Thank you, yeah, that’s what I thought. Found all these posts saying that people don’t bother to tip confusing. Uber makes it pretty explicit at least on the user end that you’re not supposed to, although I guess I’m not surprised given their general business ethics that there was something shady about it. I don’t…

I thought it was included in the price of the fare—that the driver got like 80% of the price I was shown. I don’t even know how to tip on an Uber, and the app doesn’t prompt you to do it. If the drivers aren’t fussing at the company to making tipping clear to users, they should be.

Exactly. So glad someone said it. I don’t listen to much rap and hip-hop mainly because I’m uninterested in a lot of the classic subject matter, but in the sense of “all publicity is good publicity,” Macklemore provides an entry point into the form, and tbh, provided a lot of free publicity for Kendrick Lamar and a…

I’m pretty sure I didn’t ask you what you thought about it. I’m pretty sure I asked someone who had actually BEEN in that position what THEY thought of it. You could argue that the entire prospect of paying someone to deliver food at all, ever, under any weather conditions is unbearably servile and dangerous given the…

Wait but that’s not actually the question. We all agree it’s shitty to order and not tip well. But is it worth it to you if someone orders and DOES tip well? Say I ordered a $5.99 pie, handed you a $20 and said “Keep the change.” How does that strike you?

I’ve actually been doing Alternate Day Fasting since Jan 1 and I actually love it. I’ve never been on a diet before that I think I could stay on for the rest of my life, but I totally could with this. It’s a lot easier than you think. And most ADF diets that have actually been tested don’t say NO food—you eat like 500…

I hope this isn’t what it seems like. And as a corollary, putting automatic stock in what the coroner says after the initial autopsy deserves caution as much as automatically believing whatever the police say. My best friend died in her sleep at age 30 without any warning at all in September. She wasn’t sick, she…

I’m a woman who’s really tall and I often date guys who are short, and I can promise you that that’s about 10x worse. “Too short to 69"-face is not something I want to see again, ever.

I grew up in New York driving a 1991 Nissan Stanza with a manual transmission. 13 years into the life of that car, I became best friends with a girl who had come to our college in Massachusetts from California, and had only seen snow in the form of well-groomed ski trails in Lake Tahoe. Her parents had decked out her…

I actually did this in 2015, except I don’t think the guys high-fived. ARE WE DISQUALIFIED? Because that would be SO annoying.

Oh yes! As my dad always says “if you have debt, then you don’t have any savings.” Automate your payments in that direction first :) When you’re clear, you can save with good conscience! And I’ve actually come to enjoy doing my own nails—I go for manicures as needed so they can clean up my cuticles and create a shape,…

Yeah, it’s a process! I wasn’t able to put it all away at once, either. The pattern that ended up working for me was that whenever I got to about $3,000, I put it away into a CD (originally with ING, now with CapitalOne 360, their online bank) so it would earn at a slightly higher rate than my regular savings account…

I call mine a Henry Higgins fund, which is only funny if you’re familiar with the lyrics to “Just You Wait,” but is indispensable either way. Frankly, I thought her examples were almost a little TOO dire—in an unstable economy or for anyone who does creative work, having six months of living expenses (NOT just six…

Don’t admit your weaknesses. The Kondo can sense it.

Um yeah, like SIGN ME RIGHT THE FUCK UP.

I’m hesitant to engage with someone who brings up this issue, because the only people who do are inevitably committed to their viewpoint regardless of actual facts, but the last published survey by the CDC states that 1 in 5 women are raped in their lifetime, while the number for men is 1 in 59.

Am I crazy or is this totally like, a cute little bird shape? Isn’t that a BEAK??

Sure, I’d agree with that.

It read to me differently. I don’t think people telling a woman that something is rape when she’s saying it’s not rape is “backing her up” but maybe you do.