Note the number of outlets in each room and whether they’re placed in a way that doesn’t make it super annoying to plug in all your electronics. And whether any of them are linked to the light switch in the room.

Most people aren’t sociopathic enough to succeed in sales.

Phone wallets suck. It's the perfect way to make the bulkiest thing in your pocket even bulkier... 

Ah, yes, the phone case wallet. Convenient, one-stop shopping for pickpockets and thieves. Saves the absent-minded the trouble of having to lose two separate things by allowing them to lose both at the same time! Think of all the stories you’ll have to tell friends and family about all the times you wound up stranded…

In theory, yes. In practice, the energy density of batteries is far too low to make that practical. Using the Volvo S90 as an example (because it has a plugin-electric and gas version so we don’t have to guess at efficiencies), with a leaf battery pack as a baseline (since they’re the only ones readily available) we…

Great article! Get the GoPaddling app to find good places to launch. Kayak rentals are SO expensive that if you have a way to transport a kayak, you might be better off finding a used kayak on Facebook Marketplace and then reselling it if you don’t love kayaking... you probably won’t pick the perfect kayak your first…

I really prefer to make sure my mortgage (with taxes and insurance included in escrow) is one week’s net. It takes a full AND part time job, lately. This has been a rule of thumb for decades and it works best to keep me from becoming over extended. I’d be in trouble with the cost of utilities and other expenses if I…

In the U.S., first time homebuyers should check in with their municipal housing authority or grants/housing department. Often times they offer down payment assistance for first-time buyers that go through some sort of first-time home buyer courses.

Excellent advice. I’d add one more that ties into #2—

Scrolled down to make this same comment. Mine gets used in homemade Irish cream most often, but Vietnamese iced coffee with chicory (listed in the slides) is a strong second choice.

Yes, Bailey’s is acceptable any time of the year, not just holidays. 

I completely agree. We need to make sure we turn out in droves for the 2022 Midterms. A President is only as effective as his Congress, and we the people have to make sure that the Republicans don’t bar Biden the way the Tea Party did to Obama in 2010.

It’s important not to let the Biden administration and Democrats in Congress rest on their laurels on this one, and treat this as if it fulfills any sort of promise to working class people to give them what they deserve. For the people that need this money, this is a temporary measure that will maybe help keep their…

It’s not like it matters, the people like that are dug in and nothing will change their mind aside from perhaps a friend/family member passing away from COVID. The people who we can still reach are the people who just don’t understand the data. There are actually people out there who have not been vaccinated because…

Yeah, had this conversation with a coworker a couple hours ago. The problem is that a large percentage of the population lives in a black-and-white worldview where things are yes/no, true/false, or right/wrong. They have no understanding that life is all about shades of gray and nothing is perfect or guaranteed.

So it’s FAR more contagious, and it’s more deadly. If you’re a healthy adult who declines being vaccinated, I’m sorry but you’re a goddamn idiot.

The fact that vaccinated people are getting sick is sadly fodder for the anti-vax crowd to claim the vaccine doesn’t work. They are completely ignoring the reduction in hospitalization/death that the vaccine is scientifically showing, while claiming they “follow the science” as they refuse to mask up or get vaccinated.

Conversely, it’s YOUR heartbeat that you actually hear.

It’s also irrelevant for anyone who supports this. The people who hate poor people.

Nah, dude. “6 weeks gestation” is based on “gestational age,” which is what this article is about. The bill doesn’t specify a time frame, it specifies being able to detect “a heartbeat” or, more accurately, “signs of potential cardiac activity” which is actually little sparks of nerve pulses from what would eventually…