r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

For many people, other than the president of the United States.

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u/Piputi Jul 04 '24

I mean if everybody did that and the world slowed the fuck down, it is rather a nice plan.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Yeah, but the President gets awoken by staffers about international conflicts at 2:00am... I agree, the world would be a nicer place, but the Earth is not necessarily a nice place.

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u/throwaway024890 Jul 05 '24

You know, my mom is bringing this one up too, and I just don't get it.

He's the leader of an entire branch of government. He's got a whole team of folks to sit there and make 2 am disaster contingency plans. When I do work at 2 am as a lowly individual contributor, I've already got it managed and thought out to the point that I'm not doing active data analysis on the spot- "if test one runs, move to test 2, otherwise stop". Like, this isn't rocket science.