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Before everybody gets all crowy, couple things.1. Show of hands: anybody trust the numbers that came out of Florida and other Red States in the last year or so?2. Anybody do the math on how long it’ll take China to catch up with our number of dead at the rate they’re going?3. Anybody notice that China is now doing EXACTLY what our own social darwinist and antivaxx geniuses wanted us to do—skip the vaccines, open everything up, and let the fire roar through the forest? By the way, kids, these are actual real live human beings we’re talking about here. Maybe ease up a tad bit on the gloating.
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I don't fully understand the reluctance of Nashville to host the Republican convention--the positive publicity for, and tax dollars to, both city and state, and the dollars spent in the Nashville hospitality industry argue strongly in favor of Nashville hosting the event, regardless of how Democratic the city may be. And greater Nashville is more than the city of Nashville. However, Ms. Renkl, I think this is one of your finest essays. And the problem you describe extends much further than the South. Good work.
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Making my way through winterMaking my way through winter,I admire its frozen beautyas I dream of its end.On an icy lane, the lace of frost sparkles on low branches that will hold blossoms in May.Which is more beautiful?I can’t say.The warmth of my woolen shirt, colors softened from years of wear,makes me feel loved when I'm alone.Do I feel greater fondness formy khaki shorts and well-wornsandals now stored away? It’s hard to know.Venturing out on the frozen lake,my boots squeaking in the snow,I remind myself each step I take:the ice is thick enoughfor me to make this trek.It is a wondrous thingto stand far out from shoreand see the world anew.I close my eyes and dream of traveling to this same spotwhen the water is open,the waves unlocked,in a green canoe.I’ll pause for a moment when I do,to remember the dazzling expanse of whitethat once concealed the open water, dancing free, brilliant blue.Jan. 1 Bee words used: lane, lace, woolen, alone, well, anew, canoe, once, conceal.
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From the article:“Congressman Torres and I (Dan Goldman) feel it’s incredibly important to make sure that the integrity of the House and the integrity of its members are put front, first and foremost,” Santos is worth about $1.98. If that.Goldman is worth about $250 million dollars.Let's look into his financials too.
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I'm afraid I am spoiled. I have a personal egg man who delivers and charges $2/dozen. Maybe he has 75 chickens. I order for myself and several neighbors, so I am a guaranteed customer every week. He also brings me free manure for my garden.
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JoeD Look in the bills the Democrats passed in the last two years for all the very specific forms of investment in infrastructure and human services that benefit rural areas (as well as urban and suburban). Quite beating an old horse and support the changes that Democrats are trying to make.
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I am a professional healthcare investor. After nearly 20 years of investing in healthcare companies I’ve come to the view that the American system is totally broken and needs a top down and bottoms up reimagining. Health education should be free. Doctors and nurses should not pay for professional schooling. We need tor reform. Anything other than egregious cases of neglect should be kept entirely outside of the court system. Insurance should be much much simpler. We should not have a 10 tiered reimbursement system with Medicaid paying less than the cost of care and private insurance or out of pocket paying individuals paying massively more. Facilities should be consolidated and inefficient ones that provide expensive or low quality care should be closed. And patients should be accountable for bad health maintenance decisions. If someone wants to smoke, drink, use illegal drugs, massively over consume food they should pay more into the system. We could deliver better care to more people for less money. It requires some tough medicine and fighting some special interests on both sides of the political spectrum as well as very influential local employers. But it can be done if we have the will. Unfortunately I do not believe we do.
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The industry has been trying to move away from passwords for a long time. Microsoft has supported passwordless sign-ins for a few years now for both the corporate 365 tenants and personal Microsoft accounts. If you're not using them yet, ask your IT team why not.Basically, you create a very complex password, then configure the authenticator app on your phone. To sign in, you enter your account name (email address) and you're given a simple code that you match on your phone. Use your phone's biometric authentication and you're signed in. Quick, easy, secure, and no complex password to remember.Now that you have the authenticator app installed, throw in every other system that supports 2FA/MFA - Amazon, Facebook, whatever.FWIW, we're been using KeePass for years stored on OneDrive. I've always been a little leary of a system where they manage the password database for you.
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Louis Greenstein The $700,000 for Santos probably came from Bolsanaro.
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Back in the early 2000s, I worked at the Chrysler Tech Center building in Auburn Hills, MI for a decade. It's many open cafeterias were a breeding ground for teaming and open discussion of technical ideas. You will be amazed at how creative certain people are around the lunch table. Many friendships were made and many a patent idea had their incubation at the lunch tables.
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Charge $1000 a bullet and watch shootings drop like a stone- Chris Rock
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David Martin Is anyone buying those $16,000 Bitcoins?Didn't think so.They are only worth as much as someone is willing to pay.
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Rachel until the past year, in 46 years of cooking, I'd never encountered a rotten egg. But last year we had 2 or 3 horrible stinkers, and they were expensive pastured eggs. Confirmed for me that I should never crack an egg into a bowl with other already opened eggs in it, or right into the flour or other ingredients for a recipe. I always use a separate bowl for the egg, and give it the "smell test" before it goes into the other ingredients.
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pstevens Bill Clinton cut capital gains taxes. During his administration tax law changed so stock options ballooned executive compensation. Inequality grew as much as during Reagan’s two terms. Obama kept 80% of Bush tax cuts raising the threshold for dropping cuts to $450,000 instead of $250,000 at insistence of current Majority Leader Schumer. Obama also sought a grand bargain even if it meant cutting Social Security and Medicare, and was on record as favoring a corporate tax cut. Bernie Sanders’ proposed rates were lower than the first six years of Reagan’s, adjusted for inflation. And it was Democratic Speaker Tip O’Neil and Dem Sen Bill Bradley who colluded with Reagan in 1986 for historic tax cuts. It was JFK who first proposed rolling back taxes from WWII levels, then passed by LBJ. “Republicans are worse” can not be the Democratic standard.
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That's less likely to happen now, because AI developers have been criticized for releasing AI-generated output that is considered objectionable by some people.In particular, the OpenAI Charter commits "to mak[ing] AGI safe" and "to avoid[ing] enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power." (openai.com)
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drProteus To add to what you said, we spend an average of $11,000 per person on healthcare.The other countries spend an average of $5,500 per person on healthcare.They all have some form of universal healthcare. We have medical bankruptcies and parts of the US with infant mortality rates of a second world country.And we spend anywhere from two to ten times for the same prescription drug.And W Bush made it Medicare could not negotiate prescription drugs.
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From Reuters and other sources:In her opening statement during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was blessed to be "born in this great nation" and added: "I must also pause to reaffirm my thanks to God, for it is faith that sustains me at this moment." Jackson, 51, pledged independence if confirmed by the Senate to the nation's top judicial body and embraced a limited role for jurists.We should be worried that someone who used her intelligence, hard work and diligence to get where she is would attribute her success to an imaginary friend.
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If the GOP wants to put us in an economic recession, then ignoring the debt ceiling will be a fast way to get us there. They do so at their peril. The average Republican doesn't "get investing." (Their wealthy Republicans friends do, but I'm talking about "the base"--those 60 million plus Trump voters, if you want to cut the top 10 million off, and say they're all tge wealthy ones.) So, that base will get very angry when everything they want to buy goes up, the value of their house goes down, and jobs are lost. If the GOP wants to get blamed for that, then they are even more confused and clueless than their selection of a House Speaker demonstrated. Not an auspicious start for our friends on the Right.
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Debt is misunderstood, and that makes it possible to frighten people. That was surely true in 1867 as it is today.The US annual debt, in absolute terms, is 12% of GDP. The total debt, 31 trillion, is 120%. Neither figure is an outlier. Nany countries have 10% or so annual debt, Norway for example has 12%, same as US. Canada, the UK, France and others have similar total debt levels as a percent of GDP.Americans are fooled by a few things. 1) US govts at all levels GATHER less tax than any other wealthy, modern country (26%, compared to OECD avg 34%.) 2) US govts SPEND less that almost any other country, 38%. 3) These smaller percents generate a larger relative deficit than other countries. We learned this about fractions in 6th grade, I think, but an awful lot of people have forgotten.The total deficit, 31 trillion, is so big because the US economy is so big. Finally, the low tax level is why it's assumed the US debt isn't a risk, in bond markets. If there was a crisis, say a war, the US has more room to raise taxes than others.
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Jan If you follow this industry they are far beyond poor. Carnival Corporation for instance had debt of about $9 billion back 5 years ago. Today? A bit more than $28 billion, a 300% increase. The story is similar for the other major players and probably worse for the smaller lines.With rising rates these debt problems will only get worse.The major lines are headquartered outside the US for tax purposes. This came back to bite them since as non-US firms they were not eligible for any pandemic related government charity.
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No child should ever go hungry. However, here in California and the rest of the USA we are faced with with sky high prices. $7.00 for a dozen eggs, our natural gas bill has gone from $90 to $450. I just paid almost $400 for groceries and that did not include meat. I read an article this last week where a middle class family has to choose between paying for natural gas to keep warm or eating. This is a tragic global problem.
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I thank Ms. Weise for reporting that Microsoft and a number of other companies look upon firing thousands of employees as fragmentary, something many readers would not have known.Having once been laid off once, my initial reaction was shock and then horror. How was I going to live?So what I see here is not so much a pruning of its workforce but a real disregard for human life.Hence, in the future, it would behoove their employees to always have a Plan B in place in the event that these mega-corporations decide to have another brutal annihilation.
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SMS45 There's a certain satisfaction in seeing McCarthy getting his comeuppance. McCarthy has always lacked a moral compass. He tries to figure out which way the wind is blowing & tries to head that way. No wonder some don't trust him. The radicals on the right have no desire to govern, only to cause chaos & try to jam their way into more power. The country is against them, & the party should be as well. The GOP needs to find a more rational & courageous moderate to be their speaker & then force the radicals to fall in line. Even if it means threatening to fund challengers to them in 2 years. Having said that, there's something to be said for spending curbs in exchange for raising the federal debt. Will we ever fix the ballooning federal deficit, or will we watch it spiral out of control? Earmarks to direct federal money to individual projects are out of control. Earmarks vanished for a decade after 2011 following the “bridge to nowhere” & other embarrassments. Last year's $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill contained no fewer than 367 pages of pet projects that lawmakers earmarked for their home state or district. Congress brought home the bacon for some 5,000 separate earmarks at a cost of $9.7 billion. Insane. The GOP group of 20 is also seeking to heavily fortify the U.S. border with Mexico. Are we ever going to repair this broken system, or is the plan to keep accepting more illegal immigrants until we are overwhelmed? These legitimate issues have to be addressed.
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NorthernVirginia that is ok for mega agro businesses but the small farmers can not afford it. Takes a lot of up front capital they do not have.
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NCK : I did my 5 Wishes several years ago and revoked my original POA. It's a simple, straight forward legal document which explains it all and gives you the decisions to make before you need them. It's worth the $15 for the forms, although I think I paid only $5. Whatever the cost, it's a bargain.
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I spent a whole lot of time in Fort Lee with family friends growing up. It was a great place to be there as a child. Lots of families, plenty of food and the bridge - oh, those lights.When I lived there in my early 30s, however, it had become more congested than in the 90s and real estate development seemed to be the priority, not green spaces or walking areas.The monstrosity of a high-rise condo called The Modern seems out of place, blocking out what used to be a clear view of Manhattan and the big open sky. Construction snarled roadways everywhere; even running simple errands could be a headache by car. It was sometimes simply dangerous on foot.Yet Fort Lee has two faces. Once you get past the traffic and the downtown mayhem and find your way to the area known as Coytesville, which is advertised as the "original Hollywood" and near the Palisades Parkway, it is there you will find the peace and tranquility, the green and the public space that is still relatively unspoiled.That's where you want to be, and what I choose to remember most fondly. A good life is still possible to find in those back roads just a short distance from the bridge.
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Mkm, the news is: the deficit FELL by $1.4 TRILLION! I’d say this is a win for the U.S.!
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We're still not seeing this as the existential threat it is, the forces representing the old Confederate alliance of big capital and bid bigotry. Let's remember Adolf's self-schooling on American racist thinkers trying to justify slavery. And that he got clobbered in the '28 election, only gaining traction in '30 once American laissez faire capitalists had trashed the world economy. We're all aghast at Putin but let Bush and the others who enabled the destruction of the Middle East in the name of oil and Armageddon, serving the same factions of southern religious fundamentalists and corporate interests.
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Hunter Biden has never had any role in his father’s work, politics, etc. However, Jared Kushner worked in the White House, got a security clearance he didn’t actually qualify for, was tasked with Middle East issues and - surprise - just got $2 billion from the Saudis for his newest venture. That actually raises huge national security and conflict of interest issues. I hope House Democrats have a chance to raise that actual issue.
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garsar It is unfortunate that Social Security Trust Fund surpluses are appropriated to be used by the US Treasury General Fund. The Dependency Ratio shifting has been anticipated for a long time, and an invested cushion of that funding back into Social Security might have helped carry us through the (hopefully) temporary deficits. I'd be interested in seeing a significant raising of the Social Security Wage Base, or otherwise seeing some funding from the new 15% international Corporate Minimum tax directed into the Fund or otherwise paying down the debt so the Fund can borrow as it needs from the Treasury without multiplying onto the growth of our national interest payments.
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It's besides the point. Even IF you could win such a legal battle, an open source fork of ChatGPT could be trained on voluntary submissions from students all over the globe, creating a data set just as big if not bigger on totally legal terms.
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Sam The Sham I agree ! Actually reclaiming old rights of way would be easy. Freight trains by law are supposed to yield right of way to passenger trains. Much of the multi track right of way is still there but would require new railbeds and rails. Adding tracks to existing ones is no different then adding a lane to a highway. Europe and Japan do not run freight trains on passenger rails. At the current price of $3.50 a gallon a $100 ticket from NYC to Chicago would be a bargain. Would people take the train ? Well raise the gas tax and place a tax on EV's to pay for the interstate highway system and it will cost a lot more to drive. With dedicated tracks passenger trains can go 250 to 300 mph. Weight of the cars is nothing. That requirement isn't for hitting a freight train. It is for derailment or any accident to increase survivability.
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So if I understand this correctly, luxury brands want us to donate cashmere to them for free so they can turn around and sell $3000 sweaters to the extremely wealthy. Capitalism is extraordinary
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A lot of comments complaining about the definition of tech companies. "Tech" companies are just business that are using new developments in available tools ("tech") to change some of the variables in established markets. Yes, AirBNB is a rental company, but they centralized operations and cut out middlemen. We rent a beach house in the summer for a week through a realtor; AirBNB makes this person superfluous. Uber is just taxis on demand - but before Uber you couldn't easily summon a taxi to your location and pay for it. Tesla just makes cars, but they are starting to self drive, mainstreamed a new fuel source, digitized interiors, etc. Amazon's retail arm is Walmart on delivery trucks with a new ordering and warehouse system. Carvana is a used car dealer that expands your access to inventory and brings the car to you. Etc. They're all tech companies in the zeitgeist because they used some new, tech-driven tools and knowledge to turn stuff upside down and grab big chunks of market share.
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Brian MacDougall It happened while reading this that the thought arose in my mind that this experience has already been. At night, closing the eyes, later, with them open, in the darkness, random images arise, fantastic images, any kind of image, not controlled by the rational mind, just blossoms in a neural garden. They can be watched as long as there is interest. And interest fades after a few minutes. It will be like this. Frost patterns on the window are lovely, and fascinating. What do humans look for? What do they need? How long can we be mesmerized by images without human content?
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Count me among the (hopefully) former Humira patients - still actively trying to wean myself using every anti-inflammatory DIY intervention I can find (so far, so good!). The monthly stress of coordinating payments via insurance and AbVie copay assist exacerbated my psoriatic arthritis more than the medication relieved. I have a nearly $3k balance due since July 2022 that CVS specialty and Humira keep trying to make my responsibility, despite being enrolled in copay assistance and monthly assurances that this is being resolved by both parties. Manufacturer copay assist is another huge racket that needs examination - feels like a monthly shell game. To anyone else out there fighting the monthly insurance battle - I feel you.
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Cleopatra actors do get paid too much, 20 million for a movie? shouldnt we be paying nurses,teachers,cleaners,cops,firemen,waste collectors, ...etc more? they deserve it more than some entertainer ....20 million dollars for one movie while if your father worked his whole life he will never get half that amount...wake up
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First, as the NY Times has reported, in the last 23 years, the national debt increased by about $12.7 trillion under Republican presidents (Bush and Trump) and by about $13 trillion under Democratic presidents (Obama and Biden). So both parties have contributed nearly evenly.Yet Republicans are still responsible for a larger portion of that debt. Why? Because Bush made two major tax cuts that added to the debt, while Obama simply maintained those cuts. Plus, Bush's financial deregulation lead to the financial collapse in 2008, leading to large fiscal bailouts under Obama's watch. The debt ballooned again because of covid bailouts, but that wasn't either Trump's or Biden's fault.Second, Republicans like to remind of us of middle school history class and lessons about hyperinflation in Germany after WWI, when its government just kept printing more money. Conservatives say that's what we're doing now. But the economics are simply not the same. While economists do disagree as to how much debt is responsible, all economists agree on one thing: defaulting on our national debt will be calamitous. And that's what too many Republicans want to do. So who, exactly, is the party of fiscal responsibility? The party that brought us the majority of increases to our national debt in the last 23 years as well as the financial crisis of 2008?
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I understand Twitter job cuts. New management trying to control runaway costs. But Meta, Google, Microsoft are all very profitable companies. Their technology is supposed to predict future and transform businesses. They sit on pile of cash. They hired for an imagined future and then fired later via email. My family member was aggressively pursued by Google to take a position in marketing and she left an excellent long term job at a great consulting company to join Google after 4 months of persuasion and on a convincing compensation, only to be fired last week. Sometimes you wonder if these companies know what they really do. Their business conduct is in complete devistion to their fancy value statements. My respect for Apple and Adobe is very high now for their measured decisions.
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After a diskectomy in 2008, I began doing physiotherapy and realized that the exercises I was tasked to do were yoga poses. At $60 an hour for physio vs. $10 yoga classes for the same amount of time, I enrolled in yoga classes. I am still with the same instructor all these years later. When the occasional sciatica rears its ugly head, I know what stretches to do to keep it at bay. Since the start of the pandemic, my yoga classes have been on Zoom. The convenience of not having to travel to a studio and be with maskless people, has certainly outweighed the occasional correction from the instructor. I have good balance and flexibility and really relish my 3 classes a week.
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Mark I would hope that the renewed interest in chip fabrication will draw student interest and eventually rejuvenation in the faculty ranks. In the meantime industry veterans like you should seriously consider teaching as an adjunct professor in the EECS department to bridge the gap. I think there will be student interest given the new opportunities being opened up. They will need your expertise.
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bo Maybe, but the point is that Mr. Appiah's advice to the LW was for the extended family to talk about the immediate family behind their back, make a judgement and/or come to a consensus and then "pick the person who is best place to speak for all of you". I can also say that if my extended family talked behind my back that much, I would be (if not enraged) angry, dissappointed, embarrassed, annoyed....or ??? Certainly not pleased about the situation. Be an adult. Deal with difficult topics in person, kindly, lovingly, directly, empathetically, with curiosity about the situation, with an open mind and without judgement.
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HHS. CDC, the NIHs as well as the USPTO are deeply embedded in Big Pharma. It's a complex that evolved into one family after working together for many years. This news piece singles out one particular drug from one particular company--it epresents a tiny smidgen of the rot in this area of our government.The article doesn't even mention how this same corrupt group works with drug companies to extend patents of well-known effective drugs by allowing drug companies to separate an expiring drug's components, then package and label them anew, after which this group of thugs issues a brand new patent for each component--so now a patient must take two separate, higher-priced drugs (each with a new name) instead of the time-tested, effective single drug. It's repulsive. We are a capitalist country. Our government should be encouraging innovation, not killing it. There are no new antibiotics. Why? Antibiotics are highly effective and taken short term. Drug companies see the ROI on any short term drug as unsatisfactory. They are interested in permanent-use drugs where the money keeps rolling in, eg., thyroid drugs that, once started, must be taken for life.
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I once posited the theory that positive economic trends continue until a sufficient number of economists are employed and then, as a result, a sufficient percentage of economists (employed by banks, investment firms, and think tanks) are available to express their collective concern about smaller negative trends until they reach a critical mass that causes governments and corporations to temper their forecasts and slow down their hiring and investment. Then, as sufficient numbers of economists are laid off, their cautiously negative warnings subside and the overall economic outlook begins to recover. It's a slow cycle, with some variations induced by gasoline prices and soybean yields, but it's well-documented by statistics that I have carefully selected and arbitrarily modeled over time.
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It’s often forgotten that towards the end of both the novel and the movie, Elmer Gantry—like many of Lewis’ characters—manages to stumble his way into something resembling a decent, honest life.We generally tend to think that he starts out, continues, and ends a greedy hypocrite. But you can see why, given the humbug, hokum and just plain lying that biblethumping preachers have been firehosing at us from tents, rickety churches, and TV sets for the last two hundred years. I mean, once you find out that this Jeffress character is worth about eighteen million bucks, and the REALLY successful charlatans like Pat Robertson run north of a hundred mil, you wouldn’t generally expect any of these clowns to learn a darn thing, ever. Sell all that thou hast, and follow me. Do not pray in public, as do the Pharisees and Hypocrites. Do unto others. My Kingdom is not of this world. Yeah, right.
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A $25,000 donation? Obviously this person or entity wanted something from Mr. Santos. I doubt it was a donation out of the goodness of their heart. What was expected here?
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I heard Biden speak at the bridge opening in Covington, Kentucky. Other than maybe having called Mitch McConnell " friend", he seemed pretty on top of things. Unless that changes, the only thing that makes me hesitate to vote for his re- election is his Vice President, who except for being strongly " pro-choice" seems to stand for nothing and, despite her admirably infectious positive energy at times, doesn't exactly exude competency either. I realize that Senator Sanders at present being my first choice after Biden for 2022 is quite unhelpful.
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It's a shame that the political atmosphere in the US has investors apprehensive about making long-term capital investments within our borders. The Biden Administration had to give billions to Chip manufacturers for them to build production facilities here at home. As long as we continue to make it difficult to pull building permits, keep changing the rules for manufacturers, and pick winning and losing industries through legislation, long-term investors will take the safe road and invest where it's safer for their capital and where they are wanted, outside the US border.
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Here’s what I hated the most, the $1000.00 surprise bill from the anesthesiologist, I had asked weeks before the procedure the gastroenterologist to confirm my insurance covered the cost, and the day I checked into the clinic I again asked if my insurance covered the procedure. I was assured my out of pocket cost would be zero. SURPRISE, two weeks later I got a $1000 bill from the anesthesiologist. Apparently, the sedation part is a luxury add-on that my Blue Cross/Blue Shield insurance plan doesn’t pay for.
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Great article. Every player should have a right to earn whatever they can. While it's disappointing that college athletic departments may lose some funding, I think we need to take a step back and remember what the purpose of college is. It's to prepare students for a job after college. Frankly, the fact that colleges spend significant amounts of money on sports that cost money (rather than bring in $$) is absurd in an environment where the cost of tuition is often about $75k/year. Especially at public institutions this seems like a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money.
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$1.2 trillion. The third highest deficit in history, exceeded on,y be the deficits of the pandemic years. It is certainly nothing to be proud of. And the deficit would be much higher if Manchin had agreed to his BBB boondoggle. We went from one president (Trump) who juiced the deficit by pushing through an excessive tax cut, to another president (Biden) who is juicing the deficit through excessive spending.and a different half of the elec5orate liked each one. Sad!!!
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Andrew That is the gospel truth. I was amazed how in the 80's the son of a Mexican politician could deposit $500,000 checks into his account every 2 weeks. The investment firm said it wa ok because it was a check.
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Sarah Trump’s liberal use of his own money to finance his campaign makes it harder to separate the personal from the campaign. Candidates face no contribution limits, and he spent over $60 million to get himself elected.Trump himself said that it wasn’t a campaign expense, because he paid it himself.But at the end of the day, the personal vs. campaign test isn’t based on the account the money came from, but whether the cost would have come regardless of Trump running for office.
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JT Florida Absolutely! I've given $3,400 to Ukraine so far, mostly for needed military equipment. I give for freedom.
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Paul The funny thing about America is everyone thinks they are middle class and no one thinks they're rich. Anyone making more than $400k in any city is not worried about the vacillation in the price of eggs. I can assure you they eat out regularly at nice restaurants, take multiple vacations a year, and maintain a nice nest egg of savings. To think anything else is kind of laughable in its disregard for the real world.
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The social media ecosystem is in probably its most damaged and vulnerable state in its short history as we approach a foreboding election season with Trump seeing clear open water. Do you trust Meta, Twitter, and TikTok to have our best interests at heart and keep us safe? Lol.
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John Tollefson That's 3% of outstanding US Treasurys. It's a lot but it wouldn't be the end of the world. It's also a card China could only play once. The market for US bonds would soon enough be over it.
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To answer the question of the headline....... not wellAnd this is just the opening salvo........wait until there is necessary legislation that has to be passed and watch the fireworks. These republicans are just in the on-deck batting circle warming up. Buckle down America, we're in for a bumpy ride....we are in the midst of a downward spiral of decreasing rate of returns and no one seems adult enough to stop it.
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John Fourier This is definitely the worse short-term risk. And given that China has probably surpassed the US both in AI and in robotics technology, perhaps the ground is set for a massive first strike by the US. We really live in a dangerous world. An international freeze in the development of new weapons, decreasing military spending to a minimum, and an agreement to invest heavily in security and mutual trust institutions - would be a solution that profits all humanity.
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Living in my seventh decade I empathize with those being laid off. There are more to come and as this column points out there will be winners and losers. What I don't know and this article does not address is what is next for these workers and their families. Will the collateral workforce and societal damage during an additional two year economic contraction result in another upward bump of nationwide unemployment by 1%. Possibly the rubber band of our cyclical economy has been stretched beyond imagination during the grow cycle and now will slowly return to a very low, slow, or even no growth period for two to three years. The impacts are being felt in the technology sector. What about the allied fields beyond the tech companies? The Inflation reduction and Infrastructure incitive may lessen but they will not off set tech sector losses. Perhaps the bigger challenge for many of the workers will be bankruptcy and mental health issues. I suspect we as a society are like those being laid off, aka fired, not prepared to provide the social emotional support many will need.
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Alex. Who cannot ‘grow’ with two TRILLION OF BORROWINGS, given to … anybody?CA alone, admitted to $20 billion going to fraudsters, shysters and crooks, even those OVERSEAS!!!Let’s not forget Bernie, ENRON,Theranos, and the crypto jokes….is this ‘capitalism’ or RICO.
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Kate That seems quite optimistic to me. But - I agree that disclosure to the service is more likely to lead to matches with men who are open to dating someone with the LW's history - and men who are more in touch with themselves.
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Another clickbait and switch.If you mean to give info it should be in the first couple paragraphs. I do not need to be told anything you had to say in the three I read before deciding your article is intended to wear me down and not inform me at all. The simple answer is to not give your email to anyone online unless you are actually buying something. For this purpose you should have multiple email addy's. The free email providers also have AI's collecting data from them, usually by keyword but I expect its a lot more sophisticated by now with ChatGPT which is probably why MS is buying into Open AI so strongly.
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Cert "They did the ground work that the Democrats were unable to accomplish. "The Democrats had a good, serious, public-spirited candidate who likely preferred to talk about issues than do opposition research and run a negative campaign,.I blame the press for not paying more attention to the North Shore paper's reports, and of course the Republicans. But, most of all, who gave or raised $700,000 for him and what are their secret demands?
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ckeown I am a 65 year old yoga teacher IGkarmagoodyoga/Susan Schectar and able to hold my own with people half my age but not every pose is in my practice. The intention of Plank Pose is to engage the core muscles to hold the body upright thus minimizing pressure on the joints. If one is unable to do so one option is to drop the knees or build core strength first through other poses before adding Plank to your sequence. Poses such as eagle arms, spinal twists and heart opening poses build strength and flexibility in the shoulders. The subtle body practices help with pain management. Yoga was not likely the cause but improper or lack of instruction. These injuries can increase when one starts with online practices for a general audience rather than be taught by an instructor who can tailor a practice to their individual needs.
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Jonathan Penn stock buy backs as opposed to investment in labor and the means of production really need to be strongly discouraged.
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Like many people and most naturally thin people, I grew up thinking that being fat was for lack of will power and a personal failing. My spouse is 6'2 and came back from a 16 month deployment in Iraq at under 140 lbs. Severely underweight. So much so that when a Burger King opened at the Baghdad airport, his Sgt. made him go there at least once a day to eat a combo meal in addition to whatever he was eating in the field. Fast forward 15 years. His BMI is obese and it as absolutely not from a lack of willpower. I cook all our meals from whole foods. We have soda as a treat perhaps a few times a year. He works out 5 days a week. We take 20 mile long thru-hikes in the summer months. He's more active than 90% of the population. I work out less than him and don't watch what I eat, but generally try to make healthy choices and my BMI is 19/20. The medications for PTSD are notorious for causing weight gain. (If anyone has a link for MDMA trials, let me know!) I suspect burn pit exposure has a hand to play in his rapid weight transformation, just as it caused chronic obstructive sleep apnea at 150 lbs. I'm happy these drugs are offering people hope and a chance at a longer and healthier life. It's time to drop blanket outdated stigmas and beliefs about weight. Shame, stigma and prejudice about weight has not improved outcomes.
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I think the left leaves itself wide open for criticism by focusing so much on identity politics. Of course, Democrats need to pay some attention to these issues or risk the loss of a bloc of voters. For example, the Democrats owe a debt to the African American community. Does anyone think that Georgia would have chosen Biden over Trump without the African American vote? Be that as it may, I think the Democrats should stop taking money from interest groups like health insurance companies and focus on items that would improve the lives of every American. Suggestions for focus: free national health care, repealing the Second Amendment, strengthen unemployment benefits, mandate generous vacation time and maternity leave, free pre-K child care, make more grants available for college and grad school students, free quality assisted living, memory care, nursing home care, and sitters, quit harassing pain-med doctors to the point that they’re afraid to prescribe opiates to seniors who have verifiable conditions that cause the pain. I could go on. But I have to go get my hair cut. Free hair cuts! Seriously though, there’s a lot of room for improvement in areas that do not involve identity politics. I wish the left would latch on to some of these issues. It’s harder for the Republicans to make fun of this stuff.
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I love the Medicaid expansion provisions.Two thoughts-will it cause rural poor whites to rethink voting against their own medical and financial interests by voting GOP cycle after election cycle.The US is beginning to catch up to the rest of the Western world in providing universal healthcare to its citizens.Thank you Nancy, Chuck and Joe!
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One reason Republicans have gone from being deficit hawks to anti-drag warriors might be the alacrity with which so many of them signed onto Trump's much needed, though thoroughly Keynesian, $2.2 Trillion stimulus package. Granted, it was a crisis and there are no supply-siders in an economic foxhole, but it is entirely possible that a few GOP members are not yet completely comfortable with the Lindsay Graham "No Integrity, No Problem" pose of the modern Republican Party.
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Alex Williams Let's start with an example you can get your head around, buying a home with a mortgage.Suppose you buy a house for $500,000 with 5% ($25,000) down and a $475,000 mortgage. At purchase, the mortgage is 95% of the sale price.Now assume the value of the house increases by 3% a year, and that you only pay the interest on the mortgage.After 1 year, the house is worth $515,000.After 2 years, $530,450.After 3 years, $546,364After 4 years, $562,754After 5 years, $579,637At that point, the $475,000 mortgage is only 81.9% of the value of the house. If you can continue to make your payments, the debt should become a smaller and smaller part of the value of your asset (the home). (Some of us who can afford to do so think it can be a wise move to pay down the principal on the mortgage as well, if the interest rate on the mortgage is higher than the interest one can earn on the cash.)In a similar manner, if the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the US increases by 3% a year, a dollar of debt taken out in Year X is less onerous in Year X+5, by a similar proportion, assuming the numbers I used. As time progresses, the percentage that the dollar of debt relative to the GDP should diminish more.That is why it is not a Ponzi scheme.
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Really? FYI Germany National Government Debt reached 2,632.9 USD bn in Jun 2022. Nations are NOT households!
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KathyS In response to your statement "...Social Security Administration reports fraud costs the USA around $8 billion annually..." I just looked that up and I can report that the Social Security Administration says fraud costs annually are $3 billion.This might lead one to believe you belong to some left-leaning elite institution who cannot get their facts correctly.I say this in jest because the tone of your comments certainly DOES NOT suggest you lean anywhere near the left side of the political spectrum.
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Epi-pens, the life saving injections used to reverse allergic reactions or extreme asthma attacks, used to be cheap. They used to cost around $100 for a two pack in 2009. Then Joe Manchin's daughter Heather Bresch, having climbed the ladder at Mylan Pharma after being hired by a friend of dad, had a brainstorm. She raised the price 500% to $600 in 2016. The injections hadn't become more expensive to make. Suddenly the pen that every asthma sufferer, anyone with a bee sting or peanut allergy carried around to prevent anaphylaxis/sudden death, became a luxury item.
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Former Googler here (I voluntarily left 2 years ago after 13 years at the company)...Google's stock is up 4.2% in trading today. Let's not pretend that this is anything more than Google execs giving a hat tip to themselves, under the guise of "economic uncertainty". Google execs are almost 100% paid via stock units, in some cases exceeding hundreds of millions (an estimated $1.3 billion for Mr. Pichai) in value. Did Mr. Pichai slash his and other executive stock compensation in light of this daunting economic uncertainty? I'd be shocked if they did.The "do no evil" company has really changed over the years. My best wishes to everyone impacted.
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dan I know plenty of people who took every possible precaution, and got it anyway. It's not about who is good or bad. It's about who is more or less vulnerable. If you're one of the many who have asymptomatic cases (but can still infect others), does that make you good? How about if you're one of the tiny percentage who never get infected at all, and scientists can't figure out why? My feeling is, an infectious disease isn't a privacy issue at the workplace, if the worker in question is staying home until it's over. But your attitude--that getting sick from something that continues to infect careful vaccinated people (though much less likely to make them seriously ill), is somehow a sign of moral failing--is precisely what makes people try to hide their condition, when it's to our shared benefit that people are open and aboveboard about it. It's never going away, but we are not far from the day when getting Covid is on the same level as getting the flu, or a bad cold. What do you want here? A scarlet letter C stitched into all their clothing? I think Mr. Hawthorne would end that book with the accused one pointing out there everybody else in the congregation has one too.
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Please stop repeating the tired narrative that Djokovic missed last year's Aussie Open as he was unvaccinated. He missed it because he LIED about his status and was denied admission to the country for LYING.
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Michael H McCarthy and almost all Republicans voted for the $113B aid to Ukraine, a staggering amount. If Ukraine was a US state, it will receive more federal funding than 40 US states. 90% of all military aid to Ukraine is by the US. There's little else the US can do other than directly get involved and start WW3.
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Very often shopping online allows considerable saving in the burbs of Washington D.C.Chicken breasts 2.00lb as opposed to 3.49. Coffee, 8.00 as opposed to 11.79. Bread 2.99 instead of 4.25. Yogurt 1.00 instead of 1.49Milk at between 3.50 and 4.00 per gal. Canned tomatoes at 40% offWe have a 18 cu ft fridge. Big enough for two of us. I spend about three hundred dollars each shopping run. I deal with the same young person usually, and regularly tipping him out ensures a careful selection that he brings to our car. I get my spices, basmati rice, garlic, cilantro and from a little Ethiopian run store, at half the grocery store price, and better quality too. A Halal market for my Feta, pita bread, olives, halava, and tahini. At the "ethnic'' markets they will often have home baked treats.I am about to order seeds and repower my 40 yr old tiller for the coming spring. Heaven is sitting in your own garden with a paring knife, salt and pepper, and munching out.
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Love the living room with the ceiling open to the second floor.Must be nice to have that much $$$.He has 3 kids and 3 dogs, and so wants a larger house.That's what it is: wants.My husband and I were able to afford one child and no pets, but we were able to keep paying the rent on our conventional 3 BR house in an average neighborhood in the SFBay Area. So YAY us!
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Trader Joe's in Brooklyn has a dozen large eggs for $4.50. I picked up an extra dozen in case I bake, and was probably also influenced by all this hype
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As someone who spent a lot of time in the tech industry to me Google has grown complacent. They have been on top for so long, commanding so much of the market that they haven't been spending as much time focusing on their core business- search as well as ad buys. As the article also indicates they have way too many open ended projects- some which have little to do with the business. That really reminds me of what happened at RCA during the 70's when they branched out to everything from TV dinners and carpet- again- getting astray of the core business and spending less on true innovation. At the end of the day tech is fragile. One day you're king of it all and the next, some little startup comes along and makes what you sell obsolete. On my way to work I used to drive by a HUGE Ampex sign that was still standing despite the headquarters having been vacant for years. The valley is littered with the graves of many once-great companies whom for one instance at a time were made obsolete by a new upstart. Will the same happen for Google? Time will tell.
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Chips are only one part of the future. Biological inventions are just starting to ramp up and may have an even bigger influence. Also materials science, the still infant computer/software revolution, machine learning, robotics, drones, advances in chemistry, medicine, and more. There are several technologies that will decide the future and the USA should be investing in all of them and also figuring out how we're going to live with, regulate, and survive these new capabilities.
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If the germans don't start properly investing in the defense of their own backyard, the CCP will swoop in and divide-and-conquer the EU. And, what then?Scholz's government -- if it truly believed in a 'Zeitenwende' -- would be starting the process of divesting from China as fast as humanly possible now; decreasing the leverage the "no limits" totalitarians have over them; and not selling the CCP strategic European infrastructure, instead, like pieces of the port of Hamburg (one of the dumbest things I have ever heard!).If Germany wants to help end Putin's genocidal war of aggression (and similar violent revanchism), they need to stop enabling Putin's backers -- the CCP -- who have foisted this proxy war on Europe's doorstep, most cynically. And who are avowedly anti-"West", anti-democratic, revisionist and revengeful.Germany is currently acting like the weak link in long-term European unity. And the Putin-Xi axis are two sides of the same coin....China is part of the problem here, not the solution.It's time for the policymakers in Berlin to wake up; and to make common cause with their Friends, not empower their Enemies.
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I too was duped in very much the same way as Ms. Lee was. I called my credit card company and they did give me a refund - at least for now. They said I had to return the items to the sender. I emailed the sender and asked for an address to make the return. I mailed back the socks ($43 in postage) but they were recently returned to me with a sticker saying that the person I sent the package to "has gone away". So now I have a bunch of knock off socks that I will donate to a local agency for the poor. Bombas should suggest on their social media ads that customers go directly to their web site rather than clicking on the link. Lessons learned - I will never again click on a link of any kind on social media. I am sorry for all who were scammed.
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Private schools, private universities are such under payers - ( for adjuncts at least). Friends I know who teach at Friends - Quaker schools - social justice - don’t pay their teachers enough, they get at least 40k a year from each kid.
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11 billion dollars to the NYPD, and they couldn’t catch last year’s subway shooter, EVEN AFTER he called the NYPD to turn himself in. Loads of cops “responded” after the shooter escaped, blocking sidewalks and streets, standing around, looking “effective,” especially after the press conferences started.But what did the NYPD actually do to prevent the violence? Nothing. What did the NYPD do to catch the culprit? Nothing.WE keep ourselves safe. We need to strengthen our society, not pour ever more money into police forces that don’t do much except show up afterwards, take notes, or even terrorize and abuse people who are actually helping. Remember how the brave cops in Uvalde handcuffed parents trying to rescue their kids instead of stopping the shooter? It’s tragic that as a society we are so broken that we can’t have decent gun control laws. It’s even more tragic that people think more police are the solution. Starving libraries so we can have another day or so of police overtime is how you create problems, not solve them.Since the police can’t/won’t protect us, we need to fund interventions to keep the unstable from going over the edge, BEFORE they pick up a gun.And after the unstable pick up a gun, we need to protect ourselves. The cops won’t. So train children to attack attackers. Train old ladies. Train everyone. Fund all this by reducing police budgets. The alternative is gun control, and that won’t happen anytime soon.
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"Wealthy investor" Andrew Intrater's greed took control of his brain. Promises of a consistent 16% return on his investment should have raised a red flag.
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Dr. Krugman, it is fascinating, actually, to observe the human response to national debt. Every well-to-do, modern country in the world has a deficit, somewhere between 6% and 12% of GDP. ALL of them. Yet probably in every country many citizens believe government deficits are bad, dangerous, and should be stopped.If there were a cohort of what some considered well-run countries, Germany, Finland, Canada, etc., that had 'balanced budgets' or tiny deficits, while the less well-run had big deficits, this might make sense. But there's no such correlation. Norway has a bigger 'absolute' annual deficit than the US, and Canada and France run similar ones.America's does seem larger to those who forgot their basic fractions, because the US taxes less and spends less than any other peer country, so dividing the amount spent by taxed generates a larger percent than elsewhere. Just like dividing 2% by 1% is huge, while 52%/51% is tiny. But the difference is 1% in both.But back to strange psychology. Countries are actually embarrassed by gov't debt. Singapore, for example, has a bigger total dept, per GDP, than the US. But it hides this, as if it's immoral or wrong. Given that all countries have total debt, it's as if families were embarrassed to admit they had children.
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Matt Was that Jama study you're referring to this from UK researchers? <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790520" target="_blank">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790520</a>This is from the abstract results: " light alcohol intake was associated with minimal increases in cardiovascular risk, whereas heavier consumption was associated with exponential increases in risk of both clinical and subclinical cardiovascular disease." where light intake was defined as ">0-8.4 drinks/wk". So I think your timeframe is wrong, it's 2 drinks/day not week. For the record I occasionally drink socially but stopped drinking at home many years ago (I live by myself, and go months it seems these days between times that I consume alcohol.)
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Very mixed feelings about this. Another misguided utopian blunder: First, as some commenters have already mentioned - what about donating bikes to our own citizens who could use them? Instead of to people who are here, let's face it, illegally? But also, as has also been mentioned - & this is a big one - to unleash people who are ignorant of the rules of navigating the streets is more of a danger to our citizens than anything else. As a committed bicyclist myself I can't emphasize how dangerous it is to open the streets to people who are clueless. It would be better to spend resources on e.g. stopping E-bikes from using the bike paths - they are silent killers and lethal when they speed by your elbow like you're standing still with no warning. I know cuz I woke up in the Mt Sinai Emergency Room after being hit by one. I was lucky but again, why not have cops stop this hazardous activity. They are motorized vehicles not bikes. And now to have people who likely don't speak the language much less read the signs - sounds like a bad joke. Whoever came up with this one must be gettin' some good hits. S.M.Grt Am Play Series<a href="https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/darkness-after-night-ukraine" target="_blank">https://theaterforthenewcity.net/shows/darkness-after-night-ukraine</a>
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This is like the ancient story of Phillies baseball player John Kruk and Senator Arlen Spector and their cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery. Way too much talk of the wonderful medical care for a well-paid professional athlete or politician covered by a greeeeat medical plan. Why is there no discussion of the 50 million without health insurance or the tens of millions with ridiculously high deductibles of $10,000 or $20,000? I mention the 'ancient' story because there has been no worthwhile movement in fixing healthcare in this country despite the massive amount spent on 20-year wars, financial and insurance industry bailouts, "opioid' self-induced issues and of course idiotic congressional 'investigations'. I don't recall the football game stopped when Jack Tatum dropped a player permanently. Time for this country to focus on what is important.
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Blackmamba The founders of Google [in the article] and the founder of SpaceX [and few other companies who you might know] all CAME to the US [not say - Europe] for specific entrepreneurial reasons.They did not come for the benefit of anti-trust and fair trade laws enacted by folks that never had to meet a payroll in their lives.There is a reason that the vast majority of multi-billion dollar entrepreneurial companies have their roots in the US and have achieved that status in decades rather than centuries.You want the next Amazon - Google - Tesla - Apple - Microsoft - Netflix - Facebook - Uber to come from Europe?
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The irony is that, in an effort to compete with China, we have become more like China in terms of government funded industrial policies like Chip Act and IRA. One of the main reasons for the trade war with China 3 years ago is the accusation that Chineses subsides to Chinese companies.Regarding the impact of the Chip Act, it will likely create overcapacity in a very cyclical semiconductor sector. Given China accounts for more than 50% of the global demand, Chinese firms will source internally where they can, and if not, US firms will not be allowed to sell to Chinese firms. The return on the these chip production investments will be very low if anything positive at all. At some point, the invisible hands of the market will trump the forceful hands of the government. The Chip ban/control announced in October is essentially an economical act of war against China, and it will only inject greater energy into Chinese self-sufficiency drive in semiconductor like the ban on Chinese participation in international space technology. In that case, China developed its own GPS equivalent (Beidou) and its own space station. I am afraid that we may have bet the house on this ill-conceived Chip War with China.
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Bravo to the Nassau County GOP for calling on Santos to resign.Disappointed, but not surprised, that the Republican leaders in Congress are not condemning Santos' actions.Without regard to whether Santos actually gets the boot, there should be no let up on how a serial, bankrupt liar came up with $700k to fund his campaign. Who is funding him??
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TK What sources say desalinization is the least expensive option? Seawater desalination costs 15% more than recycling wastewater, the next most expensive option. Desal also has high environmental costs to marine life. Diversion of stormwater to ground storages is another 10-15% cheaper than recycling/recharge. Efficiency measures (efficient appliances, industrial and cooling processes) actually have a negative cost because they often also save energy--much of the expense of desalinization is that it uses huge amounts of energy. Efficiency measures can often be undertaken by consumers with rapid ROI---eliminating the need to for government or utility involvement, Environmental Impact Studies, public hearings, regulatory proceedings about rate changes, etc. Some studies suggest that repairing leaking infrastructure-which is necessary with any source--is the most economical source of all--thoughh finding leaks can be expensive (until they disastrously fail and cause damage to other property.
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I worked in cancer research for 6 years. It was grant funded research. This was back in the 1980s after the government cut the funding for most basic research. That led to some very interesting problems, some of them circular in nature. Scientists had a hard time starting a new line of research. The grant committees wanted proof before they'd fund it. That meant that the scientists had to do the research on the research using current grants for the new applications. They ran the risk of losing the old grants and not getting any new ones. It made it much more difficult for "new" scientists to get funded. Then the costs of doing research were increasing as the institutions took their cut, personnel had to be paid, and the cost of supplies increased. That large grant wasn't so large after everything was accounted for. Many researchers left their fields and gave their services to pharmaceutical companies which could pay them and supply them. The ills attendant upon that are numerous. One is the secrecy surrounding most discoveries. Another is that the companies themselves are not inclined to encourage fringe research. While it's understandable that governments and companies want a return on their investments, it's hard to know in advance which research will provide the returns. Certainty, profit, and research are not always partners.
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Chinese authoritarianism attempts at owning less powerful governments and people will likely be a poor investment long term. Some of China’s unchallenged true loves are deep racist beliefs and a fanatical suppression of democracy- wildly unpopular would be an understatement.
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After reading this why would anyone want to invest with Intrater? The fact that he donated to the Santos campaign after getting burned intimates that something else is going on.
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Frankly, both political "parties" (I use the term loosely for the current Republican entity) have abdicated any sense of responsibility with regard to taxation. The IRS budget has been either level funded or cut for over 20 years. That has been purposely done in order to effect Grover Nordquist's lifelong aim to strangle the federal government. While various taxation experts opine that upwards of $500 billion dollars a year go uncollected due to the lack of enforcement, the easy pickings, like the carried interest treatment of hedge fund earnings still allow for those billionaires to pay taxes at the rate of Warren Buffett's secretary. Just ask Chuck Schumer about it as he collects more campaign and lobbyist payments from Wall St. than any other senator, but refuses to move on that egregious example of disparity. Closing that loophole would bring in at least another $25 billion a year alone. And all the real estate loss shenanigans allow someone like Trump to avoid federal taxation altogether. Sorry, nothing will be done...
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