And how is the money gonna get to the foundation to cover funding when the government walks away? Fund raising? That’s what has been happening. There are people whose sole job is to raise funding for the foundation. Now they don’t need to. They are going to find other jobs. The people that donated are gonna find other things to donate to. The government has captured it.
The money is raised. Half was raised, half was state-funded. Now it’s 100% state. Those private donors aren’t going to hang around with their money just waiting. They are going to fund other programs. Now, when the government decides to gut funding, like Missouri and Indiana did, there isn’t anyone there to get it going again.
The government is taking over the funding. 100% of it. Do you think the foundation is going to keep a rainy day fund for when it needs to start funding the program again? That isn’t how non-profits work at all. This is now government capture. They get to push GOP morality with Dolly’s face on it.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here.
Privately funded with what? The government is going from paying for half to paying for it all. They aren’t doubling the funding output, they are capturing the entirety of the funding. I’m not sure how everyone is missing this.
Let’s say that I pay for half of your gas in your car (also assuming you drive). Now, let’s say Dolly Parton pays for the other half. Well, now Dolly is gone, and I’m paying for the whole amount. When the funding was split, you could say that you were taking a road trip, and it would be likely that one of us would pay even if the other didn’t like it. Now, if you take a road trip where I don’t want you to go, I can just refuse to pay for it.
Ok. What happens when the state says, “If you don’t do what we want, we’ll stop funding.”
Her foundation pays for overhead, book curation, admin costs, licensing deals, negotiating wholesale pricing for the books, coordinates mailing, etc
So… this is what the government now controls, right?
Following today’s announcement from Tennessee legislative leaders, Governor’s Early Literacy Foundation (GELF) is celebrating a proposed investment.
Because Dolly’s efforts were non-partisan, and in this way the GOP can exert control over what books go out.
((GELF) clap)
And women used to be burned at the stake because society didn’t like them, now they just get paid lower wages. It’s called progress…
Edit: I guess we aren’t doing dark sarcasm in the classroom today, huh?
If only we had something larger to watch videos on. Something near a chair or a couch so we could be comfy. It’s have to be real big, though. At least 26 inches, but maybe even up to 70. Fuck. I guess that’s just a dream, though.
Dozens! Did you hear? Dozens!
We’re gonna have to burn it all down…
I love fractals. So much so that they are the basis of magic in the book I’m writing. This website is wonderful, but holy hell, don’t click the music button.
Yeah, the fact that they are using bespoke parts, but still barely come in above the independent build cost tells me that they aren’t raking billions off of this. I’m fine with the price. Expensive, yes, but so is everything else.
They do give a shit about what the collective is doing, which is ironic, because the people that want things to change are the people that stop Microsoft from seeing what they are doing. When the power user opts out of letting Microsoft see how they use Windows, it pushes Windows user base more towards the center, as Microsoft sees it. So, when a feature is lost, a user can’t claim that the feature was load bearing because their use-case is self-muted. Of course, you can always just switch to Linux and hope whatever feature you want has enough support from the community to maintain status in the kernel, but that’s just trading one engineer for the other.
It feels so needlessly aggressive. Valve openly stated that there are alternatives to the Steam Machine, and they aren’t trying to own the market. Calling your prebuilt the “Steamroller” is kind of a dickhead move. That’s like Del Taco coming out with a deep friend taco shell and calling it “Fuck your Chalupa, bitch.”
ITT: People who have no idea how marketing and advertising work.
Can we get Alan Wake 2 on Steam, pls?
This spy ain’t spy enough for the spy of us!
Number 2 is my bet. Gotta keep the ratings up through midterms.
I hope your view of the world is the one that prevails, for all our sake.