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Highly, highly recommend paying them a visit - truly a special organization, though I've neglected trying out one of their proper expeditions.
To anyone that has even thought of something more outside an office, try it so long as you're physically able. Compensation is one thing, but the experience for me has been priceless.
I'd be shocked if now was the time to have standards of any sort.
To me this reads as claiming "making fragile choices is good", which outside of very niche situations I'd say is bad advice: like telling a college basketball player to not waste time outside of practice and later watching him go undrafted in the pros.
At the same time, people love gossip.
Of course, the only secrets we know from the past were by definition not exactly well-kept.
Specifically, his notes on consumption / full employment are refreshing - it never sits right with me that the goal of economic policy at a high level is so often at odds with doing things in a "smart" way (measuring projects in jobs created, for example).
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In theory, my tax return requires about 4 extra states and a few cities, and a bunch of state registrations, and my payroll provider doesn't support the operations; so the net result is a Helleresque fever dream.
In practice, I never leave home on paper.
I wonder how that looks on an expense report
How do the Georgist Progressives tie into 1910's progressivism tie into modern progressivism?
I recall a bunch of Midwestern georgist mayors were called progressives at the turn of the century, but I don't recall anything I've read on the progressive era explicitly noting any georgist influences.
With all due respect to mister Fuller, this sounds like bullshit from someone that hasn't worked in manufacturing.
Quality manufacturing processes are hard, and this complexity only increases with the sophistication of what's being produced. Usually, the measurement systems in place are a tradeoff between cost, efficacy, and regulatory requirements - and I guarantee if an inspection can be removed, some engineer is begging to do it.
> unique atomic arrangements and radiological signatures
Seems like something a non-expert would glean from a misunderstanding.
> identify [UFO] crashes/landings and retrieve the material for exploitation/reverse engineering.
Seems like good standard operating procedure for any state that detects something crashing in their territory, be it mundane or not.
Not to say I can rule out extraterrestrial intelligence, which my Stellaris playthrough says bodes poorly.