On the merits this is just one instance of administrative vandalism among many, but I'm always struck in stories like these by how inexpensive/efficient these legacy government programs are. A year of funding Energy Star is more or less Blake Snell's annual salary. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c... - ThreadSky

davidjroth.bsky.social • 2 days ago

On the merits this is just one instance of administrative vandalism among many, but I'm always struck in stories like these by how inexpensive/efficient these legacy government programs are. A year of funding Energy Star is more or less Blake Snell's annual salary. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/climate/epa-energy-star-eliminated.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FU8.zcV5.pUFYQ5evhJJc&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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nattyboh.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Administrative vandalism” is such a nice, succinct description of all this stuff

ennui.org•2 days ago

it's all "virtue" signaling

russet-burbank.bsky.social•2 days ago

Vice signaling

judgyjudes.bsky.social•2 days ago

I don't know about you, but I don't go showing off the tiny sticker on my appliances to everyone who walks in the door. I do enjoy saving money on my electric bills, though.

ennui.org•2 days ago

No, the signaling is the clowns who will save pennies to get rid of the lib-coded Energy Star.

judgyjudes.bsky.social•2 days ago

My bad. I interpreted the "virtue" differently than you intended.

barbpoipu.bsky.social•2 days ago

🥺😢😳😡

twesq.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s about 4 months of golf trips staffed by secret service.

twesq.bsky.social•2 days ago

And saved Americans $40 billion in energy costs annually. An absurd ROI.

jimc5.bsky.social•2 days ago

Increased energy use increases the cost of energy for everyone

charliepurcell112.bsky.social•2 days ago

Employee salaries are about 4% budget, but they are 90% of the problem, according to idiots. They would have traded Snell years ago for Rob Manfred.

packardgoose.bsky.social•2 days ago

imagine how many federal parks workers could have kept their jobs for the price of a single bobby bonilla day

internethippo.bsky.social•2 days ago

The woke energy star label will be replaced with a gold label indicating that the manufacturer has given the president a big bag of cash

tombombadil.bsky.social•2 days ago

What label goes on the good shower heads and powerful toilets the president is always talking about?

l1vy.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/williamthecat.bsky.social/post/3lokjmxj3hs2i

williamthecat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Energy Pig. 16 tons of American pride.

rulen613.bsky.social•2 days ago

Probably true.

nightmaregop.bsky.social•2 days ago

Everything helpful goes bye-bye under Trump.

freedomsutra.bsky.social•2 days ago

What? Why? I am so confused by the things they are going after.

carelordintl.bsky.social•2 days ago

Those who love evil hate what is good. Just in principle.

chinajoeflynn.bsky.social•2 days ago

This Dwight Eisenhower quote has been circulating on here tonight, and it sucks, because yes, these people are stupid, but they won anyway.

rollforphobia.bsky.social•2 days ago

All due respect to Dwayne Eisenhouse but he lived in an era when you couldn’t spend even a single slurp juice on any given ape, much less several.

l1vy.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dwade Eisenheimer wouldn't even recognize a crypto-coin if his LLM messiah companion brought him right to the singularity and uploaded him in lo-rez.

suttonj.bsky.social•2 days ago

Administrative vandalism. That’s a good characterization. “Looting” also works but seems too disorganized. “Theft” seems petty. (Growing numb to the impact of their destruction, she notices the adjectives instead of the actions).

thecorrectopinion.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank God. I was sick of saving money and helping the planet

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•2 days ago

He’s been after dryer efficiency for nearly a decade.
This is a top 5 achievement for Trump.

norbizness.bsky.social•2 days ago

Well now it's on the INJURED LIST just like BLAKE SNELL

pattymo.com•2 days ago

It’s gotta go. The whiniest priss in the history of politics doesn’t like the stickers

davidjroth.bsky.social•2 days ago

When I was growing up, you never saw the stickers that let you know if the big annoying purchase you were about to make would save you money over the time you owned it. Now you see them everywhere. What is going on??

easydoesit.bsky.social•2 days ago

this for sure has something to do with how the toilet don’t flush good, now of days

sungura-mclever.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s funny because what are the odds he’s ever even been near any machine that has these stickers in any place he’s lived

sungura-mclever.bsky.social•2 days ago

I very much am enjoying the presentation in terms of baseball salaries

sweetbobby.bsky.social•2 days ago

That Super Hornet they dropped into the Red Sea would fund my 2,000-worker agency for over a month.

maxguymax.bsky.social•2 days ago

*3 months worth dumped in the drink (so far).

thatac.bsky.social•2 days ago

But they were told Energy Star took away all of the best things we had and replaced them with stupid worse things... and they believed it. See trump melting down over low flow shower heads, mainly because its not enough force to powerwash the orange off his face anymore.

self-driving-carp.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Blake Snell version of Energy Star ratings has been super-accurate when the website is functioning but is frequently out of commission for weeks or months at a time.

iplayguitarbad.bsky.social•2 days ago

We're so marinated in "government pays $1k for a toilet seat!!" or whatever, but it turns out we really get lots of value for our tax dollars.

People are gonna wake up really soon to that reality and be shocked at how much vandalism Trump et al are doing.

carelordintl.bsky.social•2 days ago

I respect your view but how would someone blissfully asleep for a decade of Trumpism wake up at any point now? Maybe if enough people lose jobs, businesses and houses in red states...

iplayguitarbad.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh, I don't mean wake up in the sense of turning on Trump (though a minority may). I mean wake up in the sense of everything getting materially worse in their lives to the point of being able to hate LGBTQ+ people and others will not be worth it for them.

iplayguitarbad.bsky.social•2 days ago

They'll wonder why prices are so high while shelves are empty. Why they can't see a doctor or why diseases are more widespread. Why there are fewer good jobs.

grbbngtheshovel.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's because the Mango Moron still thinks you have to run your dishwasher 4 times to get stuff clean.

And because they want to deregulate everything and generally screw us all with inefficient crap.

rynrrck.bsky.social•2 days ago

“Administrative vandalism” is such a perfect term; as more and more funds are reallocated to cronies for half-ass efforts, it crosses into pure looting, but that simply couldn’t be because all of these assholes really care about the sovereignty of property, right?

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