She mentions “shaming” once in the article. The whole point of the article is that it wasn’t just about poor diet, but about a severe eating disorder. I don’t think she was in any way excusing what happened.

I’m all about this. I sometimes find music to be too distracting (even just mellow instrumental stuff), but I like being able to block out chatter around me. If you just search for white noise on YouTube, you'll find everything from snow on the mountains to a fireplace to "space station sleeping quarters" (which I…

Am I the only person who finds the advice “live each day like it’s your last” to be a bit nonsensical? I mean, I understand the sentiment of not wasting your precious moments on earth, but if I’m living today like it’s my last day, I’m certainly not going to eat a healthy breakfast, exercise, and go to work. I’m going…

Technically, the unemployment rate is considered a lagging indicator of a recession. So if you see high unemployment, it means you are likely already IN a recession. It also seems a bit funny to say that a drop in GDP is a sign of a recession, because that’s the literal definition of a recession. So if you see a drop…

Research shows some spillover effects on wages to workers earning up to $18-20, because now their employers have to compete with the firms who were forced to pay more as a result of the MW.

I’m (mostly) a fan of PodBean. Admittedly, I’m not a huge consumer of podcasts, but it has a decent amount of customizability (how it downloads, whether to automatically download new episodes, etc...). I download all of my podcasts for offline listening, and haven’t had a problem with that. The only thing I have had…

Fair enough. I misspoke. I just feel like the article minimized the much bigger issue of carbon pollution, in favor on focusing on how you can avoid throwing away a few ounces of plastic.

Just seems silly to me.

On the other hand, I’ve found that baking soda and vinegar are great for cleaning that dried cooking grease gunk off of a stovetop tea kettle. The combo of acidy goodness and baking soda grit cleans it every time.

I’m surprised that the biggest source of waste in a flight wasn’t actually mentioned... The flight itself. According to a 2017 NYT article, “a round-trip flight from New York to San Francisco emits about 0.9 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person”. That seems like a bigger concern than the 6 ounces of plastic that a…

I think what matters is what you experience. I’m not experiencing the entire life of the cosmos, but only my 80 years, so I’d say that an extra 20 years means a lot. That’s a full 25%.

I can’t decide if you are serious or not. But to demonstrate the absurdity of that statement, here are some analogies:

In my experience, WizTree and WinDirStat are almost identical, except that WizTree is much faster. Took 26 seconds to run Wiz Tree on my main drive. After 3 minutes, WinDirStat is only at 34%. 

You can find an open copy on Google Scholar. They control for earned income, education and occupation. Also, this is a bit of an appeal to authority, but it’s published in a top-tier economics journal, so you can bet that it was picked apart quite a bit before it was published.

I have a BSBA in finance and am getting my PhD in Econ, and I have no idea what “absorption costing” or “throughput accounting” are. I think concepts like that are probably just as easy to forget (or not even worth learning in the first place). 

“If you’re already an efficient packer, you know that rolling your clothes will buy you a lot of space.”

I’ve never bought into the idea that rolling is more space-efficient than folding and stacking. Think about a ream of paper (like for a printer). I can’t imagine those 500 sheets getting any smaller if I roll them…

First, “everything takes years off of your life” is a terrible argument, and not actually true. Exercise, for one thing, adds years. Laughter? Same. Smoking takes off lots of years. So does meth. Not all pleasures are equal.

This calculation is implying that since you are in the 22% bracket, you must have other income that is taxed at those lower rates, so that your marginal rate is 22%. If that 20k is your only income, then none of it would be taxed at a 22% marginal rate.

I really like this idea. I feel like way too many people think they need to sink hundreds of dollars into every new endeavor, and most of that stuff just ends up gathering dust in the garage.

Fair point. They probably should have asked you before they went ahead with these upgrades.

If you are looking for good ambient music for work, YouTube is another great resource. I've recently been on a binge of ambient electronic music. Just search "chill mix" and there are hundreds of 1-2 hour mixes. There is also a ton of instrumental jazz and soundtrack music as well.