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@inthehands "ah, but that's"
TSA is losing $300M including the elimination of VIPR (a security augment force and the only one with CBRNE.)
Election security? Eliminated completely. National Risk Management? Gone. Chemical Security? Deleted.
Shelter and Services? Minus $650M to FEMA. Grant reductions? There goes another $650M.
Citizenship and immigration? Grants, $10M deleted. Application processing? -$163M. Oh, and firing 750+ FTEs.
So yeah. It's even fucking worse.
@inthehands or let's put it another way entirely!
The ENTIRETY of DHS (that's USCS, USCG, USSS, INS, FPS, TSA, FLET, APHIS, FEMA, SNS, NDMS, NIRT, DEST, CDP, CBRN, EML, BioWar, Plum Island, CISA, NCS, NIPC, and more) was a total of 240,000 employees in 2018. They have slashed that number by over 20,000.
ICE is 21,381 employees. That works out to $6.5 MILLION dollars PER EMPLOYEE. Their 2026 budget in brief states that they will spend $24.7M TOTAL on "detainee healthcare."
@inthehands you are not misreading it, and it is actually even more than that. Because that is their *sole* budget and does not include other budgets they benefit directly or indirectly from. Some concentration camps for example, likely will be paid for by the BoP or other agencies.
And put another way: that is near the entire GDP of Kuwait.
It is more than the GDP of Luxembourg, nearly twice Venezuela's, and 3.5 times that of Iceland.
@sundogplanets I would ask if you were fucking serious and why the FCC hasn't thrown it out, but calling the people left there "clownshoes" is an unforgivable insult to the footwear of professional entertainers.
Also, worth noting, that isn't even fucking *ZERO* on the Kardashev because that's not even a goddamn relevant scale. Please somebody start fucking executing these techbro oligarchs to save the rest of us.
@WellsiteGeo @aadeacon @cstross hey now, I never said ANYTHING about there not being 30 years of public contempt and repeated humiliation *first*...
@Kierkegaanks @thomholwerda (for those not familiar: Takaichi Sanae is an ultra-right extremist opposed to things like same sex marriage, allowing women to keep their surnames after marriage, and Japan's policy of non-aggression. She is for the claims that Japan did nothing wrong in WWII, wants to retract Murayama and Kono, and has done things like denying Japan ever committed war crimes while visiting Yasukuni.)
@Kierkegaanks @thomholwerda nope. Not even Sherman is enough. The damage is not repairable. Every foreign government has outright said and made clear, even if we somehow replace Twitler with Saint fucking Theresa? Next up will be someone even WORSE. And any agreement imagined is just that: imagined. Anybody can come along and tear it up.
They will never, ever trust the US again, and they shouldn't. But we would appreciate a hand trying and executing the Nazis please.
@Purple it is not just you. My former threw fits when I spelled out very clearly that it did not work, would not work, would cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars they insisted we didn't have, and not only that, but every one of the problems from the junior was because they didn't listen, just plugged shit into ChatGPT, and the others were too lazy to actually review it.
#WritersCoffeeClub 1/4: Share a tool of your trade.
Wikipedia. (Everyone else already said Scrivener.) A lot of my work requires a great deal of research. A lot more than people even begin to realize.
Wikipedia is basically my one-stop shop for finding it. Especially with the search engines turned to pure fucking worthless slop. The paper I'm looking for won't show up there, but somebody cited it as a source, so it's right there on Wikipedia.
@hacks4pancakes "The Internet is decentr-"
If the Nazi regime in DC decides that they don't like your domain name, then ICANN will take it away.
No, not being a .org/.net/.com will not help.
No, the lack of direct government control doesn't change anything. They are based in the US and beholden to the regime.