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If your company communicates via Slack, you know the intoxicating allure of a giant workplace chatroom where you can set up entire rooms devoted to things like Riverdale and skin care. And then there’s the actual job stuff you need to talk about. It can really eat up a day! Here’s how you keep it from eating up your…Read more...

Growing up, I never attended a small Thanksgiving. My mother is the oldest of seven, and when we didn’t travel to Mississippi to be with her family, we would break the wishbone with a whole different family (the Kavons), bringing the kid count in our house to seven (all hungry, mostly adolescent girls). The Kavons…Read more...

When car shopping, you’re bombarded with choices. Like choosing between buying new or used. If buying used, how used? Is something that’s certified pre-owned worth looking into? This new report from iSeeCars might make the decision a little easier for you.

Apple’s 12" MacBook, Tarte Cosmetics custom kits, and a Qi charging pad lead off Wednesday’s best deals from around the web.

If you don’t have a dual-monitor setup or an ultra-wide display, your options for multitasking on your PC are limited. It’s going to be trickier to put on a YouTube video while you work, since anything you’re doing in your primary window—Excel, let’s say—is going to sit on top of what you’re trying to watch. And…Read more...

Do you have enough jeans for the coming winter? Trick question; it doesn’t matter, because you should buy some $50 Everlane jeans regardless (men | women). Unfortunately, their denim oxfords aren’t included in the sale, but this is an amazing opportunity to get some really great Japanese denim for insanely low prices.…Read more...

The free version of Spotify just got a little better. The music streaming service has extended Spotify Connect, a feature that lets you control music on compatible speakers through phones, laptops and other devices over wifi to free accounts. Prior to the change, free subscribers could only connect to smart speakers…Read more...

Caffeine can make you more alert, but so can a good night’s sleep. Until now, if you wanted to plan out your caffeine consumption in detail, the tool to use was 2B-alert, which is fantastic but clunky and hard to read. But now, omnicalculator has made a simplified version they call the Coffee Kick Calculator.Read more...

Each year, stocks are suspended and delisted from various exchanges. And while it’s not uncommon, it’s not exactly something you want to experience as an investor. Because the big question is: What happens to your money?

Deadspin The Bryce Harper Derby Is Officially Off And Running | Splinter Scott Walker Lost!!! | The Root #NetNeutrality: Supreme Court Hands Over a Major Victory for Open Internet Advocates | The Slot A Lot of History Got Made Last Night | The A.V. Club The Coens head West (and to Netflix) in the grimly comic…Read more...

MoviePass competitor Sinemia announced new discounted subscription plans this week for people who are willing to only use the service to see movies on weekdays. The weekday-only plans are around 20% off the company’s standard price and start at $3.99. They can only be used Monday to Thursday.

Bob Clagett builds things: a secret door, a backyard zipline, and a wooden katana. He shows you how to build them too, on I Like to Make Stuff, a YouTube channel with with over 2.1 million subscribers and a blog with detailed instructions and plans. We talked to him about his favorite workshop tool, the app where he…Read more...

Endless Shrimp at Red Lobster should be considered a national holiday. If you’ve never been to this glorious celebration of crustacean gluttony, you better run over to one right now. It’s $15.99 for all you can eat. No strings attached. One or 100. It’ll be over on November 18, so you don’t have too much time left.…Read more...

We see a lot of deals around the web over on Kinja Deals, but these were our ten favorites today.

Is that recurring twitch in your cheek a symptom of something more serious than fatigue? Why is your eyesight blurry by the end of the day? What’s that thing on your foot? We can’t answer these questions, but we know people who can, maybe!Read more...

I’ve never been a fan of the word “tattling.” Maybe because my Northeast Ohio accent really extenuates the hard “a” sound, making the word itself sound almost as annoying as the practice. tAAAttling.Read more...

In a perfect world, we’d all own beautiful, huge, cutting boards carved from free-range trees, complete with grooves around the edges to catch any runoff that may occur while carving meats. But hell is empty, the devils are here, and my cutting boards are groove-less.Read more...

Now that every person on earth has a podcast, you can find one for any topic or need—in fact you can pick your favorite from a whole roster. Say you need a podcast that’s interesting enough to stop your mind from spinning into late-night anxiety; quiet enough to calm you in bed; and boring enough that you don’t stay…Read more...

For as long as humans have been fermenting grapes, wine has always been an “indoor” beverage. If you want to enjoy wine on the go, you’ve got a pack a big, breakable bottle, a corkscrew, and glasses. There’s an entire cottage industry dedicated to making the practice slightly less inconvenient. Here’s a better idea: …Read more...

Sporting your “I Voted” sticker around town today can potentially earn you a bit more than high-fives from fellow voters—it can get you free stuff.

As Americans line up to vote on Tuesday, some of net neutrality’s most vocal defenders remain confident that the issue will be a determining factor in the 2018 midterm elections. Privately, however, some Democrats have expressed doubt that the battle over the ‘net is key to regaining control of Congress—even as…Read more...

Happy election day! Everybody is hungry for democracy, which means they’re probably hungry for literal food, too. The voting lines this evening will be long and you might need sustenance. Why not order some pizza? You won’t even have to pay for it!Read more...

Dungeons & Dragons is as intimidating as it is freeing. On one hand, you have a game that’s only limited by your imagination—and a big book o’ rules, which you’re free to disregard as you see fit. On the other hand, if you’re the Dungeon Master, you have to walk a tricky tightrope. It’s important to give your players…Read more...

FoodSavers can pay for themselves by keeping your frozen and refrigerated food fresher for longer, and that’s not even accounting for how great they are for sous vide.Read more...

Certain dishes can be found at nearly every Thanksgiving table, and the Lifehacker table is no different. For our little family meal, deputy editor Alice Bradley was tasked with the mashed potatoes and stuffing—two icons amongst turkey—and I was tasked with helping her make them shine. With two secret (some would say…Read more...

Happy Election Day, America. The 2018 midterm elections are here, and if you want to follow along on something a bit more reputable than social media, news orgs are dropping paywalls and allowing people to watch results without cable logins.Read more...

In what is surely the tiniest possible injustice that may happen at a polling station, the polls in my area don’t hand out those little “I voted” stickers that so many folks are wearing with pride today. But that’s okay—whether you voted early, mailed an absentee ballot, or your neighborhood poll workers ran out of…Read more...

For the past several years, Apple has offered Live Listen as a way for hearing-impaired users to turn their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch into a remote microphone that connects to a hearing aid.

You voted. Great! That’s pretty much the base level of participation in a democracy! Which might be why you still feel anxious and relatively powerless. What do you do next? How do you get more politically involved, especially if you don’t have a lot of time or money?Read more...

I’m an ISFP, according to a test I took this morning. Or going by the one I took years ago, an INFP who is “turbulent” and may get a different result each time. The Myers-Briggs test is a fun way to spend an hour in self-absorption, but a terrible way to make decisions that affect somebody’s livelihood.

The Root An Armed Extremist Group in Georgia Is Threatening Violence If Stacey Abrams Wins | Deadspin Jamal Murray Made Some Celtics Salty By Shamelessly Gunning For 50 | The A.V. Club Stephen Colbert borrows Triumph from Conan to pester Beto O’Rourke and Ted Cruz | Splinter Sean Hannity Is Full of Shit | The Slot …Read more...

There’s no shortage of things that can go wrong when you’re traveling: You might lose your debit or credit card; your purse could get swiped; your phone could fall down a grate in front of your hostel (yes, this happened to me).

There are so many different ways to be a dick: from being a schoolyard bully, to not mowing your lawn, to using plastic straws, to being a dick on the road. In this episode, we’re going to talk about some of the little ways we can be good to one another, to the environment, and by extension, to ourselves.Read more...

If you are physically unable to reach the polls or face extra challenges due to a disability, there are still ways to make sure your vote is counted.Read more...

High-fee, premium credit cards give cardholders plenty of benefits, including lounge access, travel stipends and deals on flights and hotels, in some cases. But how do you know when a $500-plus annual price tag is worth it?

Are the midterm elections upping your stress level? I feel you. Our current political climate is causing all of us to drink more, and according to a new poll is even leading some voters to “eat their feelings,” neither of which are exactly the healthiest way to combat the issue.

In any given household, there is that one dish that makes Thanksgiving. I’m not talking about the turkey—that’s too obvious. I’m talking about a dish—usually a side—that is always on your table, even though its status may be less than canonical. It’s the dish you missed when you attended your first Friendsgiving or…Read more...

I think the last time I played a Windows game—as in, a Microsoft game that comes baked into the Windows operating system—was back in Windows 95. Ah, FreeCell. That’s not to say that Microsoft’s games were bad, it’s just not very often that I find myself needing to strike up some Minesweeper to kill time.Read more...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is coming out strongly against the use of spanking, calling for a ban on corporal punishment. It also now says that “harsh verbal discipline,” including shaming and humiliation, is harmful to a child’s developing brain.

Every election, millions of Americans who are registered to vote don’t cast their ballots simply because they can’t get to their polling place. If you’re one of them, here’s how you can get a ride.Read more...

I share my bedroom with at least one person, sometimes two or three depending on whether any children migrate during the night. So I feel like I have a superpower when I wake up and silence my alarm five minutes before it actually goes off. I’m not super, of course: it’s just a silent alarm on my Apple Watch.

Thanksgiving morning can be weird, if you’re the host. You wake up with fair bit of work left to do, and often lots of folks milling around, fiddling with your coffee maker. This is where cold brew concentrate comes in.Read more...

Often, there’s a moment early in a medical emergency when you know something is wrong, but aren’t sure you want to call 911. When I reacted to some antibiotics by breaking out in hives earlier this year, I stared at my phone for about 15 minutes before calling 911—I knew something was wrong, but I didn’t know what to…Read more...

Receive a text from your bank letting you know your account’s been locked? You might want to think twice before following its instructions.

A Dyson fan/space heater, the Apple Watch Series 3, and bamboo mattress pads lead off Monday best deals from around the web.

A large part of parenting is trying to raise our kids to be good citizens. We give them chores to teach them to contribute to the work of the household, we take them to volunteer to get them involved in their community, and we model kindness and respect to those around us.Read more...

The use of psychoactive cannabis stretches back to ancient Mesopotamia. Tool use stretches back to our pre-human ancestors. These mighty forces converge on /r/StonerEngineering, a subreddit for weed hacks.

TV Club Rick Grimes deserved a better sendoff than The Walking Dead’s idiotic goodbye | Deadspin Michael Thomas’s Cell Phone Celebration Was Cool, No Matter What The Announcers Said | Jezebel Mo’Nique Gives Rebel Wilson a History Lesson After ‘Plus-Sized’ Comments | The Root Iowa Teacher Who Wore Blackface Cries…Read more...

Miami! The Vice city, the CSI: city, the Hotline city, the Kourtney and Kim Take city. Home of Dave Barry, Tony Montana, and not actually Will Smith. I’m drivin’ here! That’s how Miamians talk. I’ve only been to Miami Beach and the Wynwood Art District, surrounded by my fellow yuppie hipsters. What did I miss? What’s…Read more...

Let’s cut the crap and stop pretending there’s anything you want to watch this week besides The Great British Baking Show: Collection 6 (better known as Series 9 in the UK). It’s the most soothing show that ever there was and we all know it.