Even a pre-made crust with fresh toppings is better than a frozen pizza and takes less than 10 minutes to prepare, assuming you suck at chopping. I’m not much of a food snob but pizza is so incredibly easy to assemble with fresh ingredients, it seems almost silly to bother with frozen ones.

Get to know your kitchen better and never buy a frozen pizza again.

Wait what? This is a life hack?

If it truly had nothing to do with the number of miles you flew, why did you say “one that truly ticked me off given the “level” I was at”?

Well, I mean, the nice thing about any of these is you really can’t turn the laptop into a paperweight. You can certainly screw it up to the point where it won’t boot into the OS, but it’s hard to put it into any kind of state where you couldn’t re-install Windows.

So, what you’re saying is that your needs were definitely more important than the needs of everyone else who was on standby, and doubly so because you happen to fly a lot. None of them could possibly be flying home for anything important, right? And certainly none of them had your status.

Delta will do this as well. I had a traffic accident occur right in front of me in an area where I couldn’t turn around or back out.

Cuisinart’s customer service is terrible, for the record.

Cuisinart’s customer service is terrible, for the record.

What do you think of these mid-tier “fit to order” sites?

Okay, but just think about it for a second. What is faster, brute forcing every piece of literature in existence, or brute forcing every letter/number combination in existence (which, by definition, contains every piece of literature in existence)? You’re right - they’re not brute forcing every piece of literature,…

Bible verses (or other well-known phrases) are still a bad idea because password crackers now incorporate them into their cracking routines. You need to come up with something unique.

I was all prepared to state that password cracking now involves retrieved text from the internet, so using known poems is still a bad idea... but this is clever.

I like to think I’m generally good at gauging the right amount, but I do find that it changes from person to person. I usually try to watch them for cues - if they look away a lot, I usually assume they’re uncomfortable and will maintain a little less eye contact.

Is there something preventing you from adjusting that routine?

Well... “take a buy-out” isn’t really a strategy any more than “invest” is a strategy. It’s a possible thing to do, but doesn’t tell you much about how.

I mean, $10 million is insane even for people who want to “live it up” a little at retirement.

In some ways it feels like a sham. Companies offer a plan that’s supposed to pay your retirement, but it’s fully contingent on the company’s ability to stay solvent and interested in paying out.

I started late-ish, only starting my retirement savings at 29.

Well, nothing is really free but in some businesses there are non-monetary ways that you can fairly sustainably avoid charging users directly. You are, after all, browsing a free website right now, and for a lot of cases, advertising is a reasonable way to do that.

My issue is that hey, they might be a great, free, anonymous VPN service right now. And that’s wonderful.