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He recently shared the usual X style cropped screenshot which implied millions of records "where death is false" and the rows age appeared to be 110+ As someon
by ddxv 2y ago
He recently shared the usual X style cropped screenshot which implied millions of records "where death is false" and the rows age appeared to be 110+
As someone who uses databases everyday, there's always nuance to data, especially when you're trying to simplify data for a small report. Hard to believe there are millions of records so obviously wrong.
- chrisco255 2y agoI wouldn't put it past our government. Who ever even looks at this stuff? Nobody cares to look when they're spending other people's money. Traditionally the play has been: don't rock the boat and you keep your job for life.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoOffice of the Inspector General looks at this stuff. Trump fired 17 of them: https://campaignlegal.org/update/significance-firing-inspectors-general-explained https://campaignlegal.org/update/significance-firing-inspect... > This blatantly illegal and incredibly concerning mass firing removes the only independent offices within agencies designed to protect taxpayer money and root out corruption, fraud, waste and mismanagement. I also posted the 2022 report the office generated elsewhere in the thread, a follow up to their 2015 report.
- gscott 2y ago> Office of the Inspector General looks at this stuff. I wish that were the case, if it was these date of births would have already been fixed. Sounds like they fired 17 useless employees and can split the work of the 17 amongst 150 other employees.
- wruza 2y agoSounded like "out of 25", but just for context: With approximately 1,600 employees, the HHS-OIG performs audits, investigations, and evaluations to recommend policy for decision-makers and the public.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThere's OIGs for different departments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_(U...
- wruza 2y agoI quoted this exact article. It seems almost a tradition to fire all heads of OIGs after elections, from all sorts of presidents.
- BryantD 2y agoThe cited examples are Reagan and Bush, both of whom relented to some degree after Congress pushed back. Obama fired one IG, with stated cause. And of course, in 2022, Congress passed a law requiring 30 days advance notice to Congress. So perhaps traditional but also fairly clearly violating the 2022 law.
- Muromec 2y agoWith US not having centralized vital records registry and also not having demographyc registry and not issuing id cards out of principle -- it's pretty easy to have consistency issues on the scale of millions. Add the fact that people also move to other countries and US government may not even know somebody died, because death was not reigistered in US.