imperious_melange

Is it a sweet or dill problem?

I think the issue people have, particularly if they have traveled there is that in many locations there isn't the same sense of public cleanliness. There are poorer nations that are very clean so it's not necessarily an issue of money, but an issue of desire. Not to single India out, there are many places that have chosen to not do waste management.

And also the terrifying effects of corruption and local governments not using their resources appropriately. Trust me, the money is there, it's just not used to help the poor. 2025 GDP Congo was $125B, Uganda $66B, Tanzania $87B, Kenya $135B, Rwanda $16B. These aren't financially helpless nations, the issue is corruption and that local politicians simply do not care. For reference the pay for a general practitioner is as low as $400 per month and $150 for a nurse so $1B could be extremely effective even across multiple nations. The problem is 90% of the money finds its way into management's pockets before ever reaching the actual problem.

USAID was helpful but nations also depended on it to such a degree they never planned for it not being there. They just assumed the money would always come so never allotted any government spending for it.

Yes but also no.

Cool, not like there's a mass extinction happening currently and possibly a full biosphere collapse. This is the second time an organism has caused a mass extinction but the first time it self proclaimed it was intelligent.

Different strokes for different folks, if it don't tickle your pickle that's fine.

So a gap of about 250M to 350M deaths. That would change the statistic to 0.6% to 1% of all deaths since 1899. Most people who have died are in the latter half of 1899 to now so that makes sense the difference is within the rounding error.

So a gap of about 250M to 350M deaths. That would change the statistic to about 0.6% to 1% of all deaths since 1899. Of course it did change the result but not within the rounding error.

Kinda hilarious when you read it like that with the username.

I wonder if there are any completely FOSS and non-profit SBC organizations / hardware. Maybe something with a RISC-V chip. Seems like there's more than enough interest. With some research it looks like there's the beaglebone but isn't blob free and the olimex but they are a for-profit.

I would say the new social network addiction but yes, another dopamine trap.

Same game, new field. Social networks and smartphones were the more recent dopamine traps.