Avocado comes from ahuacatl which means “the common fruit”. It does have a secondary definition that is “testicle”, but I’ve never seen it used in that context. All the Nahuatl words that use ahuacatl has a stem uses the first definition for words like “avocado tree” and “avocado orchard”. Guacamole does not ‘literally translate’ to “testicle sauce”. That’s completely absurd.
And if anyone wants to know what the word for testicle most commonly used in Nahuatl is, that would be atetl which has a literal definition of “water stone”. However, you can see the connection between the idea of “water stone” and the actual testicle.
Pee is stored in the balls…
No, urine is stored in the bladder. Semen is stored in the testes.
The connection between “water stone” and testicle is that the testicle (stone) resides in the scrotum surrounded by a lubricating fluid (water).
It doesn’t make us go crazy. We just don’t understand the why. No one has ever satisfactorily explained why bagged milk is better than milk in jugs.
There is no literal reason since the jugs we use are just as cheap as bags and with a bag you need to put it into something as soon as it’s opened because otherwise you’re crying over spilt milk
I don’t understand why y’all use jugs though. They’re so impractical.
No they’re not. You have a self contained stand able container.
With a bag you have one floppy boi
We have holders for that. There’s no real difference.
Wouldn’t it be crazy if there was a way you could hold milk without grabbing a separate holder? Some sort of solid plastic or cardboard container, that would be so cool.
Then there are Soviet milk pyramids. Those are the oddest milk containers of all but they’re really cool.
Thanks! That’s horrible! Curse you for sharing!
It looked like it, but confirmed that those are the original Tetra-Pak cartons. (With the company name coming from the tetrahedral shape.) Dairy products were the main thing they were developed for initially in Sweden, and some started being produced in the Soviet Union in 1959.
I’ve seen smaller individual portion-sized Tetra-Paks like that used for sour cream in the US more recently, but that’s the main thing I can think of offhand.
The Tetra-Brik shape which is mostly what you see now apparently wasn’t introduced until up into the ‘60s. Something that will stand up better does seem like more practical packaging for liquids.
Here’s how preparing your taxes could work: You sit down, review a prefilled filing from the government. If it’s accurate, you sign it. If it’s not, you fix it or ignore it altogether and prepare your return yourself. It’s your choice. You might not have to pay for an accountant, or fiddle for hours with complex software. It could all be over in minutes.
It’s already like that in parts of Europe. And it would not be particularly difficult to give U.S. taxpayers the same option. After all, the government already gets earnings information from employers.
But as ProPublica has detailed again and again, Intuit — the makers of TurboTax — and H&R Block have lobbied for years to derail any move toward such a system. And they continued in 2016.
Intuit spent more than $2 million lobbying last year, much of it spent on legislation that would permanently bar the government from offering taxpayers prefilled returns. H&R Block spent $3 million, also directing some of their efforts towards the bill. Among the 60 co-sponsors of the bipartisan bill: then congressman and now Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.
The bill, called the Free File Act of 2016, looks on the surface to be consumer-friendly. It makes permanent a public-private partnership in which 13 private tax preparation companies — called the “Free File Alliance” — have offered free online tax filings to lower- and middle-income families. The Free File Alliance include both Intuit and H&R Block.
But the legislation would also permanently bar the IRS from offering its own free alternative.
Intuit has repeatedly warned investors about the prospect of government-prepared returns. “We anticipate that governmental encroachment at both the federal and state levels may present a continued competitive threat to our business for the foreseeable future,” Intuit said in its latest corporate filings.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., offered a bill last year that would have actually allowed the government to start offering prefill tax returns. While Intuit did not lobby against Warren’s bill — presumably because the legislation had little chance of success — tax giant H&R Block did. (H&R Block did not respond to a request for comment.)
Neither Warren’s bill nor the Free File Act made it out of committee…
Joseph Bankman, a law professor in tax law at Stanford Law School said arguments about government overreach are false. Participation is voluntary and actually gives taxpayers the upper hand, forcing the government to “show its hand.”
“Now you know what the government knows,” Bankman said, who added that there are multiple ways taxpayers could benefit. “If there’s a mistake that goes in your favor, maybe you don’t call attention to it.” Also, everyone would receive the returns — including the millions of Americans who are due tax refunds but don’t get them because they don’t file. In 2012 alone, the IRS said more than 1 million Americans did not receive their refunds — amounting to $950 million — because they did not file.
The authors of the federal Free File bill have repeatedly voiced fears of big-government interference. In an opinion piece for The Daily Caller and on his site, Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., said “making the tax collector also the tax preparer creates an inherent conflict of interest while forcing citizens to relinquish control of their taxes to the government.”
Since the 2008 election cycle, Roskam has taken in more than $32,000 in donations from Intuit’s political action committee and Intuit employees. He received a far smaller amount, $2,500, from H&R Block — all for the 2016 election cycle. Roskam’s office did not return a request for comment.
A really fascinating policy story that doesn’t get enough attention is the fact that we could actually dramatically simplify the process of doing taxes for most individuals, but the sheer complexity of the tax code has created a constituency to defend its complexity. Tax prep firms like H&R Block and Intuit make massive amounts of money from the tax code being so hard to manage that people need their help, and thus acquire the resources to ensure that the very problem which the exist to help with is not solved.
Another interesting twist to this story is that one of the easiest ways to simplify the tax code, something small government conservatives talk about frequently, is by giving the IRS more power.
In order to punish drivers and draw attention to poor driving habits, the man planned to throw bricks at all cars that ran red lights for one week, starting last Thursday, but police stopped him on the first night. The man was interviewed and later released without charge.
those snakes are not fighting they are fucking. im very sorry
while two snakes FUCK to the death
That dog looking at the snakes like why you gotta do that while I’m eating
Metal as snakes fucking.
Sadly that picture is photoshopped, the snakes are not in fact fucking in front of the dingo and its lunch. They are fucking on the side of an unrelated road.
However, the dingo is in fact eating a shark. Because Australia.
This is where I wish more schools would adapt the student driven IEP model in middle and high school. It’s coming for New York in the most recently updated special education policies and I can’t wait. I’m willing to give suggestions on that. But more on that in another post.
At the university level, as the student, it is 100% your responsibility to advocate for yourself. Your parents aren’t legally allowed to be involved (due to privacy laws) and the disability office cannot get too involved for the same reason. I’ll get to what the disability office can and cannot legally do in a separate post.
So you did your intake meeting. You know what your accommodations are. What next? Well you need to meet with your professors to discuss accommodations. This can go multiple ways:
•They insist you meet in their office
•You wait for the class to drain out and you talk to them after class if they are available.
Then their response usually falls somewhere between:
•Incredibly helpful, asking on a regular basis how they can best assist your learning according to your accommodations so you get the most out of their class (I don’t know how I managed three of these professors this semester).
•Indifferent, they’ll follow the accommodations and not much else. If it isn’t specifically written in the accommodations, they might not do it.
•Intentionally obstructive, trying to get in your way. Ableist as hell. Don’t believe students who need accommodations belong at universities. Has the false belief that accommodations affect academic integrity (they legally aren’t allowed to do that). I’ll be covering that in a separate post.
Usually a disability services office that goes out of their way is on a campus that has mostly incredibly helpful to helpful professors. Can you get an intentionally obstructive professor in this scenario? It’s theoretically possible (remember the best professors are constantly checking themselves for bias) but unlikely as it’s likely university policy to be accountable for all student learning. The reverse is also likely.
Anyway, so you have your time for when you are going to speak to your professors. What do you say? First, you introduce yourself. Tell them why you wish to speak to them (or remind them of you schedule an appointment over email). Then tell them what accommodations from the disability office you were given and how it will affect their specific class. So I’m going to use my accommodations from this semester and my hybrid class as an example of applying the accommodations to the class:
•Time and a half on tests [Blackboard quizzes require Time and a half, which only needs to be set once]
•Small group test taking in alternate location [Will be taking final exam at disability office]
•Requires computer for written exams/essays etc.
[N/A, quizzes already on computer, all papers typed and submitted electronically]
•Requires computer for taking notes in class
[During on campus classes, I need to have my laptop to take notes on]
•Requires audio note taking software
[It’s easier for me to record audio then only type the absolutely important things vs trying to type everything and getting frustrated. My laptop mic is pretty good plus there are settings I can adjust and I have a USB mic just in case.]
•Requires books and large texts in alternate format (ebook/audio)
[I can’t process long bits of text. It’s easier for me to have text to speech/audible read to me while I read along. I have a way to convert longer PDFs into ones that screen readers can handle but if I look confused on what went on in the reading, it’s because the conversion went array.]
Each class is different, so I tailor my responses to how the accommodations apply to that class. This must be done in the first week if everything is going to go smoothly. If your disability services office is good, they’ll email your accommodation letter to you and your professor every semester so everyone gets it and no one can claim ignorance.
easy thing to do to help people with eating disorders:
avoid giving “food numbers” like weight and calorie counts. this is a REALLY common eating disorder trigger and outside of a handful of contexts such as nutrition forums really easy to avoid
Definitely true for me. Goes double for ED recovery memoirs, unless you want people to use it as a how-to guide.
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