We are at $5. It was lower last week.
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We are at $5. It was lower last week.
I have no cable, so I've been watching France24 and Al Jazeera on Youtube. Round the clock coverage and no commercials to sit through.
I've also been watching RT. My perception is that in the beginning, fewer outright lies and more coverage of the actual war, albeit distorted. During the last couple of days, each time I've tuned in, it's been all about the Ukrainian military slaughtering the insurgents in the east and little mention of what's happening now.
This situation has taught me one thing - if you want to keep in touch with someone, make sure you have their mobile number. Don’t count on FB Messenger, FB, Instagram to keep in touch. What’s App is different as it’s tied to your mobile number.
I know too many people who have gotten booted off social media for a variety of reasons or even their account was hacked.
I pay $8 a month for a basic digital subscription to the NYT. Their app has always been excellent and the coverage is great.
This weekend, I rented several AirBnB rooms in Kiev for this week. (Remarkably inexpensive tourist destination btw, and it looks like it would have been a great actual trip).
I picked places that had been in business several years, that looked like they were run by individual owners and not giant vacation rental firms.
I told them all in my note that I wasn't actually going to show up, and to use the money for Good Things.
This morning I got back notes from actual human beings thanking me, mostly telling me they were giving the funds to their housekeepers and handymen, and the military resistance.
Mission accomplished.
This probably violates some federal law ��
A single day seemed to run anywhere from $30-$70/night, so it seems a light-weight method to get cash directly into the hands of a Ukrainian without governmental or NGO overhead.
Excellent work, Bae!
Wow, bae! What a wonderful thing to do!
One of my friends here used 23andme and ancestry.com to track down distant Ukrainian relatives, and initiated contact. Of the 80-ish cold-call emails he sent, he got back 5 responses, and is now directly aiding relatives he didn't even know he had, which I thought was cool.
That is really cool!
I've heard of people doing this, as well as using Etsy to order downloads, etc. in order to generate revenue for Ukrainians. That may not be possible, though, as the destruction ramps up. There's not much else we can do from here, save wishing for Putin to spend the rest of his miserable life in a cell somewhere, which isn't likely to happen.