Any licensed CPA would know to reduce the amount of the claimed deduction by the value of whatever was received as a result of the donation.

"academia works"?

You think Academia ever accomplished anything at all?

Good. You're finally getting the picture that American crony Capitalism sucks rocks and considers immigrants to be barely better than slaves.

With millions of citizen tech workers laid off in the last 3 years, fewer foreign workers is only good news.

PLEASE avoid the United States. We're going through an existential cultural identity crisis right now, and don't need your third world kleptocracies, we have enough kleptocracy here.

Back in the 20-aughts, someone tried to make cassettes happen again. It was so Fetch. You couldn't get cassette tapes to save your life except for exorbitant prices on ebay. Any machine that would record or play one shot up in price as the mouth-breathing automatons jumped on the bandwagon.

Let's be clear here - cassette tapes have precisely zero redeeming qualities other than portability (compared to their predecessor - the 8-track). They were a bad compromise to get portability. To think you could put 4 tracks on a 1/8th inch tape running at a very unregulated 1 7/8 inches per second and retain some semblance of audio quality was ludicrous, but it was portable, and that's what people wanted. It turned out that audio quality didn't matter, because of car noise, crowds of people noise, commuter train noise, wind noise, exercise noise, the inherent noise created by the format, and most of the other use cases for portable audio, made audio quality obsolete.

Many efforts were made to deal with the high frequency noise that was a characteristic of the format. "High bias" tapes treated with a chrome additive allowed recording of high frequencies at much greater amplitude, which it was hoped would increase the S/N in the higher frequencies and allow for flat playback. It worked, sort of, but not really.

But seriously, if you want to "take risks" then you have to stick to album tapes. Making mix tapes eliminates risk just like creating your own playlists on Spotify. If you want to "be a rebel" and "take risks," then listen to the playlists that Spotify curates for you, without skipping. Don't dig up half-century old technology and call yourself erudite.

Yep, this is the problem. DEI hires (be they conservative or liberal DEI, doesn't matter, when you are selecting people based on appearances instead of skills is my definition) won't know how to do this properly.

Yep, now we have another platform controlled by Trump's oligarchy to spew forth propaganda.

Lying about how you handle ubiquitous surveillance data is not the same as addressing privacy concerns. Addressing them means you have dispensed with the policies and practices that caused the concerns.

My Radio Shack alarm clock from 1990 still works and keeps good enough time that I only have to set it once every couple of years or so. It has a 9V battery in it that keeps time in the event of a power failure. I put a lithium 9V battery in it in 2018 and haven't had to change it since.

This premium level of convenience and performance costs me $0.00 every month.

If you think being a CS RCG is bad, try being a 55 year old coder who spent the last 30 years honing the craft, only to be laid off into a market where those skills are just no longer needed at all.

The point of schooling is that people understand the subject matter and prepare themselves for employment where deadlines exist. I agree that an extra half an hour for a test is not unreasonable, but I will posit that this fails to prepare students for employment in the real world. Employers do not have to reasonably accommodate disabilities that make someone unable to do the job. I literally can't hire someone who takes 50% longer to complete tasks and therefore cannot complete them on time, because the deadlines are the deadlines.

This is not armchair psychology. This is harsh reality. Students need to learn to complete tasks and achieve goals under inflexible time constraints.

They also didn't start delving into DEI madness in 2010...neglecting the engineering to chase the "diversity" ghost

Yep, I had writeups from those flame wars. They *REALLY* did not want it discussed. Governors Brown and Kotek continued the pay-to-play system, which is what lost Oregon the Ohio CHIPs foundry campus (before they realized that Biden wasn't going to pay out CHIPs act at all).

All one needs to see this is to be employed at Intel in June, when every single monitor becomes rainbows and the rainbow flag flies on campus every month.