No, they said government stuff is on a shoestring budget and doesn’t waste. This is not at all my experience with military / medical / research fields.
This wasn’t a contracting issue, it was blowing the budget on pointless reagents to ensure the budget wasn’t decreased the following year. They just picked the most expensive reagent and bought a ton - all the same lot, all the same expiration date.
Thing is, it wasn’t helpful or useful, and it’s clear whoever ordered it had no clue what was going on. We used maybe 1-2 boxes of those calibrators a year. I probably threw out 6 dozen boxes, all the exact same lot and expiration date, that had been sitting in the back of the -80C freezer for years.
That money could have gone towards any one of the actual lifesaving research programs we had going, but instead it went to some vendor.
Having worked for the government, I assure you there is absolutely waste happening on a huge level. One time I threw out about $50k of lab equipment calibrators that someone clearly bought a ton of at the end of the year to use their whole budget so they didn’t lose it the following year.
Nobody suggested reworking how budgets work though, so clearly the mission was not to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse.
government programs are usually forced to operate with absolutely minimal funding
Not the military, that’s a massive source of expenditure. That’s where I saw the waste happening.
We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese.
How in the ever loving fuck was Hirohito allowed to stay in power then?
Once you start viewing politics under the same lens as a professional wrestling match it begins to make a lot more sense. Faces and heels switch up every once in awhile to keep us entertained.
I after E except after C and when sounded like A as in neighbor and weigh (and a thousand other exceptions)
I vacillate between the two. Really depends on the words surrounding “data”.
How did you learn English?
ADHD is massively over diagnosed in the US. No shit stimulants make you concentrate better, that doesn’t mean you had ADHD. Concentration is like a muscle, you have to actively invest effort into making it better. It’s hard to concentrate and scrolling through posts and flicking through shorts is atrophying this ability. It’s like someone who doesn’t work out or eat well thinking they have a muscle development disorder, taking anabolic steroids, and since they gained muscle it confirms their suspicions that they had a disorder. Concentrating is difficult, it takes active effort, and you will hit walls when your brain is tired. It can be trained, however. This should be the focus and stimulants should be the absolute last option and only for people who truly meet the definition of disorder, i.e. it greatly impairs their relationships, work, or daily life.
I’m not saying it doesn’t exist at all, but I do think it’s way over diagnosed. Doctors want those high patient satisfaction scores, which is another issue in medicine in general.
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The secret service officers protecting Kennedy were up all night drinking grain alcohol the night before he was assassinated.
Yes I did, multiple times. The only confrontation I see are people on other floors reporting you for snooping around.
Does the noise maker below you ever confront you directly? Have they said anything to your face regarding the noise?
To me it sounds like you may be assigning motives to things that aren’t as evil as you perceive. Just live your life and be a normal, respectful level of loud. You’re going to hear your neighbors in an apartment. Accept it and move on. Unless it’s past quiet hours and affecting your sleep I don’t think there’s much you can do, practically.
Are they confronting you in person or something? Have they said anything to you or do you just hear noises?
That just isn’t true. Viewing 16:9 on 4:3 doesn’t mean half your screen is black bars.
Prosecute for what, exactly?
That doesn’t sound like an abuse of checks and balances to me, to be honest. This is exactly how the system is designed. They still need a majority to pass anything.
Flip the script for a moment; imagine we had ultra right wing judges who make insane judgements. Is it not the whole point of checks and balances for the legislative and executive branches to be able to exert some control over the judiciary branch provided they have an appropriate majority?
I don’t agree with Johnson, he’s a cunt, but this doesn’t seem like abuse per se, rather exactly how the system was designed. I’m not worried about it because they don’t have the votes.
You don’t even need a complicated MITM attack like that. The data is for sale by the telecoms.
Destroying the economy also allows them to write bills to give trillions to companies “too big to fail” just like the automaker bailouts, bank bailouts, and PPP loans.
Economic conservatives my ass.
Why