Not sure how you are doing this calc, but 25 billion is not close to .5% of 25 trillion. ~0.1% is more like it. I also think the difference vs Apollo isn’t mostly money or national priority (conceding that is wildly different), it’s mostly management quality and functional capacity.

wfh today, waited for repairman, no dice. Adulting remains hard. Washing machine, still leaking.

fyi, still leaking washer, still hole in the ceiling. Adulting is hard

Discussing -ideas- is part of the point of meetings. I don’t want these to be “attacks” and agree that mutual respect should be the aim, but I’d say the most unacceptable behavior are as hominem arguments.

update, (2). LG repairperson did something, claimed to fix leak, still suspicious amount of water on the ground after running loads. Status: unclear

current status. (1) solved, (2) not solved, (3) not solved. Democracy: ???

everybody is good. girls are almost 10(!) and we're still mostly having fun, in work and play

were they trying to settle who gets which office?

fwiw, gotta an admirer in me, both for being badass as a sciengineer and for walking away

I don't understand what happened.