He does give money to politicians and the Gates Foundation does as well:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/bill-melinda-gates-foundation/summary?topnumcycle=2024&toprecipcycle=2024&lobcycle=2024&outspendcycle=2024&id=D000031958&contribcycle=2024

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?cand=&cycle=&employ=Gates+Foundation&name=William+Gates&order=asc&sort=N&state=&zip=

While the goal post keeps moving, it’s the opposite of your statement. As explained in the article:

That target would represent a doubling in spending for the nonprofit, which has disbursed more than $US100 billion since it was co-founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in 2000. Originally, the foundation was set to close 20 years after the Microsoft co-founder’s death.

“I have decided to give my money back to society much faster than I had originally planned,” Gates, 69, wrote in a statement. “I will give away virtually all my wealth through the Gates Foundation over the next 20 years to the cause of saving and improving lives around the world.”

How much would his estate taxes be vs giving up 99% of his fortune?

Same, I read enough about Trump in other communities. I’d like this community to focus on more uplifting stories.

Could you imagine if they had just walked all the way to Mordor?

Found some of the footage from the rescue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQz5RBKUsA

Yeah, that makes sense. I agree, I wish this was such a common thing that it wasn’t even newsworthy.

But for now I’m glad that some news organizations have started categories that focus on positive news stories like this. This one in particular is part of the Guardian’s “Kindness of Strangers” series. It looks like they started this series about 6 months ago.

I think these teens went above and beyond more than just “being kind to strangers”.

For the next few months, those teenagers were such a great help to me. Anytime I crutch-walked past them they would ask how I was and if I needed a hand with anything. They took my bins out for me and if they saw me at the corner store, they would let me cut in line ahead of them, so I didn’t have to stand around waiting as long.

I think my favorite quote from Richard Munoz was:

A lot of people were kind to me during that injury experience – and a few weren’t kind at all! – but by far the most helpful were those teens.

Stories like this absolutely have a place in the news (and especially in this community) as hopefully it inspires others to go above and beyond in being kind to strangers.

Well, they were able to lift it back up.

Damnit, I just lost the game.
I had a 5 month streak going that time. So far my longest winning streak was a little over a year (from when I started actually tracking it).

For those wondering where he finally draws the line with Trump, it’s Trump’s statements about deporting citizens to El Salvador.

Yeah, but we can all see the model logs and what you both are actually saying.
Pretending that this is about “calling out a deleted comment” and ignoring the part where you insulted the mod is being disingenuous.

I cropped out the screenshot here:

Well… The word “FAIRLY” was written in all caps.

Also American, I had something similar happen with an Ambulance. I did not get transported, but they still charged $2700. So, it might depend on where you live, or which ambulance company responded to the call.

Don’t worry, we didn’t give them the idea. Ford filed for a patent to do exactly this in 2021 and published it in 2023.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/03/1160932390/ford-patent-repossession-self-driving-cars

Is anyone else bothered by the last panel where they suddenly switch places?

The point of this research was to avoid even that.

It’s pretty awesome that it even breaks down in soil:

In soil, sheets of the new plastic degraded completely over the course of 10 days, supplying the soil with phosphorous and nitrogen similar to a fertilizer.

Then maybe introduce some incentives to make up for that 7% or else force their hand by introducing steep penalties for any plastics that are used which aren’t up to a higher standard like this… Or a little bit of both.

Good thing Nancy can leave a bad review and walk down the street to the next Ice Cream shop where they don’t do this.