boydster
@boydster@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on On trees... 4 days ago:
Impossible. If there were no such thing as fish, how could bees be fish?
- Comment on Has the use of a comma instead of the word "and" in English news headlines always been a thing? 1 week ago:
Upvoted purely for the use of the Oxford comma.
- Comment on Poisonous Frogs with Ants in their Pants 3 weeks ago:
TIL… Thank you, kind stranger, for making me curious enough to look further
Researchers have determined that a fugu’s tetrodotoxin comes from eating other animals infested with tetrodotoxin-laden bacteria, to which the fish develops insensitivity over time.[10] Whether tetrodotoxin is sequestered from or produced by symbiotic bacteria is still debated.[11] As such, efforts have been made in research and aquaculture to allow farmers to produce safe fugu. Farmers now produce poison-free fugu by keeping the fish away from the bacteria – see § Aquaculture below.[10]
- Comment on Trump Insists Abrego Garcia Has ‘MS-13’ Tattoo Despite Evidence of Altering 4 weeks ago:
This may be hard to believe, but he is, in fact, a profoundly stupid person.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 4 weeks ago:
Ok, sorry, I read it differently when I first commented. Asking for proof of eligibility to work in the US with a reasonable timeline to furnish documents definitely seems like it makes sense like others said, but I’ll admit this isn’t my area of expertise by a long shot in terms of hiring protocols and my initial comment was from entirely the wrong perspective to address your dilemma.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 4 weeks ago:
“May not”?? What is that even supposed to mean? Were they Applying While Brown or something? Talking with an accent?
It sounds an awful lot like this isn’t something to stick your nose in and you should do your job, to me.
- Comment on Pelicans will literally try to eat anything 4 weeks ago:
“Bite me, lmao, ok that tickles”
- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 4 weeks ago:
DHMO can cut a person into 60 pieces is what I take away from that statement, and that’s yet another reason to keep this dangerous chemical under very strict lock and key
- Comment on Are there extensions that turn every comment on your posts into hate comments? 5 weeks ago:
I love listening to music when I cruise around. Do you listen to anything?
- Comment on Are there extensions that turn every comment on your posts into hate comments? 5 weeks ago:
What do you like to do?
- Comment on Are there extensions that turn every comment on your posts into hate comments? 5 weeks ago:
It might just be because it’s spring in the northern hemisphere but I got to thinking earlier, this world is a pretty cool place. Taking a walk in the woods and breathing the fresh air, getting lost in a book, spending an afternoon at the beach, exploring a city on foot… there are a lot of things to look forward to. Even the simple things, like a nice stretch after waking up. You know?
I forgot what I was supposed to be typing here
- Comment on If the USA and China goes to war, how likely will Chinese-Americans end up in "internment camps" like what happened to Japanese-Americans during WW2? 1 month ago:
We’re already well-started down this path with brown people that we aren’t at war with. The group of undesirables must constantly expand under fascist leadership. To answer you succinctly: incredibly likely, perhaps even a near certainty
- Comment on wednesday, my dudes 1 month ago:
thunder thighs I think those are calves
- Comment on Lemmy told me to make a lamb cake. Went about as well as I expected. 2 months ago:
Perfectiom
- Comment on 3 months ago:
We’re all gonna being paying tariffs in solidarity together, homes. This whole debacle is such a stupid self-own for America that costs us AND everyone else.
All that sweet, sweet tariff money, just flowing into the govt for Elon to use as a slush fund. Or whatever other superb galaxy obtained idea comes up.
- Comment on Not a word? NYT needs a dictionary 5 months ago:
Should’ve pivoted to a different word, maybe
- Comment on These dames wanting inclusivity 5 months ago:
Ooo help me learn today if you don’t mind… Where does this prefix grouping come from?
- Comment on Why are $70 AAA games slashing prices so drastically? 5 months ago:
Black Friday sales are crazy sometimes
- Comment on Would social events be better if phones didn't have data? 5 months ago:
This is a “Be the change you want to see” kind of thing, for me
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
And legally immune from anything the SC will twist reality to call an “official act”! He, and the people that funded his ascendancy, have a plan
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 6 months ago:
This is a wonderful explainer, thank you!
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 6 months ago:
Probably, but they aren’t required to
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 6 months ago:
According to the National Archives, it seems like succession might not necessarily apply and would likely be argued over by lawyers should he die before the Electoral College meets. I’ll paste their text below, and I pasted the link in a separate answer
What happens if a candidate dies or becomes incapacitated?
There is no Federally-required process to follow if a candidate who is projected to receive electoral votes dies or becomes incapacitated between the general election and the meeting of electors. However, individual States may have their own requirements that govern how electors must vote at the meeting of the electors. In 1872, when Horace Greeley passed away between Election Day and the meeting of electors, the electors who were slated to vote for Greeley voted for various candidates, including Greeley. The votes cast for Greeley were not counted due to a House resolution passed regarding the matter. See the full Electoral College vote counts for President and Vice President in the 1872 election.
We don’t know what would happen if a candidate who, dies after or becomes incapacitated between the meeting of electors and the counting of electoral votes in Congress.
The Constitution is silent on whether this candidate meets the definition of “President elect” or “Vice President elect.” If the candidate with a majority of the electoral votes is considered “President elect” before the counting of electoral votes in Congress, §3 of the 20th Amendment applies. That section states that the Vice President elect will become President if the President-elect dies or becomes incapacitated.
If a winning Presidential candidate dies or becomes incapacitated between the counting of electoral votes in the Congress and the inauguration, the Vice President-elect becomes President, according to §3 of the 20th Amendment.
- Comment on If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP? 6 months ago:
Strangely, it sort of depends on when. If he dies before the EC meets, it’s up for lawyers to argue from my reading of the text.
- Comment on Wind from Uranus made it harder to probe 6 months ago:
10/10 headline on this one, no notes
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 6 months ago:
Here’s a horrifying thought: JD’s Silicon Valley puppetmasters wait until Trump has served just over 2 years into his term, then invoke the 25th and install JD. In the meantime, the MAGA types work the system to ensure they can guarantee a Vance victory through whatever means necessary for the next 2 cycles (since his first abbreviated session won’t count as an official term), or a total of 10 years, before most Americans even realize we have sleepwalked into a Vance dictatorship funded by oligarchs like Musk and Thiel
- Comment on Tiger Predators 6 months ago:
To make sure the tigers don’t start getting any ideas
- Comment on Dropped a paperclip on my laptop and it landed like this 9 months ago:
How do they work?
- Comment on Quite a poor performance imo, lower than expected 9 months ago:
Next time have the competition someplace sensible. Like a school. It just wasn’t our natural setting.
