President Donald Trump - J.D. Vance Administration

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EasternVol said:
Singapore's not bad if you're not into vandalism or drugs and can handle living in a sauna six months a year. There's a reason they call it 'Disneyland with the death penalty'.
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For sure. I spent 6 weeks there in my late 20’s running a project - had a blast. That city gets real small though after 2-3 weeks.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
It's not cutting a dollar that bothers me. It's what we're using those dollars cut for. We can't afford to help poor people or working class people and we have to cut "waste" so we can't have accurate forecasts but there is plenty of money for deporting people and making weapons of war.

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LOL This is a hilarious hill to die on.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
It's not cutting a dollar that bothers me. It's what we're using those dollars cut for. We can't afford to help poor people or working class people and we have to cut "waste" so we can't have accurate forecasts but there is plenty of money for deporting people and making weapons of war.

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"Social benefits" spending reached 4.4T in 2024. It was 45% of the budget.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
It's not cutting a dollar that bothers me. It's what we're using those dollars cut for. We can't afford to help poor people or working class people and we have to cut "waste" so we can't have accurate forecasts but there is plenty of money for deporting people and making weapons of war.

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Our overall budget is less than last year
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
It's not cutting a dollar that bothers me. It's what we're using those dollars cut for. We can't afford to help poor people or working class people and we have to cut "waste" so we can't have accurate forecasts but there is plenty of money for deporting people and making weapons of war.

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So 17% more people doing whatever and more money would’ve produced a more accurate forecast? I mean they get it wrong every day and have long before January.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
When the Trump administration extended an exemption of the federal hiring freeze to the NOAA (and in turn, the National Weather Service) in June, that was a tacit admission that DOGE had gone overboard with their layoffs at the agency.
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Yet they’re still getting blamed for job cuts that didn’t happen. Shocking
 
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85SugarVol said:
For sure. I spent 6 weeks there in my late 20’s running a project - had a blast. That city gets real small though after 2-3 weeks.
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There's a lot more to do there now than a decade or two ago. And they've loosened up since they know they're competing with other such places for talent. Hell they even legalized bartop dancing a while back. When it still gets too small there's a ton of great places nearby.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
You cherry-picked a small portion of that article to emphasize. It also includes this :

"The timing and language of forecasts and warnings was already receiving significant scrutiny and criticism on Saturday, as state and Trump administration officials emphasized how the flooding far surpassed what been predicted."

The biggest point of criticism is not with the warning, but rather how the forecasts for rain badly underestimated the torrential downpour that was coming.
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So the forecast, which is a prediction of the future, was wrong.
 
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CobbVol said:
So the forecast, which is a prediction of the future, was wrong.
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Absolutely a blown forecast. I don’t really blame that on staffing levels. Those happen. If they are slow to warn/upgrade an ongoing event, that's a staffing level indication.

For example, law enforcement/spotters having to contact the NWS in Ohio to get warning upgrades because the local NWS for Somerset, KY wasnt responsding to those reports...
 
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EasternVol said:
There's a lot more to do there now than a decade or two ago. And they've loosened up since they know they're competing with other such places for talent. Hell they even legalized bartop dancing a while back. When it still gets too small there's a ton of great places nearby.
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I’d love to go back and see it. They had just opened Marina Bay Sands when I was there, and there was a lot more under development.

Legalized bartop dancing is a long way from the hidden floor at the Atrium lol.
 
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