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On 2/18/2025 at 2:49 PM, Aqua Buddha said:

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I want to come back to this.

Source.   

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However, the Social Security Administration automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old, an agency rule that has been in effect since September 2015. 

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Social Security and COBOL

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security's software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birth dates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. 

The news organization WIRED first reported on the agency's use of COBOL, a programming language which is more than 60 years old.

Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration's inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.

The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million.

So Musk, with his super genius 19-25 yr olds couldn't figure out there was a software issue at hand, because they don't actually know that language, but decided to interpret it anyways.   They could have been handed a memo in sanskrit and they would have just made up whatever the fuck they wanted, because they are too arrogant and too ignorant to fucking know their limitations.   I am so disappointed in "big balls."   

 

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

Food is still sitting in warehouses. I know the HIV component of PEPFAR gets focused on but there were some other major initiatives that fell into this category and are gone.

Supporting WHO for global vaccines.

Food projects for at risk populations.

Water conservation

UNHCR (Feeding refugees)

But shit, lets cancel Verizons contract for ATC, give it to Elon and all cool. Anyone want to visit my new home inside Yosemite?

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Posted
9 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

the Virgnia GOP is going to have a hell of a time defending their policies in November when the 2025 state elections come around. 

No they won't.

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Posted
22 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Correct.  They'll roll out a shit-ton of anit-gay ads, find a group of browns to vilify, and roll to another term. 

 

Speaking of, how much more mileage can they get out of these two causes?  I gotta figure there are a few new things that Team MAGA are workshopping for the 2025-26 election cycles.

 

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3 hours ago, locodos said:

apropos of nothing.  Shout out to this Virginia legend

r/nova - Robert E Lee tags

This is one of the very rare personalized plates that isn't stupid as hell. Its not quite the Massachusetts "RED SOX" I saw on the Boston beltway once, but it's pretty fucking close. 

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12 hours ago, Satchel said:

It turns out none of the “receipts are real. From the NYT: 

DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.

 

These were the original five largest savings on its list:

  • An $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The actual contract in question was worth $8 million. The mistake seemed to stem from an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database. But contracting experts said that the service should have known better: ICE’s entire budget is about $8 billion, making it implausible that one contract could be so large. The U.S. DOGE Service adjusted the figure on the site after The Times wrote about it, and said in a post on Mr. Musk’s X platform that it had “always used the correct $8M in its calculations.”

  • Three $655 million cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. This was actually a single cut that was erroneously counted three times, as first reported by CBS News. That mistake also seemed to reflect a misunderstanding of the way government contracts work; they sometimes have “ceiling values” far in excess of what will be spent. Experts said this cancellation was unlikely to produce anything close to $655 million in savings even once. Now, the site lists a much smaller savings for these three cancellations: $18 million in total.

  • $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.

Some of the new canceled contracts added this week appear to make some of the same types of errors.

The largest savings on the latest version of its list is a $1.9 billion cut at the Treasury Department. But The Times reported last week that this contract was canceled last fall, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was president — and when DOGE did not yet exist.

 

 

So all this crap for 27 million in cuts? Lolololol. Thats not even 1/3rd of an F-35

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Posted
2 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

So all this crap for 27 million in cuts? Lolololol. Thats not even 1/3rd of an F-35

There needs to be an accounting for how much they’ve spent to achieve these amazing targets. I’m guessing we’re approaching net zero or net negative in total “efficiency.”

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There needs to be an accounting for how much they’ve spent to achieve these amazing targets. I’m guessing we’re approaching net zero or net negative in total “efficiency.”

There needs to be, but there won’t be.

Big target for Dems. They’re sure to miss.
Posted
20 hours ago, Sbbruin said:

I've been waiting for the media to pick up on the fact that the federal job cuts are going to potentially fuck the GOP in Virginia for a long, long time. 

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Posted
10 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Correct.  They'll roll out a shit-ton of anit-gay ads, find a group of browns to vilify, and roll to another term. 

Well they certainly aren't going to talk about egg prices, DOGE, nazi salutes, (the Oxford comma) and the consumer confidence index.

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