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  • So if Bill Gates says it then it must be true and honest? Yeah, the Billionaire who uses Venture Philanthropy to hide his manipulating of the markets he just happens to also invest in, too?

    Whatever man. He also gives tons money to Media outlets so no one ever criticises him. Why would they bite the hand that feeds them? Conflict of interest much?

    Revealed: Documents Show Bill Gates Has Given $319 Million to Media Outlets](https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-show-bill-gates-has-given-319-million-to-media-outlets/278943/)

    Awards Directly to Media Outlets:

    NPR- $24,663,066

    The Guardian (including TheGuardian.org)- $12,951,391

    Cascade Public Media – $10,895,016

    Public Radio International (PRI.org/TheWorld.org)- $7,719,113

    The Conversation- $6,664,271

    Univision- $5,924,043

    Der Spiegel (Germany)- $5,437,294

    Project Syndicate- $5,280,186

    Education Week – $4,898,240

    WETA- $4,529,400

    NBCUniversal Media- $4,373,500

    Nation Media Group (Kenya) – $4,073,194

    Le Monde (France)- $4,014,512

    Bhekisisa (South Africa) – $3,990,182

    El País – $3,968,184

    BBC- $3,668,657

    CNN- $3,600,000

    KCET- $3,520,703

    Population Communications International (population.org) – $3,500,000

    The Daily Telegraph – $3,446,801

    Chalkbeat – $2,672,491

    The Education Post- $2,639,193

    Rockhopper Productions (U.K.) – $2,480,392

    Corporation for Public Broadcasting – $2,430,949

    UpWorthy – $2,339,023

    Financial Times – $2,309,845

    The 74 Media- $2,275,344

    Texas Tribune- $2,317,163

    Punch (Nigeria) – $2,175,675

    News Deeply – $1,612,122

    The Atlantic- $1,403,453

    Minnesota Public Radio- $1,290,898

    YR Media- $1,125,000

    The New Humanitarian- $1,046,457

    Sheger FM (Ethiopia) – $1,004,600

    Al-Jazeera- $1,000,000

    ProPublica- $1,000,000

    Crosscut Public Media – $810,000

    Grist Magazine- $750,000

    Kurzgesagt – $570,000

    Educational Broadcasting Corp – $506,504

    Classical 98.1 – $500,000

    PBS – $499,997

    Gannett – $499,651

    Mail and Guardian (South Africa)- $492,974

    Inside Higher Ed.- $439,910

    BusinessDay (Nigeria) – $416,900

    Medium.com – $412,000

    Nutopia- $350,000

    Independent Television Broadcasting Inc. – $300,000

    Independent Television Service, Inc. – $300,000

    Caixin Media (China) – $250,000

    Pacific News Service – $225,000

    National Journal – $220,638

    Chronicle of Higher Education – $149,994

    Belle and Wissell, Co. $100,000

    Media Trust – $100,000

    New York Public Radio – $77,290

    KUOW – Puget Sound Public Radio – $5,310

    Together, these donations total $166,216,526.






  • The better, correct term is, “resuming regular collection.” This is just what is expected no? The abnormal behaviour was the pause on repayments. Which contextually made sense.

    If I default on a loan, a bank can totally garnish my wages if I do not or refuse to pay it back. How is this any different? Was there ever an expectation of not paying back a loan they signed up on?

    Hell, they could do much worse, a bank could recall the loan in full, and without means, to pay they could take all my assets by court order. This is not being done here. Which is much better. Worse case could be jail time which won’t happen here as far as I read here and elsewhere.









  • It all comes down to how “techie,” you are. If you want something safe, than Debian is fine. All you have to do is not use Debian Stable and use Debian Sid. There are also many other Debian based distros that are excellent for new comers. Many are likely to recommend you Mint, which is a fine distro for people how are new to Linux.

    OpenSUSE is pretty good if you are into rolling releases. Fedora is excellent if you want to be building your own apps from source and know how to use the proper flags when building. However, if you want something that is a bit faster and simpler to use, then I would suggest something else.

    If you want something independent and you say that you know your way around computers then either Arch or something Arch based, so you are not going full on KISS. In the end, it all comes down to how much of a DIY system do you want and much of a system you want to just work. Do you wan it be rock solid or with a higher chance of breakage.

    Personally if you want to go pure, then go Debian Sid, it is a good mix of rock solid along with some newer packages and it is way more stable --statically speaking, or sort of-- than Ach. Again, this is anecdotal as you will have a number of people say that they had been on Arch for a while without any issues. So, people’s mileage may carry.

    On one of my old machines, I have been testing Q4OS and Mabox, which are Debian based and Arch based respectably and they have been border line perfect for years. Q4OS uses KDE out of the box. Mabox uses Openbox, so it might not be something you are looking for. Both are very light on resources which you can use for running all the apps you want.

    However if you have copious amounts of RAM and you want something a little more known, then check out Mint, or NixOS. The latter requires a bit of a learning curve but if you already work with computers, and have no issue reading documentation then you won’t find it difficult.




  • Exactly. There is no such thing as rights in that context as we have seen governments take them and be force to relinquish them throughout history. Everything can be taken or revoked.

    Inalienable rights are a pipe dream of idealistic, naive people who have never lived in the real world where these so-called Rights had be fought or died for.

    Just look at the current state of the the UK, their PM proudly stated that 400 were arrested for posting shit online. WTF? In Germany a man was charged for calling a fat, obese politician ‘fat.’ The UK wants to become a nanny state, for your protection, you see. Same with Germany and others. They are literally and slowly coping the CCP police state model.

    In the USA, in some States is now literally Illegal to NOT do business with Israel. But you want to not do business with Canada or Mexico, then go right ahead. Nobody cares. Gee, I wonder who is funding these policians, AIPAC? Yes.