35 still living with my mom. After university I lived abroad for some time but then get into serious crisis of meaning and was like a living zombie for 2-3 years. Then found a nonprofit organization for which I needed some serious work and time to put it on the ground (similar to starting a business, but with a different goal). Now it pays off, but I am into very serious saving for big thing for future, so rather stay here still. I also love my mom so I enjoy the family life.
Well, now we have to work on independence. But with more reasonable USA president, we can go for interdependence. Good for both sides and hopefully for whole world.
Thanks ❤️ I hope your next presidents will be on the level needed for the position. Currently USA is bleeding trust super fast. And trust is build slowly. It will take time. I hope we both (EU and USA) will be friends again in future. But, unfortunately for USA in short-term, Europe in the meantime will build a new world that will be more USA-independent and more global by nature. I believe that also USA will profit from it in long run, as it will be more sustainable and just, but the short term loses will be high for USA. In a sense, we can argue, that Trump is like an asteroid for dinosaurs - makes extinction of old dominant species that no more serve the ecological purpose but still occupies the niche and such prevents the new species, more adapted to the environment, to take its place. In that sense, humankind can be eternally grateful for Trump, although the process is super messy... Also, I would rather prefer humankind to reach it's upper limits of current organisation by natural growth, not by such conflict... But humankind will emerge reorganized and stronger 💪
Basic answer is: at birth. Also, never. In fact, both of them. And no one. All of that is valid in the same time...
More complex answer is that nothing is objectively sad. What is "sad" and what is not is entirely human-made concept. And in order to be as close to truth as possible, it must be treated like that.
A bit better question would be something like "What is your current personal preference for X?". That acknowledges that 1) we are dealing about subjective, rather objective affair, 2) or is not an eternal trait but a possibly temporary affair that can change after some time.
That way, different people, different cultures in space and time have different opinions. As long as we know that it is an intersubjective thing, it is OK. If some opinion can get you in trouble (like saying that some moons orbit around Jupiter), you may use that knowledge to survive. But otherwise, it is up to you how you live your life. They universe is providing a lot of possibilities and you can tap into its creativity and let universe manifest thru you. Please, enjoy it, it is great and I really want more people to cocreate the universe into its fullest. Eg. by building some new cool LEGO building 😊
As a long term vegetarian I would LOVE to be able to sometimes eat a meat that causes only small suffering, doesn't worsen karma much, and have small environmental impact.
Unfun fact: For tobacco production, specifically drying the leaves, are quite often used wood from local rainforest. Not very enviro friendly. The slovakian forest protection organisation VLK was working on some outreach materials about this topic but haven't finished them, but I have read the draft.
Also, smokers not just die because of smoking. They die in bad health that often needs years of treatment, which can be very expensive, but also polluting and diverging resources from productive work... I am not sure about the pluses and minuses and final calculation, but it is definitely not super clear.
So no, smoking is definitely not a good way to protect environment.
Then you may consider requesting from your government to facilitate and fund research to develop real aging-reversal therapies. They will not be available next year, but with right focus they could be here in 10-20 years.
Not a complain about age, but a thing to remove a lot of complains about age. Let's just create a real rejuvenation / aging-reversal therapies. Then our bodies and partly even minds will stay in youthful, healthy state for much longer. Ultimately even without diseases of old age.
It runs Doom, btw!