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Zovie Harry is worth 60million£, mostly inherited from his mother. That's not enough to live on?
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As KDigg said about the huge salaries made by the executives at health care centers-"We desperately need laws dictating sane pay for the executive class. These outrageous salaries are not merit based. They are simply rewards for being born into a class of person who preys on labor. The hyper focus on profit is self preserving for this class of people, it has nothing to do with helping the labor class or customers, in a hospital the patients." What exactly do these people do that is worth so much? If the CEO makes $1 million, that makes them worth more than 30 janitors? 20 RNs? 10 Pediatricians! I would take the non CEO staff instead. They are actually working to help people.
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Herb From the website you cited:"Induction burners provide many of the advantages of gas, including responsiveness, immediate heat, and accurate temperature.It also has the added benefits of safety and energy-efficiency since it only heats the pan, not the surface. However, there’s one thing induction doesn’t have--an open flame."Many professional and home chefs who "really knows how to cook" use induction cooktops. Look on YouTube to find many videos of 5-star restaurant and hotel kitchens, particularly in Europe, using only induction. The same is true for chefs who prepare gourmet meals on cruise ships.I switched from gas to induction, and I'll never go back. I heartily endorse your cited website's comments on induction. I don't miss the open flames, excess kitchen heat and cleaning gas grates.
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Didn’t a £32 million wedding give a spoken or unspoken enough message of support from the royal family for the couple?
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Using a big number for scare headlines?18 billion gallons is about 55,000 acre feet. The true measure of water resource. Shasta reservoir alone has almost 5 million acre feet and is one of thousands reservoirs, lakes and containments. No doubt we should conserve and improve our resources but the state plumbing is probably the most sophisticated and sustainable freshwater system in the world. It delivers potable water, sustains the most fertile productive farmland on earth, generates power, supports fish and wildlife and recreation to millions. Im sure each has detriment issues but California water resources are truly an impressive wonder.
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The evidence demonstrates that increases in the minimum wage DO NOT lead to increases in unemployment, increased prices at restaurants, and fewer restaurants.I live in Washington State, the state with the highest minimum wage in the country. ($15.74/hr.) Tip credits are prohibited. The bar and restaurant industry is booming. Multiple new openings every week.The NRA has cried about the sky falling for decades, and yet the sky is still overhead.Must be nice to be a restauranteur, where one can sexually harass and underpay the staff as part of their business model - all while protected by their trade association.Are there any good organizations with the initials "NRA"?
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The US spends 2X on health care per capita to what the average European country spends per capita for the same or better level of care.We spend approx. 20% of GDP on Healthcare or about $2 trillion dollars a year.Assuming that it's possible to emulate the European spend on health care, that means we are being robbed of $2 trillion dollars a year due to inefficiency and/or profiteering.There's a reason health care interests will spend millions to lobby against single payer / universal health care.The reason is $2 trillion dollars of our money.
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End the conflict/war in Ukrain through open discussion and negotiation. Respect the blood of every innocent people even, a drop of blood, all over the world .My request to all citizens of world, please rise your voice and say no more war , no more trade of weapons and no more experiment of weapons.
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Michael Rabin You can patent a compound to protect against anyone else making it for sale and indicate some general utility indication for the compounds. Then some year later you patent the therapeutic method to treat disease xxx using the same drug specifically. Now, you are forbidding marketing the drug for this use and practically extend the exclusivity period for the combination drug + treatment. That is done in field other than healthcare, where R&D investments are large.
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F I went with my niece to court when she had a ticket. She is White, but while we were waiting for her to be called, I watched countless Black people who had to pay what I would say were big fines to pay for minor infractions, e.g., a broken taillight. One woman was fined $200 for a broken taillight! Several of my White friends have been pulled over for this same infraction, and were told by the police officer to get it fixed within the next couple of days, and let off with a warning. No tickets. Another Black woman came to pay a fine of $300 for something. She said she'd saved up the money because she knew she'd done something wrong. The judge said that she had an outstanding fine of $250 from seven years ago, and how would she like to take care of that? She insisted that she had paid it IN CASH. He wanted her to produce the receipt. She began sobbing uncontrollably. She didn't have it. He offered for her to spend seven days in jail ($30/per day would pay off the fine). She almost fainted when he told her that. "I'll lose my job if you send me to jail! Then what will I do?" These courts are a cash cow for some many municipalities. By contrast, the White people who came with attorneys in tow got off with slaps on the wrist. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes. I was incredulous.
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MJH Thanks for the Fox News talking points. I'd like to ask Trump the same questions and discuss "dark money" with the majority of GOP. We've never seen evidence of China $ to Biden. But there is proof that Trump and his offspring received $ from China. The National Archives provides warehouse storage to every ex President for their use for six months after leaving the WH. Penn-Biden Center opened its doors Feb 2018. One could reasonably assume that access was provided by Penn to new employees of the center well before Feb 2018; and the boxes were moved from the warehouse to the center.
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Hopefully when these manufacturing plants open, the employees will not be treated as hourly workers. To be a successful country with a stable economy, companies need to hire full time staff, with benefits. Our business model of hiring hourly workers of the last few decades had led to an economy that is not in the country’s best interest. It doesn’t matter if they are well paid, they need a stable work environment. Pensions, 491Ks, PTO, health insurance are what will make this country robust again.
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Russ D regularly challenges us with his perceptions. Many times I just shake my head and wonder how his view can be so conservative and limiting, though I respect that he creates the reflection point. Time allowed me the opportunity to watch the Pell-McElroy debate live it’s cycle at St. James church in the heart of Rockford, IL, an industrial age boom-town that lost its swagger and, like so many others, seeks the path to a hopeful future. Father David, a scrappy left-handed shortstop (an early sign that he ignored traditional “rules”), became head pastor at a church in the heart of a town that was grappling with racism, fear and overcoming traditions that ignored their impact on people. He, like Jesus, found ways to welcome all, no matter their race, gender preference, marital status or church-giving or attendance records. Daily he preached hope and inclusion, and he filled the pews on Sunday with people of wildly different life experiences, opening eyes and minds and possibilities. He counseled families and newlyweds and gave them a common language to grow together. He retired, and his housemate and fellow seminarian, the bishop, appointed a series of conservative priests that found the words in their reading of scripture to preach guilt and absolutisms that led to mostly empty and very gray pews. If the church must look back to justify its rules, than look to Jesus himself, and Mary, and their actions, not the self-protective “thou shalt not” clerics.
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Noncompetes started off as a reasonable protection to companies investing in a lot of training of highly educated/skilled workers, and to help protect sensitive information that these employees have access too.Unfortunately, companies abused this concept and applied it to everything and everyone.It's a shame. I think there are limited, legitmate situations where noncompetes are appropriate. It allows a company to really invest in skilled workers in exchange for knowing they will get a return on investment. But, like I said, these are really limited situations.The idea that low-wage workers are forced to sign noncompetes in exchange for a job is outrageous. Or even for highly skilled workers--in some industries, it just became the default that all employees signed them.
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I’ve known a number of people who have made what bystanders thought were irrational life decisions, only to find themselves somewhere else and quite satisfied. My oldest son was a gifted pitcher who walked away from a scholarship at the end of his sophomore year. He was disgusted with the culture of college athletics, the widespread steroid use routinely ignored by coaches, the pressure to play hurt and more. I know of a fellow who has a PhD in physics who opened a motorcycle repair shop and is, by all accounts, quite happy. I know a LOT of lawyers who desperately wish they had done something else. The real shame would be to spend one’s entire life in the pursuit of a dream that wasn’t ours and end up regretting the decision. Now that would be a shame.
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It seems absurd to talk about raising the retirement age for Social Security when in the last 3 years the life expectancy has plummeted. It's much simpler to remove the income cap for SS tax, and to cap the amount additional retirement income that allows for collection of SSI. There is no reason a retiree making $500K/yr, even $100K/yr ought to be able to collect SSI. I have been contributing to educate my neighbors children for 40 years through my property taxes. I don't seek a rebate or payments, it is expected for us to contribute to the betterment of our democratic society.I am all for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. Its inception was due to the fledgling United States having no standing army, post Revolutionary War, thus having to rely upon citizens, "a well regulated militia...." to bear arms in the case of an national emergency. Today we have a standing army, as well as a citizen oriented National Guard Reserve. There exists no need for the 2nd Amendment. Citizens do not need to belong to a "well regulated" local militia, nor to ,"bear arms" to defend our country for over 300 yrs. How the SCOTUS determined arrested development idiots like Kyle Rittenhouse needed to have an AR-15 assault rifle to murder innocent people is beyond absurdity. The Amendment reads directly to the need at that time, 1789, not now. The Scorpion Unit of the Memphis PD was just a Lynch mob. Much more stringent requirements and psych assessments are needed. Intelligence a start.
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Londo Bell American politicians regularly switch votes on key legislation for campaign contributions less than $100,000. It's not just china, its us too.
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I am amazed at the anti-abortion movement's change of strategy. Ten years ago, any group that advocated "expanded child tax credits, paid parental leave, affordable child-care options and expanded Medicaid funding for prenatal care, delivery and postpartum expenses" and other such entitlements would be branded as ultra-liberal and laughed out of congress. The so-called pro-life movement's acceptance of these realities for vulnerable populations is surely something I could sign on to.
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I looked up Earle, Arkansas on Wikipedia and saw that its only 3.25 sq miles in size. Like several commenters have said, I'd try to sell properties cheap and advertise them within a 100 mile radius of Earle, rather than tear them down (like Detroit and Youngstown did). I'd also contact some rich folks like MacKenzie Scott, and see if you can get some seed money to do placemaking features in town, to inject a sense that things are getting better. Good luck to you Mayor Smith! I'd also open a paypal account to accept donation for Earle,
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Social Security funds are 'invested' in Special Purpose US bonds. See '<a href="https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/investheld.html" target="_blank">https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/investheld.html</a>'In effect the SSA has lent the fund trust money to the government and now it is in the same boat as all other bond holders. There was a time when US Bonds were the safest form of investment. It looks like that may no longer be true. Congress has to do two things or risk eventual failure 1. Raise the debt limit so we survive near term and 2. Drastically reduce government spending for the foreseeable future.
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Anonymous It’s not that outrageous. These beetles take forever to make. If the intern were paid at a fair price of probably 50 dollars an hour for the extremely skilled work, the beetle would need to cost at a minimum 200 dollars more than it already does. These restaurants charge an arm and a leg, but there are limits to what even the rich will pay. Throughout history, the fanciest food has always been made with slave labor. It’s the only way it’s economical.
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You owe me a hundred dollars. I’ll take a $1.60. Please don’t do it again.
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Bad news for everyone involved in this video recorded brutal murder by police. George Floyd's family settled for $27million. This incident should be worth about $50million.
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My spirit is too weak - mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagined pinnacle and steepOf godlike hardship tells me I must dieLike a sick eagle looking at the sky, Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keepFresh for the opening of the morning's eye.Such dim-conceived glories of the brain Bring round the heart an undescribable feud;So do these wonders a most dizzy pain, That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rudeWasting of old time - with a billowy main - A sun - a shadow of magnitude.On Seeing the Elgin Marbles, John Keats, 1817While this sonnet may say more about Keats's existential despair, so too does the sight of the Elgin Marbles provide an exultant respite from mortality and, as he states, 'a sun,' if only for the few moments in which he's in their presence.As the article states, the acquisition of the (unfortunately named) Elgin Marbles was was always in dispute.This many centuries out, my suggestion would be to share them between England and Greece, each with an equal share for their permanent collections. Call it even money-wise; just make a decision and abide by it. Send some pieces from each collection on the road as a joint exhibition venture. Not everyone can travel to Europe, but all should have an opportunity to view these antiquities.Intractability, in this instance, serves no one. Next a court will lock them up in a warehouse.
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Opus There have never been any entrance fees to the Hispanic Society. Back when the entire museum was open, you could just stroll in, past the security guards, a few steps from Broadway, and see Goya, Velasquez, El Greco--paintings that people elsewhere line up for blocks to see (when they're on tour, as often happens), and certainly pay admission for. A friend of ours saw some of them at the Prado in Madrid a few years back. It's probably the most informal museum I've ever been to, certainly with masterworks like this on display. There have been a number of exhibitions recently, in a small gallery adjacent to the main museum, and no admission was charged for them either. You just had to show proof of vaccination, and wear a mask. Also, and I mean no disrespect here, but you're showing some of the same ethnocentrism the museum's former directors did, by assuming that because someone lives in Washington Heights, and is of Latin American heritage, that person is too poor to pay a small museum fee. Many pay big bucks to see Yankees games at the nearby stadium, and no museum today charges anything close to what you pay to see an IMAX movie. I would assume many went to see In the Heights. Possibly even on Broadway! We're quite civilized here. In the main. Regardless of language and ethnicity. Feel free to come visit. Try not to rattle the bars of our cage. ;)
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CMC This is exactly what so many think. The drinks overpriced and soft, the food Meh and overpriced. NYC in general is overpriced. I have huge TV at home. Watch movies, open good wine, order in or cook and done. the rent is too high for people to go out for dinner and blow 200 bucks every time.
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The petroleum companies are experts at manipulating consumers for their own gain. Rather than acknowledging the systemic problem of public reliance on fossil fuels (which these mega corporations happen to sell) they are selling consumers the illusion of a personal choice we can make as individuals to “save the planet”. Hence, the solution is for consumers to purchase new electric appliances now, not for municipalities to make smarter long range ecological decisions. This capitalist approach encourages more manufacturing and unnecessary consumption. It is not an answer to the tough ecological decisions that must be made if we are to have a somewhat livable planet.(Is it not possible to convert existing gas appliances to use electricity? Where is that conversation?)In our community, offshore licensing for wind farms has been implemented. But instead of some reasonable public plan to move from a gas powered electric plant to wind power, these licenses were simply auctioned off to corporate interests who are interested in developing the infrastructure to sell power on the open market. While not necessarily a bad thing, there is no formalized public plan regarding converting local energy to wind power in this transaction.So, no, I’m not going to run out and buy an electric stove while my electrical service (when it works) remains a product of natural gas consumption for the foreseeable future.
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Mark there is a portion of the Democratic Party that would prefer to fixate on race because that is what they did as neoliberals to avoid having to do social spending. Under Clinton and Obama they really didn’t want to unite their base through material policies. In the first two years of Biden that seems to have changed… the democrats want to govern and want to invest in America/Americans. That’s a good change.
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The sleaze in the George Santos story is bottomless. Why hide campaign funding sources if they are legal? It would not be surprising if his funding came from the Russian government. $700,000 is much less costly than a drone busted Russian tank.
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I'm not sure that tech giants laying off 5-10% of their staff even qualifies as a "cyclical crash". Doesn't it just mirror the hiring boom we experienced during the pandemic?I worked through the dotcom bubble burst and was unemployed for a short stretch, but this current market feels like a cooling off and returning to normal. The company that I work for has dozens of openings and has had no luck filling them. Maybe that situation will improve with this wave off layoffs.
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I saw Mary Ellen Hannibal, author of The Spine of the Continent, speak a few years ago. Her concept to create a connected corridor along the Rockies from Alaska to Mexico to allow big predators the freedom they need to move and maintain genetic resilience is key to their survival. “Their return would most likely result in healthier forests, safer roadways, less zoonotic disease and, in turn, healthier human communities.”People are scratching their heads wondering why we have pandemics, Lyme Disease, and so worth. Human overpopulation and the accompanying impacts of habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change are throwing nature out of balance. Zoonotic diseases will become more and more commonplace unless humans can slow population growth and support initiatives to preserve open spaces and natural habitats.
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Wholeheartedly agree. Gosh, I remember those cans of oatmeal and how fun it was to pull the string to open. I still wrap sandwiches in wax paper.
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AndyW I left one job during pandemic due to commute and open plan. The open plan was killing me, and the thought of returning after the relative peace if WFH was too much.
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I'm disgusted that the DOJ was as scaredy-cat as they were in moving to get those back. How many TS/SCI documents ended up in Riyadh, in return for that $2 billion that Jared hopped off with? How many docs are in that unaccountably heavy coffin which is buried on TFG's golf course and which 10 big guys had a hard time carrying?
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Mark Brophy stocks may or may not be overpriced. But the point of the article is the bedrock of investing- T bills and government bond holders may not get payments. Typically a default - or non-payment- reduces the value of the financial instrument. The haircut is that lost value on the bond. The US has never defaulted but it feels like we’ve just been through three years of unlikely events.I personally think stocks are priced correctly. But because of the lost purchasing power of the dollar the nominal value increased. Inflationary economies often have rip roaring markets.
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How about just some clean and well-equipped restrooms as a great equalizer? On my recent trip through NY/PA/NJ, the restrooms I used at rest stops, restaurants and at the airport offered various combinations of: no water, no hot water, no soap, wet floors, wet counters, broken air dryers, empty towel dispensers, paper on floors, clogged toilets, unflushed toilets, broken door locks, and/or broken baggage hooks in stalls. In Europe, rest stop bathrooms are always clean. I don't know if it's because of the 1 Euro fee to push through a turnstyle to enter the bathroom, or better wages paid to workers, or different allocation of taxes...I only know that it is indeed possible to keep rest stop bathrooms clean and equipped with hot water and soap. Let's see if the Thruway Authority can manage it.
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This company would be in a lot better place if it weren't for fund managers and so-called activist investors who bullied the CEO to issue a stock buyback in 2014 after an earnings miss.Keep in mind, this was a company that had an absolutely pristine balance sheet... zero debt and about $400 million in cash if I remember correctly. They were still making good money but came up short one quarter and the fund managers and analysts hammered away at the CEO until he announced a $2 billion dollar stock buyback program. They've been going downhill ever since with that debt burden. Not that they wouldn't have had challenges like the rest of the retailing industry, but they would certainly be in a better place. Sure, the stock popped for a while after the buyback announcement... certainly long enough for fund managers to bail on it. But if I were a large shareholder, I would've certainly sued the company, CEO and Board of Directors for malfeasance.Of course, this scenario plays out all the time. And until CEOs learn to grow a pair and stand up to these slimy "activist investors" like Carl Icahn, companies will continue to saddle their companies with unnecessary debt for short-term appeasement of speculators.Incidentally, I would've loved to have seen Carl Icahn try to bully Steve Jobs into initiating these massive Apple stock buybacks like he did with Tim Cook, who caved like a cheap bridge chair. If Jobs had been alive he most certainly would've told Carl Icahn where he can go.
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The mutual admiration society continues between the US and Israel. It's clear the Israelis will continue to do whatever they want in the West Bank and the US will keep forking over the $3.8 billion in annual military aid with no questions asked. The one-sided relationship the US has with Israel might not be our biggest foreign policy blunder but it's certainly the longest. The Blinken talks? Just that.
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Suzanne And for "tipped" workers worse still: $85.20!
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Ten years ago our southeastern state awarded a contract to a private contractor to construct a highway connecting the coast to a major inland interstate. They immediately opened offices and billed the state for over $200 million dollars before the project was cancelled. The only spade of dirt turned was the archaeological team.They arrived on our farm in late June announcing that they would work in the fields from 9-4. I responded that I did all my gardening from 6-11 am but they could not start before 8:30. The team members may have had academic credentials but they did not have the physical fitness nor stamina to complete the physical labor. They frequently retreated to available shade to gasp for breath. They stayed in the most expensive hotel in town and did not work on weekends. After finding two boxes of trash tidbits they terminated the project because the crops were higher than six inches. Some basic research would have revealed that crops are higher than six inches in the middle of the summer!Meanwhile the environmental researchers came in early March searching for an endangered frog. Reptiles are not active in our area until later spring.Yes, some people had jobs, but a tremendous amount of money was wasted and in our case, no road was built!
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Jussie Dolezal No it wasn't. UPenn did receive donation from chinese interests but the Biden center did not. "The spokesman said that since the Penn Biden Center was formed in 2017, there have been three unsolicited gifts — from two donors — totaling $1,100, and both donors are Americans."One hundred percent of the budget for the Penn Biden Center comes from university funds. Any foreign gifts received by the university are all properly reported to the U.S. Department of Education as required" by law, the spokesman continued. "Penn is fully compliant with federal law regarding the reporting of foreign gifts and contracts."
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So I spent 30 years at IBM, from 1977 to 2007. I by luck of age and service got a pension. When I joined the IBM family, it was family oriented. It was a career. I survived the massive lay-offs in the early 90's. Worked my way up from Typewriter repair to middle management. The company went from 425,000 employees in the 80's to 300,000 in 1993. One year when I was in IBM Finance, they wrote off $80B, and borrowed money to pay the stock dividend. I remember seeing the Chairman John F. Akers a few minutes after a press briefing in 1991. He was ashen faced. Again I survived, found growing parts of IBM Global Services. I was lucky. Then in 1998, they started to become a Body Shop. Your manager was called a PDM (Personal Development Manager). You never met or saw this person. It made it easier to the PDM to fire or layoff people. In 2000 I moved to Sales. Got luck made a ton of money. IBM still paid for results. I retired at the end of 2007 and still have many IBM friends. But starting 5-6 years ago they started laying off even top performers. No reason other than "your number is up". What a shame. There is no loyalty anymore by either the company or the people. When I joined IBM in 1977 it was the 3rd largest company in the world. And now, they don't even make the Top 100. Go figure. Back in the day we worked day and night for the success of the company and our families. Now in most American companies you are just a number.
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Walter if college football and basketball players got the six or seven figure payouts they could command in an open market I’m sure they’d be more than happy to write that $25-50K tuition check.
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What do people expect from this man? Nadal won the AO 2022 with a chronic foot injury. He won the FO 2022 with a partially numb foot which would impact his proprioception. He developed an abdominal tear during Indian Wells 2022 which wasn't completely healed even at the US Open. He has 22 Grand Slam titles. He doesn't need to prove anything.
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Doug I live in NH which wants to keep its 1st In The Nation Status while mandating Voter Suppression--one of the worst in the U.S. by not allowing mail-in voting for all. We have bad weather conditions which have kept many, including me from getting to the polls. Absentee Ballot: "The reasons include; being absent from the voter’s city or town, a religious observance, disability or illness, and employment commitments (including caregiving) during the entire time the polls are open. Absentee ballots may also be available when a weather emergency impacts an election." Weather Emergency? Ha Ha! One has to request an absentee ballot weeks in advance.I am an Independent. I was in those LONG traffic lines that kept people from voting when they closed the doors--primarily Derry & Bedford. I went to vote in the morning and waited in the traffic line for over an hour just to get into the polling place. The Powers-That-Be put a good spin on the situation and that they are resolving the situation which really doesn't help those who could not vote. Absentee/Vote By Mail would have resolved this but Governor Sununu and others do not want this to happen.There is big money for many, including the media, involved in being the First In The Nation Primary. It has nothing to do with fair elections. It is All About The Money.
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$1m? Seems like a pittance. A normal jury would have delivered a verdict in many multiples of that, no doubt. The estate should have rolled the dice on a trial, especially if its goal was to expose the barbaric practices of jailers. Kudos to the NYT for presenting this article and film. Its deep bench of talent and resources were brilliantly displayed here. Well done. Thank you.
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A very interesting read. While I have not studied the elasticity of prices in the high-end restaurant business, I have to suspect it is less subject to price changes than a lower-end restaurant. If I'm going to spend $400 for a M* dining experience, I'm okay with spending $450 if it means my server gets a decent wage. I used to travel near the Framer a few times a year when I had relatives in the area but never stopped because it was out of the way and while lunch would have fit my travel schedule, dinner did not. Location, location. And a high-end cafeteria.... I don't know that scratches my itch for fine dining. But Ms Vivian knows more about the business than I do and I certainly wish her and the industry well. She makes many good points.
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Yesterday Newsday reported the Nassau GOP was returning approximately $145,000 of of the $185,000 dollars in campaign donations Mr Santos provided them for this election cycle. I guess the other $40,000 was used to misdirect the background checks they were doing for him.Just another day in the Nassau GOP "Business As Usual" lives.
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vunderbar -- $7000 a month!! If that's the rate, I'll be making do in my own house. I'm 70 and there's no way I will ever afford that. It's scary to think where we poorer people will end up. The best thing for me will be to die before I get to the point where I need help. I just keep hoping I'll have a heart attack or cancer, so I don't have to face the reality that awaits me.
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MJ (Mountain Junky) Are you referring to the big breakthroughs made by Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Moderna and Pfizer which are being used by billions of people?
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KAN Its current price. About $18/lb. here.
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RJG Again, the royals may be a waste, but their cost is trivial in a $3 trillion economy. They aren't the problem.
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Atlanta, April, 2002. One of the very best concerts we have ever seen, I can still hear the searing opening guitars of “Carry On” and the flawless harmonies from 60 year old voices that left our 30 year old selves standing in awe as our spirits were lifted up and away. When I told my then 62 year old dad how much we had spent on the tickets (a paltry amount compared to today’s standards), he said having that experience and creating those memories was a good investment that we would never regret. He wasn’t wrong, we still talk about the power and the magic of that concert to this day. Thank you to the icons like David Crosby for the memories and for the lasting artistic legacy for Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z, and future generations to enjoy.
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Born in 1978 I’m at he end of Gen X but before millennials so a teenager in the mid 90’s at the birth of the Internet but old enough to grow up analog. Never went to college. Bought my first house in 2008 in San Diego! All my higher educated friends were losing there houses. I was happy and made more $ that year with little window cleaning business and had no stress. Fast forward mid-40’s 2 teenage daughters now won two small businesses that will do close to 1.6 million this year. I have never had “ job security” being self employed since age 20 but also have never lost my house, never been late for rent or mortgage and never moved back home. The moral of the story: control your own life don’t let what’s “normal” guide your choices. At the end of the day we’re here a short time and no one really cares your here don’t live your life that other people control.
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“Austerity.” As though the only thing standing between great Britain and prosperity was shoveling even more money to the incompetent twits on Downing Street and borrowing even more money to paper over the difference.Here in the real world, Britain appears to be struggling because it has found itself in an unhappy no-man’s-land where it receives neither the benefits of globalization nor the benefits of independence.Brexit, as it was originally conceived, was supposed to make up for the more limited access to Europe’s markets with a loosening of regulations in Britain itself. The EU, the thinking went, was hobbling itself with ridiculous amounts of environmental and regionally protectionist red tape, and an independent Britain could cast aside those shackles. Needless to say that is not what happened.Britain has not taken advantage of Brexit to reduce regulation on its financial and manufacturing sector. It has tightened restrictions on speech, and, despite an energy crisis, has not reopened offshore drilling. Prosperity is available all around, but Britain’s leaders seem determined not to seize it.
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The goal should be to have a more educated workforce, not less. College should be as close to free as possible, certainly more affordable in the way it was years ago for the Baby Boomers. College should not be just for getting a job but also to become more educated in being fully invested on our democracy. We decry how young people don't understand how government works and bemoan a lack of of knowledge of civics. Opening up jobs is great, but it should not be at the expense of discouraging a college education. It should be AND not OR. We need critical thinking members of society who can , for example, tell the difference between disinformation and real news. I also find it amusing that the people that say you don't need college degree usually have a degree themselves and demand it of their own children. I'm willing to bet everyone of those reading this editorial have college degree as do their own kids. I'm also guessing most of the people reading The NY Times have a college degree as well.
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Putin's ideological desperation has him waging his war with a private, for-profit contractor that recruits ex-cons to fill its fighting ranks? Prigozhin owes his allegiance to Wagner's investors first, not Mother Russia, and mercenaries will fight for the highest bidder. How long can this last before Wagner's demands exceed Putin's capacity, thrusting Prigozhin into the lead (if he isn't there already)? Yes it's a de-facto arm of the Russian military for now, but the firm's growth is unmanageable, its reach well beyond Russian military interests, and its loyalty is to money. Hollywood could not make a credible movie with a storyline like this, but any script would have it end like historical examples instruct: badly for Putin.
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My 14-year-old neice was visiting and supposed to fly home Christmas night. Her flight from COS-DEN cancelled, so I drove her to DEN where we sat for close to four hours before the DEN-IAD leg was cancelled. Two bags checked (one returned 1/5, the other still missing). $28 in short term parking, 164 miles RT at govt rate of 62.5 cents/mile. Tuesday SW flight was cancelled. Thursday SW flight cancelled (we were notified on Tuesday afternoon). Clothes and toiletries purchased, a United flight purchased and booked DEN to Philadelphia (closest flight available), mom had to drive to Philly from NoVa, I drove back to DEN, incurred another $28 in short term parking (United flight delay) and 164-mile RT. Still awaiting the return of the second bag (as of 1/7) and actual compensation for all expenses incurred. SW CEO and other C-suite execs should be canned with ZERO compensation if they cannot compensate customers for expenses incurred due to failing computer systems!
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"... it could take 10 to 15 years or more before the metals were delivered to market because of the lengthy environmental studies and other work required to open a mining facility in Europe."EU can de super shortsighted sometimes. Until they start the production, the minerals are still supplied but through pipelines with zero regard to environmental impact including global climate change. Yet they will take their sweet time arguing about miniscule details of this specific operation. I'd bet their worst mine would reduce global environmental harm from these extractions significantly. This is not even mentioning humane impact through working conditions of miners in Russia, China, Africa and similar.. They need to realize impact does not end at their borders and harm also comes to them from what happens outside of their borders.
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Joe OBL was Saudi and he took refuge in Afg. That why America was there. Mission creep led to trying to install democracy. So let's get those facts sorted first. Yes SA government was involved in 9/11 and they need to held accountable.But the Somali government, which is under attack by Al Shabaab is the one "justifying" American strikes. Not America unilaterally. This myth that America can just rain down missiles in any country with impunity needs to stop. Al Shabaab is at war with the Somali government and wants destroy it to impose Sharia law. Somalia asked America for help. Should we help them is certainly a question, but the US isn't doing it alone.China wants to take down the US in their "100 Year Marathon" which will restore them to their preordained glory as a world power. That is THEIR goal. While America has been nothing but a willing partner first against the Soviets, then assisting in plugging China into the world economy. China has been paranoid about the US since Tienamien Square which they falsely blamed on the US because they couldn't fathom an organic uprising.Your revisionist history sounds like Moscow propaganda.
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Simple statistical analysis show that during COVID, adjusted for population, DeSantis' as an autocratic ruler of Florida led us to an almost 15,000 excess deaths. That is, an average governor of an average state(adjusted for population) outperformed DeSantis on this critical measure. His anti-mask, forcing businesses to remain open and not require masks, promoting crazy vet drugs for COVID, etc., all had foreseeable consequences! What would 15,000 intentional manslaughter charges do for his future?
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Lately at Whole Paycheck their regular store brand eggs $3.49 dz have been rare as hens teeth but the shelves are full of $8 and up fancy eggs. There is no shortage of eggs if you're willing to pay.
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It is past time for secondary sanctions for countries assisting Russia.Georgia is not yet in NATO, but is part of the “partnership for peace” and has been promised nato partnership in the future. NATO better set up a meeting and do some arm twisting. But hitting them with full sanctions, as a lesson for others, would be ideal.Ditto for Armenia and Azerbaijan (who is in NATO). If the initial sanctions haven’t worked, its simply because we haven’t been tough enough.I begin to doubt the Biden Administration’s incremental approach to both providing weapons and sanctions. Not enough of either.Biden will wake up one morning to the realization that his “fine calibration” has simply been a botched strategy of too little, too timidly, too slowly, too late (despite Zelensky’s clear pleas and the strong support from American voters).It’s the same team who bungled the Afghan exit, after all…
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Very interesting factoid I had not heard before. The story from the Big 3 has always been that they could not get the chips, which of course is no lie - chipmakers typically don’t produce and ship without orders, and orders don’t come without a contract in place. And yet, we have those satellite photos of thousands of cars and trucks sitting in storage lots, ostensibly “waiting for chips”; meanwhile price levels at the factories were jumping every few weeks instead of once or twice a year, by a thousands instead of hundreds. A Ford Transit saw a $6000 hike in less than a year, about the same time as it took from order to delivery. Dealers facing very low supply were left to “manage expectations” of their new car customers, essentially begging forgiveness for higher prices and huge delays, while matching profit per car to loss of volume to keep the light on.
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Henry without the fed (DeSantis hates fed spending) and the blue states he would have nothing.Move the Kennedy space center and all the air force bases to the blue states. Stop sending Billions in FEMA dollars to Florida every year because they have a condo complex fall in the ocean or a hurricane.DeSantis when in congress refused hurricane aid for NJ.DeSantis boasts of low tax rates because he refuses to fund the state property insurance fund after all he can just get bailed out by the fed.
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tonyvanw Plus "The 2017 tax law gave bigger tax cuts to foreign investors than middle- and working-class Americans in all of the states Trump carried in 2016." <a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/article/foreign-investors-big-winners-trumps-tax-law" target="_blank">https://www.americanprogress.org/article/foreign-investors-big-winners-trumps-tax-law</a>/Krugman said the same thing. It's as if we needed a new RICO law to investigate the money getting paid to the Russians, the Saudis, and maybe even the Chinese plus any other country that has been buying politicians (most of the ones bought were republicans) to cut their taxes. And I recall that Reagan, Thatcher, and Murdoch went into No. 10 Downing Street and came out telling lies with bullhorns and making sure that nobody could shut their megaphones down.And in today's news; "Charles McGonigal also was charged Monday in Washington in connection with accepting $225,000 in cash — while working at the FBI — from a former employee of a foreign intelligence service." Money has turned us against ourselves.
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Canadian here. From my perspective, the largest problem is your university system. As much as I support higher education, if i lived in the US, I'm not sure that I would encourage my kids to go to university- the Return on Investment is marginal at best considering the years of exorbitant student debt.We have a daughter in university. She had multiple offers including at an internationally ranked school (University of Toronto) and the small local university. She choose the local university. She pays about $7000/year in tuition and lives for free at home. She can afford the tuition and basic expenses with her part time job and will graduate next year debt free. Lack of student loans makes a huge difference in the financial health of a young person. I really feel for American young people starting out. The deck is stacked against them.
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The FANGs still retain nearly a trillion dollars of cash profits in overseas corporations. Repatriating it it even at lowered overseas corporate rates is considered too costly. Despite massive cash reserves, the FANGs were floating corporate bonds, with reserves as collateral. Now its becoming expensive to create new bonds and thereby raise capital.
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George Democrats did not crash this economy. It started withthe Federal reserve in 2008 and 9 trillion $ later of cash flooding the economy is the result. Both parties voted for Covid relief. The largest gimmes going to business owners, most of which did not need it. Then there were 14 years of cheap money mergers eliminating competition and inflating pricing power. Cheap mortgage money inflating house prices. Trump tariffs, a tax on consumers......Corporate tax breaks giving huge amounts of $$ to corporate spendthrifts. Three major money center banks controlling the majority of depositor $$. Another Fed favorite.The Fed luvs inflation. It lets debtor Corps. pay back debt with cheaper $$. The next classic Fed move is to destroy wage gains to further lard up owners.The war in Ukraine plus Trumps release of crude oil and refined product exports , expansion of Ag exports.If you think Biden did all this you must have been on another planet. Please get some facts before you twitter.
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So interesting when the younger generation realizes that production of anything is work.. and requires such an old fashioned word "drudgery." And the self-congratulatory young and the self- absorbed - did she ever make art for which she was not paid while working a 9-5 job to make money to support herself while she made her art?? -- was forbidden to laugh.But who cares about assembly line workers or the people in China who make gorgeous stuff often with inferior material but impeccable craftsmanship... so the billionaires and the investors can Make money using money.Most sentient people appreciate the effort and if they pay for it.. well either they appreciate it or they simply do what is treandy -- hence the art market.All that bothers me is that the Billionaires and their ilk do NOT pay their fair share of taxes.. and this is the perfect example of s itme on which the FEDS should charge the 10% luxury tax --wake up Jerome Powell, Paul Krugman etc. put the luxury tax BACK. now. Anyone who cooks elaborate ddishes makes Seitan, beef Wellington or apple strudel pulling her own strudel dough knows.. It's work..and it's esp. satistying in the case of baking or cooking when the aromas fill the air.Do the children know that before were Meissen Porcelain figurines there was a sugar service with various items made from fondant.. and that sugar can be blown like class.Art is work..Cooking is art.. and BTW there's also clean up!!
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No, people will complain about the price of eggs but then spend $10 on a drink at Starbucks.
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Mike It amazes me how many people completely misunderstand physics here. I assume you're referring to the law of conservation of energy. Did you know those laws only apply to closed systems? Did you ever stop to consider that a body is an open system? The law literally doesn't apply, and we see that, in how the body can choose to metabolize calories differently based on the belief it is "starving" or not (see the Biggest Loser studies). The truth is staring you in the face and yet people just want to say "tsk tsk, the obese are mental weaklings." Educate yourself.
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Commenter Girl I would like to know why the previous Congress didn't extend the debt limit to January 31, 2025 or abolish it altogether.I would also like to know whether the Democratic Party, consistently and constantly weak on messaging, will start warning the public in the summer about the coming debt limit crisis and how the crisis will adversely affect the receipt of benefits. To politically succeed on this issue, it must get the jump on the Republicans on messaging as the Republican message will be their refusal to agree to raising the debt limit without concessions on spending will result in lower taxes. Telling the public that taxes will decrease is like waving a steak in front of a hungry dog.
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This isn't that unusual a storm for California, and the state is prepared for this. There will be and always have been storms like this. (The ARkStorm project looks at what a real 100-year flood in California would look like.) Billions and billions of dollars have been spent effectively on flood control for over 100 years.Joan Didion:"The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way. I know as well as the next person that there is considerable transcendent value in a river running wild and undammed, a river running free over granite, but I have also lived beneath such a river when it was running in flood, and gone without showers when it was running dry."
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Kalidan Sure, but Microsoft and Google also have had large layoffs this month. Price to borrow clearly matters for growth. But everyone should be aware of another trend, not mentioned in this article, which is the emergence of transcendent AI technology. This will be a kingmaker for whichever company first figures out how to replace most of their software engineers with a few well managed AI systems. I suspect that is what is really driving Microsoft and Google decision making here.
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This brings to mind Chris Christie's stunningly imbecilic decision to cancel the Access to the Region's Core project in the name of "cost containment." The ARC would have constructed 2 new high-speed rail tunnels under the Hudson from NJ to Penn Station as well as renovating the existing 2 tunnels, and the construction of a new NY station. The approximate cost of 11 billion (in 2009) was fully funded and yes he was probably right that there would have been cost overruns - which would have been shared by NJ, NY, and the Port Authority - but the benefits would have been enormous: higher capacity for passengers and freight, shorter transit times, and yes revenue from the toll portion of ticket prices. Big projects cost big dollars but can reap enormous benefits that justify the time and expense. However, they require enlightened leadership to be implemented. The ARC, had it gone forward, would have been finished 5 years ago.The current Hudson Tunnel project is estimated to cost 30 billion, and take 10 years to complete once started.In the meantime, the disastrously inadequate tunnels that are used by NJ Transit and Amtrak are all we have.Thanks again, Chris.
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Radishgirl It is very expensive to convert office buildings into housing. I've worked on those projects and it is very, very costly to install the correct plumbing for an apartment, redoing the walls and ceilings for residential use.It's not just about dividing an open space into apartments.
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Bee :"Broad government investment in education is always a positive. The G.I. Bill proves that," Good point.I utilized the GI Bill and the good news is that it's still available! As they used to say: Go for it!
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End the ban on open carry in Legislature galleries and Courthouses. Then we will see sensible action in regulating gun ownership.
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I guess since I've been paying premium prices at the local farmers markets for eggs years, all of this came as a surprise. On Sunday I picked up a dozen eggs that had been hatched within 24 hours of purchase for $7 for a dozen. The yolks are a rich orange and a bonus is the shells are lovely blues and greens. Buy local if you can.
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djsims Yes there is. Ro Khanna put forward a proper plan to update the IRS. We would recover over 1 trillion in lost revenue per year from tax cheats, fraud and other corruption that republicans want to block with some moderates like Sinema and Manchin.After that stop increasing the military budget by 100 million a year and saying SSI is unaffordable and we can't fix it? There are a massively easy ways to fix it.The problem is citizens united and republicans blocking it.
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Barbara In many regions they open out, sometimes per code. Mitigates those issues where there is a fire or shooter or concert where suddenly everyone wants out. The ideal is to open both ways, and double doors. The technology exists, even in my small and ancient town in Mexico. It's a different situation from a house.
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I own 3 restaurants in The Greater Rochester and my staff are completely aware of the politics in this state. It's not all about NYC folks! My Chef cringes at having to pay our teenage dishwashers more money every year. The more we have to give entry level, the harder it is to increase performance driven raises and bonuses. These wages may be sustainable in NYC but up here we a re adding industry. The restaurant Association is like any other group. The more you put in, the more you get out. The Servers safe offering is made affordable because of the The restaurant association and is an 8 hour course. You should take it! . My employees are invited to many of the events and are thrilled to be part of an association that works so hard to bring so much to our profession. The fact that you haven't taken the Service safe class, tells me that just like our government, you don't understand our industry and how extremely tight the margins are. Most of my servers who build good relationships with their customers make between 25-35 an hour, so getting rid of the tips and increasing to $15 is a severe pay cut which is why we fight! Remember with every pay increase, New York State gets a bigger cut as well! Let's talk about how many employees understand that fact! More than 1/3 of our staffs pay goes right back into the many pools set up by NY. Open you paycheck and take a look! Who's really getting a raise every year! That is the article that needs to be written!
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BullMoose Americans would rather pay $500 a month, or more, in health insurance premiums than an extra $3,000 a year in taxes (compared to our neighbors to the north). I'm American, and it baffles me.
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KC - He's his own worst enemy with bad behavior on the court (see US Open 2020 and Australian Open 2021).
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Diane Owen They are doing it for the $$$
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Captain Nemo OpenAI's hiring (probably thousands) of contractors with deep domain expertise to 'nudge' / fix / adjust their large language models (which power GPT-3, ChatGPT): <a href="https://twitter.com/DaveMonlander/status/1612802240582135809" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DaveMonlander/status/1612802240582135809</a> Source: I work in natural language processing and have for over a decade. Much like how Google employs thousands to search result raters to 'nudge' its models' outputs OpenAI needs to employ thousands of experts to nudge its models' outputs. Keep in mind though that a domain expert provides different flavors of feedback than a general 'quality rater' human being might. General raters do not have any specific expertise / knowledge and instead rate aspects of a model's output based on things like "the language sounds good to me" or "the answer is about as long as I would expect" rather than asking GPT-3 to "Explain Julian Schwinger's seminal work in the field of QED" which requires some domain expertise in quantum physics to be able to assess the quality of the model's output.
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If the soundness of federal outlays has no relationship to receipts, why do we even need taxes? We could simply borrow all of the money, including that used to service the debt, indefinitely with no worry. So there is a relationship, which I’m guessing is the willingness of creditors to continue extending loans, which they do by purchasing US Treasury bonds. And poor countries, the ones where child poverty can mean death before reaching school age, can’t play the budget game the US does. So that willingness must rest on America’s underlying economic output, along with other factors such as military strength, possession of the world’s reserve currency, and history of paying its bills on time.That last is what the bozos who’ve taken Speaker McCarthy hostage might ruin this year. But looking past the immediate issue to watch outlays rise from $525 million in 1901 through 23 recessions to their latest $6.27 trillion, an astonishing ten thousand-fold hike even if the value of a dollar has changed quite a bit, I noticed they usually remained in step with receipts, except for a few periods like the 1930s and WWII. Until about 1970, that is. And except for Clinton’s couple of surpluses, the gap has only grown ever since, in absolute terms and percentage-wise.But we can’t have a real discussion about managing our budget because of the internecine politicking. While I’m open-minded, the Covid era has left things out of hand, I think. Taxes & fiscal restraint both?
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Regarding situation #1: It would be naive indeed to expect a person over 50 to have survived life unscathed emotionally/physically. I would want to know only whether the potential mate was open to a physical relationship, intimacy. Which can look like many different things. I was trying to understand why a well educated intelligent man i met & had mutual attraction with was wearing old clothes & driving a dilapidated car. On our first date I asked if he struggled with an addiction disorder: "no". But he didn't tell me about the crippling debt he assumed from his previous marriage. There was no hope of paying it off in his lifetime. And a huge alimony payment pending years till completion. This was disclosed after about a month. So Wrong.
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Amanda Agree. They come in a two pack at Costco for about $14. Very good.
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Americans are confusing the debt ceiling noise with potential policy ideas to reduce the national deficit (that could easily be addressed by reforming our tax laws and demanding the wealthybillionaire class and corporations pay their fair share of taxes.)But this is not what is going on here.The debt ceiling vote is a procedural vote on releasing the funding on programs, bills and basic government costs already approved by Congress. Yet, what the already lame duck Speaker McCarthy and his right wing cohorts like Gaetz & MTG and in the GOP Senate Rick "snuff out social security & medicare" Scott are trying to pull is a forced crippling of programs they despise like Medicaid, and SNAP, and the 15% minimum corporate tax requirement that was included in the Inflation Reduction Act.Republicans are trying to use the threat of U.S. default as blackmail to impose their tax breaks for the rich and kill social infrastructure programs ideology. McCarthy's GOP cabal of MAGA ne'er-d-wells want to undo the progress and success of Biden's domestic agenda accomplished in the 117th Congress: all the bills which passed that actually address climate change, green energy, drug cost reduction, infrastructure, jobs creation, US manufacturing reboots,in other words policies intended to improve Americans' lives, create opportunity, and move our country forward in positive ways. Speak out. Tell the GOP to stop holding our nation hostage to threats of default.
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Douglas Tischler And not to forget that The Spare still receives $2 Million per annum from The Crown and has a net worth $50 Million.Methinks that that is plenty of dough.
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I grew up in the Stephen Wise Towers, which are being privatized. We moved in when they first opened in the 1960s, after years of my family living in deplorable conditions in hundred-year-old tenements. My father worked for General Motors and the Wise Towers were a sanctuary then. Life there enabled me to go to college, and have a full life of gainful employment. I am now happily retired. My life in the projects lasted from 1964 to 1982. The 80s brought some changes what used to be the common good. Contempt for the poor is evident in the majority of these despicable comments. Have you all forgotten that the cost of housing and living in general has gone up exponentially compared with wages?
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He does not like being told what to do, is a bit paranoid that he will face consequences for being honest in the face of honest makes and creates his own mistakes by fighting to protect himself from a country that did nothing wrong to him in the first place. How he ever got elected anything is a mystery, but then, the same is true of George Santos. The media played an outsized role in each. Mike and Joe clearly created a problem here, but it’s doubtful intentionally. Their co-operation speaks to their integrity in these circumstances: if you have nothing to hide, you don’t have anything to worry about. The same could have been said for the disgraced former president, but there is something in his psychological profile that appears to think that rules don’t apply to him unless he deems them fair, and that fair can only mean he comes out on top. It’s the logic of a competitive 5 year old and he is apparently a grown man! The Trump Organization has been convicted of felonies, the question in that department is will the banks and investors look the other way? Classified documents at this point, this seems like a gov’t failure! Someone check the documents in and out, for goodness sake.
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In a good Asian country there would be a coup, and Putin would quietly disappear from the scene, to retire with silent honours to one of his luxury homes, to sup on tea as the sun goes down over a million-dollar view. And in the meantime, Russia would extricate itself, quickly, with funny excuses, from that conflict in Ukraine, and might even request the western nations establish some economic agreement with a perpetual non-member of the NATO alliance, to the benefit of the Russian men, women and children. A leader can, always perhaps, be thrown away, down, out sometimes -- not just in good ways -- as a real democrat could say
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Perhaps the $472,000 appraisal report was correct? Easy way to find out - have the $472,000 appraisal and the $750,000 appraisal be reviewed by other appraisals. But to the best of my knowledge, all the appraisals in these anecdotal articles were not reviewed by other appraisers. Yet without these reviews, the appraiser who interacted with the black homeowner is guilt as charged.
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Ken, the fossil fuel industry has been the recipient of hundreds of billions of dollars of direct and indirect subsidies. It will take a long, long, long time for the amount of corporate welfare given to non-petroleum energy to catch up to the amount given to fossil fuel companies.
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This is true defending of freedom and democracy. It is worth spending $1T. Not Afghanistan and Iraq. Ukraine must win this and we must support it till that happens.
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Why is Krugman always talking about debt to GDP? A far more relevant data point is debt-to-tax income.The US currently spends about 11% of all Federal spending on servicing its debt. And don't forget, some of that Federal spending itself is funded by debt.In effect, the US is running a deficit (taking on more debt) so that it can pay its debt obligations.On top of that, much of those debt payments are for debt incurred at extremely low interest rates. If interests rates double (they have more than tripled recently) then debt payments double too.If you don't think that is a serious problem then you are a Not Very Serious Person.
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He owes no one an explanation. I think his story is wonderful. More should do it, particularly in the current golf world environment co-opted as it is by Saudi blood money. Golf is after all, a completely meaningless thing that contributes virtually nothing as an organized high dollar rewards event, to the greater good.
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