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Doge 'didn't test' Social Security fraud detection tool at appropriate scale
- sharemywin 2y agoimagine that. so move fast and break things isn't the greatest motto for government? seems like people starve when government systems break.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 2y agoYour pain is a sacrifice they are willing to make.
- pornel 2y agoWhy would they, if they're ideologically opposed to what the social security symbolizes? Breaking the system with false positives is in their interest. It allows them to demonstrate it's broken, and gives them an excuse to dismantle it.
- giraffe_lady 2y agoBecause its purpose wasn't to detect fraud it was to disrupt social security payments. Why are any news organizations still presenting their stated motivations in the face of a massive body of evidence demonstrating that they are doing exactly what they mean to.
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- Arnt 2y agoDu you pay any news organisations to do that? Do you pay any for anything at all? If you don't pay, your opinion of what they should do does not matter.
- Chinjut 2y agoThe only thing that matters is money. No one should talk about or do anything, or have any opinion, except insofar as they are paid to or pay.
- Arnt 2y agoI disagree. But I do think that if you do not pay for your news, you have no standing to complain about its scope or quality. Paying customers can complain, freeloaders have no standing.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 2y agoYou absolutely have standing because the news affect the people and the world around you. Kind of like how air pollution from a coal plant affects more than just the people buying the energy.
- Arnt 2y agoIn that case I complain that you personally don't provide the appropriate news coverage. Never mind that nobody pays you to do that work. If you think I've standing to complain about your not doing unpaid work, I complain and you think that's fair — right? Or if you don't think that's fair, then you ought to explain why someone else has an unpaid duty that you don't have. It can't be just that you think it's their job, because if you have a right to decide what their job is and they/their employers don't have that right, then it would be equally reasonable for me to decide what your job is.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 2y agoThis is a non-sequitur. In the analogy that people who are not paying for a product can be affected by the pollution caused by making that product have standing, does not in any way suggest those people can or should be forced to make pollution themselves. This is what you are suggesting.
- wormlord 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine
- jmclnx 2y agoWhat DOGE is doing to US Social Security should be all over every News Organizations. But it is not because these new orgs are afraid of Trump. I have said it before, these DOGE people, Musk should all be in Court or on their way to federal prison due to all the data they are illegally mining.
- xnx 2y agoTo be fair there are so many stupid and malicious things being done by every part of the administration it is hard to give them all the attention they deserve. Today, Elon's awful actions barely merit a mention compared to destroying the US economy and 80 years of international goodwill.
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- jethronethro 2y agoOf course they didn't. Their code is perfect. It has to be. I'm mean, c'mon, their DOGE. They work for Musk. They've got to be great coders. Don't they???