Turbo Tax? Screw Turbo Tax!

Federal Trade Commission accuses Intuit of deceptively advertising TurboTax as free

You wanna know what Turbo Tax is? They are the reason you don't just get a bill from our government; which already has all the information they need to calculate what I (/ you) owe.

They consistently use a bait-switch tactic of letting you start your taxes for free and during the process using confusing messages that hope you accidently upgrade. Or worse they get to a spot three quarters of the way in and tell you because you selected column A on page 2 you have to use their paid version.

The world would be better without Turbo Tax and it's total BS. They exist because they constantly lobby congress to keep their fleecing practices legal and stop the government from changing in the correct direction.

And hey, IRS, send me a bill! You already know where I work and what I earned --- so leave me alone! It is illogical to ask me to report my data and penalize me if I do that wrong, when you already have all this information!

ENOUGH! STOP THE STUPID!

The Earth is not afraid of Us

The Great Barrier Reef is still suffering extensive damage caused by warming oceans

Let us all remember that the Earth is 4.5 billion, yeah, with a B, years old. It has been here long before us and it will be here long after us.

If we are causing problems and changing things the Earth will survive and adapt as it has done for all these eons. 

I think all too often climate change is mentioned and we are meant to feel guilty... and we should, but not for the reason we think. If we are causing species to die out and greenhouse gases to multiply those are terrible things and should be stopped because that is the responsible thing to do. We all need to do something that most people seem very unwilling to do these days and that is take responsibility for our own actions and then all of us need to take responsibility collectively for our planet.

Even if we don't, however, the Earth will survive. Species and climates will adapt, new ebbs and flows will develop. 

Some of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef will survive and it will be the genesis of a whole new and amazing life system under the sea. 

We are merely one of many catalysts for change on this planet. Let us take responsibility where we should and let the Earth handle the rest.

Politicians Lie?

 What kind of super-moron wrote this story and for whom?

The truth in political advertising: 'You're allowed to lie'

Politics is, and always will be, a game of lies. If you don't understand that, then you shouldn't vote. If you think you voting means anything to anyone it doesn't. It's a waste of time.

Don't even get me started on the BS that is the US Electoral college. It should be eliminated. Now.

It is not a search engine, it's a marketing data collection box

Lawsuit claims Google's Order Online button directs customers away from restaurants' sites

Stop thinking that Google is a search engine that will assist you in finding anything on the web. It may have been that for a brief, shining second way back in its infancy.  At a time when all search engines were struggling to figure out how to make money. 

Once Google realized the money is not in giving people good search results they stopped doing that and switched to collecting and selling data on you -- without your permission. 

Today, that is all they do and they do it well.

Someday far in the future people will say, "Remember when it was legal to steal and collect personal data without a users permission?"

"Scary times. You could never get away with that today."

I can't wait for that future to happen right now.

Remember: Google has no interest in giving you good search results. They just don't care and since you don't seem to either everyone loses.

Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! You are going to kill people!

NHTSA greenlights self-driving cars without manual controls 

Open your ears and listen closely.

The world does NOT need self-driving cars. EVER.

They are going to kill people. 

Get it though your stupid American head and stop it now before anyone losses their life.

PLEASE!

Hey, Stupid...

I wish we were all much smarter and much more international and well-read because when I see headlines like this, I want to puke.

Poutine, not Putin: French restaurant chain clarifies name after receiving threats

I know Americans are stupid, especially on the world stage, and they can't even find location on the globe our government is attacking, but come on. Americans are also vastly overweight from a love of food. Shouldn't we at least know the difference between cheese fries with gravy and a Russian moron with delusions of grandeur and world domination?

Please, people. Learn. Think. 

If you don't we are all, already, very doomed.

Age is Good for Wine, ...Until it becomes Vinegar

I recently saw an article with this title:

Racial justice activists say Biden's State of the Union address missed the mark

Well... yeah. Of course it did! He's an 80 year old white man! 

For some reason the United States seems to want to elect 70+ year old white men. Other countries have much younger and more progressive leadership.

It's a problem that wont go away fully until all the baby-boomers are dead. That sounds harsh but their kind of thinking can't be changed, it only dies out.

Another thing, actions speak louder than words. Maybe he didn't mention some things and maybe he IS working on those things behind the scenes. If that is the case then that is more important than talking about it.

Talk is cheap especially in Washington among politicians. 

Age brings wisdom ...and conservative values. You can't have it both ways.

The great they say that:

Sanctions will have a “devastating” impact on Russia

I think a few things here. Firstly that Putin is no idiot. He planned ahead for this tactic. I'm sure it wont hurt Russia as bad as we hope.

What we should (and can only) truly hope for is that sanctions will trickle down and hurt the Russian people enough to oust their leader or their government. That is probably a bloody affair for them and they will not be eager to do so. They have not grown up like us with the ideals of freedom and justice as deeply engrained as we have. They will not rise up quickly.

Humans are very flexible in what they need to live. Its pretty minimal and therefore a whole lot of hurt would have to befall the Russian people for a long time before they took any action that might endanger their lives. 

And rightly so.

I wish them the best of luck and pledge them all of my support.

The State of the Union

I'll give you the State of the Union.

Half of America agrees with you. Simple. Easy.

The other half doesn't care about anything you love and most of them would gladly kill you, your spouse and your babies and even set fire to your pets if it helped them get more money or what they desire.

The United States is a 50/50 divided nation at the time of this writing. Democracy doesn't work with only two choices. It fails. 

The new Civil War has started. The Capitol Riots were only the beginning.

So, it's time stock up on TP via Amazon's next day delivery and dust off the bunker in the back yard.

Don't be a Moron

So this popped up in my news feeds.

Americans are at higher risk of Russian cyberattacks after Ukraine invasion...

Really? You mean a foreign power that gladly invades its neighbor because it feels it owns the land isn't going to protect me or my country from its criminals?

No one can own land anyway, the whole concept is stupid, the original tribal Americans had it correct. It's like saying I own that tree over there. Why? Because I said so... and hey do you wanna buy it for a ten grand? 

Sure!

You... are a moron.