EmptySlime @ EmptySlime @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I mean it was very smart for the time when the average citizen couldn't possibly know enough to make an informed decision and news that could change who someone would vote for could take weeks to arrive somewhere.

But let's not kid ourselves. Both the Electoral College and the Senate were specifically created to thwart the will of The People if it was too inconvenient for the elites. What was that quote about the Senate being the "cooling saucer of democracy" or something like that?

I think I agree with that. The media, especially the more right leaning media will always find something to attack Democrats over.

It seems like a bit of a stretch to me as well. But that seems to me to be the thought process of the people who are advocating for an open convention rather than Biden just endorsing Harris and letting her pick a new VP.

Maybe I worded something poorly there and caused some miscommunication. I was responding to someone equating unverified with made up. What I was trying to say is that it's unverified right now because the only statements on it were from what seems to be the same primary source(s) that wish to remain anonymous. That doesn't necessarily mean the reporting is false, only that there hasn't been a separate source saying the same thing. I wasn't trying to say "it's true actually, they just have to say it's unverified because no one wants to put their name on saying it"

I then separately wanted to explain what seems to be the thought process behind people saying that Biden wouldn't endorse Kamala going into the convention if he dropped out.

No officer. I am straight white male, why do you ask? I have wife and kids even. I have had the sex at least one, perhaps two times.

That shirt is great

Damn, neopronouns been going crazy lately huh?

To my knowledge it's only unverified because the people saying it are doing so on the condition of anonymity. The idea seems to be that they want to go into an open convention with Biden at most saying something like "I have the utmost faith in the delegates to pick the best candidate to be our nominee," because if he's too involved in the choice whoever ends up being the nominee will have that looming specter of the narrative of Biden's cognitive decline haunting them. "How could he pick a good replacement when he doesn't even know where he is?" and all that.

There it is. Yeah that tracks with the general Republican playbook. Sell off any and every part of government that business interests could even remotely squeeze money out of no matter how detrimental it would be for society.

Doesn't AccuWeather also depend on NOAA data? I was under the impression that they basically just parse the stuff that NOAA/NWS puts out and make people pay to have convenient access to it. Am I misremembering something?

My partner hates when I open bananas like this because there's a little dark part of the banana under that end of the peel that she calls "The Ban-anus" and thinks it's gross even if I pick off that part and don't eat it.

Yep. Now I'm not gonna lie, I didn't think they'd actually fully overturn Roe in the Dobbs decision either. I figured upholding the 15 week or whatever ban with maybe some meaningless language about exceptions beyond that time was the most likely outcome from Dobbs. But I wasn't at all surprised when it happened. I knew as soon as they had a good excuse to do it they'd overturn Roe.

Generally yes vasectomy is safer. But if they're planning to give birth via c-section for whatever reason for example, then in practical terms there's basically no additional risk. Plus neither method is totally effective. So if you can both get fixed you have much better chances of not getting pregnant accidentally.

We moved hospitals for the birth of our twins to find one that was willing to tie her tubes when they took the twins out. She ended up having to have a hysterectomy for other reasons later but them being willing to tie her tubes during the c-section was a big part of our decision on doctors to see.

My mom had a hell of a time getting her tubes tied after my brother was born. She had to argue with the doctor for a while to eventually get it done. Gave her the old "What if you change your mind later?" line in like 5 different variations. The one that really angered me though when she told me the story was "What if something happens to one of your children?" Like you were just replacing a busted TV or something.

For a couple reasons. Some cynically wanted to continue to use abortion as a political football. Codifying Roe in any meaningful way in their minds would have meant they had to find a new wedge issue to drive turnout and donations. We saw this on the other side when SCOTUS actually overturned it and the right didn't know what to do with themselves for a while.

Then maybe in part because of the former, there were a bunch of people that naively didn't believe they'd actually entirely destroy Roe. They genuinely thought the worst that could possibly happen was some minor restrictions at the margins. So those people were not motivated enough to actually do something about it.

I'm so oblivious that I wouldn't even get to the step of overanalyzing the lyrics. I would have just thought "Oh they think I'd like this song? Let's check it out," and that's it.

I'm so oblivious that multiple times my partner tried to initiate sex by trying to make out and get handsy with me and I completely missed it. If it's not explicit "You. Me. Bed. Now," level direct then like 95% of the time I miss it.

One day my partner got so frustrated with my obliviousness that she asked me flat out if I was asexual or something. I had no idea what that was but turns out yes, yes I am.

Funniest thing to me though. When it's directed at me, then I'm totally oblivious. But if my partner sees an attractive woman out and about and starts visibly thirsting even a little I can tell immediately.

I personally don't think so. It's more a gender thing than a body looks thing. I'm nonbinary but I haven't been able to pursue transition for health reasons. So I still look like a cis male. I'm 6'2" tall, my shoulders are wide enough that I legitimately have to walk sideways through some doors to keep from shoulder checking a wall. I'm just large and don't like being reminded that most everyone that sees me just sees a man.

My dysphoria would never allow me to wear something like that. I can't stand anything that reminds me that I'm built like a fridge and look like I'm cosplaying a Sasquatch with alopecia.

Of course. It's pretty much just to get headlines and for people to campaign on. But that's really all you can hope for when Republicans control the House and won't actually take up any meaningful oversight.

Idk, if I had to guess I'd say probably something like renting out an entire resort for the duration plus whatever they did there.