Today’s richer nation plunder poorer nations through skilled migration. You may have heard of it as “brain drain” - the plunder of people who know modern science, and the techniques of industrial production.
Industrialised nations maintain their place in the world by having other, poorer, countries subsidise the raising and training of doctors, nurses, engineers and accountants.
If you know them, they know you too, and they are sharing with you for a reason. But if you’re unsure how best to support them - ask this:
“Would you like me you think through potential risks and pitfalls, or are you looking for emotional support?”
If they answer the former, go right ahead and challenge them. If the latter then share your hopes for their success. Sometimes they know they have blind spots and they need your help before investing too much effort in the idea, sometimes they just want to share their enthusiasm.
The article suggests the 100% lottery fee goes to BAH, but I found out part of it goes to the BLM.
"Of the $9 [lottery fee], $5 ultimately goes to Booz Allen and $4 goes to the Bureau of Land Management, which manages the site, a BLM spokesman said."
I love pen and paper but I just took a look at the Build Back Better bill and it's almost 2500 pages with I'm guessing thousands of edits by hundreds of parties. Pen and paper wouldn't be my first choice for this task
You can get into the iPhone or Android and copy the SQLite database to your computer.
The images can be tricky - some form of reference to the image in your phone, hard to put together; otherwise the messages in all the chats are in the database, navigable by a SQLite client.
Speaking from personal experience porting messages from iPhone to Android.
Industrialised nations maintain their place in the world by having other, poorer, countries subsidise the raising and training of doctors, nurses, engineers and accountants.