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given that my brother is a senior admin working in human resources at a federal agency, the answer may be much higher than you expect.

It's like any large org. Except it is probably one of the largest large orgs.

And seeing as these orgs need to provide regulated services to 330 million people, the nature of the beast is it must be a large org.

> And the other is about keeping a polite distance to prevent repeated interactions.

or, the other is about providing them the vision and the clear set of steps. Then checking their progress along those steps. (including revising the steps when the original plan diverges from the evolving reality).

Training and mentoring the people so they can become rock stars.

Alexander Humbolt, perhaps the greatest scientist ever, was a government bureaucrat. Started his career working as a mining examiner.

One evidence of greatness: Humbolt has more geological features named after him than anyone else. Like the Humbolt Current etc.

Yes, it costs, and yes, to make public transit a valid alternative service needs to be frequent all day.

However, all of the maintenance around allowing private transport is also a cost. That includes all of the private costs for car ownership. If public transport is a valid option, then car ownership becomes a choice.

A tiny city might need 100 busses, but how many cars does that replace? What is the full cost of those cars? If everyone made a monthly "bus payment" instead of a "car payment" (actually payments when you add insurance, maintenance, ...), I think we'd find the bus system much less expensive.

pushback:

if you are listening to a podcast or music, your mind is following those rhythms and thoughts. Not clear this is better when running that listening to the rhythms of your own body; breath, heart, footfall, and the sounds of the world around you.

If you are driving using a GPS for navigating, how much of your mind are you using to track where you are, spotting landmarks, etc. This is a FUNDAMENTAL aspect of almost all motive forms of live, the circuitry is deep in the brain, and if you are not activating it, you don't even know what you are missing.

Behind, or aligned with different goals?

Can you name a popular civilian tech that blocks adding random journalists to small chat groups? That includes strong identity guarantees? That meets compliance requirements around logging calls?

Bloomberg might come the closest on this. Why don't you go out and price a Bloomberg terminal for yourself, at the grade that lets you trade options with other Bloomberg terminal owners over the chat interface?

> very likely would vote for the tariffs anyway as the majority would support anything the president would say.

Very true, however,

1) it does slow the process somewhat and therefore also reduces total throughput, this keeps government more stable and also gives more time to respond. Slow and stable may or may not be the best way to run a company, but the government is not a company.

2) It would put the individual congresspeople on record, and they are somewhat more dependent on/accountable to their local population. If for example all the farmers realized that the tariffs would destroy the farmer's livelihood, we could see Iowa withdrawing suport.

The US goverment was set up the way it is for reasons.

wonder who is going to service that mod 3 if T. folds?

"most people mean"

implies most people since the King James version was published. Not at all clear that's what author meant; the concept of the world as we now know it didn't exist then.

So very reasonable to conclude that the Great Flood in Genesis was meant to describe a regional megaflood, which innundated the "whole world" meaning all of Mesopotamian civilization.

And there is archeological evidence of ancient cities totally buried in mud, i.e. as you say regional megafloods.

Forgetting that it was the anti-education forces that created the curriculums. The war on public education goes back a long time; teachers lost the freedom to teach decades ago. and it has been the same forces behind it all along.

Maybe you are missing the point made?

For many people (and other animals), memory is tied to a specific place. The poster knows that the note they made is i.e.

red notebook on top shelf, page 12, top left corner.

Searching in digital notes doesn't give that same sense of place.

And the sense of place, plus the "path" that connects items in the space, is an important part of memory and learning.

The parent's russian propoganda post does not mention that the posted savings are full of inaccuracies.

Nor does the propoganda define "waste", if one looks at the actual cuts, it seems to be focused on "things Herr M. doesn't like". which is not a good definition of "waste".

Step 1: ask the LLM

Step 3: profit

right? Did I leave something out?

Not sure where you get your information. Many civil servants are motivated to do what is right for their country, civil service tends to draw mission-oriented people. People who are typically willing to go above and beyond to make things work.

Think about the teachers who buy classroom supplies out of their own meager paycheck because they want them for the lesson, and 'cost-cutting' means they don't have enough resources in the school.

Think of all the people at the CDC, or at NOAH, or similar.

In any large organization, and the Fed Government is > 2m employees, so it counts, you can easily find example of people who are driven and people who coast.

And actually, people are sacked in the fed if they don't make their numbers, or they are quietly sidelined.