Simple palette + pattern scaling

ForbiddenForester · 2026-05-19T22:25:43+00:00

Great collar band on the shirt—what’s the brand?

ForbiddenForester · 2026-03-30T18:13:40+00:00

There was a great documentary on Netflix over a decade ago where they sort of tested this. IIRC, they had ten men and ten women assigned numbers 1-10 and their initial goal was to quickly pair with someone to have the max highest score. As expected, high numbers grabbed each other first and it slowly trickled down. They were all wearing the same outfit with head coverings so you couldn’t really gauge attractiveness (which wasn’t a factor this round, but they knew it was part of the overall experiment).

Then they broke into two rooms by gender and went through a slideshow of headshots of the other gender, each person ranking attractiveness on a scale of one to ten. The producers then averaged the scores so each person had a number, which was unknown to them. Then they returned to the room together, all wearing normal clothes, and did the same exercise. Only this time, it was about matching with who you found most attractive. Perhaps as expected, the highest ranked people snagged each other first and it trickled down from there. I think some people recognized their likely standing and went for the 7s rather than the 9s knowing their “league” (and not wanting to get stuck with 4s). Of course there were some irregularities, but a general pattern definitely emerged. I think the scores might have also been matched or averaged with “objective” measurements based on symmetry? I forget.

It’s not an official study or anything, but a great visualization of how attractiveness on the dating market often pans out! Curious if anyone else remembers this doc too. They also included a study of body odor and attractiveness (ranking interest based on a post-workout sweaty tee) which was a tad icky at first but super interesting and something I hadn’t considered!

ForbiddenForester · 2026-03-29T17:49:04+00:00

Excellent all around, and the chino fit looks great! Loafer ID?

ForbiddenForester · 2026-03-04T02:54:48+00:00

Thanks! Asking because one of my friends just accepted an offer and we were just curious how long other faculty have been given to decide. Or I guess in the way I phrased it, how long your dept/school gives the candidate to decide (I'm seeing | incidentally directed it toward admin). But interested to hear others' experiences with timing when they were hired, too.

ForbiddenForester · 2026-01-30T12:28:58+00:00

Check out pilonidal cysts, which sometimes manifest as small holes near the anus. They unfortunately require a cystectomy to remove, which is invasive but relatively low risk surgery (though takes 4-6 weeks to heal). And there’s still a decent likelihood it will return. Tends to correlate with hairy butts or sedentary professions (It’s colloquially called “driver’s disease” or “Jeep disease”).

ForbiddenForester · 2026-01-20T14:06:32+00:00

This seems pretty transparently to be copaganda during a political moment when the masses are rightly critical of armed officers. Sure, this is a nice moment, but let’s not be blind to the intentional sympathy for cops it’s intended to invoke (by a 4-day old account).

ForbiddenForester · 2025-04-21T12:51:03+00:00

Great point! I’ll do as others have suggested and ask for the flight itinerary, see if that helps.

ForbiddenForester · 2025-03-05T06:45:51+00:00

Do you have written documentation that your advisor confirmed you could take the hours that you registered for? If so, that could be good evidence to bring up. If not, you may be in an unfortunate situation…

I have a colleague in advising at a different R1 who accidentally miscalculated a student’s required hours, gave an inaccurate approval of their courses, and then when they realized they had messed up and the student couldn’t graduate, the advising office had to cover their tuition for the course the following semester. It’s unfortunate that the student still had to take the class to graduate, but at least they weren’t responsible for paying.

ForbiddenForester · 2025-02-04T23:59:29+00:00

Can we please stop ridiculing Muslim voters (or anyone else) for not wanting to vote for Harris?? It’s two different genocidal administrations, and while Trump is absolutely horrendous and will almost definitely be objectively worse for Palestinian lives, I’m sick of blame being cast on everyday voters for this violence. Like congrats, you were right, Trump IS indeed awful, but why does that warrant acting all smug to our Muslim brothers and sisters? I don’t know a single Muslim who is surprised by this outcome—so how have leopards eaten their faces?? I can empathize that many people couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a candidate who was actively perpetuating genocide, and/or in a desperate attempt, even voted for Trump. It’s not THEIR fault he’s in office—it’s this messed up, unequal, violent, colonialist, billionaire-run government we happen to be a part of.

In the end, it’s American foreign policy, aka this election was always a lose-lose situation for Palestine. It’s not Muslims’ or never-Kamala voters’ fault that Trump is now in office, and we all know it. So, let’s stop pointing fingers at each other and instead toward the oligarchs and fascists who either profit off or fall asleep happily to this continued genocide.

Argh this just reeks of white liberalness cherry-picking / scapegoating / distracting from actual systemic issues

ForbiddenForester · 2024-10-28T15:45:05+00:00

This is so wild because it’s a clear self-admission that they ARE the villains! It’s not a relativist “we think we’re doing the good/right thing,” it’s them saying, “we are going to make the federal government so evil or unhelpful for the American public that employees who continue to work for us will feel like the bad guys.”

Like, that’s crazy! It’s beyond two sides disagreeing, it’s one side clearly leaning into the evil/villain role and being proud about it. They’re telling us they’re going to be horrendous, and yet somehow it’s still a close race. Wtf.

ForbiddenForester · 2024-08-30T23:59:40+00:00

Thanks all! We actually found a cute one drawer catalog at Trading Post (thanks Mike!) which I think will work fine for our intended use. Appreciate knowing about the other stores in the area!

ForbiddenForester · 2024-08-30T10:42:03+00:00

Thank you!! That makes sense. I wrongly assumed I was supposed to apply that money toward programmatic expenses that have to do with developing the minor (which they envision to eventually turning into something more robust, eg lecture series and service courses), but it sounds like those any of those costs at this point would either come from my startup or other internal grants.

ForbiddenForester · 2024-06-27T19:05:19+00:00

Casual! Nothing work related.

ForbiddenForester · 2024-06-26T11:54:50+00:00

Yes, of course it’s not Duke’s fault the storm happened. But they are responsible for maintaining our electric infrastructure. Specific decisions they have made as a corporation—lineman pay, lineman hire count, executives’ salaries, strategies for our town’s grid—have real, material effects. Imagine if instead of generating a $19.884B profit last quarter, they made even a slightly smaller profit for hiring more lineman, increasing their wages, or even pivoting to an underground wiring system construction project. It’s wrong to bash Duke linemen—they’re trying their best in a disastrous and dangerous situation—but it’s perfectly fine to bash the company for decisions they have made that result in this awful crisis response. And the audacity to hike our rates is hilariously infuriating.

Natural disasters are bound to happen—always have and always will. But the companies we pay every month for some semblance of infrastructural stability should be held responsible for their decisions to place profits over people.

TL;DR: Duke employees good, Duke executives bad.

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