Yes! My thinking is that Riker stayed on the Enterprise as long as he did because Picard is the first male authority figure in his life that he can respect and learn from. Riker is hyper-competent, but he has no sort of relationship with his father, his first captain barely survived a mutiny while performing illegal experiments, he had no problem pushing back on the captain of the Hood doing dangerous stupid things, and he would rather step down than work for Jellico. Not to mention having to phaser a few admirals to death. Riker's whole history is a search for a man he can trust, and he found that in Picard.

So what changed, that he finally gave that up and moved on?

Prigozhin was being politically displaced by the Ministry of Defense. His only hope was to displace the Ministry of Defense right back. Putin and the rest of the military didn't bite, and Prigozhin's position was strategically untenable. Maybe he could have taken Moscow, but everyone important had already left, and he couldn't hold Moscow once he had it. So he accepted exile over a fight to his certain death, because he's a mercenary and mercenaries don't die for a cause.

You would need to find a way to make food spontaneously emit microwaves so it loses energy and cools off. That probably involves altering the strength of one of the nuclear forces or something.

This seems like the way to go. For another example, there are about forty different Christian subreddits, and I just merged all the ones I was interested in into one custom feed. Same with all the subs about news from Europe.

Oh, he will! Just be patient.

Ever since watching an episode of Doctor Who set in the distant future when the sun goes nova, my four year old has been asking how that interfaces with the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the dead and the eternal reign of Christ.

I have wasted time, and now doth time waste me

I suggest a different approach in some blog posts I worked through a couple years ago: https://saladeggs.blogspot.com/2021/06/reconstructing-christian-ethics-01.html

In short, I suggest sin is that part of you that drives you to self-destruction and destruction of others, and the actions flowing out of it. Discipleship is the process of becoming a non-destructive person.

This. Peace cannot come unless the civilians on both sides are loudly and forcefully willing to die rather than kill civilians on the other side. The problems can only be solved on an individual level.