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MrVilliam

@ MrVilliam @sh.itjust.works

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  • Trump announces re-election bid in rambling address to Washington media

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  • Good Lord. If trump looked any more like roadkill, he'd have to fight to keep RFK Jr from trying to eat him. He looks like absolute dogshit. I didn't think it was possible for somebody to look worse than Steve Bannon, and to be fair it's really fucking close, but trump does manage to look like a slightly worse, bloated corpse here.

    But he's also a shitty president and a shitty person. Fuck trump. I can't wait to open my bottle of bourbon when it happens.

  • Trump wants to deny healthcare to impoverished cancer patients. Welcome to the great American cruelty regime

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  • So... Death panels?

  • Trump Trade Ambassador Dodges Key Question on Tariff Reimbursements

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  • Their attention span isn't that long. It's only been 10 years since Obama and the only ones mentioning him are doing so because he's black. 5 years from now, they will think of Biden like we think of Gerald Ford: "oh yeah, fuck that guy"

  • Pentagon Slashed Civilian Harm Reduction Staff and Is Instead Using AI

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  • Because they are. The world is scary and complicated to buffoons, and they lash out in frustration. It's a core tenet of conservatism.

  • Newsom’s populist act: Oppose state billionaire tax, embrace federal one

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  • a state [tax] will just push billionaires to other states

    I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that.

  • Trump Celebrates During World Cup Final as CENTCOM Announces Another US Servicemember’s Death

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  • He's like if Ralph Wiggum were an asshole.

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    Democratic Socialists of America’s new platform calls for abolishing ICE and the U.S. Senate

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  • I think that it might be fairly popular to instead propose replacing the congressional system with a parliamentary system. Most people generally agree that both parties are bad and that we all just choose our less bad preference because 3rd parties are incapable of winning in nearly all races. For whatever reason, people aren't unanimously on board with ranked choice voting, so I don't see a path to nuanced representation in Congress as it exists today.

    Of course, there would probably be a lot of people bitching that the UK uses parliament so why did we fight a war to be independent just to end up using their system. Well, we ended up with a king, so this system didn't do what it was supposed to do.

  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • You're right. I don't get your point. They are already supplying just fine. Starbucks already adjusts store hours seasonally, and they're not unique in this. It's not that complicated to work out.

    Legitimately, after the first year, we'll all see that it's so much better that it's insane that we didn't do this sooner.

  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • Yes, we all need to be in agreement about what time it is, but every business has different working hours. Starbucks opens before Staples for a good reason. And Starbucks has a later close time in the summer because there's more demand later if the sun is still up. If we all change all clocks one way or the other, Starbucks keeps the same schedule relative to the sun and what other people are doing. They don't strictly stick to the same open and close times if we decided to move the clocks by 6 hours, so there's no reason to believe that they would if it only moved 1 hour.

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  • I guess I just don't see the point of doing it that way. You're not wrong, but we're already on DST so much more, so it's less disruptive to just keep that in place here. What we call the time is arbitrary, even if it wasn't always that way. I'd rather just go with DST year round than get stuck bickering over whether standard is the better choice and then pass nothing and keep this dumbass system of changing the clocks in November and March every year, fucking up sleep schedules and causing more car crashes and having confusing computer anomalies because our clocks change but theirs don't.

  • The gas is cheap. The Trump administration isn’t saying who’s paying for it.

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  • And it's in direct response to that Pennsylvania woman on the news at a gas station saying that she voted for him 3 times and "apparently I'm an idiot" over the gas prices. He's trying to keep PA from going blue.

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  • I'm not really sure I understand your comment.

    Who is?

    Who is what? Who is experiencing twice as much DST as standard time? The US. And the post is about changing what the US does, so that's a relevant detail. I don't really care that Sweden doesn't do that because nobody is talking about Sweden.

    No, not when you put the sun and clock out of sync.

    No, not what?

    Idk dude, you seem really upset and I can't really make heads or tails of it.

  • It’s not me, it’s them: Platner goes down snarling with graceless exit video

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  • I think that people are getting sick of fake bullshit artists like Jeffries. I'm optimistic that given a choice between a squeaky clean, media-trained establishment dem and a blue collar, bearded, confident guy preaching the blunt truth about how we're all getting fucked by the oligarchs, most people pick the latter.

    As the boomers die, the only people left will be the people who have seen only the failures of capitalism and none of the successes. In just the past 20 years, what wins can we point to? Because I can point out the 08 housing crisis recession, minimum wage stagnation, Citizens United in 2010, market monopolization, the European sovereign debt crisis, refusal to lockdown during COVID because of how it would affect the economy, the inflation and supply chain results of mishandling COVID (not to mention the absurd death toll), the current and future results of attacking Iran, and the imminent crash when the AI bubble pops while so much of the market "diversity" is attached to tech companies accruing insane debt for something yet to be proven profitable.

    This shit just ain't working, and I think that all it takes is a charismatic person pointing that out and then saying "here's my solution for that..." and they win. Stop smiling. Be pissed. "They're fucking us. Let me fight them for you. I'm tired of writing to Senators who autogenerate bullshit responses, I'm ready to be the Senator that fixes this shit. Let me represent how pissed off you are at this system that's fucking the people of our state."

  • It’s not me, it’s them: Platner goes down snarling with graceless exit video

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  • Yeah, it's far more likely that he wanted a cool tattoo, went to a tattoo place, saw a cool skull, and said "yeah, that one" without knowing that there was lore behind it. And he had it removed. People are allowed to not know everything, people are allowed to make mistakes, and I applaud people who admit their mistakes and seek to correct them.

    Platner had a ton of baggage, some more warranted than others. This one was a nothing burger. But he's dropped out for a maybe credible real problem, so we let that play out while looking for somebody else to run for Senate. It can't be that hard to find somebody with a similar message and less baggage. Just somebody who will fight this class war for us, who can reach conservatives with that message, and who hasn't done any raping. Is that such a high bar?

  • US House to vote on bill to make daylight saving time permanent

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  • We're in DST twice as much as we're in standard time. Keeping DST year round is the option most adherent to "change your schedule, not the clock". Adjusting winter hours for things is just as viable as adjusting summer hours is, so I'm not understanding why everybody insists on standard time year round and then says that it doesn't matter what the clock says because you can just change behaviors. Like yeah, we're saying the same thing, but we barely experience standard time so why would that be the one we pick? There's less to change if we pick DST.

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  • Why not just move school and work start times an hour or two later in the winter in Colorado then? Why hold the entire country hostage because of niche locations that already have the ability to make local decisions like this?

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  • Because most of the year is already daylight savings time. We're only in standard time for 4 months from November to March. It doesn't sound like a big difference from being 50/50, but we're in DST twice as long as we're in standard time.

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  • And that really doesn't matter because you can just change what hours your office or school or whatever operates to suit your ideal daylight situation. And if you still want to change based on longer days in summer, plenty of places have "summer hours" and are open later to take advantage of later sunset, so this really isn't a new concept.

  • Virginia county asks all employees, including schools, to conserve power due to AI-driven electricity price hikes — state's 400-plus data centers steadily increasing demand, grid expansion, and prici…

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  • 100% reasonable and fair take. No notes lol.