Same. But because I still try to maintain some sense of whatever insanity is happening in the world, I checked and this one is real. 😞

I think B should be ‘bog’, because many people say “D as in ‘dog’.”

Maybe read it again? L is lima, no ‘g’. It and bravo are the only unchanged.

I’m not sure OP is complaining about taxes themselves, just the way people react to a refund.

The refund means someone overpaid all year and could have had that money throughout the year. And yet many people get excited about a refund as if they’re getting a gift rather than, well, a refund of what they already paid.

In OP’s mother’s case, she was disappointed that she owed more. If she’d managed her withholdings differently, she could have avoided owing and, despite paying the exact same in the end, would probably have been more satisfied with her tax outcome.

And yeah, US here. I wish my tax money was going to better causes. I genuinely want my money to go to improving my community (schools, healthcare, social services). And some does, but even more goes to horrible things.

I’m not OP but I’m wondering if perhaps they are mixing up ingredients with nutrition facts or just marketing content?

Here are screenshots from a mix I was looking at just last night. Chloride is listed as one of the electrolytes, and it’s listed separately in the nutrition facts. But in the ingredients it’s just “salt”.

I’m just speculating though.

Edit: TIL cropping images then hitting “copy and delete” to close them does not actually paste a cropped image on my new phone. That’s annoying.

Oh jeez, your comment reminded me of something.

My boyfriend used to tell the following joke: “Have you heard about the Mexican magician? He counted from uno to dos, then disappeared without a tres (trace).”

It definitely has a “had me in the first half” racist vibe, while not actually being problematic. Except one time he told it to someone who turned out to actually be an idiot racist. He was too stupid to understand the language pun, but heard “Mexican” in a joke and took it as an opening to tell some truly racist “jokes.”

I’ll sometimes tell the joke still by modifying it to “Spanish-speaking magician,” but I am very intentional about my audience after that experience.

I don’t love the “haha, women are hysterical” tone here, but also it’s a solid pun. So I say bravo to your shitpost. Anywhere else and it would not have been received well.

Username checks out.

Those are clearly line segments, not planes. /bad geometry joke

My partner loves it; I have not been willing to change my habits to use it.

One thing that I appreciate about them as a business is that if you don’t use it for a month, they don’t charge you. The subscription stays active, but doesn’t cost you anything until you start using it again. Makes it a low-risk subscription to get! (Please confirm they still do this, but it is how it worked when he signed up!)

Not directly related but your comment reminded me of it: did you know you can hear a difference in hot vs cold water?

And I don’t mean that as a general, “one can learn to hear it,” I mean it as, “this is a skill you there reading this probably have that you likely never realized you have.” (Unless you have also seen this video or something like it.)