A bag of onions and a jar of minced garlic punch above their price tag for pasta enhancement as well.
I like to saute the onion (diced) until golden and translucent, then add a scoop of the minced garlic, then just as it starts to brown, dump in the sauce, Italian seasoning, and stir at a very low simmer while the noodles cook.
Add some pasta water to the sauce before you strain so it sticks to the noodles better.
Even longer than that.
But gas means money, so fuck anyone and everything else that might get in the way.
I mean, shit, at least lionize some blinkered fanatic like Stonewall Jackson.
Jackson was a 19th century Christian jihadist.
On the other hand… instead of Lee or Jackson, James Longstreet is right there.
I can’t think of any metals or anything that there would be enough of in river water to hurt you
We’re talking about rivers like the one in Cleveland that they caught on fire?
Twice?!
IDK what’s in that but I’ll leave my cup for you haha
Aaaaand those parents of those Gen Z kids probably said what they said because when they were kids, their parents told them to follow their dreams and do whatever they wanted to do, so they believed them and they went to art school and didn’t work hard, then they got to the recession and lost their job (or never got it in the first place) because their degree was irrelevant for almost any job out there, and then they had to compete and improve in order to get a decent job to make ends meet as they tried their best to raise their little Gen Z kid.
Years ago I worked at a brewery.
They had offices but no spaces available in that part of the facility when I started, so they “made an office” for me in a spare storage room off of a tiny hallway that connected the finishing cellars with the filter room and hop storage room.
It was so out of the way that over a year into the job there were still people who had no idea how to find my office.
Granted there were no windows, and most of the day, the hop centrifuge and filter pumps meant I was immersed in loud droning noise…but until I started working from home in the pandemic, it was the best office I ever had.
And there’s the real case for private ownership.
If you have the choice of being disappeared and killed…or being disappeared and killed while taking a few of them with you, definitely choose the latter.
It won’t help you, but if you do it, your neighbor does it, and the next 10, 20…50 people do it, eventually two things are going to happen: if it’s local forces, they’re gonna start needing help, and if it’s not local, it forces those powers into a more difficult decision of having to either get more overt with their fascism or backing off. It’s not ideal but that’s pretty much the options you have.
If they want to do all the shitty fascist things, don’t let them do it easily and for free. The higher ups might not care, but that local cop in the red hat might start to think twice when “his” government keeps asking him to haul away people, and each time, another of his friends goes down. If not from a place of shifting world view, then maybe from self preservation.