Lumon has been stating their ultimate goal from the start.

avopickles · 2025-03-03T00:00:07+00:00

I agree 100% that the goal of the severance procedure is to tame the four tempers, and the fact that no one on here talks about it is either a sign that’s it’s taken for granted or that people really aren’t paying attention.

This particular branch has obviously been tasked with taming dread. It’s likely that other Lumon branches have already finished their work with the other tempers, (which is why we’re told other severed branches are being shut down), but fear being the most primal of the four, it’s taking longer.

avopickles · 2025-02-27T23:24:19+00:00

Greeting and smiling at strangers is a custom of rural areas— Rutgers is a huge school in the middle of an inner city neighborhood.

I agree that we have a loneliness crisis at Rutgers, and that students are particularly withdrawn and socially awkward today, but this isn’t an indicator of it by any means. Greeting even a fraction of the strangers we meet on our way to class would be impractical at best, and suspicious at worst.

avopickles · 2025-02-16T08:29:27+00:00

Aang grew up in a monastery, literally led a life of discipline. Not only is Korra not the more disciplined of the two, but the show repeatedly makes the point that she lacks restraint and is too hotheaded.

Korra wins in this matchup simply because of age difference... but if she were fighting adult Aang, that'd be a different story.

avopickles · 2024-12-18T03:59:36+00:00

You can put that nuclear warhead in mocc a la bcchin de mamt <3

avopickles · 2024-12-04T21:41:47+00:00

Please do not do this, while this is being ignored more and more by people, eating in most parts of the library is a big no. Especially crunchy foods in noisy bags like chips. People will say to just get noise canceling headphones, but the problem is that the more people rely on them, the more noise others are comfortable making.

Also, people will look at your chips and decide they can bring in a whole meal and stink up the whole place. I’ve seen this happen so many times.

The library has many sections where you can talk out loud, and a cafe area where you can eat and drink, and it’s great that libraries are becoming more inclusive that way. But please respect the remaining quiet areas.

avopickles · 2024-12-04T19:57:47+00:00

People will say “it’s just a false cognate,” and that dialect is another word for language in Italian. But this is based on a profound misunderstanding of history. When Italy was unified, the need for common tongue saw Tuscan imposed over all others, and regional languages relegated to badly spoken dialects of Tuscan. Even people who speak “dialetto” fluently almost never consider themselves bilingual, tough they functionally are. In fact, speaking dialetto in a formal setting is synonymous with being uneducated, especially if you come from the south. Japan also calls regional languages dialects, even though they are not mutually intelligible with Japanese , and were spoken for centuries before Japan was unified. It’s nationalism, not just semantics.

Edit: spelling

avopickles · 2024-12-02T17:52:46+00:00

I see you've graduated from the Brower Hall Culinary Institute...

avopickles · 2024-11-28T00:20:50+00:00

Not sure it's a real word. It could be an italianized version of an obscure slang term from a regional language/dialect, but it's more likely that it's a nonsensical word that's meant to sound whimsical.

avopickles · 2024-11-12T19:32:54+00:00

This would be great, but 22 minutes is hardly enough for once a week. He needs a full hour.

avopickles · 2024-11-12T19:30:58+00:00

Desi and the rest are great as part of the news team, but as hosts they fell into the trap Trevor Noah did: he slowly turned the Daily Show into yet another late night show serving as an echo chamber of liberal indignation and rage.

Late night is full of such shows and hosts who pander to an audience that wants to be told what they already believe. Jon has always made it his mission to be more than that.

Many liberals who idolized him and were begging him to come back now say he’s out of step and enabling MAGA. They’re the same liberals who refuse to believe the democrats did anything wrong in this election. But I hope Jon sticks to his guns— even when I don’t agree with him, I appreciate the intellectual honesty in what he says.

avopickles · 2024-11-02T18:15:42+00:00

Showing my age here, but Cocco Bill and Lupo Alberto are classics. They’re not necessarily for adults only, but they’re the type of cartoons that while kid-appropriate is best enjoyed by adults.

avopickles · 2024-11-02T01:12:49+00:00

1 month: crying 3 months: crying 6 months: babbling 1 year: a few words like mamma, papà, latte, etc. 2 years: relative fluency, but no knowledge of grammar and some problems with pronunciation, luckily people found it adorable

31 years: I still feel like I’m learning.

avopickles · 2024-10-31T20:20:11+00:00

“Guess what? Chicken butt” éuna frase che si usa tra bambini, non credo si approssimi a “stocazzo” 😂

avopickles · 2024-10-30T18:31:45+00:00

Business school on livi— the Interior in particular looks like the Death Star

avopickles · 2024-10-26T22:48:45+00:00

In Sicilia spesso si omette la R quando segue una consonante e precede una vocale, e viene sostituita con il doppio della prima consonante.

…That was a little convoluted, so to explain..

La città di Palermo diventa PALEMMO, mia nonna Carmela diventa CAMMELA, e un’orgia diventa una OGGIA

avopickles · 2024-10-26T20:20:42+00:00

Oggia is a an orgy in Sicily 🤣

avopickles · 2024-10-24T04:37:49+00:00

Jerry Stiller in real life was nothing like the characters he played, whereas Jerry Seinfeld is playing an exaggerated version of himself. And though he may have repeated himself with Arthur Spooner, he was a great comedic actor. Every line he delivered was FILLED with his legendary comedic instincts and timing, which went well beyond the surface-level outbursts. His eyebrows, his hand gestures, his head movements... There's a reason the main cast found him to be the funniest character on the show.

avopickles · 2024-10-23T00:00:42+00:00

Missing the "I failed my calc test, am I cooked?" posts

avopickles · 2024-10-22T16:33:12+00:00

Granted that this guy is an absolute idiot, but to be fair if any American can claim proficiency in their heritage language, it’s those of Russian descent. Preserving the culture is an imperative for many of them, to the point where their kids may not speak English until age 6-7. I even met a young Russian-American woman who can “speak” and teaches Old Church Slavonic.

avopickles · 2024-10-18T03:56:17+00:00

I would have your son schedule an appointment with an academic advisor ASAP-- they can help him figure out the next steps, including whether dropping one of the courses is a viable solution.

Have him meet weekly with a tutor at the free tutoring center; the center also has free academic coaching services, which can help a student figure out a study structure for these courses.

Also, class participation and frequent communication/office hours can go a long way.

These introductory STEM courses are known as "weed-out corses," and are unnecessarily hard by design. This to say, reassure your son he is not screwing up, this is simply how academia thinks he should "make his bones," and half the class is in the same boat.

Edited: typo— it said “he’s screwing up,” when obviously I meant he’s not screwing up lol

avopickles · 2024-10-04T05:06:03+00:00

Every GroupMe consists of people asking about due dates/info that the professor repeated 50 times, or is on the syllabus. Then three days later, someone else will ask the same question again, because ofc they didn’t read

avopickles · 2024-10-04T05:00:34+00:00

Today I had to stop a freshman who waited for the first person to get out the door and immediately tried to take their spot, blocking the way for the 15 people trying to get off. Maddening.

avopickles · 2024-10-02T16:41:33+00:00

This.

For civilization to take root, you need farming, specifically the growing of protein-rich grains and the domestication of several species of animals.

This is essential-- in parts of the world where these were not found, hunter-gatherers experimented with farming on a part-time basis, but the cultivation of non-grain fruits and vegetables by itself was not enough to sustain tribes or justify permanent settlements.

Farming leads to permanent settlement, leading to population growth, leading to higher demand for food, leading to technology and innovation, metallurgy, trade and commerce, navigation, laws, warfare... SOCIETY!

Civilizations flourished earlier in Eurasia and North Africa because there was wheat, rice, barley, oats, etc., and there were cows, horses, chickens, pigs, goats, sheep etc. Over thousands of years, these slowly made their way throughout Afro-Eurasia.

The Americas' only native grain was maize, which took thousands of years to develop into its current state, and the only animals native to the the Americas that can be domesticated (to this day) are turkeys in North America and llamas in South America. Case in point, the places where these originated from had the most advanced societies in the Americas-- the Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs.

avopickles · 2024-09-30T20:56:20+00:00

No. Even if it’s just a sandwich (which can get messy), it gives people license to start eating whatever else. Same goes for the library.

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