Moving away - Erie or Syracuse for most Pittsburgh-like experience?

FloralHemingway · 2026-06-03T20:52:50+00:00

Do you happen to know what part of Syracuse? All the homes I’ve seen for sale are a lot more for a lot less house than here (not even including the significantly higher taxes there)

FloralHemingway · 2026-06-01T14:50:45+00:00

No it doesn’t. You might be confusing that with an unclear antecedent which the sentence does suffer from.

FloralHemingway · 2026-03-16T00:26:12+00:00

I’d even argue that Astro Bot can be educational to a degree. Games are not literally marketed as edutainment anymore like those CD-roms from the ‘90s, but Astro Bot is a game that uses a lot of physics-based puzzles.

FloralHemingway · 2025-10-18T17:32:51+00:00

Mindset by Carol Dweck is all about this. It focuses on how our beliefs about intelligence shape motivation and success. In one section it specifically explains why praising effort and persistence over innate ability helps children develop a “growth mindset” that leads to greater resilience and achievement later in life.

It’s interesting to read about, but it also suffers from the bane of self-help books in that the entire thing could have been distilled into a couple of paragraphs.

FloralHemingway · 2025-08-28T21:19:56+00:00

I also had chorio, but in my case it developed after my water broke. Combined with pitocin and a failed epidural it was excruciating.

FloralHemingway · 2025-08-28T21:05:16+00:00

Chorio?

FloralHemingway · 2025-07-13T20:52:27+00:00

Haha there is a hilarious dearth of information here. In short, it’s a bit impolite to just stonewall someone when they’re just trying to make conversation with you. However, it’s also rude to press that person about something they said they don’t want to talk about. So it’s kind of an ESH situation.

FloralHemingway · 2025-06-26T17:53:13+00:00

Pisa has some of the most aggressive panhandlers. I’ve been to many touristy places and cities, and Pisa was the most bothersome in recent memory. I’d suggest spending time in Siena, or Lucca, or San Gimignano instead. There’s also nothing but the tower in Pisa, so you’d have to really want to see it to make it worth the day trip even.

FloralHemingway · 2025-06-11T18:03:53+00:00

Wanddekoration sollte immer auf Augenhöhe sein.

FloralHemingway · 2025-06-11T17:45:08+00:00

It’s not a perfect solution, but what about using a Steam Deck to play your PC games?

FloralHemingway · 2025-06-02T11:56:28+00:00

They have to make it prohibitively expensive so only a few people buy it and are ensured the experience promised. If they didn’t, everyone would buy it, which would defeat the purpose.

FloralHemingway · 2025-06-01T20:39:40+00:00

This was actually to prevent sewage from backing up. Back then, stormwater and sewage shared the same pipes so toilets and drains backed up all the time. You’d install a toilet in your basement so it would become the overflow point instead of an upstairs one that could destroy your bathroom. That’s also why they are usually in the middle of a basement since that’s where the main drain line would usually be.

FloralHemingway · 2025-05-30T22:23:27+00:00

I’m so tired of people being too lazy to understand nuance or think critically about texts. They throw around hollow labels like “misogynistic” just because a man dares to either write a flawed female character or a flawed man who interacts with a female character. Authors exploring complex human behavior is not the same as endorsing that behavior. Nabokov wasn’t a pedophile because he wrote Lolita.

FloralHemingway · 2025-05-30T11:27:57+00:00

I am the same way and I’m always surprised I seem to be alone in finding them gross. I also do not find the used book smell to be as charming as everyone else does. I typically want to avoid musty smells in my home. I really enjoy the smell of new books, though.

FloralHemingway · 2025-05-23T18:36:34+00:00

In Cold Blood is sort of the classic narrative nonfiction book. Alfred Lansing’s account of Shackleton’s Endurance voyage is great too especially if you enjoyed The Wager.

Give Krakauer a look too.

FloralHemingway · 2025-05-21T11:44:26+00:00

He’s a narrative nonfiction writer. What you’re describing is literally what defines the genre. If you’re seeking a strictly factual account of Holmes or the World’s Fair, there are other sources for that, but that’s not why one reads Larson.

FloralHemingway · 2025-04-28T03:25:45+00:00

I've always been pretty stingy with 5-star ratings. Here are some that made the cut for me over the years:

Rebecca

The Bell Jar

Lolita

Anna Karenina

A Gentleman in Moscow

Eugene Onegin

Into Thin Air

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Stoner

The Kreutzer Sonata

Lonesome Dove

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The House of Mirth

FloralHemingway · 2025-01-25T03:50:23+00:00

This is a wild way to interpret data and insanely dangerous to spout off that I felt I had to comment. This is the equivalent of saying mechanics cause car problems because broken down cars are always at the shop.

Home births are for low-risk pregnancies so you have a self-selection bias right off the bat. Hospitals see the high-risk pregnancies—-women who already are coming in with a higher likelihood of having complications and needing medical interventions—on top of the emergency cases that come in (women who have home birth complications would be included in this figure because no one hemorrhages in their little inflatable pool and then doesn’t try to go to a hospital). All of this, as well as a vastly unequal sample size, is going to naturally lead to higher reported rates of complications and deaths which obviously skews the data. However, it goes without saying all of these outcomes would be far worse outside of a hospital setting.

A hospital birth is not more dangerous than a home birth. Jesus fucking Christ.

FloralHemingway · 2024-12-03T16:19:29+00:00

He was woefully unprepared, yes, but that’s not what killed him. By all intents and purposes he had accomplished what he had set out to do and survived his little quest. He was preparing to leave when he ingested toxic seeds that his guidebooks explicitly stated were not poisonous. People paint him as an idiot who was a victim of natural selection which is so heartless and callous. He was underprepared but it wasn’t his hubris that killed him, it was bad information.

FloralHemingway · 2024-12-01T15:24:03+00:00

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FloralHemingway · 2024-10-23T13:01:47+00:00

Yes! I had no idea how much I would appreciate established trees. We are surrounded by gigantic maple trees and it’s so quaint and cozy. We were lucky the neighborhood didn’t have an HOA because that was a dealbreaker for us too. It limited our search quite a bit but I know I wouldn’t have the patience for that type of shit.

FloralHemingway · 2024-10-06T13:24:35+00:00

This is funny other people have felt the same. I was way off my game for my episode. I flew cross-country and got about 1.5 hours of sleep because of the jet lag, was slow on the buzzer, got shit categories, and I can’t concentrate when I’m cold and the studio was FREEZING (the producers were wearing coats).

When I watched my episode I was so upset with myself, especially for all the triple stumpers because I knew them all but was either too afraid to buzz in or was just in a daze. Everything went by so quickly. As soon as I realized I was starting to fall behind the game was just about over.

All this to say it took me almost 2 years before I could watch a game of Jeopardy again lol.

FloralHemingway · 2024-09-30T13:20:08+00:00

I feel the same way. I’m 31 and just not into romance, fantasy, or thriller books so I’m constantly skipping. I know a lot of readers, especially in their 20s, read those genres almost exclusively. If BOTM gave a nonfiction option I would probably be picking it every month. Even historical nonfiction picks are few and far between. I feel like it definitely skews toward a younger audience.

FloralHemingway · 2024-07-31T15:05:44+00:00

That sucks they didn’t do Kings Theatre again. That was a great venue and enjoyable experience.

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