“The players all are told to create mid level druids with animal companions. After creating their characters have all of the druids be kidnapped and the players must rescue them as their animal companions.”
Really satisfying, easy cool weather dish. Some type of vegetable(s) on the side, and you’re set.
I was reminded of one fairly simple baked chicken/pork chops and rice my mom used to make, and decided to try turning out something similar tonight. Glad I did.
Tonight I tried a leftover half pack of some Polish chicken seasoning on the meat (a couple of big leg quarters cut in half for easier eating), and threw in some sliced mushrooms along with the oven-frying onions and garlic for the last 5 minutes. I also used about twice the garlic called for, because of course. But, you could use about any seasonings you want.
Starting out by baking the veggies instead of sautéing them separately worked out great. It definitely seemed worth a try to avoid dirtying up another pan.
May need to try similar again before too long, and play with the seasonings for variety.
I know you white people don’t care but history is repeating itself
YIKES
This is even worse since it’s in NY, which has a huge Jewish population downstate—to the point where I was shocked to learn that Jews are a minority—and I’ve never witnessed anti semitism locally. It’s different in NYC and on Long Island compared to other parts of the country because we are raised in a very Jewish culture. Here, even Christian teenagers (who are almost always Catholic, again unlike much of the US) have gone to at least dozen Bar/Bat Mitzvahs each. Judaism is completely integral to our local culture.
So the fact that this happened here of all places should be taken as a warning. I know New York Times posted an article on this yesterday if anyone is interested. As a Long Islander and a Jew, it’s an … interesting read.
Jesus Christ, Im a New Yorker from a real Jewish Town, this is pissing me off.
This troubles me, but I want more context. Some groups practice civil disobedience, where they’re actually aiming to get arrested to make a point. (ADAPT is a disability rights group that often does this—that’s what they were doing when they got arrested for protesting the health care bills.)
If this was not a protest aimed at doing that, or if they expected to be able to do thing x and then were ordered not to, then yes, this is worrisome.
The first, and most obvious, is this: Treat every poisoned word as a promise. When a bigoted blusterer tells you he intends to force members of a religious minority to register with the authorities—much like those friends and family of [my grandfather Siegfried who fled from Hitler in Austria to Palestine]’s who stayed behind were forced to do before their horizon grew darker—believe him. Don’t try to be clever. Don’t lean on political intricacies or legislative minutia or historical precedents for comfort. Don’t write it off as propaganda, or explain it away as just an empty proclamation meant simply to pave the path to power. Take the haters at their word, and assume the worst is imminent.
Do that, and a second principle follows closely: You should treat people like adults, which means respecting them enough to demand that they understand the consequences of their actions. Explaining away or excusing the actions of others isn’t your job. Vienna in the first decades of the 20th century was a city inflamed with a desire to better understand the motives, hidden or otherwise, that move people to action. Freud and Kafka, Elias Canetti and Karl Kraus, Stefan Zweig and Franz Werfel—these were the eminences who crowded the same cafés Siegfried and his musician friends most likely frequented. But while these beautiful minds struggled to understand the world around them, the world around them was consumed by simpler and more vicious appetites. Don’t waste any time, then, trying to understand: Then as now, many were amused by the demagogue and moved by his vile vision. Some have perfectly reasonable explanations for their decisions, while others have little to go on but incoherent rage. It doesn’t matter. Voters are all adults, and all have made their choices, and it is now you who must brace for impact. Whether you choose to forgive those, friends and strangers alike, who cast their votes so deplorably is a matter of personal choice, and none but the most imperious among us would advocate a categorical rejection of millions based on their electoral actions, no matter how irresponsible and dim. So while you make these personal calculations, remember that what matters now isn’t analysis: It’s survival.
Which leads me to the third principle, the one hardest to grasp: Refuse to accept what’s going on as the new normal. Not now, not ever. In the months and years to come, decisions will be made that may strike you as perfectly sound, appointments announced that are inspired, and policies enacted you may even like. Friends and pundits will reach out to you and, invoking nuance, urge you to admit that there’s really nothing to fear, that things are more complex, that nothing is ever black or white. It’s a perfectly sound argument, of course, but it’s also dead wrong: This isn’t about policy or appointments or even about outcomes. This isn’t a political contest—it’s a moral crisis. When an inexperienced, thin-skinned demagogue rides into office by explaining away immensely complex problems while arguing that our national glory demands we strip millions of their dignity or their rights, our only duty is to resist by whatever means permitted us by law. The demagogue may boost the economy, sign beneficial treaties, and mend our ailing institutions, but his success can never be ours. Our greatness, to use a tired but true phrase, depends on our goodness, and to succeed, we must demand that our commander in chief come as close as is possible to reflecting the light of that goodness. There’s no point indulging in the kind of needlessly complex thinking that so often plagues the intelligent and the well-informed. There’s no room for reading tea leaves, for calculations or projections or clever takes. The only thing that matters now is the simple moral truth: This isn’t right. As long as we never forget that, we can never lose: As grandpa Siegfried knew all too well, those who refuse to gradually put up with the darkness are making a very safe bet; if you’re wrong, there’s no harm, but if you’re right, you win more or less everything.
So forgive me if these next four years I’m not inclined to be smart. When it comes to the task ahead, I’ve no interest in deep dives or shades of grey or mea culpas. Like my grandfather, I’m a simple Jew, and like him, I take danger at face value. When the levers of power are seized by the small hands of hateful men, you work hard, you stand with those who are most vulnerable, and you don’t give up until it’s morning again. The rest is commentary.
Thursday, November 1st – Hi everyone, I’m Gemma and I’m so sorry to ask this again so soon from my (please help me avoid eviction post) but I still desperately need help to get groceries + keep my heating on.
As I stated in my previous post, I’ve been struggling these past few months, literally since the new year in January, because I’ve had my welfare benefits (Universal Credit and Housing Benefit) revoked under the UK’s controversial changes to how benefits are assessed and assigned and due to my mental illnesses, my benefits have been on and off sanctions ever since and I have been unable to find work despite my many applications. And if anyone has ever had their benefits sanctioned or capped, then you’ll understand how much of a struggle and death sentence it is.
At the moment, I have been struggling to make ends meet and pay off my bills and get groceries due to my benefits cuts, I’ve been struggling horribly to keep my heating on as it’s getting into winter where I live, with most nights being 0°C/ 32°F. And right now, I desperately need help to keep my heating on and to get groceries + supplies for November. I’m literally freezing, hungry and drowning in debt at the moment because of my sanctions and since this situation has been ongoing for so long, government aid/food banks are unable to offer me any more assistance.
If anyone could spare any amount to help me, even if it’s just £1/$1/€1, it would literally save my life and, sharing definitely helps just as much as donations. Nobody has to donate if they can’t or don’t want to, I know we’re all struggling. Thank you for your help 💖
i think it is good to warn people in advance about the circumstances that will cause you to bite them and i think that having given that warning it is good to follow through when the time comes
the rattlesnake is an admirable creature whose virtues we should emulate
One time at dance some rando grabbed me by the waist and told me to dance with him and I told him “if you don’t let go I’m going to bite you” and he didn’t let go so I bit him and that really should be the end of the story but he thought that was funny so I turned around and gave him a donkey kick to the shins and took about a 4 inch strip of skin with me so what I learned that day is when one is without debilitating venom, one must be as a horse do
“be as a horse do” is my new favorite colloquialism.
This little man made himself at home while I cleaned his enclosure. He didn’t want to let go when I was finished, I guess he enjoyed my warmth! (Source: https://ift.tt/2CXki9Z)
I think we all know why this isn’t taught universally.
I took a self defense course in college and they taught us this, and when I told it to my then-boyfriend, he laughed and said it was too extreme. That should’ve been my first red flag tbh
the fact that she doesn’t say “so he won’t do it” she says “when you’re in court” is terrifying
Not everyone in a date rape situation is conscious/sober, and then the court will use someone having not injured the rapist as an excuse for why it didn’t happen.
Not everyone can also react with violence especially if frightened.
Some rapists react violently to resistance.
Women are already taught stuff like this anyhow, and has it worked?
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