A bit of perspective is needed here. 20 years ago the expected date at which the surplus would be gone was 2019, now it’s 2034. There is no way that congress is going to let the Social Security fund go broke. Yes, some of the suggested fixes are not good but there are simple fixes that extend solvency past the Baby…

I think the concept of “Barrier to Exit” is more useful than “Sunk Cost” here. It isn’t the past cost, time and effort that is the problem. It is that you’d have to put a lot of time and effort into leaving.

Because the ads are FOR Youtube ON Youtube. You can’t make money paying yourself.

You’re going to want a manual can opener for those canned foods.

I’ve always found this advice kind of funny because it seems that most people can’t keep a beat. Just watch people trying to clap along with a song sometime. When the music isn’t there it’s even worse, I’d guess that most people would be singing “stayin alive” at about 80 bpm in their heads, and they’ll slow the song…

The first day of spring is the day when the amount of sunlight and the amount of darkness are equal (the equinox). That isn’t always on the 21st. In a leap year it is the 20th, in the year after a leap year it might be the 20th or 21st. Summer and fall are usually the 21st, winter moves to the 22nd as leap year gets…

No, invasive species are not just weeds. Invasive species are non-native weeds that choke out native plants and destroy existing ecosystems.

What is your company going to do when you are hit by a bus on the way to work? If they can’t handle you being gone then what about other important positions? This sounds like a company teetering on the edge.

Any company should be able to run temporarily without any given employee. If they can’t then they are one major illness away from bankruptcy.

You might switch to a treadmill instead of the elliptical for some of your training. Ellipticals, as you found, do not really reflect running.

It’s step 1 that’s the problem. I actually don’t want to get out of bed.

Actually, they pretty much do only teach about black historical figures for one month. Yes, Martin Luther King, Jr. gets one day in January. George Washington Carver may get a mention at some other time. Rosa Parks may get a mention. But, seriously, the entire reason for Black History Month is that they ARE ignored…

I wonder how much of the drop is due to the short-term benefits of having spending-money. That is, going from having a reasonable amount of spending money in high school to college and having (basically) none.

It ought to give directions. I almost always check the directions before I leave on the off chance that they’re wrong. (Although, I guess without a screen how are you going to know if they’re wrong.) In addition, I would think that checking directions on Home would forward(pre-load really) those directions to your…

Oblig: This seems pretty obvious.

Since you have one, can it be set so that only the light comes on with no sound alarm?

Since you have one, can it be set so that only the light comes on with no sound alarm?

Re: “Leaving early may not be the most efficient use of your time”

I disagree with the premise that people are late because they are busy. Most of the busy people I know are always on time. People are late because they don’t mentally account for things like travel time, or because they decide (passively or actively) that doing something NOW is more important than being on time.

I don’t believe this. It sounds like they same sort of myth as opening a wine bottle to let it breath. If your wine needs aeration you need to decant it.

Oddly (to me), the CDC site doesn’t address distillation, which to quote wikipedia “In theory, a solar (condensation) still removes all pathogens, salts, metals, and most chemicals but in field practice the lack of clean components, easy contact with dirt, improvised construction, and disturbances result in…