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NIST does many other things in addition to handling the CVE database.
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Like producing the world's most premium peanut butter!

https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=2387

(The only problem with it is that it's backdoored the NSA.)

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Assuming this is in reference to the great Veritasium video[0] going over what these reference materials are used for and why they're so expensive.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c

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You mean to tell me that the peanut butter at my store has junk besides peanut butter in it?

I'm gunna call RFK right now and tell him to fix this!

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> but from a superficial glance it kind of seems like trying to cut down on standards or efficiency.

That's kind of the norm in the current US administration, so it shouldn't be surprising.

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