Cost-minimizing ≠ Efficient
Want to go visit the national parks this year?
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Sorry.
The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired.
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return
Yosemite halts camping reservations, with no timetable for their return at a time when federal employees are being laid off
www.sfchronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Cost-minimizing ≠ Efficient
Dear Elon:
How much does it cost for Trump to take a lap at the #Daytona500 ?
Is this cost efficient?
Why are we cutting cancer research for this nonsense?
How much does it cost for Trump to take a lap at the #Daytona500 ?
Is this cost efficient?
Why are we cutting cancer research for this nonsense?
February 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Dear Elon:
How much does it cost for Trump to take a lap at the #Daytona500 ?
Is this cost efficient?
Why are we cutting cancer research for this nonsense?
How much does it cost for Trump to take a lap at the #Daytona500 ?
Is this cost efficient?
Why are we cutting cancer research for this nonsense?
The ENTIRE reason late night talk shows exist is because they are cost efficient.
BREAKING: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" will broadcast its final show next May, CBS said. The network, which has aired "The Late Show" with Colbert as its host since 2015, said the decision is "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night."
Stephen Colbert will end his 'Late Show' run next year as CBS retires franchise
The decision "is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount," the network said Thursday.
nbcnews.to
July 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The ENTIRE reason late night talk shows exist is because they are cost efficient.
JFC!!! How is this cost saving or efficient?
April 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
JFC!!! How is this cost saving or efficient?
Finally, a cost efficient use of government funds.
August 6, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Finally, a cost efficient use of government funds.
If this is true, it’s staggering. You don’t outsource sensitive Pentagon IT to engineers sitting in China and call it “efficient.” Cost savings? No- that’s a national security self-own. Oversight failed, and it needs fixing fast. #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #China
www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
January 28, 2026 at 2:42 AM
If this is true, it’s staggering. You don’t outsource sensitive Pentagon IT to engineers sitting in China and call it “efficient.” Cost savings? No- that’s a national security self-own. Oversight failed, and it needs fixing fast. #CyberSecurity #NationalSecurity #China
www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
www.fdd.org/analysis/202...
South Africa has seen a major rise in low-cost renewable energy innovations specifically designed to support off-grid and rural communities. One of the most creative solutions involves repurposing old, discarded satellite dishes into highly efficient solar concentrators. #ActOnClimate #Renewables
May 27, 2026 at 4:36 PM
South Africa has seen a major rise in low-cost renewable energy innovations specifically designed to support off-grid and rural communities. One of the most creative solutions involves repurposing old, discarded satellite dishes into highly efficient solar concentrators. #ActOnClimate #Renewables
Succinctly: it will never make (environmental, cost, safety, space efficient) sense to move a 140lb person in a 3 ton vehicle.
A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people.
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
Sound efficient?
HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Succinctly: it will never make (environmental, cost, safety, space efficient) sense to move a 140lb person in a 3 ton vehicle.
Wouldn’t it just be more efficient to relocate our intelligence services to Moscow?
My guess is Elon & Vivek will recommend that as a cost-cutting measure.
My guess is Elon & Vivek will recommend that as a cost-cutting measure.
I don't want to sound alarmist or anything, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to skip FBI background checks and bury congressional ethics reports about nominees to the most important posts in the federal government.
November 15, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Wouldn’t it just be more efficient to relocate our intelligence services to Moscow?
My guess is Elon & Vivek will recommend that as a cost-cutting measure.
My guess is Elon & Vivek will recommend that as a cost-cutting measure.
This is a terrible idea. The more information that investors receive, the more transparent and efficient markets become, lowering the cost of capital for good performers.
September 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is a terrible idea. The more information that investors receive, the more transparent and efficient markets become, lowering the cost of capital for good performers.
Please share the post below and donate if you can. These excavators save so many Ukrainian lives at a very efficient cost.
Unfortunately excavators are also high value targets for russian drone operators and artillery crews.
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September 22, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Please share the post below and donate if you can. These excavators save so many Ukrainian lives at a very efficient cost.
Magnetic tapes are the closest things we have to "permanent modern digital records."
Separately, there is no more cost efficient cold storage, so there's no way this is more efficient, whatever it is.
Separately, there is no more cost efficient cold storage, so there's no way this is more efficient, whatever it is.
April 7, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Magnetic tapes are the closest things we have to "permanent modern digital records."
Separately, there is no more cost efficient cold storage, so there's no way this is more efficient, whatever it is.
Separately, there is no more cost efficient cold storage, so there's no way this is more efficient, whatever it is.
There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.
March 10, 2025 at 3:40 AM
There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.
I'm sure this will be a very smooth, efficient, and cost effective endeavor under a cronyistic and corrupt oligarchy
What the fuck? Why? Why abandon all the infrastructure built up over decades that's already here?
December 13, 2024 at 3:17 PM
I'm sure this will be a very smooth, efficient, and cost effective endeavor under a cronyistic and corrupt oligarchy
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
this is actually insane
GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence
Introducing the most cost-efficient small model in the market
openai.com
July 18, 2024 at 11:24 PM
this is actually insane
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.
LTO-9 tapes are 18TB, cost under $100 each, and last for 30+ years making them the most efficient cold storage solution on the market, which every competent IT professional knows, but no im sure you can just dump all of that essential data in some shitty budget cloud storage service lmao
April 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
LTO-9 tapes are 18TB, cost under $100 each, and last for 30+ years making them the most efficient cold storage solution on the market, which every competent IT professional knows, but no im sure you can just dump all of that essential data in some shitty budget cloud storage service lmao
The installed cost of each rack is less than $300. A really efficient program!
Another round of cheap, durable, and useful bike racks installed at schools across Chicago 🚲 Pictured here at:
- Ginsburg Elementary
- Stowe Elementary
- Brentano Math & Science Academy
- Pulaski School
- Ginsburg Elementary
- Stowe Elementary
- Brentano Math & Science Academy
- Pulaski School
December 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The installed cost of each rack is less than $300. A really efficient program!
Keeping his promise to be efficient and cut spending, Vivek Ramaswamy steps back from the ‘Doge’ cost-cutting program, leaving Musk in charge. One salary down, and it only took half a day. Now that’s efficiency at work!
January 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Keeping his promise to be efficient and cut spending, Vivek Ramaswamy steps back from the ‘Doge’ cost-cutting program, leaving Musk in charge. One salary down, and it only took half a day. Now that’s efficiency at work!
In case you missed it, DOGE was neither a cost saving mission nor efficient.
August 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
In case you missed it, DOGE was neither a cost saving mission nor efficient.
Tonight in
As the World Burns
There is a solution.
And it doesn't cost taxpayers one single additional dime.
Take the subsidies currently feeding fat cats in the fossil fuel industry and used them to build a new, cheaper, more efficient publicly owned grid, induction charging highways.
As the World Burns
There is a solution.
And it doesn't cost taxpayers one single additional dime.
Take the subsidies currently feeding fat cats in the fossil fuel industry and used them to build a new, cheaper, more efficient publicly owned grid, induction charging highways.
January 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Tonight in
As the World Burns
There is a solution.
And it doesn't cost taxpayers one single additional dime.
Take the subsidies currently feeding fat cats in the fossil fuel industry and used them to build a new, cheaper, more efficient publicly owned grid, induction charging highways.
As the World Burns
There is a solution.
And it doesn't cost taxpayers one single additional dime.
Take the subsidies currently feeding fat cats in the fossil fuel industry and used them to build a new, cheaper, more efficient publicly owned grid, induction charging highways.
DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
NEW: The Great Lakes hold 95% of all the surface freshwater in the United States.
Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab.
Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
My story for @propublica.org
Severe cuts have decimated the NOAA Great Lakes lab.
Scientists worry they’ve lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
My story for @propublica.org
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
www.propublica.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
DOGE initially promised to save taxpayers $2 trillion. Now it admits it's only delivered $160B in cuts.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
And even those minimal savings are nearly wiped out by the cost of implementing DOGE's cuts: $135B.
We're losing vital government services (that are efficient!) for basically nothing in return.
Most coal companies have gone bankrupt or are on shaky footing because nobody wants to buy coal. It’s not cost efficient anymore.
Two days after Lee Zeldin announced he was gutting the EPA.
March 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Most coal companies have gone bankrupt or are on shaky footing because nobody wants to buy coal. It’s not cost efficient anymore.