Edited I realize that you were just complaining that what I thought was funny isn't. Sorry that my humor isn't good enough. I'll delete the post that you don't think belongs.

Edited. Was told it wasn't a joke or meme and doesn't belong here.

I did a thread with pre-algebra options when I was looking for what to do with one of my kids. I wound up going with MM7. We're currently partway through. My kid recognizes that a lot of it is review, but seems to like the confidence boost.

I went to Macys, Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma, and Crate and Barrel. Denby is beautiful, but a full set is likely out of the price range we're looking for. Williams Sonoma has a Cyprus Reactive Glaze line that might work. You can't get a single plate, but you can get a set of 4 dinner plates (or 4 bowls, 4 salad plate, etc). They have two serving pieces (a bowl and a platter). No dessert plates, but that's probably the least used of what I currently have. So I might go that route. I also was able to confirm that I don't really like solid white. Which is a shame, because there's tons of options for that.

It's just the flat solid color that I'm not looking for. Reactive glaze, like this, where it's not uniform, is okay. As is something like this, where the texture makes the color less flat and uniform. Some textured items are still very uniform in the color, this is a little more interest to the color glazing.

Over the past 20+ years, enough pieces have broken from my now discontinued dinnerware pattern that I'd like a new set of dishes. I'm having a hard time finding what I want, because I don't want plain white or a solid, uniform color. I don't have a preference for material. I want: dishwasher safe open stock (or at least able to get a set of just dinner plates, for example, rather than "service for 4" type of sets) serving pieces available (at least serving bowls and platters) a variety of place setting pieces (beyond the typical 4-piece place setting; things like pasta bowls, dessert plates, etc) bowls around 16oz available, any bigger and they tend not to fit in my dishwasher not plain white or a solid, uniform color I've looked at Pfaltzgraff and the patterns I like don't have matching serving pieces. I'm not a huge fan of Corelle.

Regarding AP Calculus, if you take AOPS Calculus through AOPS, that is an AP approved course. If you do it at home, you can easily get your course approved through College Board to label it as AP. Also, I know that some people use AOPS' Intro Alg book as both Algebra 1 and 2, but it's missing some topics that are typically covered in Algebra 2. For example, it doesn't go in depth enough with logs. For a student that hopes to go into STEM, they do need the full coverage of logs that the Intermediate Algebra book gives. There are some other topics that don't get proper coverage, but logarithms are the ones that stand out to me as most important. I don't think AP courses/exams and a Jan-Dec school year calendar works well. AP exams are in early May, how do you plan to cover AP material and prepare for the tests in the Jan-April time frame? What would you do for May-Dec? We school year round, but we start each school year in July, and it lines up better with a normal school year, so that could be an option.

My geeky son was never into the licensed character Lego sets (other than Lego movie), but likes technic sets and sets with cool cars (he's not a car guy, he just likes the building of Lego cars). Maybe a board or card game? Castle Panic, Unstable Unicorns, Star Realms, Forbidden Island, Doom on You, etc.

I admit, it's a pet peeve of mine to not get a reply if I've put time/thought into an email. Was my email helpful? Did I just waste my time? Why'd you reach out to me personally for help if you didn't really want it enough to shoot off a "thanks!"? But that's for personal communication. Communication for a job, I'm less inclined to care. I've been an adjunct teacher in an online platform. The school required that all online teachers reply to student emails within 24 hours. So if a student replied with a thanks email, yes, I would have to reply with a "you're welcome!" just so that the system would not mark it against me as a non-response. But, with both of those things in mind, I'd say send the thanks. For one, it's a way to communicate that you received, read, and plan to act upon the answer. For another professors often have so many demanding students that getting a thank you can be refreshing. And as long as your school isn't tracking faculty responses, it's not hard to delete or archive the thanks to clear the inbox.

Target has a lot of pull on bras, so they might be a good place to look. On their website, I found these: https://www.target.com/p/jockey-generation-women-s-natural-beauty-bralette/-/A-53277568?preselect=53226230#lnk=sametab

All trimesters are tiring, since your body is doing so much to keep you and the baby alive and help the baby grow and develop. I'm not sure where you're at in pregnancy., but if you're in the 1st trimester, give yourself even more grace, because your body is doing extra work as it grows the placenta (growing a whole new body organ!) and the baby. After the placenta is grown enough to take over some of the job, some (not all!) of the exhaustion lessens (although having young kids at home to take care of can mean that the fatigue lasts a lot longer). I once read that Proverbs 31 was not written as a checklist for women to strive for (or men to look for in a future wife) but more of a song of praise that the husbands would sing to their wives at the evening meal before Sabbath. It was recognition of all the hard work that women put into making a household run smoothly. So women should instead take it as validation of our often overlooked work being valued (instead of as condemnation of not being enough). It's already been mentioned, but women past had extended families to help out. You can see here that women understand that pregnancy is exhausting. In generations past, the women of the family, knowing this exhaustion, would come alongside their sisters and daughters and nieces and help them with their household. We tend not to have that anymore, and you shouldn't hold yourself individually to the standard that was only kept by multiple women working together. This is a season. It does not define who you are or your worth.

If you cook a pork shoulder until 205°+, wrap it in foil, and then put it in a cooler full of rags/towels, it stays warm for a surprisingly long time. Then you can shred it once you're there. Hot Logic makes carrier bags that you can plug in to a car adapter and it will cook/keep food warm. But it doesn't look like the size that fits 9x13 comes with a car plug, only a normal outlet plug.

Another question about editions here ... I might wait until the 7th edition comes out and hope that the price on the updated 6th drops. If it doesn't drop, is the 5th edition (along with AP classroom material) okay to use for a student planning on taking the AP exam? Or is the 5th edition missing topics?

It looks like homeschoolers can now use it: https://help.raise.me/hc/en-us/articles/115001992287-Can-home-schoolers-use-RaiseMe- I made an account and poked around some. Some schools max out really low (one of our publics maxes out at $3500 over 4 years). And only 1 of 8 schools we've looked into even offers anything through Raise Me.

The cheesy flavor (rather than milk flavored like cheese that a roux seems to make) is why I use that recipe.

This is the closest I can find online to the recipe I use: https://modernistcuisine.com/recipes/silky-smooth-macaroni-and-cheese/ I don't use an immersion blender, as it comes together without it. And I use 2 teaspoons of citric acid + 2.5 teaspoons of baking soda in place of the sodium citrate. While making the sauce, it looks like it won't possibly work until suddenly it does. ETA: oh, and I add seasonings like paprika, mustard powder, black pepper, etc.

I think most (if not all) registration systems will look at any course on the transcript (in progress courses will show up) to determine eligibility to register for a course. For our CC, it won't let you register for a course with no record of the prereq (oldest last year had to do a CLEP math test to get the prereq for a programming course), but it did let him register for a math course for spring that clearly has his current math course as a prereq.

lowercase with a greenish tint on the edges, so the soda lime or whatever they're using now.

Do you mean the pyroceram baking dishes like this one?

I love cast iron and have some cast iron pans I bake with for breads, rolls, and biscuits. But they're not great for cakes (cooks the outside too much before the center gets safely cooked) and they're heavier than is reasonable for travel (it'd probably break the handles of my 9x13 carry case).

I'm okay with glass if it isn't going to explode. I know Pyrex no longer uses borosilicate, but maybe OXO brand would work since they still use borosilicate.

It doesn't need to be mostly-waterproof, but I would like it to attach somehow so that it stays in place better during a car ride.

Does anyone have ceramic coated cake pans? I'm not too worried about how nonstick they are, I'm wondering instead if the coating is durable. I've had too many pans where the coating flakes off into my food. I want non-reactive pans, so not uncoated aluminum, and for a cake pan, I do want metal. I'm also looking to replace my 9x13 Pyrex casserole dish. I want something that doesn't carry risk of explosion, looks nice enough to serve from, and has a lid for transporting food. The only ones with lids that are for transport are glass or are bare metal non serving dishes (more of a cake pan than casserole).

You could try the games here: https://inoculation.science/inoculation-games/harmony-square/ They go off the "pre-bunking" idea of inoculating against misinformation by showing how it works.