Depends on the product. but I generally trust Thorne across the board. I also never order vitamins on Amazon. I use iHerb or target for those, because of the counterfeiting/stacking by SKU issue with Amazon.
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Best advice for saving a laptop after half a cup of coffee spilled all over it? 
Powered it down, wiped up everything I could and turned it upside down with a fan pointed on it. Nothing seems to be dripping. I don’t have any tools that will allow me to take off the back panel or remove the battery.
The general advice just seems to be to let it dry for 24-48 hours and hope for the best but is there anything else I can do? I’m really screwed if I can’t use it for work today and tomorrow, and also really, really screwed if it short circuits a few weeks from now because it will be prohibitively expensive to replace in this country.
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Yes! I did exactly this (actually an entire cup of coffee). Hopefully you’ve left it powered off so far. You need to get some kitty litter (the crystal kind, not the clay kind) and a few XXL ziplock bags. You put the laptop in one ziplock, leave it open, then put that ziplock into another ziplock and fill the outer ziplock with kitty litter. Leave both bags open, but make sure no litter is spilling over the sides into the ziplock that contains the laptop. After about 24 hours, your laptop should be dry! I got this tip from a computer repair guy in my old town, it was a life saver!
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Absolutely do not power it on for the next 1-2 days. That’s the main thing! Resist the temptation!
The kitty litter trick works well too.
I used to be a computer repair tech and have seen lots of laptops survive coffee incidents. Fingers crossed!
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Does anyone use a steam mop? Are they worth it? Any recs?
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I have one that I sadly can’t use anymore because vinyl floors, but I loved it for my tile! I have a Shark one, I got it at Kohls for around $70…I don’t think it’s anything fancy but it works really well! It’s nice because you really don’t have to scrub much, or use any kinds of cleaning products.
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Ooh we have tile in the kitchen, living room, and bathrooms, so that’s good to know! Thank you!
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How do you properly clean hardwood floors? And what happens to them if you do not clean them properly?
I do not know what our cleaners have been using but I want to make sure it is good for them.
Before that we…ummmmmm… mopped like twice a year and just swept alot 
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I’ve always used Murphy’s Oil Soap on wood floors. It’s the best IMO.
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Yes. I have one that someone on MMM recommended- it wasn’t very expensive. We have tile in the bathrooms, and once/month I run it over the sealed hardwood in the kitchen.
Otherwise I hand wash the hardwood with Murphy’s oil soap. This is not as grueling as it sounds and doesn’t actually take any longer than regular mopping but I get into the corners better.
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Thank you (and @mountainmustache29) for the reassurance!! I have resisted the urge so far but will really need to turn it on tomorrow at least briefly to grab some work files.
Only the clay type of kitty litter seems to be available nearby… is it worth trying this with rice or is that mostly useless?
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I think rice is worth a shot! I think they warn against clay litter because of the dust that can get into the electronics but @iualia might have a different recommendation
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Yeah I would be nervous about clay litter but rice is a decent alternative!
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Super helpful, giving rice a try now 
Bouncing in here to say - that’s not “quiet quitting” (which is a new term I hate). The term refers to doing your job everywhere I’ve seen it defined, instead of doing the (usually unpaid and unrewarded) extras. This dude you describe is not doing that, he’s not doing the bare minimum.
To the article: the person got a text from their employer stating their wages were cut from $25/ hour to $13.50/hour with no notice. Thats a very fast way to cut “productivity” 
and has nothing to do with actual work done by the employees.
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I wish that quiet quitting was used as I initially heard it as - not working at an 80% bullshit job any more and wondering how long until anyone notices.
Or perhaps I just heard it that way because I saw someone doing that at my last job, and was considering how long I could have hidden from them that I wasn’t doing anything.
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I like the term “acting your wage”. My job pays me $35ka year. So I do around 25 hours of work a week.
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Yeah, it honestly sounds like that’s what it should mean, right?! But every scribble I’ve seen complaining about workers had literally been “how dare they only do their agreed job requirements!”
NPR useful article:
ALSO I’m absolutely sure that doing work to the letter already has a name as a form of resistance by workers and unions and i cannot remember what the damn term is from highschool economics. Its been a few years
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work to rule is what we’d call it here
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