Controversial, but until they are diagnosed with a mental illness, you have to assume they are in control of their actions regardless of their age. If a medically mentally sound 70 year old man is sexually harassing people, he’s just as guilty as someone half their age (not saying your parents would do that, just proving a point).

My personal opinion is you choose who you have relationships with, including family relationships. If you want to keep a relationship with them, you have to accept that they are choosing to act this way (again, assuming no medical/mental conditions) and decide to love them anyway.

If they are actually experiencing mental decline and not just relaxing their inhibitions, as so many older people tend to do, then you need to get them to a doctor fast. Everything from medication side effects to vitamin deficiency can cause mental decline. If they have early dementia, or some other incurable mental ailment, talk to a therapist about how to handle the situation and stay sane yourself. Caring for someone you know will never get well is extremely hard emotionally.

I do think a healthy amount of scepticism is healthy here. Her accusations are worded very carefully to not directly target anyone in particular and there is no proof of her accusations nor any way for LMG to dispute her claims because of how they are worded. Regardless of the timing. It’s all a little too convenient.

That said, scepticism doesn’t mean blind faith in LMG, and it doesn’t mean tearing down the accuser. The new CEO getting an independent investigation is the best thing possible and we should hold our judgement until the result of that investigation.

Edit: made my point regarding the timing more clear.

I’m glad to see lemmy so active, even if it is negatively against my comment

Canned soup is especially bad about sodium, and they’re sneaky about it. They’ll say that each can has two servings and each serving is like 800mg of sodium.

Yep. My favorite hot sauce has 1200mg of sodium per two tablespoons… And I would drench my food in that shit.

Same with soy sauce. Each of those little packets you get from your favorite Chinese place is probably at least 300mg of sodium.

2000 Cal is probably within 30% of what most people should have daily. But your typical American food is going to be 100-200% higher than the daily recommended amount. A Panera Bread French Onion soup in a bread bowl is literally 90% of the daily sodium, but not even half of the daily calories. Remove the bread bowl and it’s still more than 1200mg of sodium for less than 400 calories.

The biggest thing I look at now when picking out meals is the sodium to calorie ratio. Anything over 1.2 is probably not good.

Stories I’ve heard in the last year from my friends and co-workers:

• Bragging about how they got 5 hours of sleep last night because their newborn finally slept until 6am

• A “funny” story about how their 5 year old managed to get a hold of some chewing gum and got it stuck in their hair and all over a rug

• A potty training “success” story about how their toddler remembered to pull down their pants, but remembered mid shit they should have sat on the toilet, so they shat all over the bathroom.

• They found a juice box their kid bit a hole into and then tucked under their car seat… By smelling it rotting

Trojan just needs to get a group of parents together to tell stories about their kids and paste them word for word on the back of their boxes.

That’s a fair point. But there is definitely a “tolerance” you build up and can be reset. After being on a low sodium diet, anything like what I mentioned before is almost inedibly salty.

In the same vein, salt.

Try to stay under the daily recommended amount of 2500mg of sodium and see how limited your food options are.

Everything is loaded with salt now. Especially fast food. For example, my previous go-to meal at Zaxby’s (the boneless wings and things plate) is over 4000mg of sodium for one meal. Add on a 1300mg sausage, egg, and cheese mcgriddle and a fried rice with soy sauce for dinner and I had several days worth of sodium without totally blowing my calorie budget.

I love Japanese architecture and Japanese food. And I’ve watched my fair share of anime and read my fair share of manga.

Anyone who doesn’t know how terrible Japanese culture is to outsiders needs to educate themselves, there’s a reason they sided with Hitler. That culture never really went away like it did for Germany. Talk to an actual Japanese person, who went to school in Japan and see how much they know about their war crimes, and then talk to a German.