Just want to add my 2 cents here, I smoked Camels for 20+yrs, and while I didn’t try to quit a lot—I did try a good handful of times of more (like 6-8 times probably). “Try” being the key word, I didn’t get very far (I have quit other things too considered “highly addictive” but I’ve never been able to stop smoking,…

greasy paper goes with the compostables.

I have been doing this for years. I just reuse the foil over and over again. Its already shaped to my stove and I keep it in the oven on a lower rack when not in use. When the foil gets little dirty I simply fold it in half and I have a new section to work with. I also use them for the toaster oven.

RamBoard might be just what you’re looking for. Cheap, readily available, and designed to protect floors during construction. Doesn’t crush like cardboard.

Great post. I agree fully, but also want to add that for storage, an old filing cabinet will hold a lot of mass and will be easy and cheap to buy. I just bought a house and there was an old filing cabinet in the garage. I looked into selling it on craigslist but realized that because the rollers are shot, I’d be lucky…

entertainment: bluetooth adapter and an old boom box work great on a budget. Alternately, a cheap tablet and the aforementioned old boom box (streaming ftw) is my setup.

But we’re talking about early humans here, being that could be very similar to us. If we cloned a Neanderthal and it turned out to be a lot like us, does it get the same human rights? What about the earlier members of the genus Homo? The subject is a grey area, and it’s something we’ve never had to deal with so we…

Well, I would consider it pretty unethical to clone them in the first place. But I suppose if it did happen... The earliest ones might be comparable to modern great apes in terms of intelligence and such, so most people probably wouldn’t have a problem with putting them in a zoo. People might get iffy as you go later.…

I’m interviewing a researcher who specializes specifically in cratering rates of Kuiper Belt Objects as part of an extended explainer/Q&A later this week. <3

It does raise the question of personhood. Whenever the topic comes up, there are always lots of people who go “If it’s human, it’s a person, end of discussion!”. But I’ve always been fascinated by the hypothetical scenario of, what if there were other species that were very similar to humans? Lots of people argue that…

Daedalus all the way!

Yes, I agree, food, warmth, etc., are the main things. But there is an element of trying to keep a chin up despite all odds which I guess I attributed to not giving in to the slippery slope of bottom barrel despair; holding on to the dignity of being a human being and deserving of kindness and courtesy. There was a…

I do not want to trivialize the experiences of other commenters, but it should be made clear that—when you’re living it—there’s a colossal gulf between sleeping in your car or a friend’s basement and having truly nowhere to go.

My grampa used to say “the harder I work the luckier I get.” Once I realized that was true I never had another such problem. It’s scary to me now, though, how close I came to total ruin, either by ending up in the prison system or just dead. Good to know I’m not alone in that.

Yes. I was a complete and total piece of crap in my early twenties and lived in the woods eating off of food stamps. I did it voluntarily and stayed drunk and high most of the time. I didn’t even realize how close I came to killing myself, and when it came time to move back inside (winter in Montana is not outdoor…

When you have everything you need in life, complacency begins to settle in, and you begin to yearn for a purpose.

After we’ve spent thousands of years killing, raping, and starving, and after enduring despotic governments, corruption, eons of sadness and decimation, we’ve reached an age where a government was born…

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