...you run out of fucks to give. And it's liberating!

FYI: sales taxes in the US are handled by state, not at the federal level. Some don't actually even have sales tax. So advertising a pre-tax price makes sense for us.

I've been a Sprint customer since 2004. They have been the only consistent game in town for unlimited data (and I've used as much as 85GB/mo with nary a peep). That and pricing is the only reason I've stuck with them for so long. The last 5-6 years, Sprint has basically given up. They don't fix anything, they don't improve anything, and they don't deliver on promises that they've made. They are the only major carrier that can't do VoLTE yet (it's 2020, FFS) and it's been "coming real soon now" since 2015. I used to be a staunch defender of them because I felt that I got great value. They have stagnated a great deal. Nothing's gotten done while they were courting a buyer, and every customer they have suffers for it.

How many roads must a man walk down? Still 42, eh?

I went through this with Frontier a couple of months ago. I even filed complaints with the local public utilities commission and the BBB. After the BBB complaint, I heard from some higher-up who gave me this sob story about how they can't do the pricing that they've sold, and actually admitting that the $10 was part of the service pricing. Which if they'd been honest about up-front, I wouldn't have minded so much. But telling me that it's a "router rental fee" when in reality it's something else is is fucking FRAUD. If any of us pulled that shit on a company, that's what they'd call it.

I've noticed several comments on here about how parents should "just stop giving kids sugar" or something to that effect. There is NO scientific evidence whatsoever that sugar causes hyperactivity in children or anyone else. This is very dated misinformation, and I expected better from the folks here. Sure, it's a good idea to limit children's sugar intake from a general health perspective, since we (especially Americans) consume far too much of it. But that doesn't mean that it's the cause of ADHD.

I've used Linux and Windows server, and my experience with Windows server was far and away the best. Easier to get it to do what I want, easier to fix when it broke, major updates didn't trash the filesystem the OS was on (Thanks, Ubuntu). Also, there's not 18 million flavors, each with a bunch of weird quirks and incompatibilities. Obviously, if I was doing one specific task that demanded insane amounts of reliability, I might have considered Linux. But Windows server has been running on my home server in multiple roles very well, on very modest hardware.

Four years on, I'm still waiting for a real VoLTE rollout. It's 2019 and I have a flagship phone... Why can I still not call and use data simultaneously? Because Sprint is dragging ass behind the other three. Only reason I'm still with them is because they're still the cheapest for true unlimited. And I've topped 80GB/mo of traffic.

Ever since Sprint switched to SIM cards, they managed to fuck that up too. "Oh, this SIM won't work in that device, we need to give you a new one... But wait, we don't have one that will work in that... Oh, yes we do." And then, even switching from a Pixel to a Pixel 2 took a visit to a Sprint store and them doing some voodoo for half an hour. Switching devices is a huge pain in the ass these days.

I know it's anecdotal, but I've seen it over a dozen times now: person "wants to quit" so they buy a fancy vape gadget, which eventually they break. When that happens, they may switch back to actual cigarettes if they can't afford another fancy vape gadget. The majority of people that I know that claim to be using vaping to quit switch back and forth with some fluidity. That doesn't happen with gum/patches because the delivery system is different.

It's quitting in the same way as switching to chewing tobacco is quitting. It's trading one habit for another, if it's not used as an aid to actually quitting the addictive substance, only changing the delivery system to one with less side effects. But one that still has more than the patch or gum (not to mention being annoying and douchy, which the patch and gum methods were not).

No one actually quits, they just switch from smoking to vaping. And sometimes back and forth as money permits (or doesn't).

Why would they? They can afford to drive cars that are actually good.

I hope they're more reliable than GM's cars.

Name ONE service industry job that pays that much and doesn't require a HSD. I was homeschooled, and naively entered the workforce thinking I wouldn't need one (or a GED) because I had experience. I eventually had to lie about having a HSD to get any sort of job that paid a cent above minimum wage, experience be damned.