I do that, but the more complicated the meal, the less down time there is, and the more stuff there is you can’t clean up until the end.

Also, if you use serving dishes, rather than just serve out of the pot / pan, that’s another thing to clean. It’s true that cleaning a pot or pan is normally a bit harder than a serving dish. But, IMO the extra bit to clean means it’s not worth it.

It is a bit of a triumph when the only thing to clean after dinner is a single pot or pan though. And, pro-tip, you can make the pans easier to clean after dinner if you dump a bit of water in them as you’re sitting down to eat. Even 30 minutes is enough to turn the remains of a delicious sauce into sludge at the bottom of the pan. But, soaking while you eat makes it super quick to scrape it out afterwards.

On a related note:

United States Department of Damage Control is a fictional construction company appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The company specializes in repairing the property damage caused by conflicts between superheroes and supervillains.[1] Three Damage Control limited series have been published.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damage_Control_(comics)

Also note that the initials of “Damage Control” are “D.C.”

This goes part of the way to explain why people are willing to continue to live in NYC despite it being regularly attacked by supervillains, aliens, demons, etc. Though, I still think Philadelphia, Newark, Allentown and New Haven would probably be experiencing a lot of growth, seeing as they appear to be close to NYC and yet safe from the NYC chaos and danger.

I would say it is normal to kill someone who is responsable for thousands of deaths

If it was normal, it wouldn’t be newsworthy.

It is only a collective cowardace, one that I have to admit also have.

You have it because you’re normal. He didn’t, meaning he wasn’t normal (he being whoever shot the CEO).

Once agian i want to point out how truly insane it is that more of us do not do this regularly

Insanity is an abnormal mental or behavioral state. By definition, if it’s how everyone acts, then it’s not insane. It’s normal.

You can say that we ought to act differently, but that’s not how people are wired. Normal people don’t act that way.

this is seen as a rare and shoking event

In other words, it’s abnormal. That’s why we’re paying attention.

I’m sorry it reads that way. What I’m trying to say is that you have to look at the whole picture.

“Let’s say I kill a high profile individual on the street you know, hypothetically.”

If you say that, you have to take into account what kind of person might do that. It’s a person who is not thinking normally. It’s something that people thinking normally might be tempted to do, but they wouldn’t actually do it.

“Do you seriously believe that I’d be casually hanging out in public at a McDonalds with a manifesto and loaded gun in my bag?”

This is something that someone who’s thinking normally wouldn’t do. But, we’ve already established that someone who kills someone else on the street isn’t thinking normally. You can’t start from an assumption of normal thinking for someone who you’ve already hypothesized is a cold-blooded killer who killed a stranger on the street.

You’re not. I’m not saying he’s guilty. I’m just saying that it’s silly to imply there’s a conspiracy or something just because some of his alleged actions seem abnormal, when cherry-picking which of his actions you’re looking at.

I’ve heard that, but he doesn’t seem like the kind of person who kills someone due to their medical issues. For that, I picture someone confined to a wheelchair, or forced to use crutches, or severely addicted to pain meds.

I used to think that Trump was just dumb. But, recently I’ve become convinced that he’s actually able to seem smarter than he actually is. Meaning, he appears to have an IQ of maybe 90, but he’s faking it because he’s actually closer to 80. His various coping mechanisms allow him to seem smarter than he is, but that “smarter than he is” still doesn’t bring him up to average.

Also, AFAIK, they’re allowed to do a basic search to ensure that someone doesn’t have a weapon on them or nearby. It wouldn’t make sense to require a warrant for that. Imagine a cop had to apply for a search warrant to ensure that the person they were arresting didn’t have a knife or gun in their pocket.

In that case, it might make sense to search his backpack if it was right next to him. OTOH, if they took his backpack away from him, then they were no longer in danger from anything in the backpack so they had no justification to search it.

You just know that the police are going to lie about these things. They’ll claim he was never separated from his backpack so they were justified in searching it for something dangerous. Or they’ll claim that they had reason to believe there was a bomb so even though he didn’t have it on him, they still had a reason to search it because it still posed an immediate danger.

The only way anybody can get a fair trial is to have an expensive team of lawyers who can chase down all these various lies, finding out what was said on body cams, when the body cams were mysteriously turned off, what the exact timeline of everything was, etc.

I also hope he’s acquitted. I don’t know if a random healthcare CEO getting killed will make the world a better place. But, I do think that a guy getting away with killing a random healthcare CEO is more likely to result in change.

In the first case, it can be dismissed by the CEOs, oligarchs and friends as a crazy lone gunman. But, if a jury votes to acquit after massive donations to his legal case, that becomes a clear sign that it’s not just a lone gunman, that a lot of people support this kind of thing. It also makes it more likely to happen again, because the next gunman might think they can get away with it too. If CEOs start quitting because they don’t want a target on their backs, or they start reforming their companies to avoid being so hated, that’s great.

That’s the problem though. Everyone’s playing “If I were him”.

The thing is, we don’t know what was going on his mind. Say he actually was the one who did it. Maybe he wanted to get caught. Maybe he assumed he was going to get caught within minutes, and didn’t bother throwing away the evidence because he didn’t think there was any point. Maybe he kept changing his mind about what he was going to do, and in the end that indecision caught up with him.

Assuming he’s actually the one who shot the CEO, I already have trouble understanding his thinking. He shot a guy in cold blood who may have been scummy, but hadn’t actually hurt Mangione or anybody he cared about, AFAIK. He didn’t do it as part of a community. I know he’s not a mass shooter, but shooting a stranger for ideological reasons is most similar to mass shooters or bombers. Most of the times people do that, they’re egged on by a community. He apparently just did it on his own.

So yeah, I don’t get it, but the fact I don’t get it doesn’t convince me it can’t be true.

The UK is hardly about to go fascist. Labour recently won power and there won’t be a national election for years. There were smaller council elections recently and Reform won a few seats, but so did the Greens and Lib Dems. Basically, there were some anti-establishment votes.

East Germany voted AfD, but the rest of the country defeated that.

Canada voted Liberal despite a strong anti-establishment sentiment. It’s likely that eventually it will flip back conservative. But, there’s a chance that before that happens, the chaos of Trumpism will make the conservatives in Canada try to become an adult, respectable party rather than Maple MAGA.

Nope.

And Trump weighs 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat.

Yeah, that I can get behind. His Texan shtick was an obvious act. But, even without that, I don’t think he had an IQ of 100. Like most politicians he had good emotional intelligence, and an ability to connect with people. Still, it was clear that even pretty basic concepts were a stretch for him.

I’m sure there was another similar incident in the last few months when some “policy” came out of the blue, and someone connected it to something else that had just recently been on TV. But, finding something like that is nearly impossible. What do you search for, “crazy policy ideas, Trump, 2025” There are just mountains of BS to sift through.

I’m sure he wasn’t even aware of what station was airing the movie. He was flicking through the channels and saw one that was interesting.

He was mindlessly flicking through the channels until one seemed interesting.

I feel you could call Bush a smart man

No.

Ponzi schemes sometimes take a while to collapse.

Real currencies are far more stable and are unlikely to suddenly disappear. It can occasionally happen, but it’s rare. Cryptocurrencies are a ponzi scheme.