In Other News

[Kidlicious]

Democrats be like, "Don't attack her religion but make people wonder if she's a rapist."

[Kidlicious]

Senator Hirono asked ACB if she ever raped anyone.

[Uncle Sparky]

North Korea has a *new* intercontinental ballistic missile... obviously Obama's fault. He didn't treat Jong-Un with the love and respect Trump did;

[Aeson]

Sadly in almost all cases of donations without restrictions it has been poorly used or fostered dependency. (My own experience receiving gifts included. Earned money is more precious than found money.)

Of course it has to be a good wage, something that they can see continually improving their life, not just a crap deadend job for crap pay.

[Aeson]

They should have had a group given the same money as wages for some productive endeavor. Or better yet split it into a job group vs a entrepreneurial group. Then another group which is given housing and food directly.

Of course giving money to people will help them in comparison to giving them nothing. In my experience results in descending order of effectiveness at general increase in community welfare:

Work for pay
Work for share of product
Work for share of profit
In kind for needs
Loan for business idea
Loan for needs
Gift

We have always given no interest loans. Usually just on their word to repay. Usually no schedule. Sometimes when they can't pay they move into the work category.

Work for share of product has mostly been traditional rice harvest shares. It works very well here as it's what they are used to, and rice is so important. It may not work as well in other places or woth other product.

Loan for business can sometimes work very well, most of the time it crashes and burns.

[pchang]

In other news, perhaps the best way to help poor people is to give them money.

[Egbert]

Kidicious is still here PWNing *****.

[The Mad Monk]

Did Kid get banned, or did he scamper when Trump got covid?

[Uncle Sparky]

NHL Hockey seemed to work. But that was in Canada. The 'bubbles' weren't breached, no-one played silly buggers about the need for social distancing and isolation, it just happened, Over a 3 month period, with over two dozen teams with their families (in some cases), operations staff, refs, reporters, hotel, restaurant, housekeeping and transportation staff, there were ZERO cases in the Edmonton bubble and ZERO in the Toronto bubble.

I really think it helped not to have ANY asshat politicians trying to score points through misinformation and derision.

[Dinner]

... and basketball, and hockey. Any other sports to cancel in the US? I wonder if Trump will speak to this tonight?

No need to cancel anything. Their ratings are collapsing anyway. It turns out people just want a bit of escapism, to tune out and enjoy the game, so bombarding then with divisive and untrue political propaganda makes them turn the tv off.

[BeBMan]

[Uncle Sparky]

Happy Reunification Day Germany!

You have one of the most stable democracies on earth!

[-Jrabbit]

Almost certainly, though the article only identifies as an "old TV" and says the owner was "mortified." But I did learn a new acronym in the process:
SHINE, or Single High-level Impulse Noise Emission, in which an appliance emits electrical interference that impacts broadband connectivity, typically when being powered up.

[pchang]

I am guessing it was a really old TV with vacuum tube display.

[-Jrabbit]

An entire village lost its broadband at the same time every day for 18 months.
Now we know why.

Unsurprisingly, this story originates in Wales.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/22/uk/ol...gbr/index.html