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by matwood 2y ago
> a less biased perspective I agree! They sane-washed Trump for months ahead of the election. So much so they had to address it in an editorial. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/insider/trump-speeche
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by matwood 2y ago
Also, for topics like compounding, it can be used immediately in life. Money is a nice example, but small increments everyday leading to big changes is a foundational life lesson.
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by matwood 2y ago
> But is it more comfortable, then say, an old school analog expensive mattress? Mattresses wear out, and people end up keeping them too long. Somewhere like walmart.com sells great mattresses for inexpensive prices. They are not related
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by matwood 2y ago
> See I know something of what actually wanting to fix the government's waste fraud and abuse would look like. It would be beefing up the IRS (where every dollar more than pays for itself), it would be banning people in congress fro
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by matwood 2y ago
Has nothing to do with time pressure. They are actively fighting against transparency that doesn’t fit their narrative.
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by matwood 2y ago
The people on Fox would have literal heart attacks on air. I'm remember them going crazy because Obama wore a tan suit (it's got a wiki page!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...
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by matwood 2y ago
I've learned that they are Seville oranges which are apparently great for marmalade/marmalata, ok for juicing, but can't really be eaten raw. I also have to say how awesome it is when I'm cooking and need a lemon so I wa
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by matwood 2y ago
I'm fortunate the prior owners have most things setup. They were older so some of the maintenance around trimming is behind, but I am learning. My problem now is, I don't know what to do with all the oranges. I've been giving
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by matwood 2y ago
It doesn't make you wonder at all? All over this thread are supporters saying anyone fighting an audit is hiding something. Trump and Musk are literally fighting against transparency and your response is they have the discretion to do
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by matwood 2y ago
It was a typo. No one was paid that amount and wouldn't have been paid that amount. If fixing a typo in a reporting system is a huge win for you I guess...ok.
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by matwood 2y ago
It had little to do with the contract size. Starlink was being investigated to determine how the Russians were getting/using them. https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukra... This raises a potentia
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by matwood 2y ago
Except DOGE (at the time of this article) kept their claim of saving $8B and pointed at the old contract to make their stats look better. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/upshot/doge-contracts-mus...
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by matwood 2y ago
> Can someone explain to me where the issue lies? I'm starting to wonder if HN has also been taken over by bots and astroturfers. Audits require transparency and people who know wtf they are doing. Musk and his team have shown none
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by matwood 2y ago
We've had a lot of these in 3 weeks, but this is an emperor has no clothes on moment. DOGE is running around saying they have access because of Musk. Even Trump has a hard time saying anything else. Now they are saying Musk isn't
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by matwood 2y ago
Let's suppose for a second you're right - Musk is just trying to do a transparent audit. Why do they feel to need to have DOGE and Musk operate outside of the usual channels for transparency? https://apnews.com/art
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by matwood 2y ago
Did you factor in the cameras and 10g Ethernet you ran to the coop for ‘future proofing’? Hehe. It’s ok to have hobby, and if you get eggs out of it, even better.
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by matwood 2y ago
Your post got me thinking about where I am right now in my life. We’re planning how we want to retire and recently bought an old home that has a smattering of produce trees. Citrus, olives, figs, and walnuts. Learning how to deal with them
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by matwood 2y ago
Ok, given the size of the US budget and size of the US both population and land mass, the federal executive workforce is likely understaffed . The amount spent on the workforce is not excessive and is ~3% of the overall US budget. These cu
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by matwood 2y ago
He incited an insurrection his first term, that came down to a few people doing the right thing. He learned from that so he's quickly firing everyone he can. He's dismantling the FEC and people who prevent foreign interference in
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by matwood 2y ago
Wait, you think this about addressing the debt/deficit? Why are ~$4.5T of tax cuts still on the table? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-trumps-agenda-cal...
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by matwood 2y ago
So how many planes will they get to crash while they figure things out?
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by matwood 2y ago
You clearly don't want to read anything outside of Twitter/Musk, but another error, fixed/hidden in order to keep showing incorrect data that looks better for DOGE. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18
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by matwood 2y ago
> But hey, the site is still running. So, success. What that really shows is the quality of engineering before Musk took over. Many of the changes since Musk have been buggy and/or have to be rolled back. Twitters future is really w
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by matwood 2y ago
> USAID (a literal terrorist organization) Maybe get your news from somewhere other than Twitter.
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by matwood 2y ago
Do you have a third party audit that this is true or have those datasets all been removed? Musk has shown himself unknowledgeable at best and purposely lying at worse so many DOGE findings are hard to take at face value. https://
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by matwood 2y ago
I, probably naively, hold out hope. But Trump/Musk dismantling the groups who work to keep elections fair and free is disturbing. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/07/trum
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by matwood 2y ago
The problem is the person doing the tallying is doing it behind closed doors, has routinely been shown to lie to further his interests and has already been caught lying with the tallies he's released. The GOP controls both houses and t
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by matwood 2y ago
Yep, hence 'constitutional crisis'.
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by matwood 2y ago
> How this is even legal. You're talking about Musk and Trump. Legality doesn't even enter into the conversation.
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by matwood 2y ago
Maybe? SpaceX has done some amazing things, but they've also been given more freedom than anyone as NASA has. Does NASA routinely break FAA flight rules or environmental laws? Can NASA talk about rocket explosions as a success?

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