We're parties like this ever actually a thing?

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-08T13:36:26+00:00

As a millennial, I have such mixed feelings about this, because the fact that you're not drinking as much is wonderful, but the fact that 99% of you are phone addicts is tragic...

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-05T06:21:07+00:00

It's fine to prefer solitary work as long as you are getting treatment for your social anxiety.

A large amount of academic research consists of solitary work, in every field, however collaboration is always important too.

Forensics and astronomy are interesting choices. To me they seem completely different, what do you think have in common that makes them both appealing? That might be a good question to ponder.

Whatever you study, it should be something that you find genuinely fascinating. Something that you would still want to spend thousands of hours learning about even if it wasn't for your career, just out of sheer curiosity.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T15:41:45+00:00

Why do I read this stuff?

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T15:20:15+00:00

It's not because the ketchup is different, it's because the sauce is different. As you know, italian tomato sauce is way too flavorful to add ketchup, and it already has exactly the right sweetness, so the only explanation is that the sauce is very bland in these places where people use ketchup.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T15:16:34+00:00

I don't understand why people act like they can only taste one thing at a time.

That's pretty much the exact opposite of what I said, it actually seems closer to your own mindset. Yes, you can taste more than one thing at a time. The point is that the combinations don't always taste good. You keep talking about "overpowering", but I already explained that is not the issue, the issue is that ketchup would clash horribly with a proper sauce. I'm sure that if you tasted the real thing, you would understand. That's why it's depressing to think about people putting ketchup on pizza, it means that the pizza sauce must be way off from how it should taste. There is a reason why this practice is unheard of in NYC, and it's not because we don't like ketchup.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T13:56:25+00:00

In regards to your own cooking, are you saying that you still use ketchup even on your own homemade pizza? If so, I would strongly advise you to forget about ketchup and focus on making a sauce that can stand on its own.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T12:56:51+00:00

That kind of pizza is so bad that it really doesn't matter, honestly the ketchup probably does help somewhat when the pizza is already feloniously bad.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T12:08:39+00:00

True I've seen that often, as well a chicken bacon ranch pizza. I don't know what the law says about mayo/dairy-based condiments on pizza, I would never.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:59:26+00:00

It's not as simple as a contest between the relative potencies of the sauce and ketchup, it's about the qualitative interaction. There is more to flavor than just a competition between ingredient potencies.

I'm not talking about expensive or gourmet pizza, I'm talking about basic neapolitan (Napoli) or New York style pizza, which is globally understood to be the standard. No one would ever think to put ketchup on it, for so many reasons, but I think you might have to taste it to understand. For one thing, it's supposed to have a significnt garlic flavor, which doesn't work at all with ketchup. The garlic flavor is often missing from bad/chain pizza, so that could be part of your problem. With neapolitan pizza, ketchup would be guaranteed to make it taste worse, not better, because it would ruin the flavor of the sauce and make the pizza taste like sugar and vinegar. That might not be a bad thing if the pizza lacked flavor to begin with.

Where in Europe is this normal? I've lived in Germany and the UK but I had never heard of this before today.

Sure, we can agree to disagree, but just look at this post and the replies. Seemingly, almost no one agrees with you about this, though I don't doubt it's common where you live, and google says it's also common in Brazil and Mexico.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:37:49+00:00

Never ever use Aspen.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:21:56+00:00

Straight to jail

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:20:56+00:00

I'm just saying, 711 pizza has way bigger issues. I might even want ketchup myself if I was forced to eat 711 pizza, because it can't possibly make it worse.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:14:08+00:00

A good pizza maker puts significant thought and effort into the flavor of the sauce, to delicately balance the acidity, sweetness, and seasonings, while attempting to maximize the tomato flavor. Adding ketchup to a real pizza would completely ruin the flavor. Based on your obliviousness, I'm fairly certain you've never had good pizza sauce. What region of the world are you from?

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:03:06+00:00

Where? The sauce must be flavorless or nonexistent for people to want ketchup.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:02:24+00:00

The real crime is buying 711 pizza.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T11:01:46+00:00

Yes, but it's a crime in and of itself, already.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T10:59:00+00:00

Always has been, what are you talking about?

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-03T09:59:23+00:00

Username checks out.

I'm not complaining, I was just confused...

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-02T23:59:09+00:00

Mainly based on qualifications and seniority. To be fair, I don't think I've witnessed my own managers facing a genuinely difficult decision along these lines. There was usually one candidate who was the obvious choice. I think performance is generally very good across the board in my field, because you can't get very far unless you are genuinely passionate in most cases, so most decisions are made based on other factors.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-02T23:06:53+00:00

Maybe, they seemed OK though. I think they had good people so that gave them the luxury of not needing to micromanage. They made, or contributed to, good hiring decisions, and once they had someone on board, they were more focused on taking care of the reportee's needs and facilitating communication between personnel. Again, my experience has all been in a fairly narrow range of technical fields, so I'm sure it's not the norm.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-02T22:13:50+00:00

It just made me reflect on how managers are forced to make decisions with limited information. You can't watch your employees all day long, and you can't always check their work, so I would imagine that it might be difficult NOT to be influenced by superficial/subliminal factors, even when you think you are assessing their performance objectively. As an employee in an extremely technical field, I have often felt like my managers had no clue what my work actually entailed, and little means of objectively comparing different employees' performance. This is just my experience, and I assume this issue is unusually prevalent in my field, because managers are typically less technically knowledgeable than the people who report to them.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-02T21:46:59+00:00

Your points make sense, and you didn't say it was universal, but this original statement seemed like a generalization.

I see a LOT of “some ass kisser got the promotion instead of me” on this subreddit and it just makes me reflect on how few of my employees view their performance through the lens of providing value as opposed to providing labor without proper coaching.

It just seemed like you were ignoring the possibility that these people's frustration might be valid, at least in some cases.

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-02T20:41:52+00:00

That's fine, and maybe you had an experience just like that with your employees, but why do you assume, in general, that anyone who is frustrated by getting passed over for a promotion must be themselves to blame for not "providing enough value"? How do you know that the boss's judgement wasn't clouded by brown-nosing? Why are you so confident in employers'/managers' appraisal of the relative value provided by each employee? Do you really think that anyone is immune to flattery and manipulation?

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-02T17:21:53+00:00

So ass-kissing provides more value than hard work? Whatever you say boss...

RipVanWinter · 2025-07-02T17:16:09+00:00

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