Yes.  I was kidding.

So... VLC has a severe bug that “allow[s] a ‘booby-trapped’ video [to] execute remote code,” and your first recommendation is to download a video from the internet and play it on VLC?

Say there are five candidates running, but the voter ranks only three, and all three are eliminated prior to the last round. As a result, none of their votes will have gone to the winning candidate or the runner-up. In effect, their ballot doesn’t figure in the outcome.

I really wish pizza places would do toppings per quarter (or thirds) as well as halves. It can’t be that hard to do! In my house, one large could feed everyone, but we have 3 people with 3 preferences (and no flexibility).  Angers me to no end.

Seems like you made in the end. Congrats! Enjoy the retirement.

I think there are a lot of people out there like you. Your numbers aren’t bad, but I can’t say for sure without knowing exactly how they’re calculated. (There is some nuance here.) However, Vanguard’s “Total Market” fund returned 12.7%, 14.7%, and 15.3% over the last 1/3/10 years (click on “Month-end”), so maybe you…

The problem with financial writing is that the big topics are boring, and normal people don’t care about the crazy edge cases. I don’t blame LH, I blame places like Marketwatch (their name alone tells you they are motivated to keep you looking at your portfolio).

Thanks! These ideas are not mine, I’m just a parrot. I recommend the wiki at bogleheads.org for unbaised advice. I’m also a fan of The White Coat Investor (targeted at high-income earners, but largely relevant for anyone with enough income to save).

“[S]ometimes you need to know how bad the damage is so you can take action. You can’t stick your head in the sand because most problems don’t get better if you ignore them.”

Now who’s trolling? Bathrooms of both genders have toilets. Thus, per your logic, anyone should be able to use any bathroom.

Turns out, it is! From a purely scientific perspective, your bits don’t determine your sense of gender. There does seem to be something in your brain that does determine gender, but we’re not sure what yet. Lots of science on this.

Courts are well equipped to deal with this kind of trolling. A judge should be able to distinguish a good-faith assertion of gender identify with transparent idiocy. The alternative is having guys like Micheal Hughes and Buck Angel in the women’s room.

Just like how after Obergefell v. Hodges everyone is forced to be gay married.

This is horrible advice.

I wonder if these are in any way a result of Japan’s efforts to boost birth rates in view of their aging population. It would be a sad fact if Americans didn’t get these conveniences simply because we (historically, on average) have more children.

More details for those interested: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Traditional_versus_Roth

Agreed on all points.  My beef (haha) with Bar Keeper’s Friend is that I still have to scrub.  PBW literally dissolves this gunk overnight.  I use and recommend both.

Got to get the money shot!  I might change my mind if I see the post-grease version :)

Slightly off topic, re: “irreparably burning burger grease into your beautiful tri-ply pans,” I recently discovered that Powered Brewery Wash (known as PBW in the homebrew world) does an amazing job at those persistent, light-brown grease smudges in my tri-ply skillet.  Rather than scrape all day w/ Bartender’s…

I’m with Kenji. Notice the deep, uniform brown in his article, and the unevenness of your results (some spots are beige, some are nearly burned)? Crust lives or dies based on evenness of cooking. In a normal burger (or steak, etc.), oil makes up the extra room, filling in the gaps. In a smash burger, you can’t use…