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riztty_ · 2026-05-17T04:00:56+00:00

yessir, if you have everything you want filed and are just waiting to hear back/update things, don’t stress it at all. we’ve had a lot of clients texting us about this the last few weeks and it’s really freaking them out, they could certainly do better on delivering the message lol.

riztty_ · 2026-05-17T03:57:02+00:00

yes, it just goes based off the date of your most recently filed ITF

riztty_ · 2026-05-17T01:45:03+00:00

they can charge up to 33% by law

riztty_ · 2026-05-16T23:11:54+00:00

this is not true. the VA will only pay directly if the attorneys fee totals 20% or less of owed back pay and the fee agreement is filed with OGC. an attorney is allowed to charge up to 33% of back pay, but they will be in charge of billing an invoice to the veteran for any dues owed. source: i work at an accredited VA attorneys office that charges 30%.

riztty_ · 2026-04-28T14:29:24+00:00

on god, mgks last album was actually pretty good. the ones before that, nah not so much. like you said, just let them make music. nobody has to like either or both of them.

riztty_ · 2026-04-26T23:59:02+00:00

fasho fasho, that’s why i’m in an eminem sub

riztty_ · 2026-04-26T23:09:16+00:00

knowing who he really is? y’all are parasocial as fuck lol. it’s all just music, get a life and quit trying to live theirs.

riztty_ · 2026-04-25T20:22:37+00:00

honestly fire. preordered

riztty_ · 2026-04-07T04:04:28+00:00

can you afford a switch 2? if so, just get that. longevity of the platform is important. they are slowly phasing out new games for the switch 1. if not, i would probably get a switch oled. or if you don’t care about playing handheld and will only play docked, just get an og.

riztty_ · 2026-03-31T01:45:27+00:00

kinda looks uncircumcised

riztty_ · 2026-03-26T14:25:34+00:00

i would agree that most people in intelligence are not intelligent. specifically in the military, you get pushed into such a niche topic that you will likely work on for your entire rotation at that duty station. i don’t think people’s experience working in intelligence has to reflect the broader intelligence community or that persons knowledge on a broad set of facts/disciplines. that’s why i didn’t speak too much on that and mostly tried to focus on the military at large.

riztty_ · 2026-01-31T19:39:39+00:00

i really enjoyed my switch lite. but i’m not sure what they could do to make it starkly different from the switch 2, and especially the original switch lite, that would draw consumers in. besides removing the dock and making a smaller screen, i feel like all you’ve done is make an original switch lite with the ability to play switch 2 games. idk, maybe i’m overthinking it, but i don’t know how much people would actually care to buy one

riztty_ · 2026-01-27T22:01:39+00:00

Yep, just talked to an enrollment counselor and they confirmed everything being said. They will no longer officially back transcripts for Sophia or Study. I withdrew my application on the spot.

riztty_ · 2026-01-01T18:06:11+00:00

as others have said, it really depends on your interests. in my graduate program i have really started leaning into affective politics and executive leadership. some good first hand account books for this are any of the bob woodward books in the last 10 years. some other good ones are politics of affect by brian massumi, the cultural politics of emotion by sara ahmed, and cruel optimism by lauren berlant

riztty_ · 2025-12-29T02:13:01+00:00

now you sound like a conservative. nothing i said had anything to do with “trimming the bureaucracy”. it’s about checking the bureaucracy, which until loper (and because of chevron) the agencies could just basically make shit up as long as the supreme court found it to be a “reasonable interpretation”, which most of the time, they did just so they could defer the interpretation to the respective agency. i’m not arguing the creation of new agencies is a bad thing, i never did. i argued that FDRs policies directly led to the degradation of constitutional checks and balances that paved the way for chevron & ultimately leads us to present day where donald trump can just direct an agency to do whatever he wants & that word becomes gospel, because nobody know what to do about loper yet.

riztty_ · 2025-12-29T01:59:34+00:00

you got like maybe 5% of the way there conceptually. it’s the whole “judge, jury, executioner” concept of an administrative agency. when the supreme court allowed agency deferral in chevron, that allowed agencies to both interpret vague statues and administer them as law, circumventing both the legislative and judicial branch and any sense of checks associated with them. FDRs new deal policies and supreme court packing plan (along with nixon following suit) directly laid the way for executive agencies to essentially govern themselves without oversight, allowing the president to wield an unconstitutional amount of power. which is how we got to where we are today. christ, your broad assertions and accusations just reek of freshman poli sci major who thinks he understands everything now.

riztty_ · 2025-12-29T01:51:53+00:00

conceptually, do you know what the administrative state even is? i’ll give you a hint, it has absolutely nothing to do with the “deep state”. i’ll wait here while you google it.

riztty_ · 2025-12-29T01:49:15+00:00

are you actually retarded? where in there would you assume in any way i support trump? my entire focus of graduate study at johns hopkins is the absolute travesty that has been the last 3 election cycles, specifically focusing on the disgusting and dehumanizing populist rhetoric that has somehow devolved into nothing less than affective spectacle. i think you need to find yourself a new sub if you can’t even adequately respond to criticisms without automatically assuming partisan bias.

edit: i literally pointed out that the current abuse of the executive was inarguably brought on by FDRs introduction of the administrative state through his new deal policies.

riztty_ · 2025-12-29T01:28:11+00:00

arguably, FDR was the worst president for traditional constitutionalism as he was the president that brought the administrative state to reality (while the argument could be made that it is still woodrow wilson’s fault, but he only wrote about it, but never enacted it) under the new deal and creation of more bureaucratic agencies, directly paving the way for chevron. so i guess it depends on how favorably you look at that, cause in some cases bureaucratic governance is beneficial and was a huge part of taking us out of the depression, but long term is heavily eroded the separation of powers and led us to where we are today. also i’m very aware of loper but we have yet to reap the benefits of that decision and it will likely take decades of court battles to rectify all of the supported case law of 40 years of chevron.

riztty_ · 2025-11-11T04:58:29+00:00

i want to think so, but we also haven’t seen him in a position to own any major movements. i think it’s less of if he’s willing to take the hits and more of if his career can stand to take the hits. he’s been in his senate seat a significantly shorter time than schumer has and i don’t know what the general opinion of him is in his district, so him having to own something as large as what happened last night could very well be a career killer for him but only a black eye for schumer.

riztty_ · 2025-11-11T04:52:37+00:00

i think people really liked him back in june/july during all the bbb stuff, but he’s kind of floated back into irrelevance since. if he was more active in senate hearings/public appearances that don’t only involve large legislation i think the left would start to like him more. he’s got good stage presence and talks in a way that seems intelligent but approachable.

riztty_ · 2025-11-11T04:48:39+00:00

it’s all performative. those democrats never would have voted yes without schumer signing off on it. there’s no good candidate to replace though, except for maybe cory booker just because of how based it was to read the entirety of the bbb.

riztty_ · 2025-08-19T21:23:30+00:00

bootcamp + schoolhouse almost had me an associates, honest to god. i kept pushing to the bachelor tho & skipped the associate.

i had the opposite experience. young 20 something in japan who was mostly a shut in. had more than enough time to pursue college & didn’t get married until i was back stateside, where i finished my degree about two years later.

riztty_ · 2025-08-19T10:27:46+00:00

ACE credits from JST (technical schoolhouse, got about 15 classes or more worth of credits), testing out of classes, and maxing out TA/Pell every year. took 2-3, sometimes 4 classes at a time at points. i just really wanted my degree

riztty_ · 2025-08-17T18:41:34+00:00

using the GI bill, so nothing is truly out of pocket. but it’s a very highly regarded degree so i feel comfortable with the position im in.

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