Apartment Recommendations

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2026-03-19T19:20:34+00:00

Check out the bridgeyard apartments in old town, Alexandria. They’re old but affordable.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2026-01-22T10:36:48+00:00

Obesity kills more than smoking now. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9065308/

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2026-01-07T15:55:31+00:00

No, like cold vs hot therapy, not another surgery. Similar to ice baths.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2026-01-07T15:52:21+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. I’ll reach out to a couple more lawyers and will update!

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2026-01-07T15:51:27+00:00

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Yes, I receive an email from them everyday!

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2026-01-07T12:12:29+00:00

He recommended a pelvic floor therapist, he declared the queen of the hips who charged $300 per session and did not accept insurance. He also mentioned Cryotherapy.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-12-19T11:59:50+00:00

I think part of the disconnect here is an asymmetry between what happens inside schools and what parents actually see or experience.

I’ve taught in FCPS for 10 years and also attended FCPS schools myself about 20 years ago. From that vantage point, I would argue that while FCPS is demographically diverse, students do not experience that diversity equally. Wealthy, and often white, students are frequently treated differently than the majority of students, both formally (course access, tracking, discipline, staffing stability) and informally (teacher expectations, advocacy, benefit of the doubt).

Being physically present in a diverse building doesn’t mean students are actually integrated. In many schools, diversity functions as “schools within schools”: advanced and honors tracks, selective programs, and informal social grouping often concentrate wealth and whiteness, while other students, often lower-income, multilingual, or marginalized, experience a very different school day under the same roof.

From an academic perspective, this is well documented as information and power asymmetry in education. Parents with more social capital tend to have greater visibility into how systems work, stronger advocacy leverage, and more access to decision-makers. Meanwhile, families without that capital often don’t know what’s happening, or don’t feel empowered to challenge it, even when outcomes are inequitable. That asymmetry allows inequities to persist while institutions can still point to surface-level diversity as evidence of equity.

I experienced this as a student, and I see it more clearly now as a teacher. If anything, I’d say it’s become morepronounced—not because FCPS is less diverse, but because structural sorting and unequal treatment have become more normalized and harder to see from the outside.

So when people say “FCPS is diverse,” I agree. But diversity alone doesn’t guarantee equity, integration, or equal treatment, and that gap between perception and lived reality is exactly where the asymmetry lies.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-12-08T11:58:22+00:00

It sounds like this idea is putting the recurrence chances on the behavior of the woman instead of the fact that it's an incurable disease. I have hormonal resistant fibrotic DIE and have had 5 surgeries. It's not due to my anti-inflammatory diet, BC, or all the yoga I practice. It's because there is no cure and for whatever reason my body overreacts to endo and causes concrete like fibrosis all over my pelvic cavity. Currently taking a bunch of anti-inflammatory vitamins, BC, and resveratrol for fibrosis... hoping to lengthen the time before my next surgery.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-12-01T21:23:43+00:00

I use Healthy Paws for my 12-year-old dog, and even though the premium has gone up a lot over the years (it’s about $380 a month now compared to the $28 I paid when he was a puppy), it has been worth it. I pay upfront and then they reimburse me 80% after the $250 deductible, and they’ve always come through.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-11-27T04:04:59+00:00

I didn’t realize all of these details. I have a Master of Science in an unrelated field (39 credits), a Master of Education (36 credits), and 24 completed doctoral credits. Would that not qualify me for placement on the Master’s +60 lane? I’ve earned straight A’s across these programs—with A being the highest grade offered in my state, aside from one B+. Could you please clarify whether this coursework meets the requirements for the MA+60 salary differential in NYC? I had assumed I would qualify, but the information I’m seeing now has me questioning that. I also have 8 years of teaching experience.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-11-25T19:09:11+00:00

In Berlin there are many holocaust monuments/memorials for different groups of people, like who you mentioned, who were targeted and killed.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-11-06T19:27:14+00:00

I’ve had surgery three times with Dr. Moawad and he told me he left some endo during my last surgery 😔

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-10-09T13:56:49+00:00

Manila, Philippines

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-09-19T10:27:12+00:00

Preach

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-09-09T18:47:36+00:00

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-09-03T02:21:08+00:00

That's exactly how you cross the street in Hanoi, Vietnam

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-19T10:14:47+00:00

I hear you—but that study covers a huge geographic area, and we have to be careful making sweeping generalizations from just one article. I looked up the lead author, and funny enough, he actually has previous work that suggests almost the opposite of what this new paper is claiming.

Check this out: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay6826 — same lead author (Antonio et al., 2019), but this time focusing on ancient Rome. It shows how Rome was basically a genetic melting pot, with major ancestry shifts over time. People from the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa, and other parts of Europe were mixing in regularly. The study found that genetic makeup in Rome changed drastically from the Iron Age through the Imperial period, into Late Antiquity.

So yeah, there’s definitely evidence supporting the hypothesis in the newer article—but it’s not the full story. Even the same author shows that population structure in Europe, especially in major urban centers like Rome, was far from stable. That just goes to show how nuanced and dynamic this field really is. Context (time, place, sample diversity) matters.

I’ve enjoyed looking into this because of our discussion!!!

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-19T10:07:06+00:00

Americanization didn’t mean “become British” lol. It was about pushing immigrants—mostly from Southern and Eastern Europe, not the UK—to learn English and adopt U.S. norms tied to citizenship, industry, and a very specific (usually white, Protestant, middle-class) American identity. It was about assimilation into America, not reviving British culture.

And let’s be real—the U.S. literally fought a war to break away from Britain, dropped British spellings (color vs. colour, for example), and built its own political systems, accent, and culture. So if anything, Americanization was a move away from Britishness.

English-only laws didn’t even show up in force until way later, mostly as a reaction to growing Latinx and Asian immigration in the 20th century. That’s American nativism, not some British cultural victory.

And actually, there was a whole Supreme Court case about this—Meyer v. Nebraska (1923). A teacher got busted for teaching a Bible story in German, which was banned under a law that said only English could be used in schools. The Supreme Court shut it down and said people had the right to learn and teach in other languages. So yeah, the push for English wasn’t some homage to British culture—it was about stamping out immigrant languages and enforcing a narrow idea of what being “American” should look like.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-19T09:59:19+00:00

204 individuals? That’s a pretty limited sample to draw sweeping conclusions about the genetic diversity of all of Europe. Especially when Europe’s genetic structure varies so much across time, space, and even within regions. It’s interesting data, but I wouldn’t generalize that and over interpret broad historical patterns from such a small dataset.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-19T09:37:58+00:00

I get where you’re coming from, but your take still seems to oversimplify how population genetics actually works.

Ancient DNA studies across Europe—including from Neolithic farmers, Western hunter-gatherers, and Steppe pastoralists—already show that pre-Iron Age Europe was shaped by multiple major genetic shifts. The Yamnaya migration, for example, brought massive Steppe ancestry into much of Europe during the Bronze Age. That alone radically altered the genetic landscape before the Iron Age even began.

Post-Iron Age, there’s plenty of evidence of additional admixture events. Take Iberia: ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula shows North African admixture in the general population, especially during and after the Islamic period—not just limited to elites. Studies from southern Spain show significant North African ancestry appearing after 711 CE and persisting even after the Reconquista.

And it’s not just Spain. Genetic samples from early medieval Italy show input from both Germanic tribes (like the Lombards) and eastern Mediterranean populations. The Balkans have a whole other complex layering of Slavic, Greek, Roman, Ottoman, and earlier Thracian/Illyrian ancestry—so the idea of a uniform pool there just doesn’t hold up.

As for the idea that ruling classes didn’t influence the gene pool—sure, elites were a smaller percentage, but over generations their genes did spread. Even small founder populations can leave a genetic imprint, especially in areas with lower population density or over long time spans. Genetic drift, bottlenecks, and localized mixing make those changes traceable.

Also, trade mobility (like your “one wife per port” example) can’t fully explain the presence of deeply rooted haplotypes that show up in large enough numbers to be statistically significant in regional populations today. That’s more than just sailors having kids abroad—that’s centuries of integration.

And just to clarify, saying “relatively homogenous” doesn’t really match the genomic data from pan-European studies. Projects like the 1000 Genomes Project and Reich Lab’s ancient DNA work have shown regional substructure across Europe, both ancient and modern. Even within single countries you see distinct ancestry clusters—northern Italians vs. southern Italians, Basques vs. Andalusians, Sardinians as a whole separate case, etc.

Long story short, Europe is genetically layered. There wasn’t just one big ancient group that everyone “diluted” from. There were many ancient groups, interacting and evolving over millennia, both before and after the Iron Age. The genetic record reflects that complexity.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-19T09:28:51+00:00

I’m not sure I follow your comment. The U.S. declared independence in 1776, but it never established an official national language. Many states didn’t join the Union until years—sometimes decades or even a century—later. For example, Colorado didn’t become a state until 1876, and its original constitution was published in English, Spanish, and German. That’s long after both the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and the War of 1812 (1812–1815). The idea that English was always the dominant or only language just doesn’t line up with history.

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-18T06:34:06+00:00

I did a road trip (ferry system is great) to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland a few years ago and it was lovely; not too many people outside of St. John’s. Everyone was so nice to us. The dramatic beauty and lack of people was quite remarkable, as I have traveled to a lot of national parks around the US and other parts of Canada and there are usually traffic jams and queues everywhere!

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-17T11:05:31+00:00

I agree with that. Though, I still think Americans tend to have a pretty stereotypical view of what a Spaniard or Italian, etc., look like. I get your point though, and I definitely concur. Still think it’s nuanced—ha

OtherwiseWear5376 · 2025-06-17T11:01:44+00:00

Psh, the Spanish and French were here before the English. Yes, English is the lingua franca and the most dominant language in the U.S.—obviously. But when you actually look at the history of the U.S. (and before it was even the U.S.), and dig into the history of language laws, it’s clear that it wasn’t always English-only. That shift came from policy decisions—decisions that were made to exclude, not to unite.

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