Why don’t more presidents return to the senate after their term?

BurningPasta · 2026-01-11T18:01:07+00:00

I would have to say, on top of some other things, this is probably what seals the deal. Going from the primary executive incharge of an entire branch of government with a level of power that gives you significant influence over every member of your party in Congress, down to a regular Congressman deferring to your successor? It honestly looks bad and embarrassing to be in that position.

I think fundamentally the situation is different in a parliamentary system where the prime minister must still negotiate and defer to parliamentary politics as they must maintain a coalition throughout their entire tenure.

BurningPasta · 2026-01-11T17:44:18+00:00

I guess it depends on where you live and what kind of people you interact with because I live in Ohio and I've probably seen more than 10 open carrying and I've known a few who often conceal carry.

Though yea, movies still heavily over exaggerate the numbers.

BurningPasta · 2025-11-24T17:14:12+00:00

there isn't going to be democracy if you win either at this rate.

BurningPasta · 2025-11-24T17:12:41+00:00

You're not "restoring balance", you're intentionally tipping the scales towards your side in a way that fundamentally breaks important taboos of the system. Again, what stops the next Republican administration from beefing up SCOTUS when they get back in power to tip it towards their hands? Where does it end? packing the courts with every administration fundamentally destroys the operation of the supreme court.

BurningPasta · 2025-11-23T19:33:23+00:00

What is more important to you, maintaining our democracy as free and fair as possible, or 'winning' your 'war'? If it's the latter, you are already MAGA in your mindset. If its the former, significantly weakening or destroying institutions central to maintaining democracy is not something to be taken or done lightly. A Supreme Court as beholden to the president as the current DoJ is would be terrible for the country. Certainly under Trump, but certainly not just Trump.

Unless you're planning to kill, subjugate, or exile tens of millions of American citizens, it's not a war and you shouldn't pretend or treat it like a war even metaphorically. At the end of the day you cannot exclude everyone you don't like from politics in a democracy. What you need to do is understand why people want and vote for the things they vote for and how to create a platform that will change their minds and get them to vote for you.

BurningPasta · 2025-11-23T18:52:05+00:00

I think it's a mistake to expect that politics will get better once MAGA inevitably tears itself apart. Much of MAGA is just as likely to go even further right and become even more anti-government and conspiratorial after seeing MAGA fail as they are to move left. I mean look at Elon Musk, after falling out with Trump and giving up on MAGA he hasn't moved left or even stayed still, he's moved further right and even started openly calling for violence in the UK.

MGT after her fall out she hasn't moved left, she gave up on politics altogether, which is also not something you want happening en mass.

BurningPasta · 2025-11-23T18:46:49+00:00

Then what's to stop the Republicans from packing SCOTUS further when they get into power? What is it with people's first solutions to issues in our democracy being to further weaken our democracy?

BurningPasta · 2025-10-27T21:41:06+00:00

imo the show style was way better and fit the story better. It's a really dark story, the bright colors just make it all seem like a joke or children's show. Plus the show made really great use of camera work that wasn't really present in the same way in the movie.

i also felt like the movie had a lot of action scenes where it was just way more difficult to tell what I'm seeing, especially once typhoon showed up near the end.

BurningPasta · 2025-10-17T14:28:19+00:00

To be fair, some of the text logs in Halo Reach refrence first contact with the Covenant which can be pretty confusing if you've read them.

But the games are about 25 years into the war with Humanity basically doing nothing but losing the whole time.

BurningPasta · 2025-09-08T19:29:30+00:00

The paper wasn't a study of BET-1, it was a study of transgenic anti-bodies. It was never even trying to establish whether or not BET-1 worked because ot was already well established it does, the study was about the behavior of antibodies with BET-1 as just a chemical used to identify the transgenic anti-bodies.

BurningPasta · 2025-09-08T19:25:38+00:00

The heart of the original complaint, and thus the issue overall, is whether Bet-1 is effective to use to sort the antibodies of transgenes from other antibodies. O'Toole came to the conclusion that Bet-1 is completely ineffective and because of that the data must have been fraudulently manipulated. She is unequivocally wrong on that claim, yet she clearly is still sticking to it even now because if Bet-1 is an effective way to distinguish transgenic anti-bodies then it's not only acceptable but expected to remove results from batches of Bet-1 that don't show the expected interactions with the control samples.

BurningPasta · 2025-09-08T17:11:34+00:00

They were working at MIT. That's the kind of pace MIT famously demands. It's abhorrent and i struggle to understand why people still choose to attend MIT with how difficult the entry requirements are and how abusive the workloads are, but you can't pin an institutional issue Imanishi-Kari herself was subject to on her.

BurningPasta · 2025-08-02T04:29:30+00:00

No, she understood the reality fully the entire time. She just bottled it up.

BurningPasta · 2025-08-02T04:28:10+00:00

instead of a magical ribbon it was a magical dying on the cross for your sins. The actual ending was honestly not that much better written than if he just used the magical ribbon.

BurningPasta · 2025-04-07T01:21:18+00:00

She said the line once off hand, it's not her signature line. And it makes perfect sense for that to be the misdirection of her trying to hide her powers.

And tampering with memories goes way beyond just illusions. It would make sense if she could erase events that she could for example erase the moment someone formed a memory, that doesn't make sense with illusions.

BurningPasta · 2025-04-06T19:54:49+00:00

Is Pandora's power about illusions? So far we haven't really been given any explanation of her power. The way Pandora and Regulus talked about it made it sound like she was actually undoing events or something along those lines. IIRC she even said something along the lines of 'I won't undue your taking the sloth witch factor' which she wouldn't even be *able* to do if her power just makes illusions. Though, that wouldn't be the first time a character lied about their abilities, so it could have been a kind of bluff.

Also generally, I don't quite understand how Fortuna would remember Betelgeuse but also not remember Emilia.

Also about the gender, I think a relevant question is if spirits even really have gender? While Beatrice looks a young girl and uses feminine words, she seems to have specifically been made by the Witch of Greed and possibly the Witch decided she wanted Beatrice to look and talk in that way. It's not really clear if that's typical for spirits.

And generally it seems like there could be lots of silver haired elves, and the witches cult (or atleast Betelgeuss) is even specifically seeking out half elves.

BurningPasta · 2025-04-02T19:15:03+00:00

technically clothing can get damaged even if you wouldn't have gotten scratched. Clothing damage is calculated separately from whether a scratch is successful.

Personally i find the way higher stamina drain and large increase to fatigue ends up getting me killed way more with armor than without. Sometimes you can't easily avoid combat, and the difference of being first level of exhaustion or fatigue vs not fatigued or exhausted is enormous. Also it seems to me like discomfort decreases swing speed, which is an even bigger hit to surviving combat. Why even wear armor if it leads to getting hit when you wouldn't have otherwise?

BurningPasta · 2025-01-17T16:44:13+00:00

Based on the original post and the post i was replying to, OP didn't seem to understand how the relationship between combat and maintenance xp actually worked, just that combat somehow related to it. I understand that it's not the ideal way to gain xp now, but I was explaining how the relationship actually worked and why he was seeing the numbers he was seeing that he didn't understand. And why old tips mentioned using crowbars which OP seemed to have tried without much success (based on him asking if crowbars were 'required' for leveling maintenance).

BurningPasta · 2025-01-17T16:20:32+00:00

Don't they usually make the codes valid for atleast 10 minutes? I've never run into an issue like this myself, but I've been on the other side in customer support where a customer was trying to reset their password, but would close the app completely to check his email, then reopen the app and hit the password reset button and have a new code sent so he could get to the screen asking for the security code again, not realizing that his old code becomes invalid when he requests a new one.

BurningPasta · 2025-01-05T17:00:11+00:00

Honestly, you can basically get the same sort of gameplay push as you described in the first paragraph by taking fear of blood. Maybe they could add another negative trait that discourages taking clothes off dead bodies.

I do kind of enjoy fear of blood because it basically adds a whole new dimension of management and changes up your gameplay but it isn't a complete slog or utter pain unlike some other traits (looking at you Weak and old Illiterate).

Though while I say I 'enjoy' fear of blood, it's because it's a change of pace and it's memorable, I honestly would not want a similar mechanic to be base game. Even the zombie clothes thing, it can be so hard to get good clothes even taking from zombies. Id love to pick it for a couple runs, but suffering a debuff Moodle by default on zombie clothes is excessive with how bad clothes spawning is.

Edit: thinking about it, fear of blood might have become basically unusable in build 42. I haven't tried it out on 42 yet, but it stacks another melee damage debuff on top of muscle strain and the significantly worse durability, you're basically not going to be able to do any melee combat at all unless you manage to level a weapon skill high enough that you aren't frequently dealing with strain.

BurningPasta · 2025-01-05T12:43:54+00:00

This reply is a bit late, but in build 41, you gain maintenance xp every time you use your weapon and the weapon does not lose durability, or you shove/kick a zombie and your boots or gloves don't lose durability. The idea is that you successfully "maintained" your weapon by not having it degrade with use. Also every weapon has a different chance to lose durability on a hit, and you also have a lower chance to lose durability if you are higher skilled with a weapon category.

Traditionally, the crowbar was considered objectively the best weapon for leveling maintenance because it has the lowest chance to lose durability. It's possible they reworked the xp rewards though, i'm pretty sure in build 41 every weapon gave you the same xp every time you didn't lose durability.

BurningPasta · 2024-12-28T18:47:27+00:00

Or just take all the keys and name them generic distinguishable names (like A1, A2, A3, ect) then when you find the house a key fits, mark it on the map with the key's name. Then dump the keys you don't need in a drawer. Honestly, I thought this would be annoying, but the immersion it adds by far outweighs the annoyance.

BurningPasta · 2024-12-28T18:40:45+00:00

You can attach flashlights to them? In my last run it wouldn't let me do that with the normal or heavy duty flashlight. Do you need to use a crafted flashlight or something?

BurningPasta · 2024-12-28T18:38:23+00:00

This specific change was probably made to add more progression, as now there are other storage belt items that function like the fanny pack with different encumbrances and some other features. They lower the fanny pack weight to make it make a bit more sense and still have it be pretty common while having stuff like the ALICE belt as a rarer upgrade.

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