dnmns.bsky.social
Software engineering, mountaineering, cycling, making things.
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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How did they get that video? Is that a casual ‘we’ve hacked your surveillance cameras’ flex there?
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For context: The US created the civil service in 1883 after Garfield's assassination by a disgruntled supporter who felt entitled to a consulship job.
The Pendleton Act required merit-based hiring instead of political patronage. For 142 years, fed jobs went to the qualified, not the connected.
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Surprise, they actually likely don’t own shit, as Unbound’s actions trigger MULTIPLE termination clauses. By the time it went into receivership it had already triggered the nonpayment one:
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Crikey, the jarring styles gave me whiplash.
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And remember Europeans, if Trump
Is willing to help Russians kill Ukrainians today, he could do the same anywhere on the continent tomorrow.
Ukraine is the front line of Europe’s defense.
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Absolutely. So many pedestrians are killed each year on footpaths by drivers, yet this is barely acknowledged.
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1/ And we don’t know who they are, because a list of participants was not offered. When asked about it, KKKaroline Leavitt, said, “No, this has nothing to with the White House. He’s doing this on his personal time.”
Taking the bribe on his personal time—you know, that makes it okay somehow.