I’m not seeing the “you can do better” part...

Just when I’m convinced that Lifehacker has made the dumbest, least cost/effort-efficient suggestions possible, they manage to surprise with a new, utterly pointless batch of ideas.

what the fuck is this shit

awww thank you! i’m pretty happy! also, i hope you guys don’t mind that we won’t be doing slideshows anymore ;)

4 people....

OMG, most of these are just horrible suggestions.

Also:Top-secret US Government documents, even if you rip them up first.

I’d like to have a conversation with someone to help me square the statements “being a landlord isn’t a real job, they don’t do anything to earn their income” and “the landlord needs to come fix this thing that broke asap”.

Sure it will. Kicking in most doors is easy and relatively quiet. It’s one quick thud noise that may or may not get neighbors attention, but is easily dismissed, unlike the distinctive sound of breaking glass.

Sweet baby jesus, if I want to toast a bagel or some wholegrain bread in the morning, I’m not gonna turn the oven on. I would almost inevitably burn something. The toaster a) is ready to use immediately b) is faster and c) turns off after a set period of time. If I’m putzing around making coffee and getting things…

You would imagine that coffee quality is better in general in a small country, with 65 times less people, thousands of miles away from anywhere that actually grows beans compared to a country that not only has a state that actually grows coffee (and pretty good coffee at that), but is also generally close enough to…

Very poor “nasty potential health effects” reference choice. A) it is an outdated, amateur paper from India from 2011, B) It lists “Nil” under sources (!) , and C) it is clear you did not read it, as it actually argues against your point. Although the wording consistently implies a bias that sweeteners are bad, and…

“How to spend $30 more, for free!”

This just in: If you buy a car for less than the sticker price, you’re an asshole!1

While I would never defend gym contracts, saying “they give you nothing, so it’s not a contract” is not at all accurate.

All stages. Pepper before searing and let the intense heat change most of the compounds, pepper just after and let the heat change a little bit, and a little bit of pepper just before eating

Arranging books by colour is book arranging for people who do not read!

I call bull. You can udderly resist.

Jalopnik just pushed the opposite opinion yesterday. Y’all need to talk: https://jalopnik.com/i-cant-believe-i-have-to-say-this-but-its-totally-fine-1846302894

People have been putting their wipers up, probably ever since shortly after motorized wipers were added to most cars in the snow-belt. In all that time, if the problems cited in the article were frequent, folks would have stopped doing it. I’ve never heard of them being broken by wind, having the rubber blown off or…