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Ground2ChairMissile t1_j8pww9b wrote

It depends. It's customary to supply a receipt with a charitable donation of any decent size for which you're claiming a tax rebate, but as far as I know, it's not actually legally required.

If you get audited and you don't have that receipt, you're up shit creek. But as we've seen the last few years, the IRS doesn't have the balls to go up against rich people's accountants and lawyers to get the tax revenue they're dodging — they'd rather raid some little mom-and-pop donut shop to demand receipts for bulk toilet paper.

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happyscrappy t1_j8pvh1i wrote

The one which is made up of all the different companies building out CCS chargers.

ChargePoint, Shell Recharge, SemaConnect, EVgo, ElectrifyAmerica, Blink, and a whole lot more.

Anyone with a CCS car can use any of those. Regardless of the make of their car.

It forms an infrastructure enabling long trips in EVs for anyone who has an EV.

Unlike Tesla's network which only serves them.

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dungone t1_j8putv6 wrote

The Chicago School of conservative richonomics really perverted everyone’s concept of what a monopoly is. Monopolies used to be understood as any anti-competitive trusts or practices against any of the stakeholders who were in a position of not having another choice. Whether the workers, customers, shareholders, etc. Right-wing propaganda changed this around to require a company to have 100% market share.

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marcololol t1_j8pty4s wrote

This is nothing but a tech billionaire delusional story sold by the ethos of Silicon Valley and the opportunities presented by the early internet. You didn’t need exceptional talent, you merely needed the money and social capital and to literally be physically there. Musk was able to do this with the support of his mom

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marcololol t1_j8ptrfx wrote

He was not. He would not be smart enough to achieve this. There is good reason to believe that he doesn't even have a physics degree.

https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307541932474368?....

I’m a software engineer now and I know for a fact that early internet startups required literally only basic talents in order to succeed. Elon isn’t Bezos who was actually intelligent and insightful, nor is he Gates who was actually in a high level program. He’s a fraudster who got lucky at owning shares in PayPal (after he was fired and it blew up he cashed in)

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