What’s the most ridiculous “life hack” you’ve ever heard of?
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I feel compelled to quote the late great Sean Lock:
"I'm incredibly organised. Like for example, if I make tea, I don't make one cup of tea - I'll make a big batch of tea and then I'll have a cup of tea and then I'll freeze the rest of it. And then when I want to have a cup of tea, I'll just break off a bit of frozen tea. Put it in a pan. 25 minutes later I've got a lovely cup of tea without all the all the hassle."
hahahah truly inspirational
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I feel compelled to quote the late great Sean Lock:
"I'm incredibly organised. Like for example, if I make tea, I don't make one cup of tea - I'll make a big batch of tea and then I'll have a cup of tea and then I'll freeze the rest of it. And then when I want to have a cup of tea, I'll just break off a bit of frozen tea. Put it in a pan. 25 minutes later I've got a lovely cup of tea without all the all the hassle."
Hahaha this actually made me lol
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I was one of those "smart kids in highschool". University hit me like a ton of bricks, suddenly having to spend home time studying was something I was totally not used to.
I mean, I had this theoretical understanding of homework and studying, but I never did it more than an hour a week.
Doing my first 2 semesters twice was a great wakeup though.
It was one course (had a you fail the course if you got a sub 40% on the final) and I was able to rewrite the exam in the summer, loss of structure killed me coming from hs. Was definitely a wake up for me as well, had study groups and roommates in subsequent years which helped me (and unhealthy quantities of caffeine)
Got diagnosed with ADHD around a decade after graduating, which explained pretty much everything looking back.
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If the US federal government shuts down, this house becomes mine. What's the landlord gonna do?
Call the local sheriff's department and have you evicted. The federal government doesn't do that stuff.
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make your own air conditioner out of cheap materials
Such a pet peeve of mine when I see basic evaporative cooling called air conditioning. A/C is pretty specific in how it works using refrigerant, condensers, etc. to move heat from one place to another. They also dehumidify the air in the process. A/C and heat pumps are the same thing, just running in opposite directions. They use a lot of electricity to accomplish this movement and are effective in a wide range of temperatures.
Evaporative cooling simply moves air past/through a colder medium to lower the ambient temperature. Most commonly the only electricity used here is a simple fan, and maybe a water pump. This adds humidity to the air so it's effectiveness drops off dramatically and the ambient humidity gets higher.
The only thing they have in common is making the air cooler, in completely different ways with dramatically different effectiveness and efficiency.
Air conditioning units actually condition the air.
I grew up in a house that had an air conditioning unit and an evaporative cooler (we called it a swamp cooler). Swamp coolers are awesome when you live in dry place. Only when the humidity gets too high you need to switch over to the AC. Swamp coolers are cheaper to run so cue arguments on trying to get my parents to switch to the AC when it starts getting humid.
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And all the new hires in the kitchen I work at grab knives to open cans before I slap their hands.
Wait, seriously? I get that you can open a can with a knife, and I've definitely used some of the weird points on a swiss army knife to do so.... but the can opener is easier. If you have one, why wouldn't you go for it?
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Call the local sheriff's department and have you evicted. The federal government doesn't do that stuff.
While true, I'm betting those coppers will have more urgent worries.
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Whenever my friend goes to one of those drive thrus with the ai ordering thing, he asks for 10,000 cups of water to get a human to talk to.
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Wait, seriously? I get that you can open a can with a knife, and I've definitely used some of the weird points on a swiss army knife to do so.... but the can opener is easier. If you have one, why wouldn't you go for it?
A lot of kitchen workers come from countries that lack education and apparently can openers. My boss likes to hire from these countries to keep costs down.
A nice 12" chef's knife is easily ruined and it's the reason I don't keep my own knives at work.
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Ugh, anything posted on /r/lifehacks. 85% is just the intended but not primary use of a thing.
One of my favorites is a reposted to death infographic of how to open a can without a can opener: use a knife!
Bitch, canned food existed for 30 years before anyone bothered to invent a specific can opening tool. Before that everyone used knives. A ton of people in rural areas of the developing world, right now today, use knives to open cans.
I have actually used a knife to open cans for months on end. I couldn't be bothered to buy a new can opener.
It was a cheap kitchen knife, it pretty much ruined it after a few months, (although I'm sure someone with patience and a whet stone could have brought it back to life.) it's totally doable and far easier than you might think. Kinda messy tho.
The moral of the story is buy a can opener.
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He was a comedian with a deadpan sense of humor.
Coincedentally: the same dead pan in which he heated his frozen tea in
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Wait, seriously? I get that you can open a can with a knife, and I've definitely used some of the weird points on a swiss army knife to do so.... but the can opener is easier. If you have one, why wouldn't you go for it?
Honestly, once you get a feel for it, and if the can is a larger size, it's just like 20 punches down in a circle. Looks like a shark tried to eat its way into the can, but it doesn't take much longer than using a can opener. A can opener is just easier on the user.
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Destroying your cell phone battery to make a fire. So you're in an emergency and you just gave up your method of communication as a one-shot lighter. Hope your kindling isn't wet, and your phone battery isn't too low on charge.
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The "carrot in a box" games he played with Jon Richardson on 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown are some of my favourite TV ever...
Carrot in a box made me laugh so much. I really miss that man.
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Theres also a difference between dropping out of somewhere like Harvard and a back water university.
There's also a difference between dropping out of university because you have an idea you have to dedicate all your time to right now or someone else may beat you to it and dropping out to manage a Wendy's or hawk "the new big thing"
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Honestly, once you get a feel for it, and if the can is a larger size, it's just like 20 punches down in a circle. Looks like a shark tried to eat its way into the can, but it doesn't take much longer than using a can opener. A can opener is just easier on the user.
And easier on the tool
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While true, I'm betting those coppers will have more urgent worries.
Nah. The federal government (in the US at least) shuts down all the freaking time.
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I thought it was ridiculous to make your own air conditioner out of cheap materials, but apparently it's actually quite cool.
If your freezer is in the same room as the ice you get from the freezer, this just warms your house more...
Yes but... If your house keeps returning to the outside temperature, then you are moving a lot of heat in a smaller area you occupy to a larger area that you don't.
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Call the local sheriff's department and have you evicted. The federal government doesn't do that stuff.
Let them come
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I think in almost all of those cases they were rich to begin with. I mean fair play they're a lot richer now than when they started, but still.
This is something important everyone forgets, the majority of those "self-made" billionaires started out as multi-millionaires.
