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The Leopards Eating Faces party is a real thing, guys.

I will never consider AI slop as art, it is only plagiarism.

I actually like these ones the best. My family used to have cool solstice gatherings with some friends. There was always a lemon poppyseed cake, and lots of candles.

I'm not sure we should put much faith in these scores.

I see Canada looking pretty yellow here, but we just had a provincial government call an early election and send out $200 bribe cheques. Sure they don't call it a bribe, but I haven't gotten a paper cheque from the government in years (direct deposit, yay) and now I have a paper cheque and a voter card showing up in my mailbox just days apart. It's getting pretty obvious over here.

This is a good point, well articulated and I agree with you.

When I say "it has nothing to do with responsibility" I'm thinking of what motivates the USA to provide this aid. Maybe I'm a cynic but I don't believe they would ever spend money in a foreign nation simply because it's the responsible thing to do.

But yeah, they are responsible for multiple reasons, as the ladder analogy explains, and as another commenter mentioned, for the part the USA and other privileged nations have played in creating the problems these aid programs are addressing, through colonialism and climate change. The USA specifically also did immeasurable damage to this part of the world going to war with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

This looks suspiciously like a map of whiteness.

The current israeli state is the anti-semite's greatest ally.

And likewise thanks for actually being curious and posing the question in good faith! We need more adult discussions.

The point of USAID is (was?) to project soft power, it's got nothing to do with responsibility.

Previous administrations figured it was worthwhile to run these aid programs. Good PR, or a vehicle/cover for more nefarious activities. People came to rely on it, and it getting pulled suddenly upsets things. The article does mention Thai hospitals picking up some of the slack, but presumably they aren't set up to take on all of the patients overnight, so inevitably the abruptness of the change leads to tragedies.

You gotta finish em, Brucie!