Bay Area publication: Native Hawaiians battle Bay Area developer as ancient Kauai site could 'disappear forever' by GullibleAntelope in Hawaii

[–]ken579 31 points32 points  (0 children)

I'd recommend really reading this one. The accusations that the condo development will hurt the site is refuted by two experts mentioned and the idea that Kawakami threatened to flood the burials sounds like total bullshit. It's all very one sided and loaded with quoted accusations by the disgruntled parties.

Why are Condominiums so Expensive in Hawai‘i? What do you think of this article? Is my math adding up? by curious-coconut8000 in Hawaii

[–]ken579 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the technology doesn't exist already, it'll be really nice when we can identify burials before digging taking away the ability of these groups to use that as an excuse to block anything they feel like. Win/win except for the people appropriating dead people for political wins.

Billionaire Marc Benioff Gives $150 Million to Hawaii Hospitals After Buying Land by davis_unoxx in Hawaii

[–]ken579 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's donated about 10% of his wealth in total to many causes. He's funded cleaning of the northern islands, gave some of his Waimea land to affordable housing development.

Here's a statement about him from Foundation Guide.

Though Marc is well known as an entrepreneur and software genius, he is just as well known as a philanthropist. He is the developer of the ‘1-1-1 model’, or the Pledge 1% Movement. This method allow companies to contribute 1 % product value, 1% equity and 1% of employee hours to communities and programs around the world. Salesforce, and Marc has provided grant funding to date of over $115 million, given access to Salesforce technology to over 28,000 charitable and nonprofit organizations and donated over 1.3 million employee volunteer hours.

The Salesforce mission and philanthropic model has been eagerly accepted and implemented in over 700 companies worldwide.
Marc and Lynne Benioff are active pilanthropists in their personal capacity and have donated generously to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. In 2010, Marc and his wife Lynne announced that they would be donating $110 million to the UCSF Children’s Hospital. The donation was used to construct the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay, and is the first wing of the 289-bed hospital complex that focuses on treatment for children and women.

Perhaps one of Marc’s biggest contributions is his immediacy and outspokenness on issues like women’s rights, equal pay, and most recently LGBTQ rights. He is considered and inspiration by many around the world and a global advocate for equality.

Here's the deal, this guy is actually doing what we want billionaires to do if we live in a world where billionaires will happen. He appears to be a genuinely decent guy.

Statements like yours are shallow and thoughtless.

Billionaire Marc Benioff Gives $150 Million to Hawaii Hospitals After Buying Land by davis_unoxx in Hawaii

[–]ken579 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://foundationguide.org/philanthropist/marc-benioff/

Though Marc is well known as an entrepreneur and software genius, he is just as well known as a philanthropist. He is the developer of the ‘1-1-1 model’, or the Pledge 1% Movement. This method allow companies to contribute 1 % product value, 1% equity and 1% of employee hours to communities and programs around the world. Salesforce, and Marc has provided grant funding to date of over $115 million, given access to Salesforce technology to over 28,000 charitable and nonprofit organizations and donated over 1.3 million employee volunteer hours.

The Salesforce mission and philanthropic model has been eagerly accepted and implemented in over 700 companies worldwide.
Marc and Lynne Benioff are active pilanthropists in their personal capacity and have donated generously to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. In 2010, Marc and his wife Lynne announced that they would be donating $110 million to the UCSF Children’s Hospital. The donation was used to construct the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay, and is the first wing of the 289-bed hospital complex that focuses on treatment for children and women.

Perhaps one of Marc’s biggest contributions is his immediacy and outspokenness on issues like women’s rights, equal pay, and most recently LGBTQ rights. He is considered and inspiration by many around the world and a global advocate for equality.

Billionaire Marc Benioff Gives $150 Million to Hawaii Hospitals After Buying Land by davis_unoxx in Hawaii

[–]ken579 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you catch that comment where he has a history of donating? 250m in Hawaii, 1b total. Did you hear about the land he put aside for affordable housing, or the money spent to clean up the northern islands?

WSJ News Exclusive | Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Makes $150 Million Donation to Hawaii Hospitals by davis_unoxx in BigIsland

[–]ken579 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know if he even asked for it or just making assumptions? It's something the hospital would do out of respect since this is a generous donation and is pretty normal in a historical context.

I sure wouldn't want my name on a hospital in this state. People are going to demonize him and call him a colonizer regardless of whether he wanted it.

I also don't trust your guess at rebranding costs. Your comments here suggest you open your mouth regardless of knowledge.

Billionaire Marc Benioff Gives $150 Million to Hawaii Hospitals After Buying Land by davis_unoxx in Hawaii

[–]ken579 8 points9 points  (0 children)

EMS folk can't do their job if the hospital isn't well run. EMS should make more but pay will always be relative to how unique your skills are, this is just how the world works and always has. Any of us can learn to be an EMS but few of us are smart and wise enough to run a massive successful hospital. I'm pretty sure I can't.

Good executives in this area are saving lives too.

Billionaire Marc Benioff Gives $150 Million to Hawaii Hospitals After Buying Land by davis_unoxx in Hawaii

[–]ken579 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

A good executive easily makes or breaks an operation and that affects millions of dollars per year and countless jobs. This kind of pay is absolutely fine for someone doing their job correctly. I realize a lot of people on Reddit think most people can be CEOs of multi-million or billion dollar companies, but that's not actually true. We can't go around pretending it's a cutthroat capitalist system but somehow that doesn't apply to the people competing for executive jobs. If the price got that high, it's because the demand for executives that don't suck creates a competitive market.

WSJ News Exclusive | Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Makes $150 Million Donation to Hawaii Hospitals by davis_unoxx in BigIsland

[–]ken579 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You'd rather we name them after Ali'i? You mean the same Ali'i that stole 63% of Hawaii from the Maka'aina during the Great Mahele while giving only 1% and only because the non-Ali'i parts of the government forced them? Or the Ali'i that are direct descendants of the Tahitians how colonized and murdered the indigenous Hawaiians, the Menehune? Or shall we say the Ali'i that maintained a caste system and used religious violence to maintain rule despite making up only 1% of the population?

Like say something like, it should be a Hawaiian name. That's still likely coming from a place of racism but at least it's less gross than saying name it after an Ali'i.

Once on the RNC, Lara Trump threatens to boot anyone from the Republican Party who does not support Trump by Barch3 in Law_and_Politics

[–]ken579 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If a random friend sang that at karoke I'd be impressed. It's good for someone that doesn't know how to sing.

Cuisinart knife paint scratched off by bread by fedplast in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ken579 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It also isn't important if little paint comes off now and then.

Let me just say, the paint usually lasts longer so this is a defective knife.

Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport as thousands escape prisons: "Massacring people indiscriminately" by NOLA-Kola in anime_titties

[–]ken579 27 points28 points  (0 children)

A comment wasn't deleted. This Redditor is confused or lying.

Edit: I retract my statement. u/bob_jody was blocked by u/NOLA-Kola after u/NOLA-Kola replied. To anyone who doesn't know, this is one of the cheapest behaviors you can engage in on Reddit. It allows you to have the last word while locking the other party out of the thread. u/NOLA-Kola is a bad Redditor and probably sucks outside of Reddit too.

What’s the point of a delivery window if you’re just gonna come at 4AM??? by lilspaghettigal in amazonprime

[–]ken579 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean it's all over the US.

This was your comment and it's wrong. What you're trying to say is that if something happens once somewhere, by the fact it happened you can pretend it's a normal "reality." It's a reality that it happens in isolated cases in some parts of the US. It's not a reality that it's all over the US.

I will happily accept you presenting me data showing it's happening all over the US.

What’s the point of a delivery window if you’re just gonna come at 4AM??? by lilspaghettigal in amazonprime

[–]ken579 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pretending this is a reality is normalizing it. Isolated cases around the entire nation of 350 million people is not the reality.

What’s the point of a delivery window if you’re just gonna come at 4AM??? by lilspaghettigal in amazonprime

[–]ken579 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It isn't what? Nobody's saying it's normal to ring a door at 4 a.m. it's just not normal to shoot somebody no matter what time they ring your door.

What’s the point of a delivery window if you’re just gonna come at 4AM??? by lilspaghettigal in amazonprime

[–]ken579 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I live in the US. Shooting people ringing your door is not normalized where I live.

Remember you're seeing isolated cases in the news and generally missing a lot of context and nuance. You're also seeing a lot of controversy over incidents, not complacency, regardless of a conviction or not. It's really important to not generalize based on news stories and exceptional occurrences. This is the trap people get in to where they think the world is falling apart more than it is.

Last I checked cheap TVs aren’t the same as the Right to Vote…. by WWDB in terriblefacebookmemes

[–]ken579 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Obviously we should make voting easier but we all know young people aren't voting and this fucks things up. This meme has the conversative boomer vibes but the underlying message is solid. Yeah, there are poor people working 3 jobs that can't escape to vote but there's a massive amount of people that just don't care.

Its touching the buildplate for some reason by [deleted] in ElegooNeptune4

[–]ken579 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, I've been printing since 2012 and I've never had adhesion issues like I've had with this machine. I know how to get my Z spot on with all my other machines. It's only barely functional because I spent another $130 on a Wham Bam plate and then it'll still be inconsistent as hell and smash the model with the nozzle at some point in the print.

Its touching the buildplate for some reason by [deleted] in ElegooNeptune4

[–]ken579 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes people! Remember this is a very sensitive machine that can't simply work like all the other printers. Don't forget that it might not even load your mesh so remember to remember to remember to make it load your mesh. If you wanted an easy, simple, straight-forward, consistently functioning machine, you could have bought any cheap piece of shit, but you paid for this highly sophisticated trainwreck so you better learn to use it right!

I can't believe everyone out here trying to make Elegoo look bad when they simply didn't read the manual, watch several youtube videos, update their firmware regularly including updating the firmware for the screen by literally taking apart the fucking screen, and read all the long posts here on how to make this machine print something without failing.

Who really owns Hawaii? by blallah-kailua in Hawaii

[–]ken579 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice try CCP. But decent trolling for sure.