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@AdagioM we have filed an extension most years, usually because I was on deadline and resented the interruption of preparing my taxes. We have never paid anything at the time of the extension, and we have never had to pay a penalty. I was going to do them early this year, but now I am thinking of not doing them at all. My accountant is sympathetic, politically. I expect I'll be calling him for advice on this.

Thoreau went to jail for not paying his taxes because he objected to his tax dollars being spent on war. Then he wrote a book about it, "Civil Disobedience," which inspired both Mahatma Gandhi and MLK.

Things are in such a dire state at the moment, I'm afraid those of us who can, need to follow their example.

This ad, on the other hand, looks like a complete scam.

Given the attempted coup already underway, I think it is foolish to dismiss almost any possible course of action by Trump, the Republicans, and their minions.

Big Al

Kind of a low bar…

A small victory in a very big war.

Big Al

I don’t want to click on the answer and find out maybe something bad about my Sudanese ancestry.

@Steve-Miller
Wish that were surprising.

Got a letter from a company offering to lease farmland to solar panel use.
The letter's wording reeked of fraud and the $$ offered what cheap.
Tossed it.

The first salvo in the long-running series of battles we can expect to overturn regulations based on the Loper Bright decision. Striking down the FCC regulations on net neutrality is only a glimpse of what we are in for. Expect challenges in almost every area of life where federal agencies promulgate detailed regulations.

Big Al

I have a couple of bottles of olive oil from Costco too. I should try that!

I appreciate that they state the harvest date on the label. They should all do that.

Another gpod religion gone bad. :}

The SHOKZ OpenRun SE is on sale again in Costco. Now I am seeing it listed at $75 on Costco website.

You wanna take lots of risk, just buy Bitcoin.

Yup. I do. It's pretty much the only brand that Costco sells.

Don't think I'll ditch it right now, but when I do go to replace it, do you have any recommendations, @Axtremus ? I'm in the low use category, internet speeds of less than 400 Mbps, streaming maybe one or two devices at a time, no gaming or other heavy use...and even though the router is in the basement I get an excellent signal on both the first and second floors of our house.

I think I had Netgear before and have generally been much happier with the TP-Link.

@ShiroKuro so true.

A couple weeks ago we went to a holiday champagne tasting at my favorite wine merchant. A nice event, date-worthy. There was a couple at the next table. The woman looked very alone. The guy with her was looking at this phone the whole time. i don't think he said three words to her in three hours. I damn near asked her to join us, but I figured that would start a fight and ruin our outing.