NO BECAUSE LIKE WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL IS GOING ON THIS MAKES LESS THAN ZERO SENSE WHAT SO EVER.
EUPHORIA FOR THIS NAME IS THROUGH THE ROOF RIGHT NOW AND VALUATION IS GROUNDED IN ANYTHING BUT REALITY.
Long before @elonmusk and @VivekGRamaswamy thought up @DOGE, humor columnist Dave Barry @rayadverb basically proposed their idea. In 1991, he proposed The Department of Louise. https://t.co/54weaqLAJe
I would eliminate all giant federal departments – Transportation, Commerce, Interior, Exterior, etc. – and replace them with a single entity, called the Department of Louise. This would consist of a woman named Louise, selected on the basis of being a regular taxpaying individual with children and occasional car trouble and zero experience in government. The Department of Louise would have total veto power over everything. Before government officials could spend any money, they’d have to explain the reason to Louise and get her approval.
“Louise,” they’d say, “we want to take several billion dollars away from the taxpayers and build a giant contraption in Texas so we can cause tiny invisible particles to whiz around and smash into each other and break into even tinier particles.”
And Louise would say: “No.”
Or the officials would say: “Louise, we want to use a half-million taxpayer dollars to restore the childhood home of Lawrence Welk.”
And Louise would say: “No.”
Or the officials would say: “Louise, we’d like to give the Syrians a couple million dollars to reward them for going almost a week without harboring a terrorist.”
And Louise would say: “No.”
Or the officials might say: “Louise, we want to . . .”
And Louise would say: “No.”
All these decisions would have to be made before 5:30 p.m., because Louise would be very strict about picking her kids up at day care.
“The holiday was later named for the man who came up with the idea, Bob Thanksgiving” - @TheBabylonBee should h/t @rayadverb who reported in the early 1980s that the Pythagorean Theorem was named for its discoverer, Bob Theorem.
I’m impressed that @Rippling took this seriously & was able to move fast. I tweeted it on Wed; quickly had a reply, then another saying the dev team was on it. On Friday I noticed the fix was in prod! A simple thing making #UX better.
@Rippling When you prompt for the 2FA code, make my life easy: please auto focus to the input field. Life is so rough when I need to remember "when using Rippling make sure to tab or click that field before typing." 😁
@Rippling When you prompt for the 2FA code, make my life easy: please auto focus to the input field. Life is so rough when I need to remember "when using Rippling make sure to tab or click that field before typing." 😁