...And yet it works a heck of a lot better than planned economies.

If god didn’t want me to clean out my ears with a qtip why did he put a button in there that feels oh so so good when I hit it?

Counterpoint: No. Just don’t be an idiot.....

Go ahead and clean the outside of your ears with them, just don’t jam them inside. 

Were you really expecting better from contemporary Lifehacker?

“you people” - I can’t imagine anyone would have a problem with that

I have never understood the issues with “No Worries/Not a Problem.”

The only tip anyone should take from this is you shouldn’t take work tips from the internet. This “article” could have been condensed to 3 words: “Know your audience”. It really is as simple as that.

Tequila will last about one year after opening before it starts to taste bad. It doesn’t matter if it’s Mezcal or tequila, the time frame is about the same. It won’t kill you, but it won’t taste right—and once you notice the taste profile turning, it’s a downward slide from there.

Discounting the liqueurs, gin, and flavored stuff.

I’d say this is all wrong.

Distilled/age liquor like whiskey or rum is insanely stable stuff. Open or not. Yes it can oxidize and there’s an outside chance that makes it actively unpleasant and obviously things will evaporate. But I’ve polished off a bottle whiskey…

I don’t know what pro-wasp lobby got a hold of everyone at Lifehacker, but this is the second article in as many weeks saying that wasps are fine. THEY ARE NOT FINE.

Yep, this tends to be the common practice (according to the police when it happened to me). People walk into the backyard where they have relative privacy to bust out a single window.

iodized salt will actually go bad in a few years

Because editing is for losers ? 

Thich Quang Duc self-immolated in 1963, Mohamed Bouazizi in 2011. How does that add up to “two years after Thich Quang Duc protested and died in Saigon”?

Don’t clean dirty underwear, replace them. Don’t be gross.

The point of The Wire is to show that the drug trade in Baltimore is not caused by one thing, it’s caused by a system corrupt to its core from top to bottom. Schools are underfunded and that leads to kids making poor decisions when young. The police department is improperly motivated leading to them focusing on the…

I mean, if your standard for good TV is “provides detailed, concrete solutions for fixing everything that’s wrong with America” then I can’t imagine you enjoy much of anything.

That’s not what centrism is?

Nah the “Assault is never the answer” argument doesn’t work here because not it makes it seem as if Tyson was the instigator and downplays the actions of the guy that was bothering him. While he COULD have handled it differently, dude was pretty much poking a bear with a stick in bothering Tyson. Play stupid games...