How about donating to charity? If you don't need the money, there are people in the world who are struggling to get clean water.
Spend some time to verify that your money goes to a good cause and not to scammers.
You could start by donating to a local sports team to buy equipment to those who can't afford if, for example. Then go see their games to see what you've accomplished.
Donating excess profit (from self-run business and/or employment) to local non-profits/small organizations is the single most satisfying thing I've ever done. Not only does it feel great to donate the funds to them, but to be able to afterwards tell the change you're able to help them achieve is invaluable.
Do you have any advice on finding/selecting the right charities? Each year I give away a portion of my salary but always struggle to find good charities to give to. Perhaps I am overthinking it, but any tips on this would be appreciated.
Find some charities that interest you then hit up a site like https://www.charitynavigator.org/ and see if they are in the database, if they are see how they are rated, make sure they aren't spending 95% of what they raise on salaries and advertising expenses, etc.
> Do you have any advice on finding/selecting the right charities
I don't donate to international/national organizations but local ones, or even local businesses I like but who struggle with something. My tip for finding those is to participate in the local business/events landscape in your province/city/neighborhood, and talk to people.
If you want, you can also arrange things as "sponsorships" of various things for the nonprofits you support, which may allow them to be considered a business expense, saving you that money on taxes (last I checked, LLCs don't get tax deductions for charitable donations).
If your company's name is on the jersey of the Little League team, for example, it's an "advertising" expense, and the team gets jerseys.
This. But I'd say don't just donate the whole sum. Talk to whatever accountant you find about creating a foundation and building an endowment. At $20k+ per month in seed you'll quickly ramp up to millions of dollars in the endowment and can build a foundaton that runs in perpetuity to enrich the lives of a lot of people less fortunate than you.
Depends on your relationship with the dentist, and the specific one. I'v heard of others getting their dentist to xray small things for them, either for free or a nominal fee.
Extreme ironing used to be fun sport but when Rowenta started sponsoring the UK team in the championships it's now only "commercial sponsorship and exploitation"
Always have an extra customer, like the flowershop downstairs. Let her borrow your wifi in exchange for some office flowers. Now she is technically your customer.
When your shit goes down and nothing works you can still write "some of our customers are experiencing issues" in the statuspage as the flowershop still has wifi (hopefully).
The only productive industry is Octan, the oil company, and in the movie, the president of that company is also the de facto ruler of the city. Is Lego City a classic petro-state?
My personal belief is that they dont. Best they could achieve is trapping the ISP's sending mail server in Norway before the mail is encrypted but there is no capability to decrypt SSL without obtaining the keys.
They could still store metadata like sending IP address, timestamp etc.
Using foreign webmail via HTTPS would not be intercepted in any possible way. Unless they get support from the service provider in question. I think the service providers you mention will comply with law enforcement and give out your data. But those are isolated cases and mass data required by intelligence services is a different thing. National security letters are only for US Govt use and other governments have no access.
I also think legislation like this is years late now that about every protocol has encrypted variants and they don't get any meaningful results compared to the money spent.
And with a sticker on the front, of course.