If it can be proven to be "self dealing" aka your NGO, charity, or non profit purchases or accepts a tax deductible donation of say, a portrait of you, from you or one of your businesses for hypothetically, 100 million dollars, then you may, if you did something particularly odious such as say, run for president. Then you might lose the legal ability to run that sort of organization.
Not unless you do it outside a golden palace that abstracts your money into vouchers and chips.
But generally wealthy people make more gambles in business, partnership, accountability, other people's lives and social welfare, and the general stability of the world.
Like say becoming an arms dealer then paying the cost of a F-150 economy package to a couple senators and having them spend their endless war chests with no audits or oversight on some missiles to kill some goat farmers or something.
Or creating a pesticide with the upside of remaining active in soil for 4 or 5 centuries (and recycling in the human liver for up to a year after exposure) and having it produced in an impoverished southern town and then exported to French Polynesia so they can continue to grow cloned banana trees.
Or like taking doctors on nice yacht lunches and golf trips and telling them yes you really have developed a non addictive opioid.
I believe this is right after psychotic mommy issues superman murders a protestor with his Lazer vision and is surprised to be cheered for it by his supporters.
Superhero movies are infantile comfort films, art is supposed to be challenging and interpretable. When you know the ending from the genre it's a bad movie.
Yet pseudo-nerds will sperg out over the meaningless cameos and "cannon implications."
Not specifically a button but I swear if I'm not looking at my phone playing something for audio on YouTube, the lightest touch anywhere on the screen just so happens to be where the ad is.
Why is this so hard (lemmy.world)
Is it illegal to charge insane prices for things?
Is there a law preventing me from for example selling a baseball hat for $20,000?
Step-By-Step Guide to Buy a Senator (lemmy.whynotdrs.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/399058...
Both beliefs are fine, but please realize the hypocrisy (sh.itjust.works)
Remember to tip your boss this new years eve (lemmy.world)
Why do it (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Success is built through GAMBA (sh.itjust.works)
Wait until you hear about a character named Jar Jar Binks! It's well worth the wait. (pxscdn.com)
Boston (lemmy.world)
Drive aggressively ≠ Arrive early (web.archive.org)
Kind of like a politician? (lemmy.world)
What are some promising solutions to solar power's lack of night time availability? Is "transoceanic power transportation" on the list?
EDIT: Submarine power transportation is indeed on the list...
Speediest little fella. (mander.xyz)
!physics
Achievement for all of us (lemmy.world)
Box Office: ‘The Marvels’ Gets Grounded With MCU’s Second-Lowest Opening Day Ever (variety.com)
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I can taste time (startrek.website)
Do you utilize a dedicated AV like Bitdefender when sailing? Or do you still trust Windows Defender to take care of the higher risk while doing this?
What the title says, and that’s pretty much it. Do you or don’t you?
What's a button you hate tapping or clicking accidentally?
For me, it’s “Clear Storage”. Sometimes I try to clear the cache of some mobile game I’m playing and end up deleting all my progress instead.
Still time for Rey to honor tradition (startrek.website)
Vampire vacation? (lemmy.sdf.org)
My Dad is Dracula, by Jason Poland, October 11 2023.
28 August 2023 (i.imgur.com)