Leo/B

that shit has to be done by wednesday. it's almost april 15.

do not panic, you got this. this is just to help make sure you got this by wednesday. wednesday, april 15. you got this.

also google your state + "state return free file" and the state's tax dept website probably has a list of services that will e-file your federal AND state returns for free if you meet the income restrictions.

(you probably do.)

fuck turbotax. there are better, still easy options not trying to nickle and dime your broke ass for this nonsense out there, and you can probably use a few of them to file fed AND state for free.

by wednesday.

wednesday, april 15. 2026.

It's free and buys you another 6 months to file.

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whatever i guess nobody've read that so imma just drop the screenshots

EVERYTHING one knows about American/Western culture, especially in the late 80's/early 90's, would lead to the logical next line being some form of "Kids These Days Are Succumbing To The Evils Of Satan" or some likewise cheap Reaction™ But then Bill pulls the rug out

Dadtech and the 7 criminals he adopted lol

THEY LOST ASMONGOLD! Do you understand how bad you have to fuck up to lose that guy??

They lost Fox News.

I’m really fucking scared. The court date for eviction is the 23rd. My power is about to be shut off. I have nowhere to go. I don’t know what to do with my service animal. I don’t even have a car to live out of. It’s winter in Michigan and I’ll be on the streets. I’ll freeze.

I’m so so scared. I need help. Please please if you can, help

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like. that is the most hilariously unserious thing to say but I am dead serious about it -- you get the same story overall, but depending on who you watch you get an entirely different tale. Editing, scoring, choices in which lines to cut or include, the simple matter of whether or not someone is present for an event or conversation... Everyone is telling their own story as the protagonist. You functionally have as many "main characters" as you have POVs.

I'm remembering Third Life, and how the Red Army seemed so villainous and powerful from the perspective of the Desert or the Flower Kingdom. But then if you watch Ren and Martyn they're the beleaguered outpost of civility, being assailed by threats without and betrayal within. From Scar's POV he's derping around and having a blast being the maniac snake oil salesman who wants your pants. From Martyn's POV Scar is a dangerous lunatic with a barbarian glint in his eye.

And both stories are true.

I'm not usually a huge fan of unreliable narrators in fiction, because it always feels a bit... gimmicky? when it comes from an author who DOES know the truth of the situation, but for one reason or another doesn't want the narrator and/or the audience to cotton on to what's happening.

But with mcyt stories, every player is an unreliable narrator -- even if it's just to the extent of them not knowing for sure why people do or say what they do and say. Things can be misunderstood or misinterpreted. Context can be missed.

Then add in someone who wants to tell a story with a specifically tinted lens and deliberately plays their character and edits their videos to fit that narrative... and it's even better. Because whatever they do still has to fit, somehow, into the context of how other people understand them. Like one of those optical illusions where it's a rabbit from one angle and a duck from another.

You literally can't do this with (almost) any other kind of media, or at least it's not usually worth the effort. I remember a YA series of (awful) books I read decades ago that had the same story but each book was from a different person's perspective. You CAN do that. TV shows do that sometimes, show the same events from different characters' POVs. But generally speaking, it's so much effort for not enough payout and no one really bothers with it. Also, when you have the same person/team doing all the different perspectives, it's still gonna be a bit samey.