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Is it? Discord seems to be way better Teams are good enough
Discord seems to be way better You can't be serious. The search alone makes it atrocious for anything other than game servers. It's a problem enough people are trying to use Discord where they should have used proper forums.
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> hope it will be get reined in before oops. they already have access to data, and there's no unseeing what they've seen.
Of course there is “unseeing.” They can be tried for rather obvious crimes and thrown in prison.
DOGE is obviously a completely illegal operation, and I really do hope it will be get reined in before they can cause an issue so big that _even trump's croniest cronies_ have to admit what is going on. For someone who claims to love freedom of speech, Elon is pretty quick to determine who can say what, and how much access to _his_ data people have.
> DOGE is obviously a completely illegal operation This narrative infuriates me. Either you are right, and entire wings of our government are abetting a coup, or you are wrong, and our government has huge back doors that no one is watching. Both realities reveal something urgently broken with the United States. In a way that should scare the entire western world to its core.
It's been more than 20 years (or might be about that?) that we passed the law that said "if you prosecute Bush for warcrimes we will invade the Hague". Granted, we were never a treaty cosigner (sharing the lovely company of Russia, North Korea, and Iran), but it's very convenient we have a "laws for thee but not for me" attitude.
Look I'm just saying we've been headed in this direction for a while and I don't expect the institutions we're supposed to care about preserving doing much to stop it. Americans need to get a lot more mad if they want politicians to represent them well. I'd hazard a guess most americans have never contacted their representatives, vote in their non-swing state (effectively making their vote worthless), and pat themselves on the back for a civic duty well done. I think we've gotten ourselves into a position where politicians who have spent most of their careers failing to pass legislation now need to pull political ability from who the hell knows where to actually follow through on their promise to fight facism. Very grim times.
BOYCOTT TESLA, TWITTER, SPACEX. SELL YOUR $TSLA STOCK. Do it for America. And for the world. The rest of the planet is watching. America, get your shit together!!
and worry not, anyone owning tesla stock is getting their punishment eventually :)
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> hope it will be get reined in before oops. they already have access to data, and there's no unseeing what they've seen.
Of course there is “unseeing.” They can be tried for rather obvious crimes and thrown in prison.
Man I’d hate to work in such a volatile environment.
That's probably part of the goal. Get people to quit and not replace them. One party has been on the "break the government to prove the government doesn't work" warpath for decades now
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I was assured right here on HN that the data was public to begin with, and downvoted for suggesting it was possible unseen corruption. Hopefully if that is true they find it just matches what has released publicly. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ty6853&next=42914628...
This whole operation is as related to finding corruption exhibits as the Moscow trials were to finding traitors in the Red Army. It is a (ridiculous) pretext for purging the system from people that the new power deems “uncooperative”.
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please don't spread misinformation. it clearly has power, and has been demonstrably exercising that power. > to shine a light into dark places of government spending yes, I'm aware that this is the Official Position of the State. but quite obviously that is not what it is actually doing
> used by journalists and lawyers to hold government accountable. The journalists from Politico have just been ousted by DOGE has having had received $8 million in annual funding from USAID (another Government-run institution that has been ousted by the same DOGE), so I can understand how come Musk would want to keep DOGE's dealing away from journalists that might see this agency as very antithetic to their (the jour…
USAID spent $24k on those subscriptions.
Musk is full of shit. I have yet to see an example of such a claim that didn't end up being massively exaggerated or outright false.