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That makes a lot of sense. A 10x factor between high and low amounts seems like it would cause a big difference in perception of flavor.

Everyone saying bell peppers have a strong flavor makes no sense to me. Even in stuff where they feature prominently (fajitas, stuffed peppers, etc) they don't have an overpowering flavor in my experience. Very confusing.

It also seems very strange to complain about vegetables tasting like vegetables. What else are they supposed to taste like?

I agree. I think the premise was pretty clear that it's a guy who doesn't know D&D trying to explain it to people who do.

Indoctrination is extremely effective -- it takes a lot of time and effort to overcome it. I know it's hard to understand when you haven't been part of it yourself, but the fact that the church exists still shows how effective the indoctrination is.

I grew up Mormon and I would say Shad's pretty close to average when it comes to his beliefs, but most Mormons are better at keeping them masked.

They were quoting Wikipedia

But your church has always involved itself in legislation and politics.

Here's an article from 1995 that was published in your church's newspaper talking about the LDS church's actions to ban same-sex marriage in Hawaii.

With support of the church's leadership in Salt Lake City, the three representatives Wednesday filed a notice of appeal asking the Hawaii Supreme Court to allow them to become a party to a lawsuit that was filed against the state by three homosexual couples.The three couples sued the state for denying them marriage licenses...

"We are urging the court to support Hawaii's families and not undermine them by radically redefining the institution of marriage," said Donald L. Hallstrom, a regional representative of the church in Hawaii.

"If the lower court's ruling is not overturned, Hawaii could be the first state to legalize homosexual and lesbian marriages. Gay couples could then be married in Hawaii, and other states could be required to legally recognize those marriages," Elder Hallstrom said.

Edit: this Donald L. Hallstrom is still a general authority today.

I grew up in California and was in high school in 2008 when Proposition 8 was placed on the ballot -- a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. I watched people get up at Fast & Testimony meeting and talk about how gay marriage was wrong, and my former bishop handed out signs against gay marriage in the parking lot. In Utah, the church recruited BYU students to volunteer in call centers and campaign to ban gay marriage.

And rewinding back to the beginning, the Mormons practiced bloc voting, with Joseph Smith telling his followers who to vote for. This practice was the one of the primary causes of the expulsion of Mormons from the state of Missouri.

But my favorite part of playing a druid is making furious giant spider noises to communicate with my team.

This is slightly tangential, but postdocs are essentially a scam and if you don't get a tenure track job straight out of school you should strongly consider going straight into industry -- only around 10% of postdocs successfully get into a full-time academic position.

Aa far as the house goes, you'll want to use an ordinary (taxable) brokerage account and put it in a broad-market index fund. I would strongly consider opening a Roth IRA as well and contributing what you can, simce your age will make that very powerful.

The odds of succeeding at contesting the assessed value are baaically proportional to the value of your house -- rich people with lawyers usually win.

They seem to be lighter versions of core engineering classes, I doubt you'd see any particular value to them -- they seem to be duplicating your coursework. I agree with the idea to find a product management class.

He's one of those Christian Fascists that want to take over the government while they pretend they're being 'persecuted for the beliefs'. See the godawful "God's Not Dead" movies he was involved in.

It may be 'officially non political' on paper, but in practice the church is as political as it can get away with being. They will call LDS elected officials and tell them how the church wants them to vote on certain issues.

Your spoiler tags 1 are backwards and 2 the ! Needs to touch the text. The >< point toward the spoiler text and the ! Kisses the spoiler.

This is a great and logical theory. My only problem is that Brandon Sanderson has said that Cosmere books will not include "flight" as a straight-up power because he finds it boring.

I agree that the fifth ideal has to come with some kind of major power-up but I don't think it will be flight.

Sure. There's lower population, the weather' s worse, and it's farther from the ocean. And of course there's a couple of industries where employment is very concentrated in LA or SF. But for the vast majority of people (those who aren't in tech or entertainment) what's so great about LA when compared to the inland cities?

Yeah it definitely has warped your expectations. Here's a house for just under $400K in Sacramento, and $400K in Fresno

For 'only' 1.3 million here's a 5 acre mountain property outside of Eureka.

There's a lot of California outside of the crazy expensive areas.

On a tangent, it's clear from the Scadrian's reaction in Sunlit Man that Radiants have been finding their way off Roshar for quite some time when SM takes place.

I thought Barsimion's character looked more like Dolph Lundgren.