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Alternative take on Patagonia; the whole thing is a massive tax dodge; the family retain control of the trusts they've donated the money to, but avoid as much as a billion dollars in tax.

https://www.businessinsider.com/patagonia-big-climate-donation-saves-1-billion-in-taxes-yvon-chouinard2022-9

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The fusion story is absolute BS. Trying to get funding by driving hype. The release itself is highly suspect- they admit their detection equipment was faulty! I’m sorry but if they believed their results they would have repeated the test under reliable/reproducible conditions. Just the usual hypemongers trying to suck more tax funded research into a black hole of false promises along with quantum computing funding and any investment at all in string theory.

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