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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gonna blow up the database as many times as they blow up SpaceX rockets.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Ow, my sides.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

If SS payments stop, there will be hundreds of thousands of people with nothing left to lose.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Over 70 million including many retirees, orphans, and disabled workers. The people most in need of help and the reason that trying to run a government like a capitalist business is one of the dumbest forms of government organization ever. A quick way to radicalize someone against you is to harm their family or take their money.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My mom is over 80. Little old suburban white lady. She already volunteered - "Just get me close." She'd be super-thrilled to have her shot with a suicide vest.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

COBOL is perfectly suitable for financial purposes for which it was designed. The SSA code has gone through decades worth of changes and improvements that cannot be replicated even in 10 years.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

COBOL is perfectly suitable for financial purposes for which it was designed.

Nobody uses COBOL for greenfield projects, even in the banking and financial sectors. And, as people with COBOL expertise die of old age, it becomes increasingly unmaintainable.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure having a corrupt non-government narcissist rewrite the code for SS will be fine. It's not like he could leave any code hidden in there for his own purposes, like controlling or redirecting payments or anything.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is how you know Musk is a fraud. This far into his career and he’s leading teams into rookie mistakes.

Or, he knows this will break it and that’s the goal. I’m just not sure how he avoids the blame.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hey asshole - it works - don't fix it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Just adding. This and all the bad things that will happen if they get the green light, is not how this is done or should be done.

'But all the waste and ineficciency!' Hog wash.

From the system that is working? and serves thousands of people what they needed every day of every year.

They have to say it's horribly broken. Its a lie, but they have to justify why.

There are standards, procurement contracts, entire agency's to make sure


Make sure what?

March 28, 2025 - Make sure that what will happen, doesn't.


coda: The trick this cabal is using is simple - take a thing most folk don't understand. Say it's broken. Open it. Rob it. Say its fixed. Collect profits and praise, leave town.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

That’s the idea. Then they say anyone who complains about not receiving benefits is a fraud.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

The MuskRat should get Big Ballz and the boys to program a video game, so he can have a new revenue stream to replace Tesla when it goes bankrupt, which sure looks like the future of that company.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wont happen legacy systems more complicated than expected, well it wont happen functionally....

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