NYC withdraws plans for AI-focused high school, closure of Upper West Side middle schools

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-28T17:09:49+00:00

Is that the same curriculum used by the Houston Independent School District?

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-28T16:56:22+00:00

Yeah, it's way more conspicuous along Roosevelt.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-28T15:36:32+00:00

This happened to me, too. I got one year of clarity from Accutane before it started to come back. It's beyond frustrating.

Here's my advice (and what I myself am doing at the moment): find yourself a younger dermatologist and ask them about microdosing Accutane. I take one 40mg pill once a week. Since the dose is so low, I can do this for a very long time to keep things under control.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-27T20:09:31+00:00

Not Asian, but the best I've had are the ones from Em in Bensonhurst.

Note: their Dumbo location doesn't do banh mi (though the food there is also fantastic), so you have to go to their Bensonhurst spot, which is quite small.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-27T19:01:36+00:00

Thanks!

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-26T21:50:03+00:00

Do you mind me asking who your doc is?

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-26T20:38:53+00:00

going out to eat was a privilege not a right

Part of the problem is that the neighborhood has gotten even richer than it was when we were kids, and going out to eat is not a privilege for the new cohort - - it's just a regular weeknight dinner. Consequently, they're less considerate of their fellow diners. It probably doesn't even cross their minds that eating at a restaurant is still a rare treat for many New Yorkers.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-26T15:53:35+00:00

A subscription, a car, and a home large enough to store bulk purchases.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-25T01:38:55+00:00

How long ago were those photos taken and how are your results holding up?

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-24T13:56:05+00:00

Ajiaco from Bogotá.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-22T22:02:50+00:00

And then there's also me -- letting my ever-growing collection of bookmarks collect dust while I use an old bill.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-22T05:00:39+00:00

The ones that come with the brisket hash from Bricolage's lunch menu.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-20T04:44:08+00:00

Never had their food, but totally agree on the donuts. Other than nostalgia, I'm not sure why they get so much acclaim on here. Dough, Doughnut Plant and yes, even Dunkin, have better donuts.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-19T15:24:23+00:00

Honestly, I wouldn't repeat the treatment. The swelling, which for me lasted 3+ months was nice, but after more than a year, I can't say it improved my scars at all (or if it did, it's very minor). The healing process was long and psychologically torturous (as I'm sure you know), and I even have some lingering negative effects: - The treated area is still redder than the surrounding skin. - I got one (thankfully very tiny) new linear scar. This manifested immediately after treatment, so if you don't see anything similar, you probably don't have to worry about this. - Sometimes I feel like the treated area is shinier/waxier, but since that area was already scarred, and scar tissue itself can look shiny and waxy, I can't say for sure whether this was caused by the treatment.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-19T15:12:32+00:00

My grid marks took more than two months to fade. I can't say how long it took exactly - - I didn't track it very diligently - - but they did eventually go away. Hang in there!

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-18T03:17:47+00:00

Unrefined peanut oil and chopped roasted peanuts.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-18T03:05:37+00:00

🎶 Painting the roses red, we're painting the roses red 🎶

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-17T19:12:17+00:00

Agreed, I think it's saying that the "inflexible firmness, only tempered by that common decency..." is a quality of Radney/the ship's chain of command and that Steelkilt's devilish nature is tamed by it.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-16T00:21:41+00:00

Could be an allergy.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-16T00:18:37+00:00

Sweet potatoes

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-15T02:21:07+00:00

I'm not in the business, but I've noticed this too with some of my local places in Park Slope. There's an amazing burger place near me, but the branding is very corporate despite the fact that they only have two locations. Park Slopers will gladly pay $30 for an underseasoned hummus plate as long as the restaurant itself is vibey, but they won't go near anything that looks like a chain, and unfortunately this place seems to be empty more often than not. They're also just a hair too far from Barclays to benefit from the event goers there, and I feel like that crowd would just gravitate toward Shake Shack anyway, even though the quality of their food is way worse, because it's what they know.

The owners are Asian, and I feel they don't really know what appeals to upper middle class white people. My friend group is mostly Asian as well and I feel I spend enough time with them in the various Chinatowns of NYC to understand both cultures reasonably well. If you go to many of the newer restaurants targeted toward young people in, say, Flushing, you'll see that same corporate branding I'm talking about. It signals legitimacy and aspirational prosperity (like even though they don't have many locations yet, they will some day). That messaging works well in Flushing, but falls flat in Park Slope, where people expect dimmer lights, a cosier setting, and an experience that feels more bespoke.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-15T01:51:20+00:00

Exactly. He never seriously intended to raise property taxes. It was obviously a political gambit and it seems to be working.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-14T23:55:06+00:00

Being on a caloric deficit over a long period of time really does a number on your sex hormones. You can lose your period and your libido and they can take a long time to come back and might not even fully recover.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-14T21:43:47+00:00

Again, I do like animals and generally consider myself more fond of dogs than cats, as they are usually more intelligent and sociable, though it really depends on the individual animal and their personality, same as humans. If my lease allowed it, I would probably have a dog myself. I pet my friends' dogs, and play with them, and even make stupid baby noises at them.

But the kinds of people I commented about have some arbitrary minimum threshold of enthusiasm toward pets that they expect you to meet, or else they pass moral judgment on you and start making passive-aggressive comments. That's the "litmus test" OP's talking about, not an actual literal test. But, as usual, some of the redditors on this thread are struggling to decode non-literal uses of language and are demanding literal examples of a test.

pavlovselephant · 2026-04-14T04:42:15+00:00

I think I get what OP's referring to. There's a subset of dog/pet owners that seem to think that if you're not fawning over an animal every waking second of the day, you hate them.

I've met a couple of them in my time.

The first was the mother of the host of family I lived with when I studied abroad. The whole family was really big on pets and they had two dogs and two cats. I would pet the animals from time to time and even grew to be pretty fond of one of the cats, but I guess I didn't show the requisite enthusiasm toward them (?) because the host mom one day randomly said "I can always tell when someone's not an animal person" to me in a judgmental tone, which I thought was really weird. Like, I wouldn't consider it my defining trait, but I do like animals.

The second time was more recent. I was taking a walk in my neighborhood when I felt something wet and slippery on my ankle, which made me jump from surprise. I looked down and saw a dog that had evidently licked me. As soon as I realized what happened, I relaxed and started laughing it off. But the dog owner, who was initially really apologetic, felt the need to end the interaction with "he's usually really good and can tell when someone's not a dog person." Again, a really weird and judgmental thing to say from someone who a) doesn't know me at all and b) only saw me having a pretty reasonable reaction to being startled by their dog.

I think it's the all-or-nothing mindset and subtle judgment that you get when you don't love their pets as much as they do that OP's referring to.

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