My problem definitely a lack of prep. I’ve been cooking for myself for 10 years, eating out about once a week. I always plan my meals in advance, I always have the ingredients I need, and I always have a place to store it. I just personally don’t enjoy spending an hour working in the kitchen. It doesn’t help me…

Okay Dad.

I think a lot of people are going to take issue with the 4th C. For me, cooking doesn’t help me wind down. Maybe I’m just doing it wrong. But if I wasn’t so damn cheap, I would be happy to pay someone else to cook my meals for me, and I think it would do wonders for me mentally.

I don’t imagine that most people actually think that the 5-second rule is real. I think most people just use it to get over the germophobia that comes with dropping a piece of food on the ground.

Furthermore, my experience has been that people typically apply the 5-second rule to dry foods, that dirt and things are…

How is this a life hack?

I get the feeling that the author of this article is really just upset that Coca-Cola decided to cater to “macho men”.

I would actually argue the exact opposite. An individual’s personal experience is highly unlikely (at least in the case of drug addiction) to generalize to a larger population. So if someone says “I got sober after my parents threw me out of the house”, that doesn’t mean that every parent with an addicted child should…

I think the point of the article is that even fit people get winded because your body just isn’t prepared for the sudden work, and it takes your body a moment to catch up and start delivering oxygen to your muscles.

This has to be one of the worst articles I’ve seen on lifehacker. It’s sort of preachy without actually saying why more than two drinks is really that bad. Not to mention that it doesn’t take into account a multitude of factors that can impact your level of drunkenness, such as body weight, sex, tolerance, and…

From my limited experience, I’m inclined to agree with the author. I sometimes use my dresser at home as a standing desk, or my office mate’s adjustable desk (when he’s not around), and both are very helpful when I’m a little tired, or just tired of sitting. However, I can’t imagine committing to using a standing desk…

I use my dresser as a standing desk. Cost me $60 and holds my clothes.

The government regulates utilities not only because they are a necessity, but also because they are a natural monopoly due to the incredibly high barriers to entry. So this argument doesn’t really hold up in the context of health insurance, where the market could potentially be competitive.

I’m curious why economists deserve outrage. Any first year economics grad student (hell, anybody who’s taken principles of micro) can tell you that concentrated market power leads to higher prices and lower quality.

I just use Evernote to store recipes. I’m the same as you in that I always worry that websites will disappear,so i like to have them stored somewhere.

I just checked, and it definitely has that option under ‘route options’.

This is going to sound kind of weird... but I’ve recently thought that if my apartment burned down, I wouldn’t mind it so much... I’d have to repurchase everything that mattered to me, but I wouldn’t have all of the stuff that doesn’t matter so much (but I’m not going to throw away willingly). My place would be so…

x2 on the dish soap. The few times I’ve burnt food in my ceramic crock pot, I just add some baking soda, a squirt of dish soap, and water to cover the mess, and turn the crock pot on high. It doesn’t take long for the burnt bits to just float to the top.

I can relate to this 100%. I spend far too much time dwelling on the bad jokes I make, or this stupid questions I ask in class, or the embarrassingly bad plays I make in sports. It’s honestly gotten worse recently, too. I have days where I just see my life as an accumulation of all of these insignificant failures, and…

I don’t see how the lack of numbers invalidates the points he made. A lot of the math can be done in your head. How much does a meal out cost vs. one cooked at home? How much does a cup of coffee from starbucks cost vs. a pot of home-brew. And beside, how helpful would it be, really? Everyone is going to have a…

There are some really good points in here, imo...