hypothesis

> Russia's population is 140 million.

Alledged population. Or are we also to believe their election results?

Ah yes, our favorite partisan actors, who can’t be bothered to mention how much her benefactor spent just this year doing same thing.

Also, that chart is just magical, did she inflate the numbers by repeatedly adding same money being shuffled around (represented by those arrows between entities)?

Hey look, a NATO founding member with a backbone, congratulations!

> After yesterday's events in the White House, Haltbakk Bunkers, one of Norway's largest marine fuel companies, appears to have announced that it will no longer refuel American Navy vessels

https://bsky.app/profile/osinttechnical.bsky.social/post/3lj...

That would be too much transparency for people who also not supper happy with democracy.

Same brigade who flags all those topics above hostile government takeover?

Boy should you watch extortion on live TV from yesterday. I have heard that a president was unsuccessfully impeached for exact same thing a few years back.

IRS had some pretty strict rules. But apparently you just need to replace leadership with an acting toady to override the rules.

E.g: https://bsky.app/profile/jacobbogage.bsky.social/post/3ljc2o...

It’s a grave mistake to assume that some “old” America is ever coming back.

> Seeing as how the current administration currently has a very high approval rating

Source? Trust me bro?

> Fraud has already been posted everywhere ($55b and counting) so if you haven't seen it, you aren't looking.

Not too surprising to find another propaganda victim…

Here, I did your research for you:

> After correcting an apparent clerical error, it now shows $8.5 billion.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...

> They don't want to have to understand DNS, linux, or anything else beyond whatever framework they are using.

This is baffling. What’s value proposition here? At some point customer will be directly asking an AI agent to create an app for them and it will take care of coding/deployment for them..

You really did expand here, so I’m guessing you’re talking about Cybertrucks order from feds, which is apparently on hold now after it got some publicity:

> State Department halts plan to buy $400M worth of armored vehicles from Musk’s Tesla

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-biden-federal-con...

That’s not much to counter my example.

No waste and fraud so far, but making good progress in leaking of classified info. It’s just another unspeakable horror for people who decided to help USA and will be killed by adversaries as a result...

> Once you add in other concerns: security, performance, maintainability, it can fall apart.

Does anyone care about that? E.g. CRWD is all time high, after all. There is zero need to change anything according to market.

Didn’t apple guy chip-in a cool mil, just to get hit with tariffs anyway?

> There will be no development.

My point is that maybe it is okay? Runaway churn is at least partially responsible for current situation, where most companies simply unable to compete.

> That’s part of the stupidity of the DOJ trying to force Google to sell Chrome. Who would want it? And how would they profit from it?

All valid questions, but it might be that splitting the tool used to bludgeon everyone around is still worth it, even if pace of development slows down considerably.

Wasn’t the issue with large drives that remaining drive has a high chance of failure during re-silvering?

> So now who is going to train those juniors to get to the level where we need them to be to make those "significant changes"?

Founders will cash out long before that becomes an issue. Alternatively, the hype is true and they will obsolete programmers, also solving the issue above…

This is quite devious if you think about it, withering pipeline of new devs and only them having an immediate fix in all cases.

For same reason any other insurance company doing it? Those guys are statistically the worst, with no one else being close.

Like if your argument being fiduciary duty to rob everyone blind health outcomes be damned, then why say Kaiser is not being sued in to the ground?

At least one guy is/was trying to get to Mars or something, potentially spending us all in the process…

Ah, but that’s assuming that things can’t go from bad to worse, which is a potentially fatal mistake to make.

Huh? Some magic mushrooms forced him to make a bid to buy Twitter? Give the guy some agency!

Is it more frightening or less than being legally banned from existence? You don’t have to know much about history to see why people start cutting abusive relationships.

Ok, that’s what I saw elsewhere. The conflicting part is where some individual agencies pass their audits (https://oig.usaid.gov/node/7291) and yet this claim of lacking audit basics. What gives? Is this highlighting bits where say DoD is a known black hole and then crafting a narrative?

As for “doom-mongering”, you don’t have to take my word, just listen to what republicans are saying: $3T in tax breaks extension, possibly offset by $1T in cuts. Not even accounting idea of cutting income taxes. You do the math.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/house-gop-rushing-...

It’s possible of course, but will it be Meta? Who knows.

What does “resistant” mean here?

It appears that they passed audit just a few months ago:

> Opinion: Williams Adley concluded that USADF’s financial statements as of September 30, 2024, and September 30, 2023, are presented fairly, in all material respects, and in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

> The audit firm also found no reportable noncompliance with provisions of applicable laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements.

> The audit firm found no material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting but found deficiencies in the internal controls over the Funds Held Outside of Treasury process. We collectively identified these deficiencies as a reportable significant deficiency.

https://oig.usaid.gov/node/7291

It sure looks like retaliation hit job.

> actual damage done by DOGE

I’m guessing they don’t post that on Xitter, do they? Do they even post what exactly they did there?

The problem is that same admin who ran up second largest national debt increase is now doing some inconsequential fraud hunting before running up likely the largest debt ever.

> It doesn’t save the engine, it keeps it from ripping the wing off. It’s a good system.

Sure, I get that it was added to prevent plane from disintegrating, but like you said integration thinking is gone and now we have those individual components that sure look homicidal from outside.

The other issue is that regulators are missing in action or worse. It’s no way to run the industry by relying on concerned youtubers..