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Some of these vulnerable people are set up for failure due to a lack of financial education/financial literacy
I work with hard working folks who make a fraction of my salary and have cars equal to mine in value. The difference is I keep them for 175,000 and they are paid off and theirs is on loan. They buy lunch and I bring leftovers yet I hear about how they have nothing in the bank.
The money that they spend might help drive the economy but I don’t think is worth their financial hardship.
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Great article. I think they should have divided hugs and handshakes. Typically hugs are for people you know better, communicate with, and can trust regarding their prevention measures. Handshakes are more frequently for those you are meeting for the first time and have little/no knowledge of their prevention measures
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The Republican Party has become the very thing American colonialists rebelled against - a harsh, demeaning, wealthy, anti-free speech group led by a harsh but losing King. It retains its Loyalists and Colonies. It maintains its people who believe that speaking against the King is an act of disloyalty. And it believes that all votes against the King are fixed and false. Indeed, its favorite color seems to be red.
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<PERSON> is desperately trying to avoid New York civil and criminal investigations and and litigations. He is a "Trump First", not a person believing in "America First". The Republican Party can't wait to see him leave the scene so other younger Republicans can move onto the scene. Deep down <PERSON> is a bankrupt casino.
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<PERSON>
I am a Democrat too. I think the charge against <PERSON> was a fiasco on several levels and a mistake. Meanwhile, I am not impressed with somebody bringing this evolving and increasingly horrifying story to the fore 27 years later, someone with a giant crush on <PERSON>, who just happened to have an association with the <PERSON> camp. It’s an eye-roller.
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Leaving aside Ms. <PERSON>’s claim (I don’t believe her), am stunned at the number of commenters saying things like, well you know <PERSON> is a weak candidate anyway and he can’t win and we should replace him with x, y or z.
He won the huge majority in the primary!
Who, exactly, do you think is the hero or heroine on the white horse who will save us all? Oh, I don’t know ... <PERSON>? <PERSON>?
They lost! And not by a small margin. Even <PERSON>: trounced.
Twitter is not the electorate. Rallies are not the electorate.
I for one will not vote for <PERSON>, especially if he became the Democratic candidate following an undemocratic process that has “dirty tricks” written all over it. Many people, seeing a man brought down by unproven allegations and an apparent mob, will stay home. Myself, I will leave the Democratic Party and not look back.
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To me, the large number that has voted for <PERSON> and the disregard for personal character and integrity as also of the high values of equality and equal justice are not comforting, not to say of ingrained racism and xenophobia. Let us face it: but for <PERSON> and how he mismanaged it, <PERSON> could have won hands down! That very thought is scary enough. To add insult to injury, many who abetted <PERSON>'s travesty have won re-election to the US Congress too.
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While we must agree with the fundamental principles of separation of State and Church as also that religious institutions, in the minimum, have to be treated on par with commercial establishments in such matters, it would be highly irresponsible of any religious organization to flout social distancing and safety rules at this time. Religions have an obligation to emphasize duties even more than rights. The right to life should first apply to those who are already here and are breathing today!
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On a weekly basis, I have an argument with a neighbor who says that while he doesn't like <PERSON>'s Tweets, behavior, morality and way he has lived his life, this guy will still vote for <PERSON> because the Democrats "will bankrupt America for generations to come." Before the pandemic, the Republicans were still the fiscal voice of reason, my neighbor said; Democrats were spend thrifts.
Luckily, we have a president who knows how to go bankrupt as he "drains the swamp" of those who don't operate in his best interest. Jail time, anyone?
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<PERSON> lies, period. No reputable doctor on this earth would prescribe him hydroxychloroquine plus Z-pack, an antibiotic, prophylactically. What happens if <PERSON> actually gets Covid-19 and needs an antibiotic?
My guess is that <PERSON> and family members and friends have been trading in stocks that produce these medicines. Guarantee it; hope SEC takes a look at their recent stock action but then again, the owner of the NY Stock Exchange happens to be Georgia Senator <PERSON>'s husband. They are being investigated for sudden mid-March trades too. I smell a scandal. I smell a lying president.
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It was so hard to watch this narcissistic lump of worthlessness shamble through this interview with Mr. <PERSON>. It’s even harder to comprehend what his base finds so wonderful about him. Do they not understand how readily he would throw them under a bus to advance himself and his interests?
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Thank you <PERSON> for your wonderful recipes. As a person who followed recipes to the letter, you made me feel confident in substituting ingredients, and adding a little of this or that. More importantly, was the way very little went to waste in rethinking their uses.
I would be remiss if I didn’t thank all the readers who added their comments to recipes. Your suggestions improved many dishes, and saved me from many mistakes. May we all continue to cook and eat out in health!
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This man was one of my favorite pianist. I loved his work with Music ,Inc. ,The Heath Brothers & his own albums. Musa is a favorite but one should also seek out his solo interpretation of <PERSON>'s Round Midnight from his album Waiting for the Moment( Parisian Thoroughfare is also a gem on that record), Rest in Peace. He will be missed.
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I was in college in the early seventies staying at the house of the woman who became my first wife. Iwas just getting into jazz & her brother was playing some records. One of those records was Sahara by <PERSON> with <PERSON> on alto & soprano sax. I was hooked on the music from then on. Saw Mr. <PERSON> countless times at clubs & concert halls in NYC & Chicago. I have a large collection of albums, cds & tapes. One of my favorite musicians. He will be missed .
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Regarding the husband and close friend. First, it doesn't sound to me like the letter writer *did* give friendship with her husband's friend's wife. I have several friends who are the spouse of my husband's very close friends. None of them are friends I would have chosen but after some time we have created a history and mutual interests. So my advice is to give it some time.
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I am in complete agreement with Dr. <PERSON>. Too many people think covid-19 is not as bad as some make it out to be; but ignore the long term damage it can do. Are these partying, group gathering, and non-maskers willing to live the rest of their lives crippled by damaged lungs or hearts?
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“I don’t know how this is going to protect us.”
They've built their churches with cornerstones of contempt and discrimination with governmental protections. And now they can't condemn the whole swathes of people, so they cry that they're persecuted.
Wolves posing as shepherds, lining their pockets with tithes and donations, all tax free- that is what they want to be protected.
Blessed are the greedy and hateful.
<PERSON> wept indeed.
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<PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> performing “Someone In a Tree,” from “Pacific Overtures” was the best, most surprising number.
Pacific Overtures is not many people's go-to for <PERSON>. This particular song is reportedly Mtr. <PERSON>'s favorite of all his numbers.
<PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON> stole the webcast!
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I think that <PERSON> should consider offering a cabinet position, such as Commerce, to <PERSON>, though I doubt she would accept. That way he could make the case that he has a bipartisan cabinet. More importantly, it would allow the Democratic governor of Maine to appoint a Democrat to the Senate .
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@D H Unfortunately, this is not quite true. It is correct that if no candidate would have the 270 votes required to be president then the Constitution gives the House of Representatives the authority to choose a president. However Article I section 1 says "But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote". At the moment it appears that Republications will control at least 26 state delegations.
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Before we get to the election results difficulties, the threshold issue is how well (or badly) <PERSON> performs in his debates with <PERSON>.
<PERSON> will use the same antics, interruptions and distractions he used in 2016 with <PERSON>.
<PERSON>, who is not spontaneous, will stumble and stutter, and look much less than commanding against <PERSON>'s meandering mendacity.
If <PERSON>'s performance in the debates is seen to be weak, it could be so costly that we never reach the issues Ms. <PERSON> poses in today's story.
<PERSON>, Long Beach, California
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@GUZ I am not a <PERSON> booster, but it certainly doesn't make good sense to push healthy food to the kids if they won't eat it. There must be enough sufficiently adroit nutritionists in our school system to come up with some menus that offer a little bit of health and a little bit of the "bad" stuff the kids really tuck into.
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@Thomas, what is your definition of a plurality? It usually means more votes than the other candidate. <PERSON> won a majority of the votes, <PERSON> won a minority, not a plurality. I don't believe there is any evidence from voting or polling that suggests more Americans approve of <PERSON> than those that don't approve of him.
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Although this would be wonderful for Democrats, the political calculus of Republicans is too cynical to consider further splintering a party that is already smaller than the Democratic party.
A more likely alternative is the coalescing of independants into a single, larger party. Although still in the minority, it could play a role in passing legislation if if can win House or even Senate seats.
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...or: Nurture a culture of corporate and personal responsibility that would make profiteering unthinkable and morally unacceptable.
The point of the editorial is to rise above the personal and engage our society for the collective good — and, perhaps, our collective survival. It’s not likely we will see real leadership from Washington, but perhaps we can all demonstrate some individual and corporate leadership.
Of course, there should be serious consequences to illegalities that threaten public health. But wouldn’t it be incredible if we chose the collective good over personal gain not because of laws but because it was the right thing to do? Because it was simply good?
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Pretty obvious that the Gibson testing facility has high overhead in its one-story office. The landscaping alone must have cost $40 back when the shrubs were planted in 1978. High overhead = high prices. Stands to reason!
Two things should happen: Some adult in our government should get that money back. And that town should put Gibson and its like out of business.
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Yes people have a right to protest. But do they have a right to terrify the old and frail by marching by the thousands into the areas where defenceless seniors live scared and alone? I am agonized by the plight of several such people I know in NYC. They are not racists. They too have suffered in their lives from emotional and/or economic distress. Do they deserve to live in fear of having their apt. buildings burned or looted? The protesters should occupy Central Park, a perfect place for a peaceful demonstration. Sit there six feet apart and don't budge. I support the protests but not the very real fear it inspires.
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@SeaBeeUK When you can see a bald lie live, such as the ones the President spews on a daily basis, you are getting an education on personality disorders and ethical deficits. The First Amendment will never go out of style. All the reporters have to do is show up and turn on their cameras.
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@Kathryn
No one is beating up on Nashville, the city.
The clowns in the audience - and the CMA itself - deserve the criticism, though.
Why didn't the CMA insist on a masked audience and tell them 'no mask, no camera time?'
But more to the point regarding <PERSON>, the singer: why did the Nashville establishment (the CMA being the latest iteration) wait until the man was 86 years old to honor him? That's something that should have happened 20 years earlier at the least.
His recordings will endure longer than 95% of what passes for 'country music' these days.
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<PERSON> first (self-titled) album and <PERSON> greatest hits - because losing both of them in close succession was a real gut punch.
Then, individual songs that cover a range of emotions: Look to Your Soul, <PERSON>; Into The Mystic, <PERSON>; Save the Country, <PERSON>; Come Go with Me, Staple Singers.
And when I need to get away from the remote work stare-at-the-computer-all-day syndrome and need to get up and dance and shout: There Is, The Dells; Leaving Here, <PERSON>; Can I Get a Witness, <PERSON>.
And to fall asleep to: all of McLemore Avenue, <PERSON> MG’s (the entire Abbey Road album done instrumentally, Memphis-style).
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Maybe I a naive, but the problem lies not with creating more rules but with the Republican led Senate who have shrugged at essentially every transgression. We already have a system and set of rules that should have removed this president months ago when he was impeached. 40% of the nation supports <PERSON> no matter what he does and have chosen to be on the wrong side of history. <PERSON> is not the issue. It's his throng of ill-informed zealots who hang on his every incoherent slurred word. This terrifies me. At least with <PERSON>, what he did or didn't do mattered. With <PERSON>, he could be wandering through the Rose Garden in his skivvies and muttering something horrible and his folks would excuse it, spin it, blame it on fake news, pretend it hadn't happened, and his followers would see him as the victim of viscous attacks.
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Massachusetts residents love her as their Senator. She will continue to dream big and fight hard for us, and now we should all work to get her a Democrat majority in the Senate and House and White House so she can make these plans happen.
We still live in a Democracy folks and it takes a team to make things happen.
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I live in Arizona. I have since 1973. When the Southern California aerospace industry downsized, they moved operations and people to Arizona. Tech operations, like Samsung, expanded to Arizona, bringing more. The list goes on.
Arizona Republican Governor <PERSON> has crowed for years about California companies finding a tax friendly, housing friendly home in Arizona. "We're open for business," he tells them. They've come by the thousands, churning the economy. Phoenix is referred to as "mini-LA,".
They've changed Arizona from red to purple and this year for the first time ever, there's a good chance we will have two Democratic senators and a blue legislature. Congressional seats now number five Democrats and four Republicans.
The change has accelerated.
Fair warning Governor.
Be careful what you wish for.
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@GRH What you call "<PERSON>" was actually retribution for <PERSON> "Saturday Night Massacre".
When everyone else resigned rather than carry out the chicanery, <PERSON> did the job.
The Democrats never forgave him for trying to protect <PERSON> nor would they ever put him on the Supreme Court, a lifetime appointment. It's just they would never say it out loud.
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How is the chart showing the income rise of the top 0.01% relative to GDP and other income groups created? Is the top 0.01% of earners selected in 1980 and that same pool of earners is tracked to today? Or, is the top 0.01% of earners selected each year and the income of that changing group tracked to today? Those two methods will give very different results. If the chart is created using the changing-group method, it gives misleading results. In fact, if all earners had the same distribution of income change each year (by definition, income growth is equal across all levels of income), the changing-group method would incorrectly give results broadly in line with what is shown in this article. Please be clear about what is being graphed.
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Great interactive model, but an important concept is getting confused. The article and the model’s interactive sliders use the term “death rate” and “case fatality rate” (CFR) synonymously as measuring the percentage of people who contract the disease who will die. Yet, others—reputable researchers—have used the term “infection fatality rate” (IFR) to measure that concept. For those others CFR measures the percentage of people who are tested and confirmed to have the disease who will die. This distinction is critical because many (most?) get the disease and are never tested. A group associated with Oxford a few days ago put the best guess IFR at 0.19%, not 1% as stated in this article. And to say the flu has an death rate of 1% is misleading without being precise about whether this is an CRF or IFR statistic. How do we even know the IFR of the flu given that most are never tested? Given that the IFR may be about 1/5th of the CFR, your model needs some serious editing to correct the meaning of its inputs. Despite this shortcoming, bravo for putting together a great tool to understand the implications of policy decisions.
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I've happily used her roast chicken recipe, and it's my go-to for comfort food. I've adapted it to roasted chicken thighs on a bed of root vegetables. Why let all that flavorful schmaltz go to waste?
This story makes me think I need to go deeper into her recipes.
I especially love her attention to tweaking recipe instructions so that they're less error prone. This is effective product design.
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I recall hearing during college about the firebombing of Tokyo, as an argument in favor of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons. The claim was that, since we Americans were surely going to kill hundreds of thousands if not millions of Japanese civilians, we should do it with such a stunning weapon it would demoralize Japan and end its will to defend its homeland, saving thousands of American lives and probably Japanese lives, too. It's not foolish to claim this, only bloody-minded.
War is brutal and murderous, and we Americans shouldn't think our war-making is not.
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So <PERSON> is hiding in his bunker while calling on governors to get tough on protestors lest they be considered 'weak'. I guess there are no mirrors in the bunker.
There's an interesting contradiction here: <PERSON> wants to be thought of as a tough authoritarian while at the same time providing no leadership at all.
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Calling it a gin martini is redundant. A martini, by definition is a cocktail made with gin and vermouth. If you change the spirit, you need to call it something else.
You don't hear about rum margaritas or gin screwdrivers. do you? That's because they don't exist.
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Why are people seeking asylum in this country considered "illegal"? That has been the tenor in this land since at least the 90s. Certainly there are illegal immigrants, but a large percentage of the people lumped into that category are applying for asylum, even if they appear directly at a border crossing and declaiming themselves as asylum seekers. Our country has become fearful of The Other.
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Both major parties have been losing votes to both third parties and "Decline to State", but the GOP is hemorrhaging faster than the Dems. However, due both demographics and our Constitution, the smaller party is utterly in control of the Senate for the foreseeable future. We are, gentle readers, suffering from the tyranny of the minority
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I often wonder about space and the mysteries it holds. I ask myself questions such as why are we here? What am I meant to do? Where did the earth come from? Is god even real? These questions are very troubling and I get very worked up over them to where it consumes my mind to the extent that it makes me sad. The truth is that no one knows these answers.
That is the reason I believe in god. I feel uncomfortable publicly exposing my religious beliefs. I ask you to not take this as me trying to teach you about Christianity but for you to take this as an answer for the questions I ask.
When I think of god I think of a comforting being watching over us. I pray every night in hopes of finding an answer to my questions. I don’t think the answers will be given without hard work. I believe that these answers lie in deep outer space. Why would it be out there if we shouldn’t explore it?
Some thoughts that I have reflected upon this article and my response include. Will the answers to my questions cause more to arise? Will someone respond to my comment and give me an insight into how they cope with these questions?
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The city that cycles with the young, the old, the busy, and the dead
In this article the author writes about the capital of Denmark and how people use bicycles to get around rather than cars. This makes for a productive, active, and environmentally efficient community. New york has just made the decision to spend 1.7 billion dollars on paved bike lanes and trails. This will encourage people to use cars less and become more environmentally friendly.
I relate to this article because I don’t have my driver’s license and I use my bike to go everywhere. Whether it's to the beach, my friends house, or to go get breakfast I always ride my bike. To be honest I don’t just do it because I don’t have my license. I love biking. I get to taake in my surroundings and go where cars can’t go. I believe the world would be a much better place if human powered vehicles were used more heavily.
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This is a cute and fun quiz; however, I think it demonstrates that we can't tell how people will vote based upon what's inside their fridges.
Maybe try guessing peoples’ political leanings by what they say or believe. (You have to get inside peoples’ heads, not their stomachs, to nail how they will vote.) Perhaps have voters submit a favorite quote? Favorite hero? A beloved cause?
If we measured what <PERSON> is really like by his statements ... hmmm ... I guess we could surmise that <PERSON> is a _________________________________ (fill in the blank).
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@Jim – why don't you buck up, and care about someone besides yourself? Unity is how America became great – by everyone bonding together and working mutually for the good of all. You might want to get the calluses on your heart checked – they could be dangerous to your overall health.
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I repaid my student loans. I would have been grateful for a reduction in interest rates or tax deduction but there was no such luck. I took out loans to attend law school and I got a job that allowed me to repay my loans. Canceling student loans wholesale as creates moral hazard. It is not the same as bailing out banks — the banks repaid their bailout money and the government earned a profit.
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You don’t have to wear a mask — but stores and other places have the right to refuse entry and/or service. You have to obey traffic rules and if you want to enroll any children you have in school they need to be vaccinated. You don’t have to like the rules but you do have to adhere to them.
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<PERSON>I never called anyone on Wordplay dumb, which would be insulting. I called attention to the more generalized dumbing down of America, which is the phenomenon that educated Americans are expected to know less than is expected from educated people in other nations. This is something that I have been aware of since I was a teenager in the 70s, when learning the metric system was considered beyond the reach of ordinary Americans. Things have not improved. Of course, I think this is bothering me more today than it would other days.
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@Deadline I think I might argue that the ear canal is a hole. I mean, a hole in the ground consists of both the opening at ground level, and the continuation below the ground level (which is analogous to the ear canal). But I do like your proposed alternate clue.
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The country prepared, though late, for hospitals filled with COVID-19 patients. This was realized in New York where there was a bed scarcity requiring makeshift hospitals and Navy floating hospitals. But in other regions hospitals repurposed units for the influx that never came, and lost money, especially with cancelling elective surgery to preserve PPE.
Perhaps it is explained by the virus strain in New York being more virulent. The country did what it thought was safe and in each area the virus behaved differently. Our hospitals responded pretty well, all in all. It is not a reason to advocate for government medicine. The Federal and state governments have not been more efficient, giving multi-million dollar contracts to phony and unvetted suppliers of PPE. And the CDC delayed needed testing by making a faulty but unnecessary reagent, and the testing was then bailed out by private industry.
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Legally, a physician has a duty to the individual patient, not to decreasing the nation's overall health costs. All European countries have some form of rationing, either openly limiting care, requiring long waits for care or having global budgets. Everyone here abhorred the idea of death panels, but some form of rationing is essential to reduce costs. Should one unproductive person on the federal dole receive a million dollar drug while thousands of low paid workers go without unaffordable care? We don't have the political will to answer these questions.
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In 1960's Virginia, Democrats were the party of segregation, and Republicans were progressive. Also, I was angry over the Democratic handling of the Vietnam war, and considered myself fiscally conservative. Consequently, I got on the Republican train. Shamefully, as the years passed, I failed to see the racism which flooded the party, and did not appreciate the injustice endured by people of color. Following <PERSON>'s insane invasion of Iraq, I finally got off the train. These words are not to be interpreted as an excuse.
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What can you and I do to prevent getting the virus? A vaccine may be 15 years away and, at this point, there is no proven treatment. Testing is essential, but it doesn't block acquisition of the virus. What about better face masks - produced in sufficient quantities so that each of us could have a supply, capable of actually blocking the virus, and which could be worn with some degree of comfort? I'm tired of reading about what doesn't work, so maybe a little " low-tech" is worthy of consideration.
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I have no idea why people even still listen to the President of the United States. Just ignore him. Listen to the advice of trained medical officials and the leadership in your state (unless you are unfortunate to live in a state that is lead by one of these morons who refuse to give shelter in place orders).
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This essay saddens me and we should never see the evil of racism and the spores of hate emerge from under the floorboards of our democracy. But let’s be real here: the fault of this pandemic lies squarely at the feet of the Chinese government. Either through tariffs or sanctions or trade deals or other economic methods, the Chinese government must be compelled to permanently close down these wet animal markets; establish what is equivalent to our FDA; and must adhere to independent outside verification documenting that they have developed and are adhering to new more sanitary rules and regulations with regard to the sale of certain foods and consumption of it. After SARS, these were among several recommendations that the Chinese government refused to put into practice. The G-7 must act and it would be useful if people of Asian descent across the globe support these changes. Our lives now and in the future hang in the balance.
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I went to Action Network and signed the petition on the PayUp campaign that you are advocating. The protections make so much sense. I will keep you, your family, and all workers in your predicament in my thoughts and prayers. Thank you for sharing your struggles and for your advocacy.
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Thank you so much for bringing light to this extremely important topic and for whatever risks the journalist took to cover it. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of the Detroiters that are forced to get to work in such a dangerous environment. If there are organizations that are trying to secure PPE specifically for all drivers and riders I would like to be made aware of where best to make a contribution.
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The world is a less secure place when countries are less open. I thank Americans in advance for their thoughts when choosing a wise, diplomatic and tantrum-free president this November.
I am not living in America but sometimes not so clever decisions do affect us living in more peaceful places.
Thank you.
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@stuckinFL
If "Pro social behavior is NOT universally respected or desired" does that mean"anti social behavior is universally respected or desired" by a significant number portion of Americans?
If pro social behavior is not universally respected or desired in America, it is a matter of time before USA becomes a pariah in the world. This anti social behavior is quite apparent in the past 3 years or so in the current American leadership .....
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A few weeks ago, my schools administered the SAT for seniors only. Because we were not able to take it last year, they gave it to use recently due to it being a graduation requirement. Going into school for the first time since March was an interesting experience. My school tried to set up the best possible system for getting students into school safely. However, something just didn’t work. I think going into school was kind of a mess. We could only go in through two door either in the front of back and the lines were extremely long with very little social distancing, and there were only seniors at school. The hallways were kind of a mess as well.other than that, taking the test went pretty well, with the whole masks and having desks 6 feet apart. With all that being said, I do not think that the school should have made us take the test. Having a few hundred students risk their health to take a test, was not the best move. Most schools have moved to test option but there are still some who aren’t. And I get that they are important in the admissions process but I don’t think they measure someone’s intelligence accurately. The safest thing is for schools to go test optional and to at least limit the amount of test given for the safety of students and faculty.
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I personally think that, in theory, presidential debates are a very helpful thing for voters. However, the debates have shown that they can sometimes be useless or unhelpful. I think that having the debates are extremely helpful for voters who are undecided. It’s a great way to see candidates views on important topics that citizens care about because they are the ones being effected. Recently, these debates have made it harder for voters because they aren’t really debates. The candidates avoid questions or half-answer them, interrupt each other, and yell. It gets to the point where it’s not even a debate. While this may not seem like that big of a deal, it can be hurtful to voters.
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<PERSON> have you noticed that when booking a flight, at least here in canada, you have to put in a honourific? I always choose Ms for me, even though I’m married. I just instinctively reject Mrs. but my kids! The daughter gets Miss, fine, but my boy gets Master?! How antiquated is that?!
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<PERSON> I’ve been working on genealogy too. It’s so convinced when an ancestor has all the family names going back a couple of generations, which used to be the practice in Scotland. So even though they used a ridiculously small number of names (so many <PERSON>’s and <PERSON>’s and <PERSON>) the previous generations surnames used as middle names gave a lot of context.
But then it did shift, and suddenly records are just under the husbands name, without even the first name of the wife to cross check! <PERSON> who married <PERSON> suddenly is just Mrs <PERSON>.
I was married in Quebec, Canada in 2004. At that time you couldn’t take your husbands name, because of the insane amounts of divorces in the 80s after the catholic grip on the province released. It had to be hyphenated, with my surname last (which sounded weird). I kept my maiden name (was going to anyway, but admit I actually resented that I couldn’t choose to take my husbands name completely). Our kids have hyphenated names, with husbands name last because it sounds better. My sister used her maiden name as her children’s middle names. Family lineage preserved, and who cares about miss, ms or Mrs? I use Ms if I have to!
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Without getting into the merits of the electoral college, I do know one thing. What you cannot fathom is what the authors of the constitution laid out in that document, and why.
"I still cannot fathom why, in a representative democracy based on the principle that all votes are equal,…."
The authors trusted the wisdom of the voting public little more than they did the intentions of ambitious politicians. Some of them thought a king might be better than a president. The popular vote was purposely designed so as to NOT elect the president. It was designed solely as a comprehensive survey of what the voting public wanted. The electors were the ones they wanted to be electing the president. That helped ensure, to the authors, that an insane populist who fooled the public would not be elected.
"Representative" did not necessarily mean a reference to the voting public. "Representative" often referred to states' decisions, not those of citizens. E.g., the earliest US Senators were chosen by state legislatures, not by a vote the citizens of the states.
It is one thing to want the electoral college changed. But it operates as the authors of the constitution intended.
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<PERSON> They have no powers over my life, vast or otherwise. What they do is give me choices, some of which are incredibly useful ones.
But only I make the choice to use their services or not. Although it would make life much more difficult…like it was before such technology…I am free to make that choice. Opt out if you so choose, your choice.
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@PW I am a woman who was essentially forced to vote for <PERSON> though I desperately wanted the change I thought <PERSON> would bring to our feudal economic and political systems. With recent Establishment smears against <PERSON>, staying at home in November becomes more, not less, likely. I will not be voting for another HRC.
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<PERSON> What is nasty and intemperate about fighting for your survival - it's not like we're being violent, not that I would condone that. There is such a thing as economic violence (and the certainty of stop-and-frisk violence), but the Bloomberg folks have nothing to say for that. Full d: I would be financially fine under any president, incl. <PERSON>, but I do believe others would not.
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The long term consequences of keeping people locked in, stay at home, are unimaginable. It will have as far reaching consequences, social disruption, and realignment as the emergence of internet.
Businesses will get used to having employees working from home. Large businesses will begin giving up expensive real estate. This will impact everything - real estate, housing, transportation, auto, travel, and other industries.
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It is astounding how the the leader of this great nation - the point person - can be so callous and have complete disregard for the health and well-being of its people. It is maddening how one person can cause so much misery and anxiety among so many. It is further incredulous how so many still support him!!
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"Such are promises, all lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
and disregards the rest."
- Simon and <PERSON>, "The Boxer", 1970
Religion trains people to believe what they wish for to compensate for the burden of absorbing the truth that is; this works to minimize the fear and danger when things look hopeless (like a Tornado, "God help us through this") but it also gins up irrational fear that leads to burning of witches, demonization and demagoguery of others just on the basis of a different religion or sexual proclivity alone.
We are living in a nation that can find 500 channels and 50,000 movies filled with fiction, but only a hundred who report reality. Add to that the spin and misdirection for political gain, it is not a mystery why so many Americans have such a warped view of their own country.
I heard 20 semi-automatic rounds discharged from a gun range that is only 500 feet from my house. An individual who lives in a private residence 300 feet on the other side fires his in his back yard - by state law that's all legal.
But the people who are firing are convincing themselves that they may need to kill someone at any given moment.
How can we be the Greatest Nation In The History of Greatness if everyone is so sure that SOMEBODY is going to die - either themselves if they don't shoot somebody else, or the other "bad guy" when they must.
The United States of Cognitive Dissonance.
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You're looking at this all wrong. The Democrats are not to blame for <PERSON>'s 73,000,000 votes, at least not as it relates to COVID-19 or how <PERSON> handled it.
The blunt horror of America in this context is that if you divide 130,000 dead into 73 million voters, you get 0.10 % - even if you play "six degrees of a death from COVID-19", the blunt reality of our nation (the one which brags about pride) is that if it did not happen to a person individually, directly, then it did not really happen. Period. Thats' all the 2020 election was about.
Ask an American in <PERSON>'s base why they voted, they will tell you how their life looks. If it's good, vote the incumbent. If it's bad, vote the challenger. Excluding the devoted partisans on either side, our elections are decided by the ten percent of the waffles in the middle. They all vote based on nothing in particular but how they saw the world in their own eyes, in their own mirror, on election day.
Americans do not care about other Americans.
Remember this if anyone tries to tell you that all that blood and treasure spent in Iraq and Afghanistan for the last two decades was about "saving American lives", then ask them how they refuse to wear a mask to save the same American lives.
This may have some bearing on our problem.
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<PERSON>
Wish I could give this 100 votes. "Young people" is not synonymous with "stupid", and "older people" is not synonymous with "smart". It is "older people" governors that opened bars instead of museums; it is "older people" in <PERSON>'s "White Power" video. It is "young people" who are protesting with masks and distancing. I never felt invincible as a young person, but then I had a mother who demanded I think about what I was doing.
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The 4th night of the convention bombed. The first 3 nights were terrific.
The unprofessional MC was awful; the previous 3 were good actors giving a serious performance. And we get it; <PERSON> is a good guy. Give us policy and how he is going to accomplish it. Fix the pauses that leave the speaker hanging after they finish. I thought by the 4th night they would have fixed this. Did somebody different direct this night than the first 3 nights? A real bomb.
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@Doug could you please provide one example of a sovereign country apologized or provided monetary reparation after a pandemic originating from that country?
Maybe the Chinese government acted one month late after the local hospitals found suspicious cases in Dec 2019, but the American government acted TWO months late after a 11 million people city got into to full lockdown in Jan 2020. There are countries such as South Korea that handled the COV situation well after learning about the situation in January. We only have ourselves to blame.
Oh, silencing doctors? how about Capt. <PERSON>?
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Many Americans thought Falun Gong is a religious victim group suppressed politically by CCP and one of the greatest examples of no religious freedom in China. Many people even believe hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong members were murdered and tortured by CCP.
Guess what - Indeed hundreds of thousands of Falun Gong members were murdered and tortured, not by CCP but by its own cult leaders. My own grandmother, like many others Chinese at that time (in 1999, before got banned) were devout Falun Gong member. When she developed critical high bloody pressure, she refused to take medicine or any treatment because <PERSON> told her that she just needs to practice Falun (basically a combination of Buddhism mediation cult like worship). She passed away when she was only 65. And she was just one of many victims under <PERSON>.
After immigrated to US, I felt disgusted every time I saw Falun Gong protest here, very similar to when I saw some pro-Trump white supremacist and Qanon groups. Kudos to NYT for this article, now I realize there are many similarities between two - anti-science, anti-intellectualism, full of lies and conspiracy, selfish and lack of basic human decency.
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I had no idea that <PERSON> had another Mouse on the side. Brazen hussy!
This was a rough one, due to nobody's fault but my own. I had the revealer, I had SENTENTAL, I had MORTERMOUSE, I had WHATEANT, all with the IMs above them. My shriveled little brain just wouldn't put it all together. The light bulb finally went on at minute 43, and I got my happy music at 45.
Never read Wrinkle in Time, but I saw the movie. Thought it was 2 hours of "What the heck is going on?" Maybe I should've read it first. 😒
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Started out with TREEHOUSE where <PERSON> ended up, and I was so impressed with my own brilliance at coming up with that right off the bat, that I held on to it for way too long.
Still don't get PET=bad mood.
As a child of the 80s, the only "TAKE THE L" I know is by The Motels. 😒
<a href="https://youtu.be/Ooi8Cnb1fx0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Ooi8Cnb1fx0</a>
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Unfortunately many Americans have misinterpreted the meaning of the word “freedom”, equating it somehow with a “right” to travel around without a face mask. How bizarre and socially irresponsible. When I learned that the governor of Oklahoma tested positive for the virus, my immediate thought was that he suffer greatly. Regardless, I suppose that he will get the best medical care available, unlike the hundreds of thousands of his fellow citizens who have succumbed to the disease.
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I assume Mr. <PERSON> hasn’t been infected with the virus, nor does he have a family member who is seriously ill or has died of COVID 19. Would he be willing to travel on public transit in any major urban area (Atlanta, Minneapolis, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Nashville, Milwaukee, San Francisco etc.) with those workers who cannot afford to commute with a car? Until then perhaps he should defer to the epidemiologists who understand what will happen without adequate testing and proper contact tracing.
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@JP With our current state of knowledge and the tools currently available, a perfect response to Covid-19 is not possible.
Nor can we assume that a "single unified, national response" would be superior to different responses, each directed at a specific local situation.
We are making excellent progress in understanding the biology of the virus and developing a vaccine.
Stop trying to blame people. The only fault is the virus's.
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Have the surveys <PERSON> took been verified? For studies such as these, verification would mean actually observing a properly-sized sample of the children and counting the number of calories they consume. This would be difficult but not impossible. Has it been done? If not we are forced to take the mothers' word for it, recognizing that that's what we're doing.
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What I dont understand about old rich men like <PERSON>, <PERSON> and <PERSON> is sure, they're gonna die (soon hopefully) with a lot of wealth to pass onto their progeny, but are they so sure that will be enough to save them? What about their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, etc. Or is it out of sight, out of mind?
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<PERSON> Don't mind that ol' grouch <PERSON>. The <PERSON> comments don't go up until after 3am est. Anyway I think I know of what you speak. Suddenly the letter you enter goes on a tangent? Then you have to exit.
I've been told that it occurs on Android phones (like mine) when NYT updates. Very frustrating!
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Men’s volleyball is one of the fastest growing sports in the nation. Already highly popularized in Europe, Asia, and South America, it doesn’t get its fair recognition in the US. As a kid, always watching older brothers at tournaments, I have seen the rapid evolution of volleyball in my short life span: Serves being ripped harder, shots being hit smarter, diggers being able to pass over 75 mph balls. The only thing left to improve, is its popularity. Those who have seen volleyball, even not knowing the rules, crave the intensity and raw power volleyball brings to the table. With more coverage of college, and popularizing the VLA and even the FIVB, the international volleyball league, can make volleyball become a household sport in the US like football or basketball.
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Society has placed a stigma around marijuana, portraying it as evil and sinister. In reality, marijuana has many health benefits that greatly outweigh the risks. Legalizing marijuana on a nationally would benefit both the government, by economic growth through taxes, and the people, having an outlet to release anxieties and destress. This however, most likely won’t happen for a while. Older generations have truly bought into the idea of marijuana being the source of all evil and cannot see it otherwise because that is just how they were raised and brought up. But with a new, unbiased view on the situation, many people are in support of the legalization.
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@hm1342 I understand the principle for this letter about counting those who decided not to use legal means to enter the country easily by restating the question. Why does the Board want to the census to count every person in the United States, just like the Constitution says? Whatever the data is used for, the mandate of the census is to count the people in the country, whether they are Democrats, Republicans or even Canadians. Hey hm1342, that's what we call a democracy.
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I live in Quebec Canada. After junior year in high school, we go into cegep (collège d'enseignement générale et professionnel). If you are going on to university, you can take a two-year program like history. If you are becoming a professional, you can take a three-year program like architectural technology or theater design. In either case, the tuition is zero. With expenses for books, supplies etc., the cost comes out to a few hundred dollars annually. The low cost gives students the luxury of exploring what they really want to do in life and gives society a population that has learned a basic skill set for citizenship that certainly beats the all or nothing education that you seem to be burdened with in the United States.
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The article states that "Ms. <PERSON> has struggled to disentangle her message and appeal from Mr. <PERSON>’s." I would argue that <PERSON> regularly and closely parrots <PERSON> in her Tweets and political ads on television ads in the state and I have observed her message in the last few years moving farther and farther right. Since moving here two decades ago, I've noticed that Arizonans see themselves as very independent, not run by either party and the most successful politician from either party runs a moderate campaign, with the theme of "I represent Arizona". Think <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON> and currently, <PERSON>.
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@Ulysses Arizona teachers got a small raise after years and years of no raises for years. The new salary did not improve their position as the 49th worst paid for elementary school teachers and 48th for high school teachers in the United States. Arizona is a "right to work" state, so unions cannot help teachers get paid a more fair salary. How would you propose that teachers get paid more fairly in Arizona?
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I am elderly (79) and a health care worker, but my health care work is low risk. I should get in line for my age.
I say vaccinate the teachers and open up the schools! Health care workers at risk should be high priority.
Hopefully there will be approval of multiple vaccines and the availability moves swiftly.
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Sweden may have had the right strategy, but only time will tell.Based on one strong risk factor for covid 19, they are not.
Sweden ranks 9th among all countries in death per capita, but ranks 159th in population density.
By contrast, Norway ranks 28th in per capita deaths by country and 171st in population density. Germany ranks 23rd in deaths per capita, and 41st in population density.
The real stars are in Asia.
S Korea ranks 13th in population density and over 100th in deaths per capita. Taiwan, Japan, and Vietnam are similar to S Korea with a low death rate in population dense countries.
We should look to Asia to see what works rather than Sweden.
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<PERSON> Thank you, that is a great idea! I have to walk the dog at least twice a day, and though my neighborhood is in a city, it is not a dense neighborhood and when other dog walkers pass, we both step aside. So far I have not been wearing a mask, because of the fogging of my glasses. But I would like to send the message that I'm taking care of myself and also want to protect others in the hopefully unlikely event that I could be contagious without knowing it. Wearing it and popping it up when others are approaching might be a bit unscientific but the social rules of living in the time of Covid do make me want to "show" that I'm trying to do my share of flattening the curve.
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<PERSON> I raised 3 children, one of them multiply handicapped, when their father died when they were 5, 7 and 11. Raising them on my own was the hardest thing I ever did, leaving me no time for a social life to meet another husband, and without able and willing family, a huge amount of money spent on child care. Plus I worked full time. My kids have decided that my obituary will read: "Here lies our Mother. She loved us very much. Once in a while, she cooked." I don't wish single parenting on anyone.
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I don’t think parents and caregivers should use GPS devices to track their children because i think it‘s too extreme. I think parents should let their kids go through tough times so they will be more responsible and mature in bad situations. Parents should trust their children and not some devices that track where they are and what they are doing. As said in the article this can lead to childhood anxiety and make the children claustrophobic to their parents watching them pretty much every second. parents should let their kids do what they want to and let them live independently and let them be more mature.
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<PERSON> I agree how parents have different views on monitoring their children because of their own experiences. And I also agree that they should have understanding relationship with their children to monitor them so it doesn’t effect the child’s future in how they grow up to this world.
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I propose that the key issue is not humiliation as much as it is resentment. Much of this started during the Vietnam war, when college kids did not have to go fight a war that many mainstream Americans believed was just and right. This was followed by an economic split between blue and white collar workers. The former resents the latter and denigrates liberal ideologies accordingly, while falling behind economically.
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Strategy, schmategy. . . . <PERSON> does not have strategies; he primarily responds in a manner that feeds his narcissism.
It is most unfortunate that journalists cannot rest their investigations on a psychological understanding of this man. What other logical reason is there for the Iranian escapade other than to distract from impeachment and make <PERSON> look better to himself and to his supporters?
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I am a pessimist striving to be an optimist. I know that I don’t always see the good at first glance but I am making a conscious effort to try to be optimistic about my life. In the past I would only see the negatives in things and now I’ve realized that is no way to live your life. It is especially important to remain positive now in the face of all this darkness. I am trying to be cautiously optimistic about how we are handling covid-19 but I think that comes with a heavy dose of fear and anxiety.
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While the covid-19 pandemic forces us to distance and isolate ourselves it has managed to connect us in new ways. Over the countless zooms, FaceTimes, and Phone calls we’ve fortified connections with the people who are far in distance but close to our hearts. It also has brought me and many others closer to the people in our homes. I hope that once the fog has lifted we remember how important those connections are. I hope that we remember to check in with people, to ask them how they're doing.
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Good article. So how do we do it? How do we get ranked choice voting? How do we move the primaries in every state to the same day? Is ranked choice voting something that has to be done by state legislatures? Who determines when the primaries are? What day should it be? First Tuesday in March? Earlier or later? If we have a day, or a weekend, should mail in votes still be allowed? I really like the convenience of mail in voting, but would love to vote a ranked choice ballot that would mean we could come to some sort of consensus.
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The intersection of tribal, federal and state law has a long, complicated and interesting history. Thanks to the Times for starting to report on these issues--many more will pop up as a result of today's ruling. I'd like to hear from members of Osage, Caddo and Quapaw tribes. These were the tribes here in eastern Oklahoma BEFORE the Five Tribes were re-located here in the early 1800s. Are they granted no similar rights on these same lands, even though they were moved off the land to make room for the Five Tribes coming in from the east? Is that because they were never really deemed a reservation on these specific lands? If an enrolled Muscogee tribal member commits a murder on Cherokee Nation lands, twenty miles east of the Creek Nation, does it revert to state court? If an enrolled Muscogee member murders a non-enrolled Oklahoman on Creek lands, they will be tried in federal courts? Where will these trials take place? In tribal courthouses or in federal courts outside the Nations? What about the tribes farther west in Oklahoma, like the Kiowa, Apache and Comanche? Are they not entitled to the same federal jurisdiction because their reservation was dissolved? Yeah, it's complicated.
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@klsvbm Some initial thoughts on ways to decrease the possibility of elder abuse:
*Criminal record checks
*Having a community elder service agency case manager or similar, visit the home and elder on a regular basis to provide support, etc., and insure all is going well.
* Financial matters such as bill paying, etc., to be managed by a separate entity.
This is already done in reverse and is called Adult Foster Care, where the adult goes to live with a family. I, personally, would prefer your idea with necessary precautions taken.
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I visited Cape Cod this fall and took a long hike along the shore at Head of the Meadow. I have visited this beach numerous times, but have never seen the volume of plastic trash as I had this time. It was very disappointing to see. We all need to make an effort to consume less plastic, as well as clean up what is there.
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As a senior at New Utrecht HS in Brooklyn in 1973/74, the music appreciation elective was shaping up to be another one of those classes you sat through, waiting for the bell when our opera loving teacher said we were scrapping that in favor of dissecting and getting into the meaning of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” song by song, side by side.
Such a joyous class!
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@ehillesum We have a president who from day one made it clear he is not the leader of the entire US, only those who pledge unflinching loyalty. Case in point, last night CBS and NBC said <PERSON> would be speaking shortly from the WH briefing room to address the coronavirus and they would break away when he did. Guess what? He was only on FOX, aka state run news. Looks like even in the face of a potential health crisis we're still asked to pledge allegiance to all things <PERSON>.
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$850 billion over 10 years sounds like a bargain. We spend more than that in one year on military/defense/intelligence----not including the postage for <PERSON> to send love letters to <PERSON>.
Also, and dont forget the $1 trillion tax cut for corporations to "buy back" stocks.
Myself, I think that the public option should be Medicare + a Medicare Advantage Plan for anyone who wants it, with a subsidy for those who cant afford it.
And please, can't be finally include dental, vision and mental heath as part of the human body.
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<PERSON> should be impeached again, and this time do it on a "fast track basis". All persons who refuse to answer a sopena should be arrested and jailed. If impeachment isnt possible then after <PERSON> loses and leaves office, a major investigation of his alleged crimes should commence; he should be tried, and if found gulity should be given a harsh sentence.
This guy is a disaster. We are living thru a nightmare
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<PERSON>, an arrogant thatcherite, is hated by 70% of the population for very good reasons. Since he became president, poverty has exploded (+ 400,000 people), the richest 1% have grown richer. The fall in unemployment is mainly due to statistics manipulations and the deletion of hundreds of thousands of people from the unemployment agency lists. <PERSON>'s pension reform is a disaster of incompetence. It is so complicated and has so many exceptions that its implementation will be extremely expensive. Even the national business association is against it. His presidency is littered with scandals and broken promises. 17 ministers have resigned since he took office. A record in the history of the Fifth Republic! The ultra macronist president of the national assembly himself is indicted for fraud. The intellectual level of several of his ministers is appalling. It is even worse among the macronist MP's. But the most serious scandal remains the police repression horrifying brutality against the yellow vests movement, which left thousands injured, including 900 very serious injuries (30 people lost an eye, 8 a hand or a foot). A situation that France had not experienced since the Algerian war in the early sixties and which has been condemned by the UN Human Rights Commission, the Council of Europe and Amnesty international. Recent polls show <PERSON>'s popularity rate around 23%. The authoritarian bourgeoisie darling, should suffer a resounding defeat in 2022.
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@Paul
You are right, <PERSON> is trying to take France back into the 1990. His thatcherian thinking is totally outdated.
You obviously don't know what you're talking about. France has a vibrant economy which attracts a a lot of investment from around the world and specially the US. French workers have one of the highest productivity rate in the world.
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<PERSON> In the late 80s, I was at a conference in San Francisco and skipped out one afternoon to visit City Lights bookstore. As a <PERSON> fan, I made my way to the beat section where I looked up to see I was sharing the small space with <PERSON>. Wouldn't have bothered him anyway, but his look clearly said "don't do it!" I was pretty excited about it after, but knew no one there to tell my story. Starman!
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If we're talking about commercials, how about a commercial showing just some of the insults (often women), attacks (members of the military and Gold Star families), and lies by the country's worst human over the past few years?
If he feels vindictive and unleashed now, all the better going into the election. Even some of his supporters find his behavior *ahem* troubling.
Come on Dems, show some spine fercryinoutloud!
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<PERSON>’s political calculus for getting a vaccine in place is only concerned with helping him get elected.
He could care less about the number of deaths.
A few years from now, helm be calling all the people that fell victim to COVID -19 “suckers” and “losers” for not taking hydroxichloroquine.
This pandemic has been so unfair to him and his presidency.
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All the NYT opinion pundits need to stop bellyaching about <PERSON> and start trying to think about why he’s on top of the pack.
They need to get a clue that real people actually support him, and that dems need to start lining up in support of the nominee to be. If they do, He’ll most certainly be elected, and <PERSON> will be the one bellyaching.
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Assuming that both were in restricted zones of the same color designation, the governor's orders would limit attendance at St. Patrick's Cathedral to 10 people but allow 500 at the massive COSTCO in Long Island City. This is crazy.
Religious services have a duration and when the service is over, people leave. At a big box retailer, people can stay as long as they wish. And let's not even think about the lines at the cashiers.
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The city could do a much better job with refining the data beyond just the ZIP code boundaries. Advertisers seem to have no such problem.
ZIP Code 11249 (which includes North Williamsburg) is not listed at all. I suspect if northwest Brooklyn were broken out the rate would be very low. Can't the city do better so we don't just guess?
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<PERSON>Try scholar.google.com. Scientific papers, not advertising. Advertising dominated www.google.com
You'll find such gems as:
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1985.tb03509.x" target="_blank">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1985.tb03509.x</a>
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S156878640600365X" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S156878640600365X</a>
DNA damage is to be avoided.
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<PERSON> If you hadn';t heard why it's more dangerous, you haven't been reading anything of substance.
Covid-19 is a variant of the SARs virus, related to ebola. Does that help?
No?
How about it kills 15-30x (health of population and availability of ICU's dependent) regular flu but is only 1/2 as likely to be transmitted.
Now?
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@Cheryl "Virtue signaling, as I feel it" -- for me this is the problem, that we don't really have a clear definition of what exactly this is. I did not achieve any clarity on that term from this article, no offense to the author. My impression of virtue signaling has always been doing something to show everyone how "good" you are, even if that thing is useless in a practical sense.
My favorite example used to be the people who would insist on having their solar panels installed on the street side of their house instead of the most effective side, so that everyone driving by would see that they had solar panels and were saving the planet. Now I can add to this list the people (not making this up, I've seen them) who are driving, alone, with their windows all rolled up, wearing a mask. This is ridiculous, it's worth nothing. It's all about "look how good I am, look at the example I'm setting for all of you, can you see my self-installed halo?"
So, the most interesting part of these comments for me is to realize how differently we define the concept of virtue signaling. Who knew.
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<PERSON> We don't seem to agree on the definition of virtual signaling, a term I do indeed use derisively, but I don't think the things you mentioned above fit my definition. This term probably deserves its own discussion since otherwise we all end up discussing apples and oranges.
I gave a couple examples of virtue signaling, to my mind, in another reply:
1. People who have their solar panels installed on the street side of their house, instead of the most effective side, so that everyone driving by will see that they are personally saving the planet.
2. People who drive around during the pandemic, alone, with all their windows rolled up, wearing a mask in the car.
See what they're doing there (because they're going to make sure you see)? See what a good example they are setting for the rest of us? See their self-installed halo? To me that's virtue signaling -- doing something useless (or useless-adjacent) for show.
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He’ll be destroyed by NY prosecutors before dems have much more opportunity to wring their hands about his federal crimes. I’d prefer for him to rot away in Rikers as NY isn’t likely to have a governor who will pardon him anytime soon, unlike our minoritarian leaders at the national level.
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I, for one, have decided to boycott alcohol in response to these lobbyists’ attempts to subvert public policy and public health in order to pad their companies’ bottom lines. I will urge others to do the same - perfect time to resolve against the corrupting influence of these people and their products.
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Thank god someone said this. Sadly after Iowa today not feeling very hopeful. I definitely would go all in for succession, having someone balanced at helm that generally cares for humanity. Let current Republican Senators live with their choices and see what type of a nation long term they would create. Not one I would like to live in.
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If it were only lies maybe it would be easier to live with however when you elect a reality tv star as the President of the United States things go really bad .... similar to the election of a business person to run the City of Flint Michigan - humanity and the well being of society as a whole are not valued -- <PERSON> stood on the smoking scrap heap of the World Trade Center the day after 9/11 to address the country - you could see the pain in his face... American lives lost on his watch - not one time did I ever see <PERSON> saddened at the loss of American life due to the pandemic ... the only emmotion I consistently see from him is anger, anger at the press, anger at someone alerting Americans a pandemic is comiing, anger at his staff for not following the script - and that anger adds to a particular sinisterness when those who should know better - go along with it -
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@MCS I couldn't disagree more. In a world where civics courses have gone the way of the dodo, attending peaceful protests gives these children valuable lessons about their rights under the Constitution. Interesting that you call this a "grave mistake" of the "left". I guess you've missed all of the right-wing rallies and protests about wearing face masks, where parents are dragging their children along while armed with AR-15s and worse. Simple personal responsibility to protect one another from a potentially deadly virus has suddenly become "tyranny". I guess we need to invade the state capitol with our family in tow. Better not be wearing a facemask! Or better yet, how about the ones that drive their children to protests and arm them, so they can gun down protestors? Which side is "gravely mistaken" again?
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@Butch This is what happens when your populace is raised and educated by television, movies, and video games. The advent of the internet supercharged this downward slide. The rest of the world looks at us as ignorant, self-interested elitists with delusions of grandeur. They are correct. <PERSON> is America in a nutshell. "Stable geniuses" tweeting from the bathroom on toilets of gold. We are ripe cherries for the picking for the <PERSON> of the world. We know they are running psy-ops on us and we merrily jump down the rabbit hole. No need for prodding. Our combined cluelessness and arrogance is a recipe for self-destruction. Consider that at least half of our government and most of the big money are aiding and abetting these attacks for profit. We are in dire straits indeed.
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COVID-19 like any other virus needs a host. So far sadly 60,000 plus hosts have died.
Right wing hatred for all Americans also has a host and the host's name is <PERSON>. We must eradicate both as quickly as possible
Our democracy and our lives are in grave danger!
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Agree with it all but now what? We all see it coming but no one wants to talk about it or prepare for it.
<PERSON> will lose the election but will not leave office. His loyalists will surround him and call for an investigation into voter fraud.
Then it is a cross roads for America. Either we go off the cliff and abandon democracy or we start fighting back.
Please encourage the Times to start reporting on this everyday before the election and arm our citizens with strategies to fight back.
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My Governor holds daily hour-long presentations where she speaks intelligently about the many challenges of COVID-19 as well as the progress she, her staff and administration have made in combating this crisis. She has conducted these meetings for the past two months, and gives her constituents hope and confidence that a strong, capable person is in charge.
<PERSON> stays in his basement, where he releases stammering, insubstantial utterances that a dutiful media accepts unquestioningly. He should have DAILY appearances instead of wooden appearances filled with tired talking points. He does not inspire confidence; instead he looks old, feeble and utterly incapable of bold, decisive action. With him at the helm Democrats have assured themselves yet another humiliating defeat to the worst President in the past century.
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It isn't a conspiracy if it happens to be true. Here's a list of officers for the mysterious company, aptly named Shadow, that was behind the app responsible for the Iowa caucus debacle.
<PERSON> is CEO of Shadow Inc. In 2015, he was senior product manager for <PERSON> campaign, developing tools for field teams to contact voters. And in 2016, he was in charge of the tools used by volunteers.
<PERSON> was special assistant to CTO for <PERSON> 2016 campaign. She worked for Merlon Intelligence, which uses tools to identify money laundering. She also was an intern at USAID for 3 months and an intern for House Foreign Affairs Committee for 4 months in 2010.
<PERSON> is COO of Shadow Inc. He was engineering manager for <PERSON> 2016 campaign and worked for Sprinklr, a "customer experience management" platform. Also previously worked as IT consultant for Bloomberg Philanthropies in 2012-2013.
<PERSON> is CTO/Chief Architect. She was a staff backend software engineer for <PERSON> 2016 presidential campaign.
<PERSON> is the director of organizing and client success at Shadow Inc. She was a regional organizing director for <PERSON> 2016 campaign.
Thanks to @kgosztola for the info. He says he's not claiming a conspiracy. I say he's being too kind.
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@Joe I am not seeking representation in the book Little Women, I am seeking representation in this country. Black people, like women, have been here from the beginning, however, both groups have very little representation in the literary canon. I think that is a great loss for students, readers and citizens of this country.
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@JA Yes! I say that all the time. Black culture is not a subset of American culture. African-Americans have been here since the birth of this country. Our culture is intricately intertwined with the "majority" culture. But for our culture, America would be a very different place and vice versus. Black history and literature should not be taught separately! It diminishes our contributions and reduces the lushness of the American experience.
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A place I would love to have to myself would be Red River, New mexico. The views from the cabin are unbeatable, miles and miles of trees , the rivers icy water and all the wildlife that they have there. Almost every summer my grandparents, my brother and a couple of friends and I would make the almost 6 hour drive down there. I would love going alone but family and friends and getting to make s'mores and go fishing makes it so much better. Writing about it now makes me want to be there right now, lifting some of the stress that school and work can create. I think having Red river to myself would be amazing but having the people there make up the memories we create is just too good to give up.
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Nowadays everyone wears a mask, I wear a mask to school ,to stores and to restaurants. My parents both work in the medical field so they are constantly wearing masks and now wear masks outside of work as well. Most of my friends wear masks when we go places or go anywhere besides someone's house but then as soon as we get back home we take them off. I feel tension when I do and when I don't wear a mask. Some people will stare and I can't tell if it's because I'm wearing one or because sometimes I'm not. I personally don't have anyone in my family that doesn't wear a mask. They ask “ what, you dont not trust us?” i don't think wearing a mask around your family is necessary as long as you wash your hands and be sure your being safe and mindful about your well being and everyone else's.
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I drive on the right side of the road, pay my bills promptly, and wear a mask when I leave our house to reduce the risk of catching or transmitting Coronavirus.
It seems ludicrous not to wear the mask.
I care enough about others, so I seek to reduce the transmission risk between us..regardless of which direction it may travel or anyone's political or religious affiliation, sexual orientation, skin color, age, or profession... school, working, or retired.
It has nothing to do with free speech, clean hands or minds, or any other fantasy or reality. Anticipating some voluntary or accidental contact, I prefer self-isolation to reduce the likelihood of potential infections.
And so it goes.....
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Just keep reporting and printing the facts. I don't expect hard core Trumpsters will be influenced, but the "undecideds" who are willing to examine and to weigh the evidence may slide over and recognize <PERSON> and his sycophants are poisoning our culture and attempting to destroy the foundations that make our nation great.
The alleged travel ban as much of the other activities in <PERSON>'s admin are fiction = fantasyland = prevarications and intentionally misleading the audience... in the USA and throughout the world.
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It must be a terrible feeling in the gut for the Americans who can still use rational and logical thought to deal with the daily issues of their lives. As an outsider looking in I really can't believe just divided you all have become. This president hasn't just let down America, he's letting down the whole world. And if he gets another four years, I hate to think. I hate to think how weak the opposition is, not just the candidate. <PERSON> plays without any rules, if you all are serious you'll start playing him at his own game. The Middle East Peace Plan is just another game, call this guy out.
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Every Empire in history has had it's day. Generally speaking the same thing has ended most of them, greed. Greed for more land, more resources, more more more. Add to that the complete failure of human beings to live with one another and throw in some beliefs, religious and otherwise, and greed, and the premise that divide and conquer will get you anything, and bingo, America, you win, unfortunately it's the race to end an empire. Sadly.
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You can't have it both ways, <PERSON>.
On the one hand (or out of one side of your mouth), you assert that <PERSON> would be behind bars today if he were prosecuted, judged and sentenced for taking money from Moscow and failing to register as a foreign agent.
Then you claim he is the victim of presumptive guilt because, in what was essentially a plea bargain, he was prosecuted, judged and sentenced for the lesser crime of lying to the FBI.
Whether any of this relates to the investigation into the <PERSON> campaign's collusion with Russia in the 2016 election is immaterial.
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One sentence in <PERSON> otherwise thoughtful piece stands out: "Largely unable to import supplies from China, America has been left scrambling because we by and large lack both the ability to make things and the state capacity to reorient production."
We actually lack neither of these. American industry is fully capable to making things, especially when they are in desperately short supply. And the capacity to reorient production is fully within the powers given to the president under the Defense Production Act.
That President <PERSON> has only reluctantly, and halfheartedly, exercised this power to mobilize the nation's industries to produce what its citizens desperately need is a breathtaking dereliction of his duty to keep Americans safe and healthy in the midst of a pandemic.
Sorry, Mr. <PERSON>. We have a resilient economy. What we don't have is a responsible president.
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Reverse engineering plastic parts using 3-D printing is a common application - but not (normally) for production. 3D is too slow (or at least it used to be).
If the team can manage to fabricate a mold that will operate on an injection molding press, that would ease the shortage permanently. However, molds are high pressure, precision steel contraptions. 3D printing can't make molds - that is a job for tool makers - and they all live in Taiwan and Shanghai now. Oops.
Alternatively, no/low pressure parts can be molded from liquid polyurethane mixtures which aren't normally cost-efficient, but might work for the moment.
I'd love to see more articles such as this one in the NY Times as well as a follow up on the success of these designers and their 3D atelier.
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Without enacting any new laws, public health officials can simply call out the prices and rely on the public to shame the retailers into marching to the price. A price "sandwich" between big box (Walmart, Dollar Store, etc.) and Amazon or eBay online prices will squeeze out arbitrators quickly and effectively.
The callout needs to be specific - naming UPC codes + a "suggested retail price". Also, the callout needs broadcast (easily now) through the local and national news and on the internet.
Price information can travel rapidly - way faster than legislation. It's the thing that Amazon sellers depend on to do what Colvin is doing. If the price signal is red, they will stop quickly and normal retail operations can resume.
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I don't understand why the Times reports the results of models if they are true. Here is one sentence: "The projections confirm the primary fear of public health experts: that a reopening of the economy will put the nation back where it was in mid-March." Projections do not confirm anyone's fear, since they are not a fact or true -- they are simply a guess about the future. And since the UWash model has changed so much over the last few weeks, it is like a yo-yo, it can't confirm much of anything.
Indeed, no one knows how "reopening" will affect the transmission of covid-19. How many people will venture out? Will they wear masks? Will people go to restaurants? What rules will have business have for their customers? We don't know the answers to any of these questions, and until we do, models are just guessing.
Finally, around 40% of deaths are, tragically, in nursing homes or assisted living facilities but opening up will hardly affect them. Hopefully, our government is working on this problem right now.
As for the CDC model, since we have no idea what are its assumptions, and the article mentions none, it's just not clear what it means. Indeed, if you track its projections and our current daily death toll, it is already wrong. Why bring it up with any other information around it?
Please, NYTimes, if you are going to present data, do so with context so the data can be understood.
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This is silly. Both my daughters, in college, have already announced the won't attend college next year if it's online. My son, in graduate school, feels deadened by teaching and taking classes online. What this article doesn't understand is that most humans are social creatures, and social interaction is a crucial element to being human. Spend more time listening to students about online education and less time staring at a computer screens and you might learn something.
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"<PERSON> campaign officials are unlikely to put into place any social distancing measures for rally attendees, or require them to wear masks, people familiar with the decision-making process said, adding that it would be unnecessary because the state is so far along in its reopening."
Translation: We're trusting the good people running Oklahoma to make health decisions for our loyal supporters. MAGA!"
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@James When <PERSON> was a Senator and testifying in 2017 before the Senate during the nomination process to become Attorney General, the genteel traditions of the Senate required all Senators to treat him with kid gloves because one wasn't allowed to criticize a fellow Senator. This seemed wrong to me; <PERSON> wasn't there as a Senator, but as a job applicant. I presume <PERSON> would get the same highly deferential treatment. That doesn't seem right.
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'It is, in other words, an unusual time in which we can only hope that stock investors know something that millions of people facing a catastrophic economic situation don’t.'
Stocks operators can no more predict the future than you and I can. This rally is purely liquidity driven. Federal Reserve largess is propping up prices. It is the same free money phenomenon as witnessed during the GFC. Whenever there is a crisis the wealthy get saved first, like on the Titanic.
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Every cloud has a silver lining. Saudi Arabia is cutting its own throat with its over production during what would have been a glut anyway.
For a mixed economy like the US any losses in the petroleum sector are compensated for by cheaper petroleum products across the board. It does not matter if some producers go bust because the equipment and expertise will still be around when things pick up. Russia is likewise insulated by a mixed economy and can weather low prices for an extended period.
Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, is almost entirely dependent on petroleum revenue. A population used to luxury will continue to demand it, and if they don’t get it political problems will ensue, including intrigues within the House of Saud. Moreover, their budget deficit will force them to either borrow heavily or liquidate their investments in international markets at depressed prices.
I have always held the view that if the opportunity presents itself cleaning Saudi Arabia out of its capital would be beneficial to the us, in the same way that winning a major war is, it breaks down capital, and there is always a boom afterwards.
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The coaches that I have had have had a huge impact on my life. Although you don’t realize it in the moment, your coaches shape the way you like to be instructed and reprimanded in a setting outside of home. Your parents dictate how you are loved at home, while coaches form your reactions to a third party discipline/encouragement. Personally, my coaches have always been relaxed and encouraging, while also having that desire to get the job done. I have responded positively to that, and I know that those traits are what I would look for in a future coach.
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Despite the fact that someone could be offended, the use of Native American imagery in sports has never been offensive. A Washington Post survey found that 9/10 American Indians do not find the use of Indian imagery in sports offensive. Yes, 1/10 do find it offensive. But does this matter? The fact that the overwhelming majority approve the use of the imagery provides a glimpse into the culture of the Native Americans. If Natives had a problem with the images, they would be overwhelmingly against them, not for them. We live in a society where the risk of “offending” someone is at an all time high. People get offended about everything, and the use of American Indian imagery in sports logos is not one of them.
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@John Right you are. I lived in Chicago in 59 and 60 and I can't compare the windows of Macy's in New York with those of Marshall Fields but I don't think Macy's could have out done Fields. I still have a sweater I bought at Marshall Fields then and still wear it on occasion.
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I have been surprised at the level of <PERSON> ads in the DC market. It is one of the most expensive markets in the nation and Republicans have little chance of winning the city and suburbs in both Maryland and Virginia and <PERSON> is thoroughly despised in the city with little chance of taking 20% of the city vote.
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As I read down the remarks, it revealed the political leanings of the commentators. Those who lean left seem to give <PERSON> and <PERSON> better grades than those who lean center. I was surprise <PERSON> and <PERSON> gave <PERSON> low grades, but I admit I love <PERSON> (tho from afar).
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The Federal Guidelines at the time said it was permissible to release Seniors back to their Nursing Homes after they had been stablized after 8 - 9 days of hospitalization. So if <PERSON> followed guidelines how is he to blame? The problem wasn't older residents returning to the nursing homes, it was the lack of testing of the care givers and delivery personnel coming into the nursing homes.
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@Windy testing increases the denominator. A lot of cases don't present clinically. In parts of SK, they basically went door to door. More tests = more mild positives = more recovery = lower calculated mortality since deaths are, well, deaths.
Testing also decreases deaths because you can isolate the nonclinical cases before they spread too much in the community. It was testing that let SK and China know what they had to do.
Essentially you cannot fight the disease without testing or your responses will be too late.
Right now we are still mainly testing clinical presentation in the US, and fairly late in that presentation. When you read "3000 cases" take that to mean "there were three thousand people at least spreading this 7-10 days ago". If we assume that 1/5 (this is charitable) cases are being identified today -- testing requirements are still strict -- that means there were about 15,000 cases IRL -- 7 days ago, when we started to hit pause on things.
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@D <PERSON> correct, you have to use either the cases ~14 days ago to get a sense of mortality or fraction of the resolved. Italys "resolved" case wave is still heavily biased to clinical presentation so as more nonclinical testing (e.g. through surveillance and contact tracing) surfaces mild positives and those move through the resolution phase the number should come down.
However, the Lombardy "back of the iceberg" still hasn't shown up, and every new clinical presentation means they will take more and more frail people off support. The numbers especially for advanced age will be *staggering*.
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@gratis 'The economy thrived after World War II in large part because America made it easier for people who had been previously shut out of economic opportunity — women, minority groups, immigrants — to enter the work force and climb the economic ladder, to make better use of their talents and potential.' There's his point. And it's only a partial truth.
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This column quotes a Republican who says <PERSON> refused to accept the 2016 election. Without pointing out that she conceded that night and then attended <PERSON>'s inauguration. Refusing to cite the truth when allowing fantasy-based Republicans to lie is a terrible mistake that paved the way for the <PERSON> regime.
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On the Marine Traffic website I’ve been following the Grand Princess as it cruises endlessly in a rectangle outside San Francisco. Is it true only 45 people aboard have been tested? The results were supposed to be announced today, but it’s now almost two in the afternoon and the ship is still idling. Why are we receiving no updates? What do the authorities plan to do if there are Coronavirus cases aboard?
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As I write, the Grand Princess continues her lonely vigil off the California coast. If docking in San Francisco isn’t acceptable, why can’t the ship anchor out in San Francisco Bay? That way those identified as infected can be disembarked immediately and sent to a health facility and the remainder can be tested. Since the ship had been due for reprovisioning prior to a departure today, it’s probable they’re running low on food and water.
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The lasting damage this personification of the American id will cause is incalculable.
Malignant narcissism never has a happy ending.
He and his cult of the living dead will march on forever in the dark underbelly of America.
Hopefully 78 year old grandpa <PERSON> can at last save us from ourselves.
Sure hope so!!
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Worked with a retired FBI supervisor and a retired New Jersey state trooper in casino security across Florida.
I asked them why they both still worked despite being retired.
They both rolled their eyes, and said their retired friends sit around and drink all day and play cards or watch TV.
They said they would rather be dead than live that drunken empty meaningless existence.
And boy were they right...
This article proves their words totally.
Sad.
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You are right Mr. <PERSON>, New York is and will always be an exceptional City. (My cynical hope seeing stories that portray the City on a downward slide is that such a perception might make housing costs a little more reasonable, so I might be able to afford to move back to NY someday..)
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Each person described in this story gives me hope in the election process. Ms. <PERSON>, who is hosting the organizers, is NOT a billionaire -- but opening her house to these organizers is generous and effective, and really the best kind of citizen participation in national politics. Thanks for reporting on this.
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Yet another of <PERSON>'s actions, repulsive to the concept of intelligence, repulsive to the concept of America.
Anyone, who knows anything about this virus and about bioweapons labs, knows that it bares all the markers of a Nazi Russian virus.
Why would China attack itself?
Look at which countries have been most affected.
Look at which demographic groups have been most affected.
Look at which country's leaders, seemingly facilitated the spread of the virus in their own countries, generally, or among particular populations.
Look at which country had its top official installed by Russia.
If you examine the facts, the conclusion is inescapable, and frightening, because we are acting as if the enemy does not exist...while it destroys us.
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In my several decades of reading and studying law, politics, government, I never anticipated military leadership, more prudent than a power-happy president ready to use the military on civilians in the US.
We are still in a precarious position, but, Wow.
I read in the papers this morning, that DOD told the Guard to put away their weapons while patrolling in DC.
Thanks for this.
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<PERSON> I feel your pain, and I thank you for your work during the pandemic. But look at it this way--at least if he is out golfing, he's not doing much damage. I'm more afraid of having him in the White House coming up with stupid ideas based on recommendations made by Fox News personalities. It's not like he would be accomplishing anything constructive no matter where he is.
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Although I tended to vote Democrat more than half the time, I used to respect the opposing party and believe that they were just people with different opinions who followed their consciences and their principles the same way I did.
After <PERSON>'s attempts to steal this election with the GOP enabling him, I will never see Republicans (or Christian evangelicals for that matter) that way again. Going forward, I will now vote Democrat on every candidate and every issue, in every election, even if I disagree with them. The GOP has shown that it simply can't be trusted not to try to stage a coup if it can't win by fair means.
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Why are we still wasting our breath complaining about <PERSON>? He's done & over, let's please move on to opinion and discussion about issues that matter. I get he's an easy target, increases readership and it's easy to be adored by readers, but his time is done. Let's get back to work!
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1. Being a voice of reason and fact in an otherwise cold, uncaring and criminal regime. 2. Standing up to that regime at the risk of his career and possibly his life. 3. He vaccinated <PERSON>. The last is clearly a jest, but his addressing that question eased the fears of countless children and their parents.
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I well remember <PERSON> calling from some small town in Mississippi, to the FBI, appealing for help and protection from the violent & aggressive mob of white-supremacist, lynch-minded klansman surrounding the building where he and other Snick voter registration volunteers were sheltering; and the ('blind') F B eyes, saying, "Now <PERSON>, you know we can't do anything until after a crime has been committed."
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<PERSON> #-Once again, an acknowledged right-wing extremist, untrained, unprofessional, but well-equipped, an immature, 17-year-old self-appointed vigilante, after murdering 2 people, has been arrested and arraigned without being harmed in any way; while a mature, professionally behaving security volunteer specializing in de-escalation of conflicts, has been killed while being apprehended for a charge of murder, committed in real self-defense in the midst of an unprovoked and illegal aggression by right-wing white-suppremicist extremists firing dangerous, "non-lethal" weaponry - paint-ball rifles, chemical sprays, physical attacks.
And this is considered "normal" and "correct". Normal, in the sense of usual, certainly; and just as certainly not correct.
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Everyone should email the US Bank CEO registering your shock at their treatment of their employees. I recently emailed my concern of their closing of my local branch and leaving those wonderful branch employees without a job.
Here's his email address. <a href="mailto:<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"><EMAIL_ADDRESS></a>
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Pleased to report that Turkish Airlines refunded my April roundtrip ticket. I was told it may take up to 90 days to post, but the refund has already posted to my credit card. They will not refund the cost of upgraded seats, but have offered a voucher or miles. All in all, happy with their quick response & refund!
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And add Dandelion Communitea Cafe (Vegan restaurant with its own garden to supply the herbs and veggies) in Orlando, FL--a gathering place for young hipsters and old hippies with great food, artisan desserts, excellent teas, drum circles, arts/crafts market nights and live music. Although this one is tainted by the fact that the owner only used the pandemic as an excuse to close the restaurant when his employees tried to unionize. Too bad, their vegan chili was outstanding.
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I really wish people would stop throwing around terms like "socialism" that they don't understand the meaning of, and just look at the actual policy proposals. <PERSON> has been fighting an unfair system that favors the wealthy, punishes the poor, and allows unchecked environmental destruction in the name of profit. What is so radical about people who are willing to work be paid a living wage? What is so radical about preventing polluters from destroying the environment? What is so radical about sticking by your principles rather than follow political winds and pollsters? The right has gone all in behind the more radical tyrant this country has ever seen as president, and he won because the left gave us <PERSON> (who I think would have been a great president) but who for most people represents the status quo. You are not going to dislodge <PERSON> from the White House with another status quo candidate. People want change, rightfully, and only <PERSON> offered it. <PERSON> would have trounced him in 2016--it will be a harder fight in 2020. But is will be another loss for progressives if they haven't learned anything from their last defeat.
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@Socrates In addition to superior public health systems, these countries citizens, Canada included, believe in science and that their tax dollars be used for the benefit of all of their citizens. Canadian politicians did not politicize the pandemic, followed the medical experts advice and provided clear fact based communications to Canadians both federally and provincially. As a result all Canadian provinces are beginning to open up based on phased in stages recommended by provincial health authorities with physical distancing, masks and hand washing remaining as protocols.
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<PERSON> Canada's elections are publicly funded with no corporation monies allowed and a low cap on individual contributions. As well, all Canadians, are registered to vote by ticking off a box on their tax returns or can easily register to vote if they had not filed taxes the previous year. No gerry mandering, no voter suppression laws, no 80 million war chests to run a campaign. No one party conniving to control an election outcome. It is truly unbelievable that registering to vote in the US is made so complicated. What happened to the lauded checks and balances of the US government? The shiny example of democracy for the world? When you have Moscow <PERSON> in the Senate not bringing any legislation from the Democratic House to the floor for a vote for almost 4 years, a President and White House that lives in an altered reality, an Attorney General that is the Presidents personal lawyer, obscene lobbying and campaign money, legal gerry mandering and voter suppression - you are not living in a democracy. Throw in big government is bad nonsense and partisan politics and the result is where the US is today, a government that works for the privileged few to the determinant of the majority and in the case of Covid 19, the unnecessary death thousands of your citizens.
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I was just speaking with four intelligent, educated young men, in their thirties, from Los Angeles.
Wearing a mask is a violation of their constitutional rights, doncha know. Besides, only old and sick people get it, and the media is exaggerating.
How on earth can these thoughts get in their heads? Oh, wait - guess who they voted for?....
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"We expect the pull of history, precedent and logic will give the Supreme Court the wisdom to defend the institutions of accountability for our political leaders and safeguard the rule of law."
I don't. <PERSON> <PERSON> has been stocking the courts for this moment. Next, it's bye-bye elections.
Supreme "Leader", for life.
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Up here in British Columbia, our outbreak has been managed about as well as can be expected...but the numbers are sobering. Out of 70-something deaths, I believe it was over 60% that were related to care homes. Across Canada, 50% of our total deaths are from care home outbreaks.
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I'm an American who lives with my family in BC just 5 miles north of this border...we used to regularly visit Point Roberts and the US mainland a bit further away. What this article didn't mention (unless I missed it) is that Point Roberts only has a primary school. In normal times, children who stay in the US system past gr 3 or so are bussed across both international boundaries twice daily to attend school on the mainland.
We see Point Roberts a few times a week - it's visible from many areas here and is weird to realize that it's now a no-man's land for us. Even with their new ferry service to the US mainland, my heart breaks for the residents there...I can't imagine how rough it is for them.
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Irresponsible article. At the end of the article it is incorrectly stated that a person wearing a mask will be somewhat protected from the last passenger who rode inside the elevator. This is the first time this reader has ever heard from any professional that wearing a mask helps to protect you from the virus. The only reason to wear a mask is to protect someone else from YOU. This is what ALL the experts say. Disinformation at its finest right here. Shame on you NY times.
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I disagree <PERSON>. We need to vaccinate children as soon as the science confirms it is safe. Anti vaxxers are extreme dangerous to our society, in particular the elderly and sick. The big problem is that many ignorant people have lost faith in science due to having an ignorant president leading this country with erroneous anti science ideology.
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<PERSON> For all of us, I ask that you not give up. People gave up in pre-war Germany. That, as we know, did not end well. The US certainly has its issues, both internally and externally. But the people will prevail. My hope is that this starts on election day. If <PERSON> should move to assume power, then we'll have to throw him out physically. But the people and the Constitution will win. You are one vote, now and hopefully in the future. That one vote matters.
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Limiting the aid available to students from so-called wealthy families is a trap. I'm middle-middle class and probably make too much to qualify my children for need-based financial aid. Yet I do not (absolutely do not) have the cash on hand to pay the costs that colleges now charge. So I can't get my kids the aid, and I can't pay much. The trap is designed to impoverish middle class families, load students with gobs of debt, and generally wreck any opportunities for financial security. Its time that we take back the system. State schools are for in-state students, should be of reasonable cost, and not pander to out-of-state or international cash cows. Period. Looking at you UVA.
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<PERSON> I agree with your statement. It is undeniable that subjects such as math and history are necessary for our education, but it should not stop there. Students need to be taught about sexuality and sex education. Along with this, there needs to be a greater focus on mental health. I believe that health, whether physical, mental, or emotional, should be a top priority. Far too many students are struggling with mental health problems that have gone overlooked by the school system. Additionally, I agree with your sentiment around online learning. While, as previously stated, the health of students needs to be put first and foremost, the way it has been going is not effective. I think this especially applies to children with special needs, where I do not believe that there was sufficient support. In the end, I do not think this is a problem with teachers at all. Schools are criminally underfunded and teachers are still underpaid. As seen in recent events, there has not been adequate resources put into education.
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<PERSON> I disagree with your stance on the death penalty. I recognize your sentiment that serial killers should not be allowed to sleep at night, however I believe that the issue with the death penalty lies far deeper than that. The problem arises in that there are people wrongly accused of horrible crimes and end up being put to death because of it. While this percentage of people exonerated after their death sentence is not large, it still needs to be taken into account. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, “more than “Since 1973, 170 people who had been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. have been exonerated.” While in the grand scheme of time 170 might not seem like that much, it is still 170 too many lives lost. Additionally, the racial bias that is ingrained in the criminal justice system means that these false accusations disproportionally affect people of color. While this is a much larger issue than just in relation to the death penalty, it is a vital factor to take into account. Lastly, I agree that there are too many people in the prison system. That being said, this problem has much more to do with mass incarceration and has less to do with the underuse of the death penalty.
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URL: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/style/tiktok-teen-politics-gen-z.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/style/tiktok-teen-politics-gen-z.html</a>
Tiktok has been a popular platform to post short videos about dancing or lip-syncing. However, recently it has been used to express different stances in politics. Some examples are the Black Rights movement and the presidential election. Tiktok had a major impact in the recent Trump Tulsa rally, where many people bought the tickets but didn't attend on purpose. In this article, it discusses different researchers' findings of the popularity of Tiktok. It says how the youth on Tiktok is shaping future politics, and how it will play out. Conversations about political views are started by different hashtags that express to a certain portion of an audience. Even though Tiktok has recently been involved in a major part of politics, it also has other genres of videos.
This article was interesting to me because I don't associate with Tiktok much. I was very surprised at how it has played a big role in politics and protests. Whenever I go on Tiktok I usually get videos I have been interested in rather than political videos. Although Tiktok was created as a platform to post entertaining videos, it is now being used as a political app.
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URL:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/arts/music/bts-map-of-the-soul-7-review.html?searchResultPosition=2" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/arts/music/bts-map-of-the-soul-7-review.html?searchResultPosition=2</a>
The worldwide famous K-pop group named BTS had success in their recent album, Map of the Soul 7. The group consists of seven members: <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and <PERSON>. They are not only popular in their home country but also worldwide. Their recent comeback contained many collaborated songs with American artists. Their songs have included various styles, not being limited to one genre. Even though they started from a small company they have grown into idols for many.
BTS has influenced my life, which changed my view of music. Personally, I have been a fan of the group BTS for about 2 years since the “Map of the Soul: Persona” era. When I was first introduced to their music, I was baffled by how I could listen to their songs if I can’t recognize the lyrics. However, as I began to listen to them, I started to connect to the meaning of the music. Their recent “Map of the Soul: 7” Album had many inspiring songs listed such as “00:00”, “Respect”, and “Filter”. In this article, it shows how BTS shifts their styles from song to song to convey different contents. Not only does the beats cause attraction to their music, but their lyrics are written thoughtfully. They collaborated with American artists and produced viral songs while also appearing in a number of reality shows. This article shows a segment of their success in which they have a long path ahead.
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@Joe Exactly. Being a hard working entrepreneur who builds a big company then successfully runs NYC is a BAD thing. Not to mention that he gives millions to climate/environmental and gun control causes. Lets just have <PERSON> instead, since <PERSON> doesn't shine in a tit for tat hideous debate forum with several crazies.
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You must not be from NYC. Dealing drugs (crack/meth) openly in NYC has been tolerated to an increasing extent over the past 6 years (ie Washington Square). Is anyone surprised that we have addicts suffering and strewn all over the village under our beautiful sidewalk sheds? Thanks <PERSON> you’re doing great, keep it up.
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I feel as if I have been receiving a high quality education because most of my teachers are trying their best to accommodate for students as well as providing opportunities for students that need a better grasp at a certain topic, office hours and tutoring. Before the pandemic my teachers were all wonderful about supporting students and making them feel safe but now its a little harder now that everything's on screen and it feels like my teachers don't even know my name. The pandemic is making it harder for some lower class students to get education because some students may not have access to quality, stable internet and even devices to do schoolwork on. Personally, i'm more of a hands on learner so learning online can be a bit more of a challenge . Charter, private and religious schools offer better opportunities for addressing the achievement gap rather than public schools because they have better accessibility to devices and internet in which students need to thrive especially in this online environment.
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@K <PERSON> i agree! adults tend to push students on how important college is but even after scholarships and fasfa it sometimes just isn’t enough. college decides what kind of job that we end up with in the future so it should be more accessible to us, it’ll encourage many more students and families to grow and the amount of students who wish to go to college will skyrocket.
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You are choosing to discriminate against people who suffer from autoimmune diseases and can not eat gluten, grains, sugar, etc without getting sick. Thousands of people with IBD, RA, HS and other autoimmune or auto inflammatory chronic illnesses have chosen to successfully treat their disease by following medical diets such as the Autoimmune Protocol, The AID-IBD and the Crohn’s Disease Elimination Diet. Each of these diets has animal protein as a key element. Together these diets prove that eating meat is NOT unhealthy for everyone but can, in fact, be a significant healing factor for many. Your writing is biased and only factors in the groups you care about, while ignoring the needs of many vulnerable sufferers of chronic disease.
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@mouseone There are few plants that are suitable substitutes for animal protein and most of those are legumes. Legumes are another food group that is often restricted in the diets I've mentioned above. With a simple internet search, you can find many specifics of these various medical, healing diets. If you would like to continue commenting, I suggest you learn about the subject first. For now, your comment seems to oversimplify a group of very complicated diseases and is insulting to someone who suffers from them. Like the author of the article, it seems you are willing to discount the needs of groups that do not fit your specific agenda.
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The only possible silver lining to the great satan being reelected would be that <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and their daddy remain outside of New York City for four more years to reduce the embarrassing contamination risks of their existence on this planet.
Otherwise there are no other possible silver linings to such a scenario.
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The lesson which will be learned by the Democrats is as follows: Promising elaborate "plans" and schemes in debates and on the campaign trail is just grtuitous nonsense, which 90% or more of Ameican voters and 75% of Democrats do not not believe will ever happen. Debates are nonsense. <PERSON> got the job done well under difficult circumstances for 12 years in NYC. Before that he was a brilliantly successful entrepreneur. <PERSON> and <PERSON> are winbags from very safe blue states. <PERSON> will win the nomination. Otherwise the <PERSON>/<PERSON> ticket will carry Mass and VT and maybe Hawaii.
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What I keep "hearing" when reading about all of these experiences, is how much pain the crazy parents were in. The tragedy is that there wasn't any help for those crazies, or if there was, the crazies couldn't accept it. We are luckier today in that we do have access to help from psychotherapists (be sure to find a good one, some of them are crrrazzzy too), as well as from support groups like Alanon and ACOA. Thank God! I'd be dead without these. As it is I'm 75 and quite happy. Single, no kids. For all the reasons that other people here have described.
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Thanks to the author for calling out this destructive snobbery. It is, among other things, a form of poverty shaming. Not everyone can afford college. Some need to work in order to survive and help their families. With a solid level of ability in reading, listening, and discussion (all of which would be achieved by the 5th grade if our schools functioned effectively), many doors are open if there is a commitment to lifelong learning. Elitists, ask yourselves: How much of that college education is just warming the classroom chair while telling the local authorities what they want to hear?
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