I love all these homebuying articles about how Millennials are doing things weird or wacky that cite no actual data and, like, two anecdotes to declare that *THIS IS THE NEW HOTNESS AND WE SHOULD ALL TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.*

I think the closest thing we have is that our baby gate keeps her from going into the kitchen (there’s an open stairwell on the other side) so we’ve kind of trained her to pick up her trash and dishes because any time she throws something away or rinses her dishes, she gets to go in the kitchen where she’s not allowed…

This is a complicated topic with a bunch of different variables beyond immediate returns, but this math is a little fuzzy:

These articles come up every month or so and they are all based on the same bad data or faulty interpretations of statistics.

This reminds me of Summoning Salt’s video on the player trying to get all of the Mario Kart 64 records and the entire community teaming up to stop him. In particular, I like his conclusion,

My wife and I did Noom for about 3 months. I lost 20 pounds, she lost 15. We’ve kept it off for about 3 months since while backing off the intensity. The “lessons” were fine but nothing truly mind-blowing. I gave up on them after about six weeks or so.

I think I...hate it? Like, this does not look like a Lego game. Like, it’s Lego. And it’s a video game. But it’s not a Lego game. I just checked, and I’ve played 15 of the 26 licensed Lego games and this just does not seem like what I want in a Lego game.

Lego games are inherently button mashers. That’s fine. They’re…

I had no idea PS4s were selling for that much or I might not have gifted mine to my nephew this week.

As a librarian, please let me give you permission to recycle or throw away old books. Every book has a lifespan and it really is okay to let old books go. If you don’t want it, odds are few others do either.

I’m still not convinced he got it, or passed it on to anybody on the convention floor. Everybody at the convention was required to be vaccinated and masked and New York City has no shortage of things to do and places to go where he also could have been exposed.

I feel like none of these are really examples of “stunt-casting.” For starters, most of them were not really well known enough to attract a casual audience to a movie for their role (nobody’s watching Raya because of Kelly Marie Tran). Most are just examples of actors being hired for normal roles. Maybe you could…

90% of the examples in this article are not about the Uncanny Valley. The uncanny valley isn’t just bad CGI and it very explicitly is not about any animal. It is about humans and humanoid objects and how we have a strong negative reaction to a humanoid object that looks 90% like a human, but not to one that looks 50%…

This seems like an awful lot of hassle for something that, even on the high end, is only going to save you less than $1,000 per year (Oregon’s 9% tax rate on a $10,000 joint deduction).

If you’re at the level of knowledge of Dogecoin that you need this article to help you, you shouldn’t be investing in Dogecoin. That’s not a slam on the article, just a recognition that you shouldn’t be investing in something you don’t understand. You’d be better off memorizing a Basic Strategy table and heading to…

It’s purpose was to generate 96 comments on what is basically two paragraphs and a handful of links about how to make your yard less environmentally costly.

I was actually going to say that the statement was, “Tell me you don’t have kids without telling me you don’t have kids,” but then I realized it was trolling and didn’t want to take the bait.

To me, anybody who says open green spaces “serve no purpose,” and then explicitly includes in that definition parks and athletic fields, is obviously trolling. Like, those things obviously serve many purposes and such a statement serves no purpose other than to raise the hackles of people with kids and people who like…

I’m generally anti-big lawns, but this:

Right, but my broader point is that it doesn’t matter if your credit score yo-yos every month. It only matters in the month that you need to apply for a mortgage/car loan/other loan, which really shouldn’t be that often. And, even then, a 20-30 point swing is just not going to matter that much, especially if you’re…

Rather than monkeying around with your credit card payments and trying to figure out the exact date to make an extra payment, wouldn’t the more prudent and universal advice be, “Don’t rack up a bunch of credit card debt if you’re about to get a credit check”?