Why though? If someone doesn’t have an OOO email and doesn’t respond to my email for two weeks I’m going to be annoyed. I suppose I could just assume they are on vacation, but that seems silly when they could also communicate. The alternate contact details are also important in case there is something urgent.

I would lean toward an internship or any other sort of work experience over summer classes unless you are really behind on credits. Or even just chill and enjoy your summer, if you are only going into sophomore year. I took chemistry lab over the summer and it was fine, but in retrospect unnecessary. I ended up taking…

Transportation is a relatively small part of a food’s carbon emissions.

Local ecology and supporting the local economy-wise sure maybe it makes a difference. Carbon emissions wise it doesn’t really matter that much. The emissions from buying beef from a farm next door are almost the same as buying from Argentina when you live in the US.

Yeah I was going to say, aren’t TVs (even 4k) like $300 nowadays?

I feel like that’s what makes this advice silly for most people, not the fact that “people should be allowed to enjoy small pleasures” or whatever. Telling people who are in a really bad financial situation to brown bag their lunch when they are likely already doing that is super tone deaf on the part of a lot of…

Yeah a few of these are sensible advice (I think the advice not to go down a slide with your kids makes sense for example). But a lot of them seem disproportional in the sternness of the warning versus the actual risk.

Do they still make Warheads? Feel like Sour Patch Kids may not be sour enough for uses 1 and 2.

I commented this in 2020, and I’ll comment again that you need to be careful about even putting the idea in your kid’s head that getting high off household chemicals/OTC meds is an option. You mentioned that warning videos can still make kids curious, but then somehow a warning from their parent wouldn’t do the same…

Isn’t “robo-tripping” a different, less dangerous drug to overdose on (dextromethorphan versus diphenhydramine)?

Not that quality of life is not a valid reason on its own to try to minimize allergy symptoms, but the title implies that there is some greater health risk to having allergies beyond just the unpleasantness in the moment. Is this the case? 

It’s not quite as convenient because for a lot of people freezer space is at a premium, but I’m a big fan of frozen mac and cheese. Stouffer’s mac and cheese with broccoli is one of my favorite comfort meals.

I would feel guilty for awhile not tipping at grab-and-go type places but I realized it kind of diminishes the extra work that actual servers put in if we are all suddenly tipping the same 20% at Sweetgreen as an actual restaurant, doesn’t it? Unless the standard now is going to become 18-20% for carryout, 30% for…

I think the cost/benefit on this is obviously in favor when it involves just clicking through an automated menu. But if it involves a phone call and it’s a service you were on the fence about keeping anyway I feel like you also need to consider how much time and hassle you are willing to put up with. If you are going…

I’m bougie and really dislike the taste of boxed mac and cheese (team Stouffer’s), but the rest of this list generally makes sense. I would say vegetarian chili could be an even easier starting point so there’s no dealing with raw meat. I would also add in any sort of meats and sides that do not involve chopping and…

I feel like this could go both ways though no? More protections for tenants (a lot of which are still in place even now) means the risk of a new tenant who might be really bad and would be nearly impossible to evict are higher too.

At least where I am (NYC) small landlords (who own less than five properties) are a minority but non-negligible proportion of all landlords (28% of rental units according to this source:…

Idk why I thought the festive makeover was going to involve sculpting Jesus’ open grave out of cream cheese. Doing an egg shape is definitely easier lol.

My only thing is that this clashes with my longstanding tradition of buying a book at the airport or bus or train terminal before the trip. I’ve found that Hudson News has a surprisingly decent literary fiction selection. The process of looking through and picking out the book is a great way to kill time if I’ve…

The cases where homeopathic medicines actually contained harmful levels of real ingredients are obviously bad, and there should be more regulation to ensure that doesn’t happen. But am I the only one who thinks that the existence of something like Oscillococcinum that really is “just water” is not the worst thing on a…