Mike
@kithkanan.castlecagliostro.com
Software developer, anime fan, retrogamer, lover of nature, and pursuer of other geeky pursuits. He/him.
Co-host of amokenzoku.com/podcast/ with the other "Bubblegum Crisis Boomer Otaku" (aka excuse for 00s anime club friends to chat about weeb stuff)
Co-host of amokenzoku.com/podcast/ with the other "Bubblegum Crisis Boomer Otaku" (aka excuse for 00s anime club friends to chat about weeb stuff)
IDK about other shows but Vintage Computer Festival West does this. A couple of overall awards and every other volunteer exhibitor gets an award with a name relating somehow to the topic/contents of their exhibit as thanks.
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
IDK about other shows but Vintage Computer Festival West does this. A couple of overall awards and every other volunteer exhibitor gets an award with a name relating somehow to the topic/contents of their exhibit as thanks.
I understand the feeling completely, but I also think more-than-perfunctory applause is far more genuinely positive feedback about how included in your classes students felt than a high online rating which for many students may just mean they see the course/instructor as an easy grade/light workload
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I understand the feeling completely, but I also think more-than-perfunctory applause is far more genuinely positive feedback about how included in your classes students felt than a high online rating which for many students may just mean they see the course/instructor as an easy grade/light workload
I would only suggest as a counterthought that if the students felt your class was worth applauding, it's because you managed to make it feel interesting and relevant to *them*
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I would only suggest as a counterthought that if the students felt your class was worth applauding, it's because you managed to make it feel interesting and relevant to *them*
NO compromises permissible. Not sure where the important word went.
December 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
NO compromises permissible. Not sure where the important word went.
Remember, they've marinated in a bubble that's convinced themselves everything to the left of what they want on a given day is "communism" with compromises permissible and so to them what you described still looks like this. 🙄
a cartoon of spider-man fighting another spider-man in front of a nypd truck
Alt: a cartoon of spider-man fighting another spider-man in front of a nypd truck
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December 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Remember, they've marinated in a bubble that's convinced themselves everything to the left of what they want on a given day is "communism" with compromises permissible and so to them what you described still looks like this. 🙄
100% agree. It shows that one more of the "guardrails" in the system that otherwise intelligent people rationalized would constrain T/MAGA's worst impulses like they did in his first term has failed. Doubleplusungood.
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
100% agree. It shows that one more of the "guardrails" in the system that otherwise intelligent people rationalized would constrain T/MAGA's worst impulses like they did in his first term has failed. Doubleplusungood.
Yes, that is in fact what lots of people are asking now. It's... the opposite of reassuring.
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Yes, that is in fact what lots of people are asking now. It's... the opposite of reassuring.
Civilian control of the military is a fundamental principle of US governance. Mind, everyone in the military is also in theory not just allowed but *legally required* not to follow illegal orders, and "don't shoot the survivors of a sinking ship" is literally the textbook example of that, so... 🙃
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Civilian control of the military is a fundamental principle of US governance. Mind, everyone in the military is also in theory not just allowed but *legally required* not to follow illegal orders, and "don't shoot the survivors of a sinking ship" is literally the textbook example of that, so... 🙃
You don't have to be convicted to receive a pardon in the US. Most famously, Ford pardoned Nixon "for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
You don't have to be convicted to receive a pardon in the US. Most famously, Ford pardoned Nixon "for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974."
Hegseth isn't giving the order in his former military role of a Major, he's giving it in his current position of civilian cabinet secretary in charge of the Department of Defense (I refuse to accept his illegal rename back to Department of War, at least until Congress officially passes a law.)
December 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Hegseth isn't giving the order in his former military role of a Major, he's giving it in his current position of civilian cabinet secretary in charge of the Department of Defense (I refuse to accept his illegal rename back to Department of War, at least until Congress officially passes a law.)
I think terrorism is the correct word since the main purpose of the strikes is the publicity.
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I think terrorism is the correct word since the main purpose of the strikes is the publicity.
As a last resort, impeachment and removal from office. This requires 50%+1 of the House (currently 219 Republicans and 213 Democrats) and 2/3 of the Senate (currently 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and 2 Independents who caucus with the Dems) so you would need 20 Republican Senators to vote to remove
November 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As a last resort, impeachment and removal from office. This requires 50%+1 of the House (currently 219 Republicans and 213 Democrats) and 2/3 of the Senate (currently 53 Republicans, 45 Democrats, and 2 Independents who caucus with the Dems) so you would need 20 Republican Senators to vote to remove
When the President, Congressional majorities, and a Supreme Court majority are all working corruptly in concert... The system has failed and has no immediate remedy. The public is supposed to get pissed off enough to vote out the old bums and in new bums who do want to investigate/prosecute.
November 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
When the President, Congressional majorities, and a Supreme Court majority are all working corruptly in concert... The system has failed and has no immediate remedy. The public is supposed to get pissed off enough to vote out the old bums and in new bums who do want to investigate/prosecute.
Pretty much, yes. Don't forget that the President can constitutionally pardon anyone for any Federal crime any time he wants and no one has the power to stop him.
The remedy is SUPPOSED to be a Congress willing to impeach and remove the President and/or Hegseth for doing this shit.
The remedy is SUPPOSED to be a Congress willing to impeach and remove the President and/or Hegseth for doing this shit.
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Pretty much, yes. Don't forget that the President can constitutionally pardon anyone for any Federal crime any time he wants and no one has the power to stop him.
The remedy is SUPPOSED to be a Congress willing to impeach and remove the President and/or Hegseth for doing this shit.
The remedy is SUPPOSED to be a Congress willing to impeach and remove the President and/or Hegseth for doing this shit.
First you have to get past that "standing" issue I mentioned, which is basically whether you personally have been harmed by the killing of civilians. IDK, maybe Venezuela could sue. Maybe.
November 30, 2025 at 6:55 PM
First you have to get past that "standing" issue I mentioned, which is basically whether you personally have been harmed by the killing of civilians. IDK, maybe Venezuela could sue. Maybe.
And if the federal judge doesn't bounce the case for lack of standing, and actually does order that person to do or not do something, and the person ignores it...? The judge refers that person to the DoJ to prosecute criminal contempt.
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
And if the federal judge doesn't bounce the case for lack of standing, and actually does order that person to do or not do something, and the person ignores it...? The judge refers that person to the DoJ to prosecute criminal contempt.
That's not how suing people works in US law. Suing people is for money or to force them to do something they're legally required to do but don't want to, or stop them from doing something they're legally not supposed to.
November 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
That's not how suing people works in US law. Suing people is for money or to force them to do something they're legally required to do but don't want to, or stop them from doing something they're legally not supposed to.
Well, you'd need cops with the proper jurisdiction, which would probably be the FBI. Do you really think Kash Patel is gonna let them do that?
Mind, the FBI and DOJ working as White House lapdogs would have been a MASSIVE scandal in any previous administration. It's not SUPPOSED to work like this.
Mind, the FBI and DOJ working as White House lapdogs would have been a MASSIVE scandal in any previous administration. It's not SUPPOSED to work like this.
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Well, you'd need cops with the proper jurisdiction, which would probably be the FBI. Do you really think Kash Patel is gonna let them do that?
Mind, the FBI and DOJ working as White House lapdogs would have been a MASSIVE scandal in any previous administration. It's not SUPPOSED to work like this.
Mind, the FBI and DOJ working as White House lapdogs would have been a MASSIVE scandal in any previous administration. It's not SUPPOSED to work like this.
If you're starting to get the idea that the "land of the free" is set up in such a way as to tell ordinary citizens to piss off if they want the current federal government to do something it really doesn't want to... Yeah, pretty much.
November 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If you're starting to get the idea that the "land of the free" is set up in such a way as to tell ordinary citizens to piss off if they want the current federal government to do something it really doesn't want to... Yeah, pretty much.
No. Private citizens can't ask US Federal judges for an arrest warrant or swear out a criminal complaint. They have to go to the cops or the DoJ, who can act on it or not.
November 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
No. Private citizens can't ask US Federal judges for an arrest warrant or swear out a criminal complaint. They have to go to the cops or the DoJ, who can act on it or not.
Yes. Grant or deny it when asked, but someone has to do the asking, and whether that someone is a federal cop or a federal prosecutor, they work for the President. President keeping his hands away from those peoples' work was a tradition/norm, not a requirement/law.
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Yes. Grant or deny it when asked, but someone has to do the asking, and whether that someone is a federal cop or a federal prosecutor, they work for the President. President keeping his hands away from those peoples' work was a tradition/norm, not a requirement/law.
Back up first. How do we get from the point we're at to "judge order arresting someone"? In the US judges aren't the ones who do that, at least except for contempt. They aren't the ones who investigate crimes and initiate prosecutions, though cops do need to get them to sign off on arrest warrants.
November 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Back up first. How do we get from the point we're at to "judge order arresting someone"? In the US judges aren't the ones who do that, at least except for contempt. They aren't the ones who investigate crimes and initiate prosecutions, though cops do need to get them to sign off on arrest warrants.
Those were fine. I mean, a certain amount of cheesiness is a given, it's toku fgs.
November 29, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Those were fine. I mean, a certain amount of cheesiness is a given, it's toku fgs.
I don't think they look worse now than I thought they did at the time, if that's what you mean by "holds up". I loved PGSM in spite of the CGI, definitely not because of it. I have the same issues with most movies of the era, basically every 3D console game before at least the PS2 era, etc.
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I don't think they look worse now than I thought they did at the time, if that's what you mean by "holds up". I loved PGSM in spite of the CGI, definitely not because of it. I have the same issues with most movies of the era, basically every 3D console game before at least the PS2 era, etc.
The US had a presidential election in the middle of a civil war! Any attempt at cancelling elections would likely start another.
That said, as you say, who knows...
That said, as you say, who knows...
November 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The US had a presidential election in the middle of a civil war! Any attempt at cancelling elections would likely start another.
That said, as you say, who knows...
That said, as you say, who knows...