Waldo Jaquith
Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
- So not only can fluoride not go in water, *you can’t get it at all*. We’re going to have at least a generation of people with a lifetime of serious dental problems because our country is run by lunatics who want your children to be sick.
- We put fluoride drops in our kids’ water when they were little, because we’re on well water without naturally occurring fluoride. This is a very normal thing.
- They were never going to do this. The same companies that recently announced big investments in the U.S. did the same thing in 2017, and also never followed through. They know Trump is too stupid to check, too easily bored to follow up.
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- I've got a pretty rugged stomach and even I wouldn't attempt that combo.
- The other day I was cutting out a bunch of balusters for some stairs when I unknowingly cut one wrong. I kept duplicating from that one, and wound up with a bunch of mis-cut balusters. And now I understand prion diseases.
- At GSA, we surveyed employees in 2021–22 asking about job satisfaction and remote work. A small minority hated it, most liked it, and women liked it the most. IIRC, we didn’t ask about race or parenthood, but anecdotally, mothers of color found remote work life-changing.
- It makes a huge difference to be at home when your kid gets off the bus, to take a ten-minute break to ask about their day, give them a snack, and get back to work. The alternatives are mostly expensive, time-consuming, and often less good for families.
- The goal of the Trump administration’s in-person mandates is to drive women out of the workforce, especially mothers, to relegate them to baby-making. This isn’t merely a return to 2019 norms. Resegregation of the workforce isn’t just about race, it’s also about sex.
- This is flatly unconstitutional, but the SCOTUS says presidents are immune from prosecution so here we are.
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View full threadHow are they going to install a SCIF on it??
- It would seem to be impossible!
- By 1988, it was clear that the U.S. could never find all of the monitoring devices in the half-built new Moscow embassy, to the point that Reagan declared it must be torn down and rebuilt. Ultimately there turned out to be *hundreds* of bugs.
- There is no argument to be made that a Qatar-provided Air Force One can be made secure. A 747 contains hundreds of miles of wire and *millions* of parts. If it is not built as Air Force One, it is impossible to ever know that it is secure. Like the Russian embassy, it would have to be torn down.
