I mean, to be fair, Nerf guns are significantly less expensive than $4,000 phones, at least here in the U.S. My nephew has about 15 Nerf Guns that he’s collected over the last 3 Christmases and Birthdays, and we are very very far from wealthy.

As I said above, Prosecutors in the U.S. can appeal a sentence that they think is too light, but only if it actually breaks the law in some way, like if the sentence is less than any mandatory minimum sentencing laws that exist in that jurisdiction, for example. The prosecution can’t just appeal based on the fact that…

In the U.S. Prosecutors can appeal a sentence in very specific cases where the sentence violates the law in some way, like it being less than a mandatory minimum or something like that, but that first crap they pulled, him being convicted of manslaughter, and then overturning the conviction so they could charge him…

Ok. Seriously wtf. I’m from the same timeline. When that headline popped up earlier this week, my very first thought was “Didn’t he die like 20 years ago???”. Like for real. That guy has been dead for a couple of decades and absolutely nothing can convince me that either what you say is true and some of us were…

Yeah I was just going to say that Alton Brown’s stovetop version is pretty good and just as quick as the box, but still, baked macaroni is the best. For Thanksgiving you want the best.

Yes, clearly Obama should have rented a time machine and gone back to the time when one half of America didn’t want the poor to die, and brought all those voters to the present. Easy peasy. He truly did betray us all.

He didn’t “sell us out”. If you seriously think that “Medicare for all” is a thing that could be passed by Congress either in 2010 or even now, you are on some serious crack, and I don’t want any, because clearly it fries your brain for life.

I grew up with a German-American grandparent and great aunts and uncles and so in our family we heard “Gezundheit!” after sneezing. My mom said it too because that’s what she heard growing up. I always assumed it was German for “God Bless You”, but apparently it actually means “Health!”. Now that I know that, I’m not…

Here’s why “it’s the dementia” is not an excuse.

Yeah but if that turned out to be the case, she could probably pretty easily make it back to the stones from Edinburgh and just go back to her time. I do agree though that there’s a weakness to the whole idea that Claire would leave her child, who’s still a young woman, forever. I don’t think it’s particularly…

You can google a recipe for it but it’s basically just lasagna noodles, mashed potatoes, and some type of cheese for the basics. It can be customized to your own liking (bacon, onions, jalapenos, etc.).

I don’t think this is a great idea if you actually want your ground beef to taste good. The one chance you have to season your meat is while it’s cooking. Once it’s cooked you can season the outside of it but the inside will be tasteless. I suppose you could make separate batches for different types of meals, like a…

I feel like this was clearly a breakdown in communication between a patient and her caregivers, but on the other hand it sounds like the patient may have had some seriously unreasonable expectations about the viability of a vbac. Any woman having a vbac should understand that deciding to attempt one is just that, an…

I worked at a Wendy’s one summer when I was a teenager. They served chili in the salad/hot bar. By the end of the day the small amount of chili left in the warming pan on the buffet would be a dried out nasty chili cake. Guess what happened to it? It was put in the fridge and mixed with hot water the next day and…

They’re not bitching about “blacks killed by whites”, so your dubious chart is completely irrelevant. They’re protesting the murder of unarmed black people by cops.

Yeah I find this so weird. I’m totally on the “believe women” train, but apparently according to some Jez commenters, that means “believe women when they say that a person sexually assaulted/harassed them, but if they specifically say a certain person DID NOT do that to them, suddenly they are liars”.

It’s more likely the case that whoever shot the Cosby show got the lighting wrong, making all the actors seem lighter skinned than they actually are. The lighting used on most 80s sitcoms seems like it would have been a horrendous offender in this regard.

I need you to reread what you just wrote because essentially what you’ve said is “most articles advise people to be sort of rude to cops” and then you ended with “that will escalate the situation and cause a cop to shoot you”. You don’t see a problem with the fact that most cops seem to be such enormous babies that…

I’m laughing because while reading this I knew exactly what was going to happen in the comments, and lo and behold, this article has over 400 comments. That’s making mansplaining work in your favor, Lifehacker Ladies. Kudos.

As an atheist, I completely agree with you. Sorry about that asshole. I don’t share your beliefs but they’re not harming me or anyone else so wth is there to be mad or condescending about? There are definitely some, or even many religious people, who do certain things in the4 name of their religion that deserve…