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Jimmy Song recently had a podcast that also addressed that same theme, about "earning the money was much easier than giving it way...."
Giving it away would be easier only if you didn't do it carefully.
But with most charities, you scratch the surface just a tiny bit, and instantly find inefficiencies, fraud, misaligned incentives, all kinds of things you don't want to put money into.
Take, for instance, libraries. Andrew Carnegie established a lot of public libraries in the US. And to be honest - I've used libraries a tremendous amount, in my life, and they've been hugely positive.
But now, most libraries are centers of wokedom. Where I use to live, they were shut down during covid for MORE THAN A YEAR (they did have a "hands off" book retrieval service). Actually I think the libraries may have been closed more than 18 months.
And my last experience of the local library, where I lived previously, was being kicked out for not wearing a mask, once they did open again.
Okay, this is super cool. I love looking at design from decades past.
Not to mention - you get a good sense of what is classic, and what's a fad.
Wow...is it really so dangerous to expose the "voluntourism" industry that she has to wear a mask?
But I can believe it. There has always seemed something very false about it.
From my unscientific research (just talking to people), it's a bunch of older folks, I believe mostly retired, that like to feel useful, and do all these service projects to that end.
Where do you get the "diabolic" aspect of things?
I'm already pissed at Rotary, because in a place I used to live, there was an outstanding playground for kids, that had some fun, adventurous equipment. Kids would line up for an opportunity to use their favorites equipment.
But the Rotary Club, "charitably", tore down this perfectly good playground and replaced it with a "differently abled" playground, which wouldn't entertain any kid over the age of 2.
I remember seeing an ad, many years ago. It was from the US chemical society, or some organization like that. And it showed a simple orange, with a long list of chemical ingredients on a sheet of paper behind it. The point being, it's made up of a lot of different chemicals...
Yes, the early encounters with Eskimo occurred much later than many of the encounters with more southern native Americans. So anthropology, etc, was mostly a thing by the time the more isolated tribes were encountered.
That's why we have such good records of the Eskimo. Also, the explorers that encountered them were not interested in the land, and didn't want to exterminate them. And whalers mostly just wanted to cooperate with them - particularly to get fresh meat, which they needed to avoid scurvy.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson had actually studied Anthropology at Harvard, if I remember right.
The Network State The Network State sounds really interesting. So...like free private cities, but online?
- Building a fort in the woods behind the house
- Exploring in the woods behind the house, discovering an old pond
- Walking behind the house down the old dirt road till we got to the river, where we had to stop - no bridge.
- Walking around to neighbors, knocking on the door, asking, "Can [kid] come out and play?"
- Playing the childhood games - kickball, red rover, etc - with a bunch of neighbor kids
These are experiences that I had, but my kids did not. Not because I didn't want them, and try to help them along, but they really depend a LOT on your area and your neighborhood. And kids nowadays just do NOT do these things anymore.
Do you think that more steps is equivalent to better health? Or, is there another reason you're pursuing additional daily steps?
Just curious - I'm not saying that more steps is worse, and obviously completely inactivity is bad.
I don't think anyone at all is saying he was "anti Israel". He obviously wasn't.
What was alleged was that he was planning to "abandon the pro-Israel cause".
If it's true that 48 hours before he died, he stated that's what he was going to do - then it's important.
1 - Yes. Before this, I was...I wouldn't say "pro Israel", but I definitely wouldn't have immediately looked for the "story behind the story".
2 - Not really. I will continue to post on this topic, as I find interesting things. And I think a lot more people are waking up to it, I'll add my little bit to that.
I don't know. The internal inconsistencies of the FBI story are big enough to drive a truck through. That alone makes me suspicious.