These universal “rules” are always so absurd. If someone writes a long speech about how “our relationship is struggling and we need to talk and could we please meet up” and you respond “k”, then fine, the conversation begged for a longer, more thoughtful reply. If someone says “let’s meet up for coffee at 2:30" then…

So now the advice is dumb because it’s only going to be used as a safety net to cover two bad periods of unemployment? Wow, how terrible! We should totally dismiss the utterly obvious advice to be think long term about small but repeated cash outlays because people will end up spending the money they wouldn’t have…

A) $1,300 invested in a ROTH IRA every year for 40 years is gonna add up to a helluva lot more than a down payment of a very used car.

I love this response. The advice is literally “using coffee as an example, if you stopped making unnecessary small purchases thousands of times the money would add up”, and your response is “this advice is dumb because if I didn’t spend the five dollars on coffee I would instead make thousands of other small and…

This is such a classic example of what the people who say “don’t buy coffee and invest instead” are actually saying. The video above (and the other articles I’ve seen criticizing this advice elsewhere) all act as if the “no-coffee” crowd is saying “if you do nothing else different and JUST stopped buying coffee you’d…

“These “if you just dont buy this *****” idea of personal finance is BS. Ya that is true,but the major things are so much bigger than a latte in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter.”

So take that $5.00 a day and invest that in a low cost index fund. The whole point of the advice is to take money you’re not currently saving and invest it somewhere, so you can still have the same mix of investments you’re talking about while taking the “gurus” advice to invest the $5 in a high return investment…

THANK YOU! I cannot roll my eyes harder at the Lifehacker’s and Slate’s of the world that are rushing out to say “a latte a day won’t make you poor!” It’s intentionally misunderstanding the point that is being made in order to criticize it nonsensically. The entire point is that if you spend a few dollars here and a…

Ohhhh, do one for grease and oil! When I cook chicken paillard at home the oil tends to splatter and has a shockingly far range- it gets on the above-stovetop microwave and fan, on the counters, and on the utensils and stuff I keep near the stove. It’s now caked on everything and a lot of the stuff (the bottom of the…

Ohhhh, do one for grease and oil! When I cook chicken paillard at home the oil tends to splatter and has a…

Ding ding ding, we have a winner folks!! One thing that I’ve done is set the sous vide to around 105-110, dropped the frozen meat in for 10 minutes, and then taken it out to salt and season the meat before throwing it back in the water at whatever temperature I actually want it to cook at. Thaws quickly, cooks…

I’m 5'10" and I hate airplane seats. They’re terribly uncomfortable. Complaining about people stretching their legs after sitting on an airplane for any amount of time is dumb. Pretending that people are standing up (even at the very back of the plane) in some mad dash to get out faster as the author does here is even…

Dumb. You’ve been forced to sit for hours in uncomfortable seats specifically designed to cram as many people into one smelly tube as possible, comfort be damned. If I’m on the aisle the first thing I do is stand precisely because sitting in those seats fucking sucks. It has nothing to do with trying to be the first…

I don’t. But so what? That means that anytime anyone does anything to criticize Facebook it is immediately praiseworthy, regardless of how manipulative, irrelevant, or disingenuous it is? This is literally Congress we are talking about- they’re not some paragons of virtue, but what they are is at least SUPPOSED to be…

It was a surprise interview on a surprise subject. The hearing wasn’t about Cambridge Analytica. It was about an entirely separate matter- Facebook’s policy towards political ads, something that bears virtually no relationship to Cambridge other than as a tool that someone like AOC can disingenously twist into a way…

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And it’s not even true though, at least as it relates to the Nats. I work for the DC government, and grew up in the MD suburbs. TONS of my colleagues are huge Nats fans, and going to games during the season is not expensive at all. Sure, the World Series is outrageously expensive, but that’s an absurd fact to base the…

As a Nats fan that was at the game, if you asked me which I’d rather have, a Nats win or a “lock him up” chant shouted at Trump, I would’ve gone with the chant. It was a beautiful moment, and far more important than baseball. Fuck that guy. 

He literally said the poor calling “might not have made the difference in the game”. And the ump was terrible for both teams, but the Robles call was EGREGIOUS and would’ve brought the tying run to the plate, while earlier in the game the ump missed an obvious strike three/out three call on Correa that would’ve ended…

Correa also got a ball called on an obvious third strike that should’ve been out #3, which he then turned into a two run blast to go up 4-0. The umps have been terrible all series, and last night may have been the worst showing yet.