Pheonixdown

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[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Biden never any public or official statement about only serving 1-term, in fact when that story started circulating, the official response from his campaign was to say that they were not ruling it out.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 65 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I prefer the "Darth Jar Jar" and "The Bloop" levels of conspiracy theories.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

I think you're suggesting that he committed to being a 1-term president as part of his campaign. You might be remembering a bunch of sensationalized articles based on a Politico article where an unnamed "prominent advisor" said "he won't be running for reelection" and a bunch of other mostly unnamed people also suggested he wouldn't/shouldn't run again. Which led to tons of other articles, which parroted it as fact.

The Politico article even further went on to be updated after it was first published to add a quote from Biden's deputy campaign manager and communications director at the time, which stated Biden was "not privately considering declining to run for re-election."

So he never made that commitment and the only official communication refuted the speculation.

Reference Politico - Biden Single Term

Slate even covered this recently in another article, where they were unable to locate any official commitment related to serving a single term.

Reference Slate - Biden Single Term

Disclaimer: I also wish we had another option, just presenting some evidence. Maybe it'll make you feel better with your choice.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

They might be in one of the 35-40 states where their vote doesn't matter anyway.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is only 72 Electoral Votes away from being enacted, but it's getting harder and harder...

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

I'm not at home to check at the moment, but I think it's Jobs Filterer for LinkedIn by Jonathan Kamens. Lets you prefilter with regex for like company or job title, and give you a button to manually hide specific listings as well.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I was looking on LinkedIn recently, had to get an extension just to hide all those, really cleaned up my search results after a while.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"We got married" becomes "We incorporated a Delaware LLC that manages our assets through a Swiss Trust"

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago

I'm thinking either he used it as a canteen to carry more water further, or as a rain barrel to capture it, not just as a cup to drink from at places where water was readily available.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

For something I'm paying for, I want no ads, recommended or otherwise.

For something I get for free, if it's easily skippable/ignorable, I don't really care, I'll skip it or mute the tab or whatever. If I can't, I'd rather have a like sniper level targeted ad (use all the data!), really try to show me something I'll care about (there was some like 10 minutes ad about the science behing glass by one of the guys from MythBusters, I watched the whole ad, it was great). The demographic level targeted ads are my 2nd least favorite, mostly because it feels like I usually need to suffer through what is a targeted ad but if they bothered to exclude some of the audience based on some data points (looking at you luxury car ads, it's just never going to happen), they'd know I'm a bad target, I'd rather some generic add over those. My least favorite ad though, when I get an ad in a language I don't even understand, like at least match my primary language, wasting everyone's time...

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

There are women who intentionally choose to be a single parent. Like they're single, they get a sperm donor, have a kid. It's not some insane thing. Kids should have a supportive and caring environment, whomever raises them. Not every kid with a single caregiver is neglected, nor is every kid with 2 or more caregivers properly cared for.

[–] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Americans use any/all of bedrooms/bathrooms/square footage/lot size

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