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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I wasn't going to comment initially but, thinking again, I will.

According to what I was once explained, the scheme runs like this.

a) organization X starts a fund raising campaign

This alone can be deducted as an expense, as any amount of hours can be attributed to planning, preparing, etc, the entire thing.

As this time as no profitable end, it can be deducted.

b) You donate. But now it's their money.

Your money is siphoned to a separate bank account or just tallied and earmarked as for charitable purpouses but this does not mean the entity needs to hand it over immediatly.

That money is held within the company's vaults, figure of expression, and, as such, counts towards the overall financial assets of the company.

It still needs to be handed to the end recipient but until it does it can be used to leverage loans and be invested into short term investment products, like overnight deposits (with hundreds of thousands or even millions it does gain interest overnight).

c) the money gets donated eventually but not by you

Eventually, all that money gets handed over but it is now their money, not yours. And as such, they get the tax deduction. And, again, with hundreds of thousands to millions in donations, the deduction gets very high.

This deduction, on your expense, goes towards clearing more of their profits.

Want to do something good?

Volunteer. Help your neighbour. With your own efforts, actions and work. Don't hand over money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Considering the actions currently being perpetrated against children (and women, elderly and civilians) by the the nation at the zero position, being in the negative range of that scale sounds pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Considering the zero, I'm fairly comfortable the average human is pretty well situated in the negative numbers of that scale.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I took it as a good humoured take ad I answered it in the same fashion.

I could, in fact, draw the entire thing on paper. Technical drawing was taugh to me in school and I took quite well to it; I still like to draw today but more as an artistic expression.

Although I wouldn't consider what I make as artistic under any light.

But my original still holds. Yes, I could. But I would have to make everything from scratch every single time we wanted to try an idea.

Not really practical.

I'm going to look into LibreCAD and FreeCAD. Seem to be the most promising solutions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I could but it would be a hassle to draw from scratch an entire blueprint every time some idea came to us to improve the space. Hence, the digital option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

1947

So, old but not that old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They don't. :) First place I asked. The house is so old it still falls under a exemption to have blueprints deposited at the municipality. In fact, it wasn't even built with blueprints.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I understand your concern and advice.

My house was built using a logic that only the outter walls, which are stone on the ground floor and cement block on the top floor, are load bearing.

These will not be touched, besides removing and replacing old mortars.

On the inside, all the walls are for show, made of wood I want to reclaim and a couple that were built in clay bricks but that have no load bearing capability nor structural role.

Drawing the blueprints as the house exists today will serve to have a birds eye view of the house to work on, even with professionals, if the need arises in the future.

This sort of house is not considered interesting for professionals in my area; the structure is too simple and can not accomodate that many changes. And because I'm not rebuilding but just renewing, no projects, licenses or consultancy is required. This makes this kind of job not very appealing.

And thank you for reminding me that electrical and water plants are a thing, aswell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I don't think the creators of the Sims designed the game with that in mind but if works, it is not stupid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Unusual solution but I can see it working! Most definetely.

But I do require some degree of accuracy on what I intend to do, so FreeCAD is lining up be the best solution, taking from the answer I'm getting.

The house is old and drawing an as much as humanly possible accurate blueprint would be a plus. And I do have some very weird angles in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Not in the mood to pay for a solution that a FOSS program may cover as well, considering it won't be used for professional purposes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

A native GNOME solution. Wasn't expecting that one.

 

Because this needs to be a regular thing, come forward warriors and announce the feats you have achieved! For the glory of the Empire!

 

Downloaded the android app through https://z-library.sk/ but after installing it will not run.

Are there any known conflicts between apps?

 

Some time ago, I read an article that all messenger apps, by EU directive, would have to build bridge protocols in order to have flow of communication between different networks.

Surfing the web, I read an article from 2016 where the Signal protocol was being integrated into Whatsapp. More recently, I read that Signal and Telegram could communicate.

What is the true status on this? The more I search, the more contradicting information I seem to find.

 

I'm in Europe, where american football isn't a thing and the NFL is nothing we care about.

We also tend to have better standards to serve and eat our food.

So why am I to find this crap in Lidl?

 

As per the title, I'm trying to find online courses to learn basic skills both on Krita and Inkscape, as I intend to use these tools to design board games for personal use.

Using Youtube videos doesn't work very well for me.

Can anyone suggest a source?

 

Let's keep posting our treasure hauls, to spite the americans.

 

So I've been completely out of the waters for years but the way things are nowadays I have to sail again the high seas.

But to where?

Are there any general purpose torrent search engines like there used to be?

 

I need/slash want to build a few pieces of furniture for my house.

After visiting a shop, I had the carpenter go on a long tirade on how my choice on OSB was poor, when compared to the standard plywood the shop uses for their work, being weaker and not as "clean" looking.

We personally like OSB, here. We already have a few pieces and the rough look of the material is our style.

But is it really a poorer choice when compared to plywood?

The next project will be a bookcase and it will have to withstand a heavy load.

I brought a small strip of plywood home with me, as a sample. The material is made up of five layers. If necessary, I can upload a picture later.

I intend to use 15mm material for the sides of the boxes that will compose the bookcase, with 9mm for the back. These specifications exist for OSB; on plywood, I was told the closest is 13mm and 6mm.

Can someone share some advice and knowledge in what can be the better choice to build this project?

 
 

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Bake Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Ingredients

4 egg whites 
3/4 Cup [400g] heavy cream 
4 1/2 Cups [1000g] Quark (plain)
4 egg yolks 
3/4 Cup [150g] sugar 
1/4 Cup [50g] vanilla sugar 
1/2 Cup [70g] corn starch 
4 TBSP lemon juice 

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F/175C.
Beat heavy cream to stiff peaks using a hand or stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Set aside.
Separate eggs and set egg yolks aside.
Beat egg whites to stiff peaks using a hand or stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Set aside.
Add Quark, sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks, lemon juice, and corn starch to a medium sized mixing bowl. Sitr to combine using a whisk.
Carefully fold the heavy cream and then the egg whites into the batter.
Pour batter into a prepared springform pan.
Bake cheesecake for 60-70 minutes. If it starts turning too brown, cover with foil.
Turn off oven, open the door a little, and let the cheesecake sit for another 10-15 minutes.
Take cheesecake out of oven and let cool.
Cover and store cheesecake in the fridge for up to a week.
Serve with a side of whipped cream or fresh berries.
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I'm torn between being shitty food porn or crimes against humanity food.

Cast your vote.

P.s.

Next, I think I'm going to try the None Pizza With Side Beef

 

I've been having a serious issue with phantom clicks on a laptop, to a point is nearly impossible to work on a desktop.

At first I assumed it was something related with a bluetooth daemon call that kept returning an error on startup. I forced access to a CLI and managed to uninstall the bluez package but the issue persisted.

I assumed then it was an issue with the mouse itself but after unplugging it completely, using the touchpad had the same behaviour. I also tried tweaking the mouse settings, to no difference.

Finally, I tried booting into Windows, as this machine has a dual boot, and there both mouse and touchpad report no erratic bahaviour.

After a few online searches, I found similar issues reported but back in 2014, mostly related with kernel drivers, which by now must be solved, as the system initially didn't had this issue, with a fresh install.

The only non-repo app the system has is Zoom and, again, it didn't started having this issue when installed.

Can someone spare some advice on this?

My temptation is to just do a fresh install but as I once read somewhere "we don't do that here". :)

The distro being run is Mint, on a generic Intel based laptop.

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