>300 #House lawmakers were reimbursed ≥$5.2M for #food & #lodging while on official business in Washington last year under a new, #TaxpayerFunded prgm that doesn’t require receipts.
The prgm, which kicked off last yr after a #Republican-led House panel passed it, was intended to make it easier for lawmakers to maintain separate homes in DC & their home districts.
But critics argue that its reliance on the #HonorSystem esp given [#HouseRepublicans dearth of honor] & lack of #transparent record-keeping makes it ripe for abuse.
The reimbursement scheme’s lack of receipt requirements is a “ridiculous loophole … Clearly it becomes very difficult to tell whether or not it’s a legitimate payment & whether it’s proper,” said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the good govt group Public Citizen.
Fun adventures in parenting a fantastic trans kid.
My son started T right before leaving for Korea. The T has really done well with their body and their voice has DROPPED.
Now they're home again, and I keep hearing a "man voice" in my house and panic for just half a sec. It's not the voice I remember from them and I'm still getting used to it, so it's like AAAAHH, oh right. Boy voice now.
He is ecstatic - his voice was a big source of dysphoria and now it's BASS
Just FYI, for people who write a lot with mechanical pens, check out the Kuru Toga line with rotating lead engine. Every time you lift up your pen the lead rotates slightly which keeps your lead relatively sharp to a point. They are also very affordable at <$20 on amazon.
Just a note, they are inexpensive so despite some of them looking like metal they are light and plastic. But they seem high quality and dont break easily.
yes @freemo , I have a light #writing, and the 0.5 is perfect for me :)
I use the 0.7 with color #leads and the 0.3... very little ^^
I always preferred pencils to pens..
I guess I like the non-destructiveness, because when I don't use #pencils, I use #erasable pens XD in particular the #Frixion, they become #transparent with the raising of the #temperature ♨️
I used fountains on primary and maybe mid school.. I remember I liked them :) but only gel ones from high school up to today ^^
There is a #Wikipedia proposal [0] to modify the 'Find general sources' template [1]. The template is used on nearly a million Wikipedia pages (esp. talk pages, not articles). Knowledge review circulates between search engines + meta-search engines, academic peer-reviewed papers, and Wikipedia - should #SurveillanceCapitalism retain its power here? This #OpenKnowledge decision-making is #transparent and #participatory.
Nouvelle version de ma VHS transparente en impression 3D !
Celle-ci est la version finale en impression avec des couches de 0.1mm et une buse de 0.4mm
Je vais tenter d'en faire une autre avec une buse de 0.1mm
Déjà que les temps d'impression sont énormes, là il faudra pas être pressé ! :D
Today, @EDPS_supervisor is opening #privacy and #dataprotection conference organised by @fnf with a keynote on "Fediverse for Public Administration: Why we try and why we fail?"
3 Dinge sollte man bei #Digitalisierung verstehen: 1. Was wichtig ist. 2. Was nicht so wichtig. Und 3. wo man mitmachen kann – findet
Johanna Sprondel, Direktorin der Urania Berlin & neustes Mitglied im #Beirat Digitalstrategie Deutschland. Sie setzt sich für Digitale #Teilhabe ein.
Wie gut geht es voran, was kann man besser machen? Ihr Feedback könnt ihr bei uns mitverfolgen. Aktuell und #transparent!