I love this guy. From a different interview with him:

The part of this I am fine with is these poor regions are getting tourist money.”

He’s also quick to add that he has nothing against the super-centenarians – as people who are 110 or older are known – themselves.

“I think they’re the best part of this! They’re having a grand old time. What have you got to lose if you’re 96 and you can pretend you’re 119 and the whole world just goes along with it? What are they going to do – put you in jail?

…

“If someone’s selling you something to get the power of longevity, ignore them,” he concludes.

We already know what to do to increase our chances of a long, healthy life, anyway: “Don’t smoke or do drugs. Don’t drink. Do some exercise. That’s all you need to do. Maybe see your GP once a year.”

“There’s no other secret. I think everyone knows that deep down. The blueberry is not going to save you.”

Well said.

“May well” absolutely indicates the right level of certainty, but feels a little informal to me. I don’t know if that’s universal, but particles in English almost always strike me as more for the ear than for the eye. Though given that this is from a speech, I’m just overthinking it, lol

There’s not a good modal verb in English to describe a likely consequence. “Will/would” are definite, ”can/could” are maybes, and “may/might” are (less likely) maybes. “Ought” and “should” signify moral(ish) perspectives and would probably be editorializing. I might use “dürfte” in German, but I’m not sure that would be right.

They probably shouldn’t have tried to rephrase it with a modal verb at all, or maybe “will likely.”

It’s kind of revelatory that vegan is a shifting term, that means whatever it wants to mean for the believer.

Really? It’s not new, at least. Vegans love to disagree about what specific things are vegan- some are cool with honey, some are cool with nestle products made without animal products, and some are cool with anything they don’t pay for. Many aren’t cool with any of that, but don’t think twice about killing a mosquito in their home.

It’s an individual choice and you’ve got to decide what you care about and prioritize that.

I had awful menstrual cramps the other day and my husband made bread pudding for dinner. It was incredible

The uncle survived.

The ease seems less important here than the morals, tbh. It’s easier to make people aware of scammers than to make them care about each other, unfortunately.

right on both counts

Possibly doughy and saucy, too.

The tumblrefaction of Lemmy begins!

My favorite musical artists as a child (90s) were John Denver; Peter, Paul, and Mary; the Beatles; and Cream. I didn’t ever get into boy bands, but I can sing along to the absolute biggest spice girl hits.

That was only really a hindrance in elementary school because in middle school I branched out into more contemporary musicians. Now, I’ve got a lot more knowledge about the 70s in music than most of my peers, but I’m not isolated from the things my peer group likes (I will lose my shit to Mr. Brightside or Yeah by Usher if I’m drunk, but I definitely will as well for anything from Carole King’s Tapestry)

Ooof. That’s 50% of people who are CDU or AfD voters. As an immigrant in Germany, that’s terrifying.

Honestly, they’re probably thinking about wartime or being in prison or something where the options are homosexuality or celibacy

Oh absolutely, this is unfortunately not the only genocide currently being attempted, nor are genocides the only seemingly immeasurable hurt that we’re currently committing against humanity.

I’m an immigrant in Germany, and even after visiting concentration camps and seeing multiple Stolpersteine (memorial plaques) per block in most cities, the massiveness of the holocaust still hits me in waves.

You’re right that we need to weigh these types of crimes, and their scale is not an excuse to bury our heads in the sand.

It’s difficult for me to weigh crimes at this scale. Would it be worse to kill 80% of Chinese people or all Brazilians? Many more people would die in the former situation, but a culture would be more fully erased in the latter. Obviously there’s some subjectivity involved, so I’m not looking for an answer, it’s just hard for me to actually grasp the enormity of these types of crimes.

Weirdly, this is recognizably Sarah Michelle Gellar, whereas the one in the OP is not to me. That could be from flipping it though, because I don’t notice any actual difference in her face

Unfortunately, that niche is filled by axel springer, instead of just being empty

I’m normally the one in my house trying to get rid of things, but keep those (and/or send them to me, lol).

I want a quantum superstate to exist wherein I both squeeze my cat as hard as I want and she enjoys the experience, suffering no harm.

It’s the real life equivalent of selling your soul to the devil, no matter the country. You’re signing up for something with the full acknowledgement that you might be told to die and you need to accept that, plus the other party to your contract makes the rules that govern contracts (and everything else) in your jurisdiction.