Also, we can directly trace thousands of deaths to the USAID shutdown: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund..., https://www.propublica.org/article/kenya-trump-usaid-world-f...

if its just reeing, it sounds like it didnt actually unearth anything.

do you have anyone who's got a trial pending for this corruption?

There was some interesting testimony. None of the politicians were incentivized to take the hearing seriously, so there was a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing from them. That's what I meant by reeing.

> do you have anyone who's got a trial pending for this corruption?

A great number of MN Somali welfare scammers are apparently finding out. But as to the bureaucratic blob, I don't know of any. One can hopium there are grand juries hard at work right now.

Well, obviously, Clinton, for her emails. /s

Yes, certain government agencies appeal to professionals as vocations rather than jobs. I have a friend who joined the FBI straight out of college. They don't EVER chat about their job, but I GUARANTEE you a private-industry offer at a significant bump in pay wouldn't make them flinch.

CDC? Every day you go home believing that you are part of a machine saving thousands of lives. BATF? Keeping guns away from terrorists.

And it's not a self-delusion. They ARE doing good things, even if the agency isn't perfect.

Because they don't have a permanent need to hire the expertise.

Very different idea.

> Please forward your next raise to me, since it will only raise your taxes.

Joking aside that's not really how taxes work (in the USA anyway).

A raise might move you into a higher top marginal tax rate, but only the money you earn above that new bracket threshold gets taxed at the higher rate, everything below the threshold continues to get taxed at the same rate as before.

Raises don't increase your taxes (though you might end up with a slightly higher top tax rate solely on the new money you weren't making at all before).

Yesss! I had an ex complain/advise that, if I could just stop thinking for a moment, I'd enjoy life more. In my mind, that's what Ms. Collier is doing: distracting her hyperresponsive brain parts so she can present a longer speech on the topic.

The medieval RC Church (proudly) taught that "Superbia mater malem est", "Pride is the mother of evil".

What were you actually trying to type? I can't figure it out.

I think the first "of" -> "if" makes it readable.

Grad school students are often required to work ridiculous amounts of unpaid hours for their supervising faculty (well over 40 hrs/week, sometimes meaning 7 days a week). Their eventual graduation is implicitly or explicitly tied to the approval of these monstrous bosses. Source: some of my fellow, less fortunate grad students.

Sure. That is still not the scenario being described. That is every startup too.

"Why haven't they proactively legislated against this new thing I don't like?" is not a strong argument.

Companies producing their own propietary screws to block repairments is not a new problem.