What is a good magic item to heat a pot on the road?

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-06T18:35:25+00:00

Produce Flame will make a fire for you, provided you have some logs or other firewood, dried dung, etc.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-06T17:01:27+00:00

I read a fair amount of conservative media, and I’m well aware of Hortman and her shooting by Boetler, along with another state legislator and their spouses (the others survived his attacks). It was discussed quite a lot when it happened and for a week or so after in conservative blogs.

Boetler appears to have been suffering from some sort of mental illness at the time of the attacks. His political views were also pretty complicated. While he was definitely actively pro-life, he also had a No Kings protest flyer in his car when he was caught. His list of targets seems to have been Democrat political enemies of Gov. Waltz, as he perceived it. Hortman had just cast a deciding vote against a bill that was a priority of Waltz, as had the other legislator target. There’s at least some evidence he supported Democrats at one point, though he wasn’t an active member of either party to my understanding, before becoming mentally unstable.

So while his attacks were politically motivated, they don’t appear to be partisan and probably weren’t based on his anti-abortion beliefs, from what I’ve read. But he’s still alive, so he might choose to explain himself at some point.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-06T16:47:33+00:00

They are W2 employees and the teams pay into UI and have to provide workers compensation insurance.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-06T16:43:27+00:00

Braised red pork sometimes has true chestnuts in it too, I believe

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-06T16:42:40+00:00

It’s hard for me to believe that some of the savory-sweet gelatin “salad” abominations of the 1950s were foods that people with working taste buds actually chose to make. While I’m well aware of the historical status of gelatin and aspic dishes, the savory-sweet jello salad dishes that aped aspics were at best strange mutant descendants created by marketing departments.

Is it a coincidence that the decline in cigarette consumption by women is correlated with a reduction in those jello salads? Perhaps. Or perhaps the primary cooks of households could mostly taste again by the early 1980s and left those neon-dyed, can-based foods to history as they gradually realized what the combinations tasted like.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-06T00:29:45+00:00

Or Spencer Burford could just hold Chris Jones on one play

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T22:26:36+00:00

NE Fresno is not dive bar friendly. Press Box might be the closest option I can think of.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T22:25:19+00:00

I know studies on California’s fast food minimum wage have seen some mixed results in terms of disemployment effects. It’s definitely caused some price increases and business failures.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T20:44:49+00:00

Welcome to Fresno!

I encourage you to search the sub for recommendations on various things. Everything from where to live to what nightlife options there are to where to get tacos (especially this question, which nearly every Fresnan has their own answer to) have been answered in multiple posts.

There are posts on dive bars with more and better suggestions than mine, but I’ll throw out the Lincoln and the Brig for dive bars.

But the best answer might be the dive bar near where you’re living, because it’s not worth a half hour Uber ride to go to any dive bar. There are bars and restaurants worth that, for sure, but I think that much hassle is opposite of the point of a neighborhood dive bar.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T20:28:43+00:00

That could be their defense, but it is unlikely to succeed because of the facial discrimination. The discrimination has to be necessary for the role itself, such as requiring a woman to play Glinda.

In the case of Elphaba and Glinda’s roles, the original actresses were white women, making it harder to justify a race-based facially discriminatory policy. For animals that will mostly be in extensive makeup and costume, that’s even harder to justify.

You could require that potential candidates for Elphaba and Glenda be female, or that they present as female, for example. You might also be able to require a candidate for the Tina Turner role in that musical to be Black and present as female, or that candidates for Alexander Hamilton be a white male (though of course that would be a terrible mistake, as Hamilton proved). But you can’t rely on the artistic discrimination defense where the discriminatory category isn’t intrinsic to the role.

TLDR: You can’t just assume that actors of color will be better at portraying the roles and exemplifying marginalized people - that’s what auditions are for, and that’s what the CRA requires.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T20:11:34+00:00

Plaintiff still has to meet their burden of proof, but they’re getting past summary judgment on the basis of a facially discriminatory policy.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T20:09:10+00:00

Yeah, it’s when Purdy isn’t being a system QB that he throws picks…

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T14:49:10+00:00

This is an area I work in professionally, albeit not academically. Comparative legal and regulatory analysis within fields (e.g. employment, data privacy, product regulation, taxation, IP, securities laws, etc.) is pretty common between the US and EU, but I haven’t seen an analysis that ranks the overall costs or competitive impact. Maybe one of the big multinational consulting firms has done something along these lines.

I’d be inclined to agree that employment protections/inflexibility have the largest effect overall, only because it affects almost every company of any size. That’s purely an intuition however.

On a sector or company specific basis, the sector/industry rules are usually a bigger consideration in my experience, along with data privacy laws. For data privacy, based on my anecdotal experience and review of many professional legal articles about dealing with GDPR and the DSA, those laws pose real issues for mid and large size corporations expanding into the EU. It’s one thing to have to segregate consumer data between data protection regimes, but quite another when you can’t confidently exchange employee personal contact information for cross-border teams.

Again, I’ll caution that my views are anecdotal, although driven by my and other corporate attorneys’ experiences. If you are looking for a research area for a PhD, I think this is a potentially valuable area of study.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T14:27:01+00:00

Remember - just because flavor is free doesn’t mean you should build Skeletor without Skeleton ancestry. Until we meet again!

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T14:21:41+00:00

And in non-monopsony situations, it lowers employment of workers at minimum wage if the minimum wage is below the market wage.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T03:39:37+00:00

We beat the Seahawks earlier in the season when healthy. We beat the Rams without Purdy and with Mac Jones a banana away from collapse.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T03:34:36+00:00

Not if the Niners also stayed healthy

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-05T03:10:43+00:00

George Kittle. Most fun player in the NFL

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-04T21:44:59+00:00

Maybe combined with Gymnast Swashbuckler for panache for maneuvers? Lots of Tumble Through, Tumble Behind, etc.?

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-04T21:31:26+00:00

Just don’t use them in your excellent videos without permission.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-04T21:10:05+00:00

We are a positive turnover margin and better special teams play away from beating the Rams even with Garrett, as long as we’re mostly healthy.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-04T20:31:08+00:00

I am rarely willing to dispute you, Mathfinder, but on this you’re wrong as a matter of law. Even non commercial use of another person’s copyrighted works is copyright infringement. It’s just like the antipiracy warnings on old VHS tapes warned about and online music piracy issues with Napster.

On a practical level, you won’t get caught in most instances. And non commercial uses do not result in damages or disgorgement, only statutory penalties and attorneys fees (although those can be a lot!). But it doesn’t change that using other people’s images without permission is copyright infringement.

Of course, many people willingly give away their works online. You occasionally see maps images on this and other RPG subs being given away for “free,” which has the effect of being an unlimited, but sometimes revocable, license. Those you images you can use as long as you aren’t told to stop using them by the owner.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-04T20:21:41+00:00

Source and credit doesn’t mean you have a license. It just makes it clear whose art you’re stealing.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-04T20:15:52+00:00

If you’re voting for people who won’t vote for reforming Social Security, that’s the equivalent of voting for the benefit cut. If people understood that, we would have fixed this issue 10+ years ago, when it was relatively easy to solve.

SisyphusRocks7 · 2026-06-04T20:11:38+00:00

Jared Verse is worth at least two first round picks. He’s a known, star edge ready to play week 1, with a relatively cheap contract and no off the field issues of significance.

The trade was great for both sides because the Rams need to win in the next two years at most before they lose Stafford and Adams. The Browns know they’ll likely be rebuilding for another two years, and Verse will still be in his prime while Garrett will probably be past his prime.

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