It's honestly pretty awful that tax companies exist when the IRS could hire programmers to set up a free competitor to TurboTax or TaxAct very easily.

And, as the flat tax folks tell us constantly, we could drop the entire industry and 90+% of the IRS if we just simplified the tax code. That one's more contentious, but I don't understand why the IRS doesn't spend $500k to develop this. They could even charge $10 a pop and make the money back in a year. Maybe even become the first profitable government agency.

If you elected to have $20 taken out of each paycheck in addition to the amount the W-4 calculation came up with then you played that very well.

If you hadn’t taken out that $20 a paycheck and if you’re paid each week you would be about $1000 short of the total tax amount you owe for 2022 and you would have to pay about $1000 by April 15

I find the “new” w-4 to be very confusing. I’m laughing at myself saying “new” as it’s like 4-5 years old now).

It is scary.

Try doing pullups.

Beyond that get sleep and eat well and stay positive.

5’8” guy here and i married a 5’8” girl… my kids are going to be taller than me

sooo maybe not a way to actually groww taller… i would recommend you learn a language for a country where the average height is shorter than you. you’re at that age where you could totally be fluent in a language by the time you’re graduating college.

then you can move to that country and be “tall”. Mexico, asian countries, maybe some european countries but i’m not sure.

you could have a career as a translator or something.

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Order one for me too. Thanks

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No, that’s not what he was saying at all.

You manage budgets, processes, and inventories.

You lead people.

Until you understand the distinction, you won't be good at your job.

Pelvic floor physio is recommended by a ton of urologists for men and women, for both under AND over-developed pelvic floor muscles. If thIngs are too tight you won't be able to fully empty your urethra and need to learn to relax properly to let that last bit out

Source: am nurse, currently work in cystoscopy.

I don’t think you can be a good conversationalist without sharing personal information. I strongly feel that a good conversationalist show vulnerability which encourages other people to share more. The easiest way to show vulnerability in a conversation is to talk about personal things. If you don’t share you are just interviewing I hate feeling interviewed when having a conversation.

self hosted OpenVPN. You can host it on AWS, behind your home router, really anywhere. On top of that you add PiHole and enjoy internet free of ads and annoyances.

You can also use things that are heavily marketed for a few years already like Nord, Surf. unless you're trying to run darknet drug market should be fine. These are convinient, as long as they're not owned by chinese company you shall be fine.

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I think that’s what OP was trying to say. Most regular people are fitness-averse and see weightlifting as unnecessary. 7 minutes a day of exercise and getting your steps in is a lifetime goal for many people, so this kind of advice isn’t going to come off well.

Thanks again for that tidbit :)

So what's a good VPN? Where I don't sacrifice my privacy away.

Yeahhh…. I think people here are assuming OP is an alcoholic whose income was hugely affected.

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A lot of people on here are shitting on you. Also a lot of people here are not physically in shape and in their 30s or 40s. I’m just going to assume that.

A lot of people here also assume you’re an alcoholic and spend hundreds of dollars a month on alcohol. You probably don’t.

If you were an alcoholic, gym costs, supps, whatever will be cheaper than alcohol. If you’re a social drinker and drink a six pack or two a week, getting swole will be more expensive.

Just by quitting alcohol, many people will be much much healthier even if they subsist on diet coke. But OP wants to be fit AND Healthy, which a lot of people also want to be, and they are shocked at how much money obtaining and maintaining fitness is.

When you lose weight - you’re going to want to buy gym clothes that don’t make you look like a sack of potatoes. That costs money. Or if you’re real thrifty go and wear your old gym clothes from college. Unfortunately, the gym has become like high school, you can try not to wear nice gym clothes, and your mileage will vary.

Supplements are absolutely essential. If you want to workout, go to work, have a social life, have family time, and have enough energy for all of those things, a once a day multivitamin is not going to cut it. Supplements cost money. For example — Amino acids that are required for muscle maintenance while your aging, unfortunately, you will not get that with the shitty diet you had. This costs money to supplement.

If OP is a male, and tall, he needs to keep up his calorie intake/macros in proportion to his lifting or he will just injure himself. Especially if he is lifting heavy. If not, he will workout and up looking like a serial marathon runner. I don’t think this is what he wants. This also costs money.

Perhaps people on here just want you to walk on the treadmill or ride a bike 20 minutes a day and be the skinny-fat male equivalent of Pam from the office and just say you’re healthy and fit, but male health requires a certain muscle mass for continued testosterone production which is absolutely and undeniably essential for male mental and physical health — and this gets harder and harder to maintain as you get older without proper nutrition/diet/exercise — and all of this requires money.

OP Please don’t let people get you down, you were trying to do a good thing, but people in general are fitness-averse and see it as an unnecessary lifestyle because honestly, they’ve never had it, so they don’t know any better.

you do not, ever, under any circumstance use ANY FREE VPN services. Thank you. Also 90% of all VPN are owned by 23 chinese companies.

What if I told you all your paid VPNs are selling your data too?

Can I give myself a virtual location to watch Netflix?