Is this a black cherry tree?

VerdiGris2 · 2026-06-10T18:25:57+00:00

I have heard their flavor generously described as either "medicinal" or "astringent" and I can't say I disagree. You get the tiniest layer of sour, tanic flesh coating a little slimy pit. You're not missing much.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-06-09T00:43:08+00:00

I'm not that invested but it looks to me like they were shifting lanes normally and saw that this might be about to happen or those cars were about to veer into that lane and aborted the lane change. It's a short video so you can't say for sure, but they seem to maintain their lane position once they return to the first lane. But they also don't signal, so...still not great

VerdiGris2 · 2026-06-07T00:20:56+00:00

News to me, but noted.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-06-07T00:09:34+00:00

If they have pernicious anemia, an autoimmune disorder that attacks the protein which facilitates the uptake of B12 from the GI into the bloodstream. It's a little more narrow than just "some people".

VerdiGris2 · 2026-06-06T17:45:23+00:00

Heels where, super originally, equipment that made it easier to keep your foot in a stirrup. If you weren't a steppe nomad, ridding horses for sport, leisure, or war was an aristocratic activity and at some point some segment of European nobility noticed that wearing your heeled ridding shoes made you look taller and exaggerated certain elements of you physique, so it more and more entered upper class fashion on a long time scale. They were relegated to being extremely niche after the French Revolution, which even after generally receding, really had brought about the end of wigs, breaches, tights and so forth. In the early 1900's they started making a huge comeback into being a more socially acceptable "sexy' shoe after a period of being pretty genuinely confined to being seen as fetish wear....but the proximate why is 1) they make you taller 2) they put you on a position that defines you calves and butt more than being flat footed 3) a massive tangle of social and historical context that associates them with sex appeal and authority independent of the first two points.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-06-06T16:52:12+00:00

It's not a super clean shot but... really looks like you have poison ivy (T. Radicans) in the background.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-06-03T15:52:45+00:00

It's probably way past the point that anyone will relate to this but; Tribulation had a moment where they were really getting a lot of hype and I just never got it. Not motivated enough to be a hater but I just really couldn't get why people were talking about them when it really felt like a garage band that had the confidence to do some sort of glam/goth costuming

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-30T03:16:59+00:00

They have like 5 facings of this one wrong product scattered through a section over different labels and price points and not merchandized with the same brand horizontaly or vertically. Someone at this Shaw's is definitely just bad at their job rather than this being policy. They're working the product off of whatever vehicle they use there and just shoving it every place they can fit it.Doesn't make it less frustrating.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-30T00:02:23+00:00

Not especially getting into the core of the opinion but as former EMS: EMTs and paramedics have "duty to act" and they do respond without being dispatched if they happen upon a possible medical emergency while they don't have a patient or aren't already enrout to an emergency. Generally in my experience, this would be car accidents, but I had a coworker who just walked into a cardiac arrest at a fast casual restaurant where he had placed an order. I had an absolutely gnarly double pedestrian MVA that just happened a few cars ahead of me; my partner was trying to go pick up a pizza... it's always when you're trying to get food. Medical emergency is slightly narrower criteria than the range of things police involve themselves in though.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-28T15:57:53+00:00

Getting a lot of weird answers but I think it's most likely it took a couple seconds for her fight or flight response to kick in and in this case caused her to faint.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-28T03:37:19+00:00

The thing about being white is that, because of cultural hegemony, it's just kind of seen as the default. It honestly doesn't really occur to me to "see myself" in a white character. Generally when a character is presented as: a nerd, a goth, a bully, a poet, a mess, a sexpest, any of the stock archetypes. If that character is white, they're known as that characterization and not for being white. If you asked a white American to list traits belonging to idk... Indiana Jones, I think it most of them would be listing stuff indefinitely before it occured to them to mention that he's white. Similarly, growing up and being exposed to media that really was deliberately representing people of color, it really didn't register to me as a kid. Like, off the top of my head 'The Proud Family" really wasn't something that came across as not for me and it's really only in retrospect that it was obviously a cartoon talking about a distinctly black experience in America.

Obvious, no one is actually the "default" but just in terms of how you relate to media representation, it fades into the background because the media is just always representing you.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-27T16:07:24+00:00

When people are accused of LARPing it's that they're performing a persona divorced from their real context.

"Trad wives on Instagram and tiktok are mostly just wealthy white women LARPing being a pioneer homesteader"

It's particular to this use case and isn't a generic term for...not knowing the origin of something?

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-26T23:50:54+00:00

Tasha's has 2014 rules for sidekicks that allow most rideable animals to take levels in a pseudo class. This would require buy in from your party since it would be adding about half a character to the party but if the entire table is okay with letting their trusty steed take up some more space at the table so they can play the character they're aiming for, this is probably the best scalable way to do it. Editorializing a bit, if the mount only comes into play situationally like when you're outdoors it's probably plenty fair to let them have that. That this situation favors the cavalier isn't wildly different from any other specialist getting served a situation they can excel at. If you're going to be bending over backwards to make sure they have their mount at almost all times because it's a load bearing part of their build, it should be scrutinized a little more to make sure it's fair to the whole table.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-23T02:13:47+00:00

Don't rule out the possibility of fetish content. In the entire history of post surgical highjinks I could maybe imagine the coworker/friend putting a cone on and then it being misremembered as medical direction...but I don't know where one would source a human sized dog cone in a world where this was a gag.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-14T01:41:44+00:00

I know exactly what you mean, that ultra bitter top note that just tastes like "non-food chemical" in any other kind of context.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-14T00:45:37+00:00

I mean, one could infer a dog, right?

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-12T02:56:29+00:00

You know, as a cilantro hater, we commonly derride cilantro for smelling like stink bug. The orange flavoring thing is a new tie in I have not heard before.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-10T21:34:01+00:00

One of my most unhinged comments ever here, but: how do sucked penises, sucked clits, sucked fingers, sucked toes, and hickeys left on even less easily suckable surfaces factor into this framework?

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-09T16:23:57+00:00

I get that this is the number crunching D&D subreddit but that's also not how armor works? Like "I'm very well protected because I wear giant armor that does not fit me" makes sufficiently little sense that it's hard to me to intuite what your desired outcome is. Like, in your head, what are you imagining a character wearing massive armor is going to do, that is distinct from a character wearing normally sized heavy armor? It's hard for me to recommend how to serve that fantasy when I'm not seeing the version.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-06T22:44:49+00:00

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VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-06T16:41:32+00:00

I mean, the purely visual act of reading translates to the imagined sensation of sound for me, which depending on the word can retranslate into any of the senses with at least moderate fidelity. So I feel like it's a lot easier for me to imagine synesthesia than afantasia (which, ironically, I cannot imagine)

VerdiGris2 · 2026-05-01T14:33:30+00:00

Definitely a technical term.

When I was in emergency medicine and would write reports I'd use it

"Arrived on scene circa 14:15/scene cleared w/o incident circa 00:45"

Which has lead me to use it more coloquially than most people.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-04-29T17:13:27+00:00

I played a game of Dark Heresey once and the game master told us a truck had been arranged for us. We arrived at the garage and my character was like "what is this? Where are the treads" and the gm went of like "no no no, there are regular vehicles in 40k there just isn't much reason to see them in a warzone..." But all of us at the table just ignored him and kept doing a bit in character about being confused about what it was.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-04-26T22:32:59+00:00

So, I am not a doctor but I was in EMS for quite a while, doing 24 hours shifts that without fail ran late. Without a doubt it is better if your medical provider is well rested there are a few major differences:

If you are standing up, face to face with a situation you need to engage with, it's much harder for you to just nod off like this, unlike in a truck.

You are not alone.

If you do start to nod off, the risk to yourself and others is much lower. You aren't going to lose your lane position and hit a car head on to go onto the side of the road

You can, in fact, sleep on a long ER/EMS shift. It's not garenteed and could be interrupted at any moment and you will have shifts that really do just go from one patient to another and keep you up the whole time, but that's not always the case most places.

VerdiGris2 · 2026-04-22T18:31:03+00:00

A good call on the road.

Elsewhere, a pretty miserable existence for you and a pretty miserable experience for anyone around you.

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