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Anastasis

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  1. Lol. What are you whining about? I am not going to project the long term outcomes, but I think that there is lots of fat to trim in the federal workforce. I am not sure that dangling a fat severance package is the best way to go about down sizing it. I’ve seen it in the private sector and my observations have been that those with good alternative options know it and snap take the package.
  2. To the topic, 28 weeks is a pretty generous package, better than most in the private sector would get. It's not gonna make sense for a lot of people, but for the younger folks I know of a few personally that will be able to jump to the private sector with ease. They were already heading that direction based on the RTO order without the juice of a severance package. I think you will see a short term brain drain of the most capable talent, esp younger talent that isn't near retirement.
  3. I think that topically oriented threads are superior to the meta threads like Trump's America that just end up with a bunch of drive by "discussion" around the topic of the day. Allows those so inclined to dig into specific topics. If the topic is not of interest to you to discuss, you don't have to post in the thread. Pretty simple discussion board stuff.
  4. https://apnews.com/article/trump-buyouts-to-all-federal-employees-f67f5751a0fd5ad8471806a5a1067b5e? Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months’ pay in effort to shrink size of government By MARK SHERMAN Updated 4:59 PM CST, January 28, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 — part of President Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government. A memo from the Office of Personnel Management, the government’s human resources agency, lists four directives that it says Trump is mandating for the federal workforce, including that most workers return to their offices full-time. It includes a “deferred resignation letter” for federal employees wishing to participate. “If you choose not to continue in your current role in the federal workforce, we thank you for your service to your country and you will be provided with a dignified, fair departure from the federal government utilizing a deferred resignation program,” the email reads. “This program begins effective January 28 and is available to all federal employees until February 6.” It adds, “If you resign under this program, you will retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and will be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30.”
  5. Sorry to hear that brisket. May his memory be eternal.
  6. Where are we at with opinions on the 4 cylinder hybrid situation with the new 4runner?
  7. Yeah, but I used big chunks in it. Very very tender. I did this again recently with ham steaks and it turned out very nice as well. Backstrap is probably overkill and you can use a tougher muscle. Smaller pieces, and you can see some of the ham steak chunks are getting quite loose, which was fine.
  8. Reduced my position by half.
  9. You are probably stupid enough to believe this.
  10. https://homeland.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/24-01143-ICEs-Signed-Response-to-Representative-Tony-Gonzales.pdf
  11. As of September 2024, there were ~420k undetained convicted criminal illegal aliens, and ~220k charged but not yet adjudicated. Not a whole lot of people are going to complain loudly about deporting the vast majority of those individuals. Start including unrelated "collateral" and it is going to get very messy very quick. If they are picking up criminal aliens at places of work, the employer should get hit with very a large and painful penalty.
  12. RFK will put sanctions on pharmacies that sell froot loops.
  13. Bought some NVDA today. If there is one sure fire way to kill the AI overlords before we go full Terminator, it might be for me to invest in it.
  14. Only if it leaks from a lab.
  15. Good day to have a portfolio extremely light in tech atm.
  16. Pretty wild that the key words torture porn flushes out a kingdom of Saudi Arabia travel bot.
  17. Well I don’t how this surlyx thing works obviously. But presidente doing some world class melting down.
  18. Can we get the Presidente of Colombia a surly sign up link post haste. Dude seems like he belongs here. surlyx.com/petrogustavo/status/1883624818811236502
  19. The person detained there is reportedly a child sex offender.
  20. I think that this is probably right. But I still think that the materials that are remaining classified don't get at the parties that pulled the trigger, I think that the remaining materials touch on subjects that for are sensitive for whatever reason but centered around foreign countries. It's stuff like the statements of chairman of the records review committee that shape this view. From an article in 2017, for example. https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/27/jfk-records-rollout-judge-criticism-244257 The CIA said Thursday that the details it is concerned about include “the names of CIA assets and current and former CIA officers, as well as specific intelligence methods and partnerships that remain viable to protecting the nation today.” Even so, “the President has demanded unprecedented transparency from the agencies and directed them to minimize redactions without delay,” the White House said in a statement. “The National Archives will therefore release more records, with redactions only in the rarest of circumstances, by the deadline of April 26, 2018.” Dismayed assassination scholars and researchers assert that Thursday’s release encompasses only a fraction of what had remained undisclosed in the National Archives. The final batch that scholars have been waiting for total more than 3,100 files that had previously been “withheld in full,” and about 30,000 others that were partially released over the years with some information blacked out. All those documents were collected by Tunheim’s Assassination Records Review Board, which Congress created in 1992 amid the public interest generated by the Oliver Stone film JFK. ,,,, Tunheim said he believes that the CIA and FBI are probably most concerned that the documents could reveal secret relationships with foreign countries.
  21. Another intelligence agency shifts their assessment. Now doe, fbi, and cia all lean lab leak. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/us/politics/cia-covid-lab-leak.html? C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
  22. Cause that would amount to a human rights abuse.
  23. Yeah, a few of the SEC filings on the Costco website indicate the same. If the tone of the two SEC filings are consistent with the reporting proposal, it makes a whole lot of sense why 98% voted it down. I wish I still held COST. I moved out of a COVID era position prior to run up in 2024, but I think that is a really well run company.
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