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9·10 days agoHe does give money to politicians and the Gates Foundation does as well:
8·11 days agoWhat do you have against massages? I find them relaxing.
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.
You get ads even if you pay for the more expensive ad-free subscription.
At least those seem to be rare, only at the beginning, and they let you skip, but it’s frustrating that you have to do that at all.
He’s following you, about 30 feet back.
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.
Well, they were able to lift it back up.
They should just make it so that whatever they announce as their “earnings” to their stockholders should also be the amount that they are taxed for.
A friend from Italy told me that they keep the best cheese for themselves and export the rest.
While shadow banning is an option, it’s also a terrible idea because of how it will eventually get used.
Just look at how Reddit uses it today.
What’s considered the “worst” vs “best” news source will always be an opinion for any individual user. You can’t expect everyone else to share your same values.
Some users may value their privacy more than others.
Some users value news sources based on how much information their journalists are able to provide.
Some users hate clickbait titles and so they avoid those.
Some users prefer smaller news sources that most others haven’t heard of.
For some users, the first thing that comes back in a search result is the best source.
Some users take the time to compare the information on the various sources through something like ground news and they try to pick the one that captures an interesting bit of information.
Well… I can tell you who didn’t do it.
To be fair, what we specifically have is a republic, although we do have democratic voting to elect our representatives.
Some of those representatives take the stance that they can choose whatever they want best, regardless of what their constituents want, because they were voted in.
Other representatives take the stance that they should vote for whatever the majority of their constituents want.
China has enough air pollution that the smog from Los Angeles blows over from there
I think you meant to say:
“China has enough air pollution that the smog from there blows over to Los Angeles”
One thing that bothers me, and what everyone should know, is proper placement for defibrillator pads if you’re using an AED.
It’s not 2 pads on the chest, it’s one pad on the upper chest (almost shoulder) on one side, and the other pad goes lower on their side. You’re trying to have the current go through their heart (not skip over the top of their skin).
The AEDs found in public locations are all very easy to use and all have pictures for the proper placement. Just open it up and it will tell you everything you need to do. Have someone nearby look for one at the same time you’re asking someone else to call emergency services.
They should all have razors if you need to get a little hair off (in case the person is especially hairy for one of the pad placements).