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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • The toilet handled solid and liquid waste differently. Solid waste was stored for disposal on earth, liquid waste was stored in a smaller container and intended to be periodically vented out into the void. But the mechanism for that froze, and the container they had to store it in was too small for the whole trip, so they had to use a backup supply of pee bags for pee instead of the toilet.

    I wonder if we were saved from an even worse fate, and if the toilet had worked as planned we would be destroyed at some point in the future by a race of aliens who we accidentally peed on when we threw our pee overboard in space














  • What you are ignoring us that the new Congress will be in place by then, and as long as the election isn’t ratfucked the Democrats will probably gain a slim House majority. This means not only that the Democratic Speaker will be third in line for the Presidency, but also that the Democratic House (and the Senate)will have to approve whoever Vance picks as his VP. They could just sit on it and not do anything, in which case the VP slot remains vacant, and that House Speaker is now second in line (plus, ties in the Senate can’t be broken, which can be handy if Republicans still hold that.)

    So, they may pull the trigger* early if they don’t think the Congressional election is in the bag

    *= Hey, FBI, that’s only a metaphor…


  • I keep reminding people that the 25th Amendment is not the solution here, because it requires a higher bar to enact than simply impeaching the guy. You need to have the VP and half the cabinet on board to trigger it, but then the President gets his office back by simply telling Congress “Nah, I’m good”. But then if the VP and cabinet still insist, it would take a 2/3 vote of both houses to trigger.

    Impeachment requires no Cabinet officers, and only a majority of the House (but still 2/3 of the Senate to convict).

    It would be fitting, though, if for all the dumb, impeachable shit he’s done, the thing that finally did it was swearing in a tweet on Easter…