jhughs.bsky.social
Internationally unknown bedroom musician. Photographer for fun.
Cyclist. Mason bee breeder.
Blood donor & recipient and health care advocate.
( ✅ I am not a robot. )
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To your point, we used to say “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
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And death is not necessarily the worst outcome.
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Excellent. Just like VAT fees are shown in some countries.
As a consumer I have a right to know where my money is going. Also, this helps to identify which products are more domestically produced than others.
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The Seeking Alpha article aligns with my post: Spending cuts are separate from debt accumulation; tax cuts greater than spending cuts will increase the deficit.
Also notice that the spending reduction is a “goal” not a requirement.
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This seems about right. bsky.app/profile/albe...
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In case you missed it.
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Biotech was one place where the USA had a clear lead. No more. Apparently improving lives and reducing suffering is no longer a worthy goal.
Which leads me to where you started… sigh.
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This has been one of Trump's undiscussed plans all along.
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This is where Andrew Yang’s model to support people who’ve been displaced makes sense.
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Playing off his grocery store analogy, I have a trade deficit with the USG. I pay them thousands in tax dollars and they don’t even pay for my time of figuring out how much I owe.
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And China is improving trade relations with US allies (if I can still call them that).
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/...
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“You don’t find out who’s been swimming naked until the tide goes out”
Warren Buffet
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Wow! You worked in overfed leopards and “dead cat bounce” into one video. Well done!
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Copilot: During the Gilded Age workhouses in the United States were often referred to as poorhouses or almshouses. These institutions provided shelter and basic necessities to the impoverished, but they were also places where residents were expected to work in exchange for assistance.
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Possibly they can save time by not commenting or documenting anything.
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China was already a step ahead by improving relations with Japan and South Korea.
www.globaltimes.cn/page/202503/...
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I agree. Any investor who listened to him went heavy cash months ago. He did what he said he was going to do.
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And Indiana, but now that you mention it I think the original cartoon said Ohio.
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There was a political cartoon I can’t find now about buying “American” vehicles:
“I want to buy an American car!”
“Very good sir. Do you want a Honda built in Indiana or a Dodge built in Canada?”
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Remember this?
Daily Beast… shared part of a TASS Russian News Agency article that quotes… Nikolay Patrushev saying that “to achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.
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Software is read more times than it is written.
Even if an AI system could correctly interpret and convert an entire suite of COBOL programs, including corner cases, I suspect that the resulting code wouldn't be well documented, making it difficult to maintain and update.
Am I being too cynical?
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These are a hidden tax on consumers. I want these Tariff Fees to show up on my receipts the same way VAT taxes are shown. It’ll cost the same but at least I’ll know where my money is going.
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I’m so glad you came over to BlueSky. I used to have to go back to find you on other platforms because some days a little Otter News is just the medicine I need.
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Liberating dollars from my wallet.
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I normally don’t GIF but this is too perfect.
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It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
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“You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances…
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A video tied to a recent WSJ article points out how the 2018 washing machine tariff created 1,800 American jobs. Which sounds great, but the price increases cost American consumers $1.5B more, or $830,000 per job created.
Ref. “The 1960s ‘Chicken Tax’ Shows the Lasting Impact of Tariffs”
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It’s a tangent, but today I saw a young man, in his 20’s, at a restaurant, reading a paperback while eating his lunch. It felt like I’d traveled back in time.
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In the 80’s at the University of Illinois, one of our best Computer Science professors was from China. He wrote our textbook for Discrete Mathematics.
He was brilliant and an excellent teacher.
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I’m old. Old enough to remember being raised in a conservative household where getting vaccinated was considered a civic duty. United we stand, divided we fall.
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This may be too obscure, but it keeps coming to mind.
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The reason parts are imported from other countries is because they are less expensive if made elsewhere. Tariffs may move those mfr. jobs here, but the parts will cost more. Prices must go up… or quality and safety go down.
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“… after the chaos comes the clampdown”
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Is this about the time they changed the Guide from “Harmless” to “Mostly harmless”?
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I’m truly very sorry to hear that. My father, also a photographer, lost his vision starting in his 70s. FWIW, with my mom’s help, he managed really well. He made great use of Alexa and it was impressive how many books he got thru via NLS. He was happy to the end. www.loc.gov/nls/find-you...
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Dang! I just made the same point and now see you beat me to it. Anyway, I agree 100%.
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Feels like we’ve been here before: The best way to find a witch is to bind them and cast them into the water. If the water rejects them and they float, then they are a witch, but if they sink to the bottom and drown, then they are innocent.
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Putin is disrespecting Trump. We should teach him a lesson by arming Ukraine to the teeth!
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Sorry. I’d intended that reply for your second post in the string. Can’t answer that unless they win either way.
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Both are levied only on individuals with modified adjusted gross incomes above $200,000 and on married couples with incomes above $250,000.
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Here’s the reason they want to kill the ACA: As part of the Affordable Care Act, which was enacted 10 years ago, the wealthy were hit with a 3.8% tax on net investment income – including interest, dividends and capital gains – and a 0.9% Medicare tax on wages.