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https://www.feedingamerica.org/ways-to-give/corporate-and-fo...
It would probably be better for more of these places to just donate their food than leaving it out where animals can get to it as well.
I have spent the last ten years arguing this to people richer than me. I drive a used car, it is over twenty years old. I will keep driving it until it stops running or becomes too expensive to maintain. I do not have the money for a "car note" and I own my used vehicle outright. My credit is not in a position to purchase a new vehicle... which like, who in their right mind buys a new vehicle anyway when it loses a massive amount of value the second you drive it off the lot?
Unless the game drastically changes on EVs, they will continue to be something that mostly the affluent can afford to have, while the poor will continue fixing up their decades-old beaters until they're made illegal.
All I've ever wanted is an EV without all the bells and whistles... to help reduce the cost of the vehicle. Don't give me touchscreen anything, don't give me keyless entry, don't give me power windows, don't give me rear-view cameras and sensors. I want it all low-tech and cheap to replace. I can't afford to replace a $10k bumper that has a boatload of sensors in it when a bumper without sensors is a couple hundred bucks.
We need a "poor mans" EV, fast.
When cops can kill with impunity and are never subject to the laws they enforce, you have people wanting mob justice.
When politicians can lie with impunity and hide behind free speech and keep their jobs, their benefits, and all, you have people wanting mob justice.
When corporations can send bomb trains into your city, poison everyone within hundreds of miles, and then walk away with bonuses for covering their asses, you have people wanting mob justice.
These are wildly different things. Trolls are doing it because they want to hurt others, a lot of people are doing it because they want to stop being hurt by a system that has decided they don't deserve justice.
[0] “She Never Looks Back”: Inside Elizabeth Holmes’s Chilling Final Months at Theranos - https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/inside-elizabeth-hol...
>>>"Accustomed to the undomesticated life, Balto frequently urinated and defecated at will throughout Theranos headquarters," Bilton writes. "While Holmes held board meetings with people like Henry Kissinger, Balto could be found in the corner of the room relieving himself while a frenzied assistant was left to clean up the mess."
Suffice to say, I'm not sure this mans opinion is worth the hard drive it's stored on. He was taken in by a charlatan who wasn't even trying very hard.
We have all seen the limitations of ChatGPT at this point.
Also, there's the whole Kissinger is a fucking terrible person who should probably be considered a war criminal thing to top it off. His opinion is gobshite.
[1] The Trial of Henry Kissinger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial_of_Henry_Kissinger
I hope you realize how bad of advice this is considering most people who start this path end at homeless and never move past it.
Exploitation of youthful passion for profit is basically the centerpiece of how America beats its workers into submission and slowly breaks down their expectations for anything good in the workplace. The worse condition the workers are willing to accept, the more profit to be made off of their labor.
SSDI allows income from sources other than work, unlike SSI, which bars pretty much all income. SSDI allows you to get things like Financial Aid for school without impacting your SSDI. You can even trade stocks and gain money from stock sales and not have it impact your SSDI. Your spouse can have income and it won't impact SSDI. Most forms of income that are not strictly "work" are allowed by SSDI. SSI is the more strict of the two programs (and is more generally aimed at people who have been lifetime disabled and never worked or paid into social security).
Open source development + accepting donations seems like a sweet spot for the disabled on SSDI. You're not accepting pay for the "work" you do, thus the donation income is legally acceptable.
OP doesn't specify whether they are on SSI or SSDI, but if they had worked for years before they were disabled, its likely they were able to get SSDI.
Are hardware wallets that difficult and/or expensive? Or am I missing something that crypto exchanges offer that I am fundamentally misunderstanding? Because it seems like this keeps happening with these exchanges and that these were the kind of things crypto was supposed to be preventing, not doing.
The CEO of a different company in charge isn't that different than an internally sourced CEO in charge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
"Less well known [than other paradoxes] is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.—In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
-Karl Popper
This is a fucking laugh. Trying to cut your family member off from fanatics who are damaging them isn't coercive control with malicious intent, it's also similar steps you have to take to deprogram people from cults.
It's a weird roundabout way of saying you should "always respect your elders" even when they don't respect you and have spent their life gaslighting you.
When it comes to poor people cops will do shit like throw a baton on the ground, put a suspects hand on it, and then claim they had gone for their weapon, beating them and taking them in for arrest right away.
When it comes to the "elite" they make a nice phone call and ask them when it would be convenient to come in for "questioning" because "we couldn't possibly arrest such an upstanding citizen" which is code for "we don't fuck with this guy because he butters our bread."
People have figured out that the cost of going to low-wage jobs like that is more than it is worth. The number of parents who realized they actually brought more money home by one parent quitting their job and taking care of the kids instead of paying for childcare while they work is high.
A lot of folks, after COVID, and seeing that business owners literally didn't give one fuck if they died on the job or not, decided that maybe living their life was more important than grinding at a job that will happily send you to your death to make a buck.
Their whole THING with Prime is its two day delivery.
If they can't actually "guarantee" delivery (which is what they claim), then how come there isn't a massive class action lawsuit from Amazon members for false advertising?
Don't you love being in America, where consumer protection is basically nonexistent and companies can just bullshit you, take your money, not provide the services paid, and just go "nyah, nyah, fuck you, just TRY getting your money back."
EDIT: to be clear, and in reference to others: this has been going on for over a year in my city. Confirmed with friends and neighbors. It ISN'T holiday related.
EDIT 2: I am 2 hours from Seattle. Amazon's corporate HQ. If they can't manage two day shipping in their hometown I don't know what the fuck to tell you.
EDIT 3: One of the tricks they like to pull is saying it still only took two days to "ship" after sitting not being shipped on their site for over a week. The interim waiting time before it ships apparently isn't included in the "shipping time." I've had numerous packages sitting in limbo for a week before they ship and deliver.