I think I’m even more scared now that this has gone from “potentially screwing up by adding the wrong person to a Signal group,” to “doesn’t even know how to add a contact to their iPhone” level of incompetence. How do these people even manage to put on their pants?

Because this just “happens” to everyone, right? The iPhone did it, not him screwing up. This feels like “the dog ate my homework“ level of investigation.

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I’m hearing DC was 100k+ too. That’s awesome!

Denver was easily over 11k.

I think the seeds were planted back then (and earlier); we’re now seeing them come to fruition. So it depends what you mean by “different.”

I suspect a cabal of guide dogs was behind this move.

(Also /s, because yeah… sigh)

Yeah, she was 34 when it happened and fell into a pretty deep depression for years. The amount of work she had to do to become baseline functional again was more than her marriage could bear. There were no kids, so at least that wasn’t a factor. The good news is she met someone amazing and got remarried once she had the energy to focus on that again. Overall her life is pretty incredible again, but it was a very tough journey to get there.

One aside that I think is cool that I learned about guide dogs is they can be trained to watch for obstacles at human head height. Rowing racing shells have metal oar riggers that stick out pretty far and when they’re stored on racks, and can be at a variety of heights and are easy to trip over or walk into. Her dog was trained to watch for these sticking out at up to about 6’ and walk her around them even if there was no obstruction on the floor. He knew the difference between what she could fit under and what he had to navigate her around.

My former rowing partner was one of the people blinded by eye drops before these safety standards were established. I’m sure she can vouch for how not-a-big-deal this is after losing her job, marriage, home, and almost her life. Fuckers.

I want to vote for frog-legs-guy. Can we get him on a ballot somewhere? Or maybe appointed to the Supreme Court?

Red Hat Linux is a discontinued commercial distro.

Then he shouldn’t have made egg (and grocery) prices immediately going down a central theme of his campaign.

Just post a bunch of geese as your border guards (and maybe international trade negotiators too?) and you’ll be fine. I feel they’re an underutilized Canadian resource!

Go read the news yourself then. It’s all out there. People have lost access to health benefits, water hygiene standards are being relaxed, critical cybersecurity initiatives are being cut, national parks will be less accessible to all (some of Colorado’s have already announced they’ll be closed two days a week), the impacts are both immediate and longer term, and far reaching. If you want to hear about immediate direct impact, a critical domestic violence center in Colorado that has been providing cross-departmental case management and victim advocacy since 2016 will likely have to shut down because its federal funding was cut by DOGE and victims are currently being turned away. The immediate, very real, impacts are EASY to discover with a minimal amount of research effort. The larger ones are just starting to make themselves known.

Yeah, there may be more that hadn’t made the published list yet. sigh Hard to keep up…

ETA: I don’t think the IRS is on there either. DOGE is cutting their funding too.

• Department of Education (ED)
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Department of Defense (DoD)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• General Services Administration (GSA)
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Department of Commerce (DOC)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
• Department of the Treasury (TREAS)
• Department of Labor (DOL)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Social Security Administration (SSA)
• Department of State (DOS)
• Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Department of Transportation (DOT)
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)

From the official DOGE website.

Great. Lemme just get a bunch of chickens for my downtown city apartment.

Unfortunately it likely won’t be the billionaires suffering, so I’m not sure how much meaningful rethinking will be going on unless pressure on them is relentless.

“Meat shield” is not a new term and explicitly means using another human to prevent being shot / killed. That’s all people are saying about Musk’s behavior when they refer to him using his kid in this fashion. Nothing beyond that (by that specific term anyway).

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/meat_shield

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/human_shield#English

That doesn’t change the fact his father is using him as an anti-assassination accessory. It’s in no way criticizing the kid, but calling out his father’s abhorrent behavior. In fact we should call it out because maybe it will shame Musk into stopping (of course it won’t).