13 Genius Wax Paper Uses

Rain-X

A car window treatment that makes rain more fun and driving in rain safer. Also makes your wipers quieter and smoother, and cleaning your windows easier.

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How to make disposable razors last for months

The theory is that razors go bad not from use, but due to microscopic rusting and pitting from being wet after use. I've been doing this for years, and my disposable razors last for 2-3 months.

  1. When done with your razor, grab a dry corner of a towel between your thumb and fingers. 
  2. Roll your hand over so the towel is upwards, held securely by your thumb. 
  3. Swipe the razor on the towel three times, away from the direction of the blades (if you go the other way you'll try to shave your towel), pressing down firmly. 

That's it! Keep your razor where it won't get wet accidentally, dry it each time you use it, and enjoy the savings on razors and reduction in bleeding.

The problem with apples

I like apples (especially Granny Smiths). The problem: they are kept in the fruit drawer, and are therefore not as easy to see as the other stuff that lives on the open and eye-level shelves, and so go forgotten.
Solution: take an apple out to eat, and at the same time take another one and put it on a fridge shelf at eye level.
Problem solved! You're welcome, world.

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Down With the Copay

"We can’t eliminate the profit motive in health care without eliminating copays."


Every Noise at Once

From the bottom of the page: "This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1536 genres by Spotify. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier.
 
Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.
 
Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists."




As far as surviving a nuclear war, Hollywood got some things right and some things wrong. No, you can't ride the blast out hiding inside a refrigerator. Yes, you can make a hazmat suit out of a shower curtain and a soda bottle gas mask

Best comment: "I prepare for all of the apocalypses by not preparing--by reminding myself surviving isn't living. I trust my fellow humans not to repeat mistakes of the past, but if they do, I probably don't really want to be part of humanity any more anyway.  I'm a soft, sweet product of a thousands-of-years manufacturing process that's crafted some of the finest things and people yet.  Admittedly some of the worst things and people too, but good R&D's like that. I know I could survive in an apocalyptic hellscape, but practically none of the people would be worth being around:  the rich, the sociopathic, the paranoid, and the selfish.  So, no; that's where I draw the line at helping.  I'll work ceaselessly to help prevent it, but I'm not rebuilding it if it ever goes that far.  Let some other species have a go."

Work and the Loneliness Epidemic

The Expert (Short Comedy Sketch) - YouTube