That would be sweet considering what the R-controlled senate did with Obama’s supreme court nominations in 2016.

Corollary to the $1billion Colombus fact - if you put your $5k a day into a 6% investment, it would only take ~60 years to hit a billion. Yes that’s still way more than is realistic for any person, but you can see how actual billionaires got there - especially when they happened to have investments returning a lot…

Because it’s not bastardizing existing words? As the article points out, using “they” to refer to a single person has been in common use for 600 years.

I thought this was going to go a different direction like: “If you hold your breath long enough, either your hiccups will be gone or you’ll be dead. Hooray!” 

This one annoys me more than most grammar mistakes. I realize that language is arbitrary and evolves all the time. I realize that English conjugations are strange. But come on people, how could you possibly think “of” is a verb?

Fair point - after the climate crisis has been solved in the next 100-200 years, if we’re running out of landfill space it may be worth it. (or perhaps we won’t solve it and humanity will be wiped out, and then it won’t matter much that we’ve left plastic behind)

I love garlic, but I am not a very cultured person and I would be very confused if someone just gave me an entire roasted head of garlic. I’d probably sit in silence for a while wondering if I’m supposed to just... eat it raw with a fork?

Is plastic ending up in landfills such a bad thing? We aren’t close to running out of landfill space. Modern landfills are pretty good at preventing trash from escaping or being burned (though shipping waste to less modern landfills is still a problem). It’s true that plastic takes a long time to break down, but it…

You sound like a fun neighbor to have.

There are literally dozens and dozens of birds chilling in my trees at nearly all times. It really doesn’t bother me that they use my yard for a bathroom. It’s nature. Haven’t any of you people ever been camping? Nature is dirty sometimes.

It’s really not that gross? Maybe you live in the city somewhere, but around here there are deer, raccoons, skunks, birds, etc even in the suburbs. They pee on people’s lawns - no one makes a big fuss about it. That’s just nature for you. So I really don’t get what difference a dog or cat makes.

The flowers die, the grass goes brown, lawns and gardens smell like piss.

This is by far the most evil thing I’ve seen on this website this week.

I feel like none of these tricks would work at all, at least in the offices I’ve worked at. On a team of 5-10 people, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out who isn’t coming into the office or who’s leaving early or coming late.

Whole lot of people getting whoooooshed on this comment.

Yes! I’m glad the candycorn+peanuts secret is out. I prefer roasted salted peanuts to honey roasted, personally.

I like a burrito bowl using whatever leftover ingredients I have lying around. Usually have chicken and rice and salsa and cheese. Sometimes beans, sometimes leftover veggies, sometimes I’ll mix in whatever’s left of a salad bag.

Yeah, most people don’t listen to things that contradict their world view, science or otherwise. Myself included unfortunately, and even knowing about this flaw does little to stop it from occurring.

Saw some nutritionists on twitter who were real angry about this. Wonder if it’s a case where they’ve repeated the same advice so often that they find it difficult to acknowledge that they might have been wrong all this time? Or perhaps the meta-study really is flawed.