Granny Weatherwax

Not knowing who your doctors are is a hell of a thing to admit while claiming your memory is fine

Try turning on borders. It doesn’t make it as legible as pre-update, but it helps

Oh THAT makes a lot of sense (except for why they are called that.) Thanks for explaining!

What's the experience like of growing up thinking a mango is a green pepper and then discovering actual mangoes?

I'm just imagining a cook in 1796 Boston thinking "cranberries, fine. Pickles, easy. Celery (as per this article), I can grow myself. Now I just need to get some fancy imported fruit to eat with my turkey"

In American Cookery (1796), the first cookbook published by an American author for American cooks, Amelia Simmons includes celery in her recipe for roasted turkey. It is used not to season the bread-based stuffing (that is flavored instead with thyme, marjoram, and pepper) but rather as one of the recommended accompaniments: "cranberry-sauce, mangoes, pickles or celery."

I would like to know where these 18th-century Americans were getting their mangoes

Basmati is good. It's not quite as sticky as the calrose but it is not a travesty of overprocessed something something "healthy" rice

If you can buy it in a 20-pound bag at an Asian grocery store, it's good rice

I don't know how old he is, but there was a whole generation of white people convinced rice should be "fluffy and separate" (i.e., dry and hard to eat) by Uncle Ben's marketing.

"Uncle Ben's" is a cuss word in my house for this reason

If you have teenagers in your household, and if they are anything like mine, they have taken the Costco-size package to replace in all the Xbox controllers and associated gear
and there are a few new batteries left
but they mixed up the dead ones with the new ones

Time for a new package

For me, it's the sense that I am putting in a lot of work and that work is entirely meaningless. The overwhelming majority of the students just do not care at all. They are uninterested in the prospect of being educated. (Not all, but most this term.) My life's work appears to have no value. Sorrow.

Ah. A game designer and a hostage-taker.

Yes, I apologize if I sounded like I wanted vigilante parking inspectors. I mean more like "your doctor agrees you get the placard and only people with placards get to park there, anyone else gets ticketed/towed." I recognize invisible disabilities and don't want randos shaming anyone.

"This is more of a comment"?

I am 98% in agreement with you. I think the challenge lies when the accommodations are finite. E.g., if there are a limited number of handicapped parking spaces, I want some kind of enforcement so people who don't need the spaces leave them open. That's different than extra time on a test though.

All you gotta do is 1) have $25,000 to spend on healthcare every year on top of whatever insurance premiums you pay, and 2) have health issues that you need to spend $25,000 (but not more) on, and 3) make enough money that the tax deduction is meaningful....

Never mind, just tax the rich.

This post was the first one I saw on this topic, and knowing nothing about what prompted the discussion, my first thought was those people who pretend their pets are service dogs so they can take them places pets aren't allowed.

Those people can fuck right off.

Accommodations for everyone else.

Yes, us myopic folk have a longer eyeball and it puts more strain on the retina. I just had a macular hole repaired and the myopia wasn't the only factor but it was significant.

Note this is true even if you've had LASIK and had your myopia corrected. It's the shape of the eye that matters.

We do, sometimes, ask students to write about their personal values or experiences with a topic. If that was the assignment, she could get credit for this work, offensive or not. But she wasn't asked "what are your feelings about gender?" She was asked to react to a reading and she did a rotten job.

Imagine her turning in the same essay as her homework in every course. Should she get points for this essay in a chemistry class? No. Because it wouldn't demonstrate understanding of the course material. It also doesn't demonstrate understanding of the course material in this psychology class.

It is a reaction paper to a specific scientific reading. The student could have talked about how her experiences didn't fit the reading--but in doing so she needed to talk specifically about what is in the reading. She did not. It's not "she could have done it 'more'"; she did not do it at all.

She also repeatedly says nonsense things like "society wants to eliminate gender".

As a college student, she should be aware that a rubric awards points for doing specific things in the assignment. She opted not to.

I am a professor of psychology at a religious institution and would give 0 here.

I think the original post meant that students want or expect to get high grades despite not doing the work--that's the "place" they want us to meet them. (I could be wrong.) But while students might want that, I don't personally know any professors who give high grades in those circumstances.

I honestly don't know anyone who gives "good grades" to people who don't do work or demonstrate understanding. Perhaps some people do. But like many moral panics, this may be exaggerated by people not experiencing it.

The changes in student behavior are troubling, but we try to maintain integrity.

I suspect it's one of those things that looks simple from the outside ("just fail them!") but when you see students as people balancing a lot of difficult circumstances and you want them to find their feet, the simple solutions aren't actually solutions at all.

Yes. And while something is changing--across my classes this semester, more than half of students have not handed in major work including their finals--it's often the case for me that when I talk to the students, they have legitimately horrendous things going on. So I'm trying to accommodate them.

Well, I don't think a president can do that. But I don't think a president can do many of the things this president does. And this president has declared his intention of invalidating prior pardons. So his minions might need to pick a lane.

You’d think members of an administration counting on being pardoned would worry about the idea that a president can invalidate previous pardons if they feel like it

He's looking next to the regular onions, I'm guessing

I just said to the TV, “we’ve all had that day at work, kid.”

"Apes don't read philosophy."
"Yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it."

Explains a lot about our current age, really.

I admit I am hoping that you don't tell them, and just don't show up, and they try to have an entire Thanksgiving with just green beans and pie. Because that would reflect the stinginess of their spirits.

I hope you and your family and the boy you have welcomed have a lovely dinner.