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We can afford it.
Not with 36T in debt.
By that logic, we can’t afford anything.
CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]
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Thanks. It's always a puzzle what to do with threads based on articles that have since been superseded by later developments. Do we start a new thread based on a new article? The new article / thread usually fails to do very well, partly because there just was a big discussion, and partly because hearing about something getting fixed is less interesting and exciting than the original stimulus. I've been playing recen…
Maybe [updated] as a more neutral term to indicate post-submission change?
Ok! Updated above.
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Everything was always political. Laws, the economy, conflcit. How is any person not affected by these? The government is responsible for all or a large part of how a country functions. People who say "I'm not political" are deflecting to avoid conflict
Alternatively people who say “I’m not political” are benefiting from the status quo and political direction of things (long term, not necessarily short term). They frame inaction as apolitical.
It is apolitical for any reasonable definition of the term "political". That doesn't mean you don't benefit, or that it's a responsible choice, or anything else. It just means you aren't engaging in political activity - attempting to convince those around you, to gain influence, etc.
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Everything was always political. Laws, the economy, conflcit. How is any person not affected by these? The government is responsible for all or a large part of how a country functions. People who say "I'm not political" are deflecting to avoid conflict
> People who say "I'm not political" are deflecting to avoid conflict A great truth. Even isolating yourself from society like a hermit is still a political decision: you are rejecting society as it is, and prefer to live in your own solo society. That's politics.
> Even isolating yourself from society like a hermit is still a political decision
That is a nonsensical definition of that term. It implies that literally any action you take falls into the set "political" instead of outside of it. That defeats the purpose of the term. The point of qualifiers is to differentiate between different sorts of things.
Obviously the intention of the person using such a term is to distinguish between things. Thus such a rebuttal amounts to intellectual dishonesty by intentionally misinterpreting what was said.
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> Hopefully these 4 years energize people to vote. This euphemism has to end. I think you mean: "Hopefully these 4 years energize people to vote Democrat". Why not just say it plainly instead of using supposedly non-partisan language? This neutral phrasing seems to be an appeal to a "silent majority" that agrees with you and disagrees with Republican leadership. What if that silent majority doesn't exist?
You're right in that it's possible that the silent majority doesn't exist. But personally, the reason I believe it does exist is two-fold: 1. The "My vote won't change anything" rhetoric only ever gets expressed by left-leaning people . 2. Only left-leaning people require endless purity tests for their political candidates and will refuse to vote for anybody that they don't think is the perfect candidate. These are t…
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#997> CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract
So CVE is a child of US 3 letter agencies ? Good to know.
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> This sort of thing is happening across the federal government. There is no rhyme or reason. DOGE has been given an unrealistic target for cuts and they're desperately cutting whatever they can get their hands on You make it sound like poor DOGE employees are being forced to do this on this kind of schedule, which definitely isn't the impression I got. They're all a bunch of incompetent overconfident weirdos who thi…
Who knows whether it will happen, but in principle DOGE is working under some time pressure as they're scheduled to be dissolved in mid-2026.
Possible but organizations are like living creatures, they want to survive
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There are going to be all kinds of messed up incentives if this is funded from industry.
Like there aren't any messed up incentives with it funded by the government? Um, Vault 7? Snowden? PRISM? Did you literally just forget the past two decades of domestic spying and the NSA withholding critical vulnerabilities they were currently using?
And how does that relate to this exactly?
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Not keeping politics out of our lives is the reason we’ve ended up with a totalitarian fascist dictatorship. If politics is forbidden, people have to just make up their own minds and vote for what makes sense to them, instead of banding together and slowly intensifying to the most radical extremes in bids to outdo each other. Everytime you discuss politics on the internet, you entrench the current administration.
I understand how you get here, but you haven't considered what would be required in practice to "forbid politics." Banning speech would be where you would have to start, and by the time you were finished Walter Freeman might grow a bit faint.
Oh, excuse me, I see you have considered it. There is a class of cautionary advice I reserve for such situations, but you are obviously well past the reach of that or any other reliable counsel, and I'll bear this in mind henceforward.