Congratulations, Esther. You chose to write about something interesting and not gross, and all you got were a bunch of trolls freaking out over something they didn’t even read.

Absolutely true. I feel like one of the greatest things we can do is take corporate money out of the process. Even the current system with lower level individual donor caps will fundamentally favor the will of the wealthy, for obvious reasons. There isn’t any reason to allow corporations of any ilk to fund SuperPACs…

I would be 100% okay with that solution. I would actually prefer this, as it would increase competition in non-rural areas, driving down costs and increasing quality of service at the same time (it’s no coincidence that in areas where Google Fiber exists the major telcom in the area suddenly was able to match their…

Thanks. I feel the same way lived in a remote town in Minnesota and yea connectivity sucked. Wouldn’t be any better if the government handled it because we didn’t have city services either we had a well and septic tank. Hell at first we didn't even have a well had to go to town to wash our clothes and take showers. No…

I’m currently 33 and am completely independent save the $50 birthday check I get each year. At least I thought I was, until a few days ago when my father suggested kicking me off the family cell phone plan and I reacted as though he had asked me to sell my kidney.

I beg to differ. In Europe, you can get a bare bones Merc with cloth seating and less gadgets than a moderately equipped Hyundai.

This is a generation of people whose days are ruled by a slow, annoying, spam-ridden app.

I was going to say this. The headline doesn’t need to assume that assholes will be assholes out there to be a relvant article and headline. It’s clickbating...and I wish I could say that Rob knew better...but this is a part of his schtick.

You are probably not wrong, but isn’t this the very definition of a straw man argument?

I remember this moment in Avatar when Sigourney Weaver used a 1 ml Eppendorf pipette (‘P-1000’) to transfer some glowing blue gunk in the background of a scene. She inverted the pipette while she was moving it around, which in real life would cause the blue gunk to flow into the barrel of the pipette, contaminating it…

This is a fundamental problem Lifehacker faces. Whenever we like something, we’re told it’s just an ad and we’re shills. There’s really no good way for us to say “This is an awesome thing” without someone cynically assuming we were paid for it. Which, by the way, we were not.

Being free to do something and that something being a dick move are not mutually exclusive.

Remember kids: Black Lives Matter is a bunch of whiners who are looking for reasons to be offended. The real oppression is a lack of Christmas iconography on your coffee cups.

I wouldn’t hitchhike or go stay in the home of a stranger I met in the street in Small Town USA, let alone in countries that I am not familiar with that are not known for having progressive attitudes towards women. I was astonished at the risks the author of this piece took.

But see, her name is ‘Vanessa Helsing’. And ‘essa’ means ‘that’ (in Portugese.) So she’s ‘From that Helsing’, as in, not from any other Helsing you may have heard of. Which, since she’s not from the same Helsing as Abraham, means she’s a totally original character, right? (/sarcasm)

Please be about space and science and exploration and idealism, and not just explosions.