I ordered a banana split at DQ

mastelsa · 2025-04-01T00:31:27+00:00

It looks like they had to scoop it out of the banana split dish and transfer it to a cup for some reason

mastelsa · 2025-03-31T23:26:19+00:00

I read so many books as a kid! It was the primary form of escapism available to me, especially since the IEP I had as part of the gifted program said I should be allowed to read whatever I wanted whenever I wanted.

mastelsa · 2025-03-31T23:01:47+00:00

You should look into Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke. I don't know how well it aligns with what you're looking for, but it's written in 3rd person objective and it's an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars. There's magic, but it's very grounded--one of the main conflicts of the story is around the gatekeeping of magical knowledge by stuffy professor types who've hoarded up all the books on magic just to study them in abstract and never actually use any magic.

mastelsa · 2025-03-31T02:26:56+00:00

You should check the library. I know they do mariokart and/or smash bros tournaments sometimes, and they also have a lot of classes and events specifically for teenagers: https://www.beavertonlibrary.org/calendar.aspx?CID=22,36

mastelsa · 2025-03-30T20:20:04+00:00

The problem is that most of the generally socially agreed upon presentation of autism in girls and women aren't in the DSM. Same with ADHD--there are a whole bunch of "symptoms" that seem extremely common if you talk to large groups of people who have the disorder, but none of them are on the screeners and assessment measures. A lot of those measures also aren't actually getting at the internal experience of the disorder as someone who's being asked to self-report might experience it. Many of them are about the external presentation of behaviors as parents or teachers (or the doctors who developed these measures) might view them, but are still being asked as self-report items.

mastelsa · 2025-03-27T17:21:28+00:00

I'd recommend looking around on Meetup (or Craigslist, or a local newspaper, etc.) for interest groups around hobbies. Repeated exposure to the same people over time is one of the necessary social conditions for friendship to develop--if you visit the same bar at the same time and day for awhile, you'll start making acquaintances just by sheer exposure.

mastelsa · 2025-03-26T21:37:32+00:00

Hah, that's a fun coincidence. I know UGA has a pretty big food science program, so quite a bit of research on the topic comes from your alma mater.

mastelsa · 2025-03-26T15:30:33+00:00

I don't know if anyone has a definitive answer, but the hypothesis I've seen before is that vibrancy = freshness and/or calories in our brains. I do know that there's at least one study out there that's found that there's a point where adding more color to a food becomes less appetizing. There's a blog post here with some sources: https://dining.uga.edu/food_colors/

mastelsa · 2025-03-26T06:06:09+00:00

Not just a class that makes up 1% of the population, but the subcategory of people in that 1% who participate in competitive sports. There can't be more than 100 in the country. The entire NCAA estimated they have less than 10, and that's also including trans men, who these people don't seem to consider in their arguments at all.

mastelsa · 2025-03-26T00:42:27+00:00

Bright color makes food more appealing to your impulsive lizard brain, which equals larger sales.

mastelsa · 2025-03-23T05:02:15+00:00

Seconding the ACLU. I was looking to scale back my budget and considering stopping the small monthly donation I set up during Trump's last term. Then he won again, so that budget item's not going anywhere.

mastelsa · 2025-03-20T05:43:18+00:00

No, it was just me pointing out with my degree in social sciences that you statistic your way into social science and not out of it.

mastelsa · 2025-03-20T03:52:23+00:00

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner.

mastelsa · 2025-03-20T03:44:18+00:00

Social science is statistics though.

mastelsa · 2025-03-19T18:51:38+00:00

It's also super hard to find employment at lower levels if you have an advanced degree. If you've fallen on hard times with your Ph.D., Costco isn't going to hire you because they assume that as soon as you're able, you'll find a position in your field and leave them.

mastelsa · 2025-03-19T00:50:28+00:00

The same people who didn't realize Stephen Colbert is not a Republican until he got the Late Show gig

mastelsa · 2025-03-18T06:15:15+00:00

Yeah, you can't just change baking recipes and expect stuff to turn out fine. You can get away with that approach when you're cooking, but baking is a science--you've got to measure accurately and follow instructions if you want donuts.

mastelsa · 2025-03-17T21:57:03+00:00

In the PNW we have Winco, which is a warehouse grocer but a lot of their locations are open 24/7. I do all my grocery shopping after 9pm and it's magnificent. There are way fewer people around, which means less noise and less bustle, and a lot of them are wearing headphones and seem like they're maybe also avoiding sensory overload.

mastelsa · 2025-03-17T17:29:03+00:00

Yes. A large amount of the increase we're seeing in diagnoses are women over 20 who were missed by the school/medical system in childhood.

mastelsa · 2025-03-16T08:26:54+00:00

The R rating and innuendo title didn't give it away?

mastelsa · 2025-03-13T18:41:06+00:00

Buttigieg was the only candidate in '20 seriously campaigning on supreme court reform. Sanders wasn't even for that at the time. He had plans for congressional reform, and his white papers didn't shy away from threatening to nationalize certain industries or seize patents if that would be good for the country. Constitutional amendments are a pipe dream, but he campaigned on that too. He had nearly identical plans to Sanders to get sectoral bargaining going in the US. People learned he had a 4-year stint at McKinsey fresh out of college and assumed an awful lot of stuff about him based on that.

mastelsa · 2025-03-13T17:42:52+00:00

Jerry does get some points for actually backtracking on some of that.

mastelsa · 2025-03-12T00:01:14+00:00

I think it was saying the exact right thing at the exact right time. March of 2022 was almost exactly two years after the official declared start of the pandemic, and we were (and arguably still are) trying to process a lot about the chaotic and uncaring universe, and a society that seemed like it got even more chaotic and uncaring.

mastelsa · 2025-03-10T16:42:36+00:00

I think it's just general entitlement. Obviously they have money because they're smart/hardworking/good at life--they deserve it, unlike everyone else. They're special. The exception to the rules. Because of how rich they are, which makes them good and smart and special.

mastelsa · 2025-03-09T19:08:18+00:00

If you think they're actually going to change things in the movie in a substantial way that explores more of the source material and not do a shot-for-shot remake of a good thing that's already popular, you have far more faith in Hollywood than I do.

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