Could you please stop posting flamewar and ideological battle comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
Unmentioned is the treachery required to vote for a man who is an untrustworthy liar, who tried to overturn an election, and sent a mob to assassinate the VPOTUS. Setting aside the fact he's a felon and a rapist, he's incapable of taking or keeping an oath of office, incapable of the fiduciary duty mandated by that office.
The Congress alone has the power of the purse. The gridlock is by design. The Congress alone must find the compromise because this isn't what you want it to be, and not what you demand everyone wish it were. A monarchy.
Vastly more Americans support and defend the Constitution of the United States over your diarchy cult.
Could you please stop posting flamewar and ideological battle comments? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
The list of expenditures never authorized by Congress is staggering. You're spot-on about the authorization risk but it's just the latest in a perpetual issue. Congress has normalized funding "zombie programs" through autopilot appropriations rather than proper reauthorizations. Notable zombie programs include VA health, women's health spending, NIH research...
House Rule XXI (blocking unauthorized spending) gets waived a majority of the time. 50% of expired programs haven't been reviewed in 10+ years. 2023 alone saw $236B in improper payments.
So IMO while the buyout could get axed the pattern suggests they'll likely kick the can with another CR. Perhaps this administration will try to force a different tack, I suppose we'll see.
As someone who worked on a NIH funded project whose funding wasn’t renewed last fall after 10 years. Those 10 years included a bunch of renewals. NIH projects aren’t zombie and need constant attention. Plus all research done has to be put in the public domain.
If you're a person you're likely from a group of people that was historically oppressed in slavery. The list of peoples who were not oppressed, historically, is very short. Humans have treated each other horribly for many, many generations.
Huge, huge fan of the entire Datamuse stack. You have done incredible work toward building a mega-useful cognitive exploration tool, ontology and super-power for word nerds. Software and data which I would love to pay for.
"At once, the planets stood between us, forever occluding what we yearn to see.
For existence itself could not repent, the time we spent, and yet
Only whence wielding wattage whole had we defined;
-- an oculus toward which we'd partake of thine.
To space and time, no morphisms apply, no longer shall ye escape our Eye."