chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on You're supposed to say thank you 2 days ago:
Well… were you?
- Comment on Wait....IS that what I meant?? 4 days ago:
Acting President. One part of the 25th amendment that’s actually been used a few times (Section 3) is related to anesthesia. When the President is going under general anesthesia they can formally tell congress they’ll be temporarily unable to discharge the duties of the office, so the VeeP becomes acting President.
It’s been done 4 times - all related to the colon, funnily enough. George HW Bush was Acting President during Reagan’s colon-cancer surgery. Cheney was Acting President twice for W’s colonoscopies, and Harris was Acting President during Biden’s colonoscopy.
Between all 4 instances it still adds up to like 11 hours total that a VeeP has been Acting President.
The other parts of the 25th Amendment that have been used are Section 1 (Presidential sucession in case of death, resignation, or removal from office) for when Nixon resigned, and Section 2 (Vice-Presidnential succession) following Spiro Agnew’s resignation and Ford’s elevation to the Presidency following Nixon’s Resignation.
Section 4 (removal by the cabinet) hasn’t been used. It probably should have been when Reagan was shot and incapacitated, but Bush was on a flight and wouldn’t have been able to do anything, so it was tricky.
It definitely should have been used with Ttump on January 6th - and about 900 other times.
- Comment on Wait....IS that what I meant?? 4 days ago:
Harris at least held the powers of the office for an hour one time while Biden was under for a Colonoscopy. So that’s something.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 days ago:
Some things require years of specialization and simply can’t be done by novices. You don’t want volunteer engineers, pharmacists, etc. Some of those specializations are also unpleasant. We need to support people and not require that all humanity be profitable, but we also need to incentivize people to do shitty and/or difficult jobs. That balance is extremely difficult to find, and the most effective solution we’ve found is paying people for that work. There’s an incredible imbalance in our system right now that values non-productive ownership over all else, but the solution to that isn’t saying “Fuck it - nobody gets paid and it’ll all work itself out.”
The easiest solution is to tax the shit out of the uber-wealthy. Right now we have lower classes defined by income and an upper class defined by wealth. If we remove the wealth and make work and productivity more valuable than ownership, it moves us much closer to equity.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 days ago:
Everyone can’t do everything, and some specialized jobs with specialized skills are extremely unpleasant. Are you suggesting that we just hope things get done, or that we force people to do it while giving nothing in return.
One is delusional - the other is just slavery.
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 4 days ago:
Who’s gonna volunteer to go through years of training specializing in commercial diving in wastewater for repairs on treatment plants for free?
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 5 days ago:
They were way more repairable though. We had a gas dryer that lasted 40 years and was only replaced because we moved somewhere without gas.
It was basically a big egg timer with an electric mover and a gas burner. You could fix anything on it with a crescent wrench, screwdriver, and off-the-shelf components from the hardware store for about 9 bucks.
The replacement dryer has had to have $1000+ circuit boards replaced more than once.
- Comment on There are still good people in this world. 6 days ago:
Do they even keep it dry back there?
- Comment on There are still good people in this world. 6 days ago:
Probably a tricolor silk filament of some kind.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 1 week ago:
There’s a huge problem with staffing and insurance bullshit in the medical field. 20 years ago, if I got sick I could see my GP usually the same day. Now it takes months to get an appointment, so people go to urgent care or the ER.
A doctor friend explained to me years ago a huge part is insurance companies. He explained that if he prescribed an MRI, he personally had to speak to an adjuster on the phone that had a literal timer requiring them to be on the phone for 20 minutes. They want to inconvenience the doctors into not prescribing procedures or medicines that cost more money.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 1 week ago:
I mean - it already takes months to get an appointment. If they schedule even fewer patients I don’t see that improving either.
- Comment on Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare 1 week ago:
Yeah, but how far will it go if you try to power it with gasoline?
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 1 week ago:
It’s harder to tell a woman she’d be prettier if she smiled if you can’t see her mouth.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I lost access to my PSN account because they want me to do third-party verification with an authorization app that I apparently had linked to it like a decade ago, but don’t know what it was.
Their alternative verification is to verify purchase histories on my PSN account, which is hard to do when the whole problem is I can’t access my PSN account.
- Comment on The future was yesterday 2 weeks ago:
I just do January first of however far it goes with a quick swipe.
The distressing part is how that’s shifted from saying I’m way older than I am to saying I’m way younger than I am.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 2 weeks ago:
There was 9 years between the release of the 360 and the Xbox One. Might was well do the same thing this generation.
- Comment on PS6 and Xbox Project Helix "will start at a 50% higher price" than PS5 and Xbox Series X, predict analysts following Sony price hike – and $999 "is not impossible" 2 weeks ago:
AI datacenters and greed.
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 weeks ago:
Pensa you some welwala, ke?
- Comment on Owlcat is using generative AI for The Expanse Osiris Reborn, but the final game will be "100% human made" 2 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is we should drop rocks on the data centers, right?
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
It’s that they are treating it as something weird. Uhura’s race and sex weren’t treated as weird because why would it be? There wasn’t anything especially special about Geordi being a blind helmsman when TNG premiered, because making accommodations wasn’t anything special - it was normal.
What Discovery did was performative inclusivity, which is a more subtle form of bigotry. It’s pointing at someone and calling them weird and claiming moral superiority for tolerating their presence.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t spend 5 episodes uses feminine pronouns for the character then have them “come out” as non-binary. Just establish their pronouns from the outset, and don’t make a big deal outside the show about how brave they are for having an NB Trek character.
You don’t normalize something by pointing out that it’s strange.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
But that’s not what they did with Uhura. They never hung a lantern on her being black or a woman. She was just there and it was such a normal thing it didn’t need to be addressed in-universe.
Having a character “come out” means the world is one in which people are hiding in the closet because of a social stigma. A world in which that stigma doesn’t exist doesn’t require a character to come out.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
The best progressive writing Trek did was when they addressed a social issue by having the actors pretend it wasn’t an issue at all.
Uhura was a bridge officer who was a black woman, and nobody cared or even noticed because in-universe there was nothing special about that.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
Works on both my phones. Samsung Fold 6 and Razr 2024+
- Comment on meat honey 3 weeks ago:
Because regular honey tastes just like pollen?
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
I was kinda down with that already.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 weeks ago:
The daylight thing is accurate, but almost all cameras pick up IR.
You can point an IR TV remote at your phone’s camera and see the lights blinking when you click buttons.
- Comment on I want, nay need, to see your favourite pet photos 3 weeks ago:
Zoey hated leaving her bed:
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Or expectations!
Or are you a doctor?
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 4 weeks ago:
Lots of employees did keep the stipends as a pay bonus, but then it was on them if they used their personal phones for work and they got caught up in Open Records.
