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  • LuFins DadL Offline
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    #1130

    You can prevent those deaths, 89th. $15K will build a well that could save hundreds of children’s lives. Even if you can’t afford an entire well, you can help contribute. Say $50 per month? That’s less than a daily coffee! If you don’t, then those kids are dead because of you.

    The Brad

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    • 89th8 Offline
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      #1131

      Actually not a bad idea. Unfortunately I just bought an iPhone so my heroism will have to wait until 2027.

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      • jon-nycJ Offline
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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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          #1133

          Then they are dead and it’s your fault.

          The Brad

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          • 89th8 Offline
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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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                #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
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                  #1137

                  malaria nets. Yep.

                  Education is extremely important.

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                  • jon-nycJ Offline
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                    #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
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                      wrote 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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                        #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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                          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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