It’s not just “tiny” fruit. I gave up on buying navel and Valencia oranges years ago because they were dried out and bitter more often than not.

It might be worth noting that there are two major degrees of negligence: “ordinary negligence” means (simplifying here) that you messed up a little, and “gross negligence” means you messed up a lot. Both basically involve doing something stupid, to different degrees.

>“Know the difference.”

I lived in Manhattan for years and never had any luck with this. Most of the time it happened to be cloudy or overcast that day. Not long before I moved out of Manhattan, though, I excitedly gathered on a beautiful, clear day on 42nd Street with probably a few hundred people, all staring west, to witness Manhattanhenge…

Stay strong!  A friend of mine only recently stopped wearing his mask, and now has Covid for the first time.

Hiring freezes are a dead giveaway of impending layoffs. There’s not much distance between deciding that the company cannot afford to hire new employees and deciding that the company cannot afford to keep existing employees.

Thank you!  I was starting to think I was the only one.

This is one of this instances where real life is like the Internet: don’t feed the trolls. If you do, they just come back for more.

Or you could just...read your credit card statements?

Ever hear of spoiler alerts?

4) Read it on your phone.  It’ll turn it into a single window that you can just scroll down.

I have a colleague whose office-specific euphemism for going to the restroom is “go down the hall.”

Tell it to the gym teachers!

These are really interesting tips, but as someone who’s both lazy and clumsy I think I’ll stick with getting my ice cream in cups.

Is presenting this in video form intended to illustrate that there are worse ways to present information than a slideshow?

Always signal when turning, even if there aren’t any cars around. I’ve nearly been hit by cars that unexpectedly turned into my crosswalk after I concluded they were going straight.

Some credit cards offer cash back if you pay your cell phone bill with them.  For example, the US Bank Cash+ lets you choose cell phones as a 5% cash back category.

>”And what do you even tell a prospective partner about your current living situation without feeling bad about yourself?”

The best wedding I’ve ever been to was held in a public park.  It was officiated by a justice of the peace that the couple had never before met in person.  In lieu of a professional photographer, the guests were asked to take photos and send them to the bride.  The whole thing was over in about 15-20 minutes.  Then we…

Some professional services firms will allow you to charge dinner to the client if you work late enough.  When I had a job like that, I would occasionally be in a position of having to choose between working only somewhat late (not enough to charge dinner) on several different nights, or working very late (enough to…