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At this point I'd take anything to get abbott out. DotARd at least is term limited... abbott can continue his destruction forever here.

Agree, the only thing that I hope they address is there really isn't any reason to "build". After initial building I never built again, just took over an existing structure which I guess makes sense, but I like to "need" to build too. Personal preference at least.

My thought is the middle/median class gets very distorted now because of these two charts below and sure... salaries/income tend to raise over time across the board to keep up with cost of living:

no - one sets a ceiling, one sets a floor

I guess I'm not average and don't have an average health plan, not that your data takes coverage into account anyway.

Damn, sign me up for that rate. Haven't seen that family rate myself for 20 years.

Is this the car you're planning on your kid taking to college? Does she know where she's planning to go?

In a time where Abbott and crew mandates elementary schools would have armed security guards on campus... without fully funding their hiring... and districts cutting librarians to save money, I'd thought I'd update that in my district, Fort Bend ISD, there have already been 2 security guards "removed from campuses" from leaving their firearms unattended. One left it in a bathroom - a teachers bathroom luckily. The other left it in an at the time empty classroom. “When students entered the class, they and their teachers saw the duty belt,” according to a statement send to families. “The security guard realized within a couple minutes that the duty belt was in the classroom and returned to retrieve it. Administration was made aware of the incident and the security officer was reprimanded.” (later was fired - the guard, not the gun) Kids and parents feeling safer already.

Officer was arrested and charged with 3rd degree assault and 2nd degree breach of peace.

Can you explain the large jump in dual employment for families with children while women's labor rate stays relatively flat? Bunch of single women or women without kids deciding no longer to work or something?

RIP

Wow, that is not a deep burial. That sucks

There are a lot of firms that have a lot of large depreciating cash balances on their books that like the idea of a long term - liquid alternative with upside potential.

All these charts remind me of this text from a Fortune article last month: First, we need to help people make sense of their world, not tell them what to think. That means listening closely to people’s experiences. If they’re afraid they can’t pay their bills, we need to help them make sense of that lived reality. That starts by taking that lived reality seriously, not just telling people things are fine. When we listen to people, it becomes clear that aggregate statistics no longer reflect the reality most people live in. Unemployment may be low, but if you can only find work at low wages and irregular hours, things aren’t fine. Inflation may be dropping, but if your paycheck no longer covers your rent (the way we measure inflation doesn’t adequately capture housing costs), things aren’t fine. If you’re two percent better off than last year, but you were on the edge of disaster last year, things aren’t fine. We need to talk about that reality–economic inequality, corporate power, and economic insecurity.

Clickbait by media making more shit up. "To clarify, Wendy’s will not implement surge pricing, which is the practice of raising prices when demand is highest. We didn’t use that phrase, nor do we plan to implement that practice," a spokesperson said in an email to NBC News. They added there are "no plans" to raise prices at high-demand times. "We said these (digital) menu boards would give us more flexibility to change the display of featured items. This was misconstrued in some media reports as an intent to raise prices when demand is highest at our restaurants. We have no plans to do that and would not raise prices when our customers are visiting us most," the Feb. 26 statement reads. "Any features we may test in the future would be designed to benefit our customers and restaurant crew members. Digital menu boards could allow us to change the menu offerings at different times of day and offer discounts and value offers to our customers more easily, particularly in the slower times of day."

Tech needs to quit letting Joey give speeches, it's already embarrassing.

are they considering the ones on alcohol sites that ask you birthdate "reasonable age verification measures to protect minors" as well?? I'd think they would need to comply in same manner since serving same purpose.

China's newer Fujian carrier (2022) also uses electromagnetic launch ... they stole / "reverse engineered" from the US.

There will be no problem buying Reddit shares at below IPO prices in 2024...none.

Why not just use a childproof door lever lock?

ahh... didn't realize they paused in 2021... Hopefully the move to 4A works much better for them. Suiting up less than 20 or so players in 5A football definitely wasn't ideal for anyone.

Ep4 was awesome. No idea where they are taking things, but this season has been great.

Boston Dynamics already selling these to many, many large customers from many industries. The smoothness of stairs is crazy. The value is immense. They are "only" $75,000 base which when you think of what they are doing is really cheap.

Plenty more folks way more knowledgeable than me on here ... paging @cactusflinthead for one as to how soon for a pre-emergent on new sod. As am fyi - a broadleaf for St. Augustine that has worked wonders for me (after trying many unsuccessfully) has been "Image Southern Lawn Weed Killer". Can get any big box or online. My big problems are clover and chickweed. Has worked incredibly well for me on clover and well on chickweed, along with handling the stray other broadleaf weeds.