This fucking piece of slimy stinking shit, will it ever die? 😩

“What a weird stick I just landed on, what is this made of? *bite* Oh shit, it’s an animal!” *flies away*

Yeah, but those select few are given access for a specific need, like to be able to give you health care or pay your salary, etc. If even just a few randos could see whatever stat they want about all of us for no reason than their own wishes, I’d definitely consider that a violation of our privacy, even if they kept the info to themselves and even more so if it was something they could exploit. But all this is getting away from the spirit of the question.

I read somewhere that the Senate wants it to be Standard instead of DST, which I agree would wind up being better for most locations (not all). So they’ll probably fight over it and nothing will happen. We’ll see. At this point I just want to stop having to change the damn clocks.

I used to favor permanent DST because I’m not a morning person, but I realize most people aren’t night-owls like me, and by now there’s been a lot of evidence presented that it’s healthier to be in sync with sunlight and more important to get good sleep, especially for kids. Of course a lot of this also depends on which side of your time zone you live on.

Between the two positions, for a long time I favored permanent half-DST, which is setting clocks halfway between so the offset isn’t that bad for health and both sides of the standard vs DST debate could live with it. There was even a bill proposed to do that, but I recently read an article listing a few drawbacks to being on the half-hour compared to most other countries–mostly that it would be “confusing” which isn’t that strong of an argument IMO. I still think this would be a good solution if a bunch of other countries also did it. A few countries already are offset a half-hour from us and no one complains because they’re not major economic forces.

Yes! Dozenal FTW

I loved working second shift for that reason! I never had to set my alarm! And I’m a night owl anyway so going to sleep at 1:30 or 2:00 am was fine. The part that sucked was I was working while other people were off work and awake so I only saw them on weekends. But I’m also mostly a loner so that was actually fine too. :)

Yes, they should have stuck with standard time instead of DST. OTOH, the thing everyone complained about was their kids having to walk to and from school in the dark. Now no one walks to school any more, so that doesn’t apply (yes believe it or not most kids used to walk or ride their bike to and from school back then, unless it was too far and they rode the bus).

Oh, I didn’t see any other rules specified in the question :) So, isn’t the fact that I can see everyone’s stat above their head already a privacy violation to begin with? Also, am I the only one who gets to see a chosen stat or can other people also choose a stat that only they can see?

The only problem with this stat showing is that the fascists would know who to throw into the concentration camps.

But she’s very concerned and finds the incident troubling!

Look at the blurry area all around the end of the index(?) finger, like a sloppy photoshop edit inserting the newspaper. The picture could have been taken at any time; he’s had several health events with hospital visits. On a more conspiracy-minded note, he may have pre-posed a bunch of photos for various situations.

Maybe McConnell wouldn’t have done that, but they’ve probably made all kinds of photos of trump in lots of different scenarios to be used if needed. Authoritarian governments do that kind of thing. Look at Iran pretending the new Ayatollah is alive and well, even though he’s never been seen since the initial attack, not even to attend his father’s funeral.

Seriously, I can of course have no idea what’s going on, but it’s fun/interesting to speculate. They’ve done so many dystopian things and lied so much and so blatantly, these ideas are actually pretty plausible.

Souls? How many did he have and where did he get the extra ones?

OK I can see what you’re getting at, but if CPR was performed, it’s very difficult to believe an 84 year old didn’t have rib fractures at least.

“My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” he said in a statement.

The 911 recording said CPR was being administered. So something is not adding up here.

We need a picture of him with eyes open (without tape) and holding up the current day’s NYT and WaPo papers.

This whole thing just shows us what exactly what will happen if/when trump keels over. It will be covered up as long as possible. Just like Iran’s new Ayatollah, who has never been seen, even to show up for his father’s funeral.

You know we’ve gone full 1984 dystopia when the fucking Senate Majority Leader stands there with a straight face and claims he had a conversation with McConnell about national security of all things (as if you’d really expect them to discuss that), and all the reporters just parrot what he said as unquestioned fact. And no one will bat an eye or ever mention his blatant lying, when it comes out that McConnell was dead the whole time.

I always heard the saying as, “A stopped clock is right twice a day.”

oh no anyway

I’d say the downfall first started around the time 24-hour cable news came along (starting in 1980 but it didn’t happen right away) along with things like the abolishing of the fairness doctrine (1987). That and the need to fill 24 hours with “news” led to the shift to more op-ed content than news. More and more of these opinion news cable channels followed.

Then the deterioration really began to snowball with the internet and proliferation of “news” outlets tailored for specific audiences, culminating with the rise of social media (I mean, what hasn’t been negatively affected by the rise of social media/oligarch-owned web 2.0) and the purchasing of all media outlets, including newspapers, by corporations and later by the rising oligarchs.

All this meant the “news” became just another type of profit-driven enterprise, with a need to compete for ratings, that shifted it from hard news to entertainment and nothing more than parroting of press releases with no independent investigation. Ultimately leading to the demise of the last bastion of independence, print journalism.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t still some journalists doing good investigative work, just that they are pretty much on their own now. I don’t know much about Meidas Touch, but if they’re actually out there asking questions and reporting, instead of just sitting around spouting opinions and outrage like most political podcasts, that’s a good thing.