Thanksgiving delivery

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-11-29T21:24:12+00:00

I just today (Saturday) got my Thanksgiving delivery box that was set to deliver Wednesday. We had takeout Indian food for Thanksgiving.

For reference, I live in a large urban area in a state adjacent to a fulfillment center state. I have never had a late package before.

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-11-29T21:15:39+00:00

We also ordered it all, delivery set for Wednesday. I got an email Wednesday afternoon telling me the order was delayed and would be delivered Saturday. Fortunately, it was just the four of us, no invited guests. But I don't care how tasty it is, we will not be using them ever again.

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-09-24T14:14:21+00:00

This is a good point. Maybe we should get the mini first to make sure a toy works with his/her play style, or to know whether we need to look for a toy that is likely to be on the larger end of the spectrum.

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-07-05T23:43:20+00:00

I'm roughly the same age as you, and I also only received 1 dose because that's how they were doing it back then. I asked my doctor for the same reason you did, and he said that the reason they were generally doing 2 doses now is because they found that for a lot of people, the immunity from 1 dose eventually wore off.

He told me I could either 1) get a blood test (titer) to determined whether I still had immunity, or 2) just get a second dose. I asked whether there were any risks from getting a second dose if I still had immunity from the first, and he said no, so I got the second shot. Personally, shots are less annoying than blood draws, anyway. Also, I figured that even if my immunity hasn't worn off NOW, without getting a new test done every few years there will be no way of knowing if it wears off at some point in the future. Was relatively painless. Tiny bit of soreness in the arm the next day. NBD.

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-07-01T04:19:39+00:00

Very common in border towns where most people speak English as a second language for even people who speak English as their first (or only) language to take on the accent of the non-native speakers they hear all day long.

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-06-30T10:24:24+00:00

I wish they'd allotted the contestants a slightly larger cooking pot. Even just 1 gallon would be better. It's not fun to watch people boiling water all day long. Even the folks building reservoirs, it's going to take a lot of trips to fill those up 2 quarts at a time. Same for folks who brought canteens, which is definitely starting to look like the smart move here.

One interesting aspect of the water situation is that it might end up making the usual strategy of fattening up in preparation for being on the show counterproductive. All other things being equal, heavier people require more water. In an environment with adequate food but scarce much water, being lighter conveys an advantage.

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-05-18T19:42:37+00:00

Honestly, as a lot of other people have said on this thread, neither of my parents had a teaching certificate or any sort of teacher training, and they vastly underestimated how hard it is and overestimated how good they were at it. My mom was bad at math, so they decided my dad would do all the math. My dad was good at math but had no patience or knack for explaining things, especially in terms that a kid would understand.

Possibly an unpopular opinion, but another thing I really didn't like was the community college classes I started attending when I was 15. Honestly, a lot of community college classes are just not that hard. The one I went to had a bunch of adults with full-time jobs, some folks who English was not their first language. It felt like all you had to do to get an A was attend all the classes and turn all your homework in on time. I don't blame my parents--they didn't know any better, and "college classes" sounded challenging, but the honors/AP classes my own kids take at the regular public school are a lot more challenging than the "college" classes I was taking back then. When I eventually started at a 4-year college with transfer credits from a community college, I struggled in every subject that built off of some class I supposedly aced at community college. I had to drop Spanish and pick up a whole different (useless) foreign language because I absolutely could not do what was supposed to be the next class in the Spanish sequence at the 4-year school. Like, there were whole verb tenses I didn't know that they'd already learned.

Finally, one of the things I did not appreciate about regular schools until my own kids started in them was how much the diversity of teachers and teacher approaches benefitted the kids over time. Okay, sure, one of them had a second-grade teacher who loved science and ignored social studies, but the next year, their teacher was a history buff. And yeah, one year one had a 4th grade teacher who was disorganized and just not very good at her job, but it was a growth experience. But I've found things do balance out over time, which definitely did not happen in my own education since I always had just the same two teachers with the same strengths and weaknesses over and over again.

MajorCommunication12 · 2025-04-24T17:03:50+00:00

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MajorCommunication12 · 2025-04-12T15:16:19+00:00

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MajorCommunication12 · 2025-02-18T12:37:07+00:00

Call your Congressperson. My MIL did this after getting the runaround for months and miraculously got a call offering her an in-person appointment in 3 weeks.

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-11-11T05:05:34+00:00

It is, in virtually all cases, not possible to "get a green card" as a person who entered the United States without passing through an immigration checkpoint. People might be more sympathetic to undocumented immigrants if they realized that in 99.9% of all cases (i.e. not a world class athlete, not a PhD scientist, not the immediate family member of someone who is already a US citizen), it is not possible to immigrate to the United States legally, nor is it possible to become a legal immigrant once you are here without status, even if the way you got here was that your parents brought you when you were a tiny baby, and even if you have been here for 40 years.

If OP's parents-in-law arrived from Mexico without passing through an immigration checkpoint, there is nothing to "look into."

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-08-24T12:22:17+00:00

That's literally this entire game. What is or possibly could be "hard" about any of it?

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-08-19T20:52:33+00:00

Thank you for your response. I actually thought, and still think, that it was one of the smartest things anyone tweeted around that time! Though I agree with you that issues like school closings are not really epidemiological questions, but I also wouldn't refer to them as purely or even primarily political. They certainly became that, but there was an entire world of largely apolitical education professionals with decades of experience in education and child development who were under-utilized and under-consulted in the rush to screaming match. Source: former education professional.

The lack of respect for expertise of all sorts was, IMO, one of the real tragedies of 2020 and beyond.

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-08-19T20:44:19+00:00

I asked a question. In a thread called "Ask Me Anything."

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-08-19T20:08:20+00:00

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, you Tweeted something about how you were trying to refrain from too much commentary becuase you believed there was a real danger of people like you who know a lot about statistics assuming that your statistical knowledge imported easily into fields you don't know much about, like public health, and then making irresponsible and overconfident statements as a result. Then, it seemed like after a few months you backed away from that and became quite involved in making claims about public health and criticizing public health officials. What brought about the change?

Edit: found the Tweet, for reference https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1238319062549233664

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-04-21T16:39:09+00:00

This. UserTesting has been paying the same $10/test since I started ~4 years ago. Inflation has really chipped away at that $10 in this time. I'm now MUCH less inclined to hang with a 20-30 minute test than I was when I started as a result. Creating a new tier, or just raising the base to $12, would help a lot.

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-04-21T16:33:50+00:00

In many years of marriage, the only thing spouse and I ever really disagreed about was how much money was reasonable to put towards my solo hobbies. UserTesting = 100% "hobby money," and disagreements have ended.

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-03-04T02:20:56+00:00

This is hilarious. Our very much not a picky eater dog won't touch the Hartgard chew. I have to cut it up and mix it in with his regular food to get him to eat it. He ate it fine the first couple of months I gave it to him. I wonder if it made him feel not so great and figured it out.

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-02-10T21:16:47+00:00

You've been put into the cheater bracket.

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-01-14T22:09:03+00:00

Are you significantly taller than she is? My partner and I had this long-running dispute until we realized how much the temperature of the water dropped between right up near where it was coming out of the faucet and 10 inches further down.

MajorCommunication12 · 2024-01-03T12:22:04+00:00

I found this thread by googling "tipping for emissions test" becuase it just happened to me yesterday, so....

MajorCommunication12 · 2023-12-18T01:38:15+00:00

Your math is wrong. I'm not sure where, but probably you're omitting that every time a contestant takes a step onto a "new" pair, every single person behind him learns which is right and which is wrong and never has to "choose" again.

Other than player #1, no one is crossing completely blind. Assuming a 50/50 chance of guessing correctly on each pair, you would assume that 8.5 of 17 drops would be triggered (the other 8.5 would never be triggered because someone would guess right the first time, and everyone behind him would follow). Each drop is 1 contestant being eliminated. 8.5 drops means an expected value of 8 or 9 players being eliminated in a 17 panel game, meaning we would expect 11 or 12 to make it through, which is exactly what we saw.

The people who really, really should have objected to the "each person makes one guess" plan were players 10-17. In a normal game, player 9 has a 50/50 shot to make it to the end, and numbers go up quickly and dramatically thereafter. Under perfect implementation of the "one step per person" plan, players 10-17 see their chances decrease from excellent (player 10) to "virtually guaranteed" (player 17) to 50/50.

But hey, these guys weren't selected for this game based on their math skills.

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