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Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens (slate.com)

1322 points by NN88 over 1 year ago | 979 comments
TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing (slate.com)

804 points by xweb over 2 years ago | 394 comments
Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it less (slate.com)

620 points by louisbarclay almost 3 years ago | 264 comments
Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012) (slate.com)

565 points by pmoriarty over 1 year ago | 734 comments
Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible (slate.com)

527 points by lxm about 3 years ago | 710 comments
Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012) (slate.com)

414 points by tosh about 3 years ago | 299 comments
Sam Altman is showing us who he really is (slate.com)

393 points by panarky 4 months ago | 456 comments
How Quora died (slate.com)

369 points by CharlesW 8 months ago | 403 comments
The Clickbaitification of Netflix (slate.com)

346 points by thrusong about 3 years ago | 307 comments
The worst part of working from home is now haunting reopened offices (slate.com)

330 points by RickJWagner over 2 years ago | 544 comments
My husband was right about DVDs (slate.com)

324 points by tekdude over 1 year ago | 405 comments
The Downfall of DeviantArt (slate.com)

286 points by jfryusef 4 months ago | 237 comments
Noncompete clauses: Companies say they need them, research shows that’s not true (slate.com)

284 points by tekdude over 1 year ago | 100 comments
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2013) (slate.com)

271 points by matthewsinclair about 3 years ago | 134 comments
Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun (slate.com)

254 points by petethomas 5 months ago | 493 comments
Venting doesn’t work (slate.com)

254 points by miobrien over 2 years ago | 174 comments
Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education? (slate.com)

249 points by rustoo about 3 years ago | 299 comments
A concept that took hold in the ’70s haunted everything from seat belts to masks (slate.com)

245 points by imartin2k almost 3 years ago | 325 comments
Stop defacing quotes with brackets (slate.com)

242 points by howsilly over 3 years ago | 201 comments
HBO Max’s Great Looney Tunes Purge (slate.com)

214 points by lisper over 1 year ago | 224 comments
New laws trying to criminalize filming cops (slate.com)

198 points by pseudolus about 1 year ago | 257 comments
“Cat Person” and Me (slate.com)

191 points by jasonhansel about 3 years ago | 157 comments
Consultants: the real reason it costs so much to build new subways in America (slate.com)

182 points by SirLJ over 1 year ago | 249 comments
CLEAR is a pox on America’s airports (slate.com)

158 points by jvandonsel over 1 year ago | 94 comments
Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002 (slate.com)

158 points by prawn about 1 year ago | 138 comments
I would love to have enough time and money to go to an office to work all day (slate.com)

154 points by jensgk over 1 year ago | 154 comments
A priest was outed for using Grindr, experts say it’s a warning sign for privacy (slate.com)

146 points by jasonhansel about 3 years ago | 150 comments
Could housing be cheaper and better if we stop building so many staircases? (slate.com)

143 points by lxm over 2 years ago | 300 comments
YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012) (slate.com)

140 points by georgecmu about 2 years ago | 157 comments
The case for hanging out (slate.com)

139 points by LordAtlas over 1 year ago | 169 comments
Silicon Valley thought India was its future, now things have changed (slate.com)

139 points by mraza007 over 3 years ago | 169 comments
If a PR Says “Artificial Intelligence,” There’s a Good Chance It’s Meaningless (slate.com)

137 points by giuliomagnifico over 1 year ago | 71 comments
It's Never a Bicycle Accident (slate.com)

133 points by pharmakom over 3 years ago | 184 comments
The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying (slate.com)

131 points by BitPolice 10 months ago | 2 comments
How Not to Deal with Murder in Space (2020) (slate.com)

126 points by Hooke over 3 years ago | 67 comments
Carmakers like VW are bringing back buttons because drivers loathe touch screens (slate.com)

119 points by georgecmu over 1 year ago | 60 comments
Why do so many people move to the Falkland Islands? (2009) (slate.com)

119 points by aww_dang about 3 years ago | 216 comments
The Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw over Silicon Valley Bank (slate.com)

117 points by robgibbons over 1 year ago | 124 comments
Stop Equating “Science” with Truth (2017) (slate.com)

108 points by Tomte almost 3 years ago | 122 comments
If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose (slate.com)

106 points by lamontcg about 1 year ago | 149 comments
Condo boards everywhere are unprepared for serious repairs (slate.com)

100 points by prostoalex about 3 years ago | 105 comments
When I First Saw Elon Musk for Who He Really Is (slate.com)

97 points by AndrewDucker over 2 years ago | 63 comments
Gas stoves are more hazardous than we’ve been led to believe (2020) (slate.com)

92 points by nphard85 over 2 years ago | 122 comments
The Drunk Men I Drive Around Every Night (2020) (slate.com)

91 points by serverlessmom over 2 years ago | 182 comments
We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong (slate.com)

88 points by _ngm01 6 months ago | 59 comments
The Dymaxion car: Buckminster Fuller’s failed automobile (slate.com)

83 points by conanxin about 2 years ago | 25 comments
The flip-flop on whether alcohol is good for you (2023) (slate.com)

83 points by nickwritesit 3 months ago | 206 comments
He Created the Oregon Trail (slate.com)

82 points by benbreen almost 3 years ago | 32 comments
75 Years Ago, 'War of the Worlds' Started a Panic. Or Did It? (2013) (slate.com)

80 points by 1cvmask over 3 years ago | 65 comments
Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to review Polish-Jewish history during WWII (slate.com)

79 points by kurtreed over 1 year ago | 77 comments
Lines of code that changed everything (2019) (slate.com)

79 points by pedrodelfino about 1 year ago | 20 comments
The Grim Secret of Nordic Happiness (slate.com)

78 points by RickJWagner over 3 years ago | 99 comments
Call Your Local Wizard (slate.com)

73 points by drdee 4 months ago | 40 comments
Emeryville, California, and the challenge of cleaning up poisoned land (slate.com)

72 points by ta988 over 2 years ago | 54 comments
More Americans are using fake license plates (slate.com)

71 points by SirLJ over 1 year ago | 156 comments
Why A.I. Moonshots Miss (slate.com)

69 points by birriel over 3 years ago | 101 comments
What happens when you die: Unlike most people, I know. And I have video (slate.com)

65 points by gus_leonel about 1 year ago | 21 comments
Russians Are Racing to Download Wikipedia Before It Gets Banned (slate.com)

65 points by danso over 2 years ago | 12 comments
College financial aid is a sham based on what colleges think families will pay (slate.com)

64 points by tekdude about 2 years ago | 13 comments
Z-Library Was a Lifeline for Students on Shoestring Budgets (slate.com)

64 points by readonthegoapp almost 2 years ago | 12 comments
TikTok is finally on the decline (slate.com)

64 points by cdme 7 months ago | 77 comments
Americans will pay more to live in walkable neighborhoods (slate.com)

61 points by jseliger over 1 year ago | 72 comments
Louisiana porn ID: how Act 440 is wrecking perfectly normal adult sex lives (slate.com)

61 points by netule about 1 year ago | 54 comments
Wikipedia Is Trying to Transcend the Limits of Human Language (slate.com)

61 points by mormegil about 3 years ago | 103 comments
Bike helmets: what the science says about an American safety obsession (slate.com)

60 points by jameal over 1 year ago | 154 comments
Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants (slate.com)

60 points by Petiver 4 months ago | 11 comments
U.S. life expectancy falls by a full year (slate.com)

60 points by prostoalex over 3 years ago | 30 comments
What Kind of Genius Makes a Traceable, Illicit Payment on Cash App? (slate.com)

59 points by prostoalex over 3 years ago | 51 comments
The GameStop stock is part of our national pandemic gambling binge (slate.com)

59 points by prostoalex over 3 years ago | 65 comments
Is Meta having growing pains or in a death spiral? (slate.com)

57 points by redbell over 1 year ago | 120 comments
Janet Yellen Got $810k to Give Speeches at Citadel (slate.com)

57 points by wombatmobile over 3 years ago | 28 comments
Rainfall flooding is becoming an issue (slate.com)

57 points by prostoalex about 3 years ago | 50 comments
How Paris Kicked Out the Cars (slate.com)

56 points by jgwil2 over 1 year ago | 11 comments
The Death of the Internet as a Haven for People with Autism (slate.com)

55 points by rntn 11 months ago | 37 comments
We Changed Our Lives Because of Our Remote Jobs. Now It’s All Crumbling (slate.com)

54 points by mirthlessend over 1 year ago | 53 comments
Adobe Swears It's Not Training Its A.I. On Your Photoshops (slate.com)

53 points by cgtyoder 3 months ago | 42 comments
What it was like to be the subject of a longitudinal study (2023) (slate.com)

52 points by Tomte 8 months ago | 21 comments
When did we start signing our names to authenticate documents? (2011) (slate.com)

50 points by martinlaz almost 3 years ago | 41 comments