CombatWombat

Most people, Americans included, prefer to speak well of their country to foreigners and complain to countrymen. My hypothesis is that Americans perceive online spaces as uniquely American spaces where we complain to our ingroup, and folks of other nationalities tend to think of online spaces as “international waters” and are more guarded as a result, which leads to this perception.

No one teaching style works for everyone. What makes you a poor tutor for one student makes you an excellent tutor for another. I can tell you for certain, no-one can deduce whether you’re “good enough” to be a tutor via reddit.

I would say tutor. I think it’ll be a better long-term career move, and there are so many students on the spectrum who could benefit from someone who has a similar experience sharing the techniques they’ve learned that work for them. Barista might be more comfortable, but I think tutoring will build your skill set more long-term. And you can always change! No shame in trying the one, deciding it’s not for you, and switching to the other.

If it’s any consolation, most of my favorite facts I’ve learned about my closest friends have been because they lost the plot while telling a story.

I strongly believe that you should have a connection to the place that your sports team is affiliated with, but I think you should be very liberal about what you consider a connection. If you’ve moved a lot, it gives you a lot of teams to choose from when you’re choosing your alliances. I think it also makes sense to consider other sorts of connections as well — a grandparent’s alma mater, the team your dad followed when you were a kid. I know a lot of people who recommend watching a league and letting the team choose you, which also seems reasonable, but I prefer the place-ness of sports fandom. The only way to choose a sports team to follow that is objectively wrong is bandwagoning.

The earliest known english-language account of a dinosaur bone is in Robert Plot’s 1677 The natural history of Oxford-shire: being an essay toward the natural history of England. This is how he explains what we now know as a megalosaurus thighbone:

There happily came to Oxford while I was writing of this, a living Elephant to be shown publickly at the ACT, An. 1676, with whose Bones . I compared ours; and found those of the Elephant not only of a different Shape, but also incomparably different to ours, though the Beast were very young and not half grown. If then they are neither the Bones of Horses, Oxen, nor Elephants, as I am strongly persuaded they are not . It remains, that (notwithstanding their extravagant Magnitude) they must have been the bones of Men or Women: Nor doth any thing hinder but they may have been so, provided it be clearly made out, that there have been Men and Women of proportionable Stature in all Ages of the World, down even to our own Days

The whole account is pretty interesting. He speculates about the origin of the bones and their medicinal uses and discusses the particulars of a few giants.

Oh of course🤦‍♂️

I was wondering when in the world that exchange rate would make sense. That’s definitely correct.

If anyone’s curious what happened to the translation here, the original Russian is abbreviated — the full phrase would be «мороженое в ассортименте» (ice cream in assortment) — but they abbreviated assortment and Russian doesn’t have articles so they use them when you wouldn’t expect. Also, this is most likely eastern Ukraine because they quote the prices in both hryvnia and roubles.

It’s tough to say definitively because there are a bunch of dialects, but in mine (west coast USA), “on another continent” is correct and “in another continent” sounds a little off.

Lots of things would happen, but the specifics wouldn’t much matter because there’d be no-one left to tell the tale afterwards.