Well, your internet IT moms and dads are here to fill that gap!

My dad spent too much time teaching “life lessons” like “brush your teeth” or “eat your vegetables” to get into even the fundamentals of filesystems. The nerve of some people.

RAID in a secondary machine is a backup, but that’s because it’s a secondary machine, not because it’s RAID.

The .ml domain stands for the country of Mali, but lemmy.ml definitely chose that domain because it can stand for Marxist-Leninist.

Fresh college grads hate this advice but it’s really key to managing a long term career.

“Panama isn’t about a city, it’s the stage name of a stripper from Albuquerque!”

• David Lee Roth

I think people really overestimate how much everybody knows about the US.

I’d say there’s a large population that only know NYC, LA, and Chicago.

Sure, the more correct wording would be “neither the customer nor the company are taxed on the donation”. Assuming the customer itemizes their taxes, which a you’ve pointed out is rare.

I’m trying to speak at the level of people who post stuff like the OP. Some of the details don’t shake out correctly but I’m not trying to get in the weeds of US tax code here if the main point holds up.

What you were told isn’t true. Both you and the company are able to write it off.

Most Americans aren’t donating enough for it to affect their taxes, though.

Ah, this again.

The mega corporation did not receive any tax benefit from collecting donations. They are able to write off the amount of donations from their income, so that they aren’t paying tax on the money they collected specifically to be donated.

1. Company collects $1 donation from customer
2. Company has $1 extra income
3. Company donates $1 to charity
4. Company writes that dollar off of their income.
5. Company reports the exact same profit/loss as if they had not collected donations.

You can do anything if you put your mind to it!

But like, don’t submit it until it’s due. If you finish early keep that shit to yourself, don’t fuck with the managed expectations between me and my boss.

You could also like…sit down at the subway and eat your sandwich.

A sub is a pretty difficult driving meal though, if you have any care for the cleanliness of your car. Lots of ingredients threatening to spill out of the bread at any moment.

A friend of mine went to Vegas once and we only got 2 texts from him in the group chat the entire time.

Day 1: I’m up!

Day 5: I’m down.

I think it’s just a symptom of “people”.