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As far as I understand Mastodon is a short text social media site that is effectively the fediverse version of twitter. I never used twitter, so I don’t have a need for a twitter replacement. I don’t see how a Lemmy user not using Mastodon somehow means the fediverse is a failure.

you (I assume) aren’t a deci-millionaire.

Having $100,000 in net worth (especially as an older adult) isn’t that rare. 😀

Its those deca-millionaires that are close to (but not quite) in the 1%, and no I’m not one.

Maybe you would be if you invested that money instead of being generous with it.

For me, I’d still be well under $10m even with zero charitable contributions.

Its possible be under $10m net work and to donate/contribution tens of thousands of dollars per year without it being a meaningful hit against growth. Once you hit a certain point, the compounding of what you have does the work. This was my point.

If you started with $1m in the boring S&P500 10 years ago, that would be worth $4,446,735 today. Projecting forward, if you had $4m today with the same returns over the last year (probably unlikely after trump) you’d have $17,786,940 in 2036. Ten thousand dollars every year donated doesn’t reduce that much.

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To have and actually keep $10m, you can’t still be the kind of person who helps people in need and is generous to friends and family. There will always be people with debt problems, medical issues, legal problems, housing crises, etc. So, either you were never that kind of person to begin with, or your heart hardens a bit as you get richer.

I don’t have $10m, but I’ve found it has become easier to be more given the more I have. My foundation is safe. My bills are paid. I have some money left over. I can now much more easily look outward to see where I can help others knowing that helping others doesn’t put my own future at risk.

And if anyone finds out you have that money, they treat you differently because generally

At $1B I’d assume the person and any close family members would be at risk of kidnapping/ransom. I would imagine billionaires all have to hire and pay for private security.

The one on the right is also married to Elon Musk’s twice divorce ex-wife. As in the wife married Elon, divorced him, married Elon again, divorced him, then marred the guy on the right.

Do you really or do you have one pair of ANES, one of NES, and one of HA?

You’re just concern trolling over not having the findings of that investigation already available.

Having the requirement to know something actually occurred is trolling? That’s a bizarre take.

Yes, you read that right! Apple Inc. matches 100% to organizations in Israel that fund and arm illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land.

sigh, with zero evidence they ever have.

What the fuck are you doing besides running defence for apple here?

I’m looking at consistency from your outrage. I’m not seeing it. I don’t know if thats because you have an axe to grind specifically with Apple, or if you’re letting other people decide for you where outrage should be limited to instead of following the logic to others of the same sin you’re accusing Apple of. If your argument fails logically on something I have looked into, which it has on the Benevity angle, then it tells me if I should ignore the rest of your messages for equally sloppy or inadequate personal investigation.

I already boycott any company supporting israel and do my part for my local BDS movements.

And have you checked to see if the other Benevity-using-companies are on your BDS lists? What is the result? If they’re on there what does that tell you? If they’re missing what instead does that tell you? I’m looking for you to demonstrate critical thinking to know if I should lend credence to your complains or ignore you because you don’t research your claims.

You sure as hell ignored all the other connections Apple has with Israel.

I’m not ignoring those. I’m simply not disputing them. I haven’t personally looked into any of them, but those look like much stronger claims with actual possibly evidence than the Benevity angle which you’re leaning on hard here for Apple.

Except Thing 1 and Thing 2 are the same thing. Hundreds of companies are using Benevity and probably also have the same pathway for Israeli/IDF charities donations, yet you’re singling out Apple.

So your “Does not care about Thing 2” is “you don’t care about other companies possibly donating to Israeli/IDF charities through Benevity”?

You’re the only one who’s only focused on apple here

If your outrage on the non-existant donations is rational, where are your posts for the hundreds of other companies that are using Benevity?

The matching program is setup in such a way that we CAN’T verify how much apple has donated through the matching program.

Right, but there’s zero evidence the donation amount is more than $0.

I’ve explained how a corporate donation platform works in my first post. You’re misconstruing it at something else like a sinister plan cloaked in shadows. Not everything is a conspiracy. Instead its a boring corporate-outsourcing-bureaucracy. Apple (and other companies that use these donation platforms) want to offer the benefit to their employees for HR reasons as well as tax cuts for charitable donations. They contract with a benefits donation company, in this Benevity. The list of charities isn’t hand-picked to be Israeli/IDF charities, its likely all IRS registered charities.

On this topic, the issue is with Apple allowing donor matching to Apartheid, Genocide, and Settler Colonialism in the first place.

I agree Apple should exclude these charities even as an option for donation, but you’re painting this like Apple is donation money directly to the IDF. There is just zero evidence that is occurring even if it would support your argument better if they were.

I think I realized why I’m so disappointed in your line of thought on this. Its the lack of consistency in your accusation on the use of this donation platform. Why is it you’re only calling out Apple for “allowing donor matching to Apartheid, Genocide, and Settler Colonialism”? Why are you not calling out the literally hundreds of other companies that allow the exact same donation possibility?

There’s also the issue of Apple having factories in Israel. Either way you cut it, Apple materially supports Israel, and by extension the Apartheid, Genocide, and all other aspects of ethnic cleansing intrinsic to the Zionist project.

Cool, then go with those where there’s actual evidence of support of Israel. If you’ve got good examples with good evidence, why make up implications with the employee donation thing?

That article looks like a repeat of the other article. I didn’t see anything new in it that we haven’t see in the first one. Neither article shows any evidence that Apple employees or Apple themselves have contributed any funds to those Israeli/IDF charities.

Its unlikely Apple chose any of the charities listed. The charities listed are from the Benevity platform (which potentially lists every single 501(c)(3) charity registered with the IRS).

There’s far more going on than just the contributions, when it comes to Apple’s material support to Israel

That’s certainly possible, but the Apple/Apple Employee donations to Israeli/IDF charities claim looks like misinformation.

I agree that Apple should remove these as an option to contribute to.

I appreciate your new link. I answered a number of questions I’d formed myself. It also pointed out that there is no public evidence that Apple or its employees donated to those Israeli/IDF charities. I concede this doesn’t mean donations haven’t happened, but that we have no evidence donations happened and nothing to suggest that they did.

Is this a link you found when exploring our conversation here or did you have this second link when you made your first post claiming “They also fund the IDF and are involved with illegal settlements.”? I’m not making an accusation against you. I know I frequently learn new things that contradict my held position when others share information and it causes me to examine a topic further in search of truth and accuracy. I didn’t know if this was a case similar to my experience.

They also fund the IDF and are involved with illegal settlements.

Are we sure about that?

I’ve used one of these corporate donation matching programs before (obviously I’m not donating to Israeli or IDF charities). Its essentially a large donation platform and web interface that allows corporations to offer the charity donation/matching systems to its employees. The donation platform Apple apparently uses is called “Benevity”.

To be clear, I don’t believe the corporate employer chooses the charities listed, it simply allows donations to all the charities the platform has registered. When I was searching for charities I donate to, I found many small obscure charities which surprised me. This suggests to me it doesn’t take much to get registered if any action at all. Does Benevity simply get a list of every 501©(3) organization registered with the IRS?

From your article:

“Apple will be expected to take swift action to investigate and potentially cease matching donations to organisations linked to the Israeli military and illegal settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

My question would be: Do we know for sure that any Apple employees even donated to these Israeli/IDF charities (and therefore received matched donations from Apple)? Just because the charities are listed on Benevity doesn’t mean anyone actually donated? If zero Apple employees chose to make donations, then Apple would also have made zero donations. So before we crucify Apple for donating, do we have proof that there actually were any actual donations made?

I will say the effort to have the Israeli/IDF charities delisted as choices to Apple employees through Benevity is still a reasonable request, but that is a far smaller need/sin than actual donations to Israeli/IDF charities.

Years ago (maybe still) you can buy them in-person at the Bureau of Engraving and printing in DC. I have a sheet of $2 bills.

The Breakfast Club was a 1985 movie depiction of teen rebellion for GenX teens written and directed by John Hughes where the teens act out against the rules and are smarter than the adults around them.

Not to be confused with “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” which was a 1986 movie depiction of teen rebellion for GenX teens written and directed by John Hughes where the teens act out against the rules and are smarter than the adults around them.

I prefer the latter to the former.

I remember one of the hardest transitions for me from scripting in Ruby to Python was the whitespace indent was larger by default in Python. With Python, I ran out of monitor width and would have to be constantly scrolling right and left when visually parsing the code because the nested loops were so deep.

I wish there was a search engine that only searched text based websites or at least sites that don’t have ads.

When you use Lynx Browser, everything on the internet is text:

Ohhh nice! I could see replacing dozens of nested if statements with dozens of nested case statements!

If it helps, I’m from the other side of networking and infra. You could swap the labels and make the meme accurate for me.

In the mid 1980s I learn the BASIC programming command GOTO and fell in love for a lifetime. If you look any anything I used to write in Ruby script or today in Python you’ll see my love affair with “if” “elfi” and “else” continues. My universe is nested “if” statements all the way down.