Was a member for nearly 20 years until they all but banned me for returning three items in one year. Expensive Belay Jackets that were manufactured in China and all had horrible zippers. I tested them in the elements and brought them all back in perfect condition with the tags on, three separate times. Last time the…

As someone who works in I.T., I can tell you that the user never gets blamed for being stupid. It’s always the software’s fault for not preventing the user from doing something wrong.

Just had to make a meme on the cat. Probably won’t work in isolation by itself. But works with article above.

Slave labor, zero safety regulations and the fact that most of the systems are probably not nearly as advanced as the brochure says. Also the actual cost is probably higher. Never trust official Russian numbers.

Fuck that, (Iowa) railgun platform time.

No. NATO never invited us nor did we ever apply for NATO.

Ask the European countries that continue to petition for NATO membership. Putin’s posturing and aggression in Georgia and Ukraine are motivating these European countries. The Swedish public polls in favor of joining NATO, and then Putin warns Sweden that there will be “military consequences” if they join NATO. Can you…

I may be veering a little off topic here, but this article touched on one of my biggest concerns for the 2016 election on the Democrat side. I’m worried that the Hillary and Bernie camps are SO invested in their candidates and focused on tearing the other down to prop theirs up that it’ll cause a huge rift when it…

Yeah too bad this DRM fucks with paying customers. All for what? A boogeyman witchhunt that offers no real evidence of having any real, consistent consequences, particularly for AAA games because it’s usually ONLY AAA games that use these forms of abusive DRM and AAA games and studios get hurt the least by piracy.

Watched my mother lose her home and go through bankruptcy. Three months after it was complete she was getting credit card applications in the mail at favorable rates. Three years after, her score was back up over 700. The bankruptcy has counted against her at all.

It’s true that nobody likes losing. But when you can’t handle losing, you are a baby, and deserve to be called one.

I'd rather do that than eat his shit-ass pizza.

And yet my $10 plastic one has somehow also lasted that long.

And yet my $10 plastic one has somehow also lasted that long.

Can someone explain to me how a kitchen trashcan costs $153?

Can someone explain to me how a kitchen trashcan costs $153?

Sorry if I implied that the LH crew is responsible for (or even agrees with) the sins of the mothership, definitely not what I intended. I’d actually be thrilled if the majority of Gawker traffic came from Lifehacker, as it would restore some of my faith in the readership of the internet.

I hate to even bring it up, but isn’t your employer highly proficient in the manufacturing of outrage? Drumming up controversy probably pays a lot of your bills, even if not drummed up by you directly.

Sir, just please calm down and we’ll get off your lawn.

I don’t know why this is so difficult. I pay T-Mobile $30 a month for unlimited texting/data with only 100 minutes (plenty of other ways to make free calls). I’ve had the same sim card for five years and I buy factory unlocked phones, pop my sim card in, and that’s it.

If you go to China, your money will be going towards these islands. :-(

Read that the last flight through Patricia had a 30 second, 1000 foot altitude loss and then a 1500 foot, 30 second climb. Was this some sort of “event” or do they do maneuvers like this to collect data at different altitudes?