whowasthatmaskedwoman's saved articles

that’s standard over there. 

This guy I dated for about 6 months had a jar with his dog’s aborted fetuses on the bedside table. Also a handgun. No bed frame though of course.

The backseat of a Volkswagen?

Another one: I was in Ireland and hooked up with a hit dude. The next morning I went downstairs to tea and pastry served by his nan. I canned out of there ASAP. 

I am with Brad. PotPlayer is the best player I’ve found. If you use Windows Media Center as a video recorder, then PotPlayer is the only program that can play those files. The only thing I don’t like about it is I cannot stop it from playing another video after a previous video was played. For that reason I used VLC.
Read more

Are there specific reasons Lifehacker’s favorite video player switched from PotPlayer to VLC?

The problems with nuclear power have been and continue to be humans. Many of the accidents from Three Mile Island, to the SL1, to even Chernobyl have been thanks to humans either not following protocols designed by people significantly smarter than them, or not letting the systems work themselves out, and trying to… Read more

When Captain America became Nomad (ask your parents) his first costume design included a cape because “those guys with capes always look good” or something. Did not go well - I think he tripped over it at one point. Read more

Wouldn’t it depend a lot on how the caped individual’s flying actually works? Read more

Consider this experiment:
Put on a cape and go swimming. *Waits for you to try swimming with a cape*

Good, you didn’t drown. That’s a start. Did the cape help you swim better? No, of course it didn’t. It caused significant problems with your swimming didn’t it. Now because air is significantly less viscous than water,… Read more

even white center-right dudes are saying it (and have been since at least 1980)

Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? I am pretty sure I saw an Orville episode about this mob mentality form of justice.... Read more

Kid, ditch this religion stuff. It’s bullshit.

As someone who never gets burned because he always uses sunscreen, it was awful. The people who make these “all-natural” solutions should be ashamed of the misinformation they’re spreading.

The last time my wife convinced me to try an all-natural alternative to sunscreen, I spent a week in Destin covered head to toe in miserable sunburns. I’ll never cheat on you again, chemicals.

7 ZIP is great

Definitely 7-Zip

Revo Uninstaller. Finds all the junk that programs leave behind when you uninstall them and deletes it for you. You should be a little wary when using it to uninstall programs with shared resources, but otherwise it’s a great tool.