If the seat is being paid for, why do the airlines care if there’s a person in it? Also, if paying for an extra flight is cheaper than paying for just the first one, that feels like a business model failure.

Airline pricing is one of the dumbest things ever. If you paid their rate for that seat for that flight (or flights), it shouldn’t matter if your butt is actually in them or not. You’ve paid for that spot on that plain for that duration of time. I find it as ridiculous as if you got charged a fee for not attending a…

Assuming you are close enough to the phone to be annoyed you could also just reach over and shut it off, the phone does not need to be unlocked to do so. 

For $39 I’d propose to people I don’t even know.

What’s the baseline for high protein? There’s some good meal suggestions here, but very few that have much protein. For example, black beans are only 6 grams of protein per serving with 27 grams of carbs.

A bidet helps. You can get a bidet attachment for a toilet for like $30. You’ll use a fraction of whatever toilet paper you go with. Get one that air dries and you don’t even need toilet paper.

That happens all the time on The Amazing Race. 

Arguably worse. If the gas sufficiently dilutes the diesel fuel in the system, you could get pre-ignition in the combustion chamber which would likely lead to catastrophic engine failure.

Different problem, but with pretty much the same advice:

I love self checkout. I do think they should give you 1% off for self checkout. I don’t need to wait in line while someone feels the need to make fake small talk to a customer they don’t know, slowing it down for everyone.

I actually have both memberships (Costco and Sam’s Club) and find I use them for different purposes. From the Sam’s Clubs I’ve been to, they definitely seem geared more towards the grocery and daily necessities with homegoods added on. Costco seems to be the inverse. So for me:

The Scan and Go feature at Sam’s is a game changer. Pile your shit in the cart, scan the barcodes with the app, exit employee scans a QR code and a few of your items, and you walk out the store. Doesn’t work for liquor, obviously. 

The big lie is this idea that the planet can be saved if families recycle their cans and buy hybrid cars. The VAST majority of pollution is caused at the corporate level, and that’s why we won’t see things improve; because someone “lobbyist” is a career but bribery is a crime...

Paola Arias, a climate scientist at Colombia’s University of Antioquia, told Nature that the climate crisis made her decide not to have children.

I was hoping for 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Maybe I’m bringing in too much from the Justice League cartoon but in my head I thought that Waller actually facilitated Blackguard’s treachery. She probably made it possible thru shadowy means to give him the access he’d need to communicate with the outside. 

Mayim “I actually have a PhD, have I told you about it?” Bialik belongs second to last, only above Dr. Oz. She’s an anti-vax sympathizer who is currently doing commercials for some brain health supplement snake oil too.

click-baity. you have a week before it goes live, not a week to opt-out before you can never do it again.

Also, is his take that only things that haven’t happened yet can be investigated? Because that’s fucking insane. 

Well, that makes sense. Remember, McConnell was an outspoken critic of investigation into Benghazi due the past-ness of the events. Very consistent indeed.