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Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by ryandrake »

BlackjackCF wrote: post #29
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…

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.

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by mulmen »

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…

> And they all in congress should be fired for job abandonment. And yes, rerun elections, with those idiots not allowed to run.

I find these takes very tiresome. What kind of insight can you draw from this all or nothing thinking? It’s reductive and uninteresting.

Not all elected representatives are refusing to work. Collective punishment creates an opportunity for bad actors to force an election and remove their colleagues from office.

> 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.

Well yeah, of course they are. You still owe taxes. When the government reopens the taxes you pay will still be allocated.

> Something about "taxation without representation". I think we went to war over that before.

This is not what was meant by taxation without representation. We do have elected representation, even in a government shutdown. Congress refusing to work is not a consequence of the government shutdown, it is a political choice made by elected representatives.

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by ryandrake »

slater wrote: post #14
pizlonator wrote: post #9

Yeah but like this isn't funny anymore guys

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...

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by drnick1 »

alecsm wrote: post #11

This uptime monitor must be streaming illegal football (soccer) because it's blocked in Spain. IP Provider Status 188.114.97.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked 188.114.96.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked And the funny thing is free football is working as always. I know because a friend is watching a game right now while he comments on HN.

This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like China?

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by Esophagus4 »

maest wrote: post #21
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…

A failure like this would immediately trigger reelections in the UK. It's a strong incentive to not shut down the government. There is no serious incentive to avoid this in the US. In fact, you're incentivised to be complicit in the shutdown and then blame the other party.

In general, this is by design in The States.

The system is setup to prevent political opportunism and provide predictability and rigidity of the system at the expense of being slower to respond to constituents.

The incentive is still there, it’s just a few years off in the next election.

(That being said… sighing loudly as he gestures around him at all the political opportunism…)

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by alecsm »

drnick1 wrote: post #35
alecsm wrote: post #11

This uptime monitor must be streaming illegal football (soccer) because it's blocked in Spain. IP Provider Status 188.114.97.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked 188.114.96.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US) Blocked And the funny thing is free football is working as always. I know because a friend is watching a game right now while he comments on HN.

This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like China?

No, they just make all ISP operating in the country mass block IPs.

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

roxolotl wrote: post #27
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> they're just intentionally failing to do their job How is this a hot take? The debt ceiling is statute. Electeds are doing what their voters want them to do. Until shutdowns result in a bipartisan anti-incumbency wave, they won’t go away. (The electoral consequences of shutting down the government are mixed at best.)

Just a nit but this isn't a debt ceiling issue. They raised the ceiling by 5trillion with the big bill passed in the spring[0]. Shutdowns occur because no budget has been passed so the government hasn't been authorized to spend any money. The bill they are arguing over now would fund the government through Nov 21st[1]. 0: https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/family-finan... 1: https://www.npr.org/2025/09/1…

> so the government hasn't been authorized to spend any money

Thank you for catching. Mixed up my fuckups. I’m sure the administration that’s been illegally impounding mandated spending is absolutely constrained by the law in this case…

Re: US Government Uptime Monitor

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Post by viraptor »

Marsymars wrote: post #26
pizlonator wrote: post #9

Yeah but like this isn't funny anymore guys

It's kinda funny if you don't live in the US.

People outside the US pay attention and all the mess created/enabled there is actually appealing to some. I'd say it's funny in isolation, until my highschool friend mentioned that we should have our own Trump to stop Muslims coming in. It's a shitty example to the world.
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