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Are you telling me that the US Government is storing its data in a data storage facility? https://www.ironmountain.com/services/vital-records-storage https://w
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
Are you telling me that the US Government is storing its data in a data storage facility?
https://www.ironmountain.com/services/vital-records-storage https://www.ironmountain.com/services/vital-records-storage
When will this woke madness stop?
- leereeves 2y agoRead the article. It's not just data storage. Hundreds of people actually work there, processing the applications there, by hand, on paper.
- djur 2y agoThe article says they couldn't confirm Musk's claims about the number of employees.
- leereeves 2y agoSnopes hasn't confirmed it in 2025 but they did say that in 2014 the Washington Post reported that 600 people worked there.
- ceejayoz 2y agoSo 0.01% of the Federal workforce or so?
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- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThe facility website says they have roughly 1100 workers there daily, but those aren't all government since other work goes on there too.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoHers a PDF detailing some of the audio and photographic professionals that work "down the mine" in the state of the art digitisation facilities that corporations have there: https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/ironmountain-c8dd68e9/media/project/iron-mountain/iron-mountain/files/resources/general-articles/s/stories-from-the-underground.pdf?sc_lang=en https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/ironmountain-c8dd68e9/media/pr... So why would it be by definition considered waste that a government has employees working on paper records stored in the same place? There is absolutely no reason to think this is ridiculous. These types of sites exist all over the world. Yet Elon Musk claims it's ridiculous and people now have to defend that claim?
- EasyMark 2y agoAlso why does it matter if it's in an underground ex-mining facility or a basement in Washington? It matters how much does this cost vs a modern computerized system. Instead the big brains over at X act like this is how the entire government works. They found maybe 1 or 2% of waste in USAID? "Shut it all down and lose all the experience and relations built over decades" they don't want efficiency. They want to slash and burn all government departments that aren't enriching billionaires.
- leereeves 2y ago[flagged]
- rayiner 2y agoTrump Derangement Syndrome is worse than Trump. I’m an immigrant from Bangladesh who is in the country because my dad got a job with USAID. In the Bush era, liberals would have been shocked if we found out USAID spent $29 million under Biden interfering with elections in Bangladesh. https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/374429/trump-slams-29m-bangladesh-project-to-unknown https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/foreign-affairs/3744.... Now you mention it and get some neocon nonsense about “American interests.” Truly disgusting.
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- sudosysgen 2y agoIn the Obama era, you could have told an average liberal about it and they'd ignore it or apologize for it. It's not Trump Derangement Syndrome, it's just an artefact of substantial policy disagreements between parties in terms of foreign policy goals being low historically, and mass media minimizing imperialism.
- leereeves 2y agoPeople aren't just ignoring the imperialism; they're outraged that Trump is shutting it down.