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glennmr I agree with the importance of energy to economic performance. When I trace the economic history of the modern world, I see liquid hydrocarbons, natural gas, and electricity as the main drivers for the economy and the steady improvement in the quality of life and expected life spans. Coupling the market for oil, coal and gas-fueled technology for fundamentals like electricity, and transportation to provide a comfortable living standard with efficient access to our arable land and fisheries created a successful standard of living. However, not we know we and the modern world economies can't stay on this fossil energy path so we need to change without destabilizing the global economy. This will be a very hard change for the world economy to make. I am pleased that we finally have installed a good portion of the World leaders who understand that we need to invest in non-fossil technologies that will hopefully maintain our standard of living and not be too disruptive.We need to go with what we know but the scale of the transformation required for a global population of 9 or 10 Billion will require some breakthroughs in energy generation and in market access technologies.
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Over the past 10 years, We have had cause to drive through, and to, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada. My husband and I are self-identified as white, affluent, Jewish/Episcopalian seniors from the SF Bay Area, so our politics and beliefs are fairly baked in to the left. We do, however, try to be open minded regarding other’s beliefs, but find that there is a troubling message along our roadsides in this country that is festering and we are seeing the effects of it everywhere we go. There are folks in rural areas who spend hard earned money having giant signs made that they place on their businesses, farms and ranches that inform passers-by that the election was stolen, babies are dying without Trump in office and Jesus is the only one who can save us. So these folks have seen the light and know that politics is the only way that Jesus’s work can be accomplished. They are running in local elections for school board, mayors, supervisor, etc. Montana seems to be embracing these reimaginers of the history of this country, which BTW, actually was founded by people who wanted no oversight of their religion by a government, and vice versa. So, I’d say, be aware, be politically active, and be afraid. This may not end well.
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I used to work as a low level admin assistant in health care and hated it. It was inefficiently organized, poor communication structure and highly hierarchical. The hierarchy meant that managers rather delegated than do work themselves but still felt overwhelmed because of the bad structure. So they kept adding more managers in hope of easing their work. More managers meant a more complicated structure, more meetings but with the same inefficiency and same lack of communication skills and structure. In the end everyone was always meeting and talking and it felt like nothing got done. The topics they talked about was mostly how to expand and “grow” and the pay of the MDs who already had a salary of more than $400K per year. There was also how to check the compliance boxes but not much talk on how to increase the quality of health care - only quantity. It was awful and I quit to do something much more useful for society.
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I can’t imagine that any millennial is even flinching…our entire existence has been one economic crash after the next. I think I would be more surprised if the economy actually grew sustainably. Don’t believe me? Our childhood was colored by the dotcom bubble bursting. As I left high school, the Great Recession was just starting and people were getting laid off en masse. We spent the next decade sluggishly recovering with millennials struggling to find work. Just as we start to invest and purchase houses COVID causes another crash. Now we are at the start of a recession to tame inflation just a couple of years later. When in our lifetimes has the economy been stable? Sorry this is a very limited scope article. Sure maybe tech workers are confused, but most of us have been living in this reality our entire lives.
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The 21st century Republican Party is the direct descendant of the Jim Crow Dixiecrat contingent of the Democratic Party as it existed before the Kennedy/Johnson administration. It’s the Party of the Lost Cause. An essential of Jim Crow mythology always has been that slavery was a good thing for black people; and that segregation was an element of natural law, somehow divinely ordained. Everybody loved it, according to the myth; and then a bunch of ‘pointy headed intellectuals who can’t even park a bicycle straight’ [as George Wallace said] came down South and stirred things up. I lived in Alabama in the ‘60s, when George Wallace reigned over the state and stood in the door at the University of Alabama. The Republican Party welcomed his acolytes with open arms when they fled the Democratic Party after Johnson advocated the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Time has passed; those folks are a lot less vocal about their race-based politics; they’ve even contrived to get some black and brown faces in their tent. But the Republican Party is suffused and tainted by the myth of the happy black slave and nostalgia for the good old days when ‘everybody knew their place’ and nobody got all uppity.These people know it’s a lie — just as they know the ‘stolen election’ is a lie. They just don’t want to be reminded about what they know. They want to be left to wrap themselves in the warmth of their delusion, happy as a clam, snug as a bug in a rug.
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Your comment sparked my curiosity. In my personal experience as a parent, both teachers and administrators are valuable partners for me and my children. I’m curious why this may not be the case elsewhere.My experience of administrators:- Principal - Resource when child is struggling with a behavior or other issue, someone other than the teacher who was looking out for them, a constant across grades. Set guidelines for gifted resources, makes decisions on how money is spent, recess was run, drop-off/pick-up traffic was managed, etc.- Secretary/receptionist - Parent and student go-to for checking kids in and out of school, communicating messages, leading school directory, first point of contact for injuries, reports, etc.- Counselor/psychologist - Grade-wide social-emotional lessons, individual counseling on emotional regulation, IEP observation and supports, and a kind ear for both students and parents.- Custodian - Keeps school and grounds clean and safe, another constant for the children through multiple grades, helps with recess, traffic management, etc.We do also have a few District-wide administrators who are less visible - e.g. the head of curriculum, the head of IT. Those roles seem meaningful and I hope they are.
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Contrary to the "notion" of freedom, carrying a firearm in public is for one reason: intimidation. First, you are carrying it to overcompensate for your insecurities, and second, carrying a firearm will never fill that void. It denies the freedom of everyone around the "armed" person. Why? Because I believe if you have to open carry, there's something mentally wrong with you. It's the same way with the noisy jacked-up trucks. Why would you own one unless you think yourself "less than" (insecure), un-endowed, and need to overcompensate? It's obvious as a flashing neon sign to everyone else, why is it you don't get it?
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It's never the end of the world if one has marketable skills and know how to sell oneself. As others have pointed out, there's also the "one door closed and another opens" philosophy,which I have always found to be true. So much of corporate life is perspective. As a Gen X'er, work is now purely transactional. I expect no allegiance or loyalty--and while I can make a show of it when needed--don't feel anything about work beyond it being a very useful means to end.
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Frank From a web search I found an interesting article - <a href="https://www.seriouseats.com/mustard-oil-guide" target="_blank">https://www.seriouseats.com/mustard-oil-guide</a>It described a 'safe' mustard oil for cooking with a low level of erucic acid. I found it on Amazon - Yandilla Mustard Seed Oil - 500 ml at $35. Expensive but a little should go a long way. I guess I will try it.
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I would have to wonder if any currency, like the dollar, the pound, the euro ricocheted in value as much as crypto did (or does?) why would you want to invest in it?Why would you want to collateralize loans with it?I can say for the stock market these are companies that are audited and their stock value has to have a reasonable expectation to match the financials submitted to shareholders. When ever I hear politicians calling for smaller government with less regulation, I have to wonder would they dismantle the SEC? If they did, we'd have real chaos in the financial markets.
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Mark Twain quipped: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."Republicans want to "slash the national debt." Not the deficit--which may or may not make sense in any given year--but the "debt." As the great L. Randall Wray has observed: "Balances have to balance!" So reducing the "debt" entails running a budget SURPLUS, which means your tax bill will be higher than if the GOP were content with merely balancing the budget. So where will that money come from? If you don't have the US dollars in your checking account, you might have to sell the outdoor furniture on the back deck to pay your taxes and stay out of jail. Federal deficits make us richer, surpluses make us poorer.The gov't must pay interest to investors "who buy its debt." Now why on earth would the federal gov't ever have to "buy" the very currency it has the power to create "out of thin air?"True, the Fed sells bonds all the time--but not because it needs the money. It does so to remove excess currency from the banking system. Why? If every bank were flush with dollars, no bank would ever have to borrow from any other bank to settle their accounts--and the Fed funds rate (the overnight rate of interest banks charge each other)--would plunge to zero. And there goes the Fed's target interest rate of 2%.The Fed should buy back all outstanding bonds and simply pay "interest on reserves." Then bond traders would have to find real jobs.
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Implicit in what you said is the acknowledgment that unlimited free supercharging is like getting free gasoline for your internal combustion engined car for as long as you own the car.That's more than a $7500 tax credit for most people.
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Let me see if I can contextualize this. We live in the wealthiest country in the world. The wealthiest country ever. The Supreme Court is about to, more than likely, ban affirmative action in universities. White people complain about 20 or 25 years of discrimination. What about the 400 years of discrimination of the cruelest sort for black people.Someone paid $228 million for one of the residences on top of one of the buildings on 58th St., billionaires row.You have to be deeply deeply blind or Christian to accept that this is a righteous world.
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Harry does the world a service by being open about his mental health struggles and by bringing attention to the potential benefits of psychedelic-assisted therapy for people dealing with grief and PTSD.What is important at this juncture is to ensure that these therapies are available to everyone who can benefit from them, not just the very privileged.In anticipation of FDA approval of this type of treatment, the Columbia School of Social Work and the University of Pennsylvania School are collaborating on an intitiative to educate social workers and nurses about psychedelic-assisted therapy. This effort will help improve access to affordable, safe treatment facilitated by a large workforce of highly qualified practitioners.As psychedelic-assisted therapies continue to gain mainstream acceptance, the demand for qualified providers is likely to skyrocket upon the anticipated rescheduling. With an average cost of post-graduate training programs of around $10K, more colleges and universities should build that training into their degree programs.Here is a link to more information about the Columbia/Penn collaboration.<a href="https://socialwork.columbia.edu/news/1m-grant-for-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-training-program-for-social-workers-nurses-at-columbia-university-university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank">https://socialwork.columbia.edu/news/1m-grant-for-psychedelic-assisted-therapy-training-program-for-social-workers-nurses-at-columbia-university-university-of-pennsylvania</a>/
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A few years ago, my son who was in college at time, wanted to invest in crypto-coin. When I explained that it was highly speculative, he and his friend responded that I was too old to understand how crypto-coin worked and that it was a new kind of economy. I asked him to check the price of Bitcoin and then check again in a couple days. As luck would have it, Elon Musk went on SNL that evening and Bitcoin lost 50% of its value overnight. My son learned his lesson.
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Millie Bea There would need to be a plan to migrate to those ideas. Does our government have to backbone to develop it and implement it? With the use of Citizens United money, the movement to government control of currently commercialized 'products' like health care is at risk. A lot of planning is needed that extends over multiple election cycles and dividend quarters.
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neeraj, just read the article with open mind. The author never said bad anything about your beautiful city. He only highlighted the 'business' of education going on there with all the money floating in the air of Kota.
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Pystcat Finally someone who understands!The Crown Estate Lands (reportedly worth $19 billion in 2021) are managed by the Crown Estate Commissions. The revenues from these inherited lands/possessions have been placed at the disposal of Her Majesty's Government and proceed directly to the Royal treasury for the benefit of the British Nation.
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Total US tax revenue is projected to be $4.71 Trillion in 2023. Total interest owed on the debt, $500Billion. There does not have to be any default. Ms. Yellen will just need to allocate the available funds to the highest priority. The interest payments on the $31.5Trillion of debt.Other expenditures will need to be reduced to accomodate that.
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all working people need to unite to tear down the bosses.Microsoft CEO gets a huge pay bonus, and then lays off 10,000 workers. The bonus he received could have paid their salaries for years!nobody seems to care.one man gets rewarded and then 10,000 get punished.it's all a matter of public record, no reporter has reported has noted the hypocrisy. nobody seems to care!unions are flawed, but they're the best we got. lots of stuff are flawed. But it doesn't mean we don't use them.
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Billions of $'s are at issue here, but let's not lose sight of what's important: Mr. Bankman-Fried's productivity was adversely impacted.
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Ken You could always try posting an ad at your local art college. Provide materials and a couple of hundred bucks remuneration. A lot of young artists would love the opportunity to do something like that in the real world.When we opened our first bistro that's exactly what we did for our sign. It gave a young local artist a few bucks and a lot of exposure. A lot of people asked who did it and we always referred them on to him.
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I studied in the US and worked there for almost 2 decades. I have concluded that America is exceptional in the following ways:(1) It attracts extremely bright immigrants from overseas. (When I graduated from college in India, I had no offers from India, but I had a guaranteed scholarship from America, 6 months before I graduated. I know dozens of people who have had the same experience). Very few other countries can do this.(2) American's are ver open to immigrants. Some may dispute this, but by and large, I have encountered a welcoming attitude.(3) In no other country can an immigrant become a millionaire (or even a billionaire) in one generation. America owes this to the exceptional dynamism of its technology and entrepreneurial economy. This is the path to the American Dream.(4) America offers little or no government funded social support to its citizens and workers. You sink or swim. If you cannot swim (for reasons you can't control), you are screwed.(5) Americans think they are the center of the world. Or, alternately, nothing of consequence exists outside America.(6) Despite being a nation of immigrants, it is striking how few Americans are bilingual.(7) Americans believe they are the freest people in the world. They are, however, in bondage to a darwinian economic system. Many can't quit or switch jobs for fear of losing their health-insurance. They work longer than anyone else. Cogs in a huge wheel.(8) Every scam on the plant was invented in the US first.
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Jen Many Democrats will support the growing number of Independents to seek OPEN PRIMARIES and, most important, RANKED CHOICE VOTING to reduce the current incentives for extremism and increase incentives for moderation.
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The Amirazad family are my neighbors, and I was so delighted to see them yesterday as the children scampered into our cul-de-sac after being house bound during the extended rains. I wish the Times had captured the pure joy and love of life radiating from their faces. Yes, it does take a lot of organizing, and sharing of expenses and time to give our fellow human beings such a lift in life. But many people, especially retirees, have surplus time and funds . . .
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Clyde Benke congratulations on doing better than I ever will,but even with $12 million, you aren't the kind of rich I think Greg might be talking about. And don't forget that those of us the don't have your considerable wealth work pretty darn hard too. And if you dinner have us fridges your rewards would be less sweet because you wouldn't have anything to spend it on.
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Crime against humanity? … Since ChatGPT was trained on content created by a huge number of humans who have not been compensated by OpenAI, it seems the creativity and intelligence of humanity has been stolen. So OpenAI is committing a new kind of crime against humanity, or something in a nearby category that we don't even have a word for yet.
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HINTSEL7) Periodic table has 118EM7) Esteemed like Marshall Mathers4) Release carbon into atmosphereEN11) Sense of deservingIM8) Happening soon5) Push10) Remorselessly not atoning9) ToolIT4) 10 or fewer in Express laneLI4) Green fruit key to Florida pie5) Calculus thing approached indefinitely, (1+1/n)^n→e4) An artist might paint an arm or a leg4) Weak walk6) Mollusk with weak walk?7) Repairers of electric wires8) Balm for sore muscleME4) Parallel lines never5) Free-for-all fight4) Snow to puddle4) Internet spreader - like "Crying Michael Jordan"6) Underling taken underwing to tutelage4) This word's doled out in the Bee allot!6) Prove your STAMINA under pressureMI4) Expressive appearance4) 5280 ft4) Grist for the this (is grain)6) Cereal4) (I'm using only gestures to hint at "Marcel Marceau" here)4) Coal or gold hole4) Mispelled Mouse or Pearl5) 2 drink MI5um unless you can whistle a HALF-NOTE4) Breath freshener4) Tiny bug very strong4) Oven glove6) Fingerless glove lost by baby cat triosPE6) Quilling dudes from the Quaker StatePI4) Prostitu-trenuer?6) ZitTE4) Rain cats & dogs4) Not perm(anent) like a Kelly worker5) Musical speedos6) Building of worship5) Lead us not into TE5ation8) "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls & TE8 halls…"TI4) Exam's over! Put your pencils down8) Chain of temporal events👇See Replies for more
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There are three main reasons for America’s debt, and the middle class benefited little from any of them:1 Military spending. Iraq invasions (several, all failures); Syria, Libya (failures); Afghanistan invasion & eighteen-year occupation (failure); Global-wide deployments (continuing, expanding in Asia & Africa).Military spending is one half the annual budget.2 Corporate bailouts. Billions. Franklin national bank $ 78 billion Chrysler $ 4 billion Continental Illinois national Bank and trust $ 9.5 billion savings and loan industry $ 293 billion Bear Stearns $ 30 billion Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $ 400 billion American international group AIG 180 billion auto industry $ 25000,000,000 Citicorp $ 280, billion Bank of America $ 142 billion Auto industry bailouts. WBush/Obama bailouts of Wall Street, while Main Street was left behind. Trump “loans” to profitable companies that we’re not required to repay them.3 Tax cuts aimed primarily at corporations and the most wealthy. These tax cuts contribute mightily to the debt, but we’re made permanent with the intention of paying for them by cutting Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure, education.Since these drove the debt and benefited primarily corporations - military industrial and financial and real estate primarily - and to the most wealthy, they should now pay for them.
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Amy Its connected to how the MSFT's stock price performs. So yeah hold CEOs accountable, but also maybe hold your 401K or public pension funds accountable as well for demanding stock increases every quarter.
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ML The answer it is a huge business. Yes, star athletes make ridiculous amounts of money, but most NFL players careers are short and they make relatively little given it would have to last a lifetime.The real money? A typical NFL team today sells for prob 4 billion on average. Thanks to Merchandising and especially the booming TV revenue, teams share in a 16 billion dollar revenue stream that keeps going up. Ticket sales and concessions are in the mix, but most of that is shared revenue. That means each team is getting a shared check of prob 400M dollars, then their local revenue is piled on that. Current NFL payroll max is 208M, which means a team can pull in 200M easily in profit.
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"The transit authority has warned that lower revenue could mean a budget gap of nearly $3 billion by 2025, and it is already considering raising the $2.75 base subway and bus fare twice by then — to $2.90 next year and $3.02 in 2025."===Yet we here in the City are expected to pay out several more billions to house and feed illegal migrants in expensive hotel rooms. It is getting done in the backs of bus and subway riders? We are going from ️🎶 "The People Ride In A Hole In The Ground" ️🎶 to the people all live in a hole in the ground. Swell... You get what you vote for, people.<a href="https://emcphd.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://emcphd.wordpress.com</a>
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