“ Were I shopping for a new VPN, I’d fire up Excel or Google Sheets and create a giant analysis that looks at how various services address the various talking points I just highlighted”

These men and women have enough stress in their life, why subject them to having to put in their iCloud password 16 times in a row for setting up a device? 

Yay propaganda.

Gotta get them indoctrinated when they're young.

I had the same thought, and then I read the article to get the details and I thought.... Yeah. Yeah they can lowball you for an open recall with no fix. I’d lowball you too. Err, maybe more accurately, I wouldn’t buy a car with an open, no-fix recall.

“Can a dealer low ball my trade because...(insert reason here)“

So, I am from Italy, and when I first moved to United States I could not understand what the fuck people were trying to say when they said “aioli.” Because the phrase in Italian is “ aglio e olio,” which, as it is mentioned in the article, means garlic and oil. Italians eat mayonnaise, sure, but the idea of a garlic…

“I don’t think we always need to be ticking off the boxes of some invisible checklist of life improvement,” says the guy advocating for “a ‘microadventure’ for your brain”. You know what else is a microadventure for my brain that I enjoy for its own sake? Music.

I find it mildly amusing/annoying when people are walking around the local lake with their phones kicking out their personal soundtrack, usually from a fanny pack. Like, can’t you wear earbuds please? I like listening to the natural sounds around me and I find your music jarring and distracting.

Seconding running with audiobooks.  I personally much prefer it to running with music at this point.  I used to run with music but it got so repetitive.

Here’s a tip. Stop watching general news.

What about taking a break from the news cycle that’s constantly geared up to get us agitated about whatever the topic of the day is and just getting to know people - even those who have (gasp) different opinions? I see so many people who post things like “all Hillary/Trump supporters are ...”, but ignore the fact that…

Are you anti-probiotic, pro-antibiotic, anti-antibiotic, or pro-probiotic?

Second, let’s discuss the beard/gingham shirt look.

I’m much more concerned with the way that roll of toilet paper is put on the hanger thingy.  It’s backwards you animal!

Meh... just use a P-38. Works every time and virtually indestructable.

This is silly.

Okay, but I can be at a pho shop in about 5 minutes and served 2 minutes after that.

At that point I'll just go to a Vietnamese restaurant, where it will be better anyway