People like to think that the seventies is when you automatically lose your ability to think and do anything useful. That’s bullshit; it’s individual, genetics combined with access to good nutrition, healthcare, etc.
I used to work as a nurse’s assistant, specifically in home health where the patients were often at home with spouses, and other age peers. I had patients as old as their 90s that could still function mentally just fine, but had physical issues. I had patients older than that too, several just past 100, but they really wouldn’t have been able to be a walmart greeter.
But even with the patients that did suffer cognitive difficulties, there were plenty of family members and friends that didn’t. Most people suffer only minor cognitive decline in their seventies. Given otherwise good health, there’s no necessity for someone without a diagnosis that would prevent them from doing their job to be forced to retire.
What we need are term limits, not ageist bullshit. The problem isn’t age, or even a given political bent, it’s the accumulation of power and influence that then becomes a commodity open for purchase, leading to corruption.
Now, I wouldn’t object to mandatory fitness evaluations, but that’s going to be as corruptible as anything else political. I certainly think some specific diagnoses should exclude someone from making decisions for the entire nation, that affect the entire world, but that’s a tough thing to make happen, much less make work.
But age? Age is absolutely not a factor in fitness for any public office. Hell, I’m of the mind that none of the elected offices should have minimum ages, beyond a national age of adulthood so that the people in the position aren’t immediately beholden to someone like a parent. Pick whatever arbitrary age you want for that, and we’re good to go as long as it passes muster legally.
Shoot, share it anyway. That’s what it’s all about, people just sharing themselves and maybe getting a chance to walk that mile in the other person’s shoes :)
I’m not sure if this is the right community for this question, but it says “no stupid question” so here goes. I’m an Israeli who now lives in the US, but I am considering permanently residing in the US or elsewhere (perhaps somewhere in Europe or Canada) because I’ve become kinda disillusioned with Israel for a variety...
Turn it into the frolicking pit, get all hard fucking core with the frolicking. Be a couple of happy, smiling, frolicking motherfuckers up in the woods!
I hate to break this to you, but there’s only 43 people on lemmy at all. We’re all just pretending to be everyone, including you.
You aren’t you at all, you’re a constructed personality inside someone’s mind with a lifetime of false memories and a thin veneer of “free will” to give you the illusion of being a real person.
Nothing says there have to be duplicated organs at all. You wouldn’t necessarily even need two sets of lungs for them to be able to speak, just an air bladder that gets filled up without doing any major oxygenation. You could even have the “horse” lungs doing all the work for that too, without the need for a secondary air sac.
You could even do away with a full skeletal system in the upper section. Could be almost all muscle around some bones for support and mobility.
All that would be necessary for the upper part are digestive tubing, breathing tubing, and a skull on top of a section of something akin to vertebrae for turning the head itself.
Think of that human torso being a very complicated neck rather than a half of a human grown onto a horse.
Now, I would think that with the extra space, there would be something like a stomach in there to begin breaking things down before sending them along but that isn’t mandatory for the basics to work.
Now, where things get interesting is reproduction. There’s where you’d see some trippy arrangement to allow for birthing a baby. I’ve always thought that maybe the “human” part isn’t developed the same. More of a lump of a head with stumpy little proto-arms that finish growing after birth. Just enough so they could run and eat, with the rest of the torso section slowly arising from its flesh prison fully during puberty.
They’d spend their first few years slowly growing the trunk and arms, allowing the muscles to develop over time.
Even if there are ribs, they wouldn’t have to be attached to anything. They could just be under the muscles a little to give structure without the need to have organs to protect.
Also, how many sets of genitals do they have? Do the front and back have to match if there’s genitals on both? There’s sci-fi centaurs where the whole thing is way more complicated than you’d think.
Man, most of the potheads I know would laugh at that amount of weed in only a month. I used to know a guy that would kill a pound of weed in two weeks. Mids, tbh, but still.
There was a chance to enact real change to prevent this shit from being a common thing. But we, as a population, didn’t carry through. And that’s pretty fucking frustrating and depressing
A London-born teenager is set to become the first millennial to be made a saint after he has had a second miracle attributed to him by Pope Francis....
Damn, this kid is slacking. Fucking millennials, doing half the work of their elders and getting twice the praise. I mean, c’mon, a little vomiting, a little head trauma? Homie needs to be fixing some leprosy or cancer like the real saints used to. Dude is barely managed two illegals miracles in a decade ffs.
Hell, St Jude used to help me get it up every time I had to bang someone’s mom after pwning their asses, and this kid is out here doing nothing useful at all. Sheesh. Millennials.
Spolier spoiler >!Just in case anyone can’t tell, the real problem is pretending some dead kid is making shit happen in the first place!<
The only real problem here is that a good meatloaf is going to end up with its taste and texture covered up by this.
Like, eat how it makes you happy, I’m not saying anyone shouldn’t do that they like. Follow your gustatory joy, you dig?
But from the perspective of combining things to get the most bang for your buck flavor wise, beef is a very deep flavor, and meatloaf is kinda good at enhancing it by evening it out. But, in doing so, most recipes are also going to end up muting it in a way because it’s now a “flat” flavor profile.
When you take that, and cover it with another even, flat flavor like mayo, then avocado too, you end up with the beef no longer being a star, it’s just part of an ensemble.
Now, you can do meatloaf that is much more beef forward, with less evenness. But at that point, you run into a similar issue where the mayo and avocado flatten the end result.
The cheese? Works well with beef almost always. Even here, you’d still have that taste rising up from the even profile.
It comes down to how many fats are in your mouth at once. With all the fats here, the umami, and the beefiness that goes with it, never get a good chance to hit your tongue.
This is a case where having a side that incorporates the avocado, mayo, and cheese as a separate flavor base that you switch between would make the same ingredients so much better. A nice avocado salad would work very well. Cube the avocado, mince some garlic and/or onion. Gently fold the mayo and cheese in. Salt, pepper to taste. Top with something like some parsley just for a visual pop and a bit of brightness to play off of the heavy fats when you’re chewing.
Obviously, you’re minimizing carbs here, or you could do a nice pasta as a bed for the salad, or maybe serve it over a crusty bit of sourdough.
Also, if you’ve never had avocado salad, it’s great. But you gotta be very gentle with the mixing. You do want the avocado to get a little mushed in on the edges, but you need the cubes to be intact for the texture and flavor output to work right. It’s about how each flavor proceeds across the tongue as you chew, otherwise it’s just kind of a waste.
Sure an’ begorah! We irish here in the states be layin it on thick!
No bullshit though, there are still places where the irish immigrants have carried along a similar subculture. Enough that they go to Ireland and don’t feel like they’re in a foreign country. I suspect that it would be similar for an actual Irish citizen to visit with those enclaves here.
But plenty of the irish here in the states came over not because they wanted what was here, but because they didn’t have much of a choice. It was either immigrate or famine for many. They held on to their identity longer and more deeply than those that came over out of a desire for something else. You get enough Irish descended folks together, swapping stories, and you’ll see that divide. It can get a little noisy when you’ve got a family where multiple family lines have intermarried. Hell, if you throw in the Scots-Irish into that, it can get outright loud.
Only one problem. By the time this occurred, every road everywhere was already full of pi. Poor sharon is just one digit in a long line that covers their world. Hallucinating being an independent numeral.
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Should I permanently leave Israel?
I’m not sure if this is the right community for this question, but it says “no stupid question” so here goes. I’m an Israeli who now lives in the US, but I am considering permanently residing in the US or elsewhere (perhaps somewhere in Europe or Canada) because I’ve become kinda disillusioned with Israel for a variety...
I'm glad we don't snuggle people as a greeting the way we snuggle animals.
Edit to clarify that by ‘snuggle’ i meant all pets, scritches, belly rube, squeezes, ass pats, questions about who’s the goodest, nicknaming, etc.
Nothing is stopping a single individual from controlling 100 accounts on Lemmy to upvote and downvote whatever they want
Centaurs have 2 sets of ribcages & internal organs, which make them more resistant to organ failures/heart attacks.
That’s it.
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