That’s how my mom feels about it. Corn and rice are triggers, but she loves Mexican food. She gets the flour tortillas and so on, but sometimes someone screws up and she shoots up. She feels that’s a good system. It scared the shit out of me when she hit a vein once and damn near had a heart attack.

I think anosmia’s a factor. I was functionally unable to smell until I got a CPAP machine at 22, and to this day there’s plenty I can’t smell. If there’s gas filling the house from the stove, I’ll never know until it actually catches fire. That really impaired my ability to taste, and food was mostly texture to me as…

Those are exactly the things I like, so I see why they stand out to you as predominant traits. I’m generally a big fan of not-very-solid foods. I think this teething experiment may have been a mistake. Turns out I wasn’t really missing out on much without them.

Yeah, I’m just like her. They’re so bitter! Once I moved out of my house, I realized a lot of foods I hated I actually liked with the onions out. Chili’s like, the pinnacle example. I love chili now and I used to hate it.

I love them, but I get it. They’re pretty strong and pretty acidic for a vegetable.

That said, with Yeezy I think personality conflicts may be a factor. Brilliant, yes, but would you want him as your coworker?

It means it’s very good. It’s something I picked up from my little sister, and I think it comes from marijuana culture, originally meaning high grade weed.

I know exactly how you feel. I would sound super old without a constant input of new vocab from her and from here.

More like what do inlanders learn. I don’t think most Midwestern women are familiar with whatever you’re talking about.

About ten minutes ago. I’m actually not impressed. The firehouse red ale or whatever they make is dank, though.

Yeah, I suspect a very different set of biases, at least, come into play, the individual-level politics. SE Asian linguistics was small enough that the paper review process wasn’t “let’s go through all 200 of these” and more “Hey, looks like so-and-so sent us an abstract after all! Thought he was doing fieldwork all…

That’s hard in small fields, though. I used to work on Southeast Asian linguistics, which was a pretty niche topic as it was, maybe forty people at the main conference, and when I got specific feedback about my subfield, niche even in that context, I knew it was one of about three professors in the English speaking…

I said intelligent people, not self-absorbed obnoxious ones.

You make it sound like a viable option. I tried. Couldn’t stay in Canada after grad school, since my field wasn’t considered skilled work. And I’ve got a lot of advantages as an educated white dude who speaks English natively. I suspect anybody who makes this argument has never actually been through an immigration…

TBH I kind of agree. Those blows were not intended to inflict real pain or damage, and I doubt they did.

It’s corporal, god damn. All punishment is corporeal unless it’s, like, ghosts doing it or something.

Come on, though, they’re pushing back against this stuff as far as they’re politically able to. Look at the heat Holder’s taken over the last year or so about these cases. Let’s not blame Obama for a century plus of police racism.

As a dude, I think you’re underestimating the value of it simply being a taboo action. Add to that that most of us don’t feel we’ve been trained on how to do something like parenting (I didn’t have young children in my family, so the only experience I can draw upon is having cats and a turtle), and I think rational…

Oddly, I’m in the opposite situation. I love Minneapolis but there’s a lot of people who’ve gone full Portlandia, and I’ve taken plenty of shit from bike/transit evangelist chicks about driving places. I’m like, yeah, when you work a job at a place you have to punch in instead of an NGO or a community college, maybe…

I don’t really agree. I would so much rather hang out with someone who can run intellectual circles around me because they have interesting things to say, and I come away feeling like I gained insight.

Isn’t the Electra Complex the reverse of what you’re thinking? I don’t know what it’s called if you have feels re your daughter.