Its not possible to be ethical with that much money.
Globally, the median household income is $3k. If you have $500B, you would have to lose - every single day - the combined lifetime income of a household over 500 generations, just to break even at 5% interest. Thats further back in time than writing, the wheel, rice, potatoes or chicken.
Thats a level of being shielded from the consequences of your actions that can only ever produce evil.
Local election turnout is single digit to ~15% in big cities. It's higher in rural areas, but still well below state and federal races.
15-20% is normal for a local election in Fairbanks, from what I read. So this would be higher than most population centers but low end of normal for this electorate.
Usually coffee. Plunger, at least a pot. Otherwise it's pretty evenly split between vegemite toast, taiwanese green onion pancakes from trader joe's, or maybe a bagel, granola, shakshuka or left over takeout.
I grew up outside the country though, hence not being a fan of us style drip coffee which always taste like hay to me.
In China it was usually called Bu Fei, but in Taiwan it was Chi Dao Bao - eat until full. Of course they usually had a 2h time limit, but I can eat a lot of hotpot in 2h.
Not explaining how this is a hallmark of authoritarian rule, but quoting the bullshit reasons the regime pretends to believe in is still a failing of the duty of the press.
If the seller has enough capital for a customer service phone line, you have no ethical duty to let them know about two pairs of shoes.
The manufacturing cost of two pairs is negligible - there's no way it can meaningfully affect them at all. Whereas an extra 4 pairs worth of retail price could meaningfully affect you. Even if you only spend it on yourself, you create more happiness in the world by not saying anything.
If you feel guilty or really don't need the money, you can always treat a loved one, spend it on fair trade or independently made shoes or clothes, or find an anti-sweat-shop group to donate to.
This blog, which I think may be using "progressive" wrongly, says that Ds won all other contested spots but 1 school board seat. An uncontested race went to R, but a "late forming" write in campaign still garnered a quarter of the vote.
These signs seem promising, but the blog post makes it seem like local factors may have played a large role. That would speak against taking it as a bellwether. The post claims the victory is "less of a shock" to those watching local politics, which again to me suggests local factors looming large.
To be serious for a moment, he doesn't believe that for a second.
He's just bullshiting to further the false narrative that his fascist regime is pushing as they continue deploying the military against the american public and other opponents of fascism.
The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.
The funniest example is 24M$ the national guard spent in 2012 on recruiting at nascar. This generated 24,800 prospective recruits. ~$1000 per interested recruit. Not bad. Of those, 20 were eligible to join. 99.92% unfit for service. Of those 20, all declined to join. There's no evidence that the 88M$ spent on nascar between 2011-2013 generated a single recruit.
This is part of why the exclusion of trans folks, women and others from the military is such an own goal for the fascists. Any potential recruiting pool that's closed hastens the decline of our imperial supremacy.
Excellent commentary about the way that amazon directly lies to it's customers - amazon is so heavily enshittified, it's not surprising they're down to straight up lying.
I also wanna mention this mistake from the article:
a yoghurt flatbread filled with rum bananas competed with Bundaberg banana toffee rum liqueur, bananas, oatmeal and waffle seeds, tossed in Davidson plum sugar.
Waffle seeds do not exist. Given the combo of native and iconically australian ingredients that should be wattle seeds, often used to give desserts a nutty flavor.
"In the third picture, [trump]’s wearing light pants and there’s a stain on the front of his trousers,” Wolff added. “And the girls—three, four, four or five as I remember—are pointing at the stain and laughing. And that is what I remember.”
Oh! I never got that expression. But I'm a loud and proud type. With so much misery in the world it seems wrong not to revel in the joy of a good fart. Like throwing away dinner during a famine.
Also when you've spent an hour being pet and purring contentedly then nothing changes.