Re the AirBnb thing, can’t the host get kicked off the site for that sort of deal? I feel like nowadays the best advice is just to consider that a hotel may be the better deal, and make sure you do a true apples-to-apples comparison. Consider also what your time is worth as AirBnb often include extra chores that a…

Yeah to me a “bs fee” is one where you get nothing in return except the knowledge that your money is now lining the CEO’s or shareholders’ pockets. Paying a “convenience fee” for which you actually get convenience in return isn’t really in the same category.

I’d always heard the “work wife” thing as a joke mostly used between hetero women up until recently. So there would be nothing for someone’s actual romantic partner to be jealous of any more than any other close female friend. Not saying men and women can’t be friends or that gay people can’t have same-sex friends,…

It probably wouldn’t have saved him but my big regret with my cat who died at 13 of cancer is not having more testing for some weird symptoms he was having (like breathing issues) done sooner. I think the vet assumed I wouldn’t want to pay for an ultrasound but 1. continually taking him to the vet for a normal exam…

Yeah I don’t think anyone is under the impression that leasing is cheaper than buying new over the long term. Lots of people know they are paying for convenience and they are fine with that.

“When you know there’s cash in the house you might be tempted to grab some when it’s convenient—for tips, to pay off small debts to your neighbors, or for small purchases that are awkward to pay for with a credit card.”

I’m a programmer and I did something similar in R.

That’s true for a lot of these. It’s not like millenials grew up listening to records as the primary way they played recorded music. Electric washing machines were common even when my 60-something mother was growing up, so she hasn’t necessarily had any more direct experience with a wringer than someone born in 2007.

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Not a vegetarian but I am the weirdo who just doesn’t like bacon and I am always disappointed when it is in corn chowder (otherwise a top-tier food for me). Feel like it overwhelms all the other flavors. I want to taste the corn!

My parents always sent me to camp even when my mom wasn’t working because I am an only child and I would have been lonely without seeing kids my age regularly. I rarely did the fancy kind with a particular subject focus. Mostly just the kind where the counselors are teenagers and you run around in a yard or the park an…

I get how some of these concepts can produce problematic outcomes (like if you dismiss a student’s poor performance as “lack of grit” rather than issues with teaching or leadership by the adults). But some of these are pretty harmless even if they aren’t actually true, and could even still produce benefits just by the…

I don’t mind pirating stuff like Marvel movies but I feel like it’s nice to reward the makers of smaller indie films.

You know I read the title and I was like, 8 kinds of cheese seems like a ridiculously high number. Then I read the article and you convinced me that maybe it’s not so crazy. I feel like I wasn’t thinking about cream cheese and Parmesan and was just thinking of cheese plate kind of cheeses like brie or (block) cheddar,…

“Of course, you don’t owe your landlord a professional cleaning, but it’s a great way to get your security deposit back and outsource the worst part of moving in one go.”

How many fully remote jobs pay low enough that this would make a difference? I can’t think of many remote jobs that pay only $30k.

Not sure food allergies are a great reason not to include it? I mean multiple dairy items are on this list, and there are probably more people with issues eating that (even if just lactose intolerance rather than a full-blown allergy) than with eating gluten.

Also I feel like it would have been good to also include the protein/100 calories here. That’s not to say that protein sources that also have carbs or fat (so basically anything other than egg whites/super lean meat) are bad. But for a lot of people’s nutritional goals it wouldn’t work to only get their protein from…

I’ve heard some supermarkets are just straight up out of eggs these days? I haven’t personally experienced this but apparently in some places you just can’t get them even if you were willing to pay a super high price.

I feel like the biggest changes for the average not wealthy person are in the “changes for younger workers” section here. Being able to utilize the higher catch-up contribution limits means you were already maxing out the >$20k non-catch-up yearly limit, which your average American simply can’t afford as it is, never…