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  1. And, I think some of it is going to have to wait a few weeks or months until inflation is unimproved, or worse. A lot of people don't understand the Elmo problem, don't care, or actually think shredding government is good (it might actually be if everyone left wasn't a toady). But when all of Trump's campaign promises turn out to be bullshit, especially the economic ones, they can hammer him with: Trump promised you lower prices and no P2025. Well, you got higher prices and P2025. And a bunch of stupid shit like Greenland, Panama, etc.
  2. Stewart LaJunta Rio Vista Are probably the main boys camps in Kerrville, Hunt, Ingram area.
  3. Also, what's the deal with US v. Haniyeh? AFAIK, that's the case against Hamas leaders. Is there something I'm missing there?
  4. That's fucking disgusting. Those people performed investigative work that resulted in convictions.
  5. Clearance Thomas.
  6. That may not be isolated. My small IP firm was going to merge with a larger firm, but we represented a couple of ex-Lockheed employees being sued by Lockheed. Their local GC (GD/FW) said he would pull their work from the firm if they took us in (it was not IP-related work and it wasn't because of the potential conflict). The firm did not have the balls to tell him to fuck himself.
  7. Don't forget explosive diarrhea. Bloody flux.
  8. Well, if that were to have happened, it would have been before they took him in a sort of "full-disclosure" thing, if asked. But I suspect absent reliance from current UW coaching, Sarkisian would not undermine a player trying to make a fresh start somewhere.
  9. But they think this will somehow a) get them a pay raise and b) lower the cost of living. So fuck all that land of the free rule of law shit.
  10. I just have kind of a pet annoyance with government and IT systems. The Patent Office, of all places, user-funded, has had online filing for 20-plus years. Way ahead of the worlds other patent offices, courts and other quasi-judicial systems. It's a generalized complaint that includes underfunding of the IRS.
  11. Well, corporatism has been out of control for longer than disinformation. And it's a big enabler of disinformation and undermining the first amendment and its purposes through weakening of the media by profit motive. I would agree that disinformation and credulity toward it are a bigger current problem.
  12. And they tried to keep her name out of the press/public until that failed.
  13. Still, IRS should have done this a long time ago. But I see that propublica deal about Intuit. There seem to be other vendors, as well.
  14. FBI in revolt. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--what-s-going-on-at-the-fbi
  15. Hegseth will fix that. When he's sober and not fucking bitches.
  16. A lot of services offer free tax filing for simplest returns. How simple, I'm not sure. Probably incur a fee if you do something like try to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit. You would have to supply your own W2 and whatever other docs poors have. So, in some sense, IRS duplicates whatever else is out there. And, unfortunately, they probably spent a metric shit ton doing what should have been done a decade ago or more.
  17. Theoretically true. However, the next administration, if there is one, will have to purge the DOJ first, possibly even down to regional US Attorney's offices. And then they'll have a year to indict before limitations runs.
  18. Egg-zachary.
  19. As an engineer myself, except one with an actual degree, such technocrats can be really dangerous in positions outside their narrow expertise, if any. This is especially true of some code-monkey savants under 25 years of age. I think there's something even worse about operating and navigating in the abstract world of electrons, bits, bytes, and strings of code that make these kind of geeks worse than many or most of those that have gone before. Being smart, especially in a very narrow field, does not guarantee competence, even in that field. Look at the conspiratorial ramblings of this tool.https://substack.com/@weeklybyte
  20. Aggy. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=clayton+cromer&ia=web#:~:text=Clayton J. Cromer - lw.com That will open a pdf, because he's been scrubbed from Latham & Watkins website.
  21. A whopping 53 lbs in 2024 and ytd. Compared to 26,400 lbs everywhere for the same period. https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/drug-seizure-statistics
  22. This is what happens when you uncritically get information from social media.
  23. The other thing about tariffs. Assume for a moment that they are immediately effective: people quit buying imported goods and instead pay a premium for domestic goods, or at least goods from non-tariffed nations. Importation slows and stops. Tariff revenue dries up. If they are to be used as a revenue measure, it's taxation of Americans pure and simple. Trying to use them as a revenue measure is pure idiocy.
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