• wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Suspect at large, looks like he smashed his face against a plate of spaghetti and people are saying he’s in the bestest health possible.

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    The funniest thing about this is that this has been a long and persistent problem just because of the nature of the reflecting pool and how it works, and Trump just thought that he would be able to paint it and throw some water in it and be done, and so he declared victory, not realizing that lowest bidder was not going to solve it this time.

    Too bad all the experts were fired.

    🍊 🤡

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      4 days ago

      It wasn’t the lowest bidder. It was brought outside of the normal contract process and issued sole source to one of his buddies under a “unusual and compelling urgency”.

      If they actually did the normal contracting process, they probably would of gotten a half dozen bids for a few hundred k for the job that was done and a handful of other proposals in the tens millions saying your SOW is stupid instead we propose to line the entire thing in copper sheeting for $11M or we propose to install a giant pool filtration system for $6M, which we will service for $500k per year of this contract, or some other hair brained proposal.

      • ɔiƚoxɘup@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        Oh yeah! Thanks, I’d forgotten it was a kickback… I mean, I’m assuming it was. Kinda smells like it.

        I thought 14m was spent. No matter. You’re right for sure!