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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • He doesn’t need to pardon himself.

    But he will. No reason to leave that to chance in the future. He already didn’t do that once, requiring him to get back into office. A pardon doesn’t need to be explicit about the crimes it’s pardoning. Just look at Nixon’s pardon as a template:

    Now, Therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.

    Just change it to Trump’s name and the period to “prior to January 20th, 2025”, and you’ve got a complete federal pardon for anything Trump has *ever *done in his life.






  • To be fair here… The old guard still aren’t working on reuse even after SpaceX not only championed it but actually succeeded and proved reliability.

    The old launch providers are still just throwing their shit away and still cost billions of dollars for launches.

    The Commercial Resupply Service and Commercial Crew Programs have also achieved better standards than NASA had when they started them, and at much cheaper cost than the previous solutions.

    Privatisation isn’t inherently bad, and importantly, the money is still being handled through NASA for oversight.




  • The Quarter Pounder is the only meat item at McDonald’s that isn’t frozen. They made a big deal about that when they started doing that a few years ago after Wendy’s kept going on and on about how that separated them from the competition.

    That’s why it is singled out compared to every other burger, and why it could be more likely than the other burgers.