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From: Friam On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 3:54 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by C
8^) Sorry. I didn't intend to accuse anyone of purposefully manipulation.
That's why I mentioned the Telephone Game. It doesn't matter what we intend,
the message will get perverted. ("The only problem with communication is the
illusion that it exists." -- somebody somewhere I'm too lazy to look
On 4/22/20 3:29 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
> Nick,
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> I have no problem with anyone wanting to support their local barista.
> Please remember also that the Food Bank really needs funds.
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> I do have a problem with your view of the 60’s. Those young folks you
> remember were almost 100% white middle
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I definitely didn't intend to *invert* your intention... I *did*
understand (roughly) that it is arrogant to believe that *I* can
engineer a better altruism than say Red Cross or Habitat for Humanity or
the Social Welfare apparatus of my city/state/national/UN efforts.
But I think your
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From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> > On
Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:52 PM
To: friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris
ProPublica's thing seems good too:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/362193608
On 4/22/20 2:20 PM, Angel Edward wrote:
> Go to Charity Navigator or Charity Watch. There are others. They’ll give you
> access to the IRS forms and more importantly give you how much of thir fu
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From: Friam On Behalf Of u?l? ?
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 2:36 PM
To: FriAM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund
Heh, it's funny how something you say can be perfectly inverted by the audience
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:52 PM
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Go to Charity Navigator or Charity Watch. There are others. They’ll give you
access to the IRS forms and more importantly give you how much of thir funds
are spent on programs.
Ed
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Ed Angel
Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab)
Professor Emer
Whenever I get drawn to contributing to a charity, usually based on
sentimental TV ads, I send them an email and ask how to access their IRS
Form 990, which has to be publicly available, usually via a web page. The
last time I did this was for Shriners' Hospital for Children. If I read
the form c
Heh, it's funny how something you say can be perfectly inverted by the audience
to mean the opposite of what you intended. The Telephone Game is always
relevant.
My point to Steve was about "effective altruism", the idea that the
philanthropist has any idea whatsoever of the relative optimality
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From: Friam On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:52 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund
I tipped Ohori's staff, hoping that success there will maybe encourage
later
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> *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Steven A Smith
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:29 PM
> *To:* friam@redfish.com
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christ
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Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 12:29 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fundraiser by Christina Z. : Ohoris Staff Relief Fund
Nick -
Thanks for the link. Ohori's is not my goto, but I'm 100% with the spirit.
I have had no traction on trying to extend this kind
Nick -
Thanks for the link. Ohori's is not my goto, but I'm 100% with the
spirit. I have had no traction on trying to extend this kind of help TO
my regular go-tos. I am of a mind that at the very least, my weekly
*tip* budget could go straight into the same pockets it used to with no
harm to
To The Mother Church,
As you know, I am addicted to coffee and particularly to coffee houses, and
particularly to Ohori's-next-to-Kaune's, where I like to loll in the
sunshine of a late afternoon like the flea-bitten old dog that I am. Over
the years I have come to befriend and greatly admire th
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