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Costco is like a sociological terrarium for the human condition, a giant warehouse filled with 72-roll packs of toilet paper and existential despair. If you ever wanted to see humanity unravel over rotisserie chickens and $1.50 hot dog combos, Costco is your ticket. Because somewhere between the industrial shelving and the $8 gallon of salsa, decency stops being a human expectation and starts being a casualty of bulk purchasing.
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The 40 Best TV Finales of the 21st Century, Ranked – The Ringer
Beware of the Toll Road Text Scam – Shield and Fortify
What makes an album the greatest of all time? – The Pudding
How to Actually Forgive Yourself – No matter what you did, you can move past it – Self
One of the most underrated tools in the kitchen. You will never grate Parmesan or other hard cheeses any other way once you buy one. It literally liquifies garlic, so you don’t have to spend time chopping it for recipes – Amazon
How To Stop Worrying That Someone Is Mad at You, According to a Psychologist – Parade
Move Aside, Kettle Corn—Peanut Butter Popcorn Has Arrived – Life Hacker
Harvard psychologists have been studying what it takes to raise ‘good’ kids. Here are 6 tips – Upworthy
If you have trouble digesting dairy, I found this the most effective product for letting me enjoy pizza, ice cream and cheese with little or no discomfort – Amazon
7 Lifestyle Habits Can Protect You From Depression – Fatherly
How to Hit Peak Fitness After 40 – NY Times
April 1, 1975. Nha Trang’s airfield was a desperate, chaotic tableau, a snapshot of the end of a war that had consumed lives and futures for decades. North Vietnamese forces were closing in, and every plane, every helicopter, every scrap of hope for escape was mobbed by those who had nowhere else to turn. The air was thick with the roar of engines, the shouts of soldiers, the cries of families clutching their children and whatever possessions they could carry. Refugees swarmed onto the tarmac, their desperation uniting them in a single purpose: escape.
When you’re young, the car isn’t just a mode of transportation; it’s a liminal space. A place where rules are both enforced and ignored, where the sacred (your parents’ cassette collection) intersects with the profane (whatever’s rotting in the cup holder). But there’s one rule every kid who grew up in a pre-smartphone world knows by heart: never, ever touch the dome light.
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There’s a strange cultural artifact that unites us, a low-stakes hieroglyph that transcends generations, geographies, and even subcultures. It’s not a song or a movie or a fashion trend. It’s an S. Not just any S, though—a very specific S. You know the one. Six straight lines, two stacked triangles, and suddenly, you were Picasso with a pencil. Every middle school desk in America bore its mark, every notebook margin carried its banner. If aliens ever excavate our ruins, they might think we worshipped it. Maybe we did.
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Imagine a man sitting in a café in Medellín, Colombia. He’s wearing a Patagonia fleece that he thinks makes him look rugged but actually screams “I once watched a documentary about the Appalachian Trail.” His laptop glows with spreadsheets or TikTok, depending on the hour, and he&rs [Read more…] about Inside the Passport Bro Phenomenon: Why American Men Are Looking For Love Abroad
There’s a peculiar genre of hatred reserved for bands like The Lumineers. It’s not the outright vitriol you’d reserve for a truly offensive artist, nor is it the mild indifference that greets every other bedroom pop act flooding your Discover Weekly. No, this is something more specific: a side-eye disdain that operates at the intersection of cultural fatigue and personal insecurity. And it raises a question that feels as persistent as “Ho Hey” was in 2012—why does everyone seem to hate The Lumineers?
It always happens the same way. You’re washing dishes or driving down the interstate or doing some aggressively mundane thing like organizing a sock drawer, and suddenly, it hits you like a brick to the face: They were into you. Not just friendly into you, but actually, definitely flirting with you. It’s as if the neurons in your brain had been trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube for years and finally twisted into the solution.
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