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and if you want to be a good network/security/intelligence person, isn't this basically a requirement?

this is the kind of ground that people SHOULD be covering if they want to pursue a career of this nature

it doesn't make him a bad person, or even a criminal the internet is just the wild west and hacking is prevalent, long live the people who do this because it's needed

completely agree on the fork side of things, just show its merits already or be done with it

i think it's going to fail because of rust as a language, not because the ideas in rust are bad but because there's infinite complications

well it was nice knowing you, UK

yeah i have no interest in having an AI control anything on my computer, i would just make a script for that

i think they'll stop at the appropriate amount, they've been planning this for years and speaking publicly about it for just as long. they're extremely intelligent people who have been at the but-end of all of these agencies and have learned a lot of lessons that could correct or otherwise improve the agencies rather than just destroying them through whatever cartoonishly simple lens you're imagining

is spoofing not a simple solution to this?

is this sarcasm? it's been known for years and we got some more "official" info recently

this is the grant, but this was public info for years https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Year-...

the "drops in the bucket" mindset is the problem, the federal government absurdly overspends and we've not had any serious politicians to address the issue. the interest on our debt is going to bankrupt us and there will be nothing left afterwards if these things aren't reeled in and examined.

political opponents of the newly elected administration are obviously going to go fully hysterical over any change, they already did last time. the science industries in the US aren't going anywhere, neither is research at the universities.

the ideological discrimination and money laundering coming out of these departments are going to end. and did we all forget about COVID? The fact that the NIH funded the research that happened in china ILLEGALLY, because this was a really stupid idea and we found that out the hard way, and it was covered up, and we were lied to, it killed millions, destroyed economies on a global scale.... do we really not want to see this agency dissected under a microscope? They need to be investigated.

yes you most definitely can apply these to government, what an insidious comment.

not only does it NEED to be done, people VOTED for it :)

It's also highly discriminatory and ideological. Decades of discrimination will lead people to want to come back and tear it down, you reap what you sow.

What i've learned in the last week is that if an unelected bureaucrat thinks it will hurt the Trump administration to follow their order through a manner of malicious compliance, then they will. But if they don't, then they'll ignore the order and pretend they're defending the constitution.

a serious audit of the endless money printing of the federal government is well overdue

Congress has the power to create spending, the president has the power to stop spending.

inter species competition is really ramping up, I wonder if the Europeans will continue to survive this century

an interesting way of competing with facebook, I like it

It's not like they're above lying, why do they even care to update this?

out of ~18000 EPA employees only 1000 might be fired for being wasted space? That doesn't seem problematic at all.

Nope, the president has the power over federal agencies. You might argue this wouldn't be something he could do if he didn't specifically campaign on this issue, which is usually where the line is drawn. But the fact that he DID campaign on this, and that the president DOES have the power to such a thing, means he can and has every right to.

Nope, they're not "talking points" it's called reality.

It was done democratically. Trump ran for president on abolishing this deep seated managerial class that controls the federal government, he specified Elon to be at the helm of it and here we are.

You have no business pretending this is undemocratic. These offices being shut down are the same people who sabotaged Trump during his first term, they have every right to do this. And if anyone understands large organizations, it's Elon: the man who's proven he's the greatest engineer in the world and that you don't need a PhD to be that.

Joni Ernst is a Senator who I heard speak on this issue. She was trying to get information out of USAID and it became a long battle just to check their work and could only do so under extremely limited conditions later. They try to hide everything, basically.

This source apparently talks about it, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14359253/joni-ernst...

Nope. There's lots of information both on this page and throughout the internet.

You can't reform an institution that's filled with your political opponents when they aim to sabotage you. Many federal employees worked to sabotage Trump in his first term, and how that he has such a strong mandate from the voters he's going after the people who sabotaged him so that the country doesn't destroy itself in a debt spiral.

who is destroying the EPA? or is the EPA doing stupid things like forcing Elon to kidnap seals? Who isn't taking their job seriously exactly? It's hard to tell.

Here's an idea, we let the voters decide. Oh right, they did.

if it's not Elon's place even though Trump literally ran on Elon doing this, and they not only won the electoral college but also the popular vote too, then it's not USAID's place to do so either

the money they give away tends to fund extremism and terrorism, and never goes to where it's needed

- Haiti: Post-2010 earthquake, $1.14 billion was spent on a port and power plant project promoted by President Bill Clinton. The project never built anything. - Cuba: A 2006 audit showed $74 million in “democracy promotion” funds vanished without oversight. - Afghanistan: Millions squandered on health scams; hospitals never built. - Nigeria: Chemonics, a major USAID contractor, was linked to a subcontractor's overbilling scandal. Hundreds of millions lost. - COVID 19 Funding: USAID sent over $40MILLION in taxpayer money to a scientist located in Wuhan to do gain of function mutations. This directly led to the creation and release of COVID-19 - $2.5 MILLION to DEI in Serbia - $70,000 onan Irish DEI musical - $47,000 on transgender operas in Colombia - $32,000 on a trans comic book in Peru - Iraq: $20M for an Iraqi version of Sesame Street to promote LGBTQ Agenda - Egypt & Tunisia: $56M for “tourism” - Jordan: $40M for “schools” - Vietnam: $11M to fight “trash burning” - Central America: $27M for deportee gift bags. - Trump Lawfare: $27M to fund left wing prosecutions of populist political opponents around the globe, including Donald Trump. Patently illegal.

I found Bukele's comments to be eye opening, https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1886059275174506850

> Most governments don’t want USAID funds flowing into their countries because they understand where much of that money actually ends up.

> While marketed as support for development, democracy, and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements.

> At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects that help people in need (there are such cases), but the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda.

> Cutting this so-called aid isn’t just beneficial for the United States; it’s also a big win for the rest of the world.

Their funding has been hard for Congress to vet, and it seems like they do some shady things. Kudos to Elon and his team for cutting us more than $1b/day so far!

what's unconstitutional is how USAID would stiff-arm senators who want to investigate their activities

haha brilliant, but make it VERY scary, there needs to be sound too

crazy how what seemed like an excellent landmark case around webcrawling turned around like this so quickly due to AI

i definitely believe in the relationship between modern wokeness and some older religious traditions of moral policing

there seems to be a territorial overlap between the two

this would be great for cars too, i don't want a vehicle selling my data, or even collecting it in the first place

canada got to the point that they can't turn off the immigration faucet, they need it for their economy to survive, but people have come to hate it so much that they can't maintain it, they're in for a collapse because of it