While the weight might not be earth shattering, what is impressive is politicians starting to show weight training as a form of fitness as they age. I always remember presidents being show jogging as their form of exercise, which to me is boring.

We started washing everything in cold water (the technology in the detergents is really good now for cold water washing), so we don’t generally need to worry about colours running anyway.

I’m no expert here, but I don’t think the question is about washing them “separately”. For a long time, you would wash those things separately because you wanted to wash them on the (cold) delicate cycle and your other clothes on a (warm) “normal” cycle, but advancements in washing and detergent technology have made…

Also, the natural fibers and dyes that used to be mainstream have been long replaced by synthetic fibers and better dye processes, which result in much more colorfast garments.

If you do the math and compare energy savings vs your labor to put clothes on a line then you are “earning” the equivalent of about 75 cents per hour over a year- you decide on that rate-of-return

For a little more data on that 20% claim.

It’s pretty amazing how rarely proper positioning is followed in doctor’s offices. I have had severe preeclampsia with three of my pregnancies, requiring preterm delivery each time. Yet every time I go into the office, a nurse will ask me to hop up onto the table so my legs are dangling in the air while she takes my…

For road trips, we bring our pillows and our plush blankets plus instant coffee and sugar packets. It’s has nothing to do with cleanliness. We get homesick and those things help. If I were flying to a destination and staying for a while in one place, I would probably bring pillowcases and maybe a flat bed sheet.

Online polls are basically worthless. They respond in the affirmative for whoever cares the most to vote (especially those who care to vote more than once). And, I saw plenty of subs where the community voted overwhelmingly in the affirmative, and the moderation team didn’t actually care.

The communities that have gone dark pretty much all decided that by poll and discussion among the membership. So it’s not “moderator fiat” but a collective action by the active members of each sub.

What would possibly happen when you don’t? One intakes the 20 fecal germs of someone else that one would anyways also do. But your immune system will be capable to handle that - in fact will be happy to have some playmate.

If I’m traveling far enough to stay in a hotel you can bet 10 people have already coughed close enough to me to get sick.

I definitely do get sick noticeably more often while traveling than at other times. I suspect airports and airplanes are the main culprits, but I can easily believe wiping down the TV remote and other frequently-touched areas housekeeping doesn’t regularly clean makes a meaningful impact on your odds of catching…

This is the kind of article that help make people spend $50+K on huge campers because they are afraid of spending a night in a hotel.

I figure that a vacation is a good excuse to get a fancy latte and a pastry out every single morning. 

amen to the voice of reason.   if you don’t regularly return home and get sick, there’s no problem that needs fixing.  we live in a dirty world.  evidence abound of what we do to ourselves when we sterilize everything.

Or just live your life. Unless you are immune compromised I think you will be fine.

Yeah, I keep good old fashioned Vivarin for the fix of necessary. More often then not I use the coffee maker just for hot water to make my fiber/protein oatmeal, or broth.

this past summer i switched to caffeine-theanine capsules as the more convenient drug delivery method during travel, plus bottled water for “beverage” function.

It seems like very few hotel rooms have coffee makers with pots any more; they’ve all gone to Keurig/pod/single-serve makers. On the one hand that means people haven’t been soaking their laundry in the carafe, on the other hand they never really get cleaned and they grow some nasty stuff inside the water lines.