Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?
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Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.
wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:46 last edited by@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.
Asked and answered.
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@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?
You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”
Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.
wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:47 last edited by@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?
You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”
Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.
Illegal immigration wasn't a secret before Trump, either. Attention has a way of changing priorities.
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@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.
Asked and answered.
wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:48 last edited by@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.
Asked and answered.
Ok, you think the government was being charged $1,000,000,000 for a one question survey. Got it.
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@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
Holy crap all I did was post the transcript. Was what he said accurate or not? I don’t care about other dunkers or tweets.
Asked and answered.
Ok, you think the government was being charged $1,000,000,000 for a one question survey. Got it.
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@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?
You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”
Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.
Illegal immigration wasn't a secret before Trump, either. Attention has a way of changing priorities.
wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:52 last edited by@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?
You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”
Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.
Illegal immigration wasn't a secret before Trump, either. Attention has a way of changing priorities.
Mark my words, even if they digitize the entire iron mountain process, it will not change the pace of federal retirements. Btw they said it will only take a couple of months. So let’s check back in the summer to see if it’s done?
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wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:53 last edited by
If it takes a complex analysis to determine whether or not somebody was being honest, he wasn't being honest.
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wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:54 last edited by
I'm on record from the get-go that I'm not optimistic about DOGE, but I appreciate the effort, and I will happily wait and see. The claims have certainly been exaggerated and misleading or dishonest in many cases.
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wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:55 last edited by
@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@89th You're literally not reading my posts.
Apologies I did see you concluded that Elon lied about the survey cost. I’m a simple man, all I’m talking about are the lies and exaggerations on their quest. Otherwise, I wish them well on the mission.
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wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:55 last edited by
And I do believe their intentions are in the right place. The common notion that they have sinister motivations, is as departed from reality as the worst of their claims.
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wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 00:56 last edited by
Agreed.
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@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?
You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”
Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.
Illegal immigration wasn't a secret before Trump, either. Attention has a way of changing priorities.
Mark my words, even if they digitize the entire iron mountain process, it will not change the pace of federal retirements. Btw they said it will only take a couple of months. So let’s check back in the summer to see if it’s done?
wrote on 30 Mar 2025, 11:32 last edited by@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@89th said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
@Horace said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
How about a pat on the back to DOGE for exposing this hilarious retirement mine fiasco? Nobody wants to high five them for that?
You do realize this mine wasn’t a secret before? Maybe Elon discovered it but it’s not new. Further a former manager of the site said there’s “no elevator that restricts how many files (therefore people) can retire per month. It’s literally on the same level as the entrance.” And there isn’t a cap of 10,000 or 8,000 per month, the mine has nothing to do with the pace of retirements processed each month.”
Sometimes I feel like Lt. Daniel Kaffee.
Illegal immigration wasn't a secret before Trump, either. Attention has a way of changing priorities.
Mark my words, even if they digitize the entire iron mountain process, it will not change the pace of federal retirements. Btw they said it will only take a couple of months. So let’s check back in the summer to see if it’s done?
Yeah, that one I agree was a little fanciful. It would take that long to design the system to hold these records digitally. I wonder at what age can they dispose of these records.
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wrote on 9 Apr 2025, 15:11 last edited by
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wrote on 9 Apr 2025, 15:17 last edited by
lol
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wrote on 10 Apr 2025, 22:34 last edited by
Also - why have we heard of no arrests or investigations if there’s all this fraud going on?
"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."
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Also - why have we heard of no arrests or investigations if there’s all this fraud going on?
wrote on 10 Apr 2025, 23:45 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
Also - why have we heard of no arrests or investigations if there’s all this fraud going on?
They've accidentally let all the investigators go?
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Also - why have we heard of no arrests or investigations if there’s all this fraud going on?
wrote on 11 Apr 2025, 02:44 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Is anyone tracking DOGE lies?:
Also - why have we heard of no arrests or investigations if there’s all this fraud going on?
I think even the DOGE folks probably would admit many of these "fraud" issues are actually legit payments, just connected to data entry issues, such as an incorrect birthdate listed. Although I'm sure there are folks out there who are committing fraud (and should be prosecuted accordingly).
Also to be perfectly clear, most agencies have (for decades) had teams dedicated to finding this type of fraud. And when it's found, it is eliminated, and fraudsters are prosecuted. There just aren't headlines about it.
Oh and Elon's "...thanks to your [Trump's] fantastic leadership..." is really giving me North Korea vibes, ugh.
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wrote on 11 Apr 2025, 14:17 last edited by
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wrote on 2 May 2025, 11:24 last edited by
I was at the boy’s spring concert last night and talked to the dad of one of his friends.
His brother had his NSF grant canceled by DOGE.
His Grant had the word ‘inclusion’ in it, 87 times.
He’s a geologist and the grant was to study ‘lithic inclusions’.
I didn’t know what they were either, so this paragraph from ChatGPT helped.
Lithic inclusions, also known as xenoliths (from Greek xenos = foreign, lithos = rock), are fragments of rock that become encased within a different igneous rock during magma intrusion or eruption. They are among the most valuable inclusions in geology because they provide direct samples of inaccessible parts of the Earth.
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wrote on 2 May 2025, 12:14 last edited by
Maybe it's because of the word "inclusion", maybe it's really just a low value project in a low priority field of study.
