ran on stopping "waste, fraud, and abuse" and appointing "businesspeople"
to run the government more efficiently. He won. Most of the people appointed had no clue how government works. Some waste was identified and eliminated but, for the most part, all they did was change the party that
My Facebook feed is mostly high-school friends who got in early and didn't experiment with other social networks. I suppose I'm the edge case, approaching 60 and still experimenting with social networks...
There were a couple others I had used before Facebook - MySpace was one of them. I also used LiveJournal. My friends I had on both of those all move to Facebook though.
There were a couple others I had used before Facebook - MySpace was one of
them. I also used LiveJournal. My friends I had on both of those all
move to Facebook though.
Don't forget one of the 1st ones ... yearbook.com .... God that was awful. MySpace was a dream come true after that. ;)
I used all those, along with Orkut, Tribe.net, Friendster, and others that I've forgotten about. The rest of my high school friends weren't as techy and didn't go anywhere except Facebook.
ran on stopping "waste, fraud, and abuse" and appointing "businesspeople" to run the government more efficiently. He won. Most of the people appointed had no clue how government works. Some waste was identified and eliminated but, for the most part, all they did was change the party that
most of the people in the government have no idea how government works.
you can't say that there's no waste fraud or abuse in our govt.
there's TONS. You don't have to be a genius to see most of this stuff.
Don't forget one of the 1st ones ... yearbook.com .... God that was
awful. MySpace was a dream come true after that. ;)
I hadn't heard of yearbook.com.
I remember Classmates.com which was kinda the same thing. It was free to join (maybe you still can), and post your photos of yesteryear and then today. If anyone wanted to contact you or comment they had to pay. Almost as good as MySpace.
I hadn't heard of yearbook.com.
I remember Classmates.com which was kinda the same thing. It was free to jo
I hadn't heard of yearbook.com.
I remember Classmates.com which was kinda the same thing. It was free to jo
Yeah, my bad, it was classmates.com
Hard pass - he's doing great w0rk for the American people. Why WOULDN'T want to audit government spending???
Sure: appointed, vetted and confirmed experts in the fields of the relevant agencies should do that with careful thoughtful precision. Not
a loud-mouthed lying xenophobic tech bro billionaire who's a
demonstrated expert at using government funds to prop up his businesses, going in with a sledge hammer to agencies he knows nothing about.
He's just Trump axe-man for now and when this shit show starts to smell bad, it's Elon that'll take the fall. The sooner the better.
He's just Trump axe-man for now and when this shit show starts to smell
bad, it's Elon that'll take the fall. The sooner the better.
And we love it. And we voted for it.
And we love it. And we voted for it.
Not everyone voted for it.
Recently I've heard South Africa is considering banning all US-based companies from their country due to USAID funding being pulled, and
Canada is considering making stronger ties to other countries for trade; I've even heard some tongue-in-cheek discussion about Canda possibly wanting to join the EU after being threatened with tarriffs from the US.
I'm worried that the US will end up with a poorer economy and a weaker position in the world due to what Trump and Musk are doing.
Not everyone voted for it.
Understood. We live in Oregon, where the majority of folks here didn't vote Trump... but the majority did. Areas with these hot pockets of left leaning communities; Oregon, New York, Chicago, etc - are going to press back against this POTUS, only to appeal and get every single thing through... the majority voted for change and its coming.
I still think we can come together - but this not compromising, not admitting that the divide is killing us is just going to keep this going. Lets come back to the dinner table - no time for whining about what can be, unburdened by what has been... :P
just by foreign aid alone, we are wasting tons of money and resources.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Abortretryfail <=-
My Facebook feed is mostly high-school friends who got in early and
didn't experiment with other social networks. I suppose I'm the edge
case, approaching 60 and still experimenting with social networks...
Nightfox wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I forgot about Friendster, but I hadn't heard of Tribe.net. I knew
Orkut was fairly popular in Brazil (I had an ex from Brazil), but I
don't remember if I had heard about Orkut before I met my ex from
Brazil.
A Spanish journalist was complaining a couple of weeks ago that lots of South American news outlets were going to sack people because they could not pay the employees. The reason was that the US federal cuts to a
number of non-profits meant those non-profits would have to cease
funding South American news outlets.
In case you need this to be explained more clear, the journalist was complaining because the USA was paying South American journalist to say the USA is a fascist colonialist nation that sucks, the new
administration was closing the tap, and without those funds thouse journalists could not function.
That's where I'm at too (although a little bit younger). Most of my friends hopped on Facebook not long after MySpace started falling apart. Honestly, I just don't have the energy to cut them out, even though I live 1500 miles away. I also haven't seen any of them in over 30 years.
Right now, it's just easier to snooze them or unfollow them (without unfriending) just to keep my feed clean. I don't need to see them all trying to dunk on the other political party. It gets old. So, I seek out cute dog photos. :)
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