I’m personally not a fan of following recipes, but my wife loves cookbooks. A few of her go to are:

Veganomicon - By Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero

And The How Not to Die Cookbook By Michael Greger, Gene Stone

Word on the street is she’s been hit by, she’s been struck by, a smooth criminal.

Even if they were to try this, I honestly do not think he will live much past 2028. He is already about 80 years old, in poor health with an ever degrading mental capacity. They really can’t be planning for him to be around forever.

Hell even Trump himself keeps talking about building a legacy, which suggests to me that he knows his days are numbered.

So you’re saying we all need to learn to trim trees as a backup plan?

The problem is that there are no industries or jobs that are entirely safe in the long term. Yes white collar jobs are most at risk at the moment, but I see no reason to believe manual labor wouldn’t be at risk after 5-10 years. I literally don’t know what we are supposed to do?

I think the problem is that those who like to flaunt the second amendment as their patriotic civic duty are the same group that believes Trump can do no wrong. Until most of those fringe right wing militia types are convinced he has to go no action will be taken on their part.

That said I don’t think guns are the answer to the problem at this juncture. Let’s face it, if it comes down to a matter of firepower the US Armed Forces will win every time. The US military budget is more than the GDP of most countries. There are no circumstances where a bunch of hillbillies with guns will ever win that fight.

My mother was the farthest thing from affectionate, my parents were divorced so my father wasn’t around that much when I was growing up.

I’m not sure “gentle” is the first word I would use to describe myself, but as an adult I’ve dedicated my life to adopting animals in need. Generally it’s hard to build trust with an animal if you do not have a “gentle” side.

Maybe it was the animals who taught me how they wanted to be treated, but I can sure as hell say it wasn’t my mother who taught me how to be warm and affectionate.

I mean sometimes when you’ve got a hanger…

There are so many details I have to ask, is this for a creative writing session, or are you asking based on a real life situation?

That said, your question is oddly phrased as I’m not entirely sure of the relevance of gen z or social media. But at its core it sounds like you are asking are death bed confessions prosecutable?

According to Google yes it’s technically possible. But in the scenario you are discussing, where someone is potentially in hospice or in a hospital death bed confessing a crime at an extremely old age, I suspect nothing much would happen.

Often legal issues take a long time for anything to happen, they would have to reopen a case, start an investigation, see if they can find corroborating evidence, ect. Depending on the situation all they would have to go on all they might have is the confession itself and it may be difficult to prove this wasn’t some kind of confabulation of dementia.

Assuming they moved forward and the individual made it to trial (which very often can take many years), it’s doubtful that you would be able to find a jury willing to convict a 105+ year old person based upon potentially thin evidence.

So yes it’s technically possible, but I’m not sure it would be a worthwhile use of judicial resources and suspect it would very likely be swept under the rug.

I actually think you are on to something here as I feel like there will always be people who desire to be with a “real human”.

That said if they ever developed something like a holodeck in real life I can see it making a dent in the industry.

Like morally I’m completely fine with prostitution, although in practice consent is hugely important for me, and you can never be truly certain if they are being coerced into the practice by a pimp/madam/other extenuating circumstance. With a computer consent really becomes a non issue, and thus a little more “morally okay”.

Mention anything about veganism and watch the comments pile on. The Lemmy group mind is not a fan of anything that challenges their currently held viewpoints.

Veganism in particular is hard for some people, because it pokes holes in their current world view and it effectively says you could be doing more, for people who already view themselves as ethical and caring hearing some of those hard truths can feel like an attack.

And on Lemmy in particular people like to shut down dissenting viewpoints such as those.

And please don’t hit me with responses on why you think veganism is dumb, I’m merely making an observation as to what is not tolerated on this platform.

It’s a common misunderstanding, not exactly sure where it stems from. When I was a vegetarian many years ago it wouldn’t be uncommon for people to offer me fish.

I agree with everything you said, except for one point. Vegetarians by definition do not eat fish, pescatarian is likely the word you are looking for as they eat everything you listed with the inclusion of fish.

One of the major flaws of the American voting system is the electrical college. It effectively means that for a large swath of Americans your vote doesn’t matter unless you are voting for whom the majority of your state also voted for. Especially during tight elections, everything boils down to having the deciding votes, in a handful of states, if not a handful of counties in the entire country.

In a country of 300+ million people, the votes of only a handful of people in a select few locations really matter.

Are you a blue voter in a deep red state? Sorry the electrical college will throw out your vote and go with the majority.

Are you an independent voter in a deep blue state? Sorry you might as well be throwing out your vote.

Thanks to the electoral college a keen candidate can work the system and set it up so they win with the majority of the electrical votes, but not the majority of the overall votes.

TLDR: The reason why a good number of Americans didn’t vote, was by DESIGN. The current system in America de-incentivizes a large portion of the population to vote. This was likely done on purpose. This also leaves the system wide open to manipulation, further de-incentivising, and thus compounding the problem.

This theory makes too much sense, I love it. One question though why specifically the Yorktown? How do we know it was that specific ship and not any other damaged federation ship?