I’m gonna leave this up because people are commenting on it, but IMO it’s borderline off-topic. This is an article about political corruption in Federal procurement, and only incidentally mentions cars because they happen to be the item being procured. Try to stick a little closer to “problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all” next time.
Edit: I just noticed that the person who posted this is the other mod, LOL. I guess we should have a chat to make sure we’re on the same page re: rule 4.
The superior yield for corruption in the procurement of fleets of cars for a State seems like a Fuck Cars issue to me.
I mean, I can see how there could be corruption in the procurement of State Bicycles or State Employee Walking Shoes, but the values involved would be way lower.
And this is without going into the whole point made by somebody else that Governments having and using fleets of cars (especially State officials) incentivises them to have pro-car policies.
You can try to pretend that this has nothing to do with car dependency. But try to imagine this story happening with bicycles. The state completely supports the car con. We wouldn’t be in this situation otherwise. This story is an excellent and important example.
Car dependency is an issue and a major one in the US, but this is almost completely separate. It’s all about the blatant corruption of the president’s leashholder’s company getting a sweet contract that’s actually trash for the government because Cybertrucks just plain suck even if you love cars.
The president literally put Musk in charge of reducing government spending… And then while people are getting laid off left and right, his company is getting a 400M contract for something it hasn’t even made to any real scale, whereas plenty of other companies have: armored cars.
I’m gonna leave this up because people are commenting on it, but IMO it’s borderline off-topic. This is an article about political corruption in Federal procurement, and only incidentally mentions cars because they happen to be the item being procured. Try to stick a little closer to “problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all” next time.
Edit: I just noticed that the person who posted this is the other mod, LOL. I guess we should have a chat to make sure we’re on the same page re: rule 4.
The superior yield for corruption in the procurement of fleets of cars for a State seems like a Fuck Cars issue to me.
I mean, I can see how there could be corruption in the procurement of State Bicycles or State Employee Walking Shoes, but the values involved would be way lower.
And this is without going into the whole point made by somebody else that Governments having and using fleets of cars (especially State officials) incentivises them to have pro-car policies.
You can try to pretend that this has nothing to do with car dependency. But try to imagine this story happening with bicycles. The state completely supports the car con. We wouldn’t be in this situation otherwise. This story is an excellent and important example.
Car dependency is an issue and a major one in the US, but this is almost completely separate. It’s all about the blatant corruption of the president’s leashholder’s company getting a sweet contract that’s actually trash for the government because Cybertrucks just plain suck even if you love cars.
The president literally put Musk in charge of reducing government spending… And then while people are getting laid off left and right, his company is getting a 400M contract for something it hasn’t even made to any real scale, whereas plenty of other companies have: armored cars.
Wow, you’re an asshole. People post fucking images of text all the time, and you do nothing.
Someone posts a link to an actual on topic article from a credible source and you say you almost ban it.
How about actually cleaning up all the low effort crap posted here? That’s where you should be focusing your efforts.
You shouldn’t insult people doing volunteer work, period. You look like someone who’d scream at referees in children’s football games.
So you’re saying that’s frowned upon?
Not if you’re loud enough
So you’re saying skip the referees and scream directly at the children?
That’ll get Timmy to cover the damn goal, for once!
I’d be less upset if they were absent. But when they only abuse their job, they deserve to be called out.