And a lot of these sound like the tyranny of big numbers - wow that sounds like so very much, and we aren't used to thinking about things on the scale that these huge organizations operate at.
And by that I mean, we want agencies not to waste money we give them, and by waste we mean not spend, so if something happens and money is leftover, there is no reward for not spending it, and in fact an agency is punished for NOT spending it.
Surf and Turf is what you feed the troops before you give them bad news.
A big huge spending spree in October, that's the same for EVERY government agency, because as far as I know only the DOJ has regulations allowing it to roll over money versus use it or lose it. We get the behaviors we reward.
Sometimes brute force is the correct answer.
Oh, something to listen to in the car today because I am most definitely one of those people.
Yeah man it’s absolutely crazy that when republicans control the chamber, and every republican votes for something, it passes even if all the democrats vote no.
It’s almost like it would be better if the democrats were in charge.
WWII tanker mechanic, then regular mechanic.
Military English teacher and poet.
He pretty much does, but really, as long as she is unprosecuted, and still has her job, one that terrorizes people IN America, she’s not truly demolished.
“Know unknowns” is paradoxical sounding, but actually a tremendously useful concept in multiple areas of risk and information.
“Go proactively in a defensive way” on the other hand, is gibberish.
It is a good summary of how competent-but-evil has been eclipsed by grossly-inept-and-still-evil
This is interesting and tracks in light of my child’s absolute hate for AI which is echoed by most of their peer group at various strengths.
Get in the booth, Shinji!
"University Challenge: You may (not) confer." is my #weeklytshirt for this week! Listen, they're only getting weirder from here. Hopefully this finds my people.
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I mean it's a SCIF with a perimeter barrier consisting of curtains so I think we're a little past ICD 705 already, even by TSWA standards
Nominations now open for whose job it is.
Also very, very cool that tariffs mean I :checks notes: will have to import what was previously available domestically.
That’s absolutely how they’re supposed to work.
So cool.
Conservatives long for some real or imagined past, which means they can only look behind them, which is why they'll never take over culture the way they want to. It's also why their parties aren't as fun
Sex, booze, lounge music: my latest for Slate
Recommending both an essay and an author, here's a wonderfully written essay by @chrismcbean.bsky.social on @guygavrielkay.bsky.social. "Moral complexity without cynicism" is an incredibly evocative phrase and captures much of what I love about Kay's work
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The dead have the wisdom of the grave, but they require life in exchange.
In the form of permanent HP, assuming D&D. That way if the players ask for too much just set the price high.
And lo as foretold.
I appreciate the heads up!
I wanted to come dig for this. i know you have talked about a no shuffle strategy/plan; however, I wondered if you had written down/made a video about how you were doing it. Because it sounds tempting, I’m just not well versed enough to figure it out on my own.
Interesting, as I love super crunchy and friends love Spirit Island, so while I'm not super interested in it, because they love I'm happy to play because I can be social with them without too much drain.
And yes, the first few games were heavy information to get it.
Whoa! WB is posting Babylon 5 for free on YouTube with apparently no geoblocking. They're posting one episode a week, in original broadcast order starting with the 2-parter. 🫨 youtu.be/Y235YEQstLo?...
#scifi #sciencefiction #babylon5
One other bit context here:
“The average McDonald's restaurant generates nearly $2.7 million in annual sales.” (Per Business Insider, circa 2019)
Yeah, S1 ground to a halt in the middle where I felt I was on a ride where they needed to show me X and then Y, so may still happen here.
Starting Fallout S2, hoping it avoids what I founds to be the mid series slump of S1 tha caused me to drop it for long enough I just finished it.
So far, it is starting well.
Yep, double BA in English and PoliSci.
"Oh," the emperor of the galaxy said, "what happened to that monkey world?"
"Our agents infiltrated them some eight thousand years ago."
"Have they taken over the world?"
"Not yet."
The emperor licked a paw and started washing his ears.
"I'll still count it as one of mine," he purred.
Strong read on the logistics of concentration camps & what actually rolling one out entails
and what we can expect of DHS's mass purchase of warehouses to hold thousands of people each.
Only coop game I’ve truly enjoyed was X-COM for exactly this reason. Every turn was on a timer, and a short one so you didn’t have time to control everyone.
Everything else I’ve spending too much energy trying to self-police.
The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”
