Swallowtail

Requiring students to cite work is pretty common in academic writing after middle school.

Most species of wasp are not aggressive towards humans. I work out in my garden a lot and almost never have encounters with aggressive wasps--the only time I really do is when yellow jackets create a nest in an area that I haven't been to in a while.

https://xerces.org/blog/wasp-world

I'm having a hard time actually finding a source for this. Just a few poorly written articles that basically cite this video as a source. Something this potentially impactful seems like it would make the rounds more, so I'm very skeptical.

Funny how the objections ITT are over the items that would cause people to have to reevaluate the ethics of their dietary choices.

More like spend the two days catching up on chores and honey-do's. Mostly the only time I feel fully rested after a weekend is when it was a three-day weekend.

They're Amazon. They don't need the money

There's no such thing as enough money for big businesses like Amazon. Always gotta be growing to appease the shareholders.

I remember wanting to be a forum mod when I was like 15 and thought that it would make me cool on the forum. As a grown adult... no way. I am so busy between work, grad school, and my personal life, I have no time for such silliness. I have a lot of respect for mods that donate their own time to run communities.

What've persimmons got to do with it though?

As someone with a background in linguistics, my jimmies are indeed rustled.

The rapid-fire memes and acknowledgment of them being memes made it cringe, IMO. If they'd just dialed it back and said something like this I think it would have been fine:

"Here's our beautiful thicc girl, Abby! She loves to eat fish and swim with her friends. Come see her at our aquarium any time!"

I have the ADHD and unless it's a mindless task, I can't listen to music or it makes it much harder for me to concentrate. For anyone else with the disorder, I'd encourage you to at least give it a shot working WITHOUT music and see if it improves your concentration.