The paper bags are actually superior to fabric in almost every way.

The old fabric sacks let in bugs a lot easier, and you’d end up with weevils. Paper sacks are far better at preventing bugs. It also prevents dust explosions at the industrial level from static electricity. Flour is surprisingly explosive.

You can still get flour in cotton sacks though. Blue Bird flour comes in reusable cotton sacks.

You can live without a lot of things. The modern diet is proof that humans can survive as basically garbage disposals lol. Doesn’t mean it’s the best thing for you.

Sure without sugar you can go into ketosis, but that’s not what your body wants to do. And we do tend to eat too much sugar in general. It’s added to everything for no good reason.

Whole fruits should be a larger part of the diet, and processed carbs like breads and refined sugar should ideally be minimal. And people in general need to cut the sweet tooth and get used to foods tasting like food and not packed full of sugar.

Refined processed sugar is bad.

You do need sugar to live though. Your brain runs on sugar as does the rest of your body.

He was facing that regardless. With virtually zero chance of being acquitted, no matter what the internet wants to think.

By getting rid of the state case though, he stands a chance of getting the federal one overturned on appeal and being free, vs getting it overturned on appeal and then just going straight to state prison.

New York has a state specific double jeopardy law that would apply here. Charges at the federal level that stem from the same action are double jeopardy is also charged at the state level.

So if he pleads in the federal case, the state charges will be dropped. If he pleads at the state level though, the federal charges still stay.

Yes you can. It’s a NY state specific law.

The reverse isn’t true, like you state though. This is just specific to NY only.

For federal stalking, up to life in prison.

The big thing with this plea though is that NY state has a double jeopardy law. If the federal case is resolved first (which it is with this plea), the NY murder case gets dropped under double jeopardy since the charges stem from the same action.

The reverse is not true though. If he went to trial and the state case progressed, he could be convicted of murder at the state level, and then still for these charges at the federal level. SCOTUS has held that charges in different jurisdictions, like state and federal, do not violate the double jeopardy clause of the constitution. Even for the exact same charges.

And if convicted at the state level and federal level, if the federal case ever got overturned on appeal, he’d just go right to state prison to start that sentence. The Feds have supremacy though so he’d go to federal prison first regardless.

This removes the state case.

Well yeah. There’s no federal murder charge. Stalking can still carry a life sentence but he’d likely get less than that.

But, settling the federal case can kill the state case if the federal case is done first.

If the state case gets underway before the federal case is resolved, there’s no federal double jeopardy law to kill the federal case so he could still be convicted in both.

It’s always going to be better to only have one case at the federal level than convictions at the state and federal level.

He’s pleading guilty to stalking in the federal case, and NY law can force the state murder charge to get dropped if the federal case is resolved first, due to NY double jeopardy laws.

There’s zero chance he gets acquitted anyway, so this is likely the smartest move for him.

Well, the charges he’s pleading to are stalking. Not the murder charges, and pleading in the federal case can get the state case for murder thrown out on double jeopardy under NY law if the federal case is settled first.

This isn’t that bad of a move for him.

And lawyers are really good at jury selection and striking potential jurors. Better than the average person is at trying to outsmart a federal prosecutor.

There’s a recall on Heavenly Spices garlic powder that’s sold at dollarama in Canada, but nothing in the US.

“Most” Americans don’t celebrate the IRA. Most Americans don’t even know what the IRA is other than a retirement account.

The ones that do know generally support the UK in that whole mess. The IRA is literally a designated terrorist group in the US.

No it’s hard. There’s absolutely no question about it. And I love lifting and working out. It’s hard.

But that’s also a product of a sedentary generation where physical labor is not the primary means of making a living.

I grew up in a blue collar family and did it myself until I joined the military. Physical labor is hard.

My dad, my grandpa, and most of the rest of my family didn’t have a choice. Making money and raising a family is hard. They all did it with hard manual labor. Plumbing and being mechanics and doing paint and body work. They didn’t need to exercise because they were lifting weights all day as a job.

Most of us don’t do that today. We drive to work, sit around at a computer, drive home, and then sit around being exhausted mentally. I get it. It’s hard to say “go lift weights for fun” or “ok now go run 5 miles.” It’s a lot easier to be exhausted and healthy when your day job is physically intensive because you knock out that basic requirement. You go home tired but physically fulfilled.

I’m in an office now and I hate it. I miss being physically exhausted just from work. I miss when going to the gym was extra trying to grow more and not just a necessity to not rot into my chair.

It’s hard to go to the gym now when I’m mentally exhausted doing shit I hate. I hate that the office drains my energy doing bullshit.

It’s hard. That’s not a knock on people today. But it is still necessary. And there’s no easy button like for everything else. You can ozempic your way out of being fat, but you can’t ozempic your way out of depression. Antidepressants are far from an easy button and often cause more problems. Being skinny doesn’t fix it the same way as working for it does.

Your first point is the big one.

Everybody wants an easy button for everything. Exercise is hard, requires consistent effort over time, and the results are subtle and take a while to see.

Good. Fuck these data centers that just want cheap land, water, and tax breaks while forcing costs higher for regular people around them.

Unless they’re going to go be completely renewable, there shouldn’t be any more built right now.

Riiiight. She works for the organization that she has repeatedly called “racist and bigoted”.

https://www.trackaipac.com/states/newyork

She’s literally the only current NY Rep or Senator that has taken $0 from pro-Israel PACs.

So, not only are you wrong, but you also couldn’t even be more wrong if you tried.

It would be more an allegory about the human experimentation of imperial Japan if anything. Given its a Japanese Manga.

Neither of which have anything to do with America.

That’s not what this is about though…

It’s about Full Metal Alchemist… that’s the guy that merged his daughter and dog into a chimera. He also had done it to his wife prior to that.

Well that’s a massive incorrect comparison lmao.

Adults have complete agency over themselves and their lives. Babies do not.

The idea of an adult retiring and no longer contributing to the workforce has only existed for the last 150 or so years of humanity in general.

And even then, that adult has a literal lifetime to prepare for their own retirement.

That’s absolutely NOTHING like a baby, which has no agency, no control over their life or actions, and is completely dependent on their parents. To even make the comparison is ignorant at best.

If I make it to old age and can’t feed or wipe myself, and nobody else wants to do that, that’s a me problem. I have probably been a shitty enough person that my children and grandchildren don’t want to take care of me, and/or I’ve been financially stupid enough to not plan for that outcome. Either way, that’s my own life actions coming back to me.

A baby doesn’t get that. They exist solely because some other people brought them into the world.