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.

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, 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.

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.

Because the processed food companies deliberately design their products to be as addictive as possible. As a society we (correctly) recognize that drug dealers bear some responsibility when users overdose on drugs, and cigarette companies have lost lawsuits because they knowingly sold an addictive and dangerous product while pretending it was perfectly healthy. Processed food companies are doing the same, even deliberately targeting children. Their products may not be *as* harmful as drugs or cigarettes, but they are still harmful and deliberately addictive, and they ought to bear some of the social responsibility for the damage their product has done (since they reaped **all** the profits). "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" has been going on for a looooong time in this country, and it's pushed this country to (and perhaps past) it's breaking point. Freedom of choice is all well and good, but it requires people to be properly informed, and to actually have a choice (which many people, especially those living in food deserts, who tend to be poor and not well educated to begin with, do not).

RFK's first order of business at EPA would probably be to ban Dihydrogen Monoxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydroxyl Acid, and other dangerous chemicals.

Since when does the public health matter when there are corporate profits at stake?

Of course, the correct way to do this is to pass a Federal Law regulating AI, and then using the supremacy clause of the Constitution to set aside State laws that conflict with it.

But, Trump has never been one to do things in the Constitutional way. He just things that EOs are "rule by decree" even if they're not.

It's called the ballpoint pen. It's a vastly superior writing instrument to the quills in use before that, and overcomes many of the issues cursive writing was designed to solve (mainly splattering of ink, which happens with any dip pen when you lift off the page). Proficient cursive is still faster than print (in theory, at least) but it's also technically more challenging, so in practice cursive will end up being slower unless you hand write a lot. It's also way easier to read bad print than it is bad cursive, so again unless you're a competent handwriter who writes a lot, cursive makes very little sense.

What if a somewhat lanky fugitive broke into my car and glued the accelerator to the floor as a side quest on his mission to get the band back together and save the old Catholic school?

Take your pick.

Would someone, please, think of the children?!

designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials

I love, that it is a prime number!