"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
    • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I can’t believe people don’t get that. They are trying to delegitimize the parts of our government that help us.

        • vinnymac@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          It is far more sinister. They are trying to delegitimize them and then replace them with private corporations that they control. It is a long term plan.

          Two of the key ultra conservative goals of P25 are to consolidate power of the executive branch and benefit corporate interests by rolling back regulatory oversight. They are doing a great job of their goal.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
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            9 days ago

            3-5% of the population general striking and protesting wildly could turn the tide. People say they can’t afford time off work. They won’t have work, if they don’t. At least not paid work.

            • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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              9 days ago

              Current economic indicators aren’t looking good. If the largest employer in the country performs mass layoffs there’ll be a loooot of people out of work and likely not enough jobs to go around

  • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I’m torn on this, on one hand I know there must be millions of dollars in contracts for pointless reports and a huge amount of government wasteful spending in general.

    On the other hand, musk and trump are absolute morons. And they will cut shit just because they don’t know what the words mean.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Whoever dismantles the pre-existing structure will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it. This is the entire reason they are doing it. Great if you share their vision. Not so much if you don’t.

        • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          9 days ago

          What a shit take. Not all change is good change, and if you think this will be a good change, boy do I have some great ocean front property in Colorado to sell you.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Yeah, my preference for government is to not change. Enforce the laws we have efficiently, and don’t bother me too much. Big changes carry a lot of (usually) subtle carveouts for special interests.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 days ago

        will be the one who will have the chance to rebuild it

        Assumingbthey have any intention of rebuilding it.

    • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      9 days ago

      No you don’t know that. You are repeating a trope without substance. Sure there’s probably huge waste at the pentagon but that’s not on the chopping block here.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Waste is how you frame it.

      Even literal poop has a benefit.

      I do client work, sometimes it drives me mad how much time I “waste” making PPT slides that are just prettier BI dashboards, but then the client sees it, sends that one slide to his boss and everyone claps me on the back.

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      They’re not cutting actual waste. Their goal is to cripple the parts of the government that stopped them from doing illegal shit.

      • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Look at the bright side, the Evil Empire is over! America is done. Cooked. The next few years are gonna suck a lot but the deteriorating conditions will finally push Americans into a second revolution.

        • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Sadly, the deteriorating conditions are exactly what some groups want. Those are also the ones who can affect change, either with guns or money.

        • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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          9 days ago

          0.001 ElonCoin says that absolutely nobody will revolt against anything.

          70% of the country either wants this or was too lazy to do a single thing to stop it, and the other 30% is too busy yelling at each other about how they’re the most pure.

          Ain’t shit gonna happen.

    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      “Im torn on this, on one hand I know I have an untreated open wound on my leg, on the other hand here’s a 6 year old kid in a “doctor is in” t shirt who wants to smear whipped cream on it as a treatment”.

      What’s to be torn by? False dichotomy.

    • FatCrab@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      9 days ago

      If you are “torn” on whether it is a good thing to grant a wealthy campaign donor unfettered and unquestionably illegal access to government and bureaucratic infrastructure, with zero accountability or oversight, and who has displayed absolutely zero competence at managing any public institution (and in fact has a record of incompetence at managing private enterprises), then I honestly think you’re one of the millions of Americans who just needs to fuck off and stop contributing to adult decision-making. You’re simply not up to the task.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Remember that if you can see something that obvious, imagine all the quiet changes people are making that aren’t being immediately found. Not only the deliberate horseshit from musk and his facsy tots, but other attempts to distort data from traditional bad actors like China and Russia

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    9 days ago

    This is so embarassing. It can’t be the case that these idiots are actually in control of the united states.

    • Martijn@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It all seems to be rushed and it’s all an attack on political opposition. Doing it well isn’t important. Like a monkey throwing shit at another monkey, they don’t care that they have some shit on their hands, they threw shit at another monkey and that’s what counts. Unfortunately the shit throwing monkeys are the president of the USA and the wealthiest person in the world.

    • KeenFlame@feddit.nuEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Nah they have people helping them. At any second you could stop and they would have no power. But you continually support their project

    • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It can’t be the case that these idiots are actually in control of the united states.

    • eran_morad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      You can thank your compatriots for this horror show. Huh. There’s a double entendre there if you’re familiar with the Russian language, or if you’ve read A Clockwork Orange.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        There’s a double entendre there if you’re familiar with the Russian language

        As a Russian speaker, I don’t understand this. Could you elaborate?

        • eran_morad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 days ago

          “Horrorshow” is the Nadsat word that Alex used in A Clockwork Orange to mean “good”. It’s a bastardized transliteration of хорошо.

  • fl42v@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 days ago

    What did you expect from a department named after a memecoin anyways

  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    Fucking CyberTruck like fucking pile of shit website. What kills me the most is that the fucking things they’re screenshoting, those pages have literal “export to XML” buttons that they could fucking export, save the XML to some shared drive that gets swept, and the put it in some actually secure database.

    This whole fucking thing reeks of some fucking weeb ass Roblox hackers whose last project consisted of Lua Script emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft. And the export fuction on the thing? It’s just one dimension SUM function CSV exports. Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.

    And to top it off, we already have a fucking website that does what this fucking place does, but 846 decillion times better. And it doesn’t have a fucking Instagram esque reel of Tweets of people taking fucking screenshots of an open database.

    I can’t wait till the next dumbass gets into the White House and turns this pile of grabage off. Paying these idiots millions to power and run the hardware this pitiful excuse of a website runs on. And all we got for that money is some shit that is about on par as the shit you get from some O’Reilly book called “Building a Government Website Crash Course” with a Bald Eagle dying of bird flu on the cover.

    This fucking idiot maybe wants to fucking learn what the hell SQL is.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft

      Let’s stop right here for a bit. With redstone in Minecraft you can make the same logical constructs that in real world lead from a bipolar transistor to a machine capable of decoding your porn in real time. And people, including kids, do design those.

      Please show some respect.

      Those who make calculators in Minecraft are not the dumb kind.

      Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.

      But yes, weird to expect almost college kids to have the experience needed. I can imagine some of them having the necessary education, but for a data analyst the mathematical basis is simple and the rest is experience.

    • griD@feddit.orgEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I can’t wait till the next dumbass gets into the White House and turns this pile of grabage off. Paying these idiots millions to power and run the hardware this pitiful excuse of a website runs on. And all we got for that money is some shit that is about on par as the shit you get from some O’Reilly book called “Building a Government Website Crash Course” with a Bald Eagle dying of bird flu on the cover.

      Thanks, I needed that. Poetic.

    • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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      9 days ago

      But the government does not use SQL per ELMO.

      I am waiting for this idiot to come up with something like EIQL (Elmo’s idiotic query language).

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        So you are telling me Musk has been touching techy things since about 1995 till now, and thinks there’s an organization without any SQL at least someplace? I wouldn’t dare suggest that about ISIS.

        Any website - OK, web is inefficient and shouldn’t be used. But their operations planning just wouldn’t work so well without proper business analytics infrastructure.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Musk is wrong about literally everything. Must be nice to have enough money to make up for being a fucking moron.

        • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I don’t know if there’s enough money in the world to make up for that horse’s ass. All his purchased government position does, beyond destroying the US government, is broadcast how he’s a feckless moron to anyone who isn’t just as stupid.

          Unfortunately, Musk isn’t alone: many US citizens are that stupid.

  • pezhore@infosec.pubEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Someone make it show

    Doge ⬇️ Trump ⬇️ Congress

    I want to see trump get asked about it in the next presser.