100 years from now nobody will have a degree. They are just too expensive.

@Horace said in Geometry problems: Dungeon Dudes did an episode recently that touched on the geometry of fireballs. I think the rules were changed at some point to remove the notion that a fireball must occupy some set cubic volume and will snake through whatever containing structure to do so. Now it's like an ethereal sphere which produces fire within that volume but nowhere else, and if it's blocked it's blocked. Am familiar with Dungeon Dudes and must check out that episode. And yeah, 5e is interesting. Overall, I like the system: the math is simple without being too identical for each character class, and each class has enough weird shit to make it unique without too many convoluted rules that bog down gameplay. It's a hell of a lot better than 3 and 4.

@George-K said in Eagle Scout: spur positive action. Idiots

I'm t-mobile I didn't notice anything

He didn't have a single African American in his army.

Yep, that'll be about the coolest thing I hear about today.

@Loki said in This is how far we will go to find racism: Show me the man and I will show you the crime. We are in the phase here where everything gets taken out and shot. Indiscriminately. It’s a pattern I’ve noticed in life. It always passes but in the meantime innocents get hurt badly. Is it the pattern that it always passes and reverts to a mean, or is it the pattern that it goes in cycles but the mean keeps getting more and more reactionary towards perceived racism?

How can they tweet their support for protests and remind everyone of their duty to atone for being white if they are preoccupied?

Squealer.

Sketchy!!!

I wonder if it really can, short term. Remember the lack of shovel-ready projects? Complicated.

Speaking of playboy bunnies, I was in the Playboy Club in London England with my first wife back around 1978 having dinner with another couple when this guy decided he was going to take my wife to his table. I went total Injun on him, and two of the club's security guards.... by golly they knew which way MY feathers pointed.....

No way. Bill Blasio using a welder?

I actually have no problem with taxing retirement income. What I have a problem with is changing the rules after you've entered the game. This would not affect me a lot. However, there are a lot of people who plan their retirement income based on tax liability in the state in which they plan to retire. If Illinois (please, don't...) wants to tax retirement income, let them do it going forward. However, it should be in the context of understanding that many of its citizens have made plans, difficult to alter, based on promises made in the past.

That’s a big change from just a couple of days ago. I guessi should have known as wolf blitzer was breathlessly saying tonight was the 21st day of protesting in NYC. Ya know if you don’t protest you are helping perpetuate the oppressor.

@Rainman said in Police vs. Prisons in the US and Europe: With any luck, she's been in jail in some of these countries, and can give some firsthand input. LOL Rainman. I guess you have not read my book - "My Five Years in Thai Prison" There are so many cultural differences that make comparisons between countries almost impossible as @Klaus and @Doctor-Phibes talk about. On one far side is Japan (and other asian countries) - the good of society is more important than the good of any one individual. "Throw a piece of garbage on the street?? No way, that reflects badly on not only you, but the neighborhood, city, etc. Society says that guns are inherently dangerous, so we are going to make it very very difficult to own a gun. No problem, says the individual." There is much more a "us" mind think versus a "me" mind think. I sometimes am frustrated when I see people think more of themselves rather than the impact on others. But, that is the US way, and I dont think it will change very soon. In general, (north) Asian culture wants you to conform to the average. It is good in keeping alot of things in line, but individual behavior is why the US has the greatest number of patents and inventions, etc/

@jon-nyc said in Trump wants => $2 Trillion for the next COVID-19 relief package: You’re missing the reference I think. @Jolly The Republics are going to use for their convention the 2016 policy statement untouched. In that policy statement, it refers a lot to the"current administration". So, it is kind of funny.