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=

What do you have against massages? I find them relaxing.

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.

You get ads even if you pay for the more expensive ad-free subscription.

At least those seem to be rare, only at the beginning, and they let you skip, but it's frustrating that you have to do that at all.

From the article:

On Tuesday morning, The Liberty Hotel said it has finished an investigation into the incident and "the security officer is being suspended from their position." It said all staff are being retrained "on inclusive practices and guest interaction protocols." The hotel is also making a donation to a local LGBTQ+ organization.

He's following you, about 30 feet back.

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.

I know that this is an ongoing thing between these 2 countries, but it always makes me nervous when I remember that they both have a nuclear arsenal.

The title is missing a key point here:

US Supreme Court let's Trump's transgender military ban take effect | while appeals continue.

This isn't a final decision if you took it that way.

Some judges are allowing people to request to attend Zoom hearings because of these interruptions.

We want people to attend their hearings, but getting arrested for showing up is sending the wrong message. Especially so for for those who have a good case.

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).

They should just make it so that whatever they announce as their "earnings" to their stockholders should also be the amount that they are taxed for.

This is why you don't take on odd jobs from people contacting you remotely.

If your only job is to forward packages/letters/money sent to your home address (or to pick up packages from nearby addresses) and you get a cut of the money, you're probably a mule for money laundering.

If your only job is helping others from another country (they will like about where they're actually from) get through interview/hiring processes, you're probably working with countries like this.

If they want to use your name for a job application, you don't have to do any work, and they will send you most of the paycheck, you're probably working with countries like this.

It's "constitutional" because they're accusing the "money" of being used illegally. There's no actual person being accused here, but if you want to get your money back you'll need to prove it's innocence in court.

It's ridiculous. At least the Institute for Justice has been winning court cases against this, but there's still a long way to go: https://ij.org/issues/private-property/civil-forfeiture/

Edit: typo