Man did you watch that vid? There wasn’t all that much done in the way of photoshop. The costume was all real, the location was real, the bodypaint and makeup were all real... the only things that weren’t in the touched up pictures were the lighting (because not everybody has a literal eternity to wait around for…

I think the focus on the staffing thing is just to emphasize how small of a company we’re talking about taking on a MASSIVE job. No matter how you want to swing it, you’d need a bigger staff to handle the sheer amount of subcontracting happening in order to manage a job of such a huge size.

Done competently and correctly? For 400 fucking dollars an hour, competently isn’t enough. They should be setting up solar power farms for each individual house and gold plating the telephone poles. The highest median pay for a linemen is 50 bucks an hour, and that’s if you’re the best of the best and been in the biz…

Here’s a question worth answering, given that Whitefish’s tweets have implied very directly that they’ve already been doing work: how much money have they already received and billed the government, and therefor our taxes, for? How much of that has already found its way into the greased hands of Zinke?

Seeing as I typically play games with microtransactions like this as though those micros never existed in the first place, it actually makes me super happy that there’s no collectible maps in AC:O. That’s because without the map acting as some kind of checklist that MUST be completed (I know it doesn’t HAVE to be, but…

As has been thoroughly corrected, I was wholly incorrect when I made that comment in the first place (I was weary, tired, stressed and in moderate actual pain when I typed it) - declaring war is a Congressional power anyways.

Whitefish is a tiny company with zero experience, hailing from landlocked middle America, and was just ‘awarded’ (through a completely opaque, no-bid ‘process’) one of the largest single disaster infrastructure contracts possible, one that explicitly states employees are being paid for over FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS A…

Honestly, yeah.

Nobody directly related to a top Trump administration employee and with the ties necessary to embezzle millions of dollars, no.

What’s it called when somebody falsely accuses someone else of being a SJW, thereby becoming a SJW against SJWs?

You are entirely correct and I rescind my comments, I confess I am quite tired and had the war declaration power reversed in my head when I wrote that.

It’s not, but that’s why I used the phrase setting a precedent. You’re talking about a law that would take away a military-related power from the executive branch and giving it to the legislative branch. Any time I hear about basic powers moving between governmental branches, I think it’s right to be concerned, or at…

As anti-Trump as I am, I would be seriously concerned about any precedent being set with a bill that allows Congress to take a fairly fundamental Presidential power - military decisions - away from the executive branch.

Fair, fair, but do linemen typically get paid 400/hr? Do they also need $80 a day for company-provided food? And 4 star hotel accommodations?

Want to cite me some other public contracts where small firms with direct contact with heads of federal agencies are awarded contracts where the employees are paid 400+ an hour? Or are you just being a cynical dick because it’s Wednesday?

I’m very obviously not oblivious since I referenced an example from over a decade ago, but thanks for the condescension.

I just meant in terms of audacity. Contractors stiffing military deals and putting hilarious price tags on innocuous items, but here we have it explicitly stated that these fuckbois are going to be earning $400+/hr for doing... what, basic electrical work?

Trump doesn’t really call things mean because he thinks they’re mean, he merely has a limited vocabulary of available insults. It’s hard to call a bill ‘lightweight’ or ‘crooked’ because it’s not a person, but he needs to insult anything attached to people he doesn’t like, so the moment a bill in Congress becomes…

The fact that you are capable of admitting to a mistake and bettering yourself for it makes you automatically more qualified than the leader of the United States of America, if it’s any consolation.

My asshole says what it thinks all the time, just in vague, resonating trumpet noises.