Every .gov Domain
flatgithub.com
flatgithub.com
Turns out it's just a website for Quitman, GA. https://quitmanga.gov
Some days I wonder if DNS was a colossal mistake. I have plenty of room for remembering numbers now that phones are dead. (Ignoring the ever looming never quite here ipv6.)
LOL, no. Like I said, I personally don't care for manga/anime but I have nothing against others enjoying it.
powergenitalia.com
In my days it was referred to as expertsexchange...
Only a marginal improvement though
We do it in the UK with <councilname>.gov.uk
(Not sure if it's actual delegation or just A records though)
People get confused (particularly in the US) if they are always used to x.y.
In practice, people get confused by that.
Whereas the actual Ontario Parks website is this:
As an insider revolt against Musk's shenanigans. lol
So, for example, the Federal Court is fedcourt.gov.au as it's federal.
Strange how the US has such a mishmash.
- Lots of things came online in the US before ccTLDs were common, and are still rare for US based orgs
- US states have quite a bit of freedom in how they communicate with their citizens.
- US states vary greatly in services provided and population (from ~600,000 up to ~40M)
* bafoeg.de
* bafoeg-digital.de
* bafoegonline.bva.bund.de
Q: where you you think can you order that letter?
a) Bundesdruckerei.de
b) personalausweisportal.de
c) pin-ruecksetzbrief-bestellen.de
d) bmi.bund.de?
It's nuts.
As we're seeing right now this isn't true. Everyone is afraid because the current federal executive doesn't give a flying f..k about norms, including telling people "comply with what DOGE wants or get fired" or drawing up lists of "Government Gangsters" [1]. And so, everyone is bending over in fear of getting in the crosshairs, getting government spending contracts cut, getting fired, getting death threats like Fauci, or getting extorted to buy ads on Twitter [2].
Side rant: where are all the "don't tread on me" gun nuts that have arsenals rivaling what would be a special forces unit in smaller countries?
[1] https://rollcall.com/2024/12/09/trumps-pick-to-lead-fbi-iden...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-linda-yaccarino-x-...
They won the election?
Quite a few are really into Libertarian values and hate Republican stances on a wide range of issues.
Mostly abortion and to a lesser extent the "war on drugs". The rest is seeing especially Musk's blatant self-dealings [1] and teardown of "big gubmint" as something laudable.
"So This is How Liberty Dies, With Thunderous Applause"
Libertarians strongly oppose government intervention in the economy like farm subsidies or specific tax cuts for specific industries. The Reputation party says it believes in free markets, but it doesn’t act that way.
The gap between Republican stated goals and actual policies is really stark. I think it mostly works because so few people dig into the details, but some people get really disillusioned.
Nah, they just dropped the pretense. Small government was always code for “leave me alone and make those people suffer.”
It's absolutely true. My county and state government has not changed. My kid goes to the public school, which has not changed. Indeed some of my state officials are suing the federal government.
State and local governments provide many services of enormous importance: schools, police, fire, roads. The President is not ruling all of that.
If the local school is 90% funded by local taxes, they can ignore the state and federal government for quite awhile.
But if it's only 10% funded directly by local taxes, and the rest (even if coming from the locality!) is funneled through the state and/or federal government, then they can be squeezed on the money side.
For the past few decades, though, it feels like we’ve been locked in a permanent war between two opposing factions that barely admit each other’s right to exist, let alone to disagree, with the goal of forcing federal government policy to agree with, alternatingly, the “left” or the “right” orthodoxy and for the feds to force those ideas on the whole country.
Wouldn’t it be more productive to just massively cut federal taxes and obligations, and let Republicans live in Republican controlled states and let Democrats live in Democrat controlled states? Then the state governments can raise taxes and be able to use their taxpayers’ money as they see fit.
This way, if you want any category of government goodies, from single-payer healthcare to fixing the roads, you only need to convince your fellow state residents to pay for and tolerate it, and the people you don’t trust from far away can’t block you.
The federal government has only shown any particular skill at operating the military (no one’s dared to invade us since 1812!). Maybe we just let them handle that, plus uncontroversial standards and maybe make trade agreements. Let states handle the rest.
But it should be more explicit in many cases. As we see routing everything through the federal government gives it more power than “expected” - like how it regulates drinking age via federal highway funds.
A lot of that hinges closely on cooperation with the feds, and the Trump admin has repeatedly said they will go and target "sanctuary cities" - so much for states rights.
In doubt, the federal government will pull off another drinking ban - the age for drinking is 21 because the federal government threatened to retract highway funding many decades ago, and that was explicitly ruled to be constitutional [1].
Do not think even for a single second that you are safe from the impact of the Trump admin even if you live in a deep blue city in a deep blue state.
In doubt, your daughter might not be able to access plan B any more (or your son stuck paying child support) because, of course, that one is on the target list as well, or your trans kid might not receive the care they need because the federal government plans to ban that as well, and if it's just by banning federally active insurances from covering the cost for such treatment. Or if you're Black and your kid needs to take ADHD meds? Say goodbye to your kid [2].
You all are anything but safe, but by the time you realize it because it starts finally affecting you and your loved ones, it will be too late. Take that warning from a German and heed it because we actually lived through that and learn about the time of 1933-45 and the years leading up to it in school!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_...
[2] https://wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-jr-black-kids-adhd-drugs...
The Westminster system is looking very 'worse is better' at the moment.
How does it work, does one have to consent to become king or can we just sort of make it happen?
Admittedly, it didn’t help that the DNC re-enacted “Weekend at Bernie’s” with Biden for two years.
Also, voting for slate of candidates on one day in the middle of a billion-dollar multi-year misinformation campaign, does not equal "want the current situation". I agree that an egregious number of people are actively cheering for the current chaos, but let's not give them more psychic power than the institutional power they are already wielding.
A little chaos is probably healthy at this point — we can’t grow government forever, and now the ideas that actually have popular support will have to be enshrined in actual permanent law instead of operating solely by the old gentleman’s agreement that we never cut any government program ever, since that agreement has been torn up and thrown out now.
Unlike what Michelle Obama says, this is exactly who we are.
The same one that just today got Apple to remove E2E encryption from iCloud, so it could get backdoor access to people's data?
I beg to differ. Centralization is bad. IIRC, it's what's enabling Musk to do so much damage so quickly, and the UK has more of it.
The ones that have lasted the longest have been taken over by foreign empires and despots, but persisted nonetheless. Others were taken over and converted to some other culture, or died entirely.
Want a really long-lived culture? Look at Egypt, India, Persia, China. Want a culture that resists outside influence? Probably Egypt, maybe next India, and then Rome - but the former were conquered, and the latter died.
(I'm a shit lay-historian so please somebody correct me)
If you look at the evolution of life on this planet, it's never really clear what's a "superior" lifeform until you look at it for a few hundred million years. Crocodiles looked like the dominant lifeform for a pretty long time, but even that ended. Our cultures are absolutely infantile in the grand scheme. We can come up with ideas and try them out, but there's no telling what works long-term. Only future generations can judge.
The problem being the founders having been anti-tyranny extremists.
E.g. the founders' opinion on whether everyone should be able to own his private tanks and warships is crystal clear: Absolutely. It's literally why they didn't just write "The right to bear arms shall not be infringed" but also "A well regulatef militia, being necessary to the security of a free state".
And nowadays the left screetches about noone needing to carry a butter knife with a blade length above 3inches and the right is divided over whether Soros should be able to buy Minuteman missiles with USAID money.
The only reason the right is disagreeing with the founders at all, is because the founders thought if a few immoral entities, not under the control of the people, became obscenely powerful, the people would just make use of their militias to get rid of them (see declaration of independence).
And that's also why the selfdeclared elite keeps trying to restrict the 2nd amendment. Because it protects the first. And why they keep trying to restrict the 1st amendment (hate speech, micro-aggressions, control over all the media, online censorship, "fact checking", trillion dollar judgements against journalists for minor offenses, ...). Because it protects the 2nd and all others.
There's a whole lot more than one. Remember that when Republicans win, the results aren't "denied" but the Democrats sure do cast a whoooole lot of doubt on the proceedings (i.e., "well yes they won but voter suppression, I'm just saying...", "well yes they won but Russian Facebook propaganda, I'm just saying...", "well yes they won, but hanging chads, I'm just saying...").
I'd say "election denial" comes in degrees...
Not to mention that in Texas, student IDs issued by public colleges aren’t legal IDs to vote. But gun permits are.
Of course there is Russian interference on social media. Not that I think it makes a difference.
Complaining about any of those things though and saying that’s why Trump won is crazy looking at the numbers. He won fair and square. Both of those things can be true.
I'm going to take a wild guess here and assume one of those IDs can be obtained by non-citizens and the other can't, not sure what your point is here.
100% not relevant. Think about it: a driver's license is a valid form of ID for voting in Texas (https://www.votetexas.gov/voting/need-id.html).
A Texas driver's license can be obtained by non-citizens (https://www.dps.texas.gov/sites/default/files/documents/driv...).
So, I'm not sure what your point is, here.
And I say this as an independent who has walked away from the Democratic Party because I hate the DNC, not an “immigrants rights activist” or something.
*acceptable should mean they are real cards with at least a basic security feature, not a laminated thing you could print at home.
> Note: Individuals who are not US Citizens will need to provide their lawful presence documentation to the Department prior to renewal of their LTC.
At least one site (transit.toronto.on.ca) still has an active domain in that format, even though it’s not operationally-related by the City of Toronto.
It’s quaint that folks wanted to root their web presence in their physical world.
Major early 1990s vibes and the woody smell of the graduate computer labs.
Even worse was the IT department's insistence that agencies sign a 99 year contract for cost sharing, the amount of which would never be known in advance since it would only be calculated quarterly based on all expenses the state IT department incurred hosting state agencies.
Nobody except a few universities actually uses subdomains as they should be, where you actually delegate the subdomain to the business unit using it.
The reality is they're stuck in 1995 and won't make rational changes.
You don't even have to search any longer. You can literally ask a conversational AI, like this...
How would a local government official obtain a domain name with .gov for their governmental office?
ChatGPT said:
A local government official can obtain a .gov domain for their governmental office by following these steps:
1. Verify Eligibility .gov domains are restricted to U.S. government entities, including federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. Local government agencies, such as city or county offices, are eligible. 2. Choose a Domain Name The domain name should clearly reflect the governmental entity (e.g., cityname.gov or countyname.gov). Avoid abbreviations or acronyms unless commonly recognized. 3. Obtain Authorization The request must be authorized by the highest-ranking official of the government entity (e.g., mayor, county administrator). They will need to submit a letter verifying the legitimacy of the request. 4. Submit an Application Visit domains.dotgov.gov to apply. Create an account and complete the application form. Upload the signed authorization letter. 5. Await Review and Approval The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reviews all applications. If approved, the domain is registered, and the office will receive account credentials. 6. Configure DNS and Website Once the domain is active, configure DNS settings. Set up email services and website hosting as needed. 7. Maintain Compliance Ensure the domain is actively used for government purposes. Keep contact information updated to prevent domain suspension. There is no cost for registering a .gov domain as of April 2021, since it is funded by the federal government.
There is literally no excuse for not knowing what to do in the year 2025.
So, I think it’s natural for site owners to want this freedom. Then it comes down to whether there should be constraints forced on them or not by policy for some greater good. In the US, generally, central planning on this type of stuff isn’t really part of the culture.
But maybe that is part of the culture?
And we understand the threats here… a very real problem is someone forgetting to renew one of these .org or .com domains (maybe the person that maintains it retired) and a malicious actor grabs it after expiration, stands up a scraped copy, and uses it to collect parking ticket payments or whatever.
I was actually thinking a bit more about the diversity of domain names under .gov, though I realize now that the parent comment I replied to was about .org and .coms. I think you get a bit of those provenance assurances if they are under .gov, as a practical matter it’s harder for malicious actors to own one of those than one under other tlds. And then instead of forcing a strict taxonomy that is mostly for the benefit of the infrastructure maintainers (very enterprise software), there is freedom to use a name that makes the most sense for the target user.
It should be taught in school exactly the same way. It's more important in the year 2025 to know that, than it is the Dewey Decimal system, which is still taught in a majority of schools for some reason.
People should know what it means to be connected to a .gov, .com, .org, .edu, .net, .mil site, etc. I know we have a lot of new TLDs, but knowing the originals should be a bare minimum. This isn't rocket science, hell, most of these domains are almost self-explanatory even as three letter codes.
I was a fan of the ".co.name.oh.us" naming because it made logical sense. I could easily find any County website in the state. My intuition now is that anything logical (or, perhaps, just anything I like) will be hated by the public. >sigh<
The county moved to "NameCountyOhio.gov". It's 5 characters longer than the old domain name but isn't hated. The public still gets it wrong often, expecting it to be "NameCountyOH.gov".
Edit:
Okay, so I got this totally wrong. Chalk it up to poor memory for stuff 20+ years ago.
There's RFC 1480, first of all: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1480
The old County domain was "co.name.oh.us". I completely forgot the hierarchy was flipped for localities, with the locality being the higher level domain and the designation for type of locality (city, county, etc) being second.
For K-12 school districts, libraries, colleges, and others, the hierarchy comes first (like "name.lib.oh.us").
Would be better to just get rid of the “co” layer.
So countyname.ohio.gov would be perfect.
City: medina.medina.ohio.gov
From brief googling, the school district is subordinate to the county, not the city, despite its name.
medinacityschools.medina.ohio.gov
Or
cityschools.medina.ohio.gov
Or
mcc.medina.ohio.gov
Or
bees.medina.ohio.gov
I love this so much.
It makes me sad that Buffalo, NY is in Erie County. That could have been great.
Do they get two separate websites?
Edit:
Per my parent comment I screwed this up and misremembered the hierarchies. The locality name comes first for localities, so you'd be looking at things like:
ci.medina.oh.us - City of Medina
co.medina.oh.us - County of Medina
medina.k12.oh.us - The Medina City School District
medina.lib.oh.us - The Medina County District Library
Maybe there should be a “falsehoods programmers believe about government structure” article, but I can think of very few exceptions.
“cleveland.cuyahoga.ohio.gov” seems like a logically guessable domain.
> So far as I am aware, every US state is split into counties...
re: falsehoods - Alaska has no counties. Louisiana has "Parishes". Connecticut and Rhode Island have counties but no county governments. Also, see Townships.
This breaks my brain.
Some the counties run almost everything except where a large city is, some the county does almost nothing, and everything is tied to whatever the biggest town is.
Washington, DC is a city which is in neither a state nor a county.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._municipalities_... has a hundred or so cities that span counties.
For example, here in Texas, the City of Dallas is located in Dallas County, but they are separate things. If you want to pay a parking ticket that you got in the City of Dallas, you need to go to the city's web site. If you want to pay your property taxes, you need to go to the county's web site.
Also, the City of Austin is located in Travis County. There is an Austin County, but it's 100 miles (160 km) away. The only connection is that they are both named for Stephen F. Austin.
A big part of why we haven't been able/bothered to migrate to a proper .gov domain boils down to the amount of technical debt we'd need to pay back in the process of doing so. Everything that we do uses our non-.gov domain, namely our Office 365 connectors. On top of that, end users' day-to-day communications with the public make use of the existing domain. Modifying that in any capacity could prove disruptive to ongoing communications and potentially render them liable for dropping the ball somewhere. Not to mention that every single internet account ever created by staff using the current domain would need to be migrated or risk being lost forever.
Additionally, we're a small team. Only myself and one other individual would really have the technical knowledge to migrate our infrastructure. The opportunity cost involved would be massive. There are grants available to help us with this, but obtaining/using those can get complicated at times.
Ultimately, the pros just don't outweigh the cons enough to make a huge difference. From a purely academic angle, should we have a .gov TLD? Absolutely. In practice though, the residents and staff are familiar enough with the current one to render it a non-issue. The average non-technical user doesn't "see" "[municipality].[state].gov". They aren't familiar with the concept of a domain hierarchy at all. They just memorize "[municipality_website]" and move on with their day.
I haven't even done that much, I couldn't tell you offhand the URL for my county government. I always just search in Google, which takes me right to the page I need (roads, solid waste, library, etc.)
You've just highlighted the problem. This is something every single human being in America should know, and arguably almost the entire world.
This falls directly under the rubric of Basic Computing Knowledge > Basic Internet Knowledge.
Every single time I see someone searching for "microsoft" or "apple" I immediately stop them and tell them, "You've already done most of the work. Microsoft and Apple are commercial entities. Add .com at the end, which is what .com means. Commercial. You're adding extra work for yourself."
Yes, a few people pop off at the mouth at which point I remind them ignorance is of a thing is easily remedied with a little give-a-damn, and saves everyone time and money.
Talk about a fucking miserable failure of education. I'm 44. I expected the generation 20 years younger than me to be impossibly skilled with computers to the point that I wouldn't hope to even match them, much less surpass them. Instead what we got was a world where we dumbed every goddamn thing down so even the most drooling moron can utilize it.
It's pretty disappointing, to put it mildly.
Imagine if people were this bad at counting, or at knowing the difference between US currency and monopoly money.
This was my core point, that this is true for you but is not actually true for everyone. To claim the entire world needs to know this when people get by just fine every day without being online or being on a device is absurd to me.
And they don’t get by just fine every day.
People get phished and scammed constantly, in many ways that could be prevented if people had and remembered like a 2-week unit in high school on how the Internet works.
I’m not saying they need to understand even the fact that DNS converts names to IP numbers. Merely that it’s a hierarchy and how to trace responsibility (originating from the right side).
That’s no more difficult to grasp (if taught properly) than how to read the address on an envelope and understanding that “San Francisco, California” means a city in San Francisco located in the state of California.
Other lessons in the unit would include how email works including its lack of guarantees of authenticity. And finally, what encryption means and applying that knowledge to safe and unsafe ways of storing and transmitting information.
That mean they can easily be redirected to a phishing website.
Nah, even worse, they type “municipality” or some butchered typo of it into their browser, triggering a Google search, and click the very first link they see (sponsored or no) - so they can wildly easily be tricked into phishing websites.
Arguably we’re all victims of the decade or so when Google was so good at serving up the right site, so most people just got used to not knowing any URLs. People Google “YouTube” or “cnn” rather than type even the .com after those words.
The very unfortunate reality is that many (most?) users evaluate phishing attempts with the null hypothesis that "this is trustworthy". They are looking for evidence that something is wrong and assuming all is well if they don't find it. To that sort of user, the thinking goes something like:
* Some trustworthy sites use .com.
* My municipality is trustworthy.
* My municipality uses .com.
If you draw out the venn diagram, there's a clear gap in that line of thinking. That doesn't matter to someone's Great Aunt Linda though. She just knows that .com is what goes after Amazon and Google, so it must be good.
With that in mind, could using .gov help to protect those folks? To a certain extent. I can see the argument for keeping the more discerning few from getting scammed. For the broader group though, it won't change anything.
Offhand, the alternative solution that I'd offer would be providing clear communication standards to the public. Specifically, defining when, how, and from whom municipal notifications go out. Think of it like the IRS only sending physical letters; archaic as it seems, it makes it pretty obvious that an email "from them" is bogus. The clearer someone's understanding of where to find us is, the more optimistic I am that they'll get where they need to be.
I know my high school moved off the ICN T1 service in the early 2000s, but it looks like the domain records are still maintained, as the old address still resolves correctly.
Edit: see EvanAnderson below I didn't realize this was ~formalized as an RFC and actually was relatively standard across states, I assume for the same reasons very few public entities were using these hierarchal addresses as their primary by the time I really got online in the mid 2000s.
We have so many subdivisions, and in many/most cases there's no accountability (by design) from one level to the next
Feds can't force states to use .gov addresses, and most states don't force counties or cities to use whatever the state's top level is. Some do, or try to encourage, but it's like herding cats and when there's 50 states and a couple thousand counties, and then tens of thousands of cities that all have varying levels of authority to enforce anything on the next level down it's never, ever going to be uniform for us
(I helped open that up when I was there.)
There are services which will do the work - https://cuttlefish.com/local-councils/ - https://www.parishcouncil.net - are two of many. These have their drawbacks, may not provide exportable data so locking the council in. Some will allow direct access, some require that any new content be sent to them and they upload it.
Some councils will own their domain name, some will not. Then there is the email issue and many will use a gmail / hotmail address.
Cost, especially these days, is also a factor.
I don't see it as a bad thing to have so much variety though.
For all their centralist instincts, the Westminster classes fundamentally don't care about how the provinces go about their business, as long as they keep paying into London and act adequately subservient whenever the Southern classes come knocking. So we have to live with constitutional aberrations like Cornwall and Lancaster.
Current:
Proposed:
{name}.{county|city|parish…}.{2 letter state abbreviation}.gov
- albany.county.wy.gov
- albany.city.ga.gov
- albany.city.ny.gov
- albany.city.or.gov
Then can easily distinguish between local, regional, state, and federal resources.
Local resource:
- parksandrec.albany.city.ga.gov
Regional resource:
- cad.albany.county.wy.gov
State resource:
- senate.ny.gov
Federal resource:
- fbi.gov
- nsa.gov
As a citizen, would make it very easy to find what you are looking for. Plus the added benefit of trust with .gov. Reduces the risk of our vulnerable citizens (elderly) getting phished.
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Township,_Burlingt...
(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Township,_Union_Co...
Point being that government is messy and exists to cover _all_ cases, not the common case.
Note that Burlington County already has
Medicare diff so
- https://samhsa.medicare.dev/
- https://phm.medicare.dev/
- ...Reading the other comments, you can see how much influence "engineering" and "orthogonal design" actually have.. not much.
Perfect librarianship of living entities has benefits, but overall seems unrealistic IMHO.
Example of another such pages: https://flatgithub.com/the-pudding/data?filename=boybands%2F...
It felt a bit like datasette and no wonder it's the inspiration as well
In the end I just redistribute SQLite file now with the data. It is easier for the "user" to use ready database than a set of files.
Exported to use the same viewer as the other list:
https://flatgithub.com/barre/all_dot_gov_domains?filename=al...
A few I can think of:
https://github.com/cisagov/dotgov-data/compare/57e66bcb0fccc...
it won't all be fair or kosher for sure and some of the layoffs were already stated as mistakes publicly and jobs offered back to some(though not very many surprisingly). with that being said, i hope even you see a surprising amount of what has been uncovered is clearly bad?
The only example I've seen that is potentially is a good move is removing the penny from circulation, but of course that has its own pros and cons.
PS. Your green username gives you away
This is a genuine question; he’s the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Boring Company, the CTO of Twitter, and the owner of several more companies.
If he’s running five or more companies, and trying to run a government department, how involved can he actually be with running any individual one? They can’t all be full time jobs.
But with the recent case where he bragged about being in the top 20 Diablo players in the world, only to find out that he paid people to level his character up for him, makes me think that maybe he doesn't actually do anything. I mean, he's bragging and lying about something that does not matter.
No one really cares if the CEO of your spaceship or car company or brain-implant company is good at video games. If it turned out that everyone saw he was bad at Diablo, approximately nothing changes (and potentially people like him even more if he's a good sport about it and laughs it off!), and yet he felt it was important to construct a lie around this so he could brag.
If he's going to brag about a completely insignificant false accomplishment, why should I assume that he's going to tell the truth for stuff that people would actually care about? At this point, I'm erring on the side of "Musk doesn't do anything outside of providing initial funding".
Maybe I'm wrong, that's certainly possible, but he really killed a lot of his credibility.
now with that all being said, when i see contracts like this:
"Telephone Based Mindfulness Training to reduce blood pressure in black-women" $2million(https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_47PH0825C0001_474...)
"South Sudan Gender Aware Sustainanable Water and Sanitation": $40Million (https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_72066821C00009_72...)
State Department Spending on Social Media Influencers:$4M (https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REP...)
Just some random example of currently killed or going to be killed contracts....I feel like all I had to do is have friends in government to basically just suck money off of the people while adding nothing back to society as a result of it. There are hundreds to many thousands of discovered "projects" and funds with these type of numbers. This is a plague in my viewpoint and does nothing to benefit society and move the needle, which engineers so pride themselves in doing...
> "Telephone Based Mindfulness Training to reduce blood pressure in black-women" $2million(https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_47PH0825C0001_474...)
The link you provided indicates funds were for repair to some bridge at port of entry in TX - "YSLETA, LAND PORT OF ENTRY PAVEMENT REPLACEMENT REPAIRS PROJECT, EL PASO, TX AWARD WAS MADE WITH LOW EMBODIED CARBON FUNDING"
> "South Sudan Gender Aware Sustainanable Water and Sanitation": $40Million (https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_72066821C00009_72...)
"tech bro American" doesn't want clean water for people in Sudan and promotion of basic hygiene practices.
https://dt-global.com/projects/afia-wash/
> State Department Spending on Social Media Influencers:$4M (https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/FESTIVUS-REP...)
There's so much wrong with this source material. It is so biased.
All of these "killed" contracts you deem as wasteful yet turn a blind eye to the _billions_ that public companies pour into stock buybacks. Minimal investment back into the company. This only helps _rich_ cunts and foreign investors.
They could be a sign of a lack of better projects for the company to invest in.
There's likely something to be said about tying stock buy backs to more stock options for employees, but it'd have to be voluntary rather than regulated.
There's definitely something to be said about CEO compensation relative to worker wages. But that's a civil society discussion, not a government regulation one.
And finally capital gains taxes being lower than income taxes is morally reprehensible, but this one will take quite a bit of work to undo without destroying the US economy due to capital flight out of the country once the law changes
These tech-bro-americans with very little experience with science, biotech, helping other people, international relations, understanding of how institutional knowledge works, or grant funding cycles and NIH works, are dismantling key infrastructure. It's worse than dumb it's much more terrifying.
Water and sanitation are a HUGE issue in developing countries. It's a main disease vector. It's also very common in many places that women have to practically sneak out of the village at night to go to the bathroom (some field) and get raped. Given anything I've heard about South Sudan I'd need surprised if these issues didn't exist there.
Third one is a positive surprise. Propaganda is clearly of increased importance in this century and we must fight the fight.
Without looking into it you can't just assume that mindfulness training doesn't have a proven clinical effect on blood pressure, and if it does then it's a good use of money. Preventative healthcare is still healthcare
Your link to the blood pressure reduction project is linking to something totally else, but in general such approaches seem to have some scientific backing. Improving public health seems like benefiting the society.
I wonder how many engineers really benefit society with their work, and how many even actively harm it.
https://bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11...
0. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
Do you actually know that those are pointless contracts or are you just making assumptions based on the titles?
Should they:
1) Hire professional auditors and business consultants to perform the undoubtedly massive review;
2) Ask the CEO of one of their suppliers to do the review as a fun side gig, let the CEO bring in a tiny team of teenage whiz kids, and give them full god mode access to the company’s books and databases and HR systems so they can fire anyone at will and ask questions later?
The approach chosen by America’s chief executive is bafflingly #2.
It’s worth noting that Trump has no experience managing a large corporation. All his businesses are partnerships with very few employees. He has no competence for this kind of thing, so he’s delegating everything to Musk who is the proverbial fox in the hen house, shutting down regulators who affect his own businesses.
And the little experience he has is of repeated bankruptcies and dodgy dealings, saved only by his political adventures (which now bankroll his Mar A Lago resort with public money).
They could apply some efficiency but it would be terrible in term of cost savings. There doesn't seem to be a registration costs (at least not that I can find). DNS service companies might take a $0-50 fee per year per domain? It is a very small number in a very large budget for a government entity.
I suspect the non ssl ones aren’t holding anything particularly useful at this stage though.
Some TLDs gives you open access to just query the DNS and do an AXFR (download the whole zone), for example the .se and .nu ccTLDs (which I happen to work for the foundation managing those): dig @zonedata.iis.se se AXFR > se.zone.txt
For some zones you could use NSEC traversal https://linux.die.net/man/1/walker
For the new gTLDs (.app, .dev, .xyz, etc, etc) there is the Centralized Zone Data Service provided by icann: https://czds.icann.org/home where you can request access to zones.
How would I know if they have open access?
(I found it in the data source, but not on the website that was linked to.)
$ cat 2025-02-21-gov.txt | cut -f1 | uniq | wc -l 13345
But nevertheless, I like seeing it made easily available on github!