International Women’s Day was yesterday, which checks out because there was less one hour in the day. Just like there’s less money in our paychecks. On the flip, we also get to do more chores.
“This International Women’s Day, read 10 empowering stories from around the globe”:
https://www.thelily.com/this-international-womens-day-read-10-empowering-stories-from-around-the-globe/
Wow, what a badass:
“64-year-old becomes oldest woman to row across Atlantic Ocean”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/08/64-year-old-becomes-oldest-woman-to-row-across-atlantic-ocean
Can we just not do this anymore?
Daylight Saving Time Is Here Again. So Is The Debate About Changing The Clocks”
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/07/813278637/daylight-saving-time-is-here-again-so-is-the-debate-about-changing-the-clocks
Fun trip!
“Coronavirus: stranded ship to dock in Oakland as sister ship in Florida ordered to wait”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/08/coronavirus-cruise-ship-dock-oakland-us-death-toll-climbs
Nothing to see here…
“10-year Treasury yield plunges below 0.5%”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/10-year-treasury-yield-plunges.html
Nothing at all…
“Japan stocks drop more than 4%, Australia shares plummet beyond 5% amid oil price war”
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/asia-markets-oil-prices-coronavirus-currencies-in-focus.html
I think this Tumblr will be back in business in no time. And they said Tumblr removed all its porn.
What a ‘see you next Tuesday’:
“Matt Gaetz made light of coronavirus by wearing a gas mask. Now one of his constituents has died.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/07/matt-gaetz-coronavirus-florida/
“Ted Cruz to stay at home this week after interacting with coronavirus patient”
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/486534-ted-cruz-shook-hands-with-infected-cpac-attendee
Have a super Monday!
You’re right, we should stop debating about daylight saving time. We should just go full tilt with DST all year and be done with it. Fight me.
I say we move clocks up 38 minutes and 11 seconds and then leave them there.
Actually, I like getting the extra hour of sleep, so I say we just move clocks back every six months and keep doing it until things are back to the way they were.
You’ll get no fight from me. Though I don’t actually know if I care if we keep it one way or the other. I just hate the Fall Back and Spring Forward. The extra hour never helps me and losing the hour makes me cranky for a week.
One year they did that when I was a kid, and in the winter we were waiting for the school bus in the dark.
Standard time all the way! We don’t want to wake up in the dark. Daylight savings is a scam
I’d rather wake up in the dark than come home from work feeling like it’s already 10 at night.
Team Savings as well. I like 1 more hour in the afternoon more than 1 more hour in the morning.
…depends…an extra hour to sleep in might be worth more some days than others
In other news, Rev Jesse Jackson endorsed Bernie. I guess we’ll see how much influence Jackson still has with the electorate.
it’s like 95-5 against bernie.
if the DNC doesn’t like bernie/warren, AT LEAST couldn’t they pick up a stronger candidate? for me biden and bloom are the 2 weakest candidates to go against fatty.
…I think it depends how you run the numbers
…on my more cynical days it’s not hard for me to see that Bernie might have some weaknesses that could have given bloomberg at least as good a shot as biden…so I guess it depends on the sense in which you mean weak…because either of them as president would indeed suck very probably more than president any-other-candidate-in-the-dem-race
…but neither registers as weaker choices than “fuck it, just let him have another four years…I don’t even care any more”?
by weak I mean ‘a candidate that won’t excite his base’. the right is 11/10 excited about fatty. they’re batshit crazy. and you put biden against that? who will biden excite? the olds? most of the olds are team fatty… I agree about bernie…
ps. remember kerry being +10 against dubya after the primary?
ugh…
Coronavirus to quarantine itself after coming into contact with Ted Cruz.
FFS This is the stupidest timeline.
https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-jr-hunter-biden-profiting-presidency-c914c6fb-703d-437a-8543-d28ef8865999.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100
How people can think that Biden is the pragmatic choice in this election, when this is the level of idiocy we’re staring down if he’s the nominee. I’m at a loss.
hasn’t the DNC learned if you choose your most R-light candidate, things don’t end well?
No.
Hell, almost the entire field was right wing or (charitably) moderate. So, of course, people picked the closest to a Republican we have, and he’s talking about making a Republican his VP (as well as a whole load of baffling nonsense).
…well, it helps to cut your field down to the point where the other option is arguably indigestible to an even larger segment of the population
…but it’s still not a good look when they had other options
So many Other options. FFS.
Seems like I’m always the bearer of bad news, Max von Sydow has died. And donald j trump is still alive.
a gordian knot:
http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Daylight-Saving-Time-vs-Standard-Time-(2019).asp
seems I’m team old too!
I really don’t care if it’s Standard or Savings, I just don’t like switching!
I’m so tired right now I can’t even figure out which one would be better. So ya, just #ditchtheswitch and pick one.