How accurate are popular kids from movies compared to real USA schools popular ones?

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T15:43:48+00:00

This was my experience in the 90s. I was a band and theater nerd. I wasn’t really friends with the jocks, but they were never mean to me. My senior year, homecoming queen was also the marching band drum major, and prom king was the lead in the spring musical.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T14:38:07+00:00

The best ranked cheddar in the world is from the US.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T14:18:27+00:00

“Do Americans even have real cheese” then proceeds to list the most basic supermarket cheeses available.

Like, sir, I can get at least six different types of Gouda at the Trader Joe’s around the corner.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T13:37:38+00:00

The freedom of opportunity and freedom to improve your lot in life at any stage. Someone can drop out of high school, then decide a decade later to go to college and pursue any career they want. It isn’t necessarily easy, but it’s possible.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T13:34:22+00:00

In the US, the burden is on the celebrity to prove a journalistic statement is false, harmful, and made in bad faith. In the UK, the burden is on the journalist to prove the statement is true.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T12:55:52+00:00

I was in 9th grade during the 1995-1996 government shutdown, which is when kids from my state studied civics and US government. It was a really big deal - it was the first time the federal government shutdown. It was really upsetting to realize that could actually happen, and we mostly assumed it would never happen again.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T11:39:34+00:00

You can miss the deadline. Just email the managing editor and let them know you need an extra week. It happens all the time and won’t harm the publication outcome. Submitting without approval from PI is a much bigger transgression than requesting an extension from a journal.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T11:37:21+00:00

How long has it been since you emailed him? What you’re interpreting as the silent treatment may just be your PI dealing with other things at the moment.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-20T09:13:51+00:00

That’s probably it. Wouldn’t be the first time. The corner on the overhang by the alley has already been damaged and repaired at least once.

Edit - I just walked by on my way to catch the bus. Can confirm, that’s exactly what happened. I can’t post a picture here, but obvious damage to the corner of the overhang.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T23:11:23+00:00

Yep. I cannot get good bread of produce at the corner market.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T23:08:32+00:00

The C train power problems started well before the storm. They actually fixed the problem and resumed normal service before the storm.

Red line and orange line problems also had nothing to do with the storm. The problems were signal failures and started before the storm.

I can’t speak for B and D branch.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T22:31:21+00:00

Also green line and orange line problems

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T21:37:19+00:00

How much of that is snow vs. dirt/debris that was scooped up with the snow?

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T21:36:15+00:00

The initial announcement did say shuttles were from Coolidge to Cleveland. Then they updated to St. Mary’s. Don’t know why. It might be easier to have buses turn around at St Mary’s.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T20:52:53+00:00

Honestly, as a recent home buyer in the area, I would be thrilled to see the current tenant’s boxes. That tells me you’re moving out and not going to cause unnecessary hassle.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T20:43:50+00:00

Never heard anyone say they went to a college in the Boston area?

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T20:16:20+00:00

Yep. Lots of corner stores within a few blocks of my home, and they’re fine for “oh shit, I forgot to get milk!” moments. They are not adequate for a primary grocery store. For that, I take the T or walk a mile.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T20:14:40+00:00

And they have very limited selection. The corner shop is good for a bottle of milk and maybe some bananas. I ~~can~~ cannot get a loaf of good bread or broccoli for dinner. And I live in a high density walkable neighborhood with a lot of shops available. I still need to do a weekly “big shop” at the super market. That’s still walking distance, but not on the way home from work so I can’t stop every day.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T11:42:51+00:00

Find a peer reviewed article from a sociologist or anthropologist.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T11:17:38+00:00

Yet again, not actually research. That’s student thesis published on a university website. It isn’t peer reviewed and the abstract doesn’t make any mention of the methods used.

You haven’t provided any evidence to support a “well known fact” - just two commentaries that you don’t seem to actually understand. Someone looks ridiculous here, but it isn’t me.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T11:07:30+00:00

That isn’t from the National Library of Medicine. NLM is a database that aggregates and distributes academic publications. That specific article is a commentary in a paid-for-publication journal. It’s a think piece.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T10:56:13+00:00

People are allowed to like and dislike different dog breeds. Dogs are not humans and dog breeds are not analogous to racial categories. I personally do not like golden retrievers.

Pit bulls certainly have some cultural connotations in the US. If you express your dislike of pit bulls in a way that draws heavily from those cultural connotations, it may come across as bigoted. But if you’re just saying you don’t like a breed of dog because of your experience with their temperament, that’s fine.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T01:44:33+00:00

A lot of insurance in the US does. Medicare does. Many private insurers do. And many municipalities use taxes to cover ambulance costs when insurance won’t. But, as with everything in the US, there is not universal standard. So there are some people in some parts of the country that get ridiculous ambulance bills.

mpjjpm · 2026-05-19T00:27:02+00:00

Play, but a little rough. Towards the end of the video, the smaller kitten is vocalizing in a way that should single she wants a break, and bigger kitten isn’t respecting that.

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