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Our money will be funneled into Trumpturds and Musks pockets. Forget the peaceful protests, the boycotts, the judges orders, the lawsuits, and the indictments. What we really need is a good old fashioned military tribunal.

The idiots at DOGE did a simple frequency distribution of an age field in a table and called it fraud. The application that actually generates payments is incorporating data from lots of tables, not just the age field. But the whole point of DOGE is to claim mass fraud so Musk can privatize it.

The claims about COBOL frequently using an 1875 epoch for dates, which I've seen circulated all over social media recently and attributed to various different posters, are almost certainly false and based on a misunderstanding of a passage formerly in the ISO 8601 spec.

ISO 8601 is a standard for specifying dates in string formats like yyyy-mm-dd, which is a really great format for various reasons, e.g. if you take a list of such strings and sort them alphabetically, that is the same as sorting them in date order. 2/?

If you are going to specify the point in time meant by a string like 2024-12-04, then it only goes part of the way to say that that means "December 4, 2024," because there are actually multiple different calendars in existence that disagree as to what the current date is today. 3/?

If you've never heard of this before, the calendar you're familiar with is the Gregorian calendar, which was put into place in the 16th century by Pope Gregory to fix the Julian calendar, which was put into place by Julius Caesar in the first century BC. 4/?

What they should do is stand up a government agency that issues ID numbers to citizens, then maintains and publishes a list of ID numbers of people who have died. I have no good ideas about what such an agency would be named though.

SOCIAL SECURITY MINEFIELD: We know DOGE makes mistakes, right? How about migrating the 65M records of the SSA database from 1950s COBOL software to Java? Huge project! Experts say years; DOGE says months. Risks are benefit snafus & system collapse. What if YOUR record got lost? tinyurl.com/4j4dwbkt

tinyurl.comDOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseSocial Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

This is how you know it is malice, and not just ignorance. Thanks for keeping the the repetition of the truth. We can't let them continue to lie without a countering voice.

I'd venture to say any language or app has some for error default - Elon & Doge are not computer literate enough to know that. At the risk of dating myself, these guys are like those fools who thought the comments in their code actually functioned as code!

It’s worse than that. Their motive is more sinister. They know exactly how it works, but they propagate these lies in order to discredit the system so that it can be privatized, with all the profits going to them instead of the retirees.

Dem Actions: 1) Submit bill with Trump's forgotten popular tax cuts. 2) Fund infrastructure, education, science, environment 3) Tax all income with FICA regardless of source or amount 4) tax wealth over $100 M at 1%, over $1B at 2%, $10B at 3%, $100B at 4%, $1T at 5%.