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Faith organizations have a complex relationship to disaster relief
  • To be fair, I think it always has been. Think about the unimaginable wealth the Catholic Church has amassed over the past couple of centuries.

    I saw something recently that the Trinity Church in New York by itself has like $7 billion in assets.

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    Anyone else here that stopped watching TV almost completely?
  • I have YouTube TV and only use it for sports.

    I'll go one step further and say I haven't watched a new, regular network television show in at least a decade. Who has time to watch 20-something episodes each season - with much of that time spent on fluff story lines that only exist so the show can fill a time slot for 22/23 weeks a year?

    Here's a great example: Lost.

    At the time it was amazing. But there was also a lot of unnecessary BS in there because, frankly, they needed to fill time. If you go and look, almost all of the top rated episodes for the series were the last handful of episodes at the end of the season.

    Now imagine if they took that show and made 10/13 episode seasons out of it.

    I think you could make the same case for most network TV shows. Even if they were amazing at 23 episodes, they'd be even better at 10 or 13.

    A great example IMO is Friday Night Lights. Amazing show overall, but that first season was just too long. Then because of a variety of reasons, they moved to 13-15 episodes a season (instead of 23 in season one), and the show excelled.

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  • If you're looking for a VPN, check out Mullvad.

    It's just €5 / $5.25 / £4.15 a month. They haven't changed that price since launching in 2009. So they've also been around a while. Does everything you need a VPN to do. And they're based in Sweden, which seems to have some good privacy rules. They also don't keep logs.

  • Panicked CEOs left 'scratching their heads' as Trump ignores their warnings: WSJ
  • Might be a bit of a contrarian take, but at this point I think Trump needs to have a gigantic fuck up to drive people to the streets in anger, South Korea style. One of those 'we need our medicine before we can get better' moments.

    For some reason tens of millions of people buy his "'I'm the greatest - only I can save you - they're evil and stupid" rhetoric.

    So it's going to take a truly epic fuck up that he can't bullshit his way out of - and that the media can't ignore - for people to finally see that him and his cronies are all gigantic pieces of shit.

  • Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
  • Yeah because somebody as motivated as the shooter in Manhattan will totally be deterred by removing the "Our Team" pages from your website.

    Talk about focusing on the wrong thing. How about instead of worrying about how to hide the names of your executives you instead have a meeting where you decide to be an ethical company that balances the needs of the shareholder with the needs of your customers.

    Novel idea, I know.

  • Trump Plans Tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico That Could Cripple Trade
  • How many times has he used this 'caravan of migrants' baseless claim?

    For those scoring at home, Canada, Mexico and China account for 1/3rd of our imports. Such a tariff would have some pretty significant inflationary implications.

    The impact this will have on oil and gas alone. 62% of our petroleum imports come from Canada and Mexico. And 70% of our crude oil imports.

  • Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry
  • Back during the Napster days, Howard Stern had the Foo Fighters on. He asked them what their thought of the whole Napster vs. Metallica legal debate.

    Dave Grohl told him he was 100 percent for Napster, explaining that they barely made a dime from record sales, and instead made the bulk of their money from touring and t-shirt sales. And that very few musicians were in the same boat as Metallica, actually making money from their album sales.

    So from that point of view, the more people who were exposed to their music meant the more folks who might want to go see them in concert.

  • Far-right candidate takes shock lead in Romania presidential election
  • The Western world really needs to start doing something about Russian propaganda and money in our politics. Or it is going to eat us from the inside out.

    I think you start by arresting anybody who takes Russian money to influence elections for treason. Grab a few high profile folks like that, and the house of cards starts to crumble.

  • The Enshitification of CVS

    There's a crime wave at CVS, but you're being lied to about who's behind it. The company is under-staffing stores, underpaying workers, and forcing pharmacists to chase money at the expense of patient safety. “I’m afraid I’m going to kill someone,” said one pharmacist.

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