I know (I’m a bit of a cracker myself) Seriously, the name ought not to be offensive. I think the Washington Crackers would be hilarious. the mascot could be a giant Triscuit, the cheerleaders, could be called the Saltines.

I think that’s the correct tongue-in-cheek reading of this post.

You can also do this with adults who ask, “why don’t all lives matter?”

As a person of color I feel like everything after “master” and “slave”, which is obviously problematic, is a little bit of a stretch by white folk struggling with their own guilt. Because not once in my life have I even considered whitelist/blacklist or white hat/black hat to have anything to do with race. Granted, I c…

Terms can develop new meanings, lose old ones, or change in a million other ways. Just that fact that you have to inform people of the old meaning shows that the older meaning is no longer relevant to most people in day to day conversation. There was an older meaning (probably more than one), then your meaning, now…

“Republicans: We believe in _________.*”

Male otters are also rapey. Extremely rapey.

Love the idea of this, but I find it pretty poor in a practical sense.

...WTF’s incoherent ideology of of pro-social [and] pro-planet, but also pro-business and pro-economy...

Seriously. I’m still waiting for the rest of the world to apologize for wearing blue jeans. Everyone all over the world so openly saying that German Americans are beneath them by appropriating our cultural significance like that, right? Riveted Jeans no less!

5 x 5 x 5 x 5 x 5 = 3125

Brass Tacks question:

Yeah, watch out for that dreaded gluten for all those people with non-Celiac gluten sensitivity.

This is particulate filtering not biological filtering. I strongly recommend any water filtered this way is boiled before consumption or treated with chlorine bleach to kill everything living in it. I have seen successful Solar disinfection by using a long parabolic reflector and a clear pipe to run the water…

This is brilliant!

Or you could get a tablet actually built for survival, something that is water resistant, solar powered, has a built in transmitter, and can survive a drop, like the Earl Backcountry Tablet:

You want to avoid confirmation bias always, since it can lead you to poor decisions. Aside from that, an actual career should be able to discern preferences that you don't admit (or even recognize) in yourself, which may lead to options that you hadn't considered. Since this test is nothing more that "play with the…

Well ... I often read Lifehacker articles but have not registered an account. Yet I'm a Pediatrician (from Europe , excuse my English). This has to be one of the worst stupidest ideas ever for multiple reasons. You're just going to end up with digestive issues in your baby. This is completely not only useless but…

Other than noting that a few famous people wake up fairly early... where are the citations showing how this data was gathered? I don't see any "we surveyed 1000 top performers, and more than 60% perform at least 3 of these actions each day" kind of data. Or is this just one of those "Hm, i read about 3 people and they…

Ah, color psychology. The "acupuncture" of perception theory. Plenty of people believe in it, and basically no evidence supports it if you actually crunch the numbers. Another fantastic article!