA don’t want to share any burden to pay for Government at all. The trillions that were paid into Social Security trust fund will be used to keep Defense spending afloat and not to pay retirees. Democrats need to pare down spending aims in the next two years and concentrate on buttressing Obamacare , Medicare , Medicaid , Social Security etc. Trying to add to the safety net at the same time it’s entire viability is under threat is naive. The super rich aren’t playing. They want these programs bankrupted and discredited.
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College Mall Bus Stop, circa 1981 The C bus was very popular as it brought carless students from campus to the mall. The layover point was way out on the periphery; I got in the habit of getting out of the bus and walking around in the fields and pastures during the ten minute break before starting the next run back to I.U. When I started learning to throw the boomerang I'd use those wide open spaces to refine the art of the return. I'd drive for fifty minutes and play with wood & wind for ten. The pleasure of anticipation made the day pass by swiftly. Then the field close to the layover got developed; I'd walk a few minutes to another and still be able to get several throws in before my break was over. I was getting proficient enough to catch 80% of the throws. Passers by would stop and watch. It felt like the bus company was paying me to play! Then: no more open spaces nearby. I'd go into the newly placed stores, look around and not buy anything, 8 or 9 times a day. When the Blockbuster store (remember videotape rentals?) ran a promotion I'd go in and get a chance to win every trip during my 8 hour shift. The odds they posted were accurate, I'd win a free rental once every 20 visits. Mostly I was just out for the walk and missing the grasslands paved over. A relatively new way to preserve open spaces is the conservation cemetery movement. Farm fields are converted to natural grasslands, maintained by controlled burns./more anonb wrd: circa
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How can Biden increase federal employee salaries yet does not have the funding for it. How can the gov't make $billions of military arms purchases for UA when the gov't lacks funds to pay for it, and it goes on and on and on. I applaud the GOP (am not a supporter of the party) for standing up and saying a reduction in gov't spending is critically needed and not in ten years but now. However, it needed not be for social welfare programs, must included substantial reductions throughout the gov't, primarily the military. Congress does't do is job as evident when it makes laws but is not held accountable for the lack of funding to support the new expenditures. Pitiful !!!
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Trump's enthralled those who are open to him by saying outright that the system is rigged, and that he knows it because he uses it. If the Democrats could jump on that bandwagon, and make that pitch to all races, they would win.
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While I don't disagree that we need to increase our mid-tier housing stock, the one benefit to adding apartments like these is that it can lower the number of people in higher income brackets buying that mid-tier housing stock. It also allows people in mid-tier that want to go upwards a space, hopefully opening up that existing stock.
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Cut investment in technology at your own peril. Your business is setting itself up for a steep fall when your competitors’ tech outpaces your own tech. Making up ground when you’re already behind technologically will be 10 times as expensive, if not completely impossible. Want the same output or increase with lower head count? Impossible without technology.
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If you are one of these people who was laid off recently by a tech company, you have my sympathy, love and prayers. First of all, know that Life is bigger than any seeming catastrophe. You have your health, you have your skills and talents. Most of all, you are a beautiful human being with capacity for greatness and excellence. The big thing in Life is patience. If you can be patient, know that time heals. If you don't panic and don't focus on what you can't control, know that there's a lot that is going well for you right now, that is going to continue to support you and help you get to your next destination in Life. Focus on what you can control. Be open to seeing how much is going right that is being taken for granted. No one owes me anything but I have a choice and a chance to practice Love, Patience and Gratitude. Through my Love, I can recreate and restart from any state or stage. The world needs you and your talents. We love you so much! All will be well, all is well. Take it one step at a time... Breathe, stretch, go on a walk, help a stranger...
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Reading through the comments, I identify fully with those advocating giving Ukraine all it needs to end the war on the battlefield, end the bloodshed as quickly as possible, and be restored to its internationally recognized borders. It is sad that there seems to be no possibility to end the war by negotiation, because it has been made clear that Russia's opening position is that first Ukraine and the free world must recognize it's illegal annexation of regions in Ukraine, not only carrying out terrible crimes against humanity, but also pillaging Ukraine's cultural heritage, looting its museums, libraries, etc. The Western position of not allowing Ukraine a level playing field, where they can only defend their soil, but not take the war into Russia, even as Russia attacks it, is absurd and lets Russia continue to be confident of victory. In addition to the US, the position of Germany as regards German made tanks is also incomprehensible. The bloodshed needs to end as soon as possible and only Ukraine's military victory has a chance of doing that.
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Francois Beaubien I agree with you. It's not a matter of creating competing products in the same market. The "tech" focus has been to keep selling people new interfaces, and repackaging of existing technology into a more expensive package. Honestly, who really NEEDS a new $1000 iPhone every single year. How useful could that possibly be to be worth $1000? Answer - ZERO. It has ZERO value. Same thing for social media platforms like Twitter. These things exist only by convincing people they can't live without them, but that's like convincing people they need the measles. Take them away and people discover they never really wanted or needed them after all.
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The QAnon Shopping Network. Trump Bobble-Heads: $10 each + $5 shipping, or, if you take 50, 35 cents for the entire crate, shipping included.
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Opera Fan “The prop master would hand me the weapon with the cylinder open to prove to me it was empty.”That did not happen here. And the actor could have insisted he see the empty cylinder.
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"According to court documents filed by the S.E.C., Harbor City told investors that it had discovered a way to make guaranteed money by investing in digital marketing and advertising.""a way to make guaranteed money"Ding-ding-ding!Danger, Will Robinson!Alert! Alert!Someone promising 16% return during the very low inflation/interest rates of early 2021?Might as well put up the Wanted: posters right away.
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LisaG Agree that wife appears controlling, the one in charge, and found her mark in the vulnerable open wound that is Harry, who lead a sheltered life, far from the rough and tumble most of us face and endure, becoming stronger and less vulnerable, if one survives the process--not only enduring but thereby prevailing, according to Faulkner. The wife guides the stumbling Harry onto the path she chooses for them is my impression, necessarily alienating him from close family members who might have power to sway him otherwise.Memoir sells big these days as does personal victimization stories, and memoirs that combine royalty and victimhood sell the most copy. (Of course, no one did it better than Sylvia Plath, because she was the real deal, which lead writers like Robin Morgan to accuse Ted Hughes, perhaps unfairly, of driving her to the brink)
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What would be more embarrassing than having a moral and spiritual leader who is fined $25 million for scamming his fellow citizens, hiding top secret documents by his pool, and suggesting that Americans inject detergents or take horse dewormers to protect us against covid? If Democrats believe Kevin McCarthy's arduous battle to become Speaker of the House was humiliating to him or his party, they are completely out of touch with the "grace" of being in the GOP.
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He did not come out clean in his testimony. The five-month deal that prosecutors cut with Weinberg is laughable; poor and non-white criminals get ten times more stiff sentences.He was paid more than a million dollar annually, during the investigation, his guilty please, and his testimony at the trial against Trump organization. If you believe his testimony that Donald Trump and his family members did not know or approve of the tax scam, then I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.The judge was also not comfortable convinced that Weisberg testified truthfully. He wanted to give a harsher punishment, but in the end, he decided to.honor the please agreement.
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Yes. To the left on all economic issues and keep the focus there. NOT to the left on cultural issues and identity issues. Leave those issues alone, Democrats. Those issues won’t win the working class. I wondered why this wasn’t happening and then I went to the open secrets web page and saw the donors to Democratic senators and I understood a lot more.
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"U.S. and Japanese officials said on Wednesday that the two nations would expand their military cooperation, including by improving Japan’s missile strike abilities..."Cynical as it may sound, this seems like Japan saw the ability of Ukraine to garner billions of dollars of U.S. weapons support and has come to get a similar allocation of military support from us now. Meanwhile, multinationals like Raytheon, Northrup, and Boeing, rake in windfall profits. We're fast becoming a nation flooding the world will weapons of death and destruction.
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Very nice synopsis of how Republican dysfunction in Congress is a reflection of their constituents. So Mr. Beinart, it begs the questions, Is this a longe term intractable problem in more rural parts of the country? Are white people not interested in opening their communities to people of color? Most hispanic immigrants are Christian, and might be interested in becoming part of the larger Christian community. Most want to be more "traditionally" American, and to assimilate better for the sake of their children. Blacks and browns in rural America are not very cultural distinct from a religious perspective from these whites. Is it just about skin color and physiognomy? Why not befriend people of color, live beside them, go to school with them, date and marry them? Make them part of your life. Isn't this the question? We keep finding euphemistic ways of getting to this questions, but perhaps it needs to be much more direct.
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NATO could decide that it’s nation members could have full membership and veto power over other nations joining, but single corrupt dictators do not have that power. One man rule in Turkey should mean no veto power in NATO since all those nations shouldn’t let a single person hold them hostage. Let nations vote not dictators. Let Turkey have a real open and fair election well observed and without imprisonment and intimidation of the opposition, and with freedom of the press to get it’s voting rights in NATO restored. And yes, maybe sanctions from the other NATO member countries until democracy is restored and trade with Putin’s dictatorship is curtailed. The other countries enabling Putin need consequences too. Putin and his criminal mercenaries are all about money, so why are we playing so nice with China, India, and the rest for pumping him full of money so he can prolong the suffering in Ukraine?
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What the emergence of Santos, Trump, and the many open arms to depravity in the Republican Party have shown us is that the Constitution needs amending. But given the polarized electorate that is only getting more polarized by the day, the Constitution has seen its last amending - it's closed to any further growth or improvement. How is it possible to flat-out lie a whole new identity on an application and then get cleared to hear security briefings? How can pro-insurrectionists win or keep office they undermine by feigning sympathy for the very insurrectionists that imperiled our nation? How can someone sic his mob of zombies against the very government he swore an oath to protect be allowed to run for the very office he desecrated? Republicans are not only cannibalizing their own party - they're cannibalizing everything that is decent in our society.
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All students are so much more than their GPA and SAT: artistry, compassion, empathy, athleticism, innovation, ambition, conscience, leadership, agility, persistence, positivity, charisma, generosity, sacrifice, commitment, courage, passion, dedication, grit, energy, joy, flexibility, openness, and more. One higher ed enrollment consultant currently tracks 150 metrics for each student, made possible by the student’s daily smart phone use. It’s not just GPA and SAT anymore. The technology is already ahead of the Supreme Court.
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The real cuprit is bad farming practices and hygiene. Once again we can thank the CDC for downplaying the importance of good hygiene and sanitizing. After WWII there was a push to regulate hygiene practices at family owned farms. My paternal grandparents were one of the few farmers able to continue operating certain practices such as having a slaughterhouse on their farm because they passed the stringent new requirements. Until they shut down in the mid 1970s due to old age they supplied meat and other products free of charge to many members of the community who refused to buy such products from supermarkets. When I visited during the summers one of my tasks was feeding the chickens. I also remember how they and their workers would cover their shoes or use only certain clothes or shoes when working on certain parts of the farm to avaid cross contamination. Many local farmers were shut down or faced insurmountable fines if they did not follow the rules. These super corporate owned farms don't face a fraction of the oversight that local farmers faced. This is why we have so much food contamination now and such low quality products. Just another bogus excuse for price gouging. There is no reason for eggs to cost 7 or 8 dollars and until there is better regulation of corporate farms it will get worse for us. There is a reason billionaires and millionaires are buying up farm land for personal use.
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While I'm still a Representative I wanted to share these facts about myself.I've written 16 award winning novels.My novels have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.My great grandfather was an Indian shaman.My uncle tried to assassinate Hitler.My great grandmother was President Teddy Roosevelt's personal secretary.I invented panty hose.I jammed with Prince at his home.I composed all of Sting's greatest hits.I taught Paul McCartney how to play bass.I have never told a lie or a fib.My mother survived the sinking of the Titanic.I saw the Beatles in concert at Shea Stadium.I was in Kyiv with President Zelenskyy during a russian air attack.I was the youngest student ever to be admitted to Yale.I've calculated PI to the 47th decimal place.I came up with the idea for “The Marvelous Misses Maisel”.I discovered the formula for aspirin.I would never lie to my constituents.I invented Depends.My net worth is worth well over 500 million dollars.My IQ is 185.I wrote all of Adele's hit songs.I have never passed wind.I skipped 4 grades in grammar school.Jim Jordan is the most honest short man I have ever met.I learned to read at 3 months.I had read the Bible by the time I was 4 months old.I invented the Tom Collins.I composed my first sonnet at age 1.I have never heard Marjorie Taylor Greene say a bad word about anyone.I invented radio.Congressman McCarthy never promised me anything.The Good Lord would smote me down if I ever told a lie.
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Unless something is done about social security, this is what American retirees can look forward to.They've been keeping social security going with bandages all along.The latest is increasing income subject to withholding by another $13,200.00. That adds up to about $800 taken from the employee and $800 taken from the employer to send to social security.Since social security checks are larger on a percentage basis for the lower earners, this extra $1,600 is just a transfer from the larger earners to the smaller ones.Congress has been buying votes by thinking up all sorts of different ways to give out benefits to more and more people.Three women married to the same man for 10 years before divorce can all 3 get social security on his record.Even with the bandages, the surgery (The Rock and the Hard Place) is not too far down the road.And, the Democrats are going to throw rocks at Republicans as they try to fix this.
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I am an art and antiquities dealer. Mammoth Ivory is illegal to trade in NY and Cal because it can be mistaken for elephant ivory. Also , the price tag of at least six figures for tusk is ridiculous. I will happily sell someone a fully articulated mammoth skeleton with tusk for 200k and a single small complete tusk for as little as 12k. There are loads of tusk still in the ground in Alaska and Siberia.
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I’d give the $100 mentioned, if I really understood to whom it would go! Scary to think it might end up in Trump or Kushner pockets!
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Katherine Look at what is now possible! This isn't simple, but access to clean, safe, quiet housing with nutritious food and appropriate clothing can make all the difference. I would encourage him to let you reach out to his sisters. Often the family is grateful to be back in contact. Misunderstandings tend to abound.He is primed for longer term housing. The sisters may be more open than he thinks. Perhaps he could welcome them to visit his hotel room. Even if they aren't able to pay for anything longer-term, they may be able to help in the short term. One month in the extended hotel. Pay directly for food and necessity deliveries. Etc. A simultaneous path is to find out if he has names or contacts for any caseworkers who have helped him in the past. You can also reach out to the local public provider and housing advocates. Get him on a list for a housing voucher and/or housing. Housing vouchers are gold. Again, while he is in that hotel, he can demonstrate he has the ability, with supports, to live independently. You could make a video of him in his place. (If possible) send it to the sisters and also have it as proof of his success to provide to a caseworker or provider. With your help he can demonstrate that, with supports, he can do it. I recommend identifying how you have helped/the supports he needs to maintain housing. Write it out. Exactly what he needs. Including things like - help getting the food I need. Help to pay bills. That information is critical.
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Name With held And if the whole world was using fossil energies like the USA does with heating in NY so hot that you have to open the windows in frigid winter and AC at 64 in stores with doors open and 11 outside, then we could already not live on this planet anymore.Ecology is ecology.Your comment is misleading .
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Remember when the U.S. government (we taxpayers) bailed out airlines during covid 19? "It's not an exaggeration to say the program saved the airline industry," American CEO Doug Parker said. American received over $5B in payroll support.
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yvonnes Trump is in big trouble number-wise. His very stupid policies about covid led to the deaths of many of his supporters who bought into the anti-vaccine stuff. Red state deaths from the variants continues. Those dead voters are not being replaced. Add to that the voters who are looking for someone else to carry the banner. Trump may also think that if he is indicted, his supporters will flock to the streets and create trouble. A different DoJ is in town and has already sent a bunch of Jan 6 insurrectionists to prison. If Trump is indicted, his supporters will wring their hands and watch it all on tv. Trump's had his days in the sun. He'll still make noise, but he doesn't have the platform he once had. He knows that from the dreadful rally turnout in So Carolina. Do we want to talk about his incompetent lawyers? Chris Kise apparently pocketed $3m and eased out of the limelight. Was that a con on the con-man? If so, whoop-de-do. Good show!
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The scenario described in this article sounds like a win win situation. I live in an old single family neighborhood in San Diego where the developers roam like hawks turning old neighborhoods into patchwork hell. Not for extended family or one rental unit or low income housing, but for their own personal profit with no cares for the neighborhoods they destroy with shoddy ugly construction and the city allows them complete freedom. I understand there is a housing issue, but our cities loose guidelines are just creating new problems. I am all for the situation this article describes, but what is happening in our city is not the way to do it.
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Greg No, we do not. For starters, there are far more NBA teams, so it's that much harder. Just like in the olden days of the NHL when there were only the "original six" teams, some racked up trophies in a way that was never approached after the league expanded. Always gonna be bad teams with no chance, but otherwise it's really simple math. Then there's the whole competition thing. How much money did Sue Bird make in a year? How many fans turn out for a WNBA championship parade? Larry Bird started out in the NBA before salaries really exploded and yet he still earned more forty years ago than Sue Bird did last year. Don't start with that nonsense either, the WNBA loses money. It's all about TV revenue, filling the stands, how much you can charge per ticket, merchandise sales. You think that NBA money entices far more talented boys to pursue that dream? Let's put it another way, if I played for Stanford's women's basketball team and majored in just about anything, no way I'd pursue professional hoops. Most Stanford grads make way more money.
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Theo All about the dollar and the cushy salary and retirement pay for the admins. The people on the floor facing the public get short shrift. From what I have heard and read. Isnt every Great Depression ushered in by the people makig the most money? Last time it was the Fords and Firestones, etc. This time the manuacturers and finance whizzes. Important to invest in both the most stable older companies and the most popuar new ones with a solid focus on raking in profits.
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What is George Santos real name? some people want to say that this is non-story. I beg to differ, this story is perhaps more important than the most obvious issues. This is believed confirmation: Politicians are liars but it's deeper than that. too often what politicians do is Chase the dollars for big business. the corporate beneficiary of tax paying dollars and George just wanted a part of it. and you can't tell me that people didn't know that this young man was like that. Of course they knew, he was following their lead except that he went buckwild. Once it is revealed who gave Santos over $700,000, Kevin McCarthy, then we will know who gave him the money, then an investigation should be pursued. I would not be surprised if, the authorities already know. anyway, Santos needs to resign but of course, he's being protected. I wouldn't be surprised if Santos or whatever his name is was just taking off the street and said I'll do this for you if you do that. I think there are a lot of questions that need to be asked by the FBI directly on Santos because I believe that Santos has so much more to tell us than not.
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Kevin Where's your source for the "likely selling to Russia" claim? How is it 10x worse? These documents were known about before the election and kept from the public, do you think if it was Trumps documents they would've been kept till after the election? How much longer do you think this blatant hypocrisy will continue? How much longer will the Left continuously get away with outrageous lies, media covering up for them, and then crucifying the Right, anytime the slightest suggestion of wrong doing comes up. Russian Collusion, Hunters Laptop, Twitter Censoring, and now this story, are all major stories with serious implications, regardless of how much Kevin and the MSM tries to down play them. What happens when you continuously tell half the country their side is wrong, despite the facts, and my sides issues are no big deal? Jan 6th was only a preview of what can happen when a country loses trust in institutions. This has to stop.
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This article needs to be read with the articles lamenting the retirement of trained and experienced boomers and the underemployment of millennial men. The common thread is a national failure to invest in social capital. Companies have abandoned the American public. Companies don't pay taxes which fund the universities and community colleges that produce workers. For instance, the profiled machine business could form a partnership with a community college apprenticeship program. If a worker leaves a business for elsewhere, it is for more money.
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This is all happening because of grift. The desire of a few to out-Trump Trump. Banking on the infamy and donations this brings to their greatest moment of possible self-centric attention, these clowns are getting exactly what they want. The longer they hold out, the better for them.Naturally the easiest way to short circuit their plans while neutering them indefinitely, some more level headed Republicans could partner with Democrats and elect a non-House GOP moderate … like a Larry Hogan say.Such a move would do the country considerable good. But where do you find a handful of Republicans who would want that. Furthermore, I believe such a move not only shoves these creeps back under a rock, it would be the beginnings of a new GOP.
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Agh yes. How much did Microsoft pay in taxes to the federal government? Not enough to cover the unemployment needs of the humans - think childcare, health insurance, rent, food - they so easily layoff. Never, ever be loyal to Big Corp.
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I had so many questions before yesterday's root canal - my endodontist exclaimed, "Just PI4 down and open WI4!"
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Making North America Great Again? I'm staying in Mérida, Yucatán and spent yesterday travelling from Cancún to this city on the west side of the Yucatán peninsula. Our trip took much longer due to the extensive construction work being done on the Tren Maya, an example of the Mexican government supporting its infrastructure. Meanwhile, the Mexican peso (the most stable in Latin America) has gained in value relative to the dollar by about 5% in the past few months. I have heard and read that the shift from China has increased investment in Mexico. The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is considered a leftist, but one who is tight-fisted with the people's money. Could you write a column that examines the possibility of NAFTA finally delivering on its original promise?
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Kjartan Canadian here but grew up in Scotland and was exposed to good coffee at an early age.My husband and I go through about 20kg of coffee a year, 10kg of regular for mornings and 10kg of decaf for evenings.We use regular bog standard coffee but take care in making it and like it strong. Black for him, heavy cream for me. Absolutely no sugar or any sort of flavours.
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Billy Tauzin (R-La), when he was chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, pushed through the law that prohibited the federal government from negotiating drug prices for Medicare. For his efforts on behalf of Big Pharma, he was rewarded with a $1 million per year position as head of Pharma. To crib a line from The Godfather, our elected representatives (with a few exceptions, like Bernie Sanders) jingle around like so many nickels and dimes in the pockets of Big Pharma. And Big Pharma executives, to quote the late great George Carlin, truly are the "corporate swine."
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You missed the point of this article. None of Russia's neighbors agree. Having been on the receiving end of Russian domination as former Soviet Republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc.) or satellite countries (Poland especially), they know full well about aggressive Russian expansion and brutality. I would say this war is about controlling (stealing) Ukraine's considerable resources as well as preventing an open society in Ukraine that might spill over into demands in Russia for more freedom and less kleptocracy. The ills and bad deeds of the U.S. are no justification for what aboutism right now while Russia engages in wholesale destruction of a sovereign nation with attacks on civilian targets. Young Russian men fled by the hundreds of thousands when the draft was called. That too, should tell you something.
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Wordle 583 2/6* 83/89🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 83/98 WL3🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 83/79There were two viable words left after my opener, but one didn't occur to me. This was an (eerie) slam dunk that I am grateful for after consecutive five- and four-step solves. Cheers!Yesterday's Wordle 582 4/6* 90/41⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ LUCID83/12 WL 738⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 SPORT92/29 WL 29🟩🟨🟨🟨🟩 MEATY79/81 WL 1🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MATEY99/—I like this starter word, which popped into my head out of the blue. I felt like looking for something other than the EA, which did me no favors today. MEATY was meant to hunt for standard vowels and avoid a potential trap.Congrats to Outside Observer and Anne Marie for the outstanding two-fers!
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Grace White It's too late Grace. When the national debt hit $1B in 1980 ($4B inflation corrected for 2022), action was requested but denied with the can kicked over and over down the line. There is no good solution now. The debt is not repayable. There are too many mandated payments and not enough tax revenue. Those that make alot of money by paycheck pay too much in taxes, those that own businesses (especially some of the larger ones) sometimes pay nothing and the bottom 50% pay also pay nothing in Federal taxes.
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Girish Kotwal Nonsense. There is literally not an industry of note that didn't rely on government investment, incentive and help in its early stages. I challenge you to name an exception. Aviation, rail, automaking, agriculture, shipping, hi tech, all benefited enormously from government involvement early on.
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Step 1: Russia offers to make a key stakeholder (politician, law enforcement, media figure, etc) rich by funneling him or her money through a series of offshore bank accounts and holdings that are nearly impossible to trace. Step 2: Russia informs the stakeholder that they have kompromat on him or her and will destroy their lives if they don't cooperate. It's the same tactic as the mafia's "off you can't refuse" and I'd be amazed if there weren't a significant number of other people in this country, particularly in the Republican Party, who've taken the deal.
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> it could take 10 to 15 years or more before the metals were > delivered to market because of the lengthy environmental > studies and other work required to open a mining facilityEurope, don't be foolish.Make it top priority.5 years at most.
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Barbara The story refers to stock brokers, not moguls and barons. The true Masters of the Universe are Investment Bankers. We learned this from Tom Wolfe in "Bonfire of the Vanities." It's likely, though, these self-absorbed guys would probably get stuck both in a revolving door and an escalator during a blackout.
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Not too long ago electric stoves caused breast cancer. What happened to that studyAnd how is electricity being generated?Invest in heat pump. ExpensiveInvest in generator. Expensive and probably gasBuy new appliances. Stove. Water heater. Clothes dryerAnd by the way sealing your house and keeping all sorts of pollution inside has other risks
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France has been reportedly the fifth largest contributor of military aid to Ukraine and has sent around €550M worth of aid so far including rocket launchers, Crotale air defense systems, Caesar mobile artillery units. They are supposed to be sending more ammo and arms during the beginning of this year as well as more air defense systems.<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/macron-france-to-supply-more-weapons-to-ukraine-in-early-2023" target="_blank">https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/macron-france-to-supply-more-weapons-to-ukraine-in-early-2023</a>
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The Select Committee's transcripts, in addition to other reports from various sources, document the danger to our democracy from Trump and his Cabal of Crazies. Fortunately, there were some people in the Trump administration who aggressively pushed back in the December ''off the books'' confrontation in the Oval Office. As extremely serious as the attempts to subvert or overturn the 2020 election are , there is at least one good laugh line: Mr. Bannon also advised Mr. Trump [that he] should have nothing to do with Patrick Byrne, the wealthy businessman who financed efforts to overturn the 2020 election. “Steve Bannon once told me, ''Patrick Byrne’s crazy, and he should not be on the stage with Donald Trump,” Ms. Preate testified.
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Less than 1 million people out of 1,421 million people - that's why this not the big enough straw that will break the camels back. The CCP plays the numbers game.Meanwhile, can I ask why the CA bullet train remains still not built - in a Dem state? It's already created 10 of billions of dollars in fabulous wealth, which surely has generated negative improvement in carbon goals, but no trains in sight. Where is the outrage?
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This is the second comment I've seen by an emergency medicine practitioner hobbled by these clauses. Color me ignorant but I had never realized the greed of for-profit medicine extended so far as to actually prevent those able to literally save people's lives from doing so elsewhere if it wasn't going to make their employers money. How utterly atrocious, where is our humanity? Thank goodness I've learned this information in the context of active measures being taken to abolish such a disgusting practice. And thank you and all others who still choose to use their lives to serve others over the dollar. Karma would be one of these fat cat medical execs having a health crisis with the only EMT around not being legally free to treat them, tho they still wouldn't be denied that help as such admirable people value what is right over personal risk or gain. Past time for our society to realign our values and reward virtue, or at the very least stop disdaining and taking advantage of those who dare to care for others in the land that worships individual Wealth and Success above all.
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I don't understand the logic of having a debt ceiling if regardless of its level, it needs to be raised every year to accommodate debt service on new borrowing needed to cover payments for increased spending. Until the recurrent budget is brought into balance, it will remain inescapable to borrow from Peter to pay Paul. It is not even useful as a disciplinary rule on public spending, because it is inherently toothless - there is no question, except in the minds of some crazies, that defaulting on public debt could ever be contemplated. Something that never gets reported is the possibility of devastating indirect impacts of a default. Let's say the US fails to service a bond-holder which has issued its own debt to finance its own business. If the shortfall of investment revenue from the US were to force that bondholder into default on one its debts, and that debt included cross-default provisions, enough of this could trigger a domino-like tsunami of debt call-ins producing a financial catastrophe on debt markets generally. It just isn't a good idea to try shaking down a shaky house of cards.
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Bill Cullen, Author If Russia will retreat as you believe the world will hand Putin the same bill the world handed out to Nixon for the destroyed Vietnam. 0,00 US $. What else?
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JimmySeriousCharles, himself, walked Meghan down the aisle, for the multi-million $$$$ dollar wedding, with a black Choir at its heart and organized and encouraged by the Royal Family. I would take a thousandth of that amount of approval from my in-laws... His wife was very much welcomed. She just was not to be the Queen. Hard to swallow a fact for some personalities.
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Thinline flat tax of 20%: $1 million earner pays $200,000; $50,000 earner pays $10,000. How is that not "fair/fair share"?
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As he stated over the weekend, McCarthy's plan is to negotiate future budget levels to reduce the trajectory of soaring deficits.Our debt is at an all-time peacetime high, and servicing it is entering a new, dangerous stage -- driven upwards by higher interest rates intended to reduce inflation. Federal borrowing is now much more costly than just a year ago and will starve other programs -- valued by both the GOP and Ds.According to the latest monthly Treasury statement, the U.S. made $103 billion in gross interest payments on the debt in the first two months of the 2023 fiscal year, which began in October – an 87% increase from the $55 billion it spent in the same period a year earlier.McCarthy has ruled out cuts to Social Security and Medicare, and has pledged not to terminate Ukraine aid, so stop lying about it.Some cuts are baked in: Spending on the anti-poverty program Medicaid has swelled to unsustainable levels due to the covid emergency declaration, which Biden says he will end this summer. So McCarthy is seeking to negotiate a plan to bend the curve of our accumulating national debt. Is this really so difficult to understand? Recent political history tells us that budget negotiations are the norm -- not MAGA extremism -- during these debt limit standoffs.Barack Obama agreed to tens of billions in cuts in exchange for Republican support of an increase; similarly, Trump agreed to tens of millions more in spending to appease Democrats.Why not Biden?
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$60 checks?!!!! Wow - Please open near me! We dine out 7 nights a week - and NEVER pay less than $100 per person - usually $125 to $150 and we are not big drinkers - we just dont know how to cook:) I guess Kinston is a pretty small rural place where ppl won’t pay more?
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$22million?? No wonder the military budget is so big.
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When Elvis died, he was deeply in debt. Pricilla turned his whole operation around by opening up Graceland, negotiating deals on his music and turned his estate around to being worth millions. She did this for her daughter. Great women. I learned all this years ago from the Memphis law firm that handled the estate.
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In 2017, the average price of Humira in the US was $4,480 but in the Netherlands it was only $780. If pressed, I expect AbVie and other drug makers will protest that price controls will stifle innovation. Let's give it a try and see if that's true.
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'Mr. Scholz and his party “want to keep a relationship with Russia and with Putin for the future...' I think Macron of France and Orban of Hungary may feel similarly although for different reasons.But Russia under the leadership of Putin and likeminded aficionados of old Soviet times have proven themselves to be an ongoing threat to peace and stability in Europe until they're stopped. And, since Europe is our largest trading partner, we also have an economic interest in resolving this conflict.Ukraine is a sovereign nation illegally invaded and brutalized by Putin. They should be given as much military support as needed to quickly prevail. They have proven to be determined and adaptable in this conflict, and a grinding stalemate serves no one's interest. The risk of a renewed Russian offensive raises the stakes.That now means sending tanks and APC's as quickly as possible. That also means longer ranged precision missiles, including ones able to strike strictly military targets in Russia and Crimea. And that probably means Western helicopters and planes to support air defense and ground operations. (BTW, a big problem with US M1 Abrams tanks, as opposed to the Leopard 2, is their massive fuel consumption, but sending a small number to break the ice is fine.)The sooner this conflict ends on Ukrainian terms, the more death and destruction that will be prevented. And that's on both sides.
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A little re-editing:“They’re setting themselves up for life after basketball,” Cunningham said.” “By last fall, in an act symbolic of the newly liberated college athlete, Bacot was openly driving an $80,000 Audi.”Setting themselves up, or developing the habit of squandering money?
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JeffM My kids enjoyed VR games, but when the cable for our VR headset broke I have been very very slow to replace it and they haven't had a hard time finding fun games to play, using the keyboard and mouse.Improving voice interaction with computers is something that I'm very interested in. I'm a fast typer, but I use my phone for a lot of communication and I can't stand typing on the little keyboard so I use dictation software. I also heavily use my voice assistant software that my phone comes with.Using voice interaction for smart tech is great, in fact it's one of the only real uses of voice that's a killer app. Being able to say "ok computer, open the garage bay door" is useful. The problem I have is the way it works if I want Alexa to do it. I issue the command, my audio is uploaded to Amazon where it is reviewed by a server, and then it decides what to do. There's no reason to do this, my Motorola razr phone from 2000 what not could process audio just fine without uploading anything to the cloud.
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🐝Hints from a Gen Z Bee Enthusiast!!🐝AB- border, as land (4)AI- breezy or oxygen-y (4)AR- capricious (9)- operatic solo (4)- assortment (5)- creative (4)AT- heart valves (5)- floral essential oil, or 1 recent cate blanchett movie (5)AU- vibe or mood (4)BA- BA4 ganoush, (4)- Bieber hit, or infant (4)- worm on a fishing pole (4)- sharp thing on wire, or stranger things character gone too soon (4)- brutality (9)- like black nocturnal Halloween animal, or crazy (5)BR- spoiled (4/6)- sound made by a donkey or mule (4)- prickly plant or shrub (5/6)BU- BU5 Gump shrimp co (5)- soft Italian cheese (7)RA- Jewish spiritual leader (5)- easter animal kind of, you might go down this kind of hole on the internet (6)- dish in Indian cuisine (5)- uncommon occurrence (6)- sound tap shoes might make? kind of sounds like the first part of that animated disney movie with the rat who is also a chef (7)- how you might describe the main character from the above movie, aka rodent-like (5)- tbdTA- kind of cat (5)- to linger or be tardy (5)- sour (4)- sauce for fish, or 2022 cate blanchett movie repeated (6)- tattoo-like (5)- stretched tight (4)TI- crown for a princess (5)- fibula's partner (5)TR- attribute or characteristic (5)- dish used for serving and eating food, often rectangular (4)- someone who praises someone else, or a body of water that feeds into a larger body of water (9)TU- large brass instrument (4)
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Lucien Dhooge Agreed. The coming debt ceiling debacle is really going to test whether our government is irretrievably broken or not.I really don't understand why Democrats keep playing Charlie Brown to Republicans' Lucy to kick this particular football?Why on Earth haven't Democrats unilaterally raised the debt ceiling to some unfathomably large number like $10^100 in one of their reconciliation bills???It's like Democrats somehow enjoy the thrill of Republicans potentially destroying our country. Or they think that Republicans will pay some political price for acting irresponsibly -- even though they paid no price the last two times they did it under Obama.It is truly mind boggling to me. It seems of a piece with Democratic weakness and deep need to have buy-in from the other side, even when Republicans have obviously gone off the deep end. This kind of weakness and lack of will is what I hate most about the Democratic leadership, even though I'm a liberal through and through.
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David On June 17, 1975, Elvis bought a Convair 880 Jet recently taken out of service by Delta Airlines for the then-substantial sum of $250,000. Kind of like buying a Mustang from the 60s now. It was vintage.
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Oliver We have Insurers, we have Obama Care...now free to those who cannot pay with a certain income cut off. I pay cash for drugs when in the US and I get a discount from the Doctors as well as one very good Pharmacy. If I compare the availability of care options and when Pharmacies are open, I take the US system any day compared with the British system which now has 9,000,000 back log of cases and this includes possible diagnosis of cancer. No scans on weekends is one failure. Only a few pharmacies open. One calls a GP and cannot get through to a Doctor after waiting on the phone for at least 50 minutes (the practice I have to belong to). And one never sees the same Doctor, or should I say talks to the same one on the phone. Great care, isn't it.
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I’m going to disagree with the advice of storing passwords on your own cloud. This cloud can still be breached and has other issues as well. Some advice:1. Better to look for a password manager that meets these criteria:a. The software is open source so anyone caninspect itb. The company can provide recent security audit reports from external third-party auditors c. The company support a bug bounty proram where they pay profession good hackers if they find vulnerabilities.As far as I’m aware, there are currently only two that meet these criteria:Bitwarden and 1Password.2. Use a good long and not guessable master password3. For especially sensitive sites, such an e-mail account user for account recovery, add an extra few characters to the end of that password and do not store that in you password maanger. Just enter it after the password manager has filled it in for you. You can pick 1 to 10 extra characters depending on how much you care and they can be the same across all accounts since the main part from your password will be different.
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I studied physics in the 1970s, when the Standard Model was being born. I left it because I just couldn't warm up to that subject. It's sad to see that 50 years later, particle physics is still presented as "physics."About 20 years after I left, I met physicists who did experiments studying sloshing pans of water, or chaotic vibrations in a string hung with nuts and bolts. Another one I met got an experiment on the cover of Nature with a key piece of equipment that he bought with his credit card for under $400. And then there was the Nobel Prize awarded for the material graphene, which the two recipients prepared using adhesive tape and a pencil. One of the more terrific Nobels of the past 35 years went to the late French physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, who wrote a simply beautiful book of theoretical physics about polymers, a class of long molecules that includes DNA, proteins and plastics. He also wrote *the* book about liquid crystals, which is probably how you're reading this comment now. As well as being a major public face of science in France, after his prize he turned his attention to questions like why does your coffee cup leave a ring on the table. If I'd had any inkling that physics also included fun stuff like that, I might have stayed with it. And if those other aspects (condensed matter, materials, nonlinear physics, etc.) got more publicity, there might be thousands more young students attracted to STEM. Please don't reduce physics to particles.
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It will be no surprise if the cabal that insists against all facts and figures that trillions in tax welfare for the richest of their PAC donors is good for the nation, and the same cabal that works ceaselessly to grind the middle class to dust and take away what threadbare safety net exists for the elderly, the mentally ill, and those worst off, would keep the government in a stranglehold while they all careen off the cliff together. That's the modern republican party. They love to watch things die.
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Teachers in Manatee County are covering up the in-class libraries for fear of being arrested and charged with the crime of having unapproved books in class.Now, DeSantis wants to change New College of Florida into the Hillsdale of the south.There are between 5,000-6,000 open teaching jobs and no one is running to get one of them. The school age children of this state will be suffering the consequences.
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In 2014, CA voters approved $7 billion in bonds to help increase water storage in the state. Since then, virtually nothing has been done. So all of this rain and snow will mostly find its way out the Golden Gate and into the Pacific, lost forever. Yet people still voted for Newsom and the other super-majority Democrats here.
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Rajiv These people don't care. The immorality, lack of ethics, basic honest and decency is far beyond them.I'm absolutely sick of weak democrats putting up with this garbage from out in the open crooked people.Start upholding the rule of law and jailing the law breakers.
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Cowboy Marine You're getting off easier than we are. Between Medicare deductions from social security, our medigap policies, our part D policies and long term care insurance, almost a third of our annual income goes to insurance and property tax. (We own the home we live in and no other real estate.) Can't afford dental insurance. Fortunately, we are managing due to our efforts to economize and grow food.
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Senator Manchin, and his collaborator in Arizona, Senator Sinema, are neither centrists nor Democrats. Their interests stretch no further than their own self-interested front lawns.
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Even as gas prices fall, there are still serious problems with our national and global distribution networks, which are still recovering from disruptions caused by the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It would seem that what's really needed now is additional investment in constructing — or, more accurately, reconstructing — new, more robust systems. But that's exactly what higher interest rates (not to mention the threat of a policy-induced recession) discourage. I'm unconvinced that high food and energy prices, for example, are the result of too much easy money or that they will be successfully pushed back down through a conservative fiscal policy. Rather, these high prices are clearly the result of pandemic, war and drought. These are problems we should be actively trying to solve through increased and sustained investment in our domestic supply.
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Phyliss Dalmatian Haha... good point from a rich 'consumer' point of view.But I was talking about the way the crazy high fashion market in food and clothes (not watches :-) does actually have a wider longterm impact on 'lower' culture - and people like you or me who don't have to worry about a rich consumer's 'investment' being consumed - because we get a delayed reward in our cookery books and wardrobes, and on our plates.A lot of Haute Couture is only as they say in the trade 'directional' rather than something even rich people would actually wear.Similarly, a lot of pretentious expensive food culture is more directional than edible.
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As an initial cynical salvo from the GOP-led house, they voted to defund the IRS by $80B, claiming that the IRS has become a weapon targeting conservatives. The GAO estimates this defunding would increase the federal deficit by $114B. Certainly the IRS needs to have fair and transparent standards for audits and be held accountable to apply them consistently, but this is nothing more than an attempt by the new majority to falsely accuse, and gain the support of wealthy individuals, corporations and organizations who want to continue to skirt the law.
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Something else that would significantly help with food waste: change our "the more you buy, the more you save" attitude towards shopping. Why not make it illegal for shops to offer " for $5" specials that FORCE shoppers to buy 2 if they really only need one? That type of thinking not only encourages waste, it encourages excess consumption and, consequently, health problems and increased health costs. Let the shopper get the one item for $2.50!I personally will not take part in that scheme. If I have to buy two to get the sale price, I just don't buy the item.
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Sure, a software engineer at Microsoft making a boat load of money isn't the first person I'd feel sorry for. But when these tech behemoths justify layoffs by pointing to existential market fear that they're the ones inventing in the first place, it affects the entire economy, and ultimately, people with jobs in all sectors.Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon - all of them had record high profits within the last year or so. And now they're laying off because...why, exactly? It makes no financial sense at all. Meanwhile, executives retain stock and get rich. It's dirty.
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Somehow I sense this isn't going to make a dent in $44 billion.
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We need to stop being afraid of bullies, even bullies who like killing. Ukraine needs tanks if they are to end this war. Even if the US sends 10 M1 American tanks it would pressure Germany into sending their Leopard tanks, which are widely in use by NATO partners.
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Debbie I felt this so strongly when my little boy passed. Through the searing pain came moments of intense joy and beauty as I remembered his joy and beauty, or felt his presence, or experienced the natural world more keenly than I ever had before. And I think you’re right about the source - grief cracks us open, leaving us so raw. So painfully and yet exquisitely sensitive. For a couple of years, I felt like a curtain had lifted. Now I’m left with the pain, but for me the joy proved fleeting. I wish I could recapture the certainty that one day my soul would find his again. I’m glad you haven’t lost your own sense of this. Peace to you.
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saxon212 It is rare. There is still a considerable amount of gold though. By some estimates, over the eons, some 700 trillion dollars' worth have washed into the ocean floors alone. Some things are best kept rare. I suppose this is the theory behind diamonds. Gold, like bitcoin, is expensive to mine. Gold however, unlike bitcoin, has both an industrial and investment market. Both markets compete and as with any commodity (oil a case in point) thus, bringing too much into supply potentially decreases its value. The cost of production can't exceed its market value (I suppose speculative hoarding that may occur might influence this) to make a profit thus, the gold at the bottom of the sea will see (no pun intended) the light of day when it is worthwhile.
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I'm 30 now, and I remember as a movie-loving kid feeling so disappointed by cast ratios that were, e.g., 6 male characters and one girl/woman there just to be characterless, pretty, and 'won'. Even animals, monsters, and cartoon inanimate objects were male by default; and were allowed to be more like people than women/girls were. Women were usually there to be sexy, killed, wet blankets running the guys' fun, etc... Otherwise they're the eye roll-inducing, characterless Strong Woman who will also be 'won', the laziest and most exasperating pseudo-feminist trope of all; AI would do a better job of writing a more multidimensional woman at this stage. And then I remember "women aren't funny!!" felt like a strangely prominent cultural battleground of the late 90s/2000s. As a now movie-loving adult, I'm happy with how things are going. Opportunities, stories, characters have opened up that would have been unimaginable when I was a kid. (And I'm not that old). And non-white voices are finally getting platformed; 20 years ago who would have imagined an Asian-American Oscar contender like this? It's enough to make you cry (happy tears). Female & non-white writers, directors, producers slowly making inroads. Sidelined & objectified people now, radically, allowed to show themselves as multidimensional & fully human in film; more and more determining the shape of things, telling their stories. The road is long but it's happening. People need to see their humanity represented in film.
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wallys smith Meanwhile the increased budget of the IRS will be used to audit people for their $600 Venmo payments from selling their garage junk. Because as all billionaire tax evaders know, the real secret to avoid paying tax is to use Venmo for your income.
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Guy I fail to see the distinction between interest on the national debt and lost tax revenue, since they serve functionally the same purpose.When I paid off $11,700 in credit card debt, my monthly interest expense went down by a bit over $200. It had the same effect on my budget as if my employer had given me a raise of about a buck and a half an hour (accounting for taxes, about $260 a month gross or $3000-ish a year.)And, considering what I make, that interest expense was about the same "percentage of GDP" for my household as it is for the federal government, according to the article's own math. It's not insignificant, as anyone who's ever gotten a $3,000-per-annum before taxes raise can tell you unless they're up around the 1% already.You can't tell me the feds couldn't come up with a better use for that money than using it as a de facto handout to the rich (who, again as the article points out, hold most of the Treasury securities) or to foreign creditors who also hold such bonds. If nothing else, it could become a national security issue given enough time and treasure poured down that rabbit hole.
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Those trying to justify Biden’s crimes (yes, he committed crimes) by comparing them to Trump’s crimes are barking up the wrong tree. His sarcastic comment about the documents being in a locked garage did him no favors but rather underscored his incompetence and his lack of respect for the American people. This fiasco, combined with his open borders, student loans, and his many many lies and misinformation demonstrate that he is way past any ability he had to be a viable president. I hope for his sake that he does not run again and that he announces that soon enough to let some younger and smarter people throw their hats in the ring before we face the prospect of DeSantis or heaven forbid, Trump.
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The politicians that made decisions about the Middle East against the will of average American taxpayers, and the industry executives/ investors of companies that profited, should be the first in line to open their doors and take people in.
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Anyone want to give me $1.6 million? I figure I'll need just a little extra....
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One only has to look at trends in the surrounding area over the previous few decades. 1980's Rensselaerville, Middleburgh, & Oak Hill, 2000's Hudson, then Athens and Catskill, and now Coxsackie. In come the the roller coaster of trendy, new, quaint businesses plant themselves in these upstate communities until they seemingly disappar as their owners lose interest or money on the investment a decade later. Hopefully they stay and invest longterm in the community as Mr. Flach has, but historically they don't. One only has to look at the lack of basic infrastructure, limited broadband, poor healthcare access, few employment opportunites, and the inability of the area to retain its best and brightest. A few small shops and a hotel, although ambitious ventures are "destination locations", and are not going to put a dent into what the area truly needs, including jobs with living wages and a sustainable economy. The trendy grand allure of the Catskills and the Hudson Valley has always drawn people here, but the economy, weather, lack of services and conservative politics have served to eventually send them off to the next new quaint little town, leaving little behind but memories of better days.
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I just had my first collision with AI this week. I teach at a university and while marking I was quite taken with the comprehensive bibliography in one student's paper. Journal articles I had never read - but wanted to. I copied them out so I could look them up. But in looking them up [in real journals, with journal volumes that matched the year published] I found that both the paper titles and the authors were fictions. i was baffled.My teaching colleague, when I alerted him to this oddity, spotted that all the design images had a tell-tale Dall-E 2 watermark on them. Dall-E 2 being the visual cousin to ChatGPT, both from Open AI. I then asked ChatGPT for a bibliography for the design of public open space and received a different, but equally credible looking and completely fictional bibliography.AI is now with us. And the images in this essay testify to how good, and how misleading, it can be. I think we are not prepared for this - and I say this with the knowledge that this is not true AI, as it is not sentient - but it may nevertheless undercut education and therefore our own development. I fear it is going to dumb down the human race unless we can, very quickly, learn how to use it appropriately.
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I have said for years that if I somehow make $5-10 million I am going to disappear too! Michigan in the summer sounds amazing.
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Tom - The deficit has always increased more under Republican presidents. Trump added $8.2 trillion in 4 yrs, compared to $1.8 from Biden in 2+ years. Reagan increased it by 186%!
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My wife and I own a Tesla model 3. We never considered paying what was $10K at the time for what sounded like advanced beta self-driving software. We're delighted with the car otherwise. Even in normal mode, it proactively evaded what could have been a close encounter caused by another car, reacting faster than my wife could have. It also happens to be one of the safest cars on the road. No, I don't work for them.
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Well, that clears the air. Now there can be no doubt of the true motivations of these people. I used to think their extremist rhetoric was just playing to the base. I used to think that they can't truly believe this stuff. They certainly do believe it.The Republican anti-establishment, anti-institution movement has become a core feature of Republican doctrine. Apparently, they seek some kind of libertarian utopia where all power resides in each individual. They want open season on anything for anything. This jives with their guns everywhere policies. With the gun, the individual has the power of death over life. They want that same absolute power legislatively. Our legislative institutions have evolved over centuries to allow government to function more efficiently. Most are not specifically outlined in the Constitution. That does not mean they are unConstitutional. These people use lack of Constitutional specificity as an excuse to tear down that which makes our government function. The scary part is, they truly believe that they are helping. In lieu of this, McCarthy has to step aside to allow a consensus candidate to emerge. Me first and me only can never form a consensus for anything.
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Supposedly he is broke but magically he will come up with a $15 million dollar defense, just like Elizabeth Holmes did even though she was evidently broke too. Who is paying for these legal bills?
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