What blank cheques exactly?

The ones where USAID literally just approved every single thing that came into their inbox.

It seems like the USA government didn’t even have a real budget, they just kept handing out money to all the NGOs that threw most of it back their (the politicians) way. They definitely don’t have an auditable budget.

Is there massive waste in the defense industry? Absolutely - and DOGE will get there. They’ve been at the job for like 2 weeks, they haven’t gotten to every single nook and cranny.

If you ignore literally all context, sure.

That’s not how people actually having an honest conversation work though.

I think you might overestimate your reading comprehension. Musk is clearly talking about specific systems here. The person I replied to is either an idiot for thinking he knows for a fact that that specific system uses SQL, or is an idiot for thinking that every government system uses SQL.

Which of his companies did he buy?

SQL is how you interact with databases.

How you interact with some or even most databases, but not all.

it CAN be imported and SQL’d on

This is not the same as it using SQL though.

Where do you guys get this rubbish? You’re literally just spreading lies.

https://www.aarp.org/social-security/faq/do-identification-numbers-get-reused/

SSNs are reused. Someone dies and their number gets reassigned.

Nope, they don’t. No SSN has ever been reused and will not for generations.

https://www.aarp.org/social-security/faq/do-identification-numbers-get-reused/

If you think that every single system in the government does use SQL, there’s another retard in here…

There absolutely will be many, many old systems that predate and don’t use SQL there. Anyone denying this has zero idea about how many extremely old legacy systems are still in use in big corporations and governments. Hell I’ve done work for companies with revenue in the billions who were still using a legacy Access database program that they didn’t have the code for, nor any documentation, so trying to automate data imports was an absolute nightmare - but they insisted on not replacing it because “that’s the system we know and it works”.

You guys are literally fighting against government transparency and stopping wasteful spending of your (or at least someone elses) tax dollars because you have an irrational hatred for the guy. Absolutely insane. No one should be against what DOGE is doing - unless of course you’re one of the many people profiting from the blank cheques being handed out wastefully.

See the post on BlueSky

No thanks, that alone says you’re not going to get an honest unbiased discussion. Also when your evidence is “according to many comments” from a app filled with people that hate Musk with all their being as if it’s their entire identity, it’s not good evidence.

Being a developer who has done work for many governments in my country, you cannot just say “the government DOES use SQL” because they have many, many, MANY different systems that have all been built in different technologies over different decades by different people with different design philosophies and preferences. Will there be ones that use SQL? Absolutely. Will there be ones that don’t? Absolutely.