You can’t make a concentrated version of your toilet paper cube.

Meaning that you didn’t keep eating because you wanted to cut the evening short? Otherwise I’m still having trouble seeing the connection.

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers…

Remove the mother’s name from this article, for God’s sake!

Depends on your compost set-up. Most home garden composters avoid those because they can (and usually do) attract rats. However, my apartment building takes part in a municipal program that welcomes that stuff. We bag all solid food waste in compostable bags — including meat, bones, etc. — and put them in a special…

Came here to say this. I usually just knot one corner or side, and untie the knot when it’s time to throw the bag out.

What do you do if you’ve left an old flip cellphone alone for literally years, and you find it oozing all over the place? How do you dispose of it responsibly? Because (1) ick, and (2) it probably shouldn’t go into landfill, but (3) who the heck is ever going to take it? We’re not talking a bit of minor corrosion,…

Damn, I thought prime day was some kind of geekish event that would take place on a prime-number date. You’ve destroyed all hope, guys :(

Damn, I thought prime day was some kind of geekish event that would take place on a prime-number date. You’ve…

I’m impressed that Lensabl offers their service to Canadians, too. Not as cheaply, but that’s to be expected given the extra cost of shipping. I may use this for my fave sunglasses — I haven’t found anything like them in the prescription-frames line. Thanks!

My last workplace was so chaotic and disorganized that on my final day, I had to walk myself out. My manager (who was pretty incompetent) was supposed to run through a checklist that week; she never did it, so I completed the checklist myself and handed it to the nearest admin. There was also a squabble between her…

Posted to the wrong place.

Every area I know of in Canada is divvied up between two (never more than two) internet/cable/streaming TV “competitors.” I left provider #1 for provider #2 because #2 was able to offer a better deal because I could also bundle my phone services — something provider #1 was unable to offer. Provider #1 knew I was…

That’s a good approach, but it couldn’t also hurt to have the paper handout at the event itself, as backup. A lot of people don’t get around to reading their e-mails (or when they do, they don’t read the whole thing.)

Only in the U.S. (which is not a surprise TBH, although it seems ironic that we can’t get that Canadian sandwich in Canada ;) And here’s me with a one-yen coin just burning a hole in my change purse.

I live in a city where they just outlawed the use of plastic carrier bags. If you’re unwary enough not to bring your own bag, the stores will sell you either a large paper bag, or one of these reusable (usually ugly) bags.

Possible exception to the first one is schoolkids in Japan. If you visit Japan for any amount of time, you’ll probably be approached by some schoolkids who want to practice their English and/or ask you questions as credit towards some sort of English-class assignment. Invariably there’s a teacher hovering…

You can resize the creatures by pinching in and out.

In case soulfeggio doesn’t respond... I’ve always used the knee-high ones for long-haul flights and found them to be fine. This Harvard medical doctor seems to concur.

I’m on the top floor of an older 4-storey apartment building. No air conditioning here, as we don’t need it for the most part, but it still gets very hot occasionally.

Seconding this. Two years ago my husband and I were heading up to Koyasan just after a typhoon hit, the one that knocked out a good chunk of the (sole) railway that goes there. We were decanted at Hashimoto station, where people — mostly Japanese — queued quietly and patiently for buses that had been specially pressed…