If people are happy, who will make our memes???

What was this from? I know the reference but can’t place it. I could obviously search for it but, hey, I’m trying to be social here.

I’m pressing X to doubt.

We need to revise that for Lemmy.

“Lemmy: Where men are men, and men are women, and women are men, and I think we’ve got a few women who were born women, and also there’s a whole bunch of new genders as well, and no genders at all, and that’s all cool with most of us.”

It’s a mouthful and might not read well on a t-shirt, but we can workshop it.

Now I’m no American, but something smells FBIish about that address.

ICQ was my first foray into meeting girls online, back when that was a really weird thing to do.

Post a/s/l to pay respects.

I once bought a Dr. pepper BBQ sauce, so in that case Dr. Pepper did indeed taste like BBQ. Perhaps more aptly, BBQ tasted like Dr. Pepper.

I love that even after millennia of human society and culture, I still regularly run into comments that make me think, “Yeah, that’s the first time anyone has ever said that.”

Using the hotline won’t get you fired, but somehow - for totally unrelated reasons - after using it you’ll end up on a PIP with untenable goals, and that will get you fired.

I appreciate the heads up!

Oops! Weird - the link shows fine in my app. If the other reply to your post doesn’t give you the link you can easily find relevant articles by searching for “octopus Molly drug” or similar terms. It looks like there’s a bunch of them out there.

I got curious about the one where they’re on Molly. Here’s a pretty quick rundown on it if anyone else wants to learn more.

PBS Article

Edit: Fixed the link.

He’s almost definitely going to call someone a pedo again.

Exactly! In economics there’s a concept called price elasticity (Incorporating two related principles, elasticity of supply and elasticity of demand).

Elasticity of demand is the more relevant one here. Products with elastic demand are those that consumers are quicker to change their buying habits around. For instance, luxury items. Products with inelastic demand are generally actual necessities (like groceries), where you’re gonna have to buy them one way or another. You can look to alternate suppliers with better prices, but when they’re all gouging you have no choice but to buy from one of them.

In the long run this can indirectly be forced to change. If it gets bad enough that people en-mass started growing their own food at home, this could cause the suppliers to reconsider their prices. (I know that’s a far-fetched example. I’m just using it to broadly illustrate my point.)

In my experience I’ve never received a separate receipt just for the donation portion (again, could just be a regional thing). But as we both mentioned, it’d at least be listed on the purchase receipt itself and could be used as such.

I suppose you may indeed be correct. I always assumed not as it’s not like they give you a donation receipt like when you directly donate to a charity. Now that I think of it, however, the donation itself would be itemized on the receipt and could therefore be used as proof in a personal audit. I just never really considered it as I just donate like 2 bucks here or there via this means.

I suppose this also might vary in different jurisdictions.

End of story, I’m willing to admit that I may have been misinformed (AKA wrong) myself.

I think you’re being given an incomplete picture here. It is a tax write off but it’s balanced out by the money they collect. So if they collect 100K in donations, they report that as “income” but it’s immediately written off as a charitable donation. Thus, they don’t directly get anything out of it as it’s functionally a net-zero transaction as far as their taxes are concerned. In fact, it probably ends up costing them a bit once you account for the hours spent by some admin or marketing team getting the program set up and administered.

Obviously they are getting something out of it: As others here have said, they get to brag about all the money they collected for charity. It’s possible these big corps also have some convoluted accounting practices that make this further advantageous but on the face of things that’s not how it works.

It definitely parallels that saying but I’m almost positive it was a greentext. Though, given that I can’t find it, I suppose I could be mistaken.

That’s not the one I was thinking of, but I’m happy that you posted it as it’s pretty great.

I can’t seem to find it, but this reminds me of a greentext that’s stuck with me for years. The gist of it is that most of British history can be summed up as sailing around the world looking for something good to eat.