{"id":4869,"date":"2025-01-25T15:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2025-01-25T15:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T20:47:24","slug":"still-snowbound-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/still-snowbound-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Snowbound Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s above freezing now, so hopefully a lot of the remaining ice will sublimate off, and I can go back to exercising as I&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going to be a bit odd with my wife the return-to-office of the Federal workforce.  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to affect me directly, but there&#8217;s going to be some changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DEI EO might actually help people like me get back to potentially working on the General Schedule?  Possibly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of discussion about what Musk is doing with DOGE, but I&#8217;m really looking at it at this point as one of few ways to actually shrink the Federal workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone who&#8217;s on the DEI staff &#8212; is there anything else he\/she can do in Federal service?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, work at the TSA, perhaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow I think a gender studies major might be able to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"South Park TSA security camera\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9PSwon2TM9o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But there&#8217;s not a lot else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there&#8217;ll be a segment who&#8217;ll finally just retire, but I think there&#8217;s still many of them who&#8217;ve got debt that makes that impossible.  Even with an inflation-adjusted pension, paying a the three mortgages would be tough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any sort of self-deprivation is unthinkable.  That the buying-power of pretty much every single world currency is dropping is a part of it.  Why is the Federal government spending more on interest on the debt today than it spends on the military?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I know, NeoHippies, it&#8217;s all about the Military-Industrial Complex.  And President Biden harkened back to that in his farewell admonition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay.  Whatever.  Let me know who you ware so I can ignore you for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In 5 minutes, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMilei?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JMilei<\/a> provides a comprehensive history and diagnosis of humankind&#39;s rise and fall. Thanks to Trump, Milei, Musk, Meloni, Bolsonaro and more, the West turns the ship to avoid the Marxist government iceberg! Freedom, human rights and Truth underpin human\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3AWs2P2RQ8\">https:\/\/t.co\/3AWs2P2RQ8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Carrie Sheffield (@carriesheffield) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/carriesheffield\/status\/1882495790419218501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cannot say enough about how brave saying that sort of stuff is at the WEF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dry January ends soon.  I did have one drink watching inaugural festivities, but have been good otherwise.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emphatic &#8220;meh.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s above freezing now, so hopefully a lot of the remaining ice will sublimate off, and I can go back to exercising as I&#8217;d like. Going to be a bit odd with my wife the return-to-office of the Federal workforce. 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