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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 23:29:16 +0100
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On 31/05/2025 23:02, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/31/25 14:24, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 31/05/2025 21:46, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 5/30/25 00:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> Well, I guess that’s over, now that Elon Musk has left the
>>>> building. That’s the end of DOGE, without “saving” anywhere
>>>> near the trillion dollars he originally promised.
>>> 
>>> No it is not the end of DOGE because some of them are still
>>> doing their intrusive data gathering and others have been put in
>>> charge of agencies or established in pertinent positions in those
>>> agencies.
>>> 
>>> These are the people who shut down USAID and tried to cut the
>>> funds allocated by the Congress to many agencies.
>>> 
>>> bliss
>> 
>> Its typical really.
>> 
>> Someone says, quite rightly , 'there's a lot of waste in
>> government'
> 
> And all that means is the money is not being spent to my personal 
> advantage. Call me a cynic but at 87 I have seen a lot of politicians
> come and go.
> 

Well it means that its not being spent to anyones advantage other than 
the people who are employed to waste it

>> 
>> So The Big Fart appoints someone to shut down EVERYTHING on the
>> basis that it will probably become obvious which bits are needed
>> once they are gone.
>> 
>> Stupid clumsy, ill advised and destructive.
> 
> What do you expect from a man who thinks a chainsaw is a good 
> illustration of his method. Big drama but as destructive as it has
> proven to be and even thou and i agree on that.
> 
I never expected anything different.

It was time for a change, but that was really not the change that people 
thought it would be.



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“when things get difficult you just have to lie”

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