

Wonder if they’ll be recommending content from all sides of the political spectrum, or just the right-wing content…
Wonder if they’ll be recommending content from all sides of the political spectrum, or just the right-wing content…
Girls or woodlice?
The thing about the corporation paying less taxes is a myth. The extra contribution you make counts as revenue in their books, and that revenue is then offset as a donation, making no overall difference to their tax benefits.
That said, it does help them in other ways, mostly around marketing. They can then say they’ve made a massive amount of charitable contributions, when really it was their customers that did so.
As others have said, by making that donation at the checkout, you haven’t really made an informed decision about whether the charity is one you would donate to otherwise, so if that’s important to you you should stop doing so.
The way I look at it, if you are going to make a conscious decision to donate to charities you support, there’s no real reason to round up at the checkout. But if you aren’t really going to be donating otherwise and you’re not struggling financially, you may as well make that small contribution at the checkout.
To be fair, half of the AAA gaming industry is all about trying to clone the latest successful game with a new coat of paint. Maybe using AI to make these clones will mean that the talented people behind the scenes are free to explore other ideas instead.
Of course in reality, it just means that the largest publishers will lay off a whole lot of people and keep churning out these uninspired games in the name of corporate profits, but it’s nice to dream sometimes.
Editor: The article is great! All we need now is a quote from social media and we can publish.
Journalist: We haven’t been able to find anything suitable, everyone thinks this story is satire.
Editor: Then just post one yourself and then quote that! But don’t reference your name, that’ll be a dead giveaway.
We’ve known about the dangers of climate change since the 70s. Is it really any wonder that after five decades of inaction, the “rhetoric” has changed from “Hey, maybe we should work to reduce emissions” to “A lot of people are going to die if we don’t take action right now!”