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  • He said UNICEF was sending lifesaving supplies including tents, tarpaulins, hygiene kits, recreational kits and health supplies: “We are ready to bring in even more, but we need the support of our partners.”

    Some $5 million has already been released by the head of OCHA from the Central Emergency Relief Fund and on Saturday UN procurement agency, UNOPS, announced that thanks to donors it was releasing $10 million to aid partners in the emergency response.

    Let’s hope the supplies and money go to the people who need it to survive their plight and not to the junta pieces of shit so they can stay in domineering power longer.

    Excerpt from The Dictator’s Handbook providing relevant context about Myanmar’s past (mis)disposition of foreign aid following a natural disaster:
















  • I mean, when was the last time the bay area even had any meteorites hit anywhere close to it? Sometimes I just don’t even understand why we need to be so concerned about meteors hitting aircraft, given the sublimely low probabilities involved. Seriously, this administration just needs to convert all the extraneous meteorologist jobs into weatherologist jobs and the waste and fraud will be fixed.

    Seriously though, they’re probably confused by the whole “meteor” part of the word. Dumbening it into “weather” may actually help protect those important jobs.