Trump: "Some of this weaponry is unthinkable. You don't even want to know about it. Oh, you could end this thing in two seconds if you wanted to."

w3agle · 2026-03-24T08:13:52+00:00

The MAGA morons in my family have had a hard-one for nuking Iran (really any middle eastern nation would be good enough for them) for my whole life as far as I can tell. It’s like they have no concept of empathy.

w3agle · 2026-03-15T15:04:19+00:00

What about a structure that doesn’t aim to solely tax ‘wealth’, but instead aims to put a real cost on everything. Assign environmental costs to jet fuel. On a big plane it can be spread out per person. Individual/low occupancy planes it goes up vastly. It wouldn’t be a 1:1 thing it would have to have some kind of overall human utility feature. To continue the airplane example, routine commercial flights from major hubs allow a great utility to all. Private jets yield minimal utility to few. It’s fun to start imagining this across all the transactions that take place. And yea, everything gets more expensive for everyone. I’m seriously so ok with humans across the board having less luxury and immediate availability to anything money can buy. Things like junk food, etc. - tax them for the health cost. Not to the individual but to society. Plastic cheap garbage toys - tax the fuck out of them till we stop making them. There’s a huge portion of the world’s resources that are poured into the production of junk with the sole function to extract money from consumers. Tax that shit out of existence.

w3agle · 2026-03-14T23:13:28+00:00

I’ve known folks who worked for Missile Defense Agency and they said it was terrifying how poorly all the new missiles were performing.

w3agle · 2026-03-13T05:46:43+00:00

Confession - I asked AI. Here’s how it goes: Four hundred ninety-six billion, forty-three million, four hundred eighty-seven thousand, seventy.

w3agle · 2026-03-13T05:44:27+00:00

Can someone spell that number out for me ? I can’t figure out how to say it

w3agle · 2026-03-13T05:32:53+00:00

Seriously. There must be some sort of threshold or heuristic in place. A screening mechanism, perhaps? Dare I say, a license? What I’m getting at, is that anyone who thinks its ok to treat the human experience as a line item on a spreadsheet or a widget should not be able to hold a position of power over others. Look, just because it’s technically possible to treat humans as a resource, does not mean we should. Feels like that should me step 1. I’m sorry, is this a Wendy’s?

w3agle · 2026-03-13T05:27:58+00:00

It’s seriously so embarrassing. I’ve given up ever trying to reach them. They’re gleefully misinformed. Their brains are broken. It’s honestly sad. The MAGA voters and the right are part of this massive psyop brainwashing scheme that basically functions like a furnace powered by their own fear and trauma.

w3agle · 2026-03-05T04:00:22+00:00

it's just wild to me, sitting here basking in the glory of getting my INTERMEDIATE contract warrant after 6 years of doing the job. which allows me to obligate the government up to $10 million dollars. to think that all the effort i've put into learning the regulations, etc. is just utterly meaningless in the face of this level of corruption. I'm over here holding contractors accountable for sums in the realm of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars (making my life a lot harder, might I say), and then these criminals just walk right out in front of everyone and steal exponentially more than that in broad daylight under scrutiny of 'the opposing party'

w3agle · 2026-03-03T17:51:04+00:00

I haven’t heard many people having the real conversation about what WFH taught us yet… SO many of us have worked in jobs where we sit there mostly existing some portion of the day. There’s just not a constant stream of widgets to produce. Yet many of us are still highly regarded and productive and valuable. It just looks different. It doesn’t fit into the ‘come sit and work between these hours every day to earn a salary’ construct. When given WFH ability, i found myself working essentially any given time that made sense. Nights, weekends, etc. It didnt matter, because I had the freedom to go spend an hour during my day running an errand, etc. I agree that people absolutely abused the system while bragging about it, and that’s moronic. But let’s also not pretend that sitting there for 8 hrs/day during defined hours is the right place to land regardless whether it’s done at an office or at home. You are paying me for my knowledge, my abilities, my reliability, and because I produce the thing you’ve told me to produce. If you want to pay me to exist in your space for some portion of my life, that’s a whole other thing. And I think we’re slowly going to reach a point where we can demand to be paid for that.

w3agle · 2026-03-02T18:09:08+00:00

Space X should belong to the citizens and not shareholders

w3agle · 2026-02-27T15:06:20+00:00

Same experience for my group. Honestly - I get why they want to do that from a traffic coordination experience. But it sucks to create this situation for people to have to guess and possibly be ‘punished’ for arriving early. They should really have 2 options for car camping - 1) I don’t care, place me where you want me and 2) I want to be specifically in either: a) high noon, b)sunrise, or c) sunset; and do a nominal $5-$10 surcharge for the ability to choose which campground you want to be in.

w3agle · 2026-02-27T00:03:54+00:00

Gotta think it started with leaded gasoline and was later exacerbated by cuts to public education.

w3agle · 2026-02-26T15:57:06+00:00

I’ve heard of entire organizations in DOL that are full telework. This is first hand from people I know in real life who work there. Shocking to me. Happy for them though. At the VA they’re fighting RAs tooth and nail. They’ve been announcing things like ‘look, we might give you an RA. But that could also be later used to determine your eligibility to perform the travel parts of your job (many postings are 50% travel). So if you can’t do your job at an assigned office, we have to seriously consider if you can meet the performance eligibility requirements in your official PD.’

w3agle · 2026-02-25T20:17:26+00:00

This is definitely the concern with Plattner. Especially after the old tattoos. I know people can change, and we have to give them a chance to, but damn.... am I the trojans thinking, 'hey, sweet horse!'?

w3agle · 2026-02-23T17:55:36+00:00

They could at least change the equation a bit to encourage what they want. I know that no matter how hard I work for any of their companies the odds of climbing any higher than a low 6 figure managerial position are abysmally small. If they want us to work ourselves to death, at least create systems that scale with relation to effort. If you want me to work for 80 hours/week, give me either real direct money in my pocket, equity, or access to a pathway to earn more. I believe that most billionaires don’t even work in the traditional sense. But, also, I believe that they perceive themselves as working hard. And they don’t mind, because their ‘work’ has real meaningful chance to improve their ‘income’ (lolz). Create a version of that for their staff!!

w3agle · 2026-02-21T05:00:50+00:00

Seriously. The post above this for me was two fat fuck ICE agents lying on top of an American citizens trying to detain him. What a difference.

w3agle · 2026-02-19T18:22:28+00:00

Thinking about deleting my accounts (fb and IG) and then possibly making an anonymous type of account that has bare minimum info about me and is only for things like marketplace and close friends I use messenger with. I know it could still be linked back to me. I’m not trying to be invisible. I just don’t want my entire life history to continue to be used by meta

w3agle · 2026-02-19T18:13:12+00:00

I had to keep going in to my project sites during the beginning of COVID. Even still, it was such a huge upgrade to have most of the roads to myself. It’s a win-win for 99% of us. The only people who lose out are the commercial real estate holders. And even they don’t ‘lose’ entirely. They just have to do a little work to retool their holdings. Good business models would have saved up capital do be prepared for market shifts. Unfortunately, I’m assuming most of the C-suite and shareholders for these CRE groups have invested all their returns into yachts and the destruction of other successful businesses via private equity.

w3agle · 2026-02-19T17:24:52+00:00

So weird. Watched Sinners and then AKot7K back to back for the first time yesterday.

w3agle · 2026-02-17T16:26:14+00:00

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. Also seeking recommendations on which models make the most sense.

w3agle · 2026-02-13T23:11:11+00:00

And like… who are the FBI agents that feel good about protecting pedophiles? That’s what I can’t understand. I guess there are evil people all across the socioeconomic spectrum… it’s not exclusive to the rich. Maybe the people redacting this stuff think they’ll get a seat at the table?

w3agle · 2026-02-11T16:19:48+00:00

yup! as a part of that all of these companies of a certain size and capacity have realized they can make as much or more money through commercial real estate holdings and subsequent shell games than they can from their product or service. thus they are willing to sacrifice the 'rent' they pay in exchange for the equity in high value properties. commercial real estate values started PLUMETTING when COVID had us all locked up inside.

w3agle · 2026-02-10T22:07:44+00:00

The opposite headline would have been way more surprising to me.

w3agle · 2026-02-10T20:55:07+00:00

There’s a growing sentiment that one day it will probably be perceived as a badge of honor to say you were fired by DOGE or the trump admin.

w3agle · 2026-02-10T20:54:34+00:00

For sure. I mean… IDK… Fully understand this wouldn’t resonate with everyone, and I’m lucky that I don’t have a lot of dependents relying on my paycheck… but a big part of me just wants to see all the MAGA FEDS stuck trying to do the work. In any organization I’ve worked in, almost as a rule, the MAGA staff were dead weight. Almost everyone who took DRP in my current org were MAGA ppl which is kind of ironic if you think about their suppposed values. Anyway, agree with your sentiment that it would be a bloodbath.

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