"Bureaucrat" is very nearly a purely derogatory insult. But however inhumane they might be, bureaucracies do in fact wield power. We are about to replace them with something much more powerful. But will it be better?
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Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab, worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about his actions and hide the virus’ lab-leak origins, and lied to Congress while under oath in 2024. It’s time you know the truth.
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@FiredUpCoug .22 lr - teach your kids
.223 - kill bad guys along way away
12 ga - kill bad guys close up without aiming or hurting your neighbors. Also birds.
9mm - kill bad guys when the two above are impracticable to have on hand
30-06 - kill bad animals or good animals with lots of meat
@aimeeterese@GiffLasta Many of both sexes refuse to accept this. Which makes men say pathetic things and women become unattractive. But the primary thing making men so weak is their own misplaced excessive restraint from even asserting themselves verbally, let alone taking actual actions.
@aimeeterese@GiffLasta I think @GiffLasta's point is that men are, in fact, stronger than women. Perhaps one could argue that our current cultural milieu, justice system, etc are so egalitarian (or outright skewed in favor of women) that this is no longer the case. But I think he's right.
Spent some time yesterday with a member of the family that owns one of the larger plumbing franchises here in town.
They are paying too much for their field service management software, and don't like it even if the price was right. I feel like I see this all over the place.
Who out there can tell me how to make the perfect service business management software in 2026?
It needs to be "smart" using AI unobtrusively so that you aren't searching through a million levels of menu to find the one thing you actually need, but it also needs to be much more than a chatbot. Over time I think it should get habituated to your particular way of doing things.
And I'd like to talk to the very best in some of these service business niches to make this thing encourage good business practices.
Software is habits in silicon. Lets make some good ones. Service industries are ready.
Applies regarding most books of advice. A problem with self-help books for example is that they're ungrounded and tend to be too absolute.
One picks up many of the same positive recommendations by reading biographies but within the nuance and context of an actual life.
Someone asked me to recommend a good book on parenting. I would guess that most books about parenting are tedious. So my recommendation is to read autobiographies, the early parts of which are usually implicitly about parenting.
Imagine if basketball games were played inside locked buildings without windows. The field goals and free throws were registered and counted by machines. The running score of the game was projected on the outside of the building. But it wasn't simultaneous with the game. The running score changed for days and even weeks after the contest was over. When at last there was a final score the fans cheered or slumped in despair.
How long would public interest and faith in such a sport last?
@LeadingReport Elections must prove their legitimacy. "Innocent until proven guilty" applies to people, not government systems.
The reason nobody is thinking this is because until recently elections in America did have the oversight and regulation required to prove their own legitimacy
Look, I don’t like it when I’m told what to think and say by any side.
So when people aren’t allowed to ask questions about everything from election results to people getting beheaded in the damn streets, lest the professional lemming midwit clown class tries to shame and drown them out with a squawking chorus of repeated tropes they’ve learned to be rewarded for by their owners, that they repeat endlessly like a massive flock of brainless birds…
People like me eventually get angry enough to start channeling our response into meaningful and systematic action.
@CurtOllikainen@roddreher That's not at all what I said. What I'm saying is that you can't have a democracy if the government can't make it obvious to people, via a process that all major groups can reasonably find trustworthy, who won
@t_f_bow@roddreher So what percentage of fraud was there? Do you really expect me to believe it was ZERO percent? If so you're not even a serious person. So what percentage was it?