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I’m not in a position to type out a long comment, but this link should give you the answers you need.

Fuck, that’s a good idea.

Thank you.

I am so tired of winning, I’d love alternatives.

Denmark, if you’re listening… I have an idea.

I work on a small team and recently realized my boss is falling victim to survivorship bias. Another colleague and I handle our work, which is mission critical to the org, competently and fairly opaquely, only raising issues as they arise. However some other members of our team have less critical but more visible work that they tend to bungle. The department invests hiring dollars, training efforts, and materials purchases in service of remediating those issues. But my colleague and I are both burned out, eyeing the door, and fully aware there’s no one who understands what we do or is capable of doing it within our organization - aside from each other, but our respective scope of work is non-overlapping and there’s truly not wiggle room to cross train or support each other’s work. I’ve said all I know to say to leadership about this issue but they seem willfully ignorant.

When one of us goes, I think the other will follow quickly. Hiring takes almost 2 months at my work, so the gap/lack of knowledge transfer will make for a huge shit show.

Before the election, they had to look out for the CSRB and CISA. Now… not so much.

It’s sort of funny - Seeing the rise of the Buy Canadian or Buy from EU groups/movements/knowledge sharing as a U.S. citizen and thinking “Shit, can I buy from them, too?”

Equal parts recognizing that buying American made usually means you’re just buying something assembled from components produced elsewhere and that standards here are not as good. (And getting worse all the time, now that the pro-corporate writing is on the wall.)

My working assumption is that they were a money laundering front.

I’m sure it’s not just a single fantastically evil person who is convincing Trump to repeatedly humiliate himself, damage the U.S. economy, destroy its soft power, alienate its allies, and take steps that empower and embolden all its enemies, but I’m just imagining some insane genius giving a solid hand clap before a team of researchers and saying “okay, folks, what damage are we going to do today?”

At this rate we may be looking at Trump swapping Biden’s lead pipe replacement campaign with a campaign to install lead pipes by the end of the summer. Who knows, maybe Freon will come back because someone tells Trump a thin ozone layer means better tans. Maybe he’ll hear about manifest destiny and start marching the army into the sea, believing it will yield.

These actions are so cartoonishly stupid and ham-fisted, that even if there’s an ounce of sound reasoning in any of them, he’s picking the worst way to approach something that needs nuance.
But that’s the goal, right? Wonder what moves they’re making that aren’t generating much press.

From my recent garage sale:

Petition to meet stupid with stupid: start a national movement to relocate the federal administration buildings to the geographic center of the U.S.
Land is cheap, will soon be rendered unusable by climate change. Why not prop up those dying communities with good paying federal jobs?

Between Social Security Insurance and Supplemental Income, there’s about 70 million recipients (holy wow - just shy of 20% of the U.S. population). Most of them are elderly, sure - but not all, and not all of those elderly will be infirm.

The way I see it is if these checks don’t come in April, we’ll start to see protests as the winter weather fades into spring.

I think a lot of folks feel disempowered by the system. Voting doesn’t work. And even when voting does work, the political parties seem to have their own agenda that is divorced from their purported constituents, their promises, and even reality. (Purported, because we know that voters are just the vehicle, but money is the fuel under our current system. The constituents they claim to have are not the constituents they serve.) Beyond that, they’re slapping felony convictions onto college kids who protested a genocide. Even if you want to soften the language, they were protesting violence in a nonviolent way, and they are going to have their entire lives impacted by criminal charges for expressing their ‘right’ to freedom of speech. Add in that a lot of folks are trapped in media bubbles and don’t even realize there are problems, or if they realize there are problems, they don’t really recognize their severity. And as we’ve repeatedly seen, Trump does not see justice, and there are no advocates for democracy or the rule of law. The only person that a lot of people felt was ‘on their side’ was Luigi Mangione, and failing attempts to paint him as a terrorist, the media has done their best to quash coverage of him to erase him from the national consciousness. The deck is clearly stacked in every which way.
So I mean, the consequences are dire, the impact of Trump’s actions are not yet being felt broadly or acutely enough yet, and it’s frankly kind of shitty outside, so no one wants to go stand in freezing temps, cold rain, or ceaseless winds for no gain, and incredible peril. I hate to serve up excuses, but I think the situation will have to get much worse before people are driven to action.

As an American… I don’t know.
I think we’re well and truly fucked.

That’s pretty much exactly the plan.

A slightly older article (Sept. 2024), but illuminating: Fact-checking what Project 2025 says about the National Weather Service and NOAA.

I don’t know anyone who owns a weather radar. Do you?

Climate data, local weather stations, generalized patterns, sure. But access to emergency data will be paywalled. Same for data that shows any kind of climatological trends, if it’s available.

They’ll have local governments paying for a subscription so the emergency alert system works.

“Union Pacific: We told them that a tornado was heading to a spot. Two trains stopped two miles apart, they watched the tornado go between. Then unfortunately it went into a town that didn’t have our service and a couple dozen people were killed. But the railroad did not lose anything,” Myers said. The Plan to Privatize Weather Forecasts

Joel Meyers, Accuweather’s founder and executive chair, was the subject of a John Oliver segment last year, and he is foaming at the mouth to tell people they better pay for his service or die.

Given that Trump was talking about ‘auditing’ Ft. Knox last week.

ugh. This is the dumbest Bond movie ever.

He’s gonna steal the U.S. gold reserves, and sink its money into a crypto exchange that is just a money laundering front.

Trying to be cagey for the sake of my own identity. Apologies. Some of this comment is vague. All of it is true.

I have close knowledge of a tightly regulated industry that passes the cost of its infrastructure onto consumers.
About 15 years ago, for about a 10 year period, the guiding principles of the regulatory bodies were that the companies would tend to their own infrastructure, and they did not take proactive steps to ensure that standards were upheld.
The inevitable happened. Record profits. Investment in infrastructure went down. Safety and reliability faltered.
About 5 years ago, things shifted. The political landscape changed, and the regulators stopped sleeping. Now the companies, with their investors and owners demanding these profits (and reliant on investor faith to stay solvent), must legally invest in their infrastructure while also maintaining profits so their investors do not abandon them and destroy their business.
The regulators, bound by law to achieve certain outcomes, are at a crossroads. What they regulate is a necessity. The public who pay for this are sagging under the expense of it.

It’s a shitty catch-22, where there’s no good way forward (short of nationalizing the industry and putting competent, politically isolated people in charge), but there was an easy, easy way to prevent this from occurring in the first place.
Some decisions cannot be undone.

There’s always another believable lie. Some other reason why.

My wife’s best friend has a conservative brother that got fired under DOGE shenanigans. 6-figure job that they relocated him to Germany to do. Now he doesn’t know if they’re even going to help him with relocating back to the U.S.

He says this is just a normal pendulum swing in life/politics, and it’s a reaction to liberal overreach. …? Not an ounce of ire toward the people who actually did this to him.

But then, as now, it won’t understand what it’s supposed to do, and will merely attempt to apply stolen code - ahem - training data in random permutations until it roughly matches what it interprets the end goal to be.

We’ve moved beyond a thousand monkeys with typewriters and a thousand years to write Shakespeare, and have moved into several million monkeys with copy and paste and only a few milliseconds to write “Hello, SEGFAULT”

Right? It’s a darn fine marketing effort.

I wish I had approximately double the hours in a given day, and also vastly more coding skill to help in meaningful ways.

It seems sort of odd that comments or messages reported for spam don’t offer any tools. Even a simple url pattern match that gives mods/admins the ability to click a checkbox to remember the link and take some predefined action in the future would be a rudimentary but effective option.

I mean, heck, it’s the fediverse. In my fantasy implementation of an anti-spam approach, it would be possible to federate these lists of untrusted links and assign consensus-based confidence scores for links generated from moderator actions across instances. (With options for instance admins to tailor their own trust scores of other instances, so that each instance can choose for themselves who they trust, just in case a couple rogue instance admins try to poison the spam filter.)
Same concept can be applied to banned accounts, although in that circumstance, I’d suggest they find a way to mask the email address when sharing it. Not that folks won’t just spin up a new email. But, you know. Something is better than nothing.

Hopefully that makes sense. I’m losing my mind with sleep deprivation.