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NOAA is on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

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BAD IDEA BAD IDEA

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“whatever the fuck these two characters had going on” is a vastly underrated character dynamic

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The Australian Electoral Commission has subcontracted Starlink to provide auxiliary services during the upcoming federal election. If NBN services fail our voting data, though encrypted, will be running through Starlink satellites.

The same Starlink that was cut off in Ukraine at Elon Musk's whim to influence the outcome of their military operations against Russia.

Encryption doesn't mean shit if the message doesn't arrive.

If you're concerned about the possibilities of Elon Musk and his company being able to fuck with the transmission of our electoral data, you can contact the Minister for Communications here:

https://minister.infrastructure.gov.au/rowland/contact

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i think the scariest exam i ever took was in my Fisheries Management 400 course, the final semester of my degree. our final exam was an essay response to a management prompt. each of us pulled a slip of paper out of a jar at the start of the exam, for a unique fisheries management situation. like a recovery project in a salmon habitat, etc. then we wrote a response as if we were the project manager, detailing how we would manage, execute, and accomplish the project.

so i got my prompt and my heart sank because as i read it, i could only think that what i was assigned to manage was impossible. the prompt explained that a farmer asked me to stock a fishing pond with a specific species & create a self-sustaining population. based on the location and the ecological parameters of this imaginary pond, i knew it would be impossible to accomplish his goal to maintain a self-sustaining population of his target species.

basically, the answer was, "The client's request is not possible [short explanation as to why]" and "I would recommend alternative species, or repeated manual stocking."

In the end, my essay response was 3 sentences long. It took me 5 minutes to think over and write. By the time I wrote down my answer, most of my classmates hadn't even picked up their pencils. They were still thinking over their no doubt far more involved management prompts. We had 2 hours to take the exam.

I sat there having a crisis for 15 minutes until I finally walked to the front and put my notebook down on the professor's desk.

I said, quietly, unsure if he'd give me ANY hints, "surely.....this should be longer?" He raised his eyebrows and said, "Do you trust yourself and what you've learned in this class?" I said, "Uh. I think so?" He said, "Then you'll have to trust it's as long as it's supposed to be."

I decided to think those were encouraging words so I left the class, 15 minutes into a final exam that allowed 2 hours for my response.

Went home and took a Xanax. Got an 100%.

Nobody better ever do that to me EVER again.

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“Make me pretty”

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Whoever wrote this, slayed so hard with all these statements, truer words have never been spoken

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a lovely creecher

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i just have to know what happened to the ui/ux designers at firaxis between civ6 and civ7

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indecipherable text lost to time

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