Got kicked off a shared household membership recently. I decided to take a break from prime and see how I fare. What’s been most interesting to me is how much less I spend. When it was “free shipping and returns” without really thinking, it was easy to buy $10 here and $20 there. Now, I look at each purchase more…

I’m a single guy in a one bedroom apartment, and I don’t have any trouble storing the items I buy. I like it because I can find items I don’t see at any other local stores, their Kirkland brand is usually great, and they pay and treat their employees very well, so my membership fee is going to a company that’s doing…

A $1 increase from a service that hasn’t raised prices in over a decade is bleak? Have you been outside at all since 2016? (Also, quit making me defend end-stage capitalism, goddammit.)

“everyone else is getting away with it so we will too”

I think it’s important to hammer home the consequences of the idea that grifters trying to get rich with the hubris to think they’re geniuses should be using their influence to direct public policy on safety and regulation.

I find it all fascinating. I hadn’t seen this video yet and its very interesting.

The sunrise alarm clock only helps if you usually wake up when it’s still dark and/or sleep in a blacked out room, and you don’t sleep with a sleep mask on. I have a job where I usually don’t have to be at work until noon, which means I usually sleep until about 10. At that point, the sun has long been up. I got used…

I’m a holdover from the original Blog days. All the stuff you are saying sounds amazing. Kind of funny how good content is the new web-whatever-we-are-now-number...basic blogs, cut the crap, you will gain a solid community. We need good writers, not ad executives running the site and it sounds like this is a step in…

Better than blackout curtains is a sleeping mask, because you can take it with you when you travel, use it in hotels, on the plane, etc., etc. Sleeping masks are reasonably inexpensive in the travel sections of major stores or in specialty luggage stores.

“Why is the article so mean-spirited? Why does he hate Hugh Jackman so much that he bursts into tears when hearing him sing? Is this guy okay?”      Not just that, but seeing Sanderson’s 15 year old son salt his Yakisoba makes him CRY. So either

I like Sanderson’s books, they’re definitely popular because they’re accessible and competently delivered as opposed to dazzling the reader with prose but there’s no shame in being the MCU of fantasy books.

Wiping poo with paper leaves poo behind. If you are not washing your butt after you poo, you are walking around all day with paper-smeared poo on you butt. But you do you.

Wiping optional?

Let’s say you go to McDonalds and both chefs makes burgers with their butt. One of the chef’s uses a bidet and the other just uses paper.

Which burger are you going to eat?

I rest my case.

Notably, it’s an accommodation that many other pregnant people who face prison sentences and don’t share Holmes’ privileged background are routinely denied. Roughly 2,000 babies are born to incarcerated pregnant people annually.

I love how "I like to do my own research" has become such a convenient shorthand for me to instantly dismiss the person saying it as a complete fúcking moron.

I’m assuming ‘successful’ here means ‘met or exceeded new/retained subscriber goals during show’s initial run’.  Netflix seems like it’s run by living breathing metrics and not human beings.

Nothing to really add to the discussion about how many chocolate chips to use (although any way to sneak more in sounds good to me, and I’m going to try this mini chips suggestion), but after years of trying everyone’s ultra special grandma’s centuries old secret best recipe ever, the one that really worked for me was…

Oh how I loathe marketing people.