Elon Musk says he’ll sell Tesla stock if UN can show how the money will solve world hunger
Billionaire Elon Musk was responding to a UN official’s claims that uber-rich could help feed the globe’s starving
“ Let’s talk numbers. According to a 2018 report from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), estimates range from $7 billion to $265 billion per year.
But wait, that’s a difference of nearly $260 billion. Why is the range so large and what do those numbers actually mean?
Well, it’s a matter of different approaches. The $7 billion approach focuses on reducing malnutrition, while the $265 billion approach aims to end hunger by first tackling the issue of poverty.”
So - you could easily end malnutrition Elon.
You dickish moron.
Elon Musk says he’ll sell Tesla stock if UN can show how the money will solve world hunger
It can also be used to pay his damn taxes. The fucking deadbeat.
I think what he is looking for is how the UN can put him, and only him, in charge of solving world hunger. He will never give up that money to someone else.
“I have determined that the best solution to world hunger is to build farms on Mars, which I will now proceed to do using free colonists indentured serfs. This is a complete coincidence.”
Elon Musk invents nerve stapling, but he will only use it on people who volunteered by having signed a contract that says Musk can change the terms of the contract at any time. Colonists are free to not have nerve stapling, and can voluntarily leave the Mars base at any time. All space suits are property of Elon Musk and must be returned before leaving.
How to explain this for the non-Antipodeans?
Australia had a contact with France to build submarines, worth $90 billion dollars. (I’m presuming Australian Dollars. Then, one day, Scott Morrison, the Australian PM, had a televised Zoom call with Boris Johnston and President Biden announcing, without warning, that there was a new alliance in town, and also Australia would be buying nuclear-powered submarines from America, knowing full well that this would anger both friends (like New Zealand) and not-friends (like China), and also that we would no longer be buying those submarines from France.
Qu’est-ce qu’il a dit? said Macron, who found out about all this when he heard about the announcement, where Biden famously forgot the name of one of the world leaders he was making this deal with. (Australians do not hold this as a sign of Biden being particularly forgetful, most of us wish we could forget who he is as well).
It turned out that Morrison (known as “Scomo” to his friends, and “Scotty from Marketing” to those others who are being polite, and you really don’t want to know what the people who aren’t being polite call him), had let Macron know before the meeting. By text message. And that Biden had assumed that Morrison, who was the leader of the country with the contract and all, would have these details all in hand, and was himself deeply embarrassed that Morrison had so thoroughly screwed the pooch. (No Australian was in the least bit surprised by any of this.)
Nobody cares what Boris thinks.
Barnaby Joyce is the leader of the National Party, which is in permanent coalition with the Australian Liberal Party (which is in no way “liberal” as most other places understand the term. The coalition is mostly full of grifters, spivs, chancers, the deeply out-of-their-depth, and the barking at the moon nutcases, and the National Party part of it even more so. The Nationals are “agrarian socialists”, which means “socially conservative, and economically conservative, and anti-progressive on all fronts except the idea that all farmers should be subsidised.” Except that they’ve followed the trend of “conservative” somehow now meaning “climate change doesn’t exist, and neither would racism if those aboriginals would stop complaining about it.” And “farmers” now means “mining companies, whether iron or coal, plus massive cotton farms on the driest continent save Antarctica”. Being the “rural and regional” party means they have to make a big deal about being “from the bush” and knowing what it’s like to be a farmer, so they tend to affect wearing akubra hats (the Australian equivalent of a stetson) and brushing away flies. Most of them wouldn’t know a farm if one bit them. Barnaby himself is an accountant.
The general reaction in Australia to Barnaby Joyce (who, as leader of the National Party in government, is automatically the Deputy Prime Minister and is in charge while Morrison’s embarrassing the nation at the G20 and in Glasgow), is “Oh for god’s sake, man, stop ‘helping’.”
Reporter: Do you think he [Scott Morrison] lied to you?"
Emmanuel Macron: I do not think, I know.
Prime Minister Kishida (who assumed office at the beginning of this month) held a snap Diet election yesterday (isn’t it neat how Japan has elections on Sundays) and, while the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (which is none of those three things) maintained its majority, the sitting General Secretary, Akira (ETA: Typo Correction) Amari, lost his seat. This is the first time a sitting party general secretary has lost their seat in the Diet in an election.
I was surprised that the LDP had a woman as general secretary.
But, the search results returned only an anime character and then i noticed that it was a typo.
Thanks for pointing that out. My phone always autocorrects names.
Well, that’s depressing. The message from the voters is “Yeah, we voted the hideously corrupt previous government out, but you haven’t managed to fix everything in two years while also dealing with this whole pandemic thing, so we’re going back to voting for them”
Let’s hope folks in other countries don’t repeat that mistake! 
Given that most countries found their ruling party getting a bump no matter how incompetent they were. Kind of like a wartime patriotism thing, I expect very little pushback from the voters.
I mean Trump was utterly awful anyway so he’s a bit of an exception. Look at the UK. Their government was, empirically, one of the very worst in the world and they are utterly unshakeable in their grip on power. Ours were definitely in the second rank of shitness, only because the competition was so very tough in the shitty government stakes and I would bet they are likely to do slightly better if there was an election now (Feb 2020 was the last) - barring the green party who will cease to exist. Despite the fact that in the issues that caused the right wing parties to have to pool together to form a government (which they are historically averse to) they have continued to perrm dreadfully. Housing and health were the reason they lost so many seats. Worse now.
To be fair, not like Labour is offering much in way of contrast. They are basically just slightly less evil Tory policies at this point… More slightly defrosted Thatcherism for the masses…
Yeah but at least Corbyn is out so now they are electable.
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