Some things are actually getting better
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Regarding Cellphones, I think we should thank Judge Harold Green for at least making innovation easier by breaking up AT&T in 1984. We may have got cellphones, but later than we did.
https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/lessons-att-break-30-years-later/
I remember giving my dad a hard time about paying a monthly rent on that black phone on the wall in the kitchen for 40 years, long after you could buy and install your own phone for less than a years rent.
And while we are on tech, cars are so much more reliable, no more changing plugs, points, and condenser every 20,000 miles.
What's a check?
That's what I pay my quarterlies with, 4 checks a year!
Educate me, I'm sure there must now be a way to do a direct transfer to the Internal Revenue Service.
Car-Guy
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Don't pay, they will take it "directly".
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Seedless watermelons are good, but we had a really hard time finding some with seeds for our annual volunteer fire department 4th of July picnic. Can't spit seeds if there aren't any!
I won't post any videos, But I love Dovydas, he is Lithuanian born musician. He is a one man band, he always plays his version of a song. If he doesn't know a song, he will listen to it on his phone and start putting it together on his Guitar, drum synthesizer, keyboard and what ever else he has. He plays a wide range of music. Pink Floyd to Willie Nelson with a few original songs he wrote. He has recorded a lot of videos in St. Armands Circle, Sarasota. Ok, just one original he played on the street in Nashville. I like how three people stopped to dance, but I can't understand how so many people can walk by without stopping. He is a very accomplished guitar player.
aja8888
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Yes, I pay my quarterly estimated taxes using the EFTPS system:
https://www.eftps.gov/eftps/
Others here do the same.
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And you can even set it up at the same time for the remaining estimated payments for that tax year. One-stop shopping!
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Yes, that's exactly what I do.
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It's [the check] a printed piece of paper that's free. I fill it out, go to town, and meet the nice folks in town government. Personal delivery of that check also means I get to stop at McD's for a fish filet (or two). Sometimes I go completely insane and pick up two $6 Acme hoagies for dinner. Then I drive home, and feeling a great sense of accomplishment, I reward myself with a nap in the recliner.
One small piece of paper enables a great day.
BF does that- he's an extravert who drives around his small town every day, pays bills in person and is on a first-name basis with everyone at the cable company, the landlord's office, the utility companies, etc. I have to admit it probably helped when his modem needed replacing and he had someone at his home at 9 AM the next morning. He has a WFH job so he really needed a quick response.
I am grateful for on-line bill pay. So much paper is saved with the elimination of paper bills (some with return envelopes) and it saves me all the time I used to spend writing out and recording checks and getting them all in the mail. Mail thefts have increased in our area- some thieves "wash" the checks and write them to themselves for larger amounts. Good to eliminate that risk.
aja8888
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All that saved paper is now in the stack of advertisements I get daily in my mailbox. And when the politicians are out in force, the box gets stuffed to the gills with their garbage level flyers!
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Yes, despite every thing we complain about , we never had it so good. i just wish folks were more grateful. A great article/opinion piece of the great strides we have made, especiall the last 122 years.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/what-time-be-alive
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/what-time-be-alive
aja8888
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If I recall, they send me an email before the IRS pulls the money. I don't recall one after the fact, but maybe they do send one.
I'm all signed up, hoping that website is not owned by aja888! I want the withdrawal to pay my taxes.
aja8888
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I'm all signed up, hoping that website is not owned by aja888! I want the withdrawal to pay my taxes.
You are good to go! Easy way to pay est. taxes.
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"Some things are actually getting better?"
No, a LOT of things have gotten better. And they will get better still.
On the other hand, I think a few things may have gotten worse. I just hope that these few things will not ruin all the good things we have.
No, a LOT of things have gotten better. And they will get better still.
On the other hand, I think a few things may have gotten worse. I just hope that these few things will not ruin all the good things we have.
Here's an article about why this is the best time to be alive.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/what-time-be-alive
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/what-time-be-alive
One thing that has gotten better for me in my lifetime is air conditioning. Today is low 90’s and high humidity. I really appreciate my air conditioned house. I didn’t have air conditioning until my 30’s so it is not a luxury that I take for granted.
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Just this week added internet to the mountain cabin my grandparents built in the late 50s.
The local telephone co-op is moving everyone to fiber, target end of this month.
Fiber had already been laid underground, took about 45 minutes for them to complete the install, which included literally removing what might have been the original copper aerial telephone line.
Back home, AT&T ran conduit & pulled fiber on the main road outside my neighborhood almost FIVE years ago, but haven't yet deigned to bring it down to our houses.
The local telephone co-op is moving everyone to fiber, target end of this month.
Fiber had already been laid underground, took about 45 minutes for them to complete the install, which included literally removing what might have been the original copper aerial telephone line.
Back home, AT&T ran conduit & pulled fiber on the main road outside my neighborhood almost FIVE years ago, but haven't yet deigned to bring it down to our houses.
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I made my first in-person visit to Walmart since the beginning of the pandemic last week, and there was an elderly couple at the door being arrested for shoplifting. The woman was in a wheelchair.
TheWizard
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Good.
They need to be incarcerated...
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Air conditioning influenced my future career choice when I was in high school. I was very good at speaking and reading French, and was one of the school's French tutors. But my junior year they offered an elective called "Computer Math" - essentially a introduction to FORTRAN programming. It was either take that course or take a 3rd year of French. The teachers lounge and the computer math classroom were the only rooms in the school with conditioning at the time, and that was a factor in my choosing the course. My French skills went to heck, but that was the beginning of my learning (and loving) computer programming... and the rest is history
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