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A surprisingly large amount of data one might think is classified is not at all. In this case all the examples listed are from freely available public data outside of the Twitter thing which seems to be just setting up the environment for some local tool. Here are the sites: --- datacatalog.worldbank.org opendata.arcgis.com mrdata.usgs.gov / www.usgs.gov --- Sharing things like this isn't very useful because it just…
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They're underrated if you're doing reporting.
My comment was tongue in cheek. I'm not a web focused guy and I learned HTML long enough ago that I have no specific moral objection to tables. I used them in a quick personal project a few months ago.
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Where's the hyperbole you're complaining about? The comment you're responding to says "...while letting the condition of the lakes further erode", which the article you linked to supports. > ...extrapolation based on feeling rather than facts... 12 of 85 is a fact. It's basic logic to estimate the effect of this. The administrator in the best position to understand the impact of this has provided an analysis: "Cuttin…
Saying something involved hyperbole means you think part of the claim was exaggerated, not that you think the entire affair was invented from the ground up. E.g. if your coworker comes into work and says "Wow, you guys wouldn't believe it - I was passed by this maniac doing at least 140 mph on the way in to work today. What a crazy speeder!" then you see on the news the police arrested the driver for driving up to 95…
To me it doesn't seem worthwhile to respond from the perspective of misinterpreting a comment, especially when being pedantic. One would hope the same level of precision could be applied to the writing as to the reading?
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I think it’s pretty hard to show an employee is not acting in an official duty in regards to work material. I don’t think this is a sound legal opinion.
> it’s pretty hard to show an employee is not acting in an official duty Not if they’re violating a court order without executive privilege. Wick officially works for the USDS and CFPB. If Bessent and Trump haven’t given a clear order to violate the law, his actions cease to be on behalf of the United States but instead enacted in his personal capacity. Similar to a park ranger walking into a military base and trying…
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> What laws are being broken? In this specific case? Unclear. Will wait for the lawsuits. In the last weeks, the DOGE bros have broken the Privacy Act of 1974 [1] and numerous court orders [2]. [1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv... [2] https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/19-state-ags-file-suit-a...
Given they have to be vetted the same way as any other government employee with that access, including security clearances, I’m not sure these will succeed. At least to my mind it’s not clear how a government employee can have access but for doge it’s breaking the law. The devil is in the specific details.
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> how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket Ukraine has been my pet war for the last few years. I have to disagree. Trump doesn’t particularly care what happens to Ukraine. He needs the dollars we’re sending to Europe to finance his tax cut and trade war. I’m less convinced Trump is acting at Putin’s direction than that he’s looking for the nearest guy to offload the p…
I would be more willing to believe that if not for the first-order result of the current administration's aims being a 6% GDP loss from kicking out illegal immigrants and another 6% loss from what Musk says he's aiming for with DOGE, plus another 1% GDP loss from the tariffs. That said, I am willing to believe Trump wants to use Musk to cut whatever he can actually cut, and then throw him under a bus for the politica…
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> how Trump is treating Zelenskyy and praising Putin to know that he's in Putin's hip pocket Ukraine has been my pet war for the last few years. I have to disagree. Trump doesn’t particularly care what happens to Ukraine. He needs the dollars we’re sending to Europe to finance his tax cut and trade war. I’m less convinced Trump is acting at Putin’s direction than that he’s looking for the nearest guy to offload the p…
I would be more willing to believe that if not for the first-order result of the current administration's aims being a 6% GDP loss from kicking out illegal immigrants and another 6% loss from what Musk says he's aiming for with DOGE, plus another 1% GDP loss from the tariffs. That said, I am willing to believe Trump wants to use Musk to cut whatever he can actually cut, and then throw him under a bus for the politica…
Yes. But Musk is also a useful distraction. Cabinet confirmed and deficit blown out while the DOGE bros take the cannon fire. Round two will be drawing out their inevitable days in court.
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Implying that DOGE bozo is law-compliant while breaking laws and destroying trust is...humor too soon?
How do we know he is a bozo?
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> it’s pretty hard to show an employee is not acting in an official duty Not if they’re violating a court order without executive privilege. Wick officially works for the USDS and CFPB. If Bessent and Trump haven’t given a clear order to violate the law, his actions cease to be on behalf of the United States but instead enacted in his personal capacity. Similar to a park ranger walking into a military base and trying…
Interesting theory, lets check back next year.
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Your "yes, obviously!" response is refreshingly honest. At least you admit moral values are irrelevant to your worldview—just raw power and self-interest matter. This isn't the anti-interventionism of principled peace activists; it's naked realpolitik stripped of ethical pretense. I opposed the Iraq War too—the difference is I don't use it to justify abandoning democracies facing genuine aggression. Opposing misguide…
Yes, because ethics is a terrible basis for foreign policy. Who made you the god of what’s right and wrong, moral and immoral? The ideological nutjobs are worse for the world than the self interested dictators.
> Opposing misguided interventions doesn't require embracing callous isolationism.
The problem is interventionism itself. You’re arrogantly presupposing you understand the world well enough to intervene in the fate of foreign people. It’s the classic liberal conceit.
> Strange how your selective anti-interventionism consistently aligns with Russian strategic objectives while claiming to represent American interests.
It’s not just Russians: most of the world would prefer the U.S. to simply leave it alone. That’s why BRICS is a thing. And the anti-interventionists finally have a majority of Americans opposed to spending American lives defending the borders of countries they couldn’t find on a map. The american people and third worlders have common cause in opposing the liberal internationalists.