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I wont say an exception is not possible, but billionaires do not donate money. They buy control over something that is important to them. If there are exceptions I have not seen them. Every time you see a billionaire being a philanthropist and actually giving a significant percent of their money look a bit deeper and you will find them actually buying control, not giving money away.
A prime example is Bill Gates. Well known as a philanthropist, primarily for his large scale donation to education. Except what actually happened is he essentially bought a sharing control in the US education system and proceeded to fucked it up terribly. I will believe his intentions were good, but frankly that doesnāt matter. He fucked it up because he is a billionaire and billionaires just canāt give up control. It is how they became billionaires in the first place, it is baked into their minds.
They just canāt accept that Notre Dame isnāt for sell. Because that is what ādonationsā mean to billionaires. They want to buy a controlling stake in something that they care about, and they have been doing so long they think that this is philanthropy. Because it makes sense to them that if they are going to invest *their* money that they should make sure it is done right. But they generally have no fucking idea what they are doing when it comes to these things.
Anyway if billionaires actually wanted to help the first thing they need to do is let go of their control and pay god damn taxes.
Yeah, thatās why you donāt excuse ādonationsā as a reason why the rich shouldnāt pay more in taxes. This is exactly why we need their help funding essential services through TAXES. So THEY stay out of what DOES NOT belong to them.
Here is the guardian article
Bear this in mind when you see people creaming their jeans over Twitter Jackās supposed massive COVIDĀ ādonationā.
For some reason a bird speaking Japanese is mildly off putting.
> Literal translation
Bird:ā āUhm Hello, this is the Ono family.ā
Bird: āWhatās wrong?ā
Owner: āAbe-chan, youāre a little too early. Once the phoneās picked up, then properly say hello.ā
Bird: āOkay, understood.ā
Owner: āDo you really understand? Iām counting on you. Hello, this is the Ono family residence in Gifu.ā]
Bird: āOkay, I understand!ā
Owner: āGot it.ā
> Thatās clearly some sort of Pokemon.
> Off-putting? Itās like birds were meant to speak Japanese!
> For some reason itās never occurred to me that birds can mimic languages other than English. Itās so cool, though!
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Prairies are some of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, with the tallgrass prairie being the most endangered. Only 1-4% of tallgrass prairie still exists. Prairies are critically important, not only for the unique biodiversity they possess, but for their effect on climate. The ability to store carbon is a valuable ecological service in todayās changing climate. Carbon, which is emitted both naturally and by human activities such as burning coal to create electricity, is a greenhouse gas that is increasing in the Earthās atmosphere. Reports from the International Panel on Climate Change, a group of more than 2,000 climate scientists from around the world, agree that increased greenhouse gases are causing climate change, which is leading to sea level rise, higher temperatures, and altered rain patterns. Most of the prairieās carbon sequestration happens below ground, where prairie roots can dig into the soil to depths up to 15 feet and more. Prairies can store much more carbon below ground than a forest can store above ground. In fact, the prairie was once the largest carbon sink in the world-much bigger than the Amazon rainforest-and its destruction has had devastating effects.
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I just have to addāthat extensive root system? Itās not just how the plant eats, and how it keeps itself from getting pulled out of the ground during storms, or dying when its aboveground portion is eaten⦠itās how it talks to its friends and family, how it shares food with its friends and family, and more than likely, how it thinks. Thatās a whole plant brain weāve domesticated away, leaving a helpless organism that has trouble figuring out when itās under attack by pests, what to do about it, has very little in the way of chemical defense so it can do something about it, and canāt even warn its neighbors. Even apart from the ecological concerns, what weāve done is honestly pretty cruel.
Hereās some more articles on this too! https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/02/plants-talk-to-each-other-through-their-roots http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet
https://www.the-scientist.com/features/plant-talk-38209
Whether or not you think this should qualify as a form of āintelligenceā as we know it (which in itself as a pretty nebulous and poorly defined thing), plants exhibit complicated interactive behaviors that help them grow and thrive, and the way we harvest a lot of them for our produce just doesnāt even give them a chance to reach their maturity and begin trading nutrients the way theyāre supposed to.
this is why I get so defensive about grass on Tumblr, and yes, I recognize how ridiculous that sentence is. The anti-lawn-culture movement - which is great in many ways! - is very anti-grass, because they think of grass as this plastic green stuff that American dads spray on everything, at the cost of Perfect Beautiful Nature. But grass is incredible. The reason that people commonly like to surround themselves with grass is because it is a fantastic plant.Ā And yet itās associated with the boring and mundane! People think of it as, like, background noise. They think of it as the floor. Itās like some kind of carpet to them, to be complained about occasionally because it isnāt a forest or vegetable garden. They donāt even care about it, and then they complain about it. But let me tell you: the Grass Fandom is extremely rewarding.
Obviously, it isnāt a good idea to terraform landscapes into lawns. Golf courses can fuck right off. Nobody needs to water lawns (if lawn grass turns yellow in the heat, it is almost always because it has simply gone dormant; itāll turn green as soon as it gets some water. You donāt need to water it, it will resurrect itself.) But neither is it a universally good idea to rip up established lawns and yards and greens in order to replace them with vegetable gardens or whatever (unless you need to, or if the grass can only live there with extensive life support in place.) Grass is an excellent plant to have around the home or town; it allows pets, poultry and children to play and piss and shit and walk, and it kindly breaks all of it down; you can walk on it, and it forgives you; it prevents erosion, saving our vanishing topsoil with a ferocious stubbornness; it locks the moisture into the ground, produces a renewable harvest of grass clippings that can be composted for rich green manure, and respires nearly year-round in some areas.
I mean, grass resists being stomped on all day! It keeps high-traffic outdoor areas from becoming mudpits or dusty swathes! Thatās seriously impressive in a plant. To replace that durability in public and private spaces, youād often have to lay down gravel or chippings for people to walk on, which isnāt green and doesnāt grow and has to be acquired from somewhere. Isnāt grass impressive? Name another type of plant that will carry you like that.
Like, the OP mentions grasslands and climate change. You almost never hear about this, because the eco-public prefers the concept of trees as the Most Eco Plants Ever. Everyone loves trees sooooo much, that there is this constant background insistence that planting loads of trees will fix environmental damage forever, and that the world would be better if it all looked like some Eurocentric fantasy of a mossy fairy forest.
Now, trees are great! I am also in the tree fandom. But trees arenāt hugely efficient at fixing carbon - and across most geographical swathes of the planet, they only work part-time. They only grab carbon dioxide and produce oxygen during the stages of their life cycles when they areĀ āawakeā and actively growing - so not during winter, not in their old age, etc. And contrast with wild native grass, which apparently considers carbon capture and sequestration to be its favorite hobby. But you almost never hear people going on about āpreserving grasslandā or beingĀ āgrass-huggersā - and that is incredibly important! Letās talk more about grass!
Ā And vast tracts of the world - magnificent biomes on every part of the planet - are not native forests, but native grassland. Steppes, tundras, prairies, savannahs and scrublands are places that trees donāt dominate, but they are bursting with important and diverse life - often centered around the rhythms of native grasses. Trees donāt live in Antarctica, but grasses do! Grasses are GREAT. They harbor life! They support life!
Grass forms the basis of the human food supply - we eat grains more than anything else. Grains are grasses, and we also use and eat the animals that eat grass. The great domesticated cereal grains of the world - maize, rice, millet, wheat - allowed for food storage, which allowed towns and civilizations to form. And the domesticated animals which have carried our societies on their backs for so long - cows, sheep, horses - all eat grass. Grass is so incredibly important to our daily lives. And itās beautiful! And complicated! And clever! Itās so much more than a floor covering.
Resist the insistence that grass = lawn. (and in some climates and geographies, embrace that ālawnsā are a natural environment.) Encourage and celebrate the native grasses of your area! Whether theyāre tallgrass or bamboo, they are very exciting and important. Perhaps youād like to meet the nearest patch of grass - a lawn, a park, or a strip of green in a city. Is it delicate bentgrass? Tough and resilient ryegrass? Is it invasive? indigenous? Formerly invasive but now naturalized? What is it used for? Who loves it?
Just. Grass is so great! Join the Grass Fandom today!
Itās a grassroots movement
This is so beautifully written.

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Oh my God what did he do fucking donate CPAP machines? Because a CPAP is basically a less powerful ventilator and when you exhale it blows your breath all over the room
Oh no I was right he sent them jury rigged CPAP machines

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the tarantula really saidĀ āmy work here is doneā and ended it all huh
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