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Wendy Wisner

Attachment parenting didn't make my kids clingy

I never spent a night away from my kids until they were in kindergarten. Years later, they're independent, and I have no regrets.
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Abigail Carter

American bought a French chateau; built a successful business

At midlife, I moved out of the US, bought a chateau in France, renovated it, and built a successful business abroad. The pros beat the cons.
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biz_plannere14a7 This was a wonderful story of fortitude, resilience and inspiration. I can relate to this deeply as I am in my 50; one you now of empty nester, I over Europe and recently reinventing my life with a recent challenge of a short-term vacation rental property. I would appreciate and love to spent some time at the chattou. Inspired and very interested.
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Alex Bitter

Uber wait times rise 19% as prices climb 53%: study

Uber wait times and costs increase as study by Columbia Business School shows a 19% rise in delays and 53% hike in per-mile charges.
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Trump sending $500 ACA refund checks and letter ahead of midterms

Trump is sending $500 checks to nearly a million Americans insured under the ACA ahead of the midterms, with a letter promoting his healthcare record.
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Jane Ridley

I'm 63 with a kindergartener. Of course people think I'm his grandma.

Barb Higgins says her life at 63 looks nothing like the typical trajectory she once imagined. She's raising an active 5-year-old son.
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At 56, I moved into a single-family home with stranger to afford LA

I always wanted to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't have the budget for a rental in my dream neighborhood. Instead, I moved in with a roommate.
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ops_optimizer8a207 How I love this story!
Your open heart (and hers), your willingness to take a leap of faith, are inspiring.
After 40 years of marriage, I was left to the curb, emotionally, from a marriage with which I never saw ending.
At the same time, Hurricane Helene hit my beloved lifetime home of Asheville, washing away a career I loved.
Out of the blue, a large Italian family I’d known 25 years prior got in touch, welcoming me to move in, offered respite,
in my once familiar college town.
Because of this family, I now live in a teensy 600 sq ft Art Deco apartment in the heart of the City’s Park, can walk to anything, and it has truly helped heal my soul.
Doing a trust fall into the arms of this family changed my life. I love them, the children are now adults with children of their own, they include me in everything calling me Tanta Lish. I’ll be forever grateful.
How I wish we were friends! My family lived in Santa Cruz and Piedmont so I know your area well.
Thank you for sharing your uplifting story for many to better understand that sometimes, if a portal opens, it’s worth leaping through.
Cheers to New Life!!!
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wrk_learner02ae4 In 2019 I was gentrified out of my apartment and would have been homeless. A woman who only knew me by a few months in a community group took me in. As a mutual aid relationship I was able to use my meager income for self enrichment; travel and becoming a licensed yoga instructor.

In exchange I help with meals, cleaning and simple odd jobs that are very comforting to a person of her age. Honestly much of the travel was to not be petty and companion about character differences. The fact that she welcomed me back repeatedly has allowed our interactions to become dearest of friends and supportive towards both our physical and mental health.

This arrangement has been so beautiful for us both it has become a mission for me to unite the housing secure, but wanting/needing assistance or companionship with those that are housing insecure. Whatever happens in our relationship I will always from here on out live in a community setting, truly it is so much more enjoyable than being the "queen" of an empty "castle". I thoroughly encourage others to enrich their lives through more community mutual aid.

Truly, mauma LoA
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James Rodriguez

Once-hot Airbnbs and vacation homes have become nightmares to sell

Vacation homes that might have once sparked bidding wars are now languishing on the market or taking huge price cuts as the Airbnb boom cools off.
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Gary Doss
tiredofitall The headline makes no sense to me as these are NOT vacation homes but they are investment properties or rental properties. Apples and oranges.

We purchased a 'vacation' home in Tahoe 10 years ago, paid cash, never rent it out. That is a vacation home as we don't worry about the value or the rental market. It has turned into a second home we use about five to six months of the year.

This article is about rental properties that people purchased, not vacation homes.
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Dominick Reuter
Dominick Reuter

Walmart lighting up new feature for shoppers on digital price tags

Walmart shoppers can now use the app to activate a flashing light on electronic price tags to help locate an item on a shelf.
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Georgia Hennessy

Who qualifies for Trump's $500 ACA refund checks?

Nearly 1 million Americans are set to receive $500 ACA refund checks. Here's who qualifies, which states are included, and how payments work.
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Aki Ito

My strange, horrifying month using an AI detector on everything I read

How much of our writing should we cede to AI? Does it even matter? I spent weeks running everything I read through an AI detector — here's what I saw.
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ops_risera840a > Of course, not every written communication needs to be so emotionally connected.

True. But maybe the fix is to have less empty communication and more meaningful communication.
I often have the feeling--as a software engineer as well as a general observer--that we're in such a rush to bolt AI onto so much software, so many jobs, and so many personal tasks that no one asks whether it's the right solution.

Banal, logistical communication? Maybe it's OK to suffer through the 20 seconds of confirming a meeting time in order to stay cognitively engaged. Unending, empty BS "circling back" emails? Maybe your org has a process problem, not a "not enough AI" problem. Soul-sucking self-promotion on LinkedIn? Bring some humanity and quality to it. (Hopefully, eventually LinkedIn allows its algorithm to surface the humanity too.)
> Maybe I can get ChatGPT to act more like a copy editor, flagging just my typos and grammatical errors.

Hmm. Like spell check? See my previous statement.
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biz_listener786ff I use AI to proofread, but AI is absolutely awful at the Hawaiian language. You should see what it does. It’s completely ridiculous, and I often find that I have to go back and correct the AI corrections because the AI makes a mess of what I am actually trying to say. Also, I believe there is something called AI collapse, which is that without actual creative people inputting their own thoughts and feelings into their writing- dverything just becomes bland and stupid.
I had to go back and correct that last sentence because AI screwed it up.
There’s a little saying in our family “there you have it “and that applies right now ; “there you have it.”
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Madeline Marriott

I'm 24 but work with an older generation; I want to be more like them

I'm 24 and work with all baby boomers. I help them with tech issues, but they've taught me the importance of slowness and customer relationships.
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wrk_achieverfbcea This headline feeds right into the biggest problem with the Boomer generation and that's how they view work in relation to everyone who came after them. Booomers seem to completey oblivious to the fact that they rode an escalator to the top: affordable housing, cheap college tuition, and entry-level jobs that became careers with pensions and health insurance. Then they pulled the ladder up behind them, made those same advantages nearly impossible for younger generations to reach, and blamed us for being lazy or not working hard enough. That's galling coming from people who had it far easier. A headline praising their work ethic only exacerbates this problem.
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Roya Shahidi

A day in the life: I live and work in Antarctica at 60 years old

After a layoff in tech, I now work a seasonal gig in Antarctica. It's unlike any job I've had before, and the social life here is even better.
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Ayelet Sheffey
Ayelet Sheffey

Over 10M student-loan borrowers at risk of losing wages, benefits

New data from Federal Student Aid found that 9.3 million student-loan borrowers are in default, and 1.5 million more are in serious delinquency.
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Elle Hardy

United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby details his daily routine

CEO of United Airlines Scott Kirby shares his daily routine, emphasizing family time, efficient meetings, and the role of AI in enhancing his work.
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biz_curatorfc066 If this tells you that CEOs are vastly overpaid, you are reading it correctly. The team and actual extended employees do the work. CEOs take recommendations and add their experience and perspective. Do you think you do that everyday of your life?

So do you think they work harder than you or just have the right to decide how they want to work while you don’t.

I can’t imagine them getting paid 20-30+ times more than other employees. He just happened to tell you what other CEOs wished he would have stayed quiet about.
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Ayelet Sheffey

Student-loan borrowers have 3 more months for repayment benefit

The Education Department extended the deadline for student-loan borrowers to enroll in autopay and get a 1-percentage-point interest rate reduction.
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ops_scalerc12c7 What an absolutely deplorable joke of a president we have. We destroy the only decent plan for student loan bars. That’s actually made a difference in years. At the same time, the economy is in the worst shape it’s ever been. We are funding a war that we could care less about and now we want our own nation to place the heavy debt burden on education borrowers. The truth is the cost of education in the USA past high school has grown at an alarmingly high pace. Making it un affordable for the majority. Placing people into a high level of debt before they’ve even had a chance to make their first salary. Then, to compound this, we add interest rate that by the end of it has more than double or triple the principle. And should you be lucky enough to actually qualify at some point for debt relief then you faced the tax burden. This system needs a severe overhaul. And this is not the president who will do it.
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breathe Going from 0.25% reduction (*if* you start automating payments online) to a *temporary* 1% reduction (again, in Interest, not a reduction in principal) is not anything close to student loan forgiveness.

Calm down people.

The people upset about this have not demonstrated basic reading comprehension and could really benefit from a college education.

Governments in other actually developed nations cover, or highly subsidize, higher education, not other country's wars.

What are our priorities?
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