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  • Roopappy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlsmoking
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    5 months ago

    I quit smoking and got on the nicotine lozenges. I was eating a bunch of lozenges, almost constantly. Then I started kinda smoking again, but didn’t stop the lozenges. Then I had a stroke which left me with a permanent disability, likely partially caused by wild blood pressure swings due to high levels of nicotine.

    I quit by default after 3 weeks in a rehab center. The lesson here is… quit before the hospital. It’s worth it.






  • Roopappy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlclass war
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    7 months ago

    Yeah. To break down why this meme is bad information, in simple terms:

    • You can’t deduct “your mortgage”. You can only deduct interest on a loan.
    • You can’t take this deduction on a rental property. You have to live in the home part of the year to take this.
    • Since the tax changes in 2017, most homeowners don’t deduct mortgage interest anymore, because it’s better to take the standard deduction offered to anyone.

    Don’t share or believe bad information.



  • It seems like the “cars tracking you” problem is a very real and very serious thing that should obviously be legislated separately of electric vehicles or country of manufacture.

    I got a Mazda recently, and I was reading all the ownership paperwork, and the guy asked me what I was looking for. I said “I’m looking for the language about what data Mazda is collecting about me.” And the guy laughed and said there’s nothing in the paperwork about that. They just do it. You can’t shut it off.


  • Roopappy@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mliPhone
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    8 months ago

    So many of my iPhone fan friends have said “Oh, you finally made the switch, you’re going to love it” after I recently bought my first iPhone.

    It’s a phone. It did not magically transform my user experience. It’s 95% similar to what I had on a Pixel. Better low-effort privacy. Better direct hardware access for music and video. Significantly more lag, app freezups, and fragility and some baffling user experience decisions.

    I would switch back again, or not, doesn’t matter.