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Prior to all this, I had never heard of the treasury payments system and the GSA. I bet most people have never heard of the CDC's morbidity and mortality report.

Not sure "has some random dude heard of this?" is a good barometer of "is it important?".

I've subscribed to the CDC MMWR for years, such a tragedy.

People don't seem to realize how much their lives are going to change living under authoritarianism. Make no mistake of what is happening.

A better approach being "The press says we should be upset and afraid, therefore we should be" ?

Writing an alarmist piece on every little thing this administration does is the exact same thing that Fox did for the previous administration.

TTS runs Cloud.gov (government cloud provider similar to AWS) and FedRAMP certification. These aren't small programs.

TTS also runs data.gov, which hosts tens of thousands of local/regional datasets. I don't think there's anything close (please correct me if I'm wrong) to providing this level of access to this kind of data. Off the top of my head, data.gov has historical tap water data, lead/toxic substance tests in public spaces (schools), EV vehicle/charging infrastructure, crime data, air quality, etc. A lot of this data is collected at the regional/state level, but data.gov warehouses it all.

This says more about what you know than the importance of said agency.

I've heard of Congress, but they seem to want to slash that, and have the Executive Branch take over their job. Also it seems that the Judicial branch is very much in the way and is being deprecated.

"I, personally, am ignorant of this thing, therefore it could not possibly be important" is a _wild_ approach to things.

Possibly just a very unusual form of solipsism?

Sure, but let's be real. Most people replying to my comment never knew it existed either. They're getting upset because the article is designed to elicit a reaction.

I'm sure the agency is doing some worthy and interesting things but will the average person notice their disappearance? My educated guess is probably not.

As we know, the only important things that exist are things that you are personally aware of.

"Even though I don't know everything, and especially everything about how an organization like a federal government works, I personally haven't heard about these things, and therefore it must be unnecessary and stupid."

I think you could convince people that their municipal water treatment facility is waste and fraud. They're dumping the chemicals into the water! And for what reason? It already comes out of the tap just fine; why do I need to keep paying for those useless bureaucrats?

you may not care about politics, but politics cares about you.

Just because you're ignorant doesn't mean the rest of us are.

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