There are some songs, particularly ballads, which have beautiful poetic lyrics that enhance and are enhanced by the music. Not the most hodiern examples, but Cruz de navajas by Mecano or Un beso y una flor by Nino Bravo fall into that category for me. There are other songs where I wish I didn't understand the lyrics because I enjoy the music and the meaning of the lyrics detracts from it. Without giving specific examples because I want to avoid earworms, there are some where I think it's the songwriter's intent to be disgusting as a way of carving a niche among rebellious teenagers. And then there's a third category of songs which are great either way: for example, there's a lot of Sabaton's oeuvre which I'm equally happy to listen to in English or Swedish.

Both TurboTax and HR Block will do a "simple" federal and one state for free. You just have to navigate through dark patterns trying to get you to pay for something. Intuit will do things like offer two paid and one free service, but the button for selecting the free service says something like "death by suffocation"

A Spanish exchange partner once asked me to translate Wonderwall by Oasis. I can calque it, but I'm not entirely sure whether "You're my wonderwall" is supposed to have an objective meaning.

Their use of dark patterns sucks. They are constantly manipulating you into doing something you don't want to do.

For one of my kids at the end they were pushing me to pay $130 for a federal and state return that I knew should be free. It took a while to figure out what to do. Go to the left side nav pane "tools" section. Scroll to the bottom and click "switch to free version". It will switch over unless your tax situation is using something not included.

For another of my kids when I was done entering they wanted to charge me $130 for the federal and state because the "American Opportunity Tax Credit" wasn't in the free version. Charging it for the "state" is especially crappy because it isn't even on the state return. I had to redo this return on HR Block where it was free.

They even tried to manipulate me into paying for a Federal extension. So dumb

Right now it's $329 on Amazon but it doesn't do automatic double side scanning and copying. For that you need to step up to the ET-5800 which is $770 on Amazon.

You prepay for the ink and can't use it. Laser is great but I've never had a color laser printer

The price delta for the EcoTank printer with the same features as my regular one is usually close to $300. The break-even on that for me is probably over two years, so I'm just pre-paying for the ink. In addition the printers have a 2 year warranty. The only way I come out ahead is if the printer lasts longer than 2 years and I do a lot of printing.

I've tried 3rd party inks in Epson printers and in no time at all the print heads get clogged. Then I use a ton of the 3rd party ink trying (usually without success) to clear the clog via the "clean print heads" procedure. Ultimately I end up replacing the printer when I can't get it to print right again.

The problem with people like you is you think teaching little kids about personal space and inappropriate behavior requires showing them graphic images of sex, preferably with yourself in them. Who better to teach them than you, right?

You need more than a slide rule and a pencil to replace CAD, unless you're abusing your slide rule by also using it as a straight edge for drawing.

Except that it wasn't advice but a disclaimer. Curiously, though, the original context ties in to the topic of derandomisation:

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number – there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method. (It is true that a problem that we suspect of being solvable by random methods may be solvable by some rigorously defined sequence, but this is a deeper mathematical question than we can now go into.) We are here dealing with mere "cooking recipes" for making digits; probably they can not be justified, but should merely be judged by their results. Some statistical study of the digits generated by a given recipe should be made. but exhaustive tests are impractical. If the digits work well on one problem, they seem usually to be successful with others of the sarne type.

That's irrelevant, sport. They are available in other venues

Sure. You consult your doctor to get advice. And then you often get a second opinion, and then you make your own decision.

Some of the craziest doctors I've met are in the mental health professions. They will meet your kid for ten minutes and then prescribe dangerous medications that are often not tested in kids or not tested in combination. Then you go see another doctor who will come to a different diagnosis with another set of dangerous medications. We are raised to believe what a doctor tells us and follow their advice but I had to learn fast that mental health professionals are experimenting on your kid.

This is why you are not allowed within 100 feet of children