kingsboi
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did you try to remove the seed in the middle portion or the bottom/top?
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did you try to remove the seed in the middle portion or the bottom/top?
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kingsboi
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next time try popping it out from the bottom with the tip of your knife to avoid further troubles
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I'll do my best to remember your suggestion...
I won't make any promises, however...
one of the best ways is to learn by trial and error and unfortunately for you, you had your error moment so I think you will be fine
Every time I see this Verizon commercial, I think that Paul Giamatti must have owed someone a favor, or lost a card game, or something.
This is an old post, but it's so hilariously accurate that I had to resurrect it!
I go in pretty much every two weeks and donate blood - typically a double platelet and plasma. I hit 20 gallons with my donation today - that's 160 donations! I used to donate only whole blood until a couple of years ago, and that meant I could only donate 6 times a year, so this achievement has been a LONG time coming.
Give blood and save a life!!!
Give blood and save a life!!!
Proud dad moment: My son just got acceptance letters for all three high schools he applied for.
Shout out to your son, but since when do kids have to apply for high school? Isn't going to high school, like, the law?
Well there's a few reasons, some public schools selectively take kids from out of their neighborhood, and some schools are private and you have to apply.
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There's nothing I want to say in response to this that is within bounds for this message board. So, I'll just say congrats to your son, again, and keep it moving.
This is all I will say: Fewer things in my life were more transformational than the summer I spent at Easter Seals for my high school community service project. Which is a big part of why I'm steering my son in this direction. He needs to learn that privilege comes with responsibility.
This has not been a banner day for people I thought were cool when I woke up this morning.
Based on my walk with TJ this afternoon I think I know one of these people and had to have a frank talk with him about it because he seemed to be getting a very manospheric POV. But I'm very out of the loop how many you may be speaking about.
Either way, I'm sorry to read this.
Oliver Hudson and Wyatt Russell sitting there like
TurboTax is a god damned scam.
kingsboi
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did you do your own taxes?
For disclosure, I use TT.
If you mean that there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to just use government-provided forms and software to do our mandated taxes (due to lobbying efforts of the tax preparers), then yes, I whole-heartedly agree.
Or is there something else that is setting you off?
That was not the impetus for my post, and I decline to answer the question.
Please. He's the best of the best Roberts.
Also I do have some investments that require the higher levels of tax prep software or a person just to understand (mostly the whole foreign tax credit stuff on my VTIAX holding) but for the most part, the government knows what we owe or get back, why can't this just be automated and we only file if we disagree?
Probably because it might lead to the ultra-wealthy paying their fair share.
What set me off is the fact that you have to buy a new version of the software every year. I missed the second half of Clippers/Suns and the first half of Wolves/Nuggets last night, because I had to go help my mom upgrade her TurboTax software. I am annoyed by the fact that they
Well, also that, but that's all above me.
Yeah, I get that. It is stupid, especially for something like taxes that are generally the same every year (same forms, same user inputs, etc.) with a few tweaks and updated formulas (for determining the taxes you owe based on current tax law).
They screwed up the software a few years back (user input interface changed, etc., that I thought was pretty bad), but I think they switched back the next year.
Also agreed.
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I find this annoying but I started buying the disc/download version from Costco which is a lot cheaper than doing it online or buying the software straight from Intuit. A loooong time ago, I used to get is severely discounted or almost free from my bank, but sadly that stopped long ago. I'm so looped into their system having used it since I first filed my own taxes that I'd rather not change at this point.
... And that's how they getcha!
Since two moderators have already chimed in on this, I feel I should point out that the latter doesn't seem to follow from the former. The self-filing method seems silly to me too. But if the government knows how much you should pay, it should also know how much the ultra-wealthy should pay, so I don't see how they get away paying less under the self-filing method.
I suppose you could argue that the wealthy may have "hidden" income that the government doesn't know about - but if that's the case, the self-filing method would result in MORE revenue to the government. Why? Because in the government-bill method, if the government doesn't bill you for your income, then you know they don't know about it and you can get away with not paying taxes on it. In the self-file method at least you have to wonder if the government might know about your "hidden" income and you might declare it just to be safe.
Now, if the self-file method were a true "honor system" then you'd be right, but since by your former assertion it's really more a "trap system" the idea that it's designed to let rich people get off seems...unlikely.
