Jennifer Parker
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@JenniferParke12
Freelance scientific editor with a legal background (PhD/JD). I like cats, nature, baking, cooking, and reading, especially science and US history & law.
Yeah, soccer fans are about to be amazed by how hard New Yorkers celebrate a basketball team. Because soccer fandom is infamous worldwide for restraint, decorum, and dispassionate engagement with its sport.
The American mind cannot comprehend the pub cheese and onion roll
@Koluma_ @jamesdurham309 @1scottishbanter I understand that
Two things I know about Paraguay: (1) their founding president had their congress pass *pro*-miscegenation laws! That's right you could only marry someone of *another* race and (2) they thought it'd be a real bright idea to fight a war against Brazil and Argentina simultaneously
This may be a hot take, but following many travels, I've determined that THIS is the Midwest. Dakotas are amazing, but are nothing like the Midwest. Missouri feels more like a Southern state than Midwest. Kentucky is more like Tennessee and Virginia than the Midwest.
@vbspurs I feel like you're trying to drag us into a war we don't want to be involved in!
Everyone told me Americans were unfriendly but they hold doors open, stop when you’re crossing the road, say hello in the street etc Why do people assume Americans aren’t like this
@Strangeland_Elf Personally I don’t think this is a Euro vs American thing as much as it is travel snobbery. People whom think of themselves as expert travelers often consider “living like a local” to me important, as if they’re too sophisticated to spend time at the popular tourist sites.
I never understand tweets like this from non-Americans when they visit. Why would it be so prevalent in our media if it wasn’t real?
it measures some things very well, other things not well or not at all. One thing it famously measures well is the ability to draw logical inferences from the evidence and facts presented without narcissistically projecting extraneous facts that just happen to interest you LSATs are also excellent at punishing people who mistake descriptive statements from normative ones Both of these common low-LSAT failure modes bedevil my interlocutors here. I've explained exactly where and why and if you're curious uou can read them but you're not curious and are threatened by any substantial challenge to the easy answers and cheap pleasures outrage delivers
