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   Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:21:03 JST Steve Randy Waldman

   this is what "efficiency" looks like. https://im-in.space/@Chip_Unicorn/114077708550331811

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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:21:02 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn Why would #JoeBiden do this
     
     https://www.gp.org/climate-call-in
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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:22:41 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     • Chip Unicorn
     @Chip_Unicorn @interfluidity @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn And it's only Tuesday through Thursday???
     
     Negatively loaded multisyllable word!
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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:25:43 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     • Chip Unicorn
     @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn What makes you think this has anything to do with efficiency?
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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 09:25:44 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Chip Unicorn

     @realcaseyrollins @Chip_Unicorn no idea. whoever does it, it’s what a stupid version of efficiency looks like, replacing human, accessible systems with much cheaper, automated, less accessible systems. it’s efficient only from the perspective of the system provider, because it shifts costs and losses to users.

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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 22:30:49 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     • Chip Unicorn
     @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn what makes that the most plausible explanation for such a policy?
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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 22:30:51 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Chip Unicorn

     @realcaseyrollins @Chip_Unicorn if you have a call line that’s only open from 11-3 when people might want to call any time (ie it’s not some live event naturally restricted to the time window, like a radio talk show), i presume it’s because the provider is trying to limit the expense of operating the line (not the literal telephone expense, but the expense of dealing with calls).

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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 22:45:03 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn I have at least two (potential union negotiations, or the government seeking to limit how much feedback they receive), but I'm more interested in how the current thing has so distracted you that you look at what appears to be a long-standing government system (or at least one that was in place four years ago), and assume that it must be related to a quite recent strategy of governance that the progressive left has only been bemoaning for a few months now.
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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 22:45:05 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Chip Unicorn

     @realcaseyrollins @Chip_Unicorn what’s your explanation?

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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 23:54:45 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     • Chip Unicorn
     @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn @interfluidity @Chip_Unicorn have you considered the possibility that this is due to union negotiations or the government seeking to limit the feedback that they receive? What do you think about those potential explanations?
     
     Not to say that you're wrong, just trying to get you to expand the scope of your thinking a little bit here.
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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 23:54:46 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Chip Unicorn

     @realcaseyrollins @Chip_Unicorn for users it’s everything we mean by “bureaucracy” when we use the word as a pejorative. /fin

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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Friday, 28-Feb-2025 23:54:47 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Chip Unicorn

     @realcaseyrollins @Chip_Unicorn as i said, i don’t care whether it’s the current president who done it. it’s the kind of “efficiency” DOGE acolytes are proposing: replace people in expensive roles with less-manned systems. we know what that looks like. we used to have 24 hour human telephone customer service at every large company in the US. now we have limited hours and infuriating automated systems. from the inside, maybe that looks like less bureaucracy. 1/

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     Steve Randy Waldman (interfluidity@zirk.us)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 03:45:57 JST Steve Randy Waldman

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     • Chip Unicorn

     @realcaseyrollins @Chip_Unicorn "the government seeking to limit the feedback that they receive" is precisely the kind of "efficiency" i am criticizing.

     (it's not a real efficiency, taking into account all of our interests, but it's an efficiency from the perspective of the organization that is supposed to actually read and react to feedback.)

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