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This does not need Google deep pockets. It needs the motivation and some funding. SWA does not care. Pull the backup tapes, hand those to DR team, provide bare metal, and start the stopwatch. I participated in this in 1990s across the Missi
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4y ago
> convenience trumps principle There it is. We make our choices and our children live with the consequences. I have always opted out of TSA body scans and have been a 100k flier. Frequent fliers know which cattle lanes to use for no sca
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4y ago
> $1 million nest egg can replace about 85% of a $70,000 median household income. While property taxes depend on zip code, if the mortgage is paid, why does a couple need this much income?
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4y ago
Unions aren't like in western Europe, for example, where they are more considered in the business. Just two years ago OSHA (worker safety regulator) crammed down a vaccinated-or-fired mandate to nearly all companies and unions didn
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Didn't help the rail union workers. https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-signs-bill-to-block-us-railr... '... Biden administration this week used the provisions of a 96-year-old labor law to force unions represent
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> people are highly dependent an their current job It is often voluntary lifetime debt slavery to have payments on the latest gadgets/car/timeshare/oversized house. Recently train workers union had working conditions cramm
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> following a covid infection ... I received the bivalent mRNA booster After a real infection you develop anti-bodies. Why then get the vaccine which would be less good protection and have risks?
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The benefits to children are nearly zero, while there is some risk. I am still unclear why a medical treatment emergency use exemption was extended to low risk of mortality age groups. Importantly, the shots don't prevent virus re-tran
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4y ago
> Prior to climate change Now climate change in winter makes wheel loaders not function properly and people are too cold?
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> There’s a wealth and basic life standard gap that is impossible to bootstrap. USA southern border is over-run with poor people trying to get in. I wonder what is different for these folks?
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"their languages" were recognized as unique and useful in 1950s. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-indi...
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> your chances of never getting COVID if you remain unvaccinated are extremely low That is right. And some get infected without suffering harm, as was known by early reports from the quarantined Diamond Princess boat. Passengers in a cab
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4y ago
Describing everything you identify with as a crisis seems overdone. A crisis that extends over years is hardly an emergency. There may be better language to attract people to get involved in your projects.
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> people would be completely outraged why the FBI didn’t stop them. I doubt people would make FBI change for the better. Suspicions of people paying cash at flight schools and not seeming to want an airline career was reported to FBI sev
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Some European cities also have district heating, which is managed differently than at-home heat creation. https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/berlin-kicks-of...
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(Many) Americans also equate higher living standards with a huge TV which is generally turned on.
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I heard it happened in California. "In August 2020, hundreds of thousands of Californians briefly lost power in rolling blackouts ..." https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-blackouts-power-grid/st...
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'get an ad-hoc message out' Being after the event was resolved, it may be post-hoc.
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>> definitely would have been prosecuted This government financial regulator explicitly allowed backdating capital infusions. They cooked the books. Not prosecuted. Kept the sweet federal pension. "Dochow knew that IndyMac couldn
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4y ago
Maybe not int'l travel, but someone seems to be going to this national park in SF. "Island of Incarceration" https://www.nps.gov/alca/index.htm
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4y ago
SBF comments, and some political organizations returning funds. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/20/ftx-democrats-senate-majorit... Without a trial and witnesses testifying, most shenanigans will remain unknown.
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They won't lose the money if SBF dies before court. Maybe SBF would be safer in MCC? https://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/nym
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His parents are reported to have a $16M Bahamas property in their names, so they can just go to the other houses they bought with funds from their college professor salaries.
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I doubt there will be a trial, as too many politicians could be deposed along with tracing washed funds from US to Ukraine to FTX. He will have an unexpected medical complication or will take a plea deal.
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Nice! This is one of the most succinct explanations of why socialism always fails - too much complexity to dictate all actions.
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What timeframe do you think every coastal city will have to be moved? Is there a reputable hedging market for that outcome?
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The IRS likely can get the parents on gifts of property and travel. I guess the parents will walk, though.
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They will all get deals to avoid trial because nobody in power wants to dig into political donations or possibly even money laundering from US funds that went to Ukraine with some of it stolen and washed through FTX.
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> all exchange native tokens more or less work the same way, that would mean they are all securities... If this holds, the crypto exchange game is over. Exchanges don't need tokens to be a place to swap and park coins. I don't
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> when orange guy took the chair If politics affect you so deeply, I am wondering what you have done to get involved in politics. Do you go to county Democrat monthly meeting? Did you join a campaign as a volunteer and make phone calls f
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