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Let go and let entropy. 🌌

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: June 16th, 2023
  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.catoNews@lemmy.world•Helene and Milton are both likely to be $50 billion disasters, joining ranks of most costly storms
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    13 days ago

    I presumed that this was more lucrative for them and why it’s the case…

    There’s never been a greater need for social entrepreneurial ventures, but they just aren’t compatible with capitalistic societies.

    Imagine insurance companies there for the benefit of people when tragedy strikes but limiting costs to simply running operations and very limited profit.

    Not a single executive with experience would ever want to work at such a place because they would be paid a fraction of what they could at any other company… But goodness it would be incredible for social businesses to become the prevalent model.

    The closest I can think of at the moment in the United States is Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Pharmacy. Probably much can be said about his wealth and how he achieved it, but… the pharmacy has been a huge boon for people.

  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caOPtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•US warns Israel to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza or risk losing weapons funding
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    14 days ago

    I won’t pretend to understand the complexity of this horrific situation. I’m angry and fed up with Israel and the West’s relationship with Israel. And it confuses the hell out of me when I see things like this exposé from Bob Woodward that just came out: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html

    “That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad fucking guy!” Biden declared privately about the Israeli prime minister to one of his associates in the spring of 2024 as Israel’s war in Gaza intensified, Woodward writes.

    “He’s a fucking liar,” Biden said privately of Netanyahu, after Israel went into Rafah, Woodward writes.

    “Bibi, what the fuck?” Biden yelled at Netanyahu in July after an Israeli airstrike killed a top Hezbollah military commander and three civilians in Beirut, according to Woodward.

    “You know the perception of Israel around the world increasingly is that you’re a rogue state, a rogue actor,” Biden said to Netanyahu.

    If this is how Biden privately talks about the guy, I have to wonder what’s keeping him from being public about it. I understand this is politics, but I want to hope that there’s more to it because the United States and other Western nations sure as hell should not be complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians simply because of politics.

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  • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.catoNews@lemmy.world•US-Armed Israeli Military Kills American Citizen in Lebanon
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    24 days ago

    “In his last days, he chose to stay near the main hospital in Nabatieh to help the elderly, disabled, injured, and those who simply couldn’t financially afford to flee,” Jawad’s family said. “He served as their guardian, provided them with food, mattresses, and other comforts, and anonymously paid off their debts.”

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    One American citizen identified as Karam toldAl Jazeera that she “called the U.S. embassy in Beirut for help fleeing the violence,” but “was told to find a way out of the country by herself,” the outlet reported.

    “Karam, who chose to be identified by her nickname out of fear of retaliation, drew a contrast with how the US State Department swiftly chartered special flights and a ship to evacuate American citizens in Israel after Hamas’ October 7 attack last year,” Al Jazeera noted.

    “Americans of Lebanese descent have been treated as lesser U.S. citizens than Israeli U.S. citizens,” she said. “It is as if we don’t exist.”

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