It’s similar to the magic that renders liquids harmless when they are transferred to small bottles and put inside a ziplock bag.

Oh, please. We literally already have an example of the airlines’ reaction when the Middle East version of the laptop ban was implemented. It hurt Emirates so much that they cut 20% of their flights to the U.S.

This isn’t a handout to airlines, they are going to fight this tooth-and-nail. For one thing, this damages business travel, which is the #1 most important source of revenue for airlines. Even a 5% downturn in transatlantic business travel could be disastrous to the airlines, FAR more so than the pittance they might…

This will kill their business travel, which is where they make a lot of their money (maybe even the majority), so they’re gonna hate it.

Privacy screens are fine for reading steamy emails from your girlfriend but are wholly inadequate for actually sensitive work.

They aren’t and in fact are more dangerous being there than in the cabin. At least in the cabin you have the off chance of stopping a fire. In the cargo the systems don’t work on lithium based fires and you couldn’t access them to use water based extinguishers.

It gives the TSA agents rummaging your checked luggage more expensive shit to steal. Maybe if they have your nice new laptop they won’t as hard try to fondle your 12 year old daughter’s crotch when she flys to see grandma?

Instead of storing these devices in carry-on bags, passengers will have to store them in checked-in luggage. Smartphones and essential medical equipment are still permitted into cabins.

Airlines are going to fight it - they don’t want hundreds of lithium ion batteries in their cargo holds, nor do they want the liability of valuable electronics in checked bags.

which will provide zero percent safer flights. fuck security theater.

If you’re sleeping, healthy and not addicted to anything... Probably not. A lot of stars around our age suddenly find that that hard living they thought they could get away with has caught up to them.

I think it’s more that the sexy idols from your teen years (or mine, as a fellow mid-30s person) are suddenly either hitting that age hump or that alcoholic point where their looks are leaving. We mortals have probably got another 5-10 years before the age kicks in (without the hollywood “special effects”).

I messed up my hand like a dumbass a few years back by carrying my giant baby wrong, and spent quality time at a hand surgeon’s office. 90% of the visits there involve sitting in a big physical therapy room with a ton of other patients waiting for techs to fit or adjust all kinds of casts or braces. That room had a…

This the ‘claw’

It’s amazing how quickly you lose your taste for something when you have to spend the evening in the ER getting 13 stitches to close up the tip of your finger.

If you cook enough (I cook seven days a week, mostly vegetarian, lots of vegetables to process) — you WILL cut yourself chopping onions, and probably lots of other things. I have had my knife bounce off the pit because I didn’t hit it hard enough, luckily the knife simply grazed the side of my hand. A sign to sharpen…

A Jezebel commenter who worked in a recycling plant once commented that like 90% of plastic bottles don’t get recycled because the plastic cap, and the ring it leaves on the bottle and the actual bottle are two different kinds of plastic, and the recycling plants have no time to remove all of them. Ever since, I’ve…

No, you’re doing it right. Score the meat of the avocado and then turn it inside out or scoop with a spoon. 

Wait. Peeling an avocado? What?

I took a class on portfolio management in college, and at one point I just outright asked the professor “if you can’t beat the market, and everyone here would be better off just putting our money in an index fund and not touching it, then why do finance professionals make so much money? You could pay someone minimum…