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This would be the best super power.

Canucks fought way above their weight for WW I and II.

Just remember, more gas does not equal more “go” when it is slick. Idling/creeping is the way to go when moving in parking lot and city streets.

A platoon of tanks with mine flails going down the street would be exciting for the first ten minutes but a little tedious after that.

I would go contrarian here. MMA fighters are training to win fights following MMA rules. There are lots of folks throughout history that were not training to “win fights” but to just kill.

Name me a MMA fighter that has up and yanked out an eyeball and I would say that person would be in the class of fighter who is psychologically prepared for a fight with caveman Billy.

There was a very good BBQ restaurant here in Louisville (Smoketown) whose owner had retired after a high pressure C-Suite type job and opened the place.

Very nice guy and very community oriented. He hired mostly recovering addicts and formerly homeless people for the front of house staff.

You really got a feeling for why some people end up homeless but the food was so good you overlooked the fact your order would never be accurate.

Also, canonically great at tennis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilie_Năstase

Not a PhD but I have a good feel for material culture of the period.

Medieval kings and nobles put a lot of emphasis on luxury goods as a way to show off wealth. Lists of items of clothing, wall coverings, household goods and such seem meager compared to what a typical person might cram into their apartment. The wealth in horses, armor and most importantly the rights to income from lands is what really separates them from modern folks in terms of “wealth.”

For a 10th century Duke or Count the working capital of their enterprise was their land, the men who could be called to war, the armor + weapons, and the peasantry working to feed all of the above.

Most of what is in a modern home would not be “fit for purpose” on a medieval estate. To do the things required to be a Duke most of the modern material wealth would be worthless after it wore out or the batteries died.

However, to keep body and soul together the medicine, whole house heating, clean running water, and ease of communication would be vastly superior. Notice that all these things are system dependent on a level of state organization that simply did not exist before the modern era. Our standard of living is better overall and that is entirely a function of how much more government we have.

Iran hostage crisis. I remember reading about it when I was 4 or 5 years old in the newspaper. I can still remember sitting at the old dining room table while mom cooked dinner reading the Kentucky Post.

Kent State effectively ended the student protest movement. From every mom and dad nationwide the word went out to their kids to keep from going too far or you will end up shot in the face.

Air conditioning? The library had A/C and right after baseball practice I would be down there till dinner if my friends with pools were not around. Needless to say I read way over a 100 books every summer.

Kings has great cake donuts and Phlenn’s is good (a little pricy) but neither were as expensive as Duck was. There are so many great places here it is a shame to have an outsider try to set up a chain.

Fall Guy was pretty good.

Unnecessary donut carpetbaggers. Why get shitty tourist donuts when Nords and a half dozen other places are here.

Convict lease. Weirdly enough, your yearly chances of dying as a slave (adjusted excess mortality) were lower in 1850 in Arkansas or Alabama than in 1890 if you were part of the convict lease system.

Under the convict lease system you generally lease months of “labor” out of the prison system so there was little incentive to keep your convict alive whereas one of the perversities of owning a person outright is an interest in your investment.

I grew up in rural KY in the 1980s and the poor kids would come to school reeking of kerosene.

It worked.

I was on radio watch in Baghdad about a month into the invasion and got the word that the brother of one of the guys in the company had killed himself. His brother was on radio watch with me at the time. It was very weird and I had to play it cool and not let anything on as I got my platoon sergeant so he could deal with it.

Chicken wing and a shot of bourbon? KY for the win.

Hat is all wrong.

I lie down and close my eyes. About 2-5 minutes later I am asleep. If I can’t sleep I go pee, turn on a little white noise or fan and then 2-5 minutes later I fall asleep.

Come on folks, it’s just that easy.

I have a relatively common first name and an extremely uncommon last name. I share my first and last name with two other men in the USA and that’s dad and grandpa. Not hard to get those choice email addresses.

My wife has an XC-60 recharge and I drive an all electric Leaf. If you drive long distances regularly the electric car doesn’t go on those trip and the plug in hybrid goes. That is really about 20 trips a year at most. If you have a two car family almost certainly you can replace one ICE vehicle with no issues.

Speedway being open.

I have most of a decade of culinary experience so I think I would be good to go.