I have used freetaxusa for the last 3 years. I know I could do it for free if I am willing to just do the paper forms, but the convenience of e-file worth the $12 I have paid.

I feel for you about getting bullied and teased about your height. Unfortunately, it's not really about your height: a bully will just torture you over anything, so getting taller won't help. It's the same for good nature teasing, too. They will. Just shift to teasing you About your feet or ears or haircut.

I know its not what you want to hear, but wait and let nature do is thing. If there was anything that actually worked, it wouldn't be a secret: it would be as well known as viagra and someone would be making money hand over fist selling it.

Just make sure you don't stunt your growth: which it sounds like you are already doing, eating healthy and exercising. Stay away from chemicals that might confuse or shut down your growth plates. Look at your father and uncle on both sides of the family. You might get a few inches in them with healthy living, but ultimately that's your expected range.

Yeah, Opera was sold to Chinese consortium 5-6 years ago. Most if not all of the dev team left the company and they founded Vivaldi.

Opera is Opera in nothing but name at this point.

Every alcoholic who recognizes they have an honest problem knows they need help. They don’t need some vitamin/shoe-buying internet troll to tell them they have a problem.

You can be a good conversationalist and also overshare personnal things. The two are not mutually exclusive.

That being said, just pick topics that are not personal, yet interesting to everyone. (sports is an easy one since it's less controversial than politics.. but not everyone loves sports so be careful).

Ask open ended questions (avoid questions with simple yes or no answers)

> which is owned by a Chinese company.

I had no idea. Thanks for pointing that out.
Makes this LPT totally moot.

Or you can just never go to any site that prefaces a recipe with 11TB of gibberish.

This is great advice.

There is no real reason to use Opera.

It's just another Chromium based web browser which is owned by a Chinese company.

it works for a second, then it starts all over agains as soon as the next commercial loads.

And if you use them, you are usually not interesting in a healthier lifestyle, but to maximize your work out, which could end in a paradox, you are not getting healthier :)

I mean if you want to stop alcohol, there are a lot of good reasons. And saving money (though a weak one imo) could be one of them.

That is a lot of extra steps to getting "healthier". Stop drinking alcohol, could be the step. And you could do home exercise without need of any new fancy cloth.

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A great way to get comfortable conversing with others is to ask good questions. After introductions, start with the usual such as where they grew up or what they do with their free time. Listen and take cues for follow up questions. That will let you know their own level of comfort level of sharing, and they will be more interested in the conversation because people do like to talk about themselves. Also, keep it positive. We each have enough negative BS thrown at us each day, and an upbeat conversation where we are listened to is a welcome event.

> LPT2: Don't use Opera as your browser at all.

Why the 2nd LPT? What's wrong with using Opera in general?

LPT ignore morons who give tips like this, if you need a vpn pay for it because opera will just sell your data or give it to your ip if asked

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I don't quite understand what you mean. Of course everything you route through Opera VPN can be seen by Opera but it is still forwarded to the respective endpoint at which it gets in contact with your destination server thus changing you IP geolocation

Remember; if a product is free, then you are the product.

It's not directly body odor.. its more the smell of the synthetic fibers that I seem to be sensitive to and the fact that front loaders have a generally shit design with the rubber gasket trapping moisture and kid socks and mildewing. I'm generally responsible enough to check the gasket and clean it out after use but I have 4 people from 12 to 70 doing laundry in my house and the likelihood of "someone" leaving a load in long enough to mildew approaches unity in any two-week period. A cup of vinegar eliminates most any residual odor from piss-soaked kid bedding to the weird synthetic chamois in my riding bibs to the dog bed cover. It's a one stop shop lol. I agree with you about using quality detergent; I feel the same way about house paint! it's worth spending the extra money!

edit: i just realized that my work computer is signed into a different account .. but tis I Boonestafa!

LPT: Don't use Opera's bult-in VPN.

LPT2: Don't use Opera as your browser at all.

I am non-American using grams and liters, but also tea spoon and table spoon.

Just not cups nor lbs/floz.

Even then, they can always decrypt on the fly what you do, so no it’s not really fine even just for countering geolocation

Lol, i would. That shit drives me crazy.