FWIW, I am a United elite passenger and I’m often the last person to board the plane for the reason you give. My seat is reserved, I don’t need overhead bin space, and I’d just as soon spend as little time as possible on the plane.

I’ve never understood why “elites” get boarded first. Since you’re going to spend hours in the same spot, I’d try to minimize this as much as possible. Furthermore this would maximize the time they could spend in the lounges. The only advantage boarding first would give is having first access to the storage bins,…

I almost exclusively fly Southwest (CC benefits) and generally don’t have a problem with their boarding method. When it does become an issue it’s because the Southwest staff are horrible for enforcing the process. On my last trip, I stood in the queue with an A number. We started boarding and I overheard a couple (who…

I think if you look closely, you’ll see that she’s a baby.

In my experience it seems like cats would prefer if you don’t talk at all. :/

Same! My 9 yr old floof is a baby!

What about cats? Should we speak to Mr. Fluffles as if he were a baby?

You mean to tell me that my babies aren’t actually babies? Pretty sure this 48 month old is a baby

They get so jaded when the go through their teenage-in-dog-years phase. “Yes, yes, ‘I’s a good boy.’ Whatever.”

This is a good dog.

I’m not an expert by any means, but one thing we noticed when each of our dogs were puppies is that since we talk to each other a lot of the time, it helped to speak to them in a different voice, which they rapidly recognized as Something Different Going on, and thus, being directed to them. (or related to training…

I’ll take “How to look stupid on the Internet for $1000", Alex.

Lol dude, cmon. Yes, I took out the SuperDrive, which I no longer needed, and replaced it with an ssd so I would have, get this, two hard drives. Holy shit right?

oh man, I was 27 when I got mine too, I didn’t even THINK of that

Haha! Joke’s on you! I’m still running computers with XP and Vista... ... ...because my work makes me... ... ...

Journalists are human. You got us.

You mean errata, right?

I did realize as I was writing this that it might look like a dump. But the Cornell results came out this week and I wrote this as soon as I could, given the other things on my plate.

Also known as “p-hacking”, the social sciences in particular are rife with this problem — and we’re going to see a lot more of it as more data becomes available to more people without the proper statistical training.