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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I have a good friend who is a federal regulator who works remotely. The department has a few desks in Washington DC that the staff basically rotates through when they do important filings. They are shared by 50-100 people, which is fine because they don’t need them for more than a couple days a year.

    The department actually needs the regulators out in the field. They closed most of the field offices to save money, since the work can be done from any computer. The only address is the DC office, which is also significantly downsized.

    1. Just from a basic logistics perspective, this does not work.

    2. Making it work would require making thousands of expensive new rentals over months just on the face of it.

    3. Department of Government “Efficiency”





























  • Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.

    The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it’s over.