I am a scientist who’s lived with a septic system most of my life (currently in my 7th decade). Please cite a reliable source for the statement that citric acid, in the amounts needed to clean hard water deposits off plumbing fixtures, is harmful to septic system function. Otherwise, I think you are just copying from…

Are you an infectious disease expert, and one who grasps statistics, including conditional probability (Bayes Theorem)?

1. Air dry your clothes outside instead of wasting energy and shortening your clothes’ lifespan by putting them in the dryer.

I agree.  Watching a video is the least efficient way to take in information.  Almost all of us can read text waaaay faster than a narrator can speak it, and videos are relatively useless for tabular information, too.  I’m not a fan of slide shows but at least most are text-based.

Yes to this. Unopened yogurt is not going to turn deadly overnight, but your leftover steak tartare might!

Because “you” is assumed to be a cis guy, right? It never ceases to amaze me how both articles like this, and most of the comments, are written as if the audience was 100% cis male. It’s not really all about the male gaze, you know.

If, like me, you have a grandparent (or parent) born anywhere on the island of Ireland, including Northen Ireland, you can apply for a “foreign birth registration” and obtain Republic of Ireland citizenship. This not only gives me the right to live in Ireland, but to work and live in other EU countries. Costs about…

Great article, and thanks for the camping links.

What about using old broken chairs, dented garbage cans, or traffic cones pilfered from local utilities to block the space??? (I used to live in Boston and this is how spots we had just dug out by hand during snowstorms are “protected” from poachers.)

“What’s more, some places have made reversing into parking spots illegal. Look up your state’s laws around whether or not you can safely use the “pull through” technique.”

Millet is a grass.

Apparently.

As I tried to explain to a clueless ditz of a roommate long ago, when she left her fan running on high in her room in our un-air conditioned flat in Boston all day every day during heat waves, electric fans (like any electrical motor) actually HEAT the air.  It makes no sense to leave them running in unoccupied rooms,…

One of my favorite escapist shows is “Escape to the Country,” filmed in the UK (available on one of my local OTA channels). It’s fun to see the options compared and contrasted. But the show never, ever, shows you things like the condition of the houses’ heating and plumbing systems, whether there are a reasonable…

I live in Alaska and fly Alaska Airlines almost exclusively. Until this spring, it’s true that they’ve had pretty low cancellation rates. Since April, though, all bets are off, so the stats in this story are NOT CURRENT. Reasons: 1) like all majors, Alaska furloughed lots of pilots due to Covid. Many of those pilots…

Or, more likely, if your employer can afford the room rate, said employer will also spring for the internet necessary for you to work from said room.  Business trips raise prices for air fares, hotel rooms, and rental cars, due to higher “willingness to pay.”

I agree. I prefer the window seat, and as an Alaskan traveling anywhere in winter I craaaave daylight, especially the strong sun you get at altitude. It may have been weeks since I’ve really seen the sun. Don’t expect me to close my shade all the way just so you can see your ultra-dark video better. You can watch it…

Dixie-Flatline probably never flies more than 1000 miles. I live in ALASKA and my elderly parents live in NEW ENGLAND. That’s 4000 miles, people, typically an 18-hour trip starting with a red-eye heading east, and more like 20 hours heading upwind to get back home (there’s 3-hour interstate bus segment tacked on at…

#8 is stated wrong.  You CAN bathe any pet, but you SHOULDN’T bathe all pets.

Please don’t steam veggies, or anything else, in your microwave in plastic bags or containers, even if the bag says it’s for steaming! Most of us already get too much exposure to plastics, plasticizers, etc., and I simply don’t believe Birds Eye et al. that their bags are safe to heat up while touching stuff I plan to…