Maybe that’s because there wasn’t much wasteful spending outside of DoD. And lo and behold, a former 18F employee said on social media they saved $500 million at the Dept of Defense alone.

Also, if you think the point of DOGE is actually to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you’re probably being a scooch naive. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be so sloppy and arbitrary about who gets fired or (shocker!) be going after agencies that have investigated Trump or Musk’s companies. It’s going to cost more to clean up the mess than they’ll ever save and that’s ignoring all the lawsuits.

I’m a good tipper, having waited tables before, so usually ~30% but it’s certainly not expected. 20% is the standard tip.

Chris Rufo is a fascist? Well I am shocked

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They should try that with someone older. I’m 50/50 on whether I fear death or whether to look forward to eternal naps.

The dumbest part of all this is that corporate DEI programs were mostly a joke anyway. Reading a James Baldwin book or two will matter more than a half day class where they tell you not to be racist.

Very brave of them to halfass resistance.

Hotmail. Been using it since high school and every data breach and fuck up taught me something new.

I sincerely apologize.

You can still buy Motorola 68000 chips (from the Apple II and Commodore 64) and get the job of rolling windows up and down done. Sometimes, old chip designs are good enough and cheaper than one modern design.

I’m starting to think this Trump character isn’t on the up-and-up.

How come? The federal government is basically defense and insurance. Everything else is a rounding error. (Which is why you can’t actually cut $2 trillion without cutting defense spending, social security, or Medicaid/Medicare.)

At least there’s the silver lining that it’ll hurt Verizon. My enemy’s enemy is still my enemy in this case but I can make popcorn and laugh at the loser.

She’s gonna be like an athlete that plays until it’s sad for multiple years.

The exception that rule is someone like Ricky Henderson who just really openly and unselfishly liked playing baseball and played in the minor leagues for fun. He just kept playing baseball until he was 46: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hender003ric

I respect that. It was like weekend slow pitch for him.

There’s about to be three eyes because I wouldn’t trust shit coming from the U.S. right now. The UK should back down so there’s 4 eyes. 🤓

No, he’s stupid. He was stupid in the 80’s and nothing had changed except now he’s got dementia. We all saw during COVID lockdowns when he mused about injecting bleach or disinfectant in people to clean the COVID out?

And for the record, so is Elon Musk. Anytime he talks about something, it may sound smart to a lot of people but people with subject-matter expertise on the topic immediately recognize how stupid he is.

Unfortunately for the world, all of Trump’s cabinet picks are pretty stupid besides Scott Bissent, JD Vance, and maybe Marco Rubio.

Oh Cœur d’Alene. Never change.

Actually, change everything (besides the scenery). Maybe start with the white nationalists and go from there.

I realize that. I was just joking. Lighthearted jokes about England usually land but I guess that one didn’t. C’est la vie.

It’s not actually new investments. It includes all the stuff they were going to do anyway (like buy Gorilla Glass for iPhone screens from Corning and order some chips from the new TSMC plant in Arizona). It’s not going to change the price of the phones. Tim Apple is probably just trying to avoid having to meet with Trump again.

Yes, but not because of the witchcraft stuff. They use royal titles. People unironically say “Sir Mick Jagger.”

Who with any power will stand up to him on anything? I’ve seen a few Democrats — almost all women, interestingly — and then everyone else in Congress is a coward or doesn’t understand the gravity of the situation. He’s ignoring several court orders so don’t expect the judiciary to do much. Even the oligarchs are kissing his ass while he wrecks the economy. His diet of McDonalds and burnt steak is probably our best, last hope.