General Discussion

We just keep waiting for the hammer to fall on them. Daughter doesn't think being female is DEI. Told her to think hard about that and read what's happening to women in everything from companies to high level military positions.

Our closest friends are a couple... one who worked with me when I was on post (and is still there for now), and another who works for the IRS. So far, they still have their jobs but they have no idea for how long or how the work they do (which is highly specialized) will be done if cuts hit their departments.

Also found out the administration has cut the CMS/LMS contract we had. That was our learning center for the military officers... Active Duty, Reserve, and National Guard. Military can't go Open Source, but damned they're looking to move down to Moodle. Moodle won't handle the kinds of online tests we created, tho... and it IS Open Source! They're looking at throwing a web page up on Sharepoint and letting the students download instruction material from there... and maybe assign only essays as tests. But before we went this LMS plagiarism was really bad when they did essays. And who's going to read all those? There won't be enough teachers. This is a dire hollowing out of the military war colleges. IMO, the military will end up fighting two types of wars at the same time... the usual war against an outside aggressor(s)... Russia and China... and a covert, counter warfare model against Americans, themselves. The military has not been taught to do this before. One of these at a time, yes... but both at the same time? And while we're in an economic depression? I mean...if you can bankrupt casinos, you will surely bankrupt a country.

Musk, trump, vance, stephen miller, and the others should be taken out back of the white house, drawn and quartered and then hung as a warning against treason.