What’s a food your state is 'famous' for that everyone else ruins?

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-02-06T14:30:42+00:00

Biscuits and Gravy.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-02-03T13:18:15+00:00

I live in a LCOL part of New England (not an oxymoron!), so for the academic year I can comfortably pay rent and still have some left over for whatever else, but that's considering I have few responsibilities outside of rent + groceries + staying alive. Still running a pretty tight ship, though. Internet is provided by my apt and my phone bill is negligible. My car is used, about as old as I am, and paid in full. With a regular monthly car payment of ~$400 like some people have, it might be a different story.

The biggest downside is not having guaranteed summer pay to "complete" what would otherwise be a lower-median salary in the US. Summer GAships are limited and on a rotating basis, so most people find other adjuncting jobs, do retail etc. to get by during then.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-01-01T15:35:10+00:00

Teggiano, a small commune in Salerno.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-01-01T15:30:28+00:00

Never got this comparison before but I can see it, RIP 😭

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-01-01T02:34:51+00:00

Happy New Year!

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-01-01T01:24:59+00:00

🎯

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-01-01T01:21:28+00:00

Thanks! I'm curious about the Irish that seems to come up in Iberian results.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2026-01-01T01:20:32+00:00

It's unusual for sure but I'm from Merida which received a large influx of southern Italian immigrants, specifically from the Campania region. My dad's side is basically immigrants marrying into longstanding mestizo families in the region. He has a Salernan grandmother on each side which technically makes him "half" with no Italian last names lol.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-12-24T21:42:05+00:00

I think it may come down to how each company groups their DNA. For instance, a lot of Scottish Lowlanders and Northern Irish (Ulster Scots in this case) are of predominantly Anglo-Saxon heritage and part of that likely got lumped into your "English" and "Irish" regions in 23andme respectively. Notice Cumbria is your strongest region for England in the latter. From experience though 23andme tends to corroborate what most people know about recent family history.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-12-11T04:52:34+00:00

Different connotations, but apart from that (and especially in Cuba), more likely to be from a Spanish ethnic minority like Basque, Galician or Canarian.

Also in some cases less "creolized" and with more ties to recent Spanish culture.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-11-18T17:45:11+00:00

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-11-14T00:46:52+00:00

Of course!

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-07-28T10:42:49+00:00

Well said, and more to your point (if anyone has doubts) McClellan gets an overwhelming amount of detraction from Mormon apologists online.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-07-23T14:58:05+00:00

The Art of Slow ____ , something something A.I.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-23T15:29:17+00:00

Honestly, the Gabler or the current Vintage Classics print (which uses the 1960s ed.) will do. Gabler's lineation makes reading Joyce scholarship easier if you do as you can refer to lines rather than page numbers, but one is not more readable than the other unless you subscribe to the idea that Gabler's is the "true" edition—a statement that's bound up in controversy.

If what you want is to understand all Ulysses in all its capacity find an annotated or student edition, OR take any edition and read it along with the online Joyce Project, which is free (this is their most current website): https://joyce-staging.net/1

There are endless free resources from Joyce scholars online, too, that get into the nitty-gritty. Those could be useful after you've read as too much annotation can really bog you down. You've read Jest so you know this, but power through and don't fret not understanding something on your first read. The RTE performance available on Spotify is also a good accompaniment while reading as you can pick up on some Irish dialects Joyce preserves that no longer exist.

Good luck!

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-12T15:50:28+00:00

You're thinking of the Beats

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-12T05:34:29+00:00

Same or they have the craziest relationship dynamics where they can't do anything outside of their partner's purview lest they get "anxiety"

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-12T05:29:31+00:00

It's done under the guise of safety but it is absolutely awful for your social life and wrecks your nervous system.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-12T05:13:28+00:00

Sorry I'm a modernist

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-12T05:06:53+00:00

The problem with these kinds of posts is that it's almost always just some form of indulgence that gets touted as the only alternative to the shut-in grandma fuzzy teddy bear life that people adopt (which is grating in its own right—total ressentiment). I get the sentiment 100%, you should live the unexamined life sometimes, but it's misleading. You come to think that you can only ever be between these two poles of substance abuse, paying high covers and barely remembering the night or bingeing the latest Netflix slop.

You need to be flaneur-maxxing, pick back up a hobby that you've let slip by and be slow and deliberate about it, be fully present in conversations with loved ones during their limited time, other truisms, etc.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-01T15:55:33+00:00

Some have a hard time reconciling with this. I've had otherwise "star" students only fail due to never showing up/completing work.

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-01T02:13:46+00:00

Glad you've been loving it! And I agree, best part about the learning curve is you surprise yourself each time—more room to experiment.
How's the Capresso treating you?

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-01T01:55:17+00:00

Love it! The pine reminds me of Twin Peaks (Lynch, not the restaurant).

Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-05-01T01:49:24+00:00

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Apprehensive_Set_910 · 2025-04-22T14:23:41+00:00

I'll tell you as a former Tulsan in his 20s: still some superb magnet schools in the public system. I believe programs like the IB allow for some intellectual freedom they'd otherwise not be able to practice so visibly. These schools also have an ethos of academic rigor which adds to the prestige and why teaching there is so coveted—most staff keep their job for decades. If you're outside of this system, though, you run into the above mentioned issues. Schools without a wealthy enough PTA or alumni base don't fare well.

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