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How about you share information about these "vast amounts of waste"? That would certainly help us discuss them!

• nathanaldensr 2y ago
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  • piva00 2y ago
    It's wasteful, that's not the point, and you kinda know that wasn't the point but still decided to create a pedantic strawman. Probably this social ineptitude is a reason you're looking for a job...
  • palmotea 2y ago
    >> How about you share information about these "vast amounts of waste"? That would certainly help us discuss them! > You can gaslight all you want. A request for evidence is gaslighting? That's a fucked up position. 1) No reasonable person should take Elon Musk's word on what is waste and what is not. 2) A lot of essential things look like waste to ignorant people who don't understand what they're looking at. For instance: "SpaceX blew up a lot of rockets. Cut that huge waste of money, and send the work to Boeing!" 3) Like everything, a lot determinations of "waste" depends entirely one's point of view. For instance: is space exploration pure waste or an essential activity for humanity to learn more about the universe? > Sorry, but the burden of proof is on you and those like you to prove that, for some reason, the US federal government is the first government in history to not be wasteful. The burden of proof is on you to prove a gaggle of twenty-something "engineers" working overtime can parachute in and make good decisions, or even understand what they're looking at. Honestly, DOGE seems like a distillation of some of the worst and most annoying aspects of software engineering psychology, given extraordinary power (e.g. pathological levels of Engineer's disease and contempt for others).