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Imagine making $400K anywhere in America and complaining about anything, much the less the price of eggs.
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Eric B Wordle 583 5/6*⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩There may be a right way to solve wordles, but this clearly is not it. I need better follow-up words for when the early ones aren't much help. After the second word it was mostly throwing words out there to see what works, with some actual vowel and consonant seeking involved. Shabby.Congratulations to both Great Lakes and Suz on their deuces. Seeing not one but two of our fellow solvers land a deuce really makes me feel stupid for not landing this one at least a little bit sooner. Some days you get the word, some days the word gets you.Eric B I heard that groan.Yesterday's words:STARE 33 words leftMATEY — words leftWhen the opener handed me the T, A, & E—all yellow—a pile of words came to mind, none particularly outstanding, An email (might've been a text) from Longhorn Steakhouse was full of pictures of various steaks, and though it might not have appeared within the ad, one word came to mind: MEATY. But it was ruled out by the A in the opener being yellow in the same place.No, my brain insisted, it had to be; make it work. I thought of things like STEAM (S is out, T is yellow in the same place in the opener, so no good.), TAMED (a four-letter word with an added D—no good), and others. It must have been the sound of the word itself that finally turned MEATY into MATEY. Too Long John Silver for my blood, but why not? It worked. And the ad was from another day.Just crazy.
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Minting a platinum coin with a face value of $1 trillion, and then depositing it in the Treasury's checking account at the Fed so the gov't could continue to pay its bills is a swell idea. But this tactic alone doesn't hurt the GOP fat-cats.Why not take that $1 trillion and hire an army of IRS auditors to go after the top 1%, with the goal of raising a trillion dollars by April 15. And then retire that coin--smelt it, bury it--or simply declare that it's now worth one dollar. Ouch!
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Donald Trump came to White House to make money, unlike Biden who has been in Public Service since 1969. Being in White House is a Public Service, not a platform to make money. Look at Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, a self-styled peace negotiator. He was working pro bono in White House and ended up getting $2 Billion investment by Saudis in his firm after leaving White House. Which makes him making $10 million a week. What he did for Saudis? When MBS's people dismembered journalist body in Istanbul in 2018 Trump administration refrained from any harsh comments about Saudis at the behest of Jared Kushner.
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Well, i hope these layouts don't affect the high quality of Microsoft's OS products (he says, as File Explorer freezes yet again as I type in a search string).
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American canceled our flight out of Burlington VT for no reason whatsoever, (other than the fact that the flight was not booked enough for them to fly it profitably) and this with less that 8 hours notice and this cost me about $500....a night in a hotel, another day of the rental car and my friends panic bc her sister was arriving to Miami from Columbia that day. They refused to compensate me or even talk to me. I am a golds status member of AA. So FFING What. I hate all airlines. Deregulation is a disaster.
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We need a Manhattan Project ( Investment from major economic countries and industries) to come up with new ways to replace plastic- New less toxic chemical compounds that have similar qualities (clear, flexible, light weight etc) but are biodegradable within a reasonable time frame. What we are using now was discovered in the 1800’s . Make it economically attractive for industries and people to switch away from plastics.
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As a retired Army officer that has worked with and admired Israeli counterparts in the past, this situation opens a lot of pandora boxes that could be disastrous to that state in the future. Israel is free in a very hostile region due to the strength and capabilities of its military and its universal system of conscription, both men and women. When you take away 20% (and growing) of potential soldiers to protect your country from enemies dedicated to wiping you off the face of the earth, you are undermining the future viability of the Israeli state to survive for a short term political gain.
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I am curious how much of Russia's GDP has been thrown into this reckless war, and how this compares with our own military spending.Perhaps a better question: Is Russia spending as much in Ukraine as we wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan?The US squandered so much in those wars. We face historic debt, raging inflation and a pending recession. Where would we be if we have spent those trillions fixing our broken schools, infrastructure, supply chains, high tech manufacturing base and jobs?Yes, the Russian oil sanctions are a failure, and almost seem to have been boobytrapped.A price cap enforced by a cartel of western oil- buying nations? This is not only illegal monopsonization, setting a terrible international precedent, but it cannot work when the world's largest countries -- China, India, Indonesia and more -- do not play ball.Sanctions? Biden's sanctions carefully excepted the international banks that drive the global oil trade, and when they were tightened, settlements simply moved off SWIFT onto rival platforms.We may not say the Russian or American economy is in tatters, that it is destroyed, that either nation lacks funds to continue this war. But we do face a choice: how many billions will be throw at Russia, instead of investing in our own people?
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The time to do that is at budget passage not debt limit passage. Debt limit passage is silly as it’s a way for Republicans to hold all of us hostage for bills and debts that have already been approved by Congress AND incurred. Not passing the debt limit just makes us a defaulter and a bad credit risk. It doesn’t reduce approved spending $0.01.
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michael kanellos And the solution to that is massive government intervention to bridge the gap between investment and returns, so the money people don't look elsewhere for quick profits. This has always been the case with nascent industries, like railroads in the mid-19th century and airlines in the mid-20th century.The free market does not like newer and unproven industries that require years to decades to become profitable and self-sustaining and government has to step in to get things going initially. That's what the supply-siders never get--or refuse to.
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" In the long run, the greatest hope we can have for China is its people. The greatest investment we can make in the coming decades of turbulence is to keep faith with them." It's always gross to see people like Brett fake solidarity with the Chinese people. It seems to me that, generally speaking, the Chinese people DO support their government much in the same way that the American people support their government. We might not understand the social contract they've made and warmongers like Brett might despise it but it's not our place to tell them how they should govern themselves. That's how we got the outcomes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria. Maybe Brett wants that for China but I don't.
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Before Schengen came into effect Europe had network of closed borders with little illegal border passing by other Europeans. The reason was similar economic situations on both sides of a border. If Mexico became more prosperous similar situations would mirror the United States and Americans would be trying to move there. There are no reasons for U.S. companies to get any tax breaks to invest in China, there should be every reason to invest in Mexico. And if Americans want to hold onto high skill jobs at a reasonable income, get a national health care plan and start reducing the cost of tertiary education.
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Kate this is why when DS says that “gay men must be doing something right” because they can stay in open marriages I think he assumes everyone wants/is ok with this. Yeah, maybe when two men are put together they don’t care that much about exclusivity, but it seems women aren’t as ok with it. I guess DS thinks they should be, but that’s just the same kind of imposition if values that he found so repressive in his parents’ generation.
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Pedigrees This coming directly on the heels of last week's "A couple making $400,000 in some cities is really struggling and can't afford a car nicer than a Camry, if they can afford a car at all" makes me realize just how out of touch Bret is.
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So, on a personal level what can you control on this issue?If you do not have family or business obligations in Florida don't spend your $$$ there.Look at it this way; if a store only had Red campaign signs in the window would you shop there? Well, that's Florida. Your $$$ has a voice.Use it for good.
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What sublime news to start off the new year. Thank you John Freeman Gill and the NYT for this great story about the phoenix rising from ashes on Audubon Terrace. It's wonderful to learn the Hispanic Society of America - Museum and Library are coursing with new life, working with and embracing their immediate neighbors and are about to throw open their magnificent doors to shine a light on the wealth of untapped and uncelebrated riches they hold to educate and engage us, and to help us better understand our neighbors and the gifts of the Hispanic community around us and south of our borders. These institutions have the power to inspire and enlarge our thinking and will give many of us an exciting new reason to visit the city, always a happy thought.
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George S. I bought a dozen eggs for $3.99 last week. Where are all these $6 eggs?
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For years I've used one gmail address on serious websites that I have a real relationship with, and another gmail address for less serious, one-off, and temporary logins.Evan after years. the serious gmail address receives very little spam, whereas the frivolous gmail address receives a steady stream. I only see those if I open the IMAP view and click to the Spam folder. There are some pretty nasty scams in there.Incidentally, I never log into my Google account unless there is a specific reason to manage the account. (I access all my email via the Outlook client.) This is one level of tracking reduction that I have control of.
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A NATO membership for Ukraine is just as good as a Declaration of War towards Russia. This is the core of problem from the beginning of that crisis in 2014.A look at Hitler's "Operation Barbarossa" - might be an eye-opener for some people who don't see Russia's national security interests.And imagine a military alliance of Russia, China, Iran, North Korea in Mexico.
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is it impolite to ask how many of the Republicans, dissident or otherwise, are Russian assets? their goal, as with Putin, is to create chaos and open the door to authoritarian rule.
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Thank you for debunking this popular partisan fiction. Clinton and Newt did indeed partner to get close to break even, but even that was on the back of Bush 41 breaking his no new taxes pledge, which temporarily contributed to a recession, which basically got Clinton elected, and then the additional tax revenue followed.
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Wines has multiple strikes against it with the new generation. First, craft beers and small batch whiskeys (especially bourbon) are making huge inroads, and their variety makes them far more attractive to the younger market than in the old days. Second, the learning curve for wine and its subtle differences takes years -- a new drinker can hardly identify grapes, let alone appreciate the difference between a $15 and $100 bottle with radically different appeals. Third is the lifestyle difference. Gen Z eat out much more, but home with a nice dinner is the best place to enjoy and share fine wine. And wine in restaurants with meals is very expensive - I usually see $12-$15 bottles of wine marked up 2-3X, so the bottle of $36-$45 wine is going to be average and unexciting at best - a table wine. Fourth are the cocktails when eating out - you can choose from 10 different martinis alone, and they are very tasty. Start with one and maybe have two. Even I am starting to choose a cocktail at dinner sometimes, for something different. Two can cost the same or less than a shared bottle of $60 wine. And for Gen Z it's mostly red or white. Forget the 5+ page wine list, it's irrelevant.Fourth, the best wines are very expensive and only for a small market - for bottles in the NYT wine articles $25+ is not unusual.The problem isn't marketing, it's the nature of the wine market itself. Wine is the new opera. The young can't replace the older markets for either.
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I have a 14 character password on Passwordsafe. With a supercomputer it would probably take a hacker a couple of years to break it. Since the hacker has no idea that the account they are trying to hack is worth $50or $5,000,000 I can't imagine why they would spend all their time and energy on my account.
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I don't know why people think our policies are so recent. Back in the 70's my brother was an armed immigration agent and it was his job to accompany busloads of illegal immigrants back over the border constantly. Obama deported more illegal immigrants than any president before him, even trump said so (it's on YouTube), We've never had open borders. That was a trump ploy to rile up his white base. Want to end/slow down illegal immigration? Crack down on companies that hire them.And then watch consumer prices skyrocket!
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A national debt at 1.51% of GDP is pretty eye opening, and the way we construct GDP ignores a lot of financial activity and capital so it's even lower in reality. The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card for America’s Infrastructure currently gives the US a C- grade. It was a D, for recent decades.That constitutes an unpaid debt: collapsing bridges, the FAA's obsolete Flight control system (NOTAMS), unaddressed EPA Superfund toxic waste sites; not to mention what it will cost when sea level rise requires 10-20% of the US population to move away from coastlines. As any homeowner knows, you fix the roof before it starts leaking. America has a "debt problem", and it's deferred maintenance, not an accounting exercise.
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Z Easy enough to fix that problem... just pay any undocumented worker who turns in their employer a $2000 bounty and give them (and any family in this country) an immediate green card.Once the first employer is arrested I can assure you that not a single other employer will put the risk of going to jail on whether their undocumented workers love them.Remember, nothing will ever change until a rich person goes to jail.
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I have to echo Florida Man V, that we don’t have enough facts at this time, and add that when the Special Counsel completes the Biden investigation the facts may even be more incriminating for the former VP, now President. It only appears that Biden has done the “right thing”, that is, alerting the DOJ and archives immediately upon finding classified documents and returning them the next day. The issue is whether he intentionally took classified documents from his former office as VP and brought them to his home and office, or whether he kept them there for an extended period of time knowing he possessed documents that should be in the archives and not his home or office. That is what the SC will investigate, and what we don’t know. It was Biden’s lawyers who acted expeditiously not Biden.Ironically, Trump had an iron clad defense, but could not help himself from being Trump. If he said he did not pack the boxes, did not know what was in them, did not personally do the searches, and then allowed the DOJ to search it would be case closed. Trump, however, obfuscated, obstructed and defied the DOJ with claims that he telepathically declassified documents, that he legally took them, and they were his personal documents. Trump likely committed criminal obstruction, conduct apart from wrongful possession.We know Trump is guilty of being Trump; based on the facts known to date, we don’t know if Biden has committed a crime or a mistake.
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It’s hard to wrap my head around $114 billion in revenue since the end of 2016 — for one single drug manufacturer. No wonder American medical costs are through the roof. It is high time for the people we elect to represent us start representing us and not the high priced lobbyists who are working for the pharmaceutical companies. Voters unite.
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Armed guard at the bank entrance and an open back door.
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This one trick pony, that is the American capitalist, sees population expansion as the only way to drive an economy. He doesn't think twice about how all that new housing, clothes, cars, is destroying our earth beyond repair. Wasn't there a recent story about 11 billion people being way too much to sustain? Use your imagination and find another metric for human happiness other than unbridled growth. Growth does not equal development or the answer to a better future for all. Tax the rich not the young.
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I'm glad Damar Hamlin seems to be making a strong recovery, and understand why his colleagues would be anguished and seeking solace when faced with such a catastrophic in-game injury. But if I was a formally religious person, I'd call the NFL's pushing of greed, hyper-violence, militarism and counterfeit piety as what it basically is: blasphemous.I've played and watched the game quite a bit over the years, and it has its moments of beauty - a perfect spiral pass landing in the fully-extended fingers of a diving receiver, an open field run, etc. - but the glorification of the above vices makes it beyond repair.
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the entire right wing has been off the deep end since Reagan. The moderates are on the left. This is not both sidism. Ilhan Omar's "radicalism" is she not christian and wearing hijab in the open. Quoting "Conscience of a Liberal" These people, all of them since Nixon, holler about cultural issues, shoot dog whistles on race, then get in office and do nothing but tax cuts for the ultra rich. Its' not a fringe. The leader of the GOP is Trump. South Carolina is a racist place. Ohio used to be purple. They have turned blood red as well. The big shift is working whites ran to the GOP after LBJ signed Civil Rights legislation prohibiting persecution of black people. Please quit pretending. Since Reagan they have all been hateful off the deep end. It is dishonest to talk about wonderful white moderate conservatives. This talk about reasonable conservatives resembles the 60s in only one way: white peace at the expense of black suffering.
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Police culture is rotten to the core, and has been for many decades, if not since the inception of police forces in this country.My brother was a horrible bully. He was prone to fits of rage. He would beat me. He beat our father once. He had a Confederate flag pinned to the ceiling in his room in which he hid drugs. Under his bed was an extensive collection of adult books he'd spend hours in our house's one bathroom perusing. He was a notorious bully in high school. He was feared by all except his partners in crime, and even among some of them. He loved that people feared him. He loved having power over others.His buddies in high school were a cabal of thieves and drug users and dealers. His best friend murdered a convenience store clerk with a bullet to the head at point blank for a few dollars. He finally met the law. A judge gave him two choices: go to jail or join the Marines. He chose the latter.It suited him, his personality. He got to be his true self and was rewarded for it. When he left active duty, guess what he became? A cop. It was just another gang, but now he had a gun and a badge. His cop stories were always centered on a black antagonist, as if whites never committed crime. He's still a cop, as far as I know, and still a patent bully. It's not surprising. Zebras can't change their stripes. It's not surprising he became a cop. He was a perfect fit for the culture, and the culture was a perfect fit for him. The culture is rotten.
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BL: Thanks for reminding me—Elvis was really good—the editing of the opening sequence alone was mind-blowing (there’s some serious competition in the editing category this year). And Butler carries the weight of this enormous production with such panache, as if playing Elvis were no big deal!
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Correction here is long overdue, may even spur a new round of investment. Sorry to everyone who lost their jobs.
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I speak as someone who attended an open enrollment community college and then a second tier state university. My high school grades and SAT scores would not have come close to qualifying me for any of the more elite universities.Nevertheless, I received an excellent education with professors who went on to teach at Yale and McGill. After graduation I made it through the very selective US State Department Foreign Service Officer process where many fail and few are chosen. I then spent almost 40 years in various demanding government positions, often surrounded by Ivy League graduates whose grammar and spelling I often had to correct.In sum, it really doesn’t matter where one learns. It is critical that one is driven to learn and to do their best in life.
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Psychoanalyst here. My advice is to resign yourselves to paying out of pocket. It’s fraud to give insurance a diagnosis for couples therapy. Also, you and your spouse/partner and family are worth the investment. What other more important needs do you have in order to be in that loving, trusting, happy bubble with him or her and your family? Try to do one session consults with three therapists and pick the one you both like and feel you can talk to most easily. Understand that most often the roots of your conflicts and unhappiness are not conscious; they are imbedded in your earlier experiences and within the constraints of the limits and delimits of your own narcissism and personality conflicts. That’s the work, excavating and healing these impediments to emotional intimacy and learning anew. Sounds daunting. Well yes, it’s a lot of hard work for you and your therapist. When there are children, I sometimes imagine them sitting with us hanging on every word as if their lives depended on it. In fact, their lives do.
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Michelle If a parent is poor and the children are hungry, what is the most logical solution? Obviously finding the food with the highest calorie to price ratio - that would be fast food, chips and sweets. My daughter lives part-time in Germany. High quality healthy food in grocery stores is cheaper there than here, I think because it’s partially subsidized. As well social and recreation programs are subsidized -one program that is particularly wonderful is the Bavaria train pass - on weekends 5 people can get unlimited travel for 1 day for about 35 dollars. Many families use this cheap transportation to go swimming or hiking in recreation areas. In Germany, of course, when you get to the top of the mountain hike, there will be a busy restaurant with strudel, hot chocolate, schnitzel and beer. In my experience, Europeans don’t deprive themselves, they certainly haven’t given up pastries and chocolate.
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Mike Nowhere did Mr. Bouie mention 'concealed carry'. He was clearly talking about 'open carry', and as such, I believe his opinion and reasoning are absolutely correct. I envision no situation where there is open carry to be anything other than an act of intimidation and lack of respect for others. It is always a sign of, and to be interpreted as a 'warning' to others that the gun carrier's rights supersede those of all others to go about their daily lives without incipient fears of intimidation.
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You’re allowed to not like him, but let’s get some facts straight.If you condemn his on court behavior, I hope you also condemn Serena Williams, whose on court tirades have been far, far worse.If you uphold Roger Federer as an exemplar of sportsmanship, you’ve never seen one of his petulant post-match interviews following a loss. Djokovic owns his losses — a mark of true sportsmanship in my book.If you call him selfish, how do you reconcile the considerable work he’s put in founding a new players association? Its success would benefit the whole sport, not just himself.He didn’t try and crash last year’s Australian Open. He followed vaccine exception protocols that were in place. Then people in authority changed their minds.Just admit you don’t like him and leave it at that. You’re entitled to your opinion.
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b fagan Right. Water management is not a modern issue. For CA, it includes groundwater aquifers, lakes, reservoirs, and rivers. Reservoirs do not have enough capacity for all use, agriculture at 80%, and urban 20%. Snow melt in the Sierra Nevada mtns to rivers supplies most water through the warmer months, but when not sufficient groundwater extraction supplements, it's a real problem because prolonged groundwater pumping during extended dry periods has severely depleted most aquifers. Another issue is runoff during excessive episodic rainfalls and storms, because the ground cannot absorb it all, so that even if yearly rainfall totals are met reservoirs and groundwater are not replenished.Also with warmer weather & storms snowpacks are shrinking even if total precipitation is not.Additionally, dry soil absorbs less, and cannot absorb all the rainfall which this leads to flash flooding.Areas east of Sacramento recently had 17 inches of rain in abt 48 hrs., most as runoff, which does not replenish reservoirs or aquifers. In addition, when rivers are at capacity their flood mitigation is useless.There is little feasible way to increase and provide enough reservoir storage. Most of the problem must be managed through consumption, and don’t get me going on energy consuming desalination plants, and having to manage all the resulting solids and minerals and mountains of salt.
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The tax gap is what the IRS should be collecting and what it is collecting is currently at $500 Billion a year. Close that by 3/4 would solve some problems without raising taxes.or bold IRS reforms. See NPR's Planet Money Podcate 'Tax Hero'. For wage earners, which most Americans are, The IRS already has your information. They send you a card. John Q. Public the IRS believes you own $X amount. If you disagree, please fill out forms and send in what you think. We will get back to you.Most people will fill simply send in the check. But the accountants, tax preparation businesses, and a political party wants to make taxes painful and difficult.
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MS: Invests $10B into ChatGPT and then immediately lays off 10,000 workers to pay for it.
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Cat Did you know: that in the time and with the money Putin is currently spending to commit an International Law-breaking genocide in Ukraine... he could buy every SINGLE citizen of his own country of Russia their VERY own indoor toilet?Amazing-- I know!Because, indeed: almost 1 out of 4 Russians (22.6%!) STILL have to go outside, toilet-lessly, and use an outhouse -- like it's still the 1800's... and they're an old prospector -- despite Russia having rich natural resources that should ensure every resident there a wealthy lifestyle, with basic welfare necessities duly provided for... by State petro-dollars!(It's almost as if some kleptocrat-leaches were skimming all the People's money off the top, right??)Well, this is a huge missed opportunity, here.Invest in your own people -- not in killing others -- Dictator Stupid!It really is the best Deal around.And it will make everyone richer far more effectively than banging on the drums of War....Which only bring Poverty and Loss, Famine and Regret in their wake.
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Send Santos back to Brazil NOW! Whatever else he’s done or is suspected of doing, he’s got an actual open criminal case facing him there. Let’s get him out if the country and away from the levers of power here, along as keeping him away from his criminal associates in the U.S. We can continue the investigations while he’s cooling his heels in some Brazilian detention facility. As for Kevin McCarthy, he KNOWINGLY swore in Santos when everyone in the entire country knew that his constitutional qualifications to serve are in doubt. That is criminal malfeasance and abuse of his office by Kevin. It’s also bribery: Kevin swore in Santos in return for his vote for Kevin’s Speakership. Talk about your classic quid-quo-pro corrupt deal! Kevin needs to be under arrest, too! RIGHT NOW! Why, in God’s name, do we tolerate this? No wonder the Republic is on its last kegs!
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China’s cultural arrogance kept the Wuhan wet markets open after SARS and gave the world COVID. (To be fair, American cultural arrogance gave the world the Trump crime family.) China, especially Xi, has lost face so badly at this point, that they have no ground to stand upon for refusing screenings of their citizens at airports, except more cultural arrogance. Science facts don’t care about about the egos of failed politicians.
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It's funny how we are constantly told that there's a worker shortage in the U.S., accompanied by absurdly low unemployment numbers. And then we are informed by this article that the Government is spending trillions on public works projects. And in the background we're aware that there's some $1.6 Trillion in outstanding college loans, most of which will never get paid because the university educations they bought don't even provide a living wage. Not to mention the massive homelessness problem in the U.S.So, is there or isn't there a worker shortage in the U.S.? Or is the shortage, and the unemployment statistics, just another disinformation campaign?
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This article doesn't tell us what Hunter Biden was doing for the Ukrainian natural gas company to earn his $50,000/month.
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Mr. Krugman, you are right to point out entitlement spending is a big part of the budget. However, house republicans have always wanted to convert Medicaid in block grants which will cut healthcare spending. Freedom caucus has also proposed means testing for social security an Medicare which will reduce those costs as well. Secondly, funding IRS hurts the poor more than the wealthy. I normally do my taxes with turbo tax which costs about 200 dollars and if you pay just 600 dollars extra, you get audit defense assurance and tax filings are examined by CPA. The total of 800 dollars is pocket change for many middle class families but it is a big amount for restaurant workers and gig workers. Most wealthy people do not cheat on taxes, it is congress which has written in loopholes. Mr. Trump was paying just 750 dollars in taxes and it was legal and congress is to blame for writing such a bad tax code. Unlike democrats who want high tax rates but write in numerous loopholes to reward their constituencies, republicans believe in low tax rates with almost no deductions.
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The Democrats and the Republicans should wake up and recognize the unique opportunity that exists to eliminate, or at least greatly curtail, the threat to democracy posed by the 20 members who chase click bait over substance. The process of election of the speaker has all twenty of them collected in a proverbial room, giddy over all the attention they are receiving. An agreement that brings those republicans who still want a functioning government into partnership with democrats who value the same would be a hand grenade. All that is needed is to pull the pin, open the door, and toss it in! Announce to the 20 that because they will not support the institution there will be no rule changes, no committee assignments, no party funding, ethics investigations, and a guarantee of a well funded primary opposition opponent. The situation is eerily similar to 2016 when anyone with a set could have stopped Trump in his run but they couldn't muster the courage. It is clear where the current path leads. Someone has got to pull the pin! Both sides benefit from the elimination of the rabble rousers and from obtaining a functional government for the next 2 years. Do the Democrats have the foresight to see the possibilities of such a compromise? Can the Republicans see that they are at the edge of the cliff unless action is taken? Out of the remaining 414 members it is not possible to find 218 who value what this country has to offer?
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For LW2: Don't involve other family members (which sounds gossipy and intrusive) and don't lean into the adoption angle. One time, and one time only, LW2 should follow up on the tearful phone call with the prospective mom to ask, "Are you sure this is the right time to consider expanding your family? I'm always here as a sounding board if you want to talk more." And, if the sister is not receptive, drop it. The agency looks out for the child's interest; the larger extended family does not get a say in this couple's family making plans.
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The GOP only gets deficit "religion" when a dem is in office--the don't mind the cognizant dissonance. They certainly won't acknowledge that the last supply side tax cut caused the deficit to jump immediately to 1 trillion from 650 billion before covid hit. With over 31 trillion in debt, the issue is insoluble.
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Zoning is an extremely important tool for citizens to have some control over unbridled capitalism. My suburban town was and is being over run with shoddy apartment homes, no additional infrastructure, no additional open spaces, no space added to the schools, no bike paths, no additional parking at the train station. New Jersey is probably the most densely populated state in the nation and also one of the most expensive-more housing does not lead to affordability, it leads to overcrowding. I would not like it if my neighbor built a house in their backyard and zoning is stopping them from doing it. I would not have bought a home if I thought that the zoning could be pulled out from under us. Suburbs are nice because of zoning, we should not destroy them. No reason an elder can’t live in the home with their kids, build an addition for goodness sake, share the kitchen.
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Had Türkiye not avoided adopting a hostile attitude towards Russia, it would not have succeeded in acting as an intermediary between Ukraine and Russia in getting the two nations to agree to POW exchanges and to the Black Sea Grain Initiative signed in Istanbul, Turkiye on 22 July 2022 allowing safe passage for grain shipments from Ukraine and Russia to Western Europe and to some of the starving nations of Africa. As a result of which as of 2 December 2022, over 12 million tons of grain and other foodstuffs have been exported. An accomplishment lauded by our own US Department of State as well as the UN Secretary General.On the other hand, despite Armenia's sanction busting, Congress earmarked $45 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 US aid to Armenia and $24 million in US assistance to Armenia was contained in the White House FY 2023 budget proposal. This despite the fact that Armenia has been a full member since 1994 in Russia's Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military alliance and houses two russian bases on its territory.The U.S. Treasury Department's top sanctions official, Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson is scheduled to travel to Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey from Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 and meet with government officials as well as businesses and financial institutions to reiterate that Washington will continue to aggressively enforce its sanctions. It will be interesting to see what those countries have to say.
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So the Republicans are determined to cut Social Security and Medicare as a condition of increasing the debt ceiling. Let's look at how we got here. The four presidents with the worst deficits have been Barack Obama (D), Donald Trump (R), George W. Bush (R), and Ronald Reagan (R). Pres. Obama was, of course, rescuing the economy from the near total collapse wrought under George W. Bush. President Clinton (D) not only submitted a balanced budget, but he left office with a budget surplus. President Bush (R) spent that surplus and ran up a $3.29 deficit, in part due to a big tax cut. Pres. Obama (D) improved the economy, but could not escape the Bush deficit and the costs of the economic collapse. Trump (R) championed and won another giant tax cut, promising it would pay for itself. it failed to do so by $1.5 trillion, and Trump left office with a $3.9 trillion deficit. He also, in just 4 years, increased 230 years of national debt by 25%. President Biden has reduced the deficit in part with his plan to collect unpaid taxes owed by the rich--which Republicans are trying to stop. It seems apparent that the cause of the deficits are lack of enforcement by the IRS and il- advised tax cuts for the rich. Rather than reduce Social Security and Medicare, the remedy should be to immediately sunset tax cuts and assure funding for IRS enforcement as to owed but unpaid taxes.
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Joseph Fair share is no tax dodges/loopholes/Trumpness. $76 BILLION in profits? Pay 30% in taxes for a start.
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One only look to Russia to see what a crumbling infrastructure looks like. And even when it invests in infrastructure it gets bilked and pilfered so many times down through its corrupt bureaucracy chain that the end result is a shell of itself. A prime example is Vlad’s only aircraft carrier is out of commission now because the bottom 1/3 of the hull is rusting at an alarming rate. Investing in infrastructure is a good good thing. Im all for it. Every time I travel abroad I ‘m reminded how wonderful our interstate highway system is. It’s just this debt we are incurring is bothersome. This is no small amount of money by any stretch. It simply cannot be understood how much debt this is. I went through my starving artist phase in my 20’s but since then I’ve been fiercely proud of rebuilding my credit rating in the 40 years since then. I would curious to know how our Federal Government would rate.
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Maani Rantel They are both running because they both want to be Senators, and are not about to defer to anyone. Barbara Lee will also receive a lot of support, but I wonder if she can muster the $20 million it will take to make it to the general election, and another $20 or more to be competitive?
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And suddenly Gen Z begins to understand that demanding lots of accommodations while doing little work is only a winning strategy in the good times. Welcome to your first recession. may it be an eye opening experience.
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Sorry for the gratuitous double post. I posted this earlier today around 2pm Eastern (wordplay comment dead zone), but very few replies. So I wanted to post again for discussion.***Last night, I commented that I was surprised an experienced constructor with 108 published NYT xwords would think this could run on a Wed or Thurs. Reading today's comments, some agree it could have been a Wed, as it stood, and some thought it is fine as a Monday, again as it stood.Bob T replied to me with the comment "in fairness, we don't know what changes the editors made in the clueing...but with different clueing I could easily see it on a Wednesday"Very fair point. So I am posting to ask a community question, what makes a puzzle a Mon vs a Sat? Let's ignore the theme/themeless aspect of those days. I am going with 75% clueing / 15% entries / 10% grid design. Sure Sat might have some archaic 7th old French term, but in general, I think what makes the Saturday hard is the wordplay of the clueing, and the fact that many Sat grids don't give you many entry points into a corner (sure, there are those stacked 3x15 super open designs as well). Does anyone know of an article/video of a constructor that has (for fun?) made a puzzle, and adjusted the clueing for Mon->Sat, while keeping the same entries and grid design? I think that would be very neat to see, and so instructive (especially for newer solvers).
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I have high hopes for The Last of Us, and this is a good article about the potential for video game adaptations for TV, but NYT completely ignored Arcane when it released. The general public seems to shrug off anything animated without giving it a chance. NYT didn't even include Arcane in the annual Best-Of lists which is just objectively wrong. Arcane is one of the best TV shows made in the last decade (if not longer), and deserves to be talked about in the same way that Breaking Bad, Chernobyl, Band of Brothers, and other all-time great TV shows are discussed.This article should have been written a year ago called "Can 'Arcane' Unlock a Gaming Gold Mine for TV."Everything in Arcane is top-notch quality. The music and score, the dialogue, the flawed characters, the action, the ground-breaking animation techniques mixing 2D and 3D, the fantastical world-building, etc.The father figures, sister relationships, the brothers, mentors, scientists, politicians, the haves and have-nots, the poor working conditions leading to health problems, the opportunity for education and climbing the proverbial ladder, the role technology plays between improving lives and leading to dangerous weapons. So many important and potent themes discussed with no much nuance and care.I'm still a little bitter that NYT (and other great publications) didn't give Arcane the respect that it earned if you couldn't tell.There are three episodes in each arc for a total of nine episodes. Go watch it
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I remember when Paul Ryan wanted cuts to Social Security.I imagine a lot of the Fox News audience is on Social Security and Medicare.And Bernie Sanders and others have said for some time to get rid of the $144K limit on paying Social Security tax and that would go a long way to making Social Security solvent.But the Fox News audience will never know any of this.The wealthy and Wall St. thank them for voting for Republicans and Republican tax cuts for the wealthy and they are laughing all the way to the bank.
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Bill-You suggest that we avoid running into things because we have a nervous system and sensory apparatus that tells us where we are. But there's an even more fundamental reason why we avoid running into things. It's because we really, really don't want to cause injury or death, either to ourselves or others. All the technological bells and whistles don't reproduce this ultimate motivation behind our actions, which is to *not* increase suffering. When they produce an AI with this deep understanding of suffering (and the overriding desire to avoid it) as the fundamental basis of its decision-making, then we may (perhaps) be on the way to an AI that we might be confident entrusting with our safety, the safety of those we love, and the safety of society.We have a word for decision makers who lack empathy for the suffering of others -- we refer to them as "sociopaths." At the moment it is clear that Tesla vehicles (and by extension, Musk himself as their creator) are, for all practical purposes, sociopathic entities.
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This is simply a positive spin on the fact that Ukraine is relying on mercenary soldiers to fight this US proxy war against Russia.The fear is Western Europe becoming more aligned with Russia as trading partners through dependence on their gas. The US was openly opposing the Nord Stream II pipeline, the coup in Ukraine, the heavy arming of the government through a constant flow of C-5 convoys, and the ongoing civil war and heavy shelling of the people of Donbas, was the provocation Washington needed to engage Russia and end the alliance with Western Europe.This all started with the execution of Gaddafi under the UN Security Council supported no-fly-zone, which Russia and China supported. They were betrayed when it turned into another regime change action against a nonaligned country, strong supporter of anti-imperialism, and oil rich exporter.This was followed by the aggressive attempt to remove Assad, another Russian ally. The 2014 coup against the Ukrainian government following the decision to maintain alliances with Russia while Victoria Nuland designed the new government from her embassy office continued the US policy of regime change. Meanwhile, Guido attempts to overthrow the leftist government in oil-rich Venezuela and receives a standing ovation as he appears before a joint session of congress and the Pentagon announces that it is shifting focus toward major power conflicts.Is China, our real competitor, the ultimate goal of “Novus ordo seclorum”.
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I thought the egg prices were bad enough but now its 70 Million for a duplex penthouse?Thanks Joe Biden
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When I started investing in the early 70s I was lucky to find a couple of mentors who drilled some basics into my brain:1 the optimal investing strategy is get rich slow2 learn the rule of 72 which means that one should divide that number by a certain rate of return and that will indicate how quickly a person could double their money. Since the average rate of return over the last 200 or so years is about 6% that means it takes about 12 years to double one's money in the stock market (this works well with rule #1)3 put as much money as possible in your company's 401K to get the "free money" company match4 invest for the long term (again see rule.#1)
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The problem with gold as a medium of exchange began when the US, under Nixon, cut us loose from the last metal standard, long after the US barred private ownership of the metal, fixed at a cost of $35 an ounce, stabilizing the dollar.From, at the latest, the early Middle Ages on, precious metals barely moved in price - debased coinage changed value, but roughly a quantity of pure gold bought you 25 quantities of pure silver, and 25 quantities of copper bought you a quantity of silver.If coins were known not to be debased - creating several French panics during the 100 Years War, one could buy groceries with copper cents, the quantity depended on the availability of food.Silver pennies were valuable, and the main upper-level coinage of retailers, while the wholesale and shipping trade, and the aristocracy, based their lifestyles on gold.You could buy groceries for a given weight of metal - and - with standardized weights, one didn’t even need an officially minted coin, just a couple of bottles of acid, possibly color needles and a streak plate to buy a hell of a lot of food with gold.Of course, the supply of metal and demand (18th-20th Century building, plumbing and electrification caused the relative value of copper to skyrocket, huge gold finds in the US west, followed by Alaska and Russia cut the value of the metal, but an increasing population neutralized most of the effect.Yes, fixed metal prices could have stabilized currencies if there was honesty on reserved.
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I’ve thought about how I would escape from every single classroom in my school. Whether or not the windows would break. If a shooter came in, where would I hide? How many people would fit behind the furniture, and who would be left out in the open? I wonder if I would be able to sprint fast enough. If hiding would do anything at all. If I heard gunshots from this side of the school, which hallways would I use? I have a pre-written message for my family and friends so that if I were ever in a situation like that, I could say goodbye. I cannot comprehend how many people would rather have an America with unfettered access to guns than an America without slaughtered children. It makes me sick. My generation has grown up with lockdown drills alongside fire drills. I remember being in first grade hiding against the wall, looking at my new water bottle, and wondering if my mother would have to come and pick it up if I were shot at school. None of us should have to live like this.
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Who does ”Wall Street” think it is to demand favors from the US Treasury? I know they think they own the country and in large part, due to the massive inequality they have manufactured, they actually do. And they own the government to the extent that they pay for them to be elected and then they control them. But I had no idea of the hubris of Wall Street to tell the US Treasury what to do, even though we have had a string of terrible treasury secretaries from Goldman Sachs – looking at you Mnuchin – who have done Wall Street bidding. Now it’s out in the open. Good. Here’s hoping the American people will finally see the light and demand Congress actually regulate Wall Street.
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I suspect the Freedom Caucus and its allies have little problem with the US defaulting on its debt. A government in tatters, one that has lost legitimacy, fits into whatever one might call their governing philosophy. Trump's version of MAGA is likely some time in the 1950s. For the Freedom Caucus crew, their image of the "wild west" fits their eye: no credible government, men fully armed, wandering the streets. Boebert would fit right in! But seriously, taking the nation to the "brink" in this debate, come what may, is the point. The speaker battle compelled McCarthy literally, and in public I might add, to appeal to Gaetz for support. Imagine the groveling that occurred behind closed doors. No. Gaetz and his buddies want to bring the whole deal to halt, watch it smolder for a spell, just because they have the power to do so.Implicit in any debate in most governments "of the people" is an interest in solving problems, getting to a finished product. But compromise has become so vilified by many on the right (and sadly the left as well), that the basics of government have become nearly impossible. The debt ceiling is a great example. But those debating in good faith, both Democrats and Republicans, must realize that many of their colleagues have no interest in reaching any viable solution. That is not their goal. Chaos. A government with no credibility. Those are their goals.
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" I’m sorry Biden didn’t invest the kind of political capital into immigration reform that he did into the infrastructure and climate change bills."This is the kind of nonsense that pops up whenever I think Bret sounds like a normal person rather than a partisan. We have the most successful and serious bipartisan efforts by a president in decades, yet somehow it's his fault when Republicans won't play ball on immigration. Ridiculous.
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ReggieM you mean $600,000. Do the math.
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"Kevin A. Hassett, a chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under Mr. Trump, warned in a National Review column this week that the total national debt could reach nearly double the size of the annual economy 30 years from now if Congress did not stop spending growth.No, Biden and the Democrats have dramatically decreased the deficit.What we need to do is to reverse the Republican Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have thrown us deeply into debt.
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This has been a problem for decade in America. One example is Colchicine used to treat gout, a remedy so old that the ancient Greeks knew about its effects. It has been marketed in the US since the mid-late 1800s. In 2009, the FDA granted URL Pharma approval in exchange for URL Pharma doing 17 new studies and investing $100 million into the product, of which $45 million went to the FDA for the application fee. URL Pharma raised the price from $0.09 per tablet to $4.85, and the FDA removed the older colchicine from the market in October 2010,
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D, laws often have to be revisited because of unintended consequences, but I think pay range transparency is good for all employees. Most companies will continue to have pay ranges that are fairly broad (i.e., $60,000 to $95,000), but making those ranges known gives employees the tools they need to negotiate their compensation.
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Maybe we could propose ending the $360 billion student loan buyout.
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"Mr. Pichai declared a 'code red'."It's easy to forget that before Google had $0.01 in profits, it did have 25m in the bank just a few months after incorporating -- and this from one of the storied VC firms in the valley.In short, there simply is no threat at all here for Google. With literally billions in the bank now, if chatbots or any other technology threatens its business, Google can simply buy up or create a similar solution.The "code red" here is not chatGPT. No, the "code red" is Google itself -- a dangerous firm which will challenge the core freedoms upon which America was built.
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AI is a threat to the elite classes.Crappy writers will lose their jobs. Same with crappy lawyers, accountants, and other info workers.The college-educated class may experience what open borders and globalization mean to the US working class.
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faivel1 "but at some point if there's no accountability it will be all futile."There's been no accountability for a lot of open, visible sins by people in power in this nation's history, but at least when we read of it generations later we're disgusted and think "Those were primitive times. We've got to do better now."Barr, Durham, and their ilk may make at least that much of a positive contribution to our nation. Lord knows they haven't made any other kind.
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It's time that we reevaluate our relationship with foreign countries and which ones we decide to send billions of dollars. From where I sit, the return on our investment in Israel is a very poor indeed. The days of Soviet-American divides in the Middle East are long gone. Israel has diplomatic relations with it's most potent former enemies, and is more than capable of taking care of those that it doesn't have relations with without our sending billions to a government that is curtailing rather than expanding the rights of it's citizens.The bottom line: we've been on a never-ending conveyor belt of sending money to Israel with little accountability. Time to reexamine how, why and how much we send to the Jewish state.
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Your first sentence is an accurate assessment of the mood of the majority of American voters. However, the curtain has opened on the 2024 elections. The Biden-led government has an excellent opportunity to use the four major pieces of legislation passed in the first two years to demonstrate that it can do a lot of good for the country.They have the funds to address long-standing problems that threaten the future of the U.S. and the planet. So, I recommend the Administration concentrate on analyzing and generating R&D programs like technology competitions that will propel market-driven solutions to our most persistent problems.For example, the complex energy issue of transitioning away from fossil fuel combustion, which affects the fundamental basis of our quality of living is an opportunity for the U.S. to strengthen its leadership. Chips are important but there are dozens of technologies that are equally as critical. The phenomenon of superconductivity is one of those technologies that has fantastic potential. Achieving zero electrical resistance is possible at higher and higher temperatures and superconducting magnet makers are now able to achieve superconductivity at liquid nitrogen temperatures so this alone is a dramatic achievement.I am certain that the U.S. economy would benefit if we tested and competed the American scientist-invented system for superconducting transport for carrying both passengers and freight. It is fast, safe, and zero emissions.
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Excellent, absolutely excellent piece.'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."When distrust “pervades democratic relations,” Allen writes, “it paralyzes democracy; "I feel like I'm quoting every paragraph of this column, it is just so powerful.Living in fear is no living at all.How humans can submit to that, as far as we know we only have one life to live.So before we try to figure out why so many UFOS couldn't be identified, let's find the solutions to live our life without persistent fear for your family, for your grandkids, for the people you love.Fear is really poisonous for your life.
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Ann Onymous. I am sorry for your loss. Truly.But this is an issue worthy of public discussion as well as private. Comments you disagree with are simply that. I have direct experience with Trans friends who welcome debate on matters involving children and their rights, and their parents input in these weighty issues.It can be a painful conversation, of course. But when the conversation extends to schools and the privacy of minors...well we're in territory of custodial responsibility, aren't we? The decisions made may be life changing, right? Can an 8-year old make that? A 13- year old?These are minors and it's an unbearable strain to put the entire responsibility for sharing on the school, but yet there it is. How it's shared is important.
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“On average, people seem to be saying that they’re doing reasonably well but that very bad things are happening to somebody else.“What planet are you on, Dr. Krugman? Obviously, not the same one I occupy. Please quit being such a partisan cheerleader for the Biden administration and do an honest analysis.An alternative and more accurate interpretation of the dichotomy in answering the survey is that people right now are indeed doing ok economically. However, every time they shop online, go into a store, or open a bill, they are smacked in the face by how much and how fast prices are going up. Further, for over a year now, the value of their 401(k)’s have been underwater. Consequently, they fear (not unreasonably!) that their current “ok” situation could soon reverse. In other words, they view their personal situation as akin to occupying a small and not particularly stable boat in a large and stormy ocean.
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TDOhio Nope, it's going to be exactly, exactly the same. I'm certain Ms. Haberman the rest of the Trump trolling ecosystem are salivating to get the band back together.But the country's moved on. 2022 proves Trump doesn't sell to anyone but the brainwashed MAGA nation. More Trump means more democrat control, so we should rejoice and welcome him back with open arms. He is now the angel of death for the GOP.
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I think there is a certain 'skew' to the framing here, in the sense that the verbs and metaphors suggest a kind of footrace between two runners or teams. The U.S. actively trying to hobble, contain, hold back China, instead of just 'running faster'. This misses or at least pushes into the background, the frame of the larger system, (of rules, ethical behavior, etc.); i.e.: that the runners are not quite running on the same track any more, or rather that the 'race' is not so much for GDP or technological 1st place, but to determine who will write and enforce the rules of competition-cooperation. The fact that playing under the normative rules of the existing 'world order' has become something of an existential threat to Chinese leadership, as would be ceding it to China for the U.S. , this, seems to me a more objective, constructive 'frame' for the discussion.Not that the personal undertones don't exist, or that the U.S. doesn't have an obligation to continually check its glaring priors on this account...but the subtle front footing of those tones, (from a former Biden official in this case), can contribute to a kind of corrosive diffidence in speech on the center left...which in turn leaves credible open the space for language like that of the former president, et. al.
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A player in modern economies who is totally ignored is the Hand-To-Mouth Consumer (H-T-MC).Worldwide, there must be tens of billions of us.We are the people who live, day-in-and-day-out, from the flow of money (largely cash) through an economy.H-T-MCs buy and consume. H-T-MCs live on the brink.H-T-MCs don't invest; they save small amounts, if any at all. By and large, they are not "credit-worthy."On statistical graphs, H-T-MCs are a massive swarm of data points that cannot be distinguished as individuals.I believe that there are relatively recent research reports that suggest that central banks should be pumping money/cash into the pockets of H-T-MCs in order to strengthen the entire economy without fostering the financial excesses of the individuals who have too much.Economists need to start thinking outside their neat little boxes, like interest rates and investment-grade bonds.
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Why am I getting the impression these Comments reflect the chasm between those incensed at being unwitting participants in a potentially-lethal beta test of buggy self-driving software and a bunch of tech fanboys who may also have a cost basis in their TSLA shares north of $200?Caveat emptor et exactoris!
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J. von Hettlingen In the late 90's nations like Poland and Romania offered greater training opportunities than other older NATO nations, including all night flight operations, large maneuver areas, large caliber live fire, and new purpose built barracks. It was a savvy investment on their part.
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Lynn In some ways, you're comparing apples and oranges. Both our children earned their master's degrees in England. Both degrees were completed in one year as opposed to the more common two in the U.S. However, the time investment was actually quite similar They attended classes a mandatory five days per week and for more hours than are common in the States. They also had far more outside assignments to complete.On a more personal note, I wish college was still as cheap as it was when I started in 1968. I graduated with 40+ hours more than required. That allowed me to explore lots of different subjects, learn across disciplines, and ultimately have the time and freedom to be certain as to my major. I was able to pay the majority of the costs by working full-time in the summers and part-time during the academic year, something virtually impossible in the present time.
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IMHO did you realize that nursing home cost about $12,000./month. that can put a family into bankruptcy very quickly. while there are nursing home costs for one there may be 1 to 3 other people who require care (or more). there are also the children who face daunting costs for a university education. in china, if you pass the exams, the college education is covered. you also have to consider your own retirement and not being a burden to your children. we do not have the advantages of other "developed" countries and very little is subsidized. in order to spend down for medicaid the other partner is left with very little resources. life is expensive but growing old and infirmed is extremely expensive and people do not want to pay the taxes for a more inclusive care plan.
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jrd "Funny"? Well, I'm a playwright, with a show opening in NYC this weekend (presented by TOSOS at The Flea). "Funny," I've had my plays professionally produced since the last century (including in the late NYC Fringe festival which was [gasp] curated and juried!), and have been involved in indie theater as a playwright, producer and (God forbid!) a curator of drama and literary works my whole working life."Funny," I'm also on the standing committee for Festivals and Contests for the Dramatists Guild, where a number of dedicated playwrights work to develop Best Practices for our Guild.Frigid has always accepted the first 10 plays submitted, no questions asked (and I know people around the world waiting at their computers to hit "Send" the night applications open.)"Funny," but independent theater is my passion and my avocation. I'm proud to have worked in it for many years, and to work in the community so that others can present their work."Funny," I've also edited literary anthologies and magazines, and "curated" the selection of 10 or 15 pieces from 200 or so submissions."Funny," I wonder whether you actually attend indie theater at all."Funny."I do not think that word means what you think it means.
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Chef Boyardee - Back in reality, “the Democrats” did not “defund the police.” However, President Biden and “the Democrats” did: More than double the amount spent on the COPS hiring program Add funding to hire more than 300 agents, investigators, and personnel at the ATF In the American Rescue Plan funded $350 billion in state and local funding, and $122 billion in K-12 funding to invest in hiring officers for accountable community policing, as well as crime prevention and intervention Add $554 million to bolster federal law enforcement capacity, and an additional $126 million for the COPS Office At DOJ, the budget adds $20.6 billion in funding for federal law enforcement and state and local law enforcement and crime prevention programs, an increase of 11% over FY22 enacted ($18.6 billion) and 18% over FY21 enacted ($17.5 billion)The truth does not line up with your “alternative facts.”
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If this travesty of George Santos (if that's his real name) being elected to Congress points out anything, it's the obvious disaster of campaign financing. Who would pay $3-8 million to acquire an office that will pay in return $175K for 2 years, then repeat the same process at an even greater $ amount? I think the SCOTUS is corrupted, as exposed in the "Citizens United" decision. Money has never been "free speech". Money is CONTROLLED speech, extortion and bribery, which corrupts and controls the recipient of said funds, to do the bidding of the donor. Any fool can see that. Anyone who believes otherwise is hopelessly naive. Once Santos is bounced out, we need to Federally fund all elections. No individual donations. If you want to support, get out on the street and knock on doors. OUR DEMOCRACY IS BEING CORRUPTED BY MONEY.
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Vin Agreed! I have lived simply and worked hard my entire adult life ad never made over 100K....not even close. And I've been in NYC since '95
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BK Historically, we have not 0% interest, as we have for the last 22 years. In 2000, we lowered rates to a point that we created a housing bubble, with disastrous consequences.The Bankers loved going to the Fed and borrowing through their money for 0% and charging their borrowers obscene rates for credit cards, while paying the lowest rates of interests on savings accounts/money market accounts. Wages have been a losing proposition for all workers below the Officer level of a Company, while the Government and Business tinkered with the GDP model. As a retiree and Homemaker, I can assure you that inflation in this Country has been well ABOVE 2% for the last 20 years. It all depends on what they leave out of the model for GDP….like the real numbers for the costs of food, transportation, and housing. That has been the case, no matter the Party in charge. We bought a tricked out GMC 2500 Truck in 2011 for $38K….that same truck today is $65K+. Food has gone up consistently and we have gone through merchants selling us less of a product and charging us more. It’s all about the greed by a few, affecting all of us. It is called living in an Oligarchy, not a free market. Look at any industry…4-5 big players in that space. That business models inhibits growth, entrepreneurship, and real competition. It makes billionaires of a few, at the expense of working people and basically, the financial health of this Country .
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As a former elementary teacher that has lived in city, rural, and suburban areas as well as overseas, I can tell you a way to unite our country is to expose those rural kids to the city- more weeklong camps with other diverse groups. At the same time let those city kids have a week on a farm and enjoy the benefits of the country. It would open eyes and hearts. Also, the dying small towns should be given tax breaks if they can attract the WFH crowd with good affordable housing and stellar education. Why can’t we get quality teachers to swap schools every few years with a pay increase in rural areas? College students should get masters credits/tuition cuts for teaching in rural areas. It seems what holds us back the most is fear of change.
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Viv NM differs, as usual... Over 65 is $5/credit hour up to 10/semester but, recently, the state universities now offer "free tuition" to the youngsters with some conditions... details: <a href="https://hed.nm.gov/free-college-for-new-mexico" target="_blank">https://hed.nm.gov/free-college-for-new-mexico</a>. I took a slew of art classes over the years.
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yes
| 6,761 |
Trotter Microsoft had over $100 BILLION in cash reserves in 2022. Cash reserves are like their savings for a rainy day. Really, they don't think they can make payroll during a mild recession with $100 BILLION?
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yes
| 6,643 |
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