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That's not how I read this. Trump's just too cowardly to take a stand. He recognizes that pushing this action could blow up in this face and would rather have it blow up in Homan's face. If things work out, Trump'll step in to take credit - otherwise, it "wasn't his idea."
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I'd take Musk's money but give him nothing in return, least of all a speaking role.
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I expected this blow-up about 4 months ago - I'm quite surprised they lasted this long.
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You're not wrong, but one of the reasons drugs are so expensive now is that historically people would just buy drugs regardless of cost because the insurance would "pay for it." (Obviously there are many other reasons, but consumers are contributors to the problem as well).
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Ok, but looking on GoodRx right now I could get a generic equivalent to Advair for $48. That price is available to anyone with any health plan (or even without insurance). Another good low-cost source is Mark Cuban's mail-order pharmacy: costplusdrugs.com - the generic is similarly priced
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FWIW the free version of Adobe Reader (on PCs, at least) has a "sign" feature that can put a scanned version of your signature on a PDF document. helpx.adobe.com/reader/using...
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Professor Shaw's doing a masterful job of not getting rattled and still making her points. Kudos.
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Grammatical chicanery aside, USA Today has a good fact check on the "fact" he's touting. www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...
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From watching a number of videos of him, my observation is: the wider Hassett's smile the bigger the lie he's telling.
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Ugh - typo in second post - *positions
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this happening very quickly. Maybe 10-15 years. Definitely not 1-5.
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doing little more than keeping their chairs warm. In the short term - that'll be the adjustment to AI - more people will be spending less time being productive (because AI will be productive for them). Over time, more orgs will be brave enough to start eliminating position, but I don't see...
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I think even if you grant that AI is *capable* of eliminating tens of millions of jobs, it won't happen over that timeframe. From my experience (I'm in tech - software, specifically), there's huge inefficiency in the workforce already. There are plenty of people in any larger org (imo) that are...
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Third option: He believes the people he is addressing are idiots. There's a lot of this type of pure contempt for their own base in the current administration.
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Ironically, Trump's crypto-corruption makes him considerably less dependent on Russian magnanimity for his (and his family's) personal fortune. Maybe there's a silver lining there.
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I'm thankful that Kellogg is still involved - I think without him Trump would be going "full Putin."
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Math
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You may know more about this than I do, but basically I see it as preserving the status quo pending a decision. My understanding is that this is a general practice and as a general practice it makes sense to me given that a decision will be made soon.
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Ok - but this is currently an administrative stay - i.e., a stay pending further decision by the Supreme Court. It's the next step that really counts, and there's still a chance for the "right result" to happen.
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Look, Trump is such a moron that you don't need to stretch the facts to make him seem stupid. You do stuff like this and you give his side a valid complaint that you're distorting his position - why do that?
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I believe the Judicial Conference (which is part of the Judicial branch) is responsible for procedural rulemaking - it appears to me that they could defang this provision (at least as it was described in the article) by requiring plaintiffs to post a minimum $1 bond in all cases.
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The EU + UK has a combined GDP that's more than *10* times the size of Russia's. Russia should have zero chance of victory - and yet...
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If you listen to the few sentences before this it actually makes some sense. He's talking about the fact that the pricing policy will probably mean that drug companies will raise prices outside the US and that the other countries will fight the drug companies on these price hikes.
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USA
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Unlike Donald Trump, who's mostly less respected.
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Hopkins also gets the term wrong - it's "natural born citizen", not just "natural citizen." IMO that distinction makes it clearer that it's citizenship at time of birth that's the key, not some other magic factor.
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I actually think we *can* make everyone (or at least a lot of 'em) pay tribute. It's just that the tribute in no way makes up for what we lose in the process. That won't stop Trump (and his supporters) from crowing about the tribute they "negotiated."
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Yah. Hated it under Biden, hate it more under Trump.
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IMO, only Europe can save Ukraine from Trump. Europe has to take the initiative - get the US out of the negotiations - but this means first making up for US support that will be lost. (As long as someone pays, I think Trump will still deliver weapons, but he might block US funded support)
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Europe needs to realize that Trump is not serious, and needs to step up, so Ukraine is not forced to keep cooperating with Russia's farcical process. If Europe doesn't do this Ukraine will remain a hostage to the US (in order to keep aid flowing) - this is a bad result for everyone.
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You appear to be misinterpreting Dennie's post. I'm sure she would agree with you - the problem is the DOJ's argument follows exactly the lines she used to make that argument. If the 2nd amendment applies to modern arms, then the 14th must apply as well to modern classifications of migrants.
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MQL is not defined as just the bare necessities - it includes things like eating out, attending a minor-league sporting event, traveling and a (yes, really!) Amazon Prime subscription. Source: (lisep.org/mql) See their methodology document for details.
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Some chud: I want to be Catholic
Catholicism: ok so you want to take care of the poor and needy and immigrants, right? :)
Chud: no not like that