Mattis is probably the most competent person in the administration; even if you don’t agree with a lot of his conservative stances (I do not agree with a lot of them, myself) he at least gives a shit about how policy affects the man on the street and the troops on the ground. Like how he helped block the bill that…

Oh, I don’t think Tillerson is better than someone who’d know what they were doing, certainly. But he does seem like he’s at least, you know, trying to do the job he was hired for which is more than most of the people in this administration.

Pentagon rumor mill is that he’s not happy about how slow the replacement process is going, no.

Plus Mattis won’t like it. He and Tillerson meet weekly and are pretty much the Sane Kids of the bunch.

Yep. He and Mattis are pretty much the only ones trying to keep things sane and, well...it’s not going well for them.

The news in the Pentagon is he and Mattis are swamped trying to be the sane people at the table. Mattis is mad since Tillerson’s been short-staffed and Mattis actually wants diplomats doing diplomacy, not the armed forces. Tillerson’s been leaning on Mattis for help when he can but the administration’s been such a…

Apparently Tillerson and Mattis meet weekly to try and work with what they’ve been given. They’re sort of the sane club of the administration, since Mattis cares more about how things affect people on the street and troops on the ground, not the rhetoric, and Tillerson genuinely wants to try and do his damn job…

I wish her luck. A very sad game I’ve been playing lately is “Is this an alt-righter pretending to be a leftist to troll, of a leftist who is parroting the alt-right without a care?” Very hard to tell sometimes.

I don’t know if she was trying to get promoted out or not. Or who would have promoted her out if she was.

Yeah, the idea was this big pavilion with moving walls they could re-arrange and the walls would have exhibits on them (as a museum studies graduate, stuff flat on a wall is generally considered the most boring kind of exhibit—plus the way it was pitched to us the stuff on the walls would be slow to change if ever).…

I still remember a 2014 attack as for the house rep for my area. Rep Southerland accused his opponent of voting for it and working with Pelosi* to pass it, with tons of cuts to “voters” scolding her for that.

We pointed out if they couldn’t move the money fine, but given the project was going nowhere to use money that wasn’t locked in to do other stuff since apparently some donors thought they were making general donations and were getting it shunted into that project. The real point was she was wasting time getting this…

I’d rather not say. I’m not sure if the director’s still in (given the board and locals were frustrated with her) and I don’t want to give it bad press.

Yep. I was a museum studies student a few years ago and we went to this small museum (it was a historic house/historic site) in Fruitvale for a class project. The project was essentially how to get people from the local area around the museum to visit more (there were three other groups doing this with other museum as…

Yeah, it was in earlier ones.

I’ve heard good things about it—except about Akamaru. Heard a lot of people complain that when he was initially made his own character there were issues since, well, he’s a tiny puppy so he had almost no hitbox, almost everything missed him, and you pretty much had to try and sweep kick him to death or something.

Nice.

Yeah, the one in the CA neighborhood I was in had this issue where you could hear it several streets away and still not pinpoint its location it was so loud. They toned it down to only about a block away but still, very loud, and no, it never seemed to stop.

Yeah, this one house I used to walk by had hens and a herding dog. Pretty quiet hens, except the one time they got out of their pen, then they were loud since they were excited to beyond the fence and exploring. My dog thankfully* noticed them and I went and told the owner. Like if you’d never seen it when the hens…

Reminds me of mom watching Million Dolar Listing yesterday where the guy noted that the apartments were a steal (they were still millions but like, a million less each than he’d expected, 4 mil instead of 5 I think) and it was because there was a construction site that one side of the apartment overlooked. People…