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  On 3/28/2025 at 4:39 AM, Anastasis said:

In my world glass pipes and gun safes are tax deductible. 

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You may think that, but you promote fascism. You promote hierarchy. You defend it. You parade a political fantasy you know will never have to answer to the way the things are as if it's some clever trick and wipe your hands of any responsibility. It's as disgusting as it is tired. 

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  On 3/28/2025 at 6:16 AM, Thatguy said:

When you think everyone is a weirdo.......

Finish it for me Cloak Room!

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Shit man, I spent time writing med recs for people in the Austin State Hospital. You are going to have to work hard to impress me. 

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Navy vet fired because DOGE didn't like the 5 bullet point email that was submitted:

Fortune link (paywalled) so here is the Archived version

https://archive.ph/jiuzK

 

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I joined the Department of the Navy because I believed in public service, in the mission, and in the people. After serving nine years on Active Duty — including multiple deployments — I was fired six months into my civilian career, not for failing at my job, but for sending a limerick in response to Elon Musk’s new requirements. 

Beginning on February 24, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has directed federal civilians to provide five bullets responding to the prompt, “What did you do last week?”. On March 17, I answered the fourth round of emails with five lines of rhyme – a limerick sent on St. Patrick’s Day. When leadership reduced our work to unclassified and meaningless bullet points, they got a response commensurate with the assignment. I was subsequently terminated for poor conduct; my termination letter cited the limerick as the only evidence. 

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My supervisor, who was cc’d on all of my weekly emails to DOGE, was blindsided by my termination too. I was fired without counseling. I had not received a negative performance review. My entire chain of command had stated repeatedly I was doing a great job and that I was an asset to the team.

The morning after I was fired, I opened my grandfather’s 1935 Watch Officer’s Guide which he had when he was a young Naval Officer in 1942, and in which he had underlined, “Complaints – In hearing complaints exercise patience; hear both sides of the story fully before deciding on action.” 

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The Navy that my grandfather and I joined in the spirit of service is currently buckling to Musk, sacrificing its long-held principles for the sake of political deference. A military department that ostensibly values leadership and fortitude is currently led by men rewarded for falling in line with Musk, heedless of the cost to their staff, or their mission. 

I have given my life and career to the Navy. I graduated from Stanford with a degree in Political Science. I then joined the Navy as an intelligence officer. After my nine years on active duty, I transitioned to the Reserves. I went to Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated with my Master of Public Policy in May 2024. I was hired as a civilian by the Department of the Navy in August 2024. 

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  On 3/28/2025 at 3:19 AM, Anastasis said:

As someone with maybe just a little insight into data models as they relate to different health care IT infrastructures, this is a huge area for optimization. It's frankly amazing the just total politically oriented push back on the shit that we all know is waste and potential fraud and abuse. 

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No one is pushing back on the concept itself.  They're pushing back on the execution and non-expert identity of those executing it.  And doing it is going to cost a mega shit ton, most of which will go to gougey private sector contractors.

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What could possibly go wrong.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

 

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse


Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

 

 

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The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

The project is being organized by Elon Musk lieutenant Steve Davis, multiple sources who were not given permission to talk to the media tell WIRED, and aims to migrate all SSA systems off COBOL, one of the first common business-oriented programming languages, and onto a more modern replacement like Java within a scheduled tight timeframe of a few months.

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Under any circumstances, a migration of this size and scale would be a massive undertaking, experts tell WIRED, but the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 million people in the US currently receiving Social Security benefits.

“Of course one of the big risks is not underpayment or overpayment per se but [it’s also] not paying someone at all and not knowing about it. The invisible errors and omissions,” an SSA technologist tells WIRED.

The Social Security Administration did not immediately reply to WIRED’s request for comment.

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SSA has been under increasing scrutiny from president Donald Trump’s administration. In February, Musk took aim at SSA, falsely claiming that the agency was rife with fraud. Specifically, Musk pointed to data he allegedly pulled from the system that showed 150-year-olds in the US were receiving benefits, something that isn’t actually happening. Over the last few weeks, following significant cuts to the agency by DOGE, SSA has suffered frequent website crashes and long wait times over the phone, the Washington Post reported this week.

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  On 3/28/2025 at 2:35 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

What could possibly go wrong.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

 

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse


Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

 

 

 

 

 

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  On 3/28/2025 at 2:24 PM, TwiceHorn said:

No one is pushing back on the concept itself.  They're pushing back on the execution and non-expert identity of those executing it.  And doing it is going to cost a mega shit ton, most of which will go to gougey private sector contractors.

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I know everyone agrees with the concept until anyone actually tries to do something about it. What we need is a task force to study the issue for the next 12 months, write up a report, and issue some recommendations that everyone can ignore for the rest of the political cycle. Meanwhile the SSA database will operate on COBOL and everyone should just act like this is normal and the real risk is fixing the problem. Oh look, another interest payment due, keep rolling over those t bills until we can't anymore. Keep the carriers gassed up.     

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  On 3/28/2025 at 3:54 PM, Anastasis said:

I know everyone agrees with the concept until anyone actually tries to do something about it. What we need is a task force to study the issue for the next 12 months, write up a report, and issue some recommendations that everyone can ignore for the rest of the political cycle. Meanwhile the SSA database will operate on COBOL and everyone should just act like this is normal and the real risk is fixing the problem. Oh look, another interest payment due, keep rolling over those t bills until we can't anymore. Keep the carriers gassed up.     

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Classic Ana non-response response.  Do you want to respond to the valid concern that Big Balls and co lack a basic understanding of what they're fucking with (as well as any interest in informing themselves before they run in and start breaking shit)?  Given their performance thus far, it seems likely that DOGE will end up spending a metric shit-ton to end up with something that's more fucked up than what we started with (while also jeopardizing ongoing payments and everyone's private data in the process).  

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  On 3/28/2025 at 5:15 PM, Gap03 said:

Classic Ana non-response response.  Do you want to respond to the valid concern that Big Balls and co lack a basic understanding of what they're fucking with (as well as any interest in informing themselves before they run in and start breaking shit)?  Given their performance thus far, it seems likely that DOGE will end up spending a metric shit-ton to end up with something that's more fucked up than what we started with (while also jeopardizing ongoing payments and everyone's private data in the process).  

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Yes, but that's still better than doing nothing!

- My very, very smart financially savvy Trump-voting friends

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  On 3/28/2025 at 2:35 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

What could possibly go wrong.

 

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

 

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse


Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

 

 

 

 

 

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why can't they build the new system and keep the old one going until the new system is proven ?

who else bid on building this new system ?

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This doesn’t seem like a conflict of interest in the least.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun integrating officials from billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to an internal email sent to SEC staff on Friday.

The email, reviewed by Reuters, stated that DOGE task force members had reached out to the SEC and would be granted staff-level access to networks, systems, and data. The SEC is forming a liaison team with the "intent to partner" with DOGE, the message added.

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Also, quit interacting with the brain worm addled shitposter.

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Republicans drove us into this debt over the last 40 years with tax cuts and overseas wars of choice in order to get normies to agree to cut their own benefits and undergo certain and immediate pain because of a unspecified and uncertain amount of pain at an unspecified and uncertain time in the future. 

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  On 3/28/2025 at 6:41 PM, elfenix said:

Republicans drove us into this debt over the last 40 years with tax cuts and overseas wars of choice in order to get normies to agree to cut their own benefits and undergo certain and immediate pain because of a unspecified and uncertain amount of pain at an unspecified and uncertain time in the future. 

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Well, you DO notice Ana furiously masturbating about the millions DOGE is supposedly saving us all by taking a chainsaw to programs on which human lives actually depend.....but you also notice that he has not a single problem with the trillions of dollars ADDED to our deficit by virtue of the reduced revenues caused by Trump's tax cuts.

See, we are in deficit danger!  "DANGER!  WE MUST DO SOMETHING!  Let's cut this, and that, and that thing over there I don't even know what it is or what it does or whether it's important but let's cut it!" 

Cool.  So, I guess we should also see if we could find some more revenues, too, to add to the plus side of the ledger to help close that gap, right, since "unsustainable deficit" is the greatest existential threat the Republic has ever seen?

"Oh...no.  We need to slash revenues too."

Anyone who has passed third grade math:

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Deficit hawks are liars.  They always are.

If my household budget was truly in the type of dire straits that Ana says our country is in, I'd both 1) slash spending (sorry, no more purses, no eating out, turn the A/C temp up, no vacation this year) AND 2) tell my wife she needs to get a full-time job to give us more revenue.

If I followed the DOGE plan, I would 1) shut off all my utilities, sell my cars so I couldn't get to work anymore, decide that only 3 out of 4 of my household get to eat each day, and 2) tell my wife to quit her part-time job, and start working less myself, because hey, producing revenues is hard and unpleasant.  Oh, and I'd slash more in revenues than I slashed in spending because like Barbie said, math is hard.

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I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.

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  On 3/28/2025 at 7:00 PM, wildcat09 said:

I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.

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this is how they kick everyone out, then make everyone verify themselves in person. with reduced staff and offices 

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  On 3/28/2025 at 6:38 PM, TwiceHorn said:

You realize what's at stake here, right?  Yes, kicking the can down the road can be a problem, but as someone observed, this is a lot of people's livelihood.  Miss a check or two, erroneously halve the amount, and you got granny starving to death and/or getting evicted, or can't buy life-preserving medications.

That's not a business oopsie.  That's a horrid fuckup.

This is why you cant run government like a business.  There's no place to externalize the costs.

And, it's going to be massively expensive.  This DOGE shit is going to blow up the deficit, big-time bro.

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It's a shame, but bodies stacked in the streets like cordwood should do it.

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  On 3/28/2025 at 2:24 PM, TwiceHorn said:

No one is pushing back on the concept itself.  They're pushing back on the execution and non-expert identity of those executing it.  And doing it is going to cost a mega shit ton, most of which will go to gougey private sector contractors.

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He knows all this, which is the biggest reason why he's totally insufferable. 

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  On 3/29/2025 at 2:29 AM, bluto said:
What a fucking twat. Calls the entire federal workforce parasites then starts stutter crying over walz talking shit. 

Fuck that pussy ass bitch. Dishes out cruelty by the ton, yet when someone simply mentions the blowback, he cries like the pathetic, worthless little bitch that he is. The sooner he offs himself the better humanity will be.
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  On 3/28/2025 at 7:00 PM, wildcat09 said:
I'm sure Ana can explain why social security has to be upgraded from COBOL as soon as possible without regard to the consequences of of Big Ballz fucking it up and people not getting checks they depend on.

I can do the whole job in Fortran77. Is that still a thing?
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