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  • Cilantro is the herb, coriander (seed) is the spice/dried powder. Often you can tell by what you are making and how it’s being used/added, but typically they are differentiated as above in American recipes.

    Genuinely confused as well about the pepper, a bell pepper is a pretty universal name for it as far as I knew. Folks also refer to them as green/yellow/red peppers here, or sweet peppers occasionally (usually when used in Italian food), but bell pepper is the generic name.


  • Sure, but not wanting to go through withdrawal is different than being unable to stop taking a substance. In this case it’s doubled because for most people SSRIs help them feel and function better and can have strong withdrawal symptoms, so most people wouldn’t want to stop taking them because they are helpful and stopping sucks, not because they have a chemical dependency on them.

    As someone on an SNRI for ADHD, I don’t want to go back to how things were before I started on medication, and stopping taking it can be unpleasant to a degree (not to the same degree as an SSRI, but they work in similar ways in your brain).

    Junior here is just being malicious misinformed and cruelly telling folks with metal health struggles that they just need to work harder to be happy, ignoring settled science showing that the vast majority of mental health dusorders (and neurodivergent disorders for that matter) are tied to physical and chemical differences in the brain compared to typical individuals.




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    The school district where I live straddles a wealthier, predominantly white area and a poor, predominantly black area. The idea when it was formed was because rich parents want good education for their kids, and contribute more taxes via bigger homes, the schools could provide better education to the poorer areas and over time help to improve the socioeconomic balance.

    In reality, all the rich parents around us just send their kids to Catholic or charter schools, which fungus money from the school district which makes it unable to provide a decent education at all, screwing over the poorer area wise than if they had two different school districts (since the public schools need to have the capacity to in theory at year accept all the kids in the case none went to charter schools). Just more proof voucher programs are racism by another name.


  • IMO hobbies are different. I do a hobby because I enjoy the activity, but it doesn’t necessarily give me purpose. A job (or more specifically a career) gives me purpose even if I don’t always enjoy the day to day work. At a higher level I do enjoy my job, and it gives me a reason to get up each day and tackle problems I otherwise wouldn’t seek out.

    I’ve often said if I won’t the lottery and didn’t need to work to survive, I’d still take a job (or at least full time volunteer) because it’s not natural to sit around and just do whatever activities attract your attention each day. It’s important to be challenged and pushed to do things you otherwise wouldn’t tackle.




  • Honestly I wouldn’t care so long as they do it right. Around here you’re lucky if PennDOT drives over the asphalt with their truck once after the haphazardly tossed it in the hole still full of rain water. And they wonder why they have fixed the same pot hole in front of our drive way every spring for the 5 years we have lived here.










  • Luckily we have a garage that’s perfectly sized to get the car on ramps and close the door. I still lay on cardboard since the concrete is cold (and to catch the errant drip). When we lived in an apartment in the city I’d usually bite the bullet and take it somewhere since we couldn’t do any car work in the parking lot. In the past I’d take it to a buddies house but then moved a few hours away so that wasn’t a choice until e bought a house a few years ago.