Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Also, the tax prep site didn't show me terms & conditions until AFTER paying, & gave me no path to a refund without a forced agreement. Pretty sure that's de-jure illegal, but de-facto clowns with guns run the circus.

So do I accept forced binding arbitration, or do I opt out in favor of forced jury-less trials in the jurisdiction of Dallas County & North Texas?

Holy slop, all the AI fuck integration is too much!

And this marks the first time I've had to fight off *all* the "modern website" pop-ups throughout the whole filing process. Who the hell wants to subscribe to a newsletter in the middle of entering tax return data, especially after saying no on login? Why would you want to cover up one unwanted pop-up with a *second* unwanted pop-up just two seconds later?

Next year, I'm sending paper forms USPS.

@Phorm If I can't see this post of yours, then I'm hallucinating something as absolutely remarkable as a genie's grant of the best wish.

I wish, I wish, I wish everything you want out there gets out there and touches our lives. 💜​

Today is tax day in the US, the deadline for individuals to:

1. take numbers the gov gave us,
2. perform arithmetic the gov already performed,
3. give the gov other numbers it already knows,
4. pray our arithmetic matched its, and
5. pray it made our employers withhold too much money from our paychecks so the gov owes us the refund it knows it does.

@maddy But yes, may they all find unavoidable corridors of spilled Legos everywhere between them and their slippers.

@maddy I blame Steve Ballmer more than anyone else. If he hadn't bonged an iPhone and seen Windows 8 in that high, no one else would've had an industry leader to imitate and copy.

I can't tell you how many phone support calls were needlessly 15-30 minutes longer than they should've been because Microsoft, Apple, Google, & the GTK team all made the auto-hiding scrollbars so completely hidden from my customers that none of them knew their windows had any scrollbars at all.