I don’t drive, and because traveling is always a direct cost to me ($20 Uber each way to the mall just to watch a movie hurts), I’m not convinced when my friends tell me how much money I’m saving. But with stuff like this, maybe I am actually saving money…
Average annual cost of car ownership is something like $12000 depending on how you calculate it. That is enough money for you to take one of those $40 round trip Ubers to the mall almost every day, and any of those style trips you can replace with transit or active transportation is even more money in your pocket, if you can swing it with your locale (don’t want to assume)
Holy shit, I get you guys despise Israelis (at least the Jewish ones) but this sudden narrative that Hamas are good guys who were saving lives is not just false, but downright dangerous and stupid. Fuck you seriously, on behalf of all the innocent people killed by Hamas bombs aimed at schools and hospitals throughout the decades, fuck you so hard.
If you can’t separate Israelis from jews, you’re the anti-semite. Not every Israeli is Jewish and vice verca. If you think an entire country is immune to committing crimes because of their religion, you’re part of the problem.
That’s a weird way to say that people are against genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Nobody here supports Hamas. Most people here (outside the fringes) absolutely despise the thought of authoritarian theocratic rule. I mean, this is nowhere more true than on Lemmy. Maybe what you’re noticing is people talking about Hamas as if they are a symptom of a problem (and a very, very predictable and historically easily verifiable outcome of a specific socio-economic and political reality) and people want to tackle the problem, not just the symptom. This is what you do when you are intelligent.
Here’s a hint to get you started- the problem is Israel, specifically Zionism.
The ecological cost of a nuclear plant is mostly front-loaded; over that, it uses a few truckloads of fuel a year and produces an equivalent amount of waste (which can be reprocessed or stored). So if you already have nuclear plants which are in good order, you want to sweat them. Whether it makes sense to build new nuclear infrastructure in an age of cheap renewables and improving energy storage, however, is a different question.
Are there any plans to modernize the plant? It will probably take billions to meet modern standards, but I’d imagine that it would be cheaper than building a new plant
For now, the state seems more interested in building out other green renewables like wind and solar. I haven’t seen any plans to refurbish or replace Indian Point.
New York State did just launch a new solar wind farm that will produce 130 MW of power. It’s the biggest one in the country.
These polygamist Mormon cults have a long history of child abuse. It is relevant that they continue to arrange child marriages and facilitate child abuse even as their previous leader is spending the rest of his life in prison for the exact same thing.
It is inherently hierarchical to have a situation where men can have multiple wives but women cannot have multiple husbands. Can you see the increased potential for oppression and abuse there?
That isn’t true for all people who practice polygamy. It’s not an inherently bad practice.
This article is just trying to associate any deviation from normal values with these disgusting acts, just like when people do the same with trans people.
Yes, let me pay for the privilege of using an automated lying machine that has a high probability of getting me killed due to faulty medical advice. I don’t see what could possibly go wrong with this.
wait isn’t this old news? I could’ve sworn that this stuff was being talked about back in the early 2010s because it can help point stuff out to doctors. Or are they trying to 100% nurses instead of just using these systems as an aid?
You guys know what a tax writeoff is, right? She still loses all of that money. If you’re not donating to “charities” that are really just fronts for your personal interests, there’s not really any monetary incentive to do this.
It appears so on this occasion. She’s made giving her money away a full-time job. Not like she’s ever going to live uncomfortably, but it’s pretty much a positive.
Ehh. Even if he is, his choice of charities and other beneficiaries are sometimes questionable. His push for charter schools being a great example. My dislike of billionare philanthropy stems from the fact that it can often subvert democratic interests in favor of one individual’s personal vision and myopic views.
She’s one of the few who actually put the “billionaires should be free to donate how they choose!” thing up in good faith, it seems. I’ll reserve some skepticism, but as far as the mega wealthy go, she seems to actually be doing okay.
She has currently donated over $15 billion since the divorce (started with $38 billion in amazon shares, now is worth about $40 billion despite stock price doubling in the 5 years since then), none of it with strings attached or being future promises like most billionaires. She doesn’t need tax cuts since she just gets taxed on what she actually spends from capital gains tax (or whatever, I’m not an accountant), she doesn’t stay in media spotlights except for when her donations go out, her donation org website does semi-yearly updates so its not trying to be a source of info or drama, etc.
She hasn’t lost money because she amazon stock price keeps going up, she’s just not gaining as much as she could be if she hoarded her wealth, but she knows she has more money than she could ever hope to or want to spend in her lifetime, her kids lifetimes, or however many generations $40 billion can support even assuming the amazon stock prices get tanked (very unlikely).
She just is a good human being with a good heart. It’s rare that people like that have this kind of money to give away for purely charitable reasons, but here we are
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