I really, really don’t agree with this. There are some students at top schools who aren’t any smarter than students at lower tier schools, and there are certainly some students at lower tier schools who are just as smart as people at the top tier schools. But the average intelligence of people at the top tier schools…

I went to a community college, got admission to a top-tier university after graduating, and then went to graduate school, and I’m doing very well for myself. My friend group from community college includes two doctors (MD), a lawyer, a PhD in neuroscience, a professor, a couple of high school teachers, and a couple of…

Yeah, “no one wants the wall” is really, really, really false. Trump’s supporters want the wall. They believe that the Republican party isn’t supporting the wall because they are beholden to the rich, who enjoy the fruits of the cheap labor that illegal immigrants provide and don’t want that to end.

I mean... part of the reason they don’t have a better outfielder is because they know Jimenez is going to fill that slot, so it makes no sense to pay someone else.

This gets a big shrug from me. When Jimenez becomes a free agent, it’s not like he’s going to give the Sox a discount because they were nice to him. He’s going to soak them for everything he thinks he can, and he’ll probably leave to go to a bigger name team, even if the Sox offer him a crapton of money. I don’t know…

Really, any sausage other than sliced sausage is the best. Crumbled sausage is great. Sausage wads are great. Lou Malnati’s “single sausage disc that covers the entire pizza” is great.  All are better than pepperoni.

It has been my experience that whether pepperoni is cupped vs. uncupped pretty much solely depends on the thickness:diameter ratio of the pepperoni slices. Small, thick slices tend to cup, where thin, wide slices tend to lay flat. It’s as simple as that. It has nothing to do with the quality of the pepperoni.

It’s narcissism. A narcissist’s brain is incapable of thinking they screwed up. It will simply invent the most plausible alternate reality it can in order to avoid acknowledging failure. I have personal experience with a full-blown narcissist, and this is textbook behavior. He probably doesn’t even realize he’s lying.

Yeah, maybe you should stop listening to anyone who has a different viewpoint from yourself at all!  Trust me, it’s a lot easier that way.

First, of all, I’m not trying to defend Trump and his supporters who are anti- almost anyone who isn’t white.

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing.  Anyone who thinks conductors don’t do anything is someone who has never played in a band.

The difference between an enthusiast and a snob is how you treat others who have different tastes from yours. I love really “fancy” and expensive beer and spend entirely too much money on it, but I would never criticize someone else’s taste.

No, it’s not. You need the acidity of ketchup to cut the fattiness and saltiness of the burger. Mayo doesn’t have enough acidity, it just adds more fat, which also needs to be cut. Mayo alone on a good (high fat content) burger just makes it taste like you’re eating a Crisco burger.

Mayo alone is inferior to mayo and ketchup mixed.

You shouldn’t need to be afraid of a coyote unless it’s rabid or you have a small dog with you.  They’re very smart animals, and very smart animals don’t attack things that they have no hope of killing.

Agree - mayo is totally unnecessary (and even non-optimal) on a burger with minimal toppings. But if you have a burger with a lot of veggies (e.g., lettuce, tomato, pickle, and onion) the mayo really starts to shine. It’s not essential, but it’s definitely a noticeable quality improvement.

My guess for the role in the cameo:  The final season ends with everything still unresolved, the Night King still not defeated, Cersei still on the Iron Throne, Jon and Dany still alive, with GRRM doing a scene as the aged Sam writing down this entire history in the Citadel, then falling down and croaking before he…

I mean... as someone who has gone through a process of not liking onions to generally liking onions, I think I know more about the way they taste than someone who hasn’t had to go through that. You’re right that “Cooked onions don’t taste anything except the other things,” but that’s because “onion” is part of the…

This is absolutely not true. Anything with onion in it tastes like onion. If you don’t think so, it’s because you’ve grown “taste blind” to onions. I mostly like onions, and I actually love them sometimes.  But it has been a process getting there, and there are still some things I can’t stand (onions on pizza being at…

That sounds good. I’ve made tuna salad once using only oil-packed tuna, relish, and mustard (I was a college student, and we were not known for making sure our condiments were not expired). It was actually not too bad.