That’s interesting! It’s a pretty common ‘premium import’ up here in Canada, and it’s what my ‘I don’t like beer but this is OK’ folks drink. There’s a general perception, at least in the circles that I run in, that it’s girly (it comes in very pretty blue bottles and is very mild), pretentious, or both.

In your opinion, how can a patient best communicate their knowledge to a clinician in such a way that it doesn’t come off as scare-quotes “research”? I acknowledge that I haven’t gone to medical school, but I’m a PhD candidate in molecular biology, and my undergrad degree was partly focused on pharmaceutical chemistry.…

Yes - I agree with all of this!! Never trust a place where the staff either know nothing, or they think they know everything about you at a glance. I have not spent all this time and energy learning my preferences and going to breweries to have you recommend a fucking Kronenbourg 1664 when I see those taps. STOP.

Girl yes. This is the first celeb ring I’ve seen in ages that I didn’t find boring. Both of my left-hand rings (I bought one when I went long distance with my dude, and wore it on my ring finger until he gave me the engagement ring) are asymmetrical designs and they are great. 

I friggen love any jewelry with the stones set asymmetrically. This is 100% in that wheelhouse.

For me, she could ‘win’ if she kinda just stopped trying so hard? Like just posting the photo on the right with the caption ‘FAT AND HAPPY Y’ALL’ it would be way less annoying. The faux-intellectualizing of it is clearly what she wants to be her thing, and it’s *that thing* that I’m tired of.

It’s not necessarily hard, but it has the most expensive ingredients vs. trying beer or cider first.

I eat pea protein sometimes. It’s pretty similar to other kinds of protein powder, so I’m assuming she’s got it in bar and shake form from that description.

YES thank you for distilling what bothered me about that. I’m glad for anyone that feels happy and comfortable in their skin but the way it’s written, it’s 100% that trope where fat vs. skinny is an assumed battle.

Something about that Lena D post rubs me the wrong way. I want everyone to be happy in their own bodies and I’m glad she feels good where she is now. Comparing that to an old photo though, in which she explicitly gives weights....I dunno. I feel like it’s playing back into that shitty old trope of pitting women…

I was also EIC - I’m proud enough of the yearbook I put together, but EVEN PROUDER that I recognized that I had a bad haircut that year and kept my own mug out of that as much as was plausible.

I was back home for a weekend recently and my mom was like ‘your grade was so weird, basically none of you came home’. The more common thing, like many places, was to leave for school then immediately come back (because ???). I don’t fucking get it, none of my friends got it, our parents were like ‘you’ll see’....but…

If you like guitar music, the Snail Mail album released recently is very good.

Joanna, I have spent too much time trying to describe your posts to my befuddled boyfriend for you to leave now. I’ve invested in this relationship.

me too, MADELEINE PLEASE NO

So despite how ignorant I was in ending my post above, I have academic access to most scientific journals and I went about answering my question. The ‘4 cups of coffee’ quantity that they’re describing is actually based off the results of related study. In THAT one, the ‘4 cups’ is defined in the materials and methods…

As always, I want to know how ‘cup’ is defined. Is it a regular, North American sized mug? Is it a ‘cup’ under the same measurements that mean my tiny drip machine is a ‘5 cup coffee maker’?

I don’t disagree, but I present the counterargument that pretty much ANYTHING you leave out in the sun is going to get kinda nasty.

Y’know, maybe I should check my Canadian privilege on this one. Even though Canada also has a ‘midwest’ equivalent, which I grew up in.....my aunt’s macaroni salad is still primarily *macaroni*, not mayo soup.

Kewpie is the best as a topping, but I’m not paying premium price to use it in the volumes required for a good potato salad. For my money, I say Hellman’s jar should be fine for any of the above.