Been there, done that.
And you were told that if you vote for Trump you will never have to vote again.
It's wish. There are no level modifiers. At least not back when I played. A wish of a wish. 17th level wizard or 34th level wizard makes no difference.
The one time it was okay for something to hang out a window and I had to delete it.
But it's a 9th level spell. Don't make me bust out the chart.
As of this month I am 31 years clean from D&D. And even I knew that wish is always cast at level 9.
A lot of people who try to dismiss racism as a factor in things don't understand the scale of history.
The Equal Opportunity Act is only two years older than I am. The Equal Rights Act is just 10 years older than I am. Anyone you know that is older than 70 definitely went to a segregated school. But odds are most of the people you know that are older than 60 probably went to one as well because things don't change overnight even when the national guard is called.
Parents today will do everything they can to get their kid into a good school district because they know every early advantage counts. Red Lining officially ended in 1968 but was still very much alive for another full generation or two after that. Kids in the 80s were still going to schools built before separate but equal was overturned. They were still going to schools underfunded because property taxes from segregated neighborhoods that weren't going to reach income parity until gentrification hit in the 90s or 00s prevented those kids from getting a good education.
The people that were dumping milkshakes on people during the lunch counter sit-ins were the bosses making hiring decisions for the next 40 years.
People have this rosy view that "well that was a problem and then we passed a law that fixed it" while ignoring that things don't change overnight and it takes a full generation or two to get everything through the courts and actually see the fruits of the fix.
But some generations last longer than others. John Tyler, president of the country from 1841 to 1845 had kids. Those kids had kids. Until today one of those kids was still alive. 180 years for just three generations . Did he directly benefit from generational wealth gathered before the end of slavery? You know he did. The occasional "This was your grandfather's" hand-me-down was something that existed while slavery was still a thing.
Things echo through history and sometimes the echo is louder for some than others. Here is a guy who was a kid during the Great Depression and had a grand dad that was over 35 years old two decades before the Civil War.
Don't let people tell you "that was a long time ago. They should have got over it by now" when the only asset the family has was a predatory loan made for a redlined house that determined what school they went to and how the rest of their life was statistically not just determined but designed. Things like redlining didn't just take advantage of poverty. It was designed to perpetuate it. And in the timeline of things it was outlawed less than a lifetime ago.
My highschool was more than 2000 people. And it was so new that our first semester was on two different campuses and they were still building int around us for another two years when we did move in.
Now I live in a very different area. The localist mega church gets 17,000+ butts in seats each week.
8500 people is less than normal tourism on a Saturday for DC. It was actually a net negative for attendance over just a normal day.
First it was at the hospital then it became me at the anti doctor. Now people aren't paying $3,000 for no doula to be there
It's like childbirth on goblin mode.
In 2021 I turned 7.5 pounds of pork roast into canned seasoned pork with the idea that I could heat it, drain off the juice and wrap it in a tortilla. They were tasty. Today I used the last of them. But I wanted to test out making tortillas with a different flour than I normally use so as a backup I made rice. Tortillas have some scratch made chili powder for color and flavor. Rice is turkey stock instead of water. I think I like this better because I get to keep all the juice.
What do you do when you get handed free Yukon potatoes and lamb shoulder shank? You buy a bottle of red wine and spend three hours braising.
I used a recipe from Allrecipes and would not recommend it. It lacked the depth and color this should have had. Still good but definitely would have failed in a cooking school.
Cost per person: $2, mostly cheap wine and onion, a little for homemade beef stock I canned a while back. Can you order it anywhere? Yes Cost per person if you paid for everything: $17
Didn't have any cucumber but still made a ziki sauce anyway. Didn't have any parsley either. So this meal is way more beige than I would have liked. But it was flavorful.
My cost per person was like $1 Can you order this anywhere? Yes. And it will probably be much better. But this was still really good. Cost per person if you had to buy everything: probably close to 7.50.
Fresh baked bread, fajita seasoned pork steak, black pepper corn white cheddar. My wife likes sad limp fries and we picked up a free bag of Yukon potatoes today and they make the saddest fries so that's a win for her.
Cost per person: $1 Can you order this anywhere? Yes but no. The bread will be soft and the fries will be crisp. Cost if you paid for everything? $4.5
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