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)
I'm not saying it's impossible, just that T hasn't yet reached the level of massive unpopularity to make enough of the Rs in congress more afraid of the consequences from the people of not removing him than they are of what his supporters might do to them if they try.
December 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I'm not saying it's impossible, just that T hasn't yet reached the level of massive unpopularity to make enough of the Rs in congress more afraid of the consequences from the people of not removing him than they are of what his supporters might do to them if they try.
Yeah, that would be my guess. Probably counting tankobon/etc for the individual titles but the magazines for Jump. I do wonder how you would even count something like this Weekly Shonen Magazine/Weekly Shonen Sunday anniversary fig that's *primarily* but not exclusively Urusei Yatsura.
December 28, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Yeah, that would be my guess. Probably counting tankobon/etc for the individual titles but the magazines for Jump. I do wonder how you would even count something like this Weekly Shonen Magazine/Weekly Shonen Sunday anniversary fig that's *primarily* but not exclusively Urusei Yatsura.
In a country with 18K different law enforcement agencies, around 2K of which are "special jurisdiction" like airport cops, university cops, rail cops, port cops... There are a lot of actual cops you wouldn't necessarily have thought would/should be.
December 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
In a country with 18K different law enforcement agencies, around 2K of which are "special jurisdiction" like airport cops, university cops, rail cops, port cops... There are a lot of actual cops you wouldn't necessarily have thought would/should be.
Yeah, I'm VERY curious how they're assigning comics sales to "Shonen Jump" vs "Dragon Ball", "One Piece", "Fist of the North Star", and "Yu-Gi-Oh!" all of which were originally serialized in Jump.
December 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Yeah, I'm VERY curious how they're assigning comics sales to "Shonen Jump" vs "Dragon Ball", "One Piece", "Fist of the North Star", and "Yu-Gi-Oh!" all of which were originally serialized in Jump.
It's obviously a mashup of Harrier and Terror, so I would expect something British with a nasty streak and impressive vertical takeoff and landing that also made it valuable to the US Marines. Don't tag it with French, a 'romance language' is clearly non-manly.
December 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It's obviously a mashup of Harrier and Terror, so I would expect something British with a nasty streak and impressive vertical takeoff and landing that also made it valuable to the US Marines. Don't tag it with French, a 'romance language' is clearly non-manly.
It would be an even bigger deal if there were any danger of conviction and removal, because that would mean a supermajority of the Senate were on board, and they and the people might be pissed off enough to impeach SCOTUS justices for making that decision. Then things get really interesting.
December 26, 2025 at 4:30 AM
It would be an even bigger deal if there were any danger of conviction and removal, because that would mean a supermajority of the Senate were on board, and they and the people might be pissed off enough to impeach SCOTUS justices for making that decision. Then things get really interesting.
My general understanding is that what is impeachable and convictable is the definition of a political question and means whatever the House and the Senate, respectively, decide it means. I wouldn't say it's out of the question, but it's a big leap even by the standards of this SCOTUS.
December 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
My general understanding is that what is impeachable and convictable is the definition of a political question and means whatever the House and the Senate, respectively, decide it means. I wouldn't say it's out of the question, but it's a big leap even by the standards of this SCOTUS.
...? The ruling has absolutely nothing to do with whether Congress can impeach a President.
December 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
...? The ruling has absolutely nothing to do with whether Congress can impeach a President.
In states trying to make things fair. Other states give first position to the party with the most total votes in the last major election for that same reason because they aren't.
December 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In states trying to make things fair. Other states give first position to the party with the most total votes in the last major election for that same reason because they aren't.
I learned about Curt Flood in high school in the 90s. Tbf, that was mainly because my Government/Civics teacher's undistinguished MLB career covered the span roughly between Flood's SCOTUS case and the elimination of the reserve clause.
December 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I learned about Curt Flood in high school in the 90s. Tbf, that was mainly because my Government/Civics teacher's undistinguished MLB career covered the span roughly between Flood's SCOTUS case and the elimination of the reserve clause.
It's been 10 years and 6 months since he came down that stupid escalator. 🙃
December 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It's been 10 years and 6 months since he came down that stupid escalator. 🙃
Buck the turgid editors, son.
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Buck the turgid editors, son.
Oh, you prefer to operate more at the "what is the optimum price to set for the PPV stream in each country to maximize revenue to pay the reparations?" level? Got it. Definitely the bloodless option.
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Oh, you prefer to operate more at the "what is the optimum price to set for the PPV stream in each country to maximize revenue to pay the reparations?" level? Got it. Definitely the bloodless option.
To avoid having to answer difficult questions like "which end first?", "quickly or slowly?", and "what's the best way to render someone unable to close their eyes while keeping their vision clear?" unless one has become a terrible enough person to relish the thought; I haven't, merely enough to ask.
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
To avoid having to answer difficult questions like "which end first?", "quickly or slowly?", and "what's the best way to render someone unable to close their eyes while keeping their vision clear?" unless one has become a terrible enough person to relish the thought; I haven't, merely enough to ask.
We need to find some way to change the incentives if we are ever to have any hope of changing the behavior.
December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
We need to find some way to change the incentives if we are ever to have any hope of changing the behavior.
I don't know enough to know if you're technically right, particularly since with SCOTUS' (now revealed to be self-serving) evisceration of anti-corruption laws the real crimes against the People of the United States are what's been made legal and how/why.
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I don't know enough to know if you're technically right, particularly since with SCOTUS' (now revealed to be self-serving) evisceration of anti-corruption laws the real crimes against the People of the United States are what's been made legal and how/why.
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."