Mark Galbraith

[Mark Galbraith @mgg4]

@Luna_Jones79 Feed that good boy a pork chop.

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@Xmusknewsx He's an officer. The UCMJ comes down much harder on officers in cases like these. He will lose his commission, and possibly face jail time.

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@BreitbartNews There goes my appetite for Reacher or whatever his next project is.

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@larry19_95 Appropriate, but most barbers would probably not go along with this against the wishes of the boy.

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@Milajoy Terminate the ride. Report the passengers for assault in the app. They will be blocked from ever requesting another Uber. Then provide the footage to the police and the county prosecutors.

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@FoxNews how about less commentary and more parade. The interruptions detract from the message and make me want to change the channel. I want to experience the parade, not commentary.

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@HawleyMO a few ideas for your PELOSI Act.
1) Include the parents and children of the member and spouse. One generation up and down the family tree.
2) Include being a trustee of any trust or board member of any org that performs stock trading.

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@phasmainmachina @vani_mehrotra This could cause the main rotor to go one way, and the torque of the tail rotor driveshaft, along with structural damage from the gear box exploding could account for the missing tail. 2/2

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@phasmainmachina @vani_mehrotra There are many things that can cause that type of damage. For example, the transmission gear box seizing up and exploding. 1/2

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@RobertKennedyJc By all means. Ban these ads on both TV/Radio, but also magazines and other print media. Except magazines where the main audience is medical professionals. Advertising drugs to patients is medical malpractice. These ads should be targeted at prescribers, not patients.

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@seanhannity And this hasn't been a rescue mission since Sept 2024, BEFORE the election. NASA made contingency plans and launched Crew-9 with two empty seats. They had already planned to bring the two Boeing crewmembers back with Crew-9.

#NotARescueMission

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@seanhannity I had to change the channel. Your opening tonight had so many wrong facts about the Crew-9 and Crew-10 missions it was painful to watch. Perhaps get your facts straight before you go on the air.

Very patriotic in any case, but please get it together.

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@seanhannity The Crew-10 mission did launch on Friday and dock hours later. However the Crew-9 Dragon was already there. For a time there were TWO Crew Dragon's docked. The one that returned was NOT the one launched on Friday. Two different missions. Two different Crew Dragons.

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@AndreaSJames @amateurw7vp this is what I was talking about.

[Andrea S. James @AndreaSJames]

Gently, softly, calmly, let’s talk about what’s happening in DC right now.

Friends, have you ever been through a ZBB process? If not, let me give you my take. So, in a corporation where expenses are out of control, you have to put the entire company through a zero based budgeting process. It is one of the most painful things that people in a company experience.

You basically have to justify every. single. expense. And you also cut a bunch, and then only add back after you’ve gone through a proper ZBB cycle.

The US government is going through a ZBB right now. And that is necessary because spending is out of control. The complexity is so vast that I expect it will take AI to decipher.

You cannot tell me that a government that accidentally wires hundreds of millions of dollars to the Taliban has its finances in order. That signals an underlying disaster. That signals bad stewardship of resources.

In fact, it is a disaster. Over the last 20 fiscal years, the US government has made ~$2.7 trillion in "improper payments," according to the US Government Accountability Office. Trillion! With a T!

That financial management disaster was not caused by @elonmusk. And there is no painless way to clean it up.

Elon is doing what any executive would do walking into a giant mess. You ZBB and then build back.

So, I don’t believe that America is going to be on the wrong side of global right and wrong, as some are saying. I don’t believe that America is going to be permanently isolationist. I do believe that unwatched finances will get out of control in any human system, and that the GAO has been trying to ring this bell for years, and that scaled complexity requires scaled financial management.

Because the US has the largest budget in the world, it will now go through the single most complex ZBB ever undertaken in the history of the world.

Some states do ZBB, but it's never been done at the federal level. President Jimmy Carter tried, but the bureaucratic systems were too complex, and President Ronald Reagan abandoned the attempt.

So, if there is one person in the world chosen to lead this Grand Canyon of projects, we would hope for the president to choose one of the best capital allocators on the planet. Better if that human is also one who can leverage AI and technical talent to manage the massive complexity.

Anyone who has lived through a ZBB at the corporate level will tell you that it’s hell and everyone hates it. This is why I feel really bad for federal workers -- I have a lot of empathy for civil servants and people doing a great job every day for the United States. No doubt, the uncertainty is trying and stressful for many. It's an unfortunate situation.

So, that's my take. I don't want to speak beyond what I know and can observe from the other side of the country. I've worked both in the private sector and the public sector -- the cultures are different. And an Elon-Musk-style culture is going to be the most hard core of them all. No doubt, it's jarring. It's gonna be a lot.

But what I also know is that every time I have ever doubted Elon, I ended up being the one who was wrong.

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@WallStreetApes Whether the power comes from a local generator or a large, coal- or oil-fired utility generation facility, the process is pretty much the same.

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@SpaceX You've given me the best birthday present ever. Great job to all the SpaceX crew.

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@floridanow1 @CollinRugg @JakeMRosen In a proper defensive perimeter, there would have been a USSS sniper on that roof instead of a bad guy. They didn't have the manpower to defend the venue properly.

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@arrl I'm sure you are aware the LoTW site is down, but just in case... Might be a good idea to post on FB and X when there is an extended outage. #lotw

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Hey @Meta. What's up with the Admin Assist functions? We have several groups with rules to decline posts with certain criteria. Those posts are getting through since February. We've been waiting for you to fix this. What's the scoop?