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Daniel Batt
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I'm just this guy, you know.
could ramble about effective altruism). Coding and hacking rarely contribute to any monitoring and evaluation on aid or development projects. Let alone deciding whether an agency needs to be "fed into the wood-chipper". It must be a nightmare, where "the cruelty is the point" underlies everything. 2
February 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Anyone who's worked a while with a humanitarian organisation would be quite familiar with constant retraining and endless restructures. But there'd be precious few who would welcome a gaggle of post-teen disciples of a libertarian billionaires (even if he [it's always a he] . . . 1.
February 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Same here.🙏🙏🙏
February 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The OCCRP was the perfect group to tie all this together. They had exponentially more receipts than you had access to a decade ago. Edward Lucas was saying much the same things as you a decade ago, when The Economist let him. Francoise Thom (Desk Russie) & others were crying in the wilderness, too.
February 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted by Daniel Batt
Context:

Tesla’s market valuation is nuts. P/E ratio is 161, compared to 7-9 for other carmakers. That assumes *massive* profit growth b/c:

🔹 For years, sales skyrocketed in Europe, USA, & China
🔹 Musk was seen as a magician conjuring amazing products out of thin air

Neither is true anymore.
February 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
And semi-literate stoners the world over cry out in grief over that, Ed. (Actually, I spent over 5 days in the ICU on PCA ketamine and I became convinced the unit was running a secretive Kinsey-like sex lab under the nose of the hospital/society, and I alone could see the whole conspiracy.)
February 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
February 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Very much like the MSM covers Trump in the US. They're stenographers of bullshit, not journalists.
February 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
🎯🎯🎯🎯
February 12, 2025 at 6:07 AM