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InkaUtexas

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  1. Yep, and this is global. Arabs who like peace in Gaza? Most. Arabs who want it to be a new Dubai? The rich arabs who are tired of Dubai.
  2. hehehe, a lot already moved. And you are correct. But if you fire the existing ones, move the office to red state, then rehire for efficiency, well double bonus points. 7D chess only Elon can understand without the help of AI.
  3. Reports coming out of the latest memo on staffing. Two sections were interesting. The plans should be grounded in the principles of ensuring "better service" for Americans, "increased productivity," a "reduced real property footprint" and a "reduced budget," the memo said. That second part of the plan should include "any proposed relocations of agency bureaus and offices from Washington, D.C. and the National Capital Region to less-costly parts of the country," it said. Few things come to mind. 1- There are going to be some pissed off developers in NCR. 2- Lot of real estate out in suburban NCR is going to take a hit. 3- Contractors are already out there. But the reduced budget is going to hit any overhead. 4- This is, nor ever was, designed to make people come into the office. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-administration-tells-federal-agencies-make-plans-large-scale-lay-rcna193850
  4. May and really ramps up, including pressure, over the holiday travel season. People are pissed off when they cannot take little Jimmy to visit the gator swamp fun land near Ocala.
  5. AI would see that and you would get a promotion
  6. USG went through a complete procurement process for ATC. For any who know that process, it is quite thorough for something that big. I imagine maybe some of the bigs also competed. Lockheed, Boeing, AWS, etc. It was not a DEI contract. Now consider what was spent on the governments side for that process. Probably more than tree fiddy. Contract was awarded in 2023. Assume it had a 180 mobilization, launch. Hire people, set up offices, all that shit. Then the right equipment is ordered. Cables, etc. I bet they had a 12 month window for all that. That is before 1 component is installed. Fast forward. Trump says it is not working (he read a GAO report?) Elon says he can do it. Elon gets the contract. All of that cost from USG saying they were thinkng about a new contract for ATC until the decision to say nah, starlink, was already paid for. Probably 5 years of effort (so the contract started the bid process when who was President?) is gone. Now we start over. Starlink have a out of the box, ready to go system, fully integrated? All parts ordered? Staff on board? Cleared? Yay?
  7. Even if they are immigrants from across the border. Shit, any proof the mennonites are citizens? Started in Germany, went to Russia's plains, to the US, to Mexico, back to the US. That is a lot of anchor babies.
  8. Nah, looks more like the London conference. Guaranteed Greek independence, did not really set borders, and Ottomans got paid. Oh yeah, and Greeks were not at that conference either.
  9. News link to what Ana posted. https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-west-texas-death-rfk-41adc66641e4a56ce2b2677480031ab9
  10. Approximately 300B shift is interesting. what is that of the total budget? My abacus does not go that high and my quipus are in the quipu shop for redying.
  11. babying a plant back to life and it finally blooms.
  12. At least he did not visit aggy. Oh wait, that was for sunday but he got the sniffles.
  13. Nah, he is broke. Just moved into a new house. So that is why probably. Did a buddy come over is the question. Beer? Yes. A nice Paulaner.
  14. hahahah, my bobcat son is happy as shit right now. And probably high. Fuck aggy. Roller coaster coming early this year.
  15. Oh I agree. I never advocate for straight through. Certain groups wanted her research to continue. She wanted to head to Uganda and finish a refugee center her Women in Engineering team designed. Wanted to go for at least a year. But nope. Good thing she knows how to run a greenhouse and grow shit.
  16. Surly before Imma catches us. Surly after.
  17. Well sorry man, you are fucked as well. They just have not gotten to DOE yet. And yeah, my kiddo is worried. Graduates in May. Damn good school. STEM, 3.9, double major, etc. Kicked ass in HS and during the last year of Trumps administration received a full NASA scholarship. Grad school is on hold. No scholarships coming in. She is worried since she has two strikes against the applications for federal assistance for research. Hispanic is strike 2.
  18. so there might be some issues with the State Departments purchase of the $400M of up armored Teslas. The controversy started in a very Washington way: as a line item in a government spreadsheet buried on the State Department's website. It appeared as if the State Department was taking steps to award Elon Musk's Tesla a $400 million government contract to buy armored electric vehicles to securely transport diplomats. The move to set in motion a lucrative contract to a company controlled by a high-profile ally of President Trump seemed so bold it surprised even longtime observers of the norm-busting president. When asked about it, the State Department issued a statement saying the purchase is now on hold with no plans of fulfilling the contract, pointing out that talks with Tesla began during the Biden administration. But NPR has obtained a State Department document detailing that Biden's State Department planned to spend just $483,000 in the 2025 fiscal year on buying electric vehicles and $3 million for supporting equipment, like charging stations. It represented less than 1% of the hundreds of millions of dollars likely destined for Tesla vehicles after the Trump administration quietly revised a State Department procurement document. The vast discrepancy in the numbers raises the question: Was it an error or a deliberate action? A former Biden White House official familiar with the State Department's plans told NPR the steps taken to advance $400 million worth of government business to Tesla appear to be intentional. "I don't think this is a clerical error. It was likely someone who is new in [the] State [Department] who decided, 'OK, we're gonna do this with Tesla,'" said the former official, who was not authorized to speak about the matter. The person said the State Department and Tesla had agreed during the Biden administration to conduct research about armoring electric vehicles, but no money had been set aside to purchase armored Teslas for the State Department. A total budget of $483,000 had been approved to buy light-duty EVs as possible State Department vehicles. That plan was moving forward as recently as November 2024. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305269/tesla-state-department-elon-musk-trump
  19. Pretty quick transmission to go from 3 to 50 if they died within 48 hours. Common burial practice probably helped it. Burying the dead is a major way ebola spreads. Testing neg for those is interesting. ah shit, we got us one of them new hemorrhagic fever thingies. Anyone know when the CDC intervention team is heading over?
  20. And UTSA and the riverwalk. Oh, and Buccees.
  21. Food is still sitting in warehouses. I know the HIV component of PEPFAR gets focused on but there were some other major initiatives that fell into this category and are gone. Supporting WHO for global vaccines. Food projects for at risk populations. Water conservation UNHCR (Feeding refugees) But shit, lets cancel Verizons contract for ATC, give it to Elon and all cool. Anyone want to visit my new home inside Yosemite?
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