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9·11 days agoHe does give money to politicians and the Gates Foundation does as well:
While the goal post keeps moving, it’s the opposite of your statement. As explained in the article:
That target would represent a doubling in spending for the nonprofit, which has disbursed more than $US100 billion since it was co-founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in 2000. Originally, the foundation was set to close 20 years after the Microsoft co-founder’s death.
“I have decided to give my money back to society much faster than I had originally planned,” Gates, 69, wrote in a statement. “I will give away virtually all my wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next 20 years to the cause of saving and improving lives around the world.”
How much would his estate taxes be vs giving up 99% of his fortune?
Same, I read enough about Trump in other communities. I’d like this community to focus on more uplifting stories.
Could you imagine if they had just walked all the way to Mordor?
Found some of the footage from the rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQz5RBKUsA
Yeah, that makes sense. I agree, I wish this was such a common thing that it wasn’t even newsworthy.
But for now I’m glad that some news organizations have started categories that focus on positive news stories like this. This one in particular is part of the Guardian’s “Kindness of Strangers” series. It looks like they started this series about 6 months ago.
I think these teens went above and beyond more than just “being kind to strangers”.
For the next few months, those teenagers were such a great help to me. Anytime I crutch-walked past them they would ask how I was and if I needed a hand with anything. They took my bins out for me and if they saw me at the corner store, they would let me cut in line ahead of them, so I didn’t have to stand around waiting as long.
I think my favorite quote from Richard Munoz was:
A lot of people were kind to me during that injury experience – and a few weren’t kind at all! – but by far the most helpful were those teens.
Stories like this absolutely have a place in the news (and especially in this community) as hopefully it inspires others to go above and beyond in being kind to strangers.
52·15 days agoI know that this is an ongoing thing between these 2 countries, but it always makes me nervous when I remember that they both have a nuclear arsenal.
Well, they were able to lift it back up.
9·21 days agoFor those wondering where he finally draws the line with Trump, it’s Trump’s statements about deporting citizens to El Salvador.
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FUENTES: You have…1,500 people with a legal right to be here, they’re being expedited — their removal is being expedited for no reason other than they criticize the fact that, you know, we’re supporting this foreign war [Fuentes seems to be referencing the Gaza conflict].
JONES: Here’s where I’m at, though. In general, I see the whole, a lot of the populist conservative space spending half their time on this, and I just, I mean, I think it’s way more dangerous Trump saying we’re looking to deporting citizens to El Salvador. Now, that’s unconstitutional, and that is really bad.
FUENTES: I agree with that. Then again though, I don’t think that’s a real policy. That hasn’t happened. What is really happening —
JONES: Now they’re talking about using the Enemy Combatant Act to do it for regular crime. It’s —
FUENTES: I don’t, I think that’s one of those throwaway comments.
JONES: So you think it’s him trolling?
FUENTES: I think they’re flooding the zone with poo like Bannon said.
This isn’t a trolley problem. Killing CEOs is not going to save any more lives or “fix the system” in any way.
There’s no guarantee that the new CEO will be better or worse, and if they feel threatened enough they’ll just hire security.
That’s not what I’m saying or implying in any way.
No… A closer comparison shows that she would be like Sam Bankman-Fried with a 25 year sentence and ordered to repay $11 billion. Although she probably would end up on a cover of Forbes.
Can you expand on this?
Either you replied to the wrong comment, or you’re clearly thinking of some context that I’m not, or it’s related to some saying that I’m not familiar with.
I think it’s a valid question. I wouldn’t say that the only reason for abolishing the death penalty is because we might make a mistake… that definitely factors into it, but there’s more to it.
Ask yourself what purpose does it serve to put someone to death? They’re already in jail/prison and no longer a threat to society. Deterrence? Is the death penalty any more of a deterrence than a life sentence?
The only purpose I can think of for the death penalty is that it’s for “Revenge”. It doesn’t actually fix anything in of itself. It doesn’t resolve disputes, it doesn’t really solve anything.
The amount of people in here pushing for the death penalty when it’s used on people they dislike is sickening…
This is a penalty that needs to be abolished, not expanded or made exceptions for.
The point of this research was to avoid even that.
It’s pretty awesome that it even breaks down in soil:
In soil, sheets of the new plastic degraded completely over the course of 10 days, supplying the soil with phosphorous and nitrogen similar to a fertilizer.
Then maybe introduce some incentives to make up for that 7% or else force their hand by introducing steep penalties for any plastics that are used which aren’t up to a higher standard like this… Or a little bit of both.
I’m not sure that there’s any aspect about this news that’s truly “uplifting”.