DreamlandLividity @ DreamlandLividity @lemmy.world

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Stop defending them

Idk anything about them, so it is not my intention to defend anyone. I am just pointing out that having bad execs (whether incompetent, careless or outright embezzlers) is far worse than paying 1-2%. As far as I know, no one has came up with a better reusable way to get good execs than paying them a lot. I have no idea if these execs in particular are good.

You are not necessarily paying of the same people. Even most honest/righteous people like to be paid well. So the charity willing to pay them get those and the charities that don't pay well risk getting the kind of people who don't mind embezzling.

Would be nice if that worked. If you embezzle the money smartly, e.g. giving lucrative contracts to friends consultancy firm, there is pretty much no way to prove it.

I am not an exec, so no it is not. It is just statement of fact.

While not ideal, I would like to note that the charity has a revenue of 392 M$. Spending 1-2% on salaries of top exec is not that bad if it prevents them from misusing the funds. A lot of the time, the alternative to high salaries for people in power is those people giving in to corruption since the risk/benefit encourages it. Just look at politics for an example.

That being said, wtf is chief philanthropy officer?!

Well that sucks.

Also, can't stop thinking about that episode of The Newsroom with Boston marathon bombing. 10 years since it aired and this shit is only getting worse.

Yeah, Edge has been forbidden to execute in my antivirus (ESET HIPS) for a long time now.

Neither solar panels, nor hydrogen generators are free. If you need to build extra panels and hydrogen generators, you are making the infrastructure more expensive, consequently raising electricity prices. Or hydrogen prices if you use it as fuel instead of power storage.

So we are not using it for cars, but to make electricity at night? Just even less efficiently than hydro pumped power? Ok...

So what are you saying exactly? With what issue would using hydrogen help?

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That sounds fun. Not only are we already losing ton of energy to create the hydrogen, we can now lose even more and make it more expensive by trying to liquefy/compress it to make it somewhat transportable. [1]

Also, almost 90% of humans living in the northen hemisphere will surely not cause any issues to this plan. [2]

The article says the ones it talks about do. Also, rotating panels can't stop days from being shorter during winter.

And this involves only driving in summer when there is excess energy? Or getting through winter by storing enough hydrogen to make the Beirut explosion look like a firecracker in comparison?

Because they aren't accusations. They are facts.

Unfortunately, most people are neither omniscient, nor willing to spend large (or any) amounts of time to figure out what are the facts in a sea of lies from both sides.

"Hey, I can vote for one of two liars, both supporting genocide. Well, I guess I will vote for the one whose party doesn't insist I should be ashamed for being born white and/or male." - What I imagine lost democrats the election.

The calories you burned

Meh, I can use fewer calories.

Americans are STUPID

Can't argue there.

Americans don't grasp that you aren't just voting for the person, but the party.

You literally vote for specific people in the US, unlike in many countries where you vote for parties. That's the whole point of your incredibly flawed representatives system. Saying people should vote Harris because of her party is like saying people should buy the terrible and useless apple vision because other apple products are good.

a successful prosecutor with a significant political resume

To most people, those sound like red flags, not advantages.

convicted felon and rapist who instigated a violent insurrection and illegally attempted to overturn an election

I mean, yeah. Americans are stupid. But then again, why should anyone believe those accusations if democrats argue lying is perfectly fine and not an issue?

I can simultaneously "whine" about multiple things. I guess I am talented at "whining".

Also, this kind of shit is part of the reason why that orange won in the first place. Democrats putting up a marginally better candidate and pretending to be saviors of the Earth.

If it doesn't matter, why is everyone angry at the people who didn't vote? :D

It is amazing to me how people will make excuses for a lying politician that even he did not bother to make.