cowfriend

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by cowfriend 2y ago
> I don't see anything that lends credence to the idea that Congress can control the workings of executive departments. Along with what others have said, you might want to recognize that Congress controls the purse. They dictate ho
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by cowfriend 2y ago
yes.
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Friend, I think I see your concern, and I may have an answer. Most of the bureaucracy is apolitical. However, the heads and higher-ups of each agency are appointed by the currently in-office politicians. So the upper management is composed
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by cowfriend 2y ago
> But our government doesn’t have independent branches. In theory it does, that is the whole idea and genius of the constitution. In fact at the moment it does not, because Trump has so captured the Republican party that the legislature
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by cowfriend 2y ago
The first sentence of the article: this alarming trend seems to coincide with DOGE’s unrestricted access to federal networks. the first 2 paragraphs: Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Going to defend dang here. These posts have a high political index, which given America's current culture wars tends to bring out the kind of behavior which none of us want on HN. It's a damn tough balancing act. Also, look at my
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by cowfriend 2y ago
yeah, the claim that the bureaucracy is the thing that is broken-- can we look at a few things? Every time the administration changes, the heads of all the departments change, and the incoming people are typically pretty ignorant of what th
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by cowfriend 2y ago
By "thought crimes", would you mean firing people for holding positions responsible for DEI policies which were assigned to them and which there was a legal obligation to enforce? Because that would NEVER happen in the US, certain
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by cowfriend 2y ago
I respect that you have been a HN member since 2016, making it unlikely that this is a troll account. However, your views read like propaganda. The "internal resistance" you refer to is simply people trying to follow the law, whil
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Oh, really? Given that USAID is investigating Starlink? https://oig.usaid.gov/node/6814 Going after the Treasury, given that X is moving into finance? https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/elon-
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by cowfriend 2y ago
pro tip: an insider action does count as a cyberattack. Your first argument is nonsensical. re: mandate to audit government. If this was a serious audit, then DOGE would have put serious data privacy controls in place. An audit without prop
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Shutting down every agency that is investigating his companies is "shits-n-giggles"? Tesla's valuation is 10x the rest of the Magnificent 7, obviously investors think his ties to government are worth something. (edit- valuati
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by cowfriend 2y ago
also, many of musk's actions are illegal. Which means he is now owned by Trump. Play nice or go to jail. For a long time.
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by cowfriend 2y ago
> that people feel like any bump on the road of life risks turning into a complete derailment. Maybe because in many ways it can be? Unexpected medical condition -> crushing debt Police stop goes bad Job loss for reasons outside of yo
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by cowfriend 2y ago
not a counterfactual. "fish" was a legal definition which allowed hunting.
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by cowfriend 2y ago
> remedy for all the cases will be to buy $25 million TRUMPCOIN There, fixed it for you
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Or you can dig into the details, as Politico did https://www.politico.eu/article/cancer-europe-america-compar... and found: The reason the U.S.’s strong performance on cancer comes as a shock is because access to care
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by cowfriend 2y ago
was Moldavia included in the grandparent's comment on labor laws? re: cancer survival. Are you referring to this work from 2020, showing that the US has more cancer than the EU, even though odds of survival are better? The US Has Highe
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by cowfriend 2y ago
We knew about climate change in the 1880s. There, fixed it for you.
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by cowfriend 2y ago
> the government can be a penalty condition in the objective function, and recently it's effect has been almost completely eclipsed by the near term gains. You are forgetting about the influence of government subsidies. What would t
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Um, no. The three-fifths compromise was to reduce the power of the Southern states in the House of Representatives. The southern states wanted slaves counted in their population, thus increasing the southern's states power in that hous
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Let's put it this way. The fear is someone hiding in the shadows to jump a person, and then dragging the victim back into the shadows. Bright lights on the street create more shadows. All you have to do is step out of the streetlight a
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by cowfriend 2y ago
> except some joggers have lights attached to their clothing but that's just so others can see them better. Yes, generally the purpose of the light is so others can see you. My god, we spend all of our lives blasting lights into our
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by cowfriend 2y ago
> Carry their own torch You state this like it is a bad idea. If you have a cell phone, you have a torch. If you are walking in a place where there are cars, having a light on you is a great way to reduce your risk of being hit. So yes,
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by cowfriend 2y ago
I suspect your terror comes from lack of familiarity with natural light outdoors, and is a product of always having the lights on plus not being out of a house often. The night is not 'complete darkness', we can generally see fair
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by cowfriend 2y ago
yeah, the funny thing about the anthropomorphism debate is that supposedly the thing that makes humans different from (other) animals is our "advanced" brain, i.e. language, civilization, etc. in other words, all the ways we have
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by cowfriend 2y ago
Almost this. The better answer is because we want to get ALL the milk. So instead of letting the mother cow nurse her calf for the first few months and then start taking her milk for our use, the more "modern" practice is to separ