[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Mel Carnahan won his Senate race.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is and it has been since 1787, but there's no functional difference between a law not being enforced and the thing the law's about being legal.

(Art. I, § 9, cl. 8): “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

(Art. II, § 1, cl. 7): “The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.”

(Art. I, § 6, cl. 2): “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.”

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 158 points 2 months ago

Ford was, based on the behavior of the Reagan, W Bush, and Trump administrations, entirely wrong to pardon Nixon. There is no reason to repeat his mistake.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

Now that it's considered it a slur, we can expect huge increase in its use on the platform, right?

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago

You're definitely paying for legality and safety, but when you have to search through five different streaming apps to find that the movie you're looking for can only be rented via yet another service, the convenience becomes debatable.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 63 points 2 months ago

In case anybody doesn't already know this, the Chamber of Commerce is a non-governmental organization of private (and also publicly traded) business owners that just sounds like it's part of the government.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

Betrayal is about the only word to accurately describe the historically documented events when Soviet-backed communist troops began firing on non-Soviet-backed communist and anarchist troops in the middle of the civil war.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 78 points 4 months ago

But God forbid we let the FDA have a look at these supplements, because if we did, the Pyramid Scheme Industrial Complex would collapse and with it the economy of Utah and the finances of the LDS Church.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 52 points 6 months ago

Switch focus to US wars

Because if you thought the kids hated America when they found out about the racism and sexism, wait till they find out about My Lai and Haditha.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago

Thomas Midgley, Jr.

Also invented CFCs (the stuff that put the hole in the ozone layer).

In his later years, he had limited mobility, so he designed a system of pulleys and levers to give him some degree of independence. Eventually, he was found strangled by his contraption.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

When your political project is 'make everyone as miserable as I am', whining about every goddamn thing is actually a kind of praxis.

[-] meeeeetch@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

Ah fuck, it's been scraping the Facebook comments under every math problem with parentheses that was posted for 'engagement'

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