DOGE Isn’t Saving Money, So What’s It Really Doing? Six theories (maybe seven) try to get at the root of Elon Musk’s pet project
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Boy howdy, what a head scratcher!
I swear to fucking god the intentional obliviousness of the vast majority of our media apparatus is going to fucking kill us all
But at the same time I feel like it reflects the obliviousness of the vast majority of the population. The election in the US kinda proved that. So if anything, mentioning it as often as possible is probably the best call.
They give people what they want. :(
And they know what they want because they tell us
I blame the schools... Administration's.
This leave out the most egregious thing they are doing: installing Starlink backdoors all over government.
At best, Elon and his team are making sure that he has unfettered access to all the data for his AI shenanigans. But where is the data being held? How do we know Elon's backdoor has not, itself, been backdoored?
At worst, he is actively selling it all to foreign powers.
There is zero accountability, so we really dont know....
But where is the data being held?
Highest bidder?
There are many, many theories on this. In March, Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Bourne of the libertarian Cato Institute tried to organize them into “six theoretical models for understanding DOGE’s action to date”:
Sadly, it could be a combination of all if these things.
It's partially an ego thing for Musk. I work with tons of these dunning Kruger techbro types who think they know better than everyone else and will eat a lot of shit to "prove" it. They have a chip on their shoulder because they think their engineering degree should give them some mythical status and get increasingly agitated when nobody fucking cares.
Musk doesn't have an engineering degree. He's a clown with an economics degree that wrote spaghetti code for Paypal so bad, they gave him forked code to play with. When he found out, he demanded the real code and they would undo all his commits after he was done. He was ousted by Peter (delusional sociopath) Thiel when he went on his honeymoon and given a hefty number of shares to compensate. Dude has been failing upwards his whole life, a millionaire from birth, white South African Apartheidist. In the reveal for the Cybercuck he says regenerative breaking "Means you'll never have to buy break pads again." This guy doesn't understand how friction works. He is literally just a rich kid from birth, with no background, or understanding of physics, biology, chemistry, engineering, or government. He's Peter Thiel's pet removed who just lies about his accomplishments and surrounds himself with yes men, who agree with him and blow smoke up his ass:
He does not have an engineering degree, that's why his shit rockets blow up all the time.
Without exaggeration, this may be the stupidest chart I've ever seen in my life.
A declining trend line of Musk's spending cut promises means by end of year he'll apparently start promising $2T in new spending by DOGE according to these geniuses.
Reminds me of the old xkcd where a guy tells a bride on her wedding day that, extrapolating from that day's events, within two months she'll have four dozen husbands.
If you'd actually bothered to read any of the words, you'd have realized that this was done tongue-in-cheek.
Word hard, picture easy, me angry!!!
Yeah idk why people get mad about shit they clearly didn't read.
“Source: News reports” is the funniest part. It’s like submitting a scientific paper and saying your source is “microscopes and shit.”
My first instinct when I saw this was "anyone with a brain already knows this." But after a little bit of extra thought I remembered what the average person thinks and how the average person voted last election and I was like "yeah, we should probably talk about this as much as possible."
The stupidity of anyone asking this all innocent like Of course it’s not for efficiency it’s a fucking coup and massive corruption wake the fuck up media
If the institutions that regulate are torn down, so are the regulations. That is what they have obviously been doing. So tired of media helping these fuckers by not calling them on it directly.
Bloomberg needs to go boom.
Money is worthless. Data is the new money. In a time when your dollar is worth a penny, you can still sell data like gold.