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ISR I like your boxing analogy about "The UKpunched above its weight...." Such a fighter can look good in the opening rounds and may even get a quick knckout of the opponent, but as the fight goes on it's harder to win. Britian added the extra weight of Brexit to the ongong baggage of the Crown , its history of colonization, and oppression of Ireland ,etc. It is no longer "Great Britain " and never was.
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The statement from Pebble is pathetic and sad. Claiming that the "pre-emptive action" by "the Biden EPA" "against Pebble is not supported legally, technically, or environmentally," almost masks the desperate greed they have. These open pit mines have destroyed more than just fisheries. Once the minerals are extracted, the environmental disasters through maintenance lapses begin. Pebble is also projecting when they say the EPA is acting politically. Pebble has desperately played politics from the very beginning..., lying, gaslighting, and marketing the heck out of this disastrous plan to the locals for over a decade. Stay strong EPA.
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Kristi "Before the government raises taxes on anyone, I would prefer that they collect back taxes already owed but not paid."Bingo, Yahtzee, spot-on!That's $500,000,000,000/year additional cash flow into our federal tax pool. So do we want to reduce our national debt or not? (If we do, here's a giant step toward that goal.)
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Daisy's Cute Little Doghouse I can write a tome supporting your point.But just a single example to illustrate exactly what you said.By some estimates, Rupert Murdoch cashed over 50 billion from 2001 to 2012 peddling a 24/7 WAR ON TERROR ON HIS SEWER POND - AKA FIX NEWS.Only 6 weeks after the 9/11 attacks, Murdoch had the infamous 24 TV series ready to go. An American hero who is on a holy mission to kill terrorists. Murdoch ran this charade around the country for 9 years non-stop on his FOX TV outlets. I firmly believe Murdoch cashed on 9/11 more than Lockheed, Raytheon, GD, and NG combined. The genius of it: Murdoch never had to fire a single bullet.
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Christy The bot’s solve, today in two surely looks suspicious. I suspect it was a word chosen not so much as a target answer, but rather the one the provided the maximum amount of information. That is central to the algorithm we call “the bot”. In this case that max info choice just happened to be the solution. Interestingly 7% of hard mode Wordle players who used the bot’s opening word also got it in two.
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The Giants aren't stupid. The Mets aren't stupid. Are the Twins? A look at last September 20 is as far as one needs to look. His 2014 surgery included a plate? And it causes him significant pain 8 years later? Doesn't sound like a fully healed, or properly repaired injury. SF has the experience with this type of injury (Buster Posey). Before spending 1/3 of a billion dollars, and committing to a player for a decade or more, you ought to be sure. Add in his body type (tall and lanky), combined with his infield position, the wearing down of his body will occur. And likely sooner than 8-10 years down the road. He also has missed time with other physical issues (his back, e.g.). So besides Cohen sticking his foot in his mouth, this circus should surprise no one.
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Given Santos' connection to a Russian oligarch sanctioned by the U.S. whose brother donated lots of money to Santos' political campaign, the U.S. Federal Election Commission and other U.S. authorities like the U.S. Treasury's FINCEN, need to investigate if Santos received money from a banned Russian oligarch via the oligarch's brother. The financial links to and donations from Santos' Russian "friend" seem highly suspicious. Putin and his oligarch allies have spent years giving money to political campaigns all around the world, particularly Western democracies, to influence the outcome of national elections. The Russians have done the same type of thing in England, for example. The Russians have worked on influencing the outcome of U.S. elections for years.
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We, in the US and all other developed countries, get food in very cheap and that sector is controlled by big commodity traders in a significant way that whatever price we pay in retail stores hardly reach the farmers. Too much consolidation of each and every aspect of our food system is now consolidated to few big corporations. That makes farming less than viable as a profession even though its very demanding and also a critical aspect of national security. More than 50% American farm household's annual income is less than $10,000- much below poverty line.Importing cheap and heavily exploited workers makes the situation for local farmers more pathetic. It also makes farming rife for foreign powers (including hostile ones) and venture (read, vulture) investors. If managed carefully and putting proper policies in place, this vital sector can generate so many viable jobs in tis era of growing automation and rise of poverty all over the world, mainly after pandemic.
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Global Charm Yes! For many reasons, including accountability and openness. We can learn and adapt. But there’s always trade offs. For example, after the child sex abuse by clergy scandal, the Catholic schools in Chicago made changes to both the human schedules and also the physical buildings, in order to make every area open to oversight by anyone walking the hallway, essentially making nowhere to hide. Open concept building. But that means that the exterior of the building must be even more secure. There’s the trade off. It’s complicated and difficult, especially for city schools in high crime areas.
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I often wonder when the wealthy take flights into outer space that cost hundreds of millions and come back awe struck by the beauty of the earth visible from space why they continue to do all they can to destroy the planet. Do they really think their profits from industries polluting the earth are more valuable than their children and their friends or relatives children? Do they really care so little about the species that are already showing decline from their habitats being destroyed that they would rather keep investing in companies that are openly endangering the environment. What benefit do they gain by looking at photos from their journey into space as the world around them crumbles? Is any amount of money more beautiful than a rain forest alive with animal life, a mountain stream overflowing with an abundance of fish, an ocean not choking on plastic? Trump's indifference to the health of the planet is sadly part of the tragedy of his being about as connected to nature as the concrete that holds up the towers he's built. His tragic indifference to the planet is a challenge but to survive his actions must be dismissed as ignorant efforts to prove how powerful he was as president. An error we must never again make if the world is to be protected from America's political negligence that still seems a top priority of many GOP politicians.
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I did not save one penny, anything, for retirement until I turned 33. I did then because my boss told me I'd be a fool to not save. I worked for 10 years for a company with a 403B plan. Then I worked for 13 years for a company that had a 401K plan but I could never save much in it because they had no match and younger people didn't put anything into it. Thus I'd save money and get most of it back at the end of the year. I had to put money into an IRA. But still never saved as much as I would have. It's challenging when companies you work for don't help you save. But don't panic at 22 for goodness sake. Just save as soon as you can and much as you can. Keep in mind, you want to also enjoy the days while you work too. Some businesses let you split your check, do so with a bank that lets you electronically transfer funds between savings and checking accounts. Then automatically save $n. If it's needed, you just transfer what's needed. I found if I put $50 in, I'd often need $40, but not always. Sometimes I needed $80, but that float helped and grew over time. Don't commit to locked-in IRAs until you are sure you don't need that money now. If you've saved it for a few years, you can be sure, then move it to an IRA. You can do a lump sum before April 15th each year and still get the tax break.
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Blue Giraffe "Marsala works very well too"Yes it does, and I especially appreciate that having lived in Sicily for 7 years (albeit, on the other side of the island). I actually saw a Sting concert in Marsala back in 1993 on his "Ten Summoner's Tales" tour. Great show. :-)I recently used Madeira to caramelize my onions due to my not using fortified wines enough in my recent cooking. A Madeira just about lasts forever after opening since most things one could do to ruin a wine has already been done to it. :-PCheers!
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Todd Vertically-integrated utilities in regulated states such as Wisconsin are overinvesting in transmission. Regulation is imperfect. A guaranteed 10 percent return on equity for investor-owned utilities (IOUs) encourages overinvestment in not only transmission but also generation. Wisconsin's IOUs are racing to invest in renewable (and non-renewable) generation before WI regulators truly understand (or have the political will to recognize) the benefits of renewable energy, including the extent to which battery storage reduces the need for high-voltage transmission lines.
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COVID is not comparable to the flu, and the minimizing rhetoric from the White House capitulates to the GOP's attempts at erasure. The science is clear that 10-30% of non-hospitalized cases lead to "Long COVID." As this Nature meta-analysis finds, "Long COVID encompasses multiple adverse outcomes, with common new-onset conditions including cardiovascular, thrombotic and cerebrovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and dysautonomia, especially postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). Symptoms can last for years, and particularly in cases of new-onset ME/CFS and dysautonomia are expected to be lifelong."<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2</a>We need to be investing massively in Long COVID treatments. Economists have already shown Long COVID's devastating effects on productivity and workforce non-participation.<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work" target="_blank">https://www.brookings.edu/research/new-data-shows-long-covid-is-keeping-as-many-as-4-million-people-out-of-work</a>/<a href="https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/institute-working-papers/long-haulers-and-labor-market-outcomes" target="_blank">https://www.minneapolisfed.org/research/institute-working-papers/long-haulers-and-labor-market-outcomes</a><a href="https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/long-covid-cognitive-impairment-and-the-stalled-decline-in-disability-rates-20220805.html" target="_blank">https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/long-covid-cognitive-impairment-and-the-stalled-decline-in-disability-rates-20220805.html</a>Biden may have fumbled the ball by not funding enough Long COVID treatment research already, but I genuinely hope the GOP Congress will face pressure from suffering constituents to address the post-COVID-infection health crisis.
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Peter A D you did it for nothing in Afghanistan and Iraq and you have yet to pay the bill. Don't tell me about taxpayer money when Trump stripped the Treasury of a trillion dollars with his unnecessary tax cuts for the rich. What the US has paid so far and will pay in the future is chump change compared to the cost doing business in a world where Russia is threatening Europe. Thankfully cowardly collaborators are still the minority in the US.
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This article should be posted in every one of the myriads of South Pacific Island chains that compromise much of the vast ocean expanse in that corner of the world. No doubt the Solomon Islands are merely the opening act of China`s huge appetite in dominating that entire region in the years to come. Beware the dragon that seeks to devour with little questions asked or answered.
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Borders are lines that define difference, isolate and can be crossed in friendship and in mutual respect, or, with disdain and impunity. In choosing the latter, Putin has also crossed additional borders. The border between life and death - of civilians in random strikes from above and by torture in basements, combatants in trenches, destroyed tanks and asleep in a vocational school. The border between sustenance and starvation for millions in Africa and elsewhere will also soon be crossed. If instead of forcefully trying to expand border, Putin had embraced interest in peace and prosperity through mutual cooperation with his neighbors, borders with the West could have been crossed. Had he looked to the way borders are crossed in Europe’s Common Market and in international commerce, he would have found a much better path for his country and countrymen.
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The addition of "cloud" in this analysis is a red herring. There's nothing about the LastPass breach that is inherently about data storage and security of cloud-based, off-site data centers -- or even on-prem server storage.No, the Last Pass security breach occurred due to an employee's credentials being compromised. In turn, the severity of the breach was amplified by the company's own surprisingly lackluster internal security protocols (unencrypted website information, master passwords not being forced to update to the new extended character protocols, etc.).Saying it has anything about questioning companies to "store sensitive data in the cloud" is just fear-mongering and click-bait. After all, by his own admission, Brian Chen stores his OWN password data in a cloud-based server that's privately managed by himself but run by a third-party vendor (iCloud or DropBox). Clearly, he still trusts the cloud run by companies to provide convenient and relatively secure storage opportunities!Again, stop demonizing "cloud" as more or less insecure, when the real vulnerability here was people: Access controls, insufficient attention or resources to address vulnerabilities and inadequate encryption of stored data researchers had warned about for years, etc.People were the weakest link in this supply-chain -- not cloud storage or data centers.
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Kathryn Good afternoon Kathryn, about keeping antique things at home - my kitchen is probably something of a museum in that regard. I have several implements that were my paternal grandmother's before they were my mom's and now, mine. And I'm in my 70s...They include a great, large colander/pasta drainer; a very simple jar opener that does the trick on the first - and if not, the second - try; a rotary cheese grater for grating right onto the pasta; an old rolling pin; a wood-handled spatula. Years ago I switched the old heavy cast-aluminum pots (including one large enough for perhaps three lobsters, and pans) for a new, safer stainless steel set. My favorite though is a wooden stirring spoon, which has been used for sooo many decades that what was once the bowl of the spoon has long been just a slightly wider extension of the handle. I keep it in with the useable tools just for the memories... A little oval, wooden chopping board finally split in half lengthwise at a seam in the grain, so i had to get a new one. But yes, so many beautiful things!
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Why so little? Surely Trump and company have grifted much more than $1.6m. Trump must have gotten special treatment . An ordinary grifter would have been forced to repay much more.
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Many comments are asking why? Shia muslims are always the targets in Pakistan/Afghanistan. This is because the Shia apparently do not believe that Mohammad was the last prophet. Without removal of blasphemy and apostasy laws, one can safely assume the state of Pakistan is implicated these violent incidents. In fact, they expanded the blasphemy laws by including any criticism of Mohammads dead relatives to be considered as blasphemy as of 4 weeks ago. And, blasphemy is punishable by death. Nice country. Only been viable because we gave them $20 Billion over the last 2 decades. Let us not interfere. IMF should hold off any bailout. Leave it to the Chinese to force them to get rid of these laws that make their society so unstable and hateful, and change their school curriculum so they have a sustainable future.
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Since November 2020, all we've heard repeatedly from far-right Republicans is claims of "voter fraud." Well, Santos is a guy who voted from an address in Whitestone when he was living for months in Huntington (by his own admission), which also happens to be outside the 3rd Congressional District. THIS IS REAL VOTER FRAUD, not the fake stuff of the Trumpies. So where's the Republican outrage? The answer, obviously, is that Kevin McCarthy needed every single vote, including Santos', so they won't do or say anything. And when will we find out where Santos got the $700,000 he "loaned" to his campaign (at the same time he was stiffing his landlords on his rent)? As a resident of the 3rd Congressional District, I hope the local DA's and other state and federal authorities investigate Santos thoroughly and promptly and bring appropriate charges. It's a truly despicable situation-- not only Santos' behavior and the Republicans' outright hypocrisy, but the thought that my neighbors and I will effectively have no representation in Congress while this liar resists facing up to what he's done.
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The best use of technology which seems quaint now was the early "open source" community who imagined tech as a cooperative effort to improve humanity. Since then everything has been exploited for profit and ChatGBT will be no different.
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A Tactic For Preservation Of Open Space I first heard about Bluestem Conservation Cemetery at the memorial service of my friend, Akalema Pherribo. He was the second person to be buried there. I assumed that he would retire in a couple of years, as he had 18 years of bus driving under his belt. We would continue to ride bikes on the American Tobacco Trail and eat at the local mexican restaurant. Unfortunately he died suddenly, of a blood disorder; I spend time with him because I've become a volunteer at the 87 acre grassland/forest. I'm part of a big crew of folks, building trails, clearing invasive species like the Tree of Heaven. Every work session I visit his grave and think of Akalema stories. I remember the very first conversation we had, when he was a brand spanking new driver, on standby. New drivers get that assignment: they sit and wait for someone to call in sick, then drive that route. Or they do a switch-out, bring a healthy bus to a broken down bus. My bus had an issue of some sort. I'm waiting for the switch-out. I hear a bus pull up behind me; then a big loud voice sings out the theme to the cartoon Mighty Mouse,"Here I am to save the day!" That was how Akalema introduced himself to me. He brought me back to the carefree days of saturday morning cartoons; he wanted me to remember him for that wild insertion of MIRTH into a normal hum drum day. Here's a tiny bit:<a href="https://www.bluestemcemetery.org/one_familys_story.html" target="_blank">https://www.bluestemcemetery.org/one_familys_story.html</a>bee word: tactic
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I continue to be frustrated with the West, especially the US, response to Russia's attack on Ukraine. When they took Crimea and we did nothing, I thought the West made a statement - take what you want, it's between you and Ukraine. But when Russia put weapons and soldiers on the border, and we failed to implement sanctions then, I thought 'okay, the west isn't going to get involved and Ukraine will fall.' A month into the war, the US was still babbling about sanctions, and 'more serious sanctions.' This gave Russia time to forge alliances with China, Iran, and other despots. Then came the billions, hundreds of billions, of dollars. Seriously? And will the west (i.e. the US) continue to stick their toes in the water with money and weapons. Money that no one knows where it went or how it was spent?!We are either at war, or we are not involved. At this point we have a full fledged disaster on our hands and I believe it is the lack of decision making and 'hopes' that peace will just happen. Once Russia takes the most important areas - those waters that they can mine for oil and the lands for transportation - do we honestly believe that they will stop?!
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Sorry for introducing the whataboutism here, however, I cannot stop comparing Hunter's story with the largely unlooked-at saga of just how Javanka came out of their WH years with about $640M in profits. Where is the GOP concern for their dealings?
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Brian Perkins Really? Well it's great that companies invest in R&D and can get a return... BUT presently that RETURN is on the backs of US consumers - Ex-US the drugs cost a fraction of what US taxpayers pay... The US govt should insist on fair pricing by stipulating that US price cannot be say 20% max more than the average price in other developed nations. In the US we have Direct to Consumer advertising - in Europe they don't. A lot of US Pharm spnd as much and MORE on marketing and sales than on R&D. They are getting a return on the Marketing and their legal costs more than R&D these days!! Read the article - Abbvie had a patent for a fair number of years - the extensions are a joke.
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Pete N Your perceptive comment illustrates the problem of government regulation. It's always imperfect. It may sound good in the abstract, but it's very hard to apply. Life's unfair. There are always tradeoffs. Those two unfortunate facts about the real world always seem to be glossed over by government officials who think they have discovered a simple and costless solution to a big problem that bedeviled all their predecessors. No, Lina Khan, you haven't found a way to increase workers' wages by $300 billion a year. Not even close.
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M What people want (I think) is a sense of fairness rather than a guarantee they are the sucker in the game. "The Economy" is designed exclusively for the benefit of corporations, corporate investors and the executives running the corporations. Long gone are the days when companies had to consider customers, community, country or think beyond the next earnings report.As long as one of our political parties is a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America there will be no basic income, the cost of living will still keep most living paycheck to paycheck (think of the poor couple making $400,000 a year!) and the cost of gasoline will spike before every election unless a republican is the incumbent.
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Taxes are already too high on wealthy Americans. S & P 500 is down by 20% compared to last year and hence, there is not much capital gain either. Median household income in US is 67000 dollars, and one would pay just 6000 dollars in federal taxes. If that family has two kids, they would pay 0 dollars in taxes due to refundable child tax credits. It costs, 32,000 dollars to send a kid to public school in NYC, why is the cost so high? Our spending is unsustainable, taxing the wealthy will do nothing as our government will decide to spend it on new entitlement programs, the cost of which will grow each year and we will back again demanding even higher taxes.
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Charlie And oil is down to $72.75/bbl. Thanks, Dark Brandon!
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Ray Z The piggybank consists of government bonds which pay interest. Lat year is $70 billion in interest.
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So, if we passed the progressive IRS anti-tax cheat bill we would capture at least 1 trillion YOY up to potentially the full amount of the deficit. If we didn't add 200 billion to the military budget that republicans didn't block that would also have reduced our costs. We would easily zero out the deficit. Without any tax increase. If republicans were honest, we could do this easy. But this isn't about that with republicans. It is about attacking working class people that paid into the system and to further rob them and open up a justification to end SSI and Medicare. If we ended that unnecessary Trump tax cuts that would put us in the positive.Fire the republicans who blocked us properly funding and running the IRS. If they don't want these people to pay taxes properly pass legislation. But until they do that this idea of being concerned about a deficit when they won't even let us capture the revenue, we citizens are due to maintain society they should be called out as LIARs. They do not care about the deficit.
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When people visit me, they remark on my living space as being open and free of clutter; peaceful, easy to move around. Yeap! that is the only way I can function; a reaction to whom I live with. My husband of 58 years, seldom puts anything away. His interests, --photography, astronomy, computers, printers, ham radio -- bring into the home, lots of cameras and derivatives, telescopes, radio antennae, books/magazines, wires and more wires. The default place is the master bedroom. The walk-in closet is full of backpacks, hiking boots/shoes, clothes and bags for every occasion. This scene repeats itself in his non-attached "casita" where he has a large darkroom, --housing more cameras, enlarger, and printing materials, a workshop with hand and power tools (a mini Sears tool department), a full-blown ham radio station with computers, and an electronic testing equipment corner. I keep him from using my kitchen counters, eating areas, and living room --but his sandals and walking shoes are found under the coffee table, more often than not. My sleeping quarters are separate from his, --austere, and peaceful. I keep an orderly office/hobby space, and every morning I touch on the living/dining room areas and bathrooms. I don't bother his things, he does not bother mine. I clean common areas, he cleans his areas. We have kept this arrangement throughout our long relationship. Accepting each other's idiosyncrasies and setting limits at the beginning, has made things easier.
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Eric B Very late play for me today as I'm usually doing the Wordle before 7am, but sleep was more insistent than anything else this morning. I also still had yesterday's SB open in my games app, unfinished, and wanted to get that completed before doing anything else. What a long slog of a puzzle! Also, I tried to catch up on all the hubbub with the new forum manager and commentary in yesterday's Wordle thread. Talk about phew! 😅This is Day 8 of my new strategy, where I use the previous day's next to last word as today's starter. Yesterday's starting word was REFER and it took me all 6 steps to get to WORRY, which was worrisome, as it did seem to be a TotG trap. The worry was for naught, and the streak abides.Today was better, but just average at 4. Wordle 588 4/6*🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛ 77/88/17⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ 67/15/5⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ 66/21/2🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 99/75WordleBotSkill 77/99Luck 49/99Not really a TotG situation, as there weren't very many words to start with, which was lucky considering my starting word. Only a few words fit the pattern, so eliminating as many frequent letters as possible in steps 2 and 3 left one word that popped out. Thankfully it was the solution. This could have easily been a 5.Congratulations to super-solver Great Lakes!
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One might argue that debate in matters of belief is a good thing, but that's never been the way with conservative Catholics. Their way or the highway is the operative theological principle. One might argue that Francis's liberalizing moves, back and forth as they are, are way of keeping the window of Vatican II open, but that is not the conservative way. Oh well. In the end, I have to echo a theme in these comments: why does the NYT continue to give such a prominent place to a debate within a church? This is not the National Catholic Register--not even the National Catholic Reporter.
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If Yeshiva’s religious character is “plain and obvious,” why are they getting $230 million in taxpayer money that could have been better spent at a school that does not discriminate? If they have a right to discriminate, then they are in the wrong country and can be discriminated against.YU would operate “within the framework of Halakha,” or Jewish religious law. So perhaps we should also have taxpayers subsidize Madrasas that operate under Sharia law and Christians schools that operate under Old Testament law, ...Indeed, religious leaders choose to "interpret" their religious texts - so their dogma is no longer absolute but a choice. They choose to discriminate and hate and use their religious choice as inviolable justification.Taxpayers are effectively discriminated against by religious organizations, freeloading off taxpayer paid for services plus forcing taxpayers to also subsidize their religious indoctrination efforts too, regardless of their hateful use of religious beliefs as a pretext to discriminate and hate the taxpayer in exchange for their money!Religions are funded for doing little and profit enormously, like the idle wealthy do, evading taxes and getting politicians to transfer enormous wealth sums from society into their coffers. Actual taxpayers have no choice but to pay their taxes.Freedom of religion does not mean they have a right to force me to pay them through taxation or be subjected to their dogma. Stop weaponizing religious freedom!
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Davey How would you define temporary for a "a known temporary event" involving the pandemic?Not sure that was clear in the summer and fall of 2020. Otherwise, there were lines of business that probably were booming, like cloud and gaming. From a net profit perspective, seems Microsoft did a decent job up until recently (believe this is by fiscal year):Microsoft net income for the twelve months ending September 30, 2022 was $69.789B, a 2.81% increase year-over-year.Microsoft annual net income for 2022 was $72.738B, a 18.72% increase from 2021.Microsoft annual net income for 2021 was $61.271B, a 38.37% increase from 2020.
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Jump in a Time Machine and tell the Republicans in charge of Congress and the White House that their “tax cuts” (for billionaires) and INCREASED spending will add $2.3 Trillion to the debt. They didn’t seem to mind back then.
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A brand new Corolla Hybrid LE fresh off the manufacturing line sells for $22,800. CarMax is selling 2020 model years with 30k miles on them for $25k a pop. It’s a no brainer.
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I just bought two test kits (4 tests), at $23.99 each. That’s an expense that a great many people can’t afford. If the public is expected to rely on home tests for important information, Congress must fund wide distribution directly through local/regional public health agencies.
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Joe Arena yes, sure, if the Democrats actually did things for their constituents, they would probably would routinely get dunked on by the dumbest people on Earth.The Democratic Party will not meaningfully raise taxes on the wealthy. The entire party rallied around Biden to prevent improving healthcare (led by Pharma Jim Clyburn, the #1 recipient of Big Pharma donations) so no reasonable person would expect a medicare expansion that didn't take donor profits into consideration first (like Obama did when he passed the conservative Heritage Foundation's healthcare plan).Manchin is not alone in opposing the Child Tax Credit - if people aren't desperate enough, they won't work for peanuts and might even try and form a union. Look at how Biden ignores the blatantly illegal union busting of Amazon and Starbucks. And immigration reform would mean rising wages - and that won't happen either.
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As soon as these rains end, the wild fires will begin. Meanwhile, the Southwest has no water, the Southeast is cleaning up from the 50 tornados that recently hit, hurricane Ian cleanup continues, Buffalo is still digging out from a 50" snow fall, etc. etc. etc.Climate change is not a looming disaster. It is here right now. Our $2 billion/day defense budget should be re-allocated to defend against our most formidable foe - climate change.
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The reason Johnson Space Center is in Houston and Kennedy Space Center is in Florida was specifically because Johnson wanted to use space program investments to bring technical skills and problem-solving mindsets to the South. Also, tens of thousands of people is not “rural.” That is a small city. My 8th grade class had a dozen students in it. In the entire district. That’s rural.
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Raise revenue. Our society is so completely one sided, mega donors, mega corporations, mega yachts. Rebalance the income. Please tax the rich, meaning people who make over $500,000 per year as the rest of us are taxed. Do. It. Now.
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Bret Stephens’ suggestion that raising the tax cap on Social Security to be over $160k be countered by raising the minimum age by 5-10 years is the height of elitism. I mean, really. A minimum age of 72 to 75 is fine for those, like Mr Stephens who have large stock portfolios and robust 401Ks, perhaps even a nice pension. But what about the majority of Americans who do not, many of whom are laboring at low wages in physically demanding jobs? It sickens me to read such a tone deaf opinion, and further that Gayle leaves it unchallenged. Conservatives are shameless in their desire for more for themselves with complete disregard for those low wage workers who do the hard and dirty work in this country.
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Michael Skadden and if you can't get the opium, try meth which is also popular in the vast open spaces.
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Tom B Well, if you read the article, he was not able to help anyone until he learned to listen. Confidence earned through respect and acts of kindness is not the same as harassment. I have been a nurse in homeless shelters and on the street: a homeless person with cold, wet feet and open wounds is grateful for help if offered with compassion. People are not just "sleeping on the street", they are often suffering from a myriad of progressive physical calamities. They can accept help or not, but to not offer help is inhumane.
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Fer chrissakes, how long is the the American public going to allow the small and dwindling number of cow-raisers continue to dominate the management priorities for wildlife and by extension resilience of our shared ecosystems? Be it bison, wolves, grizzly bears, cougars, even prairie dogs, cow-raisers hold an obscene amount of power over wildlife agencies in the West, especially compared to their barely-detectable contribution to the economy. Only 3% of cows eaten by people in the US are raised west of the Mississippi. Time for the majority to take back power and prioritize ecosystems and wildlife over these intransigent hobbyists.
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Another perspective is that of increased regulation. While this conversation is primarily focused on the first step (breakthroughs in the lab), it is important to understand the forces that grease the skids to market adoption. One example is medical device clearance in the United States; one of the "easiest" options is to get clearance via a 510(k). However, this option is based on anchoring your device on a predicate device (read incremental improvement). While investors may not be familiar with the intricacies of working with the FDA, they are demanding visibility to start ups' regulatory strategies before funds are released. This reality of increased regulatory pressures should be noted as many universities have programs to help push academic discoveries into the marketplace (such as University of Arizona's Tech Launch). This pressure to translate research to the marketplace does have downstream implications such as incremental technological improvements. But here's the thing, while regulation does add a layer of complexity, it also protects us as a society. There may have been more "breakthroughs" in the past but they came at heavy moral costs (think Holmesburg prison trials, the Milgram experiments, etc.). Maybe this slowdown in breakthroughs is the cost of humanity just trying to be better.
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As a "mammal" who did take in another woman's child through adoption, with no hesitation and no sense of it being a "Plan B," I find your comment puzzling and disturbing. My daughter's adoption has been both an open fact and also a non-issue insofar as our love and commitment to each other as family. She is my daughter, plain and simple. You may be unable to imagine loving a child that doesn't share your genes, but don't project that onto others. I'm not special either; loving my daughter has been a joy and a privilege, and I have literally never missed having a genetic connection to her.
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The reduced Obamacare premiums under Biden may be sinking in. I'm visiting Florida this winter and it's true - as the Times reported - that enrollment in the program seems to be increasing here at a rapid clips. A low-income cousin who never would've considered is now signed up. My brother, an independent contractor, has seen a big drop in premiums. Even if folks don't know why or how it was expanded, it adds to a sense of financial security. If in Florida then possibly everywhere.
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I am a lawyer, and I agree with the advice given in the column that the LW should get as many neighbors as possible to submit their own complaints. And s/he should keep following up and following up and following up.I would also write a letter to the mayor and the corporation counsel (who represents the city) saying that the noise is causing you damages in various areas of your life and is probably posing a safety risk to the people in that building. I would mention that, since they have now been put on notice of the problem, they may have legal liability in the future if there is ever a lawsuit. That sometimes scares them into doing something.I also think the letter writer might want to consider filing a small claims case. I think the limit in NYC is $5000, although that may have been raised without my knowing about it. You don't need a lawyer. The case comes to trial quickly. And it's a nuisance for the defendant. You will have to do a little legwork to figure out who the registered agent for the building's owner is, but that is not difficult. All such records are public and easily accessed through whatever office in the NYC government has charge of such things.The LW can keep filing such suits if the problem doesn't stop. I would also try to get as many neighbors as possible to do the same thing. If you impose enough costs on the owner, they might decide to cut their losses.And if the noise doesn't stop, you can use the money that you get to move.
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When income taxes were raised during the Obama Administration on those earning over $250K, the annual budget deficits were cut in half. The last time that income taxes were raised on everyone, in the 1990s, the result was budget surpluses. However, people aren’t willing to pay for the government services that they want. Either people must pay more taxes, or services must be reduced.
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Eric I bought a '21 Model S. They just refreshed the interior in 2021.I sat in a Lucid and the interior is dated. Just look at the screens. You can barely get one (same goes for EQS). Taycan has terrible range and is $$$$$$. And they all have to depend on a poorly maintained public DC fast charging network.If you want a high end EV and actually want to road trip with it, Tesla is still the only name in the game.
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Johnny Rock I understand that you are looking for more targeted precision for your ads by gleaning people's information. In the analogue era, advertising helped keep the cost of consumer goods low as well, but did not require getting my personal information to do so. I have no objection to you trying to get more precise data. I simply object to the harvesting of it without compensating me fairly for it. Additionally, we have seen time and again that the security of this data is woefully lacking, as hackers and bad actors continue to swipe it from aggregate sources and use it for unscrupulous purposes. It is, again, unfair for you to extract my data only to have it gathered into databases that are insecure and run the risk of exposing it. When the internet can 100% guarantee the security of my data and is willing to pay me $0.001 every time it asks for or collects personal information, I might change my outlook.
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Dog I think this overlooks the huge aspect of the issue: understanding and compassion is a two way street.Charles Blow wrote a wonderful and heartbreaking column on coming out to his parents when he was 40+. He had spent his whole youth thinking that his family was going to judge him negatively and shun him from being bisexual. Yet when he introduced him to his long term partner, both were welcomed with open hearts. His fears all these years were unfounded. Secondly, being a tomboy or lacking interest in the "traditional" gender preferences does not mean you were born the wrong sex and that you need to change your name or wear a wig/makeup to indicate that. The fundamental problem with trans kids today is that they are enmeshed with traditional binary gender expression models more than ever. Lastly, there is also the issue that any school-aged kid needs to accept that they need start behaving like a professional at their job, i.e. school. School is for learning, not for dress-up or "experimenting" with identity. A work outfit is just a work outfit, not a symbol of one's entire entity. People who work at many places are required to wear a uniform, and have learned that their job is not their identity. The sooner a kid learns that, the easier time they will have with growing up.
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The Visionary Robert Moses My husband and I are boomers and I'll readily admit it's a lot harder for our children than it was for us. My husband had a job in the trades. We built a custom home in 1985 on one income and three children. Two more children later I was still a stay at home mom. Our son in law makes less per hour at his factory job than my husband made in 1985. We paid under $100K for our 2000 square foot new home in 1985. The same house today would be $500K yet pays haven't quintupled in that same period, which would be the equivalent of $75/hour for the field my husband worked in. I don't think the pay is even double what my husband's hourly wage was in 1985. Cost of living has risen exponentially, yet pays are not keeping up at all. Anyone who argues otherwise is just a lying, disingenuous fool.
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Let’s start with the fact that college sports, especially football and basketball is worth billions just from tv rights, which means millions to a lot of schools. How about supporting the other sports out of that? Let’s also say that the NCAA with a guy like Mark Emmert at the helm and the schools around him could have gotten ahead of all this and neglected to do so. So now the courts and market drives the process. That was a decision or lack thereof that the NCAA made. Let’s also go back to the billions that college sports especially football and basketball are making. And yet the athletes that allow that to happen were making nothing while some head coaches are making millions. The very schools that are complaining were behind the reactive approach that the NCAA took and are now paying for it. Does the system need some organization, sure. Will it happen, doubtful. The schools are in competition and likely won’t agree on an organized legal way forward. They’ll cry while they are taking millions in. Why - the old unethical way that they were used to and supported is no more. They are not used to having to work harder for revenue and sharing it with the student athlete.
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Microsoft to Lay Off 10,000 Workers as It Looks to Trim CostsI am shocked. How can this be, having just read "Will It Be Morning in Joe Biden's America? - The New York Times 2023/01/16
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Last year the best picture winning film was CODA, it made less than 2 million dollars in box office. Best director was for the film, the Power of the dog which made less than 0.5 million in box office. America used to make original movies that had great story , great acting and also very popular with public. Silence of the lambs, Forrest Gump, Schindler's list, Titanic , beautiful mind, Lord of the rings, all of them won best picture in 90s and early 2000s. In the recent years we have uninspiring repetitive marvel movies, remakes of old movies. I watched last year's Oscar winning movie, it was too boring. Where is the creativity in Hollywood? Instead of making marvel movie for every character maybe they should make some popular original movies. At least Top Gun was better than all these marvel cinematic movies.
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What amount of debt would concern you?What inflation rate would concern you?The nation has huge problems including failing infrastructure, and the worst overall health and mental health care for a similar economy on the planet.This year we are allocating 850 billion to the pentagon which is like taking half our tax money and flushing it away.But, no worries the multi millionaires and billionaires are doing fine.
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n1789 Indeed, the value of art has nothing to do with its price tag, or the name attached to it, to add another problematic issue to the mix. You too may have experienced how some people abhor a certain work until, that is, they're made aware of what it cost and/or that it was made by a "famous" artist. They are philistines, of course, and dreadful snobs.Adding a big name to a painting mediocre as it may be suddenly lends it great value. The price of art is what a fool is prepared to pay for it.True value is immaterial. How Salvator Mundi jumped from 10.000 $ to 450 mio $ after "careful restoration" of a hugely damaged work is mind-boggling. It seems a great con-job to me.I've always been suspicious of this painting as I cannot fathom that Da Vinci, a polymath artist and inventor, an "uomo universalis" if there ever was one, would paint a transparent glass globe (or glass ball) with reflections that are scientifically completely wrong. It is just not credible. Leonardo was far too well versed in science to commit such a slip-up.
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Katrin: actually, I think Dave K makes a very strong point:-- Elon Musk has a net worth of 28 billion dollars-- mark Zuckerberg's monthly income is over a billion dollars-- Rupert Murdoch has a net worth 18.3 billionThat's only 3 billionaires out of approximately 720 in the US alone. Add to those all the millionaires --- over 24 million of them -- and it seems to me we could continue to cover our military expenses just fine, maintain our infrastructure, and do more for hard-working Americans who struggle every day to make ends meet in large part because of childcare and healthcare costs. Sure, we would have to tax the rich more than we do now; however, I seriously doubt their quality of life would suffer much for giving back to the society that made it possible for them to acquire such wealth in the first place. Oh, and by the way, the taxes they would pay out would not disappear into thin air: the money would go back into the economy, provide jobs, and stimulate growth. That's what happened after the Second World War, when tax rates on the rich were much higher, and government spending on the Cold War, the Federal Highway Act, and more led to the greatest rise in middle and working class wealth in our history. And for all that, the national debt as a percentage of GDP actually decreased between 1945 and 1970 because tax receipts increased, thanks to low unemployment and a steady rise in national income. It's worked before; it can work again.
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Bret, if that couple earning $400K in NY reports all of their income, and does not overstate their deductions, they have nothing to worry about even if they are audited by the IRS. Republicans are running another con when it comes to funding the IRS. Most Americans have nothing to fear from the IRS because there is very little that they can do to cheat on their taxes even if they desired to do so. For the average American, their income is reported on W-2s, and 1099s so they must report it all. With the cap on state and local taxes, most Americans don't even itemize their tax deductions so they could cheat on that side of the ledger. The IRS, which collects over 96 percent of the revenue needed to fund the federal government, has been starved by the Republicans for decades. We need to modernize the IRS infrastructure, and hire and trail IRS Agents to audit complex business returns of corporations, partnerships, and wealthy individuals.
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The West Bank has been a ghetto for years. The Gaza Strip is a prison. Israel has become what it swears to prevent. “Never again” is meaningless if Palestinians are non-human under Israeli Law. Biden should let Netanyahu know that our billions of dollars that defend Israel do not apply to his dictatorial policies. The American Jewish people do not support Netanyahu. We cannot afford to send $3.8 billion while Netanyahu and his fascist allies thumb their noses at Biden and democracy.
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I'm so tired of hearing about rural America and their feelings towards the coasts. The blue coasts contribute way more into the federal pot than they gets back ($0.78 returned in spending to NJ for each $1 it's residents contribute), while states like TX get back $1.25. The red middle of the country is no better and in some cases worth. Sorry they have feelings. Guess what? So do I. If you want to complain and moan, pay your own bills and get your hands out of my pocket!
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Mary The trouble with these very worthwhile suggestions is that the price of formerly cheap stuff, like ham hocks or chicken backs--which don't even seem to exist anymore, is now astronomical in comparison. I do take issue with organic milk being fresher. It depends on when it hits the shelves. There is nothing innately "fresher" about organically produced milk. I buy ultra-pasteurized milk which keeps for ages unopened, and far longer than regular milk, once opened.
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As a Cincinnatian who’s dealt with managing her menstrual cycle for years, I’m deeply aware of the scandals that Procter & Gamble was involved in years ago, centered around their dangerous ultra-absorbent tampons. That said, my radar went into high gear when I first learned of period underwear; that level of moisture-wicking and fluid retention immediately reminded me of the women who suffered and died because of the chemicals used to create this property. And as I suspected, here we are. I truly, deeply wish that more women were aware of, and open to, silicone menstrual cups; they are a safe, clean, comfortable option that can be sterilized at home with little effort.
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Hey Vivian- Tis is spot on. I am somewhat surprised at the number of restaurant owners here in Richmond VA that think everything but their basic business model is the problem. A number reopened after the Pandemic and found no staff, no supplies, and few diners. The seniors who have huge disposable incomes are still being told by doctors to avoid going out. As much as 10 years ago Applebees was building tiny restaurants because they knew they couldn't staff the larger facilities. The family focused mid-price restaurants are raking in the dough here. Love and Best wishes for you and the family, it's been a tough few years.
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I think of the US budget is like investing in one's home. You can let it rot, not do maintenance and then pay steeply for the repairs as the house is falling down. The Republicans fiscal austerity is like letting the house fall to the ground before they decide to make repairs--which we all know is more costly and badly needed.Moreover, Republicans know that in order to make a business grow you need invest in it, To grow and preserve our future we need to invest in the nation and its people--investment in education, in stable and healthy children and adults, in cared for elders and in assuring our environment is healthy, Starving the nation because you do not want to contribute what is needed, by paying your fair of taxes (obvious as the Republicans first order of business was reducing the necessary IRS staff, a perfect example) will never make for a strong and vital nation. Investment in the military alone, which they seem to be the only thing they want to invest in will never help us compete with the rest of the world who mostly seem to understand that taxes are the price we pay for a better society. We must invest in our nation. And do so humaely with our future in mind.
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My grandfather worked at GE for 40 years, and retired with a pension, gold watch, and a 4 bedroom house he owned for $25,000. If he were still alive, he wouldn't even understand today's work environment.I've had 10 employers in 20 years. No pension, and my house was 50x more expensive, and lots smaller. Today's extreme capitalism has created an entire society living on the edge, insecure in tomorrow's job as it can be eliminated at any moment. And the stock market can crash, wiping out 401k's (what pension?), or the housing market will crash, wiping out equity, like it did in 2007.Nobody comes along to bail out any of us.
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At last someone is speaking sense.When inflation was high, the Feds raised interest rates so that more money would flow out of the system but that also hurt employment because new businesses were hard to start or old businesses were reluctant to expand.Why did the Fed not mop up the extra cash in the economy by raising taxes on the wealthy? That would have upset a far smaller number of people and kept the unemployment figures low.Is it because the Fed officials, though not in the top 1%, are in the top 10% or even top 5%? They surely are not in the bottom 25%, the ones who are hurt the most by rising interest rates and rising unemployment.People must realize that the ones who set the rules and make new ones have more in common with the rich than the middle class, forget the poor. The rule makers are looking out for themselves, counting on the rest to be divided by less important cultural issues like race and gender.Both the Democrats and Republican lawmakers play the game.
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I gave $2000, that I could just afford, to my son when he was in financial trouble. He told me that he didnt know when he would be able to repay. My answer was ,"If I ever need it, I will tell you". Several years went by, my son thrived and was doing well, Then the recesiion hit and my husband's business failed. We needed help to move and downsize so I asked my son if he could repay the money. He was furious, told me that he had perceived it as a gift and lectured us on our "lifestyle" etc. He came up with the money but, sadly,it caused a schism that I think will never mend.
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RJG Sorry, I meant to say a penny a day per person<a href="https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The" target="_blank">https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/features/how-much-money-does-the-monarchy-bring-to-the-uk/#:~:text=The</a>%20Accounts%20for%20the%20Sovereign,from%20the%20previous%2012%20months.
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Given that his campaign was funded in large part by "ideological/single-issue" supporters, according to Open Secrets, I would imagine he's there to blow things up.
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Paul D. yes. He ran a fixed income investment strategy in new york (he was the top guy) and somehow guaranteed 12% risk free returns. He's the man for the moment.
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WDP I have many friends who have worked the same as me with the same earnings or more and are in debt. I have watched my money and invested in small ways when I could. These others spent every nickel with nothing to show. They look at me and say I am lucky, or in your terms "privilege". It is about making the Right Decisions that allow you time off when you need it. Thanks KellyNYC for your comment.
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Toni: Bubbling shrimp with dead ant dressing? Come on. This dish will not become a better way to feed the world. $1,265 for that plate.
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The Democrats, and Republicans to a lesser extent, continuing spending binge will bankrupt the country. $31.4T in debt and counting and adding to it at the rate of $1.4T per year on a federal budget of $5T. How does that make sense? SPending needs to be cut…I refuse to believe the government spends every dollar effectively.
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Dr. Krugman acknowledges that a declining population requires an rethinking of our present economic model based upon an ever growing population. Enough already, less talk and more action. The world does have finite resources and a greatly at risk environment as evidenced by over 8 billion people. not a finite population. One way to increase investments is by better income distribution allowing those especially at the lowest rung of the economic ladder to be ale to procure services, products and housing. We do not need billionaires. We do not need CEO's who make 400 or 500 times their lowest employees wage we need more people that can consume beyond the bare necessity threshold.
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Why do I get the feeling that this is definitely not an isolated incident with these “Scorpions”?Why do I have this sinking feeling that this kind of behavior was everyday and routine - until there was a cascade of errors that caused both Mr. Nichols’ horrific death and the whole dysfunctional culture of that police department to break open like a rotten melon. Is there a panel of both police officers AND civilians that reviews the body camera footage of random officers each month, much as random drug tests are done? Maybe these officers would have thought twice about their actions if they knew that body camera footage would be reviewed on a regular basis. Something else that seems like a good idea would be if the supervisors at the police department had the ability to remotely dial into any officer’s body camera at any time. I also saw another commenter asking why the police seem to have the ability to turn their body cameras off at will. They should be set up so they are absolutely tamper proof, so that the camera is on and transmitting every second. If the camera stops working, an audible alarm goes off, both on the officer and at headquarters. This would keep everyone safer.There, I think I have covered it. Everyone would be safer if at least some of these safeguards were in place - both the officers wearing the cameras and the general public.
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As someone who is very successful professionally and never had the slightly interest in having children I understand it perfectly. I never never had to fight and obsess over making sure my toddler got into the correct preschool. Wow, I'm pretty bummed about that. Studies have shown that people without children by choice consistently poll very high on happiness. My wife and I clearly fit into that category. The fact that Ross is so invested in his family centric view show a lack of vision on his part. Ice cream comes in different flavors for a reason.
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$17b in quarterly profit and they need to cut costs by throwing away 10k people. Capitalism. Gotta love it.
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Vincent Neilson I agree. When reapportionment last happened way back before our grandparents were born, each of the 435 House members represented about 200,000 Americans. Those 435 members now represent 700,000 Americans each. The number of House districts needs to be tripled to bring representation closer to constituents.While we're at it, none of this requires changes to the Constitution either: * End the practice of gerrymandering where politicians choose voters rather than voters choosing politicians* Pass the Popular Vote Interstate Compact and once and for all do away with this stupidly antiquated electoral college system* Add political representation to millions of American citizens in Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico by making them states* Establish public financing of political campaigns by federally matching citizen donations up to $200 with a 10-1 match* Provide universal ranked-choice voting in all elections. Most modern democracies use it – it works and it’s good for democracy* Get out of the 20th century by updating all voting infrastructure with optical-scan paper ballots that use open source (non-proprietary) software* Establish a right to safe, secure, and easy access to the ballot. Make Election Day a national holiday; automatic voter registration; encourage universal vote-by-mail like the State of Oregon has had in place for nearly two decades. My wife & I use it and we love it.None of this requires any changes to the U.S. Constitution.
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I have enjoyed reading Coaston's reporting since she was at Vox, and I found this piece appropriately thoughtful, but the issues go beyond the gladiatorial brutality and the money. The Times had an excellent (and unsettling) piece recently about the infusion of Christianity into football, which has been clear for a long time and is one of the reasons why I, a non-Christian, have never cared for the sport or its culture.It has also long seemed to me that the ubiquity of football has commandeered so much of the total potential cultural attention that could be available for other things---especially the arts. What if we redirected even 20% of our attention away from football and into other cultural pursuits and interests? What if we reduced the fire hose of money coursing through professional and collegiate sports to a slightly smaller fire hose, and put that extra money towards funding music and arts programs in schools, or providing free high quality public concerts and plays? I'm not saying there can't be a role for sports culture, but what if it existed alongside, rather than at the expense of, so much other culture? I can't comment on what a safer football looks like, but I do know that I'd like to live in a society where sports are just sports, and not some juggernaut cocktail of sports, money, and public religion.
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Steven Jampol He was one of the first to get the story started ... "FBI Deputy Assistant Director Jonathan Moffa told Senate Judiciary Committee staffers in 2020 that he got a July 2016 email from McGonigal which “contained essentially that reporting, which then served as the basis for the opening of the case.”"
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osusannahh I'm looking at the menu on their website, and I'm fairly certain $125 is a typo.
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Jason Yes, if a business raises prices, it's pure greed. If the worker asks for a raise, it's wisdom. If government forces the price, we get bare shelves and no competition. A government shill cannot tell the truth about economics because it means the federal government could easily operate at no more than 10% of our income taxed flatly.
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All of what you have said is true, but the point of this article is precisely to focus on the relationship between two individuals, not their organizations. The implication here is that organizational and social change can start with connections between people, even people who may seem to oppose each other.You don't have to like the gentleman in the article or give his organization or his advocacy work a free pass just because he has a liberal friend. The purpose of this piece was to make us think about what kind of incremental shifts can occur when we don't lose our openness to seeing other people as humans. And if we want "them" to do it, then"we" have to be willing, as well.
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Michael Indeed. I doubt that Microsoft relishes letting good people go. It costs a lot of money to bring people on, train them, and mentor them. But at some point, with an economic slowdown anticipated, you’ve got to do what’s needed to stay profitable and competitive.
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A web page selling this gun for $700 including the suppressor stated "the suppressor makes the gun easier to handle on auto but makes it harder to conceal." It also said the gun was once illegal in CA due to the now expired US assault weapons ban. Recently, a MAGA judge found the CA ban on high capacity magazines used in these mass murders was "unconstitutional." This despite the fact that when the constitution was written, guns were single action muzzle loaders. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California was the judge. Let's recall this judge before he does more damage. If he can't be recalled, let's call for his resignation.
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"This is insurrection by other means: Two years to the day since the January 6th invasion of the Capitol, Republicans are still attacking the functioning of government. McCarthy opened the door to the chaos by excusing Trump's fomenting of the attack and welcoming a new class of election deniers into his caucus."Written by Dana Millbank of the Washington Post today and went on to say,"...as a long time reviewer of political theater, I can't find anything enjoyable about this performance. This is what happens when a political party year after year, systematically destroys the norms and institutions of democracy."When you jettison the principles of good governance and fealty to the welfare of the greater common good; when you betray the public trust repeatedly through lies and unwillingness to tackle corruption and/or abuse of power by elected officials, chaos is what you sow and degradation of our laws and democracy is what you reap.Like Trump (and I would say McConnell) McCarthy places his own lust for power above the interests of the country and the integrity of our government.
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With Their Eyes on the Future, the Red Sox Pick Their Man “We want to build around him,” Chaim Bloom, Boston’s chief baseball officer, said of Rafael Devers, the star third baseman who is working to finalize a $331 million deal. A team of athletes marched into Fenway Park wearing Boston Red Sox uniforms on Monday morning. They played a game and won, beating a team owned by John Henry, who also owns the Red Sox. “We want to build around him,” Chaim Bloom, Boston’s chief baseball officer, said of Rafael Devers, the star third baseman who is working to finalize a $331 million deal.
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Reading these comments and resistance is like going back in Time Machine. In certain other advanced countries, all these have been mandatory for 2 decades, with dramatic improvements all over. Yes it takes investment and civic education, but it’s the right thing to do so just do it. It’s like how we still use Metrocards (but thank goodness that’s coming to an end). Many major public transportation systems have had contactless for years, if not decades. Decades!America is the country of the past when it comes to public infrastructure and systems. Positively retrograde and at times even shoddy. Ugh.
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If they are allowed to roam the open Pacific Ocean on a frequent basis, they are not strictly "in captivity". They are, of course trained—some might say brainwashed—into staying with their humans. But there does seem to be an element of choice here.
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The first writer may want to consider adopting or in vitro conception. Once she feels confident that she has a motherhood plan of one sort or another, hopefully she can relax and enjoy the new boyfriend and see what develops. Knowing that her chance to be a parent no longer hinges on getting this guy (or any other) to hurry up and commit to her and pursue pregnancy will help him make decisions without so much pressure. This route does entail accepting the significant possibility that she may be a single parent, but at least she can probably afford child care. I chose to adopt a foreign born baby girl 25 years ago after divorcing a man who had promised before the marriage that we would make or adopt at least one baby, then changed his mind a few years into the marriage. Single parenthood was never my Plan A, but I was not willing to forfeit the chance to raise a child that I had dreamed of since preschool. It was the best decision of my life. But she should know that pursuing a new relationship once she has a baby or child is extremely difficult, as the time and emotional investment needed for both parenting and romance are exhausting even if one is adapted to the demands of neurosurgery.
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SA I think Stephens is fairly transparent—he was born into privilege (apparently his grandfather founded a chemical company in Mexico, which is father ran while Bret was sent to fancy boarding schools in the US) and has never felt it necessary to consider how people with less privileged lives get along or to bother to attempt to understand—or god forbid, empathize—with their situation. So two weeks ago he expressed concern for the New York couple earning "over $400,000" who was struggling to meet all their expenses thanks to high tax rates. But aging workers with a few thousand dollars in savings and no hope of high-paying work in their 60s? Well they are just entitled, I guess, wanting to retire and receive Social Security at 67 rather than 72. And single payer health care or a strong publicly funded Medicare system? Well think of the taxes on the wealthy that would require! Leave the wealthy to pay for their own luxury health care. The poor and middle class? Well, who cares really? I mean that couple earning $400,000 has private school and a summer home to pay for! The person making $60,000? Do they even exist?I find Stephens hard to stomach because, while he may be good with a clever turn of phrase, he as no original ideas and his prescriptions for our society are at best conventional conservative cliches, poorly thought-out, lacking in empathy and understanding for the lives of ordinary people, and often simplistic and intellectually flimsy.
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With the Average income in 2019 being $31,300, it's hard for me to see where a couple making collectively $400K/yr is anywhere other than the top 5% of incomes. They are in no middle class I'm aware of. Republicans voting to eliminate the funding increase to the IRS are simply exposing their allegiance to the top .1% while wearing "populist" clothing. They have nothing on George Santos."All of which could have been avoided if Merrick Garland had simply taken a patient and low-key approach to the retrieval of those documents in Mar-a-Lago!" WHAT! The National Archives did just that for 1-1/2 years with no result other than a reluctant turn over of some documents and being lied to by a lawyer. Workers at Mar a Lardo were caught on video moving boxes with classified documents that led to the issuance of a search warrant on Mar a Lardo, where the additional 325 classified doc's were "discovered". Trump to-date refuses to sign a declaration all classified documents have been returned. This is a clarion call all his residences need searching. Pull your head out of the dark place Bret. “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.” Describes the GOP House exactly. I read your piece with David Brooks. It exposed your limits of knowledge to the relative lengths of your lives. Older than both of you I suggest the rot began with Goldwater and the John Birchers. Reagan was never prosecuted for his arms for hostages dealings with the Iranians when running for POTUS.
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Nathan Some of what you say is true, and it's a sticky wicket because on the one hand, you'd like to see increased security on trains and buses, which could be easily covered by fares from increased ridership. On the other hand, there's going to be a contingent always arguing against more security on public transit because law enforcement is more likely to target minorities and the most vulnerable for things like fare evasion. The best long-term solution is to make public transit free to all and increase security at the same time, which would make using public transit a lot more desirable to a lot more people. Stop expanding freeways, which will also make public transit use more desirable, and eventually you'll reach an equilibrium where people who *really* want to drive and refuse to do anything else can use freeways with reduced congestion while the more flexible among us will use public transit. But that would require considerably more investment into public transportation. You argue that this transportation issue "is not due to chronic disinvestment," but it absolutely is due to chronic disinvestment in both our public transit and in our social safety net.
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