1) I’m not a liberal (I think a fair number of readers ... and writers ... of Splinter probably aren’t), so feel free to toss that nonsense right out the window.

Ooh. I’m advocating for the abolishment of the senate entirely. It’s entirely un-democratic (intentionally so) and shouldn’t exist. 

I had an Arkansas Black this last summer. It was delicious and juicy and crispy, but holy crap, was its skin thick and tough. If I ever needed a pack of apples to take on a horseback ride through the wilderness, I’d take some Arkansas Black. Otherwise ... peel before eating. 

So ... was she taking her car in for an oil change every two weeks? New tires every 2-3 months? Yeesh. 

Why is a lower limit (one above the minimum voting age) okay, but an upper limit is “undemocratic”? 

Reading the title, I thought “If this isn’t Wonder Weeks, I’m definitely going to suggest it.”

Hell, I coulda told you that from the title of his book. “Coddling” is just code for “not teaching them to be selfish assholes”. FOH with this pseudo-intellectual bullshit, lifehacker.

In a regular pot, yes. Pressure cookers, by design, don’t lose a significant amount of water (or alcohol) vapor, so it should be fine.

I was just assuming those were all the principles from which you should choose three.

I mean, the press could have come as members of the public, right? Was there anything stopping them from coming in as just ... constituents? All I got from the press-barring was “Hey, y’all won’t STFU and let me get my work done, so we’re not doing any press passes/Q&A at this town hall”. 

I mean, the press could have come as members of the public, right? Was there anything stopping them from coming in as just ... constituents? All I got from the press-barring was “Hey, y’all won’t STFU and let me get my work done, so we’re not doing any press passes/Q&A at this town hall”. 

Honestly, I’m still not sure whether the lingering full-body shivers are bad.

I have to say, the nice part of watching one or two particularly gruesome popping videos is that every time one pops up, you get to have the full-body shudder just from thinking about it, whether you watch the new video or not.

Ew, no thanks. I type twice as fast with autocorrect than without. Overzealous auto-correction is much easier to fix here and there than either slowing down and typing accurately or trying to manually go back and clean up my normal “just throw your thumb generally toward the right letter and autocorrect will figure it…

Thanks for putting this into words. Since seeing the reports of BLM crashing the wedding, I’ve been conflicted. Part of me has felt really uncomfortable with the protest. Like, deeply, viscerally uncomfortable.

Great list! A couple of my favorites so far:

Great list! A couple of my favorites so far:

Well, that’s kind of the point of anarcho-syndicalism (and, really, a lot of anarchist movements). Rather than having one big socialist state machine trying to manage every little worker-cog in it, the work is managed democratically by the workers themselves. That is, you’re not trying to have every voter make every…

You can make simple syrup quickly by boiling 2 parts sugar and 1 part water, then once it’s dissolved, pouring it over another 1 part ice. The ice will melt, cooling the syrup and diluting it to 1:1 (so it doesn’t crystallize).

“HEY. HEY. DON’T YOU ALL REALIZE THE THING YOU’RE ENJOYING SUCKS?? HEY. LISTEN. HEY!! STOP HAVING FUN!”

Solution: stores can stop trying to squeeze every last dime out of their bottom line by replacing their employees with stupid self-checkout registers.