#wasteful — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wasteful, aggregated by home.social.
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Wasteful Capitalism. That's how I'd describe Nintendo's shitty, switchy Switch 2 game-key cards. They only exist to serve Big Corpo and Big Oil, certainly not the players.
On a planet ravaged by Global Warming and Climate Change, it's absolutely disgusting to produce something so useless.
If the eShop store goes down, the game(s) that you've purchased go down down... The toilet. Your game-key will only unlock the greed of corpo suits.
#Nintendo #GameKeyCard #Wasteful #Capitalism #BigCorpo #BigOil #CorporateGreed #Gaming #VideoGames #Switch #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet #StopFossils #ResetSociety #BeTheChange
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Wasteful Capitalism. That's how I'd describe Nintendo's shitty, switchy Switch 2 game-key cards. They only exist to serve Big Corpo and Big Oil, certainly not the players.
On a planet ravaged by Global Warming and Climate Change, it's absolutely disgusting to produce something so useless.
If the eShop store goes down, the game(s) that you've purchased go down down... The toilet. Your game-key will only unlock the greed of corpo suits.
#Nintendo #GameKeyCard #Wasteful #Capitalism #BigCorpo #BigOil #CorporateGreed #Gaming #VideoGames #Switch #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet #StopFossils #ResetSociety #BeTheChange
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Wasteful Capitalism. That's how I'd describe Nintendo's shitty, switchy Switch 2 game-key cards. They only exist to serve Big Corpo and Big Oil, certainly not the players.
On a planet ravaged by Global Warming and Climate Change, it's absolutely disgusting to produce something so useless.
If the eShop store goes down, the game(s) that you've purchased go down down... The toilet. Your game-key will only unlock the greed of corpo suits.
#Nintendo #GameKeyCard #Wasteful #Capitalism #BigCorpo #BigOil #CorporateGreed #Gaming #VideoGames #Switch #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet #StopFossils #ResetSociety #BeTheChange
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Wasteful Capitalism. That's how I'd describe Nintendo's shitty, switchy Switch 2 game-key cards. They only exist to serve Big Corpo and Big Oil, certainly not the players.
On a planet ravaged by Global Warming and Climate Change, it's absolutely disgusting to produce something so useless.
If the eShop store goes down, the game(s) that you've purchased go down down... The toilet. Your game-key will only unlock the greed of corpo suits.
#Nintendo #GameKeyCard #Wasteful #Capitalism #BigCorpo #BigOil #CorporateGreed #Gaming #VideoGames #Switch #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet #StopFossils #ResetSociety #BeTheChange
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Wasteful Capitalism. That's how I'd describe Nintendo's shitty, switchy Switch 2 game-key cards. They only exist to serve Big Corpo and Big Oil, certainly not the players.
On a planet ravaged by Global Warming and Climate Change, it's absolutely disgusting to produce something so useless.
If the eShop store goes down, the game(s) that you've purchased go down down... The toilet. Your game-key will only unlock the greed of corpo suits.
#Nintendo #GameKeyCard #Wasteful #Capitalism #BigCorpo #BigOil #CorporateGreed #Gaming #VideoGames #Switch #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #SaveThePlanet #StopFossils #ResetSociety #BeTheChange
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Jesse Lee: "UFC fights are distracting from Trump’s core messages to people who are struggling, messages like the #Ballroom, the #January6th slush fund, and keeping Trump's name on the #KennedyCenter."
#Trump #selfish #greedy #wasteful #RewardingViolenceAgainstThePolice #politics #affordability -
Jesse Lee: "UFC fights are distracting from Trump’s core messages to people who are struggling, messages like the #Ballroom, the #January6th slush fund, and keeping Trump's name on the #KennedyCenter."
#Trump #selfish #greedy #wasteful #RewardingViolenceAgainstThePolice #politics #affordability -
Jesse Lee: "UFC fights are distracting from Trump’s core messages to people who are struggling, messages like the #Ballroom, the #January6th slush fund, and keeping Trump's name on the #KennedyCenter."
#Trump #selfish #greedy #wasteful #RewardingViolenceAgainstThePolice #politics #affordability -
Jesse Lee: "UFC fights are distracting from Trump’s core messages to people who are struggling, messages like the #Ballroom, the #January6th slush fund, and keeping Trump's name on the #KennedyCenter."
#Trump #selfish #greedy #wasteful #RewardingViolenceAgainstThePolice #politics #affordability -
#today I took to the animal #charity shop, where I work when I'm in Spain, all my pots and pans. The reason being I've upgraded to an induction hob and they don't work with it (otherwise I'd have kept them forever). This also being totally in line with my stubborn resistance to #waste and insistence on a #RRR policy. Oh how happy I was to see them snapped up (at a pretty steep price, I thought) and go off to a new home and thus help the animals. The reason for #sharing this is, I'm wondering if others feel the same as I do? Or am I finally turning into a #dottyoldwoman? I'm finding this #wasteful #disposible world I'm living in, quite disheartening.
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#today I took to the animal #charity shop, where I work when I'm in Spain, all my pots and pans. The reason being I've upgraded to an induction hob and they don't work with it (otherwise I'd have kept them forever). This also being totally in line with my stubborn resistance to #waste and insistence on a #RRR policy. Oh how happy I was to see them snapped up (at a pretty steep price, I thought) and go off to a new home and thus help the animals. The reason for #sharing this is, I'm wondering if others feel the same as I do? Or am I finally turning into a #dottyoldwoman? I'm finding this #wasteful #disposible world I'm living in, quite disheartening.
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#today I took to the animal #charity shop, where I work when I'm in Spain, all my pots and pans. The reason being I've upgraded to an induction hob and they don't work with it (otherwise I'd have kept them forever). This also being totally in line with my stubborn resistance to #waste and insistence on a #RRR policy. Oh how happy I was to see them snapped up (at a pretty steep price, I thought) and go off to a new home and thus help the animals. The reason for #sharing this is, I'm wondering if others feel the same as I do? Or am I finally turning into a #dottyoldwoman? I'm finding this #wasteful #disposible world I'm living in, quite disheartening.
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#today I took to the animal #charity shop, where I work when I'm in Spain, all my pots and pans. The reason being I've upgraded to an induction hob and they don't work with it (otherwise I'd have kept them forever). This also being totally in line with my stubborn resistance to #waste and insistence on a #RRR policy. Oh how happy I was to see them snapped up (at a pretty steep price, I thought) and go off to a new home and thus help the animals. The reason for #sharing this is, I'm wondering if others feel the same as I do? Or am I finally turning into a #dottyoldwoman? I'm finding this #wasteful #disposible world I'm living in, quite disheartening.
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#today I took to the animal #charity shop, where I work when I'm in Spain, all my pots and pans. The reason being I've upgraded to an induction hob and they don't work with it (otherwise I'd have kept them forever). This also being totally in line with my stubborn resistance to #waste and insistence on a #RRR policy. Oh how happy I was to see them snapped up (at a pretty steep price, I thought) and go off to a new home and thus help the animals. The reason for #sharing this is, I'm wondering if others feel the same as I do? Or am I finally turning into a #dottyoldwoman? I'm finding this #wasteful #disposible world I'm living in, quite disheartening.
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N798TL: Track this airplane. Unregistered pilot doing drunk moves over the Forest Grove Water treatment facility. Which is also home to a bird sanctuary, many hawks, eagles, egrets, heron, ducks.
He took off and landed at the airstrip in North Plains.
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Genuine Stupid Question:
Aside from - and I know that's enough reason itself - but aside from the resource drain to run data centers - are apps like "Neurolist" as ethically evil as "generative AI"? Do they perhaps use fewer resources for NOT being generative? I'm honestly getting lost in the murk of everyone calling everything "AI" and is it an actual LLM or maybe some basic organizational commands… Just curious / wondering / perplexed.
(What was the app / website someone built? Gremlin ToDo or something? That didn't seem like EVIL LLM AI… But I could be wrong. That's why I'm asking.)
#AI #artificial-intelligence #LLM #LLMs #productivity-apps #adhd #neurolist #useful #wasteful #ethical #neurodivergence -
Genuine Stupid Question:
Aside from - and I know that's enough reason itself - but aside from the resource drain to run data centers - are apps like "Neurolist" as ethically evil as "generative AI"? Do they perhaps use fewer resources for NOT being generative? I'm honestly getting lost in the murk of everyone calling everything "AI" and is it an actual LLM or maybe some basic organizational commands… Just curious / wondering / perplexed.
(What was the app / website someone built? Gremlin ToDo or something? That didn't seem like EVIL LLM AI… But I could be wrong. That's why I'm asking.)
#AI #artificial-intelligence #LLM #LLMs #productivity-apps #adhd #neurolist #useful #wasteful #ethical #neurodivergence -
4 Reasons Artemis Mission Matters Even If You Think It Is Wasteful - Forbes
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=4-reasons-artemis-mission-matters-even-if-you-think-it-is-wasteful-forbes
<p>4 Reasons Artemis Mission Matters Even If You Think It Is WastefulForbes Opinion | Artemis II cost
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If \(CH_4\) is #SteamReformed to produce \(H_2\) #fuel and the process emits copious amounts of \(CO\) and \(CO_2\) as byproduct, where is the net gains in #green?🤦♂️
Oh, I get it; we must build a #DysonSphere round our solar system, and harvest both the solar energy and the hydrogen from our Sun. Anyway, the Sun is going to die in about 5 billion years and humanity is supposedly the only sentient species in the solar system, so we might as well go at it and be done with it.🤷♂️
So much for "green #hydrogen", or more like "so much cost" thereof.
Humans—we cannot have good things, because we are innately #wasteful.
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If \(CH_4\) is #SteamReformed to produce \(H_2\) #fuel and the process emits copious amounts of \(CO\) and \(CO_2\) as byproduct, where is the net gains in #green?🤦♂️
Oh, I get it; we must build a #DysonSphere round our solar system, and harvest both the solar energy and the hydrogen from our Sun. Anyway, the Sun is going to die in about 5 billion years and humanity is supposedly the only sentient species in the solar system, so we might as well go at it and be done with it.🤷♂️
So much for "green #hydrogen", or more like "so much cost" thereof.
Humans—we cannot have good things, because we are innately #wasteful.
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I only have 2 more monster left but I promise not to spend any more money. :BlobhajSadReach: :BlobhajSadReach: :BlobhajSadReach:
#wasteful-raccoon
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Some Limitations of Gemini
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor several days now I have been playing with Gemini, Google Takeout files and Flick Export files, first to re.marry json data to relevant exif fields, and then to create a folder structure library by year, month and day. In the process I have had to itterate, and itterate, and think lateraly in order to achieve what I wanted to achieve.
Verbose
One of the biggest frustrations I have is that when I ask a follow up question for more specific detail of something it re-calculates everything. If you ask "Is this output expected" and it says "yes" it then repeats everything from the previous post into the new post. In so doing it gives us a lot of reading, but it also makes it hard to keep track of what it's doing.
The work around would be to say "I want a one phrase answer" but, in my eyes Gemini should tell from context whether it needs to give a long or short answer. I could use a gem to alter the behaviour. I think this logic could be in-built. If you're paying for tokens this is wasteful.
Collaborating on text
With Google Docs, Word, Pages and in coding, sometimes it would be nice to get the output text, and be able to edit it within Gemini. If you're working on a motivation letter or a command prompt it would be nice to edit the LLM's output, and then press enter, and have the changes taken on board directly, rather than re-evaluating the entire document.
I use the motivation letter as an example because we know that AI is used to mark us as relevant or irrelevant, so AI, within this context is not as lazy. I wouldn't use it for blog posts because the writing process has value, to clarify and elaborate on ideas.
Blog Outline via LLM
Two or three blog posts ago, when I went through iteration after iteration to achieve what I wanted, because of the verbose nature of LLMs, as well as the LLM getting stuck in a logic loop, it takes more and more time to skim through to find the key steps. An LLM can do this in seconds.
Of course, it tends to want to explain. I asked for a phrase per point, and it added half a paragraph per point. I could feel that it wanted to write the post, rather than the skeleton outline.
Prone to Stereotyping
It often comes out with the phrase "As a person who runs or cycles between Lausanne and Geneva you ..." and then it continues with the answer. In plenty of contexts this has no value, and when I told it "I use a Suunto" it ignored that update and kept repeating the same two or three stereotypes.
It's a shame you can't present an LLM with a link to your blog, and your CV, and several motivation letters, and have it respond according to this information. Imagine if it could learn to give answers within the context of your professional background.
The Dangers of LLMs
LLMs are prone to flattery and generalisations. They are designed to give answers that feed your ego. That's something I found not to be the case with Euria. With Euria I asked two or three questions about news and current affairs and it, to my recollection, said, "You're wrong" and then explained why.
Experimenting with MyAI and Euria
Initially I tried to get Euria and MyAI to help me with this challenge but the responses were getting errors, and when I gave the error code one of the Swiss options simply put the mistake on me, rather than understanding what was causing the error. Bash was mis-reading the command due to a lack of ''. This segways into my next point.
Thinking in Straight Lines and Laterally
Location Data Loop
When we were getting the E6 error when exporting geotags from Flickr to Exiftool Gemini understood the problem but kept going around in circles until I thought laterally and told it to do something different. Eventually we got the location data to be migrated properly.
Missing Video Data Exif Loop
The second negative feedback loop came when trying to marry json data with video data. The LLM couldn't find video data because Flickr is designed to think in terms of photos. It knew about the thumbnails but it failed to put two and two together.
After some trial and error, and feeling like abandoning the task I decided to get Gemini to check if some video names matched to photo names. When they did Gemini was able to create a prompt to marry the data. The solution is simple, but it requires being able to think laterally.
And Finally - Why Gemini?
Gemini will soon be merged with Siri. Now that I have encountered some of the limitations of Gemini I can use other LLMs and see if I encounter the same issues, but I can also write more elegant prompts to avoid having the same pitfalls.
#gemini #memory #persistence #reCalculating #wasteful #workflow -
Some Limitations of Gemini
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor several days now I have been playing with Gemini, Google Takeout files and Flick Export files, first to re.marry json data to relevant exif fields, and then to create a folder structure library by year, month and day. In the process I have had to itterate, and itterate, and think lateraly in order to achieve what I wanted to achieve.
Verbose
One of the biggest frustrations I have is that when I ask a follow up question for more specific detail of something it re-calculates everything. If you ask "Is this output expected" and it says "yes" it then repeats everything from the previous post into the new post. In so doing it gives us a lot of reading, but it also makes it hard to keep track of what it's doing.
The work around would be to say "I want a one phrase answer" but, in my eyes Gemini should tell from context whether it needs to give a long or short answer. I could use a gem to alter the behaviour. I think this logic could be in-built. If you're paying for tokens this is wasteful.
Collaborating on text
With Google Docs, Word, Pages and in coding, sometimes it would be nice to get the output text, and be able to edit it within Gemini. If you're working on a motivation letter or a command prompt it would be nice to edit the LLM's output, and then press enter, and have the changes taken on board directly, rather than re-evaluating the entire document.
I use the motivation letter as an example because we know that AI is used to mark us as relevant or irrelevant, so AI, within this context is not as lazy. I wouldn't use it for blog posts because the writing process has value, to clarify and elaborate on ideas.
Blog Outline via LLM
Two or three blog posts ago, when I went through iteration after iteration to achieve what I wanted, because of the verbose nature of LLMs, as well as the LLM getting stuck in a logic loop, it takes more and more time to skim through to find the key steps. An LLM can do this in seconds.
Of course, it tends to want to explain. I asked for a phrase per point, and it added half a paragraph per point. I could feel that it wanted to write the post, rather than the skeleton outline.
Prone to Stereotyping
It often comes out with the phrase "As a person who runs or cycles between Lausanne and Geneva you ..." and then it continues with the answer. In plenty of contexts this has no value, and when I told it "I use a Suunto" it ignored that update and kept repeating the same two or three stereotypes.
It's a shame you can't present an LLM with a link to your blog, and your CV, and several motivation letters, and have it respond according to this information. Imagine if it could learn to give answers within the context of your professional background.
The Dangers of LLMs
LLMs are prone to flattery and generalisations. They are designed to give answers that feed your ego. That's something I found not to be the case with Euria. With Euria I asked two or three questions about news and current affairs and it, to my recollection, said, "You're wrong" and then explained why.
Experimenting with MyAI and Euria
Initially I tried to get Euria and MyAI to help me with this challenge but the responses were getting errors, and when I gave the error code one of the Swiss options simply put the mistake on me, rather than understanding what was causing the error. Bash was mis-reading the command due to a lack of ''. This segways into my next point.
Thinking in Straight Lines and Laterally
Location Data Loop
When we were getting the E6 error when exporting geotags from Flickr to Exiftool Gemini understood the problem but kept going around in circles until I thought laterally and told it to do something different. Eventually we got the location data to be migrated properly.
Missing Video Data Exif Loop
The second negative feedback loop came when trying to marry json data with video data. The LLM couldn't find video data because Flickr is designed to think in terms of photos. It knew about the thumbnails but it failed to put two and two together.
After some trial and error, and feeling like abandoning the task I decided to get Gemini to check if some video names matched to photo names. When they did Gemini was able to create a prompt to marry the data. The solution is simple, but it requires being able to think laterally.
And Finally - Why Gemini?
Gemini will soon be merged with Siri. Now that I have encountered some of the limitations of Gemini I can use other LLMs and see if I encounter the same issues, but I can also write more elegant prompts to avoid having the same pitfalls.
#gemini #memory #persistence #reCalculating #wasteful #workflow -
If you want a very different perspective on what you see at stores and generally in our modern life, I recommend working 6 months to a year at an electronics recycling plant.
It is eye-opening.
It's also a good workout, in case you need to shed a few pounds and build muscle mass. Do good for your planet, your body, and your mind - or at least consumer practices. Go recycle some electronics!
#ewaste #e-waste #electronics #recycling #consumerism #wasteful
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People of UK: We don’t need Digital IDs
Govt: https://xkcd.com/927/ -
People of UK: We don’t need Digital IDs
Govt: https://xkcd.com/927/ -
Holy moly, you know that adulting thing I did last week?? It was sorting out the cats pet insurance as it was going up over £7 a month more than last year, well today I got 4!!! yes four!!!, separate latter telling me the changes I made and new certificates for the month left on their policies. All of that could have been covering in one letter. Utter waste of paper. Plus I set up their pet portal so it didnt even need to posted out!
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CNN headline: “In scathing letter, #NASA #workers #rebuke ‘rapid and #wasteful changes’ at agency.”
My reaction: It makes me sad to think about how upset my father, for years the head of accounting for a division of NASA, would be—if he were still alive now—about the massively #detrimental changes being made to the organization he loved.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-trump-voyager-declaration
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CNN headline: “In scathing letter, #NASA #workers #rebuke ‘rapid and #wasteful changes’ at agency.”
My reaction: It makes me sad to think about how upset my father, for years the head of accounting for a division of NASA, would be—if he were still alive now—about the massively #detrimental changes being made to the organization he loved.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-trump-voyager-declaration
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#louisiana #golf #wasteful #republicans can find money to give to a wealthy country for golf but can’t find money to fix roads
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#louisiana #golf #wasteful #republicans can find money to give to a wealthy country for golf but can’t find money to fix roads
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"U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organizations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations":
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-funded-contraceptives-poor-nations-be-burned-france-sources-say-2025-07-23/
#Trump #destructive #wasteful #politics -
"U.S.-funded contraceptives worth nearly $10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organizations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations":
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-funded-contraceptives-poor-nations-be-burned-france-sources-say-2025-07-23/
#Trump #destructive #wasteful #politics -
"California officials were not satisfied with the announcement Tuesday that Pres. Donald Trump is recalling nearly half of the National Guard troops sent to Los Angeles, and continued to urge the administration to recall all troops":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/national-guard-withdrawal-20771506.php
#Trump #wasteful #PublicityStunt #military #politics -
"California officials were not satisfied with the announcement Tuesday that Pres. Donald Trump is recalling nearly half of the National Guard troops sent to Los Angeles, and continued to urge the administration to recall all troops":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/national-guard-withdrawal-20771506.php
#Trump #wasteful #PublicityStunt #military #politics -
🧐"galling is #government's refusal to use PaoTang app, dev'ed by #Krungthai Bk under prev admin of Prayut. Te app is a proven platform tt has handled numerous govt schemes, incl'g te "We #TravelTogether" campaign.. Tis backward, #partisan decision-making is both #wasteful & #counterproductive. Why shld #taxpayers foot te bill to build new #ineffective apps? #Thailand #Travel Co-pay #fiasco .. reflects a broader #dysfunction tt places #politicalimage above #publicinterest"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3064278/travel-scheme-farce -
🧐"galling is #government's refusal to use PaoTang app, dev'ed by #Krungthai Bk under prev admin of Prayut. Te app is a proven platform tt has handled numerous govt schemes, incl'g te "We #TravelTogether" campaign.. Tis backward, #partisan decision-making is both #wasteful & #counterproductive. Why shld #taxpayers foot te bill to build new #ineffective apps? #Thailand #Travel Co-pay #fiasco .. reflects a broader #dysfunction tt places #politicalimage above #publicinterest"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3064278/travel-scheme-farce -
🧐"galling is #government's refusal to use PaoTang app, dev'ed by #Krungthai Bk under prev admin of Prayut. Te app is a proven platform tt has handled numerous govt schemes, incl'g te "We #TravelTogether" campaign.. Tis backward, #partisan decision-making is both #wasteful & #counterproductive. Why shld #taxpayers foot te bill to build new #ineffective apps? #Thailand #Travel Co-pay #fiasco .. reflects a broader #dysfunction tt places #politicalimage above #publicinterest"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3064278/travel-scheme-farce -
🧐"galling is #government's refusal to use PaoTang app, dev'ed by #Krungthai Bk under prev admin of Prayut. Te app is a proven platform tt has handled numerous govt schemes, incl'g te "We #TravelTogether" campaign.. Tis backward, #partisan decision-making is both #wasteful & #counterproductive. Why shld #taxpayers foot te bill to build new #ineffective apps? #Thailand #Travel Co-pay #fiasco .. reflects a broader #dysfunction tt places #politicalimage above #publicinterest"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3064278/travel-scheme-farce -
#Nuclear #sizewellC #power #electric I can't believe that anybody thinks this is a good idea. #dangerous #uneconomic #wasteful #polluting 20th century thinking ?
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#Nuclear #sizewellC #power #electric I can't believe that anybody thinks this is a good idea. #dangerous #uneconomic #wasteful #polluting 20th century thinking ?
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funny how they use what they already have to make sure others cant have that thing,
...that they never produced in the 1st place.
ie: using their wifi to jam #signals so the rest of us cant have #wifi
isnt that also a #wasteful use of #resources?
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funny how they use what they already have to make sure others cant have that thing,
...that they never produced in the 1st place.
ie: using their wifi to jam #signals so the rest of us cant have #wifi
isnt that also a #wasteful use of #resources?
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So, let me get this straight. When others need #help they're being #weak and #wasteful, and helping them is #socialism. When the same #misfortune befalls us, we go #begging for the same help, #costcutting be damned! #Hypocricy is the #hallmark of #MAGA #deplorables.
#idiot #hypocrite #vengeful #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #traitor #government #USPolitics #corrupt #corruptGOP #FEMA
https://www.yahoo.com/news/sarah-sanders-begs-her-old-150513581.html
