Cool story, bro. Can’t wait for the next one where you tell us we should all go back to hard wired Ethernet cables instead of WiFi on laptops to save a few pennies on electricity.

I learned this when I was traveling a lot for work (renting cars). Oddly enough, my GMC Yukon (same as a Tahoe/Suburban/Silverado/Sierra), one of the most common cars on the road, does not have this. The easiest one was my old Porsche 911, which had the gas cap literally a few feet from your eyeballs, in the front…

Reminds me of something an ER doctor friend told me around the time Obamacare was first rolling out and lots of kids in their 20s were saying they didn’t need health insurance because they’re young and healthy - my friend said the most likely ER patients to skip out on their bill were the 22ish year olds that came in…

Similarly, as a colleague in the UK pointed out to me, signing off email correspondence with a simple “Regards” as opposed to “Warmest Regards” or “Best Regards” indicates the sender is absolutely livid.

I just got mine today at Walgreens, and the paperwork says “your insurance saved you $40.99", so that’s (likely) the rate they’re charging the insurance company.

I have a question for you: Why do you get your panties all in a bunch if I’m sitting in an aisle seat and want to stand up to stretch my back after being cramped in a tiny airline seat for 6 hours on a cross country flight? No, I’m not in a hurry to get off the plane, nor do I have to go to the bathroom. I’m just a…

I owned a Land Rover for many years, and heard this advice from many other owners: “If it’s not leaking, it’s out of fluid” :-) 

One area I didn’t see covered in depth in the article is “ownership” of the work. I’ve seen a lot of “insta-models” (i.e. girls/guys that like free photo shoots from photographers) get all bent out of shape because they no longer like an image they posed for, and demand the photographer remove it from their online…

If you’re a grown up smart enough to not carelessly flail your hands at the silverware basket and jab yourself on a fork, go ahead and load utensils facing up. If you think they can get fully clean facing down, try washing your car from the other side of a chain link fence and let us know how that works out for you.

Wait, so you’re saying Alexa can repeat back to you something you told her earlier? Wow, what stunning news in the world of tech!

For some of us, this phenomenon becomes a never ending loop of “wash-rinse-repeat”, as in “Oh, look at this cool gadget/bracket/tool” while searching for materials for the primary project at the hardware store. This thought is usually followed by “OMG this will make Project X, which I’ve been putting off for a while,…

In an epic example of cognitive dissonance, rabid Republicans that want to kill Obamacare and de-fund Planned Parenthood will absolutely lose their shit if anyone so much as questions the billions of $$ we give Israel, a country with a fully socialized medical system, including funded abortions.

My hot tub, bought in 2007 from Costco. I use it almost every day, right after my morning espresso. I just soak for about 10 minutes while my brain comes alive.

Cool. Maybe now they can open up an investigation into that mysterious arson fire at Darrell Issa’s electronics factory that occurred just after he quadrupled his insurance coverage on it.

Nice truck. Sorry about your penis.

“a recent study of doctor visits that occurred between 2006 and 2015...”
I wouldn’t characterize a study that started over a decade ago as “recent”. There’s been a huge shift in how opioids are perceived in the last few years, and I’d be surprised if doctors are just indiscriminately prescribing them still without a…

As someone who’s been disassembling/assembling things since my teens (I rebuilt a V8 with my dad at 16), this advice is golden. If the part is complex, you might want to take it a step further and video the disassembly with narration (I use a cheap GoPro knockoff on a tripod). Sometimes you get four screws into…

The firearms industry has tried very hard to define these civilian versions of military rifles as “Sporting Rifles” in recent years, but unfortunately the marketing campaigns they ran in the 1980s to expand sales by directly targeting the civilian market and touting the close ties of these rifles to their military…

Plus, people can be just plain dumb. My new camera has a micro HDMI port on it for hooking it up to a monitor. Micro HDMI looks similar to Micro USB, but obviously they are not the same. When shopping Amazon for an HDMI cable for the camera, I came across several negative reviews stating that it wouldn’t fit/didn’t…

Incarcerating people at levels far in excess of other developed countries for relatively minor offenses. Because that ish is expensive, yo.