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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

During one video meeting with a representative of Mr. Musk’s team, civil servants at the technology arm of the General Services Administration even bombarded an online chat with spoon emojis to express their displeasure at the deferred resignation offer known as the “fork in the road.” (Their bosses responded by removing spoons from the list of searchable emojis permitted in their videoconferencing platform.)

I heard about that, it was a Teams meeting so the emoji's pop up on the video conference screen, and it was just an avalanche of spoons.

They're going to try and make it sound like lots of people are taking the fork, and it's saving money

But they're letting people who took it in February extend to 12/31/25 and then retire...

Getting paid and benefits the entire time.

The vast majority taking it are people who were retiring before that, and probies who likely would have been let go anyways.

It's going to cost agencies a shit ton of money, which is the point. Republicans don't care about the actual funding, it's just the excuse that's easiest to defend. They're fine spending the money if the work isn't done anyways

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The music is because those trucks drive around.

You can't make tacos on the move, or any other kind of hot food really.

Which is why food trucks park in locations and operate

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

In a rare turn of events, Gerry Connelly is actually making some noise over that.

Absolutely nowhere near what AOC would be in his position, but I was surprised to see Connelly even released a letter about it.

But the reason they want this is to claim an AI going over the responses counts as an "appropriate review" necessary before DoD RIF of probies.

But there's already multiple lawsuits over how DOGE/OPM have zero authority to be acting like every agency's HR and sending out this shit

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Kamala only had 3 months to campaign

How'd it go when she had to participate in a primary?

Granted she didn't spend 32 years losing them like Biden did, but if memory serves me right she was so unpopular she dropped out before the first primary voted. Or maybe it was after the first one because she got zero delegates?

People didn't want Kamala, she was just the only other option. Just like with Biden, and before him Clinton.

No one knows JD Vance either, he would have had an uphill battle as well

Republicans are blindly loyal voters, if trump was shot every trump voter would have still voted R. And the few who couldn't hold their nose for trump would have voted for JD

Anyway you slice it, R votes would have gone up, D votes would have went down.

Like, for 8 years now the entire Dem.platform has been "I'm not trump"....

If you still don't get it. I unfortunately can't think of a simpler way to explain this

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Man...

Crazy how much power a president has.

A shame we wasted the last four years on someone unwilling to use any of that power because he thought a president couldn't...

Unfortunately for everyone, Biden also believes a president didn't have the power to limit future president's power either.

Like, there's a lot of shit we should be paying attention to, but it's important to remember that solidifying behind a moderate fixing absolutely nothing, and that voters won't turn out to keep someone like that in offense.

We're taking the hardest path to victory that has no rewards at the end.

Why not take the easy path where we run a candidate dem voters agree with, who will at least put a good faith effort into fixing stuff.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They were fine with Musk's first two.

They didn't like when Bannon did it tho, which is when this statement was made.

Then there's already been a third person doing it.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (7 children)

It's not just games, it's TV and movies too.

Cramming sex into everything made sense when we weren't constantly 5 seconds away from being able to see pretty much any kind of porn someone could imagine.

Now tho, that stuff isn't a reason to watch a show. If you just cared about that, you'd watch the clip online

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Ding also apparently wants NetEase to focus on games like the multiplayer mobile game Eggy Party

Oh great, another remake....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OSfbPJFa4

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

All just ammo for the appeal.

The shooter calmly walked away, and Luigi was arrested calmly in a McDonald's.

At no stage was there some crazy escape or shootout where something like this would be warranted in court, and things like this have been argued to have influenced potential jury members in past cases.

Like, it's one straw on a giant pile of better examples so far, but it all adds up. They're gonna OJ this shit and go so hard it ends in a mistrial or something crazy.

Especially since the trial is going to be a media circus and Trump won't be able to keep his nose out of it, it'll kill him that he won't be the main attraction.

The thing is, support for Luigi crosses party lines. It might be what causes a maga fracture if everything falls right.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

This is the most ridiculous exchange I've had on Lemmy...

 
 

Somewhat satire, somewhat actual investigation.

Pretty much same vibes as the Daily Show

 

Stand up from Daily Show correspondent Josh Johnson.

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