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Living the dream in the PNW. Here for conversation, sarcasm and cool pics of nature. Licensed Tax Consultant. #TaxBS

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27.11.2025 22:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ask yourself why a man of that age, experience, career status, wealth & power would be interested in a woman 30+ yrs younger without any of those things.

They werenโ€™t bonding over shared experiences. He wanted someone whoโ€™d be grateful for his gifts & โ€œhelpโ€ so he could get what HE wanted.

18.11.2025 17:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Multiple things can be true simultaneously. She was a young woman w/agency. He was 30+ yrs older (life experience, wealthier, powerful, had exposure & access a young journalist would envy & could use to grow her own career).

You can hold her responsible for choices & judge him for exploiting her.

18.11.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Advised by a reporter who KNEW he was guilty of soliciting a minorโ€”at the least.

So, letโ€™s see how many news stations continue to bring Michael Wolff on the air and who has the courage to demand answers about this email instead of just giving him promo time for his books.

12.11.2025 16:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you arenโ€™t calling these people to scream at them not to fucking cave, what are you even doing?

Trump is fighting in court for people on SNAP to go hungry. Rs have EXPLICITLY stated they will NOT extend the ACA subsidies and the Ds are going to fucking cave & lose the only leverage they have?

09.11.2025 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m so sorry for your loss. Grief is a long & winding road. Take care of yourself.

25.10.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

From time to time, when Iโ€™m talking about the need to navigate somewhere or needing directions Iโ€™ll say, โ€œJust Mapquest it.โ€

My husband mocks me relentlessly. ๐Ÿคฃ

24.10.2025 13:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely agree that French toast should be cooked through. Soggy texture is gross.

But brioche makes the best French toast. White bread is typically too absorbent and flimsy.

23.10.2025 16:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Like any tool, it doesnโ€™t work well in every application. It may be phenomenally useful in some scientific/engineering functions but utterly useless in others.

The money & energy weโ€™re wasting in pursuit of this tech as the solution to โ€œeverythingโ€ is disgusting and articles like this donโ€™t help.

23.10.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This article is filled w/disingenuous arguments & justifications for these companies to ruin art & culture.

โ€˜Well, if the janitor working in an AI factory isnโ€™t paid more than any other janitor, why should a poet be paid for their written work. Thatโ€™s discriminatory. โ€˜

AI is a tool.

23.10.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We had fantastic pizza in Parma, served from a little window while walking on the outskirts of townโ€”not a restaurant. Itโ€™s a beautiful little town.

We were there in February years ago.

Also visited Maranello. IYKYK. ๐ŸŽ๏ธ

15.10.2025 08:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The northern lights viewed from Lofoten area of Norway.

The Musee Pissarro in Paris.

Whale watching from a Zodiac boat (orcas literally swam right under our 10 person inflatable boat).

Doubtful Sound in New Zealand.

28.09.2025 03:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It means, we wish American soldiers were refusing unlawful orders like the murder of Venezuelans our military is perpetrating for the โ€œcrimeโ€ of operating a boat.

28.09.2025 02:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™ve โ€œhate watchedโ€ this show for three seasons thinking it would get better so I clearly have issues.

Really despised Carrellโ€™s character and most of Anistonโ€™s character storylines. Just perpetual โ€˜victimsโ€™ with no accountability.

Why in the hell will I be watching another season??

17.09.2025 04:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Patiently waiting for all the โ€œfree speechโ€ conservatives & TwitterFiles conspiracy nuts to condemn this bullshit from Clay Higgins.

Also, Mr. Higgins is an idiot that doesnโ€™t realize Jay Graber is a woman. Heโ€™s also a suck up trying to score points by including Trump Media. Pathetic.

17.09.2025 03:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interesting but Iโ€™m glad thatโ€™s your experience. For me, itโ€™s a struggle every time they reinvent/redesign the UI to โ€œimproveโ€ things for users.

Just now, it took me so many clicks just to find the Books Review/trx without payee screen and it took forever to load the results.

21.08.2025 23:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Umโ€ฆIโ€™m gonna need you to be more specific. What do you think is better?

21.08.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

On my clientโ€™s page, when I hover over the โ€œMy Menuโ€ button a long list of options appears. After scrolling down that list, you should see โ€œReclassify transactionsโ€ under the Tools header.

19.08.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, I thought it was gone, too, but after searching for a long time I found it.

After I log back in today, Iโ€™ll see if I can find it again to share.

They are destroying the product and driving away its users. So maddening.

19.08.2025 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can you explain how this bill โ€œhelps Wall Street fleece the working classโ€?

Neither of your links say anything remotely similar (and in fact donโ€™t criticize the billโ€™s intent). So, what exactly is your issue with the bill?

29.07.2025 03:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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REPORTER: Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?

TRUMP: Say it?

R: Should Israel be doing more to allow food?

T: What is she saying?

SOMEONE: Should Israel be doing more to allow food in Gaza?

T: You really at least want to have somebody say thank you. We gave $60m for food for Gaza

27.07.2025 16:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1409    ๐Ÿ” 439    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 456    ๐Ÿ“Œ 203

Itโ€™s absolutely asinine they refuse to make this available after so many years of intense demand & itโ€™s far from the only example that would radically improve the ability of users to better serve their customers & analyze their own data. They donโ€™t want to make the product better. They want more $$.

24.07.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One single example: the ability to print the Class field on an invoice. You can input it on the invoice but there is no way to print it for the customer and accountants and users have been asking for that for Iโ€™m guessing 10+ years according to thousands of Google search results.

24.07.2025 21:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same, same. He has no idea what Iโ€™ve prepared or for that matter how many bank & investment accounts we have. ๐Ÿคฃ

24.07.2025 17:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s fake justification for their incessant fee increases. โ€œLook at all the new things weโ€™ve given you & how often we โ€˜updateโ€™ functionality & the user interface!โ€

Itโ€™s not helpful, most of their improvements suck and they refuse to fix things their accountant users have been begging for for years.

24.07.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone learning art history, archaeology, journalism or marketing wonโ€™t help a single person in my community but those courses have major value elsewhere in the US/world & I support them because Iโ€™m not a bigoted narcissist who thinks my opinions are the most important indicator of value. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ–•๐Ÿป

15.07.2025 23:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone learning a foreign language wonโ€™t help a single person in MY community but those courses have major value. Should we stop teaching other languages because I donโ€™t benefit?

My community is extremely small but the ppl that live here (and those who visit) believe in all sorts of education.

15.07.2025 23:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, okay. So a course taught by a Black woman about race that youโ€™ve not experienced yourself is automatically presumed to โ€blame whiteyโ€ as its syllabus and because it wonโ€™t help YOUR community (in your opinion), it has no value whatsoever in a capitalist society. Did I understand you correctly?

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15.07.2025 23:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who is this โ€œwhole generationโ€ that canโ€™t read at grade level? What kind of dystopian fantasy are you living in?

Also, education is most effective when it reaches people where they are & how they learn. One size fits all w/education is how we got hereโ€”where ppl canโ€™t distinguish fact from fiction.

15.07.2025 03:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They havenโ€™t paid themselves in 2025 but havenโ€™t filed 2024 income taxes, yet.

Would you prepare 2024 deducting the โ€œwagesโ€ even though they shouldnโ€™t be and just consider the withholding & FICA to offset the SE tax even though they donโ€™t exactly equal out?

14.07.2025 21:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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