Coffee Talk: I Should Have Had a V-8

[forty_three]

Something about leopards??

^ "Boring" reaction because it's the closest to a tiny violin reaction.

 

[mattola]

The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug

A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.

www.wired.com

Within just the last week or so, Elon Musk’s DOGE hit team of mostly young, almost exclusively male engineers and executives have done the following:
• Pushed a website live to track “savings” that showed no savings for several days, and made it trivially easy for random people on the internet to make changes to it.
• Published classified information on that same website.
• Got called out for accidentally inflating that savings amount by $7,992,000,000, and doubled down on their inaccuracy before they fixed it.
• Fired hundreds of people who work on nuclear security, then scrambled to rehire them, except they had nuked all the work email addresses and personnel files so they didn’t know how to get in touch.
• Basically the same deal, except with the US Department of Agriculture employees working to protect the country from a looming bird flu crisis.
• Rehired a 25-year-old engineer with a stack of racist tweets to his name.
• Spouted a bunch of nonsense conspiracy theories about who’s getting Social Security benefits. (Okay, that was all Musk.)
That’s just a sampling. It doesn’t include the damage born of purging thousands of workers across multiple government agencies, the consequences of which will reverberate in both obvious and unexpected ways for a generation—not to mention the near-term impact that arbitrarily spiking the unemployment rate will have on the US economy. It doesn’t include the opportunity cost of tossing hundreds of government contracts and programs into a bonfire.

 

[thedddd]

Something about leopards??

 

[Loco2]

Welp he's not hiding it .. efficiency my a$$

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Before Trump, the FAA had a streak of 16 years without a fatality. That is 45,000 flights per day or a total of more than 250 million flights in total without a commercial fatality, and it seems unlikely the FAA had any fault in the recent DC crash. A sterling record.

The Falcon 9 has crashed twice in just 437 launches. That would equal 1.14 million accidents at the same volume of the FAA.

Besides the obvious conflict of interest, the FAA obliterates SpaceX in efficiency and safety.

Move fast and break things shouldn't apply when people are the things being broken.

 

[buffhockey]

 

[mattola]

oh my fucking god.........

 

[thedddd]

^ that post should be reposted and like in record numbers!

 

[mattola]

 

[mattola]

i am very tired

 

[Comeds]

Is it just me or do we rarely hear the phrase Trump Derangement Syndrome any more? Maybe just maybe people are realizing that many of us were correctly voicing legitimate concerns.

I saw it like 10 times yesterday. A few times in regards to Chris Kluwe.

 

[forty_three]

I just read up on this and it is likely she knew the attacker and was probably a domestic violence situation.

And I deeply despise the fact that the thought crossed my mind that it was the less terrible outcome.

 

[thedddd]

Wonder how many of those idiots would believe this.

 

[mattola]

 

[mattola]

i am very tired

 

[forty_three]

The Dallas Morning News (@dallasnews.com)

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history, chose his 83rd birthday to share his decision not to run for another term in Kentucky and to retire when his current term ends...

bsky.app

C'mon Kentucky. We need you. Put Beshear in the Senate.

 

[puckhead]

Tracks

 

[mattola]

Tracks

can you imagine if a secret service agent just did it...... just said. thats enough

 

[mattola]

^^^ appropriate Like Icon @thedddd

 

[mattola]

Senate confirms Kash Patel as Trump’s FBI director

hammer is going to come down on those that challenged Trump..... Law be damned. Lots of people are going to suffer here.

 

[thedddd]

^^^ appropriate Like Icon @thedddd

Wish KY would do the right thing but we know they won’t

Also can’t gumdrop Mitch finally retiring because he is the very reason we are in this mess. When he finally kills over, really wish it is now we could at least have a democratic senator in KY for a year.

Also when he dies a gumdrop will happen.