How in the world did the government spending get so far off the tracks? In less than a month Elon will and his 20 year olds will pry 1 trillion dollars out of the politicians cold dead hands. will

[Caveira]

8 minutes ago, mspart said:

Your solution would be to do nothing and let it continue.

That’s their solution to everything.   The libs At least. 

[1032004]

13 minutes ago, mspart said:

The ones that are legit can show it.   The ones that aren't would have a tough time showing it.   It seems like a good way to root out the bad ones. 

Your solution would be to do nothing and let it continue.   We shouldn't have to do anything to find them.   That is essentially what you are promoting.   If not, please provide your wonderful plan. 

mspart

You’re literally quoting a post of mine saying we should root them out, and are claiming I’m saying to do nothing?  lol, you guys will believe whatever you want to believe

[mspart]

22 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

You’re literally quoting a post of mine saying we should root them out, and are claiming I’m saying to do nothing?  lol, you guys will believe whatever you want to believe

You were invited to share your solution if Musk's is no good.   But you didn't.   So I assume you don't have one and just want to complain.   It's easy to say we should root them out, but complain about how it is happening.   Tougher to say how it should be done.   Again, here is your opportunity to shine and show us how erudite you are.  

mspart

 

[Scouts Honor]

love me some john kennedy

'when you trim some fat, the pigs squeal.'

[1032004]

7 minutes ago, mspart said:

You were invited to share your solution if Musk's is no good.   But you didn't.   So I assume you don't have one and just want to complain.   It's easy to say we should root them out, but complain about how it is happening.   Tougher to say how it should be done.   Again, here is your opportunity to shine and show us how erudite you are.  

mspart

 

How exactly is shutting off credit cards helping to find fraud?  If anything it probably makes more sense to leave them on to see if people continue to make fraudulent purchases…

I’m sure Musk’s minions have a way they can try to find the fraud.  Start with biggest purchases, sort by category, etc.   I just don’t see how shutting off almost everyone’s cards helps in that task

[uncle bernard]

7 hours ago, jross said:

@uncle bernard

I either don't understand bluesky lingo or I do understand and its lame.

Maybe I am Jeff here concerned about micromanaging bean rotation.  I don't think you are talking about crop rotation, but that actually is important whereas cross-sex hormone study in mice is stupendous.  I'm a tightwad.  I don't want my money going to studies that support mental health issues caused by the Charlize Theron and Megan Fox of the world.

gibberish response lol

the point of the joke is that just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t make it pointless. almost every technological luxury you enjoy today was born out of government-funded research, much of it as an accidental by-product. 

you may think you’re cancelling stupid “woke” research when you’re actually setting the world back decades in medical/technological progress. 

[Scouts Honor]

1 hour ago, 1032004 said:

How exactly is shutting off credit cards helping to find fraud?  If anything it probably makes more sense to leave them on to see if people continue to make fraudulent purchases…

I’m sure Musk’s minions have a way they can try to find the fraud.  Start with biggest purchases, sort by category, etc.   I just don’t see how shutting off almost everyone’s cards helps in that task

so still no plan

[Scouts Honor]

1 hour ago, uncle bernard said:

 

you may think you’re cancelling stupid “woke” research when you’re actually setting the world back decades in medical/technological progress. 

lol... cutting off genitals isn't exactly new research 

[Caveira]

1 hour ago, uncle bernard said:

gibberish response lol

the point of the joke is that just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t make it pointless. almost every technological luxury you enjoy today was born out of government-funded research, much of it as an accidental by-product. 

you may think you’re cancelling stupid “woke” research when you’re actually setting the world back decades in medical/technological progress. 

some were funded by gov yes.   But almost every?      Even every blue persons super meanie look musk shows up a few times.  
 

Transistor (1947)

• Breakthrough: Replaced vacuum tubes, making modern computing possible.
• Funded By: Bell Labs (AT&T).

2. Integrated Circuit (1958-1959)

• Breakthrough: Allowed miniaturization of electronic circuits, leading to microprocessors.
• Funded By: Texas Instruments (Jack Kilby) & Fairchild Semiconductor (Robert Noyce).

3. Microprocessor (1971)

• Breakthrough: The first single-chip CPU, the Intel 4004, revolutionized computing.
• Funded By: Intel (with backing from Busicom, a Japanese company).

4. Graphical User Interface (GUI) & Mouse (1970s-1980s)

• Breakthrough: Made computers user-friendly by replacing command-line interfaces.
• Funded By: Xerox PARC (later commercialized by Apple & Microsoft).

5. TCP/IP & The Internet (1970s-1980s)

• Breakthrough: Created the foundation for global networking and the modern internet.
• Funded By: U.S. Department of Defense (DARPA).

6. World Wide Web (1989)

• Breakthrough: Allowed easy navigation of the internet with hypertext links.
• Funded By: CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research).   Definitely not Al Gore.   

7. Wi-Fi (1990s)

• Breakthrough: Enabled wireless internet connectivity.
• Funded By: Australian government agency CSIRO & private sector R&D.

8. Cloud Computing (2000s-Present)

• Breakthrough: Enabled on-demand access to computing resources via the internet.
• Funded By: Amazon (AWS), Google, Microsoft, and IBM.

9. Deep Learning & AI Revolution (2010s-Present)

• Breakthrough: Enabled machines to learn from massive datasets, leading to AI breakthroughs.
• Funded By: Google (DeepMind), OpenAI (initially funded by Elon Musk & others), Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

10. Quantum Computing (Ongoing)

• Breakthrough: Potential to solve problems classical computers can't handle.
• Funded By: IBM, Google, Microsoft.

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[1032004]

48 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

so still no plan

I literally just gave some suggestions, focus on the largest purchases first or whether cards are spending a lot more on certain categories vs others used by people in similar positions.

I’m also on board with cancelling cards that aren’t being used, but as I said initially that doesn’t save much money.  

Which is really my overall point, trimming employee credit card expenses isn’t going to save us the taxpayers all that much.  So if that’s what DOGE is celebrating less than 2 months into the presidency, it leads me to believe that they’ve already run out of low-hanging fruit and I’m skeptical they will actually find $2 trillion or whatever of “waste, fraud and abuse”

[Scouts Honor]

https://x.com/ILA_NewsX/status/1897824936242343988/photo/1

3 minutes ago, 1032004 said:

 

I’m also on board with cancelling cards that aren’t being used, but as I said initially that doesn’t save much money.  

 

you think there is a credit card that has been issued that hasn't been used? 

[1032004]

8 minutes ago, Scouts Honor said:

https://x.com/ILA_NewsX/status/1897824936242343988/photo/1

you think there is a credit card that has been issued that hasn't been used? 

I think there are likely cards that belonged to since-retired employees that were never cancelled