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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Employees have to summarize their week with five bullet points? I assume that Grok AI will analyze the bulletin points and decide if the employee performed well enough and if the job is needed. I hope the AI is secure since I assume that some employees who work in sensitive areas will have to respond with detailing said secret tasks if they want to keep their job. as always who elected Musk, a recent citizen, and his AI to rework the entire govt labor force, that even the president can’t fire.
  2. Trump today could suspend elections for his life and name Barron his eventual replacement, and there wouldn’t be a peep from the GOP politicians. At most a few might say that they disagree but they don’t really think that is going to happen. the only thing keeping America from being a dictatorship is Trump agreeing to not being a dictator.
  3. Hopefully there is some understanding of the cause of the blood clot to understand how to avoid more in the future.
  4. Forget the bureaucracy, govt vendors will help find the loopholes or processes for the employees. I'm waiting for the first DOGE person to die from an "overdose" after they start snooping on the CIA or NSA's payments.
  5. I've known more than one person who doesn't know how to turn off their sprinklers or they're more worried about knowing how to get it back on. Their lawn guy is outsourced for all aspects of it.
  6. I wonder why they start to drip at 37 and not closer to 32. It's not water starts to freeze at 37.
  7. The lottery system has always been about making money not offering a fair and transparent game. I recall when they were aghast at people complaining that scratch tickets' stated odds were wrong once the top prizes were redeemed.
  8. It's the idea that you have a CEO who is looking out for the best things for a company or in this case a country. Which is 100% what America rebelled against, not that George III was an absolute monarchy. Most of our beef was with Parliament.
  9. I would expect many of them could answer in the following way: Caitlin Clark, or whatever her name is The black girl from LSU who I hated Mary Lou Retton
  10. There are perfectly fine people in TW but it feels like they're overwhelmed with the large number of different folks. And yes about TW not just being aggy.
  11. I love how the lottery commission has now admitted that perhaps they shouldn't have gone out of their way to help a single store print every possible lottery combination. They agree it could be perceived as unfair which is an understatement of the year. I assume lottery directors or officials are someone's brother in law.
  12. We're close to living in a country where you're can't express yourself without fear of reprisal from the govt. Anti-Trump speech could very well became a punishable event. There's already a threat of punishment if you say something that Trump opposes. I agree that freedom of speech isn't free of consequences but that is reserved for the general public to apply those punishments like a boycott or rejection of something. But we will soon have the govt punishing you.
  13. The Woodlands look cosmetically great but there is something fundamentally broken with many of the residents. When I meet someone from there I have initial suspicion about them even to a point of assuming the worst until they prove otherwise. I would only think ok of someone if their answer, to where they live, was "I'm in The Woodlands but don't count that against me." I've also noticed that people from surrounding areas are quick to correct you when you say they're from the Woodlands. They're still in Montgomery County, so questionable, but there seems to be a visceral reaction by many to a connection to TW.
  14. Their future isn’t hard to predict for many school districts. The education quality will slowly get worse and in 10 years, parents will say that they have no choice but to switch the private but those darn private schools are too expensive. State reps will then work to give these parents more relief by raising the voucher money speeding up this downward spiral. this is fundamentally a money transfer from taxpayers to private schools, many of which are religious based.
  15. I need to rewatch to remember the exact line but I loved when reviewer mentioned that lunch would be provided for reviews lasting 8 hours. Then he hands Milcheck a lunch menu.
  16. SIAP but the character Jim Bridger, based on a real guy with the same name, was also in the Revenant. Played by Will Poulter in the movie. Wikipedia says there is doubt that was involved in the Revenant history and he denied it later. However some believe the was. For the commentary about Mormon history, Smith and Young are definitely up there on the list of weird Americans. The main Mormon church still lies about them.
  17. People on the right are so obsessed with groomers and trafficking but when there is evidence when there actually is a trafficker, most of them turn the other way. They have claims that the govt is making it up. Maybe I fall victim to conspiracy theories too, but I'm convinced that Russian and Chinese counterintelligence agents are sowing discord in online communities.
  18. The paperclip was the wrong direction making it difficult to understand where to start reading, or some BS like that? and it wasn't just feedback but rather its own printed section in the review. And Milcheck now has Ms. Huang spying and reporting on him. Then again, Milcheck is just getting a taste of his own medicine from how he turned on Cobel. I have to think that Milcheck is going to have more doubts about Lumon. And he could be like Cobel in that you have faith in the mission but doubts about the senior mgmt. And Mark is 85% done with the Cold Harbor file. the action is going to heat up soon.
  19. overwhelm the media with 5 outrageous stories per day and the media cannot educate the public what is happening because there will be 5 more crazy stories tomorrow. And the largest news orgs like Fox News won't cover it.
  20. re: Elon's team not understanding business data. In any other administration, someone embarrassing the President by making these ridiculous claims would be pushed aside tomorrow. Instead the Trump admin, especially that horrid press secretary, will repeat the lie as evidence. I imagine that we do have fraud where a SS benefits recipient dies but either intentionally or unintentionally the info doesn't make it to the govt. In my only experience with someone dying, I believe SS was automatically notified by the funeral home of the death. I'm unaware of the actual process. I would have to guess that SS does eventually work to prosecute someone if fraud is involved. My sister would have collected our parents' SS indefinitely if she could have. She would have feigned ignorance that she thought it was survivor benefits.
  21. I'm too much of a control freak to use a CPA. And my taxes are relatively simple. I believe that I do a good job of managing the capital gains throughout the year especially in dumping losing investments to at least offset gains.
  22. Even if Trump and Elon cannot fire every federal employee or kill an agency, they fairly easily can start to kill programs within those agencies. Trump would prefer to also get rid of the employees supporting those programs, but he would accept a win of having those employees do absolutely nothing while receiving a paycheck. And if Congress authorized and funded a program, Elon and the cabinet secretaries can create chaos by closing the programs and daring the courts to attempt to restart them. And that's only if Trump agrees to enforce a court's ruling.
  23. Privatize the hurricane center or NOAA, then fast-forward to a world where the private companies who collect expensive data will license it to sites like Space City Weather. Space City wouldn't even be able to discuss a hurricane's location or expected path without paying ElonWeather.com.
  24. The US is becoming a mafia version of countries that demand tribute for “protection.” Perhaps not a perfect analogy because we most likely wouldn’t attack Ukraine directly if they didn’t pay up. Then again if Ukraine rejects a peace deal, maybe Trump has the US military join the Russians to stop the ukraines.
  25. Since Trump is going to sell out Ukraine, what are we getting in exchange? Open up the oil production by Russia and OPEC? I feel like Trump only wants to see < $2 gas in America if only for one day. Of course that would stop all drilling in Texas. And hurt US energy independence efforts. But MAGA even in Texas won’t be able to comprehend that logic.
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