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• On the post: A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 11:47am

  The entire problem was that apparently Treasury was approving EVERY transaction, no exceptions, and by necessity that will enable a lot of fraud.

  And Musk is supposedly trying to solve that by taking an axe to a problem that requires a scalpel. Try all you want, there's no excusing the approach here.

  Daily reminder that this is completely legal

  Daily reminder that you're not a lawyer, and by your own statement should shut the fuck up about matters pertaining to law.

• On the post: A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 11:35am

  You’d be cheering for them too, if not for the EDS.

  And you'd be fucking horrified if not for your general lack of intelligence, sense and reason.

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 11:33am

  I don't think you even know what you're talking about.

• On the post: A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 11:30am

  My guess is it'll be something along the lines of "He needs to be able to control payments to shut down slush funds/wasteful spending/corrupt people and organizations, bro!" Y'know, the usual refusal to accept reality.

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 11:22am

  Well, he literally has to argue that "moving funds" doesn't mean "removing funds" to make his point, so it's not a surprise that he's struggling to give straight answers.

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 11:18am

  I don’t really use “slurs”, just insult people for the most part.

  "slur, noun (1) a: an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo" I guess we now have it on record that you use slurs.

• On the post: A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 11:13am

  Josh Marshall’s reporting at TPM reveals something that I can already hear developers howling about, even through the internet: Elez isn’t just looking at the code — he’s pushing untested changes directly into production on a system that handles trillions in federal payments.

  This is why you don't use AI to program for you, kids! Elez clearly doesn't know that.

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 10:53am

  This is all completely lawful.

  You're not a lawyer and therefore not an expert on law, as per your own statement. So stop pretending to know what is or isn't lawful.

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 10:51am

  It literally is not, please pay attention.

  Back at you, dingus. If you move funds from an agency, meaning that it no longer has access to them, you have removed their funds. I know we've established your loose handle on the definitions of words in the past, but this supposed argument is so piss-poor, even from you, that I'm surprised you found the On-button on whatever device you're writing from.

  USAID isn’t even going to EXIST past Friday.

  Then Trump will have broken the law again.

  USAID was just an office established (by EO) to handle a certain batch of funds given (by a law) to the state dept.

  And Congress made it so the Executive Branch couldn't just dismantle it by EO again.

  It grew, over time, into a horribly corrupt slush fund.

  A claim that has yet to be backed up with any credible information.

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 10:42am

  So Musk removing whatever he wants is fine, but Masnick hiding comments is cowardly. Glad we cleared up your hypocrisy.

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 10:40am

  The funding isn’t being removed, it’s just being moved to the main state dept.

  That's...removing it from the USAID. Which is illegal. How do you continually keep sounding dumber?!

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 10:23am

  1. No.
  2. Not two days ago, you said Musk could do whatever he wanted on his platform.

  Why is it suddenly a problem when Masnick does it, you fucking hypocrite?

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 10:06am

  Consider what we’re being asked to believe about Elon Musk. That he is simultaneously managing Tesla, a global automotive manufacturer facing fierce competition and complex production challenges. That he is overseeing SpaceX, a company conducting human spaceflight and handling critical national security contracts. That he is running X/Twitter through a tumultuous transformation affecting global discourse. That he is developing experimental brain implants at Neuralink under federal investigation. That he is competing in the most sophisticated artificial intelligence race in human history through xAI.

  You forgot one, Mr Brock: he's also competitively playing a video game where he has better gear than many people who stream the game for a living. /s

• On the post: The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 10:03am

  As has been explained to you so many times, that's called a spam filter.

• On the post: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 03:08am

  Given that the systems were developed with public funds, we should all have access to the source code. There’s nothing sinister about that. It’s why we can emulate the Apollo Guidance Computer at home, for example.

  The difference being, of course, that a treasury computer system is infinitely more important to maintain control of than a guidance computer for an obsolete rocket.

• On the post: To Stop The Coup, We Must Be Clear About The Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 03:01am

  No, that'd be the GOP at the moment.

• On the post: To Stop The Coup, We Must Be Clear About The Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 02:53am

  Biden pardoned nearly his whole family and half of government for 14 years after taking 20 million in bribes.

  Citation needed.

• On the post: When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 02:48am

  “US Code”?!? It’s in the fuucken constituion, dumb@ss.

  Cite the clause, then.

• On the post: When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 02:45am

  That looks like "The Dancing Dragon" from A:TLA.

• On the post: YouTube Bad Takedowns Continue, Details Behind The Silicon Curtain As Always

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 05 Feb, 2025 @ 02:43am

  Yes, how childish of them to expect their content to not be arbitrarily removed with no explanation, and then reinstated, also with no explanation! How dare they!

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