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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • My brother-in-law always “hated olives”, and then he came over for a party where we had set up an olive bar, which he vehemently and repeatedly declined. But we were hanging around afterward and, as you do when you’re not really thinking and there’s food hanging around, he absently ate one. He then made his way down the entire bar - I think we had like 20 different types (some were stuffed). Now he gets pouty if we have a party and there aren’t any olives, lol!


  • What kinds of olives have you had? Have they been those cheap canned olives that sit on shelves for years? Then yeah, they’re not great, more and at giving an olive flavor to dishes. If you’ve had fresh olives, those can be amazing. That said, black and green olives taste different and you may have a preference between the two (like some people prefer red or green apples), and there are a bunch of different varieties as well.







  • Israel currently has enough weapons stockpiled that they could continue the genocide for several months before they’d need to consider changing tactics. I don’t see what use sending them additional weapons/munitions does - just stick it in a warehouse until they need it next winter? It’s just a visible show of support right now.

    Cut off that support. Let Israel swing in the wind without unconditional support and maybe they’ll finally start pulling back from all-out extermination. Make sure any future shipments are bound with enforceable limits on their use, like the US has on almost every other arms shipment it makes. And take whatever we were going to send to Israel for the next six months, and send it to Ukraine, which actually is fighting a war for it’s very survival against a much larger adversary.










  • You might check with the college to see if it’s possible to test (or re-test) out of remedial courses. If the answer is yes, buckle down with old textbooks, the local library, YouTube, free online courses, local tutors and whatever else you need.

    The one caveat here is if you’re taking more math courses later, you really need to get these basics down, because the later courses will build off of this content. So don’t just “study for the test” and then forget it, try to really understand what you’re doing and why.

    A couple comments, from personal experience: first off, there are different ways to teach math. I’ve had teachers who explained something so beautifully and clearly that, if I happened to forget a formula, I could remember the explanation and recreate the formula. And I’ve had teachers that were teaching me stuff I already knew cold, who had me so confused on the stuff I definitely already knew, that I had to switch sections before they hit stuff I didn’t know. Do you might need to look at a different book or course or something, if it doesn’t make sense to you.

    Second, when they assign a handful of problems out of the back of the chapter, don’t do just those problems. Do every single exercise in the back of the chapter, and check yourself when you complete each one. If it’s the wrong answer, do it again. If it’s still the wrong answer, keep going until you get the right answer, but pay attention to what you’re doing: you have some basic misunderstanding of what you’re supposed to be doing, and you want to identify and correct that misunderstanding so it doesn’t screw you over later. Math builds on math; if your foundation is shaky, you’re going to collapse when you get to the upper levels.