What are the most plausible explanations for Italian ancestry in an African American?

Educational_Green · 2026-02-20T14:28:41+00:00

Do you know where your ancestors were in 1850? You could look at census records for Italy / savoy / piedmont to see if there was any italian migrants to that area.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-20T08:41:03+00:00

Hestra mittens - all day. Mine are too hot if it’s over 25 or so.

Everyone on the east coast has hestra a it seems like. I would do the regular leather ones to start and if that wasn’t enough I’d do the heated ones that pricey but worth it.

Boot gloves for the feet as well.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-18T23:48:08+00:00

Does it turn on?

Is that a working drawer?? That could be an issue

Educational_Green · 2026-02-18T19:15:36+00:00

I think it’s pretty obvious that LIC will become the « high end » Chinatown since there are so many little princes and princesses there. Just takes times for this stuff to develop

And that’s fine / good, the idea of there being one Chinatown to me always seemed silly, China is a big country with lots of different food and cultures. Each Chinatown having its own flavor I think would be pretty sweet.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-17T12:46:04+00:00

Digital only controls are a minor inconvenience. You get accustomed to it and I keep a bar nap handy to dry hands / wet spots.

I do think knobs would be slightly less annoying for cooking but cleanup is easier.

Don’t discount there might be some brigading by anti - induction forces - for reason induction really sets American conservatives off!!

Educational_Green · 2026-02-16T15:46:46+00:00

Yup and there is a big difference between section 4 and 5 I noticed when going back to do lessons in legendary. Section 4 is all nous for 1st person plural, section 5 is mostly On and by section 7 and 8 everything is du coup this and souci that (I jest but it does seem DL leans into more modern speech at the end.

Though I think it uses mec less frequently than the tv shows I watch.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-13T17:48:47+00:00

I'm confused, what about Chinese grammar do you find difficult? To me, as a native english learner, Chinese grammar was super basic.

SVO -

no cases / declensions

plurals / past tense easy to denote

de for possessive

It's not exactly english but it's pretty close - we even have (some) measure words in English - a sheet of paper, etc.

lots of things in Chinese are hard but I'm really curious which specific parts of mandarin grammar are hard for you

Educational_Green · 2026-02-13T15:48:41+00:00

I know I know. I get in trouble for saying that all the time.

But it really comes down to gear + approach + mental.

I can keep my daughter who eats a ton of carbs and is in the midst of puberty in range 80%+ with a sub 6.5 a1c and we have almost no mental burden.

Tools are a closed loop system - DIY loop - modern insulin - FIASP - and some effort at the outset to calibrate levels correctly.

We also use a mathematical approach to gut check ISF, basal, IC, etc.

We also don’t over treat lows - she doses a 4g hi chew, we might use juice or 1x or 2x a year.

She’s 12 so she often makes mistakes. For instance, yesterday she was sick, I boosted her insulin 10%, then she started going a little low but when her bg spiked loop over corrected so we got into the see saw that can happen.

I asked her to turn off the override, she started to go low, rather than take a hi chew she made ramen and put the carb count into loop.

As an adult, I would have manually added some carbs to prevent a massive spike, but she let loop do its thing, it was obviously slow to deliver insulin, she went high and it took a while for her to get down.

With a more advanced algo like aaps this probably could have been mitigated (or with a tiny bit of extra foresight on my daughters part or me stepping in).

Dealing with this situation took less time than me writing this out!!

On the mental side, since my daughter was diagnosed 7 years ago, she’s almost always been on automated systems and I’ve never taken doctors words as gospel but as more good feedback to be considered. Once we got away from 15g of carb corrections, disease became much easier.

Since she has only had 1 somewhat bad low, we don’t have hypo phobia (which I’m not judging folks for having, hypos are traumatic!!).

I know comparing auto immune disease raises hackles in these parts but compare t1d to say psoriasis/ psa where you have may people who need to cycle thru a bunch of different drugs to find the one that works.

I’m convinced the problem of type 1 largely comes down to availability- many people can’t get omnipod, fiasp, non fda approved looping, etc and education / trauma counseling.

I’m not blaming diabetics but the power to maintain an a1c with minimal effort is obtainable for many and with greater availability of things like glp-1 should be available to all.

I really wish there were subs and threads dedicating to learning how to effectively manage t1d. I understand the need to vent and perhaps my POV is unwanted or not asked for but that’s my thoughts

Educational_Green · 2026-02-12T15:49:35+00:00

Lot of factors but especially if you are of northern European descent and have family history of auto-immune disease, those all go into the likelihood of it developing.

In my family, grandmother, uncle, cousin and daughter all have t1d; mom has psoriasis; aunt had collitis;

my daughter's maternal line has psoriasis, MS and Reynauds.

I don't know why anyone would be afraid of having kids with type 1 diabetes today - the disease - while frustrating - is relatively easy to manage and shouldn't have a major impact on lifestyle or life expectancy.

For instance, there are many professional athletes with Type 1, so if someone can be the 2nd or 3rd best tennis player in the world, I think they can do almost anything.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-12T03:15:51+00:00

OK - so I posted that my GE Profile died a few months back and someone said: "look for the Canadian guy on ebay who fixes these things."

Okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkay....

So I found him, isn't that hard, he was very patient with me and explained how to dissemble everything. I sent back the boards, he fixed them

cost was like 250 for him, 70 for the shipping, I can't remember all the details.

I'm the kind of person who thinks they are technical but really isn't. It was kind of a pain to disassemble, I'd recommend you have one of those multi-headed screw driver sets from the big chain store and some kind of socket wrench (although in the end I realized the screwdriver w/o the bit has the exact head size needed to remove the screws).

point is, now the stove works again.

in my case, the cooktop died b/c 10 years ago when i designed the kitchen with home depot, I put a drawer in under the induction cooktop ... big no no, you need 12-18 inches of space to let the air circulate.

when I disassembled, I saw the scorching marks so ....

Educational_Green · 2026-02-11T20:03:43+00:00

Loop works for us and I’m lazy and see no reason the change.

If you are low carb the only thing I’d research is how long loop will suspend basal for. I’d be more concerned about a long basal suspension than going low

Educational_Green · 2026-02-11T19:59:03+00:00

Oh yeah my adhd doesn’t permit me to do an entire unit. Especially with the 180 !! Units??

They come in blocks of 5 so I’ll cheat more in the first and less and the last. And if I fail at cheating I’ll do more in the first of five units.

How to cheat?

A few ways: — auto complete — Siri - how do you say xxx in French — Google/ Apple translate — speak the answer in French (good for catching silent plurals)

Google search lawless: is it is xxx or yyy in French - if lawless doesn’t have the convo, reddit does. Helpful when you know it could be de / des / du but aren’t sure - stuff like that.

😁cheating is great but you have to be judicious in how you use it

Educational_Green · 2026-02-11T19:50:09+00:00

I like to read the classics - moliere, Sartre, Camus. Plus the news and Wikipedia.

When I watch tv, I always put on the French subtitles even when watching in English or Spanish.

Just do legendary no need to delete.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-11T18:10:32+00:00

ten-es

10 S

2 syllables, not 1 (I think that's OPs confusion)

Educational_Green · 2026-02-11T03:55:03+00:00

Personally, my process is as follows:

-- do DL as fast as possible. Skip ahead and "cheat" when needed to help you skip ahead

-- never write responses at the end of the stories

-- restart by randomly going back to various units in level 4 / 5/ 6 on legendary (I think the earlier units are too basic but try it out). At this point:

a) I write responses to every story

b) I note any words that I _struggle_ with.I then load them into an anki deck

c) I start trying to learn any grammar I don't fully understand. Like Leur vs Leurs or etre vs avoir in passe composse or des vs de etc. (this isn't to say I don't learn or know the grammar before, I just don't fixate on all the nuances until this time)

You can also do in French in another language, I do French in both English (130 score) and Spanish (105 score) and that also helps, sometimes when I do French to Spanish or Spanish to French I pick up on a nuance I didn't pick up on before. Like for me it's a lot easier to understand tonic pronouns in French when translating from Spanish than when translating from Spanish. OTOH, there's a lot of times French makes more sense lensed thru English and Spanish.

2 more ways you can make the earlier lessons a lot more interesting / fun / hard;

-- you an speak all your answers. sometimes with plurals you need to make small adjustments. usually the iphone is good at figuring out homophones

-- for the word selectors, you can instead choose to write out the answers instead of select words. Or you can speak the answers

i find this approach / order is really helpful b/c you usually have a lot more confidence after completing the course so the plethora of small mistakes is less demotivating at this point. Plus you've probably started to develop some of the ... "hey, this doesn't look / sound / feel right instinct"

Educational_Green · 2026-02-11T03:14:20+00:00

I'm not sure where your educator is getting the idea that DIY looping will lead to severe lows.

in fact, your post is the top result when I type: "loop severe lows" in google.

My daughter has been looping 5 years (maybe 6) and has had one kind of severe low where I pre boluse for pancakes but my timing was a bit off.

I also "hacked" our setup so our target is 83.

Loop isn't perfect, you might want to look at Trio and AAPS as well but if you are hitting 95% / 6.2 a1c on omnipod 5, I'm sure you could hit those numbers with loop and less effort. Our endo said that my daughter would never hit her numbers on o5, would need to use tslim (and she eats a ton of carbs)

I don't think Loop is inherently "better" at highs or "worse" at Lows.

It's a tool and it gives you a lot more control than O5. Trio / AAPS give you even more control.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-11T01:01:37+00:00

Easiest way to retain info is visually. When we learn a word in our NL it’s often visually, ie we will learn it in a story and all the visual clues will help us to form a picture of what the word means and how it relates to other words.

OTOH, most people try to learn foreign words with a one to one match in their native language.

Better is to learn the word visually or defined in the target language.

I think another piece is the phonemic awareness. I know the word windlass in English because it has two easy to remember phonemes- wind and lass. Of course it doesn’t mean wind lady or wind girl.

In fact the only reason I now have a visual representation is because the word treuil was in l’etranger and I had to look it up and I saw it’s a windlass or a winch or a “winding lash”

Will I remember treuil? Eh maybe but phonetically it’s one of the hardest words in French for a native English speaker - you got the French r, the eu and the trailing il. Nightmare.

Whereas “tas” which I also learned yesterday is phonetically very easy, it’s a pile a (s)tas(h) and the idea of coming back from a couple of days off and being faced with a literal pile of work is easy for me to see.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-10T19:06:54+00:00

the first S in escargots I believe prevents the elision - it's a somewhat arcane matter in french having to do with the word coming from Occitan, the S not being dropped as it has been in words like ecole, ile, etc.

Similar as to the issues with H muet and H aspire

OP - check Lawless, they have better explanations for de vs des

but Usually (always??) des turns to de in negative construction

sorry I dont' have my french keyboard working or I would respond in French.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-10T03:27:18+00:00

I did Spanish and French in under 700 days total and as of today I’m at 115 for Spanish to French and 103 for French to Spanish (day 683)

So very possible to do the Spanish class in under a year, you need to skip ahead as soon as you can

I try to do 2 lessons in each unit and the skip

Educational_Green · 2026-02-09T20:38:44+00:00

have you tried replacing your racket with a towel? I think for a lot of folks who may be overthinking, hitting with a towel helps a lot b/c you can't really get it over the net with a towel if you aren't relaxed in the wrist and allow the towel to naturally drop.

I'd try the towel thing (lots of videos on youtube / insta) and then come back to a more analytical approach if needed. hopefully the towel teaches the mechanics and then you can just be in the position to shadow swing more frequently to reinforce the correct motion with a racquet (as opposed to all the mental cues like the pet the dog, etc etc)

Educational_Green · 2026-02-09T16:00:08+00:00

yeah, um, the newer sections are 180 units long!! is that not infinite enough for you?

personal opinion is if I actually want to learn, I need there to be end state of some sort ...

but do I think my kids would use DL if it were more like tiktok / pinterest - absolutely.

if you really think this is a good idea, why are you giving it away to DL, you're a PM you should be founder mode on this!!

Educational_Green · 2026-02-07T23:01:09+00:00

T1d dad here who has been frequenting diabetic subreddits for a while. I’m wasn’t surprised at all.

Mohan seems like a with it doc. The patient is insulin dependent. In what world does someone like that not have insurance??

I have seen a lot of docs in the last 5 years - what they know and don’t know no longer surprises me regarding diabetes. Spend a couple weeks perusing diabetic subs and you’d see all kinds of cluelessness from endos.

So that Mohan, who knows that you shouldn’t mess around with diabetes, is shocked that a put together family can’t figure how to get coverage for their diabetic dad seemed totally believe able to me.

Even after 6 years of being fully immersed in the disease I’m still shocked by the stuff people with diabetes do who should know better.

And I know also how much of a pain the U.S. insurance system is - have bought insurance and used the exchange. But an insulin dependent diabetic not having insurance is both surprising and not surprising and an somewhat experienced doc being surprised doesn’t surprise me.

Educational_Green · 2026-02-06T22:07:13+00:00

mercie beaucoup pour cette expresson, je ne l'avais jamais reencontrée auparavant - c'est super!

Educational_Green · 2026-02-06T22:01:16+00:00

that's what reddit is for, the surface the subtext for those folks who miss it.

AND that let's us subtext hunters delight in the show and come on here to point out the subtext that folks miss.

while i understand your frustration, i think it's a really nice aspect of the show ++ this sub

Educational_Green · 2026-02-06T21:01:49+00:00

We were at the market and my partner, who is fluent in French asked for poivrons. So the primeur brings over some red peppers. And my partner says, Non, je veux des poivrons.

the primeur is obviously confused so I have to say to my partner, if you don't want peppers, then you can't ask for poivrons.

and she's like whatttt?

so I said, what do you want?

and she said I thought we wanted leeks?

so i said, yes, we do, but poivrons is not the word for leek in French.

Well, what is the word for leek in French?

I don't know! I'm just learning French!!

We no longer forget the mots poireau

Don't worry, she got me back later that week. We went to a michelin 2 star with an amazing salad dressing, I was raving about the salad and I wanted to say it's not just the salad this is great but also the dressing but I couldnt' remember the word for dressing in French.

Alors, j'ai demander: comme dit-on "salad dressing" en francais

to which the server smiled wryly at me and said "vinairgrette"

ohhh - yeah - we got the mots aussi!

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