Ta, Marcie. I am so grateful I am not a federal employee. It's bad enough working at a federally qualified health clinic, where much of our funding comes from reimbursement from Medicaid and Medicare.
I will not pay my taxes to a third party vendor because it will probably be stolen by someone like Musk or his wealthy cronies - or even the master crook himself - the Orange Turdblossom.
I stayed away from stored procedures, assuming for my simple purposes that all intelligence should be in the app level, and the dB should be a pristine, dumb data structure. Probably not how things are done professionally, but worked for me. I did use extensions, Postgis in particular, which was helpful. Something else I've forgotten.
Mr Demi and his co-workers in the call center can't do anything about it except quit. I don't have a job; haven't in so long that I no longer have non-friend references, and he's blind, so we're looking at the potentiality of homelessness if he does quit
And they still let him borrow the airplane to fly to Florida every weekend. He's got a White House - can't he take putting practice where there used to be roses?
The animal software I work on is under the cross hairs for being "woke" because we allow for custom sexes, and have the ability to automatically perform a sex change built into documents. (Male to Male Neutered is a sex change. Stallion to Gelding is a sex change. Etc.) /s
Then all our information is for sale to the highest bidder,eh? My government has betrayed me/us. This is a crime. The federal government is not designed to be a private enterprise,
Trump: “Then in 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government.”
He really believes foreign countries and not U.S. importers pay tariffs.
What they are doing is creating a massive data base of every American citizen in government records. Then, because they know how to do this, they will systematically cross reference each & every American citizen’s social media records to classify each citizen as friend or foe, Christian Nationalist or Satanic heathen. Then, based on that, there will be a rationing & re-distribution of rights & privileges & government services & quite conceivably employment. The MAGAT friends, collaborators, sympathizers, Vichy, Christian Nationalists, et.al.will get all their government services, SocSec, Medicare, no tax
Audits, all their New Constitutional rights, etc, etc. The Dem foes side will be denied all of the above. And quite possibly, their places of employment will be traced & the Trumpstopo will visit their employers & get them fired.
Then there is the matter of the $45 billion dollars for ICE detention camps. There will be plenty of capacity for political dissidents. Take a good look at how they have been picking up
foreigners with visas & locking them up. That will happen to American political dissidents as well. Think about the worst that they can do, & it will be worse than that. Deputizing the private Musk security teams means that Musk/DOGE now has a private army which they can expand at will to carry out quasi government orders and expand at will. Who are they to answer to? And they can be armed with any weapons they ask for.
Ta, Marcie. I am so grateful I am not a federal employee. It's bad enough working at a federally qualified health clinic, where much of our funding comes from reimbursement from Medicaid and Medicare.
Gonna be a while before these folks show up on the unemployment numbers.
I will not pay my taxes to a third party vendor because it will probably be stolen by someone like Musk or his wealthy cronies - or even the master crook himself - the Orange Turdblossom.
Way above my pay grade.
I stayed away from stored procedures, assuming for my simple purposes that all intelligence should be in the app level, and the dB should be a pristine, dumb data structure. Probably not how things are done professionally, but worked for me. I did use extensions, Postgis in particular, which was helpful. Something else I've forgotten.
Mr Demi and his co-workers in the call center can't do anything about it except quit. I don't have a job; haven't in so long that I no longer have non-friend references, and he's blind, so we're looking at the potentiality of homelessness if he does quit
And they still let him borrow the airplane to fly to Florida every weekend. He's got a White House - can't he take putting practice where there used to be roses?
The animal software I work on is under the cross hairs for being "woke" because we allow for custom sexes, and have the ability to automatically perform a sex change built into documents. (Male to Male Neutered is a sex change. Stallion to Gelding is a sex change. Etc.) /s
Then all our information is for sale to the highest bidder,eh? My government has betrayed me/us. This is a crime. The federal government is not designed to be a private enterprise,
Making a comprehensive API and getting it debugged in a week is ludicrous.
The AI is generating all the code. And of course, the first time they attempt to run any of the AI generated stuff, it will fail horribly.
I bet they don't even have a real QA team either.
They got rid of QA because it starts with "Q" and is, therefore, woke by default.
It's going to be fun when they roll it out and get hacked and nuked within the first fifteen minutes.
This is why I keep my credit on hard lock down.
Smart move.
Don't forget that they're superbraingeniuses who don't need QA.
Trump: “Then in 1913, for reasons unknown to mankind, they established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government.”
He really believes foreign countries and not U.S. importers pay tariffs.
https://www.propublica.org/article/history-income-tax-history-16th-amendment-trump-tariffs-great-depression
He's a complete moron. There's no fix for that.
On the other hand, he's totally ignorant and bereft of the slightest bit of intellectual curiosity.
And those are his good traits.
Gotta love the Muskateens playing a game of DOGEball…..🙄🤬
Elon: what if we used the worst version of a useless technology to manage a vital service?
Trump: Brilliant!
What they are doing is creating a massive data base of every American citizen in government records. Then, because they know how to do this, they will systematically cross reference each & every American citizen’s social media records to classify each citizen as friend or foe, Christian Nationalist or Satanic heathen. Then, based on that, there will be a rationing & re-distribution of rights & privileges & government services & quite conceivably employment. The MAGAT friends, collaborators, sympathizers, Vichy, Christian Nationalists, et.al.will get all their government services, SocSec, Medicare, no tax
Audits, all their New Constitutional rights, etc, etc. The Dem foes side will be denied all of the above. And quite possibly, their places of employment will be traced & the Trumpstopo will visit their employers & get them fired.
Then there is the matter of the $45 billion dollars for ICE detention camps. There will be plenty of capacity for political dissidents. Take a good look at how they have been picking up
foreigners with visas & locking them up. That will happen to American political dissidents as well. Think about the worst that they can do, & it will be worse than that. Deputizing the private Musk security teams means that Musk/DOGE now has a private army which they can expand at will to carry out quasi government orders and expand at will. Who are they to answer to? And they can be armed with any weapons they ask for.
What are our taxes even paying for anymore?
Prison camps, favors for the faithful, and cruelty.
Did you mention that the IRS just lost its third director since 47 took office?
Termites get a bad rap, they can do a wonderful job at stump removal. They are quiet, less stinky, and remove stumps way under the surface.
I've never seen termites remove a stump, but I DO know that In Australia, termite mounds are used to find diamonds.
TIL!