Macchi_the_Slime

Mine absolutely adores messing with that assumption. I’m nonbinary and she’s bi though strongly prefers women and more ambiguous to fem leaning nonbinary people. She looks like a very Butch lesbian but together our relationship is straight passing since I’m built like a fridge cosplaying Harry and the Hendersons and when my joint pain acts up like the most tips fedora Neckbearded MF to ever haunt the halls of an anime convention.

So when she’s alone and everyone has her pegged dead to rights as a textbook carpet muncher she plays into it going “My partner this, my partner that,” just to see the look on their faces when my literal grizzly bear ass shows up with our 3 kids or she decides to switch it up to mention her husband and kids.

it is hilarious.

Or the ol Mary Poppins as a backup.

“Basic Biology” MFs Try Not to Get Biology Wrong Challenge. Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE

The amount of men I’ve heard try to claim that it’s 100% the woman’s fault if a baby is a boy or a girl man. Fucking staggering.

Yeah that’s the big one for me too. Places like doctor’s offices, mechanic shop, anywhere there’s a decent chance their phone system is one of those like not quite “corporate call center” but more than “collection of company cell phones”

Idk the more I think about it the more I think it was more the worry that Trump might actually have been able to whip enough votes to actually get rid of the filibuster. Because I feel like with the air lobby money they’d had to have felt like the easier path for them would have been to get Republicans to agree to the offer that Schumer put on the table the other day right? Like idk maybe they were worried about Trump siccing DoT or whoever on them but I still feel like business wise anybody with half a brain would have seen this backlash coming and how much of a risk that would be to the politicians they’ve bought and paid for right? Then they’ve gotta waste all this money fighting the primary challenges or trying to buy whoever unseats the guy they’ve already bought. So I’ve gotta feel like the cheapest option for them would be pressuring the Republicans to agree to Schumer’s limp dick “deal” he offered the other day and taking whatever retaliation Trump brings on the chin and trying to placate him with another ego donation or something right?

So I’m feeling more and more like it’s gotta be that Schumer was worried that Trump might actually have been close to getting Thune to agree to nuke the filibuster.

Exactly. Like… If they submitted any improper registration forms then wouldn’t they just… get rejected by the Board of Elections for not actually being eligible to vote there? And just how exactly is a volunteer registrar supposed to figure out who can and can’t vote better than the state?

Like I mean my ass is just scrolling by here from the Librul Hellscape of Western NY so take this with a grain of salt, but any time I’ve seen volunteer groups doing voter registration drives they’ve all been… checking with the local Board of Elections and helping people file papers with said board. As far as I know none of them can just add anyone they want to the voter rolls. That’d be silly.

Even then honestly, Mass Effect came our in 2007, Fallout 4 was 2015. Mass Effect was about a specific character that yes you were supposed to be able to shape and mold, but the expectation that the Fallout series had built up was for you to be basically anyone. And to my recollection 4 did nothing to temper that expectation going in with their new dialogue system and voiced protagonist.

Right? So-called “Cinematic Dialogue System”

The Dialogue:

Yes

Yes

Sarcastic Yes

No(Yes)

The claim seems to be that this group is knowingly attempting to register undocumented immigrants. Which is fucking psychotic, seems to be just blatantly based on “they’re operating in Latino communities” and moreover seems to be just ridiculous on its face? Because it sounds like you just fill out a registration form and the state board of elections determines if you’re eligible or not… so… what’s the problem exactly?

Oh wait freighters? Sorry I goofed on that one. I think you’d still have to save edit for those. Sorry I was mixing up terms

Luckily there’s basically nothing other than supercharge slots that the direct class of a freighter gets you that you can’t get via regular upgrades and if you do find a freighter you like better you can directly transfer your built base.

In my mind it was 100% either pressure from the air travel lobby, or because they thought Trump might actually get the votes to nuke the filibuster.

The ones that voted are either A) Retiring, or B) Not up for Reelection in '26, yes.

They almost certainly did this either under pressure from the air travel lobby to not let this disrupt the thanksgiving air travel season, or because they were actually worried that Trump was going to get enough votes to nuke the filibuster.

If you like it, you can upgrade it to S-class in the space station! It can be pretty expensive on nanites though.

Idk, the list I saw last was:

Alaska
California
Illinois
Louisiana
Nevada
Oregon
Vermont
Wisconsin

I’m not super knowledgeable about all of these states, it’s pretty conceivable that California or Nevada might be able to shift things around and pay people. But like Louisiana? Pretty sure they get way more from the federal government than they give in taxes. It seems kinda crazy that they’d have the money to fund their own SNAP recipients. According to one of the legal creators I follow the administration was fighting to only pay out the 5 or so billion that the USDA contingency fund had and I guess there are filings that indicate that they have paid out that much.

So it sounds to me like they had intended to just give everybody a pittance, not enough to really do anything as a full fuck you to as many people as possible. Then fucked it up and accidentally released full funds in a free-for-all to states that were able to snap them up quickly enough and between their own budgets and that money those 8 have been able to fully pay out their SNAP recipients.

But as things stand right now KBJ’s stay is over, it lasted max 48 hours after the lower court issued their ruling on whether they’d hear the administration’s appeal of the orders to fund SNAP. Which it seems that ruling amounted to “Fuck you, pay SNAP. And pay it from your tariff money” basically. I guess the most recent order tells them to fund the rest of the missing SNAP funds from this pool of funds called Section 32 funds which I guess he was trying to take the remaining money out of the Child Nutrition Fund so like the School Lunch program and stuff. So that’s a whole different pot of cruelty.

I was seeing conflicting things about that. I saw some things saying there were States trying to shift funds around to pay SNAP recipients, then others saying it was USDA money that the administration was trying to claw back before the whole stay, order getting reaffirmed, then last night the dems voting to open the government. So I’m not sure how that actually shakes out.

My understanding though about the stay was that it wasn’t the whole court, just KBJ because she handles such things for that district. That it was set to expire 48 hours after the lower court issued their ruling on the broader appeal which they did a couple hours later on Friday(declined the appeal) from what I remember reading and the stay expired yesterday and today the original court reaffirmed the funding order.

That’s my understanding of where things sit at this time. Not sure where any of this lands with the dems caving on ending the shutdown though.

For someone who isn’t invested in this and how this is supposedly not a hill you’re gonna die on, you sure keep coming back to argue lmao. Not even properly saying what I said either that’s crazy.

Yuuuuuup. But don’t worry guys. The Democrats get to write the bill they’re going to vote on! That’s something, right?

I’m one of the people dependent on it. Yes I’m aware of the bullshit excuses they’re peddling. But unfortunately the way our legal system is structured, it doesn’t fucking matter that everyone with half a braincell knows they’re lying because it doesn’t automatically force them to do the right thing.

Last I heard, 8 States managed to get their full November allotment out before the stay. what happens to everyone else when the fucking liars get to reasonably claim “oh no we have no more money” and it doesn’t matter that we know they’re lying because they’re still paying ICE because that’s not what they were ordered to do? Then they have to start a whole new set of fucking litigation and it gets bogged down longer.

So while I’m happy for the people who were able to get paid out their SNAP and would totally love to be able to buy my kids food because we’re really struggling right now, I cannot give the slightest fuck about a 2 day stay while the lower court figures out their shit.

I’m not defending anything. But there is a little bit more to the discussion on the SNAP stay thing than just saying “court blocked SNAP order”

It’s boring, it’s stupid, I hate that our fucking courts are structured like this. But the adminstration also can’t be allowed to just let the funds be a free for all and just let whoever is able to grab their SNAP funds get food while everyone else now has to sue again to get them to comply with the original order.

I can almost guarantee you they were looking at Thanksgiving travel plans coming up and that was it.