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A lot of the inefficiencies come from being understaffed. You end up waiting on another department to do something so you can move forward. The work on site mandate and the buyout have made this insanely worse. I work as a consultant in the public sector for tech. The team I'm working with now went from 5 people down to two and they have one that they have hired but is still waiting for the paperwork to go through to start working. They were hired in December. The on site mandate fucked this military base. They have 8000+ employees and ~4500 parking spots. Everyone is basically expected to show up late and the police stopped giving parking tickets because it was too much work. With everyone on base the internet access is almost unusable until about 4:30 pm when people start leaving. We put in a request for a service account that our product requires 3 weeks ago and are still waiting for it because that team downsized and can't keep up... And on, and on, and on...

These over worked, under staffed teams are spinning plates right now. When those plates come crashing down they're going to end up hiring IBM, VMware, General Dynamics, Microsoft, Red Hat, etc... consultants to fix the mess and get them back to spinning. That's going to be so much more expensive than just keeping those previous people on staff. It's going to be wild in 6-12 months imo.

Oops, yes they have gotten to orbit. All while using less seed money from the government. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-launches-massive-new-glenn-rocket-into-orbit-on-1st-flight-video

I mean that if he was, go ahead and lock him up. Hell, lock him up for supporting Israel's several war crimes.

Oops, I was wrong. They made it on their first attempt at it. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-launches-massive-new-glenn-rocket-into-orbit-on-1st-flight-video

They had way more government funding to get to the point Blue Origin is at. I'm not just talking about right now. That would be silly.

I'm not denying that.

Blue Origin has used FAR less government money than SpaceX. That's one of the reason they sell those trips. You have to pay for things somehow.

Not yet

Edit: Turns out I was wrong. Their craft that was supposed to make it to orbit made it on its first attempt. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-launches-massive-new-glenn-rocket-into-orbit-on-1st-flight-video

Blue Origin will have us doing it again. They truly are the tortoise of the race.

Without Musk, SpaceX could be great. The Falcon 9 platform and building rockets in America has been great. It's Starship that is a steaming pile of shit.

It wouldn't surprise me, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that.

As much as I believe that Trump is in the Epstein files, I don't believe Musk has any info about this. Remember this is the same guy that called the person trying to rescue those kids in a cave a pedophile with zero evidence. Musk can not be trusted, even is it's something you want to believe.

The difference is Biden doesn't have a cult. Go ahead and lock him up. Granted with his cancer and age there isn't much point in doing it.

Nah, you need the charisma to convince the people in congress to go along with your ideas. Trump has that kind of sway and power because of all the lackeys he put in place. I don't think JD could hold the same influence over them.

Somehow even worse. Now it comes with and I have to install it separate?

I would argue it's worse. You can't choose the things that are actually beneficial to you and how you work.

Maybe, but I don't think it will last. I think Trump has a better chance at getting a third term than JD has at getting a first term.

JD Vance doesn't have the following or the charisma to pull off the nonsense Trump does. MAGA doesn't work without Trump. Anytime MAGA has been in an election without Trump it fails pretty spectacularly.

The difference now is that our debt is so high that the whole world is watching and downgrading our credit. Creating debt isn't necessarily a problem of you're using that debt to make things more productive. If you're using that debt to build infrastructure, improve schooling, etc... Increasing your debt to give rich people more money is wasteful spending. Those same economists that are warning about this bill are also scared that we will lose our ability to cheaply borrow money.