Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Your logic would make perfect sense if you were talking about waste . If reducing or eliminating a given amount of waste incurs an expense larger than the waste concerned, that defeats the point of reducing expenses by reducing waste. We c
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Fraud is worse because it is both deliberate and malicious by its very nature, it is absolutely unacceptable. The only reason you're defending fraud is because you hate Trump and Musk who are prosecuting it. Take a step back and unders
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>There absolutely are justifiable reasons and those reasons have worked out very well for the U.S. in the past. Apollo quickly lost funding and popular support once the Cold War in space was effectively over. Space Shuttle ran on its fum
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
"I don't really care, Margaret."[1] If we end up $2 million or $100 million less to eliminate fraud that's what we have to pay. Fraud is unacceptable, period. Defrauding people's taxes is heinous, shame on you for d
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I agree with that assessment, neither NASA nor the country has the money nor time to waste on another public Moon program. There is no justifiable reason for another Apollo. Leave it to the commercial world, and if they can't figure ou
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Some amount of waste is inevitable, but fraud ? Hell no, fraud is unacceptable period. Fuck you for suggesting it's okay to defraud people's taxes if it's a Relatively Small Sum(tm), that attitude is part of if not the pro
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
And it's also important to understand that laws only stipulate penalties for performing an act, a disincentive if you will. You can still do it if you're fine with the consequences; ink on paper can't stop someone from riflin
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>firstly, that's not how the treasury works. Firstly, that's how the Treasury works. It is literally the Department of the Treasury, headed by the Secretary of the Treasury who serves at the pleasure of the President. President
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>It's fair to say that individual tools should have to justify their costs in terms of productivity improvements or time savings. Indeed, and this is why it's often advised that people should buy their first set of tools at Har
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Even during election night his approval rating was only 46%, the supposed peak of honeymoon. I would advise you that pollsters have quite literally never managed to accurately measure him, so poll numbers should be taken with a grain
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>I would like a source please. Sure. Off the top of my head from a previous conversation about aid(?) to Mozambique[1], that's $83.5 million. That's probably one of the better examples because I think that fighting STDs is an
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>focus on the big problems first and don't sweat the small fry. The biggest line items which are Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are off the table as promised during the campaign, for better or worse. Everything else is fair
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>None of us voted for him. I voted for Trump and his campaign was explicit that Musk would be part of the new government. I certainly voted for him and by extension Musk/DOGE, as did the majority of American voters, even if most of
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm fine being simple. Finer approaches were refused by cries of "No! What about <pedantic_detail />!" time and time again. I am fine with being a simpleton. My desire is small(er) government and a lean(er) budge
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That's why I also want House Republicans including Speaker Johnson to stick to the fucking Republican Party mantra of small government this time instead of yapping about it during election years and then suffering a sudden case of am
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>So far the American system has been for the government to fund basic research and private industry to commercialize it. In that case SLS definitely needs to be cancelled. We are well beyond "basic research" into how a Moon pro
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It is important to remember that the Space Race was a front of the Cold War, the "Why do we need a Moon program?" question was squarely answered by "Because we are at war." Today we are not at war, at least not one t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I wholeheartedly approve of the (potential) termination. The Senate Launch System has overstayed its welcome even by pork standards, and with DOGE going into the budget to slash it down to size there is no excuse for this program to survive
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Where in the world is it 50g CO2 to send an email (or 62Wh if we convert it back)? What in the world makes you think that a paper ticket, which is literally several grams of carbon and oxygen, has less of an impact? I agree with you tha
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The takeaway is that the Space Race was just another front of the Cold War and the Military Industrial Complex got a blank check so long as they could win it. The fact it also captivated peoples' imaginations was a nice side effect.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>no need for this degree of urgency Midterms are coming up in less than 2 years, and the next general in less than 4. Time is of the essence to get shit done so the people can decide if they want more or a change in course. >lasting d
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Trump's tariffs if (when) enacted will adversely affect our family business, as will some of his other policies which I won't get into because of confidentiality. I still voted for him. Why? Because his policies are things the peo
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>tiny slivers We have a saying in Japan that goes: "Even dust piled up will make a mountain." Considering the monies concerned here are also tax dollars , I am wholly unsympathetic to the actual monetary sums. They could be 1
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think that kind of proves my point: These "budgets" are so damn convoluted that nobody actually understands them. Even the House Speaker is surprised at the shit DOGE is digging up, and he's the boss of the people who write
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I've conversed with marcan a few times (on completely unrelated and inconsequential things). As far as I know he's a decent man. That said, I'm going to agree with Linus there: Cancel culture ("social media brigading&quo
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The House holds the power of the purse, but the President is the sole holder of Executive powers. That is to say, Congress legislates the budget but the actual execution of that budget is up to the President. If Congress feels the President
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Your premise is flawed because the free market was corrupted by government-ordered shutdowns. PPP is compensation for that. You can't maintain entire payrolls with quite literally next to no revenue without external cash infusions. In
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Our budget, all of it, needs an audit, the people have complained about government waste and demanded an audit for ages . We are finally getting that long desired audit. Spread the entire budget out, all expenses line by line for all to se
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>and the people who really needed the help often got stiffed. Just one anecdata, but we (family business) were "people who really needed the help" and got approved for PPP, both times. You needed to be fairly timely on applying
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The Republican Party's loyalty/obedience to Trump so far is unprecedented even in general terms, so it's reasonable to expect a lot of his requests will be reflected in the final budget.

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