That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing! I wonder if the author knew that, or if yellow was just used a lot.. (I’ve seen occasional older advice to paint kitchens yellow to make them “feel sunny”, but imho that’s not an easy color to live with. My mom had a patterned yellow antique couch that was just absolutely hideous.. but it was the style at some point…)
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/unhappy
I found this years ago and it illustrates the answer to that question pretty well (to me, anyway).
Shit I haven’t thought about these sort of weird semi-horror books in such a wildly long time. I used to go out of my way to find somewhat morbid stuff like that (not to be edgy, but because I was reading prolifically, and ahead of my age group, so it was a whole new paradigm).
Thanks for the reminder :)
Is that the one where
(spoiler to be nice cuz if it’s the one I’m thinking of it was actually pretty good)
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it gets untied and her head falls off?
I have a similar reaction, but it was to “The Yellow Wallpaper”, about a woman locked in a room for a long period of time to deal with her mental health, and the solitude drives her quite insane. In quite haunting detail.
While Treasury did not name the tax prep companies, the lawmakers say that a July 2023 Congressional investigation showed TaxSlayer, H&R Block, TaxAct and Ramsey Solutions are the responsible firms.
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The Meta and Google pixel code allegedly gathered data including income, filing status, deductions, exemptions and refund amounts from millions of the tax prep firms’ customers, according to the lawmakers.
So yeah, fun times! I used taxact for a couple of years.. hopefully we get some sort of reimbursement for this flagrant misuse of personal information, but we probably won’t.
I’d settle for those companies going bankrupt, and the whole tax prep sector failing entirely, shifted instead to getting a bill automatically.. probably also won’t happen, but one can dream.
Do our territories pay tax? It looks like they do.. and they definitely have no representation (non-voting delegates, non-autonomy, the only thing they get is the ability to raise issues and vote on committees, and frankly that’s nothing.)
Well, the plus side is that people who want to know if they can outrun the local police will have a chance to find out that (probably) won’t result in them getting shot
Nor archive.ph, which appears to be the same site? Idk how that works. Definitely not a site anyone should go to, though.
I block those texts because yeah the stop thing doesn’t ever send confirmation, so I doubt it works.
Haven’t gotten any emails though, thankfully.
Ungh my manager at my last job did that shit all the time. Infuriating, because I wasn’t allowed to have headphones (inbound tech support), and it was really distracting when I was on a call.
And just like, so incredibly rude, who the fuck does that??
Well, LaCrosse, apparently.. for Buick anyway.
(Ok ok so it’s not a sports-car, but it IS a sports car ~_^)