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  • I too would bet on Biden. I was just trying to stick to the facts. The facts are that they’re both old as shit. Biden is the same age as my grandmother. She has her wits about her. But nobody lives forever. I think a 5% annual chance of death is a fair assessment for anybody who’s 80. That’s still a 95% of survival.

  • According to Social Security’s Actuarial Life Tables, Joe Biden has a life expectancy of 7 years, and there’s about a 1/3 chance he will die before he is 86.

    Trump currently has a life expectancy of 9 years, and there’s about a 1/4 chance he will die before he is 82.

    So, as it’s looking now, regardless of the election results it’s about a 29% chance that the next president dies in office. At that level of risk you basically have to plan for it - or it would be foolish not to.

  • Salt is sodium chloride. Sodium is a metal, and it is right below Lithium on the periodic table (behaves and reacts similarly).

  • I actually dig the Native American, Mongolian, Japanese style. Like a few dark hairs, but mostly smooth. Sometimes it’s just like the mustache tips that get dark. Let it grow.

  • An OC Rant with some light trolling in the form of toxic masculinity. Sarcastic but with elements of truth.

  • The question is: why are you shaving? Why are you so afraid of looking like yourself?

    When you have a beard, people respect you. They listen when you talk and hold doors open for you. I have a hard time trusting a man with a clean shaved face, because our interaction is starting off with a lie. I feel the same way about makeup and fake eyebrows and plastic surgery.

  • In theory, yt-dlp can pull cookies from your browser to get content behind a login.

  • I just switched from Memmy to Mlem

  • Yeah it should be in between a draft and jury duty. I think there are plenty of really bright people who are smart enough to stay away from politics. It’s not just the working class who aren’t represented but also scientists, engineers, young people, or minorities. Two year terms, can serve multiple terms. Very good idea.

  • And MDMA? It shows a lot of promise in therapeutic use. Schedule 1 is for substances with “no currently accepted medical treatment use”.

  • It would be a cool heist movie. But it would probably be too easy. Just get in front of the truck and slow down. When it stops disconnect the trailer.

  • You made soft tacos. You made fried chicken soft tacos. You did not make crispy tacos.

  • I see, well Lemmy is a bunch of Reddit refugees for the most part. Probably happy to see social media corps dying no matter how?

  • Not sure if you’ve been paying attention but citizens have no say over stuff like this. 99% of the politicians in office were placed there by rich people - they have the only true votes. The bill included money to Ukraine (great), and Israel (WTF), and Taiwan, and TikTok. It shouldn’t be legal to package all that stuff together, but it’s pretty standard. Anyway not sure who you’re talking to - there are like a few hundred politicians who supported this bill, most of them probably for other reasons, and none of them are on Lemmy.

  • Yeah humans burn about 100W so it’s like 60 weeks of human metabolism, more than a year of food energy!

    If the van had a generator, like days of old, the sun has replaced like 3 full tanks of gas.

  • Yeah even a very efficient generator would probably use at least 90 gallons of gas to get 6 kW*weeks.

  • That’s about 6 kilowatt*weeks or equivalent to 31 gallons of gas.