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I cannot believe “the US DOGE service” is a combination of words I have to read. A meme coin representing the entirety of our government’s digital presence? Fe
by medhir 2y ago
I cannot believe “the US DOGE service” is a combination of words I have to read.
A meme coin representing the entirety of our government’s digital presence? Feels very unserious.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- gjsman-1000 2y ago[flagged]
- mgiampapa 2y agoAttributing a NRO mission patch to the Obama Administration is quite a bit of a stretch. There is a long tradition of mission patches for all sorts of things in the military and they are generally not dictated from the top down.
- braiamp 2y agoYeah, it was more like a joke of the team, rather than something serious with wide implications.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoThe point of the joke being to prompt hot takes like [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823790
- TomK32 2y agojoke's on you, as the Wikipedia article states it's an engineering in-joke. Of course, someone still had to pick it up and someone else had to approve it, but the idea for it still came from the bottom. The ODNI gave a more mundane explanation for the patch design in an internal magazine, stating that it originated from an engineering in-joke regarding a piece of cabling called an "octopus harness" that caused problems during testing for the satellite, leading the engineering team to joke that "the octopus harness had taken over the world."
- gjsman-1000 2y agoYour bias is showing by giving the DNI the benefit of the doubt; especially considering this occurred after Snowden in the same year.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> Your bias is showing by giving the DNI the benefit of the doubt Your taking the joke seriously is the entire joke. Sort of like people getting into conniptions over the name DOGE. That's the point of naming it DOGE: to prompt that reaction.
- mmooss 2y agoI think that is called, trolling, no?
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoYes. It's an intelligence satellite. Counterintelligence is professional trolling. The IC trolling conspiracy theorists is water-is-wet stuff.
- mmooss 2y ago> Counterintelligence is professional trolling. They always say the next generation, being more 'digitally native', will be amazing with computers. That hasn't been my experience. But if what you say is true, they are going to be great at counterintelligence.
- leptons 2y agoYour bias is showing by blaming this on Obama, when he would not have any input or even knew about that patch being created. He had far more serious things to worry about than creating a patch. I'm not sure why you would think POTUS is even in the loop on creating patches.
- nine_k 2y agoMuch efficiency. Such government. Wow.
- slater 2y agoJust pronounce it "dodgy service"