And if those techniques don’t work, I’ve found the best way to stop someone pestering you is to become an aggressive “silver-liner”. Assuming it’s not legitimate complaining about abuse or the like, but just that type of personality that gripes about everything, constantly saying, “Yeah but it could be worse! At least…

Go full Wednesday Addams. For example: “When are you going to have a baby?” “When I can find a good recipe”

It can be tricky if your family is mostly great and it’s just one person who’s the asshole.

a time of obligatory family gatherings and forced dinner conversation

I was honestly expecting this article to go: make sure you break up with them before Christmas so they won’t be in any of your pictures.

Nailed it! My phone regularly shows me pics of concerts, dinners, dates, events, and whatnot that I attended with whomever I was dating at the time.

You know, if you expect the relationship to go so badly that you expect to want to never know of its existence, you should probably rethink it.

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Always donate wedding dresses, bride’s maid dresses, prom dresses etc to thrift stores. Amateur drag queens will be very thankful come Halloween.

You should probably mention that other money-sending services like Venmo and Cashapp also have no protections. Further, even using PayPal and choosing to send to “friends/family” won’t protect you.

It’s also a good idea to get kids tested in a comprehensive panel. Gifted kids can be more prone to anxiety, depression, adhd, autism, dmdd, odd, ocd, and other disorders that the giftedness masks in a delightful thing called twice exceptionality. If a child is really academically excellent, but socially challenged…

The Republican Party, its contributors and allies are a vast, criminal conspiracy supporting sedition against the United States of America.

One notable thing that doesn’t appear to be happening (or I haven’t seen anyone report on it): Reversing the law that exempted student loans from bankruptcy claims. Biden can’t reverse that himself, of course, but he was a big proponent of it so him publicly directing Dems to do so would be nice (as it can likely help …

Videos and slide shows of crap that don’t need the visuals and then not use videos/slide shows when it would be the intelligent thing to do. 

Came here to say just this. The reason so many of us have been complaining about videos isn’t because we think the video format’s wrong for Lifehacker. It’s because the format is wrong for many of the pieces that have appeared here lately, while at the same time it hasn’t been used for articles like this and others…

As one who had to use a w/c for several years, let me tell you we do NOT expect all of this. I was carried into many places that had accessibility challenges, and even at my parents’ house, I did NOT expect them to do things like make the kitchen meet my needs.

Ack - no! Suburbs are hard to navigate, require a car, only have restaurants that are bland tasting chains, and are generally just a suck on the environment. Plus I find them stressful. No thanks.

/s is “cringey”? it’s a perfect solution for text-based communication. if it’s too much, how about /sarc ?

This advice is brutal. You cite writers or writing collectives as a way to carve words to indicate sarcasm, and then at the end the “hack” is just to not use words? What are those of us who don’t use emojis to do to convey sarcasm?

Ummm... my rice cookers all have instructions in the manual on how to make oatmeal. It’s pretty much a standard function.