Sorry I’m doing such a shitty job of it. I’ll try to step up my game tomorrow. I should have brought Strongmad with me. He’d get the job done.

Just post a bunch of geese as your border guards (and maybe international trade negotiators too?) and you’ll be fine. I feel they’re an underutilized Canadian resource!

Damn. You figured me out. Now I need to change my username to CuddlyTortoise.

They don’t know what Reddit is in the least. Using email can occasionally be a challenge. They’re hippy artist types. Mostly they only know Facebook so they can sell their art. It’s a different life.

Fair. I’ve been trying to explain Lemmy and the Fediverse to my non-tech friends and it has been…entertaining.

Oooh…I need sparkly unicorn and Pegasus stickers now!

Not even close. Well, I mean, it’s close like within 100 years!

I’m not a millennial, but I do kinda sorta work in IT, so half guilty as charged. Back to practicing my consummate Vs now.

LOL - Oh no! My privacy has been breached!!! Destroy the compy!

I wonder what my Trogdor the Burninator sticker is secretly telling people about me.

I wonder what my Trogdor the Burninator sticker is secretly telling people about me.

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Go read the news yourself then. It’s all out there. People have lost access to health benefits, water hygiene standards are being relaxed, critical cybersecurity initiatives are being cut, national parks will be less accessible to all (some of Colorado’s have already announced they’ll be closed two days a week), the impacts are both immediate and longer term, and far reaching. If you want to hear about immediate direct impact, a critical domestic violence center in Colorado that has been providing cross-departmental case management and victim advocacy since 2016 will likely have to shut down because its federal funding was cut by DOGE and victims are currently being turned away. The immediate, very real, impacts are EASY to discover with a minimal amount of research effort. The larger ones are just starting to make themselves known.

Yeah, there may be more that hadn’t made the published list yet. sigh Hard to keep up…

ETA: I don’t think the IRS is on there either. DOGE is cutting their funding too.

• Department of Education (ED)
• U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
• Department of Defense (DoD)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• General Services Administration (GSA)
• Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
• Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Department of Commerce (DOC)
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
• Department of the Treasury (TREAS)
• Department of Labor (DOL)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Social Security Administration (SSA)
• Department of State (DOS)
• Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
• Small Business Administration (SBA)
• Department of Transportation (DOT)
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
• Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
• Railroad Retirement Board (RRB)

From the official DOGE website.

Great. Lemme just get a bunch of chickens for my downtown city apartment.

Unfortunately it likely won’t be the billionaires suffering, so I’m not sure how much meaningful rethinking will be going on unless pressure on them is relentless.

We need more of this sort of vibe out there!

Haha. Obvs Lemmy is only for the leet.

This would be preferable.