#Budget Scheduling

[stakeholders-sgv]

USDA Cuts $1 Billion in Local Food Funding: Schools, Farmers, and Food Banks Brace for Impact

Public Alert & Call to Action: Stakeholders for a Safe Green Village, Issued Friday, March 14, 2025. Summary: USDA Funding Cuts to Local Food Programs The USDA has terminated two key programs that funded local food purchases for schools and food banks: Local Food for Schools (LFS) Program – Planned $660 million for schools and childcare facilities. Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA)…

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I just want to be the smartest girl in the room and to know how to speak 7 languages and to always have books in hand and to always be best dressed and to always be on top of my studies and to smell really good and to do flash cards on the treadmill and to not be distracted by the things that don’t matter and to still have time for all my passions.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lisa Needham at Public Notice:

As soon as Trump won the election, Republicans immediately declared he had a mandate to do whatever he wanted. Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, for example, said Trump’s win showed that “it is the Trump agenda that the American people overwhelmingly wants.” But what, exactly, did the American people signal they wanted? With lots of help from the media, Trump spent the campaign pretending that the hyper-conservative and deeply unpopular Project 2025 agenda was not the blueprint for his second term. So it’s pretty rich now for Republicans to claim that a vote for Trump is a vote for whatever he decides he wants to do. And make no mistake — what Trump wants to do is Project 2025. 

Before digging into the steps Trump is taking to force the worst of Project 2025’s personnel and policies on the country, let’s tackle that whole mandate question first. Besides the fact that the Trump campaign deliberately obscured some of its most consequential policy goals to win votes, there’s the fact that his victory is proving far less decisive than it initially appeared. As votes have continued to be counted, Trump’s popular vote margin is going to be less than two percent, smaller than Hillary Clinton’s popular vote win in 2016 and in fact the smallest popular vote margin since 2000. Declaring you have a mandate doesn’t make it so, but it is The Republican Way going back to George W. Bush.  Back to Project 2025. Despite lying about it throughout the campaign, Trump wasted no time appointing several of the project’s authors to key positions in his new administration. Because they’ve been steeped in hypocrisy for so long, Republicans see nothing odd about Trump embracing Project 2025 after feigning a complete lack of familiarity and having called it “ridiculous and abysmal.”  Project 2025 co-author Russ Vought, who led the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during Trump’s first term, got caught on tape saying the quiet part out loud during the campaign when he told undercover reporters to trust that Trump would implement a national abortion ban if he returned to power, despite his public statements to the contrary. But far from being rapped on the knuckles for linking Trump to a stance he ostensibly opposed, Vought has been rewarded by getting his old OMB job back. 

Besides being one of Trump’s abortion-whisperers, Vought is going to be instrumental in executing Trump’s plan to strip federal workers of job protections and replace them with hard-right partisans who see their only job as executing Trump’s wishes. Vought won’t stop there, though. He’s said we’re living in a “post-constitutional” time, which for Vought apparently means that Trump gets to turn the military on protestors and to cut spending whether Congress agrees or not. If this sounds to you a lot like an imperial presidency, of deforming the whole of the federal government to make it solely a weapon to implement Trump’s desires, you’re not wrong. And Vought is by no means alone in being one of the Project 2025 denizens who Trump is ushering into high-level government positions.

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If nothing but these few Project 2025 goals were achieved, we’d have a radically partisan and unstable federal workforce, media regulation driven by which companies show the most allegiance to Trump, public schools that are more starved of funding than ever, decreased oversight of colleges and universities, and Medicaid that would be harder to obtain and keep. Trump has no mandate for these things because he not only didn’t campaign on them but he denied any link with Project 2025 at all. But because of the trifecta voters gave Republicans, they are likely to happen nonetheless. Democrats spent months trying to highlight the links between Project 2025 and Trump, only to have both sides of that equation and some mainstream media outlets insist it was fearmongering to make those connections. It wasn’t, and it isn’t. Project 2025 was always the blueprint for a second Trump administration, and these appointments are just the beginning.

Donald Trump sold a lot of his voters a bad bill of goods, and his supporters falsely insinuate that a majority of the country supports the Orange Felon and Project 2025’s agendas.

[sherdnerd]

Its painful hearing that the Strange New Worlds writers would love to have longer seasons, and that they're as short as they are because of a 10-episode limit imposed by paramount.

[windslar]

imagine a simlish version of beyoncé's texas hold 'em

[askagamedev]

You often talk about budget in your answers, so I was curious about something. Is it possible for the company to run out of budget before devs could complete the game as they initially planned, so that they have to wrap up all the pending storylines as best as they can even if incomplete? Talking specifically about massive story driven games with a lot of important characters having long storylines such as The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, the Mass Effect series, etc.

It has certainly happened in the past, though not necessarily specifically the narrative part of the game. Many games are pushed to launch without development being as far as they want it to be due to reasons like hitting their budgetary limit and needing to recoup some of the investment. Our estimates are only estimates after all, sometimes we run into unforeseen problems and things take longer than expected. We can't stop paying the developers when we hit snags like that, so certain features end up more costly than others, which eats into the budget that was earmarked for other stuff instead. Most games in this situation have a lot of other launch issues too for the same reason - when you're pushed out the door to make the deadline due to running out of budget, things that should have been fixed are often not.

When World of Warcraft launched in 2004, there were several entire world zones that were incomplete and (mostly) locked off from players. Some players were able to sneak in through various exploits and take screenshots of those areas. Most notable were that the zones were primarily unpopulated by anything - no mobs, no quests, empty towns and buildings, just environment geometry that had been built out. This accompanied other incomplete bits of the game like quests that still had XML code in them. It would take years before players would finally see the incomplete-at-launch zones in some form or other.

Cyberpunk 2077 famously launched after multiple delays with numerous bugs and weird issues. Notably, the dev team also completely cut the multiplayer mode of the game that they had been building in order to consolidate resources to ship the single player game. The game came in super hot and had a huge number of launch issues that were eventually (mostly) ironed out, but the multiplayer mode was never resurrected.

The most famous example of this is probably Knights of the Old Republic 2. The publisher famously moved the deadline up and Obsidian scrapped the in-development ending since they didn't have the time to finish it. Instead, the story was wrapped up super quickly to ship the game. Notably, the partially-finished original ending was left on the disc and modders eventually discovered (and later restored) it.

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[general-sleepy]

Starting on breaking down my opera adaptation script, and I'm curious whether the typical page to screen time rule of thumb will apply. One page generally equals one minute, but in opera a syllable can last for several seconds. I'm working out the numbers right now, watching a production and pausing to note down the timecodes.

Also, in general I'm realizing that maybe this was not the smartest script to start practicing this all on. And yet.

[tangledinink]

Wait wait wait

You do witchcraft???

That's so cool! I had no idea there were other witches in the TMNT fandom!!!

What kind of witchcraft do you practice?? Personally, I deal mostly with divination, but I'd love to hear more about other people's crafts!

I do! ^^ Though admittedly my practice has been a little bit dormant as of late because I sort of fell out of habit after An Event which was a Bit Disruptive to My Life lol. But I guess I kind of dabble in a bit of everything? I dunno if I could pin myself down to just one kind of practice yet, I still sort of consider myself a Baby Witch. But I really like making little spelljars and casting candle spells and things of the like, and I've been trying to learn tarot for a while now! I also really like making and drawing sigils... For a while part of the joy for me has been just Learning New Things.

^ ft. gecko enclosure and tail lol. BoS and altar not pictured.

[whentherewerebicycles]

oh my god okay I’ve been working since 7:30am but MN, SD, and JW are all submitted for internal review!!! NF is ready to submit as soon as he gets home from school and does a final readthrough!!!! DN has decided to waive review lol godspeed to that poor kid but it means less work for me today yippee!!!! and I also had time to give the baby a bath which is his new favorite activity (furiously focused water-kicking time!!!!). I think now I will take a break from student work and take all the residents of this household out for a brisk walk.

[stakeholders-sgv]

Understanding California AB 891: Enhancing Street Safety with Quick-Build Infrastructure

AB 891 is authored by Assemblymember Zbur. It will empower communities to rapidly transform streets with quick-build projects. These projects add safety infrastructure like protected bike lanes and planter boxes. These projects will reduce crashes and enhance connectivity and street safety for California communities. Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Transportation and…

[idontmindifuforgetme]

i think i officially set my sights on a therapist and i'll be contacting her very soon?? therapy was legitimately not on my 2024 bingo card (or in the cards for me at all) but here we are????

[thebookworm0001]

One of the things that bugs me about GoT and even HoTD is that both shows seem to really hate the fact that they’re fantasy

like, case in point with HotD - a show very much about dragons - barely includes them. They show up for a plot beat then disappear again to the point that you’d never know some major characters have dragons they have significant bonds with.

GoT ignores the whole ‘winter is coming’ plot as long as it can, then takes care of it in a single episode for the iron throne plot

You have magic! The gods are real! There are motherfucking dragons! You can have a gritty fantasy that still enjoys the fantastical elements I promise you.

[wycross]

nanami uses an excel spreadsheet as a diary i think

[pride-of-storm]

emo has been p intense as of late but i have successfully filled my taxes so i'm at least managing to get some of the stuff i need to do done

[izzy-b-hands]

Just submitted a new patient request to Anchor Health. Cross your fingers for me, so I can get set up w/a doc I can stick with who can handle my T and PCP stuff and maybe even mental health stuff? (their website let me mark all three as things I wanted them to provide care for at least)

and the poor local PP can get back to trying to help others without me taking up any more of their scarce resources and staff

[fooltofancy]

everybody complains abt january, but it's february/march that are the enemy.