Roopappy

joined 2 years ago
[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Don't end your sentences with a preposition.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Holy crap. Other people have heard of Discuit.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

"People, selling people, to people"

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Roopappy@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

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