Sure. America has its slimy tendrils in everyone else’s business, so it’s only fair that you have a say.

It’s called Today I Learned not Today We Learned. /s

I personally find Don’s posts pretty informative. It’s usually stuff I didn’t previously know, and there’s a good link to the source.

So yes actually, multiple good posts every hour is good IMO.

Block them if you aren’t into it.

What kind of monster posts TIL posts in a TIL community?

Haha, that and the two running box fans I have on full blast pointing at my head and pillow are my greatest sources of comfort.

Yes I like being really really cold.

Not really? Although I’m probably way more tolerant to (wideband!) noise than others because I sleep literally inches from two box fans.

But you don’t need to run it while you’re sleeping. It goes from room temperature to ice in under 10 minutes (20 minutes for the “good” ice after the insides have had a bit of time to cool down).

To be clear, what I have is a Frigidaire portable ice maker. Here’s its Walmart product page, although I can’t vouch for Walmart’s website respecting your privacy.

I actually bought a knockoff of this a couple years ago off Amazon, and it worked for about a year, but:

1. The infrared sensor was crap from day 1, so I always had to manually override the machine’s decision that the ice was full, even when it was completely empty.
2. The water where I was living (dorm room in city) was much…harder I think? It was safe to drink, I even tested it myself, but whatever minerals were in it very quickly fucked up my machine’s internals. I’m living at my parents house with better water.

So far, the Frigidaire is a much better unit, and I use it tremendously more often because I don’t have to babysit the thing and constantly override the infrared sensor.

The water supply is just an ordinary tank. Basically just open the lid, dump a Super Big Gulp of water into the tank every few hours and you’re set. Everything is self contained.

It doesn’t keep the ice cool for you, i.e. it’s not a freezer. Once the ice gets dumped in the bucket, you’re on your own.

So if you go down this route, I recommend getting a decent version of it. Mine cost about $87 in store from Walmart but I really bought this unit as an impulse buy, so I imagine you can get it cheaper if you do some shopping.

Very nearly! I have desk that I scrounged from the garbage literally right up against the bed and a nightstand right next to it. It’s on the desk since the nightstand holds my TV.

So it’s not literally on a nightstand, but it is literally bedside, i.e. I can use it without getting out of bed.

No I don’t like myself

Ice machine

Infinite bedside ice

20 years ago, Pirate Bay’s response

Holy shit I’m so old 😭

It pains me to inform you all that KnowYourMeme seems to have the best coverage of this story.

Internet users and news outlets have speculated that the sperm cups are aimed at Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Walz and his wife’s infertility issues. The Walz’s had their children using in vitro fertilization (IVF).

The cups therefore could be a way to champion Vance’s natural ability to have children. However, many Americans (regardless of political affiliation) struggle with infertility and use IVF.

Despite being humorous, it’s currently unknown if the J.D. Vance cup photos are real. For one, the original X user that posted them, @UsaCamy, has a profile that’s raised suspicions among many, as pointed out by X user @elisethoma5.

So basically, if this turns out to be a real thing, then they’re dunking on people who want to have kids but have infertility issues. Which … that’s just kind of a ridiculously petty thing to do.

Yeah I actually brought that up in my top-level reply. But does the two years count the time spent as Acting President?

I don’t know. It does count, it’s part of my top-level comment but I have the shittiest memory in the universe.

If we’re being pedantic

I’m always pedantic, except when I’m not 😂

Thanks 👍. I corrected my response.

I pasted the entire 22nd Amendment into my reply to this post. The “trigger” isn’t the numerical value of 8 years total, it’s the numerical value great than 2 years served.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

… no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected…

So having previously served two years exactly is allowed.

I’m not a legal expert so take this with a grain of salt. Assuming the Constitution is followed as it currently written…which is a big assumption…

The two-term limitation comes from the 22nd Amendment. This amendment is, in it’s entirety, quoted below:

Section 1

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2

This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

Concerning Section 2, it was ratified so it is law. Not important to answer our question.

If Joe Biden resigns or is permanently incapacitated right as I post this, then Kamala Harris would become acting President until his term ends on January 20th, 2025 for 157 days, 158 if you count today, which is a far cry from two years. (I believe that she was designated Acting President for a few hours while Biden was getting a colonoscopy, so add that to the tally maybe probably not.)

So it looks like, if I read the bolded section correctly, she would be eligible to be elected a second time if she took over from Biden should he be incapacitated or resign.

Edited based on feedback.

What are you smoking and can I have some?

Sofas, because they’re sofa king hot.

Honest question: Why does it matter if he’s a transphobe when choosing which Fediverse software to use?

1. Because some people have actually financially supported him. I’m not trans, but I would be devastated to know that my money went to feed someone who wants to destroy me.
2. I already have trouble convincing transgender people in my social circle that Lemmy as a software is safe for them to use even with the variety of trans-inclusive servers like yours, and will be safe and inclusive in the future.

A great example of (2) is the fate of PolyMC. Thankfully, the other developers forked it into Prism, but transphobia put that whole project in jeopardy for a bit.

The software is FOSS and anyone can make their own instance.

IMO that’s why I’m not immediately dropping my account and running for the hills, but it’s still not good. Most people don’t have the technical skills or the interest in learning them to run their own instance.

I really want to understand what I might be missing.

IMO it’s that even though he does not personally control how Lemmy instances are run, and even though we do have a good degree of robustness to transphobia because the software is FOSS, it is still both morally and technically ill-advised to have a transphobe at the helm of an open-source software project.

Haha mood