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Did someone order….. AN ALLEGORY ??


(yes, I know it’s an eagle)

It’s, dare I say it, almost becoming impressive how there is still more utter batshit plans coming to light even when you think it can’t get any worse. The person who is now head of the Department of Health and Human Services wanted to send people with mental illnesses to “wellness farms” to work the fields. While there for “3-4 years” they would also be expressly denied access to the internet & TV.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... ess-farms/

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:46 pm It’s, dare I say it, almost becoming impressive how there is still more utter batshit plans coming to light even when you think it can’t get any worse. The person who is now head of the Department of Health and Human Services wanted to send people with mental illnesses to “wellness farms” to work the fields. While there for “3-4 years” they would also be expressly denied access to the internet & TV.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... ess-farms/

Ah, literal nazi shit. Take the undesirables out of society for several years and make them unemployable, and then make homelessness a crime that is punishable by being rounded up and put in camps. Which, for reference, isn't speculation, Trump has stated is his desire for this within the last year:

In fact, as I’ve written, a mass-deportation program staffed partially with red-state National Guard forces is only one of several ideas that Trump has embraced for introducing federal forces into blue jurisdictions over the objections of their local leaders. He’s also talked about sending federal personnel into blue cities to round up homeless people (and place them in camps as well) or just to fight crime. Invoking the Insurrection Act might be the necessary predicate for those initiatives as well.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ow/677385/

Absolute fucking horror show over there at the moment, and it's about time people just started randomly asserting their 2nd amendment rights. Not against Trump, just against random members of his staff, frankly. Fuck it, lay with dogs, get fleas. Fleas that are about 9mm in diameter and move at around 700mph.

I wasn’t expecting anyone to be coming back from the “wellness farms” tbh.

There is so much terrible stuff we are aware of - is there worse which is less publicised?

Well they’re shipping immigrants to guantanamo. Nothing good has ever happened there and we don’t know most of it.

They’re deporting people to Panama, who aren’t from Panama. That’s not sending them home, it’s dumping. Or disappearing.

A small point I saw - if you were a KKK member from deepest 1950s Alabama, transported through time and dropped in the president’s seat right now, is there much you’d be doing differently ?

LOL

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 10:46 pm It’s, dare I say it, almost becoming impressive how there is still more utter batshit plans coming to light even when you think it can’t get any worse. The person who is now head of the Department of Health and Human Services wanted to send people with mental illnesses to “wellness farms” to work the fields. While there for “3-4 years” they would also be expressly denied access to the internet & TV.


https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... ess-farms/

How long before they define something vague and catch-all like "woke" as a mental illness? Internment camps here we come!

Trump has lots of mates in the prison industry, I'm sure they'll gladly hover up the contracts. Possibly after buying the land off Kash Patel

I think this is more appropriate in this thread.




Musk recently also stated that there's no SQL in government systems.

He meant, presumably, Microsoft SQL Server.

However SQL itself stands for Structured Query Language, and is literally just, well, a way of forming questions for relational databases. Almost all relational databases (MySQL, MS SQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, etc) use a flavour of SQL as their query language to get data out of them.

So he thinks there's no relational databases in Government (protip, there are - everywhere)

There's other things to get in this post, but rather than repeat them here, just read the comments, which as the subreddit suggests, explain the joke better than I can (I'm not a database admin, I'm just a Head of IT )



These guys are fucking IT illiterate.

Beany wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2025 1:33 pm
These guys are fucking IT illiterate.

illITerate?

That's too complex a piece of wordplay for the sort of people would need to read it.

Mind so, ironically, the word illiterate probably is, too.

I did a bit of reading up (as I've not really come close to COBOL in my career), and the ISO8601 thing is probably not quite right as they explain it (it seems like they overly simplified it too much) but if you have a deek through some of the programming subreddits about this there are many reasons on a technical level where you'd see a default date being acci-dropped if you link things in specific ways, either as shortcuts for simplicities sake/"good enough" solutions, or just because there needed to be a value that wouldn't break other shit if it was null, etc.

They're suggesting that COBOL using ISO8601 would have null as being that date, which isn't how it works by default (in the way that MySQL will set the Unix epoch in '72 as a default unless you use 0000-00-00 instead of "null", or the other way around, I can't remember) in short - but there's no reason that a similar outcome could come as the result of the implementation, for better or worse.

Also the US social security system has weird shit in for things like pensions for the dependants of civil war veterans, who might end up through a fluke of technicalities, still being 'valid recipients' of payments.

Certainly the general view is that they don't understand what they're seeing, and don't have the knowledge or experience to interpret it correctly, hence thinking that 150 year olds are getting cheques from the government, which they're not.

Slightly OT, but we just talked about dates and I just saw this and I laughed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8kn5v37wxo

Article asking why Europeans don’t buy American cars. Answers by saying about engine size/mpg and physical size. Doesn’t say it’s because the build quality etc is shit

Tbh I think the build quality thing is a bit of a red herring. The quality on a cheap American car will probably be pretty similar to a cheap Euro/Jap car.

The top spec current Escalade looks every bit as well built and luxurious as a Range Rover (Imo).

Anecdotally, I don't think our Mustang's build quality is amazing, but it's been super durable and everything works. It's 17 years old and has 115k. Passes MOT's easily, etc.

Personally I do think it's to do with physical size and MPG. V8's are commonplace and to the Yanks, bigger is better. A Range Rover isn't a particularly big car to them. Just not suitable for Europeans roads.

"Large American pickup trucks are difficult to drive around Europe's old and narrow streets"
Captioned for the picture of a Ford Ranger, which is made neither in Europe nor America...

I’m wondering how long until he decides that Americans speak American not English.

Tbh, probably not much more stupid than the gulf of America thing.

integrale_evo wrote: Sat Feb 15, 2025 9:32 pm I’m wondering how long until he decides that Americans speak American not English.

Tbh, probably not much more stupid than the gulf of America thing.

I’d be more worried about him deciding on punishments for daring to speak spanish