This advice is much appreciated, but I’ve documented YEARS of trial and error to come up with my own method:

I’d like to say that this is by far the most preachy article I’ve seen on LifeHacker, but that would be untrue. It’s only one of the most preachy.

Yeah, but it only works if BOTH people in the conversation do it. Otherwise you just have one blowhard pontificating about whatever the hell they like and the other person going, “Well — but — don’t you think —” but never getting a word in.

Cool, cool, I hear you, but what I’m saying is....(whatever I was gonna say before I RTFA).

Hey Emily - Update the article for those Outside the USA - there’s a lot folks saying that this doesn’t work internationally. 

I just checked, and it says free for me, and I’m not a premium subscriber. Perhaps some other variable is affecting it, like location. 

It’s simple advice, but it’s a good reminder, because we all could stand to be a little less quick to argue, a little more understanding of each other, and not so eager to get in each other’s frickin’ face, right? Right? You got that buddy?

Yeah, you’ve never talked to someone who dominated the conversation. I deal with too many people who talk just to feel their lips flapping in the breeze. If I don’t interrupt, I don’t get to talk. I don’t HAVE a second to stop and think.

Unless you are using a good Ad-blocker; then the entire list plays commercial free. At least in the USA, where they’ve implemented this.

This is incredibly old information when it comes to security. To get the whole story, they have a more complete video on this:

What BS! my then GF was bitten by a brown recluse while sitting at here desk in an Orlando office. She was off work for a week recovering.

Another lazy article. you talk about what a brown recluse looks like but provide a picture of a different spider?

do you know what life hack means?

An article about misidentifying brown recluse spiders.  Lacking a picture of an actual brown recluse spider.

Short, terse, and non-descriptive replies like that seem obtuse and dismissive without adding value. You may not have liked the tone of this person’s comment, but at least they took the time to articulate the response. Just saying they are without even a note of clarification doesn’t come across well, in the article…

just because oils have no magical properties it does not follow that they have no properties at all.

Very good points. . . I think the outright condemnation of coconut oil is a tad extreme.. . Can somebody remind me if I should use butter or margarine and still have that glass of red wine once in a while ?

Coconut oil is the magic ingredient which makes Magic Shell harden on your ice cream.  Therefore it is one of the necessary commodities.  by the way you can make your own shell stuff that is possibly better than the stuff you can buy. 

coconut oil is just oil.