I donate a fair bit of money relative to my income bracket. Sometimes it's directly to places that need it. Sometimes it's by donating goods instead of money. Sometimes it's by entering raffles at work, or buying candy from kids at the store, or a coupon book from veterans.
And sometimes it's by donating at the till. Look, corpos suck. But one of the only good things they do is solicit donations at the till.
Stores process thousands and thousands of transactions a day, and if even only a handful of those people decide to round up or add a little bit more on top, it adds up to so much money for good causes that I guarantee would not otherwise ever get donated.
And please, please can we put this myth to rest: in no country that I am aware of can a company claim your donations on their taxes. Those donations are yours and yes, you can claim them on your taxes if you are willing to do the work of keeping the receipt and itemizing your deductions. I do this every single year.
Companies collecting donations on your behalf cannot use them as tax deductions. Those are your tax deductible donations and if you do desired, you could keep your receipt and claim them on your taxes.
They do not get tax credits for this. That's not how taxes work (if they claimed the donations as profit, then donated them, it would be a net zero gain).
The donations are yours. You can claim them on your own taxes.
They do not receive tax breaks in any country I am aware of. This is a myth that will not die. The donation is yours, and you can claim it on your own taxes, if you care to itemize your deductions.
This old myth still... They do not get any tax benefits. That's not how taxes work. The donation is your donation. You can claim it on your own taxes if you itemize deductions.
Came in to recommend CrossCode. I had an extremely similar itch to OP and this game scratched it. The plot literally revolves around being an MMO, but the entirely game is single player. They did a really good job of capturing the vibe.
I mean, difficulty is relative mate. I just said I couldn't get Snikket working (after multiple tries, too) but I've spun up both matrix servers. So I'd personally say it's harder.
Just a heads up, I feel like the people here who say things like "snikket is easy" are knowledgeable enough to forget what being a beginner is like.
I've been able to get both a Synapse server and a Continuwuity server up and working before I've been able to get anything XMPP working, including snikket. For being the older protocol, XMPP stuff just seems to be harder to find help/tutorials for, at least in my experience so far.
I'm not okay with basically anything that occurs under capitalism, but I have limited time on this earth and I have to pick and choose my battles.