You’re make this sound like it’s a metaphor or something…

But Musk is that kid literally, and last year one of the other billionaires did try to fight him for being unbearable until his mom literally stepped in and helped him back out

He’s a rich manchild who people put up with when he let them play with his cool toys. Then he went from the weird rich kid to a total asshole the second he thought this was loyalty… Now he’s crying about being bullied because everyone is turning against him, despite continuing to fuck absolutely everyone over

There’s so much to unpack in such a short statement

Okay… But how much of that is realized?

Before, you told a doctor where to call to get your past records… Now, you tell your doctor where to request your past records. If your doctor works in the same healthcare system campus, they might get them automatically, past that it might happen behind the scenes if you get a referral

Backups are true… Except everyone has their own proprietary formats that require specific software to access the data, and if one of those companies go under, then what?

Access controls and tracking are true, but what’s digital can be hacked or leaked. Paper is far more secure - maybe they can phish one person’s records more easily without it, but the wrong IT person (who is multiple steps removed) can leak the whole database

I’m not saying paper is better - I’m saying electronic medical records are such a garbage fire in implementation that they bog down the healthcare part of healthcare. They eliminate jobs by automating processeses, but they end up getting rid of support staff in exchange for making the healthcare workers do more work

And I’m not saying it couldn’t be better - I’m saying that it’s just such a mess of proprietary software and regulation that it became one more layer of wealth extraction that bogs down actual healthcare

Yeah, but like… Are they really? No two systems communicate, every hospital configures even the same systems to be essentially incompatible, and the system is built as if it’s all seamless

It’s so bad. Paper records in a secure central database would be an improvement - 20 years of this and bending over harder for insurance companies is the only change

If only they could listen to Jesus first

You can read you through it all, no magic involved. Jesus is the only hero I’ve ever looked up to

I mean, I agree with all of that… I’m not saying we respect the courts crazy interpretation - but we do have to see the playing board clearly

I don’t know… I’m seeing a lot of anger. The oligarchs are censoring even most social media now… But even so, there’s so much anger. At town halls, at sports events, there’s constant protests going on somewhere… It’s being minimized, but it’s there

The argument US conservatives love to put forth is “contacting Georgia’s governor and asking that he conjure up enough votes to help Trump win, that’s an official presidential request, it was totally kosher” is wrong, and no other words other than “wrong” need to be used to describe it. Asking a governor to rig an election is not “the exercise of a constitutional power [that cannot] be infringed on [by] holding the individual personally liable” because it is not a constitutional power being exercised. It is just corruption and authoritarianism.

The problem is this was ruled on (specifically) by the supreme court. Their interpretation is obviously wrong, but the court has all the same members, so it’s unlikely to overrule itself for a while

Loose lips shouldn’t throw stones

Nah, it sounds like they want to set up companies to fulfill the role of government procurement, which means they’ll be paying a big markup in the effort to save on wages

It’s one of those things that sound good in theory, like centralized planning. But it really is something that should be done by the government by people closely related to the result - there’s plenty of overhauls that could be made to improve procurement, but doing it big is a terrible idea

Conversely, I think most of the county would rabidly support anyone who ran on that platform… Even most Trump voters

Anonymous released a video saying that musk has no idea what he’s doing and he’s crippling security, and that they will “strike when they’re weakest, so be ready”

That could mean a lot of things, but in my daydreams they get into the banking system and just really just fuck it all up. Just make a total mess of it

Because now you don’t have to run wires from the existing network to the new WiFi, you just plop them both in the new location!

But then if you want the access points to act like one WiFi network so walking around doesn’t reset all your connections, all you have to do is run cables to the new WiFi access points from the original signal, unplug them from Star Link, then wire starlink into the main uplink as a fail over or something! Easy!

It was more they’re worried it would, because of the sheer scale of metallic satellites that would be burning up in the upper atmosphere

It was their fucking bill… You realize literally ever republican except rand Paul voted for it right?

I could exploring why it makes complete sense but holy shit, take a second to think post the talking points or you’re not worth the time it takes to lay it out

Easy. You put it in your backpack under the seat in front of you with a long cable. Now no one knows it exists, but your bag is within arms reach so the battery is too

Okay, so Musk’s children show up at the department of XXX. There’s no one there, the building managers who hold the keys could hand the keys over, but they don’t know who they are because the chain of command is at home.

Also, the Marshalls are at home, so the doge children are showing up alone to navigate this problem. So they break the door down?

But there’s no one there, so they search the building door by door for a server room. But they encounter a secure area, which they have neither keycards or associated pins for. So they break down the door?

And now the local police are alerted, but they continue on. They break down a bunch more doors, and find the server room. They proceed to hack random servers in the hopes of finding what they’re looking for

No, no… Shutting down the government would create endless hurdles for doge, each one that is difficult for a competent person to navigate

No, it’ll throw them for a loop. Fucking musk got social security records and thought every entry was getting payments, despite many being dead. The dumb fuck didn’t even check their status before crying fraud - which is a serious crime that must be investigated

The records contain everyone who ever got it, dead or alive

These people are imbeciles. These chuckle fucks are struggling to accomplish their goals with unlimited power, you think they could navigate a shut down government?

Oh, they know. They just lost the oligarch vote, and now they’re simping to get them back

It’s fucking sickening. This is the one piece of meaningful power they have until the midterms, and Republicans didn’t even bother consulting them.

Now they want to give it up, for what? A pinky promise they’ll play nice? To make sure Trump doesn’t get ammunition to blame Democrats for everything?

Fucking coward.