Engagement is a metric that trying to track user enjoyment, I want more engaging posts or even posts at this point on Lemmy.

While a lot of posts have touched on the size of the explosion, the real impossible part is getting to the mantle. It was only fairly recently done by digging in the ocean where the mantle was pushed up more than normal.

A circular saw works much better for an aluminum pole.

Police tend to be the most dangerous and least accurate group of gun owners. Even with the tiny amount of range time police get, you’d be hard pressed to find a worse group to hand guns to.

Most ranchers aren’t going to process their own beef, especially not at any appreciable scale. Even with reduced legislation the work and equipment isn’t something they want to deal with.

If someone wants to make an image for free without AI and propose a replacement, then it’s maybe worth voting. Replacing it for the sake of replacing AI is dumb. This is the perfect use for an AI image, it doesn’t really matter what it is and there’s no real budget to actually commission something.

If they only need $2B they should just transfer funds from the high speed rail project. Then something might actually come from that money.

Not having a black kid model it and it wouldn’t be as bad. I can see how the original concept was probably fine, but the tweaking to hit a price point led to poor choices.

It’s not off script. Not spending a billion dollars on Capitol landscaping even if Congress appropriated that much wouldn’t be faithfully executing the laws.

Yes. All public sector unions. There isn’t a true counter party in the public sector, the union is bargaining against the people. This leads to a perverse incentive where “management” essentially agrees to anything as there’s no benefit to disagree.

Lions were a top 5 ticket price team last year, and number 6 this year. NFL tickets are absurd in general, but the top costing teams are on a different level.

Yes if you are a public sector employee. There’s not an owner or management for you to negotiate against

I’m assuming that it’s a check against Congress just appropriating absurdly large sums for pet projects or for securing donations. The job of the executive is not to blindly follow Congress, but it’s also not to fight everything Congress wants.

$13 beers is surprisingly reasonable. I would have assumed LA was more expensive. That’s cheaper than local stadiums in my experience.

All public sector unions should be disbanded.

Congress has the power to impeach an executive not doing what they want. It’s not limited to just the president. They are happier to just complain than use their powers though.

It’s also not necessarily a bad thing to have an executive not spend money Congress approved. While many likely disagree with how that discretion is being used, it’s not bad that it exists.

The US Marshalls and Capitol Police sort of fill that role, but the real remedy here would be impeachment of Vought. They aren’t mad enough to actually do that though.

He would definitely be on the spectrum like most near genius hyper observant style dectives. Maybe more sociopath than autistic. He’s basically a super buff Ender from Ender’s Game.

The US budget is:
22% social security.
15% Medicare.
15% interest on debt.
13% Medicaid/Obamacare.
13% military spending.
10% unemployment and food stamp benefits.
6% veteran benefits including healthcare.
6% everything else: education, infrastructure, law enforcement, national parks, NASA, etc.