Asklemmy

It's funny that the IRS has now been offering their own tax-free service. Intuit thought they could strong-arm people but even the IRS thought "no bruh, you're crazy".

I just never saw the appeal of paying for tax software/services, well maybe I can see it in services because there's still a lot of people that have trouble with filing taxes and they may be in unique tax situations that they don't understand.

But Tax Software makes it stupid easy to understand so it should not be something we pay for.

Not everyone has access to libraries. However anyone with internet access and a device capable of reading ebooks can read for free with libgen, zlib, and sci hub.

Every book I try to check out has a 3 month to 3 year wait-list. Not exactly a convenient way to read.

Really depends on the workplace. I will not drink coffee and I'm no longer drinking hot chocolate even from my work. Mainly because a lot of my co-workers are slobs and everything is unsanitized. I had just witnessed last night, someone from day maintenance, had their gloves still on (presumably from touch dirty trash bins, scrubbing toilets .etc) just go about touching some things before realizing he needed them off.

And I ended up vomiting last sunday because nobody checks expiration dates on what we have and I ended up drinking hot chocolate that might've been expired. So, it depends on the workplace.

As somebody who grew up with perfect tap water and then moved to Detroit, I used to think this.

Edit: I guess I should say I still think this for a lot of places. When I go to my parents house the first thing I do is drink a big cup of their amazing tap water.

Yeah ok.

In my 20's I over-enjoyed a great many things.

Now in my 40's I don't drink booze, do drugs, smoke cigarettes, and also try to avoid sugar and caffeine. I also have kids now so I sold my motorbikes because that seemed irresponsible.

So yeah, I do purchase poncy imported italian sparkling mineral water because... it's a nice indulgence.

I was actually enjoying Blue Apron for a while, mainly because it was stuff that I'd never thought to try making before, but the amount of trash generated from each box delivered was too much for my conscience. I wish they didn't use so many plastic wrappers and had some way of returning the boxes with the insulation.

In my area in Greece, the water is not safe, my brother who used to work in the water containers says it's full of rats. We all buy bottles. It would be nice to be environmentally conscious about it, but there's no choice about it.

I'm still waiting for a proper excel replacement. No, google sheets and libre office don't cut it. I literally have a copy of office 2019 that I have to finagle to install only that app and nothing else.

On that same idea, camrips sold out of the back of a car. I knew someone who bragged about being able to get them and I always thought they looked like ass. They just liked acting like they had hood connections.

Then there's people paying for pirated software in CDs/DVDs

It's more convenient to have a license. I only buy those when the developer is being scummy

Okay, to preface I really hate giving Google money, but I hate ads more, and paying for Premium also removes ads on YouTube apps across platforms. It also in some minuscule way rewards the creators I watch, but real support comes from Patreon.