A lot of people give the advice that if you have a task that you absolutely hate doing and can find someone to do it for less than what you would make at your job in the same amount of time, you should pay someone to do it.

The problem with this way of thinking is that unless you actually turn around and use that time…

I would also consider the airline and their reputation for customer service. I once had a tight connection in Seoul, and their Korean carrier had someone meet me on the jet bridge, followed by another woman at the baggage carousel, followed by a man who carried my bag and ran FULL SPEED through the airport to help me…

What about if you happen to have a seizure and a coworker freaks out and calls an ambulance while you’re still post-ictal? Or god forbid, your seizure causes a more catastrophic injury that requires hospitalization? Your emergency department visit and hospital stay could run into the tens of thousands, possibly…

How else can you show your superiority if you don’t board earlier and then avoid eye contact with the plebs as they march toward the back of the plane?

Slightly more seriously, I think it’s so that people can claim their overhead bin space in a world where airlines are charging more and more to check bags. Personally,…

If you live near a Kohl’s, it can actually be less of a hassle than the traditional return process. No need to box everything up, tape it up, tape on the label, and take it to a UPS center (if you’re not paying for a UPS pickup). You literally walk into the store, they scan the QR code, scan your items, and you walk…

Even more proof that the Apollo-era astronauts were true American heroes made of better stuff than the rest of us.

The two that most readily come to mind in San Francisco:

In my experience, it’s some combination of these factors, making it so that you want a larger buffer:
- The airlines often stop allowing checked bags earlier than domestic flights.
- International flights are often larger jets that carry more passengers, so you have more people to get through security.
- Those passengers…

I read the whole comment, and their “exceptions” don’t change the fact that the gist of their argument is that if you get food poisoning, you can “almost categorically rule out” your last meal. 

Absolutely not true. There are strains of bacteria (usually staph) that produce toxins that cause your typical “food poisoning” GI symptoms. It’s on every board exam that every physician takes, and the textbook case is someone who eats a potato salad at a picnic and has nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea 6 hours later.

I have uncovered parking in a drought-prone state, in a city that doesn’t get snow or salt the roads, and I plan to drive my car until it dies mechanically. I will almost certainly end up getting a new car well before rust destroys the body, so I’m doing my part in conserving water by not slavishly washing it every…

Sorry, my comment came off as critical of your stance, which was not my intent at all. It was meant more as a generalized “old man yells at cloud” comment about those damn whippersnappers these days.

When I was in college and for a period thereafter, I chafed at my parents’ attempts to set rules and curfews when I came home to visit.

Now as an adult (with the caveat that I don’t have children), I feel that if college kids want to be treated with respect, they need to earn it. If you were a guest in someone’s home,…

That would ironically be the best time to have a wood-burning fireplace. 

“Sooory, eh...”

Truth. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/29/opinion/medicare-for-all-cost.html

Nope. Not a fucking chance. It’s a (415) area code, which is a San Francisco number. While it probably is a bot, do you really trust a tech company to keep your dirtiest sexts secure? Have people learned nothing from all the data breaches in the last decade?

This is going to end up being the opposite of the Ashley…

I said I would gladly pay more for definitive things like health care, parental leave, etc. So yes, I WILL wait for a law that codifies how an increase in the taxes I owe will be used for the benefit of those who make less than I do. In the meantime, there are other ways that I can give back that don’t entail writing…

“Still, if you’ve been wondering whether the top 1 percent pays their fair share in taxes...”

The simple answer is no, they’re not. The more complicated answer is no, they’re not, and I say this as someone who is apparently in the top 5% and would gladly pay more in taxes for things like universal health care, child…

I get that these are aggregates, and my experiences are just anecdotes, but they were quite the opposite of some of this list. I was on an Alaska flight that got delayed by 4 hours, and they wouldn’t let me rebook on an earlier flight, despite it not being full. On the other hand, I was on an American flight that was…