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Evolutionary biologist, teaching-track professor (knowledge transmitter), board game and cat enthusiast, teller of Dad jokes, believer that sarcasm doesn't have to be mean or denigrating. Also a "damn greenblooded hobgoblin". I read a lot.
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Well. Stupid autocucumber
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Weirdly, we *do* have week-regarded Ethiopian here in Lansing.
Turns out, a giant university leads to more culinary diversity than population size and demographics would otherwise predict.
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Haven't read it, though I do approve of people admitting that they were wrong about things.
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They are leftist in the sense that ... culturally, we have declared N to be up on maps, and thus they're near the left edge of the largest contiguous part of the country?
I got nothing here.
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She had a good arm. It sailed over the back of the bleachers; one of us had to go down to retrieve it.
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The daystar must be appeased, or all will feel its wrath.
(We in the Great Lakes region most often have a protective layer of cloud)
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In what may demonstrate me to be a midwesterner at heart, I was curious but also didn't want to bother her.
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I find myself wondering if him being Bob has any connection to Ursula's preference for placeholders being named Bob.
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How else would Geico discover their next star?
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Honestly the only celeb-based LA thing I enjoyed was when in my Freshman year a bunch of us were in the bleachers around the red carpet for an award gala across the street from campus. I think that one was the Emmy's? That was kind of neat. Jodie Foster threw a squeezable stress ball to us.
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Mass extinction events were balance patches
Different biomes and regions are different servers.
Etc
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I only lived in LA for college, but I will say that the Tar Pits and the Griffiths Observatory were way better than any of the celeb-based LA stuff.
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And sometimes those small actions we take make the next ones easier.
I'm not solving the biodiversity crisis by landscaping just with native plants.
But my asking the local nursery what native options they have does an incremental part towards them seeing a profit in having native varietals.
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There are big problems we can't solve out by trying to just take on personal responsibility. But there are a lot of things where less than perfect action is still better than throwing up our hands and saying we can't make a difference.
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I saw an animated short video recently about a character adopting a new vibe of Ominous Positivity.
"Everything will work out fine. You have no choice"
"I believe in you. There is no escape"
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I am visualizing, but not data.
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Shoes are to be endured for matters of safety and/or medical value (eg preventing plantar fasciitis), and then removed as soon as plausible.
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Hmm. Google image search turns up lots of different designs, so it's hard to be sure.
Some of them definitely look plausible for sternum, though.
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I assume you're both familiar with Tier Zoo, but if not: the conceit is that the narrator acts as if all animals are builds in a MMPORPG called Outside, and he ranks different builds on their relevance to the gaming meta.
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Most of the other contenders that spring to mind (the Mariah Carey one, the Mean Girls one, etc) have she/her instead of he/him.
("I don't know her", "She doesn't even go here", that kind of thing).
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Thankfully, we did get a Trader Joe's a few years back, so I can rely on their frozen gnocci when I need it.
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I do not understand why it is nearly impossible to get decent Italian in Lansing. The ethnic mix here is extremely similar to where I grew up (Buffalo), and there we had mom and pop Italian places everywhere. The best pasta I've found here is a chain (Bravo), and it's still extremely mid.
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Welcome. Let me know if you want any information from someone largely outside of departmental politics by technically not being in a department. 😀
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The internet is great for when you want to get your heart racing without the need for that pesky exercise.
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To the best of my knowledge, though, that isn’t actually perfect grammar.
A friend once told me her teacher told her she spoke English using Spanish words. Which I take as her basically doing a literal translation of everything without adjusting for inherent differences in the languages.
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It didn't give me a placement exam, it just asked where I thought I was.
I tested past Spanish III for college, so my requirement was waived.
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Example: If I wanted to say I need help, I'd actually say "Necesito ayudo". Saying "Yo necesito ayuda" would overemphasize the I, as if trying to get someone to stop helping someone else and come help me instead.
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And I'm bristling some at idiomatic structures that are simplifications common in early learning but which wouldn't actually be used. Such as that it wants me to include pronouns with verb conjugations where you'd never add the pronoun unless trying to emphasize the point.
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In CEFR levels, I suspect I used to be C1 in Spanish, but have atrophied to somewhere in the B range -- B1 at the outset, but B2 after some immersion. I'd like to brush back up, though Duo Lingo dropped me in somewhere in the As.
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I used to pet sit for some friends' ferrets. IMO, those weasels were markedly friendlier than my anxiety is.
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And this administration holds for the settlement. But that salary cap of $20.5 million / school / year? Those payments will continue past this administration, so I suspect the settlement probably has language in it about what is and is not subject to Title IX, and I don't know what it is.
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One hopes this is in an adult league.
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*That stuff would be things that they either find meaningful or important. I bet there'd be a lot of people pitching in for very part time child care or enrichment, cleaning up parks, art projects, museum tours, teaching without grading, etc. Probably social services too.
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It's always seemed weird to me that a lot of people are convinced that if everyone was getting their needs met, they wouldn't be motivated to do anything. Look at the rates at which retired people volunteer? I bet a *lot* of people would sign up to do stuff* regularly, just not 40+ hours/week
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There are definitely times it can be both.
In my mid 20s I had the metabolism of a hummingbird -- trying to add some muscle when you're naturally underweight is tough -- and so there was a certain amount of "What can I consume that will make me not get up in the middle of the night ravenous?"
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(If you're interested, @niq.aeli.net , check your DMs for my best [but not only] "Yes, I know, I wrote that paper" moment. I'd say sadly not only, but as long as they're under a certain frequency, they can be kind of fun when the oblivious person also has no power over you.)