I’m still so mad at the Skoot Corp CEO for that ridiculous re-skeet where they memed the javalina charrp boys on doop.

Am I having the stroke? Or is everyone else?

On the Xennial side - hard agree.

But we all know that Boomers are the scourge of the earth and may very well kill us all before they shuffle of this mortal coil… Right?

What you missed here is that the underappreciated aspect is energy density plus portability. That’s it.

If you’ve never been in a taxi in Africa where some guy has 20 gallons of gas in plastic bags and old cooking oil bottles to drive out to a moto driver 100 miles from any sort of infrastructure at all, then I can see how you might not understand viscerally understand this.

There is nothing else to replace fossil fuels at that level of both portability and energy density. We need more work, more innovation, and more development not for people on the grid, but to get the people OFF the grid away from fossil fuels.

My understanding was nearly everything that wasn’t digitized internally by around 2013ish was with the Archives and in their remit to digitize as of was already with them anyway. Everything after that is all electronic so it can fill out the Development Clearinghouse (DEC). It’s a whole lofty academic library aspiration, except that the DEC is a black hole because the search function sucks. Sucked. It’s gone now.

Also, let’s not divulge too much personal info in public by asking the right questions, OK? It’ll be worth it.

Is USAID large enough that, being co-located with another large agency in 99% of its overseas locations, and working closely with that agency which manages numerous annexes with scifs around DC, that it should warrant its OWN classified system? Can you find any documents supporting that?

Is there already a well-established practice and policies of formal reporting from USAID using that other agency’s system for unclassified documents?

Hint: https://fam.state.gov/fam/05fah02/05fah020440.html

What is the name of the classified system that other large agency, large enough to be a department, uses? Hint: it’s a basic portmanteau in the document above.

Is that the same name as is found in this public document as showing that a small agency with only a few hundred or maaaaybe a thousand staff with S or higher clearances, producing very few classified documents per year per this same document, might be using? https://oig.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/2018-06/9-000-16-001-p_0.pdf

Anyone who knows about this stuff in detail has zero feelings about shredding documents because they had to do that anyway to clean out their desks over the last month.

On top of a mountain. And there’s going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance 'til the sun rises.

Oh, wait, you said plan the new government? Sorry, thought you said get married. Sorry, my bad.

My favorite one so far.

That was all digitized during the Obama administration. NAR has it all.

FOIA your face off, see how much you end up with. It’ll be plenty.

Experience =/= trust.

Lol, not without Rubio authorizing it and a lot of tedious legwork in Virginia data centers. Friendo, you clearly don’t understand these systems and for some reason think you do.

Also, why would he even purge anything of he could? His people wanted to see what was in the paper records 5 weeks ago and got pissed they were denied access. They came, they saw, they didn’t get anything they wanted, and they left. Meanwhile, Peter Marocco is still there with read access all along. All the financial records are still there, still public.

WTF? No! The call center people didn’t do this. What the hell is wrong with you?

You call and ask them that you have a question, and that it’s to ask their marketing team “what the hell?”

Treat call center folks are your allies, and they can easily become that for you. Abuse is literally the only wrong answer.

This is the year 2025, and you all are worried about paper records?

Stop to think…where does a paper classified record come from? If “printed from a classified computer” didn’t cross your mind, I suggest you check your underinformed outrage. Anything old enough to be historical should already be at the National Archives.

USAID is moving out of all its offices, so getting rid of paper copies of records falls squarely into Federal records retention policies.

They do absolutely love an opportunity to be scammed of they think it’s part of a culture war stand.

Maybe all the money they’ll make on their Trump coin can pay for…oh, wait…

First question: What the hell is this?

Second question: What the hell is wrong with you people?

I’m sure they have a group chat, right?

“Guys, how much are you selling your yay for these days? I’ve had negative feedback from three people now about prices. I can handle these bad Yelp reviews.”

Yeah, I love their charlatan math:

Contract for 5 years, $10m at $2m a year, paid quarterly.

Year 4.5, $9 million already paid out, some years ago.

Cancel contract.

wE sAvEd $10 mIlLiOn!

And he’ll rescind them all by this time tomorrow.

This exactly. This is for payment for work already done and not billed, between the last payment (Dec or Jan) and the January Stop Work Order.

This has no bearing on if any programs will continue, or new programs.

Eutelsat and Amazon’s Kuiper just got one more pre-order.

Feed them one of your horses. But put 2kg of C4 in the horse’s butt first. Bears can’t resist spicy palomino. Them yeet them off the board with the C4.

Correct. They went from being on 15 socials to I think 12 and no one cared about the other ones.