paraplu

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to work at a summer academic program. I don’t know how expensive it was, but some of the students were quite wealthy.

  One 13 year old international student was quite homesick, and to try to get them to agree to stick it out, their parents promised to buy them a new car if they stayed.

  The food was generally good enough to pass for restaurant food or a corporate cafeteria. It was on a college campus, so I think it may have been the same staff and repertoire as the school year. Sometimes there would be something more interesting like fried plantains. The staff would flock to it and the kids would ignore it.

  Kids by and large didn’t care. Some still stuck to their beige diets aggressively; only eating hot dogs, plain chicken, white bread, vanilla ice cream, etc.

  One year before the kids showed up there was a chilled strawberry and mint soup that I’ll still occasionally try to find a recipe for. I don’t even care for mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was specifically addressing your line about Latin.

  I'm not really clear on what the aim of your broader point really is actually driving at. If someone struggles with language acquisition or production, yes they may struggle with the complete name of their specific diagnosis.

  If communicating the specific name to the outside world is important, having it written down somewhere may help. We use tools to help move our bodies. Why wouldn't we use tools to help extend our brains.

  If it's truly important to have the specific name, the other party may need to look it up anyway, which is easier with a spelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You don't need to speak Latin to notice common roots and get a gist for what a term means.

  If you're actually in a position where it's useful to distinguish one type of dementia from another, having a meaning that's linked to what the symptoms are may help you remember both name and symptoms.

  If you're not a medical professional, remembering either name or symptoms for specific types of dementia is unlikely to be useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody uses the white emojis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't use any of the emoji that could have a skin tone. I will occasionally use emoji, but don't find that the faces or hands are useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm surprised by anchovies lacking it but you appear to be correct, even for raw anchovies. I tried looking at a handful of other raw fish and they also have no vitamin C.

  I guess that makes sense, if fish could supply vitamin C I can't imagine scurvy would've been a problem for long.