March 5, 2020
How to Properly Care for Cast Iron
Cast iron is a favorite tool for serious home cooks. But what most people find really serious is the proper way to maintain their heavy metal cookware. Some people swear that soap is the enemy of a properly seasoned pan. Others hold firm that the correct method for seasoning a pan takes five hours.
Lifehacker Fitness Challenge
Let's Work on Our Flexibility
Flexibility is something I don’t work on enough. I mean, I can move well enough to do all the lifts and exercises that matter to me, and I tell myself that’s all that really matters. But then I see people who have obviously worked on their flexibility, and the things...
Hack or Wack?
Just Because You Can Make Your Own Hand Sanitizer Doesn't Mean You Should
Hand sanitizer is sold out everywhere. That’s just a fact of life right now. But there are plenty of DIY recipes out there so you can make your own, so I set out to test them. And then I ran into problems.
Mind Hacks
Connect With Your Kids By Speaking Their 'Love Language'
The concept of the five love languages is probably not new to you. The idea is that we all give and receive love differently—and those different ways tend to fall into five different categories. Where we get tripped up and disconnected, particularly from a romantic partner, is when we give...
Social Media
Why Can't You Deactivate Your Facebook Messenger Account Anymore?
A brand-new version of Facebook Messenger has dropped for iOS, and while I appreciate Facebook’s newfound interest in keeping the app svelte, I think the cuts have gone too deep. You’ll no longer find any apps or games tied into Messenger’s UI, but it’s now harder (or impossible) to do...
Investing
What to Do If You Were Affected by the Robinhood Outage [Updated]
Robinhood users learned the hard way on Monday what happens when everyone wants to trade at once. The stock trading app was out of service for most of Monday and again on Tuesday morning, leaving users locked out of their accounts and unable to complete transactions during a major market...
Deals
Buy a Refurbished 2017 or 2018 MacBook Pro for $610 Today
There’s an incredible deal on refurbished 2017 and 2018 MacBook Pros on Amazon’s Woot site for today and today only. The pre-owned models are on sale at drastic price cuts—$600 to $900 off the full retail prices, and hundreds of dollars cheaper than Apple’s refurbished models.
Quick Fix
How to Redownload Old Apps You Purchased From the App Store
Setting up a new phone is always a pain. But it can be especially annoying trying to search for and re-download all of your apps. In the video above, I show you how to easily find all the apps you’ve ever downloaded or purchased.
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Ram CEO Quits After Uncovering Decades-Long Sales Scandal
Ram’s CEO is out, more automakers are going on Coronavirus lock down, farmers are still fighting John Deere, and much, much more in The Morning Shift for March 5, 2020.
The A.V. Club
Trump's second-dumbest son falls for months-old "Moves Like Bloomberg" prank
After watching Mike Bloomberg’s dipshit campaign (R.I.P.) try so hard and fail so hard at being funny over the last few months, Brad Evans and Nick Ciarelli’s viral “Bloomberg Dance” prank from late last year has revealed itself to be even more prescient than we could’ve imagined. A response of...
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Elizabeth Warren's Watch Is Over
Senator Elizabeth Warren has decided to drop out of the presidential primary, following a race built on a strong set of progressive policy proposals and an optimistic start from a politician known for her ability to hold power accountable. The New York Times reports that Warren informed her staffers of...
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Will Put You Right To Work
Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a hard game to demo, but Nintendo invited me to try to do it anyway last weekend at PAX East. I came away from my brief trip to its deserted island impressed by how pretty everything looked and eager to continue toiling away on its...
The A.V. Club
Breaking news: The Emperor did not have sex
[This article contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, including its upcoming novelization, and also for whether or not Emperor Palpatine ever had sex.]
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