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  • jon-nycJ Offline
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    jon-nyc
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    #1132

    Where is Peter Singer when you need him?

    If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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    • LuFins DadL Offline
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      LuFins Dad
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      #1133

      Then they are dead and it’s your fault.

      The Brad

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      • 89th8 Offline
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        89th
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        #1134

        Hey I posted in an online forum multiple times that I was against the abrupt shuttering of USAID, so I did my part. I don't even wear a cape!

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        • HoraceH Offline
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          #1135

          The scale of money in the Bill Gates trust, among others, beggars my belief that there's such low hanging fruit for donations that an average joe can write a check for a thousand dollars and save a bunch of lives.

          Education is extremely important.

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          • jon-nycJ Offline
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            jon-nyc
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            #1136

            According to Givewell (the effective altruism org founded by a couple of Bridgewater traders) the marginal cost of saving a life is about 8k. It varies over time but last time I checked buying mosquito nets was the cheapest way to save a life.

            (It’s always some sort of non-pharmaceutical intervention to reduce infectious disease in Africa.)

            If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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            • HoraceH Offline
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              Horace
              wrote on last edited by Horace
              #1137

              malaria nets. Yep.

              Education is extremely important.

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              • jon-nycJ Offline
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                jon-nyc
                wrote on last edited by
                #1138

                This might become a useful economic index as Trump sovietizes our official economic data.

                If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                  This might become a useful economic index as Trump sovietizes our official economic data.

                  LuFins DadL Offline
                  LuFins DadL Offline
                  LuFins Dad
                  wrote on last edited by LuFins Dad
                  #1139

                  @jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

                  This might become a useful economic index as Trump sovietizes our official economic data.

                  LMAO! MAHA has to love that…

                  The Brad

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                  • jon-nycJ Offline
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                    jon-nyc
                    wrote on last edited by
                    #1140

                    Yeah, the article went into that. This has all the usual suspects, food dyes, chemical this and that, an entire quarry of sodium, etc.

                    If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                      #1141

                      https://fortune.com/2025/09/21/behind-closed-doors-ceos-say-trump-is-bad-for-business-and-its-time-to-make-america-into-america-again/

                      The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute’s CEO forum gathers top political leaders with Fortune 500 CEOs for a Chatham House rules discussion where direct quotes are off the record. In Washington DC this week at the 155th gathering, as clouds swirled around the Capitol building just steps away, senators from both parties and some top Trump administration officials joined us. They had to face down the near unanimous verdict from over 100 top business leaders, representing some of the world’s largest companies and most iconic brands: Trump’s policies aren’t working. These opinions were all about business results, by the way: the reasoning was independent of personal politics or industry sector, it always came back to the bottom line.

                      Business leaders at our forum worry that Trump is undermining an economic system that took decades to build and has long benefited the U.S. more than any other country, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, all for short-term gains. They see what’s happening as a hollowing out of U.S. economic foundations and institutions. In this free-to-speak environment (a loaded topic these days), they said that while they approve of bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. and bolstering economic and national security, they fear for America’s international standing amid the degradation of national security at the FBI, the CIA, and the Pentagon.

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                      • jon-nycJ Offline
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                        wrote last edited by
                        #1142

                        Trade war is Biden’s fault.

                        If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                        • Doctor PhibesD Online
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                          Doctor Phibes
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                          I'm guessing the one word was actually 'knobhead'.

                          I was only joking

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                            https://fortune.com/2025/10/04/president-trump-coin-america-anniversary-likeness-law-treasury/

                            the Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020, which Trump signed in January 2021, states: “No head and shoulders portrait or bust of any person, living or dead, and no portrait of a living person may be included in the design on the reverse of specified coins,” which include the semiquincentennial series among others.
                            This rule has appeared in similar statutes and reaches back to longstanding Treasury practice, though historians note an exception: Calvin Coolidge, who appeared on a commemorative half-dollar while still in office in 1926. Since then, the Mint and the Treasury Department have strictly avoided living subjects—until now.

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                              #1145

                              If you don't take it, it can only good happen.

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                                Axtremus
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                                #1146

                                The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) survey and other private-label data …

                                Whew, maybe no statistician will lose his job this time. 🤞

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                                  89th8 Offline
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                                  @jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:

                                  Was the economy in the pool?

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                                  • AxtremusA Offline
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                                    Federal government bailout coming for the farmers, again:

                                    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/us/politics/trump-farmers-aid-china-trade-war.html

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                                    • LuFins DadL Offline
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                                      #1149

                                      https://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-radio-more-aid-to-farmers/

                                      The Brad

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                                        #1150

                                        Government subsidy (bailout by a different name) for farmers has been going on for years, decades, etc.

                                        for example,
                                        Ethanol
                                        paying farmers not to plant
                                        crop insurance
                                        etc

                                        I am actually in favor most of these, but to say that President Trump is doing something different is not really true.

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                                          #1151

                                          I find it very Clintonian.

                                          The Brad

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