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A couple of DOGE teenagers were able to casually walk in and steal the entire country's social security and healthcare data (and probably more), and we were che
by paxys 7mo ago
A couple of DOGE teenagers were able to casually walk in and steal the entire country's social security and healthcare data (and probably more), and we were cheering them on. There is still no accountability, and it has probably already been sold to the highest bidder. So this would be the least surprising thing in the world.
- firefax 7mo agoAllow me to put on my tinfoil hat for a moment and propose that maybe DOGE did loudly what the Solarwinds paired with OPM breach did quietly years prior.
- fn-mote 7mo agoOPM was much more serious. Equifax had already leaked the social security data and more.
- drstewart 7mo ago[flagged]
- magicalist 7mo agoI don't know if this is an irony thing I'm not getting, but we know they had untracked access to data they shouldn't have (violating data access rules and orders from a judge), and there is a whistleblower accusation that the data was retained and some DOGE staffers were at least talking with other groups who could use the data. Meanwhile how would Hunter Biden, not a government employee nor having access to government systems, get that data in the first place?
- Wololooo 7mo agoWe? I don't think I've seen anyone but the people absolutely not understanding the gravity of the situation were cheering on. And I'm not even American.
- quantified 7mo ago"We" is such an imprecise word for a pool of people. I believe Chinese has two flavors, "zanmen" including the listener too, and "women" excluding the listener. Obviously "we" did not elect Trump, only "a majority of the US voters who voted", and even the others may sadly use "we" though they didn't, because they are members of the political body that did. Just like the "they" of Israel that harass Palestinians and throw up West Bank settlements do not reflect all of Israel, and the average Soviet citizen did not reflect the behavior of the Soviet government.
- Drakim 7mo agoIn English, you can say "we" or "they"
- chrisjj 7mo agoBut "they" excludes the speaker.
- legacynl 7mo agoWe isn't an imprecise word at all, it's very precise in it's definition. I can honestly not come up with a single example of the distinction between 'zanmen and women' being useful besides this specific case where you really want to be able to say in 1 sentence that you identify as the same group as someone else, but that that group is subdivided into 2 groups, and you're talking about the sub-group that you're specifically not a part of.
- plastic_bag 7mo ago> I believe Chinese has two flavors, "zanmen" including the listener too, and "women" excluding the listener. So does Telugu. మనము (manamu) - including the listener మేము (memu) - excluding the listener I'm pretty sure most other Asian languages have them too.
- subscribed 7mo ago"We"? Not sure how your friends group looks like but I'm very glad i don't belong to it.