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it's always a hit or miss with appalachian charities. a lot are just evangelism with no action behind what they do. i suggest looking into them before donating.

operation airdrop

nc community foundation

mountain projects

homeward bound

manna food bank

Because profit has to always increase, companies which have attained monopoly status have to turn to increasingly tenuous and speculative means of increasing profit.

Microsoft slams its own dick in the car door over and over because they can’t (by the logic of corporate America) keep doing the same thing they do well (for a given quantity of “well”) because that will not increase profits.

Stable profits are worse than losing money in the modern economy. If you’re losing money you can spin it as “loss leading” (not what it means! But that doesn’t matter) or “investing in our future.” This is the Uber model.

But Microsoft has been around too long and is too established a player for it to be plausible to stockholders. What Microsoft has to do, then, is dominate every single new technology, which they are fundamentally unable to do because they’ve been the only player in their home market for 35 years.

Reuters news agency reported, citing both a security source and an eyewitness, that the devices involved in Wednesday’s explosions were portable radios, unlike the pagers that were attacked the previous day. Al-Mayadeen reported that the devices, apparently ICOM V82s, detonated, and “due to the devices containing highly flammable lithium batteries, the explosions were severe.” “The explosions caused massive fires in cars, motorcycles, apartments, and stores all over Lebanon,” the report added.

Several residential buildings and shops are on fire. Nine people have been killed so far, and hundreds more are wounded.

People with family in Lebanon are now receiving texts and calls from their loved ones telling them not to worry if they don't hear from them for a few days, as they're scared their phones might be rigged with explosives.