See the post on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/provisionalidea.bsky.social/post/3lhujtm2qkc2i
According to many comments, the US government DOES use SQL, and Musk is not understanding much what’s going on.
Tax dollars are definitely being stolen… by this unelected buffoon
No no, billionaires would never steal money after closing down oversight and watchdog agencies, then brazenly starting a new ‘‘office of mysterious authority you don’t get to background check that operates in the dark’’ and using it to access the most sensitive parts of US government functionality. That’s crazy talk!
You guys are literally fighting against government transparency and stopping wasteful spending of your (or at least someone elses) tax dollars because you have an irrational hatred for the guy. Absolutely insane. No one should be against what DOGE is doing - unless of course you’re one of the many people profiting from the blank cheques being handed out wastefully.
the blank cheques being handed out wastefully
What blank cheques exactly?
And I’m not sure how you do it down in oz, but in most other countries, the government creates budgets for each agency, and those agencies then decide how to allocate their funds. If the government thinks that some agency is wasting too much money, they reduce their budget. There’s not supposed to be a king who decides all that on a whim.
And how many “blank cheques” to the defense industry have been investigated? Surprise, because it’s not about cutting “wasteful spending”.
What blank cheques exactly?
The ones where USAID literally just approved every single thing that came into their inbox.
It seems like the USA government didn’t even have a real budget, they just kept handing out money to all the NGOs that threw most of it back their (the politicians) way. They definitely don’t have an auditable budget.
Is there massive waste in the defense industry? Absolutely - and DOGE will get there. They’ve been at the job for like 2 weeks, they haven’t gotten to every single nook and cranny.
It’s hard to figure out what he’s talking about , when he says the “whole social security database”. Like in which tables are they duplicated? Does it mean the entire row is duplicated or just the SSN, it might make sense to be duplicated depending on the schema. Is it an append only db, so there might be updated columns on the same ssn and you need to filter by the latest update timestamp? Who knows.
But also, saying that there’s a “social security database” and then following that up by the govt “doesn’t use SQL” so… the db is actually just a spreadsheet? A .txt file? The SSNs are just written down in someone’s notebook? Lol
He looked over the shoulder of one of the script kiddies he hired and saw 2 lines with the same SSN, freaked out, remembered some database words he picked up somewhere and hopped on twitter.
Muskrat grew up as a trust fund baby on money from his dad’s apartheid emerald mines. He’s essentially clueless regarding technical skills and got where he is from just hiring people who knew what they were doing.
Unfortunately there’s been a bunch of propaganda over the years making him out to be some super genius that’s the lead engineer for all of his companies, and he’s since bought into all of it