Just like #Microsoft #XBox :
Great announcements one week.
Terrible news a few days later.
#Mismanagement
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1879-05), “The Truth of Intercourse,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 39
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And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue? Collected as "Virginibus Puerisque, Part 4"…
Since it's nearing the end of the month, I want to remind people that the server will be shutdown on the 31st of December at noon.
I also want to use this opportunity to wish everyone a happy Christmas/Holidays.
Wish everyone nothing but calm and happiness in their future endeavors.
If you want to follow me from other servers you can find me at @axelrafn
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Trump’s funding cuts are unofficially halting government operations – The Washington Post
The hidden ways Trump, DOGE are shutting down parts of the U.S. government
Limits on spending have incapacitated parts of agencies as varied as the National Park Service and the Pentagon.
May 11, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. EDTYesterday at 6:00 a.m. EDT, 8 min
A researcher at a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lab in Cincinnati. (Joshua A. Bickel /AP)By Hannah Natanson and Maxine Joselow
At the Environmental Protection Agency, research at 11 laboratories has ground to a halt because the Trump administration has not approved most new lab purchases.
At the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, key work on weather forecasting has slowed to a crawl because Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick must sign off personally on many contracts and grants. And at the Social Security Administration, some employees are running out of paper, pens and printer toner because the U.S. DOGE Servicehas placed a $1 spending limit on government-issued credit cards. (DOGE stands for Department of Government Efficiency, though it is not a Cabinet-level agency.)
Across the federal government, Trump officials are halting a wide range of operations by declining to approve key funds. This unofficial hold on many activities has incapacitated many agencies’ divisions, even though they remain technically intact.
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