Good news everyone! The rabid Wolverine I stuffed in my pants isn’t biting my balls as much as you might expect!

And who did they pick as their enemy? The world!

-norm McDonald

I wouldn’t even mind the stealing of my information so much if they were at least quick about it. Imagine Facebook every few minutes stopped working and said “now stealing your information… please wait…”

“You have been found guilty of unlikable jib cut!”

And to encourage you to use their app as well. Remember when 7/11 got the app a soda went from .89 to 1.29. “If you get the app you save money!”

No you’re charging me for not having the app. That’s what just happened.

It’s also part of why things have gotten slower. Again to use 7/11… now every person in line in front of you has to spend 30 more seconds fumbling with their phone or key fob barcode to buy their one damn soda.

I’m bitter about it lol

Tax return filings in the US. There are free options provided by the paid companies… So that they can prevent real changes.

Kinda like pharmaceutical companies when the public demands cheaper prices. The pharmaceutical companies fight back with “what if instead of that we set up some programs that people can use for cheaper medicine! Win win! Then you don’t have to make any real changes that might hurt us?”

Same with taxes. The accounting software companies and advisors companies said “wait hold on, you don’t need to make taxes simpler and tank our business. Keep them complicated and well offer free alternatives that are just as easy as our paid services that people can pick if they don’t want to pay! Win win!”

Which obviously I think is a crap solution. However if you are paying for someone to do your taxes you should stop. There are a lot of easy free services out there that make it pretty much effortless. They are just as good as the paid services now.