zapitron.bsky.social
Just another computer guy in Albuquerque. There are many like us, but this one is me.
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Wow, total busy work to make it look like DOGE was doing something. The whole script could be replaced with just a random number generator and it would have worked just as well: if lucky, not munchable; if unlucky, munch away. These people put absolutely no thought or effort into their job.
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Sounds like this "aisle" needs to be rotated 90 degrees.
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There isn't a rule against it, because Congress makes the rules and they're fine with kilopage bills. Reading is for lowly peons, not for elite traders.
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If you choose to adopt their new definition of entitlement, then you're just going to need an _another_ word which means the same exact thing that entitlement has meant for the last few hundred years.
What's the point of changing? If we get something out of it, ok, but otherwise .. ?
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If we ever cease to be entitled to it, we'll want to stop paying into it. Maybe that'll happen, but until then, it's still an entitlement.
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Ask Musk this: "When analyzing the curve, did you determine changing the cuts had increasing or decreasing returns in death? I mean, if cutting 80% causes 300k deaths, then we'd naively expect cutting 85% would cause 300000*85/80 = 318k deaths. But would it be actually more, or would it be less?"
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That's why DOGE's first priority was to fire all the auditors. Audits find theft. Remove the audits, and then there is no theft.
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Just install Linux on it, and then you can configure GDM to automatically login as you.
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All this just because Barron failed an entrance test! Harvard should have let him just buy a degree, like Don had to do after failing his classes at Wharton.
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That mental model did not survive DOGE's earliest acts, when they fired all the auditors. Once they did that, it told EVERYBODY that stealing is the _only_ thing they are doing, and all connotations of reform went out the window. Reformers would want the finances to keep getting audited.
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Are replicants allowed to enter?
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Why no tax exemption on books or printing presses?
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I heard a disturbing rumor that some people are typing 8647 with extreme prejudice. Those people must be really biased toward numbers, I guess.
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Apparently Trump's big problem _isn't_ that he's pushing for the biggest deficit in American history, making Dems look like reactionaries by comparison. No, his biggest problem was that not enough people are laughing at him. This should finally get through to the non-laughers.
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Ok, I'll try to explain.
The DoJ is starting to arrest pe—BIDEN IS OLD. HE IS SO DAMN OLD! DON'T YOU SEE IT? HOW CAN YOU DENY IT?
Also, when Kristi Noem was asked what "habeus corpus" means, she— *HOW LONG* WAS BIDEN SO DAMN OLD?! WAS HE OLD IN 2020?
And then Trum—WHY CAN'T PHDS DETECT OLDNESS?
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Bongino finally figured out what we all mean every time we yell "Let's go Max Smart!" and then laugh.
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Might anything be available by patients traveling from the US to a First World Country (e.g. Mexico)?
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Won't someone 86 (with extreme prejudice) this meddlesome 8647 (also with extreme prejudice)?
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“I’m just telling you now that if you raise the stakes I’m going to fold, this is genius poker playing I assure you”
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Walmart already itemizes and separates Gross Receipts Tax where I live, so that they don't have to raise the base prices of their merchandise. Why treat this tax as a special case? Just handle it the same way they handle GRT.
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Making my own doesn't solve the problem, because now I'm trade-deficiting and taxing beans instead of finished, brewed coffee.
So I would have to grow coffee in my garden, which I fear is going to take a shitload of habitat engineering.
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Oh yeah, not making any excuses for the Sun-Times. This is horrifically discrediting to their entire organization and legitimacy. Just pointing out that Team Random Bullshit scored above a perfect zero. (It's not even good generative fiction!)
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Some of these are real.
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Maybe they can compensate Timothy McVeigh's family too.
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The world isn't run at all.
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I think he deserves a lot of credit for usually remembering to blame Biden instead of Obama.
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It clearly means that we need to replace Agent 47 with Maxwell Smart. getsmart.fandom.com/wiki/Agent_47
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Last Saturday or next Saturday?
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If the left overexerted themselves pushing for civil rights, maybe the right should have stepped in and helped. Many hands make for light work.
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Looks like proof of intent. At her trial, she'll have no good arguments that it was a mere mistake.
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Television users too. If you have to turn on a television, make sure you have the volume always turned down to zero, or else you'll probably break the law.
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If this is to be taken literally, then it's a threat to all internet users, not just journalists. (Does the statute in question exempt law enforcement?)
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Surely some of the previously fired people would accept their old positions back at increased pay, wouldn't they?
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It's not clear to me, when someone installs homebrew applications, exactly _what_ work is made accessible by defeating a technological measure which limits access to it. It wouldn't be a game, since the whole idea is to run homebrew software instead of the games. Is it the console's firmware?
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If she's not real, it will break John Barron's heart. They've always seemed like such a happy couple.
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It all makes sense when you realize your score is just how profitable it is to loan you money. If you just pay it off instead of paying interest, your score should go down, because you're less profitable for lenders. And that's ok, because _their_ profit isn't something _you_ are trying to maximize.
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Lil' orange Stalin doesn't want to hear from your conservative justices.