dscoughlin.bsky.social
Your nerdy dad
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Duck typing in our political language.
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Well played.
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Tom caught a lot of shit for this. @faineg.bsky.social posted the corollary [or maybe Tom's is corollary to Faine's observation] that flying the American flag is the right move. It's a common sense position, it's nice to validated it in an academic sense. Of course, we're allergic to books learning.
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FAR are the Federal Rules of acquisition, which are supported [one expects] with applicability from HHS, and individual contracting agencies.
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There’s a lot to unpack here. Descoping is removing contractually agreed to work [identified in line items]. It is separate from contractually agreed to money, though the contract usually makes the connection explicit. Total contract termination is weird though, but should have its own penalties.
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… reallocate. The 60-day timer is very soft. The practical deadline is the end of the next PPB&E cycle [2 year budgeting cycle]. Miss that, and it goes back to the Treasury at contract close out. The FAR is the FAR, so I imagine it it close to the same for NIH.
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In a similar, but not the same context, awarded funds for work that is subsequently descoped becomes ‘unallocated budget’. For us, there’s nominally a 60-day timer for it to be dispositioned one way or the other. Agencies don’t like money to go unspent, so the gin up things to award for to…
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Coming from Wall Street is an even worse indictment of its cultural significance. We can all relate to two girls throwing down in the school hallway, tearing at each other’s hair.
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All the ‘arguing’ is just kayfabe
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There are definitely better strategies for making the mockery happen than doubling down on the obscure memetic device.
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That smile is A+
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That’s a lotta plates.
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I grew up with a specific understanding of what a salad was and why it was to be eaten. This defies that understanding… and yet.
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Excellent.
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I mean, for sure, no one in Maryland cares about the climate or environment, lacking in interesting natural things like they do there.
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My dad took me to see Fatal Attraction and that tainted my relationships for a *long* time.
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<snerk>
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I watch reels from Sean the Sheepman on Facebook. He has three maniacs that help him wrangle the sheep. They were… enlightening about the breed.
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The American version was so demure. No breathless checking from Ota to Fukui-san for the gringos.
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Contractor said it should work, so we're good right?
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I remember when I was worried about Chinese surveillance tech embedded in my devices.
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The Andor crowd is nodding along with you.
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Literally just had this conversation. Tech bro clowns who are unable to grok, even remotely, the cost and scope of verification will always be snake oil salesmen.
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The still-reading-the-Times set?
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I enjoy this post for all the wrong reasons.
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would.jpg
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Ooooofff
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NAS-ty
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Mark? Really?
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Literally *the* central plot arc of Andor this season.
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A+
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Saving the black sox, errr… you know.
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So, they downloaded everything.
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Evergreen.
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A friend of mine got DOGEd last week [not at or near my facility]. They tailgated their way into buildings. Tried to jam their way into SCIFs. So much so that the Command Master Chief issued guidance that they were under no circumstances allowed to get in.
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Dude laid it right in there.
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You’re the best, Jane.
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The religious war bullshit is too cliché at this point to do anything but reinforce my sense of their stupidity.
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It’s melting my brain. The comparison is horrendous, but misconstruing chicken tikka and samosa as halal is very WWWWTTTFFFFFFFFFFF!
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Excellent
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May the odds be ever in your favor.
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Literally why the Stamp Act made people so angry.
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Literally The Hunger Games social premise.
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To the inferior shipyard?
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Congress laid the rails for being railroaded into being absolved of responsibility for Trump for decades
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The Recipe Is Risen
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A very Running Man-esque scene for the past ‘winners’
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They couldn’t even call it ‘the valley forge’?