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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They will almost certainly change the rules once the injunction finalizes. Call your representative and tell them what’s going on.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Christ with a bejeweled handbag, does somebody have a link to the juicy transcript?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You seem like the kind of person I would avoid at a barbecue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You think being sold to private equity is going to make them remove the shelf locks?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, it took private equity over a decade to eventually kill Toys ”R” Us. Two years would be speed running their demise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And what does this say about the newly confirmed Secretary of Education? The whole point of having such a position at the Cabinet level is to give Congress some control over executive departments.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was speaking anecdotally, but it’s good to back that up with some data.

https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2023/egusphere-2023-176/egusphere-2023-176.pdf

Page 15, Table 1 shows a clean table, with Denmark in the bottom 10 for large hail size in European countries; relative to places like Germany, large hail (the kinds you’d really want to avoid while on a bike) in Denmark is considerably more rare. That study only has two citations, though, so not the greatest source.

This survey is much better cited and comments on hail throughout Europe and in Denmark, but I can’t access the PDF at the moment: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169809516300291

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I never said they don’t get hail, I said they don’t get regular hail. In general, hail is uncommon in Denmark, and large hail is even more rare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Yeah… pretty sure Denmark doesn’t get regular thunderstorms or hail storms.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (4 children)

Taking a vacation road trip from Florida to the Grand Canyon with three kids with only bikes also comes at quite the cost. Bikes are great, but in many practical scenarios they are slow. Not all of us live in Manhattan, or a dense city, or even a well connected and safe to traverse suburb.

Bikes cost time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Just in case this needs to be painfully spelled out: 100% don’t do that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No, by definition a Constitutional Amendment would be part of the Constitution. All branches of government derive their authority from the Constitution. Simply put, the Constitution is above SCOTUS.

The Supreme Court can intercede if the process for ratification is not followed, but as long as the agreed upon process is followed there is literally nothing a judge could do.

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