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U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by beanjuiceII »

eek2121 wrote: post #20
beanjuiceII wrote: post #6

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Ya you can tell a govt site when it falls over from a finger flick

Nah, the US govt is actually usually pretty good these days about solid infrastructure, website designs, security practices, etc. It is unknown why this particular website (if it ever existed?) got hugged to death, but much of the Government uses AWS govcloud and similar solutions.

eh i disagree, I've been in govt IT for 16 years working as a group that supports all agencies. I would definitely not say "much of the Government uses aws govcloud and similar solutions" but thats just my experience

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Post by Bnichs »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #75
kube-system wrote: post #58

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Yes, it is: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2019/12/12/u-s-child... It may seem silly on the surface, but solving issues at the root is often way more effective than treating the symptoms. In plain words: we're better off solving crime by having a kid grow up in a healthy household, rather than throwing that kid in prison after they commit a crime, who may in turn have a kid who grows up in an unhealthy house…

Just so I’m clear - you are then saying that Federal government spending on this is something you support?

It's an line to draw in terms of spending given how absolutely nothing this is in terms of spending. This website probably costs about half that of a single one of the millions of shells made for the US military in a year.

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Post by ericrallen »

jdewerd wrote: post #89
gottorf wrote: post #78

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Sounds like you're in a good position to make a lot of people's dreams come true: could you make the TreasuryDirect webapp not so terrible to use? :-)

My prayers were answered when they removed the infernal virtual password keyboard.

I can’t remember if I’ve ever encountered a UI that annoyed me as much as that virtual password entry.

I ended up getting locked out of my account due to some issue trying to enter what my password manager generated for me and eventually just gave up on ever converting the one small paper bond I was given as a kid to a digital one.

If the goal was to frustrate people away from converting paper bonds, they certainly succeeded.

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Post by lern_too_spel »

mcculley wrote: post #110
lern_too_spel wrote: post #109

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That's a problem. Is the solution to defund father education programs?

Absolutely not. I think we should fund a Natural Responsible Motherhood Clearinghouse and host it at motherhood.gov. But telling women to be responsible mothers is not as politically easy as telling men to be responsible fathers.

> But telling women to be responsible mothers is not as politically easy as telling men to be responsible fathers.

But as I said, we do that already, and far more directly as part of women's healthcare. It is not a men's health issue, so it can't be done through existing systems. The effectiveness of telling women to be responsible mothers, which you objected to earlier, does not negate the fact that we do tell them, so your political narrative does not make sense.

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Post by LargeTomato »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #115
mcculley wrote: post #110

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Absolutely not. I think we should fund a Natural Responsible Motherhood Clearinghouse and host it at motherhood.gov. But telling women to be responsible mothers is not as politically easy as telling men to be responsible fathers.

> But telling women to be responsible mothers is not as politically easy as telling men to be responsible fathers. But as I said, we do that already, and far more directly as part of women's healthcare. It is not a men's health issue, so it can't be done through existing systems. The effectiveness of telling women to be responsible mothers, which you objected to earlier, does not negate the fact that we do tell them,…

You are intentionally missing the point because you are upset about some supposed political alignment of the other commenter. In the spirit of the Paul Graham post about taboo I'm going to tell you to take a deep breath, separate logic and emotion, and do better.

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Post by selimthegrim »

hotsauceror wrote: post #74
SeanKilleen wrote: post #18

"Dadabase" was right there.

That’s what my travel mug says. Best Father’s Day gift ever. Here’s a freebie for you new dads: What do you call a spider with twenty eyes? A spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiider.

Don’t give the Cyrillic Unicode people any more ideas.

Re: U.S. Government Database of Dad Jokes

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Post by lern_too_spel »

LargeTomato wrote: post #116
lern_too_spel wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> But telling women to be responsible mothers is not as politically easy as telling men to be responsible fathers. But as I said, we do that already, and far more directly as part of women's healthcare. It is not a men's health issue, so it can't be done through existing systems. The effectiveness of telling women to be responsible mothers, which you objected to earlier, does not negate the fact that we do tell them,…

You are intentionally missing the point because you are upset about some supposed political alignment of the other commenter. In the spirit of the Paul Graham post about taboo I'm going to tell you to take a deep breath, separate logic and emotion, and do better.

What point? That there should be a separate website for telling mothers about motherhood? Why would it be necessary if it's already in existing websites and programs?
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