Kind of puts a kink into project 2025's budding technocracy. We'll be the most insular country on the planet.

So basically all the others that have poisoned the well are making legitimate purposes harder? But anyway the BLS is suppose to be surveying businesses. Not the joe on the street. Procrastination is hurting there.

Go with automated vehicles, robots, and drones for doorstep deliveries. It eliminates the issues of being "over-watched and over-worked" while reducing community-related concerns.

Plus some phones (like Samsung) come with features (e.g. work profiles, etc) that allow for a separation of work and personal, especially with dual-sim phones.

That seems the best compromise, plus one could have different carriers for different services, shopping for the best deal.

Microplastics and forever chemicals. I'm sure with the collapse of any kind of regulation over industry there will be more reasons.

Is this anything like drug use?

The point were "deal with it" is going to be a harsh one then. A lot of people may even die, and from that standpoint the Darwin crowd may see it as a self-correcting problem.

No different than cloud complaints. Both can be installed locally if needed. Harder part with both is finding the expertise.

Checking work applies as much to calculator handiwork as it does LLM output. Especially in something with high consequences.

Homelabbing with AI as a growth market with a side order of everything else.

Whoo Hoo! You go, Piratebay!

Superinsulation goes a long way towards making that last.

There's the third world to sell to. Especially in keeping with the quality of most power grids out there.

Reading the above poster one could say it's even worse.

Final Take
This isn’t just “one big contract.” This is institutional capture via administrative machinery—what some would call “soft monopolization” of public service delivery. Whether or not it’s technically legal under current DoD policies, it undermines the entire premise of competitive, accountable, mission-driven procurement.

This should absolutely raise alarms—especially for:
Congressional oversight committees
GAO watchdogs
Inspector General offices*
Any contractor not named Palantir

*And remember whom DOGE got rid of several months ago.

  DOGE as the enabler, downsizing oversight and removing legacy bottlenecks—all while aligning IT power with Palantir-friendly professionals.
Palantir gained unprecedented access to internal agency data, solidified by cooperative engineering projects, and now holds a nearly unassailable position with the Army.
The combination of data architecture control, contract simplification, and institutional alignment makes this a structural shift—not merely an efficiency narrative.