miras_chinotto
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miras_chinotto
certified low iq
6mo ago
Can she get visitors? Go ask her to her face. It's time the Motte turned into a journalistic outlet.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
6mo ago
If it were glowies, I would expect it to be better thought out and to serve multiple purposes and add much more value for the risk they're taking. Maybe attacking him with a Russian/Iranian drone which would have a higher success rate I expect and also instigate further conflict with these "deep state" favorite enemies.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
6mo ago
Most places in the US do tightly regulate floodplain development. Most places like these summer camps, some of which are 100 years old, are grandfathered in so it's left to local government, communities, and operators to determine what they need to do to ensure adequate safety.
The NWS got the estimate of severity wrong for which they are being blamed by Texan GOP officials. Did the firings affect that estimate? Who can say. If there is blame to assign though, it should go to the elected officials of Kerr County who decided not to install rising water warning systems despite a similar tragedy occurring previously (and their neighboring counties having installed these systems) and who delayed any kind of emergency response that night until hours after the floods started despite having received those flood warnings from the NWS.
What I expect is for the GOP to blame nameless government functionaries despite being the reigning regime, the Dems to blame Trump who will attract ire (deserved and undeserved) like a lightning rod, and the idiotic good ole boy Republicans that actually dropped the ball and got people killed to escape scrutiny.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
8mo ago
I mean it's possible they had additional funding mechanisms in mind back in the 60s when the program started that just never materialized. Here's some trickle of cash, get started, if it goes well then later we can expand it and yet 60 years later no one wants to pony up the cash (and regulatory reforms) to make it happen.
From your article, it seems like the obstacle is simply the cost recovery mechanism - i.e. they build it as they fund it and it takes that long to fund it using the current surcharge. I don't think that really says anything about "schedule disease" as such, it's just another example of cost disease.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
8mo ago
And the reason we do that is because there was massive undersupply in the 80s and 90s because universities still wanted them to be paid peanuts. Everything about is labor cost arbitrage.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
8mo ago
Having a conversation about an exercise like this seems like it would be an incredible insightful exercise in say an interview though. You get to have this meta conversation about freedom and rights and ethics and really gauge the values or lack of values in your candidate.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
10mo ago
It reads like larping honestly. Like when you see "opsec" being thrown around on gun forums and such.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
11mo ago
People on vacation, people on parental or medical leave, people working overseas in remote locations on official business. The whole thing just doesn't really make sense.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
11mo ago
Not quite so clear cut. These independent agencies are created and overseen by Congress with execution left to the President. It seems to me it's just another way to set up a SCOTUS showdown over unitary executive theory which has generally been the entire theme of Trump term two. It would in fact be another expansion of executive power if unopposed.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
11mo ago
Giving spoils to some random ethnic minority doesn't benefit me (or the Trump/right coalition) in any way. It's not even a real tit for tat because it doesn't cost the left anything. This is much more a case of doubling down on idpol and spoils and creates a new enemy to any movement trying to remove these kinds of gibs.
miras_chinotto
certified low iq
11mo ago
Awful. Race (or whatever)-based spoils is bad. Expanding it to include more groups just make such policies even more permanent and further punishes people who aren't on the minority-subsidies list. I'm not sure how this happens in post-1964-CRA America but the last time I looked it up, the courts more or less punted on the issue in the 90s.
Bizarrely the only "just" solution is one state encompassing the Palestinian territories and modern Israel with full rights for Palestinians and Israelis and the only way something like that could happen would be total domination, monopolization of force, and annexation/rule by the US.
I think that chain of thought is very likely. Would maybe have made more sense to avoid being in that rhetorical corner to begin with where all your options are bad.
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