@JamesSurowiecki Nothing stopping you and Warren Buffett and Steve Jobs widow an the ex wife of Bezos from funding USAID. Your refusal to do is murder. Get on it.
@SethDillon Exactly, if global warming was so imminent and dangerous and they truly cared about the safety of their citizens, then the carbon tax revenues ($bils) should have gone to air conditioning infrastructure first, at least for the most vulnerable.
@Notwokenow@amazon Yes. There must be a reason they don't offer it. Maybe they think if people can't find a product made in the USA then they will give up or go elsewhere. ??
@DC_Draino Exactly, if global warming was so imminent and dangerous and they truly cared about the safety of their citizens, then the carbon tax revenues ($bils) should have gone to air conditioning infrastructure first, at least for the most vulnerable.
Islamophobia is a made up term that uses the West's suicidal empathy to shut off its survival instinct. If a religion seeks to eradicate your heritage, culture, society, civilization, and religion, then it is perfectly RATIONAL to be phobic of its intrusion into your societies.
The great lie is that society is divided between rich and poor.
The great truth, as David Friedberg puts it, is makers vs takers.
Makers build, create, and deliver real value: houses, software, art, businesses, and everything that moves civilization forward.
Takers watch, criticize, analyze, and politic. They push the lie that the rich hoard unfairly so the poor must seize it… all while positioning themselves to rule the chaos.
As @friedberg tells his kids: “At the end of the day, if you made something and someone else valued it, you were a maker. That was an amazing achievement. That is a great day.”
Takers thrive on division. Makers drive progress.
Time to choose your side.
government destroys value.
in this case, the value of an American education was destroyed in ~40 years.
if there’s no marketplace for customers (parents of students) to demand value (quality of education for price paid) by simply going to another service provider (school or educator), it is inevitable that costs will go up and quality will go down.
this is true of any service provided by government, which effectively grants itself a monopoly, deleting the opportunity for other service providers to compete in offering better value to customers/citizens…
.@SecScottBessent: "A nation that cannot manufacture, mine, ship, or refine its needs gradually cedes its strength and sovereignty to others. That is a dangerous dependency for any country; it is an unacceptable one for the United States of America."
Listen, Apple. If I accidentally click a name on the call log and hang up within .5 seconds, it shouldn't show up on their phone as a missed call. We need the ability to bail on this mistake. How about a 2 second grace period or something? Idc just fix it please!