CertainlyWorse
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CertainlyWorse
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4mo ago
proof-read yourself;
There are small things like this. Like 'walk away and come review tomorrow' in the same way you would with an important email.
I'm typing this out because I don't really want to take this on board.
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4mo ago
Thanks. I'm slack as shit in my words on here, but I kind of think I'd like to be better at it, hence the post.
One of my issues is that its difficult to walk away from your words before you come back to edit them and post.
you should write to a clear structure, and include logical connective tissue in your first draft, but then tear down the scaffolding once the thing is built.
This is how you should edit yourself? (no trap)
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4mo ago
Is it reflexive that once you've written something, you will go and remove words?
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4mo ago
Thanks for the article. I unironically appreciate someone bringing the receipts on that and basically confirming that it was a rhetorical nothingburger.
I still predict that the email will trip up some of the indolent or otherwise provide information that will direct further investigations.
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4mo ago
It is one very low hurdle of what will be many hurdles put in front of federal government employees. There will be low hanging fruit harvested out of this. Just like auditing welfare records found people over 200 years old, there will be govt employees who will be unable to 'be illegible'.
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4mo ago
Clustering of denials throughout the government can be honed in on through analysis and targeted for further investigation. Some of this clustering would be legitimate and some of it would not.
Even in the case of intelligence/defense departments and the like, DOGE could then do a more nuanced investigation/direction to the department head with Trump's approval (to be fair they should have done this to begin with, but the perfect is the enemy of the good).
I'm listening to Post Captain in the Aubrey/Maturin series. I'm continuing with the audiobooks because I'm kind of addicted to the Narrator Patrick Tull. The books were recorded back in the 90's and while there's a small loss in audio from the CD > mp3 encoding, it generally holds up. No sound effects, but still great narration.
I really enjoy having a bottomless 'go to' fictional audiobook list that I can mindlessly put on for chores, exercise, driving etc.
Edit: About the series itself so far, I'm really enjoying it. Not just for the adventurous Age of Sail naval life (and the cavalier cheapness thereof), but the incredibly subtle ways the author alludes to background events such as the strange love triangles/squares set against the mores of courting, Maturin's intelligence operations, the Irish independence movement and related conflicting loyalties. If it continues like this, I'll be a very happy 'reader' indeed.
I think people are obfuscating deliberately and hiding up behind Information Security as a shield. One of the basic requirements of working with sensitive information is the ability to compartmentalise what is sensitive and what is not so you can effectively do your job.
You could absolutely write a brief summary with dot points of what you did in 90% of cases in the federal government.
Some examples:
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Intelligence officer saying they attended 'several' 'operational and strategic meetings' where further details can be provided to someone that has a suitable security clearance.
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Finance/Contract Manager saying 'spent 20 hours reviewing/drafting various contracts (with no mention of what deals, live or dead)'
If you are not willing to provide information, say why in a polite professional tone: Eg, I can't provide further details due to the sensitive nature of my work, however my workload can be confirmed by my line manager or department head (don't even need to name who that is).
This is so much better than just 'nuh uh, I work in 'Three Letter Agency' so I won't even respond'.
Edit: I generally agree that it should have been better coordinated, with direct approval given by Trump to provide legitimacy quoted in the request and the request sent to Department Heads to enact within their organisation. The Department heads should have been given reasonable discretion to exempt (by which I mean self-audit) roles that work with sensitive information, but provide a report back to DOGE about how many roles they found to not provide sufficient answers.
If Trump has put his people in place as department heads, he should trust them to enact his policy (eg Patel and Gabbard get a lot of rope here).
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4mo ago
people who don't pass and exhibit male-coded bad faith behavior, like murder sprees.
Thank you for this. I'm nursing a hangover and the laughing, while painful, was very much appreciated.
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4mo ago
Traditional Public Houses are an amazing third place and something I'm sad to see disappear in modern life. Enjoy them while you can.
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4mo ago
Just casually got married? Nice one.
Uhh... don't get divorced?
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4mo ago
I really enjoy these slice of life stories. I know a girl from North Cumbria and this kind of jaunt doesn't seem out of place at all from the things that she's told me.
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4mo ago
Manual transmissions are a complete pain for city driving with regular changes in speed and lots of stopping and starting. It doesn't just become a background process in your mind. I say that as someone who drove manuals for years.
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5mo ago
I think he genuinely wants to spread his genetics Genghis Kahn style. Ok maybe not quite Kahn style, but you get what I mean.
I'm surprised he hasn't opened a sperm bank and rolled out mass production. Must be legal issues or that he can't choose the genes of the mothers.
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5mo ago
Maybe its easier to uphold a pre-partum financial agreement if there's no sex and no 'relationship' that would otherwise let these women gold dig beyond what is allocated in the contract.
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5mo ago
Some of his other stories like Solomon Kane had some of those elements too.
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5mo ago
Ehh... I could see straight guys going 'gay for pay' in porn or prostitution while they're otherwise heterosexual in their desires.
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5mo ago
Holy shit.
Even The Hock can't kill that man.
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5mo ago
Corporations in general do not reward professionals for staying. Performance reviews are justification pieces for why they will not increase your remuneration. If you're skilled as you say, you should jump ship.
As an aside I once had a line manager refuse my promotion due to being 'not quite' qualified in a field not directly related to my work. He told me 'don't worry I'm sure you'll easily qualify next year'.
I quit, started my own business and tripled my income.
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5mo ago
"Better keep giving charity to us or we will kill you."
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5mo ago
I can't disagree with you. He has the flaws you've outlined. There should have been someone better that would be willing to potentially burn their reputation in order to strip DEI from the Dept of Defense and make other needed reforms.
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5mo ago
Anything I'd see from the media I would completely disregard.
Hegseth (while young) is a warfighter's warfighter. I think a large part of the military will be very very happy to have his priorities entrenched in the SecDef.
I would suspect a large part of the military signed up because of particular personality traits and some of those are reflected in Hegseth.
That said, he has his flaws and he might flame out. We'll see.
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5mo ago
Majority of the developers are atheists. I wish I had a quote reference, but either Tobi or Vavra stated it.
Do you know of any simple techniques to practice this? Recording yourself speaking for instance might be low hanging fruit.
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