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Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by SR2Z »

ryandrake wrote: post #31
BlackjackCF wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US really needs formalized processes for snap elections and easier ability to recall elected officials. The fact that this is happening and we all just have to sit on our hands and wait for the next election is wild.

This is being done by the people America collectively elected. Moar Elections is not going to help. Enough Americans want this chaos and deliberately voted for it.

Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of an idiot who doesn't understand how the government works and goes based on vibes.

Such a person would ignore any issue short of, say, their paychecks or SSA benefits not arriving on time. After that, who knows who they would support?

Democrats have a lot less to lose than the GOP right now. The party is unpopular and locked out of power. There's only upside to shutting the government down, if you ignore the very serious impacts on normal people.

Trump is not capable of seeing this because he reflexively has to win every conflict he's involved in.

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by lithobraking »

nekusar wrote: post #20

A far as I'm concerned, they're just intentionally failing to do their job. And they *all* in congress should be fired for job abandonment. And yes, rerun elections, with those idiots not allowed to run. After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff), they sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut down". It's a scam. Something about "taxation without representation". I think we went to war…

>After all, when I look at my W2 (yeah, I'm a working stiff), they sure as hell are taking out taxes still. That aint "shut down". It's a scam.

This is because a significant amount of the government is still running. [1] Around 50% of gov employees are currently working without pay (but with expected backpay). If _everyone_ stopped working major systems would immediately be disrupted: The military would stop all operations. Planes would be grounded. Weather predictions would cease to exist. Food & pharmaceuticals wouldn't be screened. Participants in medical studies would stop getting treatments. etc.

Contractors are also capable covering expenses with overhead. But soon, many will run out. For example, the contractors who perform nuclear weapons research [2]. At which time, they will have to shut down and employees will be furloughed without guarantee of backpay. (The current expectation is unpaid leave) As someone who works in a related civilian field this would severely impact our mission and the folks who work here. Especially the newer ones like postdocs who may not have much savings.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/who-is-still-workin...

[2]: https://sourcenm.com/2025/10/17/doe-secretary-nnsa-to-furlou...

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by anonymousiam »

ryandrake wrote: post #33
slater wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i'd say go tell the felon(s) in the white house, but they're currently busy having a gold-encrusted ball room built

He's also busy shitposting AI slop videos[1] of himself. Man's got to have priorities. 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_post...

Trump seems to have no inhibitions about his posts.

To be fair though, this shutdown was brought about by Congress. The Senate has not approved a bill, so the POTUS has nothing to sign.

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by ryandrake »

SR2Z wrote: post #41
ryandrake wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is being done by the people America collectively elected. Moar Elections is not going to help. Enough Americans want this chaos and deliberately voted for it.

Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of an idiot who doesn't understand how the government works and goes based on vibes. Such a person would ignore any issue short of, say, their paychecks or SSA benefits not arriving on time. After that, who knows who they would support? Democrats have a lot less to lose than the GOP right now. The party is unpopular and locked out of power. There's only upside to sh…

> Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of an idiot who doesn't understand how the government works and goes based on vibes.

I think the median voter looks at what a politician says they are going to do, assumes they are going to do it, and votes based on that. Say what you will about the Trump administration, they are doing exactly what they were shouting from the rooftops that they would do. Grief people they don't like, sow chaos and division, start a devastating trade war on multiple fronts, and cause daily chaos and drama. They said it loud and clear for years before the election. They got elected. And, then they did it!

If I had anything good to say about these guys it's that they were 100% transparent about their plans and they followed up on them right out of the gate. Exactly zero people should be surprised at what they delivered. It's actually pretty impressive how faithfully they are delivering on all of their promises of destruction and chaos! In fact, polls of Republicans show consistent, strong and enthusiastic approval of the administrations actions, as they themselves fall deeper into poverty and hopelessness.

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by atmavatar »

SR2Z wrote: post #41
ryandrake wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is being done by the people America collectively elected. Moar Elections is not going to help. Enough Americans want this chaos and deliberately voted for it.

Unless your theory is that the median voter is kind of an idiot who doesn't understand how the government works and goes based on vibes. Such a person would ignore any issue short of, say, their paychecks or SSA benefits not arriving on time. After that, who knows who they would support? Democrats have a lot less to lose than the GOP right now. The party is unpopular and locked out of power. There's only upside to sh…

There was nothing to stop the Republican party from unilaterally averting the shutdown, and there's nothing stopping them from unilaterally ending it. They have the majority in both houses as well as the presidency, so they can pass anything they like.

The only road bump in place is the Senate filibuster rule - but that's a rule that can be (and has been) tossed aside when inconvenient. Recall that Republicans removed the filibuster from judicial appointments when they wanted to ram through multiple Supreme Court justices and hundreds of lower court judges.

The underlying problem is that the current Republican party wants this shutdown because it reinforces their half-century-long message that government is broken and gives them cover to remove federal workers.

It also doesn't help that the House is remaining closed to delay seating an incoming Democrat representative from an Arizona special election.

Expect this shutdown to continue for a while.

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by hypeatei »

anonymousiam wrote: post #43
ryandrake wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's also busy shitposting AI slop videos[1] of himself. Man's got to have priorities. 1: https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1oaemj3/trump_post...

Trump seems to have no inhibitions about his posts. To be fair though, this shutdown was brought about by Congress. The Senate has not approved a bill, so the POTUS has nothing to sign.

The President typically has a lot of influence over party members in normal times, the Republican sychopants who are in Congress now will do whatever he says. A bipartisan border bill was killed before Trump even got re-elected[0] simply because he didn't want it passed.

0: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-b...

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by sherry-sherry »

neckardt wrote: post #24

Love it! One nit: the % number jiggles around. This can be fixed either by left aligning the number, or by using a monospaced font.

Or using ‘tabular figures’ for the numbers. It keeps just the number widths the same. I believe it’s ‘font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;’ in CSS.

I often see it on sports broadcasts, or anything with a counter where the number changes and makes the rest of the line ‘jiggle’.

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