BombOmOm @ BombOmOm @lemmy.world

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One scummy way would be to have an artist friend paint you something. If you can get that painting appraised at a crazy high value and donate it to a valid charity, you can deduct it at the appraised value (I think, anyway.)

I would highly recommend against attempting tax fraud. The IRS does not appreciate it.

If you itemize deductions, whatever you donate will reduce your taxable income by the same amount. So, if you have $50,000 in taxable income and donate $1,000, that will now become $49,000 in taxable income instead.

The 2024 tax rates for a single (not married filing jointly) individual are below. In this case, that deduction would come completely out of the 22% bracket, ie, your $1,000 in donations will reduce your tax burden by $220.

Keep in mind the standard deduction for a single individual is $14,600. You can take this instead of itemizing deductions as described above, and it works the same as if you had itemized deductions up to that value. If you have deductions less than that value, take the standard deduction; if they are greater, itemize deductions. The standard deduction for married filing jointly is $29,200.

Do note, this only covers federal taxes, your state taxes may work differently.

I've lived all over the US. You won't have any such issues. Enjoy your trip and take some nice photos!

If you get lost or need some help, say you are visiting from Germany and need some help. People will be glad to give it.

I've lived all over the place, it's not going to be an issue anywhere. Some people may have opinions, but they will keep to themselves.

It's also right at the end of the prior generation. Let's get Switch 2 release numbers in and compare to Switch 1 release numbers before we draw too many conclusions.

That said, the PC market has been overtaking consoles. Particularly since PC handhelds are a thing. Things like the Steam Deck are directly competing with Switch and (soon) Switch 2 sales.

The main issue I see there is the power still has to come from somewhere. All this would likely do is move the pci-e power plugs to the motherboard and cause lots of confusion related to: "this GPU only requires two plugs of power, but the motherboard has three plugs, do I need to plug in all three? My PSU only has two pci-plugs."

Those are other users' comments. Not sure how those are relevant to JiveTurkey's comments.

The Pokemon games all being the same caused me to get bored of them years ago. And now with them suing Palworld for 'capturing monsters with an object and summoning them in 3d space', a patent made after Palworld released their trailer, I find the Nintendo brand actively harmful to the state of gaming.

If they want to control the company, without outright buying it, yes. It's the classic way to acomplish a hostile takeover. Thing is, buying half the shares on the market is often more expensive than the current market cap, as mass buying shares sends the price up quickly.

When buying a company outright (ie, your company actually owns the purchased company and both sides agreed to the transfer), then it is common to buy out all the shares at (around) current market value.

Unless someone purchases the company. Then it is common to buy out all the shares at (around) the current market price. The market cap is a good measure of how expensive a public company is to buy outright.

The nationwide poll (aka, the election) was a pretty good data point for current feelings on the topic. It's not nearly as cool today to hire people based on their race.

On how to respond; if it's on the internet: It's rude and stifling discussion, downvote and move on.

If it's in person: Probably a good time to change topic. Or, if it is something that is actually important for that specific person, you need to tell them how it directly impacts them in a way they do care about. If they still give the 'no one cares' response, it's absolutely a good time to change topic.

in the US you loose your right to abortion entirely

This is a massive, massive exaggeration of the state of abortion access in the US.

The US is now trying to take Panama, Canada and Greenland

Trump likes to bluster. The US will not be invading Panama, Canada, or Greenland.

The US isn't moving like you think it is moving. And that seems to be throwing off your views on how European and US relations have been and will continue to develop over the next decade.

Europe has been moving geopolitically closer to the US over the last few years as, most notably, Europe moves quickly away from Russian energy and toward US energy. We have also seen increased purchasing of US arms by European countries. Have a look at F-35 and HIMARS sales, for example. Poland, in particular, went on a huge buying spree for US and Korean arms.

Furthermore, European countries are building manufacturing plants in the US, rather than making the stuff in Europe and shipping it over. This is most apparent with German cars.

To answer your question: "Who do you see Europe collaborating more with in the future", and the answer is resoundingly the US. With upticks in collaboration with SE Asian countries that aren't China.

Perun does some excellent defense economics and analysis. Probably one of the channels I have learned the most from.

Jake Broe does regular updates on the Russo Ukraine war which I always find helpful.

And finally, Zeihan on Geopolitics, does, well, what the name says. I find he brings ideas I hadn't thought of, or that are not well explained, into clarity.

I'm surprised more people don't buy the SE's. They are half the price of the other iPhones.

I feel like that’s saying that my computer monitor needs a “killer app”.

That's the thing though, it has piles of them. Steam is absolutely jam packed with them. Additionally things like, video editors, photo editors, browsers, spreadsheets, word processors, code editors, etc, etc. All of these makes a monitor (or laptop screen) something almost everyone owns. All of these apps are best on a monitor.

What is best on a Vision Pro?

It’s just WAY too expensive for people to want to do so

Yep, the price can make or break a product. And the price makes this product......not good. Particularly when people don't see much of a point in the product in the first place. VR headsets are niche as hell, the Vision Pro is a niche of a niche.

CA keeps all the small, controllable forest fires from happening, ensuring flammable material builds up in our forests. Then we get a mega fire that cannot be stopped which tears through everything. CA's forest management policies have been fucked for decades.-

They will have to charge more. Get ready for the 10+% rate increase next year if you live in CA.

Glad to see more handhelds picking up Steam OS! So many portable competitors have been hampered by their OS sucking down limited resources while providing an inferior UI and UX.