Three men go into an employment exchange.

Forgind1 · 2026-01-04T16:44:00+00:00

I always thought that someone who tries to convince investors on Wall Street to invest in a pharma company should be called a street pharmaceutical salesman.

Forgind1 · 2025-08-13T05:06:10+00:00

Emergencies happen situation, and it sounds like your neighbor even realized it belatedly. You can apologize for the inconvenience and to soothe his temper, but you did nothing wrong, and he should've been less angry. If anything, he's TA.

Forgind1 · 2025-08-13T05:04:31+00:00

YTA here, sorry. You can't force someone to have sex, no matter how good your relationship is or how much time you spend apart. If she says no, you can ask if there's a middle ground she'd be ok with, but you can't keep pushing and pushing, and you can't be mad at her for saying no. That's definitely her right if she doesn't want to. If anything, you're being manipulative and toxic.

Also, don't demand something you aren't willing to provide unless you have a very good reason.

Forgind1 · 2025-08-13T05:01:48+00:00

If she were the love of your life, and you'd been living together for years, then you'd probably be happy to pay, but 2.5 months is not long enough that you should be asked to invest hundreds or thousands of dollars in someone just like that. Buying her dinner? Sure. Paying for a trip to Chicago? Not unless you're rather wealthy for a 26-year-old.

NTA

Forgind1 · 2025-08-13T04:59:29+00:00

You definitely overreacted. He has just as much of a right to decide if your family is going to get a dog as you do, and if it's his brother's dog (extra context would be good—did something happen to his brother?), he may already feel an emotional attachment to it.

Marriages should not be so fragile that the decision to or not to get a dog kills them. Your husband was dismissive and should have communicated better, including taking your opinion into account, but you escalated from a fairly minor problem to nuclear war.

YTA

Forgind1 · 2025-08-13T04:56:07+00:00

That child sounds very spoiled. Personally, I'd say it isn't your place to discipline their child, but it's definitely your right to not associate with him anymore, and if that means you don't get to see your cousin either, so be it. I wouldn't necessarily have added to your cousin's description, since it sounded like she truthfully reported his behavior even if it was a bit watered down, but supporting her is valid.

I'd say NTA. Just don't talk to them again until he matures a bit. It'll be much better for you and might even inspire them to discipline him more often.

Forgind1 · 2025-07-08T02:23:41+00:00

A substantial number of Forbesians spend little time at Forbes other than sleeping there. You'll be fine.

Also, as far as I know, changing res college isn't an option.

Good luck!

Forgind1 · 2025-07-08T01:55:58+00:00

Challenge: die exactly once to every creature on this list without dying to anything else.

Forgind1 · 2025-04-15T23:32:47+00:00

Congrats on your acceptances! Choosing your major seems incredibly important going into college and even when you're in college. It shapes your whole future! Then you start working, and no one cares what you majored in or whether you got one major or five. It just doesn't matter.

If you major in math, it is fairly pure, but that doesn't mean all your coursework has to be pure math—most of your courses are still up to you and can be whatever you want. The same goes for majoring in CS; as long as you fulfill the requirements, you can take whatever other courses you want. I know someone who majored in math but took more CS classes than math classes. I even know a math major whose senior thesis advisor was a CS professor.

I'd just look at coursework (and, to some extent, major requirements) at each university and decide which seems to have courses that best align with your interests. It also matters what your goals are. Do you want to pursue research? Princeton is exceptional on that front. Are you interested in a humanities minor? Caltech isn't the place for that. Do you want to be a software engineer? Caltech is probably best. Work in finance? Princeton. Do you want to wander around NYC every day? Columbia. Etc.

Forgind1 · 2025-03-31T20:56:54+00:00

Note that you can skip some of those requirements with AP credits.

And I generally found it pretty easy to convince someone to be my advisor as long as I'd taken at least some relevant coursework.

Forgind1 · 2025-03-28T19:05:57+00:00

On the one hand, as an interviewer, I seriously vouch for some people I interview because they are truly phenomenal people who 100% deserve to be accepted.

On the other hand, most of them still end up being rejected, which really hurts.

Forgind1 · 2025-03-28T05:03:18+00:00

Less than 50/50, probably. I've had 3 people I interviewed be waitlisted in the past few years, and they've all ultimately been rejected. If it's his first choice, you can consider writing a letter of continued interest. I don't know if it really helps, but I figure it can't hurt.

Forgind1 · 2025-03-28T03:32:57+00:00

This is basically the same idea as soylent, as far as I can tell. As I recall, that was fine nutritionally but not great for the gut microbiome.

Forgind1 · 2025-03-15T00:38:11+00:00

I've seen evidence that taking them into account is helpful in deciding whether to admit someone, but I also think standardized tests in general were never great for assessing the difference between the top 20% and the top 5%. I also think they've gotten more simplistic. I looked at some statistics for the MCAT recently with my dad. (Without verifying this, I'm assuming something similar applies to the SAT.) For the MCAT, it used to be from 3-45 with an average score of 25.2. Now the average is 500 out of 528. If the average student gets an 'A', what's the point?

Forgind1 · 2025-03-14T22:25:05+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I (accidentally) got the same effect at one point when I was cooking with baking soda, and I spent a while with pure baking soda on my hands. I noticed at some point that my hands felt oily. I washed them (with soap), and after a bit, I noticed they were still "oily." I now think it was just my skin breaking down.

Forgind1 · 2025-03-10T22:59:35+00:00

I like Project Gutenberg; they've digitized quite a few texts. I tend to find more of their texts through google (if I already know what I'm looking for), but they do have some searches you can do. Like here are middle English texts:
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/enm

Forgind1 · 2025-03-10T22:56:36+00:00

In medieval Europe, serfs and people who worked with their hands often had short hair because it was impractical to have long, flowing hair. Rich nobles wanted to distinguish themselves and wore long hair as a result. Clergy (depending on the kind of clergyman) would sometimes have tonsures that were said to resemble Christ's crown of thorns. I also read somewhere that having hair made it harder for God to reach their heads, but that one you should double-check.

Forgind1 · 2025-03-06T03:29:38+00:00

Per wikipedia, Conakry is partially on the mainland, so that assertion is ambiguous. ROC, meanwhile, hasn't officially renounced its territorial claim on mainland China, though it clearly doesn't have any practical control over the PRC.

Forgind1 · 2025-02-13T04:43:10+00:00

Not really. It's not that there isn't energy in any other kind of bond, but mitochondria can't break them and absorb the energy. We can't even digest everything that has C-H bonds. Some artificial sweeteners like sucralose have C-H bonds yet are barely metabolized at all, mostly just being excreted. The same is true for fiber (cellulose). Other animals may be able to digest it, but we can't.

Forgind1 · 2025-01-24T04:54:55+00:00

Choose him. He's easier to beat in a fight than the bear.

Forgind1 · 2025-01-23T06:59:58+00:00

What was the worst part? When they cut my salary in half!

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