I quit smoking and got on the nicotine lozenges. I was eating a bunch of lozenges, almost constantly. Then I started kinda smoking again, but didn't stop the lozenges. Then I had a stroke which left me with a permanent disability, likely partially caused by wild blood pressure swings due to high levels of nicotine.

I quit by default after 3 weeks in a rehab center. The lesson here is... quit before the hospital. It's worth it.

Don't end your sentences with a preposition.

TurboTax lets you go through the entire process of entering information and telling you your refund amount before charging you.

I wasn't sure if I trusted myself with the free system, so I did my semi-complicated taxes through TurboTax until I reached the payment screen, and then went and did them in the free system and confirmed that the dollar amounts matched. Then I submitted through the free system.

Next year, I'll probably just trust myself more, so Intuit doesn't get my data.

That was my thought. I'm not sure if it's based in science, but I remember being a huge fan of Windows 2000 back in the day, and Microsoft pushed a final service pack that made it highly unstable in 2005, and refused to update/fix it. My theory was that they were trying to push everyone to Windows XP, but I'm prone to thinking the worst of large corporations.

Holy crap. Other people have heard of Discuit.

I got an idea.

Aggressively develop and move everything to non-fossil fuel technology. Share that technology with the rest of the world. Then, boom: Iran loses 70% of it's GDP, and everyone wins without any shots fired.

The HR person who works with my team actually said "I actually really like firing people. Well, that didn't sound right... but I do like making these changes."

ha ha ha... ok. Cool.

"People, selling people, to people"

My HR team has been doing layoffs inside their own department. It's kind of interesting to watch.

Yeah. To break down why this meme is bad information, in simple terms:

• You can't deduct "your mortgage". You can only deduct interest on a loan.
• You can't take this deduction on a rental property. You have to live in the home part of the year to take this.
• Since the tax changes in 2017, most homeowners don't deduct mortgage interest anymore, because it's better to take the standard deduction offered to anyone.

Don't share or believe bad information.

This was happening to some extent 10-12 years ago when I first signed up for Facebook. There would be an ad for Target and it would say "Your friend Jimmy Smith likes Target". And then I'd ask Jimmy if he follows the Target account on Facebook, and he'd say hell no.

This always seemed shady as fuck, and that was before Facebook got much much worse.

Americans continuing to buy things that they can't afford is why prices keep going up. If people buy it, it tells the seller that the price is correct.

Yep. I use either and both. They are both phones that work well and have annoying issues.

SmartTube Next if you're on a TV device.

A coworker bought a Jeep and I said "Oh wow, Jeeps are great vehicles! ...unless you drive them on roads."

I test drove one when they first came out. The salesperson was telling me about the continuously variable transmission, and how revolutionary it was.

"It's a new technology? From an American car company? In it's first model year? Ok, no thank you."

lol, what a bunch of bullshit. Trucks are owned by people who want to look like big tough farmers. Drive around any suburban neighborhood and you'll see giant-ass trucks parked in driveways because they are so stupidly large, they don't fit in the garages. They don't do shit that I don't do more of with a station wagon.

I'm assuming this includes you more than most, because you like to talk about it.

This is what I do. Works 9 out of 10 times.

It seems like the "cars tracking you" problem is a very real and very serious thing that should obviously be legislated separately of electric vehicles or country of manufacture.

I got a Mazda recently, and I was reading all the ownership paperwork, and the guy asked me what I was looking for. I said "I'm looking for the language about what data Mazda is collecting about me." And the guy laughed and said there's nothing in the paperwork about that. They just do it. You can't shut it off.

So many of my iPhone fan friends have said "Oh, you finally made the switch, you're going to love it" after I recently bought my first iPhone.

It's a phone. It did not magically transform my user experience. It's 95% similar to what I had on a Pixel. Better low-effort privacy. Better direct hardware access for music and video. Significantly more lag, app freezups, and fragility and some baffling user experience decisions.

I would switch back again, or not, doesn't matter.