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It's not easy but we could build a water softener that replaces flouride in the water with lead. I bet they'd fucking love that. Slap a trump hat on it and charge $2k per install. MADE IN AMERICA, BABY!

And we will let you because no one cares.

Hey look Neatnit's corpse is getting eaten by birds. Well... they've got to eat something. What was it he died for again?

Yeah but all of the other Wall-Es were left broken by a mandatory Tuesday Windows Update

Trump has been a money launderer for Putin for the past 3 decades. Trump's entire reason to own international resorts is to use them for laundering money. It's easy. Build a huge resort, say it's full even when it is not, and it just so happens to be that half the guests paid in cash. Well, the cash guest, Putin and his oligarchy bros, said "Keep this up or we will ruin you". So the choice is to make money or lose it all/get killed. Pretty easy choice right?

Whether or not he's a pedo who did illegal shit on camera is another story

Fast forward to today.

Marshall laid out his arguments for judicial review in Marbury v Madison. At the time it was supported by Hamilton and others too. But it's not explicitly stated in the constitution. Jurisprudence is entirely an unconstitutional (though consistent with other sections of the constitution) power that the courts granted themselves. It's been a long time since my last us history class though.

The Supreme court manifested the entire concept of jurisprudence. I think they could do the same for a system of officers of the court.

Supreme court could just manifest the ability to fund a system of officers of the court from thin fucking air if they wanted to.

Yeah I'm starting to think that a triumvirate is the way to go for the office of the president. Let's have a head of state, a head of government, and a head of _____ idk. But the job is too intense for one individual and we need an escape hatch while also having stability. So we could impeach the head of state but keep the head of government so shit still gets done during that transition.

No, from the brownshirts who have been systematically threatening and murdering the judges and their families who oppose fascism.

“well the military was ultimately responsible for holding those contractors accountable,”

This is arguably one of the worst aspects of contracting any kind of service. The contractors act like they don't have a duty to listen nor are they willing to be held accountable. Once the contractor and the signor shake hands then the contractors just go and do the worst fucking job possible with no one to steer the ship. The money has been spent, and accountability is nowhere to be found.

I see what you did there.

For real though it's going to be hard to undo all of this. The political process for all public services is being hung by a noose made by contractors and GOP voters.

No my point is they offload too much to corporations and thus are beholden to the same concerns of those corporations by proxy.

Honestly I didn't even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.

I've been in PTA fights over this and yelled at superintendents in multiple school district meetings now. The real answer of where the money is going? Contractors.

Everything is done by contractors now because it's easy to sever and it allows organizations to focus on one thing they're good at. Do you need janitorial staff or do you need to keep things clean? Well the answer is you need to keep things clean - so how? Just pay the contractors because the school board got bribed. Sure, it turns out the contractors cost 3x the cost of a dedicated janitorial staff in the long run, but they were quicker to set up and the board wanted a turnkey solution.

That's the approach that every school board uses to answer that question. Need X - ok well we don't want to hire anyone because that makes people mad about how we use money... so we'll spend MORE money on Y over the long run for something that will be a permanently reoccurring cost. Anyone go to a school cafeteria recently? Did you get food served on disposable styrofoam treys or were you given a melamine tray and plate with reusable utensils? Just kidding I know the answer to that already. Do we provide school supplies to students at the district level? No, every man for themselves go to walmart and pay $60 for school supplies for each child with all the markup instead of letting the district buy them by the pallet and distribute at the cost of wholesale for 15% the total price of everyone wastefully purchasing their own.

Don't forget that school boards are notoriously easy to corrupt. Usually it's something relatively benign like a board member has a family member that owns a company that does contract work and they were recommended to the rest of the board. But often it is outright bribes.

But this short sighted view of how to run things is making everything expensive in America. Everything has ten fucking middlemen between you and what you want. And they're all goddamn contractors now. Cheap in the immediate but far more expensive over time. Why? Because we aren't allowed to have honest conversations about government expenses anymore. We aren't allowed to ask for real services for our children because of the short term demands of the bottom line. And when we do open up those conversations, the calculus shows the quarterly expense of hiring a permanent employee is more than maintaining the contract even though that employee is cheaper at the 5 year mark. We aren't allowed to dig ourselves out once we're stuck in the pit bought by contracts.

Edit: To expand on the list of contractors that now handle (BADLY) the same work done by roles that were traditionally employees who gave a shit and were held to a standard of care and duty:

• Cafeteria food preparation (dont even get me started on the quality and cost of aramark dog prison cafeteria food)
• Cafeteria cleanup
• Bathroom sanitation
• Basic plumbing like unclogging fucking toilets
• landscaping
• replacing lightbulbs (!)
• basic IT services

I've heard rumblings of replacing:

• student counselors
• school nurse
• bus drivers
• HR

About the only jobs safe are the principals and teachers and the football coach and that is only true while unions exist.

School board officials are frequently bribed to hire expensive contractors.

Honestly it's not the administrators. They usually reduce overall headcount by performing the tasks of multiple other dedicated people with one role.

The answer of where is the money going? Contractors. Everything is done by contractors now because it's easy to sever and it allows organizations to focus on one thing they're good at. Do you need janitorial staff or do you need to keep things clean? Well the answer is you need to keep things clean - so how? Just pay the contractors because the school board got bribed. Sure, it turns out the contractors cost 3x the cost of a dedicated janitorial staff in the long run, but they were quicker to set up and the board wanted a turnkey solution.

It could crawl elements within the DOM to save a word cloud of visible text for each bookmark as metadata for later searches. I think it's doable. Separating nonvisible and visible stuff is very difficult though.

I'm seeing mini pcs for sale for basically the same price as the windows license that comes installed on the system. They must be quite literally giving them away at this point to compete with Linux.

I switched over all my devices to 24 hour - phone, computers, cars, etc. I even change the settings on my wife's phone sometimes. It's so much easier to mentally read.

Anecdote: I have an IDE that only works on Windows that can build applications for Linux. I use MinGW as part of the packaging process (AND I FUCKING HATE IT OH MY GOD. All of the pathing is broken!). As of yesterday I learned that WSL is a thing that might replace MinGW and make some processes of packaging for linux targets a little easier.