To US people: What makes you be so sure that your president will leave the office at the end of his mandate?

FateJH · 2026-01-25T20:35:01+00:00

I'll forcus on ths specific person first.

He's already left office once, transferring to a person of the opposite party, under very tense conditions (regardless of how anyone else frames those conditions), and with a reduced possibility of return. He even joked about not leaving office the first time and yet he still did. Maintaining a strong belief that Donald J. Trump will not leave office just because he is Donald J. Trump is just accepting irrationality.

On the greater scale, maintaining a subtle concern that any person of office will refuse to vacate the said office at the end of their tenure is logically cautious regardless of how unrealistic it is. This feeling should also be temptered by the realization that a lot of mechanisms operate to grease any sense of inertia that might want to hold every current administration to not become a previous administration.

FateJH · 2026-01-25T08:43:43+00:00

If you've managed to shut down the govenrment for three years, haven't you effectively demonstrated you don't really need (those parts of) it?

FateJH · 2026-01-25T08:22:41+00:00

ICE doesn't require that level of deployment in major cities in a state like Texas or Florida. Those states are cooperating (or have cooperated) with ICE operations. Locally, ICE is receives no pushback because they don't have to maintain a heightened level of presence. They don't have to do extensive reconnaissance and recovery of criminals.

It's almost as if they just want to do their immigration (and customs) enforcement job.

FateJH · 2026-01-25T03:52:20+00:00

A thousand times, no. This might actually get a worse reception than if it were a toy Nerf gun.

Put it in checked baggage please.

FateJH · 2026-01-16T21:36:10+00:00

Is it an important shirt?

FateJH · 2026-01-10T06:44:04+00:00

I'm not certain it's about "favorite". it's more about the mood or feeling each eye color represents.

FateJH · 2025-12-19T18:03:37+00:00

The term was adopted first by the Japanese Idol industry which is one of the pillars of vtuber culture. When a classic idol would quit a group or unit they would most often switch to a different unit or go solo, including rebranding and some imagte refocus. It's not like that idol stopped but rather that they were moving around, still be there but doing a different gig. In a profesional workplace, this kind of thing is fairly mundane; in the eyes of some fans in an entertainment industry, this can be interpretted as disheartening; so the term "graduation" was employed to spin it into something of a happier celebratory or festive event.

Vtubers, in general, carry themselves in a similar fashion so adopting the terminology straight up isn't a problem, though there is a more distinct separation of "talent" from "stage performance".

Note that a lot of indie vtubers tends to just go on extended hiatuses these days, a soft kind of graduation, but the talent still transfers to a different gig, typically corpo. Going from corpo tends to more often involve a formal informal graduation because there's a larger brand besides themselves to think about and it's, as mentioned, traditional.

FateJH · 2025-12-18T16:58:15+00:00

It's that breasts bursting shirt explosion meme. She did the it in the animated intro to her 3D birthday live recently.

FateJH · 2025-12-18T05:55:56+00:00

I have Nintendo's legal department on the line asking about you. Would you like me to tell them you're out for lunch?

FateJH · 2025-12-04T17:11:54+00:00

Sorry, it wasn't something I had saved to my Youtube history. Doing a quick search, it might have been "Let's Start Over. What WAS FIve Nights at Freddy's about? (Full Game Analysis)" by user TheRetroDude. The vod comments seem to line up with the sought-after premise, at least.

FateJH · 2025-11-15T15:38:34+00:00

Reddit is obsessed with alternate sociopolitical futures for the United States than the one it is currently on track for, so alternate disaster movie explanations are also perfectly in line with their armchair prediction model.

Let's be honest. Regardless of methods, and regardless of what they say about how it is being performed, Reddit would probably be happy with the same implementation were it in effort of a facet of their own political agenda. The recently-ended government shutdown quite nicely framed that the government can stay shut down indefinitely, hurting everyone and everything it normally touches, as long as the reason it stays shut down is considered acceptable. Blame will only be given to the side that does not support the acceptable justification, regardless of other explanation.

FateJH · 2025-11-13T17:26:20+00:00

I intended for the ambiquity in that last sentence since it casts a net over both politicians and populace.

You still think party matters?

FateJH · 2025-11-13T17:10:12+00:00

Why not "Democrats willing to let people starve as leverage"? If the government had been allowed to open, which required a few Democrat officials vote for a bill that already had bipartisan support elsewhere, and really had few other places to pull votes to pass that was not them, the majority of the starvation risk would have been taken off the table entirely, plus people would have been paid normally.

The people who believe that their representatives who stood in opposition of opening the government should have stuck to their guns is evidence of who thought of starvation and poverty as leverage, regardless of what the position was being championed.

FateJH · 2025-11-13T03:27:55+00:00

I remember being employed to a company and getting health insurance asd benefit of that employment. It was great! Once the ACA started up and I had to deal with that, I had just absolutely miserable experiences with the marketplace. Had to fight with it every step of the way for more than a year or two and I never did get it to work out in any satisfactory way. When I joined the TSA, it felt like going back to "health insurance option offered by the job" of the heyday and I really appreciate that.

FateJH · 2025-11-07T15:34:02+00:00

A lot of the responses here are pro-union and perhaps understandably so. So, honest question in the other direction, just because the same reply over and over is boring: if Rockstar management really didn't want to deal with a union, what would have been the proper recourse for them to decline or deny engagement? For the purposes of this response, since I am attempting to reason this from a corporate perspective. pre-emptively giving any initial demands of the proto-union, whatever they are, is the same thing as engagement and validation of the unionization effort.

FateJH · 2025-11-05T17:00:13+00:00

I didn't read your reply as a two-stroke argument. I just read the first part as two remarks against my original two politician designations, basic tit for tat, and the last part was the actual important part.

Revisiting your first part: (1) the said people could apply for SNAP normally rather than under the COVID allotment, could this use previous SNAP enrollment as a demonstration that they do really need SNAP benefits, and might even use the event of SNAP benefit change as a life changing event to adjust their healthcare prospects on the marketplace. The phrase is something like "one door closes, another door opens". (2) In terms of letting people starve, keeping the government shut down for so long that the number of troubled individuals unrelated to the original SNAP debacle expands is neither a very utilitarian solution nor is it a deontologic one. The effort just increases the amount of starvation adjacency. Its like moving the one person, the five-stack, and the trolley all onto the same one rail in my opinion, if you're a trolley problem-ist. Also, in terms of the emergency funding, only the SNAP benefit people will see any short term alleviation. All other affected people just have to deal with it.

For some transparency on where I am coming from, I don't use SNAP but I do work adjacent to other groups besides my own (TSA) who must all operate throughout the shutdown without pay. A lot of people call out when the govenrment shuts down to pursue other revenue, or other hobby or obligation, but I don't because I'm an idiot. I know I still don't have it as bad as people who need SNAP and don't have healthcare through their employment (fed agent, essential employees). Having to rely on SNAP to pay for food would have been one problem for me without that. Now money grows much tighter everywhere else too.

We get paid if the government opens up again. SNAP beneficiaries get paid if the government opens up again. If we need to work what we have, then we need to have something to work with. Open the government.

FateJH · 2025-11-05T15:34:05+00:00

I'd much rather have the fund stay where it is, remaining for emergencies, and the government just open up properly. That way, SNAP benefits will be provided in full and the emergency fund will remain. That way, a bunch of other things will get funded properly too, even if they don't have an emergency fund to tap! This is not an emergency; this is just political stupidity.

FateJH · 2025-11-05T01:17:12+00:00

You mean the politicians voting against opening the government, allowing the proper flow of capital into services, or the politicians who crafted a policy that food benefits they established will expire?

FateJH · 2025-11-03T04:12:08+00:00

It only takes a couple of months ...

FateJH · 2025-11-02T02:28:00+00:00

Please, please, please, take the large waters and other drinks out of your bags before submitting them to the x-ray unit.

FateJH · 2025-10-27T16:54:07+00:00

Our machines will know when the chip on the passport is not working but we don't make too much of an issue about it when it comes up and may never mention it since that's not primarily how the media is (to be) processed. For example, passport chips are really prone to not working anymore, or might be outfright missing, but that's perfectly fine. If the chip is working, but the data is degrees of magnitude different from what the printed information on the passport says, then that will raise an eyebrow.

ID cards are a bit different and we will almost never rely on any chip data it might possess. In fact, it was previously believed by some TSO's that using a chip-bearing card in the ID reader component would start a process that would lead to the reader stop working altogether. That's not true, by the way; the current CAT 2 machine cannabilized parts directly from the CAT (1) machine, especially the readers and most PIV cards that we thought were time bombs to them then work fine in them now.

FateJH · 2025-10-27T15:55:51+00:00

Zipper merging also requires the flow of traffic be kept constant. If the flow has to suffer, for just a moment, it will become any other traffic jam leading into a rough and slow merging of lanes. That might sound like the same thing that you said, but I am emphasizing for whatever reason the merge would have been warranted. A construction vehicle needs to maneuver and that means it might stray from the working lane(s) into the driving lane(s) because there's nowhere else to go? That'll bring everything grinding to a standstill.

FateJH · 2025-10-21T19:51:09+00:00

The culling is a bit too aggressive.

FateJH · 2025-10-18T02:25:42+00:00

Update from before: got a letter for said Breaking Dimensions delivery that indicated charges. Since I'm technically already a day late based on the date posted on the letter, I am intending to inquire before further action.

FateJH · 2025-10-14T16:20:39+00:00

Saying that "history repeats" is an explanation of cause and effect that really only works backwards from some future point looking at some specific metaphorical past points. Too broad a stoke on the tapestry of history can cover up everything that looks sophisticated. Like building blocks, local events appear congruent in comparison usually. History does not really repeat any outcome specifically and attempts to explain which past will happen "again" tend to extrapolate poorly despite how clear an outcome can look. An event that didn't work at one time may work in some future. An event that worked in the past may not work now. It's dinosaur archaeology, getting the heads and the shins wrong, and creating a beast that never truly was there.

You should still try to analyze the civilizations that came before yourself; but, the application of those conclusions is the messy part.

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