It bears repeating that Hershey’s “Chocolate”® essentially goes through a forced spoilage process during manufacturing, which adds copious amounts of butyric acid (a chemical also found in vomit) to the final product, resulting in its signature “coying sweetness plus revolting sourness” taste. This has become so…

Window fans like this one have been a godsend for us in New Mexico. Obviously they don’t work everywhere—low humidity desert environments with big overnight temperature drops like ours are ideal. But with one of those in our bedroom window, we don’t need AC to stay cool and comfortable at night. They work nicely well…

The future is probably some kind of genetically-engineered cockroach-killing virus. They’ll let us think we’ve won for a few years, but eventually the virus will mutate, massively accelerating their evolution into horse-sized intelligent lifeforms which will quickly supplant and destroy humanity. Serves us right, I…

Ahhhh, YES, this is the masterful HamNo hot troll garbage I fucking live for. This is why some of us still come back to this place... and also why this writer will probably never be able to find work at another publication. Hook it into my veins!

The mural is being destroyed by being painted over

Hey BurnerBeforeReading, since you dismissed my comment rather than engage with my criticism, I’ll respond to you here!

No one “approved the destruction of this mural”, because it wasn’t destroyed—it was covered. And Nick doesn’t think it should be destroyed either, because he knows it isn’t meant to celebrate atrocity. He thinks it should perhaps be moved to a museum, where people seeking to learn about the history of genocide in…

“We’re not journalists, we’re bloggers!”

If he actually does prove to be in it for the long haul, you can expect him to get the same treatment from Splinter that Buttigieg did. That is: almost no coverage whatsoever—until the moment he becomes a threat to Sanders or Warren, at which point they (and Jezebel, and The Root) will suddenly begin writing 576,438…

We can have it both ways: Sessions can run, then suffer a humiliating loss to Moore because he’s somehow not extreme enough for the Alabama GOP electorate, and because of his bad blood with daddy Trump. Then Moore can go on to lose the general again, possibly after even more women come forward to say he preyed on them…

There is such a difference between a commitment to pursue a progressive policy and the actual pursuit of said policy, though. I’m over this idea that it’s a “win” to drag centrists’ platforms to the left—because what good is a platform if the candidate disowns it as soon as they’re in office, or simply lets it die of…

It’s all calories. People are fatter because we eat more, not because of what we eat.

Here’s the thing about this: the high rates of obesity in America (and, to some extent, the world) are a direct result of modern dietary trends. That’s not really because people are eating more or moving less, though they are doing that—it’s what they’re eating that’s important. And what they’re eating is garbage,…

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Seriously, give Opera a shot. It uses the same engine as Chrome, so it maintains website and extension compatibility, but you don’t have to deal with the Google analytics and assorted bullshit.

$95, waived for the first year. Depending on the amount of money you spend on the card, that fee is easily paid for by the value of the rewards. The signing bonus (delivered after $4000 in spending in the first 3 months, a target I easily hit) alone has a cash redemption value of $600 now, but it can be worth as much…

Yes, but Visa (well, Chase) also gives me 1.5% of every damn thing I buy—more like 3%, really, considering the value of Ultimate Rewards points if used appropriately. If I’m using my Sapphire Preferred for dining or travel, the return is effectively 4%. If I don’t use my cards, I’m leaving that money on the table.

Hey, remember how they un-followed every single commenter on Splinter days after Libby got owned into a black hole for that post, then claimed it was a move to “combat trolls” that they’d been planning all along? Remember how the amount of trolling actually increased exponentially, with incredibly obvious MAGA…

I meant that in a much more general sense. That is, if you provide a human with the means to make their lives easier, they will take always take advantage, assuming they don’t have to directly witness the negative consequences of that decision in real time. It’s not enough for a person to possess a vague,…

Ranting about a broken system and then yelling at people for living their lives within that system doesn’t “inspire” anything, though, least of all a productive debate on the issues. Hamilton writes articles like this one all the time, but he usually makes sure to include an actual point, I.E. arguments for policies…